Anyone wondering why financial wealth is also called fortune? He made a fortune, amassed a fortune. Is it because the making of such wealth is in some way related to being fortunate, being lucky? Heard of lucky fools and why the smartest human beans often are quite ordinary in wealth or fortune, just merely getting by?
Li Ka Shing is China's or Asia's richest man. Many Chinese in Hong Kong, very rich, though not as rich as him, have contributed their wealth and fortune to the state and society. Chow Yun Fatt contributed all his wealth to charity. There are many that contributed hundreds of millions of their wealth, as much as 80 or 90 per cent to charity or state. One very rich Hong Kong billionaires built hundreds of schools in China as his contribution to state and society.
The equivalents in the West, like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, have pledged their fortunes to charity as well, to help the needy around the world. These men have realised that they could not possibly make use of all their wealth in several lifetimes. The financial wealth becomes in a way meaningless the more they make. Making another few millions or another few hundred millions would not change their lives.
Li Ka Shing is in such a fortunate position, money jiat buay leow for several generations. Why would he not use some of his spare cash to contribute to society, not that he is not. But why would he fell on the wrong side of the state by not doing so? It is hard to explain why such rich billionaires would do what they are doing, in this case, Li Ka Shing, the most important man in Hong Kong and perhaps China, monetary wise, to jeopardise all the goodwill he had by doing something so contrary and now likely to be disowned by China and never to return? His support for the independence movement and mass protests is now openly spoken.
He has all the wealth and good fortune to do many things for Hong Kong and the Hongkongers, like sharing or distributing his land holdings to build more affordable housing for the Hongkongers. Perhaps by supporting the mass protests and independence movement is what he thinks is where he should put his money with. Is this the right thing, the wise thing to do? Or is this a moment to expose his limited intellect and wisdom?
Li Ka Shing does not need to spend much of his huge fortune to remain in the good books of Beijing and earns himself a fine mention in the history of China and Hong Kong. He chose to do and act differently, believing that what he was doing was the right and good for Hong Kong and the Hongkongers.
History will tell whether he did the right or wrong thing. Would he be resurrected as a saviour of China and Hong Kong? Or would he go down in Chinese history as a traitor to China and the Chinese Civilisation? His wisdom is now being questioned and will be judged sometime in the future for backing a right or wrong cause.
This Hong Kong superman can only fly in the skies of America and Europe, anywhere, except China and Hong Kong. He may even lose his citizenship and has to take up foreign citizenship after this fiasco is over.
PS. I have put up a link on the left column for a new blog by my good friend Dr Teo Kah Beng, Asia Pacific Security. This is a more serious and intellectual blog for those who want to read something more challenging. There are also some entertaining postings and videos for a little relaxation. Please take a look.
12/08/2019
TED Talks - Eric X Li - A tale of two political systems
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_x_li_a_tale_of_two_political_systems?language=en#t-4533
Above is a talk by Eric X Li on the competition of two alternative political systems, Democracy and Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Erix presented a view that is contrary to the daily barrage of western narrative, bragging about how good and successful democracy is.
It is a short 17 minute video that compares the realities of two contrarian systems and how they performed, not rhetoric. The West have been pushing the democratic model as the model for all mankind and the model to solve human problems and the quality of life. The truth of practising democratic countries is far from it. Democratic system is not producing the results it claimed to be and in fact on a steep decline with failures everywhere, including the USA and European countries.
Listen with an open mind and judge for yourself based on realities and not beliefs and should be, could be, must be, or cannot be.
Above is a talk by Eric X Li on the competition of two alternative political systems, Democracy and Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Erix presented a view that is contrary to the daily barrage of western narrative, bragging about how good and successful democracy is.
It is a short 17 minute video that compares the realities of two contrarian systems and how they performed, not rhetoric. The West have been pushing the democratic model as the model for all mankind and the model to solve human problems and the quality of life. The truth of practising democratic countries is far from it. Democratic system is not producing the results it claimed to be and in fact on a steep decline with failures everywhere, including the USA and European countries.
Listen with an open mind and judge for yourself based on realities and not beliefs and should be, could be, must be, or cannot be.
