7/26/2021

Quad - Gang of 4 fictional characters

 The Quad was the antagonistic scheme of the evil Americans to confront and challenge China's rise as the top superpower. The Americans have all the reasons to want to stop China from becoming richer and more powerful than them and to topple the Americans as the number one economy. Instead of facing the Chinese challenge head on by putting all their resources to boost up their economy, the Americans seek the way of the gangsters to want to block China by all kinds of aggression and wars.  This is in the blood of the Americans, wars and killings, to be rich and powerful by going to wars to kill their enemies, to steal their land and their resources and enslave the people. The continent of North America and its natives, South America and the Arab countries in the Middle East are all victims of American aggression.

Very few countries would want to go to war with China except for a few like Japan, India and Australia, that have an axe to grind for one reason or another.  In the military sense, only the Americans could present a real challenge to China. The rest are at best playing the role of jokers, jesters or spoilers.

In the case of Australia, a country with only 22m population, and a little military force that at best be enough to defend a city like Canberra and nothing else, definitely not enough to defend the piece of continent they stole from the aborigines, its role in the Quad is like a court jester. Everyday this jester would be pounding its chest and telling the top dog that it is going to send its soldiers to fight China, to go to war with China. What a joke. If Indonesia decides to take over this little clownish country, it would be over in a week before they could cry to the Americans for help.

India is big in population but otherwise just a spoiler. A poor third world country with pretension of being a super power but not even able to provide a decent life for its people, and a dilapidated armed forces that depend on buying weapons from other countries to give it some image of a modern army, can never be a threat to China. Without a strong military manufacturing base, its war machine could not last a week in a major war with China when it would be crying out loud for supplies of bullets and spare parts.

India would and could win all wars if wars is fought with the mouth and words. When real bullets and fighting soldiers are the key factors, India is best be forgotten. Its role in the Quad is best as a spoiler, a trumpet to make a lot of noises.

Japan has a significant military, the biggest and most powerful in Asia after China. But one for one, it is dwarfed by the might and heft of the PLA. Today Japan is no contest against China.  There would be no Japan to talk about should war breaks out with China. Japan would be history, a barren grave yard for centuries to come. Japan has three arch enemies in China, Russia and the Koreas, all waiting for a chance to turn it into smokes.

Japan knows its precarious situation after being the invader and butcher of China, Russia and the Koreas in WW2. It has a blood debt to pay and can only hope that this day would not come or can be kicked further down the road. Its only hope is for the Americans to be on its back and keep its enemies at bay. It needs the Quad to keep the balance and China in check. Unfortunately the value of Quad and the American protection is weakening with each passing day.

The day of reckoning must come and will come for Japan to face its crimes against China, Russia and the Koreas. This is the pathetic future waiting for Japan. And the Quad is as good as it could be as a fictional gang that would prove useless when that day comes. The Americans would not and would never fight a war with China. In conventional war, the Americans would be blown to pieces by the PLA. The PLA had done it in Korea, and to some extent in Vietnam. A nuclear war has no winners. The Americans are hoping to use the Quad as a straw man to frighten China with a joker, jester and a spoiler in tow. The latter three would be turned into mince meat by China if a war really comes. Straw man can only be straw man and nothing else.


COVID-19 Olympics: Stupidity has No Cure

 

Tokyo reported at least 1,979 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, 22 July 2021, as the Olympic Games are just ONE day out from its official start.

The jump in new cases is the Japanese capital Tokyo's highest increase in new cases since January 15.

The number of Covid-19 cases in Japan linked to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has risen to 91, according to Tokyo 2020 organizers Thursday.

Nine of the 91 cases reported were residents of the Olympic Village, five of whom are athletes and four are "Games-related personnel."

The capital is currently under a coronavirus state of emergency — set to expire on August 22 — while the Tokyo 2020 Games are set to officially begin on Friday.

It is a clear sign of being stupid and stubborn to go ahead with the Olympics, when the COVID-19 Pandemic is still rampaging across the Whole World.

If one is stupid and stubborn at the same time, one is an IDIOT! When one is an idiot, then his stupidity has no cure.

It looks like the present set of Japanese leaders has stupidity that cannot be cured.

