CPF – Why must the people beg for the return of their money?

CPF is the people’s money, a life time of savings. What makes the few elected individuals think they have the right to decide on what to do with the people’s money? Tell us, the people who put their money in the CPF, who are you and what right have you, how clever are you, to keep our money at your fancy, that you know best how much the people can have their money back, and how much to return to the people? 

WHO ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU? Are you God, supernatural, human beans of abnormal intelligence? To me you are just boys and girls who happened to be elected by the blind voters to form the govt. Period. Do not act too smart or smug. You are ordinary like every Sinkie, nothing more, nothing less. Stop behaving and acting like smart asses.
 
It is high time to stop all the wayang and committees to look into the CPF money and how to keep them and not to return to the people. There is no good reason to keep the money that belongs to the people. Return the money to their rightful owners. It is the right of the people to decide what they want to do with their life savings, to take it all out or to put in the CPF. You just provide the alternatives and the choice is with the owners of the money. No one has the right to dictate to the people on the use of their money. It is NOT your money. Keep your paws away.
 
I say this to you boys and girls, before you start to think clever, to have bright ideas about other people’s money, ask yourself this question, 

WHO ARE YOU?

ISIS’ Moral Lessons for Japan

The lasting legacy of Yukawa and Goto

by MIKOspace

    

Japan society remains shaken over the last 2 weeks in unprecedented shock over the beheading of its 2 citizens, Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, within a week of each another, by the Islamic ISIS Group in Syria.  Goto, a respected journalist working mostly in the war zones, reportedly went to Syria in October 2014 to try to secure Yukawa's release.

There is no justification whatsoever for ISIS actions. And no senseless deaths of civilians could ever be condoned by any decent human being in the world. Nothing in this Post is therefore intended to demean or devalue the life of Yukawa and Goto, as well as the many others who have fallen victims to ISIS-like inhuman and evil acts throughout the centuries.

It must surely be Deja Vu for many in the older generations in Japan. The thought and video of cold-blooded beheadings must surely evoke national memories kept hidden for nearly 70 years since the end of World War 2 (WW2). Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemns the latest inexplicable killing, and calls it a "heinous act", sharing deep anger and commiseration with his fellow Japanese amidst understandable grief, sympathy and sorrows.  

Such “heinous” acts are not strange to the Japanese, of all people.

Former Japanese WW2 soldiers should have no difficulty seeing the similarity between ISIS standing over Goto and Yukawa just before their respective beheading and a Japanese military officer standing with drawn Samurai sword over one of the 300,000 Chinese in Nanjing and several Chinese cities mostly beheaded (see picture) in a similar manner. Even babies and little children were not spared by the Imperial Japanese.

Older Singaporeans will also remember the beheading of nearly 70,000-90,000 Singaporean Chinese during Operation Sook Ching by the Japanese Occupation from 1942-45. Younger Singaporeans should visit the exhibition galleries in the Old Ford Motor Factory at Bukit Timah, the former factory site where the British surrendered to the Japanese on 15 February 1942 to see and hear the memories of those who survived that tragedy.

The Japanese national position has been to deny that the Nanjing Massacre, and other wartime atrocities ever took place under its benevolent Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere campaign in China and South East Asia from 1935-1945. It has refused stubbornly to apologise for what never took place!

Even Japanese history books are re-written to de-emphasise such “heinous” conduct of the Japanese during WW2.  The denial of WW2 atrocity is the key mission of the influential revisionist organization Nippon Kaigi. It is reported that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is among its 35,000 members, as well as 15 of his 18 key members of the government following the 2014 reshuffle.  Japanese Prime Ministers and other Key Japanese politicians also regularly visit the Yasukuni Shinto Shrine where Japanese had enshrined its top 14 leading WW2 war criminals among the 1,068 other WW2 war criminals who committed “heinous” atrocities, to show their respect and reverence.

Imagine if ISIS were to follow the Japanese Model in remembrance of ISIS members who commit “heinous” acts of evil and decide to build a shrine to include the cold-blooded murderers of Yukawa and Goto? Imagine also that ISIS leaders regularly undertake a pilgrimage to this Shrine to honour and revere especially those who did the beheading of the 2 Japanese citizens?  Imagine further that ISIS dismisses any “allegations”, even withdraws its own video, of its beheading that never took place?  Imagine after all these, ISIS tells an astonished Japan that there is really nothing to apologise for since the beheadings never took place?   

And if someone were to suggest dropping a nuclear bomb on ISIS, assuming ISIS can so targeted, it should be remembered that not one but 2 atomic bombs merely end the Japanese War, but did little to make her feel remorseful or penitent to seek forgiveness and repentance.

