The Singapore Reservation

The US has special land set aside called reservations for the down and out native Red Indians so that they can be protected and continue to live as archaeological evidence that these were the original inhabitants of North America. So the reservation is a kind of protective place for people who are endangered, jobless, and need a safe haven to eke out a living, protected from the harsh realities of life and competition, a kind of living museum.

We have some quarters of our population that are down and out, but not deserving of living in reservations. No, Singapore does not have physical space called reservations for those whose existence are threatened. There is a new breed of citizens whose existence is actually threatened, the unemployed, not employable or not wanted. These are the oldies, defined as those above 45 or 50 years of age, retrenched or retired. Many have tertiary educations, degrees or diplomas, some with management experience, but could not find occupation in a rich country that has full employment and employing more than a million foreigners in PME positions. Unbelieveable but that is the situation.

So what shall the Govt do to this group of highly trained and experienced professionals? Or what should this group of people do to continue to live like human beans? Luckily for them, there is a protected profession for them to fall back on, ie as taxi drivers. I was told that only Singaporeans are allowed to drive taxis, no foreigners allowed. Not sure if PRs are allowed. Any way this is the only protected profession other than politicians/ministers that only Singaporeans need apply.

Isn’t the Govt kind and thoughtful and caring? It would be better, I may be asking too much, for the Govt to include a few more professions in the PME categories for Singaporeans only. Oh there is another one, the Presidency. But I know it would not be. Still it is good to have taxi driving as a protected profession, like the reservations in the USA.

There are merits to protect this job. The Govt must have carefully looked at the benefits before deciding to protect this job and the specie of people to be in it. Politically it is a wise move as it will keep a big group of people from being unhappy and angry to be dependent on the licence to survive. If they are contented, some votes will go the way of the Govt. Then there is the security issue. Some countries will allow the mobsters, drug addicts or new migrants to drive taxis and put their vulnerable women and children and the oldies in them. Here the Govt thinks safety is important and would rather put the safety of our citizens, the vulnerable group, in the hands of citizens. Of course it could turn out the other way when taxi drivers are often victims of bashing by foreign customers or even robbed and killed. In general, our people will feel safer with Singaporeans driving their wives and daughters and parents around.

The tourists will also benefit from the highly educated taxi drivers who could engage in a serious discussion on anything under the Singapore sky. The higher educated taxi drivers, and being more senior, are more respectable and reliable in a profession like taxi driving, both for them and their passengers.

Good thinking Govt, caring and inclusive. Our taxi driving reservation is definitely better than the reservations for Red Indians. Many PMEs will see taxi driving as a last resort, but it is still something to be grateful to the Govt. If some jokers decide to improve the service quality of taxi driving and open this profession to new migrants, our PMEs will have no where to run and no where to hide. The young and hungrier migrants, more eager and more willing to please, more hard working, will drive them out of jobs. Be grateful ya.

Angry man sells house to finance daughter's medicine study overseas

I just have to repost this letter from TRE here. The anger and sense of betrayal can be felt by every word in the letter. And this father is not alone. To make matters worst, many chao kar doctors from many dunno what universities are practising here and their academic credentials cannot hold a candle to the daughter mentioned in the letter. There are so many good Singapore sons and daughters being forced overseas, with parents having to sell house, pawn whatever, clean up their savings to finance their studies, only to realise that there is a great shortage of doctors and these sons and daughters of Singapore could have been trained to fill up the shortfalls. Instead, any chap palang doctors will do it seems.

Now please read on and feel the frustration of this father who can be anyone of us.

My daughter did fairly well in her ‘A’ level. She got 3As and 1B – B for Physics but scored As for the 2 most important subjects for medicine – Biology and Chemistry.


She applied to NUS and was rejected. Not even an interview. She has always wanted to be a doctor her whole life. Her studies in Biology and Chemistry were top-notched. She is very self-discipline and we never have problems telling her to do her homework or reminding her to study since young. When NUS rejected her, she cried day and night.

As parents, how can we see her cry like that? It really breaks our hearts. We then made a family decision and sold our 5-room flat to support her medicine study overseas. We moved back to my parents – imagine, both of us are now in the 50s and we have to live with my parents who are now close to 80s!

My daughter applied to the overseas universities and guess what, she was accepted by a few: Monash University, University of Western Australia, Imperial College. In the end, we chose University of Western Australia because it’s closer to Singapore and it’s also cheaper to study in Australia than in UK. Still, the tuition fee itself cost me at least A$200K+, not counting room and board. All in, it will be A$300K+. I’m glad to see her happily studying medicine in Australia now.

Reading this article (‘Doctor-to-population ratio improved through massive FT recruitment‘) even angers me further. Why are we taking in foreign doctors when we do not even want to give our own Singaporeans a chance? And to think that I’ve served NS, for what? Why is the government not taking care of our own people first??? The fact that my daughter was accepted by some of these good universities shows that she is absolutely qualified to study medicine. Furthermore, she is really passionate about it. Why is the government depriving her, our very own people, that opportunity? To add further insults, I’ve read here that these foreign doctors actually graduated from some of these dubious third world universities?

This is really a big screw up by our government. Instead of investing to train more Singaporeans to become doctors, we are recruiting more foreign doctors. This is totally unacceptable and I might add, a treacherous act by the government!

I’m actually quite apolitical but this incident of NUS rejecting my daughter to study medicine when other good universities are accepting her, has given me a new perspective. The fact that I have to sell away my house and move back with my parents who are close to 80s really hurts me a lot. At their age, I should be taking care of them and yet, they have to shelter my family! I have one more son, because of his sister’s influence, is more inclined to study biology and medicine. I really don’t know what to do if he decides to also study medicine and NUS rejects him too. I have no more houses to sell. The only left would be by then, I can take out my CPF and use it to finance his overseas study.

I really cursed this government!

One more thing I would like to add – Yes, I’ll be attending the May Day protest!

Angry father

PS. Can PAP survive 2016 when there is a groundswell in frustration and the feeling of betrayal?

Present Korean Tension must be seen with US overall Plan for Global Domination.

       The present Korean Tension must be seen with the overall US plan for Global Domination.
Clearly the Evil Empire, USA is the sole and direct cause of the tension in Korea. Since its independence from its Imperial forbears, Great Britain, US has perenially been on a war path attacking and invading other countries. You can say USA ever since has been an ingrained psycho war maniac country which no country  big or small will feel safe. It started its war of terrorism first by sowing seeds of dissension and instability among the different  self-governing native Indian states to the West . Then when these native Indian states were weakened USA mopped them up . All native resistance was brutally put down and a systematic machinery of wanton terrorism and genocide against the native American Indians was carried out non-stop to the dawn of the early 20th Century. In all eighty-five million or ninety \-five per cent of the native population was wiped out.  After swallowing all the self-governing native Indian states, USA cast an envious eye on Mexican lands. It created border incidents and tensions and blamed them on the Mexicans. By creating border incidents and tensions it signalled a preamble and an excuse for USA to attack and occupy Mexican lands. Thus between 1840s to 1870s USA invaded and annexed more than  one million six hundred and sixty-five thousand square miles of land from Mexico, a territory comprising the present states of Florida, Texas, Utah, Dakota, New Mexico, Colorado and California.. Subsequently it went on to invade the independent island kingdoms of Hawaii and Guam in the Pacific Ocean  in which hundreds of thousands of island resistance fighters were cruelly and wantonly slaughtered.

To understand the problem and tension in Korea we must view the historical wars of aggression by USA in perspective and its insidious phylosophy of conducting permanent wars to maintain power and control over other countries. USA has always maintained that it has the right to topple heads of states and conduct regime change of countries which do not toe US line or follow its dictates. After the Second World War USA tried to topple USSR making Russian communism as an excuse for its travesty. Similarly it went all out trying to topple the Peoples Republic of Mao's China under the same excuse that it was a communist country. CIA sabotaged and exploded a plane which it thought was carrying Premier Chou En Lai to the Bandung Conferfence in 1954. Fortunately Premier Chou En Lai was not in that flight. In fact the Second World War was in a way directly caused by USA which controlled and with held resources from Japan. Therefore to gain resources Japan struckout against a weak and disunited China. China though poor and disunited put up a brave fight under the strategic and wise direction of Chairman Mao and his Red Peasant Army which eventually tied down the Japanese and helped to defeat Imperial Japan.

