6/26/2018

A short impromptu discourse about Capitalism and Communism

Communism as we know is the struggle of the proletariats or working class against the exploitative nature of the elitist Capitalists. Communism is an economic cum political philosophy about the class struggles to put an end to class society and capitalism and the triumph of the proletariats over the bourgeoisie capitalists.

The ugly head of western capitalism has been so widespread and destructive that it caused countless wars and revolutions against capitalism and  result in the creation of the economic and political philosophy of communism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Capitalism is the unconscionable exploitation of the large majority of the working class population by the small elitist minority of the rich bourgeoisie capitalists. This is what happened in Europe and America in the industrial revolution of the 19th Century when workers were extremely exploited by the industrial capitalists and made to work long hours like slaves and animals with very meager salary and low income. The working class were made to suffer terribly hard with no recourse to justice.

That sort of selfish and immoral toxic extreme capitalism has now resurfaced in America and Europe and in many non-white capitalist countries which were once former white governed colonial territories.

Capitalists who are fair and have conscience and who  treat their workers and society well with respect and justice should not fear communism. Communism is just an economic and political philosophy born out of the inhuman exploitation of the proletariats or working class people by the heartless capitalists, the bourgeoisies.

In fact the Christians should be proud that Jesus was the first communist in this world . Jesus economic philosophy and that of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels communism subscribe to to the same belief that to have a fair and equitable society , "Everyone must contribute to the common pool according to their abilities and receive according to their needs." Of course due to the weakness and the selfishness of human nature communism philosophy must be tweaked to find the mid-way practice for the good of mankind. And this mean or middle path comes in the form of socialism.

All socialist governments must ensure that capitalists will no more have the liberty to exercise mass cruel exploitation of the working class people , the proletariats and that the proletariats must also discharge their duties and obligations responsibly for the common good of society..

Of course the society at large must be alert and prevent the governing authority from sliding into assuming the mantle of the cruel capitalists. We are already seeing this happening in America , Europe and some ASEAN countries where the elected governing officials are avariciously paying themselves out of the ordinary with sinful astronomical salaries while the people at large are made to suffer with low income and further burdened with all kinds of illogical direct and indirect high taxes and various ponzi schemes to hijack their savings. In fact these new class of governing officials are worst than the old capitalists for they just grab whatever money they want without any of their own economic output and contribution and justified it with enactment of laws favourable to their illicit behaviour. If that goes on persistently society will flounder and turmoil and instability will definitely arise. It seems a new kind of capitalism has sprouted. It is the group or herd instinct capitalist dictatorship in which many faceless pseudo capitalists join forces under the banner of a party to fool society under the guise that they are part of the democracy system.

The citizens of the world must be awakened and rise up again to take down all kinds of evil dictatorship that are against the interest and welfare of the proletariats or working class .

Southernglory1

Tuesday,26th June, 2018

The indignity of being overpaid in million dollar salaries

There was a time when earning a million dollar salary was something to be proud of. Oops, actually it is still something to be proud of anytime and anywhere if one can earn such money as salary. And it is also right to say that dignity comes with such a salary.  But a high salary is not necessarily equated with dignity. Donald Trump, the President of USA gets a US$1 salary a year as a token. Is his dignity diminished or lesser than those who earned more then him? Nay. Xi Jinping, the President of PRC earns less than $30,000 a year. Anyone earning more than him would dare to claim that he has bigger dignity than Xi or Trump? Nay.

Dignity is not the money you are earning, but the value or worth of the person, what is he contributing, able to contribute to country, organisation or society. The indignity part comes when one is earning ridiculous salary and contributing nothing.  

The million dollar, oops, multi million dollar salaries of Singapore's politicians is becoming a joke and the talk in town. No one has anything good to say about this indiscretionary abuse of public money to pay such humongous salary that it is becoming so glaringly clear that it is not right. People who are being paid in the millions but are seen to be contributing nothing or contributing foolishly with silly ideas would never have the dignity associated with the million dollar salary. What they have is indignity and disdain. Instead of the awe and respect they should be receiving, people would be shaking their heads in disbelief when they appeared. And many smug and unceremoniously remarks would be uttered at the indignity of such million dollar salary recipients. They have become walking exhibits of ridiculous and pompous duds. There is no dignity.

