More good news - Singapore considering protecting the daft 18 year old from being duped by social media

 In a country that is full of daft, it is necessary to devise laws and procedures to protect them. The internet and social media are very dangerous places for the daft. And Singapore is an exceptional country, full of daft, easily cheated even to the tune of millions of dollars. And those that were scammed of so much money are not the 18 year old. They were the mature adults, some probably been through tertiary education or had held senior management positions. If such experience and senior people could be scammed, the 18 year old really stand no chance. It is therefore a good thing to think of ways to help the daft 18 year old as well as those that had been scammed of thousands or millions of dollars. I think it would not be a bad idea to ban such daft from the social media and the use of mobile phones, including residential phones as scammers also target land lines.

When 18 year old are considered daft and unreliable, even silly and unsafe to access the social media, I think this is a very serious problem for Singapore. Is it because of our poor quality of education or our political system or culture? Or we did not teach our young from being street smart? The world is so safe. When we read the media, what it says must be the truth. foreigners with a piece of shitty paper must be talents, trust them, no need to check their qualifications and background? The person calling must be real, a beautiful woman or a tall handsome man, or must be from the bank or the authority? Better still, your father or mother asking for help.

Remember, the 18 year old are by law responsible enough to be enlisted as NS men, to shoulder the responsibility of defending the country, to carry a rifle or even handle more deadly weapons. Maybe should consider protecting the country from such daft 18 year old and delay enlisting them for NS.. Wait for them to be mature and sensible and smart enough to shoulder the responsibility of NS men. What age should that be? Would 21 year old be good enough?  Anyone with any bright ideas on such issue of protecting our daft Singaporeans?

An easier solution would be to ban social media and the use of telecommunication equipment like mobile or residential phones. We are so lucky to have smart and caring people to want to protect our daft citizens. This must be another good news. I thought I read this in the main media. Maybe I have read wrongly. It is good to have papa around all the time to take care of the daft and those unable to grow up or suffering from stupidity has no cure. For one, millions of dollars would have been saved.

What do you think? The idea of the govt having to protect the 18 year old from social media is truly brilliant.

PS. No need to protect big institutions that hired foreigners to access their operating systems with millions of accounts, data and money and company secrets. Hiring more foreigners for critical and sensitive positions is very safe. They would not scam or cheat the institutions.

Are the Chinese stupid enough to let Indians into China?

I do not think jobs for Indians in China are freely available to them. Chinese employers are not that naive to trust Indians in their midst, perhaps already aware of the sabotage in factories owned by foreign investors in India.

Those Indians are probably visiting China hoping to land an elusive job. It is a good opportunity anyway for China to showcase its infrastructure and living conditions to the Indians. The sword cuts both ways and showing the Indians what they are missing under the Modi Government. Why should China be worried when they are providing free and cheap countering of USA propaganda about China over the last few decades. In the process, China is also earning good money from Indian tourism, albeit with caution.

AI and robotics are doing all the work in most factories, working in the dark 24/7. There was even a report on social media that such factories are churning out missiles and drones 24 hours a day. Of course, China is not going to boast about such factories. Deng Xiaoping told the Chinese, keep a low profile and not evoke jealousy and be humble. They do not need Indians to work in such factories anyway.


Anonymous

USA is a plutocracy, democracy is a farce

The USA is a plutocracy, or should we call it an oligarchy, where power is concentrated in a group based on wealth or economic influence. In other words, only the rich are given the privilege or opportunity to rule.

USA citizens are only there to legitimize the system, being given the right to vote either for the right or the left hand of the same entity, whether Democrats or Republicans. The propaganda that they are voting for democracy in order to have freedom is a farce. Whatever power for the President comes out of Congress or the Senate, with both houses all infested by the same group of oligarchs from both sides.

We can talk until the cows come home, and the system can never be changed. It is too deeply ingrained in those 'dull of mind' to understand that heads the oligarchs win, tails the USA citizens lose. Just look at the tariff fiasco that USA citizens are the ones footing the bill, not China or anyone else. They do not even have any chance to squeak, just swallowing the misery.

I understand that the USA is now being told to refund those illegal tariffs imposed on other countries. US$81 billion had been touted to have been or will be refunded. I wonder how true it is. What has that loud-mouthed Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnik got to say about those refunds? He sold those tariffs claiming the USA is collecting hundreds of billions for the USA coffer, not to benefit USA citizens who are made to pay those additional import taxes masquerading as tariffs.

Oh, I also read about one of Howard Lutnik's children setting up a kind of entity to take bets that the tariff fiasco will backfire and collapse. Did Howard have anything to do with it? These traitors are running the country into the ground and the people are clueless.


Anonymous

Deng Xiaoping said in 1992 - The Middle East has oil, we have rare earths

Deng Xiaoping said - The Middle East has oil; we have rare earths. This message was delivered in 1992 to the Chinese people during his Southern Tour of China. How prophetic was Deng's foresight to this day. That was more than thirty years ago, and it already indicated then that China was well into dominating rare earth supplies. It goes to show that China was already working out its intention to dominate in rare earth extraction and refining.

I guess at that time, nobody in the West and Japan paid much attention, as semiconductors, chips, EVs were still relatively undeveloped or known to be so dependent on rare earth magnets. The thinking was that rare earth dirt is so abundant everywhere and there is nothing to fear. What they failed to see was rare earth dirt may be abundant, the difficulty of refining the ore into useful magnets is not simple. And during those thirty years, no country took the trouble to start building the refining logistics on the scale that the Chinese were doing, just harping on the abundance of rare earth ores in countries that they can lay their hands on.

I always say that China thinks long term - always twenty to thirty years timeline at least. And the Chinese work to fulfil that timeline, unperturbed, headstrong and convincing themselves that nothing is going to stand in their way. Not even ridicule, not even gloom and doom prophecies and not even constant demonizing was able to detract the Chinese agenda.

The patience and ability to choose the right course has paid off for the Chinese.


Anonymous

Good News - Singapore found another great legal talent among its no talent Singaporeans

 Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon is retiring after 14 good years in the seat. And Singapore is so lucky to be able to find another great talent to replace Sundaresh Menon as the Chief Justice in Sushil Nair.  Everyone with a little commonsense would know that the Chief Justice position is very important and not any Tom, Dick and Harry can be appointed. 

During Lee Kuan Yew's time, he too faced the same problem of finding exceptional legal talents to fill the position. He was lucky to have found Wee Chong Jin, Yong Pung How and Chan Sek Keong. The task of finding equally good men to be Chief Justice was in the hands of Hsien Loong. He found Sundaresh Menon. Who found Sushil Nair? Hsien Loong or Lawrence Wong?

Anyway, Singapore will stand to benefit from having the best men for this important job. As the pool of talent for this position is very small in no talent Singaporeans, the pick for the next Chief Justice will be even more difficult. Maybe the pool should be open up for foreign talents, make them Singaporeans is a very simple thing to do, and Singapore would have the best from the whole world to pick from.