He was ousted in 2006 by a military coup during his second term in
office. 8 years have gone by while he lives in exile with a big
corruption tag on his head and a jail sentence. His Puea Thai Party has
since been winning elections after elections and is the standing govt
that the protesters in Bangkok are trying to dislodge from office.
Yingluck has been accused of all kinds of crimes and the latest for
corruption related to her rice policy for the Thai farmers.
Under pressure from the protesters who were pointing the corruption
finger at her, she called for a general election to vote her out. The
Democrats refused to participate knowing that they would lose again. Why
would a political party with so much power behind it and claiming to
represent the majority of the Thais afraid to fight a general election
and so convinced that it would lose?
Do they believe in their accusations against the Yingluck govt for being
corrupt and that the Thai voters are not stupid to want to vote a
corrupt govt back into power again and again? Or the majority of the
Thais do not believe anything the Democrats and the protest leaders are
leveling against the Yingluck govt? Or they believe that the Democrats
and the Bangkok elite are more corrupt instead?
Thaksin has been away for so long. If he and his sister are so corrupt,
why would the Thais keep voting them back to power? Why would he not go
away? The majority of the Thais are stupid?
Why would the Thais want to continue to support the Thaksin and Yingluck
party? Do they know what is good for them and which party is against
their interests? They cannot be voting for a party and leaders that are
corrupt can they?
What is the truth? The Yellow Shirts and Suthep are claiming on moral
high ground but still believe that they would not be voted in by the
majority of the Thais. He even declared a victory day ‘more than 5
times’ but no confident to fight a general election. Funny isn’t it?
They said you cannot bluff all the people all the time. 8 years have
passed and Thaksin is still a popular leader of the Thai people. He and
Yingluck must have done something right or his corruption tag would have
finished him off, and Yingluck as well. Who is being conned, the simple
rural farmers or the educated Bangkok city folks?
Kopi level - Green
1/21/2014
American’s cheap drone war
The Americans have been fighting wars after wars non stop since WW2, and
often several wars at the same time. They have learnt valuable lessons
in the areas of strategies, tactics and cost effectiveness. The latest
concept is drone wars.
The Americans must have taken quite a toll in the lost of expensive aircraft and lives of pilots, even though they have so many available, that using expensive aircraft and risking the lives of pilots are a no go and very costly in all fronts.
The cheap drones are safe and effective. The expensive leading edge technology of the best, most sophisticated and most advanced and most expensive fighters are just for show, a PR job to demoralize the enemy. The real war is fought by drones. The days of Battle of Britain and having the fastest and best aircraft for air superiority is over. Today there are cruise missiles and anti aircraft missiles that would make sophisticated and expensive aircraft irrelevant.
There is nothing secretive or surprising about the F35s. It is another con game that only a super power with bottomless funds can afford to play. Who are we bluffing that we need the most sophisticated and problem plagued and most expensive fighter aircraft when drones will do? Why do we need the most expensive aircraft to fight who? And don’t forget, to fly such sophisticated aircraft we need near supermen and women to operate them. Putting an idiot or monkey on the pilot seat will not do justice to such a piece of technology shit. At that speed the intelligence level and reaction time falls drastically and put on a lot of stress on the pilots. A super aircraft is only as good as the technicians and the quality of the pilots. Lousy technicians and pilots would undermine the capability that was paid for.
In the case of drones, you can fly them by school children with fast fingers on the ground. Warfare has moved on and the Americans know what they are doing. Are we still stuck in our old mindset of fighting wars with pilots and more and more sophisticated machines when the Americans have abandoned such a military strategy?
With the money to be spent on sophisticated piloted aircraft, we can have a few hundreds or thousands of drones or cruise missiles at our disposal. And training the boys and girls to fly them would be a piece of cake, with practically no war casualty. On the defensive part there are the famous and highly rated Patriot Missile System or the even better Iron Dome of Israel to take down the best fighter aircraft.
What is the better war strategy? Ask the Americans why they are using drones instead. In many ways, the F35 is another Ponzi Scheme to make the participants in the programme pay and pay when they have already committed money out front and very painful to cut losses at this point in time.
Kopi level - Green
The Americans must have taken quite a toll in the lost of expensive aircraft and lives of pilots, even though they have so many available, that using expensive aircraft and risking the lives of pilots are a no go and very costly in all fronts.
The cheap drones are safe and effective. The expensive leading edge technology of the best, most sophisticated and most advanced and most expensive fighters are just for show, a PR job to demoralize the enemy. The real war is fought by drones. The days of Battle of Britain and having the fastest and best aircraft for air superiority is over. Today there are cruise missiles and anti aircraft missiles that would make sophisticated and expensive aircraft irrelevant.
