1/06/2022

Rising inflation no problem to Singaporeans?

Commentary: Should we be worried about a higher cost of living in 2022?

There are a few reasons Singapore’s overall inflation is at its highest in over eight years, but it is not all gloom if there is scope for more help to cope with rising costs, says NUS Business School professor Sumit Agarwal....

Trade and Industry Minister Gan Kim Yong said in a written reply in Parliament that food prices are expected to rise. The Public Transport Council announced an increase in bus and train fare

Singapore’s overall inflation in November 2021 was at 3.8 per cent, which meant the same things bought in November 2020 were priced, on average, at 3.8 per cent higher a year later....

Is it all gloom? The public must understand that these figures refer to overall inflation and not core inflation.

Core inflation pertains more to prices of basic necessities, such as food, clothing, utilities and public transport, while overall inflation covers that and non-necessities, such as private transport and electronics.

If we look at only the core inflation rate, it was 1.6 per cent in November 2021, 1.5 per cent in October 2021 and 1.2 per cent in September 2021. While core inflation is at its highest in nearly three years, it is still manageable.   CNA



I must say that it is a miracle or amazing that with public transport fare hike, petrol price, medical, medical insurance, electricity and utilities fare hikes, food prices going up, GST going up, the core inflation is still below 2%. Maybe all these items are not basic necessities. I dunno, I only presume so.

And I can talk about it so calmly as if it is nothing is because my pay is in the millions. Of course I am dreaming, and pretending to be having million dollar pay. 

What about you guys, not feeling the pinch, especially the jobless and the retired, those that are earning less than a peanut. oops, a peanut is $600k, I mean those that are earning less than $3,000? Everything is fine?

Or as the above professor, likely a foreigner or new citizen, said, there are help with the rising cost of living. One or two one time relief, no need to pay utilities bill for one month, or $100 voucher here and there, all problems solved.  Many people are jobless by the time they are 60 and have to live way past 80, and have to pay and pay.

What is 1.6% core inflation? Sup sup suay. Singaporeans are all so rich. Life goes on. Nothing to worry about. If got problem, tighten belt a bit, then wait for help.

On the other hand, 'Secretary-General, Pritam Singh, said that the cost of living is likely to be a "major pressure point" for many Singaporean households in 2022.

According to Singh, those particularly affected would be from the low to middle-income households, especially those with both young children and aged parents to care for.' Mothership.sg

Really, Singapore got poor people meh?

Top 20 Predictions in 2022

 



2022 Prediction (1) - Possible (Humongous) Miscalculation in Foreign Policies

In international politics, arguably there is no global jurisprudence like in nation states where there is existence of some form of national governance to maintain and enforce law and order to a large extent within certain geographical boundaries (up to the point where it breaks down; anarchy &/ or chaos ensue till another legitimate regime with the embracing support of the mass populace emerges, reunites the various segments of the society and imposes a new law and order, bringing about peace and resumption of development).

On the global front, history is littered with many instances where might is right in international politics and the law of jungle precedes at some point where brutish power finds laws in no other form than in its own might and on its own basis to enact domination over or violence on others not unlike the lions being the predators in the jungle and feeding on its preys whenever the needs arise with no necessity for any justification whatsoever.

At best, world order since the early 20th century consists of some “loose or weak form” of international institutions such as the League of Nations formed after World War One which was replaced by the United Nations after World War Two. The many cases of international armed conflicts since the 1930s despite the existence of “supranational institutions” and with losses far outweighing the benefits (if any) certainly do not obfuscate the realities of international politics which in many ways are corollaries of political actions taken and foreign policies conducted.

In the words of Abraham Lincoln:

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”

Rational foreign policies may be seen in the light of a photograph and a painting. The photograph shows everything the naked eyes can see; the painting cannot but attempts to show what is not visible to the naked eyes: elements that encompasses biases, intellectual weaknesses, personal preferences … deviations that could misdirect foreign policies from rationality.

Leo 81

COVID-19 Vaccination Regime Is Beginning To Look Like A Big Con Job



I have an uncanny suspicion that this global mRNA Vaccination Regime that has been going on for the last one year is a very well organised and orchestrated biggest con-job ever planned and executed in the world, where even government leaders of many countries have been conned into "willingly" collaborating in tandem with the big con men, in order to hookwink their own people.

This whole vaccination regime is beginning to look like a big fraudulent scheme that is determined to make the entire world population become vaccine-addicts, just like drug addicts having to be fixed every four to six months.

The questions that require urgent answers are:

1. How many boosters are required?

2. How long will each booster last?

3. How much money have we got to spend and how much money will the big pharmas make?

4. When will this madness end? Will it ever end?

5. How many doses can the body tolerate? What is the maximum number of booster shots a normal person can take?

6. Will the continuous vaccination cause vaccine-poisoning, that will lead to sudden death?

7. Will the continuous boosting cause the body to lose its natural immune system?

8. Will the continuous injections of the mRNA substance cause other problems that are detrimental to the overall health and longitivity of the vaccine-addicts?

