9/30/2020

Bad words and derogatory phrases must be banned

Singaporeans have been bombarded with bad words and phrases that degraded their existence and insulted their intelligence and have been keeping quiet about it either for fear of speaking out or just being plain dumb. After being trained to fear authority, not to question the natural aristocrats, not to question abuses and threats, daft Singaporeans have turned themselves into meek sheep to be controlled by sheep dogs, the perfect creature to live under authoritarian rules. They can no longer tell what is good for them what is bad for them, what is dismissive and derogatory, even willingly allowed their country to be occupied and taken over by foreigners.

Here are some of the dismissive and bad words and phrases that Singaporeans must take note of, wake up.

1. 'locals' is a word invented to mean citizens and PRs when used to tell how many foreigners/Singaporeans are employed or unemployed. By using the word 'locals' it treats PRs as the same as citizens/Singaporeans. So when they said 60% of locals are employed, it gives the impression that 60% of Singaporeans are employed. The truth could mean that of the 60%, only 10% is Singaporeans and 90% PRs. 

2. Foreign talents. How many are real foreign talents? How many are fakes and cheats. Are they really better than Singaporeans? Are the few hundred thousand foreigners here really better than Singaporeans to deserve to replace Singaporeans in the jobs they are hired?

3. Singapore belongs to everyone here? No need to elaborate on this. Can't believe my ears.

4. Here is another dirty word, 'residents'. When Singaporeans start to use residents instead of Singaporeans, it diminishes the importance and value of Singaporeans. This is Singapore and we should be talking about Singaporeans, not residents, not locals! Foreigners are foreigners and they are not the responsibility of the Singapore govt. They have their own govts to take care of them.

Below quote is from TOC.

'Singapore People’s Party (SPP)’s Jose Raymond on Sunday (27 September) called on residents of Potong Pasir Single-Member Constituency (SMC) seeking new employment to send in their résumés through his website.

In a Facebook post yesterday evening, Mr Jose said that residents can also recommend the function to anyone living outside of the area who is currently seeking a new job after being retrenched.

“We managed to put another resident back to work, thanks to my network of friends and business owners who have pledged to provide support to residents who are in need of help, or who may have been laid off over the last few months as a result of COVID-19.'

 If we keep on talking about foreigners, locals and residents, then where is the place for Singaporeans, where are the Singaporeans? Are Singaporeans no longer important in this island called Singapore?  This island no longer belongs to Singaporeans but to foreigners, to locals and to residents?

What is the point of calling this a nation? What is nation building all about? What is National Service all about?

9/29/2020

Why are key ministers taking up the cause of opening the door for more foreign talents

The pain and angst of having too many foreigners employed here with equally too many Singaporeans unemployed at the same time is going to be a hot potato issue in the next GE. The Covid19 only makes this situation even more dire with more Singaporeans losing their jobs and more going to lose their jobs. With heavy responsibilities to bring food on the table, losing jobs, losing an income in Singapore is very tough for Singaporeans. There are big housing mortgages to pay, expensive education fees for children, household expenses and other financial commitments that are essential and must be paid, are going to make many Singaporeans very miserable.

And like it or not, the jobless or retrenched Singaporeans are going to look over their shoulders to notice that many foreigners are still having a good time here, fully employed and some even resorted to pass sarcastic and insinuating remarks about how good they are and how bad Singaporeans are. The feelings against foreigners, the sight of foreigners, are not going to be soothed in times like this. 

On the other hand, several key ministers, Hsien Loong, Swee Kiat and Chan Chun Sing, the 3 ministers that matter most, not Tharman, Shanmugam or Vivian, find it important to keep on harping about how important it is to bring in more foreign talents, how bad it is to close the door, how it would impact our economic growth model not to have foreign talents. There seems to be a lack of sensitivity to the plight of Singaporeans falling through hard times but playing music to the ears of foreigners. This could be one of the reasons why the foreigners here are getting so cocky, so arrogant to sneer and smear at Singaporeans losing their jobs to them in times like this.

