To claim that religion is for peace is looking more and more silly by
the day. Many wars and strife around the world are caused by religion,
religious beliefs, religious intolerance often claimed as
misinterpretation of the religious doctrines and text. In short,
religion is spelt trouble. To some religions, peace means the
annihilation of other religions with only one religion left.
The sensitivity and highly prone to war and destruction of religion must
be tackled carefully and forcefully. Singapore is a secular state and
religion must always be kept at a level not to upset social and national
security and stability. Singapore cannot be ruled by religion. How to
when there are so many religions in this little island and each has its
core values and doctrines that are in conflict with other religions and
if not restrained, could lead to open hostility?
The Govt is going to act, to nip in the bud, threats to religious
harmony under a religious harmony law. This fake and unnatural state of
affair called religious harmony can only exist in Singapore if the govt
is strong and not be influenced by any particular religion or be
hijacked by religious extremists. Religious harmony is so artificial
when one is to really look at what religion is all about vis a vis other
religions. Religious intolerance and exclusivity to other religions is
the core of trouble in this world. Let’s not deceive ourselves to think
otherwise. Without a strong govt to keep the lid tightly over religion,
conflict could flare up at any moment anywhere. There would be some
cuckoo religious leaders that would come along to whip up religious
intolerance and could claim correctness by quoting their religious
books.
Having this understanding of how sensitive religion is, it is fair and
necessary to stop people from being too free and generous in their
comments and views about religion. This comment from Hsien Loong is
fair. ‘But we do not allow unfettered and rambunctious discussion on
religion, or even worse provocative or blasphemous cartoons,
performances and videos, nor are we likely to do so for a very long time
to come…We have no illusions about the depth of the religious fault
lines in our society, and the harm that will befall us if we neglect to
manage them, he said,….’ This point is particularly important in this
blog especially to Matilah. When the law comes into effect, I would have
no choice but to delete his strong views that he thought are funny
about religions. Not many are mature enough to tahan his caricatures of
religions and religious icons.
But while respecting and being aware of religious sensitivity are
important, the govt must not allow religious sensitivity as an excuse to
set the agenda and norms of civility and correctness in society.
Religion and claims of religious sensitivity must not be allowed to
determine what is right or acceptable like ethnic sensitivity. This
reminds me of the swine woman that threatened and bullied a young
innocent boy for saying ‘beef curry’ and attacked him and threatened the
boy that he could be killed in some silly country. I am still waiting
to see if the govt would take this silly woman to task for spreading
fear in Singapore with her extremist and bigot views of what is or is
not acceptable and permissible in Singapore. The best part is that she
could not see her folly and bragged about it in facebook to tell the
world that she did the right thing to attack the innocent young boy.
Poor boy must be terrified by his encounter with this swine woman.
To guard against religious extremism and religion to set the agenda and
way of life for everyone, this is what Hsien Loong said, ‘We must also
have religious and govt leaders who are broad minded and enlightened,
who understand the context in which we operate, and who set an example
for others to spread the message of tolerance and understanding.’ This
is a tough call and demanded the religious leaders to fake their stand
and often have to say or do things contrary to their religious beliefs
and doctrines. Tough, but they have to oblige in the name of religious
harmony.
Religion and religious differences are things that are best be left alone,
not spoken. Their truths may not be your truths. What an irony when
truths are questionable and often seen as untruths by the non believers.
How can one truth be so wrong and another truth be so right? Is not
truth be truth?
Lets pretend that there is religious harmony and keep it that way. As
long as the lid is kept in place, we can live with this religious
harmony and it is good for everyone, especially the non religious, not
to be bullied and threatened by religious bigots and extremists and be
allowed to live their own lives of their own choosing.
8/27/2019
Hongkongers consuming too much opium and drugged
When the British and foreigners flooded China with opium in the 19th
Century, a civilization of people went berserk, their minds went bland
under the influence of the drug. From the emperors and mandarins to the
farmers and coolies, all were drugged and stone. They could no longer
think straight and any policy or action against the use of the drug
would be opposed and undermined by the courts. They just want their
drugs and nothing else. No personal dignity or pride as a people, as a
civilization.
