Handcuffs of youth and children

MPs concerned about use of handcuffs, leg braces as restraints in youth homes

Members of Parliament raised their concerns about the psychological impact of using such measures on teens and questioned whether there will be procedures to prevent the abuse of power.

The above is from the Today paper. I remember writing about this, also included in my book Redbean Soup, of a child below teenage, being handcuffed in a police station and objected to such insensitive and cruel acts against children. Reading the above being raised in Parliament gives me grave concern whether such practice on little children is still in practice and found acceptable.

Youths in homes are often difficult to control and may have committed some offences. The need to put them on cuffs and leg braces may be controversial but at times may be necessary. There must be serious contemplation in making such decisions and not be permitted freely to the point of callousness, careless tidak apa attitude or abuses on the youths and definitely not on pre teens children.

For the MPs to think this is a serious concern that merited to be raised in Parliament is a good start. For this to be an issue is a sign that things are getting out of control. It could be another case of one size fits all as is often applied to rules and regulations without the need to think, for convenience. A case of suka suka just cuffed. At least I think this is something more worthy of Parliament's time than discussing about the use of plastic bags, trying to save a few pieces of plastic to save the environment. Without plastic bags, how are the people going to store their wet waste before throwing them into the rubbish chutes?

Shanmugam’s expertise would again be called upon to write up more laws to provide clarity in the application of such laws, rules etc etc. For a start, all police personnel must be told to be sensitive on little children and must not be allowed to put cuffs on little children. This is a poor reflection of a highly educated population of a first world city when a little human decency and sensitivity towards children are expected to be the norm without having to question or to have rules to implement them.

Are we still a first world city state when we are still fumbling over such basic issues of handling our children and young delinquents, after 44 years of independence? Can you imagine what it looks like for a below 10 year old child to have cuffs on when the cuffs could easily slip off? It happened then, not sure it is still happening.

Silly girly FM

Canada nominated a key economic advisor on Wednesday as its new ambassador to China, hoping to kickstart dialogue and ease a diplomatic standoff with the world’s second largest economy....

Relations nosedived after Canada detained Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou during a stopover in Vancouver last December. The United States wants to put her on trial for allegedly violating Iran sanctions and lying about it to US banks.

Nine days after her arrest, Beijing detained two Canadians — former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor — and accused them of espionage, in a move widely viewed as retaliation....

“An expert in the region, he is exceptionally well-suited to represent Canada and advance Canadian interests at this critical time,” Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a statement.

At a news conference, she added that Barton would have a direct line to Trudeau’s office, saying he “has that level of trust with the prime minister, and also with me.”

“I think this is also an important message to China of the importance that Canada places, that the prime minister places, on this difficult and critical relationship.”
© Agence France-Presse

This silly girly FM still cannot understand what she did wrong, what the boy PM did wrong and thinks she is sending a message to Beijing that all is well. Countries that have a FM like this does not need any enemy.

She still refuses to see the elephant in the room and thinks without releasing Meng Wanzhou she could get China to sleep with her.

Anyone wants to tell her go fuck spider? Or perhaps may ask her to come to Singapore to get a first hand lesson on how not to mess around with China. Who does she think she is? Because of her stupidity and the stupidity of the boy PM, Canada's economy is tanking and many farmers are suffering, trade with China is suffering, property prices falling, tourists avoiding Canada and hundreds of billions have gone down the drain. But these two studs are grinning everyday as if nothing has happened. For their egos and pride, the welfare of the Canadians can go to hell, never mind as long as the Americans say, good boy, good girl.

What is $238m to educate foreigners?

The amount that our MOE spent on foreign students, as mentioned by OYK in Parliament, was $238 million annually. (or was it $340m or was it $680m, after reduced b 50%?). By any standard, that is alot of money especially when this comes from our precious hard-earned tax dollars and are not from some lottery windfall or inheritance wealth.

We should play our part as a responsible member of the international community by taking in and sponsoring some international students. But this PAP government must forever be mindful that Singaporeans are not suckers and the government is not a Santa Claus.

I suggest that our budget for foreign student’s scholarships and tuition grants be capped at S$100 million annually and adjusted for inflation. The leftover balance can be used comfortably to help our struggling families lighten their financial burdens and give their children a better shot at life, instead of their children starting out in life with educational debts to pay.

My daughter is an undergraduate at NTU, and I know the sad reality in Singapore is that many working class families got themselves into big debts even as OYK so eloquently put it that “all Singaporean students who meet the standards have been admitted” and that “no Singaporean is ever displaced from institute of higher learning because of an international student” etc....

Posted by Simon Lim in TRE 

All I can say is to ape some of the super rich here by uttering, What is $238m? Or shall I say it is peanuts. Remember the $200m overspent on the Youth Olympics and the hundreds of million spent annually on the F1? After all spending OPM does not hurt one's own pocket. Spend lah, what is the problem? 

Today Hsien Loong said they are thinking of reducing fees for part time students to reduce education cost for working adults. What mercy! How long have working adults and our students been suffering for paying high fees while foreigners' children were and are still having a whale of a time with our free money to enjoy our world class education without a sweat?

Maybe we need to have GE every year and more such goodies would be made available to benefit out tax paying citizens.