After the war USA quickly coddled to the Japs hoping to use it in future as a proxy against China. The historical and political situations of the moment lend itself a great opportunity for the Evil Americans to carry out its insidious  plots and intrigues. Korea was split into two states with the North under a communist state and the South under US protectorate. US refused to recognise  North Korea as a state because it was communist .  US tried to sabotage North Korea by creating problems and tensions and distability to bring down the DPRK. The result was the Korean War , from 1950 to 1953. The dsesperate US air force bombed across the Yalu River into Chinese territory. That was the last straw for the Chinese which eventually was forced to fight with the North Koreans against the Yankee invaders. The Korean War resulted in a stalemate and an untenable armistice.

In the meantime US has not given up its aim of toppling Chairman Mao and replace the PRC with a pro US government. It illegally stationed its Seventh Fleet in the Taiwan Straiit to prevent the ultimate unity of Taiwan and Mainland China. It tried all ways and means to divide and destroy China. The CIA organised a clandestine Tibetan terrorist organisation under the spurious leadership of rebellious Dalai Lama which frequently helped Tibetan brigands to sneak into China to carry out sabotage activities. CIA also supported many splittist and separatist groups in China hoping to destabilise and destroy China. It openly supported the Uighur terrorists with finance and arms.

The CIA also took over the Vietnam War from the French  after the later's ultimate defeat at Dien Bien Phu. One of  the US warships rammed a Vietnamese boat at the Gulf of Tongkin. CIA blamed the Vietnamese for the incident and that gave it as an excuse to escalate into a full scale bombing of Vietnam. Even Loas and Cambodia's neutrality were not respected. Cia tried to assasinate Cambodis's neutral Prince Sihahouk many times but failed. In the meantime CIA organised and sent forays of remnant Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang troops from Burma into Southern China to stir up trouble.

During the Korean War US was tinkling with the idea of attacking China with atomic bombs. But the fear of Russian nuclear retaliation stopped that from happening. However, it never stopped trying to use Korea as a bastion for carrying espionage and sabotage activities against China. US constantly tried to  to prevent Taiwan and China from being united by continuously selling arms to Taiwan . US treacherously and illegally handed over the administration of Diaoyu Islands to Japan in 1974 without the consent of China, the rightful owner. This is part of its sinister strategy of sowing seeds of a future war between Japan and China over disputed territories.

The grand strategy of the Evil Empire is to organise so called allies and partners around the world to confront and contain the rise of Russia and China so as to keep US as the only permanent preponderant super power in the world. This can be seen in Southern Europe where US succeeded in toppling leaders in Yugoslavia and Albania and divided the two countries into many pro US states. The unsuspecting self satisfying politico religious leaders  of the Middle East were fools who fell into the evil trap of US intrigues. Many of the Arab states coddle to USA and the leaders are safe in their seats of power. However , the more progressive but non-pro US leaders in Iraq, Libya and Syria were targets for regime change and subsequently they were toppled and their countries came to ruins and their resources like oil come under US and Western control. The whole sinister aim of US is to try to deprive China from the oil in the Arab World in the Middle East.

US through its evil arms the Pentagon and CIA is always trying to create permanent wars so as to maintain its sole super power status in the world. Part of its strategy is to use its so called allies and partners to fight its proxy wars . Thus US has been stirring troubles and problems in China's periphery in the East China Sea and the South China Sea as well as in India bordering on China. US is encouraging the silly unthinking Pinoys and Vietnamese rats to lay spurious claims on Chinese islands and islets as well as Chinese territorial seas in the South China Sea. US is goading India to go against China . India which inherited some Chinese territories from its former imperial ruler England which illegally took large chunks of Chinese lands in South and South Western China has always refused to negotiate with China to settle the land dispute. It claimed what it inherited from Imperial Britain as fait accompli and thus India because of this stubborn illogical behaviour is now wearing the coat of east AsiBritish Imperial .

The fact now is Russia and China are too big and strong for US to take on alone and so it is organising the unsuspecting so called pro-US allies and partners to bite and nib at the Russians and the Chinese and hopefully to fight its proxy wars against China as clearly what is unfurling in Korea and the Diayu Island affairs. The same crooks and scoundrels that run the US government have their counter parts running the business and financial institutions in the states and in which they through their extreme greed has caused their economy and finance to cave in into economic and financial disaster , collapse and bankruptsy. In the meantime while the crooks and scoundrels in the White House, the Pentagon and CIA are creating wars and political troubles around the world , their counter parts in the business , the banks and the stock markets are cheating and swindling all countries in the world of trillions of dollars with fraud and dubious business and financial trasnsactions. The US government's magic in turning money from thin air by printing limiltless amount of money in trillions in so called quantitative easing is thus cheating and swindling the whole world.  The Americans are going round the whole world usings this banana money to buy solid assets and resources and to repay their local and foreign debts. Without saying without foreign support of the US dollar as a standard of exchange the US dollar will automatically collapse with dire consequences for US business , finance and economy as well as for US military and Pentagon and CIA mischiefs to plan wars and trouble all over the world. Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Gadhaffi of Libya were murdered and regime changed for daring to move away from the American Dollar as a world standard of exchange for its oil resources. Russia, China , India, Brazil and South Africa are slowly moving away from adopting the US Dollar as a standard of exchange. These countries are too big and too strong for the White House, The Pentagon and CIA to carry out direct overthrow of their governments so they resort to clandstine activities of using cold war tactics of divide and rule, creating proxy wars and using fraud in international business, banking and financial transactions as well as in rigging and mass cheating in the world stock markets. The Evil Empire is on the verge of political and financial collapse. It is only a matter of time.  Its last business bastion is the war factories , so it has to create perrmanent wars to create markets for the sale of its war machines. Thus in creating permanent wars US hopes to maintain its only super power status forever. In short US has always been governed by hordes of maniac warmongers with traditional ingrained vicious aggressive war instincts.

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Foreign Indian Talents integrating well with Singaporeans

According to the Hindustantimes, the newly arrived foreign talents are integrating well with the Singaporeans. The media quoted the Dep PM Teo Chee Hian as saying, ‘Indian professionals in Singapore have taken a lead in integrating with the city-state's populace and contributing to the development of the local Indian community, Singapore deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has said. "I would like to commend their initiative and welcome more of such efforts by business leaders to contribute ot the community.” Said Teo in his keynote opening address at the IIMPACT 2013 global conference which opened on Friday.(5 Apr 2013)’

This is a very positive development for the Indian community here. It only shows that the rich high caste Indians are willing to integrate with the no caste Singaporeans and the lower caste Indian community in the island. I am not too familiar with the Indian culture in India and the caste system, but it is indeed good news that once in Singapore, do as the Singaporeans do, put aside the caste and everyone becomes equal.

And apart from organizing dialogue sessions to facilitate engagement between the business sectors and the govt, they are also raising funds to contribute to Sinda, an association with a mission to help the local Indian community. According to IBR Chairman Girjia Pande, this is one way for the newly arrived Indian professionals to give back to the community especially the local Indians.

The local Indians should benefit from the generosity of the affluent foreign Indian community, many of whom have either taken up citizenship or PRs in the island. And with their effort to integrate with the local Indians, relationships between them should improve despite the barrier of caste and wealth. The Govt must be very pleased with this development and their effort to attract more rich and professional Indians to become Singapore citizens and PRs will get a big boost. And there will be more and more Indian business setting up office here. They have already replaced the PRC Chinese as the biggest business community in the island.

True blue Singaporeans are only early migrants

A letter by a Gavin Chay in the Today paper, posted earlier in Todayonline, took the view that true blue Singaporeans are only here earlier. That is the only difference and the new migrants are here a bit later. And between the two, both have equal rights to have his space to make a living in this island. And if early migrants are not competitive they have to make way for the more competitive new migrants. The early migrants have no right to ask for more privileges, to ‘demand for more pay, protected jobs, cheaper housing and COEs and freebies of all kinds, that the current debate is fuelled more by a sense of entitlement than who we are as Singaporeans’.