Why is there a necessity for these key ministers, not kucing kurap ministers, to keep on reminding Singaporeans of how good foreign talents are as if without foreign talents Singapore is going to collapse, that the Singaporeans are not good enough. And to some certain extent some foreigners even got the cheek to claim they are running Singapore. Is there something that Singaporeans ought to know?

Seriously, how many jobs really need foreign talents, I mean real talents not the fake talents that earn less than $10,000 pm or the mediocres that earn less than $500k a year? A good example is branch managers of banks. Are foreigners better than Singaporeans to become local bank managers when the business is local, customers are local?  Then the hordes of Human Resource Managers, you mean Singaporeans cannot do these jobs? Then there is the spread of ministry jobs that don't need a foreigner with foreign experience to do a better job. There are many of these jobs that I termed 'chicken rice' business that do not need foreigners. Singaporeans are more than adequate to be in these jobs.

And to think that there are a few hundred thousand foreigners here, is the govt saying that these few hundred thousand jobs need the expertise of foreigners and Singaporeans would not do? Chicken rice business do not need foreign talents. Period. There is no need to hire foreigners so that one chicken rice biz can compete with another chicken rice biz and pushes up the cost and price of chicken rice.

Again, I am puzzled by the constant reminders, and appearing to be urgent and very serious and must be spoken, by the 3 key ministers to make it a point to repeat the need to open our job market to foreigners and the guise of 'foreign talents'. Is the message meant for Singaporeans or meant for foreigners, foreign investors? Many of the foreign investors and companies need not be here, we would not miss them, if they hired mainly foreigners. Their contribution cannot be significant unless they are the Fortune 500 companies. 

Who are the 3 key ministers talking to, or why or who is pressurising them to keep repeating these unpleasant jingles that are painful, hurtful to the ears of Singaporeans? Is there something else that Singaporeans did not know and need to know? There are good reasons to want to have some good foreign talents. But why is this need to keep blaring about it like there is a need to assure the foreigners that we will always want them, begging them not to go away? With a few billion foreign talents out there all queuing to come in, what is the fear if a few did not want to come, a few are unhappy? What we need is only a few, not the whole world, not 100m or 10m foreign talents. Not the few hundred thousands of fakes and funny degree holders here. And definitely not wildlife.

Foreigners can come but must accept our terms. There is no need to bend backwards to bring in foreigners unless the long queue waiting to come in is a lie, no foreigners want to be here,... so the leaders are panicking, trembling and wetting in their pants and as good as going down on their knees to tell the foreigners...please come, please come.....

9/28/2020

New narrratives, new initiatives and new dynamism in the 21st Century - Bye bye to endless wars and clueless West

Bye, bye Mackinder

As President Putin has made it very clear over and over again, the US is no longer “agreement capable” . As for the “rules-based international order”, at best is a euphemism for privately controlled financial capitalism on a global scale.

The Russia-China strategic partnership has made it very clear, over and over again, that against NATO and Quad expansion their project hinges on Eurasia-wide trade, development and diplomatic integration.

Unlike the case from the 16th century to the last decades of the 20th century, now the initiative is not coming from the West, but from East Asia (that’s the beauty of “initiative” incorporated to the BRI acronym).

Enter continental corridors and axes of development traversing Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Indian Ocean, Southwest Asia and Russia all the way to Europe, coupled with a Maritime Silk Road across the South Asian rimland.

For the very first time in its millenary history, China is able to match ultra-dynamic political and economic expansion both overland and across the seas. This reaches way beyond the short era of the Zheng He maritime expeditions during the Ming dynasty in the early 15th century.

No wonder the West, and especially the Hegemon, simply cannot comprehend the geopolitical enormity of it all. And that’s why we have so much Sinophobia, so many Hybrid War techniques deployed to snuff out the “threat”....

