American treachery by Dr. Sawraj Singh

American treachery by Dr. Sawraj Singh -  http://thelinkpaper.ca/?p=46070

I saw a beautiful comparison of the railways in China and India, titled Indian Elephant Vs Chinese Dragon: Snail Rail Vs Bullet Train, done by Headlines Today (an Indian news channel) and available to watch on Youtube.com. For the comparison, two Indian reporters travel in one of the best trains in each country. One reporter travelled from Shanghai to Beijing on a bullet train, while the other travelled from Delhi to Jaipur aboard a train known as the Ajmer Shatabdi….

What these reporters have shown by comparing the railway systems actually represents the overall situation in both countries. Mao’s China gives the impression of a disciplined, harmonious, and tranquil society; while Gandhi’s India, where order and discipline have almost completely disappeared, pushing the country to chaos bordering upon complete anarchy.

While the Indian reporters presented a very balanced and fair comparison, the western media, with its ulterior motives, continues to present a very biased presentation. Nowadays, they are clamoring about the Indian economic growth rate exceeding the growth rate in China. The western media, which is bent on proving that India is going to overtake China, should watch this presentation by the Indian reporters. They may realize that their predictions are unlikely in the foreseeable future….

Why is the western media doing this? The obvious reason is that the West wants to use India as a sacrificial lamb. They want us to do their fighting and suffer the consequences. They want to shift the arena of the Third World War from Europe to South Asia. India has to see through the West’s ulterior motives and try to protect its own interests. We should not fall into the trap which the West has set for us.

Dr. Sawraj Singh, MD F.I.C.S. is the Chairman of the Washington State Network for Human Rights and Chairman of the Central Washington Coalition for Social Justice. He can be reached at

The above extracts are from an article written by Dr Sawraj Singh. The rest of the world should take note of his advice to stay out of the American scheme to drag everyone into wars. They are instigating the Asean countries to join them in a military conflict with China which would definitely drag in the Russians into the fray as well. While the Americans fight wars away from their homeland, the wars fought by those dragged into it, in the case of South China Sea region, will be in their front yards and would lead to attacks in their countries. So far, touch wood, only the silly Pinoys and Japanese think that it is a good idea to go to war with China. The Malaysians are showing signs of backside itchy recently.

The Americans are stirring more shit in Europe and dragging the G7 countries to go along to confront China and Russia. In the 19^th Century they manipulated the League of Nation in the 8 country invasion of China. Now they are trying a similar trick to lead another 8 nations to attack China, the G7 plus one or two stupid Asean countries. But the China they are facin today is not the same militarily weak China of the past. And China would have allies to join force to repel the invaders.

The Evil Empire is trying its evil best to provoke a world war for their own interests and lure the rest of the world to die for them. Would the rest of the world wise up, excluding the G7 that are in cahoot with the Americans to dominate the world?

Kenneth Jeyaratnam – Substance politician

Kenneth wrote an interesting article posted in the TRE titled, ‘KJ: Whose ‘egregious conduct’ should be punished?’ This is the kind of quality discussion that is sorely needed in today’s local politics, and is what Hsien Loong was talking about. We need more serious and robust discussion on what is happening to our country and where we are heading instead of petty politicking. Kenneth is maturing and showing great substance in the issues he is talking up as a politician of substance. Yes, politicians must be measured by substance, by the serious issues they raised and prepared to engage. Judge the politicians by what they are doing and what they are saying, got substance or no substance, it will all show up quite clearly.
 
It would be good that politicians of substance be elected into Parliament and Kenneth is one of the good candidates that deserved to have a seat and a voice in Parliament. His Reform Party is still a small party and it may be difficult for him to put up a strong team to contest a GRC. His other choice is to take on a single seat ward. There are also suggestions that he may want to team up with the stronger opposition parties to put up a strong combined team to take in a GRC.
 
Kenneth may want to seriously consider speaking to Chee Soon Juan or his father’s former party, the WP to collaborate with them. Think of the greater good for Singapore and the people. Hope Kenneth can put up a good team or go for other options to get into Parliament.
 
There is a sore need for more politicians of substance to be in Parliament to serve the people and country. The people need to be represented by good politicians with hearts in the right place and the next GE is about the best time to do so. The people must choose wisely, for their own sake and for their children’s sake.
 
Yes, we need substance politicians and many of them. We don’t need duds to fill the numbers in Parliament.

