Beware, be warned, this is a racist remark...in Singapore!!!!

Teacher tweets about 9 year old kid she “wanted to strangle” for racist remarks

When she came to class and introduced herself by saying “Hi my name is Ms Indu and my favourite food is…”, a boy in the class allegedly shouted out “CURRY. CHICKEN CURRY, MUTTON CURRY, FISH CURRY, BEEF CURRY”

The above first appeared in mothership.sg.

How many of you agree that this is a racist remark?

How many think that the teacher is racist or is a swine?

According to this swine of a teacher, saying “CURRY. CHICKEN CURRY, MUTTON CURRY, FISH CURRY, BEEF CURRY” is RACIST!!!!

MOE,  can you clarify if the above statement by a 9 year old boy is a racist remark?

MHA, can you confirm that the above statement by a 9 year old boy is a racist remark?

This swine woman is spread intolerance and violence, that Hindus would kill you for saying beef curry. Would she dare to spread the lie that Muslim will kill you for saying nasi lemak with luncheon meat? Her sick mind must not be allowed to influence our children or bully and abuse our innocent children.

Anti-China propaganda in local mass media by USA and its agents

          In yesterday's main paper a Taiwanese Chinese American scholar by the name of Russell Hsiao, an executive director of the Taiwan Global Institute mischievously claimed that China is using cultural, clan and business associations to influence the imposition of Chinese identity on Singapore so as to get Singapore to align more with China's interest. He asserted this in an analysis which he published in the US research institute , Jamestown Foundation. He alleged that the Singapore cultural, clan and business associations are the united front organisations of China's CCP through which China carries out its influence. He went on to claim that the CCP is also trying to influence young Singaporeans by promoting economic opportunities and cultural affinity with China. Then he asserted that " Business associations in Singapore act as the most powerful lobby for Chinese interests."  He conveniently forgets that his pay master US is constantly using NGOs to undermine other countries security and carry out regime change on governments which refuse to follows US dictates.

The Singapore government must investigate him on his wild accusations and pronounce him as person-a -nongrata for trying to interfere in Singapore's internal affairs.

What is the motive of Russell Hsiao?  He is definitely up to no good and has ill-conceived evil intentions. He can be seen clearly as an American running dog and must be funded by CIA to speak everything bad against China and to stir up uncalled for suspicion among South East Asian countries against China .

He is not only the Evil Empire's propaganda mouth piece but is also in cahoot with the despicable and lunatic frustrated Taiwanese spinster Chai Ing Wen in trying to influence overseas Chinese support for her party's separatist fight for an independent Taiwan.

Taiwan could have long ago been united with mainland China had not the evil United States interfered in the Chinese civil war by stationing its Seventh Fleet in the Taiwan Straits in the 1950s.

Just like Lee Teng Hui, Chen Swee Pian and Chai Ing Wen, Russell Hsiao is also one of the few Taiwanese Chinese shameless and faceless characters who feel no shame in disowning their ancestral roots and Chinese culture. For their own selfish ends they do not mind to sell their souls and dignity ( that is if they have any ) to betray China and the Chinese people. They are always in cahoot with the West especially the Evil Empire and Japan in their vitriol propaganda to undermine China hoping to weaken and break up China and the unity of the Chinese people.

Just see how England and the Evil Empire via CIA have been trying constantly to instigate and foment unrest and public demonstrations in Hong Kong and Xin Jiang with the intention to contain and bring down China and the Chinese people.

Russell Hsiao and his likes like Chai Ing Wen and the riff-raffs in Hong Kong have no self-respect and dignity and are sure to fail in their evil designs in following the evil dictates of the United States.

The Evil Empire and its allies or agents and running dogs should not be allowed to use Singapore mass media as a medium to propagate their damaging and harmful anti-China propaganda.

Singapore must be on guard against any anti-Chinese propaganda by the Evil Empire and its agents if the island country is to continue to enjoy peace and tranquility.

Southernglory1

Friday, 19th July, 2019

American songs of delusion

The trade war between China and the US is one sided. The Americans are calling all the shots and winning. The Americans are telling the world and themselves that China’s economy is suffering but the American economy is doing just as well, very well in fact, not affected by the trade war at all. If you believe in the American rhetoric, Chinese economy is going to crumble and China would go down on its knees to beg for mercy.
 
Is this the truth? Look at the numbers. Yes the Americans are putting more tariffs on Chinese exports to the US. So China must be selling less to the Americans and worse, China is paying for the tariff hike imposed by Trump. However, the statistics said otherwise. China US trade balance in favour of China has increased in the last 6 months, ie China is selling a lot more to the US or at least in value terms. Should this be negative or positive to the Chinese economy?
 