12/07/2019
US brutal killings of Middle East muslims contrast to China's re-education and vocational institutions in Xinjiang
The United States has for decades been staging orange revolutions to take down governments which do not toe US dictates. It first attempted a coloured revolution in China in the Tiananmen riots in Beijing in June 1989. In its earlier opening up to the world China was naive to let thousands of US NGOs ( Non-Government Officers ) flooding all the educational institutions to teach from secondary schools to the universities. These NGOs are actually US spies and espionage agents paid by US government to subvert China. These NGOs had succeeded to brain wash and indoctrinate the students to go against the Chinese government. With US initiation, support and funding the students managed to stage protests and riots against the government. After seven or more weeks of rioting the government took firm action to quell the riots. Thus the US supported coloured revolution was nibbed in the bud. However, all the student ring leaders were whisked away by CIA agents to Taiwan and America. So in this Tiananmen Incident the United States failed in its attempt to carry out a successful coloured revolution against China.
Then from 2005 till 2015 the United States had been trying to create and support an Uyghur Islamic revolution in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. Many US trained,funded and supported extreme militant Uyghur terrorist and separatist leaders carried out grave terrorist acts from 2005 to 2012 in various parts of China though largely in Xinjiang killing many hundreds of innocent victims which included largely the Han and some Uyghur ethnic race.
The situation was grave and China had to find a solution to de-radicalised the extreme muslim militants who were trained, funded and supported by US via CIA. Thus from around 2015 China built educational and vocational centres to de-radicalise the militants and train them in some skills in vocational jobs to equip them for useful work in society. However, the despicable trouble making Americans and the Europeans try to stoke ill-feelings and animosities among the muslims in islamic societies against China by fabricating the story of China ill treating the militant Uyghur separatists in labour camps. In the meantime more than forty countries including many from muslim countries like Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Somalia, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgystan went on a study survey in Xinjiang and they put paid to American lies.
Contrast the wanton cruelty of the White Americans and the Europeans brutal killings and genocide of the Middle East militant Arab muslims to that of China's re-education and vocational institutes in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. The Chinese government is just taking remedial action to quell an American organized separatist and terrorist orange revolution in China's own country. But the white Americans and the Europeans have no business to be in Arab lands in the Middle East except just for the greed and single motive of occupying Arab muslim lands for hegemony and for the total control of the rich Arab oil resources.
What the world must know is that the white Americans just like their European cousins always have had a grim negative outlook and hatred for muslims. For many centuries from the 9th Century AD to the 19th Century AD they had constantly conducted endless Christian crusades to crush the Arab and Turkish Ottoman muslims and to take away their lands. Then after the First World War and the Second World War many of the Middle East countries were turned into British or American protectorates meaning British and American control or virtually their colonies. Eventually most of the Middle East countries gained full independence after mush struggle. However they still had to fight off the American, British and French greed for control of their oil industries. Eventually they gained full control of the oil industries but at the same time they were trapped by the sly sleazy American government to trade their oil in US control Petro-Dollars. The result of which let the Americans, England and France take the cream of the petrol business while all the Arab muslim countries earned only the crumbs or left overs. Realising they were at the losing end in conducting oil trade in US control Petro-Dollars Iraq and later Libya under the presidency of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi respectively chose to also trade oil in Euros and Libyan gold dollars. For this they had to pay for their life when their countries were attacked in an undeclare illegal and illicit war by the United States and its European accomplices ' Both Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were tracked down and brutally murdered by the Americans and their lackeys.
In the meantime the Evil Empire USA had been training thousands of Islamic militant terrorists the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Isis to fight the Soviet Russians in Afghanistan. Then came the fateful date September 11th of 2001 when the twin towers of World Trade Centre in New York was claimed to be brought down by Al Qaeda suicidal Arab militant terrorist pilots who crashed their planes directly into the twin towers and the Pentagon Military Complex. This was later revealed by qualified sources to be a major evil macabre conspiracy between American Jews who had infiltrated and wield great power in US Foreign Policy and Israel zionist Jews to stage a catastrophic event to provide a justifiable excuse for attacks and wars against seven Middle East Arab countries so as to save Israel from being vanquished by its Arab neighbours. It seemed the twin towers were brought down by control demolition with remote control mechanism. The whole episode had been secretly well planned in advance. The planes that crashed into the twin towers were actually remote control drones. The world had been deceived but the Arab muslims had to pay dearly for their lives and destruction of their countries and the lost of their oil resources to the evil Americans and the Europeans..
