Easy money for Medishield Life?

What is easy money? This is money made easily, with little effort. And the saying goes, easy come easy go. Our govt’s revenue comes from many sources, and some can be easily classified as easy money. Let’s not breathe a word about the CPF. This is the people’s blood and sweat money that they made working for it.
 
Easy money are those like COE premiums, gambling taxes from the casinos and the Tote Board, ERPs, and to a certain extent, profits from sales of HDB flats. The value of these easy monies is quite substantial, in the billions or more annually. Can some of these monies be put to good use like looking after the healthcare of the senior citizens? No I am not asking for the whole chicken, may just a drumstick.
 
How much will it cost to provide some basic coverage in healthcare for the senior citizens? This can be defined, without being extravagant. Minimum basic healthcare/hospitalization need not be too costly. As it is a welfare scheme provided by public fund, no one is going to complain about no airconditioning, no pretty nurses at their becks and calls, no top notch doctors or surgeons to treat their half a million dollar condition. Just provide the basic medical care for those seniors that needed healthcare or have to be hospitalized, to let them recuperate in the hospital beds with some peace of mind, they will be treated with some dignity and will not empty all their savings or forcing their dependents to empty their savings.
 
This is a social obligation that the govt could and should provide to the senior citizens that have in one way or another contributed to the growth and prosperity of the nations. It is mean and heartless to expect the oldies to pay for their health insurance when they are out of work and living on whatever that is left of their savings. We can’t be thinking of robbing the oldies of their savings can we? How creepy can people be to think that the helpless and needy oldies are easy target for the taking? Do not touch their savings in their Medisave.
 
By providing basic healthcare/hospitalization to the oldies using easy money, the scheme can be self insured by the govt without resorting to any insurance scheme. The cost with limited coverage cannot be so prohibitive when carefully defined, and without being misery.
 
Where is the heart? Easy money, easy come easy go. Where have these easy monies gone to? Using easy money for this noble and important service will be well appreciated and a worthy cause to put them into good use. Stop having more designs on the oldies and their monies in their Medisave, or expecting their children to foot the bills. Not many are ministers and earning million dollar salaries and can keep on paying and paying.

The fallen myth of super talents

The phrase super talents were brandished like a military colour about two decades ago. When it was first broached as something like the treasures of the country, 国宝, almost everyone believed in it, even the people who came out with this great phrase. They sincerely and truly believe that this country is so blessed with the super talents in charge. And thus, being so super to the extent that some even thought that they were immortals, 神仙, the chosen ones. And rightfully, being so special, they need to be paid for their special talents as well.
 
Then we have it, even our junior ministers are paid more than the President of the USA. Our ministers and PM and the overworked President are paid many times more naturally. And all Sinkies were so proud to have another feather in the Guinness Book of Records for having the most highly paid politicians in the whole wide world. No one was complaining when things were fine.
 
Fast forward 20 years and today the term ‘super talents’ seems to have lost its lustre, its original meaning. How many Sinkies really believe that they are super talents? How many super talents really believe that they are super talents? This one I am not sure as only those who are branded as super talents will know.
 
Given their performances that often were pedestrian, given the fact that many a times they were lost as to what to do and needing the aunties and uncles and even school children to give them ideas, the phrase super talents takes on a strange meaning. It may be super talents in the sense that they know how to get solutions from the people, not necessary from their heads. Now this is a rare skill I am sure many will agree, getting paid in millions and asking the people for solutions.
 
The other point is that many Sinkies are having second thoughts that they are over paying super talents that are not super in their expectation, imagination and liking. The super talents are not seen as super talents anymore. The people do not believe so and many are questioning their abilities as super talents. One thing for sure, over the last twenty years, there were hardly anything that could make the super talents stand out as exceptional, in policies and decision making. They were very ordinary, like the ordinary Sinkies.
 
This is the picture of the super talent myth today. The bug bear now is that the super talents are still collecting their super pay and standing up like sore thumbs.
When you see a super talent you will know. When you see one that is not, you too will know.

Saudis Go On Full Alert As Putin War Threat Stuns Muslim World

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

August 30, 2013

The Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is reporting today that President Putin’s orders this week to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for a “massive military strike” against Saudi Arabia in the event that the West attacks Syria has “stunned” the Sunni Muslim world and forced the Saudis to go on “full war alert.”