Next, American companies are not allowed to sell the Huawei, their biggest customers and losing billions in revenue. Is this positive or negative to China’s economy or to the American economy? Not selling to Huawei means no revenue for the Americans.
 
And China has stopped buying the soya beans, meat, poultry, sea food, wines and many other things from their American suppliers. So, is this good or bad for the American economy? Produces not selling, rotting away in the warehouses.
 
Just on these 3 points alone, whose economy is suffering more? Whose economy is more affected by the trade war? Yes, the Chinese economy has shrunk by 0.3%, from 6.5% to 6.2%. The American economy not affected at all, but getting better!
 
Really? What happened to the farmers, the food producers, the electronic component manufacturers? What happened to the billions of revenue that are not coming in? Why are the farmers and electronic/computer companies petitioning the US govt to lift the ban, lift the tariff, if the American economy is doing so well?
Don’t trust the Chinese trade figures, trust the American trade figures and rhetoric. The Americans are winning the trade war!
 
What you should trust is what is real. What is real is that if the American economy is so good, why are they going to cut interest rate towards zero? Does this ring a bell that something bad is happening to the American economy? When the American economy is doing so well, should not they be raising interest rate? What kind of economy would live precariously on the edge of zero interest rate? Healthy or sick economy in the intensive care unit?
 
What do you think?

This ignorant teacher must be sacked and...

Below is a post in mothership.sg about an ignorant and full of herself teacher bullying a 9 year old boy in her class and accusing the boy of being misguided and a source of ethnic violence. She is abusing her position as a teacher to attack young children with her twisted views of what is right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable. She is so ignorant that she did not even know that there is such a thing called beef curry just because her little mind knew that Hindu did not eat beef, so it is offensive to mention beef curry to a Hindu. If this kind of silly and warp thinking and logic are allowed in our schools and society, then many things cannot be said.

This swine of a teacher must be sacked before she does more damage to the children. Her English is half past six at best. She is aggressive and uncultured and inciting violence, telling a child that saying things like beef curry can get him killed. Which backward country would kill a child for saying such a thing?

And if she is a foreigner, send her back to where she came from. MOE please do the necessary and don't sleep on the job. MHA also must act on this before more and more of such rubbish are allowed to create more rubbish and tension in our schools and in our society. The poor boy has been attacked and butchered by this swine teacher in front of her class. The parents of the boy must take up the case with the school and the police for intimidation and verbal assault of a child. A teacher, an adult, bullying a 9 year old child! And some silly cunts with the same kind of mentality said the child's conversation was microaggression on the part of the child. Can you believe that?

Here is the post and tweets from mothership.sg.

A drama teacher in Singapore has taken to Twitter to complain about a nine-year-old student she encountered in one of her classes — only to remove her tweets and account after receiving backlash for her views.

What was she upset about?

Her beef?
A child she was teaching in her drama class had behaved in a manner that was not woke enough and she told the boy off on the spot that it was his type of misguided views that is the cause of ethnic violence.

What did she tweet?

The series of six tweets on July 17 by the drama teacher also referred to the child as an “uncultured swine” and that she “wanted to strangle the kid”.
These were the tweets and the circumstances that led to her calling out the boy’s answers and behaviour:

Praised for correcting child

Over on Twitter, the drama teacher’s tweets received support and empathy from some quarters who could relate to her having to deal with such microaggressions:
The issue was also couched as a result of “Chinese privilege“:

China learning how to hit US using the same American tactic

BEIJING: China on Friday (Jul 12) said it would impose sanctions on US companies involved in a potential arms sale worth US$2.2 billion to self-ruled Taiwan - a move that has infuriated Beijing.

"The US arms sale to Taiwan has severely violated the basic norms of international law and international relations," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said in an online statement.

"In order to safeguard national interests, China will impose sanctions on US enterprises participating in this sale of weapons to Taiwan," he said.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/china-to-impose-sanctions-on-us-firms-in-taiwan-arms-sale-11715956

In the case of American bullying and how to retaliate against such bullying, it is better late than never. The Americans have been using unilateral American domestic laws to apply to countries and citizens of other countries for violating American laws. They are applying their laws across national boundaries, a good example is the arrest of Huawei's Meng Wanzhou and several other citizens including Europeans, for violating American sanctions.

It is time that China applies the same modus operandi on the Americans by arresting Americans for violating Chinese laws. China must introduce more of such laws particularly related to Taiwan like selling arms to Taiwan or to China's enemy, unfortunately the latter there is really none for the moment. Maybe one day China could declare a few enemy countries like Japan, Vietnam or some European countries that are hostile to China and any country trading against such countries would be violating Chinese laws or Chinese sanctions. Not only would China not trade with such countries, companies or individuals, but also arrest their citizens, executives and individuals in areas under Chinese jurisdiction. China should sign more extradition treaties with other countries to extend its reach to arrest those that violate Chinese laws and sanctions like what the Americans are doing.

