Modi’s visit to Singapore brings hope that the problem of unemployment
of Singapore’s educated PMET could finally be solved after many ended up
as taxi drivers and security guards. Modi is telling the Singaporeans
that there are plenty of employment opportunities in India, in start
ups, in digital industries with India moving ahead in digitalization, e
payments security, smart city management and e commerce. There are a lot
of synergies with the Singaporeans having many years of experience
working with Indian professionals in Singapore.
Modi is calling for the upgrading of the mutually beneficial CECA to
facilitate more Indian professionals to come to work in Singapore and
Singapore’s unemployed PMETs to go to India to find employment. This is a
win win arrangement that would benefit the Indian professionals and
Singapore’s jobless PMETs. With their years of experience in management
and the professions, Singapore’s PMETs would have a lot to offer to
Indian companies. At the worse, they could offer their years of
experience in driving taxis to improve the quality of taxi services in
India.
India is helping Singapore to solve its PMET unemployment problem and
Singapore in turn is also helping India to solve its unemployed
graduates problem. This kind of synergies and complementarity is hard to
come by when both countries would stand to benefit.
Singapore should award the highest medal to Modi and vice versa, India
should do likewise for helping India by providing jobs to its hundreds
of thousands of unemployed graduates. There is a little hitch here. Who
should India award this prestigious medal to, Hsien Loong, Chok Tong or
George Yeo?
Yes, Singapore and India should form a strategic pact and ‘The two lions
should step into the future together.’ What a great idea and great
cooperation between one of the largest country in Asia and one of the
smallest country in the region.
Singapore should thank Modi and India profusely for helping to solve its
unsolvable PMET problem. The poor things in Singapore at last can have
an outlet to find jobs in India. India will open its door wide wide just
like Singapore to welcome our PMETs.
6/01/2018
When mega projects were the in things
Isn’t it surprising for Mahathir to be scrapping mega projects in the
name of saving cost? During his rein he too was a party to many mega
projects and the infamous crooked bridge that was built half way and
abandoned by Badawi and Najib. Today mega projects are taboo, insane and
money wasting.
Mega projects were once the darling of third world tin pot dictators as the kickbacks were enormous. The bigger the mega projects, the costlier they were, the bigger the kickbacks. That was the key reason why many tin pot dictators were crazy about building monuments that served little purpose.
Listen to this, ‘The most important thing for us now is to reduce the amount of borrowings by the govt. We have borrowed too much money. And we cannot pay so much money if we continue with the project.’ It sounds quite logical. But look, as the govt of the day, there is nothing to stop Mahathir from raising taxes to fund these projects. Just tell the people they are good projects and go ahead with whatever taxes to raise whatever sum you need. Does Mahathir know this trick? Oh, an easier way is to rob the people’s savings in the EPF. Just introduce a few compulsory insurance schemes and he could rip off the people in the billions. What is 10b or 20b, ringgits some more when the whole EPF is there to take and for as long as the people keep contributing to it? It is an ATM.
This old man must be getting senile. He went on to say that govt spending must be reduced, and he started by shrinking his cabinet with lesser ministers. With such a big country and with so few ministers, and with so miserable pay, how can he expect his ministers to perform and not be corrupt? He is going nuts.
In third world countries, undeniably mega projects are all about kickbacks. In first world countries, mega projects are about necessary projects that are good for the countries. And while in third world countries, higher cost in mega projects are about bigger kickbacks, in first world countries, higher project cost is about quality. The more expensive is the project the better is the quality of the project.
It is important to see this difference when viewing mega projects. Look at the country and ask this simple question, is it a third world country or a first world country? The answer will be different.
Mega projects were once the darling of third world tin pot dictators as the kickbacks were enormous. The bigger the mega projects, the costlier they were, the bigger the kickbacks. That was the key reason why many tin pot dictators were crazy about building monuments that served little purpose.
Listen to this, ‘The most important thing for us now is to reduce the amount of borrowings by the govt. We have borrowed too much money. And we cannot pay so much money if we continue with the project.’ It sounds quite logical. But look, as the govt of the day, there is nothing to stop Mahathir from raising taxes to fund these projects. Just tell the people they are good projects and go ahead with whatever taxes to raise whatever sum you need. Does Mahathir know this trick? Oh, an easier way is to rob the people’s savings in the EPF. Just introduce a few compulsory insurance schemes and he could rip off the people in the billions. What is 10b or 20b, ringgits some more when the whole EPF is there to take and for as long as the people keep contributing to it? It is an ATM.
This old man must be getting senile. He went on to say that govt spending must be reduced, and he started by shrinking his cabinet with lesser ministers. With such a big country and with so few ministers, and with so miserable pay, how can he expect his ministers to perform and not be corrupt? He is going nuts.
In third world countries, undeniably mega projects are all about kickbacks. In first world countries, mega projects are about necessary projects that are good for the countries. And while in third world countries, higher cost in mega projects are about bigger kickbacks, in first world countries, higher project cost is about quality. The more expensive is the project the better is the quality of the project.
It is important to see this difference when viewing mega projects. Look at the country and ask this simple question, is it a third world country or a first world country? The answer will be different.
5/31/2018
US Sudden Imposition of Illicit Tariffs on Chinese Imports Has Deep Implications
After several rounds of talks and negotiations by the US and Chinese trade delegations they had after much consultations reached a consensus not to have trade war. But the latest White House statements on slapping tariffs on Chinese imports is a reckless move which will have widespread impact on world trade and economy. China will not accept it with folded arms but will retalliate measure for measure.
There is no credibility in US trust and honour when it always backtracks and and turns its back on treaties and agreements. No wonder native Americans always say and warn that Whitemen speak with fork tongues and cannot be trusted. They signed treaties but break them at the earliest convenience to suit their interest and agenda.
Under the US latest announcement they intend to illicitly implement specific investment restrictions and enhanced export controls on Chinese individuals and entities linked to the acquisitions of industrially significant technology. US is placing restrictions on Chinese trade and commerce especially it dictates that China should stop its impetus on "Made In China 2025." US is behaving like its forebears the British whose treatment of a weak China in the Opium Wars of 1830s to 1850s was disastrous for China. But US should not dream of doing the same to China because it is now dealing with a China which is rich and powerful and is well armed with nuclear teeth.
US lacks sincerity in trade discussions and will walk away from further discussions just as the delegations are on the verge of achieving positive results.
US has historically always been negotiating in bad faith. It uses negotiations as a ploy to lull the opposite party into confidence while in the meantime it cranks up its evil plans to take advantage of its opponents. This much the native Americans, the Hawaiians, the Cubans and South Americans had much experience of the evil and crooked ways of the white Americans can teach us.
China is gravely wrong in supporting US sanctions on North Korea and in its denuclearisation programme. It is US strategy of holding some semblance of stability in North East Asia to allow it time to build up its naval operations in the South China Sea to confront and contain China.
US and Japan have no real interest in a peaceful united Korean nation for that will presumably nullify US excuse of its intention of continuing to further maintaining its military bases in Japan and South Korea with the ultimate aim of containing Russia and China.
There will never be peace on this earth unless the White Americans are totally destroyed.
Southernglory1
Thursday, 31st May, 2018
There is no credibility in US trust and honour when it always backtracks and and turns its back on treaties and agreements. No wonder native Americans always say and warn that Whitemen speak with fork tongues and cannot be trusted. They signed treaties but break them at the earliest convenience to suit their interest and agenda.
Under the US latest announcement they intend to illicitly implement specific investment restrictions and enhanced export controls on Chinese individuals and entities linked to the acquisitions of industrially significant technology. US is placing restrictions on Chinese trade and commerce especially it dictates that China should stop its impetus on "Made In China 2025." US is behaving like its forebears the British whose treatment of a weak China in the Opium Wars of 1830s to 1850s was disastrous for China. But US should not dream of doing the same to China because it is now dealing with a China which is rich and powerful and is well armed with nuclear teeth.
US lacks sincerity in trade discussions and will walk away from further discussions just as the delegations are on the verge of achieving positive results.
US has historically always been negotiating in bad faith. It uses negotiations as a ploy to lull the opposite party into confidence while in the meantime it cranks up its evil plans to take advantage of its opponents. This much the native Americans, the Hawaiians, the Cubans and South Americans had much experience of the evil and crooked ways of the white Americans can teach us.
China is gravely wrong in supporting US sanctions on North Korea and in its denuclearisation programme. It is US strategy of holding some semblance of stability in North East Asia to allow it time to build up its naval operations in the South China Sea to confront and contain China.
US and Japan have no real interest in a peaceful united Korean nation for that will presumably nullify US excuse of its intention of continuing to further maintaining its military bases in Japan and South Korea with the ultimate aim of containing Russia and China.
There will never be peace on this earth unless the White Americans are totally destroyed.
Southernglory1
Thursday, 31st May, 2018
Kim Trump Summit – Kim still an assassination target?
Trump may be sincere in wanting to meet up with Kim in Singapore. But
behind this, how many interested parties would want to put a bullet into
Kim’s head when he is here? How many would like a false flag incident
to reignite the Korean War and turn the Korean Peninsula into a war zone
again?
In the US there are many parties that would want to do so, the rightists, the war hawks, the deep state, the military complex, the CIA assassination squads etc etc would all have a mind of their own and would be out of control of the Trump Administration.
Out of the US there is Japan. Abe is so busy running here and there to want to put his fingers into this Summit. He is a hawk and there are many in Japan that are equally or more extremist than him and would want to kill Kim to start a big fire in Korea, to prevent a peace agreement and the reunification of the two Koreas. A bullet into Kim’s head is all it takes to blow up all the peace initiatives so far achieved.
Within South Korea there are also extremists that are hardcore anti North Korea, anti Kim and anti peace. They had assassinated Park Chung Hee when he wanted to reunite the two Koreas peacefully. These extremists would be thinking of doing something similar to kill off what Moon, Kim and Trump have been trying to achieve so far.
Kim Jong Un’s presence in Singapore would expose him to the risk of an assassin’s bullet. Singapore is not like North Korea and it is very difficult to keep everything under control. The Singapore govt would be greatly stretched to keep Kim Jong Un safe during his few days here. It is a very big challenge to for the security services to keep the assassin bullets away from hitting Kim.