The Arabic Al-Ahd News Service confirmed the Saudis war alert by further stating:

“The Saudi Army is on full alert since today due to the increased possibility of a military attack by the U.S. military against Syria. The ground force operations command of the Saudi Army has ordered all the military units in Saudi Arabia to stand at a level 2 alert and fears were bolstered by recent statements by the Russian President Vladimir Putin in terms of a possible military strike against Saudi Arabia by Moscow.”

The GRU is also reporting today that Pakistan’s largest religious-political party Jamiat Ahle Hadith (JAH) is now threatening Russia too over Putin’s “war order” against Saudi Arabia, and as we can read as reported by The International News Service:

“Addressing a Press conference on Thursday, JAH Vice President Allama Zubair Ahmad Zaheer said that his party would hold demonstrations in all major cities to express solidarity with Saudi Arabia, and to condemn Russian president for his wild and unscrupulous threats.

He warned Putin that he would invite wrath from entire Muslim world if he dared to attempt harm Saudi Arabia. He demanded Islamabad to sever ties with Moscow since Putin’s threat was not meant for Saudi Arabia alone but was a threat to entire Muslim Ummah. He said Russian president’s threat would be treated as a declaration of war against Islam and a strong Jihad would be waged against Russia from all over the world.”

This GRU report notes that both the Saudis “war moves” and Pakistan’s “provocative threats” against Russia are being engineered by Obama regime apparatchiks who now control the largest secret intelligence organization ever created in modern human history and which the Washington Post News Service, using top-secret documents released to them by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reports cost over $52 billion and employs over 107,000 spies….

Though not being told to the American people by the Obama regime (or their propaganda mainstream media), this GRU report says, the unraveling of British support for the Obama regimes planned war against Syria came after new reports from the Associated Press News Service revealed that the chemical weapons attack being investigated by the United Nations were, indeed from Saudi Arabia.

The American InfoWars.Com News Service confirms this Saudi connection to chemical weapons being used in Syria, and as we can, in part, read:

“Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press journalist Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.

“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families….many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,” writes Gavlak.

Rebels told Gavlak that they were not properly trained on how to handle the chemical weapons or even told what they were. It appears as though the weapons were initially supposed to be given to the Al-Qaeda offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra.

“We were very curious about these arms. And unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions,” one militant named ‘J’ told Gavlak.

His claims are echoed by another female fighter named ‘K’, who told Gavlak, “They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them. We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”

Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of an opposition rebel, also told Gavlak, “My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” describing them as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas bottle.” The father names the Saudi militant who provided the weapons as Abu Ayesha.

According to Abdel-Moneim, the weapons exploded inside a tunnel, killing 12 rebels. “More than a dozen rebels interviewed reported that their salaries came from the Saudi government.”

Important to note, and as we had previously reported, Putin’s extraordinary “war order” against Saudi Arabia came after he became “enraged” after his early August meeting with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan who warned that if Russia did not accept the defeat of Syria, Saudi Arabia would unleash Chechen terrorists under their control to cause mass death and chaos during the Winter Olympics scheduled to be held 7-23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

Prince Bandar went on to say that Chechens operating in Syria were a pressure tool that could be switched on an off. “These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role in Syria’s political future.”

Putin replied to Prince Bandar by saying “Our stance on Assad will never change. We believe that the Syrian regime is the best speaker on behalf of the Syrian people, and not those liver eaters” [Putin said referring to footage showing a Jihadist rebel eating the heart and liver of a Syrian soldier HERE], and which Prince Bandar in turn warned that there can be “no escape from the military option” if Russia declines the olive branch.

In spite of the truth of Saudi Arabia and their terrorist allies being responsible for chemical weapons use in Syria, this GRU report concludes, the Obama regime continues on its path to war against the Syrian people in spite of it being illegal under both United States and International law…. 

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PS. I am posting this on behalf of Southernglory as he is having problem posting it.

Super education for super kids

We have heard the parents and the educators. They want the best education for the children. Everything that needs to be taught will be taught. Our children are our future and should be the best they can be. They will be taught the basic knowledge in schools. They would also be taught the arts, music, and sports. They will also be mould with the best values of good responsible citizens. In short, they will all grow up in the best education system the schools can provide and will turn out to be world best, short of being geniuses in every one of them. And they will beat the rest of the world with their hands down, rounded in every skill.
 
