Singapore going green - is it a good idea?

'We hear a lot about ‘Green’ energy, the ‘Green new deal’, reducing our ‘carbon footprint’ and ‘sustainable development’, policies which are being promoted by a wide range of extremely committed environmental and conservation groups such as the Sierra Club, National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Clean Air Council in the US and many international organizations and prominent politicians. ‘Green’ polices have been promoted by US Vice President Kamala Harris, encouraging Americans to purchase [expensive] electric cars and endorsed by the paper of record (NYT) and other corporate media outlets. Any policy that reduces the production of ‘greenhouse’ gasses, such as CO2, is certainly a noble and worthwhile objective, that should be supported. Unfortunately, most of these groups, at least in the US, where I live, are missing the proverbial ‘elephant in the room’. This includes:

1. The entire structure of American society has been built around fossil fuel consumption. This includes the use of automobiles and jet airplanes for transportation. The profits of very powerful corporate interests, including energy corporations, automobile manufactures and their suppliers, banks and insurance companies and law firms to name a few, are highly dependent on fossil fuel consumption and ‘greenhouse’ gas production. They are not about to give this up without a big fight, including going to war.

2. The military is a key pillar of a [declining] American empire, with the Pentagon serving as the ‘enforcer’ of US global power, but is also the largest of consumer of fossil fuels and largest polluter in the world [32]. The Pentagon is supported by all factions of the ruling elite, readily apparent from the near-unanimous bipartisan support for every military appropriation in Congress (appropriation for 2023 is $773 billion). Not surprisingly, most environmental groups, which are dependent on funding from corporate-backed foundations, such as the Ford Foundation, Home Depot Foundation, etc. [50] are not going to ‘bite the hand’ that feeds them. Likewise, US corporate media is controlled by 6 large corporations whose class interests reflect those of the petrochemical companies and other large corporations [51] [52] [53]. Any reporter who steps out of line- i.e., criticizes the functioning of the US empire, including fossil fuel consumption, is immediately reprimanded and/or fired.

The survival of the American Empire is highly dependent on fossil fuel consumption and control of global energy reserves. This dependency has created irresolvable problems and led to a chaotic and at times, contradictory foreign policy.

Fossil fuels still dominate US foreign policy. This can be seen from the enduring presence of military bases throughout the ME and maintaining generous financial support for Israel and the ruling families of Gulf Monarchies [57]. At the same time, these ruling families have watched the US/UK/NATO ferment coups in Iran (1953) [58] [59] and steal resources, invade and/or destroy Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen; impose crippling economic sanctions and/or confiscate the assets of countries deemed a threat to US global power such as Iran, Venezuela and Russia and sabotage energy infrastructure (see below).

Link to article:
http://thesaker.is/the-middle-east-and-us-global-power-fossil-fuel-lifeblood-of-the-american-empire/

Anonymous

Datuk seri Anwar Ibrahim - Why is life so difficult?

 No one in Malaysia has a tougher life than Anwar Ibrahim on the path to premiership. To many ex Malaysia PM, becoming a PM is just a walk in the park, a natural process. Mahathir resigned and came back again like being a PM is nothing. Some were made PM like a gift from God. No need to sweat for it or to fight for it.

Anwar was so close to being PM twice but got played out by Mahathir, even landed up in jail for very vicious crimes that could ruin and break a man. Anwar survived the ordeal and now full of battle scars, and still not yet there. The path to premiership for many is laid with flowers. But for Anwar, it is laid with nails, broken shards, stones, knives or whatever, to make him crawl and bleed for every step he takes. When he gets there, should he get there, he would have nearly bled to death.

Life is really very hard on this DSAI.

Today, with the most votes gained for his coalition PH, at 82 against his closest rival Muhyiddin at 73, he still could not form a govt with another party. BN turned him down. And Muhyiddin appears to be the front runner with GRS and GPS joining him to give him a lead at 102, but still short of the simple majority of 112. Even the King's intervention for a unity coalition with PN was turned down by Muhyiddin.

Now it looks like only Allah can help him to break this spell. Inshyallah, yes, Inshyallah, only a miracle is needed for this truly bright and articulate Malay leader to take the crown of premiership. For the moment, the angst is really painful and draining.

Is is understandable that PN and BN would have bad blood with Anwar to want to work with him. Why would not the parties in Sabah and Sarawak not want to work with Anwar? Between PH, PN and BN, PH and Anwar cannot be that much different, perhaps more desirable in their own ways. Why are GPS and GRS so adamant and not willing to change their position to switch camp?

With their 29 seats and a couple or more seats from UMNO, surely Anwar must have made some friends during his time in UMNO, things could change in Anwar's favour.

Would Anwar make it this time, the really hard way, to be the PM of Malaysia? He has tried so hard, suffered so much, spent his whole life to be the leader of Malaysia. Why would the Malaysians, especially the Malays, not give him a chance in his late years when they could give Mahathir a second chance in his dying years?

