Someone pointed out to me that Cheng Bock’s name was not among the
comrades listed in the Obituary for Chua Sian Chin. Practically every ex
MP and minister’s name was on that list except Cheng Bock.
The question is whether Cheng Bock was not invited or disinvited himself
from the comrades in arms. If he was not invited, is it a clear sign
that he is no longer one of them? Unless of course someone took out the
wrong list that was not updated.
What is happening?
3/04/2014
Hospital tents as temporary buffers
Gan Kim Yong: ‘the tent used for the Admission Transit Area Extension at
Changi General Hospital is part of the “buffer capacity” to respond to
unexpected surges in demand. It was built in June last year.’
Well, in many services there is this occasional need for additional facilities when there is a surge in demand. Restaurants could put up side tables in any space available when needed. Our housing crisis over the last decade was due to the lack of tents to accommodate the influx of a million foreigners. The MND should learn from MOH to built tents as buffer capacity when the next population surge arises when they did not see it coming.
It is understandable that such buffer capacity wouldl be needed when there is an epidemic like the Sars crisis. Just wondering why there is a need to cater for a surge during the end of the year holiday season? If this is a seasonal thing, there must be better ways to cope with such demands and the number of additional beds could be fairly predictable after years of repeated demands.
When such buffer capacities have to be activated in a non crisis state or when there is no outbreak of a contagious disease, does it not say that our hospital capacities are already fully loaded or insufficient? One can imagine what the needs for beds would be like when there is a major outbreak like the SARS. The only good thing about this shortage is that it will be quite similar to the housing shortage and the huge demand could be translated to good profits with higher ward charges. Or maybe not since the ward charges cannot be subject to market forces and market pricing mechanism of supply and demand.
Incidentally, would patients housed in such temporary tents be charged the same rate as those in the normal wards? Oh, are these ‘Admission Transit Area Extension’ going to be a permanent temporary fixture of hospitals?
Well, in many services there is this occasional need for additional facilities when there is a surge in demand. Restaurants could put up side tables in any space available when needed. Our housing crisis over the last decade was due to the lack of tents to accommodate the influx of a million foreigners. The MND should learn from MOH to built tents as buffer capacity when the next population surge arises when they did not see it coming.
It is understandable that such buffer capacity wouldl be needed when there is an epidemic like the Sars crisis. Just wondering why there is a need to cater for a surge during the end of the year holiday season? If this is a seasonal thing, there must be better ways to cope with such demands and the number of additional beds could be fairly predictable after years of repeated demands.
When such buffer capacities have to be activated in a non crisis state or when there is no outbreak of a contagious disease, does it not say that our hospital capacities are already fully loaded or insufficient? One can imagine what the needs for beds would be like when there is a major outbreak like the SARS. The only good thing about this shortage is that it will be quite similar to the housing shortage and the huge demand could be translated to good profits with higher ward charges. Or maybe not since the ward charges cannot be subject to market forces and market pricing mechanism of supply and demand.
Incidentally, would patients housed in such temporary tents be charged the same rate as those in the normal wards? Oh, are these ‘Admission Transit Area Extension’ going to be a permanent temporary fixture of hospitals?
Protection from Harassment Bill, all the good intentions
The anti stalking and harassment Bill looks so innocent and angelic that
the victims of such acts would be all too glad to receive it with open
arms. And factually many innocents have fallen victims to the
aggressive behaviors and acts of their harassers and stalkers and badly
needed a law for their own protection. We have laws against physical
body harm but most of the time the laws were proven useless as the
victims of physical abuses are left to seek justice in the courts if
they have the money to do so. No money means they should quietly accept
being beaten, resign to their fate, it is a private matter.
So, we have this great bill, like the white knight coming to the rescue of people in distress. Would it be so or would the victims ended up like those being physically attacked and have to buy justice with their own money? No money no justice.
The other aspect of this Bill can prove to be more hazardous other than the tediosity in its implementation. You would need an army of police and judicial officers to enforce this Bill. And there will be the battles of definition as to what constitute harassment and to a lesser extent stalking. An example of the definition in the media, ‘ Speaking or acting in a threatening, abusive or insulting way such that a person becomes harassed, alarmed or distressed’ looks more frightening than good. A thin skin asshole will see himself being harassed, alarmed or distressed even by the look of another person that he disliked. He would feel ‘very threatened’ even by the person’s voice or singing or the sight of his post. How is the law going to protect the other party who actually did nothing to harass such a thin skin ass who could probably be faking?