Below are a few of the remarks copied from comments in the TRE in an article posted by Phillip Ang on ministerial salary. This is what some people are saying and ridiculing the ministers for the million dollar salary that no longer makes sense and deemed inappropriate and senseless. What dignity can one talk about when the reverse is the reality? I could have copied more of the unsavoury and spicy comments about the indignity of being paid multi million dollar salary when one is undeserving.


oxygen:

FOR A LONG LONG TIME IMMEMORIAL, Ministerial pay was a SCAM – benchmarked to top private sector earners. The top private sector earners are a ROTATING POOL including businessmen or CEO’s of privately-owned business who have built their family business for decades.
IT IS A SURE-WIN BET of no risks and WORST STILL NO PERFORMANCE relevance. In private sector, if no performance, your family business KAPUT.
So how can ministerial pay be benchmarked to private sector earnings of any descript? It is RIDICULOUS TO ABSURDITY.


John Richards:

And I don’t understand why our multi-millionaire Ministers need to be paid hefty and ridiculous bonuses. Bonuses should be scrapped for Ministers. It’s merely a way to enrich themselves while leaving us clueless as to how much they are actually paid per year.

 tremendous:

If we count the total package as is always done in hr, it will not be just $1.1m. It’s not just the ministers but also board chairmen and perm secs. What exactly are their contributions or failed performances for the amounts they make ? Being a leader in the team that cannot solve transport woes ? Being the chairman of a losing sovereign fund ? Or being a board director who failed in oversight of corruption ?


LIONS:


even in PRIVATE SECTOR, a guy running a big bank such as JP MORGAN would logically be paid much more than a bloke running a smallish outfit by and large.
are the PAP folks telling us and the whole world that RUNNING SG is manifolds harder than for the POTUS to run THE MIGHTY USA or that IT IS EASIER for xi jin ping to govern CHINA?
perhaps the PM should compare his pay to that of the PM of PAPUA NEW GUINEA???

6/25/2018

What Kim Jong Un must not learn from Singapore

Yahoo News reported that North Korea has produced a film about the Kim Trump Summit and also how impressed Kim was of Singapore and wanted to learn from Singapore. "But this film lavished praise on prosperous, capitalist Singapore, lauding the "clean, beautiful and advanced" nation and suggesting it had lessons to offer.
"Our comrade supreme leader said he is eager to learn the excellent knowledge and experiences in various fields from your country," the state media presenter cited Kim as telling Singapore officials."

Indeed any developing country's leaders would be impressed with the infrastructure of Singapore and its development and wanted to learn from Singapore. Only those that are impossible to teach or already chose not to learn from Singapore would stubbornly refused to learn from Singapore. But before any country plunged blindly into the mind trap of learning from Singapore, they must be very clear what they want to learn, the good stuff and not the bad stuff.

Among the things that Kim must not from Singapore are the things that China also refused to learn from Singapore. Perhaps it would be better for Kim to have a chat with Xi Jinping first and learn what he should not learn from Singapore.

I would suggest the following things that Kim should avoid with a ten foot pole.
1. Do not pay their govt officials out of this world salaries to become instant millionaires. North Korea has no fear of any govt official becoming corrupt even if corruption is in the blood, They have effectively killed this notion among North Korean officials without the need to pay them crazily.
2. Do not dip into the people's life savings.
3. Do not blindly enhance the asset value of properties. This is a vicious cycle that can only lead to eventual self destruct. In other words, do not allow property prices to runaway uncontrolled.
4. Do not bring in foreigners excessively to take over the country and jobs of the Korean people.
5.Please add on....

Kim must also remember not to lose his country to foreigners or give up his country to foreigners when foreigners become Koreans with Korean citizenship and take over his country.