India – the next terrorist country

For the last few decades, the USA has been the number one terrorist country in the world unchallenged. It has been bullying and terrorizing countries all over the world, allies and foes, doing whatever it likes with impunity. It commited murders, assassinations, regime change, sanctions, bankrupting govts by economic sanctions and war crimes by killing the innocents in the tune of millions all over the world. The sickness of all these wanton killings and destructions is that the whole world have to pretend that the Americans are the most peace loving country, the protector of peace and human rights. But all the countries know very well that the Americans are the number one terrorists in the world today. I stand corrected on this as some silly Asian countries really believe the Americans are godsend angels to save and protect the world.
 
Today we are also witnessing the emergence of another terrorist country, the next number one terrorist country in the making and would be the worse the world would see in the future, outdoing everything the Americans have done if left to its own device.
 
India is a struggling third world power with big power ambition, wanting to be the next super power, to take over the reign from the Americans. But this is still a far and distant dream. However, though basically a third world and dysfunctional country, it does not behave as one but a regional hegemon, believing that it can do as it wants like the Americans.
 
Its immediate neighbours have been suffering from the oppression of Indian hegemony. Pakistan has been regularly on the receiving ends of Indian hostility and war. Sri Lanka was not spared either. Even China came under attack by the Indians in the 1962 border war, and recently in the border with Bhutan, when the Indians arrogantly and brashly thought they could seized Chinese territories that were stolen from China by the British. They are claiming everything the British raj handed over to them, lands belonging to China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and its other neighbours.
 
Bhutan, Nepal and Sikkim have become Indian protectorates and controlled by the Indian govt in New Delhi and restrained from becoming independent countries, economies suffocated by India and condemned to underdevelopment, foreign relations controlled and determined by India, their people de facto subjects of the Indian Empire.
 
The ruthlessness of the Indians to use force against its neighbours unilaterally could be seen by the recent attempt to take over disputed Kashmir from Pakistan and China. This was with total disregard to a region that is mainly populated by Muslims. The separation of India and Pakistan was mainly because of this religious divide, the inability to coexist as one people because of different religions. But India does not care and wants to annex Kashmir into a Hindu population that is hostile to Muslims.
 
And on the eastern front in Assam, with the state already under Indian control but with a huge Muslim population, India arbitrary decided to disown the Muslim population, all 2m of them and rendering them stateless. India officially announced that it would not be a recipient country for refugees, and would not want the Muslims in Assam. Where would they end up with is not India’s problem.
 
This uprooting of 2m people who have settled down in Assam, some historically have been there, or moved from India to East Pakistan during the division and declaration of independent India and Pakistan from the British Empire, is a harsh and cruel decision on the fate of the Muslims in Assam. India just wants the land, not the people. The saddest thing is that even Muslim Bangladesh did not want them, like they did not want the Rohingyas.
 
The Muslims in Assam would become stateless, boat people, refugees that would flow over to neighbouring Myanmar and Asean. And these neighbouring countries would end up being hosts and recipients of the refugees, not wanted by India and Bangladesh and would come under attack by the West for not taking them in.
 
Singapore may be the only country that would benefit and welcome them with open arms as increase in population is an easy way to increase economic growth, regardless of the adverse long term implications to its citizens. Just paste a talent tag on their foreheads and Singaporeans would be clueless of what is going on.
The same fate would fall on the Muslim people in Kashmir if India succeeds in annexing it into the Indian Empire. They would likely become stateless like the Muslims in Assam and become the new refugees to flood the neighbouring countries.
 
This is the India of the future. While still basically a third world slum country, it is displaying how ruthless and brutal it can be should it become more powerful militarily to exercise its military might over its weaker neighbours. India is the next terrorist country in the making in the likes of the Americans.

Education for our children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPKIs0ryYz0

Hsien Loong in his National Day Rally talked about the importance of educating our own children and also about the slew of measures and subsidies to reduce the cost of education for our children. These were well received and were cheered by his audience at the rally. 

On the other hand many who knew how much had been spent on the education of foreign children here would at best said better late than never. The financial burden of providing a good education for our children for the past decades was fully on the shoulders of parents with some pawning or selling their homes or emptying their savings just to do so. And while making these financially very painful decisions, they were seething with anger at the free millions and billions being thrown at children of foreigners that have not contributed a single cent to our economy and country, people that have nothing to do with us.

The parents of children that are in schools and tertiary education could now breath a sigh of relief somewhat at the recent announcements of additional subsidies for our children. No matter what, every dollar saved is a dollar saved and in terms of education fees, this can come to hundreds and thousands of dollars.

I have posted a link above to a video clip of Lim Tean's views on what the new education subsidies are all about and a different take on this issue. It gives a completely new and contrasting perspective of things from another angle.

It is only 10 minutes. Happy viewing.

Hong Kong- Free enterprise

The 3 months of street demonstration and warfare have show how enterprising the Hongkongers were and how free is the economy of Hong Kong. While the western news media were churning up all the news about an oppressive police force, the threats to their political freedom and human rights, the reality is that the Hongkongers have never have life so good to them in their entire history. Under the British colonial masters, they did not have political freedom or human rights. They did not suffer much oppression then, saved from such brutal colonial oppression simply because they were too docile, accepted the rule of their colonial masters without protesting or rioting. They accepted the cramp and expensive housing that they are protesting today, the corruption of the colonial masters and the lack of political freedom and human rights then.