After 9/11 the United States illegally and unilaterally declared war against Iraq and later Libya and Syria against the opposition of the United Nations Organisation. The United States and its European allies and the Israel Jews carried out endless sorties of jet bombers, missiles, rockets and drones to drop millions of tons of bombs indiscriminately on Iraqi towns and cities which was later repeated on Libya in 2011 and Syria in 2015. The Americans claimed they were bombing the Arab muslim terrorists the ISIS which were originally organized and nurtured by the white Americans and that the hundreds of thousands or millions of Arab civilians death were simply brushed aside as collateral damage. The truth is that the White Americans and Europeans think Arab muslim lives are cheap and so killing them is not a problem especially when the killings are carried out without conscience or feelings by bombers and missiles . In fact the white Americans and Europeans feel great with no remorse as the destructions of properties and the killings and genocide were all done by remote bombers and missiles where they personally do not see blood or witness the horrific pain and suffering of the thousands of survivors who were maimed for life.
In the meanwhile thousands of extreme militant muslims were tracked down and either shot forthwith or kept in concentration camps to face inhuman torture .
These speak so much of White Americans and white Europeans extreme cruel treatment of militant muslims and their utter serious disrespect and contempt for muslims in general. Watch and observe how they illtreat the muslims in America .
However the white Americans and the Europeans are not happy when they see China is helping all Middle East and African muslim countries to rise up and develop economically and while at the same time these muslim countries are moving closer to China and Russia. Thus for this they have no qualms in fabricating lies and fake stories about China's poor governance in the treatment of Uyghurs so as to stir up misunderstandings, hatreds and animosities among the world muslims for China and the Chinese people. Hopefully the muslims world wide will be wise enough to see the evil plots of the white Americans and the Europeans who dislike and disapprove of China's selfless help for all the muslim and other third world disadvantaged countries whom the white people feel with disdain as not their equals.
Southernglory 1
Saturday, 7th December, 2019
Then from 2005 till 2015 the United States had been trying to create and support an Uyghur Islamic revolution in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. Many US trained,funded and supported extreme militant Uyghur terrorist and separatist leaders carried out grave terrorist acts from 2005 to 2012 in various parts of China though largely in Xinjiang killing many hundreds of innocent victims which included largely the Han and some Uyghur ethnic race.
The situation was grave and China had to find a solution to de-radicalised the extreme muslim militants who were trained, funded and supported by US via CIA. Thus from around 2015 China built educational and vocational centres to de-radicalise the militants and train them in some skills in vocational jobs to equip them for useful work in society. However, the despicable trouble making Americans and the Europeans try to stoke ill-feelings and animosities among the muslims in islamic societies against China by fabricating the story of China ill treating the militant Uyghur separatists in labour camps. In the meantime more than forty countries including many from muslim countries like Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Somalia, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgystan went on a study survey in Xinjiang and they put paid to American lies.
Contrast the wanton cruelty of the White Americans and the Europeans brutal killings and genocide of the Middle East militant Arab muslims to that of China's re-education and vocational institutes in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. The Chinese government is just taking remedial action to quell an American organized separatist and terrorist orange revolution in China's own country. But the white Americans and the Europeans have no business to be in Arab lands in the Middle East except just for the greed and single motive of occupying Arab muslim lands for hegemony and for the total control of the rich Arab oil resources.