If I read it correctly, Gavin Chay’s position is that new and old migrants should have equal rights to a good life here in this island we called home. How many of you agree to this view? I respect Gavin Chay’s view. He is entitled to his view and hopefully this is not the media’s view or the govt’s view.

I also like his confidence that he and his type are competitive and will take on the world’s migrants who want to come here and compete on an equal basis, the 1.3b Chinese and 1.1b Indians and the rest of SE Asia and Europe and America. Personally, I don’t think Singaporeans will be good enough to take on even a country like India or China, not talking about the rest of the world. To be confident is one thing, to be foolhardy is another, to willingly give away one’s birth right as a citizen to a migrant is…I leave it to you to suggest. To ignore and give up the effort, contributions and sacrifices of our forefathers, our NS men, and say we should compete on an equal basis with foreigners and let them beat the shit out of every Singaporean is stupidity of the highest order.

I rest my case. Who says Singaporeans are not daft?

Eng Hen – Speak up for the future Singapore

Eng Hen is asking the young Singaporeans to speak up for the kind of Singapore they want to live in when they grow up, or grow older. The young Singaporeans must join the Natcon and tell the Govt what they want. Older Singaporeans, please, not your call and don’t say anything. Only the voices of the young are important.

This seems to be the message coming from Eng Hen, that the young Singaporeans are not talking and the Govt does not know what they want. Speak up now for your future or it will be too late. The White Paper was passed without any feedback from the people, from the young. How come? Is it too much to ask the young for their views or it does not concern the young? Why were the young not consulted if their future is at stake? Why calling for them to speak up after the event is over?

All the kpkb in cyberspace have not been heard by the Govt. The Hong Lim Protest, what protest, was there a protest? Maybe the voices in cyberspace were those of old cocks and old hens. And those at the Hong Lim Protest were also oldies, don’t matter. Eng Hen is only concerned for the young who will be the owners of the future Singapore. The Govt wants to hear from them, not the ‘has been’ oldies. The oldies cannot be speaking for their children. Only the young know what they want and their views are important to the Govt.

Selective hearing? What do you think? No young people speaking and the Govt is being kept ignorant of their aspirations?

US playing with insanity

The Americans thought they could push the North Koreans into a hole. They may also think that the South Koreans will join them to decimate the North Koreans. They kept provoking the North Koreans with more and bigger military exercises simulating an invasion of North Korea. The North Koreans responded in their no nonsense and standard approach. You up the ante, we will follow and see your cards. The only thing in the North Korean’s favour is a very strong conventional military backed by a few pieces of nuclear weapons. The Americans were trying to call the North Korean’s bluff. Now the North Koreans are calling the American’s bluff. They openly announced that they will strike with full force on American targets if they were forced to. The Americans are now the chicken.

The Americans can wipe out the whole of North Korea in no time. They have the most power array of nuclear weapons that the North Koreans have no reply and will simply be sitting duck. But the US cannot risk one or two North Korean nuclear bombs on the US mainland. The Americans know that the North Koreans are willing to go for broke and the risk of taking one or two nuclear hits is just incomprehensible. Better to tone down and stop raising more tension.

Flying an ICBM into space will be immediately picked up by the North Koreans and if they read that as the opening American salvo, they could just fire theirs. The Americans are not taking any chances and will not take any chances. They are delaying their test of a Minuteman III ICBM till later. Launching one now will be too risky and they could not anticipate what the North Koreans will do.

Playing with insanity, beating the drums of war can be a deadly proposition. The North Koreans have called the American bluff. The Japanese are still gearing to go, to intercept North Korean missiles. They still fail to see the devastating destruction of modern warfare with modern weapons at the disposal of the adversaries. It is not a repeat of WW2. It is not computer games. The price is too high to pay even for the US. Japan still thinks it can afford to do so, forgetting the lessons of the two Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This time it would be hundreds of times more monstrous. It could be Tokyo and Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe.

Playing with insanity has an extremely high price to pay.

May Day protest for what?

My article posted here and reposted in TRE received fairly enough comments and generated some awareness of this coming event. Many Singaporeans are rooting to be there and calling for other Singaporeans to be there, to bring their friends as well. Many see the event as a critical moment to determine the future of Singapore and their children. They do not agree with stuffing this island with more foreigners that are mostly a bunch of parasites, the super rich and real talents excluded, here to feast themselves and provide unnecessary and undesirable competition for their children. And the Singaporeans have already been called racists and xenophobes for their unhappiness with all the parasites. It is not a race to the top but a race to the bottom especially for the average Singaporeans. Not many Singaporeans are that talented and not many have parents that are ministers or multi millionaires that could buy a few properties for them to collect rentals and no need to work for the rest of their lives.

The people, at least those who indicated that they are going, and the silent majority, do not agree with the plans of the Govt, or the plans of the 77. Whose wisdom is right, the masses or the 77 is debatable. Also it may not be an issue of right or wrong but a matter of what the majority wants and what the 77 wants. Should the majority give way to the tyranny of the 77?

In the first protest rally, the theme was ‘Say No to 6.9m’. This looks like the natural them for the second protest, a continuation and persistent theme that says the people did not want a big population. Any Tom, Dick and Harry will know that it is fatal if we just rely on increasing population for economic growth. That is an easy and sure path to self destruct. We need growth but through other means.

Many other slogans have been suggested, eg The Day We Say No to 6.9, The Day We Stand Up For Our Children, The Day We Stand Up To Tyranny, Say No To The 77, and many others.

This May Day is important to the future of Singapore and to the children of the Singaporeans. It is about their well beings, their dominant position as owners of the islands. It is also about capitulation, allowing foreigners to take their place, take their jobs and their livelihood. The foreigners are coming for their second chance for a better life. We can empathise with them. But when a better tomorrow for them is a sadder tomorrow for our children, should the parents of our children stand up and say no to this change? Some say it is a kind of genocide, the extinction of true blue Singaporeans, being dispossessed of their homeland, being driven out of their own country by foreigners who come to claim their rights to a better life at our expense.

Singaporean parents, are you that daft or irresponsible to not do anything when you can? Would you Stand Up For Our Children, Say No To Singaporean Genocide, Say No To Our Extinction? I can hear them cry. May Day can be the day Singaporeans close ranks to fight for their own existence and their children’s future. It is idiocy to let in foreigners, give them a pink IC and claim that they are one of us, and to take away food on the table, the food that rightfully belongs to our children. Come May Day, will Singaporeans be fighting for their future, a better future for their children? Quite silly really. Why should they be fighting to claim back their country? Who is the real enemy that is doing this to the Singaporeans? Like they said, ‘With friends like these, you don’t need enemies.’

May Day, May Day, May Day! What does this day mean to you? Were you there or did you walk away?

Get more women to work

The reason for being living in paradise is to work. More women are encouraged to work not because they wanted to, needed to, but because the Govt wanted them to. The old aunties and uncles too are encouraged to work for the same reasons though some have no choice but to keep working. To many Singaporeans, other than the landlord class, many would simply live a life working just to live in paradise.

The whole socio economic system today is that everyone in a household, every able body, must work to support the increasing high cost of living. Housing in particular, is designed to feed on the dual incomes of a household, and may end up feeding on 3 or 4 incomes eventually. Not working is no longer an option today.

The earlier generations went through a period of single income household and could live quite well too. A middle civil servant or middle management level employee could bring up a family on his single income, live in landed property, owned a car, supporting parents and several children at the same time.

How could it be possible then and not now? Today, anyone thinking of living on a single income and to support parents and children, even if he is in senior management level, is a big hassle. Only people in top management or ministers could afford such a privilege, and those who have inherited wealth and owning a list of properties. The majority of the average Singaporeans would have to live a life working to make ends meet.

Can the socio economic system be fine tuned, tweaked or whatever, to return to a single income family when the quality of family life was much better, when children have their play time and mothers to watch them while they grow up. What is happening to day is that everyone is on his own, parents working furiously, children studying furiously or playing furiously without the watchful eyes of their mothers but foreign maids to keep them company. The mothers have a duty not only to bring in the bacon and pay for the mortgages, but also as a national duty to turn the economic wheel and to produce more babies at the same time.

Getting more women to work is a serious thing, a necessity. Gone were the days when women can afford to choose whether to work or to be home maker. They have only one choice now, work.