The situation in Hong Kong today is quite similar. This time the drug was fed to the unthinking and impressionable young and they spread the drug to their parents and grandparents. So deeply drugged, they could no longer think and die die would want their way. Many were in a trance, attacking the police as if they were enemies. And they expect the police not to hit back, the police cannot hit back because they are the police.
Can anyone imagine the silly old Hongkongers believing that they are fighting for one country two systems and not the destruction of Hong Kong and their way of life? They are having one country two systems at the moment and they are fighting to destroy it. Irrespective of whatever, the one country two systems will end in another 28 years. China will take back Hong Kong completely. The one country two systems is only good as a temporary measure and the 50 year break is to allow Hong Kong to gradually become one with China, not another state, not an independent Hong Kong. The Hongkongers must have no delusion that Hong Kong could still continue to be under one country two systems after the 50 years expired.
Hong Kong is a teeny weeny bit of China but an embarrassment that China would not allow to happen again. If Hong Kong is to be destroyed, if half of the Hongkongers were to perish for Hong Kong to become China, so be it. The concession of one country two systems were the last unequal treaty China had to sign as it was still not strong enough then to take Hong Kong back fully or risk a war with the West. Hongkongers must not deceive themselves or be deceived by others that they are so important to China and China would give away Hong Kong again.
In today’s context, China could even sail its navy to take England if it wanted to. China today is strong enough to take on the Americans and all its cronies combined, to protect its national interests and territorial integrity. There would be no concession or compromise when these are concerned. The drugged Hongkongers in their delusion may think that it is possible to have an independent Hong Kong to harm China.
Xi Jinping would say, over my dead body. The 1.4b Chinese would say, over our dead bodies. Wake up Hongkongers, give up whatever you are smoking and clear your thoughts. Hong Kong is an inalienable part of China and would be so forever. Still thinking the West would fight and die for a few silly Hongkongers?
China would now have all the reasons to remove the failing one country two systems and integrate Hong Kong fully as part of China. And all the vestiges of Britain, all the angmoh high court judges, civil servants and police officers would be sent back to England for good. And all the yellow skin British subjects would be allowed to migrate to their motherland in England, never to return.
The fate of Hong Kong’s future has changed. China is going all out to promote Shenzhen as the new commercial centre to replace Hong Kong. All Chinese capital and commerce would vacate Hong Kong and move into Shenzhen. All foreign companies would be advised to close down and move out of Hong Kong. Military law would be imposed in Hong Kong and the island locked down. In three months, Hong Kong would be a ghost town. All the generosities from China would be withdrawn and Hong Kong would be struggling to revive an economy that was not there without China.
Hongkongers smart? Hongkongers know what they want and they will get an independent Hong Kong? Not only that this wound not materialize, the prosperous Hong Kong would be a thing of the past. Hong Kong would be dismantled and rebuild from scratch. They have no chips to play, no bargaining power.
Well done, protesters and free Hong Kong movement. You have done it, by delivering Hong Kong to China 28 years prematurely and there would be no democratic Hong Kong that they built in their dreams under the hallucination of drugs. Would the Americans or British die for them in a war with China?
Singaporeans have a new member in its stupidity has no cure club.
PS. The clashes in the streets of Hong Kong had turned the streets into a war zone. The western media are still chirping that the protests were peaceful, not violent. Watch the video clips and see how the mobs attacked and beat up policemen and hurling bricks, petrol bombs and whatever they had at the police force. Peaceful, this is warfare.
The lack of casualties, injuries and bloodshed and death among the mobsters is a tribute to the great restraint exercised by the police force. In many countries, the violent mobs would have been shot and there would be bodies on the streets. The mobsters were so drugged and stoned that they did not know what the hell they were doing, fighting for an independent Hong Kong?
