Tan Bah Bah – talking sense and nonsense

Desinicise Singapore, speak Bahasa and be more Asean, this is the heading of a ‘sense and nonsense’ post by Tan Bah Bah in theindependent. I am not sure whether he is saying he is talking sense or nonsense. The gist of his article is that Singapore must speak more Bahasa and be more like Asean. I am not sure if Asean means more Bahasa from Singapore’s frog in the well perspective or a baba’s perspective. Out of the 10 countries in Asean, only 3 countries speak Bahasa, ie Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. There are Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and the Philippines that have their own national languages and are proud of their own languages and cultures. Would they want to speak more Bahasa to be more Asean, presuming that Bahasa is Asean?
 
Historically, the development of civilization is about survival of the fittest. When the Mongols and Manchus conquered and ruled over China, they tried to impose their culture and language on the Chinese. They failed and eventually embraced the Chinese culture and language. What is the moral of these two stories?
When the Europeans invaded and conquered North America, they did not try to be more Red Indians and to speak more Red Indian language. They made their languages, especially English the lingua franca of the USA. OK, this story is quite different as they terminated and ‘genocided’ the Red Indians to near extinction and became irrelevant as a civilization.
 
The rest of the world, especially the third world less developed countries, embraced English with gusto. Singapore is an exception as the migrants have very shallow roots and are very willing to discard their own culture and language, especially the babas, to take on a different personality and identity. The fact that China and the Chinese Civilisation were in eclipse, conquered and devastated by the West, with China becoming a bankrupt and pariah country, helped these babas to want to dissociate themselves from being Chinese more willingly, just like duckweeds. Duckweeds have short roots and would change their roots quite easily.
 
The English language triumphed and became the major commercial and national language in Singapore and also in India and many other countries. There is no denying that the Europeans, represented by the English Empire and the English language, were superior, modern and advanced in areas of science and technology, the arts, medicine, in govt etc etc. A useful and progressive language would always be attractive to the progressive who want to learn a foreign language. But many newly independent countries proud of their own nationalities and cultures, chose to abandon the English language to promote the use of their own languages. That is why within Asean, every state has its own national language while English is still promoted in some way as an international language of commerce.
 
Would the rest of the Asean countries be willing to want to learn a third language like the Bahasa for greater Asean identity? Would they be willing to put in the effort and would they be able to cope with this additional task of learning another language that is less functional and not really a commercial regional language, definitely not an international language? Singaporeans, the Chinese and especially the babas, could not even cope with learning the Chinese language that is culturally and intrinsically Chinese, but they could cope with Bahasa just to be more Asean from the perspective of a frog in a well?
 
By the way, Singapore has been trying to be more Asean at least in the choice of a national dress. Ong Teng Chuan tried to introduce the orchid shirt but it faded away. Singapore’s national dress is the national dress of Asean. Wherever our leaders go, they will wear the national dress of that particular Asean country. When they visit Malaysia and Indonesia, they will wear batik. When they visit the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand etc, they would choose their respective national dress. This is Singapore’s first step to desinicise and become more Asean.
 
Is Tan Bah Bah’s proposal making sense or is he talking nonsense?

The Jews: The Jewish Problem And Its Ominous Impact On The World

The Jewish problem and its ominous impact on every country in this world.   PART     ONE

The Jews by and large are the main cause of all troubles, choas, instabilities and wars in this world. They have always worked in cahoot with European and American white supremacists to undermine non-western and third world countries interests and persist to engineer the eventual One New World Order under American and Zionist domination, control and total hegemony.

The Jewish problem has its roots more than two thousand years ago since the time of Abraham, the ancestor of both the Arabs and the Jews. In fact the Arabs and the Jews can be said to be half-brothers or cousins.

The modern Jewish problem started with the foundation of the Jewish state of Israel by UK and US in Palestine at the tremendous outrageous expense of the Palestinians in 1948.

A hundred years ago England was in a massive struggle against the Ottoman Empire ( present Turkey) and its allies Germany and the Austria-Hungary Empire for supremacy and control of  Europe and the Middle East which was then under the rule of the Turks, the Ottomans. England like present day US spent massively on military build up during World War I. It had to enlist the financial support of  wealthy Zionists - the Jews for its war effort. The then British Foreign Secretary , Arthur James Balfour and many of his peers were very anti-semitic for obvious reasons of Jewish financial power.

However, to get Jewish financial support for the war Balfour and his government committed to establish a Jewish state in Palestine at the expense of the already historically rooted nation. The motive of setting up the Jewish state was not just to fulfill the agreement for Jewish financial support but the long underlying ulterior desire to get rid of all Jews from Europe and America similar to President Abraham Lincoln establishment of an American Negro state of Liberia in 1860s in the North West of Africa just to get rid of the African Americans who were the backbone in the rise and construction of America for hundreds of years since the 1600s.

