Too Much Pay Breeds Complacency and Incompetence

When was the super salary of ministers introduced?

That year, since that year, the pay was so good that they most probably began to think (I assume) of how to grow their cunningly-gotten through parliament windfall, that everyone of them was spending more time thinking, planning and executing to increase their instant wealth, instead of how to develop the country and the people (the only natural resource Singapore has).

The excuse used was the magic words: "Globalisation. So let the market forces dictate."

In other words, they don't have to do anything. Just let the market forces move accordingly.

What is "market forces"? They are basically manipulative people who have the capital and the cranium to think, plan, exploit and manipulate the markets to their advantages.

That means, let these people exploit and manipulate our markets, our labour forces, and our capital. So, just sit back and enjoy the instant riches acquired with a stroke of the pen through the parliament.

Now, with Covid-19 wrecking havocs to the economy, the labour market, stock market, travel market, all sorts of markets, these happy-go-lucky multi-millionaires suddenly woke up from their euphoric slumber to the horror that we need Singaporeans, not foreigners, to run our country. That we need local-born talents, not imported make-belief talents turned into instant new citizens, like the ones at MAS, DBS, and Temasek and expect them to be loyal to the country like the local-born.

It is a bit too late. (But first, get rid of CECA. Without getting rid of CECA, their hands are tied.) The smarter local-born birds have flown. Those who have not are planning to fly away too.

For example, all my three children are working overseas and are planning not to come back. They have bought REAL properties abroad which they can call their own, not the fake leasehold (long-term rental) HDB government flats sold under the fake "Home Ownership" scheme, that will end up ZERO VALUE at end of 99 years.

What are the basic requirements to live a happy and satisfying life?

1. A permanent and stable place to stay and raise your children.

2. A steady and good-paying job, not a two-year contract job.

3. No NS to interrupt with your job or your family life.

4. A variety of reasonably good and affordable food and clothing.

5. Freedom to possess what you own, not someone decide for you how to spend your savings and force you to donate your organs (unless you opt out) and force you to pay for insurance premiums for insurance policies that you do not want to buy.

6. Freedom to move around, to protest and to assemblies and freedom of speech.

7. Medical services and educational institutions that are easily reached and affordable.

Which country can provide you the above 7 basic conditions?

Think. 

SSO.

PS. Posted on behalf of SSO.

How Emperor Kangxi saved China from the hypocrisy and scourge of the European Christian faith.

      Five hundred years ago in 1455  Pope Romanus Pontifex claimed himself to be the representative of the Christian God, Jesus Christ and in doing so he claimed dominion over the entire world. He issued statements which gave European rulers the sanction to colonize all of the non-Christian world. He anointed the rulers and their representatives the plunderers and pirates as sanctified conquerors with legal and moral license to dispossess natives of their possessions. The Bulls gave Christian plunderers like Columbus, Cortez, Pizarro, Cook, Hudson and the rest both legal and moral license to plunder, dispossess, enslave and  murder  the natives. They were given ample faculty to to invade, search out, capture, vanquish and subdue all pagans. They were to convert all natives to Christianity and to kill those who could not  be converted.

The arrogance and tyranny of the Vatican assumed the entire world was under the jurisdiction of the Pope, a God's representative on earth. Any land not Christianized or not under the sovereignty of a Christian ruler could be possessed on behalf of God. All time and space was considered  empty until Christians arrived with God's truth and until then all lands and territories were considered Terra Nullius. Thus this set the precedent and the rules for all the aggressive and warmongering European powers to set out to conquer and terrorize all the non-Christian world. It was the catalyst for the 500 years curse of white Christian domination and terrorism of all non-Christian countries which continue non-stop to this day.

Under this self-assumed totalitarian  godly power the Pope of the Catholics in the Vatican, the power house or headquarters of all the Catholics sent missionaries to China with intent to convert The Middle Kingdom to the Catholic Christian faith. 

The Catholic priests sent to China during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty were known as Jesuits or Dominicans, two different orders of the same Catholic church. However, the Jesuits predominate in the Chinese court, the hall of power and rule in the Middle Kingdom.