I am in praise of the Hong Kong Police Force, the men and women that faced the mobs and got beaten while restraining themselves from using more force than necessary to whip the daylight out of the mobsters.
The situation in Hong Kong today is quite similar. This time the drug was fed to the unthinking and impressionable young and they spread the drug to their parents and grandparents. So deeply drugged, they could no longer think and die die would want their way. Many were in a trance, attacking the police as if they were enemies. And they expect the police not to hit back, the police cannot hit back because they are the police.
Can anyone imagine the silly old Hongkongers believing that they are fighting for one country two systems and not the destruction of Hong Kong and their way of life? They are having one country two systems at the moment and they are fighting to destroy it. Irrespective of whatever, the one country two systems will end in another 28 years. China will take back Hong Kong completely. The one country two systems is only good as a temporary measure and the 50 year break is to allow Hong Kong to gradually become one with China, not another state, not an independent Hong Kong. The Hongkongers must have no delusion that Hong Kong could still continue to be under one country two systems after the 50 years expired.
Hong Kong is a teeny weeny bit of China but an embarrassment that China would not allow to happen again. If Hong Kong is to be destroyed, if half of the Hongkongers were to perish for Hong Kong to become China, so be it. The concession of one country two systems were the last unequal treaty China had to sign as it was still not strong enough then to take Hong Kong back fully or risk a war with the West. Hongkongers must not deceive themselves or be deceived by others that they are so important to China and China would give away Hong Kong again.
In today’s context, China could even sail its navy to take England if it wanted to. China today is strong enough to take on the Americans and all its cronies combined, to protect its national interests and territorial integrity. There would be no concession or compromise when these are concerned. The drugged Hongkongers in their delusion may think that it is possible to have an independent Hong Kong to harm China.
Xi Jinping would say, over my dead body. The 1.4b Chinese would say, over our dead bodies. Wake up Hongkongers, give up whatever you are smoking and clear your thoughts. Hong Kong is an inalienable part of China and would be so forever. Still thinking the West would fight and die for a few silly Hongkongers?
China would now have all the reasons to remove the failing one country two systems and integrate Hong Kong fully as part of China. And all the vestiges of Britain, all the angmoh high court judges, civil servants and police officers would be sent back to England for good. And all the yellow skin British subjects would be allowed to migrate to their motherland in England, never to return.
The fate of Hong Kong’s future has changed. China is going all out to promote Shenzhen as the new commercial centre to replace Hong Kong. All Chinese capital and commerce would vacate Hong Kong and move into Shenzhen. All foreign companies would be advised to close down and move out of Hong Kong. Military law would be imposed in Hong Kong and the island locked down. In three months, Hong Kong would be a ghost town. All the generosities from China would be withdrawn and Hong Kong would be struggling to revive an economy that was not there without China.
Hongkongers smart? Hongkongers know what they want and they will get an independent Hong Kong? Not only that this wound not materialize, the prosperous Hong Kong would be a thing of the past. Hong Kong would be dismantled and rebuild from scratch. They have no chips to play, no bargaining power.
Well done, protesters and free Hong Kong movement. You have done it, by delivering Hong Kong to China 28 years prematurely and there would be no democratic Hong Kong that they built in their dreams under the hallucination of drugs. Would the Americans or British die for them in a war with China?
Singaporeans have a new member in its stupidity has no cure club.
PS. The clashes in the streets of Hong Kong had turned the streets into a war zone. The western media are still chirping that the protests were peaceful, not violent. Watch the video clips and see how the mobs attacked and beat up policemen and hurling bricks, petrol bombs and whatever they had at the police force. Peaceful, this is warfare.
The lack of casualties, injuries and bloodshed and death among the mobsters is a tribute to the great restraint exercised by the police force. In many countries, the violent mobs would have been shot and there would be bodies on the streets. The mobsters were so drugged and stoned that they did not know what the hell they were doing, fighting for an independent Hong Kong?