Much of the facts and information in this article are sourced from the website "Russia Insider", especially from the article "The Balfour Declaration Destroyed Palestine" written by Ramzy Baroud.

Withe the defeat of the Turks and Germany in the First World War 1914-1918, England proceeded to dismember the Ottoman Empire ( also known as Turkoman Empire ) of Turkey in the Middle East. England, US and the West proceeded to set up various Arab states, little Arab Sheikdoms or principalities arbitrarily in the whole of Middle East to suit their political agenda of divide and rule.

Balfour's promise to the Jewish leader, Walter Rothschild "would entail uprooting a whole nation of Palestinians from their ancestral homes. Decades later UK, US and all western countries continue to support Israel's devastation of the Palestinians. oblivious to their tragic fate."

Balfour and the West couldn't care for the fate of the Palestinian Arabs who suffer the cruelty of  war, ethnic cleansing, racism and humiliation over the course of a century. It was tantamount to a decree calling for the total annihilation of the Palestinian people, just as what the white American invaders did to the native Americans.

Since 1948 Palestinians were evicted from their homes and forced to live a precarious life in refugee camps in the Gaza strip. Thus by the decree of Balfour and with the connivance of US and the West the fate of generations of millions of Palestinians had been sealed to a life of perpetual desolation.

Initially when the British came with tanks and firearms to forcefully and illegally evict the Palestinians from their villagers the pathetic naive and innocent Palestinians did not realize that the tanks were the harbinger of the destruction of the Palestinian state and people and thus they came out to welcome the British thinking that they had liberated them from the Turks. Soon they realized the evil intention of the British and so they resisted and fought bravely against the British but to no avail.

With the defeat of the Palestinian state England proceeded inimpeded to expedite the formation of the Jewish state in 1948. The new Jewish state of Israel had powerful armies well trained and armed and funded by UK and US . The Israel army proved to be more brutal than the British in dealing with the Palestinian Arabs whose civil and religious rights were completely trampled and ignored. It does show that UK, US, the West and Israel have no respect for international law, nd Palestinian human, civil and religious rights.

The atrocious attitude of the British, American, the Jews and the West towards the Palestinians is criminal and inhuman. They learnt nothing of their evil deeds since Balfour's ominous promise to establish a Jewish state in the midst of the Arab world at the expense of the Palestinians.

There is a lesson to be learnt for Third World countries. Never cosy up to the deceptive  embrace of the western imperialist powers especially the Americans and the British or you will end up like the disastrous fatal fate of the native Americans, the palestinians, the Hawaiians of Hawaii and Guam whose countries had been invaded  and annexed by the United States of America.

Southernglory1

Tuesday, 13th November, 2018

NB :  The ominous impact of the Jewish problem consists of two parts. In Part Two it tells how the Jewish evil influence impacts on world geopolitics risking the threat of a nuclear war between US and Russia as well as China.

PAP changing of the guards and implications

Hsien Loong announced the stepping down of 5 senior party leaders to clear the swamp for the young turks to take over. Chee Hian, Tharman, Boon Wan, Yaacob and Swee Say all stepped down from the CEC. The only CEC member left that is above 60 is Hsien Loong, now 66.
 
The first thought that came to my mind is that Chee Hian and Tharman are unlikely to be the next PM. Their fate is as good as sealed. Would they still hang on to their appointments as DPMs, or would they also step aside and maybe given the great titles of senior ministers or ESM? But this is just irrelevant if one is to see what role Chok Tong is playing, creating jobs himself to keep himself busy but out of the party agenda.
 
Traditionally, anyone that is going to be the PM must remain in the CEC as the Secretary General or maybe the assistant Sec Gen. There has been no precedence that someone that is not a CEC member could become the PM. But then again exceptional situation may result in exceptional development. If Chee Hian and Tharman remain as Dep PMs after stepping down from the CEC, in a crisis situation, or an abnormal situation, it would be normal and natural for a Dep PM to step in as the PM when the need arises. In the current context, this is very likely and very possible. The fate of Chee Hian and Tharman becoming the next PM is still not completely sealed as long as they remain as the Dep PMs. Should they be asked to step down as DPM, then the gate is closed, more or less.
 
Let’s watch the next move that will determine their fate. It would be completely sealed if a 4G PM designate is appointed as the DPM. By then Tharman should apply for a permanent job in the IMF instead and make himself more useful and meaningful.

