USA – The real threat to the world

The mad Americans have been yelling to the world that the North Koreans are a threat to them and to the world. However, the real threat to the North Koreans and to the world and human civilization is the mad Americans. How can a small country that could hardly defend itself be a threat to the Americans when the latter possesses enough WMD to wipe North Korea out of the surface of the earth?
 
And this is exactly what Trump said at the UN General Assembly, in front of all the nations of the world, ‘we will have no choice than to tally destroy North Korea’. What no choice? What had the North Koreans done to deserve such a threat of total destruction? All because they wanted to have their own nuclear weapons to protect themselves from the mad Americans? And it is exactly this kind of threat that the North Koreans need to have nuclear weapons. And what threat to the Americans but just a wild allegation that the North Koreans are a threat to their national security?
 
The sad thing is that the assembly of nations did not rebuke the mad Americans for threatening to destroy North Korea. This is naked aggression against another country and its people. How can human civilization be so dumb to let the mad Americans go on threatening North Korea and other countries as they like and when they choose to?
 
Trump accused the North Korean’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to ‘threaten(s) the entire world with unthinkable cost of human life’. The truth is that the North Koreans would not dare to use their nuclear weapons unless attacked by the Americans. And without provocation, just by building and testing their defense system are not provocations, the Americans is threatening to destroy totally the whole of North Korea and in the process, ‘threaten(s) the entire world with unthinkable cost of human life’.
 
This is what the fucking mad Americans are going to do to the North Koreans and to the entire world when they dare to strike North Korea. It is the Americans that are threatening to attack North Korea, not North Korea threatening to attack the USA.
 
Trump went on to threaten other states and ‘called Iran an “economically depleted rogue state” that exports violence.’ The truth, it is the economically bankrupt rogue state of the USA that is exporting violence, starting wars and conducting wars everywhere. And all the terrorism and terrorist acts have American thumbprints on them, originated and Made In USA.
 
The UN General Assembly should speak up against this rogue state that is threatening to destroy North Korea and bring the whole world along with it. Period.

Reactions to the EP walkover

The no contest for the EP is quite expectable given the aristocratic elitist barriers raised to block the average citizens from their rights to be elected to the office of the Presidency. This is more than a sick joke if this country is to be called a democracy when the basic rights of the citizens are taken away from them, that not all men are equal under the law but some are more equal than others based on their jobs and wealth. Now that the show is over, let’s see how the citizens react to the whole farce all for nothing.
 
For the activitists, there was a sit in vigil at Hong Lim Park, where they protested in silence, nothing more nothing less. Anything more could be dangerous. The turnout was good enough for the govt to take notice.
 
The next group of citizens simply said, it’s over, let’s move on. This is the typical boh bian group of Singaporeans, resigned to their fate.
 
A deviant group would grudgingly said, what to do, what can you do about it, and end the story there.
 
Then there is the usual large group of tiada apa group that just go home with whatever they are doing as if nothing happens. Life just go on with or without the EP show.  The boh chap type.
 
And there is the very disappointed hedonistic group that are cursing and swearing that they did not have a free holiday. That is about the most important thing in the life of this group.
 
And you will have the happy group all celebrating and congratulating the PAP and Halimah for winning the EP election, for working so hard for it.
 
And let’s not forget another group that would give up a big yawn.
 
This is Singapore and how Singaporeans react to this EP reserved for the Malays.
It is a non event. Who cares? Nobody cares, really. The govt can do whatever it wants, change the Constitution for what it thinks fit and whatever it claims will affect Singapore in the future, whether the people agree or not, it does not matter. The govt said counts.
Oh the Malay community will be celebrating the second Malay President of the island after 47 years. Gratitude man.

The people's President

Several presidents have been touted as the people's president with names

like Ong Teng Cheong, Wee Kim Wee, Nathan etc etc often quoted in the main

media. Oops, my apologies, I think Ong Teng Cheong was only quoted as the

people's president in the social media if I am not wrong. The title of the

people's president seems to endear many people and it is something of a

great honour to be known as one. Depending who you are, everyone would have

his own people's president in his heart and not every president is their

people’s president.

Tan Cheng Bock came close to be another people's president when he lost to

Tony Tan by a hair's breath and then disqualified from standing for the

next election when the Constitution was changed and he was out from the

running. The popularity of Cheng Bock has increased despite his being a non

candidate in the latest EP election that turned out to be a walkover with

only one candidate qualifying though Cheng Bock was the first to express

his intent to contest.

