More Singaporean bashing and more foreigner ass kissing

The recent spate of Singaporean bashing by the political leaders is becoming a trend that the ST Editorial also wrote a piece on 6 Feb saying foreigners were at fault is rubbish. There were also Singaporeans in the Laneway Musical Festival, so cannot blame the foreigners, Singaporeans were also at fault.
 
The same kind of logic should apply to Hong Lim. Hong Lim was always clean after a Singaporean event. And there were also some foreigners present. So the foreigners were the ones that kept Hong Lim clean too.
 
I was hoping that someone has some statistics on the number of Singaporeans at the Laneway musical and the number of foreign filth there. I deliberately used foreign filth since they were glorified as the clean and responsible darlings of the elite by the elite. Even if there were some Singaporeans there so what? Would everyone with a moustache be your father? I can’t believe that our elite were so defensive of the foreign filth and felt so free to kick, admonish and rebuke the Singaporeans and assuming that the Singaporeans were the guilty ones and the ones that needed to be scolded. Did anyone of them say anything about the foreign filth that left all the filth behind?
 
Have the elite turned against the Singaporeans? What is the agenda? Where are they going?

The end of Anwar 安华

The attack on Chinese businesses by UMNO’s Agriculture Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob was like a premonition of the end of Anwar安华. The long and dragging saga of Anwar’s sodomy charge came to a close this morning. The Court of Appeal upheld the earlier conviction and Anwar is going to jail for another 5 years. This will mark the end of his political career for sure. I don’t see how Anwar could get out of this fix short of a violent outbreak of public demonstration by his supporters on a national scale.
 
In his final parting shot, this is what Anwar said, "You could have carved your names but in bowing to the dictates of your political masters, you have become partners in the murder of the judiciary. You chose to remain on the dark side," ….
 
The judges walked out of the court before Anwar could finish what he wanted to say. It was a sad ending for Anwar and his supporters. The opposition camp will be thrown into disarray. Would there be hope of a return or release of Anwar? Not under this govt.
 
Selamat jalan, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, DSAI. His supporters would be shouting hidup Anwar, hidup DSAI. Nothing is going to change, nothing is ever going to change anymore. What a sad ending to this true son of Malaysia. He is a real fighter but the odds were too big against him. Malaysia has lost a brilliant son!

GE 2015/16 – What would it be?

After the PGP the PAP delivered two more panaceas, the Medishield Life Insurance and the revisions to the CPF scheme. And the PAP is pleased from what Hsien Loong has said, from the happy and smiling faces in Parliament, you know they have done it. You can feel it, the contentment and confidence that they have done right this time and they assumed, or they thought, the people are also pleased.
 
If the assumption and thinking are true and correct, the PAP is going to have a walkover in the coming GE. When the people are happy with the govt, with all the panaceas, you can bet they will all vote for the PAP, for more good years and for betterer Medishild Life and CPF schemes. 

What would it be? A Tham Weng Kay commented in an editorial piece titled, ‘PM on CPF: Many don’t jump around in Hong Lim Park’. His comments were pretty long and I just quote a para here:
 
‘Lee Hsien Loong, MORE LIKELY THAN NOT THE DRASTICALLY REDUCTION OF VOTES TO THE FAVOUR OF PAP IN THIS COMING GENERAL ELECTION THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DOWNFALL AND COLLAPSE OF THIS ENTIRE PAP GOVERNANCE WILL SPEAK FOR ITSELF AS TO WHETHER OR NOT SINGAPOREANS ARE : QUIETLY KNOWS (this is a good deal) OR ALL THESE ARE EVIL AND WICKED CPF PROCEDURAL SCHEMES CRAFTED BY YOU AND YOUR TEAM OF DEMON SPIRITS…!!!!’
 
Obviously Tham Weng Kay did not find the panaceas amusing or was convinced by their goodness. And he is putting his bet down that many Singaporeans would share his reservations and views, that the panaceas were nothing much to them.
 
Who is right? The PAP have been working very hard for the GE and rolling out all the good stuff, according to them, to win the votes. Would the voters see the good stuff as good stuff and be won over? Or would they sneer at the good stuff as election gimmicks and dump them as well as their votes to the opposition?
 
There can only be two outcomes in the GE, either the PAP wins or the PAP loses. In the former case, they will all be beaming their million dollar smiles for doing a good job and approved by the people. In the latter, can’t imagine how they would look like, after doing so much and assuming they have done good, only to be booted out.
 
There can be only two scenarios. Which one?

Death Threats against Singaporeans Embolden

One Month after Edz Ello, Death Threats against PM Lee

By MIKOspace

The curtain of silence over the earlier death threats against Singapore and Singaporeans appears to have emboldened others to do the same. This time, death threats are directed at Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.  It was reported that the Singapore Police have started investigating after Facebook posts showing photographs of bullets were addressed to PM Lee.  No further details were provided by the Police.

