Margaret Thatcher, to love or to hate her?

To many outside England, Margaret Thatcher was just another well known politician, ex PM of England. It took many by surprise that some quarters in England could rise to celebrate her death. They popped champagne and held pop concerts to express their joy at her departure while the country mourns for the loss of another historical giant.

‘Socialist Angela McCormick explains: "I'm here for a generation that didn't have a future when they left school and didn't have jobs. I'm here for the members of my family who have been devastated by the economic policies or the economic crimes of Margaret Thatcher."

Did Margaret Thatcher cause so much anguish among the citizens of her country, losing jobs through bad economic policies? And it only took her death for the bursting of boisterous elation. While she was still around, the anger and hatred for her was subdued or suppressed, only to be released now. It is quite a pity that those who were affected adversely reacted that way. But they were just human beans.

Political leaders did many good to some people and many bad things to other people. They will leave behind a legacy, to be hated and spit upon, or to be loved and respected. It is better to be leaders in totalitarian states when big statues would be unfold to honour them after death, kind of being immortalized to live forever in the hearts of their people as dear leaders.

In democracy, the ending can be quite unpredictable, and can be very unflattering.

No job discrimination against Singaporeans

After the revelation by Tan Chuan Jin and Tafep in Parliament, I seriously thought the problem of employers, local and foreign, discriminating and victimizing Singaporeans in employment opportunity is a serious one. So I posted a few articles about this sad state of affair happening to Singaporean PMEs, being victimized and ousted from their jobs and be replaced by foreigners.

Since then I have been watching the news closely everywhere for more evidence of such discrimination and victimization of Singaporeans for good jobs in their own country. Fortunately or unfortunately, there was hardly anything mentioned, not a clue or evidence that such a bad thing is happening. They say no news is good news.

I believe the main stream journalists and the freelance investigative journalists in social media are busy trying to fish out such acts of discrimination against Singaporeans and if there are such cases, they would definitely blow them up in the main media and social media. Obviously there are none or none has been discovered. So, for the few cases brought up by MOM, they must be exceptions.

All is fine. No worry, all is fine. If not fine, Singapore being so small, and we have very responsible and patriotic reporters and journalists in both the main and social media, they would have uncovered them. Thank God things are ok. Singaporeans, especially the PMEs who have lost their jobs and unemployable must be a natural thing, a meritocratic thing. They only have themselves to blame and to reflect on why they were unemployable. We have a fair system, a level playing field. No foul play. Everyone is so innocent, I mean the employers and organisations employing foreign PMEs. There is no discrimination and victimization.

Today we celebrate American stupidity

The Americans and its proxies are all pointing the fingers at the North Koreans for their threat of a thermo nuclear war. The Americans thought they could keep on provoking the North Koreans and make them look like clowns, to be intimidated by their war games on their borders. The North Koreans are not going to let the Americans do as their pleased. They just up the ante, and for every American provocation, the North Koreans just raise the stake. Many silly American proxies are still blaming the current crisis on the North Koreans, that it was the bellicosity of the North Koreans that is the cause of the crisis. None of the western media or American proxies would admit that the whole situation was caused by the Americans and no one else.

Now the joke is on the Americans and its allies. Though many are trying to play it down, that it was just North Korean antics, that it was just a war of words, the Govts of South Korea, Japan and the US are not taking any chances. Their defense hardwares and personnel are on high alert and waiting to see what the North Koreans would do. And now they fear that a miscalculation will see Armaggedon in South Korea, Japan and some parts of the USA. Many innocent South Koreans, Japanese and Americans are going to be cooked without knowing why. Many lives will be lost because of their leaders playing with fire. If it burns, they are also gonna get burnt.

For the innocent South Koreans, Japanese, and Americans, they only have the American warmongers to blame should they be hit. They don’t believe in letting sleeping dog lies. They must provoke, kick and push it to a corner to bite back.

Now, instead of enjoying their peaceful morning breadfast, reading the newspaper, watching basketball, and a peaceful night sleep, they have to worry whether a nuclear bomb will land over them. Nice work, America. Keep your war games on, fly your B2s and B52s and your F22s over Korea.

