Nelson Mandela – Man of the Century

Tributes and words of praise and honour poured into South Africa for Nelson Mandela. He was a lawyer turned freedom fighter, fighting simply for equality, to be treated like a man, for his people in his own country. The discrimination, victimisation and oppression of his people by the white colonial masters were inhuman, demeaning and painful. Many black South Africans who fought alongside Mandela were beaten up, shot and killed or jailed.

Mandela was lucky. They caught him and sentenced him to 27 years in jail, for a crime to demand to be treated as a man, for the simple dignity as a fellow human being. The white colonialists would have none of his nonsense. The whole white world kept quiet for a very long time while the black Africans continued to suffer the indignity as lesser men and children of a lesser God in their own country.

Today, all the white men are crying crocodile tears. Many of their forefathers have been on the same side of the apartheid leaders not just in South Africa but in the whole of Africa and in North and South America and other continents. Many of the natives, hundreds of millions, were brutally murdered, tortured, oppressed, and if they were lucky, survived as slaves for hundreds of years.

It is so sad that a man had to go through so much pain and suffering and humiliation and the lost of freedom in the best part of his life, and on his release, to be praised for not wanting to exact revenge on the criminals that put him behind bars for 27 years, for colonising his homeland and murdering millions of his people, and for treating his people as lesser people with lesser rights.

If Mandela and his people would have fought like the Red Indians and be massacred in the millions, he would not be around to be revered and acknowledged as a great freedom fighter. He had to survive the ordeal, to live through it in ignonimity, to earn this dubious honour as a great man. To the white supremacists, a colour man is only great when he can be kicked around, sentenced to life imprisonment, and on release at their mercy, willing not to pursue the matter further, not to redress the wrongs and injustice of the past committed against him and his people. He had to let the past be the past and pretended that nothing had happened.

Would the white hypocrites say all the good things about Mandela as a truly great man if he would to continue his fight for his people and country and to rid his country of white men? The crimes against humanity can only be committed by the white men. The coloured people must not attempt to seek revenge or justice and to put the wrong doers and criminals behind bars for crimes against them. Only then can the coloured people be respected, honoured and praised as good men, men deserving to be called great men.

RIP Mandela. Let’s hope he and his fellow victims of injustice would be the last to face such adversities and helplessness in the hands of evil men. The price for this honour is too high to pay.

Dr Rhawn Joseph ( US ) re-discovers some of the treasures in Asia stolen by the Japanese during the war.

FW: Dr Rhawn Joseph(US) discovered the treasures in Asia stolen by Japanese during war

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Why have we forgotten about the Japanese WW2 atrocities? 
The Japs went on a “Steal All, Kill All, Burn All” policy throughout East Asia.
They stole every treasure in Taiwan, Korea and Manchuria which they annexed
even before the war.
They took away all the treasures in China including Peking, Tianjin, Nanjing
and Shanghai.
The gold, diamond, ruby, etc, which they stole amounted to hundreds of billions
of dollars which was astronomical in those days.  A lot of them are still buried in
the sea around Tokyo.

Emperor Hirohito was the chief war criminal who got away scotch free because of a secret deal with the USA.
His relative Prince Asaka who directed the entire Nanjing Massacre was also not charged at all.

This is a must watch video !

Dr Rhawn Joseph(US) re-discovers some of the treasures in Asia
stolen by the Japanese during the war
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le7SCVNA7Z8
Uploaded on May 24, 2007