It has been just over 1 month after a Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) nurse posted inflammatory threats to “kick out Singaporeans” and “prayed for Singaporean deaths” on his Facebook on 3 Jan 2015. Also discovered was the pattern of derogatory anti-Singapore and anti-Singaporean remarks on the TTSH nurse’s Facebook [ID: Edz Ello] after the expose of his inflammatory death threats against Singaporeans.

After the hospital had wrongly placed the nurse on administrative duties, pending purported police investigations of the death threats instead of the standard HRM practice of suspending the Staff during the police investigations as well as an Internal Inquiry, TTSH changed its mind and decided to dismiss the nurse on 9 Jan 2015. 

The current status of the nurse, who is a foreigner, whether he is remanded in Police custody for his own safety (and Singaporeans’), or still at large in Singapore, is unknown. The Singapore Police has not reported the outcome of its purported investigations into Edz Ello’s death threats against Singaporeans.  

No information is available at this point as to whether the latest death threats against PM Lee are related or associated directly or indirectly with the earlier ones on Singaporeans by Edz Ello, and whether his friends or accomplices or co-conspirators are involved.

No death threats should be trivialized or given cursory dismissal.  Neither should they be “laugh away” as a Singapore politician had suggested. The politician scolded the more than 2,000 Singaporeans who reacted angrily to Edz Ello’s post and chided them as “petty”, “insecure”, “thin-skin”, too sensitive and “easily offended”.   

Would Mr Calvin Cheng, who was a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) from 2009-2011, now also accuse PM Lee of being “petty”, “insecure”, “thin-skin”, too sensitive and “easily offended” and advise PM Lee to “just laugh it off” the latest death threats instead of wasting Police resources to investigate them?

A month ago, a bartender was indicted on a charge of threatening to kill United States House Speaker John Boehner, possibly by poisoning his drink.  The bartender formerly worked in the same country club as the Speaker.

Investigations into the 2 Tsarneav brothers who set off two bombs that killed 3 and injured 260 more people at the Boston Marathon on 15 April 2013 found notes threatening the deaths of Americans.

Our collective national response to any national death threats to our leaders or any Singaporeans must be resolute, unambiguous, decisive and categorical.  In these times of social media, it may seem stupid that our “enemies” would want to announce its threats so openly and ubiquitously; but it takes a clever and extremely intelligent adversary to proclaim its intention loudly in the hope that we would not take him (them) seriously, especially on a social media as petty and inessential as Facebook.  

Choose wisely, people.  Our earlier silent and dismissive response to Edz Ello may have sent the wrong message of weakness, indifference and indolence.  Our new message in response to fresh death threats against PM Lee must not make the same mistakes. 

 

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CPF – I want to defer my withdrawal to age 90

One of the major recommendations by the CPF Review Committee is to encourage withdrawal of CPF savings to age 70. The assumption is that people live longer and many will live past 85. This is a fair recommendation, not sure about the assumption. If one has 15 more years to live, it is logical and reasonable to hold back CPF withdrawals till age 70 or even more. There is also the assumption that one would be hopping around like a young man/woman and needing all the more to fool around, to enjoy life to the fullest. Those senior seniors would be swinging around instead of sitting in a wheelchair and eating only porridge and nothing else.
 
To cut the matter short, I would like to delay my withdrawal to age 90, if only someone with the authority and ability to tell me that I will still be living at 100. Anyone out there can to this, can tell with 100% or 99% certainty that I can live that long?
 
I am quite certain that 30% would probably die at 60, another 30% by 70 and by 80 probably 90% would have gone to the maker. So, what is the point of delaying your withdrawal to 70 or 90 when many would have kicked the bucket by 70?
Yes, tell me that I can live to 100 and I will have to consider keeping my CPF money till 90 before withdrawing. Fair?
 
As for the statistical truth of more people living to 85 and older, this is a general statement. Maybe the govt can help to fine tune the probabilities. There is no point having a few hundred thousand in your CPF savings when you are dead at 60, 65 or 70. There is no point even if you live for another 5 years with a few hundred thousand in your CPF. There is no point to have a few hundred thousand when you are 80 or 90 when all you can do is to sit in a wheelchair and stare at the walls, and unable to do anything.
 
So, a fine tuning agency to help the people to determine how long more they will live past 70 would be useful. At least it can narrow down the odds medically. And the oldies can seek a second opinion with the spiritual source or fortune tellers to confirm their life expectancies. With these two data, the probabilities would be higher and more meaningful to leave the money in the CPF and to be able to enjoy the lifetime savings.
 
Pity would be those who struggled and saved for a lifetime but not able to spend a single cent of their savings. Who is a better god to bet whether a person would live past 70 or would die before that? Perhaps another insurance scheme would come in handy for people to withdraw their money at 55 and place a bet that they would live longer and covered by this over 70 years insurance. At least the seniors could spend their money in their 60s, and if things turn out so bad that they would have another 20 years to go, the insurance could provide for the remaining years in bed or in wheelchair. The sum need not be too high, no need a few hundred thousand except for those who refuse to die and want to live forever.
 
Good suggestion or not? Can tell me how long would I live?

Who is more merciful? To let you spend your money while you are still alive or to help you save your money and make you dead rich?