Keep the fingers crossed that this would not happen here as the consequences are grave. This is the first time that Kim is venturing out of his comfort zone, out of North Korea and China, into the open field.
In the US there are many parties that would want to do so, the rightists, the war hawks, the deep state, the military complex, the CIA assassination squads etc etc would all have a mind of their own and would be out of control of the Trump Administration.
Out of the US there is Japan. Abe is so busy running here and there to want to put his fingers into this Summit. He is a hawk and there are many in Japan that are equally or more extremist than him and would want to kill Kim to start a big fire in Korea, to prevent a peace agreement and the reunification of the two Koreas. A bullet into Kim’s head is all it takes to blow up all the peace initiatives so far achieved.
Within South Korea there are also extremists that are hardcore anti North Korea, anti Kim and anti peace. They had assassinated Park Chung Hee when he wanted to reunite the two Koreas peacefully. These extremists would be thinking of doing something similar to kill off what Moon, Kim and Trump have been trying to achieve so far.
Kim Jong Un’s presence in Singapore would expose him to the risk of an assassin’s bullet. Singapore is not like North Korea and it is very difficult to keep everything under control. The Singapore govt would be greatly stretched to keep Kim Jong Un safe during his few days here. It is a very big challenge to for the security services to keep the assassin bullets away from hitting Kim.
Keep the fingers crossed that this would not happen here as the consequences are grave. This is the first time that Kim is venturing out of his comfort zone, out of North Korea and China, into the open field.
5/30/2018
Class vs Crass
For supreme irony, look no further than page 16 of today’s The New Paper (30 May) whose editors deserve a medal for placing Mamoudou Gassama’s heroic “Spider-Man” act side by side with former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce’s decision to sell his story about his love child with an ex-aide.
For those who just got back from Mars, Mr Gassama is the young man whose daring rescue of a boy dangling from a Paris balcony was universally seen and applauded on the Internet. The 22-year-old Malian had scaled four storeys of an apartment block to pluck him to safety. For his selfless feat, Mr Gassama received an audience and a certificate and medal of bravery from French president Emmanuel Macron. For those who have not been reading the papers, Mr Barnaby Joyce, 50, was forced to quit as DPM in February over his affair with his then media adviser Vikki Campion. He left his wife of 24 years after getting his mistress pregnant.
Just picture the irony. One is an illegal immigrant, the other a Deputy Prime Minister until recently. One risks detention - and loss of life - to save a boy with no thoughts of reward or fame. The other compounds his disgrace by accepting A$150,000 for a tell-all TV appearance for his act of infamy. In a line, one exudes class, the other exudes crass.
CareShield Life – A big black hole exposed. You save I spend
CareShield Life is the third compulsory insurance scheme that the people
are forced to pay for by the govt. The two existing compulsory
insurance schemes are the CPF Life and Medishield Life. Insurance
schemes are useful as a form of protection to those that were hit by
unforeseen events. They are the good to have things. But not many people
can afford the luxury of paying for so many insurances.
Be clear about these three insurances. They are not govt schemes to help the people. They are govt schemes to compel the people to pay for insurances that many could not afford to. Insurance is a luxury for those who could afford them. Many are trying to make ends meet and cannot afford such luxuries. Forcing them to pay for such insurances is to force them to cut down on other expenses.
No one would say no to having insurance if they could afford them. It is a no brainer to as anyone if they need insurance or if they want these insurances. But it is not what they want but whether they can afford it. All these insurance premiums are going to make a bigger dent into the shrinking CPF savings of the people. And the sillies are pretending they did not know why the biggest savers in the whole world could not save enough for their retirement. They did know want to know why the savings are being depleted, robbed, stolen, while the people are saving as much as they could, much more than any human bean in the world.
What is the big black hole? The committee claimed to be stressed by difficult issues on whether people could afford to pay and whether the payout would be enough. But they forgot or conveniently refused to talk about the big black hole.
They do not want to tell you what would happen to the excess cumulated fund from these schemes. They did not want to tell you that these compulsory schemes are profit making in nature, not to help you but to make money from you, from your compulsory payment of premiums. For many years, the excess funds collected were in the billions, but conveniently kept by the govt.
If the main objective of these schemes is to help the people, they must not be profit making in nature. Excess funds must be rechanneled back to the people in the scheme to lower the premiums they are paying.
The main objective of these schemes are not so paternalistic, altruistic, but to make money from you. Period. This is the glaring big black hole. You think they are really so caring, thinking about helping you, like raising GST to help the poor? It is all about making profits from you, from your life savings, from your retirement fund. They are forcing the people to pay for schemes that they may not want to make profits from the people.
I withdraw everything I said about this profit making motive if the govt comes out to say that these are not profit making schemes and all excess funds collected would be ploughed back to the schemes to lower the burden of the people in lower the premiums they have to pay.
As for now, you save, they spend for you. And when you don't have enough for retirement they would say you must save more.
Be clear about these three insurances. They are not govt schemes to help the people. They are govt schemes to compel the people to pay for insurances that many could not afford to. Insurance is a luxury for those who could afford them. Many are trying to make ends meet and cannot afford such luxuries. Forcing them to pay for such insurances is to force them to cut down on other expenses.
No one would say no to having insurance if they could afford them. It is a no brainer to as anyone if they need insurance or if they want these insurances. But it is not what they want but whether they can afford it. All these insurance premiums are going to make a bigger dent into the shrinking CPF savings of the people. And the sillies are pretending they did not know why the biggest savers in the whole world could not save enough for their retirement. They did know want to know why the savings are being depleted, robbed, stolen, while the people are saving as much as they could, much more than any human bean in the world.
What is the big black hole? The committee claimed to be stressed by difficult issues on whether people could afford to pay and whether the payout would be enough. But they forgot or conveniently refused to talk about the big black hole.
They do not want to tell you what would happen to the excess cumulated fund from these schemes. They did not want to tell you that these compulsory schemes are profit making in nature, not to help you but to make money from you, from your compulsory payment of premiums. For many years, the excess funds collected were in the billions, but conveniently kept by the govt.
If the main objective of these schemes is to help the people, they must not be profit making in nature. Excess funds must be rechanneled back to the people in the scheme to lower the premiums they are paying.
The main objective of these schemes are not so paternalistic, altruistic, but to make money from you. Period. This is the glaring big black hole. You think they are really so caring, thinking about helping you, like raising GST to help the poor? It is all about making profits from you, from your life savings, from your retirement fund. They are forcing the people to pay for schemes that they may not want to make profits from the people.
I withdraw everything I said about this profit making motive if the govt comes out to say that these are not profit making schemes and all excess funds collected would be ploughed back to the schemes to lower the burden of the people in lower the premiums they have to pay.
As for now, you save, they spend for you. And when you don't have enough for retirement they would say you must save more.
5/29/2018
Singapore needs affirmative actions to protect jobs for its citizens
Below are some paragraphs of an article by Gilbert Goh, again narrating the plight of PMETs unable to find jobs in Singapore when most of the jobs are taken up by foreigners. The employment policies are against Singaporeans. No amount of sweet and silly talks and half baked measures would change this unless the traitors to Singaporeans are gotten rid of.
Read below to have a feel of what it is like to be a rejected Singaporean PMET in a place called home.
"“What’s the use of being a Singaporean, when your livelihood is not secured and you need to compete vigorously with others not born here for a piece of pie in your own turf?!”....
“Recruitors are looking at my age wondering if I will retire soon. They poke at my resume and many of the interviewers are not even Singaporeans!”
I told him that his line of work favours the Indians from India and that recruitors will in all likelihood prefers to hire foreigners as the recruitment fees involved will be much better than if they hire a local like him....
“During the recent London’s Singapore Day, Teo Chee Yuan has persuaded us to return home as the country needs us,” he retorted. “But it all looks like a farce now.”
Our Prime minister and his deputies have gone round the world to try and gather the 200,000-strong overseas Singaporeans together and possibly persuade some to return home but if what David faces is the real challenge many other returning Singaporeans will encounter then they may even want to do what David has seriously considered ie surrender their citizenship and completely cut ties with us....my heart goes out to David who is obviously disappointed that he is rejected by his own country when he returns home – full of promise by our deputy Prime Minister in the recent London’s Singapore Day."
From the above a few things could be done to save the day for Singaporeans if the govt is serious.
1. All HR managers must be Singaporeans, or at least all govt and govt link companies, including stats boards and most important, the staff in MOM must be Singaporeans.
2. No more foreign recruitment agencies except recruiting for MNCs.
3. A temporary freeze on foreign hires and all requests should be channeled to MOM. The people in MOM must be Singaporeans and with a specific brief not to approve foreign hires until all qualified Singaporeans have been seen. A word of caution here, many job requirements are tailored to suit foreigners but not necessary in the job must be filtered out.
4. All CEOs of govt ministries, stats boards and GLCs must be called up to do national service in the employment of Singaporeans first.
There are many other things that can be done before this country is taken over by foreigners.
But there is only one answer to the plight of daft Singaporeans that continue to vote for a govt that pays them lip service but keep on importing foreigners to replace them. Tan ku ku.
Read below to have a feel of what it is like to be a rejected Singaporean PMET in a place called home.
"“What’s the use of being a Singaporean, when your livelihood is not secured and you need to compete vigorously with others not born here for a piece of pie in your own turf?!”....
“Recruitors are looking at my age wondering if I will retire soon. They poke at my resume and many of the interviewers are not even Singaporeans!”
I told him that his line of work favours the Indians from India and that recruitors will in all likelihood prefers to hire foreigners as the recruitment fees involved will be much better than if they hire a local like him....
“During the recent London’s Singapore Day, Teo Chee Yuan has persuaded us to return home as the country needs us,” he retorted. “But it all looks like a farce now.”
Our Prime minister and his deputies have gone round the world to try and gather the 200,000-strong overseas Singaporeans together and possibly persuade some to return home but if what David faces is the real challenge many other returning Singaporeans will encounter then they may even want to do what David has seriously considered ie surrender their citizenship and completely cut ties with us....my heart goes out to David who is obviously disappointed that he is rejected by his own country when he returns home – full of promise by our deputy Prime Minister in the recent London’s Singapore Day."
