It was reported in the media that Admiral Harry Harris, the Japanese Commander of the American Pacific Command was the one that ordered aircraft carrier Carl Vinson to head towards North Korea. Harris said it was his mistake for giving the wrong order. What Harris did not say was that he was abruptly overruled and had to change course.
The incident was crispy clear that Harris took the opportunity to want to start a war with North Korea. He unilaterally, without authorisation from Washington where the Commander in Chief of all American forces sat, without an order from Donald Trump, he decided to sail Carl Vinson to North Korea. He did not know or was not aware that someone under this Command would quickly inform the White House of his treacherous action which the Americans were wary of and had put in this safeguard, in case he did the darn thing, to stop him on his war path.
The Americans did just that, to stop Harris from dragging the Americans into a war they did not want with China and Russia. The Japanese Harris thought the Americans were that dumb to allow him a free hand to start a war anytime he likes. No way, the Americans read him like a book.
Now Harris has to apologise for this dangerous move that he thought he could get away with, to get the Americans to go to war with China and Russia. The result would be the destruction of America, China more damaging than the sneak attack on Pearl Harbour. The Americans would not be so dumb to allow it to happen against their interests.
After this incident, the Americans would be even more cautious of what this man would do and would watch his every move to make sure no unplanned incident would happen under his watch. America would not be destroyed by another Japanese sneaky act.
4/29/2017
Time to tighten immigration policy?
Shawn Lee wrote a piece published in the TRE urging the govt to tighten immigration policy when every sensible govt in the West, especially our idol country called the USA, are doing it. This is what Shawn wrote in his first paragraph,
‘Over the past weeks, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. have all tightened their work visa programs for skilled foreigners. Australia scrapped its 457 visa for employer-sponsored skilled foreign labour program; U.S. President Trump announced a “Buy American, Hire American” Executive Order to review the H1-B visa which is used primarily to bring in foreign IT professionals into high tech sectors like Silicon Valley; and New Zealand has also started to tighten skilled work visa requirements in a “Kiwis-first approach to immigration”.’
I thought we were thinking in the same wavelength when he said, ‘This is the best time for Singapore to jump onto the bandwagon and tighten our immigration criteria to avoid being singled out and blamed by global MNCs here for cutting their access to cheap foreign labour who compete for jobs with Singaporeans.’
This is the part that I disagree with him. I think this is the best time for the govt to open the legs wider, oops, I mean the door wider to capitalize on the situation when all the fake talented foreigners from the Third World have been locked out and no where to go, they would all come here to help make up the 6.9m population. This type of opportunity does not come often. Now we can pick up all the 'talents' and craps floating around in the high seas. We can pick and choose, just make sure we have a working system to fish out all the fakes and degree mills talents. We don’t need such flotsam. There are already too many here. Now we can take our time to pick and choose with a fine comb.
One caveat, make sure we have the right talent to spot the fake talents. We need the thieves to catch the thieves. Recruit some of the best fake talents first, then use them to stop all the fakes that are trying to get in. Oh, I think we already have a lot of them here furiously recruiting more fakes. Just tell them this time the objective is to identify and reject the fakes or simply reject all the fakes they have chosen as talents.
We can set up a Ministry of Fake Talents and appoint a minister to run it with a pool of fake talents. Then we can guarantee to pick up the best in a situation like this. When the angels are fleeing, it is time for the daft, oops, I mean the brave to go in.
What do you think?
‘Over the past weeks, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. have all tightened their work visa programs for skilled foreigners. Australia scrapped its 457 visa for employer-sponsored skilled foreign labour program; U.S. President Trump announced a “Buy American, Hire American” Executive Order to review the H1-B visa which is used primarily to bring in foreign IT professionals into high tech sectors like Silicon Valley; and New Zealand has also started to tighten skilled work visa requirements in a “Kiwis-first approach to immigration”.’
I thought we were thinking in the same wavelength when he said, ‘This is the best time for Singapore to jump onto the bandwagon and tighten our immigration criteria to avoid being singled out and blamed by global MNCs here for cutting their access to cheap foreign labour who compete for jobs with Singaporeans.’