The sanctions should also be slapped on Americans spreading fake news against China or threatening China like Pompeo, Bolton, Pence, Bannon, Harry Harris, Wolfowitz, etc etc so that they could be arrested when visiting Greater China.

China has now reach a state of military parity with the Americans and can take on the Americans when confronted by American military forces. The American power projection tools are the aircraft carriers, warships and military bases overseas. These are now within the reach of Chinese weapons. The American aircraft carriers in the western Pacific are sitting ducks to China's DF 21 and DF 26 anti ship missiles. The range of DF 26 also extends to the Indian Ocean of those warships and aircraft carriers threatening Iran and Chinese ships in the region could be hit should the Americans turn aggressive.

The Americans are not the only one that can play the game. China too can reply. No longer would China sit idly by if their embassies are attacked by the Americans like the one in Belgrade. It would be a tooth for a tooth.

That is the way to go, China.

Fake news, half truth or what?

SINGAPORE (June 14): Prudential’s Barry Stowe, who retired in Dec 2018, was the highest paid CEO among Singapore listed companies in 2018.

Besides being listed in London, Prudential has a secondary listing on the Singapore Exchange since May 2010.

For lifting the international financial services group’s earnings by 26%, Stowe was given a 7.8% hike in compensation to $16.5 million.

In joint second place was Oxley Holdings’ Ching Chiat Kwong and Xu Cheng Qiu, executive chairman of China Sunsine Chemical Holdings, who were paid $12 million each although Xu’s actual remuneration was still pending review by the board and had not been finalised.

Ching’s amount was about 24% lower than the year before, the property developer’s earnings were up 30.7% between FY2017 and FY2018 while Xu’s pay was up 63.8% over FY2017 as the company’s earnings grew 87.9% over the same period.

In fourth place was Dr Tan See Leng of IHH Healthcare who took home $11.9 million in FY2018, 6.7% higher than his FY2017 package. The healthcare group suffered a 35.3% drop in earnings in FY2018 from FY2017. Tan is stepping down by December this year.

Coming in fifth was Piyush Gupta of DBS Group Holdings, the most valuable listed GLC in terms of market capitalisation. Gupta saw a 15.6% hike in his compensation package to $11.9 million for 2018. DBS reported a 27.6% gain in earnings in FY2018 from the year before.

The above is from Yahoo News.

How many of you think the above is inaccurate or an elephant is missing? Masagos Zulkifli advised the public by saying this, ' Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli has taken a stand against fake news, cautioning members of the public to check whether the sources of stories are reliable and legitimate before they share news.'

If a piece of information is inaccurate or contains some misleading information, or some missing information, the writer should at least clarify by saying that the information is incomplete and does not give a full picture of the whole truth. Like the above article, we know that some important numbers are not stated and missing, but the writer is passing this off as the whole truth.Are there people earning more than those above and not reported?

Software engineers - Cheap is unlikely to be good

Software used in 737 Max crashes linked to Indian software company

Through an investigative journalism work, Bloomberg published an article today (‘Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers‘, 29 Jun) establishing that the Boeing’s 737 Max software had been outsourced to Indian software engineers working for only US$9 an hour in India, compared with US$35 to $40 for those in the U.S. on H1B visa or more for a full-time US software engineer.

Bloomberg also found that Boeing’s subcontractors and suppliers were also outsourcing software work to India, in order to keep the cost down and to maximize profits.

Longtime Boeing engineers whom Bloomberg spoke to, revealed that the problematic Max software which was plagued by issues, was developed at a time Boeing was laying off experienced engineers and pressing suppliers to cut costs. Hence, there was a push to outsource work to lower-paid contractors. This led to the reliance on temporary workers making as little as US$9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace – notably India.

Two Indian software companies were found by Bloomberg to be linked to the Max software development – HCL and Cyient (formerly known as Infotech)....

Above is posted in TOC.

Two points to make, if you want something to be cheap, don't expect quality or the quality of more expensive stuff. This does not mean that pay more gets more. We have seen and experienced in many areas when you pay more but get less or get shit.

Second point, maybe the Americans are trying to pass the buck to the Indians. So easy to put the blame on other people. Is this the case, are the Americans justified to blame the Indians?  They believe the Indians are very good in software, that is why they employed so many of them just like in Singapore. So how can they blame them. You employed them, shit or genius, you asked for it.