Today, the Hongkongers have many more times the political freedom and human rights under the Hong Kong govt. If they were to protest against the British colonial masters like they did today, they would have been machine gunned down like the British did to the Indians in India.

The grievances against poor housing were not the doing of the present govt, but the legacy of the colonial rule. This can be easily resolved by a massive resettlement programme with new cities in the neighbouring provinces. With the improvement in high speed trains they could be in Hong Kong in less than half an hour, free from the jams in crowded Hong Kong and living in spacious and reasonably priced housing. Their quality of life could take a quantum leap for the better, and they could have all the economic freedom and the new political freedom and human rights under a China that is racing ahead in economic growth and prosperity. They could travel the world freely like the Chinese and enjoy the growth and prosperity of a new China. But they chose to protest, to riot, to get themselves criminalised, harmed and maybe killed or deported eventually, when the good life is theirs to make.

I have digressed from the topic of free enterprise in Hong Kong today. Look at the following pictures of the police riot wear and those of the rioters. Both are equipped to the best they could get, money could buy, in free enterprise Hong Kong.

Hong Kong riot police wear. Pic from CNA

Rioters' riot wear.  Pic from SCMP

Another rioter very well equipped and protector from tear gas and other material thrown at them by the police. Pic from SCMP

From the above pics, the rioters are just as well equipped and protected as the riot police. I can't call them protestors anymore. They have turned into rioting and bordering on being terrorists. They could buy all their protective gears easily from the streets of Hong Kong. There is apparently no control on these items. Even the dangerous laser lights could be purchased freely to be used against the police.

Where else would a govt allow such equipment to be sold on the streets like toys, easily available to the rioters, to be used against the police? Oops, someone told me another story. The rioters could get their gears easily because some parties are supplying them and the police or some quarters of the govt are closing an eye to this business.

What is real? Is the Hong Kong govt so stupid to allow these gears and dangerous equipment to be made available so easily, in abundance to the rioters? Is this free enterprise in Hong Kong or a conspiracy involving some parties in the govt, and the whole thing is a big wayang?

The best thing for China to do is to declare an emergency and remove all the colonialists in the govt. The Hongkongers are Chinese and should not be ruled by foreigners that filled the bench in the Supreme Court to rule against the interest of Chinese people, Hong Kong and China. This is the time for China to clean up Hong Kong from colonial rule. Hong Kong is not ruled by Hongkongers but by foreigners, with high court judges that are not Hong Kong citizens, not Chinese citizens, some holding dual nationality, some simply foreign citizens. This shameful existence of foreigners in the Supreme Court has to be cleansed immediately. Hong Kong is China and not a part of the British Empire.

What defines a Singaporean? Principles or Pragmatism

Funding target met for appeal to Appellate Court

Ms Ten Leu Jiun Jeanne-Marie has on Monday (26th Aug) informed TR Emeritus (TRE) that she has managed to secure enough funding to bring her case before the Appellate Court.
On 10th August, Ms Ten had made an appeal for funding on her blog and TRE for a sum of SG$20,000 being costs for an appeal she intends to file with the Appellate Court. [ LINK ]
Ms Ten has been involved in a lengthy 12-year legal battle with the National University of Singapore (NUS) over a Master’s Degree which she has earned but has been withheld by the university. [ LINK ]
Of the $20,000 required, an interest-free loan of $6000 was offered by a student with the balance met by proceeds from the online crowd-funding and her own savings.
Representing herself, Ms Ten filed the Notice of Appeal at the very last minute on Monday (26th Aug).
Ms Ten would like to express her appreciation to all those who have contributed and/or offered encouragement.
The Team@TRE wishes Ms Ten all the best.

The above article is posted in the TRE. Ten Leu Jiun is fighting NUS for her masters degree which she claimed was due to her but NUS refused to confer to her because she was a whistle blower on the misconduct of her professor. It has been a long 12 years battle and she is going to court again after raising enough money to fight for what she thinks is right and hers. You can't find justice in Singapore if you can't pay for it like this case. I have contributed my small part to her legal fund.

Some have dejectedly told her to give up as it is too costly both in time and money, like most Singaporeans would do, being practical or being hapless. Some have told her to fight on on the grounds of principle and ideals. It is tough fighting the establishment and hope she gets her justice she deserves. Big question, principles and values more important or being practical more important? This question defines what a typical Singaporean is like.

Below are a few comments on her case in TRE.

