Does Singapore need NS and a big army?

Historically a country needs a strong army to protect itself and its people from foreign invaders. Every country protects its territory and people from outside forces so that its people can live a better life. Singapore built a very strong army(inclusive of air force and navy) for exactly the same purpose, to keep foreigners out from our little piece of rock. However, this concept of keeping foreigners out seems to be an outdated thinking.  Singapore now is well known for an open leg immigration policy, to bring in as many foreigners as possible into the country, with some floating the idea of having a population of 10m or more.  As it is today, there are more foreigners in the island than Singaporeans with many foreigners given citizenship freely.

With such a change in the thinking, with a liberal policy of sharing the island and its wealth freely with foreigners, the concept of protecting the island from foreigners is no longer valid. With more than 50 per cent of the population being foreigners, it is as good as the foreigners taking half of the island and everything Singapore has, including a share of the reserves and assets.

This calls for a rethink in having a big army when there is no enemy to protect and keep out.  Everyone is friend and potential citizen, new Singaporeans. So, is there still a need for a strong army and National Service? If this is the direction Singapore is heading, abolishing NS and the army is a natural thing to do. Why spend so much money, a huge defence budget for nothing when there is no foreigners to keep out?  Singapore actually wants the foreigners to be in.

The advantages of not having a strong army and not having NS are tremendous. No need for a defence budget, no need to have so many ministers of defence and minister of states for defence, no need to buy expensive military toys and to upkeep them. At best Singapore only needs a few F35s to show off and for National Day Parade. No need so many military camps and air bases and naval bases, no need expensive training overseas.  And all the able men and women can be deployed into the industries to be productive. All the land saved can be used to build more flats to sell to foreigners or to build shopping complexes.

What do you think? Good idea or not?

And Singapore can solve the problems of the two white elephants in the making. The Covid19 Pandemic is destroying the air travelling industry. Air travel is not going to be the same any more. Even Terminal 4 is going to be under utilised, not counting Terminal 5 going to be like a cemetery.  How to save some money by making the two terminals, maybe even 3 terminals useful again?

Think Djibouti. Djibouti has turned itself into a rentier country, collecting rent by leasing its land to any country that wants to put its military bases there. The 2/3 terminals can be rented to the USA and China or India and collect rent. This goes the same as Tuas Terminal, another white elephant in the making with China planning to by pass Singapore altogether and working to cut across the Isthmus of Kra.  Thanks to our pro American policy and inviting this rogue country to threaten China.

By subletting part of Tuas to China as a naval base, China would then not feel threatened by the Americans, and no need to cut the Kra to build a canal. Its merchant ships can then return to Singapore freely and Singapore's port facilities need not be mothballed. The two white elephants in airport terminals and Tuas Port would thus be made useful again. Can sublet the Istana also, to the super rich. Everything can go if the price is right.

And there is no need to keep building homes like crazy to sell to foreigners. Just turn them into military bases and lease them out. After all, all are welcome. Singapore belongs to everyone here. And Singapore would be prosperous forever and ministers can even be paid tens of millions with all the rents collected and money saved from having a big army. No foreign country would dare to invade Singapore, no reason to as all is welcome here, even if they do, the big powers with their bases here would do the defending.

This must be a crazy win, win, win idea for all. Caveat, cost of living would be extremely high and Singaporeans that cannot afford to stay here can move to Batam, Bintan or JB, if Malaysia and Indonesia don't mind accepting them, if they don't mind having open leg immigration policy that is free for all.

Whew, I am so brilliant.

Singapore can become the first global city, free for all to come. Singaporeans can call themselves global citizens, only believeable inside Singapore global city as no country would be silly enough to allow citizens of other countries to enter their country freely, not even global citizens of Singapore.  But this is Uniquely Singapore at its best. It is called creativity and innovative thinking or disruptive thinking, disrupting the lives of daft Singaporeans.

Mad and evil men in the White House

Donald Trump has lashed out at Dr Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, for the first time, calling her response to criticism "pathetic" after she admitted that the coronavirus was widespread throughout the US.

The president said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had criticised Dr Birx because she was "too positive" about the US coronavirus response.