What the world must know is that the white Americans just like their European cousins always have had a grim negative outlook and hatred for muslims. For many centuries from the 9th Century AD to the 19th Century AD they had constantly conducted endless Christian crusades to crush the Arab and Turkish Ottoman muslims and to take away their lands. Then after the First World War and the Second World War many of the Middle East countries were turned into British or American protectorates meaning British and American control or virtually their colonies. Eventually most of the Middle East countries gained full independence after mush struggle. However they still had to fight off the American, British and French greed for control of their oil industries. Eventually they gained full control of the oil industries but at the same time they were trapped by the sly sleazy American government to trade their oil in US control Petro-Dollars. The result of which let the Americans, England and France take the cream of the petrol business while all the Arab muslim countries earned only the crumbs or left overs. Realising they were at the losing end in conducting oil trade in US control Petro-Dollars Iraq and later Libya under the presidency of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi respectively chose to also trade oil in Euros and Libyan gold dollars. For this they had to pay for their life when their countries were attacked in an undeclare illegal and illicit war by the United States and its European accomplices ' Both Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were tracked down and brutally murdered by the Americans and their lackeys.
In the meantime the Evil Empire USA had been training thousands of Islamic militant terrorists the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Isis to fight the Soviet Russians in Afghanistan. Then came the fateful date September 11th of 2001 when the twin towers of World Trade Centre in New York was claimed to be brought down by Al Qaeda suicidal Arab militant terrorist pilots who crashed their planes directly into the twin towers and the Pentagon Military Complex. This was later revealed by qualified sources to be a major evil macabre conspiracy between American Jews who had infiltrated and wield great power in US Foreign Policy and Israel zionist Jews to stage a catastrophic event to provide a justifiable excuse for attacks and wars against seven Middle East Arab countries so as to save Israel from being vanquished by its Arab neighbours. It seemed the twin towers were brought down by control demolition with remote control mechanism. The whole episode had been secretly well planned in advance. The planes that crashed into the twin towers were actually remote control drones. The world had been deceived but the Arab muslims had to pay dearly for their lives and destruction of their countries and the lost of their oil resources to the evil Americans and the Europeans..
After 9/11 the United States illegally and unilaterally declared war against Iraq and later Libya and Syria against the opposition of the United Nations Organisation. The United States and its European allies and the Israel Jews carried out endless sorties of jet bombers, missiles, rockets and drones to drop millions of tons of bombs indiscriminately on Iraqi towns and cities which was later repeated on Libya in 2011 and Syria in 2015. The Americans claimed they were bombing the Arab muslim terrorists the ISIS which were originally organized and nurtured by the white Americans and that the hundreds of thousands or millions of Arab civilians death were simply brushed aside as collateral damage. The truth is that the White Americans and Europeans think Arab muslim lives are cheap and so killing them is not a problem especially when the killings are carried out without conscience or feelings by bombers and missiles . In fact the white Americans and Europeans feel great with no remorse as the destructions of properties and the killings and genocide were all done by remote bombers and missiles where they personally do not see blood or witness the horrific pain and suffering of the thousands of survivors who were maimed for life.
In the meanwhile thousands of extreme militant muslims were tracked down and either shot forthwith or kept in concentration camps to face inhuman torture .
These speak so much of White Americans and white Europeans extreme cruel treatment of militant muslims and their utter serious disrespect and contempt for muslims in general. Watch and observe how they illtreat the muslims in America .
However the white Americans and the Europeans are not happy when they see China is helping all Middle East and African muslim countries to rise up and develop economically and while at the same time these muslim countries are moving closer to China and Russia. Thus for this they have no qualms in fabricating lies and fake stories about China's poor governance in the treatment of Uyghurs so as to stir up misunderstandings, hatreds and animosities among the world muslims for China and the Chinese people. Hopefully the muslims world wide will be wise enough to see the evil plots of the white Americans and the Europeans who dislike and disapprove of China's selfless help for all the muslim and other third world disadvantaged countries whom the white people feel with disdain as not their equals.
Southernglory 1
Saturday, 7th December, 2019
Do we trust our children are among the best in the world?
In an article today by Sandra Davie, entitled “It’s OK to be No. 2 in academics, but aim to top student well-being”, she raised a few chSingapore has done it again by securing 2nd place in Pisa. It means we are still operating at the top level (China was 1st, Macau was 3rd, HK 4th in some subjects) when it comes to excelling in Maths, Science and Reading. Also, at the last three occasions (beginning at 2009), we were top.
The above is posted by a Michael Han in TRE.
I just want all of you to ponder, why would these world best students, for many years we were top, being treated as useless and untalented and consistently being replaced by CECA Indians that were unplaced in the PISA test? PISA is an international organisation and tested and deemed our students as world best. But our very own idiots in Singapore are treating our world best students as daft and systematically replacing them by third world fakes and conmen!