The other danger provided by this law is for the so called ‘victims’ to harass and threaten the innocent party by invoking this law. It is so damn easy to fix anyone for harassment with the slightest and skimpiest excuse. This law could prove more deadly and dangerous to the innocents than its intent to protect the real victims of harassment. The men in blue will be very busy as every asshole that has an axe to grind, a hatred or grievance or dislike of another can go to the police post to make a police report. Would the police be in a position to throw out the wanton and spurious accusations? Would they be in a position to sieve out the nonsense? Or would they simply do the necessary to assist, facilitate and perpetuate another form of harassment using the police report as the tool? Would the police and the judiciary become the accomplice of harassment?
And, just another point without being exhaustive, is that this law could be the law that is needed to curb and gag the social media. Any damn thing spoken can be an act of harassment. It is only a matter of whose opinion and who feels harassed or ‘hurt’. There shall be no more criticism of the govt or any policies as that would tantamount to harassment. Political satire too would be harassment as someone would act and feel like a victim and seek redress from this law. How is this law going to differentiate fair discussion on social political issues without being slammed by this law?
With its comprehensive and wide ranging coverage, even covering the spurious, what is the real intent and purpose of this Bill? We will need another Bill to protect the victims of this Bill.
Kopi Level - Yellow
So, we have this great bill, like the white knight coming to the rescue of people in distress. Would it be so or would the victims ended up like those being physically attacked and have to buy justice with their own money? No money no justice.
The other aspect of this Bill can prove to be more hazardous other than the tediosity in its implementation. You would need an army of police and judicial officers to enforce this Bill. And there will be the battles of definition as to what constitute harassment and to a lesser extent stalking. An example of the definition in the media, ‘ Speaking or acting in a threatening, abusive or insulting way such that a person becomes harassed, alarmed or distressed’ looks more frightening than good. A thin skin asshole will see himself being harassed, alarmed or distressed even by the look of another person that he disliked. He would feel ‘very threatened’ even by the person’s voice or singing or the sight of his post. How is the law going to protect the other party who actually did nothing to harass such a thin skin ass who could probably be faking?
The other danger provided by this law is for the so called ‘victims’ to harass and threaten the innocent party by invoking this law. It is so damn easy to fix anyone for harassment with the slightest and skimpiest excuse. This law could prove more deadly and dangerous to the innocents than its intent to protect the real victims of harassment. The men in blue will be very busy as every asshole that has an axe to grind, a hatred or grievance or dislike of another can go to the police post to make a police report. Would the police be in a position to throw out the wanton and spurious accusations? Would they be in a position to sieve out the nonsense? Or would they simply do the necessary to assist, facilitate and perpetuate another form of harassment using the police report as the tool? Would the police and the judiciary become the accomplice of harassment?
And, just another point without being exhaustive, is that this law could be the law that is needed to curb and gag the social media. Any damn thing spoken can be an act of harassment. It is only a matter of whose opinion and who feels harassed or ‘hurt’. There shall be no more criticism of the govt or any policies as that would tantamount to harassment. Political satire too would be harassment as someone would act and feel like a victim and seek redress from this law. How is this law going to differentiate fair discussion on social political issues without being slammed by this law?
With its comprehensive and wide ranging coverage, even covering the spurious, what is the real intent and purpose of this Bill? We will need another Bill to protect the victims of this Bill.
Kopi Level - Yellow
US militant doctrine of permanent warfare to dominate the world
US Terrorism And Its Militant Doctrine Of Permanent Warfare To Dominate the World.
USA evil plans for world domination ( PART ONE )
After the Second World War the world thought that at last there would be lasting peace led by the Americans. From the first day of German and Japanese defeat and even before the eventual German and Japanese surrender the Americans laid broad plans for world domination and conquests.Their strategy was to use the bogey of fighting communism to preserve freedom and democracy. It has been seven decades and more, does American concept of freedom and democracy achieve any positive result and peace for the world. No, American focus on peace , freedom and democracy means only one thing and that is every country big and small should be brought under the aegis of American rule and control. And American control means not only complete and total military domination of land and space but also domination and control in the political, economic, scientific and financial lives and activities of all countries in the world. In its attempt for world domination US uses all kinds of evil stratagem to bear on its design and this can be seen in its most wanton terrorism in every corner of the globe using its military might to bomb countries via drones into fear and submission. This evil American terrorism has brought great and countless deaths and endless suffering all over the world.