Validating fake degrees is an impossible task

When foreigners are concerned, validating their qualifications and resumes could be a task impossible. For all that you know there is a parallel degree mill organisation existing to cover every track that needs to be covered to avoid exposing the fakes. The contact numbers given could be fake or leading to a ‘specialist’ to confirm everything that is stated. There could be a whole industry out there supporting the fake degrees and qualifications. That is why certain degrees that are in demand would fetch a higher price and the buyer could be assured that any tracing will be ‘professionally’ handled to protect them.

Who knows the job applicant would provide genuine contact numbers to an established university but when a search is conducted, it will lead to a team of ‘professionals’ in the university who cooked the degrees and would ensure that the reply is just an affirmation of the search. The tracks are covered and no one is wiser.

For those who are calling for MOM to investigate, I think it is a waste of time. It is better to continue as if nothing is wrong and save a lot of money chasing shadows. And come to think of it, all the big organisations that are hiring the fakes are doing alright aren’t they?  Nothing unusual seems to be happening. The fakes are good fakes too, or very talented fakes as they would cleverly arrow the task to the genuine Sinkies to deal with the problems. The higher they are, the easier it is to cover their incompetence as the real works will be done by a subordinate, probably a stupid Sinkie from a top local university who knows the stuff.

The good thing is that this system of fakes being employed at senior levels, replacing our local PMEs, with the real McCoys as their subordinates and doing the real work is working fine. Let’s not rock the boat or the house will come down when the truth is exposed. And many people will have red faces. We do not want that to happen do we? I can’t imagine if, hypothetically, the SWFs were found to have hired fakes that led to the billions lost in botched investment deals. But I also think that this is highly unlikely. Just keep the fingers crossed and trust the system that nothing will go wrong.

Just ignore Murphy and his law. Just believe that everything is just perfect.

Hsien Loong walking on a tight rope

Caught in between two balls and hanging in the centre, it is a difficult act indeed. Singapore is a small country caught in between two super powers, China and the USA, and has been walking on a tight rope for everyday of its existence. Funny thing is that other countries in Asean or elsewhere did not have such a problem. Did we choose to walk on the tight rope to show off?  Singapore’s official foreign policy is to be friends to all, especially the two super powers. Every now and then the leaders will make their pilgrimage to the two capitals to pay homage to the deities residing in Beijing and Washington.

This is fair and good. As long as Singapore is not taking sides, it would not trip on the tight rope or be pushed to fall. The walk is treacherous and the act a very difficult one when the two powers are at each other’s throat. If you are not my friend you are my enemy. Singapore often has to take sides, like joining the Coalition of the Willings to invade another country when Singapore was obviously the unwilling partner. Singapore is lucky so far as the victims of the coalition were not the openly declared friends of the other superpower. It would be tricky if another superpower declares interest in protecting the targeted country.

Singapore’s position is gradually being compromised and leaning more towards the Americans. Maybe it has no choice as the American way is that if Singapore does not be a friend, it becomes a natural enemy. So Singapore is blowing the trumpets for the American’s presence in the region, supporting the American military pivot to Asia, hosting American warships for military intervention and warfare.

Hsien Loong has just visited Washington, feasted and highly praised by Obama as a reliable and valuable friend, or an accomplice in all American military adventures in violation of national sovereignty and interference with another country’s internal affairs. The latter is contrary to Singapore’s official policy of non interference in other country’s domestic affairs. This is going to blow up into Singapore’s face one day for sure.

The key message that Hsien Loong brought to Washington, with high expectations of buying a sick and premature top end American fighter aircraft, is the open invitation to the Americans to play a bigger role to counter the presence of a rising China, the other super power that Singapore is courting and sleeping with. How is this going to be taken by this sleeping partner is not looking well. Is this classic diplomacy or crass diplomacy, only time will tell. But time is running out unless Hsien Loong has it all worked out before the visit and this sleeping partner has quietly consented to the unfriendly gesture. Sending Chok Tong to China at the same time may be an attempt to placate the Chinese for what he had to say to please the Americans and in making a joke of China.

The call for the Americans to counter the Chinese, and never the Chinese to counter balance the Americans is one sided, loaded against the Chinese. It would be a great act if Hsien Loong could walk the whole tight rope safely without tripping. The Chinese must be holding back whatever they wanted to say or do. What Hsien Loong said in America was not the least complimentary, and the condiments of jokes included.

LKY could pull it off in his time. He was unusual as a statesman. Could Hsien Loong pull it off this time, like his father did, with such a one sided leaning and his unabashed fawning over the Americans, that he was with the Americans first and last?

Tokyo Auto Salon in Singapore

For the FIRST time in history Tokyo Auto Salon is coming to Singapore, showcasing the finest Japan-tuned Supercars and kawaii race queens from Japan!
Singapore, 28 Jan 2013 : For the 1st time in its illustrious 30-year history, Tokyo Auto Salon will be coming to the shores of Singapore. With the full support of the Tokyo Auto Salon Association (TASA) of Japan, Singapore’s leading media company MediaCorp and Muse Group will jointly unveil “Tokyo Auto Salon Singapore 2013” at the Sands Expo® and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands® from 12 - 14 Apr, 2013.
More than 20 of the finest and most unique cars from Tokyo Auto Salon 2013 will grace the event, together with Japanese race queens, J-Pop idols and other entertainers to provide visitors the unique and unforgettable Tokyo Auto Salon experience
Key Highlights
• Exotic Supercars
• Iconic Japanese/European Tuner Cars
• Specially Tuned Up Show Cars
• TASSG Autostyling Showdown Competition
• Hot Import Race Queens from Japan
• Miss TASSG Race Queen Pageant 2013
• Japanese Anime Cosplay Showcase
• Daily Stage Activities
Public can also look forward to participating in lucky draws that will be held between 1 February to 1 March on the Tokyo Auto Salon Singapore Facebook Fan Page. Simply “like” the page, register on the Lucky Draw tab, and stand to walk away with exciting prizes such as a set of Westlake SV 308 17” tyres and S$500 worth of Takashimaya vouchers. “Invite” or “share” with friends on Facebook to increase one’s chances of winning.
About Tokyo Auto Salon
Launched in 1983 by the editor-in-chief of the iconic custom car magazine Option, Tokyo Auto Salon has today grown to become the largest automotive after-market parts and accessories exhibition in the world. Every year, more than 250,000 automotive fans from all corners of the globe converge at Tokyo Auto Salon in Japan over a 3-day period.

Event Details
Event : Tokyo Auto Salon Singapore 2013
Date : 12 Apr (Fri) – 14 Apr (Sun)
Time : 10:00am – 10:00pm Daily
Venue : Sands Expo® and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands® (HALL A TO C, LEVEL 1)
Admission Fees :
1-DAY PASS – Adult: S$25.00 / Children (under 12 years old) S$10.00
3-DAY PASS – S$70.00
Website : www.tokyoautosalon.com.sg
Visit also www.facebook.com/TokyoautosalonSG for the latest updates on Tokyo Auto Salon Singapore 2013.

The fake awakening of the elite

We read and heard it in the media, everywhere, that the wide income gap is bad, productivity is low and how to deal with these problems. The Americans are worried so it is time we are worried too. Is the conscience pricking or is it just another gapping for another PR exercise, that the elite is concerned with the well being of the lower income group, the poor and the disadvantaged? How real is this expression of shock and awe, that something is seriously wrong and needs to be talked about but not necessarily to do anything about it?

It was not too long ago that the wide income gap was preached as a natural occurrence, that it was a sign of progress. Who, in a position to write his own pay check, in a position to take as much as he wants, would want to cry over having too much to take? This trait of human nature is definitely natural. Greed is in all of us and the only way to control this greed is for a third party to do the checks and balance. No one, not even God, can check himself and his wanton lust and greed. God can be crazy when unrestrained, so what is there to blame the mortals or immortals for their excesses and self serving actions?

The Americans started it all. We resisted in the beginning, that you cannot anyhow pay people enormous amount of money. Thrift is important and morally correct in public service. The civil servants were well paid but not obscenely well paid like what it is today. Don’t mention the politicians. The Americans started to pay themselves crazy not to the civil servants but to the private sectors. Every turkey in a position of authority would want to be paid a life time’s income in a month or a year. And we have learnt to be like the Americans. We are crazily paying the top management a life time’s income in a year or less. Would the recipient be complaining? Would the recipient say, hey, you are paying me too much for so little that I have done!

