What A Wise Prime Minister Like Lee Kuan Yew Would Do

Deployment of Ministers: What A Wise Prime Minister Like Lee Kuan Yew Would Do If He Arises From The Dead

Our first Prime Minister, Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, during his tenure as the PM, did not even allow one particular person to hold any important appointment. Let alone a ministerial position. That person was put in a back-bencher, ordinary MP position for at least ten years. From 1988 to 2005?

Yet today, one person has been trusted so much until he has been allowed to hold two very important, sensitive and powerful ministerial positions concurrently! Not only that, he has also been allowed to hold the two positions for such a long period of time continuously, while other ministers have all been reshuffled and rotated, some even moved three or four times.

Unbelievable! Shocking! Even sickening! Someone is very sick?

It just doesn't make any sense. Something is definitely not right. What is it? Someome has been unduly influenced into submission, under duress?

For the purpose of national security and national interests, the two important, sensitive and powerful positions should never be held by one person. Period.

From common sense, having one person controlling the Attorney General's Chambers, the Judiciary and the Overall Legal System, combined with the Police Force, the police intelligence unit, CID, internal security, customs and immigration is too risky and dangerous because that one person will become too powerful. When the two ministries are combined into one hand, that hand becomes an indestructible iron hand. And the person who owns that iron hand becomes the indestructible Iron Man.

A wise Prime Minister would never allowed such a thing to happen.

A wise Prime Minister would immediately suspect something is amiss if one of his ministers even uttered, suggested or wished to be given any of the two powerful ministries. Let alone both of them.

A wise Prime Minister would rather have two separate persons, unconnected by relations or business, to head the two powerful ministries separately, for the simple reason that he can draw upon two persons for advice instead of only one, in times of need. Thereby giving him the availability and option of a second opinion, instead of one that might be faulty, inappropriate or even sinister. Therefore, detrimental to his Premiership, National Security or the Citizens' interests.

If it has already happened, the wise Prime Minister does not need to think hard and long in order to remedy the situation and put it back into proper perspective, in his personal interests and in the interests of the people, the country and the Nation!

So, think wisely and act prudently.


SSO - 18 July 2021.

The Familial Ties Lane Or Backlane?

 Many Singaporeans are unaware of the strange sounding scheme devised by the Immigration officials from the Home Affairs Ministry.

Law & Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam explained in Parliament in February this year that those allowed to enter under the scheme include those “reuniting SCs and PRs with their foreign family members or spouses-to-be who may otherwise be stranded overseas.

Under this scheme, non-residents may also seek entry to Singapore for compassionate reasons such as family bereavements.

The powerful and impressive double port-folio Minister had given an impression that such a scheme is strictly controlled, and entry is confined to only the very minimum necessary.

If the scheme applies to family members and “spouses-to-be”, and those of urgent needs, why then allowed a Vietnamese (hostess) sponsored by her "boyfriend" to enter Singapore under the Familial Ties Lane?

Enabling boyfriends (or pimps) to bring in their foreign girlfriends (or prostitues) to work in KTV nightclubs during a pandemic, when entry rules are being tightened, may be seen as an incongruous and contradictory action / policy. It certainly makes the Familial Ties Lane looks like a Backlane. Isn't it?

To our common sense, the case of a Vietnamese "girlfriend" (or prostitue) entering Singapore to work as hostess in a KTV nightclub, sponsored by her Singapore "boyfriend" (or pimp) is a clear abuse of the scheme. This has to be checked.

Does the left hand of the law (Ministry of Law) knows the right hand of law (Ministry of Home Affairs) in the implementation of this scheme?


Queen of Hearts.

Professor Richard Wolff - The challenge of China

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpD0Im5d9-c

A very methodological approach to the challenge of China from a historical and economic perspective, minus the ideological and political bickering of the Cold War mentality of American politicians.

The video is 55 mins long but the main topic on the challenge of China starts at about 20 mins into the tape. The earlier part dealt with American political history and the challenges and approaches to the economic crisis faced by Roosevelt and Biden.

Professor Wolff made his discussion very clear and precise and easy to understand without the nuances and distractions of main stream American politics and looked at China as what it is and how China overcame its enormous problems of poverty and becomes an economic growth model for the rest of the world...from poverty to moderately properous, without American or western aid that came with strings attached to keep the third world recipients forever remaining in the third world.

Prof Wolff's delivery style is very powerful and captivating and refreshing.

Watch it and get some fresh air.

Who is copying who, who is the stupid one?

 

Earlier in March, there was a plagiarism fiasco surrounding Singapore’s national song ‘Count on Me, Singapore’ after a composer from India was accused of copying the song. The Indian composer later retracted all claims to the lyrics and tune of the song.

What’s more, the local national song was even found to be copied and modified into a religious version by an Indian non-profit spiritual organisation.

Now, there seems to be another case of plagiarism concerning a Singaporean educational institution, this time coming from an international school in India.

To put it simply, the logo of Gaikwad-Patil International School in Nagpur, India is exactly the same as Singapore Sports School in Woodlands.  

Above posted in TOC

The Indians admired and loved what Singapore is doing and would copy for their own use. Singapore is mesmerised by the Indian talents and bringing them in by the millions to replace Singaporeans. 

What an irony? Duuno who is the foolish one.

TOC made some inquiries and found out that the school was closed, But further probing confirmed that the school is still operating.

 

COVID-19: Reluctance To Take Drastic Proactive Actions Leads To Proliferation Of the Coronavirus Infections Happily Ever After

 
The reluctance of many governments in the world to take immediate, urgent, drastic actions to block off further imports of the Covid-19 cases into their respective countries, is the fundamental reason and cause of the proliferation and spread of the coronavirus among their unaware communities.

Recently, the growing numbers of new clusters appearing in Singapore are mainly due to Type Delta Variant infected carriers from abroad, spreading the disease to the locals, especially the airport staff and customs officials.

Lately, there are new clusters of Covid-19 infections appearing among the KTVs nightclubs and at least 30 people are not Singaporeans.

The total number of these clusters is still growing. The last known report put it at 42.

At least eight of the infected are short-term visit pass holders, including the Vietnamese hostess first linked to the cluster.

As part of the stipulated immigration conditions, short-term visit pass holders are forbidden to work in Singapore without MOM's permission. Those who flouted the stipulated conditions are guilty of an immigration offence and could be barred from future entries into Singapore.

ICA and MOM reacted by vowing stern action against any foreigner from the cluster found to have committed an offence. As usual, they are very good in reactive actions rather than proactive actions.

According to the Immigration Authority, the first link to the cluster is the Vietnamese hostess who had entered Singapore in February this year on a short-term visit pass via the "Familial Ties Lane", sponsored by her Singaporean boyfriend. That is on the surface.

However, underneath the surface, there is a racket in Singapore whereby foreigners can pay a certain amount of "fee" to get a Singaporean sponsorship for their stay in Singapore on short and medium term basis, which are renewable. That explains why a short-term visit pass holder can stay from February to July this year, six months.

Usually, short-term visit pass lasts for 14 or 30 days.

To many politicians, it seems that the economy of the country is more important than the health and lives of their citizens, and the national healthcare system. As such, we are seeing a open-and-shut case repeatedly, with regard to the measures taken to curb and stop Covid-19 infections in many countries. Singapore is no exception.

As a result, the proliferation and spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus will be forever and ever. The coronavirus will be able to live happily ever after! So, the pandemic becomes endemic. This gives some very brilliant leaders the excuse to tell their people to live with the Coronavirus as if it is a common flu!

Living dangerous in a pandemic will become the new normal.

God saves not only the Queen, but also everyone of us, please!


Queen of Hearts.