My personal experience has not been pleasant, everything they touched becomes unstable and unreliable. From working to half working.

Even if the Americans could prove that it was the Indian software that caused the crash, Boeing is going to pay for the bills and claims. The Americans would not trust the Chinese software engineers that developed Alibaba's supply chain and Alipay systems nor wechat or Baidu. If the users are stupid enough to pick lemons, why blame others?

In the same vein, if Singapore persistently want to bring in trash to work in this island, be prepared to live with trash and half baked systems.

White men's mischief to invade Iran

After ratcheting up tension in an otherwise peaceful Persian Gulf when shippings flow smoothly, the Americans are accusing the Iranians of raising tension and threatening to invade Iran by their superior naval task force of two aircraft carriers and an assortment of naval and air resources deployed in the region. Anyone reading the western media would have no doubt that Iran is the trouble maker as that was what the western media been saying all the time. The truth is that the world's number one gangster has raised tension to a point of war, and now pretending to be the protector of peace and the sea lanes and twisting the arms of allies to provide military support to patrol the surrounding seas, to protect shipping when there was no need to except along the African coast against small time African pirates.

Now with all the military hardware in place for an invasion of Iran, the UN as usual is as mum as an dumbfuck, pretending not to see, not to know and not do say anything about the American aggression against Iran. The British, the other half of the world number one gangster is also moving in. And the Brits are using the same rhetoric, that Iran is raising tension and threatening British shipping, so they are sending their warships to the protect their shipping.

This is what was reported in the YahooNews.

'Britain said Friday it was sending a second warship to the Gulf and raising the alert level in the oil-rich region as tensions spike after Iranian gunboats threatened a UK supertanker.

The decision was disclosed as US President Donald Trump stepped up his war of words with the Islamic republic, which breached part of a nuclear accord already rejected by Washington.

"Iran better be careful," Trump told reporters outside the White House.

"They're treading on very dangerous territory. Iran, if you're listening, you better be careful."'

They are blaming the Iranians for confronting British ship but ignoring their own hostile act of seizing and arresting an Iranian ship near Gibraltar claiming that the tanker was delivering Iranian oil to Syria. How did an Iranian ship sailing from the Persian Gulf ended in Gibraltar on the way to Syria is as comical as you can get. It means the tanker had to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in South African, into the Atlantic Ocean and turn around through the Straits of Gibraltar to get to Syria instead of going through the Suez Canal.

The western lies are getting more desperate and ridiculous. And the rest of the world just took them without muttering a word. It is fait accompli. When the world's number one gangster said so, no one would dare to question the truth. It is best to keep quiet and turn to look the other way. Better still to join the hostile gangsters to attack Iran, provide military support in the farcical coalition force to protect shipping from being attacked by the American gangsters but blaming the Iranians for it.

What the world needs to be guarded against are the British and American pirates that went around seizing shipping in the high seas. The British seizure of the Iranian tanker is the latest incident. The Americans have been seizing ships from many countries as they want, calling themselves the international policeman but in reality international pirates, international gangsters of the high seas.

When would the UN form a coalition of forces to protect shipping from the American and British pirates?

Should the privilege of the majority be tempered with by changing the ethnic composition of our population?

Below is an extract of an article posted in YahooNews by a Laavanya Kathiravelu, likely a foreign talent recruited to replace the local talents in the academia. Dunno what is the percentage of foreigners in the academia is now foreigners, must be quite substantial. Though the article started innocently about inequality and privileges in general, the punch lines came from the below few paragraphs of the YahooNews article.

The inequality and privileges are in favour of the Chinese majority and this must change. This was historical and unnatural. The thinking in between the lines is that the racial composition should be changed to provide more equality and privileges for all, if I read it correctly, the ethnic distribution of the races should be more equal, maybe 25 per cent of each race. That would solve the problems of inequality and privileges of the Chinese majority at the expense of the minorities.

And as the writer wrote, the conversation has begun and cannot be stopped until affirmative actions are taken to dismantle the Chinese majority so that there would be less inequality and privileges favouring the majority.  The Chinese majority must go in order to create a more egalitarian society.

What do you think? Should the govt start on a policy to bring in more minorities to even the ethnic composition of our population to ensure more equality and less privileges to a majority race? If the writer is a foreigner, is this not interference in the internal affair of our country? How would the article be received by the majority Chinese and the minorities here?

Would the white majority in white migrant countries like the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Canada agree to sharing their privileges by changing the composition of their population?

Here is the article....

'What became quickly obvious in the impassioned responses was that the language of privilege has a galvanising and emotive appeal. While racial discrimination or racism must also be acknowledged and legislated against, privilege is more difficult to dismantle.