There is nothing secretive or surprising about the F35s. It is another con game that only a super power with bottomless funds can afford to play. Who are we bluffing that we need the most sophisticated and problem plagued and most expensive fighter aircraft when drones will do? Why do we need the most expensive aircraft to fight who? And don’t forget, to fly such sophisticated aircraft we need near supermen and women to operate them. Putting an idiot or monkey on the pilot seat will not do justice to such a piece of technology shit. At that speed the intelligence level and reaction time falls drastically and put on a lot of stress on the pilots. A super aircraft is only as good as the technicians and the quality of the pilots. Lousy technicians and pilots would undermine the capability that was paid for.
In the case of drones, you can fly them by school children with fast fingers on the ground. Warfare has moved on and the Americans know what they are doing. Are we still stuck in our old mindset of fighting wars with pilots and more and more sophisticated machines when the Americans have abandoned such a military strategy?
With the money to be spent on sophisticated piloted aircraft, we can have a few hundreds or thousands of drones or cruise missiles at our disposal. And training the boys and girls to fly them would be a piece of cake, with practically no war casualty. On the defensive part there are the famous and highly rated Patriot Missile System or the even better Iron Dome of Israel to take down the best fighter aircraft.
What is the better war strategy? Ask the Americans why they are using drones instead. In many ways, the F35 is another Ponzi Scheme to make the participants in the programme pay and pay when they have already committed money out front and very painful to cut losses at this point in time.
Kopi level - Green
1/20/2014
Susie Lingham – Nurturing a local talent
In the realms of the esoterics, an area called arts, the big names are
often Europeans. The big galleries and museums are managed and fronted
by big European names. The few big local names in arts are generally
confined to music and dance. We do have a few painters of international
standing.
The gurus or regents of running art houses and museums are never Singaporeans. Fortunately in this area, we have not sold ourselves cheap by importing foreign talents except for one, if I am not mistaken. The National Museum, the National Art Gallery and the National Heritage Board are all helmed by locals. Cannot imagine the National Heritage Board being helmed by a foreigner. But it looks quite natural given our colonial history to have an angmoh to sit there, even if he is 30 year old who did not know what colonial Singapore was. We were once owned by angmohs and so it becomes a natural right of passage of sort to have an angmoh to look authentic or international.
Good God, they appointed a local lass in Susie Singham to head the Singapore Arts Museum. I am sure there must be thousands of better qualified foreigners with great CVs, authentic ones I am sure, to put Susie Singham in a corner. The decision to put Susie there must be a national one, one of pride and confidence that we are as good as the best in the world. How else are we going to have a good representation in this field if we keep hiring foreigners to screw the local talents? The locals will have no chance to be trained, to gain the experience and credentials to write in their CVs that they have taken such an appointment.
I hope our local institutions will take the cue from our arts institutions to go local and nurture out local talents to be there with the best in the world. If we don’t train our locals, if we don’t give them a chance, who will?
The painful part is to place a foreign fake to helm our national institutions and deprive our own from having a go at these positions. New pink ICs are just as sick and fake.
Hope the daft in charge are taking the hints and do not be stubborn to go foreign to prove how inadequate and incompetent they are. It would not be funny for MOM to turn out a few foreign fakes at the highest level and kicking local asses.
By the way, the title of an article on Susie Singham by Huang Lijie is titled, ‘A heart for the arts’. Luckily the heart is in the right place and not misplaced.
The gurus or regents of running art houses and museums are never Singaporeans. Fortunately in this area, we have not sold ourselves cheap by importing foreign talents except for one, if I am not mistaken. The National Museum, the National Art Gallery and the National Heritage Board are all helmed by locals. Cannot imagine the National Heritage Board being helmed by a foreigner. But it looks quite natural given our colonial history to have an angmoh to sit there, even if he is 30 year old who did not know what colonial Singapore was. We were once owned by angmohs and so it becomes a natural right of passage of sort to have an angmoh to look authentic or international.
Good God, they appointed a local lass in Susie Singham to head the Singapore Arts Museum. I am sure there must be thousands of better qualified foreigners with great CVs, authentic ones I am sure, to put Susie Singham in a corner. The decision to put Susie there must be a national one, one of pride and confidence that we are as good as the best in the world. How else are we going to have a good representation in this field if we keep hiring foreigners to screw the local talents? The locals will have no chance to be trained, to gain the experience and credentials to write in their CVs that they have taken such an appointment.
I hope our local institutions will take the cue from our arts institutions to go local and nurture out local talents to be there with the best in the world. If we don’t train our locals, if we don’t give them a chance, who will?
The painful part is to place a foreign fake to helm our national institutions and deprive our own from having a go at these positions. New pink ICs are just as sick and fake.
Hope the daft in charge are taking the hints and do not be stubborn to go foreign to prove how inadequate and incompetent they are. It would not be funny for MOM to turn out a few foreign fakes at the highest level and kicking local asses.
By the way, the title of an article on Susie Singham by Huang Lijie is titled, ‘A heart for the arts’. Luckily the heart is in the right place and not misplaced.
Bounty schemes for hunting down cheats
The announcement by MOM on hiring an Indian company to check on the CVs
and qualifications of Indian PMEs here is throwing up a lot of
meaningful and effective suggestions from cyberspace. So don’t say
bloggers only criticize and did not offer solutions. Instead of throwing
good money after bad money, some bloggers commented it is an absolute
stupidity, brainless piece of work, it should be one based on rewards
like the bounty hunters.
