$150k pay check – Should feel sorry for him or not?

Cynical Investor wrote a piece appearing in the TRE quoting Gilbert’s post of an unemployed Singapore talent. Here is the quote:

‘Someone wrote to Gilbert Goh saying that he lost his 150k a year job to a FT prepared to accept 40% less. Losing my job was brutal for me financially since I am paying for 2 properties and a car.

I also have a S$100K unsecured loan debt which I took on to pay the deposit for my second home. My wife isn’t working and I have school going children. The first thing I did was to adjust my salary expectations up to 50%. Within 1 week I have applied to almost 500 jobs but none of them successful or called for an interview’.

Cynical Investor was asking whether we should feel sorry for him. Many in TRE were asking who did he vote for in the GE. Who do you think such successful, highly paid Singaporeans would vote for? Given their high income, good jobs, good pays, landed properties, cars, my guess is that they must be very comfortable with the system and would not want to have any change. To them the govt have done a marvelous job and giving them a Swiss standard lf living.

No need to ask or guess who they voted in the last GE. And many would continue to vote the same way until they hit a hard wall like this guy and came crawling to Gilbert to vent their frustration and desperation. But what can Gilbert do other than to lend them a listening year?

The few places they could hope to be helped in the job banks started by MOM or to go to NTUC for more skills upgrading so that they can become a waiter or something like that and be very grateful for being helped.

I bet many of these high earners would sneer and shrug it off as one bad luck case as they go about getting their fat pay, until they ended up in the same shit. Life is too good for the high earners that they would not think that this kind of things could happen to them.  Not to worry, it would be someone else, never ‘Me’.

How many PMETs must be grounded, driven to despair before the walking dead wake up and say no more? How, big earners, would you be next to write to Gilbert? For everyone that went crying to Gilbert there could be 10 that resigned to their fate, remaining jobless or underemployed. There would also be another 10 or 20 going to attend skills upgrading courses conducted by NTUC so that they could get a new job paying 10 or 20% of what they used to get.

Mind you, this is the career path for many high earning Singaporeans. It is only a matter of when will be their turn. 不见棺材不流泪

The 51st state of the USA?

The state visit by Hsien Loong to the USA and the warm reception given to him and his entourage is unbelieveable for a small state. The US put on a charm offensive to show how important and how close Singapore is to the Americans. Obama gave everything he got, no holds bar, to impress Hsien Loong and Singaporeans and the world that this is how being good to the USA would be rewarded.
 
From another perspective it was like a suitor putting on his best to win the heart of his bride to be, a proposal for a marriage. Was Obama wooing Singapore into the final embrace of the USA? Singapore is very important to the Americans in many ways and has been responding very positively to all the overtures put up by the Americans, a sign that things can be better. Just ask and Singapore will go along, like a willing lass very happy to be charmed and taken for a ride in a courtship.
 
The days when Singapore played hard to get, played tough, are over. Today the relationship has blossomed and a wedding is on the card, if the Americans are serious wanting the relationship to move to a higher level. And the bride will come with all the strategic assets that the Americans would love to have, better than the strategic location of Israel in the Middle East. Singapore is in the heart of SE Asia and a very important point in Asia. The pivot to Asia would not be complete without Singapore, cannot be effective without Singapore.
 
Now, did he propose? Did Obama make his move during this state visit, to ask for the hand of Singapore, as the 51st state of the United States of America? Did he swipe the feet of the bride off the ground? And did she said yes?
 
It is not a bad idea that Singapore becomes the 51st state of the USA. And we would become the most powerful nation in the world, or a part of the most powerful nation in the world. And we will have a new flag and a new national anthem to sing and have a lot of things to be proud of, a lot of things to celebrate like all the gold medals in the Olympics and Fourth of July.
 
Singapore the 51st state of the USA? Possible, good? What do you think?

What is the WP going to do with the AGO reports?

The AHPETC story has not ended and will never end for the next 100 years. This is called tenacity, to keep repeating a wrong, to keep it alive and to keep reminding the people of the wrong. It is politics of little Red Dot.
 
The WP must be groaning in pain. Their strategy of not rubbing it in when they had a chance, or many chances, but to play ball, to play good boy, has boomeranged. The PAP is not going to appreciate that and in the case of the AHPETC, they are going to screw the knife deeper into the bones, to make it stick for good. What else or when would the PAP be able to find another opportunity to screw the WP real hard?
 