The idea of privilege is powerful precisely because it also speaks about the passive. It conveys how merely through inaction, we allow for inequality and unfair discrimination to perpetuate.

It is the structural basis of such privilege, whether it is lack of meritocratic education systems, or integration policies that generate unfair consequences. Individual acts must be understood as being shaped by those structures.

In Singapore, privilege at times takes on a racialised character. This adds an uncomfortable dimension to discussions of inequality, as race cannot be altered, through education, hard work or effort.

While the existence of Chinese privilege can be dismissed as simply due to the Chinese population being the overwhelming majority ethnic group, it is not a “natural” development and is held up by structures that underpin everyday social, political and economic life....

 We should draw collective energy from this political moment to keep talking. It is only in acknowledging the shared costs to our nation that we can begin to dismantle privilege and create a more egalitarian Singapore.'

Laavanya Kathiravelu is an assistant professor at the division of sociology at the Nanyang Technological University.

Boeing- Bringing down an American icon

The flutter of a butterfly in the Pacific Ocean can turn into a major storm. This is how serious a small matter that was treated lightly can turn into a major disaster. Boeing, an American icon, the biggest money earner and pride of the USA is now facing a bleak future, maybe bankruptcy. The amount of lawsuits it is facing could end up in billions of dollars of damages to be paid to victims of two major air crashes killing more than 200 passengers and air crews. There are also claims for compensation for loss of business due to grounding of Boeing 737 Max. This is not all.

There has been a series of order cancellation for Boeing aircraft going into hundreds of aircraft sales and billions of revenue going up in smokes. The reputation and reliability of Boeing aircraft would take a long time to recover when passengers just fear and avoid to fly Boeing. The biggest winners of this fiasco is Airbus and also China Aviation. Orders that were cancelled from Boeing found their way to France and China.

The future of Boeing is very bleak. Who would ever think of Boeing, the number one commercial aircraft manufacturing could hit the end of the road overnight? Boeing is like the unsinkable USA, the number one super power and richest country on earth, but going under. The sinking of Boeing could be an ominous sign that all is not well in the USA. It could a telling sign that the USA is going the same way as Boeing despite its unassailable position for so many decades as the biggest world economy.

How did Boeing meet its fate so suddenly? It is all because of a cheap software that crashed two Boeing Max 737 Max. And Boeing’s inability to undo this software fault and to change course quickly to start on a new footing resulted in the loss of confidence in all Boeing aircraft and going forward. This is another penny wise pound foolish decision taken by Boeing, to save a few dollars to hire cheap software engineers from dunno where to write cheap software for a very important flight safety function. The rest is history. Boeing will be history.

Will the USA be history soon?

And the moral of the story is…..

Lim Tean - accountability and transparency in Temasek and GIC

The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), which invests the pension funds of Canadians, has published its annual report. It is a model of clarity as it fully accounts to every stakeholder who contributes to this fund on how the fund has performed over the last year.

...the CPPIB reported:
a) $239 Billion net income, after all CPPIB costs, for the last 10 years. The rate of return was 11.1% (net nominal);
b) As of March 31, 2019, the CPP Fund Value stood at $392 Billion;
c) The fund made a net income of $32 Billion, after all CPPIB costs, for fiscal 2019. The rate of return was 8.9% (net nominal)....

We cannot continue with our SWFs operating an opaque system where vital information, including the remuneration of management and our true national reserves, are kept away from the stakeholders, who are the CPF contributors and every tax payer in Singapore. Every Norwegian citizen knows at any given moment what the national reserves of Norway are. That is true transparency and accountability.

When Peoples Voice is in government, we will ensure that our SWFs operate with the transparency that is in line with 1st world standards!

The above is posted in TRE by Lim Tean. I would like to point out a few points raised by Lim Tean and why they are not relevant to compare to our CPF and the top talented fund managers in Temasek and GIC.

The lack of transparency is important in the CPF case because if they are to tell the world how much money we have in reserves, all the bankrupt companies would be queuing up to beg for money as in the case of the global financial crisis. And when the white men went down on their knees to beg for money, it is very hard to refuse and we would end up giving away our reserves to help them without knowing that white men can be con men and can cheat us and make us look so stupid.

Another good reason related to this is that our reserves could be many times more than the announced figures. And the profits could be many times more than what the Canadians are making, maybe 15%, but just being humble only. So don't think just because the announced profits are less than 5% they really mean it. The truth could be quite flattering.

As for transparency of management remuneration, they really cannot tell, if you believe what I said above. If they are transparent and tell you how many billions more they made above the Canadians, and demand to be paid proportionally, then what is being paid to them would not be enough. Singaporeans must say thank you for this.