In the public's mind, many thought Cheng Bock was likely to win should he

be given a chance to contest. This could be one of the main reasons why the

rules were changed to disqualify him. Everything is now history and Cheng

Bock unfortunately becomes a ‘has been’. It is difficult to see him

contesting in the next EP as age is catching up on him.

Below is a pic on his popularity when the turned up at the silent sit in at

Hong Lim on 16 Sep. The crowd was with him. The crowd was there on their

own, with no temptation of free chicken rice or free transport. A people’s

president does not need that. These people paid their transport fare to be

with him. These were genuine signs of what a people's president is like,

like by the people from their heart, spontaneous and with no coercion or

any farcical set up to make him look good.

Maybe to some people Cheng Bock is still their people's president in some

way. And in some way Cheng Bock has been robbed of his rightful place in

the Istana.

Photo credit to statestimesreview.

20th Asian Masters Athletic Championship - Our masters athletes in action

Kannan is sitting right in front of some the athletes that were able to attend for this photoshoot at Toa Payoh followed by a send off lunch.

35 Singapore masters athletes will be competing in the 20th Asian Masters Athletic championship in the city of Rugao in Jiangsu China from 24-28 Sep. Rugao is famous for having the most centenarians alive and is most suitable to host such an event. In Singapore we have a strong pool of senior athletes enjoying themselves in the gruelling sports of athletics and would not call it a day until their bodies failed to move, their legs failed to run and their hands failed to lift or throw. These masters athletes are self funding and doing their own training totally on their own without any support from the govt except for some generous individuals and private organisations.

The Singaporean Team of athletes, age 35 to 80+, with some ex state runners like Paul Su, have been training very hard in the past months to do battle with the other Asian athletes, all 3,000 of them from across Asia in this meet. Some of the competitors that have registered for the events were in their 80s and 90s.

Just my event for the 65-69 age group for 100m sprint draws 28 runners. The events include long and middle distance, 10,000 metre walks and field sports like short putt, javelin, discuss and the jumps.

The man behind this Singapore Team is A Kannan from the Singapore Masters Association. Working closely with him and assisting in coordinating all the travel arrangement and logistics is Jason Wong from the Singapore Masters Track and Field Association. The athletes from both associations and some free individuals are all going as Team Singapore to fly the Singapore flag.

The Singapore Team is fortunate to have many sponsors making contributions to this event. The main sponsor is a Mr Andy Foo who will be hosting a dinner for the athletes in Rugao. The other sponsors are acknowledged in the top banner of this blog.

CPF – Phillip Ang carrying the touch

Thanks to Phillip Ang for his persistence in keeping the CPF money issue alive and current. Just keep talking about this subject less some donkey would say 'see, no one is talking about it anymore', so they have accepted their fait accompli about the CPF no longer their money and would not care what would happen to their CPF money anymore.

Here is a quote from 'bapak' in a comment in Philip Ang's post in the TRE.

Bapak:
September 9, 2017 at 11:51 pm (Quote)
And now they upped the brainwatching by advertising on MiddleCorpse a son telling his daughters he is topping up his father’s account as token for bringing him up. Whoever fucking stupid ones will do that. Got money give your aging parents CASH. Why need to topup their accounts?

How many people have read this or know about the foolishness of topping up the CPF of their parents when they should be giving them cash to spend as and when they like? Once the money is in the CPF, you lose control of that money and using it is subject to all the rules of the CPF and could mean tan ku ku.

How many people understand the meaning of putting more money into their CPF or topping the CPF accounts of their parents and did not know the consequences?

I have been told that there is another change to the CPF Medisave Fund. When the owner dies, the money would not be allowed to be taken out despite the owner choosing to pass all the money to the beneficiary in cash. The money in the Medisave will be transferred to the Medisave of the beneficiary, forever retain in the CPF. See how desperate they are to take your money.

A caveat, I need to confirm this change if it is true and if it is retrospective or only affect new CPF members. Phillip Ang and all of you reading this, please check up on this. I will be writing to the CPF to confirm on this change.

This is really frightening and disgusting. I hope it is not true. And Leong Sze Hian has recently reported that if you don't do anything after they sent you a letter at age 65, your piecemeal withdrawal for retirement will be deferred to 70 years old!

And no announcement again in the media.

Has this got to do with blocking Cheng Bock from the presidency? Money not enough?

21/9/17
PS.  I have made a nomination under the normal scheme, not the Enhanced Nomination Scheme ENS. CPF has replied:

'A CPF Nomination allows you to decide who will receive your CPF savings, and how much each will receive. By default, your nominees will receive CPF savings due to them in cash via cheque or Giro.'

The payment to the Medisave account of nominees is under the ENS.