From the above a few things could be done to save the day for Singaporeans if the govt is serious.
1. All HR managers must be Singaporeans, or at least all govt and govt link companies, including stats boards and most important, the staff in MOM must be Singaporeans.
2. No more foreign recruitment agencies except recruiting for MNCs.
3. A temporary freeze on foreign hires and all requests should be channeled to MOM. The people in MOM must be Singaporeans and with a specific brief not to approve foreign hires until all qualified Singaporeans have been seen. A word of caution here, many job requirements are tailored to suit foreigners but not necessary in the job must be filtered out.
4. All CEOs of govt ministries, stats boards and GLCs must be called up to do national service in the employment of Singaporeans first.
There are many other things that can be done before this country is taken over by foreigners.
But there is only one answer to the plight of daft Singaporeans that continue to vote for a govt that pays them lip service but keep on importing foreigners to replace them. Tan ku ku.
5/28/2018
Tharman is right - Conversion of reserves
DPM Tharman once told Parliament that drawing down past reserves was “in essence a conversion of past reserves from one form (financial assets) to another (state land), rather than a drawdown of reserves”.
The above was quoted by Phillip Ang in his latest article on the drawing down of national reserves. In his article Phillip argued that a drawdown is a drawdown. A drawdown of $X billion of cash from the reserves means that this $X billion will be minus from the national reserves, thus the reserves will be lesser by this amount. But according to Tharman's explanation, the drawdown is actually a conversion of one form of reserves to another form, from cash to assets.
Now who is right? Look at this definition on the nation's reserves and the answer is quite clear.
Definition. The Constitution of Singapore defines reserves as “the excess of assets over liabilities of the Government, statutory board or Government company”. The reserves comprise financial assets such as cash and shares as well as physical assets like land and buildings.
Clear? Tharman is absolutely right in this case. Drawing down the reserves to convert them into assets did not reduce the nation's reserves as many idiots in Parliament believed to be so. And as such they are so scare to touch the reserves as it would be a drawdown on the reserves, a frightening thing to do. Now would Tharman do the honour to educate the ignorant boys and girls in Parliament that they are wrong and stop behaving so stupidily talking without knowing what they were talking about?
The conversion of cash reserves is not necessary a depletion of the reserves if the reserves are used to build assets that appreciate in value or could make more profits than the reserves lying inactive as cash and earning a miserable 1% interest. Or worse, if the cash are used in gambling aka investment and loses every cent of it. Converting cash in national reserves into valuable money making assets that make greater returns is not drawing down on the reserves.
The call to draw down the reserves to build T5 and Tuas mega port cannot be a drawdown on the reserves unless these are airy fairy schemes that would lose money. In that case these two white elephants should not be built at all, and the people should not be taxed unnecessary, the govt should not recklessly go around borrowing money to build white elephants. Does anyone disagree that the T5 and Tuas mega port are credible and worthy projects that would appreciate in value and bring in more profits or returns for the money spent? Oops, not money spent but cash reserves converted into asset reserves? If they believe that theses are worthy projects, then what is the problem? Why park the reserves as cash to be used in funny investments that only lose in the hundreds of millions or billions when projects like these could bring in more profits and beneficial to the country? Why defend the using or touching of the reserves so fiercely? Is there other reasons to do so that the people do not know about the state of the reserves?
If Tharman is right, all the nonsense being spouted in Parliament must made the speakers looked silly and they should rightly call for the drawdown of the national reserves to be converted to good money making assets as it would not draw down the reserves. Tiok boh?
All the fools in Parliament defending the drawing down of national reserves to build T5 and Tuas on the false premise that it would draw down the reserves, please kee chiu.
The hysterical and dumbfounded defense of the national reserves from being drawn down is likely to have more unspeakable reasons for doing so, as it is crystal clear that conversion of national reserves into good assets is not a drawdown. It is a plus thing, a positive thing.
The above was quoted by Phillip Ang in his latest article on the drawing down of national reserves. In his article Phillip argued that a drawdown is a drawdown. A drawdown of $X billion of cash from the reserves means that this $X billion will be minus from the national reserves, thus the reserves will be lesser by this amount. But according to Tharman's explanation, the drawdown is actually a conversion of one form of reserves to another form, from cash to assets.
Now who is right? Look at this definition on the nation's reserves and the answer is quite clear.
Definition. The Constitution of Singapore defines reserves as “the excess of assets over liabilities of the Government, statutory board or Government company”. The reserves comprise financial assets such as cash and shares as well as physical assets like land and buildings.
Clear? Tharman is absolutely right in this case. Drawing down the reserves to convert them into assets did not reduce the nation's reserves as many idiots in Parliament believed to be so. And as such they are so scare to touch the reserves as it would be a drawdown on the reserves, a frightening thing to do. Now would Tharman do the honour to educate the ignorant boys and girls in Parliament that they are wrong and stop behaving so stupidily talking without knowing what they were talking about?
The conversion of cash reserves is not necessary a depletion of the reserves if the reserves are used to build assets that appreciate in value or could make more profits than the reserves lying inactive as cash and earning a miserable 1% interest. Or worse, if the cash are used in gambling aka investment and loses every cent of it. Converting cash in national reserves into valuable money making assets that make greater returns is not drawing down on the reserves.
The call to draw down the reserves to build T5 and Tuas mega port cannot be a drawdown on the reserves unless these are airy fairy schemes that would lose money. In that case these two white elephants should not be built at all, and the people should not be taxed unnecessary, the govt should not recklessly go around borrowing money to build white elephants. Does anyone disagree that the T5 and Tuas mega port are credible and worthy projects that would appreciate in value and bring in more profits or returns for the money spent? Oops, not money spent but cash reserves converted into asset reserves? If they believe that theses are worthy projects, then what is the problem? Why park the reserves as cash to be used in funny investments that only lose in the hundreds of millions or billions when projects like these could bring in more profits and beneficial to the country? Why defend the using or touching of the reserves so fiercely? Is there other reasons to do so that the people do not know about the state of the reserves?
If Tharman is right, all the nonsense being spouted in Parliament must made the speakers looked silly and they should rightly call for the drawdown of the national reserves to be converted to good money making assets as it would not draw down the reserves. Tiok boh?
All the fools in Parliament defending the drawing down of national reserves to build T5 and Tuas on the false premise that it would draw down the reserves, please kee chiu.
The hysterical and dumbfounded defense of the national reserves from being drawn down is likely to have more unspeakable reasons for doing so, as it is crystal clear that conversion of national reserves into good assets is not a drawdown. It is a plus thing, a positive thing.
5/27/2018
ElderShield - Do no evil
My apologies, I forgot where I copied this from, probably TOC or TREmeritus. Could also be from the main media.
The #ElderShield Review Committee (ESRC) shared their interim recommendations today, after getting feedback from more than 800 #Singaporeans from all walks of life over 26 focus group sessions. To help Singaporeans prepare for their long term care needs, the Committee has recommended that the enhanced ElderShield should be a universal and inclusive scheme for cohorts aged 40 and below when the scheme takes effect. Policyholders will join the scheme from age 30 so they can spread their premiums over a longer period while they are working, to enjoy lifetime coverage after they have grown old and retired. At the start of the enhanced ElderShield scheme, those aged between 31 and 40 will be included as these cohorts are not covered by the existing ElderShield 400 scheme. The ESRC further recommended that the enhanced scheme be administered by the Government as a key pillar of our social safety net. The Committee has also made some useful recommendations on how to make the claims process more accessible and convenient for policyholders and their caregivers.
I welcome the Committee’s interim recommendations. The enhanced ElderShield will enable Singaporeans to pool our risks and resources in preparation for old age, when one faces higher risks of becoming severely disabled. It is an important pillar of #Singapore’s social safety net as our society ages. The Government will look at providing premiums subsidies to keep the premiums affordable for lower and middle-income Singaporeans. This reflects our values in building an inclusive society, where we help and care for one another.
I thank Mr Chaly Mah and the ESRC members for their hard work in engaging different groups of stakeholders and developing their recommendations. We look forward to receiving the Committee’s final recommendations by the middle of this year. -- Hong Tat
I just have one word for these young punks. Do no evil. Stealing the people's life savings without their permission is a very evil thing no matter how it is cloaked or disguised. Remember, retribution will come, it is a matter of when, not if. Look at what is happening to Najib and his cronies and learn to be sincere, honest and really care for the people.
Do not steal the people's life savings. It is their money, they earned by their sweat, blood and tears.
Any govt that have designs on the people's life savings and started to steal the people's life savings has lost its moral authority to rule. The mandate of heaven would soon be taken away from them. Malaysia is a case in point. And many of the accomplices of crimes against the people would be brought to justice and live in shame when the day arrives.
The #ElderShield Review Committee (ESRC) shared their interim recommendations today, after getting feedback from more than 800 #Singaporeans from all walks of life over 26 focus group sessions. To help Singaporeans prepare for their long term care needs, the Committee has recommended that the enhanced ElderShield should be a universal and inclusive scheme for cohorts aged 40 and below when the scheme takes effect. Policyholders will join the scheme from age 30 so they can spread their premiums over a longer period while they are working, to enjoy lifetime coverage after they have grown old and retired. At the start of the enhanced ElderShield scheme, those aged between 31 and 40 will be included as these cohorts are not covered by the existing ElderShield 400 scheme. The ESRC further recommended that the enhanced scheme be administered by the Government as a key pillar of our social safety net. The Committee has also made some useful recommendations on how to make the claims process more accessible and convenient for policyholders and their caregivers.
I welcome the Committee’s interim recommendations. The enhanced ElderShield will enable Singaporeans to pool our risks and resources in preparation for old age, when one faces higher risks of becoming severely disabled. It is an important pillar of #Singapore’s social safety net as our society ages. The Government will look at providing premiums subsidies to keep the premiums affordable for lower and middle-income Singaporeans. This reflects our values in building an inclusive society, where we help and care for one another.
I thank Mr Chaly Mah and the ESRC members for their hard work in engaging different groups of stakeholders and developing their recommendations. We look forward to receiving the Committee’s final recommendations by the middle of this year. -- Hong Tat
I just have one word for these young punks. Do no evil. Stealing the people's life savings without their permission is a very evil thing no matter how it is cloaked or disguised. Remember, retribution will come, it is a matter of when, not if. Look at what is happening to Najib and his cronies and learn to be sincere, honest and really care for the people.