http://RapeofNanking.info "Hirohito, Japan & Asia's Stolen Treasures: Why the World Forgot The Rape of Nanking, Japanese Atrocities,
& The Golden Lily." As detailed in a shocking new movie, being directed and produced by acclaimed documentary film-maker, Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D., Japan's Emperor Hirohito made a secret deal with U.S. General Douglas MacArthur and the U.S. government to protect the Japanese royal family and thousands of Japanese war criminals, in return for a significant share of the over 100 billion dollars in gold, jewels, and other commodities that the Japanese had stolen from the China, Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, and all of Asia. The US government promised Hirohito that neither he nor any member of the royal family would stand trial or even be questioned, and that most of the major war criminals would be allowed
to return to power in post-war Japan, some after only a few years in prison. As part of the deal, Japan was also allowed to keep tens of billions of dollars worth of stolen loot. Thus, while the China, Korea, and the other Asian countries watched in envy, their stolen treasures went to rebuilding Japan and accounts for Japan's post-war "economic miracle." The title of Dr. Joseph's new film is: "Hirohito & Asia's Stolen Treasures Why the World Forgot The Rape of Nanjing & Japanese Atrocities." He is also the Director of "The Rape of Nanking." During the Pacific War and World War II, it was well known that Japanese soldiers tortured, beheaded, bayonetted, raped, set on fire, and murdered millions of women, children, and old men including Chinese, British, Dutch, Australian, and American POWs. As the war drew to a close, the US congress, political leaders, newspapers, and people from around the
world demanded that Hirohito and the entire royal family be tried as war criminals. However, after the the Phillipines was liberated from Japan, the US made an amazing discovery. Under the direction of Hirohito's brother, prince Chibubu, the Japanese buried billions of dollars in gold in tunnels and caves excavated by Japanese engineers. Hirohito and the royal family had systmatically looted every Asian country they had attacked. Asian treasure had been hidden in the Phillipines, in banks, or sat in sunken ships at the bottom of Tokyo Bay. Billions more had been used to fund the Japanese war machine, or had been secretly deposited in dozens of major banks headquartered in neutral countries. However, there is a saying: "To the victor goes the spoils." The U.S. as victor felt entitled to share in the spoils of war. However, to make the deal stick, the world's Number 1 war criminal, Emperor Hirohito was absolved off all responsibility.The U.S. began conspiring with mass murderers, war criminals, and the gangsters and to cover up their crimes. It was imperative that Hirohito and all responsible members of the royal family, never be charged, never be questioned, and that all go free. Even General Ishii who commanded the infamous unit 731 received immunity. Ishii made a private deal with MacArthur. General Ishii had conducted horrible medical experiments on innocent people, injecting Koreans, Chinese, Russians, Americans, and others with horrible diseases and then dissecting people alive, without anesthesia. According to Colonel Sanders, "MacArthur agreed to immunity for all in return for all the [unit 731] information." Ishii later became a millionaire and director of Japan's Green Cross.
Hirohito would also go free and would never be questioned. However, during the trial Tojo insisted that he followed the orders of the Emperor. When Tojo was asked. "Did you ever make any suggestion or take any action against the Emperor's wil..." Tojo replied: "No, I didn't. None of us would dare act against the Emperor's will." Other prosecutor's immediately began demanding that Hirohito be indicted immediately and placed on trial. Keenan and MacArthur immediately sent their agent, Ryukushi Tanaka, to speak with Tojo. Tojo stubbornly refused to change his testimony. " Hirohito realizing the jeopardy he was in, ordered Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Koichi Kido to meet with Tojo. On January 4, Kido and Tojo met. As later revealed by Tanaka: "Kido talked to Tojo and told him of Keenan's intentions. Kido tried very hard to persuade him and Tojo understood and reluctantly agreed." When Tojo appeared again in court, Tojo retracted and changed his testimony, took all the blame, and absolved Hirohito of all responsibility.Thus, General MacArthur, and the United States government conspired with war criminals, mass murderers, and gangsters to cover up the crimes of Hirohito and the royal family, in
return for a significant proportion of the 100 billion dollars in gold, silver, and other assets which had been looted from all over Asia by Japan, and allowed Hirohito and the royal family to get away with mass murder.

