Swee Say – No U turn on foreign worker policy

Swee Say is really on the ball. One month in the job he is already like a fish in the water. He held a press conference and used charts to brief the media in details on the policies of MOM. And he stressed that there will be no U turn on the curb on foreign workers. The cap would still be on to ensure that there will be a Singaporean core in the workforce. Building a Singaporean core of workers is important or we would end up with more foreign workers than Singaporean workers. That is bad.
 
See any change? Under Chuan Jin, the focus was on building up a Singaporean core of PMETs if I am not mistaken. Or at least Tharman was talking about building a Singaporean core of finance talents for top management. Even if the plan is for Singaporeans to be top management material in 30 years time, it is still a plan, better than nothing.
 
What is this Singaporean core of workers so that more Singaporeans can become workers? Would Swee Say be interested in a Singaporean core of PMETs? Is there a change in policy focus that we want to have more Singaporeans as workers? Is this a good thing? Are we telling Singaporeans to aspire to be workers because the govt wants to have more Singaporeans as workers?
 
Is this part of the plan to tell Singaporeans university education is not necessary as there will now be more worker’s jobs for them? Maybe we need to wait a bit longer for him to tweak the Fair Compensation Framework to favour our PMETs.

Amos Yee – How to cleanse this ‘devil’?

Putting him in jail wlll not save him. He is too evil, incorrigible and needs tougher measures if he is to be saved. A minimum of 18 months of reformative training under some angels is the least that is needed to save this bad boy. Heard they are considering 30 months of reformative training to be effective. The good hearted people are overstressing themselves to find a solution to save this boy from the devil. No stone will be left unturned to save him. You cannot blame them from trying.
 
I would like to make a suggestion. How about exorcising him? Get a priest to work on him, pull out the oldest scriptures on exorcism, get the most powerful priest to drive the devil out of him. The bathing of flower water would definitely not work on this bad boy. He is not a pagan or idol worshipper. Otherwise it would be quite easy. After bathing with flower water, let him drink a glass of water soaked with the ashes of burnt yellow charm paper. That would work.
 
Please do not suggest burning him on a stake. That would be too harsh. Like his lawyer Alfred Dodwell said, reformative training would be ‘disproportionate to the offence in question.’ So how, imprisonment would not work, long reformative training inappropriate and burning him on a stake surely cannot. What about water treating or water dunking? Anyone want to suggest bomoh?
 
It is very tough and unappreciated trying to save such a bad boy with a devil in him. Anyone got better ideas to save Amos the bad boy? Amos Yee is so lucky to be receiving so much attention from good hearted people. Be grateful and be thankful, and the best part, all free, no need to pay.
 
Amos Yee, why are you so difficult? You are making so many people worrying for you, trying to save you from the dark side. All because of you, so many people have to work extra hard when they could be spending time on other more important matters.

The Americans claiming the whole of South China Sea

Everyone is flabbergasted that China is claiming a large part of the South China Sea. The other littoral states are also in the rush to claim as much as they could. The South China Sea islands were uninhabited and for a long time, virgin land, terra nullius. Under historical precedence, such islands are finder’s keepers. What is so wrong about that? Whoever found it first earns the right to ownership.
 
Compare this to the European way of gunboat diplomacy, ‘I came, I saw and I conquered’ or I planted my flag and the land belonged to my king or queen. Who cares whether the land was already occupied by the natives. What natives, no natives. Natives did not count. And today, these natives are asking the Europeans to take sides with them to claim no man’s land, the very intruders that colonized them against their will, with the barrel of the gun.
 
Again, what is so great about China claiming the whole of South China Sea when the Americans are claiming all the oceans, including the South China Sea? No, the daft did not see that. The daft did not know the Americans are claiming the whole of South China Sea and the whole world. The Americans are here with all their warship and telling everyone to stop reclamation or else.
 