Do not steal the people's life savings. It is their money, they earned by their sweat, blood and tears.
Any govt that have designs on the people's life savings and started to steal the people's life savings has lost its moral authority to rule. The mandate of heaven would soon be taken away from them. Malaysia is a case in point. And many of the accomplices of crimes against the people would be brought to justice and live in shame when the day arrives.
Sino Indian border war - A revelation of unpleasant truth still guarded as state secret
Two weeks ago, the Australian journalist
Neville Maxwell
finally made part of the Henderson Brooks report
public, by putting it up on his blog. The report was an internal Indian
Army enquiry into its rout in the 1962 war with China — Maxwell was the
New Delhi correspondent for The Times, London, at the time — but in the
51 years since the report was written up by Lt Gen Henderson Brooks
and Brig PS Bhagat, successive Indian governments have refused to make
it public. Only two copies of the report were thought to be in
existence, although there was never any doubt that Maxwell had had
access to the report for his 1970 book India's China War quoted
extensively from it. In his first interview to the Indian media since he
made the report public, the now 88-year-old Maxwell tells
Parakram Rautela
that he had been trying to make the report public for years but that
nobody would publish it. He adds that he was only able to get hold of
Volume I of the report, minus 45 pages, and that he never laid eyes on
Volume II. And of course he still blames Nehru for the war, not the
Chinese. Excerpts:
Q: You suggest India's official account of the cause of the 1962 border war is false. What, in your view, is the truth?
NM: By September 1962 the Indian "forward policy" of trying to force the Chinese out of territory India claimed had built up great tension in the Western (Ladakh) sector of the border, with the Chinese army just blocking it. Then the Nehru government applied the forward policy to the McMahon Line eastern sector and when the Chinese blocked that too India in effect declared war with Nehru's announcement on October 11 that the Army had been ordered to "free our territory", which meant to attack the Chinese and drive them back. As General Niranjan Prasad, commander of 4 Division, wrote later: "We at the front knew that since Nehru had said he was going to attack, the Chinese were certainly not going to wait to be attacked" — and of course they didn't. That's how the war began. The Chinese attack was both reactive, in that General Kaul had begun the Indian assault on October 10, and pre-emptive because after that failure the Indian drive had been suspended to build up strength for a resumed attack....
While India continues to tell its lies that it was the victim of Chinese aggression and continues to blame the Chinese for the 1962 border war, more and more information are being disclosed by independent authors using classified India documents to prove who was the real devil in the conflict.
Deny as much as they want to deceive their own people and people of the war, the aggressive and hostile nature of the Indian govt have not changed since then, with wild ambitions to be a world power, to the extend of harbouring intention of seizing Chinese land and controlling its neighbouring states as protectorates and colonies, elevating itself as a regional hegemon.
The facts speak for itself. The so called Chinese intent to grab Indian land sounded hollow when the Chinese soldiers withdrew from India after the counter offensive, released all prisoners of war, returned all weapons captured, and returned to the original line of control...till today.
Q: You suggest India's official account of the cause of the 1962 border war is false. What, in your view, is the truth?
NM: By September 1962 the Indian "forward policy" of trying to force the Chinese out of territory India claimed had built up great tension in the Western (Ladakh) sector of the border, with the Chinese army just blocking it. Then the Nehru government applied the forward policy to the McMahon Line eastern sector and when the Chinese blocked that too India in effect declared war with Nehru's announcement on October 11 that the Army had been ordered to "free our territory", which meant to attack the Chinese and drive them back. As General Niranjan Prasad, commander of 4 Division, wrote later: "We at the front knew that since Nehru had said he was going to attack, the Chinese were certainly not going to wait to be attacked" — and of course they didn't. That's how the war began. The Chinese attack was both reactive, in that General Kaul had begun the Indian assault on October 10, and pre-emptive because after that failure the Indian drive had been suspended to build up strength for a resumed attack....
While India continues to tell its lies that it was the victim of Chinese aggression and continues to blame the Chinese for the 1962 border war, more and more information are being disclosed by independent authors using classified India documents to prove who was the real devil in the conflict.
Deny as much as they want to deceive their own people and people of the war, the aggressive and hostile nature of the Indian govt have not changed since then, with wild ambitions to be a world power, to the extend of harbouring intention of seizing Chinese land and controlling its neighbouring states as protectorates and colonies, elevating itself as a regional hegemon.
The facts speak for itself. The so called Chinese intent to grab Indian land sounded hollow when the Chinese soldiers withdrew from India after the counter offensive, released all prisoners of war, returned all weapons captured, and returned to the original line of control...till today.
5/26/2018
China –The world ‘s biggest consumer market beckons
The stereotyping of communist countries as poor and backward
agricultural societies is over. Though this reality is as clear a bright
sunlight, many that have lived under the western media’s condemnation
and smear campaign of communist countries and communism would still
swear, with their eyes wide open, that communism and communist countries
are the poor and backward bad guys. The blinkers should have fallen off
long ago, but these daft and unthinking beans would put them back on
and keep on swearing at communism and communist countries.
China, with its 1.36b population is now the second largest economy and the world’s largest consumer market with at least 600m people that are middle class and with the spending power to match. They are hungry consumers for all the good things in life that money can buy. They buy them in China and the rest of the world as big spender tourists. Yes, they are communists, or from a communist regime that the West have branded as bad and evil. The one century of indoctrination and western propaganda is hard to shrug off, worse for the unthinking kind.
Be nice to the world’s biggest consumer market or you will have to face the consequences. The little white sheriff still thinks it is an European state and sided with the evil American Empire to be an enemy of China. China is closing its market to this little white rogue and it is crying in pain. China should persist in keeping this little rogue in its little corner of the world, not allowing its goods access to its market, not allowing its citizens to visit and spend money in Australia. Keep it that way for another 10 years and see how long it will last in its anti China and racist way.
The Americans started a trade war, fired the few first shots. Now it is thinking twice. Without the world’s biggest consumer market, many of American products would find no buyers. The agricultural produce would go to waste. The automobile companies, the aircraft industries, the high tech industries, including Apple would have its sales figures slashed. GM and Ford Motors would go belly up.
The same fate would apply to the European companies. They need trade, they need to sell their goods and services. And who have the money and the willingness to buy them? The rich communist Chinese in China. Any country that wants to sell their goods better be nice to the communists in China. They have the money, not 1.36 b of poverty stricken peasants anymore. They are travelling the world, strutting around with pockets full of cash.
Deny and defy the biggest economy and biggest consumer market in the world at your own risk. Without China buying, without the Chinese buying and spending their hard earned money, the world economy would have gone into a recession. Many European countries and their companies, including Americans, would go bankrupt without the consumers in China.
This is the new reality. Remove your blinkers, dafties. This is the brave new world of the 21st Century.
China should not just shut its door to Australia, it should do the same to a few of the rogue European countries like France, Holland and Italy and also Canada. Without the biggest consumer market in the world, and the second biggest market closing its door to them by Trump, these rogue countries would go bankrupt very soon. China should just do it, don't buy from them, don't trade with them. Pick a few like the saying, kill the chicken to frighten the monkeys.
China, with its 1.36b population is now the second largest economy and the world’s largest consumer market with at least 600m people that are middle class and with the spending power to match. They are hungry consumers for all the good things in life that money can buy. They buy them in China and the rest of the world as big spender tourists. Yes, they are communists, or from a communist regime that the West have branded as bad and evil. The one century of indoctrination and western propaganda is hard to shrug off, worse for the unthinking kind.
Be nice to the world’s biggest consumer market or you will have to face the consequences. The little white sheriff still thinks it is an European state and sided with the evil American Empire to be an enemy of China. China is closing its market to this little white rogue and it is crying in pain. China should persist in keeping this little rogue in its little corner of the world, not allowing its goods access to its market, not allowing its citizens to visit and spend money in Australia. Keep it that way for another 10 years and see how long it will last in its anti China and racist way.
The Americans started a trade war, fired the few first shots. Now it is thinking twice. Without the world’s biggest consumer market, many of American products would find no buyers. The agricultural produce would go to waste. The automobile companies, the aircraft industries, the high tech industries, including Apple would have its sales figures slashed. GM and Ford Motors would go belly up.
The same fate would apply to the European companies. They need trade, they need to sell their goods and services. And who have the money and the willingness to buy them? The rich communist Chinese in China. Any country that wants to sell their goods better be nice to the communists in China. They have the money, not 1.36 b of poverty stricken peasants anymore. They are travelling the world, strutting around with pockets full of cash.
Deny and defy the biggest economy and biggest consumer market in the world at your own risk. Without China buying, without the Chinese buying and spending their hard earned money, the world economy would have gone into a recession. Many European countries and their companies, including Americans, would go bankrupt without the consumers in China.
This is the new reality. Remove your blinkers, dafties. This is the brave new world of the 21st Century.
China should not just shut its door to Australia, it should do the same to a few of the rogue European countries like France, Holland and Italy and also Canada. Without the biggest consumer market in the world, and the second biggest market closing its door to them by Trump, these rogue countries would go bankrupt very soon. China should just do it, don't buy from them, don't trade with them. Pick a few like the saying, kill the chicken to frighten the monkeys.
5/25/2018
Stubborn Mahathir just refuses to learn
Don’t teach an old dog new tricks. Mahathir just announced a 10% cut in
ministerial salary. His own salary will be cut from MR 22,826 to RM
20,540. His ministers’ salary would be from RM14,907 to RM 13,416.
Anyone knows how miserable is RM 20,540? It is less than S$7,000pm. How
to survive like that? The quality of life of his family members would be
gravely affected. And his ministers’s RM 13,416 is less than S$5,000.
Does he know how much is our PM and ministers getting a day?
My God, any average Singaporean will have a household income of more than S$5,000. Many household incomes here are more than S$7,000. This means than many Singaporeans are earning more than Mahathir, the PM of Malaysia. This is really injustice. No dignity.
Does Mahathir really think his ministers can survive with such a miserable salary? Does he know that human beans are corrupt by nature and if he does not pay them multi million dollar salaries they will definitely become corrupt? This human nature is universal.
