Singaporeans are the envy of the world

 The latest Certificate of Entitlement(COE) bidding exercise saw the COE for a small, ie 1,600cc car and below hitting a record of $103,400. This means that to buy a small car, the buyer must pay $103,400 for this piece of certificate before he is eligible to buy a car that is priced with at least 150% tax levied on it.  A small car will thus cost about Singapore $153,400! For bigger cars, the COE is $123,000!

And the COE is valid only for 10 years. After which the owner of the car must pay for another COE if he wants to keep the car or buy a new one. And the Singaporeans are not making a whimper about this. Either they are resigned to this fate that they are not going to be able to buy and own a car, or they are so rich, so what is another $100,000 to buy a piece of paper.

Then there was the 1% GST increase this year from 7% to 8% and this will be 9% in the beginning of 2024.

Would all these increases make Singaporeans unhappy and protest in the streets? Not at all. Food prices of everything, including the basic necessities and food at hawker centres, price of a cup of kopi or tea also up by at least 10 %, are all well absorbed or accepted as the price to pay for living in this great city called Singapore. 

For the poor expats, some are crying as property prices also shot through the roof making rentals to go up as well. As for Singaporeans living in public housing, it means that the value of their HDB flats also goes up, some hitting $1m an unit, competing with Hong Kong to be number one. How can Singaporeans complain when they are now owners of a million dollar public housing flat? They are happy of course. The only unspoken secret, the value of their 99 year leasehold public housing will come to zero when the lease expires. But that is a problem in the distance. Who cares.

Singaporeans are going about their lives feeling rich and good. Thanks to their good government and good blessing. Every Singaporean must be hoping that their HDB flats would go up higher in prices. How about $2m a piece? As for those owners of private properties, they wear their big smiles in their sleep. The govt is making all Singaporeans becoming millionaires and multi millionaires without having to work for it. Let the properties do the working.

Now you know why ministers are paid in the millions, more than the President of the USA. They deserve every cent of it. And for their great efforts, how about a pay increases for the ministers and MPs?

Arrogance of the Americans brought about its own downfall

The USA and the West took their eyes off BRICS for a time, confidently brushing aside the importance of the rising clout of BRICS as overblown, and thought that nothing could overturn the US$ hegemony. Not with still such a wide usage of the US$ among global countries, which they confidently predicted and assumed, is another of their 'exceptionalism monument' that can never be taken down. Now the reality is dawning, but maybe too little too late to start countering. The whole global South is turning to BRICS.
That was also the situation they had before China's rise, bordering on arrogance and over confidence. China's rise was never taken with much fanfare and probably looked upon with disdain, and also brushed aside as overblown. No, China was never expected to rise to such a level as to compete with the USA, as China was then so backward, poor and underdeveloped. How could China ever compete with the USA, a first world country so developed, so advanced technologically, with democracy triumphantly flooring communism, and still the only superpower that controls the world? Didn't Gordon Chang kept hammering on the collapse of China for over a decade, lending credence to the belief that it will come true just by repeating? If 2022 it did not happen, maybe next year it will come true.

That is still the mentality of most USA citizens today with regard to China, who were fed with all the propaganda by their Government and MSM for decades. It was only with the advent of the internet and proliferation of Social Media, that US citizens and those around the world slowly became aware of the lies they were being fed.

Those who had the opportunity to go to China to do business, people like Cyrus Janssen, were able to see the rapid changes going on in China, and together with other like-minded business people from the USA, desiring to continue doing business in China and wanting to tell their own citizens the naked truth, embarked on a mission to counter the perception being ingrained in the minds of ordinary USA citizens and elsewhere. Together with Youtubers like Gweilo60, Jason (Living in China), Barrett and many others, it is slowly working and changing the way people look at China, as evidenced by the expansion of BRICS.

Now BRICS is showing its effectiveness in attempting to bring about de-dollarisation, in the mode of the impending rise of China as a competing global superpower. With important global players like Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Mexico, with their rich resources also joining BRICS, trying to play with the same overblown self comforting thought is not going to work anymore for the USA and the West.

Anonymous

Revenge of the Indians

 

Britain invaded and ruled India for 400 years, massacred Indians and looted the country of its wealth and resources.  Today the Indians have arrived in Britain and are taking over the country in a reversed takeover. The Indians are now sitting at the pinnacle of power in the British states of England, Scotland and Ireland. The Indians are the rulers of the Brits. Can you imagine that? The colonised are now the rulers and the rulers are being ruled by the colonised!

It is very likely that the British Indian leaders would be instrumental in the breakup and dismantling of Britain into separate states. What a perfect karmic retribution. Winston Churchill will be turning in his grave and eating his own words. How could these thrash be ruling the Brits?

Well done Indians. Just do it. Incorporated the few islands into the Indian Empire. 2 min clip.

Who are the allies of the USA?

Who are the allies of the USA? Basically the Europeans and the Japs of course, are the only true allies left. Coloured people are deserting them in droves. All of these Anglo Saxon countries, every one of them, are involved in colonising every nook and corner of the world and stealing global resources, commiting genocides, creating conflicts for others to fight against each other, using debt traps to keep others poor and backward, using force to make them obedient and under control. And all the Anglo Saxon allies have been tagging along and benefiting by hanging on to the coat-tails of the USA and its evil hegemonic agenda. They would have wanted the US hegemony to last forever.
The fall of the USA hegemony also means the end of the good old days of those allies as well. It means the end of their colonial style bullying, their fake show of unity, fake narratives about upholding their bullshit democracy and preventing any other power from any other coloured race from rising.

That is why they are now hysterical, paranoid and basically unable to deal with the global rush to de-dollarise and the ensuing geopolitical changes. Putting down Russia and then China seperately would have allowed them to carry on with the status quo. But with Russia and China closing ranks, and with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Mexico joining BRICS, it became a whole new ball game for the Whites.

The USA and its allies were initially so confident of taking down Russia in Europe. Now it seems their whole game plan backfired badly. Unable to take down Russia and now pivoting towards China is a very desperate move for the USA and its Anglo Saxon allies. But for them it is a make or die situation.

Anonymous

US Equipment Might Be Stored in Singapore In Future War With China - US Official

 

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration official with direct responsibility for the U.S. Army laid out in surprising detail this week a multi-pronged strategy for deterring, and if necessary, prevailing in any future war with China.

Elements of the plan include placing more troops in Asia and arming them with upgraded equipment, including ship-to-shore vessels and hypersonic weapons, much of which will be pre-positioned in the region.

“Our goal is to avoid fighting a land war in Asia,” U.S. Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on Monday. “I think the best way to avoid fighting that war is by showing China and countries in that region we can actually win that war.”

Wormuth laid out three key components of what she called “campaigning” by the U.S. Army to deter such a war, beginning with coalition building with foreign allies and partners to “complicate” the Chinese leadership’s decision-making.

Secondly, she said, the Army is looking at building “theater distribution centers” in the region to stockpile supplies and fuel, “starting, potentially, with Australia.” Wormuth also named Japan as a potential site, and she suggested that non-lethal equipment might be stored in the Philippines and Singapore.

Anonymous