9/10/2025

Singapore's economic growth is hitting a ceiling

There is no formula for success that works forever. The world changes, geopolitical alliances change, leadership also changes, and policy matters also change as well.

Right now, the only sector pulling us forward seems to be the bricks and mortar sector, with MRT extension, airport expansion and a new housing enclave springing up around Mount Pleasant among others. You can see the amount of digging and excavation going on around just about every street and corner, some looking like a war zone, especially along the construction of the Cross Island Line route.

I am not too sure the building of more MRT Lines can alleviate the overcrowding problem on trains and in MRT stations, some of which are already serious bottlenecks catering to the morning crowd. Complaints have been registered about huge crowds at Bishan and Hougang Stations with commuters unable to even board successive trains that were already bursting at the seams. Merging stations as places for commuters to change to multiple lines is causing even graver situations arising during the morning rush hour.

I just feel the problem getting worse but let us leave it to the planners how to overcome the overcrowded trains and stations, since they said they have plans for a ten million population.


Anonymous

Good news, NATO savages want to put boots in Ukraine. Better news, Putin said would fight to the end

NATO countries are singing their own song unilaterally about putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. Have the Russians relented? This is as good as NATO being given the go ahead to expand its footprint in Ukraine, which Putin has already drawn his Red Line long ago.

Even if the Ukraine War were to end, Putin would never allow NATO countries to act as peacekeepers. NATO members can continue to build castles in the air about being allowed boots on the ground. Russia has every right to target them if they do so as combatants taking part in a war, maybe using an old map story should suffice, LOL.

North Korea now has no qualms about covering up the fact that it is helping Russia openly, while China and India will still be helping Russia economically by buying Russian energy. The USA has no leverage when it comes to China buying Russian energy, a situation that already existed well before the Ukraine War.

Scott Bessant is trying to spin the mantra that India is profiteering from buying Russian oil, which is not going to make any difference as India's live line depends on Russian oil, which it cannot cut off in any way. India already is defying Scott Bessant by telling the USA that it will continue to buy Russian oil, a defiance that is quite unexpected.


Anonymous

9/09/2025

Evil American Empire is NOT kind, generous and benign...It is brutal, cruel and barbaric

 How to judge the Americans and the American Empire? Some would claim that they benefitted from the kindness and generosities of the Americans, like Europe, Japan and some American allies. The story is like a pet dog, owned by a master and fed by the master, even hugged and kissed by the master...because it is just a pet for the master's amusement, to please the master. A few pieces of crumps thrown at the doggie will make it very happy. The pet dogs will not get anything more than what the masters would give. The masters would always be the masters. Period.

Look at the other side of the coin. What did the Americans do to North Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and now Gaza, and now Venezuela. Many would not want to know the past, the genocide of the native Americans, black slavery, massacres of the Pinoys, carpet bombing of Vietnam, the atomic bombing of Japan etc etc. They want to sweep them under the carpet, too embarrassing to fit into their belief that the Americans are all good, kind and benevolent, because they were the recipients of some goodness.

Ok, look at now and the recent past. Ask the North Koreans and Cubans and all the third world countries that were sanctioned and embargoed and isolated by the evil American Empire. The lives of their people, their economies, were ruined for decades, to live in abject poverty, all because of the evil Americans. The Latin American states would always be kept poor and isolated from the world. The believers of American white gods would not want to know that these are true, that these happened and still happening to these poor people and countries. Americans generous and kind to them?

The Americans claimed that they were kind to China and the Chinese people. Really? How many Chinese were brutally killed and robbed during the early days of Chinese migrants to America? How China was broken up, plundered and looted, and almost colonised? And how the Chinese were treated as subhumans, no talents, to be cooks and laundrymen and forced to smoke opium?

Oh, the Americans brought their factories to China to give jobs to the poor Chinese, and allowed, permitted China to join the WTO, or else China would still be kept outside the door. The generous and kind Americans helped China to be rich and successful? Really? They kept China isolated and poor for so long, like Cuba and North Korea. They let China into the WTO not because they wanted to help China, but to use China as a pawn against USSR. Their factories moved to China to exploit the cheap labour and low cost of production. And...they think the no talent Chinese peasants would always be the source of cheap labour for assembly line tasks. Never to rise above this level of existence. Making China rich is furthest from the truth, furthest from their minds.

Now they regretted. They were shocked that the Chinese were not stupid as the Americans wanted to believe. So now they are all out to kill the Chinese economy and industries, to keep the Chinese poor again. The Chinese cannot be allowed to be richer than Americans, cannot be more advanced than Americans. And Americans are kind and generous and wanted to help the Chinese to be rich like Americans? Stop the lies. Only the brain dead hillbillies and the equally daft Anglophiles would believe so.