Singapore’s govt understand this and have solved this problem by paying their ministers in the millions to prevent them from becoming corrupt. When Hsien Loong visited him, did he not see the shining example of a incorruptible PM and his cabinet of equally incorruptible ministers? Should he have learnt something?
Instead of raising his ministers’ salaries to the millions, he made them take a 10% pay cut! He is really asking for trouble. They will become corrupt for sure. Like that Malaysia would be in more trouble. His govt would become more corrupt than Najib’s. At least Najib tried to pay them well.
This old dog is too stubborn and refuses to learn from Singapore. On second thought, how could he learn from Singapore? He detests everything Singapore. He is trying to prove the impossible, that low minister salaries would not lead to corruption. I am sure he will surely fail. He does not understand human nature. Greed is good. He also does not know that to lead a quality life, you must have million dollar salary. The peasants can tighten their belts, but how can he expects his ministers to tighten their belts and live like paupers?
Malaysia jiat lat leow.
My God, any average Singaporean will have a household income of more than S$5,000. Many household incomes here are more than S$7,000. This means than many Singaporeans are earning more than Mahathir, the PM of Malaysia. This is really injustice. No dignity.
Does Mahathir really think his ministers can survive with such a miserable salary? Does he know that human beans are corrupt by nature and if he does not pay them multi million dollar salaries they will definitely become corrupt? This human nature is universal.
Singapore’s govt understand this and have solved this problem by paying their ministers in the millions to prevent them from becoming corrupt. When Hsien Loong visited him, did he not see the shining example of a incorruptible PM and his cabinet of equally incorruptible ministers? Should he have learnt something?
Instead of raising his ministers’ salaries to the millions, he made them take a 10% pay cut! He is really asking for trouble. They will become corrupt for sure. Like that Malaysia would be in more trouble. His govt would become more corrupt than Najib’s. At least Najib tried to pay them well.
This old dog is too stubborn and refuses to learn from Singapore. On second thought, how could he learn from Singapore? He detests everything Singapore. He is trying to prove the impossible, that low minister salaries would not lead to corruption. I am sure he will surely fail. He does not understand human nature. Greed is good. He also does not know that to lead a quality life, you must have million dollar salary. The peasants can tighten their belts, but how can he expects his ministers to tighten their belts and live like paupers?
Malaysia jiat lat leow.
5/24/2018
Now Trump trumps summit
There was an oft-quoted saying much beloved of our pioneer leaders in the days of yore that went something like this: “When 2 elephants make love, the grass suffers”. This was an admonition that Singapore being a tiny spit of an island was vulnerable to big power play and would suffer from their machinations however benign they might seem. Singapore civil servants in 2018 can be forgiven for feeling a mite the same way. In this case, the 2 elephants did not exactly make love. They only threaten not to make love. Last week, North Korea, peeved at joint military drills by the South and the US, warned that the June 12 love-fest in sunny Singapore may not happen if the enemy indulged in such indecent foreplay. Not to be outdone, President Trump told the world that “there’s a very substantial chance…it (the summit) won’t work out”, but not before adding “That doesn’t mean it won’t work out over a period of time… but it may not work out for June 12. But there’s a good chance that we’ll have the meeting”. Huh??? Now is it on or is it off, Mr Trump? To which he replied unequivocally - “It’ll be determined pretty soon”.
Now I can visualise Singapore bureaucrats bellowing: “How soon is soon? June 12 is pretty soon you know!” Mr Trump may not be aware but a summit does not materialise out of thin air. Security for him and Kim Jong Un, probably the two most popular men in the world, must be arranged. The summit venue too must be booked. It cannot be Mt Everest or Bukit Timah Hill. The last I heard, it was down to an F-1 race between Shangri-La and Marina Bay Sands. Then there’re also the hordes of international journalists to handle - most not half as compliant as our Straits Times and Zaobao chaps. So don’t begrudge our civil servants. Their $ not so easy to earn ok!
Western myth and smearing of the Chinese Civilisation
The Chinese and the Chinese Civilisation have been the victims of western smear campaign and disinformation for more than two centuries to the point that even today many silly bananas hate and despise the Chinese and Chinese Civilisation and themselves without knowing the truth. Just view some of the sick and silly comments of Singaporeans bananas in CNA onlines and some websites and you will know why and wondering how sick are the minds of these bananas.
As for the westerners, it is understandable as they were brought up with a diet of western history of dominance and the rest of the world are inepts and less civilised and less able than them. Some western historians and academics may harbour such negative thoughts of the Chinese Civilisation out of ignorance of Chinese history and culture, some out of their cultural bias, and some out of plain stupidity.
I will briefly explained the stereotyping of the Chinese Civilisation and try to dismiss their negative perception and interpretation and understanding of the Chinese Civilisation. To them the Chinese and Civilisation are backward and well below the intelligence of the West. This is not all. They have been passing the myth that the Chinese are aggressive and belligerent people and have been a warring state and harbour the ambition of wanting to conquer and rule the world. They have been spreading this lie and fear to nations of the world that many believe in this lie within thinking. They have been drumming this into the subconsciousness of the people of the world, especially those that read Chinese history and Civilisation written by the West.
The ingenuity, talent and industry of the Chinese need no further elaboration if one is to look at China in the last 40 years. After being conquered and ruled by foreigners for more than 400 years, being victims of invasion, aggression, wars and foreign powers plundering and looting the wealth of a once rich and advanced civilisation, China was in ruins by the late 19th Centuries till 40 years ago, ie the late 1970s. Given the opportunity to manage their own country and destiny, the Chinese people rose to right all the wrongs and all the negative perceptions of the Chinese people and Civilisation.
Some of you may be wondering why I said China was ruled by foreigners for more than 400 years. The western scholars could not tell the difference between the Han Chinese and the minority tribes in China. The Mongols and the Manchus were not Han Chinese but minority tribes of China, numbering only a few millions, a small fraction of the Han Chinese population. These were martial tribes with ambitions to conquer and rule over China and the Han Chinese. The Mongols even rode west to conquer Europe and the Middle East.
Be very clear, the Mongols and Manchus were not Han Chinese. The Han Chinese as a Civilisation has long given up wars and conquests. They have turned themselves into farmers and tradesmen, craftsmen and enjoying the arts and culture. The Chinese culture puts soldiering as among the lowest of the profession to be admired. No good sons would want to be a soldier and even if they were soldiers, their ranks in the hierarchy of the dynasties were lower than the administrative service officials. The warring DNAs of the Chinese Civilisation were long gone, lost by the 13th Century. That was the key reason why small minorities like the Mongols and the Manchus were able to conquer and rule China with populations of hundreds of millions. The Chinese have lost the desire to conduct war and soldiering was not a desired profession.
The Japanese read this very well and thought they could rule a peasant and artisan China and Chinese Civilisation. When the West invaded China under the rule of the Manchus, the Chinese Civilisation were suppressed to a hapless people. And the only soldiers were the Manchus and their Chinese conscripts. Even the Manchus by then were worn out, decadent and weak militarily.
Since the conquest and rule of China by the Mongols, 1279-1368 and Manchus in 1644-1911, the only Chinese dynasty in between was the Ming Dynasty. The Ming was famous for the Expedition of Admiral Cheng Ho, not of conquest. They too weakened and were conquered by the Manchus that ruled China for nearly 300 years. The weakened Qing Dynasty was succeeded by the invasion of the western colonial powers and Japan.
Thus, since the 13th Century, the China and Chinese Empire were not really Chinese except for the Ming Dynasty, a rather peaceful and non expansionist Empire that even withdrawn from the world after the last voyage of Cheng Ho. They destroyed all their naval ships and became isolationist.
The expansionist and belligerent warmongering Chinese Empires were non Chinese, ie the Mongols and the Manchus. Where is the evidence or facts to call the Chinese as expansionist empire builders that sought to conquer and rule its neighbours and the world.
This myth about the Chinese and a warlike Chinese Civilisation is a western lie, a western fabrication to smear the Chinese Civilisation and to instil fear in the countries around China and the world, to demonise China. At the least, it is also due to western ignorance or deliberate distortion of history.
China and the Chinese Civilisation have never been a threat to the rest of the world since the 13th Century. Even today, China is not threatening any country. The island disputes in the South China Sea was a renewed and strong China reclaiming what were rightly Chinas, nothing more nothing less. China today still lost a lot of territories seized by the invading countries when it was weak and not taking them back. The act of taking back the territories seized by the invading countries cannot be seen as being expansionist or aggressive. These territories should return to their rightful owners, China.
China was a victim of foreigners since the 13th Century except a short spell under the Ming Dynasty. And during these 7 hundred years, China and the Chinese Civilisation were not a player in world affairs, so how can China be aggressive and expansionist? The white lie that China/Chinese Civilisation are aggressive and expansionist needs to be scrapped from the skulls of the unthinking. It was the Mongols and the Manchus that were expansionist and martial in their nature.
Where did the western colonialists get the idea that China is going to be a hegemon again? Why hype about a possible hegemon but acquisced at the behest of an existing evil Empire? Where did the rest of the world get this negative thought about China and the Chinese Civilisation as a hostile country or Civilisation? When did the simple minded unthinking bananas got this idea as well? From reading western myth, lies, and smear campaigns written by westerners to demonise China and the Chinese Civilisation of course.
Know your history and know the truth and save yourself from living under other people's lies and being made a fool of yourself and your Civilisation.
PS. An expansionist and aggressive warlike nation and Civilisation would not be so easily conquered and ruled by foreigners and invaders, for more than 400 years. If you want to know what is expansionist and aggressive, look at the records of colonialism, imperialism and the evil Empire maintaining more than 1,000 military bases across the world.
As for the westerners, it is understandable as they were brought up with a diet of western history of dominance and the rest of the world are inepts and less civilised and less able than them. Some western historians and academics may harbour such negative thoughts of the Chinese Civilisation out of ignorance of Chinese history and culture, some out of their cultural bias, and some out of plain stupidity.