New battle ground, from hawker centre to rojak fair

The make shift rojak fair or pasar malam that rotates among the various HDB estates for years, and becoming a part of the local culture, has turned into the latest battle ground. And it happens right in the heart of Aljunied Hougang Punggol East Town Council, AHPETC. Is this just a sheer coincidence?
 
The organizer of the rojak fair, Events Business Management, EBM, has been told by NEA to stop operating as it does not have a licence to operate a trade fair. And this rojak fair which the locals have got used to as a common temporary fixture in housing estates has now been elevated to the status of a trade fair.
 
The stall holders have started to fold up their businesses as a result and sent packing. EBM GM Dennis Chew argued that the event is not a ‘trade fair’. They have been organizing this kind of events for 10 years. Sylvia Lim of AHPETC said this was just a year end festive event. The Kovan Merchants’ Association ‘remains puzzled about the turn of events’. ‘Chairman Ng Cher Po said they have never issued a letter of consensus to event organizers in the past three years, despite the fact that numerous fairs have been held in Kovan City.
 
What is this battle all about? What do you think?

Paul Volcker, former Fed Chairman needed

Singapore needs to engage Paul Volcker to review our banking system and the SGX to clean up any conflicting terms of interests and unfair practices that have been adopted in recent years. In particular, the diminishing volumes and lack of participation of investors in the SGX must be a major cause for concern, in fact alarming. For the moment it seems that everyone is turning to look the other way.
 
The need for a Volcker is obvious as no Singaporeans would be up to it to say what is wrong with the SGX and the banking system. Only a Volcker could carry the weight to deliver the necessary changes and to save the exchange from dying prematurely. It will be money well spent. And this money must be spent urgently, in fact immediate before it is too late.
 
Volcker had tried to make several changes to the NYSE but was blocked in Congress by vested interests. What he could not do in the US to reform the sick and fraudulent system banking system and the exchange designed by cheats and fraudsters , Volcker would have a better chance of success here if given the power to do so and get things right again. Singapore could then be the role model for a clean, fair, equitable and transparent banking and financial system. The current system of the American model is a crime that no one would want to say it out loud.
 
In the Singapore case, unless the govt is convinced that everything is just fine, doing so perfectly, and nothing needs to be done, then there is no need for a Volcker. All is fine. By then even a Volcker will not be able to help. It will be too late when things imploded.

FTs create good jobs for Sinkies

The first good job created for Sinkies by foreigners. Sinkies should be very grateful.

Let me see what are the jobs Singapore created for foreigners. CEO SGX, CEO DBS, Dep Chairman WDA?, Dean of NUS Law School, many MDs in SWF, many CEOs in GLCs....

A maid is a good start.

US has made a blunder in its reaction to air defense zone

US has made a blunder in its reaction to air defense zone

Global Times | 2013-12-2 19:08:01 By Clifford A. Kiracofe

Illustration: Peter C.Espina/GT

Washington's maladroit handling of China's newly announced Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) unnecessarily muddies the waters and raises tensions over the East China Sea. Rather than reacting calmly in a diplomatic manner, the US immediately militarized the situation by sending B-52 bombers into China's zone.

No doubt Asians will draw conclusions from Washington's latest "bull in the China shop" approach to regional security issues. Some conclusions may not be favorable to the US and its long-term interests, given this latest example of US cowboy behavior.

Aviation around the globe is governed under international law by the 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, and is coordinated and regulated by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a part of the UN system.

An ADIZ is defined by legal experts to be an area in airspace over water or land which may not necessarily be over the sovereign territory of a state in which identification, locations, and control of all aircraft must be provided in the interest of national security.

Washington's berating China over its new ADIZ gives the appearance of double standards. The US in fact maintains four ADIZ zones: the Contiguous US ADIZ, Alaska ADIZ, Guam ADIZ and the Hawaii ADIZ.

There are over 20 countries in the world which have ADIZs including the UK, Pakistan, and India. South Korea established its ADIZ in 1951, and Japan established its ADIZ in the 1960s and extended it in 2010.