Above is by Tyler Durden in www.zerohedge . It briefly summarised the behaviour of the USA over the last 70 years post WW2 and how it spent all its financial, economic and military resources on wars and the continuation of wars outside mainland America, preferably in Asia and the Middle east and Europe. The American agenda and preoccupation was war as a basis for the existence of its huge military forces around the world, and for this it has to create enemies.  With Russia fading away after the collapse of the USSR, new enemies must be created. The Arab/Muslims became next and the next war zone culminating in the war on terror and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. 

China's rise has provide another enemy for the Americans, a bigger one and all efforts and resources are now targeted at China with daily attacks on China in all fronts. China became the new American lie, branded by the Americans as the expansionist and aggressive superpower to conquer and rule the world. Unfortunately for the Americans, this lie has gone too big and too ridiculous and beginning to sound silly, dull and irritating to the rest of the world. It has come to a point that no one believes it anymore and becoming a farce. And the message is clear, no country would want to take sides in this war between the Americans and China. No country wants to be the unthinking and clueless pawns of the American Empire anymore.

For 70 years, the American narrative has been wars and threats of wars by imaginary enemies they created and propped up to threaten the rest of the world. This tape recorder is wearing out, worn out. No more crying wolf. No one is listening. Put an end to perpetual wars you evil Americans!

The rest of the world can see a China busily engaging in trade, economic and infrastructure development, pouring millions and trillions of dollars all over the world, investing and trading with the rest of the world. The Americans on the other hand spent several trillions in the same time doing nothing but conducting wars, provoking and inciting wars. The aggressiveness of the Americans are on records. The same for China, but not wars. China has not fought a war since 1978. China is in trade, investment and economic development.  The BRI of China has no equivalent in the history of humankind, and the Americans have no answer to it and only could badmouth it and trying to stir suspicion, instigate fear and doubts in the project. But the countries participating in it could see the goodness of the BRI and totally ignored the doomsayer Americans.

Despite the cold shoulder and ineffectiveness in the American white lies against China, the show must go on, hoping that it might work.  China is being attacked on all fronts. The Americans are politicising everything to attack and smear China. Trade wars, espionage, sabotage, spreading lies, politicising the petrol dollar, politicising the greenbacks, politicising the international banking system, even politicising education and the universities. Even the challenges of health, medicine and climate change are being politicised. This is how bankrupt of ideas the Americans have become. They have no idea on how to compete with the Chinese fairly anymore, devoid of ideas, clueless, feckless.

Maybe that this the only way to go, competing with China is futile. The Chinese have marched on in many fields that were once the dominance of the Americans, in economics, engineering, science and technology, in AI, in space and satellites.  China is now moving ahead as the leading player in space and would rule the sky when the International Space Station is retired and only the Chinese Space Station remains in orbit. And China is going to prove to be the first country that puts man on the moon, tearing away the American hoax of the century that they have put men on the moon many times. The Americans are in panic, wanting to return to the moon race, to go back to the moon that they lied to the world that they had done it. 

What else is there for the Americans to do to harm the rise of China? Attack China for ill treatment against the minority Uyghurs in Xinjiang. When have the Americans become the champions of Muslims when they have been killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the Middle East for ages and now playing out the Palestinians by outright support for Israel and the grabbing of Palestinian land? And the lapdog Australia is fabricating more lies, that China destroyed thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, while the Americans were lying about 1m Uyghurs in detention camps. How to put 1m prisoners in detention camps, how many such camps must be built, how much land must be used, how much food and logistics? Who built the Guantanamo Camp?

