India and Japan will never be accepted as whites

In any case these doggies will still be crawling and groveling at the feet of Trump and even kissing his arsehole. They can hug each other on the bed, but we know all that lacks sincerity. We already know what friends of the USA are for anyway, thanks to Henry Kissinger.

India and Japan are just cultivated to counter China, nothing more. Trump is a hardcore bigoted racist and has no love lost for Asians. If those stupid Asians think otherwise, that is a sad state of affairs. India is trying to sniggle up to the Europeans at the G7 for years, or at least the Europeans in the G7 are throwing a bone for India to chew on but will never allow India into the club. India's GDP may be above some of the G7 countries but is not qualified to be in the rich White men's club. India will have to bleach itself white to be accepted.

On the other hand, the Indians are pissed off that they are not considered rich enough or white enough. Now, the first problem is solvable, maybe fifty years down the road, but the second problem about whiteness cannot be solved. After all, we all know that a leopard cannot change its spots however hard it tried.

The Japanese have considered themselves to be on par with the Whites and be treated as Whites in the past, which I do not know based on what criteria. In South America, the Japanese wanted to be treated as Whites decades ago. The same as in Africa. This is documented, not fabrication. But Japan's downfall today leaves much to be desired by countries for Japan to continue to sashay around once again like in the past.


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American fabricated truths, everything wrong is about Iran...it used to be China

Why is everything happening in the West all pointing towards Iranian involvement? Anything wrong and they straight away point the fingers at Iran. Automatic mode? Iran is involved in the Flydubai attempted hijacking. Iran is involved in the UK RAF Fairfield plot. Is this another attempt to give a dog a bad name and then skin it? What else is going to happen to consolidate the demonization of Iran?

Not long ago, anything untoward happening in the West was always China's CPC involved. Chinese spies were everywhere in the USA and Europe. Chinese products - quayside cranes, power transformers, solar panels, wind turbines, toilet seats, academics working in universities, Chinese workers in companies and even garlic were all spying for China. Every Tom, Dick and Harry was connected to the CPC, and every Chinese company in the USA and the West was likewise spying for the CPC. Tik Tok CEO, a Singaporean was accused of being a CPC member and therefore also spying for the CPC using Tik Tok as a front.

If the Iranians are really infiltrating so successfully into Western entities just like the Israelis, it really is a problem, right? Or is the so-called tight scrutiny by the West not working as well as it had been touted to be, letting the Iranians infiltrate. Which is which? The chicken or the eggs come first?

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Singaporeans have a new destination to visit to collect money

SINGAPORE: Every few weeks, 79-year-old Tan Mui Sng heads to the reverse vending machine at the void deck of her Serangoon housing block with a trolley and bags of empty containers in tow.

The retiree returns dozens of containers each time, earning a few dollars in deposits — the result of hours spent scouring her neighbourhood for discarded drink cans and bottles....

"For this one, there's much more money," she said in Mandarin, adding that she used to earn S$0.50 (US$0.39) for every 1kg of containers she sold to the rag-and-bone man.

She has lost track of how often she has used the reverse vending machine, but estimated earning more than S$10 from returning containers.

Under the scheme, consumers have to pay a refundable 10-cent deposit on eligible beverage containers, comprising pre-packaged plastic or metal containers with volumes between 150ml and 3,000ml. CNA

Singaporeans now have a new destination to visit other than the church. There are many reverse vending machines being placed in housing estates for Singaporeans to visit regularly to deposit their plastic and metal containers, and be rewarded with 10c or 15c per container. Oops, locals and foreigners can also do the same. They will not only be doing a good deed to save the world, to green the world, but also be rewarded with a few dollars or a few cents, depending on how many containers they brought along.

Retirees like the one mentioned in the above quote would be very happy to do so, doing some good deeds and getting some pocket money, and also as a form of exercise. If 50% of the 6m residents do it once a week, you can imagine the traffic flow, 3m trips a week or 12m trips a month or 144m trips a year. Additional positive effect of these visits is that the retirees and those without an income could actually generate some income by working a bit harder scouring for discarded containers.

Who are the real people paying for this and for the machine, the staffing and system management, the consumers of drinks, beers and whatever that have recyclable containers of course.  The whole system and movement of millions of people are all paid by the consumers of plastic bottles and metal containers. Please don't remind these consumers that they now have to pay more for their drinks because of this great scheme. For many, especially the millionaires, what is paying a few dollars more? For those who are living from pay check to pay check, sorry lah, just pay more visits to these machines to get your money back or absorb the higher cost.

Singapore being one of the richest country in the world, many would not be bothered to make such trips for a few cents or a few dollars. Small change. One thing will change, the lifestyle of Singaporeans and how they would allocate time for this ritual as part and parcel of life in the island. How long will this fad last? For the happy retirees, this will be a part of their lives, collecting metal containers and plastic bottles and to visit the shrines to earn some pocket money. It can be a happy daily ritual.

Terminators tells us about the future and Hollywood fantasies

If the Terminator movies tell us anything about the future, it is something to expect with the development of AI. Forget about the big tech companies talking about self-regulation. Where making money is concerned, self-regulation does not work in that environment.

Of course, in those movies, humans eventually trumped the robots. It is to be expected in order to be able to come up with more sequels, more versions and more money to be made. James Bond can never die, right?

I am surprised that social media sites are trying to explain how magic is done, knowing that all that is just unreal stuff, sleight of hand, staged sets and using close participants masquerading as audiences. Just like Hollywood movies which we know is unreal, just entertainment make-believe stuff. There is a saying that crazy actors act in movies while the dull of mind audience soak up the foolery as if they are reality.

Superman, batman, wonder women, green lantern, incredible hulk, fast and furious and avengers - just keep the sequels coming. As old actors died or fade away, the role passed on to new actors, but the main theme is immortal.


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India is the manufacturing hub for making Indian workers

India is going to be the manufacturing hub for producing Indian workers for the rest of the world. This is one sector that India will succeed beyond imagination. Just like making Indian workers the backroom workers for companies in the West, which is now in tatters in this era of AI.

The problem now befalling India is that countries are pushing back over the influx of Indians taking over jobs in the West and bringing their uncivil behavior along as well. Habits do not change just by being outside India. The Indian mentality is that others must do as the Indians do at home, and not the other way round. They think the caste system can just be implanted anywhere in the world. Well, people are waking up and telling them to fxxk off.


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