Xinjiang's children, bright and happy

 

 

 

12 minutes of street interviews with Uyghur children. The innocence and carefree responses of these children were the same as happy children of any safe and prosperous society. They were confident and forth right replying in perfect Chinese. You cannot detect any lies, fakeness or unhappiness in the faces of these children. Well dressed, well fed and well educated. All with their own dreams of what they wanted to be in the future. These are happy children living the carefree life of children and with happy dreams and a secure future. Their happiness is infectious.

The best evidence against American lies of genocides and oppression of Muslim minorities.

Comes with English subtitles.

Singapore risks mediocrity at the top?

Commentary: Singapore risks mediocrity at the top if too few high-calibre people join politics

Founding leader Lee Kuan Yew and his team were so successful, they made redundant the narrative of a vulnerable Singapore that needed the best to serve, says former veteran newspaper editor Han Fook Kwang.  CNA

My instant reaction is nay. The best talents Singapore has are all in the PAP and now inside the Parliament, running Singapore as Ministers, Dep Ministers, Ministers of State...Mayors etc etc. Everyone of them would command at least a million in the private sector. And PAP has them all to run the country. It is a misnomer to say that too few high calibre people join politics. It is too many high calibre people have joined politics to the point that there is a dearth of talents in the private and commercial sector...to the extent that foreign talents are brought in by the plane loads to fill up top positions and still not enough. The govt is still crying for more. And poor Piyush Gupta has to double up as Chairman of a park on top of his CEO job in DBS, because they could not find anyone else to do it.

And there are so many of these top dogs that have to carry many top positions to shoulder the big burden of the country, because all the top talents are now in politics. 

And if what Han Fook Kwang said is true, and more from the private and commercial sectors are to be roped into politics, how many more ministers and mayors would be needed to make sure they get the same pay or more in politics? And how many more foreigners would need to be brought in to replace them in the private and commercial sectors?

By the way, how many positions in politics need top talents? How much talents needed to be a minister of state or a mayor? Or is there too much mediocrity at the top now? I say nay again. Those in politics are the top talents, the best in Singapore, and deserving the millions they are paid.  Never question how good they are. They are worth their weight in gold. Only those that are paid less than $500k are mediocre.

Can anyone imagine paying millions for mediocres? Cannot be, cannot be. 

What do you think?

Americans continue to fool themselves, rightly treating the hillbillies as fools

 What if one of them is tested positive? Or both tested positive? I guess they will still go ahead with the debate. They will make sure the results are not revealed or just a sanitized version. The show must go on as they say.

The poll figures of the two seem like a weather forecast. Good support for Trump today, turns bad for him tomorrow and vice versa. It is the same as the USA Treasury and the Federal Reserve playing the same game, until November is over, I would think. Then the whole house of cards will be left to collapse. The talk of interest rate cuts being on schedule and coming soon today, will be ditched tomorrow. Here again, the show must go on.

Reading the news on Channel News America we are told that job creation in the USA in May was astronomical. But in the same sentence, unemployment rate change little, and even inching up from 3.9% in April, to 4% in May. How is that possible? More jobs created means lower unemployment, according to my simple mind, right? I am confused. But once again, the show must go on.

This quote by Abraham Lincoln - You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Anonymous

Philippines is fast becoming the 'Sick Man of ASEAN'

 The Philippines is fast becoming the 'Sick Man of ASEAN' without less and less foreign investments, particularly from Chinese investors. With a population of about 120 million and growing, jobs are needed. Of course, it can go back to rely on outsourcing its manpower and womanpower to other countries, working as sailors, maids and nurses. But will it help to develop its domestic industries for the long term?

China is investing more in Cambodia and Laos, two staunch long-time supporters of China that are now opening up. China called them 'All Weather Partners', not 'Iron-Clad Partners' with iron chains attached, that are subject to be eroded by rust.

Vietnam and Thailand already reaped much of the benefits of Chinese investments for decades. All are part of the BRI including the Philippines. But China must avoid the Philippines at all costs. It is a clear vassal state of the USA, openly hostile towards China and a provocative tool being used by the USA towards China.

High speed rail projects are already on track among many ASEAN countries, with some already operational. The Philippines had been talking about HSR decades ago and implementation is still on hold. China was reported to be the 'best option' for HSR projects by the Philippines. There was a joint development with Chinese funding but derailed because of the South China Sea dispute. As it stands, HSR is not coming to the Philippines any time soon. With Duterte still in power, that could have been a totally different situation altogether.

On land, a good rail transportation system is the best bet for a country with wide ranging land mass to move forward and progress. It is the first thing that investors will look for. Movement of raw materials and finished goods depends on speed and timely schedules and is the pre-requisite for attracting investments.

As the rest of ASEAN moves forward with good transportation systems in place, they get first bite of the cherry as far as attracting investment is concerned. That will leave the Philippines languishing behind the others and becoming the 'Sick man of ASEAN'. Giving more military bases to the USA is not going to help. And the USA is not going to help either. 

Anonymous

D-Day hubris is just another Hollywood production to glorify the Americans

 The D-Day hubris is also distorted history. It practically left out the biggest part played by the USSR in the defeat of Nazi Germany and Hitler. That part of history was and is never mentioned.

The USSR lost 27 million people, a quarter of its population then, during that conflict against Nazi Germany, and not worth a word of mention in the D-Day ceremony in the past? And the USA and its allies have the cheek to gloat that they lost very much fewer soldiers defeating Nazi Germany. Of course, after the USSR did the heavy lifting and decimating Hitler's army, all they did was basically mopping up operations of an already defeated enemy.

The USA and its allies really know very well about taking credit fast where credit is not due. They wrote the history books, and the credit will remain theirs for claiming generations into the future. If it is in the history books, it must be true after all.

Nury Vittachi advised people not to take what the West says on anything, but to believe in the opposite of what they say. That is why avoiding the MSM is the safest way to get at the truth. In the war over cyberspace, some believe that the West is in reality losing the information war. Which is why they are resorting to silence those whose view do not align with whatever propaganda they manufactured.

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