Senseless blind import of endless new immigrants into this red dot fox hole

 There is no proactive thinking on the potential bad impact of this senseless blind import of endless new immigrants into this red dot fox hole. Will there be enough jobs to cater for this abnormal increase in population without any increase in economic development. As it is so many factories and industries are closing now resulting in hundreds if not thousands of joblessness. Will the day of dog eat dog situation arrive in Singapore in the not too distant future. 

Will the population in Singapore face a future like what is happening in the United States now where millions are relying on food stamps to queue up for food of donated meals and where over 60 million Americans mainly blacks are homeless living in makeshift tents by the roadsides or in five-foot ways outside shopping malls eating, sleeping, shitting and urinating at the same place. 

If Singapore wants to be in that sort of position then go ahead . Carry on doing things without proactive thinking and deliberation and let the future Singaporeans suffer . However, the people responsible for all the wrong policies and doing all the wrong things will no longer be around. Surely I and most of us would not like to see our grandchildren or future generations living in such tragic squalor situations.

Southernglory1

Israel's weapon effective, Hezbollah's not effective? What is the truth?

 With Israel sucking up all the weapons being produced by the USA and NATO, Zelensky can cry as loud as he likes to no avail. He may be a Jew, but he lacks the Jewish lobby in Congress to garner the kind of support that Israel has. Zelensky has half his body under the bus now, with the other half just hanging by a thread.

Israel needs all the weapons with the war escalating into Lebanon against Hezbollah. This is another front that will sap the weapons supply of Israel. Every day, we read of this leader and that commander of Hezbollah being targeted and killed, but Hezbollah seems neither short of new leaders nor commanders taking up positions. And the funny thing is that Hezbollah's rockets and missiles are not killing Israelis, just sounded like firecrackers making noises. Unbelievable!

The Israeli military leader is saying that such targeting of Hezbollah leaders is inflicting damage that has weakened the Hezbollah core tremendously. Well, what about their targeting of Hamas leaders over the last eleven months? Many were also taken out, but is Hamas defeated yet? Weakened perhaps, but defeated, no way. This is not the six-day war that Israel always gloated about.

Israel may assume that Hamas has been defeated and they can move into Gaza, but will they have peace? They will never have peace forever and ever. The USA thought they had defeated the Taliban after killing Osama bin laden and some of his leaders. They thought it was another mission accomplished, but it was to come back to haunt them after two decades. The Taliban were to commemorate more than a mission accomplished moment, seizing all the weapons left behind by the fleeing USA and now building up a real army with those reversed engineered weapons. And to add insult to injury, parading them those weapons in style to make the USA really miserable. But they are unable to do anything other than sulk over their US$2 trillion misadventure. 

Anonymous

Is God behind the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza? What is the position of the Pope, of the Church?

 There is silence in the western world, in the western media, in the western capitals, about the daily massacre of Palestinians in Gaza. Why? All the God fearing people in the West are keeping silent, not a word of condemnation, and many are funding the murderers of the Palestinians, openly or discreetly, to let the ethnic cleansing to go on.

God is also silent. Does it mean silence is consent? Is God behind the murderers of the Palestinians? If so, God must be white, cause the Palestinians are not white. The truth that many God fearing people people refuse to face, is that God is not white, black, blue or red. God, if he is the God of all people, cannot be of a particular colour, especially not white.

Jesus is not white. Jesus was from the same people in the Middle East, likely the same colour as the Palestinians, the Arabs and the Jews in the region, not the same colour as the white Jews from Europe, that are behind the genocide of the Palestinians.

Jesus cannot be approving this genocide of the Palestinians. God cannot be approving this either. Can God be so blind to choose a people, he called Chosen Race, to commit genocide against another people? Is God not all knowing, did not know that his 'Chosen Race' is so cruel, ruthless, barbaric, murderers of the innocent? It cannot be. Believing that God did not know, not all knowing, and would chose a cruel and evil people to be his Chosen Race, is blasphemy. It is an unforgivable insult to the all knowing, kind and merciful God. Unless one believes God is not all knowing, not kind and not merciful. One either believe or does not believe, cannot be neutral, not choosing any side. You are with God or against God.

For those who know that this is wrong, that God's Chosen Race cannot be a wicked and cruel race of people, then it is time to rethink the narrative of the Chosen Race. God cannot condone genocide just to protect the Chosen Race. Saying God has his own reason is as good as saying God is evil. Would anyone disagree with this and say yes, God would commit genocide or support the Chosen Race to commit genocide?

Who then is the Chosen Race or who is NOT the Chosen Race? The facts and truths are there before your eyes, in Gaza. Children, women dying, aid workers dying, doctors dying, UN workers dying, journalists and reporters dying, in the hands of the Israelis, the Americans and the Brits.  Can God be behind these murderers to massacre the Palestinians? Look into the mirror and ask yourself, by remaining silent does not save you from believing in evil and lies, that massacring the Palestinians is alright, perhaps God is also supporting it. You are also supporting this genocide by not speaking up, by believing in wicked lies and killings of women and children, by saying that God is behind it.

You are just as guilty and as evil as the Israelis, the Americans and the Brits in this genocide. God or Jesus would have nothing to do with it, would have condemned it. You disagree? God would not allow his Chosen Race to commit genocide. The Chosen Race as claimed by the Jews cannot be true. 

