11/13/2024

Thailand approves building of Kra Canal Project

 Thai Prime Minister Patongdan Shinawatra has received approval from Parliament and the King of Thailand to immediately invest $110 billion in future projects, including:

1) Kra Canal

This Thai canal project will bypass the Strait of Malacca, saving 1,200 kilometers of round-trip voyages to China. The project will cost about $28 billion and take about 10 years to complete.

2) Just like Saudi Arabia, schools are making Chinese compulsory. The Thai Prime Minister now stipulates that all primary schools, middle schools and universities in Thailand must learn Chinese

The Prime Minister's policy is not only that Thailand 🇹🇭 should learn Chinese culture, but also that Thailand needs to spread Chinese culture.

Prime Minister Patongdan Shinawatra is only 38 years old, and her great-grandfather is from Guangdong, China 🇨🇳

Virgo49

Singaporeans unpleasant encounters when applying for HDB flats

 Yes you are absolutely right Anon 11.53

Six to ten millions for GST, COEs, BTOs and made sure the MRT and buses FULL everyday.

Then throw some chicken wings to make sure they the worker bees ai see beh see ai wak beh wak.

Our Opposition MPs should bring up more important issues like the BTO housings and their policies instead of dogs and cats in housing flats and makan kakis.

Last week accompanied my son to make his first payment for his upcoming Flat.

He asked how come mine no HDB first timer grant.

The arrogant HDB Machik shot back you did not submit your working history of your renumerations and CPF's contributions for the period of when you made your application.

His reply oh I thought the period is now after the application!

Let me ask "why must a Singaporean MUST be working before they grant them the grants? "

What's the logic? You mean not working within that period then no grants?

As long as they can afford the payment why you worry they work or not?

Some strike ten millions Toto!

Oh apology, if really then he or she don't want your pigeon hole liao!

Secondly , why must Singles be penalised to pay 15K additional for the pigeon hole.

She snorted then get married lah!

I replied that is that person perogative!

Anyway it's foolish to get married and have slaves for the government again.

My bachelor friend lamented. Throughtout my working life of 40 over years I been paying income tax more than others and also served NS.

Never apply for a flat before. Now get 2 roomed flexi and had to pay full price without any grant as I had retired.

On top of this I had to top up 15K penalty.

You think I will vote PAP?

So where is the logic on these absurd policies?

The worse is that this bachelor friend of mine is so naive and worshipped the Papies as God before had a Melaka apartment and condom, oops apology Condo.

When he applied for his pigeon hole he declared in all his honesty that he had private properties.

Was told to get rid of them when he was allocated a unit within six months of getting his keys.

Manged to dispose off and shown the dumb Estates Officer or Manager all the transactions and lawyers documents and payments etc.

They insisted that they wanted an Official Document or Ceveat from the Matland Authority.

OK OK paid lawyer to get one.

Submitted the document in Malay Language and they insisted that they wanted an English One.

My God are they so dumb?

Must be in Eng Kok ah?

Matland must give you one in Eng Kok ah? You don't have your Malay Higher Estates Officers or Managers to read ah?

Also understood quite a number of Wallflower ones in the HDB that must be promoted to wayang a bit for your peoples satisfaction ah!

No wonder the Machik so how lian?

No eyes see these Evil Serpents

Virgo49

Emperor Trump in the White House

 Did I miss out anything over the last week with the American Presidential Election? American and American doggie media had been working overtime to drum up interest in this comical and nonsensical election to elect the best clown to be the President of the USA, the most power military power in the world. American media jokers were hyping up a hysteria about foreign intervention and even Iran trying to assassinate Trump, Russian or China interfering the the election as if it matters to them. The only rogue nation that is intervening in other countries' domestic affairs is the American gangsters! No one else is interfering in American politics.

The Americans still think very highly of themselves, that they are very important to the world and their clownish election is something to boot about without knowing that the whole world looked at it as a circus of clowns on stage and around the stage. Really, who cares? Oh, the Americans are highly excited and hopeful of their incoming President, the best of two of the worst qualified to save their decadent and ailing Empire.

Trump is nothing but a rogue. Is he going to save America and make America great again? Anyone believing a rogue with a pea as a brain can save America? Sure he will create waves, tsunamis all over the world by his reckless flash in the pan insight of what to do. And no one smarter than Trump would be able to tell Trump what to do without being sacked like he did in his last term. Caveat, those sacked were not much cleverer than Trump. No great idea is greater or better than Trump's idea that he took 2 sec to come up with.

And the slate of top officials that is being lined up to be his adviser, secretaries of home affairs and defence, would have send chills down the spines of many heads of govts. They are of similar DNAs as Pompeo, Bannon and Bolton etc etc, all loud mouths hillbillies with equally small peas as brains, to share their fictional beliefs and fantasies to run the whole world as an American colony or oppressed states.