Look at what the Americans are doing to the Latin American countries, how they interfered, intervened in the internal affairs of these countries for centuries, to treat them as slave nation states, to serve the interests of the evil American Empire. How many coups the Americans had conducted against the Latin American states? How many national leaders have been assassinated, with some arrested like criminals and jailed in America? Now they are lying that the President of Venezuela is a drug lord and put a bounty on him, wanting to arrest him. Are these criminal acts of the evil Americans kind, generous and benevolent? They are going to invade Venezuela any time now, on pretext of drug cartels! They are starting another war, the most peace loving, kind, generous democracy, the terrorist state of USA.

The evil Americans have kept the Latin American states poor like Africa, allowed only minimal progress and be weak economically and militarily, banning any country from selling them real weapons to defend themselves. Whatever allowed to be sold to the Latin American countries must be approved by the Americans. Everything in Latin America belongs to the American Empire. Now they are going after Venezuela because it is selling oil to China, the oil the Americans claimed can only be for the Americans.

The African states are not much better under the oppression of the American Empire and the Europeans, and still treated as shit hole countries, good only to supply all the raw material and resources and gold and diamonds for the Americans and the West at the prices of dirt.

How many brain deads still idolising the Americans as the generous white gods, benevolent and kind and peace loving? Now that the evil American Empire is seeing their grip over the world slipping away, they are going to exert more pressure to take over control of the whole world, to start WW3 if necessary. And yes, they would be very generous to the doggies that they can use as pawns against their adversaries, by throwing a few pieces of crumps to them. And the doggies will be full of praise for their generous and kind masters.

Trump too stupid to know he is stupid...thinks all other leaders are stupider than him

Trump is too stupid to know that he is stupid. Having said that, Trump thinks all other country's leaders are stupider than him. When a push comes to a shove, more countries are deserting from the USA and embracing China. China, Russia and North Korea coming together was a godsend, all thanks to Trump. Now Iran and India are facing shoving by Trump and common sense will tell us where they will go next.

Trump wants the US$ to remain the reserve currency by feigning ignorance that the USA is ripping others off realistically, so that the USA can continue with the charade to benefit from the blood and sweat of other countries just printing toilet papers in exchange. Nothing is easier than having a printer to print a piece of paper in exchange for real goods. Like Red Dot's COE system, LOL.

What BRICS had and is doing is real trade, exchanging finished goods or development aid for raw materials or energy, not ripping off each other. It is really a winning proposition for parties inside BRICS engaging in deals with each other. And the icing on the cake is that they can do trade using their own currencies, Yuan for Rubles for example, ditching the US$ completely.

In the case of Iran, China is actually doing barter trade, to go even further backwards so to say, exchanging energy from Iran with development aid from China. Nobody is ripping off the other, which is another way to free themselves from the sanctioning regime. Venezuela could be the next country to do that with its oil export to China in exchange for development aid. Maduro was in China joining in the Victory Day celebrations and I would not think that any meeting between him and Chinese leaders is just for exchanging T-shirts. So does Indonesia, for two-way trade which will all be done outside the US$. De-dollarization is now of duo benefit for those who adopt the system to bypass the US$, and able to do business outside the US$ in their own currencies and avoiding sanctions going through SWIFT.


Anonymous

Virgo's Morning Bread - Good times and bad times Singaporeans

 Singapore or SinkiesLAND or Sinking Land is Doomed!


For 60 decades no new innovations and industries

Auto Pilot thought that the same old economy is enough.

Service and commissions agents and middle men trading businesses.

Now panic stations trying to have what's new economy and believed pains must follow before Sinkies rise again with realities and pramaticism like the first few generations.

Supposedly the new generation leaders should be smarter than the old but turned out Duds!

Actually frankly, like LKY used to say "When you are hungry you strived to be the best and survive"

When the present lots are been fed fat with plenty and lived comfortably lives, the downfall is near.

Already no instincts and ambitions to strive anymore.

I had seen real life realities of some of my early days 60s rich families children as neighbours and friends which are now mostly lost in their wildness which they're been pampered their whole childhood and adult lives by their rich grandparents and later wealth passed down to their parents and later all vanquished.

They cannot even held a job throughout their lives and now living like the Americunts paupers.

Last few days no choice had to visit a relative in intensive care in Koo Tupat oops apology Khoo Teck Puat hospital and seen in buses and trains and passed thru some malls of at least half the population of Singapore I told my spouse are not working at all.

I'm usually at home no need to be out with the maddening crowds as most Seniors must.

It's seemed like they are on holidays with every corners full of them causally.

Is it now they are RTS aka Roam The Streets that they are been retrenched or now they are all so well to do no need to work?

Or alternatively been well fed and supported by their still rich parents who made it thru their ingenuity of hard works or cunning schemes of making their wealth by hook or crooks?

Our time all running up and down like mad dogs making a living.

So not to be long winded, my take at this rate SinkiesLAND is DOOMED.

Anyway no eyes see had seen enough

Virgo49