Singaporeans becoming security guards

Have Singaporeans turned themselves into security guards? I don’t mean the security guards at the shopping centres or guarding housing estates but guarding the island? Our regular soldiers and NSmen are guarding the country with all its assets and reserves but the big question is for who? Have Singaporeans turned themselves into security guards, the only skill they are left with, and the good jobs are left to foreigners as Singaporeans no longer have the skill sets and talents to work in high positions, even to be political leaders? Have we reached such a hopeless state that Singaporeans are now guards to a rich island but have nothing to do with the wealth, except for some elites, that they can only look from the outside of the fence like guards usually do?

Just read the below comments from a reader in the blog.

‘For example, sinkies are put into pressure cookers from cradle to grave and guys have to sacrifice 2 precious years to serve national slavery ...... oops ...... national service ...... not mentioning life time yearly in camp trainings till 50, yearly IPPT tests and trainings, yearly ad hoc briefings, "suka suka weekends / public holidays mobilisation exercises " when u are celebrating your bd, having lunch/ dinner, looking after your new born etc?’

Is this the life of the average Singaporeans, whose main duty is to jaga the island day and night so that the foreigners can come here and get rich, take over the good jobs and may even take over the island? There are so many good stuff to guard and protect, but do the Singaporeans have a share of the good stuff and the good jobs when foreigners are even invited to be political leaders and CEOs of Singapore’s own institutions? Yes, yes, Singaporeans got no more talents. Without these foreign talents Singapore will go kaput. So no choice lah, better to be guards, still got jobs to do.

If Singapore doesn’t provide these foreigners with good jobs, they cannot provide jobs for Singaporeans.  Then Singaporeans want to be guards also cannot. Be grateful and guard the island well.

Lee Wei Ling – Welcome to social media

‘Lee Wei Ling: I will no longer write for SPH’ This has appeared on 1 April after Wei Ling posted in her Facebook that she would no longer write for SPH. Yahoo News quoted her saying, “I will no longer write for SPH as the editors there do not allow me freedom of speech. In fact, that was the reason why I posted the article on LKY would not want to be hero-worshipped.”

Initially many thought it was another April Fool’s joke. Since April 1 has passed and no clarification has come forward, this must be true. This must be the biggest slap the SPH ever got from someone renowned and from the establishment, and from the family. What does it say about the SPH?

I think Wei Ling has quite a big following when she was writing for the SPH when they gave her the attention due. It would be a pity that her followers and Singaporeans would not be hearing her version of the truth any more. I think many people would like her to keep on writing about the things that no one would write about and from a privilege insider’s view, someone who is in the loop.

Perhaps she could consider penning her thoughts in social media. Someone has suggested that she should write to TRE to express her opinions now that the main media is taboo to her. She is definitely welcome to post in mysingaporenews. I would be glad if she could be a resident contributor in my blog.

My blog is not about anti establishment as some low thinking insects would want to make it to be. It is about controversial policies, thoughts, ideas and views, not about individuals, good or evil. In a way it is about the force and the dark side.

Wei Ling will be most welcome to say her piece here, with no editorial restrictions or curbs. I personally guarantee that, freedom to write as she wishes. She must speak up when necessary, for her conscience and the good of the people. The social media is at her disposal. But of course she has her Facebook to tell all.

James Cook invaded Australia, NOT discovcred

A BBC news reported on 31 Mar 16 that an Australian Premier wanted to change the true history of Australia, that Britain invaded Australia, not discovered Australia. And I quote,

‘A top politician has backed university guidelines saying students should refer to Britain's "invasion" of Australia.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) rejected claims on Wednesday it was "whitewashing" its curriculum.
Its Indigenous Terminology guide urges students to use the term "invaded" rather than "settled" or "discovered", and to avoid the word "Aborigines".
Queensland state Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she supported universities teaching "the truth"….

"A lot of Indigenous people lost their lives, there were massacres and the truth always must be told."
When the premier was asked if this meant Australia had been invaded, she answered "yes"…. There were already more than 250 separate language groups of Aboriginal people living on the land.
Then began a process of colonisation and land confiscation which denied Aboriginal rights to land, citizenship and equal status - rights which in many cases were only finally bestowed in recent decades.’

This piece of news would not be of interest to the West or even people in Asia. Our New York Times would not be bothered with such news but would reported profusedly on the island dispute in the South China Sea because it serves a different agenda and the interests of those favoured. The indigenous people of Australia have lost their land. It is history. No point talking about them. The main purpose now is to prevent China from claiming the islands. It is easier to control the South China Sea if the islands are claimed by the Asean countries than by China. It is better to keep the dispute alive and let it fester and agitate the claimants to go after one another, then sell them more weapons in a divide and rule strategy. Keep reporting the dispute and tension and keep stirring hatred and conflict among these countries. Let it become second nature and the Empire will sail in to take control.

The Asean countries have retaken their land, regained their independence. The important thing to them is to go out and claim islands in the South China Sea like Britain claiming Australia and the Europeans claiming the world outside Europe in the seventeen century..

The status of the islands in the South China Sea is in a way similar to Australia, New Zealand, the continent of North America and many other pieces of land all over the world. The only exception is that the islands have no indigenous people, uninhabited. Yes, anyone can claim them. But the rule of this game is still the rule of yesteryears. It is finder’s keepers, and if there is a dispute, the claimant must be able to make the dispute go away, to make it a reality. It is a different ball game for any country going out to claim land or islands. Face the fact, you need the barrel of the gun.

