CPF is not your money, or is it your money?

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‘oxygen:

October 10, 2016 at 11:45 pm oxygen(Quote)

CPF IS NOT OUR MONEY as we have been told in the political dog house – is it not true that our CPF – being part of our reserves – HAVE ALREADY BEEN SQUANDERED ALREADY?

And the enhanced nomination scheme for CPF aims to squander the CPF savings of surviving next generation?

WE ARE NOT FOOLS – bar the 70% TOO STUPID TO EVEN KNOW THEY ARE STUPID’

 

Many in the know could not forget the clever NMP who uttered this in Parliament. Pardon me, I could not remember her name, but we all know who she is.

If I could remember, after she uttered this remark, that the CPF is not the people’s money, not exactly and she justified that some parts of the CPF contributions were contributed by the employers, and with her legal trained logic, she declared the CPF is not the people’s money.

Was there a thunderous applause after she said this? I am not sure but I think everyone on the side of the majority in govt had a wide grin on their faces, and nodding their heads happily. Never mind why or what they were grinning at. I could remember one very important thing,no one spoke or sought clarification after this remark to confirm if the CPF is the people’s money or not. Correct me if I am mistaken.

Do you think every Singaporean ought to know, want to know what is the govt’s stand on this, whether the govt agreed or disagreed with her? Don’t you think the govt owed the people an explanation on this utterance, whether it is true or false? Never mind if it does not matter, that the people still has no control over their CPF money and legislations can be introduced to do whatever with their CPF money without their consent. I can understand, and I know, many of you have already resigned to the fate that the CPF money is not your money and did not want to say or do anything. It is water under the bridge. Too late.

Would any MP want to revisit this matter,  to question this loose utterance and demand the govt to take a stand, to explain to the people whether the CPF is the people’s money, the money of the CPF account holders, the people’s savings, the people’s coffin money?

Or is it not important anymore, overtaken by events, the reality of the CPF being legislated away to buy MedishieldLife and to be stuck in the minimum sums said it all? No need to bother?

Anyway daft Sinkies do not bother anymore. So what is the point?

Only in this country where the people saved a life time for retirement and when they are expected to withdraw their money for retirement, they found that it could not be done. And the best part, they accepted it as part and parcel of life, even a good thing.

White men's brutal carnage against native Americans. PART 2

White men's brutal carnage against native American Indians. PART 2

You will naturally cringe and feel angry and revulsive at the white men's wild rampage, savage greed and uncontrolled brutal carnage against the friendly innocent and defenseless natives of America.

The European life and death crusades against the Arab muslim jihadists in the Dark Ages of 1095 to 1297 were mutually savage with no quarters given. But at least they were both armed and fighting for the supremacy of their insidious religious faith and doctrine.

The natives of America were innocent and yet white men killed them most brutally and savagely without cause or reason. The killings and murders were justified in their divine faith of Christian doctrine and ideology and in their ravacious greed for other people's land, gold, silver and other resources of the soil. They would repeat their evil actions and killings to the natives of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Asia.

When Columbus and his men landed in Bahamas the native Arawak men and women emerged from their villages and ran to the island beaches to greet them. They brought them food , water and gifts. Columbus realized that the natives did not bear arms and soon evil thoughts crept into his mind. He told his men, " With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want." He did subsequently carried out all the evil things he intended to do.

He took some of the natives of Bahamas by force and ordered them to give him information where to find the source of their gold for the native Arawaks were wearing tiny gold ornaments in their ears and necks.

He took some Arawaks as prisoners in his ship because he wanted them to guide him to the source of gold. He sailed to Cuba and Hispaniola ( now Haiti and the Dominican Republic ).

In Hispaniola he confiscated a gold mask from a local Indian chief. The gold mask gave him and his men wild visions of gold fields. He built a fort in Hispaniola, Fort Navidad and left 39 of his men to take charge and to find gold and store it. Then he took more native prisoners and got into a fight with some of the natives who refused to hand over to him their bows and arrows ( made of cane ). He and his men ran their swords through them and killed them.

