Chinatown hawker centre. Hawker Centres are a national heritage, selling a wide variety of food at very reasonable prices. They are spread across the whole island and is part of the Singapore way of life.
The hot issue being debated between the 'never the
twain' is now about response to Hurricane Milton. No more about shallow
issues like abortion and LGBTQ and debating them looks as if these two
are national issue of importance and not homelessness, cost of living,
Ukraine or genocides in Gaza.
Kamala Harris some years ago had
touted that she will get rid of fracking that Trump had been trumpeting,
if she is elected VP. She now realized that getting rid of fracking
means getting rid of hundreds of thousands of jobs. a hot potato item.
Now she is backtracking and supporting fracking and claiming she is not
against fracking. Just how she can lie through her teeth is truly
fascinating. She lied her way into getting elected, she never honored
her words, and she now tries to backtrack on her lies when being asked
about her stand then and today.
The USA election is an election
that the voters are finding it hard to understand and just being forced
to choose between a rock and a hard place. Both are basically clowns
posing as leaders of repute, like Zelenskyy.
Stupid countries like Germany and France never learn, despite all the spying that the USA had been conducting against them.
Olaf
Scholz probably had his testicles held by those spying activities and
the USA has complete hold over him. Scholz is basically and totally
under USA control. When the USA tells him to jump, he will just ask 'how
high'. When the USA asked him to stop the North Stream pipeline
project, he just obeyed. He even went to the extent of participating in
its destruction, cutting his nose to spite his own face.
The
revelations that hurt the most must be some European allies, supposedly
bosom friends in the EU, being exposed to have been helping the USA to
spy on Germany and France. In the context of the EU, there is therefore
no such thing as friends, only interest. And the USA always touted its
relations with them as 'iron clad'. I surmise those iron chains are
getting rusty. Hungary for example is not that chummy with the EU
leaders. Turkey, though not an EU member, is a close ally in NATO, and
is also feeling alienated after decades of attempting to join the EU.
Pakistan,
Laos, Cambodia, African friends and even Russia called their relations
with China as 'all weather friends'. How does that compare to the USA's
'iron clad' pronouncements? I have this feeling that 'iron clad' means
the USA has iron clad control over them, LOL. The giveaway must be those
military bases inside those countries making those countries nervous
and obedient. 'Iron Clad; had a sinister smell to it.
As an observer from afar, it is exasperating and chilling to see the Iranians courting their own death and total destruction by the Americans and the Israelis. The Iranians are acting like naive children, believing in the lies of the Empire of Lies, and the Israelis, that when the liars counter attack, they would limit their attacks on their said military targets, a kind of limited attack. And Iran would be safe, or at least the rest of Iran would be safe.
Have the Iranians remember all the lies and treachery of the Americans and the Israelis, not honouring what they said and doing exactly the opposite? Can the Iranians be so naive to endanger their people and country to believe in the lies of the world's number one liars, the Americans and the Israelis? If they really believe in them, then Iran and the Iranians deserved to be wiped out from this planet. Don't the Iranians have contingency plans in case the Americans and the Israelis lied about their real intent and are planning to nuke them to Stone Age, amassing nuclear weapons and WMD to slaughter the daft Iranians?
When the missiles and aircraft are launched, no one knows what were they carrying, conventional weapons or nuclear warheads, and no one knows what are their targets. It only takes a few minutes to wipe out all the cities in Iran, including Tehran, with nuclear warheads.
Iran better wake up before it is too late. They need to make it known to the Americans and the Israelis, once the aircraft and missiles are launched, Iran would unload everything they have into Israel and American bases in the region, and better, nuclear missiles to the USA if available.
This is not a childish game played by little children. This is toying with total annihilation by nuclear weapons. Once the missiles and aircraft are launched, nothing can save Iran and the Iranians.
For Allah's sake, for the sake of all Iranians, Iran must not allow the Americans and the Israelis to have a first strike at Iran, that could be a nuclear strike to finish off Iran and Iranians. No Iranians would be left to cry or to regret for being so naive and so trusting of the Americans and the Israelis.
Iran, be warned of the worst consequences that can happen due to your own stupidity and naivety.
7 min by Prof Zhang Weiwei on China's peaceful rise
China's rise cannot be peaceful. This is the narrative the Americans are trying to tell the world, that China is an aggressive power just like the Americans, that when it rises, it would be as destructive and warmongering as the American terrorists. Is that so?