The AGO reports have highlighted many flaws and mismanagement or bad governance. Would the WP decide to return PAP the favour, dig in, be just as tenacious, bite as hard and refuses to let go, like the AHPETC case. To do so they would need a dedicated team to dwell into the nitty gritty of the cases highlighted, turn over every stone to expose the dirt, like the AHPETC case. Or would they continue to play ball, say one time ok leow, be nice, no need to rub it in, no need to rub so hard.  Whatever happened happens, let’s move on?
 
Or maybe the problems raised by the AGO were nothing compared to the AHPETC so there is no comparison and nothing much to talk about. Back to sweep the streets and make sure the estate is clean, go and take care of municipal issues, and to make sure no more AHPETC problems to be aired like dirty laundry again?
 
What is the battle plan and strategies of the WP? More of the same? Don’t rock the boat, no need to harp on an issue and things will be fine? Or will the young turks in WP want to stand up and fight and fight tenaciously like the PAP?

China must never go through the trauma of American and Japanese aggression again

                                   China must never go through the trauma of Western and Japanese aggression again

China must never go through the trauma of foreign aggression again. USA in trying to maintain its number one world super power status insists on containing China from peaceful development. The whole American administration is infested with insane, mad and crazy crooks, rogues and scoundrels and warmongers who can't accept the rise of other countries. They are intent on pinning Russia and China down and to eventually destroy the two countries.This is because they  know that Russia and China are the only two countries capable of stopping USA from carrying on its evil heinous acts and prevent it from exercising  global domination and hegemony. If USA pushes China too much to the wall, China will fight back A war with China now will become the nemesis of the Evil Empire , USA. China must continually build up its military and economy from strength to strength to resist American and Japanese aggression and to stop their travesty of justice.

Below I quote an excerpt from an article by a prominent writer and peace advocate :.     ANDRE   VITCHEK

         SOUTH  CHINA  SEA  :  WATCH  OUT  :  DRAGON  COULD  BITE

"China is fuming. It has obviously had enough, it is reaching the limit. For decades it tried to appease the West, to play by international laws, to be a good and responsible member of the international community. And for decades it never interfered in the internal affairs of other countries, it sponsored no coups and attacked no foreign lands.
Even its counter-propaganda has been measured, polite and mild.
All this has gained China no admiration, not even respect!
It is being constantly antagonized, provoked and encircled both militarily and ideologically. Not far from its territory are deadly US military bases (Futenma and Kadena) located on Okinawa, there are enormous bases on the Korean Peninsula and increasing US military presence in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines. There are constant exercises and naval maneuvers near its shores and just recently, a decision by South Korea (ROK), to allow the US to deploy an advanced missile defense system (THAAD) in Seongju County.
In Nagasaki, my friend, an Australian historian Geoffrey Gunn commented on the situation:
“Well, the fact of the matter is that China is indignant at this encirclement. China is indignant that Washington backs Japan, that Washington is ready to support Japan’s non-negotiation policy over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. So we see, in this situation, a clearly indignant China, and Japan that is taking a basically aggressive position in relation to so-called territorial integrity. So Pacific Asia is increasingly becoming more belligerent, more conflict-prone East Asia.”
The propaganda against China in both Europe and North America is reaching a crescendo. The more socialist (Chinese way) it is once again becoming, and the closer its ties with Russia become, the more powerful the ideological attacks are from Western governments and mainstream media.
The latest decision (over the South China Sea dispute) of the ‘kangaroo’ arbitration court in The Hague appears to be the last drop.
The Chinese Dragon has risen in anger. Tired of receiving punches, mighty and strong, it has sent a strong message to the West: China is an enormous and peaceful country. But if threatened, if attacked, this time the country will be firm and determined. It will defend itself and its interests.....