I will briefly explained the stereotyping of the Chinese Civilisation and try to dismiss their negative perception and interpretation and understanding of the Chinese Civilisation. To them the Chinese and Civilisation are backward and well below the intelligence of the West. This is not all. They have been passing the myth that the Chinese are aggressive and belligerent people and have been a warring state and harbour the ambition of wanting to conquer and rule the world. They have been spreading this lie and fear to nations of the world that many believe in this lie within thinking. They have been drumming this into the subconsciousness of the people of the world, especially those that read Chinese history and Civilisation written by the West.
The ingenuity, talent and industry of the Chinese need no further elaboration if one is to look at China in the last 40 years. After being conquered and ruled by foreigners for more than 400 years, being victims of invasion, aggression, wars and foreign powers plundering and looting the wealth of a once rich and advanced civilisation, China was in ruins by the late 19th Centuries till 40 years ago, ie the late 1970s. Given the opportunity to manage their own country and destiny, the Chinese people rose to right all the wrongs and all the negative perceptions of the Chinese people and Civilisation.
Some of you may be wondering why I said China was ruled by foreigners for more than 400 years. The western scholars could not tell the difference between the Han Chinese and the minority tribes in China. The Mongols and the Manchus were not Han Chinese but minority tribes of China, numbering only a few millions, a small fraction of the Han Chinese population. These were martial tribes with ambitions to conquer and rule over China and the Han Chinese. The Mongols even rode west to conquer Europe and the Middle East.
Be very clear, the Mongols and Manchus were not Han Chinese. The Han Chinese as a Civilisation has long given up wars and conquests. They have turned themselves into farmers and tradesmen, craftsmen and enjoying the arts and culture. The Chinese culture puts soldiering as among the lowest of the profession to be admired. No good sons would want to be a soldier and even if they were soldiers, their ranks in the hierarchy of the dynasties were lower than the administrative service officials. The warring DNAs of the Chinese Civilisation were long gone, lost by the 13th Century. That was the key reason why small minorities like the Mongols and the Manchus were able to conquer and rule China with populations of hundreds of millions. The Chinese have lost the desire to conduct war and soldiering was not a desired profession.
The Japanese read this very well and thought they could rule a peasant and artisan China and Chinese Civilisation. When the West invaded China under the rule of the Manchus, the Chinese Civilisation were suppressed to a hapless people. And the only soldiers were the Manchus and their Chinese conscripts. Even the Manchus by then were worn out, decadent and weak militarily.
Since the conquest and rule of China by the Mongols, 1279-1368 and Manchus in 1644-1911, the only Chinese dynasty in between was the Ming Dynasty. The Ming was famous for the Expedition of Admiral Cheng Ho, not of conquest. They too weakened and were conquered by the Manchus that ruled China for nearly 300 years. The weakened Qing Dynasty was succeeded by the invasion of the western colonial powers and Japan.
Thus, since the 13th Century, the China and Chinese Empire were not really Chinese except for the Ming Dynasty, a rather peaceful and non expansionist Empire that even withdrawn from the world after the last voyage of Cheng Ho. They destroyed all their naval ships and became isolationist.
The expansionist and belligerent warmongering Chinese Empires were non Chinese, ie the Mongols and the Manchus. Where is the evidence or facts to call the Chinese as expansionist empire builders that sought to conquer and rule its neighbours and the world.
This myth about the Chinese and a warlike Chinese Civilisation is a western lie, a western fabrication to smear the Chinese Civilisation and to instil fear in the countries around China and the world, to demonise China. At the least, it is also due to western ignorance or deliberate distortion of history.
China and the Chinese Civilisation have never been a threat to the rest of the world since the 13th Century. Even today, China is not threatening any country. The island disputes in the South China Sea was a renewed and strong China reclaiming what were rightly Chinas, nothing more nothing less. China today still lost a lot of territories seized by the invading countries when it was weak and not taking them back. The act of taking back the territories seized by the invading countries cannot be seen as being expansionist or aggressive. These territories should return to their rightful owners, China.
China was a victim of foreigners since the 13th Century except a short spell under the Ming Dynasty. And during these 7 hundred years, China and the Chinese Civilisation were not a player in world affairs, so how can China be aggressive and expansionist? The white lie that China/Chinese Civilisation are aggressive and expansionist needs to be scrapped from the skulls of the unthinking. It was the Mongols and the Manchus that were expansionist and martial in their nature.
Where did the western colonialists get the idea that China is going to be a hegemon again? Why hype about a possible hegemon but acquisced at the behest of an existing evil Empire? Where did the rest of the world get this negative thought about China and the Chinese Civilisation as a hostile country or Civilisation? When did the simple minded unthinking bananas got this idea as well? From reading western myth, lies, and smear campaigns written by westerners to demonise China and the Chinese Civilisation of course.
Know your history and know the truth and save yourself from living under other people's lies and being made a fool of yourself and your Civilisation.
PS. An expansionist and aggressive warlike nation and Civilisation would not be so easily conquered and ruled by foreigners and invaders, for more than 400 years. If you want to know what is expansionist and aggressive, look at the records of colonialism, imperialism and the evil Empire maintaining more than 1,000 military bases across the world.
5/23/2018
Can 1MDB drag Singapore down as well
The infamous 1MDB scandal played a big role in bringing down Najib and
his corrupt regime. As many of the transactions of 1MDB went through
Singapore, with several banks involved, could Singapore be implicated
and this cancer spread to take its toll on the Singapore govt as well?
There is a post in thestatestimesreview titled ‘Did Najib accept Singapore’s High Speed Rail project to hide 1MDB funds?’ that speculated Singapore’s involvement in this scandal. It is highly speculative and controversial of course. It is just a point of view put forth by thestatestimereview, and the author admitted that it is just a possibility, not a fact. Shanmugam would call this serious allegation.
Here are a few paragraphs of the article,
‘Following Lee Hsien Loong’s embarrassing 30-mins meeting with newly-elected Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad, the High Speed Rail project along with other bilateral deals with Singapore are now back on the negotiation stage. Sending a message to Lee Hsien Loong, the Malaysia’s Economic Affairs Minister announced an hour after Lee Hsien Loong was sent out the doors of the PM’s Putrajaya building, that all bilateral deals signed by former Malaysia PM Najib Razak has to be re-looked at.
For good reason.
In exchange for hiding his stolen 1MDB funds in Singapore, former Malaysian PM Najib Razak clinched a deal with Lee Hsien Loong to extend Malaysia’s High Speed Rail (HSR) project to Singapore? Entirely plausible.
For a start, Malaysia does not need to extend it’s domestic HSR to Singapore in the first place. There is little economic benefits for Malaysia to link Kuala Lumpur and Johor to Singapore, which has only proven to worsen the rising cost of living of Malaysians. So why is the HSR extended to Singapore then?
Based off United States’s investigation, Singapore played the major role helping Najib Razak hide his stolen billions. The funds transacted through 5 Singapore banks, including Temasek Holdings-owned DBS and Standard Chartered….’
The suggestions in the article are good for reading and would make a good fictional story on political conspiracy and torrid business deals. Whether there is any element of truth in this episode only time will tell. If it turns out to be true, things would look very embarrassing as Mahathir would have no reason to hide anything if he comes to know about it. He would proudly tell the whole world the whole truth and nothing but the truth, this time with all honesty, as he has all the reasons to do so.
And if it does happen, the fall out may be tough to ignore. One govt has fallen because of 1MDB. Would it bring down another? Until proven, this is only an allegation and there is nothing more to it. It is not fake news as fake news would claim that it is true and want the readers to believe that it is true. The article said it is ‘entirely plausible’. So just leave it as that and wait for the story to unfold. No need to jump into conclusion.
There is a post in thestatestimesreview titled ‘Did Najib accept Singapore’s High Speed Rail project to hide 1MDB funds?’ that speculated Singapore’s involvement in this scandal. It is highly speculative and controversial of course. It is just a point of view put forth by thestatestimereview, and the author admitted that it is just a possibility, not a fact. Shanmugam would call this serious allegation.
Here are a few paragraphs of the article,
‘Following Lee Hsien Loong’s embarrassing 30-mins meeting with newly-elected Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad, the High Speed Rail project along with other bilateral deals with Singapore are now back on the negotiation stage. Sending a message to Lee Hsien Loong, the Malaysia’s Economic Affairs Minister announced an hour after Lee Hsien Loong was sent out the doors of the PM’s Putrajaya building, that all bilateral deals signed by former Malaysia PM Najib Razak has to be re-looked at.
For good reason.
In exchange for hiding his stolen 1MDB funds in Singapore, former Malaysian PM Najib Razak clinched a deal with Lee Hsien Loong to extend Malaysia’s High Speed Rail (HSR) project to Singapore? Entirely plausible.
For a start, Malaysia does not need to extend it’s domestic HSR to Singapore in the first place. There is little economic benefits for Malaysia to link Kuala Lumpur and Johor to Singapore, which has only proven to worsen the rising cost of living of Malaysians. So why is the HSR extended to Singapore then?
Based off United States’s investigation, Singapore played the major role helping Najib Razak hide his stolen billions. The funds transacted through 5 Singapore banks, including Temasek Holdings-owned DBS and Standard Chartered….’
The suggestions in the article are good for reading and would make a good fictional story on political conspiracy and torrid business deals. Whether there is any element of truth in this episode only time will tell. If it turns out to be true, things would look very embarrassing as Mahathir would have no reason to hide anything if he comes to know about it. He would proudly tell the whole world the whole truth and nothing but the truth, this time with all honesty, as he has all the reasons to do so.
And if it does happen, the fall out may be tough to ignore. One govt has fallen because of 1MDB. Would it bring down another? Until proven, this is only an allegation and there is nothing more to it. It is not fake news as fake news would claim that it is true and want the readers to believe that it is true. The article said it is ‘entirely plausible’. So just leave it as that and wait for the story to unfold. No need to jump into conclusion.
5/22/2018
The Mahathir Dilemma
After half a century since he wrote the Malay Dilemma, today Mahathir is
faced with a new dilemma. Everyone knows that he has an axe to grind
against Singapore. Now he also has an axe to grind against Chinese
investments in Malaysia, deals that were signed by his foe, Najib Razak.
He has so many reasons to pick on these projects and to tear them to
pieces unless he could renegotiate new terms to his benefits. Oops, I
mean to Malaysia’s benefits.