ADIZ areas are not directly under the Chicago Convention, but can lend support to the convention's objectives of promoting peace and security, legal scholars say. ADIZ areas operate under the procedures given by the countries which establish them.

The US has its own unique procedures for its four ADIZ areas, and it has its own unique procedures for the US military to deal with foreign ADIZ areas, such as the procedures found in the US navy's Commander's Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations.

The Obama administration's heated reaction to China's ADIZ announcement was directed not only against the Chinese ADIZ generally, but also against China's inclusion of the Diaoyu Islands in it.

Washington's accusation that the zone is a destabilizing move implies that China does not have the right to establish such a zone while Japan does.

But how is it that over 20 countries around the world established such zones and have been within their rights to do so while Washington berates China?

In fact, the US action is unprecedented as no such formal protest against the establishment of an ADIZ has been lodged before against any country, experts say.

Japan includes the Diaoyu Islands within its ADIZ. Why should China not do the same? Given that the islands are a well-known matter of international legal dispute, both sides would seem to have the right to include them in their respective ADIZ areas.

For over four decades, there has been disagreement in US policy circles over the issue of the Diaoyu Islands with respect to their inclusion in the US-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty.

Some US officials, such as Walter Mondale when he was vice president of the US, maintained that the islands do not fall under the treaty obligations of the US. Other officials leaning toward the Japanese side, such as Kurt Campbell, alleged that they do fall under the treaty. The Obama administration follows the Campbell line.

Washington says it is neutral in the territorial dispute, but its actions clearly do not match its words.

By including these disputed islands within the mutual defense treaty, Washington binds itself unnecessarily to the Japanese side, and thus is not neutral. Irresponsible actions concerning these islands by an increasingly extremist Japan could quite unnecessarily plunge the US into a war in a worst-case scenario.

China is well within its rights under international law and practice to establish an ADIZ in order to enhance its national security. It is certainly time for Washington to drop its Cold War thinking and cowboy behavior in the Asia-Pacific region.

The author is an educator and former senior professional staff member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn

From Swiss Standard to Indian Dream

Our relations with India cannot be better. Thanks to Chok Tong for spear heading this drive into India and the signing of CECA. There are so many Indian businesses operating here, the biggest among the foreign countries. And they are 200,000 India professionals working here, helping to shore up the property prices. And there must be at least half a million Indian workers helping up in the construction industry and building HDB flats for Sinkies and keeping the construction cost low. This must be a win win formula for both countries.
 
Chok Tong is there in India again probably discussing for more social and economic cooperation. There will be a one year long celebration in both countries in 2015 to commemorate the growing relations and cooperation between the two countries. This social economic and political copulation could lead to more big things to come. GIC and Temasek would now be able to invest more of their treasure chests in India. Many Sinkies can also look forward to working in India. Our jobless PMEs can discard their taxis and security guard uniforms and move to India for more lucrative jobs as professions and managers once again.
 
India is a big country and full of opportunities. Sinkies must not always think of working here. Think overseas, and India is where they could find their fortunes in rupees. The next super power will have more than a billion people and a subcontinent to offer. Look at the opportunities and possibilities to help rebuild India.
 
Our students can also study in Indian universities. India is well recognised for IT and finance expertise. We can train more finance professionals in India and let them follow the Indians to conquer all the financial centres in the world, from New York to Singapore.
 
Chok Tong has made a big difference by venturing into India. Forget about the old Swiss Standard of yore. That is passé, obsolete, no longer attractive. Dream India, think India. That is the future.

Naughty Singapore escapes punishment

The Johore Mentri Besar, Mohammed Khaled Nordin, has commented on the spying allegation during a mass circumcision ceremony last Sunday. He is awaiting the decision of the Federal govt before taking actions against Singapore/Singaporean investments in Johore, particularly in the Iskandar Economic Zone. He mentioned punishment, and looks like it is only a matter of degree. Some investments would be circumcised.
 