I am in praise of the Hong Kong Police Force, the men and women that faced the mobs and got beaten while restraining themselves from using more force than necessary to whip the daylight out of the mobsters.
8/26/2019
Periscopic Insights: Rape of the World By United States
Rape of the world by the Evil Empire.
The United States rape almost every country in this world in many combination of evil ways viz politically, militarily, economically, financially, tariffs, sanctions, blockades and colour revolutions as well as killings, murders, assassinations and genocide.
For the start, the article below will focus briefly on the Rape of China by USA and its Western allies.
China was first raped by USA during the Opium Wars from 1830s to 1860s. It joined the Gun Boat policy of England and France to attack China and forced the illicit opium trade on China. Many of USA past politicians and presidents, examples of which like Warren Delano Roosevelt, grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt, USA Second World War president and grandfather of G.H.Bush Sr , were largely involved in the opium trade . The money derived from the opium trade largely contributed to the building of American infrastructures like roads and railways, factories, ports and cities. New York, Boston, Phidadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco together with all their splendid buildings and factories were definitely built with opium money. However, on the dark side the illicit opium trade impoverished China tremendously and almost nearly destroy the Chinese soul and nation.
USA joined eight European countries inclusive of England, France, Russia, Germany, Spain, Holland Italy and Japan to rape China again in 1900 when the joint forces of these countries marched into Beijing and Tianjin and other cities in Shantung and where Beijing and its famous national Summer Palace ( Yu He Yuan ) was completely destroyed and thoroughly looted . Tens of thousands of these priceless antiques and artefacts were looted by the Americans and the allied forces. It is a shame that these stolen priceless Chinese cultural antiques and artefacts are being sold every year for hundreds of millions of dollars in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Tokyo, and perhaps in Holland, Germany and Italy for the benefits of the looting and thieving countries. China should demand the return of all these Chinese antiques and artefacts .
The rape of China by the United States and its Western allies continued right up to 1930s and early 1940s and has not ended as the Evil Empire continues to interfere in China's internal affairs viz Taiwan and the Chinese sovereign territories in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Only entangling with China now, may prove to be the nemesis for United States as today's China is rich and powerful and nuclear armed.
Southernglory1
26th August, 2019
The United States rape almost every country in this world in many combination of evil ways viz politically, militarily, economically, financially, tariffs, sanctions, blockades and colour revolutions as well as killings, murders, assassinations and genocide.
For the start, the article below will focus briefly on the Rape of China by USA and its Western allies.
China was first raped by USA during the Opium Wars from 1830s to 1860s. It joined the Gun Boat policy of England and France to attack China and forced the illicit opium trade on China. Many of USA past politicians and presidents, examples of which like Warren Delano Roosevelt, grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt, USA Second World War president and grandfather of G.H.Bush Sr , were largely involved in the opium trade . The money derived from the opium trade largely contributed to the building of American infrastructures like roads and railways, factories, ports and cities. New York, Boston, Phidadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco together with all their splendid buildings and factories were definitely built with opium money. However, on the dark side the illicit opium trade impoverished China tremendously and almost nearly destroy the Chinese soul and nation.
USA joined eight European countries inclusive of England, France, Russia, Germany, Spain, Holland Italy and Japan to rape China again in 1900 when the joint forces of these countries marched into Beijing and Tianjin and other cities in Shantung and where Beijing and its famous national Summer Palace ( Yu He Yuan ) was completely destroyed and thoroughly looted . Tens of thousands of these priceless antiques and artefacts were looted by the Americans and the allied forces. It is a shame that these stolen priceless Chinese cultural antiques and artefacts are being sold every year for hundreds of millions of dollars in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Tokyo, and perhaps in Holland, Germany and Italy for the benefits of the looting and thieving countries. China should demand the return of all these Chinese antiques and artefacts .