China has risen. China is now as powerful and technologically advanced as the Americans. Now who is saying that China has not risen? And China's rise is not peaceful? Has China got into wars with anyone during its rise? Has China fired a bullet in the last 40 years of its rise?
No, no, China has not risen enough. Wait for China to rise and become more powerful, then you will see the evilness of China, just like the Americans. Of course the last part the Americans would not say so. But this kind of argument is like saying the end of the world is coming. If not tomorrow, maybe another century, another millenium, China would definitely be as hostile and aggressive as warmongering Americans. Is this a legitimate or reasonable argument, basing on an obsession presumption that China must be aggressive and its rise must not be peaceful? So childish. Anyone peddling this kind of thought is but a twit.
How much more must China rise if it has not risen today? How many donkey years to wait for China to become aggressive? If China's rise is not peaceful, it is not China's own doing. It is the Americans and the West that would not allow China to rise, and to rise peacefully. It is NOT China's fault if its rise is not peaceful because the Americans and the West are bent on preventing China to rise and now engaging in all kinds of wars and threats, sanctions and provocations to stop China from rising.
China just wants to be richer, more prosperous, to build a better life for its people, by being more competitive, more innovative, more hard working, to produce more and better and cheaper products for the world, to benefit the rest of the world. Is that bad, evil, hostile, unfriendly, starting a war?
The Americans and the West have been smearing and demonising China, that its rise must not be peaceful, like it would wage wars against the world, to be a world hegemon like the Americans, to bully and oppress the world. Those are the ways of the Americans and the West, the colonialist and imperialist mentality, to conquer and rule the world. China has never been a colonial or imperialist country, never colonise or rule big swathe of countries as colonies.
Why can't China's rise be peaceful, when it has proven to be peaceful so far? The Americans and the West have been selling this poison to the world, and bananas all have this stuck in their thick heads, that China's rise must not be peaceful, because the Americans and the West planted it there.
Still waiting for China to rise? China is a super power flows freely out of the lips of westerners. China is more advanced than the Americans in many fields today. Even in military weapons, American weapon superiority is all hype. They said and they claimed to be the best, all hogwash. When put into action, they are found wanting. The American allegation that China's rise must not be peaceful is based on the presumption that China must browbeat everyone, invade and conquer or start wars with everyone like the white savages. China has risen, has done it, without doing any of these. No?
PS. There are nitwits that are waiting for the Americans to provoke a war with China and then turn around and scream, see, see, China's rise is not peaceful.
Embassy of Russia in Singapore on ST column by Ang Moh
On
October 12, 2024, we read in the Straits Times another opus entitled
"Putin likely to boost efforts to confuse European public as Ukraine war
rages” by its international affairs correspondent Jonathan Eyal.
The feeling is mixed – bewilderment, misunderstanding, and indignation.
It
seems that not being able to understand the true causes of Europe’s
problems and its political and economic difficulties, rooted in the
complete loss of sovereignty and its growing dependence on the US, the
author, driven by a vicious logic, seeks to find the source of his fears
in others. The stereotypical anti-Russian logic, which has been
implanted into the mass consciousness of Europeans at the instigation of
Washington since the start of the hybrid war against Russia in Ukraine,
suggests to Mr Eyal, as we understand, a convenient solution.
Indeed,
how simple is that… All problems with ensuring the security of weapons
arsenals, man-made disasters, fires, explosions at military-industrial
complex enterprises, fraud using ICT, failures in the operation of
transport networks, disruption of GPS signals, etc., are attributed to
the machinations of Moscow and the Russian special services. Of course,
without any evidence, but only to please their own philistine ideas.
Wake
up, Mr Eyal! Stop being afraid of yourself, delve into your anxieties,
get rid of the American-dependency complex, and try to look at things
from an unbiased perspective...
Then, we are sure, you will see
the things differently. It will become clear, that it was Russia that
sought to create a system of equal and indivisible security in Europe,
and it was Moscow that called for a reliable legal basis for it. It was
we who warned about the challenges created by eastward NATO expansion,
its expansion into the Asia-Pacific region; it was we who demanded an
end to the genocide of everything Russian in Ukraine, which Western
strategists have chosen as a battleground for unleashing a hybrid war
against Russia. It is we who remain open to dialogue on a peaceful
resolution of the conflict, but on the basis of equality and in line
with our interests and changed realities.
We are convinced that once you get to the heart of the matter, you will feel better and calmer. And
stop denigrating and involving in your dishonest reasoning the name of
the recognized leader of the Russian people, President Vladimir V.
Putin. His authority is well deserved, recognized throughout the world
and stands above any slander.