This week, having been confronted by evil as great or greater than herself, Japan should begin nation-wide honest conversations over its own “heinous” past acts. Yukawa and Goto’s contribution to Japan social development may be to inspire his countrymen to confront historical truths and facts squarely and to recognize its own culpability in the prolonged pain and suffering in her victims as a result of her denial and recalcitrance.

The scars of Yukawa and Goto tragic deaths may never healed until Japanese takes active concrete steps to heal the wounds and painful memories of those whom she has inflicted much deeper wounds and pain. The lasting legacy of Yukawa and Goto lies in bringing the Truth of Japanese war atrocities into the living room, classrooms and social conversations. 

Ironically, ISIS’ only moral but greatest lessons in Yakuwa and Goto may well be to finally bring a remorseful and recalcitrant Japan onto its knees in deep contrite and regrets to owe up to its own similar beheading spree of innocence and other evil deeds 70 years ago in the Asia Pacific.

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Japan Learns from ISIS

Fort Knox is empty

The most secure and reliable fortress where govts deposited their gold bullions for safe keeping by the US govt is empty. So is the vault of the Canadian govt bank when the Canadian govt’s gold was stored. Incredible, but the world is still living with the lie. And some govts, like Germany, just did not know what to do when caught in a situation knowing that their gold kept in Fort Knox was gone too.
 
Watch this video to know the scary truth of how treacherous the US govt can be. I hope our gold is not in Fort Knox for safe keeping too.
 
Be wary of what you think is the truth and the people you think you could be trusted. Everything looks so beautiful, but it is not real. The real world is full of fiction.
 
And better still, they keep encouraging govts to put their gold there for safe keeping, including keeping with the IMF and World Bank. Watch this video carefully and listen to them carefully. The deceit is complete. Or shall I call it the perfect theft?
 
Top Secrets of Gold - Full Documentary
http://youtu.be/ksPXgtOV4KQ

When pride of nation is lost

Many would not have forgotten the audacity of the Pinoy to take pot shot at Sinkies and harbouring the thought of Singapore becoming a state of the Philippines. Would such a migrant, work permit or employment pass holder, working in the Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar or the Emirates dare to utter such nonsense? The consequence would be their hands or heads being chopped off. At the most lenient, they would be sent on the first flight home.
 
The foreign workers, include white collar workers, know their right and proper place in a foreign country that is generous to offer them employment or they would be jobless or hungry in their home countries. They are reluctantly grateful and will do their work and be respectful of the locals for being kind to them. They will collect their pay and go home quietly, thankful that they could get jobs and get paid very well, anytime better than the pittance they got at home.
 
These foreign workers in Thailand, Malaysia or Indonesia, also know that they are there at the generosity of their host nations. If they misbehaved, rude to the locals, or dared to insult or beat up the locals, they could be chopped to pieces and fed to the fish in the rivers. The host countries are kind, but they always make sure that the foreigners are there as their guests and must know their proper place, and not to offend the locals.
The citizens of these countries are proud of themselves, their country and their dignity. They can be generous but not silly, not stupid, not daft. They would not tolerate being abused by foreigners, to be insulted and despised by foreigners who came to take their jobs and enjoy their hospitality.
 
In some countries, the locals, the citizens, forgot that they are the masters and owners of their land. They allowed foreigners to come in freely, take their jobs, take their women, buy expensive homes, enjoy all the good facilities, and kick them around, bully them, shit on them, and hit them as and when they feel like it. And what would the locals do? Turn the other cheek or walk away meekly. Some would tell them to laugh it off. It is ok to be abused by foreigners in our own country. Some would even suggest to the locals to integrate with the foreigners and learn to be like them.
 
When a people has lost its pride, it dignity, what is there left for them? Some have a lot of dignity from having a lot of money, like pimps living off the earnings of prostitutes. With this kind of money, they too have little pride and self respect for themselves. They knew that they need the foreigners, they are fearful of the foreigners. They will appease the foreigners, take their threats seriously. They will pray to the foreigners like gods.
There is no hope for the inhabitants of such countries when they do not know who they are, and belittled themselves, to think that they are daft and and stupid and the foreigners are the smart and talented ones.
 
What hope is there, what future is there for the inhabitants of shameless countries, when there is no sense of ownership, no sense of pride and dignity?
 
Singapore must not degenerate into such a pathetic state when Singaporeans lose their own self respect, their self worth and sincerely believe they are stupid, no longer able to compete with the so called talents of the 3rd world with suspicious qualifications. Singaporeans must believe in themselves, that they are good. If they keep listening to the mantra that they are stupid and 3rd world fakes are better than them, then they should just go and jump over any cliff they can find. Their lives would not be worth living if they really think all the 3rd world craps here are better than them.
 