Rabble-rouser:

August 27, 2019 at 9:10 am  (Quote)

Nothing to say except good luck! I hope that you find what you’ve been pursuing all this time worthwhile!
A 12 year legal battle takes a lot out of your productive lifetime. And a lot of money went to feed the lawyers & the court system in the process.
The legal mechanism is an unproductive industry where everyone loses except for the ones holding the court proceedings & their legal players. The only other such industry I know are the casinos.
Would wish you all the best but my gut feeling is that there will be more to come after you take on a system which is not only authoritarian but also unaccountable to public opinion. There can be only one outcome!
Court of Appeal judgement cost are even more prohibitive! If the appeals judges awards 100% cost to the defendants ie. NUS. Methinks that $20k deposit wouldn’t be enough to settle the final sum on the appeal on top of the earlier court judgement amount mentioned which is yet to be settled.

patriot of TUMASIK:

August 27, 2019 at 11:12 am  (Quote)

You deserve to WIN…(12 years is a long time and your patience is God-Given)… even if the odds look bad with the current system in place…May the Hand of God & Fair Justice be upon whoever that sits on that Panel and may he/she have the CONSCIENCE of Mind and NOT the CONviction of man to come to a JUSTIFIED decision

Self Check Self:

August 28, 2019 at 4:57 am  (Quote)

Bernard:
My own experience shows there are Principled and Morally upright Judges.
Hope you get appeal Judges with these values.
Importantly, provide facts with evidences.
These facts can’t be twisted.
Only hope that the appeal Judges don’t say “it’s not the mandate of this Appeal Court” for what ever reason.
Stay strong, be focus, be and have patience, never loose your cool, be graceful and nice to all including the Appeal Judges.
You can’t go wrong.
May God Almighty guide, enlighten, bless and Justice will prevail
Merdeka

This is the belief that led to the mess she is now.
Your experience is not worth a dime and costly outside the familee.
Wake up.

Brown face, who to decide what is sensitive and what is not?

The brown face ad again became the topic of discussion of Shanmugam and some academics and undergrads at NUS. According to Shanmugam, we should be discussing about race and sensitivity, ‘how do the minorities feel, and how do the majorities feel. Have this openness in the conversation.’

Perhaps this is the first time someone asked about how the majority feels. It has all the time been how the minorities feel. As the majority, how do they feel when some minorities, bigots, scold you as racists with four letter words? Only in Singapore can the minorities get away with such coarse verbiage hurled at the majority freely and with increasing frequency and thinking that it is ok, and the timid majority will not hit back but accept being cursed and attacked meekly. Try that in Malaysia or Indonesia and see if their majority would be as meek as the so called ‘racist’ Chinese here.

If the Chinese are racists as the two bigots claimed, there would not be so many mixed marriages involving Chinese to other races, to a lot of Indians. If the Chinese are racists there would not be so many ministers and CEOs that are Indian, based on meritocracy. If the Chinese are racists, the President of NTU, the seed of Chinese language and culture, would not be given to an Indian. If the Chinese are racists, Chee Soon Juan would have won in Bukit Gombak hands down, not to an Indian by the name of Murali. Or maybe the Chinese are simply stupid, did not know what is going on, did not bother.

What more is needed to dispel the views of the bigots that Chinese are racists? If the Chinese are racists, the silly Chinese that appeared in the bigots’ video clip would not be so silly to be there, chirping along as if he is not Chinese and enjoying being cursed and fucked at.

In this whole episode, no one bothers to ask the view of the Chinese majority as if they are non existent. What is important in such claims of racism and discrimination is who should be deciding when it has crossed the line. Obviously it must not be left to the bigots and minority racists to decide. In the brown face ad case, it was the two bigots that set the agenda, that decided that it was racist, wrong, insensitive. And the unthinking stupids went along and demanded everyone to apologise. Not true?

Hey, what is wrong man? The Council in charge of advertising in Singapore and the AGC said there was nothing wrong with it, nothing criminal! So what the fuck is this brown face ad being repeatedly used as something wrong and insensitive to the minority, that this is the new OB line? Which minority? Can a black face decide for the brown face and call foul? Maybe can because we are still puzzled if the President is a Malay or an Indian. 

If minority bigots are to decide what is right or wrong, acceptable or not, sensitive or not, then the swine woman that tore apart an innocent young boy for mentioning beef curry without knowing what’s wrong should be seen as right and Singapore and all Singaporeans should henceforth ban the saying of anything about eating beef, eating steak etc etc. In the same vein, no one should be talking about eating bak kut teh or roast pork, suckling pig or steakhouse because a few bigots claimed these to be sensitive to them.

There is the law, there is the govt. Should not the govt set the agenda, have laws to draw the line between what is sensitive and what is not? And there is the courts of law to be the arbiter. The last thing to happen on such a sensitive subject is for the bigots in the minorities to set the standard and norm. In fact the bigots should be locked up and shut up. Singapore must not be ruled by the tyranny of the minorities. The majorities have rights to live their way of life and are also sensitive too. Do have some respect for the sensitivity of the majority while peddling your minority views and sensitivity.

I am semi vegetarian. Should I imposed my sensitivity to those around me not to eat meat when I am around? While we respect each other’s sensitivity, we must not use this as an excuse to impose our will on others. We have different lifestyles and love different things, eat different things and do different things, like and dislike different things. If everyone is allowed to claim sensitivity and play victims, there is no way for a multi culture, ethnic and religious society to coexist peacefully.

The govt and the law must rule above others and put the bigots in their place. Do not allow the bigots to set the agenda, to rule over the rest by crying victims, feeling hurt and the rest must appease to them.