All sorts of rubbish reasoning were published in the media as god’s wisdom, to pay the employees their life time income in the shortest period possible. Actually this is a good thing if it is carried down all the way to the workers. But it cannot be done. The money is finite. If someone is taking the bulk of it, the rest will have less.

In any organisation, public or private, the revenue generated is limited and has to be spread around. The issue is the distribution. There is the return on capital to the owners or shareholders, the cost of production, the wages, at the top, middle and at the bottom. If one part takes the lion’s share, the rest will have to take less. If the CEO and his immediate kakis take a big chunk of the revenue, the dividends will have to go, the wages of the lower management and the workers will have to go. CBF is to tell the workers to take less while the top takes more. And those taking more will tell the CBFs that it is only normal because they are more deserving.

When wealth is concentrated in a few, they have a lot more to spend and that drives up the prices of everything. Housing and luxuries will be cheap to those with deep pockets but extremely expensive to those who have little or nothing. The high rentals, the high prices of housing and cars do not happen in a vacuum. They are conscious policies of those who have a lot and think that it is ok for them to price out the losers. The losers do not deserve anything better. If they cannot afford a $100k COE, that is their business. If they cannot afford to pay for taxis, just too bad. This is a meritocratic world and the meritorious deserve their comfortable lifestyle while the rest are inconsequential. They should be grateful to have a job and a roof over their heads.

Do not be misled by the conscience pricking uttering of the elite. It is just for show. They believe that they should take as much as they can while the sun shines even when they could have taken enough to last a life time or several life times in a year.

There is a subtle difference between the rich employees and the entrepreneurs or those managing their own businesses. The latter two invested their talents and resources and could lose everything, return on capital risk. As for the employees, public or private, the only thing they can ever lose is the job even if they burn down the company or organisation. The capital they are risking and bringing in big revenue is other people’s capital, OPC. And they could move on to rob another company by demanding to be paid another life time in salary in a year.

Is there a problem? If one is an elite and being paid that kind of indecent money, there is surely no problem. In fact it is the right thing to do. The system is good, the system is well. Do not destroy the system. So what is going to happen? Nothing, everything will be as per normal and the system will tick away until the sun comes down, if it ever comes down.

Another botch deal, another US$600m down

‘The govt of Singapore, well, they lost the most….over $600 million. It just went poof…. Tisman Speyer and BlackRock lost a lot of people a couple of billion dollars, walked away from it unscathed and went into the next deal without anyone calling them out on their colossal mistake….’ NPR.org

The deal was to buy a middle class housing estate, The Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in NY Manhattan, switch the land control tenants with new tenants paying market rentals. Pretty neat, pretty profits and pretty good deal. The deal was stopped by the courts and money of the investors went poof.

There must be many such good deals that are going around for clever investors to pick up, just like the rotten banks during the 2008 financial crisis. Many were great deals with great promises of big profits and were picked up quickly only to turn out as lemons. No free lunch. Too good to be true.

Thought such good deals will catch the laypeople on the streets, like the gold investment schemes where the returns are more or less guaranteed and in double digits. I am also looking for such good deals to invest my $2.

Did Singapore lose $600m? I don’t think so. Every botch deal a few hundred millions, how much can we afford to botch and botch? But then $600m is really peanuts compared to the tens of billions lost during the financial crisis. Ten of such bad deals only cost $6b and it will take 100 deals to hit $60b.

Obama's Asia Pivot

The article below is written by Stephen Lendman. Mr. Stephen Lendman is a well known versatile writer on international affairs and the citizens of the world can read more of his postings at his blog  : Steven Lendman Blog.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Obama's Asia Pivot by Stephen Lendman In late 2011, Obama prioritized reasserting America's Pacific presence. His Asia pivot was announced.  It involves advancing America's military footprint. Doing so aggressively is planned. China's growing economic might and military strength are targeted. So is checking Russia at the same time. Containment is policy. Cold war politics is back. Unchallenged global dominanceis prioritized. Anything goes intends to maintain it.  War in a part of the world hostile to invaders is possible. Vietnam echoes remainaudible. So are Afghanistan ones today. China's a far more formidable adversary. So is Russia.  It's hard imagining any country challenging them militarily. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. America hasn't won a war since WW II. Lessons weren't learned. Permanent war remains policy. War profiteers demand it. In January 2012, Obama expanded the Bush doctrine. Dick Cheney explained it. In June 2003, he said: "If there is anyone in the world today who doubts the seriousness of the Bush Doctrine, I would urge that person to consider the fate of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq." Bush put it his way, saying "You're either with us or against us." Neutrality's not an option. Neither are equity, justice, rule of law principles, democratic values and peace. Supporters thought Obama was different. He exceeds the worst of Bush. He does so at home and abroad. He hardened homeland tyranny. He asserts America's right to replace independent governments with client ones.  Doing so prioritizes global aggression. It violates international law. Washington operates with impunity. Its interests matter most. Obama's biting off a mouthful targeting China and Russia. He rules out no options. Bush addressed "wars of the 21st century."  Obama continues them. Tactics include creating instability, chaos and violence. North Africa, the Middle East, and Eurasia are targeted. It's done to justify America's intervention and presence. Obama prioritizes global belligerence. He's cold-blooded about America's interests. He's mindless of whatever it takes to achieve them. Realpolitik continues Washington's odious tradition.  Waging wars on humanity reflect it. Doing so spurns rule of law principles. Democratic values don't matter. They never did and don't now.  Obama's pivot escalated regional tensions. Challenging China and Russia pose enormous challenges. Asia's on the boil. Japan's a virtual US colony. It serves US imperial interests. Washington treats Asian areas like its own. It has no right to do so. Administrations and Congress believe America has sovereign rights over East Asian waters and territory. It wants to dominate and exploit them. Strengthening America's regional presence is part of its new imperial strategy. It's going head-to-head with China and Russia. It aims to undermine and isolate Beijing and Moscow regionally. It's a recipe for heightened tensions and eventual confrontation. Washington has been rebalancing East Asia for years. Strategy calls for strengthening military, economic, and political ties with Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam. It involves undermining Chinese and Russian influence, isolating them from neighbors, and asserting Washington's dominance over territories and waters not its own.  Echoes of WW I and II remain audible. Never again is possible. Flashpoints have a way of igniting them. Small disputes lead to greater ones.  Obama's Asia pivot encourages them. Military alliances, strategic partnerships, and expanding bases make them more likely. Cold War politics is back. Soviet Russia's dissolution reignited old rivalries. Scrambling for vital resources followed. Marginalizing Beijing's influence is prioritized. So is challenging Moscow the same way. Both countries are rising world powers. America's been declining for years. Its military might is used to offset it. Waging war on humanity is a losing game. Walden Bello calls Obama's Asia pivot "flawed." Critics denounce transgressing areas of traditional Chinese influence. Obama continues the worst of Bush administration policies. His pivot strategy is more than meets the eye.  It's "a faint," says Bellow, "a maneuver to cover up a strategic retreat from America's disastrous two-decades-long engagement in the Middle East and Southwest Asia." It's Washington attempt "to retreat to an area for imperial power projection that it sees as more manageable than a Middle East that is running out of control." It's hard understanding how. It won't work. Realpolitik won't let Washington disengage. It's "condemned to a condition of imperial overreach."  Increasing America's Pacific footprint triggers military competition with China. It prioritizes protecting its part of the world. It's doing so "as it races to become the world's biggest economy."  Its politics reflects centuries of contesting Western intervention. Don't underestimate its capacity to "promot(e) peace, harmony, and respect for sovereignty better than" America's hegemonic madness. Washington uses whatever it takes to advance its imperium. Its Asia pivot encircles China and Russia with bases.  With all related categories included, its defense spending exceeds all other nations combined. It wants dominance over both countries. It wants it regionally and globally.  It wants Beijing and Moscow marginalized and subservient. It wants control over vital world resources. It wants challengers eliminated.  China and Russia are formidable competitors. They're dominant enough to matter. America's grand geopolitical strategy prioritizes Eurasian dominance. China's America's chief economic rival. It's dependent on vital resources. Russia's military might matters. Both countries represent major Eurasian challengers. Washington tolerates no rivals. No-holds-barred tactics target them. Obama declared global cyberwar. China, Russia, Iran, and other independent states are targeted. Draconian cybersecurity legislation is prioritized.  CISPA is back. It's more about destroying personal freedom than online security. It gives government and corporate predators unlimited power. They'll take full advantage. They'll use it to access personal/privileged information online. They'll claim fake cybersecurity threats to do so.  Constitutional protections don't matter. Diktat power replaced them. Big Lies substitute for truth. War on terror is America's national pastime. China is public enemy number one. On February 19, a New York Times editorial headlined "China's Cybergames."  Times editors are paid to lie. They claim Washington "and security experts have long known that China is the main source of cyberattacks on the United States." A new Mandiant report says so. Claims without corroboration don't wash. Mandiant's a private security firm. Kevin Mandia heads it. He's a retired military cybercrime investigator. He specializes in computer forensics. His staff includes former intelligence officials and law enforcement agents. He targets China. He operates like a digital Blackwater. He's well paid to do so. "We're security guys," he says. "We're not diplomats." He claims Chinese hackers are linked to the People's Liberation Army (PLA). US government agencies, corporations and organizations are targeted from a Shanghai area office tower. It's PLA Unit 61398 headquarters, he says. China denounced his report. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said: "Hacking attacks are transnational and anonymous. Determining their origins are extremely difficult. We don’t know how the evidence in this so-called report can be tenable." Bet on it having no credibility whatever. Most countries spy on others. They do so for national security reasons. Government hacking is war by other means. Washington does it aggressively. Media scoundrels don't explain. Obama stopped short of accusing China. No one's fooled by who he has in mind. Congressional hardliners say the same thing.  Concerns are discussed privately. Patience is wearing thin, said Times editors. "China-emanated attacks have grown," they claim.  A more aggressive response is warranted, they say. "Publicizing China’s transgressions and blocking Internet access to hackers should be a warning to Beijing. Washington is right to defend its interests." Attorney General Holder weighed in. He warned of "a significant and steadily increasing threat to America’s economy and national security interests." He lied saying so. He's paid to lie. So is Obama and likeminded hardliners. Robert Hormats was Goldman Sachs International chairman. That alone makes him damaged goods. Goldman makes money by stealing it. Hormats was complicit in grand theft.  He's now Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. He said Washington "repeatedly raised  concerns about trade secret theft by any means at the highest levels with senior Chinese officials." Get China is official US policy. Marginalizing, weakening, and isolating it is prioritized. New threats follow earlier ones. Cyberwar opens a new front.  Capability to wage it adds to America's arsenal. Preemption is prioritized. Diktat authority bypasses Congress. Obama's word is policy.  He'll say what he wants without evidence. He's a serial liar so expect it. He's waging multiple direct and proxy wars.  Cyber ones are ongoing. They're aggressive, malicious and lawless. New ones are planned. China is prioritized. Obama's got other targets in mind. Cyber sabotage is policy. It's war by other means. Rogue states operate that way. America's by far the worst. US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) has full operational control. It's a cyber hit squad. It's part of the US Strategic Command.  It's based at Fort Meade, MD. General Keith Alexander serves as National Security Agency (NSA) director and US Cyber Command head. Obama's Presidential Policy Directive 20 set guidelines for confronting cyberspace threats. Last fall, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned of a "cyber Pearl Harbor." It could "cause physical destruction and loss of life," he said. It could "paralyze and shock the nation and create a new profound sense of vulnerability." US officials prioritize hyperbolic fearmongering. Americans are easy marks to deceive. They're dismissive and don't think. They let Washington get away with murder and much more.  Obama may have WW III in mind. He prioritizes waging war on humanity. He does so at home and abroad. He's the worst of rogue leaders.  He risks what no head of state should dare. Despots operate that way. Impeaching him is a national imperative. Doing it in time matters most. Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.  His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity." http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanII.html Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour http://www.dailycensored.com/obamas-asia-pivot/ posted by Steve Lendman @ 12:02 AM