Have fun. This time the fun is for real.

Obituary for the Korean people

I think it is not premature to write an obituary for the Korean people today so that they can still read it before they wipe themselves off the face of planet earth. It is unthinkable today for any sensible person or leader to think of going to war with an equally heavily armed opponents and when the firepower of both countries could flatten the countries in a matter of hours. And then to think that there other opportunists waiting on the side line egging them on to kill each other.

The Koreans are proud and very intelligent people if one is to think of Samsung, Hyundai, Kia, Ssangyong etc etc. And even the North Koreans are able to send their own satellites to space and is a nuclear power in their own right. They have mastered modern technology and are rich in their own right. Don’t listen to the foolish western media that the North Koreans are starving and living in poverty. The measurement of their wealth using western terms of reference is totally irrelevant and meaningless. And don’t be suckers and idiots to think that the young Kim Jung Un and his colleagues are mad and they want war to prove they are good. This kind of naïve thinking coming from supposedly western academics and scholars are simply insulting to those they meant to impress upon to think in this way. But many unthinking people will simply believe and regurgitate these thoughts that are planted into them daily by the western media.

Despite their economic and technological prowess, something tells me that the Koreans are still stupid in a way. For no good reasons, except the encouragement and provocation of the Americans and the Japanese, they think it is fun and a tea party to want to go to war with their brothers, and to kill each other because other people want them to do so. And a miscalculation is all it takes to ignite the Korean peninsula into a fireball and the Korean people as fuel for the fire. There will be no Samsung, Hyundai, Kia and what not left for the world to enjoy. It will be a pity that a major race, an innovative and talented people that worked so hard to be a rich and respectable people, will callousless and carelessly embark on a journey of self destruction.

Once the war starts, the world will be saying RIP to the Koreans and the Korean race. What a pity. It is so silly really, so unnecessary and senseless.

Singaporeans are the smartest or dumbest nationals

When I say this, I am not referring to all Singaporeans but a certain select group of Singaporeans that really think they are the brightest people on planet earth. The things they believe in include an open door immigrant policy for the best and brightest to their island with no strings attached and no conditions. As long as the foreigners are good, they can take on any job or occupation, even replacing the Singaporeans if they can get rid of them by hook or by crook. In the eyes of these Singaporeans, when they lost out to the new arrivals, it is because of meritocracy, that the Singaporeans are less meritocratic.

These same Singaporeans are chiding and admonishing other Singaporeans for being soft and lazy, for wanting to be treated differently because they are citizens. Entitlement mentality, they screamed. They want Singaporeans to compete on equal footings with foreigners for all things, especially jobs. They also believe that Singaporeans are dispensable if they are not good enough. Move out if Singaporeans are not happy. They is a world oasis of people waiting to replace the unhappy Singaporeans. The Govt is full of choice on who and how many foreigners it wants to bring in, the whole wide world can come.

They want the best from the whole world to reside in the island and help the island to prosper, not Singaporeans to prosper. It is survival of the fittest, and they believe they are fit to take on the best in the world, on level playing field in their little island. They believe that they are really competing on equal footings with the foreigners without taking into consideration the cost of living of Singaporeans, with no consideration to the cost of living of foreigners, with no consideration if the foreigners are cheating on them, with fake qualifications, and ganging up against the Singaporeans without the Singaporeans knowing it.

And they believe that this is the only and right way forward, to progress and prosperity. The thinking of getting the best from the rest of the world is translated into official policies to import talents and do away with training own talents. They want table tennis players, they just import, footballers, badminton players and what else. They want IT and finance professionals, just import, everything can be imported and pay for as long as they are better than Singaporeans.

Is there a place left for Singaporeans with this kind of thinking? The genes of Singaporeans are degenerative I supposed, regressive genes taking over. Smart or plain stupid, ask Li Ao from Taiwan, he said it many years back. These Singaporeans will chase out their parents and children if they are simply not good enough, and call them lazy, and depending on the Govt for everything.