What is the problem? The problem is when the govt lost its way and bowed to the pressure of a few bigots. I say again, the AGC and the Council for Advertising Standards said there is nothing wrong with the brown face ad, nothing criminal, no intention to offend. So buck off and stop using this brown face ad to whip the innocents for the sake of the bigots.

The bigots are damn happy after a punishment that was anything but a punishment and thinking that they have done right, achieved in making their points, as bigots to impose their absurd sensitivity on the majority. And the govt is playing into their hands by agreeing with them.

Maybe Shanmugam may want to follow up with the discussion on the privileges of the Chinese majority and wanted to change this, or about an article in theindependent.sg titled ‘101 ways to erase Chinese privilege’ in Singapore.

Wildlife in Phuket

The husband of a Singaporean was strangled to death by a wildlife in Phuket. Amitpal Singh Bajaj, a Briton, was holidaying in Phuket with his Singaporean wife and a 20 month old son. The cause of this tragedy was a din caused by the wildlife in the early morning hours, screaming and shouting out his hotel room balcony. The Norwegian is a martial arts expert, a Roger Bullman.
 
Amitpal Singh and family were in the next room, wife and child disturbed, went to the balcony to tell the wildlife to stop the noise. Wildlife kicked down the adjoining door, barged in and attacked Singh and strangled him to death. Wildlife claimed he did not know it would kill Singh. Must believe him because he is white.
 
This wildlife has been arrested and facing 15 years of jail for manslaughter and granted a bail equivalent to S$18,400. Is this the price of a Briton to take? Cheap, cheap, cheap. Maybe killing a white wildlife will cost more.
 
For those who are very caring and protective of wildlife and got irritated by this term, my definition for wildlife is anything that behaves like wild animals, including those that may earn more than $500k and wearing business suits and driving fast cars and living in high end condos.
 
One innocent life gone over something so trivial. Only wildlife can kill so freely, by animal instinct.

Benjamin Lim - A pathetic case of unnecessary and premature death

'In 2016, 14-year-old Benjamin Lim fell to his death from his Yishun flat, hours after returning home from Ang Mo Kio police division for an alleged molestation incident involving an 11-year-old girl in a lift.

The North View Secondary School student was brought to the police station by police officers for his statement to be taken and released to his mother after being questioned by the police for three and a half hours, without the presence of a lawyer or accompanied by any adult.

As expected, the case sparked a debate on police processes and speculation over the circumstances leading up to his death. In fact, many instances of what happened before his death also emerged, causing the Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam to take the rather unusual step of delivering a ministerial statement on the issue in Parliament in March 2016.

In August that year, State Coroner Marvin Bay ruled that the teenager’s death was a deliberate act of suicide that could have occurred probably from issues with managing his anger and emotions, as well as stress of being under criminal investigations....'

The above is from M Ravi's post in the TRE on the need to protect a child during police interrogation by the presence of an adult so that a child would not self incriminate itself. What is so tragic about this case was what Benjamin was put through alone, a 14 year old being interrogated in the police station by police officers. How frightening was the experience to a young boy without his parents or teachers to lean on for support.

Let hope no young person in Singapore would ever have to go through the same ordeal as Benjamin Lim. Some might have the wrong impression that Benjamin was having a party with his friends in the police station instead. His sad and miserable ending told you otherwise. This is a case of feeling sorry for Benjamin and his family is not good enough.

Anyone feeling guilty about Benjamin's death? Any sense of guilt, prick by conscience? Or everyone thought they had been very kind and caring to Benjamin?

New laws to prevent religious strife

To claim that religion is for peace is looking more and more silly by the day. Many wars and strife around the world are caused by religion, religious beliefs, religious intolerance often claimed as misinterpretation of the religious doctrines and text. In short, religion is spelt trouble. To some religions, peace means the annihilation of other religions with only one religion left.
 
The sensitivity and highly prone to war and destruction of religion must be tackled carefully and forcefully. Singapore is a secular state and religion must always be kept at a level not to upset social and national security and stability. Singapore cannot be ruled by religion. How to when there are so many religions in this little island and each has its core values and doctrines that are in conflict with other religions and if not restrained, could lead to open hostility?
 
The Govt is going to act, to nip in the bud, threats to religious harmony under a religious harmony law. This fake and unnatural state of affair called religious harmony can only exist in Singapore if the govt is strong and not be influenced by any particular religion or be hijacked by religious extremists. Religious harmony is so artificial when one is to really look at what religion is all about vis a vis other religions. Religious intolerance and exclusivity to other religions is the core of trouble in this world. Let’s not deceive ourselves to think otherwise. Without a strong govt to keep the lid tightly over religion, conflict could flare up at any moment anywhere. There would be some cuckoo religious leaders that would come along to whip up religious intolerance and could claim correctness by quoting their religious books.
 
Having this understanding of how sensitive religion is, it is fair and necessary to stop people from being too free and generous in their comments and views about religion. This comment from Hsien Loong is fair. ‘But we do not allow unfettered and rambunctious discussion on religion, or even worse provocative or blasphemous cartoons, performances and videos, nor are we likely to do so for a very long time to come…We have no illusions about the depth of the religious fault lines in our society, and the harm that will befall us if we neglect to manage them, he said,….’ This point is particularly important in this blog especially to Matilah. When the law comes into effect, I would have no choice but to delete his strong views that he thought are funny about religions. Not many are mature enough to tahan his caricatures of religions and religious icons.
 