Let's not quibble about this transparency thing if we know that our national reserves are huge, very huge and very safe. The only way to know that this is true is the amount of money the govt can spend, always in the billions on big projects, big and expensive war machine and big parties. If the govt does not have so much money in reserves, they would not dare to waste public money in unnecessary or non essential projects or events or parties.

Not to forget, they are giving away money freely to the seniors, the pioneer and merdeka generations. The money must come from somewhere, meaning our reserves are big and safe, only don't want to tell that's all.

Singaporeans must be very thankful for the non transparency in how much we have in the reserves, in how much we made every year and in not knowing how much the managers are being paid.

Accountability and transparency are unnecessary when a country is so well run by the most honest and honourable men and women money can buy.

Do I make sense?

The world should stop appeasing the Evil American Empire

The appalling record of the American Empire in starting wars, conducting

regime change, supporting terrorist organisations, conducting false flag

incidents to invade a country, raising tensions, committing crimes against

humanity, conducting unilateral sanctions against countries and endangering

the lives of the victimized countries, must be put to a stop. The world,

especially the UN, must take immediate action against the Evil American

Empire from destroying countries and the rest of the world with their

hostile and belligerent acts to bully and threaten other countries.

The Evil American Empire is raising military tension everywhere, provoking

other countries by the used of naked military forces like amassing a huge

war armada in the Persian gulf to threaten Iran, by amassing hostile forces

in Eastern Europe to threaten Russian, by sending warships into China’s

territorial limits cannot go on unrestrained.  And worse, by raising

tensions everywhere, they are blaming others for raising tension like

blaming Iran in the Persian Gulf and China in the South China Sea.

These acts of military terrorism are being taken for granted as the rights

of the Evil American Empire just like their right to amass unlimited

nuclear weapons as their sole right and other countries are not allowed to

as a defensive act to prevent from being attacked by the American Empire.

The Evil American Empire must be disarmed, removed its nuclear arsenal to

stop it from threatening to use deadly nuclear weapons against other

nations that did not have them or have less of these WMDs.

Economic terrorism also must be stopped. The Americans must not be allowed

to unilaterally impose economic sanctions to hurt the economies and

people’s livelihood in their victimized countries eg North Korea, Iran and

Venezuela. The American Empire are controlled by war hawks, war criminals

and holding the world at ransom. They must not be allowed to terrorise the

rest of the world like international gangsters. They are the real villains,

not their victimized countries. The mad men in Washington must be removed

for the safety of the rest of the world.

Appeasement and tolerance to this Evil Empire cannot go on. Without the

rest of the world and the UN to tell the Evil Empire to stop their

aggression and crimes against nations and humanity, the Evil Empire will

take the world for granted, like their war plans against Iran, against

North Korea, against Venezuela, against Russia, against China but accusing

others of planning to attack the Evil Empire. War criminals must be brought

to justice. The world’s Number One Rouge Nation must be given noticed, be

told that it is the world’s Number One Rouge Nation. They cannot set red

lines for the rest of the world. It is for the rest of the world to set red

lines for the world’s Number Rouge Nation not to cross. Their behavior

against the rest of the world is shameful, criminal and intolerable.

The world’s Number One Rouge Nation is The threat to world peace, not Iran,

not North Korea. The world’s Number One Terrorist Nation is the Evil

American Empire. Has not doubt about it. It is engaging in all the wars in

the world. It is the main culprit in regime change and threatening regime

change.

When would the world’s Number One Terrorist Nation stop its war against the

rest of the world, to stop terrorizing the rest of the world because its

economy its dependent on its war industry and its dominance depends on its

formidable war machine?

PS. The Americans are behaving like our gangsters in the 50s and 60s,

creating troubles in the Persian Gulf, raising tension and alleging that

Iran is going to attack the shipping in the region. So they are coming in

with their warships and wanting to form a coalition of gangsters to protect

the shipping from being attacked by the Americans.

Just hope and pray that Singapore would not be the little eager beaver to

volunteer to join the coalition and be the runner to the American

gangsters. As for the rest of the world with shipping criss crossing the

region, the Americans are going to demand protection money or they would be

attacked by the American gangsters masquerading as Iranian soldiers or

Iranian backed terrorists.

Deutsche Bank is a responsible employer...

As far as taking care of its retrenched employees is concerned, Duetsche Bank is doing what any other banks would do when retrenching their staff. They made sure that the staff would be duly compensated for their services with the bank. In this case, most of the equity department staff are employees and are covered by the Employment Act and would appropriately receive a retrenchment package before leaving the bank for good.