Then with two other ships the Nina and Pinta he sailed back to Spain. At the court in Madrid he gave an extravagant grandiose report of rich gold findings in rivers and other great gold and silver mines and also many spices. It was a fake report to extort more investments from the Spanish government and the rich elites. He was full of religious talk to to impress the queen and the court: "Thus the eternal God , our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities." He then asked the court majesties for help so that he would bring to the queen and the court more gold and slaves in the next voyage. In his second expedition he was given 17 ships and more than 1200 men.

In the Caribbean they went from island to island to look for gold and capture more Indians as captives. While he was away his men at Fort Nivadad ransacked Indian villages for gold and captured women for sex and children for labour.

In Haiti Columbus found no gold fields.In 1495 he captured 1500 Arawak men, women and children and put them in pens guarded by Spaniards and dogs. He selected 500 best of them and loaded them in his ships. In the journey to Spain 200 died enroute and were thrown overboard. In Madrid the remainder 300 were put up by the archdeacon for sale. Columbus then declared,"Let us in the name of The Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold."

In his third expedition Columbus and his men ordered all natives from 14 years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every 3 months. When they brought in gold they were given  copper tokens  to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.

The natives had been given an impossible task. So they fled and were hunted down with dogs and were killed. The Arawaks then resisted the Spaniards who had armour, muskets, swords and horses. When the Spaniards took prisoners they hanged them or burned them to death. Facing against impossible odds the Arawaks began mass suicides through poison and killed their infants to save them from the Spaniards. In two years through murder, mutilation or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead.

As there was no gold to be found, the Indians were taken as slave labour on huge estates and forced to work at a ferocious pace that they died by the thousands, By 1515 only about 50,000 Indians were left. By 1550, there were about 500 and by 1650 there were none of the Arawaks or their descendants left on the island of Hispaniola or Haiti.

The chief source of information of Columbus and Spanish cruelty was from a young priest, Bartolome de Las Casas who participated in the conquest of Cuba but who soon found the cruelty towards the natives too great to fathom and so he became a vehement critic of Spanish cruelty. He wrote a multivolume history of the Indies describing Indians as gentle and peaceful. He condemned Columbus and the Spaniards for their exasperating demand, their ravage and killings and mangle and destruction. The Spaniards had total control of the Indians which led to total cruelty. They thought of nothing of knifing Indians by tens and hundreds and cutting slices of them to test the sharpness of their blades. Casa described how two Christian Spaniards confiscated two parrots from two Indian boys and then for the fun of it beheaded the boys.

Whenever the Indians attempted to defend themselves failed they would run off to the hills. The Spaniards would pursue them and killed them. Columbus and the Spanish conquerors were very systematic in killing the natives. According to a Harvard historian, Samuel Eliot Morison, "The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."

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Elected Presidency – Another worm just crawl out of the can

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October 11, 2016 at 8:57 pm  Dinners are just dinners(Quote)

Latest is that for the new EP rules there will only be 3 racial categories instead of the usual 4 based on C-M-I-O. Those classified as Others will be lumped together with Indians.

How does this work? ‘Indian and Other’ category: If there is no Indian or Eurasian President after the late S R Nathan (Term 1999-2011) for the next 4 EP terms, the Indians and Eurasians will be guaranteed a contest among themselves. Could be I-vs-I, or I-vs-E or E-vs-E. Likely I-vs-I mostly.

This is somehow ridiculous. How does being Eurasian Singaporean or European Singaporean or Arab Singaporean suddenly – by a stroke of a pen – mean they should be classifiable in the same category as Indians now called ‘Indian/Others’?

How can you just lump them all together in the same category??
This is all political convenience, and has nothing to do with respecting Eurasians or ‘Others’

I really do not know whose clever idea is this. Now the Eurasians are going to create a storm. What about us? Why are we now part of the Indian category? We have had Benjamin Sheares and hoping and waiting for the next Eurasian to be the EP. This is going to be near impossible with this change and the lumping of Eurasians together with the Indians is as good as saying no more Eurasian EP. Is this fair to the Eurasian community? Don’t ask me, I am not Eurasian and I cannot claim to empathise with their feelings and emotions even if I said I understand their plight. Only the Eurasians would know and feel slighted or do not mind. No freaks non Eurasian can speak up on their behalf.

Should the govt use the ‘going to be created committee’ to decide on this? Or should a COI be instituted to study on the feelings of the Eurasians?