An Anwar premiership would really be a huge change in the politics of Malaysia, likely to be for the better. The man had been dragged through not just a pool of mud, but a field of nails. The experience could bring a whole new start with more enlightened policies and direction. Anwar is just like the good son that is being rejected by the rakyat for no good reasons and would be a great loss to Malaysia.

Anwar has not much time left to prove his worth. Mahathir was given too much time to prove his unworth.

Excellent news for Singapore

 The world's population hits 8 billion.  Can you imagine what that means? Singapore now has 8b people to choose from to increase our population with the best of 8b talents. This is creme a la creme. The best of 8b means they must be better than the best of the best of the 3.6m Singaporeans. Singapore can simply replace every Singaporean here, based on meritocracy and talents regardless of citizenship. Wow, Singapore must be salivating and rubbing its hands with glee.

And immediately there are plenty of available talents now retrenched by the tech giants. Twitter itself has a few top executives available. Then there are Meta, Amazon, Shopee,  and what else. There is a mass retrenchment of tech talents going on and all can be heading to Singapore where the door is wide open for such talents. No need to waste money paying head hunting firms to look for such talents. No need 20 years of waiting and expensive education. They are all queuing up over night outside the gate.

When Singapore's 3.6m citizens are replaced by the best talents of the world, what shall we do with the Singaporeans? Where can they go? I think a better idea is to sell Singapore to the top bidder and the money can then be divided among all Singaporeans. With only 3.6m, I think every Singaporean could expect a reasonable sum to retire forever. Some may want to retire in Batam, Bintan and JB. Some can retire in any where they choose with the payout. Just make sure they don't include the PRs and locals or residents to share with the citizens. And got to make this quick before the population explode to 10m, then there will be more heads to share from the pool.

What do you think? No need to become taxi drivers or food deliverers. All becoming crazily rich ex Singaporeans.

US moves to counter Beijing’s territorial claims

 

Kamala Harris is shown speaking at a Democratic Party event earlier this month in Washington. © Getty Images / Samuel Corum

US Vice President Kamala Harris has traveled to the Philippines for a visit designed to demonstrate Washington’s support for Manila and other Southeast Asian allies in their territorial disputes with China.

Harris arrived on Sunday evening to a red-carpet welcome in Manila after attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum in Thailand. She’s scheduled to meet with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday for talks on strengthening security and economic ties, then fly on Tuesday to the Palawan island chain, which lies adjacent to disputed waters of the South China Sea.

The above is copied from TRE. Yes, Kamala Harris is going to the Philippines to counter Beijing's claims of the islands in the South China Sea.

Harris is going to tell Marcos that the US once claimed all the main islands of the Philippines. This is something that China cannot compete and pale in comparison. The US once owned the Philippines, colonised the whole nation, all belonged to the Americans.  Can China counter that?

Not only the US once claimed the whole of the Philippines, Japan also claimed the whole of the Philippines in WW2. And another thing that China cannot compete with the Americans and the Japanese, both the Americans and Japanese also committed war crimes and genocides against the Philippines during their occupations.

Step aside China, you are no match for the Americans and the Japanese. The Americans and the Philippines are making a come back to claim the Philippines with their lies, pretending to be protecting the Philippines but sneaking in their military to be permanent occupants of the Philippine islands and waters.

When would the Americans be back in Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base and to set up the bar industries again?

Ukraine - Lunatic Nazi Zelensky calling the shot

 

More attempted false flags from Zelenskyy will come. Just wait.

Zelenskyy is desperate, knowing that support from USA and Nato is faltering. He must create a false flag somehow to drag them into the conflict, so that their support and the war can continue. There seems to be an unending call for more and more aid and weapons from him.

What the USA and Nato had been doing by supplying weapons and aid to Zelenskyy is going down a big black hole, with no one keeping a tab on where those weapons and aid go to. There are claims that much of the aid had been laundered back to Democratic senators, and weapons sent to Ukraine unaccounted for, and claimed to have been destroyed by Russia, but probably sold to terror groups, mainly the Neo-Nazi elements. After this war is settled, Europe will have to rein in these Neo-Nazi terrorist, that now have all the weapons in their arsenal. Europe is toast, economically and is going to be torn apart. Was this the design of the USA?

The next false flag could be the Zaporizhshia Nuclear Power plant that Ukraine will strike with Russian made missiles and blame it on Russia. Right now consider how many false claims have already been made against Russian troops - that they were using rape as a weapon, that Russia is providing Viagra to it's troops to rape Ukrainian women, attempt to create a false flag over the Bucha Massacre committed by the Neo-Nazis, now bringing up all the horror stories of what the Russian did in Kherson before they withdrew.

Hopefully the USA and Nato are indeed wising up to the dirty tricks of Zelenskyy, otherwise millions will die if a nuclear war erupts.

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