The rape of China by the United States and its Western allies continued right up to 1930s and early 1940s and has not ended as the Evil Empire continues to interfere in China's internal affairs viz Taiwan and the Chinese sovereign territories in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Only entangling with China now, may prove to be the nemesis for United States as today's China is rich and powerful and nuclear armed.
Southernglory1
26th August, 2019
US China Trade War entering new phase - the best outcome
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Donald Trump declared Friday that he had "hereby ordered" American
companies with operations in China "to immediately start looking for" an
alternative after Beijing announced a series of retaliatory tariffs....
The U.S. has said it plans to
impose 10% tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods in two steps, on
Sept. 1 and Dec. 15. China responded Friday with new tariffs on $75
billion of U.S. products in retaliation, deepening a conflict over trade
and technology that threatens to tip a weakening global economy into
recession.
China also will increase import duties on U.S.-made autos and auto parts, the Finance Ministry announced. Tariffs of 10% and 5% will take effect on two batches of goods on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15, the ministry said in a statement. It gave no details of what goods would be affected but the timing matches Trump's planned duty hikes....Yahoo News
The US China Trade War has a lot of similarities to the Korean War, aka the Anti American Imperialism War to the Chinese. In that war, the US under the command of Gen MacArthur, a personality not much different from Trump, entered the war with the full might of the American military power. The overwhelming imbalance in the forces of the two adversaries was stark and the North Koreans could only retreat. MacArthur marched towards the Yalu River in triump, beaming like an invincible war hero. Then China entered the theatre and struck back. The rest is history.
Trump started this war with China with guns blazing, shooting everything sight. For the initial phase of this war he appeared to be winning and China was being pushed back like the North Koreans. The war has reached a similar stage as the American forces at the Yalu River. China is digging and and fighting back. China is going to take the initiative and turn the table.
Are the Americans going to win or flee? Trump has ordered a withdrawal of all American companies in China, back to America just like MacArthur did when he was swarm by the Chinese Volunteer Armies. How would this turn out? Can American companies afford to retreat to the homeland, across the Pacific Ocean? What would happen to Ford and GM when they lose the biggest car market in the world and returned to a saturated home market that have grown sick of them and facing the onslaught of Japanese, Korean and European cars? Ford and GM's lives were extended and saved because of the move to China. Without the Chinese market these two American dinosaurs would have their lives ended in double quick time. So would many other American companies with operations in China, the electronics, computers and mobile phone and other high tech companies.
The outcome, Trump would raise its tariffs wall higher and banned all Japanese, Korean and European imports and the world would hit a recession that Trump has been working on for so long. Go ahead Trump, don't stop at 15%, go the max, 30% and what happens?
If the American economy is doing so well, Trump would not be so desperate to want to cut interest rate even to zero. Trump is so desperate that he even blamed Fed Chairman Jerome Powell as the enemy of the US, worse than Xi. Despite all his fake tweets of how well the American economy is doing, the truth is the opposite. More than 938 American farmers have gone bankrupt and more coming, and more farmers committing suicide because of Trump's reckless and unthinking policies promoted by the war hawks.
Trump will fail very badly. But the war hawks and their war industries would get a boost when the world goes into turmoil, rising tension and more wars. Well done Trump, this is the best outcome you can achieve in your presidency.
Thank you very much and bye bye the American Empire. Remember the Korean War?
8/25/2019
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the richest of them all?
My posting of this article is not to discuss about Hsien Loong or Ho Ching's salaries. What is interesting and mysterious about the above table is the true wealth of each of the heads of govt. Who do you think is the richest of them all? I think this is indeed a very difficult question to answer.
Of the cuff Trump looks to be the richest with his billions earned from business, not from being head of govt/state. Xi Jinping looks very poor given his $29k and the leader of the most populous country of nearly 1.4b people. And of course Mahathir is a poor as a church mouse despite his billionaire sons whose fortune dunno came from where. Exceptional talents indeed.
In my view, Carrie Lam and Boris Johnson are the two genuinely poorer leaders of the lot.
What say you?
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