General Post Office - A day to remember

 

(Enlarge the photos to see the details of the facial expressions) Credits to Fullerton Hotel

The above photos were taken from Fullerton Hotel gallery.  I happened to be there and found them every interesting. The photos are very well taken, well preserved and tell a story of what life was in the times of colonialism when white men stole this island and kept it as their own. Like all colonised land, the land, the assets and people, belonged to the white men when they seized the island. Present USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and many islands in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic Oceans are still possessed by the white men as their land.

Credit to the photographer for taking the moment with the expressions of the colonial masters clearly showing who was the boss than and the natives in their attentive meekness, not knowing the they were the real owners of the land and they should be the boss, not the white men. The white men came and stole their land. The remaining surviving native Americans should take note of this.

Would Singapore again become colonised by foreigners and taken over by foreigners and the above pictures be repeated again, with the foreigners behaving like the boss and we Singaporean natives, some imbeciles still insisting that we are migrants, having to be attentive and meek in their presence?

It is already happening in many organisations when the foreigners are calling the shots and the meek native Singaporeans being managed, roughshod and even sacked at the whims and fancy of the foreigners, and many native Singaporeans now knowing their place in the pecking order like the natives in the photos above.

It would be truly sad if I would have to take such pictures for posterity to remind them of what it was like when foreigners took over Singapore and ruled over us.

Trump lies, lies and lies - It is truly a normal American behaviour

 “IF YOU COUNT THE LEGAL VOTES, I EASILY WIN THE ELECTION! IF YOU COUNT THE ILLEGAL AND LATE VOTES, THEY CAN STEAL THE ELECTION FROM US!” he said. Officials are currently counting legal ballots and there is no evidence of any kind of widespread or decision-altering fraud.

The above bold sentence is tweeted by Donald Trump, the President of the USA. In Singapore, anyone posting such a tweet stands a possibility of being arrested for spreading fake news, misinformation and inciting riots. Officials of the presidential election have repeated many times that there is no fraud and Trump's allegation is baseless, as many times as Trump had been tweeting. 

And the danger of trump's allegation is that his mindless and unthinking supporters could be agitated to revolt or turn aggressive as many of them are preparing for apocalyse, with weapons and ammunition ready for a civil war. This is how dangerous Trump's tweet is. Trump could have been 'pofma' in Singapore for inciting violence using baseless and reckless allegations. All the main media refused to believe him and calling him a dangerous and reckless liar.

For the last few weeks, Trump has been displaying the most ugly side of the American culture and behaviour, a fine examples of cheating, lying, fabricating fake news and insisting that they are truths. This is exactly what American propaganda is all about and on the international scene Pompeo has been doing the same, to badmouth China, to smear and demonise China with his own slate of lies, fake news and wild allegations without any ounce of proof. Just make wild allegations as loud and as often as possible and expect the world to believe in his lies.

Trump and Pompeo are not unique specimens of the notorious and evil Americans.  They are the norms, as can be seen by all the previous administrations, presidents and foreign secretaries.  It is all about spreading lies and making false and wild allegations against nations without having to show proof, like what Trump and Pompeo are doing.

It is a rude lesson of what American culture and bad behaviour are all about, a nation of liars and cheats, and very dangerous for the rest of the world and also for Americans. Trump could start a civil war with his false allegations. Pompeo could start a world war with his equally false allegations. The world must take note of these and not to take these likely as so called American Exceptionalism, that they can lie, cheat and steal and do anything they want without having to be responsible for their criminal actions.

Fox News also cannot stand Trump's lies.

New York (CNN Business)Top personalities at Fox News on Wednesday baselessly called into question the legitimacy of the presidential election, parroting the dangerous rhetoric from President Donald Trump aimed at portraying the contest as rigged.

The network's prime time lineup of pro-Trump propagandists spent the evening suggesting the election was potentially rife with corruption and implying Democrats might be stealing the election.

"Tonight every American should be angry, outraged and worried and concerned about what happened in the election and the lead up to the election," Sean Hannity declared on his program.

Parti Liyani - It takes only a maid to bring down so many people

 The storm of Parti Liyani is still brewing. Karl Liew is now in the hot seat. Shanmugam is also in the hot seat, for what he said would be watched and scrutinised very closely not only by Singaporeans but also in Indonesia. Maybe the whole of Indonesia is watching this case, from Widodo to the man in the streets and the maids here and everywhere. The bottom line is that justice and fairness must be seen to be done.

This case is like the proverbial tiny hole in a dam that could bring down the whole dam and all the dam is trying to hold. Many people involved in this case, from the judges, prosecutors and investigators, are going to be tainted by it one way or another. Some may just get embarrassing red faces, some could be quite bad.

At the moment it is like a slow motion movie, moving frame by frame and act by act. It may run loose and drag many things and people down with it by the time the show is over.

And it is not only the characters in the play that are under the spotlight. The whole judicial system, criminal justice system, the coterie of elites and the whole image of Singapore are thrust to centrestage. It is like a house of cards, pulling out one card could bring down the whole house.