What is the scheme of things? Is there a master plan behind this cleansing of Singapore's DNA? Who is the mastermind behind this anti Singaporean scheme?
I feel very sorry for the younger Singaporeans, that with their PISA performance they would only end up as Grab drivers and security guards. All the top positions in Singapore are increasingly filled by CECA Indians and third world fakes. Their PISA scores are only good for gloating for a day or two and would soon be forgotten.
Can you believe this, Singapore idiots replacing our world best own children with third world fakes and cheats they called them talents?
Mind you, Pisa is a gruelling assessment. The benchmark is against 600,000 students from 79 countries and economies. We had sent at random 6,676 teens, most of whom were in Secondary 4. It is a reliable gauge of how far we have come and what we have done right to hone our future generation’s critical thinking skills and personal resilience.
Mr Sng Chern Wei, MOE’s deputy director-general said: “We are pretty happy with the 2018 Pisa findings because they show that our students are equipped with the critical skills and the resilience to cope with the challenges of a rapidly changing world.”
ampagne toasts to our educators for the results. She noted that we are heading in the right direction when it comes to critical thinking. “Remembering formulas or chunks of content won’t do. Pisa’s questions require students to use their knowledge and skills to solve problems in unfamiliar contexts.”....The above is posted by a Michael Han in TRE.
I just want all of you to ponder, why would these world best students, for many years we were top, being treated as useless and untalented and consistently being replaced by CECA Indians that were unplaced in the PISA test? PISA is an international organisation and tested and deemed our students as world best. But our very own idiots in Singapore are treating our world best students as daft and systematically replacing them by third world fakes and conmen!
What is the scheme of things? Is there a master plan behind this cleansing of Singapore's DNA? Who is the mastermind behind this anti Singaporean scheme?
I feel very sorry for the younger Singaporeans, that with their PISA performance they would only end up as Grab drivers and security guards. All the top positions in Singapore are increasingly filled by CECA Indians and third world fakes. Their PISA scores are only good for gloating for a day or two and would soon be forgotten.
Can you believe this, Singapore idiots replacing our world best own children with third world fakes and cheats they called them talents?
12/06/2019
21st AMA Medal tally
A few more events of go before the end of the game. Now 15 Gold, 12 Silver and 14 Bronze. One last gold came from 10km Walk contributed by Uncle Kor, our 87 year old veteran and also a bronze from Yusoff from the same event. Some pics to celebrate.
87 year old uncle Kor and his gold medal in10km walk
A pic with Indonesia's ex Olympian
One for the girls album, with Hong Kong and Indian girls
Athletes from other countries
The fabulous W40 4x400m ladies gold winner
Showing the Singapore flag
Captain Jason and his gold medal for hurdles
The gold relay teams for men M50 and women W40. Both teams won gold for 4x100m and 4x400m
This is our happy hour corner where we unwind every evening, like our private club. We took the whole floor of suites and this is our privilege to use this room with free food, wine, beer and drinks.
We had a sumptious dinner at this restaurant to end our visit to Kuching. This is only half of the team present. Some had gone back, some enjoying somewhere else.
PS. Would like to post the two exciting videos of the M50 and W40 4x400m relays but unable to do so as they exceeded the time limit of blogspot. Both beat their rivals by a big margin with every runner running at their best.
87 year old uncle Kor and his gold medal in10km walk
A pic with Indonesia's ex Olympian
One for the girls album, with Hong Kong and Indian girls
Athletes from other countries
The fabulous W40 4x400m ladies gold winner
Showing the Singapore flag
Captain Jason and his gold medal for hurdles
The gold relay teams for men M50 and women W40. Both teams won gold for 4x100m and 4x400m
This is our happy hour corner where we unwind every evening, like our private club. We took the whole floor of suites and this is our privilege to use this room with free food, wine, beer and drinks.
PS. Would like to post the two exciting videos of the M50 and W40 4x400m relays but unable to do so as they exceeded the time limit of blogspot. Both beat their rivals by a big margin with every runner running at their best.
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