One little thought, while we aspire to have the best for the children, and wanted them to be the best, do they have the potential to be the very best? And at their tender age, how much can they really absorb or be taught, educated and trained to be what the system wants them to be? Children develop at different age and different paces. Some mature earlier than others. Some learn faster or earlier than others. How much can the system squeezed into them to be super beans?
 
The reality has proven otherwise. We have the best system for many years. We have the best trained teachers and the best equipped and furnished schools and environment. We have the money and resources, from the schools and the parents’ pockets to give to the children.
 
And what did we produce? Nothing better than children from Third World countries who did not have anything but merely the basics, a roof over their heads, rickety furnitures and poorly trained teachers. And they are producing all the talents that we need and filling up the top positions in our economy.
 
What happen to all our super all rounded kids? Where are they? Driving taxis or what? Or are they kept in the museums or in the Guinness Book of Records? Even Santos is better than our super kids.

The boy that cried wolf once too often

The British knew how silly they were when Blair conned them into believing that Saddam Hussein had WMD in Iraq. Yes, they not only looked silly but devious, hideous and guilty of war crimes against Iraq and its people. The Germans too knew the silly episode and crimes against the Iraqis but chose to keep mum. In fact many countries knew what it was but kept silence, not a word to be breathed, not a word of disapproval or condemnation for the dastardly act by Bush and Blair in Iraq. That is the reality of this deceiving world of American and Western make beliefs and agenda.

The whole world stood still with their mouth wide opened in amazement at the white lie the Americans and British made them to believe. No WMD in Iraq, foolish and silly fabrication of intelligence information that made the intelligence professionals of the two countries looked more like idiots or little incompetent children. Not a word of apology, not an uttering of remorseful or repentance. It happened, it’s over. We did it, so what can the world do about it?

Obama boy thinks he could pull it through a second time by crying wolf. He is still shouting and fabricating all the fake intelligence his little incompetent intelligence boys and girls thought would be good enough for the world to bite. The converts and those with no choice would just have to go along. In yesterday’s media report, the Americans were there, filming everything the Syrians were doing, from preparing the chemical weapons, talking over the air about the attack, to launching the attacks on the Syrian rebels. Yes, the Syrians were so dumb that the Americans were filming all their criminal acts without them knowing, or maybe with their approval.

I think Obama has gone one step better than Bush. Bush intelligence boys and girls were not in Iraq to film the WMD stores. Obama’s boys and girls were smarter, and were invited to do the filming to be used as proof for an American attack. Is this new truth or new fiction?

What is frightening is that he may be rounding up another group of Coalition of the Unwilling to invade Syria. How many innocent countries would be dragged into this murderous act, of killing Syrians for no reasons other than being told by the Americans to do so? And how many will be like eager beaver France, to want to be a part of the execution team, like a hunting party?

Have the nations of the world have enough of the insane wolf calling to conduct another genocide on the people of Syria, just because the Evil Empire dictates so? How many would believe the incompetent little boys and girls of the American intelligence services are telling the truth and not playing house?

The latest development with Obama backing off and seeking approval from Congress is a clear sign that he is not able to convince more than Hollandes and Cameron to do his bidding. And the rest of the world did not believe him anymore, and they would not go along, not even the British people. He knows that the game is up and it is better for Congress to say no than having a coalition of the USA and France, the former colonial master of Syrian that has an axe to grind, to want to control Syrian once more.

The premeditated assault of Syria is now not about chemical attacks, which they knew was hogwash, fabricated. It is now all about America’s might as the number One superpower, about its credibility to wage wars, about face, that it could not do what it likes, to punish other nations for not toeing the line, for defying the Empire. It is all about America and how it can behave like a gangster, like a rogue with immunity.

Not many Singaporeans seem to be interested in these world events as if they did not affect them. They could and have affected some Singaporeans with some becoming part of the Coalition of the Willings. One day, when Bush and Blair are indicted and charge for war crimes, all their accomplices would also stand trial for the same crime. The Americans are smart to implicate all their allies into their murderous act, the more the merrier and would take away a large part of the world from pointing the finger at them. You can’t accuse the Americans of war crimes when you are part of the team that killed.

Just hope they are not going to twist our Govt’s arms to send our boys to fight in Syria and be as guilty as them.