But while respecting and being aware of religious sensitivity are important, the govt must not allow religious sensitivity as an excuse to set the agenda and norms of civility and correctness in society. Religion and claims of religious sensitivity must not be allowed to determine what is right or acceptable like ethnic sensitivity. This reminds me of the swine woman that threatened and bullied a young innocent boy for saying ‘beef curry’ and attacked him and threatened the boy that he could be killed in some silly country. I am still waiting to see if the govt would take this silly woman to task for spreading fear in Singapore with her extremist and bigot views of what is or is not acceptable and permissible in Singapore. The best part is that she could not see her folly and bragged about it in facebook to tell the world that she did the right thing to attack the innocent young boy. Poor boy must be terrified by his encounter with this swine woman.
 
To guard against religious extremism and religion to set the agenda and way of life for everyone, this is what Hsien Loong said, ‘We must also have religious and govt leaders who are broad minded and enlightened, who understand the context in which we operate, and who set an example for others to spread the message of tolerance and understanding.’ This is a tough call and demanded the religious leaders to fake their stand and often have to say or do things contrary to their religious beliefs and doctrines. Tough, but they have to oblige in the name of religious harmony.
 
Religion and religious differences are things that are best be left alone, not spoken. Their truths may not be your truths. What an irony when truths are questionable and often seen as untruths by the non believers. How can one truth be so wrong and another truth be so right? Is not truth be truth?
 
Lets pretend that there is religious harmony and keep it that way. As long as the lid is kept in place, we can live with this religious harmony and it is good for everyone, especially the non religious, not to be bullied and threatened by religious bigots and extremists and be allowed to live their own lives of their own choosing.

Hongkongers consuming too much opium and drugged

When the British and foreigners flooded China with opium in the 19th Century, a civilization of people went berserk, their minds went bland under the influence of the drug. From the emperors and mandarins to the farmers and coolies, all were drugged and stone. They could no longer think straight and any policy or action against the use of the drug would be opposed and undermined by the courts. They just want their drugs and nothing else. No personal dignity or pride as a people, as a civilization.
 
The situation in Hong Kong today is quite similar. This time the drug was fed to the unthinking and impressionable young and they spread the drug to their parents and grandparents. So deeply drugged, they could no longer think and die die would want their way. Many were in a trance, attacking the police as if they were enemies. And they expect the police not to hit back, the police cannot hit back because they are the police.
 
Can anyone imagine the silly old Hongkongers believing that they are fighting for one country two systems and not the destruction of Hong Kong and their way of life? They are having one country two systems at the moment and they are fighting to destroy it. Irrespective of whatever, the one country two systems will end in another 28 years. China will take back Hong Kong completely. The one country two systems is only good as a temporary measure and the 50 year break is to allow Hong Kong to gradually become one with China, not another state, not an independent Hong Kong. The Hongkongers must have no delusion that Hong Kong could still continue to be under one country two systems after the 50 years expired.
 
Hong Kong is a teeny weeny bit of China but an embarrassment that China would not allow to happen again. If Hong Kong is to be destroyed, if half of the Hongkongers were to perish for Hong Kong to become China, so be it. The concession of one country two systems were the last unequal treaty China had to sign as it was still not strong enough then to take Hong Kong back fully or risk a war with the West. Hongkongers must not deceive themselves or be deceived by others that they are so important to China and China would give away Hong Kong again.
 
In today’s context, China could even sail its navy to take England if it wanted to. China today is strong enough to take on the Americans and all its cronies combined, to protect its national interests and territorial integrity. There would be no concession or compromise when these are concerned. The drugged Hongkongers in their delusion may think that it is possible to have an independent Hong Kong to harm China.
 
Xi Jinping would say, over my dead body. The 1.4b Chinese would say, over our dead bodies. Wake up Hongkongers, give up whatever you are smoking and clear your thoughts. Hong Kong is an inalienable part of China and would be so forever. Still thinking the West would fight and die for a few silly Hongkongers?
 
China would now have all the reasons to remove the failing one country two systems and integrate Hong Kong fully as part of China. And all the vestiges of Britain, all the angmoh high court judges, civil servants and police officers would be sent back to England for good. And all the yellow skin British subjects would be allowed to migrate to their motherland in England, never to return.
 
The fate of Hong Kong’s future has changed. China is going all out to promote Shenzhen as the new commercial centre to replace Hong Kong. All Chinese capital and commerce would vacate Hong Kong and move into Shenzhen. All foreign companies would be advised to close down and move out of Hong Kong. Military law would be imposed in Hong Kong and the island locked down. In three months, Hong Kong would be a ghost town. All the generosities from China would be withdrawn and Hong Kong would be struggling to revive an economy that was not there without China.
 
Hongkongers smart? Hongkongers know what they want and they will get an independent Hong Kong? Not only that this wound not materialize, the prosperous Hong Kong would be a thing of the past. Hong Kong would be dismantled and rebuild from scratch. They have no chips to play, no bargaining power.
 