6/24/2018

North Korea - The white lies would not show you these pictures

Real pix of DPRK:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/gallery/inside-real-north-korea-spectacular-11256230
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_northkorea/706249.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/north-korea-changing-180418063201529.html

Above two pics were from english.hani and aljazeera. There are more pics of North Korea in the mirror.co.uk link. These are the pictures that the west have refused to show to the world but old pictures of poor and underdeveloped North Korea of the past and lying to the world that North Korea is suffering from abject poverty, famine, food shortages etc etc. The reality is quite stark.

Stop listening to white lies and become slaves of their disinformation. Find your own truth. The above city infrastructure could not be built overnight and did not reassemble any third world poverty stricken cities like in South Asia and South east Asia.

Some impressive statistics on the performance of Bush Jr, Obama and Trump as Presidents of the USA

America's Military Drops A Bomb Every 12 Minutes, And No One Is Talking About It


Authored by Lee Camp via TruthDig.com,
We live in a state of perpetual war, and we never feel it. While you get your gelato at the hip place where they put those cute little mint leaves on the side, someone is being bombed in your name. While you argue with the 17-year-old at the movie theater who gave you a small popcorn when you paid for a large, someone is being obliterated in your name. While we sleep and eat and make love and shield our eyes on a sunny day, someone’s home, family, life and body are being blown into a thousand pieces in our names....

Once every 12 minutes.
The United States military drops an explosive with a strength you can hardly comprehend once every 12 minutes. And that’s odd, because we’re technically at war with—let me think—zero countries. So that should mean zero bombs are being dropped, right?...


But those 70,000 bombs dropped by Bush—it was child’s play. DeGraw again:
“[Obama] dropped 100,000 bombs in seven countries. He out-bombed Bush by 30,000 bombs and 2 countries.”
However, we now know that Donald Trump’s administration puts all previous presidents to shame. The Pentagon’s numbers show that during George W. Bush’s eight years he averaged 24 bombs dropped per day, which is 8,750 per year. Over the course of Obama’s time in office, his military dropped 34 bombs per day, 12,500 per year. And in Trump’s first year in office, he averaged 121 bombs dropped per day, for an annual total of 44,096.

Trump’s military dropped 44,000 bombs in his first year in office.

PS. And America is not at war with any country! All the fighting and bombing were committed in undeclared wars, illegal wars.  Imagine how much money the military industrial complex is making from wars and killings of other people. The Americans are the most peace loving people, the protector of human rights?

6/23/2018

The Historic DPRK Business Mission















From 18-22 September 2018, I am mobilising a historic 5-day Business Mission to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (commonly referred to as “North Korea”). 

Following the successful Trump-Kim Bilateral Summit in Singapore on 12 Jun 2018, this initiative will empower and facilitate companies, businesses, investors, CEOs and entrepreneurs to explore and grow market opportunities and possibilities in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

This historic First Business Mission to DPRK presents an exclusive opportunity for discovery and inspiration to uncover and leverage on the diversity that DPRK can add to the global marketplace of international trade and development.

The primary goal of this FIRST Business Mission to DPRK is to provide a dedicated platform for industry leaders and purveyors to meet in open dialogue with key sellers, buyers and decision makers from various industry sectors in DPRK to develop co-operation through projects, trade and investments between market players.

The Focus Industries in this Mission would include the following:
·         Food Retail and Wholesale
·         Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
·         Healthcare Products and Supplements
·         Human Resource Development
·         Hospitality and Tourism
·         Property Development
·         Life Sciences
·         Engineering and Machinery
·         Infrastructure Development

Interested in this adventure?  Come to DPRK with me as a First Mover!

Email Dr Michael Heng PBM@ miko.heng@gmail.com for further information.

Checkout the following News on this
Historic First DPRK Business Mission:







Did our Sovereign Debt Fund lose money?

"Anonymous said... According to a Straits Times' report in July last year:

"Volatile stock markets took their toll on Singapore investment firm Temasek Holdings' portfolio value which shrank for the first time since the global financial crisis.

Its net portfolio value fell to S$242 billion for the financial year ended March 31, down from S$266 billion a year ago....