SSO

July 23, 2021

Reality vs Stats (CECA) As experienced by a real citizen

 



Dear Minister Tan See Leng,

This is an open letter as a handful of citizens may be interested in the matter of "employment disconnect" as seen from the eyes of a real citizen.

From your ministerial statement made on 6th July 2021, you declared:

"Today we still have about 22,000 PME jobs that are not filled. Companies are desperate to fill these jobs, and would love to take in Singaporeans if they could, because they would be more productive. So why are these jobs not filled till now?"
and

"The citizen unemployment rate over the past decade has been consistently low at around 3%".

Minister sir, then it is time for all of us to celebrate and smell the roses.......... if the above statements are true. That SG is actually experiencing full employment status as defined by textbook economists.

However, if the Minister would take the effort to leave his Ivory tower and spend some money to support our Grab and private hirer drivers and chat with them about why they are driving instead of being driven, then the Minister would tear up his stacks of data and bin them.

You will find your trip well spent and highly educational. Most of us speak good English. Able to talk about social, political, and diversified matters that come with our world-class education system. If you close your eyes, you could have sworn that you are actually speaking with a PMET. Imagine that. Like the CECA Indians, we the PMET drivers are everywhere!

The next question as a competent Minister of Manpower would ask " why are you driving risking your life for 8 to 12 hours a day without rest when there are 22,000 PMET jobs sitting in my office?"

Why indeed. As a humble PMET driver, I can only postulate that it is because there is
a Blockage that is stopping these jobs from being filled by SG. This also applies to the thousands of delivery drivers, food Pandas, security officers, supervisors and those who simply give up and slip through the cracks and out of the system. Your 3% unemployment rate would look rather untenable if you factor in the thousands that are not working in the appropriate jobs as commensurate with their experiences and educational level. A term that MOM should start adopting in your statistics - Underemployment.

By now, your senses must be chiming with a small alarm bell that not all is rosy at the grassroots level. Either the vacancies data you are provided with are false, thus permitting the hordes of PRs and new citizens continued and unrestricted entry into SG or a blockage that is undermining our ability to access these 22,000 PMET jobs. Or both.

I, like many others, have applied repeatedly for jobs that are in line with our expertise and experiences. Yet, over the 8 years of applications, I received less than 10 calls and 2 interviews. I assure you that I am not alone in this matter. I assure you that it has nothing to do with lack of skills upgrading too. This is some diversionary tactic to detract us from the grim fact that our jobs are simply taken over regardless of skills, salaries, and experiences. For many of us, this exercise is actually skills "downgrading".

As a responsible Minister, I urge you to be more proactive in this matter by:
1. Check and confirm that there are actually 22,000 PMET jobs available. Not just a number that has not been refreshed and gathering dust.

2. Deploy some manpower and speak with Real people on the ground driving, delivering, guarding, cleaning, and other jobs.......why they are doing what they are doing. Is
this to keep fit, hobby, list of things to do before dying or lack of proper jobs?

3. Include in your database, the status of "Underemployed" citizens for this group is not insignificant. This will provide a more realistic reflection on our state of employment.

4. Set up a "Sting" operation to flush out why these vacancies are blocked or even "gamed" and still not filled despite your so-called best efforts.

How?

Use actual CVs of unemployed PMETs to test the usual routes to potential employers and monitor what happens with the applications. Keep in close communication with the applicants.

If nothing happens after 1 month (no calls at all), then pay a friendly visit to the employer and enquire about the status of these unfilled jobs without giving their HR knowledge that the MOM has been monitoring the application.

I am sure that along with the thousands of unemployed PMETs, we will be very interested in learning why these jobs remain unfilled and what gems the MOM may uncover on the proviso that you are willing to reveal them.

We, the people of our beloved red dot, are mostly not smelling roses but the pong of Titan Arum aka "smelliest flower in the world". I urge you along with our esteemed Ministers to cast off your suits and really start looking with fresh eyes instead of burying yourselves in statistics for you are losing touch with your own people - I mean Singaporeans who have served the Army, reservists and wives and mothers that borne them.

