CLOB’s disappearing act

Can anyone remember what happened to those Malaysian CLOB shares that were once listed in our Stock Exchange? Yes, first they became penny stocks, then super penny stocks, that consolidation from 1000 to 1 and from 100 to 1 and ended with practically nothing. This magician act of turning a mountain into a mole hill and then to a grain of sand is going to be repeated in the Singapore Stock market once again.

Many stocks in the mainboard were allowed to be split, just like the CLOB shares to penny stocks and eventually turning into super penny stocks. Who said history does not repeat itself? Only people who did not know history would repeat the mistakes of the past.

The penny and super penny stocks have been given a dead line to consolidate by 2016 or face being delisted. We cannot have a Mickey Mouse stock exchange. Who said so? How come we don’t know and allow our market to be turned into a Mickey Mouse stock exchange? Did we see it coming? Did we see how damaging it will be to allow the value of stocks in the mainboard to become penny stocks by splitting and splitting? Whose great idea was it and what was the purpose of this great idea? To facilitate computer trading or to encourage children to play in the stock market?

So now someone thinks it is not a good idea to have penny and super penny stocks. What about reducing the board lot size to 100 shares or later to unit share? To provide liquidity or to facilitate computer trading again? Again I would like to ask, whose great idea is this and what is the purpose? Oh, more liquidity so that little children can buy with a few dollars in their kitty banks.  What then is the difference between a Mickey Mouse stock market with penny and super penny stocks and a Mickey Mouse stock market with unit shares that cost a few cents or a few dollars to trade?

Got difference meh? Got. Ok, I surrender. Someone said, LPPL. Does anyone want to remember the history of CLOB shares and penny stocks and where it will end up?

The USA pulling out its blue prints to create an ISIS in South China Sea

Watch this video, ISIS was created by the US, VID-20151015-WA0001.mp4. It is only 11 minutes long to open your eyes as to who is the real evil one. The formula was to destabilise the Arab states one by one. The first to go was Iraq and then Libya, and now Syria. The strategy was to keep the Middle East in constant warfare to benefit the war industries in the USA and of cause you know who are the other beneficiaries?

The blue prints said, first topple the govt, then destroy the infrastructure, then destroy the societies and the country will break apart. It happened to Iraq, Libya, Eygpt and many of the North African states and those in the Middle East. Syria is on the way to be like another Iraq.

The second step is to feed the socalled rebels or resistance movements or anyone that would accept the arms, money and training to fight the existing order. Break down the law and order, and keep feeding the fighters. And there you have it, disorder and a destabilised country. And ISIS rules from the ruins. The people were displaced, no jobs, no industry, no schools, no services, basically anarchy. That is the main goal of the Americans, to keep the Arab countries forever at war, countries in turmoil, and be kept at the stage of Stone Age. And they have succeeded exceedingly well. They will keep fanning the war and keep destabilising the region.

The same blue print is being rolled out in the South China Sea. There is law and order and stability in East and South East Asia at the moment. But the US has created an enemy for the unthinking and silly leaders in the region to hate. Now the Americans are pouring money in to the unthinking but willing to take on the straw man as their enemy. They will arm the silly leaders and train them to fight. And soon there will be wars in the South China Sea, and the region destabilised. The silly people will be shouting God is Great and fighting without knowing why they are fighting. And their economies will be in ruins and they will be depending on the USA for more aids and assistance so that they can continue to fight a war they did not know how it happened. What about economic development for their country and people?

Who are the silly leaders that would want to be the ISIS of the region? They will not put up their hands but we can see them standing up to volunteer for it. The Americans are starting with US250m and maybe a junk warship for the Philippines to start with.

Welcome aboard thick heads, to do the killings and to be killed and turn South East Asia into another war zone. Who would be the potential ISIS countries to help to destabilise the region? The Americans will be your strongest backers to supply you with arms and money to fight a war they started for you while your country and economy will rot like Iraq, Libya and Syria. Is that what you want for your country and people?

Oops, my apologies, I am wasting my time. Thick heads would not understand. They just want to have guns in their hands and to act like the Americans, be trigger happy.

The Americans turning their allies into addicts

What does one know about being an addict? Yes it is addiction when the dependency on a drug or something is so great that one cannot do or live without it. The Americans have done exactly this, to convert their allies into addicts for American presence and protection. The American military umbrella now is indispensable, more badly needed than before after the Paris attack. All the countries that were forced into the Coalition of the Unwilling are now accomplices to the act of violating the land of the Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East. They are now trembling in fear that they will be the next target of the ISIS. No one knows where and when the ISIS suicide squads will hit next. But they are sure that the ISIS will hit, only a matter of time and only where.