As last year's losses amounted to 9.02% of total of $266 billiion (prior to 2010 it was more than $300 billion), that means Temasek Holdings has lost $25 billion of taxpayers' money and CPF members' savings in 2017.

What about from April 2017 to March 2018? There is still no official report published. Speculation put the losses to be the worst in the history of Sovereign Wealth Funds Investments."

How much did our Sovereign Debt Fund, SDF, lost? This is the big question that everyone is asking and speculating.  My answer is very simple.  The SDF did not lose a single cent. You may think that because they refused to disclose any numbers so they can write their own books and can thus say they did not lose a cent. And on record they have been announcing billions of dollars of profits and paying themselves crazy with big bonuses. I could still remember the year they announced a 15% profit and all stuffed their pockets full with special bonuses.

But they did not lose or could not lose. If they lose, they would top up the losses with more taxes. Look at the humongous taxes they are raising since last year. And for them to put on a brave front and a blank face to take the people's life savings in the CPF, coffin money, you know how desperate they are. CPF is for retirement not for all kinds of compulsory schemes to buy insurance without the people's consent.

The SDF did not lose any money. Only the people lose money. The people have to top up by paying more taxes. It is heads I win tail you lose. When they made some profits, they rewarded themselves handsomely with big bonuses and went around boasting how clever they were. When they lost money, they still rewarded themselves with million dollar salaries but kept quiet. Then the losses would still have to be topped up, not by returning the big bonuses or big pay, but by the people paying more taxes, when money not enough.

Just ask one simple question. Why so many silly taxes over the last few months? To encourage people to walk to be healthy, they may want to introduce bicycle tax and taxes for taking buses and trains so that people would have to walk more. They don't even mind looking silly and talking silly and be laughed at for their silliness. Die die must tax the people to bring in more money, because somewhere, something is very wrong, when money is not enough.

The end result, the people will be made money not enough, money in their CPF also not enough.

6/22/2018

It is proper that the evil Americans withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council

Just like the USA refused to signed as a member of the United Nations Council of the Laws of the Sea, UNCLOS, but went around battering every country for violating the Laws of the Sea, the Americans, the biggest violator of human rights all over the world, has finally withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council.
The Americans are unfit to be a member of this Council and should be sacked long ago. Their hypocritical stance on the protection of human rights, accusing other countries of violating human rights while they violated the human rights of many people in the worse ways possible, killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of coloured people in the Middle East and other corners of the world, is beyond reproach. No country dares to breathe a word of contempt on the animals in the USA killing and wounding innocent people, butchering the blacks, the womenfolk, the children and the olds in their war of conquest and regime changed, in their arbitrary arrests of Arabs and Muslims and torturing them in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib concentration camps.
 

Their recent ill treatments of illegal immigrants, separating little children from their mothers, like the wicked white Australians did to the children of aborigines in Australia, are simply disgusting. UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein was quoted to have called Washington to halt its “unconscionable” policy against the illegal immigrants at the Mexican border. The beasts in Washington could not see anything wrong with the harm and abuses they dealt with the illegal immigrants, especially the vulnerable children. It is second nature to them.
 

The Indian representative of the US in the UN, Haley, said, “Look at the council membership, and you see an appalling disrespect for the most basic rights.” She got the cheek to say this with eyes wide open and a blank face when the Americans are the ones that are bullying and violating the human rights of other human beans.
 

Is this not disgusting? It is irreprehensible! They just lashed out at others, accusing others with their white lies, in this case black lies, and hoping that the rest of the world would be stupid enough not to see what is happening before their very eyes, the Americans violating human rights in front of the camera for all to see.
 

How many silly Asians and bananas would choose to look the other way and believe that the Americans are the protectors of human rights? The Americans should be banned from rejoining the UN Human Rights Council forever.

6/21/2018

White men speaking in fork tongue

Trump signed an agreement with Kim and publicly announced that there would be no more war games in the Korean Peninsular. Immediately the US Army said that the US Forces in South Korea do not come under the Summit agreement between Trump and Kim. What does this mean, the US Forces can continue to do what they want, ignoring what the President of the USA has said in public?
 