The Asean countries are strong, military powers in their own right and thus are able to make competing claims against China. Go ahead and make your claims a reality, if you can.

Let me return to this BBC news. Who is this Premier? Read her name. Yes, she is an indigenous people. She is a minority that survived the massacre and lives to tell the truth and wants to claim the rights of her indigenous people. She wanted the truth to be told. Who asked her if it was discovery or invasion? Obviously the descendant of the invaders, and his truth was that they discovered Australia. That was why he had to ask if Australia was invaded. What, indigenous people the owners of Australia?

The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, a Papal Bull, gave them the authority in the name of God the Almighty that non believers were sub humans and had no rights to land ownership. And the superior Europeans had all the right to take their land and their lives in the name of God. The Europeans, in Australia’s case it was James Cook and his British sailors, discovered Australia. The indigenous people were like the live stocks in the land, no rights to anything. That was their truth. This is not worth reporting, not worth to know.

So, would Australia rewrite their history books after more than 200 years of British and western truths? There have been some changes in mindset and some left over surviving tribes were given some land, while the rest of the continent is still owned by the European settlers that ‘discovered’ Australia.

Can you live with the truth? Whose truth? White men don’t tell lies. They just tell their own truth. You can’t handle the truth.

PS. BBC reported this, ‘Meanwhile, the University of Queensland says it does not teach that Captain Cook "invaded" nor "settled" Australia’. So, what did they teach?

PS. People who did not know their history would be happily deceived.

Singapore’s nuclear nightmare

Singapore’s dream of switching to nuclear power came to a rude ending with the Fukushima disaster. It is unimaginable if Singapore operates a nuclear plant and a mishap of a similar nature occurred. There is no where to hide and no where to run. It would be Singapore close shop for another 20 years. This stark reality has put the idea of a nuclear plant on hold for good until a fail safe system is available and there is no need to run away.

This, unfortunately is not going to be the end of Singapore’s flirtation with nuclear power. The nightmare would still be there. Indonesia and Malaysia are very keen in nuclear power and are exploring on the feasibility of having their own nuclear power stations. What if the Malaysians decided to have one and decided to have it located next to the Johore Straits, a mere 1 km from Singapore’s shore or less than 15km from the heart of Singapore city? A mishap with a 100km evacuation zone would mean Singapore has to close down as well.

This risk, if it actually comes to passé, is more deadly than having our very own nuclear plant. With our own plants we can be sure we will do everything we can to keep it safe. Now we know it is a near impossibility. What about the Malaysians having a plant next door and trying their best to keep it safe?  The thought of a Malaysian or Indonesian nuclear plant near by is going to drive Singaporeans bonkers.

Would Singaporeans have to live with such a nightmare waiting to happen? Please pray hard that both the neighbours would think like us, that it is near impossible to keep the lid tight on a nuclear plant and hoping nothing will happen. If the Malaysians or Indonesians think they are confident to make sure it would not happen, and go about building one next door, it would not be amusing.

Singapore may have to go begging them not to do so, NIMBY! Or would Singapore say you jump I jump? You build one I also build one?  This Titanic logic would not work. Where can we build but just inside this piece of rock?

Singapore walking on tight rope as MAS probes Najib

It was reported that the MAS had queried 40 financial institutions in Singapore on the flow of funds involving 1MDB. Such an action coming out at the time is politically very sensitive given the intimate and good relations between Najib and Hsien Loong.  The cordial relations between the two PM could be described as the best between the two states and it is very dicey to have this relationship rattled by such an investigation.

The big question is how the relationship between the two PM and the two states be affected as a result of this happening. Would Najib’s feather be so ruffled that the goodwill turns sour and leading to obstacles surfacing again?

As a financial hub and the complex relations with the western financial system and govts, Singapore is in a very tricky situation, like balls caught in a vice, to do or not to do. Where is the pressure coming from for Singapore to take such a high profile investigation? One can understand why Switzerland too could not pretend to be neutral and apolitical in this 1MDB story. Switzerland too must be under tremendous pressure to open up an investigation and undermined its safe haven for rogue funds image. Nothing else is safe in Switzerland henceforth and rogues wanting to park their wealth in that little European financial hub would have to think very hard after this episode.

Singapore has a better image in being a better managed and transparent system in the model of New York and London.  Conducting such an investigation when all the worms are crawling all over the place is inevitable. Tough luck for Najib for offending the Empire.  Now he would have to pay a heavy price when the Emperor issued his edict and no countries would dare to defy the order if they want to remain as the good boys of the Emperor, at least not countries that are receiving blessings from the Emperor.

Najib would now have to fight his own solitary battle or go begging the Emperor for mercy. In what way had Najib offended the Emperor for the latter to go after his blood and his Premiership?

How long would Singapore and Malaysia’s honeymoon last? Would it survive this 1MDB crisis?

One probable solution for Najib to get all the investigation against him off his back is to acquire a few American warships and submarines. Then he can appoint his Defence Minister as the Commander of his Pacific Ocean Fleet and push China out of the South China Sea. This would please the Emperor and all his 1MDB problem will disappear in mid air. He may be rewarded with another round of golf with Obama. But he needs to do this fast as the new President Trump would not be so friendly and it would be too late.