Emperor Kangxi ascended the Dragon Throne at the age of seven and ruled China from 1661 to 1722. In the early decades of Emperor Kangxi's reign, the Jesuits played a large part in the imperial court. As the Jesuit priests had great knowledge of astronomy Emperor Kangxi made the Jesuits in-charge of the Imperial Observatory. Emperor Kangxi was introduced to western music. A Jesuit priest Thomas Pereira taught him how to play the harpsichord. Emperor Kangxi appointed Karel Slavicek as court musician. Emperor Kangxi was broadminded and was always opened to new ideas. He was later to found out that his broadmindedness was being made use of by the Pope and the Vatican to destroy Chinese culture or to deculturalize China and the Chinese people from Chinese culture in favour of Christian teachings and tenets.

The Vatican sent preachers or missionaries known as Jesuits or Dominicans to China to evangelize or propagate the Christian faith or Christianity. They always believe in starting to convert the ruler or king of the country first as once the king is converted the rest of his subjects and the whole country will easily follow suit. 

Some of the early Jesuit missionaries sent to China in 1705 were Ferdinand Verbiest and Karel Slavicek. In 1711 the Pope through "The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples" sent Matteo Ripa to China to propagate the Christian religion. Matteo Ripa an Italian priest was also a painter and copper engraver at Qing Court. In Beijing Pope Clement X11opened a religious school, The Collegio Dei Cinesi" to help the propagation of Christianity in China. 

In 1723 Matteo Ripa returned to Naples, Italy with four young Chinese converted Christians. They were to be groomed to become Christian priests before sending them back to China later as missionaries. At the same time the Vatican opened a school in Naples to teach Chinese to Italians. It was the first Chinese institute and the first school of Sinology in Europe.

Emperor Kangxi was grateful to the Jesuits for their contributions and the many languages they could interprete. He made use of the service of Jean Francoils Gerbillon and Thomas Pereira as translators for the negotiations of the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689 with Russia. Little did he know that the Jesuit priests were sabotaging China's interests and subbordinating China's interests to the Russians who were also Catholic christians. Thus China was to lose large chunks of territories to Russia under the treachery of these Jesuits who manipulated the Chinese Emperor Kangxi under subterfuge to accept the lobsided treaty in favour of the Christian Russians. The Jesuits did the same treason to China in subsequent treaties with Russia in later years in the 1830s to 1900s which resulted in China losing more than two or three million square miles of territories north of the Heilongjiang River and the Ussuri River to Russia.

The Jesuits intent to convert Emperor Kangxi to Christianity.

Emperor Kangxi was a very conservative and very highly cultured man steeped in the knowledge of Confucianism, Chinese culture and Chinese rites. But he was also fond of the Jesuits respectful and unobtrusive manner. The Jesuit priests could speak Chinese well and wore the silk robes of the elites, the mandarins.Thus under these pretensions the Jesuits were able to ingratiate with Emperor Kangxi and gained influence in the emperor's court.

The Chinese rites controversy and the attempted deculturalization of Emperor Kangxi by subterfuge.

Jesuits intent to convert Emperor Kangxi to Christianity.

In 1692, when Thomas Pereira requested tolerance for Christianity , Emperor Kangxi was willing to oblige and issued "The Edict of Toleration" which recognized Catholicism and barred attack on their churches and legalized their missions and the practice of Christianity by the Chinese people.

However, controversy soon arose over whether Chinese Christians could still be allowed to take part in traditional Confucian ceremonies and ancestor worship. The Jesuit priests were in favour of tolerance but the Dominican priests took a hardline stand against Chinese traditional rites. The Dominican position won the support of Pope Clement X1 who in 1705 sent Charles Thomas Maillard de Toiurnon as his representative to the Emperor Kangxi to communicate the ban on Chinese rites and worship. 

Through Maillard de Tournon the Pope insisted on sending his own representative to Beijing to oversee Jesuit missionaries in China. This was not allowed by Emperor Kangxi as he treated this as an overstep to hijack the Emperor's power and authority and an  infringement on China's sovereignty and dignity. Emperor Kangxi refused the Pope in the Vatican for his audacity to challenge the Emperor's authority to keep missionary activities in China under his own oversight and control.