No need for Singaporeans in Singapore

‘Singaporeans biggest threat to Singapore's growth

Singapore's citizens are the biggest threat to national growth, said analysts at Goldman Sachs at an annual wealth conference yesterday, held in Marina Bay Sands.

Speaking at a panel discussion about emerging markets in Asia, the analysts agreed that the increasingly vocal citizenry in the once-orderly island has disrupted economic growth for 2013 and will continue to be a drag on the economy for years to come.

"Let's be honest here. Does Singapore need Singaporeans? No. The children are taken care off by foreign domestic helpers, the hawkers are Malaysian (PRC Chinese), the buildings are constructed by Bangladeshis. All Singaporeans are good for are populating the army, which has never gone to war!" said emerging markets specialist, Thomas Money.

Money pointed out that Singapore's only comparative advantages against its competitors were location, and immigrants. He proposed slowly phasing out Singaporeans so they would be unable to interfere with pro-growth government policies.

"I love the country, but I really can't stand the people and their disgraceful sense of entitlement. The weather's great, the gastronomy scene is livening up in Marina Bay Sands, and the women are gorgeous. But the xenophobia on the island is extremely troubling. Without foreigners like myself who bring in capital without paying taxes, Singapore would not be where it is today. And no Singaporean ever thanks us for gracing their backwater island with our presence and cash." "If things don't improve, I might just pack up and leave."

Other analysts on the panel also noted that as Singapore grew at an astronomical pace under a soft-authoritarian regime, the only way to preserve the country's economy, is to regress democratically.

"I'm quite ashamed of Singaporeans too," said commodities specialist Chao Hee Lang who is a local and a weekend volunteer at a migrant workers NGO.

"All this xenophobia and hatred... No wonder Lee Kuan Yew once said that only educated people should be able to vote. People like myself, who can see that freedom is not always a good thing."

"God bless the foreign workers. Without them working at ridiculously low wages, we would never get anything done. And yet, no one is grateful to them for doing us a favour!"

The panel discussion was chaired by Acting Ministry for Economic Affairs, Mr Jin Jue Lui who reassured the audience that the government was already working on a plan to reduce the proportion of native citizens in the population to about 50% by 2030.’

http://newnation.sg/2013/03/singaporeans-biggest-threat-to-singapores-growth/



When I first read the article I was naturally annoyed. How dare these people talked about Singaporeans in these ways and that Singaporeans are really not needed in this country. Oops, I mean city or is it hotel? On reflection, I think they made perfect sense. From the cleaners in the foodcourts to the top leaders, none of them are needed, really.

As for the cleaners, they are old, slow and not cheap. They can be easily replaced by the CBF foreign workers. The construction workers are all foreign workers, and so are the retail and sales staff, and the nurses. The doctors too are increasingly being recruited from overseas.

In the PME categories, banking and finance are now nearly all filled by foreigners from the West and India, or at least in top and middle management. And don’t have to say about the IT industry as probably 90% are from India. Their dominance in this industry has made Java and C programming language obsolete. The new language used is Tamil.

For the top political leaders, why is there a need for them and to pay them such a huge salary to prevent them from corruption. Remove this profession and there will be great savings. No need to pay for the fear of corruption. And no need to pay for life long pension in the millions to keep them from being corrupt while in retirement.

What is left that the Singaporeans are deserving to be here? Producing babies. But they failed miserably in this. They can’t produce and for those who can, they are demanding a ransom from the Govt. What for paying them so much when the ICA could bring in plane loads of whatever colour and creed, whatever age group, and all hungry, willing to work and exceptionally talented. Isn’t it so much cheaper, efficient and effective to just import the heads for the needed workers to service the economy?

I think the only thing that is of value in the Singaporeans is the properties they owned, private and public flats. Why not encouraged them to sell at a good price to foreigners and move them to JB, Batam or Lijiang or perhaps some paradise in India?. As for the private property owners, they could sell their properties in the tens or hundreds of millions and could even buy Buckingham Palace in the cheap. Then all these people can have their Tea Parties to make merry in Hyde Park or any parks in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA or anywhere. No need to kpkb in Hong Lim Park.