"So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing on combatting the China Virus, including Vaccines & Therapeutics," Mr Trump tweeted. "In order to counter Nancy, Deborah took the bait & hit us. Pathetic!"

The "horrible things" Mr Trump is referencing are comments Ms Pelosi allegedly made to White House Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during a meeting last week.  Yahoo News

Having an evil man in Pompeo strutting around in the White House is already bad enough. Now the silly clown is jumping around like a mad man, attacking anyone that disagreed with him, foreigners or Americans, including his immediate staff. Donald Trump is not just a clown, but a silly and mad one. He should be put into a mad house and locked up for good.

This silly clown is the best proof that democracy is bad, a very bad political system that allowed mad, insane, silly, evil and wicked people to be elected as national leaders.  In democracy, especially the American style, as long as one has the money to pave the way, any idiots, crooks, prostitutes, pimps, cheats, liars etc etc, men or women of ill repute, can be elected to the White House or as governors, senators, congress men.

This is what is happening in the USA, in the White House, in Congress and the Senate.  And the unscrupulous Americans want the world to adopt this system of madness. Look at Trump, calling the Speaker of the House crazy, calling the next President of the USA as Sleepy Joe, lashing out at his medical expert for saying the medically correct thing. All Trump wants is lies and more lies, to lie to the Americans and the people of the world. This is what a thug looks like, and a very silly and mad one.

A very clever way to create more high paying jobs with big titles

TRE Techie:

August 3, 2020 at 6:16 am  (Quote)

When I just arrived in China donkey years ago, a Chinese policeman told me a joke about how a government department has staff that are from one big happy family and close friends and relatives from the same village.

It appears that a friend of his just got promoted to a quite senior position in a government agency.

What happened was that hypothetically, this new senior official created a new post of Manager for his brother to be in charge of all the toilets in the building, there were 8 toilets.

This manager brother then went on to create 8 more posts for his wife, sons, close friends, and relatives to assist him as assistant managers of toilets, each assistant in charge of 1 toilet.

Then these assistant managers went on to employ deputy assistant managers, team leaders, senior toilet cleaners, assistant senior toilet cleaners, toilet cleaners, and assistant toilet cleaners.

When it comes to doing the real work, only 16 assistant toilet cleaners were cleaning the toilets daily while the rest of the “management staff” were either at home, on holiday, sexing with their mistress or playing mahjong.

In the end, that government department was practically feeding the entire village.

You say funny or not this joke?

The above comments were posted in the TRE.  I think this is a brilliant idea to create high value jobs with big titles so that more people can be paid highly and be very happy. There is no need to worry about money as the money comes from Ah Kong. Can use Ah Kong's money to buy loyalty also.

Singapore can really learn from the above and use the clever ideas to create more jobs for Singaporeans and make more Singaporeans very happy, getting big titles, getting big fat pay, and doing nothing.

What do you think? The policeman clever or not?

China questions White Australian's claim to the subcontinent of Australia

Diplomats from Australia and China have clashed on Twitter after Canberra sided with the US in dismissing Beijing’s wide-reaching territorial claims in the South China Sea.

In a filing to the United Nations last week, Australia described the claims as “without legal basis”.

On Friday, Sun Weidong, China’s ambassador to India, hit back at a comment made by his Australian counterpart, high commissioner Barry O’Farrell, in a statement to India a day earlier.  SCMP

In a tit for tat response to the challenge by the white Australian govt, China condemned the white Australian govt's claim to the subcontinent of Australia as illegal. The land belongs to the native Australians and was seized by force by the Europeans to claim as theirs. This is daylight robbery and has no legal basis in international law.

The white Australians must return the land to the native Australians and compensate them for stealing their land, abuses and human rights violations against the natives of Australia.  China is supporting the native Australians to bring their case to the UN and the International Court of Justice to evict the white Australians from their land.

The invasion and conquest of land of natives have no legal basis in international law and must be returned to the natives of the land.

When history repeats itself, but a role reversal

In the late 19th Century, the Europeans crashed into the world stage after the great Industrial Revolution.  They were ahead of the rest of the world in new technology and industrialisation. They were the new advanced countries. China and Japan were the waning Asian countries that have lacked far behind the Europeans. Japan took a bold move to learn from the Europeans, to industrialise and followed the path of the Europeans to become successful industrialised nation.