‘According to Ernest Bower of Washington based think tank, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), “Countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei have real and immediate concerns about citizens who have left to fight in Syria and Iraq, and will be returning…After Paris, most Asian countries will be looking to the US for leadership in the counter ISIS fight.’ And Ernest gloated, ‘This will underline the US’ global security role.’ I quote this from an Agencies report dated 17 Nov 15 in the Today paper.

What Ernest did not say is that those countries that were involved in the American’s war in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq and Syria, will be the main targets of ISIS with France being the first victim. The rest will have to wait for their turn to see carnage on their streets. The Americans have succeeded in turning their allies into a high dependency states for American protection by dipping their hands in the blood of Iraqis and Syrians in their joint campaigns in these countries. There is no escape and no where to hide and no one to turn to except to the Americans.

And there is no option to go for cold turkey treatment. Once addicted, forever tainted and cannot get out of the game of American treachery and deceit in the game of death. They destabilized and broke up countries and dragged their allies to do the dirty works with them. The allies will now have to go down on their knees to beg for protection and get more addicted everyday.

France’s problem, Singapore’s solution

The govt leaders, analysts and experts must be wondering what went wrong in France that led to the massacre over the weekend. Could it be avoided if the French govt did the right things. Never mind about the French bombings in the Middle East. They were there for training and target practices, nothing to do with the attack in Paris.

 

I was listening to Channel News Asia news programme and there was the answer everyone was looking for. It was so simple but no one could think of it. Our terrorist expert in the S Rajaratnam School of International Affairs, Prof Rohan Gunaratna explained France’s problem and what France could have done and avoided the attack.

 

France has a huge immigrant population and mostly from the Middle East and Africa, and mostly Muslims. As a result there was an integration problem. The French govt failed to integrate them into the main stream of its society. Many were jobless and live in the ghettos and continue to live their way of life that is very different from the French. They were marginalized and remain aliens in France. And what can you expect from poor, jobless, hungry and marginalized people? They are angry and felt neglected, let down and outcasts in France. Such people would easily be lured into the world of terrorism, to take revenge on the society that had left behind. And there you have it, the Saturday Night Fever that was deadly.

 

The European countries that are taking in the refugees must learn this lesson from France. They must take good care of the refugees, give them good jobs, do not let them get together to live in slums or ghettos. Integrate them with the rest of the population. When these people are fully integrated and become like the rest of the citizens, you would not have terrorist problems.

 

Don’t ask me how to integrate the Muslim immigrants with the mainly Christian locals. But I may suggest they learn from Singapore. Singapore has a huge immigrant population but they are successfully integrated and blended very well with the locals. The govt spent a lot of time and money to integrate them and the locals have fallen in love with them. But that is only one part of it. Give them good jobs. In this area Singapore has definitely outdone everyone else. We not only gave them good jobs, we gave them top jobs instead of giving the jobs to Singaporeans. And the unemployment rate of Singaporeans is even higher than the immigrants. And when Singaporeans lost their jobs and could not find jobs in Singapore, the govt would not impose a pro citizen policy of hiring Singaporeans first. Instead the govt would train the Singaporeans to work overseas. So the angry Singaporeans would not be left behind, jobless and trying to make ends meet and give trouble. They will be happily employed overseas.

 

And, oh yes, this one very important. In Singapore, the immigrants don’t stay in the ghettos. They either live with the Singaporeans in their homes, fully integrated or they live in private condos in their own ghettos, together. Oops, living in private estates on their own would be fine. They will be so happy that they would not think of becoming terrorists in their fine homes that are better than the average Singaporeans.

 

This is the successful story of full integration with the immigrants, to make them happy, with good jobs and good homes, the Singapore integration way. The European countries must send their officials here on study mission to learn the right ways to integrate their immigrants before they turned into terrorists. France has its problems and the rest of the Europeans too have their problems with their immigrants.

 

Singapore has the solution in hand. It is called integration. So simple!

Highway robbery in Sin City

The entrance of Uber and Grabtaxi was supposed to bring in more competition to the local taxi industry and the immediate benefits taxi users are thinking off must be cheaper and better service. With more players on the road, these must be the case. After all the operating cost of these new players are very much cheaper than the traditional taxis.

There was this user who took a taxi at peak hours and hit by price surge. In the 27 minute trip, she paid $169! This is as good as a budget air ticket to Kuala Lumpur that is 500km away.  How could this happen? Sure it can happen and Uber explained how it works. The service has different rates for different level of services. The base rate or cheapest rate could be as cheap as the traditional taxi fare at $18 for a similar trip.

Taxi users better get use to this kind of cost for taking taxis. We are not the most expensive city in the world for nothing. The only think lacking behind is our taxi fares which is still very cheap compares to New York, Paris and London or other big cities. And many khongcums have been cheaping and cheaping and telling everyone our fares can go up higher to keep pace with the big cities. Cheap, cheap, cheap will soon be no more.

We are starting to see highway robberies on our roads when innocent taxi users could have their wallet emptied, legally.