The fading of Pax America

India blasted its 3 stage rockets with 20 satellites into space, becomes a major commercial launcher of satellites. China successfully launched a new 2 stage rockets that is capable of carrying one and a half time the payload of its existing rockets to space. The Long March 7 would be in service as the main delivery vehicle of satellites to space and the main supply vehicle to its own manned space station in 2022.

Such news on India and China making progress in space rocketry may not seem to mean anything in the march towards the space frontier in the new century. What is very significant is the total silence, inactivity of NASA in its space programme. Nothing heard, nothing seen from the Americans except memories of explosions and failed Apollo missions in its last few attempts to conquer space. It’s latest mission was launched by a private company’s rocket.

In all reality, the USA is history as far as space technology and rocketry are concerned. It is no longer in contention and a player in space for a simple reason. It does not have a rocket that can fly. It does not have a rocket that would not go boom boom on launch. The Americans did not have anything to deliver its satellites to space, not even its astronauts to the space station it shared with the Russians. To make that trip, the Amercans have to hitch a ride on Russian rockets. That is how pathetic the American space programme and technology have become.

Now the bigger question, its ICBMs were based on 1960s techonology, equipments and parts and built during those ancient days. Are they still working? The Americans are still boasting about their huge arsenal of nuclear weapons and warheads, minuteman.  Can they fly when fired? Or would they go bzzzzzzzzz……and nothing happens? Those ICBMs are antique pieces in the silo museums of the American Defense Dept.

We used to have our Bloodhound surface to air missiles left behind by the British. We kept it for show for several years without firing a single missile and presuming that they would fly when fired. Luckily we need not test them or prove that they were working as they were supposed to. We have now replaced them, decommissioned them with many new missiles with new technology.

The American ICBM force is like our Bloodhound SAM. Same generation, as aged as our Bloodhounds. The Russians, the Chinese and the Indians, even Europeans, are moving and developing new space technologies that are more efficient and more advanced and working.

The Americans are still banking on their antiques in the silos to frighten the world that they have the most deadly nuclear missile force to reckon with.  How would they fair when put to the test? Would the fuses work?

When would the Americans start to build a new rocket that can fly?

Sonny Truyen - He is a foreign talent you know…

‘You can’t f**king catch pokemon in this piece of f**king s**t country.’ This is what Sony Truyen ranted when he could not access the latest Pokemon game.  Other proud Singaporean bloggers got offended by his stupid rant and told him off only to be told that he was a foreign talent and Singapore did not have such fantastic foreign talents like him, a search engine optimization specialist. And he is only here and employed for one week by a local property portal 99.co.

The CEO of the 99.co portal, luckily he is another proud Singaporean, not those gong gong type that would say regardless of nationality, got talent good enough, got him fired immediately and apologized to Singaporeans and Singapore for his retard’s bad attitude.

So presumably this Sonny Truyen would be out of job for a while. But not to worry for him, his employment pass is unlikely to be cancelled as he is a worthy and hard to come by foreign talent. Even if he has this hidden hatred for this ‘shit and fucking country’, he would be treasured and be allowed to stay here to fuck up more Singaporeans.

And there will be the Singaporean employers that would employ anyone got talent regardless of nationality to want to employ him. Maybe he is already employed and his employment pass renewed. Soon he may receive a letter of offer to be a Singapore citizen you know.

He is a foreign talent that we don’t have.

Thank you Darius Cheung for doing the right thing. Oops, some may think he has done the wrong thing, firing a foreign talent for fucking Singaporeans and Singapore. It is the right of foreign talents you know. The shameless Singaporeans would not mind being fucked by foreign talents allowed into the country. They love it.

Just wait to hear them coming out in defence of this great foreign talent. And who knows, he could be happily reemployed by now by another daft Singaporean company.

The South China Sea arbitration unilaterally initiated by Philippines is bogus, illicit and not supported by United Nations

The South China Sea tribunal unilaterally initiated by Phillippines with USA and Japanese instigation and backing is bogus, illicit and illegal. It is not under UN auspices and UN has stated clearly it has nothing to do with the sham tribunal. USA agenda in the South China Sea is part of its overall plan to contain China and its world strategy to destroy Russia and China as they are the only two countries obstructing USA evil plan to dominate and hold hegemony over all countries on earth.