The Americans continued to say that only major war games will stop, like Max Thunder, Foal Eagle and Freedom Guardian involving tens of thousands of troops. Smaller military exercises would continue. The Americans are trying to split hairs, saying one thing and doing another. The intent of the Americans is to continue with their military exercises and provocations against the North Koreans.
 

The South Koreans even told the North Koreans to withdraw the latter’s artillery pieces further from the DMZ. On the other hand there is nothing about the deployment of the American Thaad or other artillery pieces in the South. And nothing about the American forces withdrawing from South Korean.
It seems that the Summit is like a one way concession by the North Koreans, to denuclearize, to withdraw their forces from the DMZ while the Americans and the South Koreans continue as normal, northing changes.
 

Would the North Koreans meekly accept all the one sided conditions dictated by the Americans and the South Koreans?
 

Americans are speaking fork tongue with the Chinese, breaking all the agreements negotiated to prevent a trade war to more tariffs and intensifying the trade war. This is a bastard nation that cannot live a day without wars. While military conflicts in the Middle East are losing its steam with the Americans and their devilish ISIS in retreat, they released another evil power, the Jews, to go on a killing spree. The Jews were happy to kill the Arabs like they had done throughout their existence and knowing that the Americans are backing them up.
 

While the Jews are fighting with their war machine, Made in USA, the Americans are content with a new trade war with China and Europe and the rest of the world.
 

How to trust these evil men and women leading the USA? I will write about this hypocritical nation pretending to champion human rights and withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council later.

6/20/2018

Is Singapore promoting drinking more shit water?

In thestatestimesreview, it posted this:
 

“In an interview with state media Straits Times published yesterday (Jun 19), Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said he will be imposing a new sugar tax to promote water drinking in Singapore:
“On the cards is a possible sugar tax on packaged drinks, restricting advertising of such drinks, and prominent labelling of sugar or nutritional content.”
 

The “promote drinking water” reasoning coincides with another comment made by a PAP MP last year. In 2017, PAP MP Lee Bee Wah commented that raising the water prices by 30% would “promote awareness” of saving water.”

The shortage of fund or the need to find more money for the govt has led to a spate of relentless increases in taxes on everything. This excuse to raise sugar tax to promote drinking more water is so silly that it is so unbelieveable. Are Singaporeans third world uneducated bums that would believe such a silly ruse? Only in Singapore where the sheeples are hapless would a govt dare to keep raising taxes on the people resulting in higher cost of living in the world’s most expensive city. A tax on sugar consumption is simply bizarre.
And the govt is confident that the sheeples could not do anything about it and would continue to vote them to power to rule over them with more taxes.
 

I think the result of the next GE will see an unanimous support for the ruling govt as the effect of drinking more shit water would mean that the brain of the people would be filled with shit, and become even more shitty and unthinking.
 

The net result is that the govt would have to bring in more shitty foreign talents to replace the shitty brain Singaporeans that could no longer think, no longer talent as their brains are filled instead with shit.
Yeah, drink more shit water. It is good for the brain.
 

To those who don’t understand what is this shit water thing, let it be known that shit water in the island is being filtered and reintroduced into the reservoirs and returned to the homes as piped water for domestic consumption. How often this is done and should be done when rainfall here is normally more than adequate to fill the reservoirs except during a prolong period of dry season is questionable. Do they need to keep filling the reservoirs with shit water when there is plenty of water during the wet seasons? 

Another thing to ponder about? How many people are silly enough to buy Newater for consumption when there is plenty of other normal drinking water available? How many countries are importing our Newater for consumption?