I think the Indians would not be unhappy as there are many talented Indians in high places that would easily win an EP election hands down and there could actually be Indian EPs one after another. Would that prompt a call by the Chinese majority to call for a special EP election just for a Chinese to be represented as the EP after 30 years when no Chinese is elected?  Are the new changes going to provide for this too, that if after a lapse of 30 years and no Chinese EP has been elected, then the majority Chinese also will get a second chance?

I have to stray away from the feelings and emotions of the Indians for having to accept the Eurasian/Others as part of their category as I have full confidence that many Indians would be elected to be EP by the silly ‘racist’ Chinese.  Oh, while on this subject, are children of part Indian and part Chinese or part Europeans or Others be classified as Indians and thus counted as Indian EP? The Indians have no fear and would not need to have to depend on this special clause to protect minority rights. It is the Eurasians that may be compromised together with the rest of the minorities lumped under Others.

I also worry for the Chinese majority that there could be a time when no Chinese would be elected over a long period as I don’t believe the Chinese are racist. They have proven many times, over the years, to happily and willingly vote for minorities to represent them. Now so many Chinese are even asking for Tharman to be PM.

So let’s forget and ignore the Chinese are racist myth until proven otherwise. Just watch what would happen if it is true that Eurasians/Others would be lumped together with the Indians and how this worm would crawl all over the place.

Any MP want to ask questions in Parliament but has no idea what to ask may ask if this is true and how it would affect the feelings of the Eurasians?

Duterte has opened the eyes of the Pinoys

The Philippines did not gain anything from being the running dog of the American Empire. The Philippines paid the price of compromising its sovereignty with American bases and soldiers in the country. The Philippines have to sign military alliances and conduct war games, joint patrols, to provoke another country, risking wars for its people. What did the Philippines gain, one antique warship destined for the museum?

What did the Americans gain, a foothold in Asian for their soldiers, weapons and military installations to maintain military supremacy and world hegemony at little cost and at the expense of the Philippines.

The big question is who needs who more? Is China going to invade the Philippines? Bull.  It is the Americans that benefited for harping the fear and from the arrangement, with the Philippines as their running dog, to bolster the pivot to Asia, for the sake of the Empire.

Should not the Philippines be demanding for a ransom for hosting the military bases and risking a war with China? How much value is the Philippines’ contribution to the American Empire and how much the Philippines are losing for becoming an American military base, the first target to be hit if war broke out between China and the USA?

Finally Duterte has opened the eyes of the Pinoys and the raw deal they are in. They have been taken for a ride. Nobody is going to attack the Philippines. Why become a stooge of the Americans for the reward of a few museum pieces?

Independence is priceless. Why should the Philippines compromise its independence to become a military base for the American Empire? Why?

This applies to the other Asian and Asean states. The Japanese and South Koreans have no choice. They are semi colonies of the Empire. The Americans are in control militarily and would not leave. They are the frontline states of the Empire, the first to be attacked and the first to be destroyed, with all the military bases as prime targets.

The Philippines had chased the American colonialists out of their country before. Why would the Philippines, so proud of their independence, now so willing to be a semi colony of the American Empire again?

What about the other Asian and Asean states? Why are they providing bases to the Americans and barking for the Americans without extracting a heavy price from the Americans? It is the Americans that are desperately in need of military bases here to maintain their military supremacy, to project their military power. The Americans should pay a heavy price for the privilege of stationing their soldiers and weapons in another country, compromising their national security and independence, not the other way.  The Asian and Asean countries should not be so stupid not to know the value of their compromising act, to allow foreign troops on their territories. But many stupidly believe that they would be invaded and must invite the Americans into their soil. Ask the neighbouring countries of China if they have been invaded by China? 

The only Asian country that is suffering from this delusion is India, everyday worrying about a Chinese invasion. What a joke! For the rest of independent Asian and Asean countries, why become cronies of the Empire when they could stand tall as independent nations? However, stupidity has no cure. Some of the stupids are worrying about being invaded by China and North Korea.

Christopher Columbus Brutal Carnage Against Native Americans. PART 1

Christopher Columbus And His Brutal Carnage Against Native Americans.          PART   1

In the West Christopher Columbus is worshipped as a hero, a founder of the New World, the Americas and is celebrated as such every year on 12th October, the day he first landed on the islands of Bahamas.

