Hsien Loong's National Day Rally- Protecting people's livelihood

Two points were quite new in this rally other than climate change. One is lowering education cost for Singaporeans and the second, concern of workers who want to work longer with longer lifespan.

The lowering of education cost is not something new as it has been flogged like a dead horse for the last couple of decades with the govt turning a deaf ear and chose to throw more money, in the billions to educate children of foreigners. The numbers kept piling up and the Education Minister must be quite embarrassed reading the numbers in Parliament, hundreds of millions every year, and double the amount in the last couple of decades at the expense of Singaporean children in education. But I am wrong, for the govt said all the money spent on foreign children, including university places for foreigners were not done at the expense of Singapore children. No Singapore children has lost out, lost their university place because of the foreign students paid to study here. OK, I admit I am wrong, no point arguing about it as the coin has two sides and I and many Singaporeans are looking at the wrong side.

Hsien Loong in his rally speech has made right this annual grouse by lowering university and polytechnic tuition fees quite considerably especially in medicine. Students now need to pay only $5000 a year instead of &29,000 to $35,000. And poly students could pay as low as $150 per year. These are good news to the students and their parents. And to make it sweeter and to show that the govt is not wayanging, it takes immediate effect in the next academic year and for existing students unlike past policies that would take place a year later. The kpkb against the grotesque sum given to foreign children may not elicit any response from the govt, or meant nothing to the govt, nor affect a govt that would do the right thing by being deaf. But this change in govt policy should help many families in lowering their financial burden paying for their children's education.

DBS the best bank in the world

The next important point is working longer for Singaporeans that are living longer. DBS was singled for praise for job restructuring and reskilling to enable its employees to work in new jobs and to work longer. Piyush Gupta was in the audience and beaming with pride for the good job done.

The best bank in the world is not for nothing if it does not show care and concern for its workers. Not sure if this include its business partners and agents that lost their livelihood in DBS's restructuring exercise to make the bank trimmer and more efficient. DBS has a big reputation as a national bank, a national icon and cannot do otherwise. Everyone is watching DBS, including Hsien Loong on how DBS contributes positively to create employment in Singapore not just for foreigners but also for Singaporeans and not to destroy their livelihood.

The govt has taken the initiative to increase retirement and reemployment age and raising CPF for senior employees. This is a key message in this year's National Day Rally, providing employment for as long as possible for Singaporeans that want to work longer, not terminating their employment prematurely and killing their livelihood. As the population ages and with more living longer, building and protecting their nest egg is vital if the seniors are to enjoy a life of financial independence and to live with dignity.

Every employer especially GLCs and ministries would have to take note of this policy mission and not to put Hsien Loong in an embarrassing position by acting contrary.

The myths and hypocrisies of western rule based world and non belligerence

Watch this video and George Galloway saying what the western bourgeoisies refused to see in how belligerent they were but hiding under the fake image of peace loving and observance of rule of law in international relations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcyfVLMWqFI

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Published on Apr 25, 2019

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Mr Galloway is great. I wish he was Prime Minister. Brilliant.’

See how shocked were the fake intelligentsia reacted to the truth that they did not want to see but chose to believe in their lies and fake truths. It is so painful for them to sit there to listen to George Galloway telling them right in their faces and tearing up their myths and hypocrisies into pieces.

Galloway’s comment is in the first 6 minutes of the clip. Then listen to how he destroyed a young man’s belief in the American rule of law, the fake western rule of law etc etc. Galloway was furious about the fake belief in the western international rule of law. What rule of law was there when there was no rule of law in the first place but the rule of belligerence?

After listening to Galloway, hopefully those people uttering about the rule based world would think twice before they opened their mouths. This is a very interesting anti populist fake western views of the rule of law.

Asians and bananas would benefit from the truths spoken by Galloway and hopefully make them less stupid in believing in the western lies.

Club Zoom Kindred Spirit Meet at Choa Chu Kang Stadium

I didn't know SMTFA was participating. Thought it was a family affair. Got there in time to catch Taka and Masashi in the 100m masters. Later got to capture the moment when Masashi, Taka, Khen Teen and Yew Yong ran a superd 4x100m with smooth passing to win the gold  with a 10m lead from the second finisher. Here are some pics taken for the day.

A group photo of the masters relay sprinters before the end of the meet

Taka and Masashi in the 100m masters

Yew Yong picking the baton from Khen Teen in the final leg of the 4x100m

The second and third finishers

And there was a SMTFA ladies relay team, new faces that I have not seen before

High jump

Next generation of SMTFA?

Brunei's mixed relay team gold medalists. While our masters are in Brunei, their National teams are here. The two guys are half of their 4x100m relay squad. The Singapore 4x100m and 4x400m squads were here too. Thought could see them compete with the Brunei national squad, but only the 4x400m team ran. The 4x100m did not start.

Faces of the young

Children everywhere

Young hurdlers

Hurray Trump has done it

The S&P 500 fell 85.72 points, or 2.9%, to 2,840.60. The Dow sank 800.49 points, or 3%, to 25,479.42. The Nasdaq composite lost 242.42 points, or 3%, to 7,773.94. The Russell 2000 index of smaller company stocks slid 43.05 points, or 2.8%, to 1,467.52.