Since United Nations has officially announced that it has nothing to do with the bogus tribunal it is the duty and responsibility of every world citizen who loves peace to denounce the USA stunts on the issue. Western mass media should stop deceiving the world by stopping its constant harping on USA stunts and the illicit announcements of the sham tribunal. Politicians and so called intellectual research fellows in institute of strategic studies in some ASEAN countries should stop parroting the western media . They should denounce the sham tribunal and condemn USA and the Philippines for trying to deceive everybody into believing the Philippine ploy of stealing Chinese territorial islands and seas in a convoluted way. Denouncing and condemning the US / Philippine falsehood is the only way to go failing which these politicians and strategic study researchers will shamefully go down in history as accomplices to the insidious plan of the Evil Empire - USA.

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Tuesday, 19th July, 2016

Singaporeans new aspirations

Singaporeans are a happy and contented lot. Thanks to so many years of good government, they have even left their brains in the locker, no need to think any more. Everything is being thought out and planned for them by the govt. They only need to do what the govt told them to do.

We used to aspire to be the Switzerland of Asia with Swiss standard of living. Some have achieved that and are very contented with their lives here. Those who haven’t are still aspiring to be one and are working on it with the govt helping them in the process. Those who are falling behind need not worry. The govt is coming up with many charitable schemes, rebates, subsidies, cash, some can touch, some cannot, there is money everywhere and no one is complaining.

Recently the govt has been churning out many new initiatives for the people to look forward to. Those familiar ones are like aspiring to get a degree to become taxi drivers and security guards. I can understand why they want to be taxi drivers. Think of the freedom and the benefits of being able to drive around in a car in the most expensive city in the world when a car costs more than a house. Those able ones are driving around in cars that cost more than the most expensive govt built flats, $500k, $1m or more. Driving around the city’s first class roads in a 4 rm flat is a common sight. And the taxi drivers can boast of being their own bosses, and all the free time they chose to take. I cannot think of a good reason to aspire to be security guard. Perhaps it makes one feeling safe and secure wearing uniform.

Let me just list down a few of the new aspirations of Singaporeans other than the dream job of being a taxi driver. Owning and riding a soup up good looking bike is now another great aspiration. Since cars are so expensive, to be able to move around the island, to feel the freedom of fresh air in the face, a good expensive bike is a good alternative. And the govt is making this a happy experience by building more bicycle tracks for the new HDB rich.

Lately this has not been spouted for sometime, but Singaporeans are aspiring to buy smaller and smaller flats in terms of size but more expensive in monetary terms. The good thing is that everything is within a hand’s reach. No need to walk around in a big flat. And they can use their unused brain to think for once on how to make every little nooks and corners useful. It requires a lot of careful planning and thinking to squeeze little pieces of furniture into their newly acquired small flats, a new style of living, without compromising on the quality of life. Oh, small flats easier to maintain, not much space to clean up.

Yes, many can keep pets too, like big exquisite dogs, in their little expensive flats. Why not when they don’t see the need for children to share the limited space? It is a lifestyle thing and dogs or pets are important to have.

The latest, their children are going to have stress free education and they could learn anything they want as long as they fancied them and would still go to university if this is still their aspiration. If not, and actually not necessary if they aspire to become hawkers to cook designer food to make a living. Can become very rich, with little need for higher education.

Being rich aside, the new education system will make the children and their parents very happy and stress free. Must be really good stuff. This must be an extension to the concept of study less and learn more. This will soon become a sought after model for the rest of the world to emulate.  I did not bother to read the details, but I can only presume that everything is carefully thought out and our education system will produce graduates from the hard disciplines as well. Forget about the old and outdated belief that you need to put in hard work to achieve, to do well. Hard work and sacrifice are no longer necessary. Please excuse me, I have retired my brain in the closet. When the govt said it is good, it must be good.

I think there is another big aspiration in the planning stage. This must be how to ensure that all the Singaporeans have a lot of money in their CPF. With the likelihood of no retirement age, Singaporeans can aspire to work forever, and to keep their CPF savings in the CPF forever and to feel very rich.

I am so elated that I am lost for words and can’t remember the other great aspirations of the millennial. Has it got to do with having all the good stuff but no need to work for it, or having a good life, a happy life, and not having to put in any effort, be happy, everything will be fine? Who said no effort no gain? Oh, just in case anyone forgets, riding bicycle needs strong legs to peddle even if you have 24 gears on the bike.

Turkey – All fingers pointing to Washington

You may not want to believe this, but what is so difficult to believe in a country that thrives on military coups, regime change and assassinations of independently elected leaders? Let me put the pieces together to show how it all worked out. Though Erdogan was an ally of the US and Europe, this is what they had said about him as reported by The Telegraph on 16 Jul 16.

 

‘Vengeful, irascible, authoritarian, obdurate. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was all of these things even before a cabal of Turkish generals tried to cast him into oblivion. Now that he has survived their machinations, his worst instincts will be redoubled and reinforced.