The Mentri Besar was also cautious as to what or who would be affected. He recognized that some of the investments were by Singaporeans and not by the Singapore govt. So those buying properties for investment may be spared should he wield the cane.
 
Would two strokes be enough?
 
Singapore can heave a sigh of relief after what Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said yesterday. The spying case is closed. The good relations between the two countries remained intact, life goes on as before. One caveat, the Malaysian govt may still investigate the allegations.
 
It is really good to have a lawyer as the Foreign Minister. And better still, a very good one. Shanmugam has done a good job.

Foreigners improving their taste

They used to congregate in the ‘sua teng’ or rural area. After being here long enough, they are beginning to appreciate what is good taste. And they are moving into the Orchard Road area, the prime district of the rich and famous. They are now going for the branded stuff and getting close to the rich and famous.
 
The latest report said their favourite hangouts are Devonshire Road, Leonie Hill, Cairnhill Circle, and Cavenagh Road. Oh, not to forget, the famous Oxley Road. They are not only rubbing shoulders and feasting with the rich and famous but also the powerful.
 
Actually not all the foreigners have developed such exquisite taste and pangs for the who’s who of Singapore. This fad is solely limited to the Dengue type. They have infested Orchard Road, moving away from Bedok Reservoir when the water is too rich with human flavor, a wise choice, and from HDB and industrial estates and construction sites.
 
Oh there is another type, the Chikungunya, has also moved from the industrial site of Sungei Kadut to the Holland and Bukit Timah area. They are also developing a taste for the wealthy Sinkies. They must be tired of the tasteless and smelly foreign workers in the ‘sua teng’..
 
We must celebrate their newly acquired exquisite taste. They have arrived.

When it comes full circle

How many of your friends are downgrading? How many have sold their landed properties or condominium and gone back to stay in a HDB flat? How many have gone on to stay in a HDB studio apartment, the one room cum all type?
 
It was not too long ago when Sinkies were buying into HDB flats as their first property. Then the prosperity crept in and everyone was upgrading to private and landed properties. Now it has come full circle, many are downgrading to where they started. Your life is getting better.
 
As they said, come naked, go naked. The thought of going naked is going to be a stark reality that many Sinkies will have to reckon with when everything is gone. The prosperity of Sinkies cannot last more than one generation or 99 years. Everything is reset at 99 with many resetting now. The million dollar HDB flat or private condo will also be reset to zero.
 
The race is who gets reset first and who last.

EDB wants companies to develop local talents

Normally I would have dropped on the floor and laugh myself crazy at such a statement. It is like waking up in the morning and remembering that it is important to brush your teeth. It is like realizing that we need to have our own soldiers and not hiring foreign mercenaries to guard our homes and country. But it is still good to remember and try to undo the damage, to do the necessary that have been long forgotten. It is a pathetic piece of news. Below is a part of an Editorial posted in TRE.
 
‘In a recent interview with the media, EDB Chairman Leo Yip said that EDB will work with MNCs to help get more locals into top posts.
 
“More companies are increasingly conducting global decision-making activities, such as procurement and brand management, out of Asia,” said Mr Yip.
 
“The market pull of Asia is increasingly attracting multinational companies… (and) companies are responding and organising themselves to have both regional and global functions here, and that is translating into new and exciting jobs for Singaporeans.”
He acknowledged that a pipeline of local managerial talent is needed to support the international and regional headquarters of MNCs being set up here.
 
“For a Singaporean to develop his or her career in a (multinational) on a managerial pathway, he or she will have to build up exposure to regional, or even global, markets,” said Mr Yip.
 