MRT - Another stupidity has no cure thing

'Like travelers at airports, MRT commuters will be required to walk through a metal detector and put their belongings through X-ray scanners. Security officers at MRT stations will soon also be equipped with handheld metal detectors to scan commuters.
Such security equipment was first deployed at emergency exercises in Feb this year. According to a senior LTA official who spoke to TODAY, it took an estimated eight to ten minutes to organise and clear each commuter, before they were allowed to go through the fare gates.'

The above quote is from theindependent on the 6 month security check trial by the MRT. I am not going to discuss the rationale and goodness of this exercise. I am just amazed by the decision based on the numbers to contend with. Imagine that commuters take more than 2m trips daily. If each commuter were to take 10 minutes before going through the gates,  this would mean 20m minutes of time needed to clear each commuter. Let's convert this to hours, ie 20,000,000/60 or more than 3 million hours would be needed or wasted.

Ok, MRT is not going to put the trial on every station, just 6 stations at a time. How many passengers would be affected? How much time would be needed for each commuter to add to their travelling time? Assuming this is conducted in off peak hours, with this kind of delay, every commuter is likely to be in a queue of at least 20 people. This would mean having to wait for 200 minutes before clearing. Does t make sense?

Then look at the problem during peak hours. The queue could easily be a 100 people at least and building up very quickly. If one is in a 100 man queue and each one takes 10 minutes to clear the gate, that would mean a 1,000 minute wait. This is more than 16 hours of waiting time to get through the gate.

I think if this is going to be the case, MRT should make an announcement to warn commuters that travelling time will be longer, and they need to start their journey one day ahead to be sure of getting to their destination on time.

Perhaps MRT could foresee this problem and cut the clearing time by half, ie 5 minutes. It would still take 8 hours at least, during peak hours, to clear through a gate. Of course I am calculating this only on paper and it may not be accurate plus and minus a few hours.

What do you think?

Some nitwits may say it can be done at the airports, why not the trains? Go figure. If you can add 1+1=2, you will not be too far off.

PS. If 10 gates are reduced to one gate, even without the screening, the stations would not be able to cope. With this screening process added on, how long would be the queue?

Better for senior citizens to have 2 flu jabs a year

A study by the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and Tan Tock Seng Hospital has recommended that the elderly should go for 2 vaccinations annually against flu and respiratory illnesses. This is a good advice as flu attack seems so common especially for the elderly and for me. This is one of the irritating things that happens to me regularly and I have tried many methods to prevent this from happening. With so many foreigners from little corners of the world, Singaporeans are now exposed to many funny and strange viruses that were not here before the open leg policy.
I dunno how much it would cost for the two jabs and for the pain that is part of poking a needle into the skin and flesh. Two instead of one jab would definitely be better as a protection. It was reported in thenewpaper that the second jab would provide better protection against 3 influenza strains.
 
I think protecting against 3 strains may not be enough given the number of foreigners from all corners of the world in our midst. Instead of going for the 2 jabs to be protected against the 3 strains, I have chosen to be exposed to more strains and getting free vaccinations without the pain and the cost, by taking public transport, especially the crowded trains. I am daily being vaccinated and should be protected by the numerous strains in the air in the confined space of trains when one has to share the air with everyone in the train. And if one is lucky to stand or sit beside someone with a running nose, the impact and exposure would be several hundred times more.
 
I know as it would hit me almost immediately. My experiment with these unwelcome attacks in the train is to pop a couple of paraceptamol the moment I reached the office. Sometimes I may need another two or four tablets to make sure the free vaccinations did not turn into a full blown flu attack. So far it has worked. Instead of having to suffer two weeks of flu, headache, slight fever and general discomfort and a couple of dozens of paraceptamol, so far I could make do with 2 to 8 tablets to keep the flu from becoming full blown.
 
What I know from my personal experience and experiment is that there must be many more strains in the train/air. This is confirmed by the discomfort and earlier signs of a flu attack everytime I sit/stand beside someone with flu/running nose, in the train.
 
Hopefully after a year or two of daily vaccination in the train, my antibody level will be high to protect me from all strains of flu. Unfortunately, after so many years being vaccinated in the train, the attack keeps coming on. I can only conclude that there must be many strains of flu due to the constant changing of foreigners from our open leg policy and the constant mutation of the flu viruses.
 
The only comfort from my experiment is that I did not have to keep going for jabs and to pay for them. I have them free, in the train, daily, being exposed to the latest strains when they arrived, in the train. And these are live viruses, not the dead viruses used in vaccination. Think my resistance system should be stronger, with stronger antibodies. But I am still being hit very often.
 
If being exposed to these deadly viruses daily, twice a day, and I am still getting the flu, would exposing to 3 strains of dead viruses help? Or would the daily exposure would be more than is needed than being exposed twice a year with vaccination jabs?