If the Jews are not the Chosen Race, then you are free to condemn the devils, the murderers, the liars, the criminals. The truth shall set you free. Do not be held captive by a lie, by a fiction that the Jews are the Chosen Race and can commit all evil crimes against humanity. They are not the Chosen Race and should be condemned for their crimes against humanity. Have no fear to condemn the devils and the evil ones, unless you are also on the dark side.

Cocky Israel said would not stop until Hezbollahs are defeated...pathetic Arab and Muslim world still hapless to do anything about it

 The cocky Israelis also said the same about killing all the Hamas in Gaza or else the genocide would not stop. What gives the Israelis the confidence and arrogance to say such things, that victory is assured, that they would surely win, the enemies would definitely be defeated?

Two simple truism. One, Israel is only the tip of an iceberg. Israelis are the point men, fighting the war on the surface. Beneath the iceberg are the Americans, Brit and Nato forces, all ganged up against the Hamas and the Hezbollahs and all the Arab and Muslim states. There is no chance for the Hamas and Hezbollahs to win in such a one sided conflict against the hordes of white savages behind the Israelis.

Two, the Hamas and Hezbollahs can at best depend on Iran to smuggle some weapons to them. The rest of the Arab and Muslim world would not dare to support them like Iran did. At best they may also smuggle a bit of small arms to them. Most of the Arab and Muslim states in the Middle East are coerced by the Americans not to support the Hamas and the Hezbollahs for obvious reasons. The American soldiers are inside their countries and can bring down the regime any time. These Arab and Muslim states are not free independent states but worse than cronies of the evil American Empire. They are militarily oppressed and suppressed and cannot act freely on their own...like the colonial states of the past. Their independence are superficial, at the mercy of the Americans.

Another point, if the Arab and Muslim states are afraid or unable to help and fight on the side of the Hamas and Hezbollahs, how could they expect China, Russia or even Iran to stand up to fight for them?

The only truly independent Arab/Muslim state is Yemen, the Houthis. They fought bravely and with free will, to support their Palestinian brothers and sisters. While the Arab and Muslim states continue to stay on the side line, Lebanon is going to be another Gaza soon. No single Arab and Muslim entity can withstand the combined military might of the white savages.

This is the pathetic fate of the Arab and Muslim world. Which Arab and Muslim leaders visiting Washington? Which Arab and Muslim state wanting to buy weapons from the white countries?

More pathetic is that the white men can openly support each other to attack and destroy countries from the Global South, one at a time and no country from the Global South dares to stand on the side of the state under attack. Not even dare to stand on the side of Russia, and allowed Russia to be attacked and to defend all by itself in the Ukraine War. Lebanon and Iran would be attacked and destroyed before Russia's turn and then China's turn.

In the past, when China and Russia were weak and separated, there was good reason to be afraid, to be whacked, bombed, and unable to fight back, had to suffer the bullying and humiliation. Today, Russia and China are together and much stronger than before. And there are other reasonably strong states like Iran, Pakistan and North Korea to fight together. It is about time to stand together to take on the white savages and not to be bullied and destroyed one by one. With Russia and China taking the lead, the whole Global South should be confident to join forces to fight for their real freedom from the evil American Empire and the West. 

Caveat, Russia and China must give the Global South the sense of confidence that they are real.

India number one in many things

 People can argue until the cows come home, but for them, predicting that India will be the next China or surpassing China is just a fantasy cooked up by fertile minds. Several decades further down the road may be a feasible fantasy, but then China could also not just remain stagnant and by then already the No. 1 economic power in the world with the BRICS global currency and settlement system well entrenched for the rest of the world to adopt, free from impending sanctions and subterfuge.

The Indians will think so that India is the next China, and you better not throw spanners against their castles in the air. The West will think so too, and they can flock to India to help. Hopefully they do not flee from India when facing the Indian system of predatory moves to take over their investments when they succeed against local Indian ventures. The list of who and who that got caught and clobbered in India are all top-notch investors from various countries, like Apple, Foxconn, Xiaomi, BYD, DJI and now Samsung and Netflix.

The Indian consumer market is too big to ignore for most companies and they still want to be part of the Indian upcoming miracle, despite the risks involved, hoping to harvest what they experienced by emulating their ventures in China. But, on hindsight, it will be a long bet, perhaps decades into the future for their dreams to be fulfilled. There are so many obstacles to overcome today for India.

Massive poverty eradication needs to be carried out first in order to produce the consumers capable of having the buying power like those in China today. This alone is a high mountain to climb, knowing that the mindset of Indians is strongly resistant to change or even criticism. Just look at the language issue in India alone, with no common language in place to promote national policies and advancing agendas. China just did the impossible by making Mandarin the common language adopted by all the 1.4 billion Chinese, with dialects still intact.

Infrastructure is also lacking in India notwithstanding the Indian Government trying to address this shortcoming. Without an adequate fast and efficient transport system, manufacturing is going to face obstacles getting supplies and moving finished goods out on time and according to schedule. But like the high-speed rail, taking all the time in the world to get it done is not a solution.

Skilled manpower for India to move into manufacturing is still in short supply and training periods are not just a matter of months. It takes years to reshape the education policies of India that had been catering to the service sector, and a game changer is really needed in order to turn out skilled engineers and STEM graduates in large numbers instead.

Above all, the Indian population is growing too fast for its economy to absorb the jobs needed to lift people out of poverty. Nothing will work by putting the cart before the horse. It may move backwards rather than forward.

Anonymous