This is what was posted in theindependent.sg on this retrenchment exercise,

'The Deutsche bank spokeswoman assured the press that the bank would be directly in touch with employees. She added: “We understand these changes affect people’s lives profoundly and we will do whatever we can to be as responsible and sensitive as possible implementing these changes.”

Deutsche Bank’s Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing called the retrenchment exercise part of a “restart.” In a letter to employees, he wrote: “We are creating a bank that will be more profitable, leaner, more innovative and more resilient.”'

Supposing that the equity staff of Deutsche Bank were agents of the bank like remisiers, would Deutsche Bank treat them just as fairly and compassionately as the bank treats its employees? Employees or agents of banks, in a retrenchment exercise when a bank closes down a department and people's lives are profoundly affected, any decent bank, the management of any decent bank, would likely treat them with grave responsibility and sensitivity. Any bank or management would be expected to treat their employees or agents whose livelihood are gravely and negatively impacted by their restructuring or retrenchment exercise to make the bank profitable with great sensitivity and compassion. Doing otherwise would reflect badly on the conscience and reputation of the management of the bank.

Would there be banks that would treat their retrenched staff or agents badly, inhumanly, insensitively in such a dreadful time when livelihoods are at stake? What kind of people would act so harshly and dismissively to their staff, agents or partners in business? What kind of respect would one have on such people if they could treat their staff, agents and partners poorly, miserly while they continue to receive their fat and comfortable pay while the retrenched leave the bank without the assurance of a job and with very little compensation?

I think and believe Deutsche Bank would do as spoken by its spokewoman. For if they were only giving lip service and do otherwise, the retrenched staff are not going to leave with a bad feeling for the bank but may even seek redress with the authority. Some may see their MPs or Ministers or even go to see the PM to pour out their grouses. The publicity would be very bad for the bank thereafter even if there is a compromise solution  subsequently.  Any bank in such a situation should think carefully not to ill treat their employees, agents or partners and think they can get away with it by under compensating the affected staff, agents or partners.

Would there be any irresponsible bank in Singapore that would treat their staff, agents and partners unfairly in the event of a retrenchment or restructuring exercise?

Masters Athletes – Selection to represent Singapore

 In all sports, representing Singapore is a big thing, an honour that every athlete would cherish to do Singapore proud. In most instances the athletes would be chosen by a team of experts from national bodies like the Singapore Athletics Association and the various sports councils. The involvement of such national institutions reflects the importance of the sports and representing Singapore in the international arena. There are also stringent criteria and objective rules and regulations to abide by before an athlete is selected to represent Singapore.
 
In the case of Masters athletes, this task is not the responsibility of any national body at the moment but assumed by the Singapore Masters Athletes, a sports club. Some may think that this is a national body, in a sense it is as it has Singapore as part of its name. But this is unlike other national bodies and institutions that were sanctioned and supported by the govt financially and with govt appointees. In other words, Singapore Masters Athletes is a private club in every sense, I stand corrected. I can’t say that mysingaporenews is a national media because it has Singapore as a part of its name.
 
There are historical reasons for SMA to assume the role of selecting athletes to represent Singapore. For many years, masters athletes were a loose grouping of senior athletes competing casually and donning the Singapore colours in international events with only scant recognition and acknowledgement that they represented Singapore for merely being Singaporeans and carrying the Singapore flag on their attire. Did the governing sports authority officially sanctioned their representation?
 
There are obvious reasons why athletes representing Singapore are normally selected by national bodies with experts sitting in the selection committees. There are also good reasons why private sports clubs would not be delegated the responsibility to select representatives to represent their respective clubs especially when they also have club members vying to represent Singapore in competition with other club members.
 
The time has come for the Singapore Athletics Association, a governing body, to step in to select athletes to represent Singapore in international masters athletic events if masters athletes representing Singapore is to be taken seriously. The days when anything goes need to be formalized and officially sanctioned by a national sports organization to avoid conflicts of interest, to ensure fair play and to prevent inter club rivalry. Maybe the sports governing body does not think much about masters athletes representing Singapore. If that is the case, then every club should have a free hand to send their athletes to compete in international masters events and not be left to a single club to dictate the terms and rules for participation and representation. It is unhealthy for any private club to have the de facto power to dictate to other clubs.
 
The choice is between representing Singapore seriously or let it be a laissez faire activity, and participating and representing Singapore in such events be less exacting and more for sportsmanship and enjoying the sports. If representing Singapore in international sporting events is a serious matter, even in masters athletics, then it is highly desirable and necessary that a national body be in charge, be responsible in the selection of masters athletes to represent Singapore, done officially, objectively and fairly.
 