This is the part that I disagree with him. I think this is the best time for the govt to open the legs wider, oops, I mean the door wider to capitalize on the situation when all the fake talented foreigners from the Third World have been locked out and no where to go, they would all come here to help make up the 6.9m population. This type of opportunity does not come often. Now we can pick up all the 'talents' and craps floating around in the high seas. We can pick and choose, just make sure we have a working system to fish out all the fakes and degree mills talents. We don’t need such flotsam. There are already too many here. Now we can take our time to pick and choose with a fine comb.
One caveat, make sure we have the right talent to spot the fake talents. We need the thieves to catch the thieves. Recruit some of the best fake talents first, then use them to stop all the fakes that are trying to get in. Oh, I think we already have a lot of them here furiously recruiting more fakes. Just tell them this time the objective is to identify and reject the fakes or simply reject all the fakes they have chosen as talents.
We can set up a Ministry of Fake Talents and appoint a minister to run it with a pool of fake talents. Then we can guarantee to pick up the best in a situation like this. When the angels are fleeing, it is time for the daft, oops, I mean the brave to go in.
What do you think?
4/28/2017
American double speak on North Korea
By now everyone would have read and probably believe this American shit about North Korea being a threat to the whole world, to the Americans and to their cronies and allies. How true is this, how logical or reasonable and believeable is this allegation.
The American’s first assumption, the North Koreans have nuclear weapons and ICBM and will be threatening the world with them. This assumption also said the North Koreans are mad and would want to threaten everyone for no good reason but just because they have nuclear weapons to threaten other nations, and more, to want to fire at every nation. You do not need much intelligence to know that this is total crap. The only countries that feared the North Koreans and felt threatened are the Americans, Japan and South Korea for obvious reasons. The rest of the world is not acting provocatively act against the North Koreans and has no reason to feel threatened unless they are deranged. Oops, sorry, Singapore or some daft Singaporeans also felt threatened but I do not know why. They seriously believed the North Koreans would want to bomb Singapore, for what, why?
In reality, the North Koreans are treating Singapore as a good friend. That is why Jeremy Koh from Channel News Asia is always invited to broadcast about North Korean events. If you are enemy, they would not put you on their invite list.
Ok, let’s look at the validity of this American double speak. For a country to be a threat to the world, to other countries, there are some conditions or factors that must be present.
1. The country must have ambition to dominate or conquer and rule the world, like Germany, Japan and the USA.
2. The country must have superior military strength, not just having a few pieces of nuclear weapons. If you only got one bomb, please you are no threat to any country that has thousands of bombs. Stop believing in this silly myth.
3. The country must be so superior in military power that it can hit any country with no fear of being hit back.
4. Or, if one wants to threaten any country, make sure that no one is powerful enough to turn your country into ashes.
North Korea does not fit into any of the above conditions. How can they be a threat to the world? How can the North Koreans be a threat to the US? They are developing their nuclear weapons exactly because they are afraid of the Americans, that could turn them to ashes, the only country that has been threatening them daily with military invasion.
If mere possession of nuclear weapons is a threat to the world, the Americans would be the number one threat followed by the other nuclear powers. Why is it that they are not and the North Koreans are a threat?
Do the North Koreans have the same wild ambition like the Americans, the Germans and Japanese to conquer the world? Only fools would believe the North Koreans are like the Americans, Germans and Japanese. Even if they harbor such wild dreams, they are too small to make it a reality in this new world of super powers.
The Americans are the real threat to the world, the threat to world peace, the number one warmonger. If you don’t believe in them, don’t fear them, they would threaten to attack your country like they are doing to the North Koreans and had done to Vietnam and to many Arab/Muslim countries.
Get it, now who is the real threat to the countries of the world, the Americans or North Koreans? Trump just admitted that he is not branding China a currency manipulator because China is working with the Americans on the North Korean issue. If China refuses, it will brand China as a currency manipulator. See the veil of threat? The Americans are threatening the whole world to get to their side to condemn the North Koreans and are threatening to take unilateral actions against the North Koreans because the North Koreans are developing ICBMs that can reach the USA. What about the USA already having ICBMs that can reach North Korea and every country in this world? Should this be a reason for the rest of the world to claim the USA is a threat to their security and be a good reason to attack the USA?
This is how abusive and unreasonable the Americans have become. They are going to start a war and accusing the North Koreans as the provocateur, for having ICBMs or going to have ICBMs that can reach the USA. If this is an acceptable reason, every country can become a threat to the Americans and be attacked while the Americans is a threat to every country.