The EDB is working with companies to develop programmes that will identify locals for top positions in multinationals…’
 
And where should the EDB start, in foreign owned MNCs or in local companies or in the GLCs or ministries and stats board. I read recently that a foreigner is now a deputy Chairman of a stats board. I remember under the first generation of leaders, one of the key objectives was to quickly develop local talents, and local then meant Singaporeans, to assume key appointments both in private and public offices. When was this forgotten and the need to bring in foreigners became a fad all because we have forgotten to develop our own talents? When the mission then was to remove the colonial yoke quickly, today it seems that we are happily and quickly putting on the foreign yoke back on our neck and walking around as a statement of pride that we have arrived…back to the colonial days.
 
Our parent’s generation transformed this island in one generation to a modern and prosperous city, like planting a big tree. Now who is claiming credit and enjoying the fruits of this tree? Maybe like they said, it would not last through the third generation. Somehow some asses will lose it or give it away. It would be lost.

Singapore students top PISA test

Is this another joke? Did they misspelt Pizza as PISA? There is still scintillating report in the media about how smart our students were, coming in second in mathematics and third in reading and science among 65 cities around the world.
 
Singapore is also reported to have one of the top education system. And we have students that scored straight As like no body’s business. And our universities are ranked among the best in the world.
 
Here is the truth. We don’t have good locals to be lecturers and professors and must import them wholesale from the rest of the world, including Third World countries. We don’t have the talents for middle and top management jobs and the island is importing millions of foreigners from the Third World countries to help the daft Sinkies.
 
And the govt just realize that they have to train the locals for middle and top management jobs and are hoping that the MNCs can help to train them. The foreigners are recruited to shore up both the private and public companies and increasingly into govt linked companies and statutory boards. Maybe it is only a matter of time before they take over the govt too.
 
Now, what was being reported in the media? Our students are among the best in the world? What is the joke? What happens when these Sinkie children grow up? Become duds and dafts? Which is the truth?
 
Many graduates and professionals are no longer fit to be employed and can only find solace in becoming taxi drivers. And the good talents from neighbouring countries are taking over the PME’s jobs from the top to the bottom. Presumably their students must be better than our students and their schools and universities must also be better as well. The only reason that they did not fare well in those tests and rankings is that they did not waste time participating. They rather spend their time and effort doing the real stuff, teaching them to be good, to be better than the Sinkies and take over their jobs and country.

6,000 Indian companies operating in Sin

It is reported that there are 6,000 Indian companies operating here, the largest group of foreign companies, outdoing our traditional partners like the US, Malaysia, Japan and China. This explains why the whole of Changi Business Park is probably filled by Indian companies.
 
How do these companies contribute to Singapore and its economies and what is the balance sheet in favour of Singapore? For sure, they will have to pay for the rentals in the park and the utilities and corporate taxes. The staff will also add up to the demands for housing, sales and rentals, and consumption of goods and services.
What about FDI? What percentage of FDI is contributed by this huge presence relative to other foreign companies? How many good jobs are created for Sinkies? What kind of goods and services are these companies providing with their huge presence? What is the value add from these companies to the economy in skills and technology transfer to Sin?
 
Are these companies in the likes of Rolls Royce, Panasonic, Thomsons, and the big names of Europe, America and Japan? Are we having quantity or quality investments from these FDIs? Or do they qualify as FDIs?

Lily Neo felt helpless

Lily Neo wrote in her facebook that she felt very down after failing to help her residents to get back their money held captive in the CPF. Many have reached 55 or going to and are in desperate need of money only to see their money in the CPF. The money is their but not for them to touch. The impatient is turning into anger and desperation.

And many thanks to the govt for the many schemes to help the people with their life savings. And the govt is so proud to declare to the people that it is helping them with their money. As more and more Sinkies get to and pass 55, the number of disgruntled people is rising daily. On the other hand there is not a single word of sorry, of apology or remorse from the govt, but sheer arrogance that the people can just be ignored.

Now why would a population of several million people, and tens of thousands of aggrieved oldies finding themselves so helpless, so in need of money but not able to use their money? And at most there are less than 80 MPs to deal with. Even then, not all 80 of them are in favour of keeping the people’s savings out of their reach.