What do you think?

When Malaysia thinks business, Singapore will be in trouble

KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia will implement six short-term measures to handle the congestion at checkpoints especially at Bangunan Sultan Iskandar (BSI) Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) complex and the Sultan Abu Bakar CIQ (KSAB) complex in Johor.
Also decided was extending the use of autogate for all foreign visitors; increasing the number of Customs scanning machines, increasing the number of lorry counters at KSAB on par with Tuas; usage of hybrid counters; and the development of immigration integrated system (IIS) with automation features....

Above are a few paragraphs of a post in theindependent.sg on Malaysia's move to make moving in and out of Malaysia easier and to cut down on the jams that are affecting visitors going to Malaysia. This kind of thing was unthinkable in the past. The thinking then was don't come if foreigners think it is a big hassle to queue up at the Causeway. It was a kind of visitors/tourists and business transportation were not really wanted. Malaysia did not want them and the visitors would have to live with the inconvenience and long wait at the immigration.

The sudden change to want to free up the Causeway and to facilitate entry and exit into and out of Malaysia is a big change in the thinking in Malaysia. It is all about business and revenue from the visitors. The choke points are bad for business and detrimental to more money coming into Malaysia.

Now all the lanes are to be open, immigration staff are to work overtime if necessary. When Malaysia is thinking of money and business, Singapore is in for big trouble. Malaysia would pose a big and powerful challenge to bring in the visitors and their money. And this is just the beginning. When all the ministries and officials are thinking this way, Malaysia would pose a very serious threat to Singapore for attracting business and tourists into Malaysia.

Singapore can only hope that this is a passing craze and Malaysia would be back to its old normal self soon, tiada apa, money not important, want to come, come, don't come, never mind. Malaysia does not need the tourists nor the business nor the money.

Would Malaysia gets its acts right and pursued this for the long term, be persistent and consistent in wanting to change to bring in more growth and development and revenue for the country and not be bogged down by petty political squabbles and agenda?

China should leave Hong Kong alone

Protesters want to "reclaim" a park in Tuen Mun where so-called "dancing aunties" have sung Mandarin pop songs through loud microphones and danced for generally older men who give them cash donations....

Saturday's rally had a much more local cause, but feeds into Hong Kongers' anxieties that the city's unique freedoms and culture are being eroded by a resurgent Beijing.
 

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/hong-kong-protest-dancing-aunties-extradition-bill-china-11697514

The recent massive rioting in Hong Kong has been seen by the West as the manifestation of the virtues of western form of freedom of expression aka lawlessness. This has encouraged more to the unthinking Hongkongers to think that it is their day, it is their courage to confront authorities and to to turn themselves in ugly and destructive mobs.  Now they have attacked the China train station and in the above articles, against anything related to China.

While the West are eagerly waiting for China to bring in the PLA to quell the mob, China is patiently holding back from taking actions to stop the mob. Actually the best thing for China is to do nothing. The Hong Kong govt should go ahead and pass the Extradition Law, a criminal law that should be enacted to address crimes committed by Hongkongers. And the mob should be allowed to let lose their 'freedom of expression', their mob democracy, and run wild, and burn down Hong Kong.

The govt should deploy the police and PLA soldiers just to guard buildings and vital installations. The govt can also switch off electricity and turn off the tap. Let Hong Kong become an island of anarchy.  Let the mob rule the streets of Hong Kong. Let all normal activities, commercial activities run to a halt. See how long can the mob run their madness and Hong Kong to the ground. Literally let Hong Kong burn and destroy itself. It may take a few months, maybe a year or two. China can play the patient game, and in the name of western democracy and human rights, do nothing, no need to use force to deal with the mob unless they attack govt and vital installations. Let the Hongkongers deal with themselves, deal with the mob.

And as Deng Xiaoping said, China can pick up the pieces after Hong Kong is ruined and rebuild Hong Kong again. Let the foreigners help the mob to destroy Hong Kong the way they like it, the way they plan for it and do it their 'democratic' way.

PS. China should expand its anti espionage forces to arrest all foreigners involved in anti China activities inside China and Hong Kong.  In the interest of national security, these elements must be arrested and lock up using an equivalent of ISA, no need any explanation. Create an atmosphere of fear and terror for the foreign operators like those involved in the Hong Kong mob violence. 

Oh, all the angmohs judges in the Hong Kong supreme court must be sent packing home. A sovereign country cannot have foreigners sitting as judges in its judicial system. This colonial vestige has to go immediately. Having them sitting in Hong Kong benches is another version of 'No dogs and Chinese allowed' in modern China. This is the time to get rid of such shameful colonial leftovers in China's Hong Kong.