Hazard Risk and Impact Assessment Unit

I think not many people are aware of this new unit set up last year within the Meteorological Service Singapore. It is tasked to study the effects of lesser known hazards like volcanic ash, radioactive fallout, tsunamis, storm surges and even particles from outer space. I am truly impressed. Singapore could be the futuristic centre of advanced science to monitor all natural and unnatural disasters in the whole world if it keeps adding on expertise and modern scientific equipment to monitor all these rare events that could affect Singapore even remotely.
 
I can think of a few more possible but rare hazards that could be added on. One is the effect of melting ice in the artics and antartics and how it would affect the world and Singapore. It may want to study the dust storms of Sahara and the Gobi deserts, the impact of glaziers in the Himalayas. It may want to have a team to study the possibility of the earth being hit by meteors and monitor the universe and life in other worlds. Oh, it may want to procure equipment to do exploration in the deep oceans as well, and to study the microbes in the deep ocean beds.
 
I think Singapore, with so much money to spare, can do a lot more to study everything under the sky, and buy all the latest equipment needed, employ all the best scientists in the world that money can buy. Why not, we have the money what?
 
How about starting a space centre to build rockets to the moon and travel the universe? We can afford it and it is only small change. What’s the big deal spending a few more billions on vanity projects and the nice to have equipment? And we can pay for all the big name scientists to sit in our little paradise island. We are already paying for so many foreign scholars in the few world class schools Schools on international relations.
Singapore is truly becoming a gem of the world in terms of attracting and paying for all the brains money can buy to be here. The money is well spent and surely would benefit the people greatly and uplift the quality of their lives. We are having a Singapore renaissance in our midst. Singaporeans are so lucky. Who says we have no money in the CPF?
 
Let us all rise to the occasion and stop bothering ourselves with mundane stuff like CPF withdrawal and minimum sums. Think big and spend big.

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MAS tells banks to prepare for financial collapse

Simon Black, an international investor wrote in Sovereign Man, I quote his article in the above title, ‘….the deputy chair of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Lim Hng Kiang) said last night at a dinner that “an uneasy calm seems to have settled in markets” and that “we remain in uncharted waters.”
It was pretty amazing, really, to see such pointed language from a central banking official.
Mr. Lim jabbed at the “obvious” risks and said there would be “bumps on the road” ahead. That’s putting it mildly….
 
… the US financial system back in 2009. Lehman Brothers. Wachovia. Washington Mutual. Etc. They were all swimming naked, with very little liquidity and miniscule capital levels.
Singapore’s monetary authority is obviously concerned about financial markets. They understand that you can’t expect to conjure trillions of dollars out of thin air without creating epic bubbles and even more epic consequences….
 
Central banks and institutional investors turn a deaf ear to obvious risks and fundamentals that are screaming out in desperation hoping some conservative steward will notice that we are tap dancing on a knife’s edge, where nearly every single financial market is simultaneous at/near an all-time high, and central bankers keep pumping money into economies that they claim to be ‘recovered’
 
This is the ‘uneasy calm’ that Mr. Lim discussed– a prevailing attitude that there’s nothing to see here; keep calm and buy the all-time high….
 
If a senior official presiding over one of the world’s safer banking jurisdictions wants his banks to become even safer, a rational person would certainly wonder– “What do these guys know about the financial system that I don’t?”
 
They must be expecting the mother of all busts.’
 
Could Lim Hng Kiang’s fear a tell tale sign of the things that are being reported in the US about American banks being involved in all kinds of fraudulent deals and practices? There was a Bloomberg report a few days’ back by Zeke Faux, Stephanie Ruhle and Sam Mamudi.

‘June 26 (Bloomberg) -- Money managers and brokers shunned
Barclays Plc’s dark pool, and Chief Executive Officer Antony
Jenkins pledged an urgent inquiry, after the bank was accused of
lying to clients about high-frequency trading on the venue.

Deutsche Bank AG, Royal Bank of Canada, Sanford C.
Bernstein & Co. and Investment Technology Group Inc. are among
brokerages that disconnected from the Barclays LX platform after
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued the bank
yesterday, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Barclays falsely assured investors they would be protected from
high-frequency traders while it simultaneously aided predatory
tactics, Schneiderman’s office wrote in the complaint….’
 
Many big American and European banks have been sued and have paid hundreds of millions or billions in fines for all kinds of financial crimes that they jolly well known should not be done. Would this Barclay’s case be the one to tip the cart and everything comes crashing down? The whole international financial system and their products have been operating with dubious credibility, taking abnormal high risk, gambling, cheating and scamming their clients and getting away with it. It is only a matter of time when the law just cannot turn a blind eye to it and all the CEOs of the top banks would find themselves behind bars for condoning and allowing such criminal activities to be conducted by the banks.
 
MAS and Lim Hng Kiang must be privy to many inside information of the ugly truths that are not reported in the media and must have the common sense to know that it will not be long when the whole financial system imploded under the management of crooks and thieves. Everything is looking too good to believe and the amount of so called profits they are generating to pay themselves crazy cannot be real. The banks are making more profits than the casinos in Las Vegas, Macau and Singapore. How could they do better than casinos? Think about it. Some smarter countries are turning to the yellow metal to hedge against such an eventuality when all paper money will become worthless.
 