If Mr Erdogan was a maddening ally for Europe and America in the past, the leader who has just overcome a military coup will be capable of almost anything. 

In one sense, Mr Erdogan has been vindicated. Before the turmoil began on Friday night, one criticism that he found most infuriating was the charge of paranoia.

Westerners would deride Mr Erdogan’s claims that dark forces were massing to overthrow him and a conspiracy existed within the Turkish state, plotting his downfall.’

With this kind of reputation, how would the West tolerate this man as their ally? Is he dependable or is he a friend of convenience? Didn’t Erdogan’s pilot shot down a Russian fighter and putting the Turkey at the brink of war with Russia to the delight of the West? Should not Erdogan be rewarded for this reckless, unexplainable move? Or was there more than meet the eyes, that the shooting of the Russian aircraft was done without Erdogan’s approval? 

This coup is now shedding more light into this mysterious and very difficult to explain act. Why would Erdogan want to risk a war with the powerful Russians that is a nuclear power?  With the commander of the Turkish Air Base where Americans flew their warplanes arrested as member of the coup, does that ring a bell? Could the fighter aircraft that shot down the Russian jet be American or under the order of the Commander of this Air Base? Was the Commander involved in the shooting down of the Russian aircraft without the approval of Erdogan? What seemed to be a rash act of bravado starts to make sense after this coup.

How did Erdogan defuse the tension with Russia led by Putin, a man that meant serious business, a likely counter attack against Turkish war planes? None of this happened and Putin seemed very lame. Did Erdogan spilled the beans and revealed in secret to Putin that it was a false flag incident and avoided further escalation of the tension with Russia?

Then there was the visit to China and the mysterious application to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in which Russia is a major partner. Erdogan wanting to join the SCO instead of Nato and sit beside Putin? How could these fit into the jigsaw puzzle of the real picture and intent of Erdogan as an ally of the West or as someone straying to join the Russia China camp?

This coup says that the latter is the likely truth, that Erdogan is moving towards the Russo China camp and must be taken out, and here is the coup to get the job done. Erdogan has yet to accuse the US for this coup but asking for the extradition of a cleric called Fethullah Gulen residing in the US in the warm embrace and protection of the Americans.  And the Americans are dragging their feet. This is what John Kerry said in the BBC, ‘that Turkey should "present us with any legitimate evidence that withstands scrutiny’, in other words, no deal, Fethullah Gulen would not be extradicted, he is friend to the Americans, to Washington, just like the Dalai Lama serving the same role.

This is the first of a series of Freudian slips. Here is another one.  John Kerry ‘strongly rebuked a Turkish minister who suggested Washington was behind the coup. He said "utterly false" insinuations were "harmful to our bilateral relations". Ah, a defensive posture to cover his arse by using bilateral relations to threaten Turkey instead.

Here is another slip by Obama now under pressure when more than 6000 people taking part in the coup were arrested and Erdogan is threatening a cleansing of the security forces. Obama panic and this is what he said to protect the coup leaders and soldiers, no condemnation or punishment.  BBC – ‘US President Barack Obama has joined other world leaders in calling for all parties in Turkey to "act within the rule of law’. Why is Obama sticking his neck out to protect the rebels now charged with treason?  And who are these so called world leaders wanting Erdogan to act within the rule of law? Nato leaders?

And here is what the French Foreign Minister said as quoted by The Independent, ‘French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault raised concerns over Turkey's ability to fight Isis amid growing political instability in the country following the attempted coup against Mr Erdogan’s regime…and Turkey may no longer be a viable partner in the fight against Isis in Syria.’ What did the French Foreign Minister know that made him so sure that Turkey is a gone case, no longer a partner?

And the EU has jumped in, the whole wolf pack is saying the same thing, if Erdogan were to impose the death sentence on the coup leaders and soldiers, Turkey would not be allowed to join the EU. In other words, do not touch the coup leaders and the rebel soldiers.

Erdogan may have won the first round against the coup leaders but his life is in great danger. The mastermind behind the coup leaders, the external powers, would be gunning for his life. They must take down Erdogan, dead or alive if they are hoping for a slim chance for Turkey to stay on the side of the West ‘to fight IS’.  Erdogan must be terminated and a pro West leader be put in place quickly to keep the balance in favour of the West in the war in Syria against Assad.

This coup is a game changer. Erdogan is now on the Russo China camp and Russia would soon be pledging support for Erdogan and Turkey. Another key ally, an unwilling partner of the American and the West has fallen out. The Turks have broken free from the Dark Side.