The decision is likely to be the brain child of a handful of politicians who are so aloof and dismissive to think that the people elected them to do anything they want to the people. Could the people change their fate and take back their money by simply voting out the govt? Is it really so difficult to do such a thing when their core interests are at stake? Howe Yoon Choong was forced to step down after he tried to extend the withdrawal age of the CPF. What had happened since was much more obnoxious. And on top of this there are many very serious issues that the people are unhappy about.

Why not change the govt in the next GE? It is so easy to vote out a govt in a GE if the people decided to do so. Is the CPF such an intolerable issue to break the camel’s back? Why would the people work for a life time and rudely awaken to find the hard truth, that they have no right to take back their life savings as promised? Why would the people feel that they cannot do anything about it? And why does the govt think that they can change the rules of the CPF and they can get away with it? And the schemes to hold back the CPF savings of the people are getting more and more audacious and unacceptable with total disregard of the people’s feeling, objection, disapproval and protest. The frustration is festering and growing.

Maybe it is true, once the people elected other ordinary citizens to be the govt, they ended up as servants and slaves to these ordinary people who are now called the govt. The helplessness is not only in Lily Neo. The helplessness is in all the citizens, young and old. Why save?

Stock broking, a new reality

Trading on SGX dived to a low of $914m daily after the recent penny stock crash. Superficially it is still a big number to generate a decent income for the brokerages and the remisiers. But what is real? My guesstimate is that 90%, could be more, of the daily trades are done by computer traders and house traders which generates zero commission. Assuming that this is true, the balance 10% or $90m, to round up the number for ease, would generate at max $450k at 0.5% or $270m at 0.3%.
 
Using an average of $350k, the broking houses’ share would be $210k or $10.5k per house (assuming that there are 20 houses). The average monthly intake would be less than $230k for one brokerage.
 
In the case of remisiers, the share of commission is $140k. Assuming there are 3000 remisiers, the daily income per remisier on the average will be $40. Multiply this by 22 days, the monthly income of an average remisier is about $1000.
 
The numbers are frightening and a pittance from the heydays. Is this sustainable for an industry of 20,000 people? Is this sustainable for a regionable stock exchange, a financial centre? Is this what we call a vibrant stock exchange?
 
Or is this the intensive ward for the critically ill? How long can this last before the patient breathes his last breath?

Murdoch, Monash, Curtin, RMIT …not recognized

I was shock to hear this little piece of news. I have had colleagues from these reputable universities and they are not recognized today. And that is not all, only 8 Australian universities are recognized here, ANU, Melbourne, WA, Adelaide, NSW etc. Parents spending hundreds of thousands to send their children to Australia better go and reconfirm this news and not to waste their precious savings on a piece of crap. I am still not convinced that this is true. Can someone please confirm that this is not true.
 
The news becomes even more ridiculous and nauseating when thousands of universities are recognized under CECA. Holy cow, who are those people that made these decisions? Did they sign the agreement under the influence of toddy or poppy flowers or kamasutra?
 
No, it cannot be. Out super talents cannot be as silly as this. If this is true, stupidity will take on a different meaning.

Overloading?

This is what a train in Pakistan looks like. And it is what our SMRT train can aspire to be in the future. It speaks volumes about full capacity, profitability, discipline, tolerance, ingenuity, integration and quality of life. 

Now who said Singapore can support a population of 6.9m in 2030? Don't believe in that fool. He does not know what he is talking about. And who is the other fool who said Singapore can support a population of 8m! Another foolish thought.

Look at the photo carefully, Singapore can easily take in 20m if we are willing to live happily and closely together in harmony. And no need to worry about body odour. Our nose would be desensitised by constant exposure to people compressed together.

And the shareholders of SMRT will be the happiest people, all laughing to the bank. Quick, load up on SMRT shares.

Photo credit to China Daily.