In Europe the Evil Empire - USA, almost succeeded in bringing every European country under its control via NATO which is under direct US control and manipulation. Under NATO US has the final say in all military, political, economic and financial affairs. However, when comes to Russia, the Evil Empire meets more than its equal and was checkmated by Russia.
US tries to bring down Russia by establishing a string of military bases all over Europe. The CIA and Pentagon the two most vicious and destructive arms of the Evil Empire would infiltrate into many small neutral or pro Russia countries and stirred up internal problems and strive to create choas and uncertainty. The Evil Empire would then step in to break up these countries and establish ultimate control by setting up pro American stooges in power. The Evil Empire has broken up Yugoslavia into three or four separate countries and Albania into two smaller states.
US then focus its strategy on establishing a strangle hold on the Middle -East Arab countries. Here it adopts a three prone strategy. Almost all Arab countries are under just as evil theodocracy dictatorial regimes. These Arab theodocratic dictators treat their subjects especially women like slaves and rule them in a servile manner. The Evil Empire is able to see that the Arab dictators do not feel safe from its own people and so it signs alliances with the numbskull Arab dictators to help them preserve their dictatorships. Having eased into the favours of the Arab kings or rulers the Evil Empire took no time in establishing an economic strangle hold on all the rich oil producing Arab countries thus controlling practically hundred per cent of their oil resources. The unsuspecting Arabs were then asked to sign a trade treaty based on the use of US dollars as a standard unit of monetary transaction. It must be pointed out that US had earlier scrapped the international Bretton Wood's agreement on using gold as a standard support and back up for all international trade transactions. In trying to impose the American dollar as a standard unit of international exchange the US has an evil intention to manipulate the US dollar with impunity to cheat and swindle every trading nation that the Evil Empire conducts business with. Thus with the effective control of the US dollar the Evil Empire had for many decades were able to peg the price of Middle East oil at only $US5.00 per barrel. Under the same agreement even if the Arabs sell the oil to other countries they must only accept payment strictly in US dollars.
Just imagine how much US squeezed the Arabs and the world when it imports thousands of billions of barrels of oil almost for free when it then in turn sells these barrels of oil to other countries or international markets at many multiple times its original cost of $US5.00 per barrel. For years and decades US has been shipping billions of tons of cheap Arab oil to dump into disused old underground salt wells as reseerves for future use. However the game was up when Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Gadaffi of Libya refused to continue with the unfair spurious treaty which binds the Arab hands . Saddam would accept payments for Iraqi oil not only in US dollar but also in other major countries currencies. Gaddafi did the same thing and also try to establish a pan African gold standard for trading purpose and in payment for Libya or Arab oil. It was the last straw for the Evil Empire which saw Saddam and Gaddafi as a threat to American control not only of the Middle East but also the whole world. The result was that the two countries were attacked and destroyed and Saddam Hussein and Gadaffi were killed and murdered for trying to do the right thing for their countries and for the Arabs in general. The main enemies of the Arabs are the theocratic rulers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait , Jordan and Tunisia who for their own selfish ends connive with the evil Americans to thumb down on their own people.These evil Arab theocratic rulers must eventually be destroyed for the good of the Arabs and for the world.
The next strategy US used to have a strangle hold on the Middle East is to make use of its deputy sheriff, Israel. US and the West have been helping Israel to build up a strong and mighty military state so that it can act as a deputy sheriff to help US and the West to control the Arabs. Israel military power is second to none in the Middle East and it has been able to constantly carry out wars of aggression against the helpless Arabs with impunity. With a strong and powerful Israel US and the West feel safe of its continuing dominance and control of the Middle East.
What does control of the Middle East mean to the world and to China ? It implies that US and the West can block or cut off supplies of oil to countries which they wish to sanction or contain. China view this American control of the Middle East very seriously and will endeavour to make every effort to help Africa and the Middle East countries to break off these evil and insidious American dominance.
Southernglory1
Tuesday,4th March,2014
USA evil plans for world domination ( PART ONE )
After the Second World War the world thought that at last there would be lasting peace led by the Americans. From the first day of German and Japanese defeat and even before the eventual German and Japanese surrender the Americans laid broad plans for world domination and conquests.Their strategy was to use the bogey of fighting communism to preserve freedom and democracy. It has been seven decades and more, does American concept of freedom and democracy achieve any positive result and peace for the world. No, American focus on peace , freedom and democracy means only one thing and that is every country big and small should be brought under the aegis of American rule and control. And American control means not only complete and total military domination of land and space but also domination and control in the political, economic, scientific and financial lives and activities of all countries in the world. In its attempt for world domination US uses all kinds of evil stratagem to bear on its design and this can be seen in its most wanton terrorism in every corner of the globe using its military might to bomb countries via drones into fear and submission. This evil American terrorism has brought great and countless deaths and endless suffering all over the world.
