Solar eclipse on 9 Mar 16 seen from MBFC

The bottom photo about 1/3 from the left looks like another planet. Not sure what it was.

Donald Trump – The rogue for the President of the USA

The Americans love him and are forming up behind this 21^st century pipe piper for good or for the worst. But in the eyes of the American elite he is the father of all the rogues. Here are some accolades plastered onto this man by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times and reposted in the ST on 3 Mar. Here it goes:

‘Mr Trump is the promoter of paranoid fantasies, a xenophobe and an ignornamus  His business consists of the erection of ugly monuments to his vanity. He has no experience of political office…Mr Trump is grossly unqualified for the world’s most important polticial office.’

And according to a Robert Kagan in Martin’s article, ‘Mr Trump is also “the GOP’s Frankenstein monster”…’ What more glorious tribute could any American paid to this rogue called Donald Trump?

And it is precisely these attributes that made Trump what he is and what America is today, the Number One super power. And rogue or no rogue, Donald Trump is likely to be the Republican’s candidate for the Presidency and could be the President of the USA?

Singaporean leaders must be suffering in anguish at such a rogue that they would have to deal with when Trump comes calling in his Air Force One. Maybe we should erect a ERP in Changi Airport with a banner saying, ‘No rogue President in Singapore’.

No wonder Singapore can never be as great as the USA. The Americans will break any barriers, any rules, to be great. Singapore will play by the rules, by any rules, right rules, wrong rules, good rules, bad rules, as long as they are rules, Singaporeans will obey the rules. And the new rules coming up, No rogues can become the President of Singapore.

Donald, you get that?

Oh, let me return to say something good for Singapore in its pursuit for greatness. Martin’s article also mentioned about why Rome was great and this was what he said quoting Alexander Hamilton, ‘He notedthat Rome itself, with its careful duplication of magistracies, depended in it shours of need on the grant of absolute, albeit temporary, power to one man called a “dictator”.’ Martin went on to say that in the end ‘Augustus, heir of the popular party teminated the (farcical) republic and installed himself as emperor. He did so by preserving all the forms of the republic, while he dispensed with their meaning.’’  The world farcical is mine.

Singapore may not become as great as the USA with the prohibition of a rogue President but can become as great as Rome like the times of Emperor Augustus.

Dominique Sarron Lee – Was it negligence?

Many things have been written and reported about Dominique’s death. The officers had been charged in a military court, found guilty and punished. But not criminal charges were filed against them as the cause of Dominique’s death was due to allergy to fumes from the smoke grenades.

To cut the story short, the Today paper reported, ‘A Committee of Inquiry convened after the incident found that the number of smoke grenades discharged (six), and the distance between the smoke grenades were in breach of training safety regulations.’ What does this mean?

In the mypaper, BG Chan Wing Kai, commander of the army’s Training and Doctrine Command was quoted to have said, ‘Based on the size of the training area, no more than two smoke grenades should have been used.  But Najib threw six, flouting the SAF’s training safety regulations. BG Chan said they were convicted in a summary trial “for negligent performance of lawful order or duty” and punished according to military law.’

They were charged and found guilty of negligent. Was the act negligent, rash or something else? What does the word negligent imply?  Let me use a simply analogy. If a soldier is only allowed to dunk a recruit in water for 5 seconds but instead dunked the recruit for 20 seconds. Is it an act of negligence or a rash act, or more serious?

Let me use another example, a medic is to inject some vaccine into a soldier. He is supposed to inject 10 ml but chose to inject 100ml and killed the patient. Is this an act of negligence or a rash act or something else?

If only two grenades would be allowed but six were thrown in, why, what was the intent? Unintentional, negligent?

What do you think?

How much is the life a Singapore son worth? Felicia handed her son to the SAF. The SAF returned her son in a coffin plus $50,000 or a bit more. Would $100k be enough, or $500k or how much you want? Obviously some people did not know the meaning of what a son meant to a mother and the family. It is priceless!

PS.  ‘Contrary to misrepresentations, SAF personnel can be charged and punished in the criminal courts if they commit rash and negligent acts during the course of their military duties  that lead to injuries or deaths…said the Army.’ Valerie Koh Today paper.

China should form a coalition to counter the American military pivot to Asia

The American pivot to Asia, in real terms the military expansion into Asia, is gaining momentum. After setting up China as the new strawman, it is gathering more aggressive and belligerent countries in Asia to form a coalition to contain China. The Americans have a natural ally in Japan, the butcher of WW2 to want to rule over Asia. The Americans cunningly appointed another Japanese in Admiral Harry Harris to be the Commander of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, to initiate the containment of China.

It is roping in Australia, a white man ruled country in Asia that never sees itself as an Asian country, after robbing the continent from the Aborigines, and now India, to be part of the mafia to rule over Asia on the pretext of balancing China. Have the Indians forgotten that the Americans are ruling the Indian Ocean on their behalf with a massive nuclear fortress in the heart of the Indian Ocean in Diego Garcia?  The Indians are turning a blind eye to the American presence in the Indian Ocean and went about as if they are in charge of the Indian Ocean.