Shanmugam had to be very careful, extremely careful, in what he said in Parliament. The opposition MPs are sharpening their knives, so to speak, ok, ok, no murder is going to happen in Parliament. No one is going to be struck by a knife.  Don't get too excited, don't over react. Just sit tight and watch calmly.  

Yes, stay calm, stay calm, everything will be alright. Do not panic.

If there is a moral story behind this episode it is that all civil servants and public officers must be professionally correct in whatever they are doing at all times. Do not think something is too small to do any harm and can be glossed over or be swept under the carpet. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.

Key questions to ask, who had been cavalier? What could be done better by which department as Shanmugam put it?  Which departments have been found wanting?

Theindependent.sg reported this below, which is a serious allegation of wrong doings. Who was she referring to about tempering with evidence?

Singapore — The Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) released on Wednesday (Nov 4) a statement by former domestic helper Parti Liyani on the conduct of police officers during her trial on theft charges involving items from the family of former Changi Airport Group chairman Liew Mun Leong.

HOME is a Singapore charitable organisation that was founded in 2004.

Ms Parti said: “On 3 July 2020, I submitted a complaint against several officers of Tanglin Police Division. I requested the Singapore Police Force Internal Affairs Office to conduct an inquiry into their conduct of the investigations and trial against me.”

She added that “in court, there was possible tampering with evidence in an attempt to cast me as being untruthful”.

China halts Australian imports - Should have done this long ago

 China to Halt Key Australian Imports in Sweeping Retaliation

Bloomberg News

November 3, 2020, 2:58 PM GMT+8 Updated on November 3, 2020, 5:15 PM GMT+8

• Goods including barley, sugar, wine will be barred from Nov. 6
• The notice was delivered verbally to importers, people said

China has ordered traders to stop purchasing at least seven categories of Australian commodities, ratcheting up tensions with a key trading partner in its most sweeping retaliation yet.

Commodities traders in China won’t be able to import products including coal, barley, copper ore and concentrate, sugar, timber, wine and lobster, according to people familiar with the situation. The government has ordered the halt to begin on Friday, one of the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is sensitive.

The notice was verbally relayed to major traders in meetings in recent weeks, one of the people said. Iron ore, Australia’s biggest export to China, won’t be included in the halt, the people said.

The order represents a dramatic deterioration in ties, which have been strained since Australia barred Huawei Technologies Co. from building its 5G network in 2018 on national security grounds. Relations have been in free fall since Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government in April called for an independent probe into the origins of the coronavirus.

“China seems determined to punish Australia and make it an example to other countries,” said Richard McGregor, a senior fellow at Sydney-based think tank the Lowy Institute. “They want to show there’s a cost for political disagreements.”

China has already barred meat imports from four Australian slaughterhouses, delayed lobster shipments from clearing customs, slapped tariffs of more than 80% on barley, and said it won’t allow timber from Queensland state because of pests. Wine is also under an anti-dumping investigation while Chinese power stations and steel mills have been told to stop using Australian coal. Cotton purchases have also been suspended.  Bloomberg

China is retaliating against Australia.  China should have done this long ago. There is no reason to trade with a country that openly talked about China as its enemy and blatantly insults and provokes China in everything. The Australians must be thinking that the Chinese are stupid and would continue to throw money at them after being attacked and smeared by them.

The Australians must take note that China is now not a pushover. Australia is, and China would roll over Australia as and when it likes. The Australians must be grateful and thankful that China did not do it. But if the Australians continue with their stupidity and arrogance to defy China, to treat China as an enemy, China must treat Australia as an enemy as well.

The white Australians still living in the past when the whites ruled the world. Not anymore mate. Be nice and humble, the day has come for China to rule over you, to tell you to behave and to kick your ass when you are naughty and disrespectful.

Continue to behave like a rogue and China will cane you like a rogue. Have no doubt about it.

Trump Is Troubles

Trump spells nothing but troubles for the American people, except only his supporters (those thugs, hooligans, violent-prone people that cheat, con, lie, bully, intimidate, blackmail, assault, maim and kill).

The US is in a state of tension, pending huge civil disturbances, riots, looting, killing, murders if Trump loses.

He has got groups of his violent supporters ready to cause mayhem throughout the US.

He has got his legal intimidators ready to do battle for him in US Courts.

He has got the Supreme Court ready on his side, to help him to regain his position and status.

He has got the Police, CIA and FBI ready to do his callings.

Most important of all, he has got the vote counters ready to count the votes in his favour. And he has said, but later denied, that he is going to declare himself the Winner of the November 3rd 2020 Presidential Election even before the counting is completed. He has decided to WIN AT ALL COSTS (does it ring a bell somebody in Singapore said something like this before? GROW THE GDP AT ALL COSTS?)

With such a determined MAD MAN as the President of the United (or Unlawful) States of America, everything, anything is possible.

The White House has become a House Of Possibilities and the USA has become an Unlawful Country in the Eyes if the World. 

SSO