9. Will the continuous boosting lead to sexual disfunction and/or sexual depravity?

10. Will the over-dependence on the vaccines lead to mental problems?

If all the above questions are not answered by the authorities sincerely and factually, substantiated with really trustworthy data and without cooked-up data, then are we not putting the cart before the horse in allowing ourselves to be jabbed and jabbed, again and again and again and again...?

Is there no more wise man left in this World?

Maybe I am totally wrong. There are wise men but these wise men prefer to use their wisdom to make tons of money, instead of using their wisdom to help save the world?


Queen of Hearts.

Political Animal vs Genuine Leader




Despite the highest daily infection record being suffered by the British people, the lazy, switched-off and ruthless PM of UK, the unkempt Boring John's son, plans to become a free-rider in the latest wave of Covid-19 pandemic in the UK.

Boring John's son says he hopes England can "ride out" the current wave of Covid-19 without further restrictions.

In the same breath, he acknowledged parts of the National Healthcare System would be "temporarily overwhelmed" amid a surge of Omicron cases.

Gambling with the lives of the British people, the UK PM said there was a "good chance" he would not impose fresh measures and would recommend continuing the government's "Plan B" strategy in England to the ministers on Wednesday.

He thinks that by announcing plans for 100,000 critical workers to take daily tests can solve the present problems of the dual attacks by both the Delta and Omicron Covid-19 variants.

When a country has such a political animal instead of a genuine leader, the people suffer untold miseries in silence.

The only way to get rid of such a harmful pest of society is to collectively pray continuously on a daily basis for its removal by Divine Intervention.


Anonymous

1/05/2022

The Evil Western Powers headed by Rogue United States Show no remorse or repentance for their brutal imperialism and colonisation .



The world is in great danger of complete destruction because of the intense and fierce hegemonic agenda of the United States. The Anglo-Saxons headed by the US and UK think they can continue to control and dominate the world in hegemony as they used to do so in the last few hundred years. It is true no other countries big or small are strong enough to stand to America's strong arm tactics bully. But times have changed and with Russia and China growing rich and strong, they will never allow America to continue bullying other countries in rigid hegemony.


The Anglo-Saxons the UK and US as well as pracically every Western European Teutonic country like Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Italy had terrorised and colonized every other non-western countries all over the world in Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand for the last 500 years. After the Second World War in 1945 most non-western countries had managed to get rid of these Western imperialist powers. But these Western imperialist powers especially US, UK, Spain, France, Portugal, Holland, Belgium and Germany cannot reconcile to the lost of their colonial territories and so they allied together to form a common front to assume colonial and imperial control over others by other means through strong economic, financial and cultural control reinforced by strong armed tactic of their military power.


The most evil among these white imperial powers is the US. It is leading the pack of anti-China Western countries to hate China and to contain China's peaceful rise and development. It will shamelessly go to any length to engineer and create fake and false accusations against China without any limit just to demonize China and put China in the bad light.


The US through its propagnda department and via CIA, NED and its embassies around the world has persistently and continuously falsely accused China of being aggressive, expansionist, authoritarian, undemocratic, lack of human right, using of force labour and genocide of China's minority ethnic races. Let's examine the facts and find out the truth as to whether it is China or the US and the Western imperialist powers who are the villains that practised the aforementioned Western accusations.


Regarding criminal colonisation and wanton exploitation of other countries let's examine in tabulated form to have a quick overview as to who are guilty of these hideous crimes against other countries. The white race which make up only about ten to twelve percent of the world's polulation but through the ages of never ending brutal aggression and expansion they managed to occupy over 70 percent of the world's land whereas the non-white people which make up about 90 percent of the worlds population occupy only about 30 percent of the world's land. Such great disparity is not natural and cannot be tolerated and it must be rectified either through negotiations or through the natural course of history.

Name of countries                        Colonies                                   

China ---NIL--- None at all In her over 5,000 years of civilization China had never colonized any other country and up to today owns no colony. On the contrary China was herself invaded by UK, France, Russia,Japan,Portugal
Germany and US and reduced to a semi-colonial status from 1830s to 1948.
China had in fact lost about 3.5 million square
miles of her land to Western powers and
Japan.




England   

North America - Canada, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, British Columbia,
Vancouver Island, Labrador, Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island.
Africa - South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Egypt, Gambia, Zimbabwe,
Tanganyika, Rhodesia, Swaziland, Lesoto, Botswana, Somalia, Benin,
Nigeria,GoldCoast - Ghana, Sierra Leone, Senegal.

Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand
Latin America - Jamaica, Barbados, St. Kitts Islands, Falkland Islands,
British Guiana or Guyana, Bahama Islands, Bermudas
Asia : India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar ( formerly Burma ), Nepal,
Lakdah, Seychelles, Diego Garcia, Hong Kong, Malaya, Sarawak, Sabah, Singapore, Christmas Island, Coco Island, Penang and Malacca.