6/19/2018

When India and China shake hands, it would shake the world

It was reported that China and India settled a dispute over the flood-prone Brahmaputra river from Tibet to Bangladesh during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting on 9 Jun 18 in a sign of growing cooperation between them. A part from the border disputes caused by the British colonial power, there is really no major issues that would lead to a conflict between the two countries. Historically there had been no such rivalry or war between the two states. They are so different and divided by a natural physical border. Both exist in their own ways without being entangled in each other's affairs. The border dispute is best settled through negotiation as war would never resolve the dispute for eternity peace.
There will be rivalry and competition in the aspiration of the two countries wanting to be major powers and rich economies. These are not necessarily antagonistic as each could grow on its own pace without any reason to go to war. There can be two super powers in Asia with both coexisting peacefully. The days of military conquest of the western powers are over. Only the West still think that military might and conquest and world domination are the way forward. China has proven this wrong as China is a super power without firing a single bullet, without invading and seizing countries to become its colonies.

The Indians must change their mindset of make belief that China is out to conquer India. This shitty idea is unreal but has bugged the Indian psychic for the last few decades. India must rise from its medieval thoughts of greatness and empire building and using wars to settle issues. Once India removes this antiquated thought, it would see a brighter future by cooperating with China and the rest of Asia for economic growth and prosperity. There are so much complementarity between the two countries and both can grow at a much faster pace to achieve greatness together as peaceful nations instead of wasting time and resources on military hardware and war of words.

The SCO provides a new platform for peace loving nation to cooperate to achieve economic growth and well being through trade unlike the western models that keep harping on wars and on buying more weapons of wars. Nations can grow and prosper peacefully without going to wars. Asian was thrown into centuries of wars not because they were fighting each other by conquered by the colonial powers and made to fight each other. Asian countries should learn from this sad history and forge a new path forward where Asians would be united and cooperate to keep Asia free from conflicts incited by the western powers.

When the big countries of Asian shake hands, not just India and China, but Russia, Japan, the Koreas, central Asian and SE Asian countries, they will change the world and bring prosperity to Asia and the rest of the world.

PS. Unfortunately the Indian ego is still ruling the Indian psychic and they have refused to be part of the BRI which means self imposed isolation from the New Silk Road linking Asia and Europe, without India. They would be locked out, left out of the new trade route and dynamics. Down the road India would be blaming China for excluding India from the BRI, not India's fault.

6/18/2018

Because you voted for it

Why are there so many foreigners having good jobs and PMETs jobsless or driving taxis?
Because you voted for it.

Why are foreigners rushing to come here and finding jobs so easy but you trying to get out because you can't find a job?
Because you voted for it.

Why are you being bullied by foreigners who are now your superior?
Because you voted for it.

Why are foreigners getting full time employment and you are employed on short term contract or part time?
Because you voted for it.

Why are foreigners buying private properties and you buy HDB flats?
Because you voted for it.

 Why are foreigners buying HDB flats to sell to your with profits to return to their home countries?
Because you voted for it.

Why are there so many foreigners given citizenships?
Because you voted for it.

Why is the CECA upgraded?
Because you voted for it.

Why are we being paid in the millions and you have to tighten your belts?
Because you voted for it.

Why are we robbing your CPF savings?
Because you voted for it.

Why are we so repressive?
Because you voted for it.

Why are we spending millions and billions to give scholarships to foreigners instead of your children?
Because you voted for it.

Why, why, why?
Because you voted for it.

Know what you are voting for. Vote for your own interest and your own good.
Don't vote away your good life and the future of your children and grandchildren.
Vote wisely.



6/17/2018

Singapore turning into a rubbish dump

When a country is silly enough to bring in all the rubbish and rejects of third world countries and called them talents to replace the highly educated Singaporeans from world best universities, you know that something is very sick.

Once all the Singaporeans are replaced by the rubbish or have to work and report to the rubbish, you can bet that Singapore will turn into a rubbish dump.

The transition is rapid and before you know it, Singapore the rubbish dump would become a reality.

Singapore is becoming a country that does not believe in its people but in the rubbish third world rejects they brought in by the plane loads to replace its very own people whose parents built the Singapore of today. The rubbish from the third world will inherit the Singapore built by the early Singaporeans and turn it into another rubbish third world country, knowing what these third world rubbish's capabilities are, con, cheat, bluff, lie to get what they want.

The day to a Rubbish Singapore is around the corner.  You can see it everywhere, read it everywhere, there is no hiding. You can even smell it.