Now, why would these two axes become a dilemma to Mahathir? The Singapore axe is simple to understand. He cannot tahan Singapore’s success and be better than Malaysia, putting personalities aside. He had done many things in the past to cripple Singapore’s progress, like the crooked bridge, not selling sand and water to Singapore even when water is falling free from the sky, and sand dredging from Malaysian rivers would have served dual purposes beneficial to Malaysia. No deal if things benefit Singapore even if Malaysia stands to benefit as well.
Now look at what China is doing in Malaysia. The grand plan is to make Malaysia the new transportation hub to replace Singapore, his arch enemy. Malacca or Port Klang would be developed to replace Singapore and become the most important and busiest port in this part of the world. Would that be nice?
But the Chinese plan was negotiated by Najib and all the benefits and credit would go to Najib as well. Killing the plan would be good to Singapore as the net effect would be to kill off the competition from Port Klang and Malacca as the alternatives to Singapore. But not killing the plan would mean he has to go along with it, with Najib’s initiative to court Chinese investments, sanctioning the work of Najib. Though this would make Malaysia a new trade and transportation hub as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, he could not gain anything from it. People would say it was all the contribution of Najib.
There is also the HSR to Singapore. Mahathir may also want to drop this project as it would benefit Singapore more than Malaysia, allowing Singapore to be in the link of the BRI. To him, just like selling water and sand to Singapore, as long as it benefits Singapore, it is no go.
The Mahathir Dilemma is to support the Chinese BRI that would have transformed Malacca or Port Klang as the biggest and busiest port in the region, to replace Singapore, or to kill it and let Singapore to continue as the transportation hub in the region, with Malaysia playing second fiddle. This way, his action would actually benefit Singapore instead of killing Singapore. What would he choose, to kill the BRI and Chinese investments, or to kill Singapore?
This could be the making of his new book, The Mahathir Dilemma.
Mahathir has many other dilemmas to deal with and to write about. What about his pro bumi Malay Malaysia and his new Malaysian Malaysia slogan?
Now, why would these two axes become a dilemma to Mahathir? The Singapore axe is simple to understand. He cannot tahan Singapore’s success and be better than Malaysia, putting personalities aside. He had done many things in the past to cripple Singapore’s progress, like the crooked bridge, not selling sand and water to Singapore even when water is falling free from the sky, and sand dredging from Malaysian rivers would have served dual purposes beneficial to Malaysia. No deal if things benefit Singapore even if Malaysia stands to benefit as well.
Now look at what China is doing in Malaysia. The grand plan is to make Malaysia the new transportation hub to replace Singapore, his arch enemy. Malacca or Port Klang would be developed to replace Singapore and become the most important and busiest port in this part of the world. Would that be nice?
But the Chinese plan was negotiated by Najib and all the benefits and credit would go to Najib as well. Killing the plan would be good to Singapore as the net effect would be to kill off the competition from Port Klang and Malacca as the alternatives to Singapore. But not killing the plan would mean he has to go along with it, with Najib’s initiative to court Chinese investments, sanctioning the work of Najib. Though this would make Malaysia a new trade and transportation hub as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, he could not gain anything from it. People would say it was all the contribution of Najib.
There is also the HSR to Singapore. Mahathir may also want to drop this project as it would benefit Singapore more than Malaysia, allowing Singapore to be in the link of the BRI. To him, just like selling water and sand to Singapore, as long as it benefits Singapore, it is no go.
The Mahathir Dilemma is to support the Chinese BRI that would have transformed Malacca or Port Klang as the biggest and busiest port in the region, to replace Singapore, or to kill it and let Singapore to continue as the transportation hub in the region, with Malaysia playing second fiddle. This way, his action would actually benefit Singapore instead of killing Singapore. What would he choose, to kill the BRI and Chinese investments, or to kill Singapore?
This could be the making of his new book, The Mahathir Dilemma.
Mahathir has many other dilemmas to deal with and to write about. What about his pro bumi Malay Malaysia and his new Malaysian Malaysia slogan?
5/21/2018
Singapore severely constrained by space – Lawrence Wong
Singapore constrained by space? I thought I heard many wise men and wise
women talking about Singapore big enough to accommodate 6.9m people,
some said 10m, some said 15m and some said even more. Now we only have a
miserable 5.6m and Lawrence Wong is saying in Parliament that Singapore
is severely constrained by space, so cannot anyhow extend the lease of
HDB flats. Who is telling the truth, who is spreading fake news, who is
lying? Or all of them are telling the truth?
When Lawrence Wong said Singapore is constrained by space, what was his basis? Based on 5.6m, 10m or 15m?
The extention of HDB lease after the expiry of 99 years is a complex problem. There is a big problem of not enough land for public housing in the future for our children and grandchildren. He went on to say ‘The govt must grapple with these questions, study the matter and do the responsible thing.’ What responsible thing? Like bringing in more foreigners to increase the population to 6.9m, to 10m or more?
What action is responsible and what is irresponsible? What action would lead to a severely constraint in space for public housing? And who is the irresponsible one to cause this severely constrained problem for Singaporeans?
Can this problem be avoided? Is it so difficult to prevent this problem?
I am now so confused? Really ah, got severely constrained space problem ah? How can that be when so many wise men and wise women are advocating a population of 6.9m, 10m or 15m or more? Who is talking rubbish?
How convinced and convicted is Lawrence Wong about the problem of severe constraint in space? If he believes what he is saying, should not he be telling Parliament to stop the influx of more foreigners into the country immediately and also telling those that are peddling for 10m or 20m population to have their heads checked? Or he does not believe in what he was saying, so say say only. No need to take any action because it is not true?
What is the truth?
When Lawrence Wong said Singapore is constrained by space, what was his basis? Based on 5.6m, 10m or 15m?
The extention of HDB lease after the expiry of 99 years is a complex problem. There is a big problem of not enough land for public housing in the future for our children and grandchildren. He went on to say ‘The govt must grapple with these questions, study the matter and do the responsible thing.’ What responsible thing? Like bringing in more foreigners to increase the population to 6.9m, to 10m or more?
What action is responsible and what is irresponsible? What action would lead to a severely constraint in space for public housing? And who is the irresponsible one to cause this severely constrained problem for Singaporeans?
Can this problem be avoided? Is it so difficult to prevent this problem?
I am now so confused? Really ah, got severely constrained space problem ah? How can that be when so many wise men and wise women are advocating a population of 6.9m, 10m or 15m or more? Who is talking rubbish?
How convinced and convicted is Lawrence Wong about the problem of severe constraint in space? If he believes what he is saying, should not he be telling Parliament to stop the influx of more foreigners into the country immediately and also telling those that are peddling for 10m or 20m population to have their heads checked? Or he does not believe in what he was saying, so say say only. No need to take any action because it is not true?
What is the truth?
5/20/2018
Kim Jong Un - An international statesman
Donald Trump called him Rocket Man. He returned the compliment by calling Trump dotard. And they grew to respect each other. Before this the West and western media had a field day calling him all kinds of vulgarities. But a great man, a great leader would not be dumped just by a few silly remarks or silly press.
Donald Trump, the President of the USA, has to travel across the Pacific Ocean to meet Kim in Singapore. Kim is not going to fly across the Pacific Ocean to meet Trump at his beck and calls. Neither would he have to wait outside his bedroom for an audience while Trump read bedside stories to his granddaughters.
Both men are going to meet as head of state of two independent countries and as equals. Kim is not going to come bearing gifts to please the emperor. Instead, he is going to ask Trump how much, or what can Trump offer him, for giving up his nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons do not come cheap and Trump has to pay for it.
The stature and respect of a statesman or leader is not about how much he earns or his wealth. It is how other leaders view him and treat him. Kim has met Xi Jinping as equals in Beijing. Now he is going to meet Trump and the whole world is in awe. A 73 year old man meeting a man half his age and talking terms, trading deals while the whole world watches in silence.
How many world leaders have this kind of privilege or attention from the rest of the world? Trump, know how arrogant and conceited he is, is not going to waste time talking to anyone. Here, before this meeting, Trump is telling the world of the great things he and Kim are going to do together.
Kim Jong Un has arrived on the world stage not as a Rocket Man. Trump is going to shake his hand, perhaps gives him a bear hug, and called him President Kim. Kim will respond in kind, as two leaders met and normally do.
Now who is going to say this man is mad or whatever, irrational, murderer, womaniser and what not?
But things took a turn in the last few days. Kim is threatening to call off the summit with Trump after calling off all contacts with South Korea. The silly West rose in rage with their stupid arguments that the North Koreans are like that, unreliable, full of trickery, trying some ploys to get a better deal. The silly colonised Asian minds also repeated the same kind of stupidity, without thinking except to repeat what the West were saying.
Never would these stupids ask the real question and look for the real answers. They simply stereotyped what the West said. Have they noticed what Kim Jong Un had done during the prelude to the summit? Sending athletes to the Winter Olympics, exchanges with South Korea, meeting with Moon Jae In, stopping missile tests? And these were followed by the willingness for denuclearisation, return of American prisoners, inviting journalists to witness the destruction of nuclear testing sites, willing even risking his life to meet in Singapore to meet Trump!
Were these gestures and moves not sincere? Compare them to what the Americans did. What did the Americans did in return? Nothing. Zero. The Americans still continue to conduct wargames to simulate an invasion of North Korea, repeating threats, sanctions, increasing pressure without relenting, demanding that Kim send all his nuclear weapons to the USA to be destroyed, full inspection of nuclear facilities in North Korea, not a single gesture of goodwill!
The Americans think that Kim is a naive little boy, to be bullied, that he would give up all his nuclear weapons unconditionally, so that the Americans can do a Saddam Hussein or Gaddafi on him, invading North Korea once they could confirm that it has no more nuclear capability, and murder him and his family? The insincerity of the Americans is unbelieveable. But the West and the colonised Asian minds cannot see this, blinded by their stupidity.
They think that every Asian leader would jump to joy, wet their pants, just to have a chance to meet with the American president. No way, Kim Jong Un is no ordinary stupid Asian leader that goes gaga with an American president. Trump and the Americans must show their sincerity to meet him, as equals, both heads of states of their respective countries, and to talk terms that are beneficial to both countries on equal terms, not one sided.