On the other hand every year on this date, the natives of Americas remember 1492 as a fateful year when Columbus and the Europeans started their criminal carnage and wholesale genocide of native Americans. Every year on 12th October, the natives all over America will revile Columbus as the most hated villain, killer, murderer and genocider of the natives and condemn him as such. Every year on this date the natives of Bahamas and all over Americas will burn effigies of Columbus, Hernando Cortes and Pizarro of Spain, Richard Grenville, Captain John Mason and John Winthrob of England  and condemn and denounce him and all the white men with no uncertain terms and wish God would punish all white men for their most merciless and brutal killings and murder of native Americans throughout all the years from 12th October, 1492 to the present time.

What is most outrageous is that, white men in order to cover up and white wash away the plunder, killings and murders of Columbus and other savage European adventurers would in their history books in schools portray beautifully their heroic  adventures and mention nothing about the bloodshed committed by them. On the other hand Columbus Day, 12th October is a day for Celebration by white men throughout all America and in all schools.

The Western brutality and carnage on non-Christian countries had its roots in the mutual brutal life and death struggle between the European Crusades and the Arab muslim jihadists in the Dark Ages of 1095 - 1297. The Europeans evolved victorious in this historical struggle and they soon expanded their evil wars of aggression against all other non - Christian countries in the name of Jesus Christ.

These crimes of inhumanity were expanded to the New World of North and South America. The crimes of inhumanity against the defenseless natives of Americas knew no bounds. It all started with the pirate Christopher Columbus who having stolen some maps of the new continents from Admiral Zhenghe in one of the ports in Arabia was soon able to sail to the Americas.

Columbus journeys to the West blazed the trail for competing Europeans like the British, France, Spain, Portugal and Holland to set sails in their journeys of plunder, looting, murder and endless genocides of natives all over the globe in the Americas, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

All the European expeditions to Americas and other parts of the world were financed by the governments and the Church in which the Pope had great power. The objectives of these expeditions were not just only to grab lands but also to grab all the gold, silver and spices of the new found lands.

When Columbus and later other Europeans first set foot on the shores of America, the natives came to greet them and with much remarkable hospitality provide them with food and lodgings contrasting with the greed and frenzy of wealth and riches of the Renaissance of Europe dominated by the governments and the religion of the popes which was the benchmark of Western Civilization.

Columbus, the first of these savage European hordes responded the goodwill of the natives with threats and murder. When he first landed on Bahamas on October 12th, 1492 in the Caribbean Sea, the native Arawaks welcomed them friendily. He saw the natives wearing tiny gold ornaments in their ears and neck. Columbus then took some of the Arawaks to his ship as prisoners and insisted that they guide him to the source of the gold. Columbus proceeded to Haiti, Cuba and Hispaniola where a local Indian chief presented him with a gold mask. This led to wild visions of gold fields in the New World.

The robbing, plundering, killing and murders by Columbus in Bahamas, Haiti and Hispaniola greatly influenced and excited the Spaniards, Portuguese, the British and the Dutch. What evil things Columbus did to the Arawaks of the Bahamas, the Spaniards Hernando Cortes did to the Aztecs of Mexico and Pizarro to the Incas of Peru and the British Puritans Richard Grenville, Captain John Mason and John Winthrob to the Powhatans and the Pequots of Virginia and Massachusetts in 1585.

The Spaniards, the Portuguese and the British exceeded each other in their relentless quests for new territories, gold and slaves and exceeded each other in cruelty and killings of the native Americans.

The white men's penchant for ruthless aggressions and conquests and killings is closely tied to their political cum religious doctrines. This insidious religious doctrine is extremely harmful for they justified all their evil actions in the name of their God, Jesus Christ. These barbaric white men appealed to the Bible under Psalms 2:8 - Chapter 2 verse 8:  " Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."  They justified their use of force to take non-Christian lands and cited Romans 13:2, Chapter 13, Verse 2: "Whosoever thertegote resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God, and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."

USA in line with this evil doctrine is continuing non stop in its aggression against other countries.

When will this Western brutality and carnage on non-Christian countries come to an end. Will the rest of the non-Christian world be able to unite and cooperate to stop white men from their killing tracks and brutal rampage.
Next artiicle Part  2 will show some details of the savage greed and uncontrolled brutal carnage by white men on the natives of America.

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Wednesday,12th October, 2016