The American’s first assumption, the North Koreans have nuclear weapons and ICBM and will be threatening the world with them. This assumption also said the North Koreans are mad and would want to threaten everyone for no good reason but just because they have nuclear weapons to threaten other nations, and more, to want to fire at every nation. You do not need much intelligence to know that this is total crap. The only countries that feared the North Koreans and felt threatened are the Americans, Japan and South Korea for obvious reasons. The rest of the world is not acting provocatively act against the North Koreans and has no reason to feel threatened unless they are deranged. Oops, sorry, Singapore or some daft Singaporeans also felt threatened but I do not know why. They seriously believed the North Koreans would want to bomb Singapore, for what, why?
In reality, the North Koreans are treating Singapore as a good friend. That is why Jeremy Koh from Channel News Asia is always invited to broadcast about North Korean events. If you are enemy, they would not put you on their invite list.
Ok, let’s look at the validity of this American double speak. For a country to be a threat to the world, to other countries, there are some conditions or factors that must be present.
1. The country must have ambition to dominate or conquer and rule the world, like Germany, Japan and the USA.
2. The country must have superior military strength, not just having a few pieces of nuclear weapons. If you only got one bomb, please you are no threat to any country that has thousands of bombs. Stop believing in this silly myth.
3. The country must be so superior in military power that it can hit any country with no fear of being hit back.
4. Or, if one wants to threaten any country, make sure that no one is powerful enough to turn your country into ashes.
North Korea does not fit into any of the above conditions. How can they be a threat to the world? How can the North Koreans be a threat to the US? They are developing their nuclear weapons exactly because they are afraid of the Americans, that could turn them to ashes, the only country that has been threatening them daily with military invasion.
If mere possession of nuclear weapons is a threat to the world, the Americans would be the number one threat followed by the other nuclear powers. Why is it that they are not and the North Koreans are a threat?
Do the North Koreans have the same wild ambition like the Americans, the Germans and Japanese to conquer the world? Only fools would believe the North Koreans are like the Americans, Germans and Japanese. Even if they harbor such wild dreams, they are too small to make it a reality in this new world of super powers.
The Americans are the real threat to the world, the threat to world peace, the number one warmonger. If you don’t believe in them, don’t fear them, they would threaten to attack your country like they are doing to the North Koreans and had done to Vietnam and to many Arab/Muslim countries.
Get it, now who is the real threat to the countries of the world, the Americans or North Koreans? Trump just admitted that he is not branding China a currency manipulator because China is working with the Americans on the North Korean issue. If China refuses, it will brand China as a currency manipulator. See the veil of threat? The Americans are threatening the whole world to get to their side to condemn the North Koreans and are threatening to take unilateral actions against the North Koreans because the North Koreans are developing ICBMs that can reach the USA. What about the USA already having ICBMs that can reach North Korea and every country in this world? Should this be a reason for the rest of the world to claim the USA is a threat to their security and be a good reason to attack the USA?
This is how abusive and unreasonable the Americans have become. They are going to start a war and accusing the North Koreans as the provocateur, for having ICBMs or going to have ICBMs that can reach the USA. If this is an acceptable reason, every country can become a threat to the Americans and be attacked while the Americans is a threat to every country.
4/27/2017
Would Halimah Yacob be accepted as a Malay candidate for the EP?
TRE’s editorial article said Halimah’s father was an Indian Muslim. This is a quote from the article,
ST report: Halimah’s father an Indian Muslim
‘In 2013, when Halimah Yacob was selected to be the new Speaker of Parliament after the former one, Michael Palmer, resigned from politics due to his marital affair with a PA woman, ST wrote an article to feature Halimah (‘A strong advocate for workers, women and minorities‘, Jan 2013):
In the article, it was revealed that her father is an Indian of Muslim faith. He passed away when Halimah was 8 years old. She studied hard and later graduated with a law degree from NUS. Her first job was as a legal officer with NTUC….’