Well done, protesters and free Hong Kong movement. You have done it, by delivering Hong Kong to China 28 years prematurely and there would be no democratic Hong Kong that they built in their dreams under the hallucination of drugs. Would the Americans or British die for them in a war with China?
Singaporeans have a new member in its stupidity has no cure club.
 
PS. The clashes in the streets of Hong Kong had turned the streets into a war zone. The western media are still chirping that the protests were peaceful, not violent. Watch the video clips and see how the mobs attacked and beat up policemen and hurling bricks, petrol bombs and whatever they had at the police force. Peaceful, this is warfare.
 
The lack of casualties, injuries and bloodshed and death among the mobsters is a tribute to the great restraint exercised by the police force. In many countries, the violent mobs would have been shot and there would be bodies on the streets. The mobsters were so drugged and stoned that they did not know what the hell they were doing, fighting for an independent Hong Kong?
 
I am in praise of the Hong Kong Police Force, the men and women that faced the mobs and got beaten while restraining themselves from using more force than necessary to whip the daylight out of the mobsters.

Periscopic Insights: Rape of the World By United States

Rape of the world by the Evil Empire.

The United States rape almost every country in this world in many combination of evil ways viz politically, militarily, economically, financially, tariffs, sanctions, blockades and colour revolutions as well as killings, murders, assassinations and genocide.

For the start, the article below will focus briefly on the Rape of China by USA and its Western allies.

China was first raped by USA during the Opium Wars from 1830s to 1860s. It joined the Gun Boat policy of England and France to attack China and forced the illicit opium trade on China. Many of USA past politicians and presidents, examples of which like Warren Delano Roosevelt, grandfather of  Franklin Roosevelt, USA Second World War president and grandfather of G.H.Bush Sr , were largely involved in the opium trade . The money derived from the opium trade largely contributed to the building of American infrastructures like roads and railways, factories, ports and cities. New York, Boston, Phidadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco together with all their splendid buildings and factories were definitely built with opium money. However, on the dark side the illicit opium trade impoverished China tremendously and almost nearly destroy the Chinese soul and nation.

USA joined eight European countries inclusive of England, France, Russia, Germany, Spain, Holland Italy and Japan to rape China again in 1900 when the joint forces of these countries marched into Beijing and Tianjin and other cities in Shantung and where Beijing and its famous national Summer Palace ( Yu He Yuan ) was completely destroyed and thoroughly looted .  Tens of thousands of these priceless antiques and artefacts were looted by the Americans and the allied forces. It is a shame that these stolen priceless Chinese cultural antiques and artefacts are being sold every year for hundreds of millions of dollars in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Tokyo, and perhaps in Holland, Germany and Italy for the benefits of the looting and thieving countries. China should demand the return of all these Chinese antiques and artefacts .

The rape of China by the United States and its Western allies continued right up to 1930s and early 1940s and has not ended as the Evil Empire continues to interfere in China's internal affairs viz Taiwan and the Chinese sovereign territories in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Only  entangling with China now, may prove to be the nemesis for United States as today's China is rich and powerful and nuclear armed.

Southernglory1

26th August, 2019

US China Trade War entering new phase - the best outcome

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Friday that he had "hereby ordered" American companies with operations in China "to immediately start looking for" an alternative after Beijing announced a series of retaliatory tariffs....

The U.S. has said it plans to impose 10% tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods in two steps, on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15. China responded Friday with new tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation, deepening a conflict over trade and technology that threatens to tip a weakening global economy into recession.

China also will increase import duties on U.S.-made autos and auto parts, the Finance Ministry announced. Tariffs of 10% and 5% will take effect on two batches of goods on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15, the ministry said in a statement. It gave no details of what goods would be affected but the timing matches Trump's planned duty hikes....Yahoo News

The US China Trade War has a lot of similarities to the Korean War, aka the Anti American Imperialism War to the Chinese. In that war, the US under the command of Gen MacArthur, a personality not much different from Trump, entered the war with the full might of the American military power. The overwhelming imbalance in the forces of the two adversaries was stark and the North Koreans could only retreat. MacArthur marched towards the Yalu River in triump, beaming like an invincible war hero. Then China entered the theatre and struck back. The rest is history.

Trump started this war with China with guns blazing, shooting everything sight. For the initial phase of this war he appeared to be winning and China was being pushed back like the North Koreans. The war has reached a similar stage as the American forces at the Yalu River. China is digging and and fighting back. China is going to take the initiative and turn the table.

Are the Americans going to win or flee? Trump has ordered a withdrawal of all American companies in China, back to America just like MacArthur did when he was swarm by the Chinese Volunteer Armies. How would this turn out? Can American companies afford to retreat to the homeland, across the Pacific Ocean? What would happen to Ford and GM when they lose the biggest car market in the world and returned to a saturated home market that have grown sick of them and facing the onslaught of Japanese, Korean and European cars? Ford and GM's lives were extended and saved because of the move to China. Without the Chinese market these two American dinosaurs would have their lives ended in double quick time. So would many other American companies with operations in China, the electronics, computers and mobile phone and other high tech companies.

The outcome, Trump would raise its tariffs wall higher and banned all Japanese, Korean and European imports and the world would hit a recession that Trump has been working on for so long. Go ahead Trump, don't stop at 15%, go the max, 30% and what happens?