Anyone expecting any difference in what Trump is expected to do in a second term, with great hopes that he would be an older and wiser man, having hindsight and experience from his great blunders in his first term, would be greatly disappointed. The only difference is that there will be nothing new but more of the same drunken blaring after a late night out.

Pea brain Trump would be surrounding himself with many more pea brains that he assumed would be his dream team of madness. All mafias have their dream teams clobbered together with the intellectual level of the mafia chieftains. The only qualification desired by the hillbillies to be an American leader is the ability to bark like rabid dogs at China. And the only qualification to be POTUS is stupidity.

Oh yeah, Trump wants to remove the swamp, this time the whole MIC and all the corrupt politicians and American bureaucracy. Very likely they would remove him clinically with a fine little bullet if he is serious and adamant to do remove the Deep State. Trump would be all alone against the Deep State filled with demons with much higher IQ than him and his collection of pea brains whose only recognised ability would be chest thumping and grandstanding to the hillbillies about how courageous and brave they were to stand up to China. Is that the only qualification to be a good American leader? Think seriously about this. If the hillbillies cannot get out of this closet mindset, can they expect America to be great again?

Anyway, these empty heads would be fighting an economic war, it may go ugly and turn into a real hot war with China, their biggest trade partner, producing everything the Americans need at prices they can afford, and buying everything that the Americans want to sell. And they sincerely or foolishly believed that this is the way to go...China, China, China!

There is no need for an intellectual or expert in economics to know what is good or bad for the Americans. The end result would be the Americans fighting an economic war with themselves, sanctioning themselves without knowing it. But this cannot be helped if the main stream of politically active Americans are hillbillies that are alive and with an 18th or 19th century outlook of the world. To Trump and all his pea brains, making America great again is shouting and threatening at China and starting a fight with China. No joke, that is the only thing in their pea brain that has no space to accommodate anything else.

Trump is like all the failed great white hopes that were jostled to the stage to take on Mohammed Ali but failed and failed again. When they were not in the same class, it would only be a mismatched, a mockery. The collection of pea brains in the White House would be a mismatch to the rest of the world. They would be recklessly throwing wild punches at everyone, with China, their main benefactor, as their main target for war and destruction. It is as good as killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. 

Why would the hillbillies be so angry and hostile to their Santa Claus aka China? Without China producing cheap quality goods for them, they would not be able to afford anything.

Stupid US policies forcing many Qian Xuesens to return to China

 Backfiring seems to be the result of the stupid USA policies of late. It was a blessing for China without needing to dangle carrots to lure those top academics, scientists and engineers back to China. And as more academics and scientist found their callings in China paying off well, and even providing the impetus for them to grow their talents, the more others in the USA are apt to follow their footsteps. It will be a big gain for China and a big loss for the USA, notwithstanding whether the USA is accepting the reality or not.

It fits in nicely for China's effort to staff its universities and corporations with top of the chain returning talents and brains, all-ready-trained and paid for by the USA taxpayers over the decades. Let not the USA now accuse China of stealing its talents, which it is chasing out itself from USA universities and research facilities. Now even Chinese universities are competing with top USA and Western universities for the accolades. Who would have thought of that a decade ago? 

Anonymous

4 more years of Trump, 4 more years of rubbish!

 

 Luring manufacturing back to the USA is one thing. Having a market for the products is another. Make American Great Again is just an empty promise that can never be fulfilled. The horses have bolted and closing the stable doors is an exercise in futility.

Trump can rock, rattle and roll to rouse his supporters, but he knows four more years is all he cares about. What he says in campaigning mean little. Didn't he say lots of rubbish during COVID? He suggested drinking horse dewormer, injecting insecticides and lots of sunshine to fight COVID? And not to forget his famous suggestion of nuking a hurricane of all things. A person leading the superpower of the world saying and doing all that is unthinkable.

Give Trump four more years and four more years after that even in perpetuity, if possible, and he will still be chanting 'Make America Great Again'. Just enjoy the circus.

Anonymous 1

Trump's battle cry is still 'Make America Great Again'. Four years of his Presidency followed by four years of Biden's Presidency: the USA does not look any greater than the empty rhetoric that was supposed to rally the country. What is even worse is needing trade wars and tariffs to prevent other countries from becoming greater, so that USA can have a semblance of being great again. Who is fooling whom?

The economy is in ICU. Money printing is so hot it is burning up the printing presses/machines and the only sign of its effect is the daily record-breaking run on Wall Street. It does not trickle down to real job creation, does not help to prevent businesses biting the dust, does not prevent retail sectors shuttering and inflation again rearing its ugly head. Inflation does something unique though. It inflated the sales figures, but not the underlying sales volume.

Anonymous 2