Should not the Asians wise up and keep Asia to themselves, Asia for Asians, instead of allowing the white men to return to recolonise Asia all over again in Neocolonialism? China militarizing South China Sea or the Americans taking over the region?

China should work with Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea and Asean to form an Asian Coalition to counter the American military expansion into Asia, to rule Asia under the American Empire. It would be good to include the Japanese, but the Japanese have the same ambition as the Americans, to rule Asia.

Now we have the two ambitious Imperialist powers working hand in hand, in the USA and Japan, to want to rule Asia all over again. When would Asians remove themselves from the control and dominations of the white men? Does India really believe that the white men are here for peace and stability? Have not India been conquered and ruled by the white men for more than 500 years? Would India welcome the white men to rule Asia and be a part of the white men’s scheme?

India must first think of getting rid of the American military fortress in Diego Garcia. That is real. The threat of China in the Indian Ocean is imaginary or far fetch.  The Americans are here, in Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean. The Chinese did not have any military base in the Indian Ocean. The Americans are controlling the Indian Ocean and wanted the Indians to be another piece of their pawns in the domination of Asian.

China shall seriously start to negotiate with the Asian powers to form a coalition to keep the Americans from ruling Asia and Asians. China has been avoiding forming military alliances so far, focusing on economic development and trade and still branded as an aggressive power and the foolish Asian countries believed in this American lie and forgetting that the Americans are taking over with all the military alliances and military bases in Asia.

Silver Spring job portal – Singaporeans helping Singaporeans?

Kudos to Helen Lim, 69, and a few others for setting up job portals to help Singaporeans looking for jobs, temporary, part time or permanent.  Singaporeans are trying to help other Singaporeans when getting a job is soooo difficult. Just look at the media report and you will know what I mean. ‘According to Ministry of Manpower data for the third quarter of last year, nearly 55 per cent of Singapore residents made redundant in the previous quarter were able to find a new job within six months. This means that 45 per cent take longer than six months to land a new job.’

Read what the MOM did not say. Every time they used the phrase ‘Singapore residents’ it is a sign that they are hiding something. Why are they afraid to give the breakdown between Singaporeans and non Singaporeans? Fishy, something that they find it embarrassing or politically wrong to give the breakdown? And why selectively only the third quarter of last year? What about the first and second quarter? Is it that the third quarter results are the most pleasant to the ears of Singaporeans? And for the 45 per cent that could not find jobs within six months, how many could not find jobs after one year, how many after 3 years, how many could not find jobs longer than that?

The article in the Today paper today also said that many of the job seekers ‘have a diploma as a minimum qualification, while many have degrees and post graduate qualifications. Some have experience working in multinational corporations.  It then added a ‘unique group of school leavers in their mid 50s onwards who have grown well in their organizations to managerial levels. This group, when retrenched, faces more challenges getting another corporate job with no paper qualification to support them,’ said Ms Lim.’

Here again we are hearing a uniquely Singapore paradox. University graduates here could not find employment for lack of skill sets. Experience PMEs that have done well, with a good track record, also cannot find jobs. And some ministers are saying paper qualifications are useless, cannot eat. It is skill sets and job experience that matters. If you keep listening to the clowns in the circus, one should be laughing. In this case, you just cannot laugh.

And despite Singaporeans coming out to help other Singaporeans, who do you think are the people or organizations employing the seniors, mums and mature workers? The article mentioned small and medium enterprises. ‘The current organizations that contact Silver Spring for candidates are growing small and medium enterprises…as SMEs “see the value in having some mature silver talents in their workplace.”’

Why no big organizations, why no GLCs, govt ministries? They are too big to help? They can’t find mature PMEs good enough and must go to 3^rd world countries to hire foreign talents with fake or degree mills or from ‘chapalan’ universities that are better than our world class universities?

The MOM also set up portals like Job Banks, for what? Is that their only responsibility and effort to help Singaporeans? Why can’t they work with GLCs and govt ministries to provide more jobs for mature PMEs, to give preference to Singaporeans? Or the foreigner CEOs are dictating who they want to hire and nothing can be done about it, even in GLCs?  I know the parrots would say cannot. Look, given preference does not mean you hire the bad apples. There are many good PMEs that are still good for another 5 to 10 or 15 years.

Who is helping Singaporeans to find jobs? What is the govt and MOM doing about this? Providing job data, talking about Singapore residents? That’s all? Why are the GLCs not helping out? GLCs that are making billions in profits do not need to engage in hiring cheap labour from 3^rd World countries. They should be doing national service to hire Singaporeans at the middle management level and below except for jobs that Singaporeans did not want. The Singaporeans are doing national service, sacrificing their lives, why can’t GLCs be doing national service to reciprocate the sacrifices of Singaporeans but continue to hire foreigners to replace Singaporeans? What is there to defend for the NS men, to sacrifice their lives for?