Seriously, Singaporeans are no longer needed in Singapore. As for the NSmen, what is there to defend when Singaporeans are not needed and the country populated by foreigners and their companies and businesses. Talking about this, in the 60s and 70s when there was no jobs, we invited the MNCs here to create jobs for jobless Singaporeans. Today, Singaporeans not only did not want to work, they are also expensive. It is more economical and productive to import factories and companies here, lock, stock and barrel, with their foreign employees. Cheap and good and fit the CBF model. They can hire 100% foreign staff, not an issue.

So, did I make my point clear, that there is really no need for Singaporeans anymore?

The oppression of a civilization

The world was turned into an ocean of colonies of subject people during the few centuries of ‘friendly’ European conquest. The Africans were turned into slaves, the natives of both Americas massacred. The ancient civilization of China was crippled and dismantled into pieces. After the Western powers brought down the decadent Qing Dynasty with the might of modern firearms, the Chinese civilization was turned into a pariah race of nothingness by the invaders in their country. The foreigners did not bring anything good but oppression, bullying and raiding China’s wealth and dignity by all kinds of deceptive means, and by the barrel of the gun. The Japanese joined in and even thought of conquering and ruling the whole of China as their colony.

There was a moment of salvation when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and declared war on the Western power. China and its peasant soldiers were needed to open another front to sap the fighting power and resources of the Japanese. A large part of the Japanese Imperial Army was held down in China by the peasant soldiers. History would not be the same if the Japanese could run through China without resistance and conquer the whole of Asia.

After the war there was a brief moment of equality for China as a key member of the Allied Forces that fought against the Japanese. Chiang Kai Shek was seated with the Allied leaders like Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt in Potsdam and Cairo to divide the world among the victorious Allied Powers. China was lucky to have its lost territories back. Chiang was more like a flower vase, inconsequential, and would not be deserving of any war loot. His presence among the leaders of the big powers was a consolation that gave China a little recognition as a big nation.

This little moment of dignity did not last long when Mao Zedong defeated Chiang and China adopted communism as a state ideology. This turn of event led to a renewed and concerted Western effort to brand and condemn the Chinese civilization as peasants, rogues, dumb, uncivilized, aggressive and the pariahs of the human race, a good for nothing race that was lack of talent, unproductive and unimaginative, and unfit to join the advanced nations of the West. This was the hopeless China painted by the West. They kept repeating the misinformation daily in all western media, like they are doing to North Korea today that the whole world simply believed so. Chinese are useless, Chinese are lame, Chinese are bad.

Cold Wars, containment policies, encirclement, depriving China of its rightful seat in the UN, blocking China from joining international organizations like the WTO and the Groupings of rich nations, were history now. In the last 40 odd years, China came storming back on its own despite all the sanctions and barriers and threats against its rise as a nation and the Chinese people as a civilization, old, ancient, but not useless and remote of talents.

Throughout the two hundred years of Western oppression and suppression, the Chinese civilization was not allowed to surface, no opportunity to break out and be the equals of other nations. The Chinese civilization was down and out, the Chinese in despair. Many Chinese had doubts in themselves, and were ashamed to be Chinese. The Westerners reinforced this belief by sneering at them, contributing negative literature furiously to debase the Chinese, discriminated against them in practically every human endeavour and industry. In the USA there were racist laws forbidding the Chinese from higher skill jobs. The image and perception of useless and untalented Chinese became a self fulfilling prophecy. The Chinese civilization was a joke, a condemned race that was lacking in industry and innovation.

On its own, slowly and steadily the Chinese rebuilt their nation and their civilization, with little foreign talents and assistance, China has over taken Japan and is closing in on the US as the number Two world power, economically and militarily. They have proven that they could match the West in every field of industry. The oppression and suppression of a civilization have failed, and a revitalized China has assumed its rightful place as a proud nation among nations. The Chinese civilization is no longer to be spitted at, to be kicked around by the Western powers or by teeny weeny little Asian states. It is now a force to be reckoned with and to be respected on its own merits.

The tag of being the Sick Man of Asia, a semi colony of the West, a broken country with nothing, no inventions, no modern industries, no talents except poverty and all the trappings of a poor and backward third world country vanished over a few decades. There is renewed pride as a people, a nation and a civilization in the new China. A phoenix has risen from the ashes. There is no turning back. The Chinese have found their way back and will leap frog over the West in science and technology and in all things, while the West are still trying to restrain their advances by hook and by crook.

Today, the overseas Chinese are also starting to rediscover themselves, their pride and dignity as a respectable people. They too find some renewed confidence that they are not rubbish and useless as the West wanted to hole them in, to be bullied by even little third world people, to be told to go home in western countries. They too share the pride of an ancient civilization seeking a second chance in renaissance, to achieve in whatever they seek to do, to be a respectable people and civilization on par with the best in the world. They no longer lower their heads in shame as they go about their lives. They are standing tall, heads and shoulders to the Western civilization with the knowledge that they are just as good if not better. The Chinese civilization is reviving and will no longer be oppressed and suppressed again.

Tessa Wong defends her position in facebook

Tessa Wong, the ST journalist that wrote an article on xenophobia last Saturday came under attack by many netizens. In her facebook posting she tried to explain that her position was quite balance. In the Saturday article she called on the Singaporeans not to discriminate against foreigners, not to be xenophobes.

I still think that her article was very one sided, that the xenophobes were only Singaporeans. I hope she would balance out her position by doing some investigative journalism and fish out those companies and CEO/HR that discriminated and victimised Singaporeans for jobs. Companies and such individuals that hired their own kind at the expense of Singaporean PMEs are xenophobes and must be exposed.

If Tessa Wong could put up a piece to show such discriminations against Singaporeans, she could turn the table and be seen not only as fair and balance but also a Singaporean speaking for Singaporeans and fair play. If she fails to do so, then it is likely that the netizens will go after her more furiously.

We cannot chastise Singaporeans for just airing their unhappiness and protect the foreigners for having committed the such crimes. In fact the Singaporeans were just reacting to the discrimination and victimisation practised by the foreigners. The Singaporeans are the victims and wanting to fight back. The foreigners are ganging up in a concerted effort to ease out the Singaporeans from good jobs here, in Singapore you know.

I hope Tessa reads this and do the due diligence as a professional Singaporean journalist that believes in fairness and transparency. Get the culprits into the open. MOM should have details of the transgression they committee against Singaporeans. Interview Tafep or Tan Chuan Jin, they know.

Hsien Loong and Obama 4 eye meeting. Ampat mata.

What I have written is strictly fictional. It is called humour, ok? It is like turning on the tap for pork soup. Now that you are in the right frame of mind, let me let my imagination runs a little wild, and here it is. In the Oval….

Hsien Loong: ‘Hi BO, I see you got a little problem.’

BarackObama: Sheepishly, not trying to keep his act tough image in his private office, ‘Bad news travels far and wide yah!’

Hsien Loong: ‘No worry. I brought my cheque book along. How much do you need?’

BarackObama: Face lighted up. ‘That’s cool baby. We are so bloke that we can’t even sail a decent size boat to the South China Sea. But we were lucky, as that Captain sailed it into the reef. Embarrassing, so embarrassing!’

Hsien Loong: ‘Heh heh, you should let our boys sail it. We know the ground.’

BarackObama: ‘Yah, you can laugh. The Chinese are laughing too. Damn Marines could not even keep its boat afloat. I think it is safer to sail into Singapore, deep water port, no coral reef to make the Marines looked like Georgie boy.’

Hsien Loong: ‘Again no worry. We will take good care of your boys. We will tow the boat into harbor to make it doubly safe. Our shipyard will fix it like new.’

BarackObama: ‘Thanks a lot. We really appreciate the special relationship we have with Singapore. Now cut it short, how much have you got?’

Hsien Loong put on the biggest smile he could. ‘How much do you need? Fed can print, we can print too.’

BarackObama: ‘As much as you put into Citibank and all the other banks combined. We need to save this F35 project from sinking.’

Hsien Loong: ‘That bad huh?’

BarackObama: ‘The Fed is not going print more money, Congress is not going to approve for more, our bank accounts are empty, the Chinese, the Japanese and the Arabs are not going to buy more T bonds, and we promised the Americans the best aircraft money can buy and a very affordable price tag. Now we don’t have money left to get it off the ground.’

