John G Roberts Jr, American Chief Justice’s commencement speech at Cardigan Mountain School

We welcomed The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, as our Commencement speaker. Father to Jack Roberts ’17, Chief Justice Roberts addressed his son’s class with advice for the future.
 
“From time to time, in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice,” he said.
 
“I hope you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty.
Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time, so that you don’t take friends for granted.
 
I wish you bad luck again, from time to time, so that you will be conscious of the roll of chance in life, and understand that your success is not completely deserved, and the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
 
And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then your opponent will gloat over your failure.
 
It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship.
 
I hope you will be ignored, so you know the importance of listening to others, and
 
I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion.
 
Whether I wish these things or not they’re going to happen, and whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon you ability to see the message in your misfortunes.”
 
PS. This is a speech about humility that the high and mighty that think they would never fail, never fall and always have good luck smiling at them should read and ponder. No one is infallible and luck would run out one day. It is only when.

US The Evil Empire is the World's Number One Rogue and Terrorist Country.

It is shocking to learn that the United Security Council under the behest of US has imposed more stringent sanctions on DPRK. Even China and Russia have succumbed to US baloney. China and Russia and other countries which supported US actions against North Korea ( DPRK ) will soon regret as events eventually unfold to reveal the real evil intentions of US.

They should know that US has never have any real interest and intention to have world peace. Creating wars and distabilities in other countries is US lifelong policy.

US is bogged down by serious financial and economic disaster of their own making and by the burden of insolvable heavy debt of about twenty-six trillion dollars which they will not be able to pay even for the next hundred years. It is surviving on the manipulated fake petrol dollar. Once the fake petrol dollar is taken down US will fall like a pack of cards.

Nevertheless US has to find a solution to its debt problem through permanent wars which it constantly created so that it can make hundreds of billions of dollars by selling weapons to unsuspecting warring factions and thus also enable a continuous support to its humongous military industrial complex of the Pentagon.

Sanctions is the mainstay of US chicanery policy to rake in cheap and easy money from other countries. By adopting the medium of sanctions US is intentionally using it as a tool to blackmail countries which breached the sanctions by giving itself illateral extraterrestorial power and rights to summon the breaching countries before US judiciary with ludicrous fines of billions of dollars. US is shamefully accustommed to this cheap and easy way of extorting humongous some of money from other countries under the guise of sanctions. It is time the United Nations take up the cudgel of demolishing the evil and insidious practice of US sanctions and stop its blackmailing practice once and for all. Or inversely the world must unite and give US its own medicine and sanction US on whatever it may be.

After the Second World War US wanted to bring the whole world under its total control and hegemony. Russia and China were in its path to prevent it from happening. This resulted in a Cold War whereby tens of millions of people died in proxy wars in other countries while US escaped unscathed  both in death and destruction.

It is illogical  for US and its allies to call DPRK rogue country and its testing of rockets and missiles as hostile and provocative. DPRK is driven and forced to take such preventive actions for its own security because of the ever pervading US threat. DPRK like all of us know US can never be trusted in any talks or treaties. As the native American Indians said, " Whitemen speak with fork tongues and can never be trusted."

 Talks and treaties is US strategy to dull the opponents in a stage of unpreparedness before US mounts a sudden attack at its time of choosing and convenience. In the case of North Korea, US will definitely attack and subject it to regime change just as it did in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and earlier in Persia ( Iran ) in 1973, Indonesia in 1965, Egypt, Chile, Panama, Honduras, and Bolivia. Only Syria is saved by Russia's timely intervention.

It is ironical that DPRK with no military stations or military bases outside its own country, never attack other countries, never conduct any military drills outside its borders and never interfere in the affairs of other countries is called a rogue country and its actions provocative. On the other hand US has always meddled badly in other countries internal affairs, conduct regime change, build over a thousand military bases all over the world in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australia and Diego Garcia in Indian Ocean, Guam and Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean and frequently and continuously conduct very hostile and provocative military drills around Russia, China and North Korea. Is US an angelic country or is it in essence a natural rogue and terrorist country?

The trouble and disorder US is causing in Korea, East China Sea, South China Sea, Ukraine and Middle East are side issues and not the main motive and target of US warmongering. This is only a precursor, a preamble to US ultimate aim and target of conducting war and destruction against Russia and China which have been the hindrance to US ambition of achieving world domination and hegemony.

US wild dreams of world domination and hegemony will eventually cause Armageddon and the entire destruction of mankind on earth.

The world will never have peace so long as US continues its evil pervading policy of aggression and permanent wars. It is time for peace loving people and countries all over the world to unite and bring down US, the Evil Empire.

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Is a mule a horse or a donkey?

A mule is fathered by a male donkey and a female horse. And there is another permutation, a hinny is the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey. There is a distinction, a material distinction to have the cross breed known either as a mule or a hinny.
 
So is a mule/hinny a horse or a donkey? Using normal human convention, the offspring is normally referred to as of the same breed or lineage as the father. So if a father is a Chinese, Indian or Malay, the offspring will be known as a Chinese, Indian or Malay respectively. A mule should thus be called a donkey, to take the breed of the father.
 