Wake up Singaporeans, stand up and take back what it rightfully yours. This country belongs to you. It is your birth right and no foreigners must think that they can come here and replace you and screw you.
 
What is happening to the proud and industrious Singaporeans that built this island from 3rd World to 1st World? When your papa and mama, your kong kong and ah mah could do it, with lesser education than you, to build this country to what it is today, why can’t you do better? Why are you allowing the 3rd World inhabitants to shit on you and take your jobs? Soon they will take your homes and your country if you still continue to sleep.

Learning to Live with the Dead, Sick, Old, Young and Foreign.

The Singaporean Phobia of Living Together.

by MIKOspace

NIMBy Strikes Singapore Again.

The recent uproars by some Singaporeans against a columbarium cum temple being built next to their apartments signal the return of the seasonal NIMBy flu-like Syndrome.   

NIMBy is the acronym for “Not-In-My-Backyard”.  The NIMBy Syndrome is an affliction which strikes some residents to cause them to object actively to certain amenities and socially desirable development proposals near or adjacent to their residential areas.  The NIMBy Flu Syndrome is non-contagious and can only be infected by voluntary subscription. It is available only in developed countries and arrived in Singapore sometime in the 1990’s and manifested in more cases at the turn of the 21^st Century.

Many can recall other NIMBy cases involving foreign workers hostels, eldercare centre, nursing homes, facilities for the elderly, condominium towers, studio apartments for elderly, MRT construction launch shafts and international school.

NIMBy victims are often highly intelligent and imaginative. They usually cite good reasons for their seemingly “anti-social” conditions. These include noise and exhaust pollution from buses ferrying workers or students, a possible increase in crime (by foreign workers presumably), traffic congestion from school drop-offs and pickups, as well as higher noise levels from students’ play areas, sports facilities and canteen. Born again naturalists emerged to advocate preservation and prevent a forested area to be cleared for the 12-storey international school building; its tall shadow looming over mostly terrace or semi-detached homes notwithstanding. 

Current condominium residents in the Dairy Farm, Chestnut and Cashew areas should know that none of their tower blocks exceed 15 storeys because many earlier residents in the areas living in their low-rise as well as terraced and semi-detached homes did not want their however limited view of the Bukit Timah secondary forest blocked.  Seemingly avowed naturalists, they were also worried that plant and animal life could be harmed.  Also, any increased surface runoff would choke a nearby canal which already fills quickly when it rains. Many health and fitness enthusiasts are also upset that a planned road in the area (cancelled later) would cut into their popular canal-side jogging trail popular.

Nursing homes also have their capacity trimmed to placate the NIMBy patients. Other common reasons associated with the NIMBy Syndrome include noise pollution during construction, and traffic congestion on the roads that serve the affected areas.

Overall at the bottom-line, the unfounded fear of lower market value for their properties is the key reason for the unhappy NIMBy Syndrome.

TRUTH is: Singapore properties, both HDB and private as well as landed have all appreciated in value in spite of whatever reasons that the subscribers of NIMBy Syndrome have professed.

Do you know that some of the most expensive HDB flats are built on former cemeteries ie Bishan?  A big area of Bishan, Ang Mo Kio and Yishun are also former graveyards. There are also two columbariums adjacent to Bishan and Ang Mo Kio. Jurong was largely a mangrove swamp in the 1960’s. The “Mllionaires’ Row” of huge bungalows along Tanjong Katong Road and the East Coast also lost their sea and beach frontage years ago in order for Marine Parade to be built.

Hundreds of private terraced and semi-detached houses have actually been over-shadowed permanently by HDB flats and commercial buildings over the past 30 years.  None of their value has depreciated, but their property values have multiplied manifolds even as Singapore developed.

The NIMBy syndrome suggests a growing trend towards weaker community relationship as many become more selfish and short-sighted in their view towards Singapore’s social development.  Being a small island, the building of desirable social amenities must mean increasing density in land use.  Existing conveniences as well as views and forested areas may have to make way for the greater good for the benefits of a larger number of Singaporeans.  A NIMBy-oriented people makes children and our future generations the VICTIMs of NIMBy and they cannot therefore depend on their parents to build for them better facilities, better homes and better communities.  In the event, all the sacrifices of our pioneers and current generations will be for nothing.  Say “NO” and “Goodbye” to the NIMBy Syndrome on our 50^th Birthday, please.

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The Phobia of Living Together