In Europe the Evil Empire - USA, almost succeeded in bringing every European country under its control via NATO which is under direct US control and manipulation. Under NATO US has the final say in all military, political, economic and financial affairs. However, when comes to Russia, the Evil Empire meets more than its equal and was checkmated by Russia.
US tries to bring down Russia by establishing a string of military bases all over Europe. The CIA and Pentagon the two most vicious and destructive arms of the Evil Empire would infiltrate into many small neutral or pro Russia countries and stirred up internal problems and strive to create choas and uncertainty. The Evil Empire would then step in to break up these countries and establish ultimate control by setting up pro American stooges in power. The Evil Empire has broken up Yugoslavia into three or four separate countries and Albania into two smaller states.
US then focus its strategy on establishing a strangle hold on the Middle -East Arab countries. Here it adopts a three prone strategy. Almost all Arab countries are under just as evil theodocracy dictatorial regimes. These Arab theodocratic dictators treat their subjects especially women like slaves and rule them in a servile manner. The Evil Empire is able to see that the Arab dictators do not feel safe from its own people and so it signs alliances with the numbskull Arab dictators to help them preserve their dictatorships. Having eased into the favours of the Arab kings or rulers the Evil Empire took no time in establishing an economic strangle hold on all the rich oil producing Arab countries thus controlling practically hundred per cent of their oil resources. The unsuspecting Arabs were then asked to sign a trade treaty based on the use of US dollars as a standard unit of monetary transaction. It must be pointed out that US had earlier scrapped the international Bretton Wood's agreement on using gold as a standard support and back up for all international trade transactions. In trying to impose the American dollar as a standard unit of international exchange the US has an evil intention to manipulate the US dollar with impunity to cheat and swindle every trading nation that the Evil Empire conducts business with. Thus with the effective control of the US dollar the Evil Empire had for many decades were able to peg the price of Middle East oil at only $US5.00 per barrel. Under the same agreement even if the Arabs sell the oil to other countries they must only accept payment strictly in US dollars.
Just imagine how much US squeezed the Arabs and the world when it imports thousands of billions of barrels of oil almost for free when it then in turn sells these barrels of oil to other countries or international markets at many multiple times its original cost of $US5.00 per barrel. For years and decades US has been shipping billions of tons of cheap Arab oil to dump into disused old underground salt wells as reseerves for future use. However the game was up when Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Gadaffi of Libya refused to continue with the unfair spurious treaty which binds the Arab hands . Saddam would accept payments for Iraqi oil not only in US dollar but also in other major countries currencies. Gaddafi did the same thing and also try to establish a pan African gold standard for trading purpose and in payment for Libya or Arab oil. It was the last straw for the Evil Empire which saw Saddam and Gaddafi as a threat to American control not only of the Middle East but also the whole world. The result was that the two countries were attacked and destroyed and Saddam Hussein and Gadaffi were killed and murdered for trying to do the right thing for their countries and for the Arabs in general. The main enemies of the Arabs are the theocratic rulers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait , Jordan and Tunisia who for their own selfish ends connive with the evil Americans to thumb down on their own people.These evil Arab theocratic rulers must eventually be destroyed for the good of the Arabs and for the world.
The next strategy US used to have a strangle hold on the Middle East is to make use of its deputy sheriff, Israel. US and the West have been helping Israel to build up a strong and mighty military state so that it can act as a deputy sheriff to help US and the West to control the Arabs. Israel military power is second to none in the Middle East and it has been able to constantly carry out wars of aggression against the helpless Arabs with impunity. With a strong and powerful Israel US and the West feel safe of its continuing dominance and control of the Middle East.
What does control of the Middle East mean to the world and to China ? It implies that US and the West can block or cut off supplies of oil to countries which they wish to sanction or contain. China view this American control of the Middle East very seriously and will endeavour to make every effort to help Africa and the Middle East countries to break off these evil and insidious American dominance.