How long to go before the big collapse is anyone’s guess. MAS must be worrying.

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Avoid Japanese food products and travel to Japan

Fw: This Shocking Report From Fukushima Will Leave Your Jaw On The Floor

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Japanese food products and the whole of Japan is highly and dangerously contaminated with nuclear radiation. Stop taking Japanese food products and avoid travelling to Japan for holidays unless you are courting death. Stop patronising all Japanese restaurants for your own safety. Go through the video which is scary and self explanatory.

Decide yourself whether you still want to travel to Japan for holiday where you may consume the foods which were contaminated with radiation during your stay there, as the Japaneses government is covering up the truth and permitting the contaminated raw food to be sold not only there but also exported.

 

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Japanese brutal atrocities against the Chinese. It is time for revenge. The Japanese led by Abe and back by US will commit the same crime against we Chinese people. A are

刚解禁照片？中国人都应该看看！！！

解禁照片？对日本态度原本中立的我看了很震惊，是中国人你就转！中华民族不可辱，强我中华，壮我中华。文以载道，富于精武。灭了狗日的……

国家再怎么发展，也别忘国耻，我们要爱自己的国家，爱我们的人民，有了稳定的国家，强大的国家，有一颗爱国的心，我们就永远不会被别人欺负，看看我们一些先辈们被欺负的惨境，激励我们中国人永远努力奋斗，前进，让我们祖国强大，再也不要让我们中国人受到别人的欺负 .

被解禁的历史照片

解禁的照片戰功圖：3歲嬰兒被用刺槍挑起

bayoneting of 3 year old baby
活着的戰士被剥光腿上的肉

Carving out the leg muscles of a Chinese soldier
傳說中的毒氣實驗

The notoriouspoisonous gas experiment

孩子有錯嗎

What crime had the children committed?!
我不知道還能再說什麼了

What else could I say? They were all innocent children!
人心下酒，也就日本人能喝下去。

Only Japanese soldiers could wash down the heart of a martyr with sake

Another female martyr

懷孕多數時間意味着生命的終結

Even pregnant women were round off for army protitues
人啊！

I am also a human being!!
從他的微笑可以看出來。。這是這名日本兵的驕傲，但對於中國人來說。。。。

So proud of his work!

不明白為什麼那麼多中國女孩特崇拜日本明星

I cannot understand why young Chinese girls still crazy for Japanese actors nowadays!
無語
The proud accomplishment of the Japanese soldier!

這些可是良民，他們不相信自己會死

They never realized they were to be used as life targets!

良民被作為活靶子使用

Practicing on life Chinese civilians as targets!

看，這就是武士道

20世紀的中國人是一種悲哀

Real Chinese tragedy of the 20th century

他們的願望是：來生不是中國人！

Her last wish was not to be a Chinese in her next life

心裡你們在怎麼想

What are you thinking, soldier?

只有拿中國軍官的頭能換錢

Only the head of a Chinese officer could exchange for money

朋友，别哭

Don’t cry. This is only bayonet practice!
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Robotic pets as companions

‘During the APEC TEL Workshop & 9th IAC forum held at NUS today (16 Jun), the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) told the media on the sidelines it is exploring high-tech gadgets like robotic pets to keep the elderly company.

IDA said that it is looking into using high-tech gadgets like wearable monitoring devices, robotic legs and pets to help Singaporeans cope with ageing.

The forum aims to use technology to improve daily living for seniors….

Paro is modeled on a baby seal and has been listed by Guinness World Records as the most effective therapeutic pet of its kind. It has an array of sensors, and is said to be capable of developing a personality over time that corresponds with how people interact with it. It is priced at close to US$6,000 per unit.

However, not everyone is agreeable to using robotic pets as company for the elderly. Thw Wall Street Journal reported that Paro is being used in some nursing homes in the US [Link].

“If you give me a robot that helps perform mundane tasks associated with care giving, such as vacuuming or doing the dishes, I’m all for that,” says Dr. Thomas, founder of the Green House Project, a campaign to make nursing homes smaller and more like regular houses. But “if we wind up with nursing homes full of baby-seal robots, the robots will be trying to fulfill the relationship piece of care giving, while the humans are running around changing the beds and cooking the food.”

Sherry Turkle, a professor in the Science, Technology and Society program at MIT, warns against regarding it as a companion. “Why are we so willing to provide our parents, then ourselves, with faux relationships?” she asked.

Lakewood Manor, a continuing-care retirement community in Virginia state, borrowed a Paro from the distributor but sent it back after 3 months. A spokesperson said, “I think the staff took to him more than the residents did.”’


My simple comments would be to design human like robots for the seniors to keep them company. If we as humans, or children, could not be near them, give them some realistic humanoids to keep them company, to amuse them. I am sure hugging a male/female humanoid to sleep beats hugging silly robotic seals or pet dogs?

Are we that crazy or naïve to think of spending $6,000 on a robotic seal toy?

Oops, my apologies, this whole thing is meant to be a joke. Don’t take it seriously. Those who are serious need to visit the IMH.

I heard that this robotic pet idea came from Japan. But I think they prefer real comfort women but selling expensive robotic pets to the daft in exchange for their money.

PS. Sunday is time to relax and be dumb for a while.

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