This revelation would pose a lot of serious questions as to Halimah Yacob’s eligibility as a Malay candidate for the EP election. The question on the definition of being a Malay would now be in the spot light. What or who is a Malay and who should determine or qualify a person as a Malay, the Malay community, the govt or the AGC office or the EP election committee? This seems easy enough by picking up one of these agencies or whichever agency that is suitable. The difficult part is whether the Malay community would accept any candidate or any agency to speak on their behalf on such a serious issue.
Accepting Halimah as a Malay would in itself create more difficult problems in the future. If a candidate of mixed parentage like Halimah, an Indian Muslim father can be accepted as a Malay candidate, would a Chinese Muslim father, a European or Eurasian Muslim father also qualified under this ruling to be called a Malay? How far would the Malay community go to accept a person as a Malay now that there are 50% Malay, 25% Malay, 75% Malay and many other variations of Malayness?
My personal view is that the worm in the can is growing too big to be of any comfort to the govt or to the Malay community. How to resolve this Pandora of the EP would need more than a rocket scientist or a genius to do it. In the days of LKY, he might be able to talk his way out of it without anyone daring to stand up to challenge his view or decision. Unfortunately no one in the govt today has such an authoritative stature to pull out a rabbit from a top hat and call it a dove.
It would be interesting to see how the govt is going to untie this knot if Halimah is put up as a Malay candidate, or any candidate with such a similar birth right. Anyone thinks this is easy to resolve and put right?
ST report: Halimah’s father an Indian Muslim
‘In 2013, when Halimah Yacob was selected to be the new Speaker of Parliament after the former one, Michael Palmer, resigned from politics due to his marital affair with a PA woman, ST wrote an article to feature Halimah (‘A strong advocate for workers, women and minorities‘, Jan 2013):
In the article, it was revealed that her father is an Indian of Muslim faith. He passed away when Halimah was 8 years old. She studied hard and later graduated with a law degree from NUS. Her first job was as a legal officer with NTUC….’
This revelation would pose a lot of serious questions as to Halimah Yacob’s eligibility as a Malay candidate for the EP election. The question on the definition of being a Malay would now be in the spot light. What or who is a Malay and who should determine or qualify a person as a Malay, the Malay community, the govt or the AGC office or the EP election committee? This seems easy enough by picking up one of these agencies or whichever agency that is suitable. The difficult part is whether the Malay community would accept any candidate or any agency to speak on their behalf on such a serious issue.
Accepting Halimah as a Malay would in itself create more difficult problems in the future. If a candidate of mixed parentage like Halimah, an Indian Muslim father can be accepted as a Malay candidate, would a Chinese Muslim father, a European or Eurasian Muslim father also qualified under this ruling to be called a Malay? How far would the Malay community go to accept a person as a Malay now that there are 50% Malay, 25% Malay, 75% Malay and many other variations of Malayness?
My personal view is that the worm in the can is growing too big to be of any comfort to the govt or to the Malay community. How to resolve this Pandora of the EP would need more than a rocket scientist or a genius to do it. In the days of LKY, he might be able to talk his way out of it without anyone daring to stand up to challenge his view or decision. Unfortunately no one in the govt today has such an authoritative stature to pull out a rabbit from a top hat and call it a dove.
It would be interesting to see how the govt is going to untie this knot if Halimah is put up as a Malay candidate, or any candidate with such a similar birth right. Anyone thinks this is easy to resolve and put right?
4/26/2017
4 JCs to be merged, ie disappeared, redundant
Many people are aghast at the merging of 4 JCs all of a sudden. Many are still in a state of shock with mouths still unable to close, jaws locked, muscle cramped. How could this kind of things happen in this so well planned little city when every piece of stone, every single plant is carefully planted after very well conceived thoughts by our very able and proactive govt that is always looking ahead for problems?
To make things more bizarre is the opening of Enoia (not sure if I get the spelling right) JC just a year ago and now closed shop. Anyone worry about the money wasted? We are not talking of closing of one JC but 4 JCs. Did anyone see this coming? Why, suddenly Rip Van Winkle woke up and found that there is not enough enrolment for JC classes and 4 JCs are redundant, with excess capacity that may turn out to look like ghost colleges, JCs without students?
When the MOE was split to be helmed by two full ministers, everyone would not be wrong to think that this education job is expanding, growing so big and one minister would not be able to cope with the workload. How is this closing of 4 JCs related to the need for two ministers in MOE? If there are not enough students for JCs, would it also mean that more secondary and primary schools would also be facing the same problem and more would also have to be closed or merged? Read somewhere that 28 secondary schools would also be merged.