The Thailand impasse continues

The Yellow Shirts claimed victory over the Red Shirts. In this latest protest, the initiative was with the Yellow Shirts. There was a deliberate inaction among the Red Shirts. They were there but confined themselves to the sports stadium to avoid a bloody clash. The victory claimed by the Yellow Shirts is a victory of urban over the rural people. How genuine is this victory in terms of the real support of the Thai people for or against the govt?
 
Bangkok is only a small fraction of Thailand. Can the Yellow Shirts count on the rest of the country as their base and supporting their cause to remove the govt? The Yingluck govt is on the defensive. Did they know something that the public is not privy to, that the Yellow Shirts have bigger backers and would not back down in a street confrontation?
 
Is the street protest a tyranny of the minority or a true reflection that the majority of the Thai people wanted a change of govt? Suthep has called for a democratically elected govt to step down to be replaced by a non elected govt. Would Yingluck go for break and move her govt to the north where her support base is and cause a temporary division of Thailand between the rural Thais and the urban Thais? Would Thailand’s unity survive or would there be a divided Thailand, a kind of a republic in the north and a monarchy in Bangkok and the south? Is this the moment for the Thais to make a forced choice?

Foreigners are shitting everywhere

The smell of foreign shit is everywhere, some disguised as pinky shit by their possession of a newly minted pink IC. Sinkies have been sodomised for so long and finally wakening up with a sore exhaust pipe.
 
There are just too many foreigners here in mid and top management positions not through merit but by screwing the daft Sinkies, with fake degrees, discriminations, favouritism and tribalism. Sinkies are being elbowed out of good jobs while foreigners are taking over, many at CEO positions. The cry to protect the interests of Sinkies is getting louder by the days but no one is listening. There is now a call to nationalize good jobs for Sinkies. Sinkies are not fighting for jobs on a level playing field in their home country. They are being cheated in their home country. If this goes on they will be cheated of their country soon.
 
Many countries have a ruling that the HR departments must be headed and run by the citizens, in Malaysia, in Indonesia and many other countries. Their govts will do everything to protect their citizens. Their govts will not betray their people. It is inconceivable for any govt to betray its own people by hiring foreigners to replace them. And this is even more sickening if it happens in a democratic country where the govt is democratically elected by the people. Can you believe that a democratically govt elected by the people will screw its own people and betray them? Never is the word. It must not be allowed to happen.
 
The govt needs to look at this seriously, to impose new employment regulations and for a start, all HR must be manned by Sinkies. No buts, no delays. This is an urgent matter that affects the welfare and well beings of Sinkies. The Sinkies must demand that the govt acts on this immediately. No more one year later nonsense. The jobless and discriminated and cheated Sinkies cannot wait any more.

Not good enough for Singapore, good enough for HK

NUS Professor Michael Hor Yew Meng has been appointed the law dean of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), but not good enough for NUS. Actually hor, he was good enough until a more brilliant and able foreigner came along in the name of Simon Chesterman
 
‘HKU vice-chancellor Professor Tsui Lap-chee described Prof Hor as an “inspiring and passionate teacher”. Prof Hor was selected after two rounds of a worldwide search by HKU.’ This means that Prof Hor was competing with the best in the world and found to be the best candidate.
 
In 2009 Professor Michael Hor and Professor John Phillips from King’s College London were the two shortlisted candidate to take over from Professor Tan Cheng Han. Then came a Ginny comes lately, and sorry hor, this Ginny leapfrogged over the two candidates to be the law dean of NUS.
 
Singapore has this disease of not able to find good talents among Sinkies, or somehow Sinkies are not good enough and angmohs or foreigners are always better even from the Third World, like an impressional dumb kid that has yet to grow up. Anything foreigner is good. See a foreigner goes gaga.
 
So hor, Michael Hor has to become a foreign talent in HongKong. They said the prophet is never appreciated in his home town. My bet is that the next PM will be a foreigner as well. They will not be able to find a Sinkie good enough for the job.