If the American economy is doing so well, Trump would not be so desperate to want to cut interest rate even to zero. Trump is so desperate that he even blamed Fed Chairman Jerome Powell as the enemy of the US, worse than Xi. Despite all his fake tweets of how well the American economy is doing, the truth is the opposite. More than 938 American farmers have gone bankrupt and more coming, and more farmers committing suicide because of Trump's reckless and unthinking policies promoted by the war hawks.

Trump will fail very badly. But the war hawks and their war industries would get a boost when the world goes into turmoil, rising tension and more wars. Well done Trump, this is the best outcome you can achieve in your presidency.

Thank you very much and bye bye the American Empire. Remember the Korean War?

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the richest of them all?

This table was posted in the TRE by Kenneth Jeyaratnam when he picked up Ho Ching for defending Hsien Loong's salary that for what Hsien Loong has done for Singapore, growing the population and GDP, his salary is justifiable. And there is Piyush Gupta's $11.9m salary to support the case that Hsien Loong is not overly over paid though relative to other world leaders it appeared so.

My posting of this article is not to discuss about Hsien Loong or Ho Ching's salaries. What is interesting and mysterious about the above table is the true wealth of each of the heads of govt. Who do you think is the richest of them all? I think this is indeed a very difficult question to answer.

Of the cuff Trump looks to be the richest with his billions earned from business, not from being head of govt/state. Xi Jinping looks very poor given his $29k and the leader of the most populous country of nearly 1.4b people. And of course Mahathir is a poor as a church mouse despite his billionaire sons whose fortune dunno came from where. Exceptional talents indeed.

In my view, Carrie Lam and Boris Johnson are the two genuinely poorer leaders of the lot.

What say you?

Periscopic Insights : ( 1 )USA stole Hawaii and Half of Mexico territories

It is good timing for Redbean  in his article in My Singapore News today  'The USA the  Thief Shouting Thief', to warn "The silly governments and media of the world must start thinking and not to repeat the American white lies and be part of this Evil Empire , destabiling the world and starting wars everywhere."

The cocoon politicians of the silly governments of the non-white third world and their mass media reporters and journalists may either be really ignorant of the endless strings of evils committed by USA and the West against non-white countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas or may be out of their selfish self-interest they choose to ignore the truth and ingratiated with the Evil Empire and the West out of false thinking that US and Western Might is Right.

May be to keep the third world countries well informed of the intrinsic evil of USA and the West , My Singapore News and Global Times may have to publish the evil militant political cum religious and military doctrines and philosophy of the United States and the West from time to time. Southernglory1 will for such purpose may periodically publish brief information under the heading, "Periscopic Insights" about the Evil Empire and its western allies . In fact we can gauge some insights about the Evil Empire from websites like Global Times, Press TV, Russia Insider, New Eastern Outlook, Counterpunch.org and Strategic Culture Foundation.

Periscopic Insights : 1  500 Years Curse of Western Domination.

Base on its satanic political cum religious militant doctrine , "The Doctrine of Christian Discovery", white men from Europe justified its merciless and brutal conquests of the Americas, both North America, South America and Central America as well as Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Africa. This has been going on for the last 500 years and it hasn't stopped and is continuing in the present time as seen in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan of the Middle East and in Venezuela, Cuba, Necaragua, Honduras, Guatemala , Bolivia and Costa Rica of Latin America.

In their killing paths of conquests white men have no qualms in their killings, murders, assassinations and genocide of natives in the lands they conquered since killings, genocide and aggression is in their blood and genes.

The United States, 'How It is Formed'

The United States is an illegal and illegitimate country contrived out of the bloody conquests and genocide of wholesale population of native Americans as well as robbing of half of former Mexican territories which now comprise the states of Florida, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and California.

The United States has illegally occupied half of Mexico's lands and is now unashamely telling Mexico to pay for a racist wall to uphold and legitimise its illegal holdings and to show white surpemacists 'might is right'. USA is an outrageous hypocrite in trying to portray itself as a defender of other countries' rights.

Hawaii

Moreover how did the United States got Hawaii, if anyone cares to know. USA just, US  invaded Hawaii in 1905 and after dethroning the queen of Hawaii and killing over 300,000 Hawaiian resistant patriotic fighters, US just grabbed Hawaii.

The United States has now flooded Hawaii with hundreds of thousands of white settlers who now occupy the most fertile and productive lands of Hawaii and the best and most scenic parts of the cluster of islands. Nevertheless the native Hawaiians have never lost hope and have not given up their fight to drive away imperial United States to achieve their independence. To the lofty glorious and patriotic intent of the native Hawaiians, all countries of the world and the United Nations must play a vital role to help the native Hawaiians achieve their goal of gaining ultimate independence from the Evil Empire.

Whenever the United States talk of democracy and human rights its intent is just to delude the world for it is using the terms as a smokescreen and an ulterior motive to enslave other countries under its rigid hegemonic control. When the United States talk of bringing democracy and human rights to your country it is more certain to bring death and sufferings to your country. This can be seen and witnessed now in Arab countries of Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen in the Middle East and in Venezuela, Bolivia, Necaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemals and Panama in Latin America.


Southernglory1

Saturday, 24th August, 2019