Who the Americans think they are? They own the South China Sea and everyone must obey their dictates? When the Americans told the countries making claims to the islands to stop reclamation and other activities, it is as good as saying, ‘Look, you silly asses, these islands and the whole South China Sea belong to the USA, the Empire. And the Empire is saying, stop your activities, we are taking charge of these islands and the South China Sea. They belong to US.’
 
Can the daft see this? The Americans are claiming everything, more than what China has claimed, and what the other states are claiming. They are the de facto owner. And on what basis are the Americans claiming the South China Sea? The big gun of course! Might is right, and with might, the Americans can claim everything and threaten anyone disobeying or going against them.
 
Step aside, all you daft, the South China Sea belongs to the Americans. They are taking over. They are sending in their ships and aircraft to patrol the Sea, Get it? Let me put it in simple English. While the owner of the house is shouting at the neighbor next door, a big bully has moved in and is taking over the whole neighbourhood without them knowing. And they are so happy believing the big bully is there to help them. The Americans agitated the silly countries to quarrel with China, to claim China’s islands. And when they started to quarrel among themselves, the Americans walked in as the policeman to tell everyone to get lost.
 
The daft countries would always be ruled if they did not know what is happening, what is the big picture. For playing the silly games of claiming other people’s land, they are going to lose everything, including what they have. The Empire is here to take over and to rule. And they are here on the invitation of Asean states.

Redbean Soup in the process of printing

                Redbean Soup
                Tonic for the soul




This is a collection of essays and satires posted in http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.sg by Chua Chin Leng aka Redbean


 

My book is off to the printer. It would be just about 200 pages but only managed to squeeze in 54 articles. I thought I could put in 100 articles but with an intro appetiser to each article to bring it into context, it is the best I could do.

Think should be able to get it out before end of this month. Waiting for confirmation from printer on date of delivery.

Thanks folks for the encouragement.

Redbean

The daft’s understanding of disputed territories

The South China Sea islands are disputed territories so no one can conduct land reclamation. Who said so, the Empire said so. China first laid claims to the islands donkey years ago, centuries ago. Johnny comes lately makes his claim to the islands as well, so the islands are now disputed territories.

The Philippines are claiming Sabah. So Sabah is disputed territories and the Malaysian govt cannot to anything to the state until some warlord decides who has the right to the territory. If not happy, bring in the Americans and their warships to arbitrate according to American’s interest to favour whichever party. What if someone claims that Singapore belongs to him, so Singapore is a disputed territory and no more land reclamation can be carried out, no more building of HDB flats etc etc.

Is this an acceptable argument, a reasonable logic? What if the Red Indians start to make claims to the USA, Mexico starts to make claims to California and Texas and New Mexico, would these states also become disputed territories and all works must stop?

The daft are very easy to convince and very easy to con. The Americans are using power logic, using gunboat diplomacy and thinking that might is right all over again. This is the 21st Century and the Americans may have a lot of big guns, but other countries also have big guns. You want to play the game of chicken, come lets play.

What would the daft say? What would the daft think? Oops, sorry, the daft can’t think. They just parrot whatever the Americans are saying as the right thing. Ng Eng Hen also warned about the use of force and ‘might is right’ in the Shangri La Dialogue. The gangsters have brought in their biggest team this time with their Vietnamese killer, the Number One hawk in John McCain, to support another new hawk in Ash Carter.

Might is right is the American way when they have overwhelming power like in the Middle East where they could wallop the Arabs and the Arabs could not hit back. Now with ISIS growing as the next force to reckon with, the Americans knew they could not deal with them, so they shift their theatre of war to the South China Sea. It would be good if the ISIS could do more damages to the Americans in homeland and keep them at home and not doing mischief all over the world.

ISIS has promised to fight in American soil. The prospect of that happening should bring Ash Carter and John McCain rushing home to cover their asses. If that would to happen they will have no time to talk about disputed territories in South China Sea, show of force and their pivot to Asia. The only way to deal with the Americans is in homeland America, where their comfort zone is too close for comfort.

Remember George Bush Junior running for cover during 911?