Below are a couple of reports from the Organisation of Islamic Countries and Pakistan to debunk the American and Australian lies about Xinjiang and Uyghurs.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, representing the above nations, welcomes the outcomes of the visit conducted by the General Secretariat's delegation upon invitation from the People's Republic of China; commends the efforts of the People's Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens; and looks forward to further cooperation between the OIC and the People's Republic of China. Carried unanimously by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, The Collective Voice of the Muslim World. Adopted by the 46th session of the Council of Muslim Foreign Ministers, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 1-2 March, 2019. 24-25 Jumadah Al-Thani 1440....www.oic-oci.org

 No Cultural, Religious Repression of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang says Pakistan Diplomat: A senior Pakistani diplomat on Thursday put up a staunch defence of the controversial education camps in China's volatile Xinjiang province where thousands of Uighur Muslims have been reportedly detained, saying there is no forced labour or cultural and religious repression in the region. "During this visit, I did not find any instance of forced labour or cultural and religious repression," Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, the Charge d'affaires, Pakistan's Embassy in China, told the state-run Global Times on Thursday. 

"The imams we met at the mosques and the students and teachers at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute told us that they enjoy freedom in practicing Islam and that the Chinese government extends support for maintenance of mosques all over Xinjiang," said Baloch, who visited Xinjiang as part of delegation of diplomats. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/pakistan/no-cultural-religious-repression-of-uighur-muslims-in-xinjiang-pakistan-diplomat/

And the unseen hand has come into play to bring about the early demise of the evil American Empire and the West.  Covid19 is a miracle. It exposed the stupidity and idiocy and incompetence of the Americans and the West to deal with a health pandemic. They could not cope, could not handle the problem. They used to lead the world, to set the examples for the world to follow. Now not only that they fumbled, did not know how to lead, they are setting all the bad examples on how to curb the spread of the virus. It is the Asians that are showing them the way, how to behave and doing the right things to stop the spread of the virus. But the Americans and the West are behaving like primitive tribes, uncontrollable, irresponsible, choosing to break every rules and norms and behaviour recommended to stop the virus. They are the main cause of the spread of the virus.

The Americans and the West are failing in every field, in everything. They are lost, stumbling around like zombies or irresponsible and reckless uncivilised human beans, and the infection of the Covid19 and death tolls keep climbing. What a beautiful sight! Oops, I mean what a pathetic sight!

The initiative and agenda for growth and prosperity are now coming from the East, from Asia. Asian countries are quietly and peacefully seeking growth and development and prosperity for their people, barring no silly idiots got conned by the Americans to start another war. 

Asia is the new centre of growth. Asia is the new dynamism of the 21st century. All the good and positive things are happening in Asia.  The clueless evil Americans, like a one trick pony, still believe in wars and agitating for wars.  That is the only thing they know today. They have forgotten about the basics, good economic growth, trade and investment, infrastructure development and progress and a good life for all humankind. No thinking person would want to go to war. Every country wants development and prosperity. And for these to happen, the world needs peace and globalisation and free trade. And this is the agenda of China, a share destiny for all humankind, not America First and the rest of the world can go to hell, with more wars started by the Americans and supported by the Americans.

There is a new initiative from Asia with Asia as the new dynamic centre for peace, economic growth and prosperity. Covid19 has dragged American growth to -15%, and about the same for Europe. China is still growing at 5-6% annually. This in effect is closing the gap between the American and Chinese economies at the rate of 20% annually instead of 3-4% pre Covid19 pandemic. The day for China to become Number One and America Number Two would come a few years earlier than forecast.

Asia is the future while the West fades into oblivion.

9/27/2020

MOM data on PMETs- What is the truth?

 


Under pressure from MPs in Parliament, the Manpower Minister Josephine Teo released data of past decade (2010 to 2019) concerning the breakdown of Professionals, Managers, Executives & Technicians (PMETs) by industries and residential status earlier this month (4 Sep).

From the data, it can be seen that the total number of PMETs working in Singapore increased from 1.25 to 1.70 million (36% increase) from 2010 to 2019.

However, the proportion of Singaporeans among the total number of PMETs working here decreased from 64.2% to 61.7% while that of foreigners (including PRs) increased from 35.8% to 38.3% during the past decade.

 The above is quoted from TOC. 