The losses come a day after stocks rallied when the Trump administration delayed tariffs on about $160 billion in Chinese goods that were set to take effect on Sept. 1.

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to defend his trade policy Wednesday, saying "we are winning big time, against China." Yahoo News 14 Aug 19

I have always wrote in praise of Trump for his effort in bringing down the American Empire. And he has consistently and relentlessly been pushing his agenda his way that he thought would make America Great Again. He sincerely believed that he is godsend to do this job. He is the best man in the USA to make American great again.  ‘We are winning big time, against China’.  Oops, Dow fell 800 points or 3%. And the fear of recession is looming around the corner. Not to worry, Trump the Conman is in charge. He will continue to con the Americans all is fine, China is in deep trouble, America is doing very well. But he quickly reversed course and said the new tariff hike would take effect on 15 Dec. Otherwise all the imports for Christmas present would be much more costly to the Americans this Christmas.

Now look at the figures above posted in Yahoo News on 14 Aug and ask if you believe in them or believe in Trump the Conman. There were many indicators pointing to serious problems in the US economy, falling real income, employment numbers and the need to lower interest rates. But no one wants to believe but love to believe in Conman Trump. Now reality hits, bond market indicators showed recession coming and Dow plunged, 800 points. You cannot hide, cannot run, cannot lie.

In the meantime Trump and his gangsters are behaving like terrorists terrorizing countries all over the world with threats of war. The people in Iran and Venezuela are waiting being massacred by the Americans. Warships and warplanes are all over Iran. In the case of Venezuela, the Americans had stopped a ship carrying food to feed the Venezuelans. The Venezuelans can die as long as Trump and his terrorists try to do a regime change to force Maduro, their elected President to step down. If not, die shall the Venezuelans. The same goes to the Iranians. The North Koreans are luckier as China is just next door and food supply and essentials will not stop flowing into the country to feed the North Koreans despite all the sanctions and blockades by the Americans for the last few decades.

I digress. The most and immediate threat to the world economy and world peace is the Number One Terrorist of the World trying all ways to destroy the world. Trump is the leader leading a bunch of unscrupulous leaders in the White House doing just this, to destroy the world to make America great again, but not before destroying America in the process.

Well done Conman Trump. No more trade deal with China.

The children of the world that survived this madness created by Trump and his gangsters would remember how great America was, but then dead and gone.

IMDA – Brown face ad insensitive but did not breach Internet Code of Practice

The Nairs were given conditional warnings for their racist and highly offensive rap video, attacking the Chinese as a racist race with vulgarities. Conditional warning means if they remain crime free for two years, no action would be taken against them. Is this too lenient for such an offensive video? According to a lawyer Ravinderpal Singh, quoted in thenewpaper, ‘the intention to knowingly harm the harmony between different religious or racial groups has to be present to constitute a criminal offence under Section 298A(a) of the Penal Code. From the sentence given, can one read that the Nair siblings has been judged as having no intention to harm racial harmony and thus only a conditional warning?
 
How then could one judge that a person has intention to harm racial harmony? By own admission? In this case the people making the judgement was the Attorney General’s Chambers and ‘they concluded that the video was in contravention of Section 298A(a) of the Penal Code, Chapter 224. How does one interpret this judgement by the AGC? If there is a contravention, should not the siblings be charged for the criminal act?
 
In the case of the brown face ad, the AGC has ruled that ‘there was no criminal offence disclosed in the advertisement’. Both the brown face ad and the offensive video led to police reports. Legally and clearly, according to AGC’s decision, one is criminal and the other is not.
 
The other issue is the insensitive or inappropriate part. How to decide what is insensitive and what is not? Who to decide? We have two organisations, the Council of Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore and the Attorney General’s Chambers have ruled that the brown face ad did not break any law. So why are some people still uttering that the ad was insensitive and inappropriate when it did not break any law? Oh, because a few bigots said so. The few bigots are setting the standard of social norm in Singapore, not the Council of Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore, not the AGC.
 
There are hundreds of millions of people with brown faces. If their brown face is offensive, their lives would be very miserable having such a colour on their face. What about the white Europeans travelling thousands of miles here to buy suntan lotion to lay under the sun to bake themselves just to have a brown face? To them brown face is beautiful, a colour of choice. Offensive to who?
 
The same reasoning applies. A swine woman threatened and bullied an innocent 9 year old that saying beef curry was insensitive and could get him killed in some country. To her, no one in Singapore can mention eating beef. My God, there are hundreds of millions of people eating beef daily. These people even studied the various types of beef and how to cook them to get the best taste. Would some minister or MP table in Parliament to ban the mention of eating beef and beef advertisement in Singapore? Would one have to whisper to a waiter when ordering steak, ‘Psst Psst, I want it (beef steak) done it this way. Sorry I can’t say it loud as it would offend some bigots and I could get myself killed’?
 
Singapore is not only a multi cultural, ethnic and religious society. It is also a cosmopolitan city. We respect the sensitivity of the different races and religion. But none should be allowed to impose their sensitivity on other people. Singapore must not allow a few bigots and extremists to dictate the social norms of what is right and wrong or what is permissible or insensitive. There are rules and laws on such matters and these should be the deciding factor, not some bigots and idiots.
 
We must not allow bigots and idiots to set the rules of social norms.