What happened to all the students that are supposed to fill up the JC places and also the primary and secondary schools? They did not build all these schools without planning, without knowing how many students are coming on board. Did the students disappear overnight like MH370? How can, the Population Dept and MOE must have been tracking the numbers and know exactly how many students were there and how many schools and JCs would be needed. Why like dat one?
I thought about this problem very seriously and came out with a few possible answers. I am not going to blame on twits that could not plan or did not know what was happening and how many students were there that need to go to school but the twits did not know. My first thought is that the thousands of scholarships to foreign students, paid by our tax payers in the billions, must have been frozen. This could be a possibility and could explain why suddenly there is no student or not enough students overnight. Overseas students can come in or not come in like turning on/off a tap.
Another possible answer, many are going to India to have their education to make sure that they could get a decent job here after graduating from the Indian universities. Why not, all the talents here are from India and Indian universities, the professionals, the academics, the IT experts and what nots, are all from India. Their education system is world best, proven and endorsed by Singapore. So many students must have jumped ship and enrolled in Indian JCs and subsequently planning to go on to Indian universities.
Another possible reason, many may have taken the advice of our ministers that there is no need for a good degree that cannot be eaten. What is the point of a degree when one aspires to be a taxi driver or a hawker? So the parents and students are now wiser and stopped enrolling into JCs here and waste precious money or forcing their parents to sell their homes to finance their education abroad.
Maybe there are other reasons for the sudden disappearance of JC students, but these are the dumb reasons that I am able to think of for this fiasco or shall I call it miracle, another planned miracle that is uniquely Singapore? Is it so difficult to know how many students are out there that need places in schools and JCs? Would big data help?
To make things more bizarre is the opening of Enoia (not sure if I get the spelling right) JC just a year ago and now closed shop. Anyone worry about the money wasted? We are not talking of closing of one JC but 4 JCs. Did anyone see this coming? Why, suddenly Rip Van Winkle woke up and found that there is not enough enrolment for JC classes and 4 JCs are redundant, with excess capacity that may turn out to look like ghost colleges, JCs without students?
When the MOE was split to be helmed by two full ministers, everyone would not be wrong to think that this education job is expanding, growing so big and one minister would not be able to cope with the workload. How is this closing of 4 JCs related to the need for two ministers in MOE? If there are not enough students for JCs, would it also mean that more secondary and primary schools would also be facing the same problem and more would also have to be closed or merged? Read somewhere that 28 secondary schools would also be merged.
What happened to all the students that are supposed to fill up the JC places and also the primary and secondary schools? They did not build all these schools without planning, without knowing how many students are coming on board. Did the students disappear overnight like MH370? How can, the Population Dept and MOE must have been tracking the numbers and know exactly how many students were there and how many schools and JCs would be needed. Why like dat one?
I thought about this problem very seriously and came out with a few possible answers. I am not going to blame on twits that could not plan or did not know what was happening and how many students were there that need to go to school but the twits did not know. My first thought is that the thousands of scholarships to foreign students, paid by our tax payers in the billions, must have been frozen. This could be a possibility and could explain why suddenly there is no student or not enough students overnight. Overseas students can come in or not come in like turning on/off a tap.
Another possible answer, many are going to India to have their education to make sure that they could get a decent job here after graduating from the Indian universities. Why not, all the talents here are from India and Indian universities, the professionals, the academics, the IT experts and what nots, are all from India. Their education system is world best, proven and endorsed by Singapore. So many students must have jumped ship and enrolled in Indian JCs and subsequently planning to go on to Indian universities.
Another possible reason, many may have taken the advice of our ministers that there is no need for a good degree that cannot be eaten. What is the point of a degree when one aspires to be a taxi driver or a hawker? So the parents and students are now wiser and stopped enrolling into JCs here and waste precious money or forcing their parents to sell their homes to finance their education abroad.
Maybe there are other reasons for the sudden disappearance of JC students, but these are the dumb reasons that I am able to think of for this fiasco or shall I call it miracle, another planned miracle that is uniquely Singapore? Is it so difficult to know how many students are out there that need places in schools and JCs? Would big data help?
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