I just have one comment. How many of the Singaporean PMETs are new citizens? Just a guess, if 30% are new citizens what does it say? If 50% are new citizens, what does it say? As they said, the devil is in the details.

Oh, why just 10 years, from 2010 to 2019, why not 20 years from 2000 to 2019?

What do you think? 

PS. 'We know for a fact that in recent years, Singapore welcomes an average of just over 22,000 new citizens a year. Latest available figures show that there were 22,102 new citizens in 2016, 22,076 in 2017 and 22,550 in 2018....The fact remains that the country currently takes in just over 22,000 new citizens a year. With at least 110,000 new citizens every five years, they could be a force to be reckoned with at the ballot box.'  From an article in TOC by Augustine Low.  

And our annual birth rate is about 35,000.

9/26/2020

China standing up to American interference and bullying - Enough is enough! Shame on you Americans.

 Both can dance. If the Americans want to play dirty, China will play by it, China will do what the Americans are doing against her.  The Americans have been launching all kinds of attacks against China, interfering in Hong Kong to stir secessionist causes, sailing warships and aircraft into the South China Sea to agitate and provoke China, threatening and violating Chinese territorial integrity, sanctioning and arresting Chinese citizens on fabricated charges, trade wars etc etc. 

The time has come for China to return the favour and let the Americans have a taste of its own medicine. Below is an AFP report on China criticising the Americans for its racism against the blacks and coloured people in the USA. 

MADISON, United States: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday (Sep 23) accused China of trying to foment unrest in the United States through its criticism of racism.

Pompeo, known for his hawkish views on China, went on the attack on Beijing in an unusual address to state lawmakers in Wisconsin, a crucial swing state in November's presidential election....

"The CCP wants to foment the kind of strife we've seen in Minneapolis, and Portland and Kenosha," he said, referring to three cities that have seen protests over racism and police brutality in recent months.

"That's disgusting. We can't let it happen," he said.

As evidence of China's intentions, Pompeo pointed to a letter from a Chinese diplomat to a lawmaker from Wisconsin.

The letter said that Beijing was "firmly opposed to racial discrimination and xenophobia" against the Chinese community in the United States over the coronavirus crisis....

 

China for a very long time have refrained from talking about the internal affairs of the US but the incessant attacks by the Americans to incite rebellions in China cannot go on without a response in kind. China has stepped up to the plate to do what the Americans think only it can do, to interfere in other countries domestic affairs. China must also support the oppression of the native Americans to reclaim their land, and the Pacific Islanders and native of Diego Garcia to retake their islands.

There are many causes in the USA that China must speak up to support the victims of white supremacists against their blacks and coloured citizens. Both can play the same game and dance to the same tune. This is only the beginning. If the Americans want to stir shit, China too can stir shit in American occupied territories and in American homeland. 

All the problems China is facing today have one source, the Americans.  All the problems the Americans are facing today also have one source, the Americans or karma, self inflicted problems. The Americans are creating the problems for China and the rest of the world so that they could have peace in their homeland. Someone up there said this is not fair and started to pour problems on the Americans in their homeland. No country could cause problems for the Americans or would bother to do it, only the Americans of the One up there could do it.

And here is the latest in the UN as reported by AFP.

UNITED NATIONS: China on Thursday (Sep 24) lashed out at the United States at a high-level United Nations meeting over its criticism on the coronavirus, with its envoy declaring, "Enough is enough!"....

 "I must say, enough is enough! You have created enough troubles for the world already," he told a Security Council meeting on global governance attended through video conference by several heads of state.

"The US has nearly seven million confirmed cases and over 200,000 deaths by now. With the most advanced medical technologies and system in the world, why has the US turned out to have the most confirmed cases and fatalities?" he asked in English.

"If someone should be held accountable, it should be a few US politicians themselves."

Using a phrase often told by US leaders to China, Zhang said, "The US should understand that a major power should behave like a major power."

The lying Americans are so shameful and disgraceful!