And in the same manner, a hinny should be called a horse, to take the lineage of the father. In some ethnic groups, the lineage comes from the maternal side. So a mule would be called a horse and a hinny be called a donkey. Very flexible cultural practices.
 
No one bothers to ask a mule or hinny what they are or what they would like to be. Would a mule choose to be called a horse or a donkey, and likewise would a hinny choose to be called a horse or a donkey? What would they choose?
 
Under normal circumstances both would say anything also can. Can call them donkey, horse or mule or dinny, it does not matter. But when it does matter say there is a prize or a 5 year supply of the best apple or carrot to be called a horse or a donkey, would the mule or hinny choose to be identified as a horse or a donkey?
 
Things are normally very simple until conditions are changed when there are benefits or disadvantages attached to it.
 
So, is a mule or hinny a horse or a donkey? Answer, it depends.
 
If the prize is meaningful, substantial, and will go to a donkey or a horse, not only mule or hinny would want to be called a donkey, all the horses would also want to be called a donkey or vice versa. Pragmatism anyone?

PAP’s noble intent in the EP going awry

With all noble and good intention, the PAP went out of its way to change the Constitution, gathered some of the most prominent citizens in a Constitutional Commission to sanction the need for a Malay President and how important and critical this is for a multi racial Singapore. Unfortunately this whole scheme is looking to go astray and turning sour. The ground is so uncomfortable and the only people that did not see any problem with this whole thing are you know who.
 
The constitutional change is to ensure that a Malay will be elected as the next President, or an ethnic minority, after a lapse of 5 terms. And in this coming election it is loud and clear that it is the turn for the Malay community to elect one of their kind to be the next President of this island.
 
The change brought along high hopes in the Malay community that at last another Malay would be the President after a long lapse since Yusof Ishak was the first and last Malay President. There was exuberance in the community but with some reservations that the crutch mentality is going to plague them once again. But never mind, it is not their fault as the community did not ask for it. It was all the initiative of the govt of the day that wants to provide this crutch to give the community a lift.
 
All seems well and good until the search of a Malay candidate begins. And to the horror of the Malay community, they could not find an ethnic Malay qualified to stand for this election, at least till now. And all the three candidates were not Malay ethnically or were more dominant in their ethnic lineages in other races.
 
How would this EP go along when it is reserved specially for the Malay community, to be represented by a Malay, other ethnic communities not allowed to compete in this race, but in the end no Malay candidate is up for election? An election reserved for Malays but no Malay candidate except mixed blood Malays or even Pakistani!
 
How pathetic can this be? How ludicrous! How farcical! The whole scheme is to appease the Malay community, to make them feel that the community is not left out in the cold, they are not forgotten. Would the outcome of the EP election bring comfort to the Malay community if the elected President is anything but a Malay?

Foreign powers are pressurizing Singapore to do their will

A few days back Chan Chun Sing was quoted to have said that some foreign powers are putting pressure on Singapore to undermine Singapore’s interests. When asked, Chan Chun Sing said it was inconvenient to mention who was that foreign power. This was what he said, “Singaporeans must be vigilant about any potential attempts by foreign parties to influence local politics and undermine the democratic process. 

Foreign interference in domestic politics and electoral processes cannot be underestimated and must always be factored into our social and psychological defence. History has shown that bigger and more powerful states will seek to advance their interests by projecting their influence on usually smaller or less organised ones via all instruments of power.”
 
Foreign powers are not only undermining our domestic politics but also to advance their interests by projecting their influence and power. On 4 Aug, it was reported in the main media that the Americans were ‘pressing Southeast Asian countries to “downgrade diplomatic engagements and exchanges” with North Korea as it seeks to build a “chorus of condemnation” ahead of the Asean Regional Forum(ARF) in Manila.”’
 
And just not too far in the recent past, the Singapore govt had made public statements that it would speak out against big powers on grounds of principle and our national interests when they sought to bully small countries into acquiescence. Would Singapore stand up to this pressure by the Americans bullying and pressuring small states to do its will? Or this American action is in line with Singapore’s interests and instead Singapore should support the American position?
 
Last Friday Singapore opened its card to expel Huang Jing and wife for trying to influence its foreign policies. While influence the policies of nation states is part and parcel of diplomacy, there are OB markers that should not be crossed. All govts and diplomats are involved in influencing policies of other states to favour them. All the superpowers are doing the same except in different ways. The Americans and its intelligence services have been doing this for ages even to the extend of espionage, assassination, regime change and war. The flurry of belligerent activities against the North Koreans is a case in point when the resort to war is on the table as far as this outlaw Empire is concerned. China on the other hand is talking about negotiation and peaceful settlements of differences.
 
Asean and China has just concluded a foreign ministers meeting in Manila and agreed to seek peaceful negotiation on their difference. The South China Sea dispute has returned to sanity with Asean telling the Americans to get lost and not to meddle with issues that do not concern the Americans to the ire of the Americans. For good riddance, peace has returned to the South China Sea and the region with the nation stakes ignoring the agitation for war in the region by the Americans.
 
The Americans are not giving up and will continue to push and coerce the Asean countries to be embroiled in a war they are cooking in the Korean Peninsula. How many Asean states would be dragged into this war that has nothing to do with them and their national security?