Hsien Loong: ‘What are friends for? Just tell me how much and you can have it.’

BarackObama: ‘You really fixed my problems.’

Hsien Loong: ‘Just a minute. I have a little problem to fix too. After the buying the rotten banks I am now told to be extra careful by Tony. He is the guardian of our reserves and very experience now. He did not want me to put the money down for rotten aircraft like the rotten banks. No haste. The advice of Jim Rogers is invaluable. You know, Tony is the President, and very wise now.’

BarackObama: ‘Oh, tell Tony all is well. No worry, trust US. We have no control over the banks. But for the aircraft, if they don’t fly, we will make sure they fly, 5 years or 10 years later, they will fly. I give you my words.’

Hsien Loong: ‘That’s very assuring. How about two for the price of one?’ And can I pay you in T bonds?

From tolerance to intolerance

This is a personal journey of an average Singaporean, like all Singaporeans. The changing mindset of a very tolerant Singaporean towards foreigners is very likely to be shared by all other average Singaporeans. Actually the word tolerance towards foreigners was never an issue, never appear in the Singaporean vocab. Most Singaporeans are or were very hospitable and warm to foreigners in this island. Most foreigners in the past left with a very pleasant experience of a very friendly people during their sojourns here. It is very unusual for a visitor or those who have worked or studied here to have had bad memories of a unfriendly people and ugly experiences because they were foreigners.

Things are changing so rapidly that the tolerance for foreigners is becoming intolerance. Some have broken out into out right anger. It used to be a little inconvenience taking public transport that was often a bit squeezy, and finding a seat a little lucky. The experience of taking public transport today is to have strangers, clearly foreigners, stuck to your sides, front and back, rubbing or knocking at you, breathing down your neck or yakking away at the top of their voices. Their unfamiliar and often unpleasant BO, with their arms stretched across your face cannot be fun but must be most unpleasant and irritating.

Fighting for a seat with the foreigners becomes a game of being ungraceful or disgraceful. What really troubles the Singaporeans must be the huge presence of foreigners and the deprivation of a better life for the citizens. When many Singaporeans are out of jobs, in between jobs, under employed, unemployed, while foreigners are fully employed, many taking up cushy and high paying jobs, things will turn a bit ugly. No one is complaining so much about foreign workers who are needed and tolerated here as transient workers.

And when foreigners flooded the housing markets and driving up housing prices, pushing them beyond the reach of citizens, and also the favourite item of car ownership becoming an impossible dream to many, tolerance will become intolerance.

Tensions will build up over time and over many unhappy incidents. The last straw, when Singaporeans become a minority, when they are victimized, discriminated by foreigners, you expect Singaporeans to continue to be meek and selfless and continue to put their arms up wide to embrace the foreigners? The elite in their little palaces can talk cock about sharing with the foreigners when they could hide in the comfy enclaves and move around in private cars.

The danger is that the rot will get worst and will affect the children of Singaporeans in more adverse ways in the future. This little piece of rock is home to the Singaporeans, the only thing they have. This little rock cannot be traded away for fiat money. The developers with their money motive will be happily bid for land at higher and higher prices to feed the foreign frenzy, with money from all over the world. The Singaporeans cannot afford to compete with the rest of the world on an ‘equal’ basis as many are much richer and able to buy up everything and replace the Singaporeans in everything, everywhere.

This tolerance and intolerance issue cannot be spoken in void. There are lives involved. There is country and citizens involved. It is not a simple economic number game. There are also many intangibles of being a people, a country and a nation. Yes, I am getting more intolerant to foreigners when they crossed my path, cut into my way and deprive me of things that I used to have as a citizen in my country.

Having one or two foreigners can be fun, a novelty. When the citizens become the one or two, and the foreigners swarming all over us, it is no fun anymore. It is intolerance, and this intolerance will grow in intensity and will be felt by more and more Singaporeans. It is a road that spells trouble.

Is Hsien Loong really trembling?

'Pentagon chief reassures a worried Lee Hsien Loong about US military commitment towards Asia-Pacific against growing Chinese threat

Turkish Weekly, 2 Apr 2013

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday reassured Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of the U.S. commitment to rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region.

Hagel "made clear the United States and the Department of Defense remain committed to the rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region and that in the future there will be even more opportunities for closer collaboration between the United States and Singapore," the statement said....'

The above is culled from an article in TRE. Pentagon chief assured a worried Lee Hsien Loong of US military commitment? Is this what Hsien Loong is in Washington all about, that he is worried that the Americans will abandon the Asia Pacific region because of a Chinese threat? How did the Americans got to know that Hsien Loong was worried of the Chinese threat? Did Hsien Loong or someone from Singapore whisper to the Americans about this? Or is it a red herring that the Americans are sowing to create a divide between China and Singapore?

With this disclosure, that China is what Singapore is afraid of, and Hsien Loong so worried to make a 4 day official trip to Washington, would China keep quiet about it? Would China stop inviting Hsien Loong or LKY to Beijing, or would some top level visits be cancelled?

Now, would the MFA come up with another clarification that the Americans were putting words in Hsien Loong’s mouth, that there is no such thing, that there is nothing to fear about China? We are friends of China, we welcome all the big powers into the region peacefully and we are not American lackeys trying to contain China’s influence in the region. We are not part of the American scheme of things to balance China’s position in the region. Singapore needs not worry until China puts a claim on Pedra Branca. And if the Americans did not correct this misinformation, would Singapore continue to buy the F35s?

Is there any truth in the reported statement, or someone misquoted Chuck Hagel. Maybe it is true and that is why Singapore is going to buy the F35s to defend against a Chinese air attack, or to fight on the side of the Americans against the Chinese.

Seriously, I think it would be better to report this comment as an April Fool joke. It is reported three days late.

F35 - another American snake oil product

Look at the big picture of American defence system and picture who would attack the US home land and in what form the attacks would come, one would easily come to the conclusion that the F35 is a piece of gimmick that is unnecessary and wasteful, and sadly would have to be paid by the American tax payers only to benefit the arms manufacturers. The arms merchants would keep telling the American public of the need to keep buying the most expensive toys for their own good.

Who or which country in the world, in his right mind, would launch a military attack against the mighty Americans other than the militants in Japan during the Second World War? The hype and fear mongering of a North Korean or Iranian attack were simply foolish and meant for the silly American peasants and the peasants of the world to believe in. Simply put, what would the Americans do if it suffers a nuclear attack by missiles from another country? That country would be wiped out to Stone Age. That is the fate awaiting anyone or country that dares to do it. The banging of war drums and cymbals in North Korea is just that. Period. But the silly Koreans have been led to the slaughter house by the Americans pushing them on.

Coming back to the air defense system and strategies of the Americans. The F35s are only useful as an interceptor against an air incursion of fighter bombers, but their primarily role is more as a stealth attack bomber. For the defensive role it is absolutely redundant as no country within the range of the US mainland would be able to do that with what they have at the moment. The Russians and the Chinese could not ‘and would not’ launch an air strike of fighter bombers for many decades to come and neither would they want to go back to the stone age.

The F35s are only good as offensive weapons to be stationed in Europe or lift off from aircraft carriers. If the damn Americans did not have these weapons, they have a weapon less to conduct wars of aggression against other countries. Even without the F35s, the Americans have so many superior alternatives, the F22s and B2s, and even the antique B52s would deliver a deadly blow to any country, to conduct wars. F35s are extravagant toys to make the American public pay for them. Now the bill is so huge that the Americans are getting their allies and proxies to help to foot the bill.

Any real attacks against the American continent will be Armageddon, ICBMs from Russia and China. Such attacks will render the F35s completely useless. The best part, Russia and China will not do such a crazy thing to engage in an ‘end of the world’ war game. Neither would the Americans attack the Russians and Chinese with a similar attack. Such a war is inconceiveable by any of the three super powers.

So what is the purpose of F35s? It is simply created to generate income for the weapons industry. The Americans really have no use or need for such an aircraft, only to bully the lesser equipped countries like Iraq and Iran. Who is going to attack the USA by air power other than 911 version which will render the F35s useless, sitting on the tarmac?