Spain 

North & South America: Florida, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama,
Honduras, El Savador, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecaudor, , Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Cuba, Paraguay and Uruguay, Chile
Asia: Philippines, Guam, Diego Garcia
Africa: Canary Islands, Spanish Morocco, Spanish West Africa, Spanish
Sahara, Spanish Guinea, Ceuta, Melilla,


Portugual: 

 South America: Brazil,
Africa: Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Muscat, Sao Tome, Tangier,
Guinea Bissau.
Asia: Malacca, Macau, Muscat, Oman, Ambon Island, Timor Leste. France: America: Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, Sainte Lucia, Dominica, Antartique, Grenada, Montserrat, Tobago


Africa: Mauritania, Niger, Dahomey, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, French
Congo, French Guiana, French Guinea, Madagascar, French Sudan, Gabon, Ivory Coast, French Sudan, French Seychelles, Mahe, French Somaliland, Comoros, French Togoland.


Asia: India - Chandernagore, Pondicherry, Annam, Cambodia, Loas, Vietnam, Cochin China, New Hebrides, French Caledonia.


Germany: 

Africa: Namibia, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Cameroon, Gabon, Chad, Asia: Papua New Guinea, West Pacific Island Samao, Micronesian Island Bismarck Archipelago, Solomom Island, Bougainllea Island, Nauru Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands, Palau.


Belgium: 

Africa: Belgian Congo,


Italy: 

Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Libya, Asia: Italian concessions in Tianjin, China


Holland: 

Asia: Indonesia, Dutch Ceylon, Suriname in South America.


Denmark: 

Greenland, Danish West Indies - Virgin Islands


USA -

 United States Alaska, Florida, Texas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, California, Arizona, Virgin Islands, Hawaii, Guantanam, Pacific Ocean Islands of Samoa, Marianas, Midway Island, Marshall Island, Wake Island, Palau, Guam, Philippines, Diego Garcia in Indian Ocean.


Japan 

 Aleutian Islands, Chinese Liu Chiu Dao Archipelago which the Japs renamed as Okinawa, Taiwan and some other small Pacific Ocean islands.


India 

Assam, Sikkim, Kashmir, Lakdah, Nagaland, Manipur, West Bengal,
Murokam, Andaman Archipelago, Tawang District of Chinese Southern
Tibet, Karakash Valley/all Aksai Chin recognized as Chinese territoryby UK in the Peking Treaty on 14th March, 1899. In 1947 when India became independent it invaded all of Karakash Valley and Aksai Chin when China was preoccupied at the height of its civil war and could not take any counter action against India's encroachment of Chinese lands. India has renamed the Tawang District as Arunachal Pradesh.


This article here will not deliberate on how the Western Caucasian countries had during the last 500 years went on a marauding and ravaging invasions through the power of their guns and cannons to brutally and mercilessly grab lands from other non-white people and countries.

The white people, the Teutonics and the Five-Eyes Anglo-Saxons headed by the rogue United States have never feel any remorse or repentance for not only their invasions but also for their brutal killings and genocide of the natives of the lands they dispossessed and the wanton destruction of their properties and belongings.

Now the Anglo-Saxons headed by the United States and the other Western powers have consistently and persistently falsely  accuse China of being aggressive and expansionist. They think by creating and fabricating fake and falsehoods against China of the evil deeds they themselves had committed they can get away with their guilt of brutal colonisation, killings and genocide of natives.

The West especially the Americans have been interfering in China's internal affairs since the 1920s to the present. The Americans have continuously interfered in the as yet unfinished Chinese civil war since the 1930s to the present. China has always been trying to reunite with its breakaway province of Taiwan but it has always been thwarted by US military intervention which is propping up the Chinese traitors in Taiwan who under US instigation want to secede from motherland China. But the underlying motive of the evil Americans is to make use of Taiwan as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in its geopolitical contest against China. The US insidiously try to confuse the world with China's hope of reuniting with Taiwan by mischievously twisting it as China's aggression and expansionism. The United States  had itself fought a fierce and violent civil war of over four years 1860 to 1865 to prevent  the Southern Confederate states from breaking away from the union. The United States itself is an illegitimate state built on stolen lands from native American Indians when it violently and brutally invaded, killed and genocided almost all the native Americans to claim the native lands as belonging to the Anglo-Saxons. The day must come when these lands must be legally restored back to the native American Indians for justice to prevail.

In the South China Sea the United States has no good intention as it keeps on creating tensions by frequently sailing its warships and flying its fighter jets and bombers very close to China's coastal areas under the pretext that it is exercising its freedom of navigation. US diabolical objective is to stir up turmoil and wars similar to the Middle East syndrome among the countries in the South China Sea to serve its geopolitical objective of world hegemony. 

This article serves to refute once and for all the wild and shameless false and fake allegations by the Western powers headed by the US that China is aggressive and expansionist. US and its Western allies should immediately stop paddling its hubris about China being aggressive and expansionist. They should instead reflect on their evil wrong doings of colonialism and imperialism and change their behaviour and repent and start doing all the right things henceforth.

Southernglory1
Wednesday,5th January, 2022.

    















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