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Amos Yee – punishment versus correction

 

 

Offenders and criminals are rightly and expectedly punished by the rule of law when the law is broken. States need law to maintain order, security and rule of conduct for the proper functioning of a society. The rule of law provides a platform for people to coexist under a given set of rules that would make life bearable, orderly and to a great extent predictable.

 

The punishments meted out by the courts are measured and proportional to the crime committed. But before handling out a punishment, there is always the thought of corrective actions, to help the offenders not to commit the same offence again. But in some serious cases, the punishment is severe with no thought of reforming the offender. Death penalties are passed down in crimes where lives were taken or drug offences that are serious enough that corrective or reformative actions are found unnecessary.

 

So there are at least these two considerations when punishment are passed down, to correct and reform if possible, but if the crime is too serious, the court would do away with the corrective actions, and sentence the criminal to death.

 

In the Amos Yee’s case, it is not serious enough to want to just punish for the sake of punishment like serious crime. The thought is about reformation, about turning the boy offender around. And corrective actions can come in many shades and colours, from a pep talk, a warning, to reformative training and jail. What is then appropriate in the Amos Yee case would depend on how serious was the offence. In this particular case, I think many people have great differences in opinion. Some would rubbish this as the rant of a wayward youth and could simply be ignored. Some treated this very seriously and wanted the maximum punishment to be meted out. And the in betweens could vary between the two.

 

What is thus appropriate to be handed down to Amos Yee, a jail sentence or a long detention in a reformative centre? The prosecution is adamant on a long reformative training under detention and justifying it as reformative and corrective training. They are going to reform the boy.  The intent is so noble. Would it work? Would the boy be reformed after the stint in the reformative centre? Or would it lead to rebellion and harden the boy’s attitude towards authority?

 

Obviously a jail sentence would be just a punishment and would not do much good in correcting the boy. But would reformative training be more effective or be worse than a jail sentence? What’s next if the reformative training is ineffective and counter productive, recommend for an extension to keep the boy in detention again until he is reformed?

 

The effectiveness of reformative training for such a case is questionable.  No one can be assured that a reformative training would work and not to hurt or destroy the person under training. The result may be negative and just the opposite. This case would need the wisdom of mature adults to think through it carefully with the good of boy in mind. The corrective action or punishment must befit the severity of the offence.  What would a sincere and kind wise man or woman recommend for the good of the boy?

What would the people in the Kindness Movement recommend?

Loh Boon Chye – A Singaporean CEO in SGX at last!

 

 

It is good news to know that a Singaporean has been appointed as CEO of SGX to replace Magnus Bocker. Hope with his appointment, the flirtation with foreign talents is over and those infected with the foreigner is good disease will not look for another foreigner in the days ahead. The damage done to the Exchange over the last few years is so severe that Loh Boon Chye would have a hard time trying to breath life back into it. And hope they will give him time to understand the inherent problems in the system and to tear out a few chunks of cancerous growth that has cost the Exchange to go into a comma for so long. It would be painful and the Exchange would get worse before returning to its former glorious days.

 

Anyone thinking that the recovering of a dying exchange can be healed in a year or two would be hallucinating and deluding himself. And any small scratches on the surface would not do any good. Hope Loh Boon Chye could get a good grasp of the cancerous growth in the Exchange system and recommend what is necessary to save the Exchange before it is eclipsed and be irrecoverable. Perfunctory or cosmetic changes would not do.

 

It would take a lot of guts and persuasion for the new CEO to revamp the Exchange and return it to becoming what it was meant to be, a stock exchange and not a casino. Perhaps Loh Boon Chye may want to talk to other stakeholders to get a better grasp of the severity of the cancer instead of talking to the converts that are part of the problem. Talk to the people who know and not those who are asking for the return of a lunch break for the sake of a lunch break or those who think cutting commission, reducing bid size or smaller board lots would save the day. They could not tell the difference between a cold and SARS or MERS.

 

The Exchange is in dire straits and needs immediate attention to identify the real cause of its precarious state of being. There is no time for more wayangs and pretensions if the Exchange is to be saved. All the computers plugged into the system must be unplugged immediately as their modus operandi is detrimental to the fundamentals of a stock exchange. They seek short term profits that are contrary to the long term good of stocks and the Exchange. The Stock Exchange must return to its original role of supporting the growth of companies on a long term basis when fund managers can return to talk about fundamentals and long term investment to grow with the companies.