To antagonize China is not only wrong; it is dangerous and shortsighted. Beijing has been backing up and compromising too long, for many decades. It will not any longer. Chinese people demand fairness. The Philippines should realize that the West is using their country as a proxy, for its imperialist goals.
To involve Western courts in internal Asian disputes, as is being done by the Philippines, will only aggravate the situation. To shoot at Chinese fishing vessels in the disputed waters (as was recently done by the Indonesian navy) can only escalate tensions (Indonesia already has a horrid historic track record in relation to China – banning the Chinese language, culture and even names, for decades, after the bloody Western-backed coup of 1965).
For the time being, China will be applying a ‘wait and see’ strategy. Once again, it will use its diplomacy, re-launching bilateral negotiations with the Philippines, Vietnam and other countries.
But if the West refuses to back up, and if some of the Southeast Asian countries continue to act as proxies for the West, Beijing would most likely use one of the tougher options. One would be setting up an air defense identification zone over the South China Sea. Another would be direct military escalation – greater naval and air force presence in the area.
And what is the position of the world? No matter what the Western propaganda is trumpeting, only a handful countries, mainly the US and its closest allies (5 at the time this essay is being written), have publicly supported the Philippines and the Ruling coming from The Hague. Over 70 nations support China and its belief that disputes should be resolved through negotiations and not arbitration. The rest of the world has remained ‘neutral’."


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Friday, 05-08-2016

USA will have to pay a price for its crimes against humanity

                               Just like the Japanese, the Americans will have to pay a price for its crimes against humanity


The Americans and the Western European countries are assuming that they are still the supreme masters on earth and that no one can stop them in their evil doings and wicked deeds on trampling on other countries big or small. Decades ago in the 1950s to 1970s the  Evil Empire overthrew dully elected governments in many South American countries and replaced them with USA lackeys, That tumultuous period  was known as the operation First Condor in which many nationalists were cold bloodedly massacred by the Americans and their lackeys.

Then immediately after the Second World War USA planned to take overall control of the Middle East Arab countries.USA instigated and provoked wars among the Arabs by deepening their distrust and hatred among them by playing on their religious differences viz the Sunnis and the Shites. Then in 1948 USA  with the help of UK planted a Jewish state in Israel to act as a proxy of America to police and control all the Arabs. Since then the Arabs in the Middle-East have never known peace. Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Gaddafi of Libya were brutally murdered and their countries left in chaos with hundreds of thousands bombed and killed by the Americans and millions left in untold suffering and greatly impoverished. Meanwhile USA and the Europeans enriched themselves with their virtual control of the oil and other natural resources in the region.

They still want to treat China as they did to her in the 1830s to the 1940s , when China was attacked by eight to twelve western countries and Japan and in which China lost millions of square miles of land to the conquering marauders, the British, French, Russia, Japan and USA. USA continued to interfere in the Chinese Civil War from the 1930s to 1940s and right up to the present.China would have liberated Taiwan and there won't be a divided China had USA not stationed its Seventh Fleet to stop China from accomplishing its task of national unity.

USA provoked and started the Korean War in1950 with the motive of destabilising and weakening further an already injured and very feeble impoverished China.During the Korean War USA threatened to nuke China . Then it did a very heinous and most immoral thing when it freed many first class Japanese war criminals after the Second World War, instead of committing them to death by the firing squad. Emperor Hirohito and Abe's grandfather were the two foremost war criminals that should be sentenced to death. But both and many of the high class diabolical Japanese scientists and generals who worked on the Unit 731 chemical and biological war programmes were released under two agreements. Japan would hand over to USA the thousands of tons of gold in which Japan robbed from the people in China, Korea,Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand , Indonesia, Malaysia and Burma. Japan must also hand over to USA in toto all the records of their experiments in chemical and biological warfare research. Emperor Hirohito was the number one war criminal who should be hanged for inspiring the Japanese to extremely cruel and brutal warfare against conquered people and Abe's grandfather was the minister in charge of the toxic inhuman Unit 731 in which very cruel and painful experiments were conducted on living persons. Abe's grandfather made sure all the germicidal experiments like bubonic plague, anthrax, small pox and flu were conducted on the Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, Indonesians and some westerners while they were alive.The victims suffered slow dragging painful death . In freeing the first class Japanese criminals America was complicit in the crime against humanity. America has yet to pay a price for this. The freed Japanese scientists began to work as heads of American and Japanese universities in charge of germ and chemical warfare experiments. Many of them became heads of huge commercial corporations.

The Americans are just as cruel and evil in diabolical deeds. They always use the terms " democracy" and " human rights" as a smokescreen to hookwink the world to cover their evil deeds of carrying out regime change against countries which do not toe the American dictates. They horrendously murdered and killed millions of innocent people by their mass bombings through super bombers or drones. They are creating wars everywhere to keep their war industries humming and to enrich themselves. All these diabolical deeds are done to maintain American supremacy and world hegemony and its number one position in the world .Just like the Japanese , the  Americans will have to pay a price for their crimes against humanity.

Southernglory1

Friday, 05-08-2016