Kim Trump Summit in Singapore, Malaysia

Malaysia should be happy for the publicity given in the Kim Trump Summit without having to spend a cent. Thanks to the idiots in the US State Dept for not knowing where Singapore is and still thinking that Singapore is a city in Malaysia. Some of the hillbillies would still think that Singapore is still a part of China.

This means that all the billions spent in F1 races and what not did not do any good to present to the world that Singapore is an independent city state in SE Asia, at the furthest southern tip of the Asia continent, the furthest one can go on land to the south.  For one the Americans did not get it. Any jokers still want to waste public money on F1s to put Singapore in the world map?

How could Singapore avoid being thought of as a city in Malaysia or in China?

It's elementary Watson. Just import more Indians to Singapore, and appoint more Indian ministers to the cabinet. This last step has been taken and Trump would not be blame for thinking that Singapore is an Indian state.  He probably nudged Pompeo that the later made a mistake, Singapore was not in Malaysia but in India. When the Indians make up the majority of Singaporeans and Indian ministers become a majority in the cabinet, no one would then think that Singapore is in Malaysia or in China.

At worst they would write Singapore, India on the envelope. And one good thing, SIA can keep its initial as Singapore Indian Airline. DBS may have to change to DBI.  The next Kim Trump Summit the US State Dept would put the venue as Singapore, India...not Singapore, Malaysia or Singapore, China. President Halimah can officially called herself as the Indian President of Singapore to make it more effective.

No need to sweat the small stuff. And Mahathir better not to call himself Indian or the hillbillies would think that he is the Indian Prime Minister of Singapore.

6/15/2018

Potong Najeep – Malaysia’s next national car


Mahathir was the man that conceived the first Malaysia car, the Proton Saga. After more than 30 years of being the same car, the saga of the Proton is coming to an end after being sold to China. The Proton Saga, without any new innovation, has outlived its existence unless Malaysia wants to be like the British, having no more new ideas, trying to market a 1960s technology in reinventing the Mini with some cosmetics. Malaysia maybe able to sell some more Protons to the romantics, like the Minis and Nokia, selling old products for keepsake, as momentos.

Mahathir would not have this sort of things. Though no one bothers to do anything on the Proton to make it a better and newer car after Mahathir left the PM’s office, his return is giving him a second chance to revive his Malaysia pet dream of an international Malaysia car. This time he is not talking about a car but a jeep. Being a national car, oops, a national jeep, he has appropriately called it a Najeep in short. And to break away from the antique Proton, he reinvented a new car company called Potong.

So here you have it, a new Malaysia car/jeep called Potong Najeep. OK this idea of a Najeep is not mine. I just borrowed it and gave it a little spin as V 1.02. The PM’s office has made a pre order for a stretch version of the jeep. Mahathir would like the jeep to be stretched for as long as he could, a stretch Potong Najeep for him to drive around.

Soon there would be many Potong Najeeps on the Malaysia roads to make the Malaysians happy.

Singapore would likely be invited to be part of this new car project to mend relations with Malaysia. Lim Eng Guan has said that Malaysia did not have the money, and there is plenty of money in Singapore. This is also a good opportunity for Singapore to be really making a car to make money instead of printing COEs. As for technology, China can also be invited to join. Japan may be a bit difficult as they would not sell their new technology unless Mahathir is happy with another old Lancer engine. 

Looks like this Potong Najeep is going to be a reality even with Malaysia not contributing anything, no money, no technology, just say 'I want to have a Malaysia car, oops, jeep.' Like it or not, Mahathir would want this Potong Najeep to be his next pet project.

PS. My post for Saturday.