The Americans are expecting that Kim would go down on his knees, willingly gives up his nuclear weapons and begs for mercy. This is how arrogant the Americans and the West are. They still behave like bullies. Other Asian leaders may like to be bullied, but not Kim Jong Un.
The best part, if there is one leader Trump would like to meet up, it is Kim Jong Un. Trump is willing to travel half way around the world to meet him, Kim Jong Un. And Kim may not want to see him.
Donald Trump, the President of the USA, has to travel across the Pacific Ocean to meet Kim in Singapore. Kim is not going to fly across the Pacific Ocean to meet Trump at his beck and calls. Neither would he have to wait outside his bedroom for an audience while Trump read bedside stories to his granddaughters.
Both men are going to meet as head of state of two independent countries and as equals. Kim is not going to come bearing gifts to please the emperor. Instead, he is going to ask Trump how much, or what can Trump offer him, for giving up his nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons do not come cheap and Trump has to pay for it.
The stature and respect of a statesman or leader is not about how much he earns or his wealth. It is how other leaders view him and treat him. Kim has met Xi Jinping as equals in Beijing. Now he is going to meet Trump and the whole world is in awe. A 73 year old man meeting a man half his age and talking terms, trading deals while the whole world watches in silence.
How many world leaders have this kind of privilege or attention from the rest of the world? Trump, know how arrogant and conceited he is, is not going to waste time talking to anyone. Here, before this meeting, Trump is telling the world of the great things he and Kim are going to do together.
Kim Jong Un has arrived on the world stage not as a Rocket Man. Trump is going to shake his hand, perhaps gives him a bear hug, and called him President Kim. Kim will respond in kind, as two leaders met and normally do.
Now who is going to say this man is mad or whatever, irrational, murderer, womaniser and what not?
But things took a turn in the last few days. Kim is threatening to call off the summit with Trump after calling off all contacts with South Korea. The silly West rose in rage with their stupid arguments that the North Koreans are like that, unreliable, full of trickery, trying some ploys to get a better deal. The silly colonised Asian minds also repeated the same kind of stupidity, without thinking except to repeat what the West were saying.
Never would these stupids ask the real question and look for the real answers. They simply stereotyped what the West said. Have they noticed what Kim Jong Un had done during the prelude to the summit? Sending athletes to the Winter Olympics, exchanges with South Korea, meeting with Moon Jae In, stopping missile tests? And these were followed by the willingness for denuclearisation, return of American prisoners, inviting journalists to witness the destruction of nuclear testing sites, willing even risking his life to meet in Singapore to meet Trump!
Were these gestures and moves not sincere? Compare them to what the Americans did. What did the Americans did in return? Nothing. Zero. The Americans still continue to conduct wargames to simulate an invasion of North Korea, repeating threats, sanctions, increasing pressure without relenting, demanding that Kim send all his nuclear weapons to the USA to be destroyed, full inspection of nuclear facilities in North Korea, not a single gesture of goodwill!
The Americans think that Kim is a naive little boy, to be bullied, that he would give up all his nuclear weapons unconditionally, so that the Americans can do a Saddam Hussein or Gaddafi on him, invading North Korea once they could confirm that it has no more nuclear capability, and murder him and his family? The insincerity of the Americans is unbelieveable. But the West and the colonised Asian minds cannot see this, blinded by their stupidity.
They think that every Asian leader would jump to joy, wet their pants, just to have a chance to meet with the American president. No way, Kim Jong Un is no ordinary stupid Asian leader that goes gaga with an American president. Trump and the Americans must show their sincerity to meet him, as equals, both heads of states of their respective countries, and to talk terms that are beneficial to both countries on equal terms, not one sided.
The Americans are expecting that Kim would go down on his knees, willingly gives up his nuclear weapons and begs for mercy. This is how arrogant the Americans and the West are. They still behave like bullies. Other Asian leaders may like to be bullied, but not Kim Jong Un.
The best part, if there is one leader Trump would like to meet up, it is Kim Jong Un. Trump is willing to travel half way around the world to meet him, Kim Jong Un. And Kim may not want to see him.
5/19/2018
Reckless evil Empire and fake news
This piece is about fake news, distorted news, mischievous news and fabricated news, to demonise a country, to con the readers to think what the devils behind it want them to think, without thinking.
Read the extract of Yahoo News on the recent barrage of attacks against Iran, painting Iran as the demon that should be attacked and invaded, by the devils of course. Read the points raised and ask if they are true, really or fabricated.
"TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on fallout from U.S. withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal (all times local):1:20 a.m.
The White House is condemning Iran's "reckless actions," accusing the
country of "exporting destabilizing influence throughout the Middle
East."Read the extract of Yahoo News on the recent barrage of attacks against Iran, painting Iran as the demon that should be attacked and invaded, by the devils of course. Read the points raised and ask if they are true, really or fabricated.
"TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on fallout from U.S. withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal (all times local):1:20 a.m.
White House spokeswoman Sarah
Huckabee Sanders has issued a statement citing actions in Syria and
Saudi Arabia. She is calling on "responsible nations" to pressure Iran
to "change this dangerous behavior."
An Iranian rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the Golan Heights
prompted an Israel attack Thursday on Iranian targets in Syria. Saudi
Arabia is accusing Iran of providing missiles that Yemeni rebels have
fired toward Riyadh.Trump spoke with British Prime Minister Theresa May Friday. The White House said both condemned the rocket attacks."
Iranian troops are in Syria to help fight ISIS. And they stupidly lobbed one or two missiles into Syria, for what I dunno, to give Israel a reason to attack them with massive forces, several times, and killing a lot of Iranian soldiers on the ground. Why would they want to invite the Israelis to attack and kill them when they were happily destroying the ISIS and rebel forces in Syria? Logical? Or were the supposedly missiles fired into Israel were fabricated, false flags, to allow Israel to use them as a pretext to attack them? And for the Americans to brand them as reckless?
Now, were the attacks of Iranians in Syria by Israel reckless? And the scheme by Israel and the USA and now dragging in the Brits, to attack and invade Iran reckless? Iran is not going to be like Iraq and got hit and invaded without hitting back. This the Russians are also in Iranian soil. Remember the murder of Kim Jong Nam in KL and the poisoning of ex Russian spies?
This reckless scheme of the unthinking in Washington, Tel Aviv and now London, is going to bring about a war that they cannot stop and the Middle East would be on fire. Israel may foolishly think that they and the Americans and Brits could hit the Iranians and the latter could not hit back. But if they miscalculated, Israel will be in smokes when Iranian missiles landed in their soil. An attack on Iran would bring in Russia and China and others into the conflict.
The reckless evil Empire must be stopped to start another war with their own fabricated news. The UN must stop the reckless Americans, Jews and Brits from starting World War 3. What to you think the UN is doing now? Nothing, absolutely nothing, because the lawless Americans are not going to follow international laws and norms. They decide when to go to war and against whoever they chose to.
The Americans, the Jews and the Brits are the reckless ones, not the Iranians.
See how dangerous is fake news, fabricated news, mischievous news and how dangerous is to read news without thinking and taking them at face value.
See how aggressive the evil Empire and the West, the Jews are in their pursuit of war! They are the warmongers, but many silly Asians believe that they for peace and would want to invite them to be the policemen of Asia. They are only peaceful when every country becomes their colony and say, yes masters.
5/18/2018
Ministerial statements for discussion
Minister Masagos: Singaporeans become very wealthy in record time.
Minister Ong Ye Kung: The poor should help themselves.
I happen to see the above two statements in thestatestimesreview and find them very interesting as they would draw a lot of views from Singaporeans. Let me start with Masagoes. Which group of Singaporeans was he referring to that became very wealthy in record time. Not me of course, and not many Singaporeans that I know.
And in the article he asked those Singaporeans who got very rich to contribute to charity. I like that. Now those Singaporeans that got very wealthy and very fast, please be charitable, don’t be shy, just contribute some of your riches to help the needy Singaporeans. I like his targeted approach instead of those charity shows where they expect the poor working class Singaporeans to dig deep into their empty pockets to donate. How about Masagoes and his very rich millionaire ministers start the ball rolling?
And Ong Ye Kung’s comment that the poor should help themselves. I fully agree, if only the poor could write their own pay cheques to help themselves with OPM. Instead, their CPF savings are helped ‘to help themselves’ into buying insurance schemes that they did not ask for, maybe no need for, and they could not help themselves to say no. And some are still trying to help themselves with more of the poor Singaporeans’ CPF savings ‘to help’ the poor Singaporeans to help themselves until they don’t have enough for retirement.
Some may interpret this help themselves as asking the poor to work harder. I believe many are working very hard, to be taxi drivers, security guards and cleaners. But in such professions, no matter how hard they try, they are unlikely to make enough to pay for the high cost of living here.
Like that how ah?
What are your views?
Minister Ong Ye Kung: The poor should help themselves.
I happen to see the above two statements in thestatestimesreview and find them very interesting as they would draw a lot of views from Singaporeans. Let me start with Masagoes. Which group of Singaporeans was he referring to that became very wealthy in record time. Not me of course, and not many Singaporeans that I know.
And in the article he asked those Singaporeans who got very rich to contribute to charity. I like that. Now those Singaporeans that got very wealthy and very fast, please be charitable, don’t be shy, just contribute some of your riches to help the needy Singaporeans. I like his targeted approach instead of those charity shows where they expect the poor working class Singaporeans to dig deep into their empty pockets to donate. How about Masagoes and his very rich millionaire ministers start the ball rolling?
And Ong Ye Kung’s comment that the poor should help themselves. I fully agree, if only the poor could write their own pay cheques to help themselves with OPM. Instead, their CPF savings are helped ‘to help themselves’ into buying insurance schemes that they did not ask for, maybe no need for, and they could not help themselves to say no. And some are still trying to help themselves with more of the poor Singaporeans’ CPF savings ‘to help’ the poor Singaporeans to help themselves until they don’t have enough for retirement.
Some may interpret this help themselves as asking the poor to work harder. I believe many are working very hard, to be taxi drivers, security guards and cleaners. But in such professions, no matter how hard they try, they are unlikely to make enough to pay for the high cost of living here.
Like that how ah?
What are your views?
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