China on the other hand chose to turn its back from the rest of the world. Instead of learning from the new industrialised countries, learning new technologies, China turned isolationist and refused to learn, and fell further behind and eventually was crushed by the more industrialised and power countries of Europe and Japan.

The moral of the story, refusal to learn new things and move forward, turns inward, isolation and stagnation and got left behind.  By the time China realised what was happening, it was history.

Today we are seeing history repeating itself in almost the exact mould. This time the players role were reversed. The losers and the winners have switched sides.  China in a way is assuming the role of the industrial West of the 19th Century while the USA and UK, plus the Anglo Saxon countries are now the backward countries in the area of 5G and AI. Though these two fields may be too narrow to described who is more advance and who more backward, 5G and AI is about everything in the future. And in both areas China is way ahead of the USA and the Anglo Saxon countries and running ahead at blinding speed.  China is striding ahead in many areas that are leaving these new backward countries huffing and puffing but without any idea of how to catch up.

Then came Trump and his moribund policies of isolation, a replica clown replacing the Dowager of the Qing Dynasty with a brain of likely equal size of a pea. Instead of welcoming the new technology and plod along with China, Trump is turning inwards, not wanting to embrace the new technology. And Trump is dragging the Anglo Saxon countries with him into their own little backward world.  Trump is putting all the stops on Huawei's 5G technology and chose to live with the outdated 4G and backward limited 5G which is as good as a 4G in new clothes. No 5G at all cost and forcing the USA to go along with Nokia and Ericsson with their premature 5G models.

And the UK, having tried very hard to convince themselves that Huawei's 5G was the way to go, is now being pressurised to drop all the 5G installation to be content to have none of it. All Huawei's 5G equipment would have to be taken down by 2027. This means in the next 7 years, the UK would be tearing itself apart, not to have the most advanced 5G available but to live with whatever 4G that it has and remain backward until the next 5G comes along, if it comes along.

In desperation, knowing how important 5G is, and knowing that Nokia and Ericsson did not have the 5G to match, the UK is turning to Japan for help to build its 5G network. The big question is what did Japan have as far as 5G is concerned? Nothing.  Japan's 5G development is no better than Nokia and Ericsson.  Japan is no longer the technological powerhouse of the 1970s. But the UK is running out of ideas and options and grasping for straws is better than none.

When China is offering the USA and UK and the other Anglo Saxon countries the most advanced 5G technology of the future, they chose not have it and opted to try their luck with countries/companies that did not have 5G technologies. Nokia. Ericsson and Japan's NEC and Fijitsu are at least 2 to 3 years behind Huawei, could be longer. By the time they caught up with Huawei's 5G in 3 or 4 years time, Huawei would be flying with 6G.  In this field of high tech, 2 or 3 years behind is between modernity and stone age.

This turning away from new technology also applies to electric cars. Tesla is not making headways in the US but finding a big open market in China.  China is moving away from petrol engines to fully electric in the next one or two decades when all vehicles will be electric, incorporating 5G technology.

This is what is happening today. History is repeating itself with the US and UK and company choosing to close their doors to advanced technology, just like what Qing China did. And what happened to Qing China would be the fate of the US and UK and company in the not too distant future, backward countries and would never catch up for a thousand years.

People who do not understand history would repeat the mistakes of history. In this case it is not that they don't understand, their ego and pride, just like Qing China, would bury them alive. Instead of welcoming 5G from China and move forward, they chose to shun it, closed their doors and hoping for the best, just like Qing China did. China will be the modern Europe after the 4th Industrial Revolution, and the US and UK and company would be the Qing China in the 21st Century.

Time changes, fortune changes, and countries will rise and fall. It is time for a new China to rise, and for the old Empires to fade away into history. The Evil American Empire will not last for long.

The clown is now banning Tik Tok on the silly and pretentious excuse that it is spying for China and thinking that he could hit China and China cannot hit the Americans.  Wait for China to stop buying beef, soya beans and produce from the American farmers, stop buying planes from Boeing, stop buying chips from American companies and see how the farmers and workers cry for mercy. It is never a one way traffic. Every tit would be returned with a tat.