However, in the Vatican, the Pope chose to defy Emperor Kangxi's order and authority. On 19th March,1715, Pope Clement X1 arrogantly and defiantly issued the Papal Bull  Ex illa die which officially condemned Chinese rites and religious practice and forbade converted Chinese Christians to carry out the traditional practice. This was tantamount to killing Chinese culture , an attempt to deculturalize the Chinese from their traditional customs and cultural practices. Armed with the Pope's Papal Bull Ex illa die the Jesuit and Dominican priests went around destroying Chinese families worshipping tablets and deities causing untold choas, quarrels and trouble among Chinese families and society.

This Pope and Vatican arrogance was too much for Emperor Kangxi to tolerate. Under the dictates of the Pope's Papal Bull Ex illa die even Emperor Kangxi was not allowed to pray and pay respects to his ancestors base on Chinese traditional rites and customs. Emperor Kangxi was flagbbergasted and deep offended. Henceforth Emperor Kangxi officially forbade Christian missions in China, as they were causing too much trouble.

Southernglory1

Friday, 30th October, 2020.

 

Bring Singaporean talents home - Vivian Balakrishnan

SINGAPORE: Having people well versed in digital skills is key to Singapore’s Smart Nation drive, and the country hopes to attract Singaporeans based overseas to return home to work on such projects, said Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation Initiative Vivian Balakrishnan. 

This is on top of continued efforts to grow the local talent pool, he added. 

Advertisement

Dr Balakrishnan noted that with the global shortage of tech talent, there are “hundreds” of Singaporeans who are working abroad in places such as the Silicon Valley in the United States, China and Southeast Asia. 

“So the first thing is wherever possible, bring our people back home … The second source is (to) grow our own people,” he said during an interview conducted as part of the CNA Leadership Summit 2020.   CNA

For many years, even today, we are still hearing this obsolete mantra of sending our small pool of talents overseas to compete with the rest of the world when they are badly needed back home. In those days when our currency was weak it made sense. Now the exchange rate is so low that earning foreign currency is losing money.  No need to mention about earning rupiahs or rupees or even ringgits. And to make matters worse, at the same time we are recruiting all the fake talents and con men to replace our real talents overseas and paying them in S$.  How ridiculous can national policies be to allow this transfusion of talents, good Singaporean talents being replaced by fake and funny foreign talents, a hollowing out of our Singaporean core!

Now Vivian is making a strange call, a little late, to bring back our talents from overseas. Well, as they said, it is late than never.  Look at the banking and IT sector, the academia and the Science Parks, how many third world fake foreign talents have been brought in, and indirectly how many of our talents have been forced out by these foreigners that now control these positions and industries and quietly and strategically make sure they hire more of their own kinds and keep Singaporeans out!

If Singapore continues with this stupidity of wanting the best of the world to replace Singaporeans, all the 3.5m Singaporean would be replaced as there are 7b people out there, enough talents to replace every Singaporean here.

So, is what Vivian is saying another politically correct statement for the ears of Singaporeans or just another PR exercise, not to be taken seriously, not to be pursue or implemented?  How real is this change of thinking and policy?

Have we had enough of the fake talents and wildlife? Is Singapore really thinking of wanting its Singaporeans back home to contribute to the country or just forget about them? Foreign talents, fake talents are aplenty and queuing up at the door? Is this another case of all talks and no action?

War has begun - Not Trump or Pompeo's war

God grimace in pain seeing evil men like Pompeo and his fellow evil gangsters going all out to spread hate, tell lies and fake news to justify a war against China and Chinese and to round up equal minded evil people in this wicked scheme. These warmongers are accusing China of aggression when they are the ones that are planning to start this war. They have gone around the world to find more evil men and women to join them. They think that their evil intent would go unnoticed and silly people would believe that they are the good guys. They may be able to con and lie to the unthinking and evil men, but they could not lie to the ONE up there. HE is watching their every move. The accomplices of these evil men will suffer equally in the hands of God.