Your humble GRAB driver,
Philip Wen

7/25/2021

Singapore, banking paradise taken away by CECA

Below are some comments from C Soon Hock's facebook. More comments can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/100003526877073/posts/as-a-veteran-in-the-banking-industry-with-nearly-40-years-of-experience-myself-h/3925172964276894/

This pathetic state of Singapore's development has to be said, spoken loudly, or they would think everything is fine, cause no one is complaining and they have their ears on the ground, but could not hear a thing. Some may not want these to be heard and may threaten those speaking up as being racist and may even pofma the writers and commenters.

The founding fathers fought for the independence of this island from self ruled. We want this island to be ours, to determine our own future, build our own dreams, for our children. After the hard battles to win this island from the British, it is ludicrous, unthinkable, that we are giving this island to foreigners on a silver platter.  The foreigners need not have to fight for it, need not life a finger, they are invited to take over this island and all that is in the island.

Come one and come all, Singapore is yours for the taking, Singapore belongs to you as long as you are here, even if you are not citizens. We do not want this island anymore.  We want to share our island with everyone. Everything can be taken, the island can be yours. Just come and take it. Daft Singaporeans would not mind. They are busy driving Grabs and trying to feed themselves as delivery boys and security guards.

 

Soh Chee Seng

I met a number of talented Singaporeans working in overseas, most of them may not come back to Singapore as they told me that they might not find a place in Singapore. Really sad. Don’t misinterpret, we welcome the true talented foreigners including In…
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David Lee

I met soon hock with tim , a gic veteran, I can say without reservation , he is totally right on the financial landscape,
Filled with Indian bodies of labour and displacing our local boys .…
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Sam Lai

Sadly 61+% of the population has impaired mental capability, and the Snowflake Free Riders are in the euphoria state with their head buried in between CECA legs.


Chan KaYee Louisa

Well said.

Lee Voon Min

Well said. Pls share with all Singaporean.


Karming Fong

Forward this to PMO ,MOM and Ms la

Dar Wong

Well said.. Bravo! Totally agreed with your pts... Im proud to be your jr colleague in early 90s though you might not hv known my existence... The days in BT Futures

Lance Quek

Well said. Bravo. Completely agree on these points. In our own VC, we make it a point to bring in team members who are Singaporeans. The society needs to function on meritocracy, but the haven we created is now made to be biased against us... Truly unf…
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Norman ScWee

Don't forget local PMETs have been through one of the world's toughest tertiary training. Wondering why they can't beat those CECA potentials.


John Seah

I totally feel & agree with you. Hope our ministers see & feel it too !


See Chong Tan

Thank u for sharing.


Susan Cheah

Well said. I have always felt we are the lead in the financial industry in Asia and many parts of the world. But not sure why we still need the CECA.
Even our undergraduates have the potential to lead our banking industry to the next peak in Asia and internationally.

Jennifer Sin

Absolutely. And this is not just happening, it has been happening for a while. At first the IT sector, then the financial sector and now they are also invading the supply chain segment..companies in Singapore have their purchasing and supply chain departments all dominated by this nationality. Is it not something that Singaporeans can't do? And to make things double troubling for our citizens, some companies have HR departments managed by foreigners and they went on to hire their own ppl in HR who have limited knowledge about MOM policies n then went on to hire non Singaporeans for other positions. All they have to show MOM is a few resumes of Singapore citizens that are not suitable n justify to hire foreigners. It is so simple to justify hiring a non citizen now


Jason Ng Bak Huat

I wonder why CNA do not initiate a live forum btw the highly educated politicians and the highly experienced industry veterans like Soon Hock. The idea is not to put anyone down but to see clearer both sides of the coin. Our children depends on the pol…
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Gary Hatchison

I already said nowadays these govt agencies behave like MONKEYS & IDIOTS, including MTF, ICA, NEA, LTA, NParks, SPF, TP, etc.
These MONKEYS & IDIOTS handle things without using their brains, just follow orders blindly, they themselves don't even know …
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Choon Yean Choong

If they r as good as they r made out to be, why have they not become a financial center, IT Center, Medical Hub n etc? SG like to look at international ranking, where r they?

Animal Farm 2021, Singapore

Pictures are very meaningful and easy to understand.

 

The two pics are stark in similarities. The horses, cows, sheep, chicken etc etc were no where to be seen while they party and fine dined in comfort and luxury with the wealth created by the work horses, ie the workers.

A picture paints a thousand words. Nothing left to be said.