Indian passenger accused SIA of being racist

“Facebook user Chandni Doulatramani shared the video on social media yesterday and shared the frustrations of the passengers on board the SIA plane. Apparently, the flight could not depart due to an issue with the air-conditioner and an SIA air stewardess allegedly admitted that “the aircraft hasn’t been in use for a long time and so the airconditioning was not working.”…
 

Chandni says that when passengers, who were in the dark about what was going on, tried to seek answers they were rudely shut down: “When we confronted the cabin crew, they had no answers, rudely shut us up, threatened to call the cops to arrest us, and said “we are in the same situation as you are, don’t ask us, we don’t know anything”.”…
 

Chandni – who strongly believes that the airline was racist against Indians and that this would not have happened if the flight was not headed to India – has indicated that she may be planning to sue SIA if they do not compensate the passengers for such an experience.
 

In the comments section of the post, she added that she hopes the staff lose their jobs:”

The above are extracts posted in theindependent site. SIA must be very careful of its image particularly when it is being accused of being a racist airline by the Indians. If they are not careful, all the Indian passengers would not take SIA and the CECA that favours Singapore companies to do business in India would be a wasted agreement. And SIA would not only have to close down but also be sued for racism.
 

Singapore as a country also has to tread this line very carefully. With a few hundred thousand Indians being invited to work in Singapore under the CECA, it would be very serious if the Indians turn around to accuse Singapore and Singaporeans of being racist. Singapore has a lot to learn from India on how not to be racist to Indians.
 

Singapore and Singaporeans may not think this is so because their tiada apa attitude towards race, young Singaporeans are coloured blind, would and could be perceived as racist by Indians who have not been subject to racism as racist. Young Singaporeans are quite casual and callous in their conversation and remarks and these may be seen as racism, just like the UOB D&D when some young Singaporeans painted their faces black for the party.
 

Maybe the govt should start a campaign by making all Singaporeans wear a T shirt with the words, ‘Singaporeans are not racist”. Of course the T shirt would come with a price tag, nothing is free is Singapore. It is better to be tolerant to the foreigners and not to be accused of as a racist people. And they are here to create jobs for Singaporeans. Without them Singaporeans, especially the PMETs would be jobless. These foreigners gave up their good jobs at home to come to help Singaporeans. They could stay in their home countries where jobs are aplenty and life was good. In a way they are making huge sacrifices like our politicians to earn millions here.
 

Looks like SIA has a lot of damage control to do with the above comments by this Chandni circulating in the social media.
 

This racist label is a tough one especially when the accusers are Indians. They would soon be a majority in Singapore. Be very careful not to be caught to be making racist remarks or acts by the Indians.

PS. Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all our Malay and Muslim brothers and sisters.

6/14/2018

Trump-Kim summit: 3 things that weren’t right

Now that the dust has settled, allow me to share 3 things related to the Trump-Kim summit that weren’t quite right. No, they had nothing to do with the organisation of the summit which went swimmingly well - thanks to the wonderful efforts of our overworked, hard-pressed officials. They relate instead to the actions of certain parties on the periphery.

The first was MediaCorp’s inclusion of the views of so-called body language experts in their news bulletins. Their surgical dissections of every muscular tics of the two leaders as indicative of who was more superior, confident or simply at ease was nauseating to say the least.  I can understand if the panel covering the summit ‘live’ did that because these poor souls had to fill the y-a-w-n-i-n-g gaps between the unfolding events. But surely not airtime-precious MediaCorp bulletins!

The second was the (early) unsolicited celebration of President Trump’s birthday by our leaders just when they were Trump-eting Singapore’s neutrality to the world. Whoever proposed the idea of a birthday cake for Trump wasn’t being very savvy or sensitive. What would the Chinese think? Probably this: “If it was President Xi Jinping's birthday, would he have gotten a cake?” The gesture was both unnecessary and inappropriate.   

Finally, a certain opposition politician took time out to make a video to excoriate foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan for saying that Singapore was there to “serve tea and coffee”. That wasn’t just a waste of the politician’s time, it was also unfair. The minister was using those words to indicate the trust that we enjoy as honest and neutral host in the eyes of the world. For the record, this was what he said in The Straits Times: “I am confident we will do our best as hosts. I tell both North Koreans and Americans that we are there to serve tea and coffee”. No right-minded person would take his words literally to mean that he wants Singapore to be the tea lady of international diplomacy. Bottomline: We can be critical but we should also be fair.