While these evil men are scheming for a war, they could not see that war has started.  The ONE has started his war against the evil white men to exterminate them for the good of human kind. He has sent his messenger on the Pale Horse to do the destruction he has planned for them. The Pale Horse rider has arrived and sitting in the White House and busily doing HIS work to spread the plague on the white people. 

Not only the USA is being hit, the whites in Europe are not spared. This pandemic will destroy all the evil white men and other evil men that chose to go along with the evil white men. And the best thing about this scheme of God is that they did not know that HE has started his war of extermination of the white men. And the evil white men are going around merrily as if this is nothing, another common flu, to be ignored, nothing serious. Nothing will happen to them!

This state of delusion is best seen in what Pompeo, Trump, Esper etc are doing, thinking that there is nothing wrong with this plague and still have the luxury of wanting to start a war with China, to conduct more wicked deeds, to kill more people. They did not have a clue that DEATH has arrived in his Pale Horse and living among them. And God said, 'This is good.' Let them continue in their evil ways without knowing that the virus are devouring them.

HIS mysterious way has spared the innocents, especially China, by allowing the villains to plant the virus first in China and helping China to rid itself from this disease. HE has seen how the whites bullied, smeared, oppressed, cheated, looted, plundered and killed the Chinese over 200 years. This must come to an end. HIS fury was set on fire with the plague spreading across the earth like wild fires and hitting America and Europe without them having an inkling of what hit them. And this plague is going out of control, except in China. HE has spared China, after seeing how the Chinese lived through two centuries of injustice, oppression and poverty under the white men, and with evil white men continuing to wrong China and gathering evil men to attack China and wanting to kill more Chinese people.

HE would not allow the evil white men to commit more mischiefs and more murders of the innocents. God's war to terminate the evil white men has started and will not stop until all the evil white men are thrown into the sea of fire. And while HE is getting his work done, the evil white men are still clueless, and still intend to do more evil, thinking they are still in control of the destiny of other people, to be manipulated, condemned and destroyed by them.

The real threat to world peace and human civilisation is the evil American Empire. HE will destroy this evil Empire before it destroys the world.

When the work of God is done, there would not be any evil white men left on mother earth. HE shalt have no mercy on the wicked white men and their evil accomplices. What man proposed, God shalt dispose. Amen.

Singapore to import electricity from Malaysia

SINGAPORE: Singapore will import electricity from Peninsular Malaysia under a two-year trial, said the Energy Market Authority (EMA) on Monday (Oct 26). The trial aims to "assess and refine the technical and regulatory frameworks" for importing electricity into Singapore, said the authority in a press release. CNA

After reading above I could only shake my head. Some were commenting why sold all our power stations away, one to Malaysian owner and now must import electricity from Malaysia? Is this a case of stupidity has no cure disease manifesting itself as another class act, a brilliant stroke of the pen to do the unthinkable and the end result must be good?

It cannot be. It is worse than stupidity has no cure. Remember our water problem and over dependence on Malaysian water and always got threaten and held at ransom by Malaysia? After great effort and expenses and enduring all the threats, Singapore finally broke free from this Malaysian blackmail by building several reservoirs of our own.

Now this. We had several power stations, now have nothing, all sold. Then we are going to the Malaysians to buy electricity. Are we not putting our head on the chopping block once again, to be held at ransom, to be threatened, from being independent of electricity, self sufficient to becoming dependent on Malaysia, our great friend up north all over again?

Who is the genius that came out with this brilliant idea? Or who is the 'khong cum' strategist who is putting Singapore into another compromising and precarious situation again? From self sufficiency to dependency from our most reliable friends up north. Mahathir must be smiling at the stupidity of it all. 'Can squeeze your balls again!'

Clap, clap, clap.

Is this part of the plan and requirement for 10m population?

PS. I am wondering if Singapore has a national body looking after the national and security interest of the country, like protecting strategic assets, like making sure foreigners are not put into positions that would compromise our security and national interest, like in charge of banks, control of IT systems, demographic distribution, in defence matters, control of the media and national narratives, etc etc?