Southernglory1
Tuesday,4th March,2014
3/03/2014
Kunming, 29 killed and 143 wounded
10 Xinjiang separatists dressed in black with faced hooded, went on a
killing rampage in Kunming Railway Station. They went killing anyone in
the station. The Police managed to shoot and kill 4 of the terrorists,
wounded 1 and hunting for the rest. It was reported that the terrorists
were Uighurs from the Xinjiang region demanding for self rule.
Xinjiang has been part of China since time immemorial and the Uighurs minority group is getting more violent in demanding to break away from China.
In many countries around the world, the minorities are challenging the central govt and wanting to form their own govt. Some of these minorities have been there for centuries. Some minorities are new to the land, especially those in Europe and the Americas. As the minorities grow in number and strength, there is a natural tendency to want to be their own masters. The fragile states of Central Asia, China and Russia, even Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines and Malaysia, are countries plagued by the presence of a more vocal and demanding minorities. Violent protest and violence as a means to achieving their political goal, often with external support, will only embolden the separatist movements.
Would Europe and countries that practiced free immigration laws end up with a substantial minority population that would make demands for their existence, for territorial and sovereign rights or political representation from the adopted countries? When their populations are small, they are like benign cancerous cells. When they grow in size, many would turn malignant and become a social and political problem of their host countries.
When would the pressure from the substantial presence of foreigners as new citizens in Sin City become a real problem and to challenge the original citizens for a bigger say, representation and the economic pie of the state. When would these apparently very nice people turned to become not so nice or even violence when they feel their interests are not satisfied or their expectations not met?
Are we planting the seed of communal violence for the future by bringing in so many foreigners into our midst? We have managed to keep the lid on for the last 40 plus years with the 3 major racial groups and a smaller Eurasian community living in relative harmony and co existence. With the new intakes, this delicate balance is going to be challenged and we can’t be so naïve not to foresee what the future has installed for us by our reckless immigration policy.
In the Kunming incident, it looks like China will no longer be acting nice to the terrorists and separatist movement. A dragnet is likely to be cast over Xinjiang and the strong arm of the law will inflict pain on the reign of terror of the separatists. Historically China is like an ocean of people and even the larger minority groups like the Mongols and Manchus ended up as Chinese after their conquest of China. The minority Uighurs would hardly stand a chance to think they could separate themselves from China. They are asking to be whacked real hard on their butts for their violent and wanton killing of the innocents. There should be no pity should the perpetrators and their supporters be dealt with in the same way they killed the innocents in Kunming.
Xinjiang has been part of China since time immemorial and the Uighurs minority group is getting more violent in demanding to break away from China.
In many countries around the world, the minorities are challenging the central govt and wanting to form their own govt. Some of these minorities have been there for centuries. Some minorities are new to the land, especially those in Europe and the Americas. As the minorities grow in number and strength, there is a natural tendency to want to be their own masters. The fragile states of Central Asia, China and Russia, even Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines and Malaysia, are countries plagued by the presence of a more vocal and demanding minorities. Violent protest and violence as a means to achieving their political goal, often with external support, will only embolden the separatist movements.
Would Europe and countries that practiced free immigration laws end up with a substantial minority population that would make demands for their existence, for territorial and sovereign rights or political representation from the adopted countries? When their populations are small, they are like benign cancerous cells. When they grow in size, many would turn malignant and become a social and political problem of their host countries.
When would the pressure from the substantial presence of foreigners as new citizens in Sin City become a real problem and to challenge the original citizens for a bigger say, representation and the economic pie of the state. When would these apparently very nice people turned to become not so nice or even violence when they feel their interests are not satisfied or their expectations not met?
Are we planting the seed of communal violence for the future by bringing in so many foreigners into our midst? We have managed to keep the lid on for the last 40 plus years with the 3 major racial groups and a smaller Eurasian community living in relative harmony and co existence. With the new intakes, this delicate balance is going to be challenged and we can’t be so naïve not to foresee what the future has installed for us by our reckless immigration policy.
In the Kunming incident, it looks like China will no longer be acting nice to the terrorists and separatist movement. A dragnet is likely to be cast over Xinjiang and the strong arm of the law will inflict pain on the reign of terror of the separatists. Historically China is like an ocean of people and even the larger minority groups like the Mongols and Manchus ended up as Chinese after their conquest of China. The minority Uighurs would hardly stand a chance to think they could separate themselves from China. They are asking to be whacked real hard on their butts for their violent and wanton killing of the innocents. There should be no pity should the perpetrators and their supporters be dealt with in the same way they killed the innocents in Kunming.
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