The bounty hunter scheme does not pay blindly and useless and unfruitful work, like a bottomless pit, for bull shitting works that yielded no results. It pays for results. The hunters are paid for every head they brought in. A range of $200 to $10,000 can be offered as reward according to the income or seniority of the cheat. This will incentivize the hunters to go for the kill, the biggies. Then the bill can be presented to the company that did the hiring as fines. Make the companies responsible for the cost incurred.
Under the present scheme, an agency could go through the motion and collect $100 each without producing any result or doing anything. Just file the reports with fictitious work done. Don’t worry, they have honed this cheating game to fine arts and know exactly how to fool the super talents here. After all they have been doing it all these years and with a few hundred thousand cheats working here as PMEs.
Go for the real stuff and stop monkeying around and wasting public money. Oops, I don’t think the bloggers are smart enough to come out with anything better than the present scheme of MOM.
I apologise on behalf of all the daft bloggers and their daft suggestions. A thousand apologies.
The bounty hunter scheme does not pay blindly and useless and unfruitful work, like a bottomless pit, for bull shitting works that yielded no results. It pays for results. The hunters are paid for every head they brought in. A range of $200 to $10,000 can be offered as reward according to the income or seniority of the cheat. This will incentivize the hunters to go for the kill, the biggies. Then the bill can be presented to the company that did the hiring as fines. Make the companies responsible for the cost incurred.
Under the present scheme, an agency could go through the motion and collect $100 each without producing any result or doing anything. Just file the reports with fictitious work done. Don’t worry, they have honed this cheating game to fine arts and know exactly how to fool the super talents here. After all they have been doing it all these years and with a few hundred thousand cheats working here as PMEs.
Go for the real stuff and stop monkeying around and wasting public money. Oops, I don’t think the bloggers are smart enough to come out with anything better than the present scheme of MOM.
I apologise on behalf of all the daft bloggers and their daft suggestions. A thousand apologies.
Avert culture of entitlement
The ST editorial today talked about averting the entitlement culture
with respect to COE. The demand for cars is going up but not the supply.
As more and more people, especially the rich foreign talents, are
brought in, you can expect the squeeze on the few COEs available. It is
normal and natural, no one’s fault, just market forces. Do you want
growth? How many believe in this crap?
Then again, Sinkies must get use to this kind of philosophy. You are not entitled to anything with your citizenship. No one, not even the govt, is responsible to your basic needs. It is all determined by market forces and affordability ie if you can pay for it.
Sinkies must erase this entitlement mentality. Don’t think you are entitled to public housing. Don’t think your children are entitled to a place in the universities or schools. Don’t think that you are entitled to a job, especially a good job. There are millions or hungry and more talented mercenaries out there waiting to take your place. Their rights and passport to a job here is their talent, meritocracy. If you are not meritorious enough, sorry, the job goes to the best man or woman even if that is a foreigner.
Is there anything else that Sinkies believed they are entitled to? The return of their life savings? Keep hoping. The only thing they are entitled to perhaps are doing National Service and be compelled by all the compulsory payment schemes by the govt. No, they are not taxes. Swear. They are good for you. These compulsory payment schemes are your entitlements as citizens.
Oh, you are entitled to the world’s best paid govt that will take very good care of your welfare, second only to the meritorious foreigners who are more meritocratic and deserving to jobs, car ownerships and home ownerships and whatever that is of value. Entitlement here, regardless of whether you are a citizen or not, is based on meritocracy.
So, please don’t talk or think entitlement anymore just because you hold the pink IC.
Is this an official message?
Then again, Sinkies must get use to this kind of philosophy. You are not entitled to anything with your citizenship. No one, not even the govt, is responsible to your basic needs. It is all determined by market forces and affordability ie if you can pay for it.
Sinkies must erase this entitlement mentality. Don’t think you are entitled to public housing. Don’t think your children are entitled to a place in the universities or schools. Don’t think that you are entitled to a job, especially a good job. There are millions or hungry and more talented mercenaries out there waiting to take your place. Their rights and passport to a job here is their talent, meritocracy. If you are not meritorious enough, sorry, the job goes to the best man or woman even if that is a foreigner.
Is there anything else that Sinkies believed they are entitled to? The return of their life savings? Keep hoping. The only thing they are entitled to perhaps are doing National Service and be compelled by all the compulsory payment schemes by the govt. No, they are not taxes. Swear. They are good for you. These compulsory payment schemes are your entitlements as citizens.
Oh, you are entitled to the world’s best paid govt that will take very good care of your welfare, second only to the meritorious foreigners who are more meritocratic and deserving to jobs, car ownerships and home ownerships and whatever that is of value. Entitlement here, regardless of whether you are a citizen or not, is based on meritocracy.
So, please don’t talk or think entitlement anymore just because you hold the pink IC.
Is this an official message?
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