10/23/2015

How should Boon Wan be paid?

The role of Boon Wan in the SMRT is getting recognition for the intensity and furiousity he is going about it. And many rightly questioned whether Boon Wan is indeed the CEO of the SMRT, not even the Minister of Transport. He is fully involved and ensnarled in the nitty gritty of getting the SMRT back on its feet and running. If solving the SMRT problem is indeed a major part of his portfolio, then should Boon Wan be redesignated as the CEO of the SMRT instead of being a minister? And should not he also be paid like the CEO of the SMRT or at least SMRT must foot a big part of his ministerial pay for spending so much time to run the SMRT?

The other question people have been asking is the role of Desmond Kuek, the CEO that was roped in to do exactly what Boon Wan and his specially appointed team are doing? It is still fresh in the minds of the public that Desmond Kuek was head hunted to undo the mess in the SMRT caused by his predecessor. With Boon Wan’s involvement in such a high profile role, who is doing what? Are they sharing the job or has Boon Wan taken over Desmond’s job?

What was not said, after Desmond brought in his army buddies, is that things were not working or improving as he and his team would want them to. And that must be the reason why Boon Wan has to roll up his sleeves to dirty his hands in the SMRT.

The challenges of the SMRT is revealing itself as more than what Desmond Kuek and his team could handle, more than even what Boon Wan could handle. Heard that a section of the train is down again this morning. The intrinsic problems that Desmond and Boon Wan have inherited are deeper and more complex than what they anticipated.

Perhaps Boon Wan should take leave from the Transport Ministry and dig in full time to tackle the SMRT problem, and SMRT be made to pay for his salary. It is just not fair for the public to be paying Boon Wan’s salary as a minister if he is working for the SMRT, a public listed company that is a profit making business.

What do you think?

The US Calvary is here, Indians, you are dead

How many of you remember this fetish Hollywood stuff and stood up to cheer when the US Calvary arrived to massacre the Red Injuns in cowboys and Indians movies?  The Injuns were the bad guys and the cowboys and calvary were the good guys, the land of the Injuns, oops, what land of the Injuns, they were God’s given land for the white settlers. Grab as many as you can by killing the Injuns that were illegally occupying the land, the Promised Land God has willed for his believers.

Many Injuns were butchered, murdered, starved to death or inflicted with deadly diseases brought in by the Europeans to infect them. Today you could barely see an Injun in North America now called the United States of America, minus the original natives that once roamed free in their land.

The story of the Calvary killing the Injuns and driving them away from their home land is being repeated all over again in the Middle East. The modern day Injuns are the Arabs and Muslims in the region that is now war torn, with the modern day Calvary bombing their land to Stone Age and inhospitable.  The modern day ‘Injuns’ are marching into Europe to escape being killed or starve to death. And the Americans and the rest of the stupid world are looking on and cheering the modern day Calvary to kill the natives of the land all over again. The modern day Calvary are the good guys and the natives of the land are as usual, the bad guys. They will be resettled in new reservations. If they are lucky to survive the long march to the North, they could find themselves in Europe, definitely better than the Reservations given to the Injuns in North America.

The American Calvary are all over the Middle East to as far as Afghanistan and Pakistan, used to be in Vietnam, still in South Korea and Japan, and now emerging in the South China Sea, to do what they were good at, looking for more Injuns to kill and take away their lands.

And the rest of the stupid world stood up to welcome the Calvary and to cheer them on, without knowing that their land too will be at risk, that they too could become Injuns of their homeland. Malaysia better watch out, the Philippines will be going that way when they invite the Calvary in.

The American Calvary are the saviours of mankind and will kill the modern day ‘Injuns’ as they deemed fit. It is their right to do so, Manifest Destiny.

10/22/2015

City Harvest – 6 top leaders, including Pastor Kong Hee found guilty

The law of the land found them guilty for breach of trust and misappropriating $50.6 million of church funds. They are facing prison terms of between 10 years to life imprisonment. The big question, are they guilty in the eyes of their fellow believers? Apparently by the support shown after the verdict, they are still held in high regards by their followers. They and the followers could not see anything wrong with what they did. Probably some would even think they were doing the will of God, as God’s servants.

When one fails to see the difference between right and wrong, between goodness and evil, and blindly sticks to one’s belief, there is a Chinese saying called 走火入魔. When one is in such a state, the person could be always be seeking testimonies to reinforce one’s belief and ignoring or refusing to see the wrongs or ignoring the wrongs, or trying to explain the wrongs away.  In this case of misappropriation of church funds and breach of trust, is it so difficult to see the difference between right and wrong, and that wrong can be right and right can be wrong? Is the heathen court wrong and there is a heavenly justice that says Kong Hee and his 5 peers were doing right in the name of God?

Is there a conflict between human justice and godly justice? There are more than 17,000 church members in City Harvest. How many of them believe that the earthly heathen court is right and that their pastors and elders are wrong? The fact that they are still members of the City Harvest Church speaks for itself.

There are two kinds of rights and wrongs, one for the non believers and one for the believers.

Jesus said, many will come in my name to mislead you. Do not believe them for they are evil doers.

The militarization of the oceans and South China Sea

Is that a problem? If the islands are claimed by the Philippines or Indonesia or Vietnam and they put troops there, would that be militarization, would that be a problem? The Philippines still have a rusty unseaworthy junk rotting away in a Chinese island that they called a warship. Was that militarization? What if the Americans claim one of the islands and put turned it into another military base, would it be militarization?

What do you think the Americans have done in Guam and Diego Garcia? Both islands are military fortresses, one to control the sea routes in the western Pacific and another to control the Indian Ocean.  Any problem with that?  Not militarization? It is ok if the Americans turned these islands into military bases, islands they seized far away from their now homeland they seized from the native Americans and turned them into military bases, and yes, for peace, for Pax Americana.

Would there be any country out there to say no to the American military presence in the Indian and Pacific Oceans? No, even India is prepared to live with the American military presence in their sphere of influence, used to be the Brits in the island of Gan. But of course India could not say no, unable to drive out the Brits or the Americans.

With the Americans setting up military bases in Japan and South Korea and the Philippines, are they militarizing the region, the East China Sea and the South China Sea? With the 7th Fleet armed to the teeth and the impending entry of the 3rd Fleet, are the Americans militarizing the South China Sea and western Pacific Ocean? There is no need to put weapons on islands to militarizing the region. The American Fleets are moving islands of war. And what is so wrong about China building military bases in their own territory, their own islands?

According to Wikipedia, these are the military facilities in Guam,

·         U.S. Naval Base Guam, U.S. Navy – Sumay


In addition to on-shore military installations, Guam, along with the rest of the Mariana Islands, is being prepared to be the westernmost military training range for the U.S. Guam is currently viewed as a key military hub that will further allow U.S. military power to be projected via sea and sky.

The U.S. military has proposed building a new aircraft carrier berth on Guam and moving 8,600 Marines, and 9,000 of their dependents, to Guam from Okinawa, Japan. Including the required construction workers, this buildup would increase Guam's population by 45%. In a February 2010 letter, the United States Environmental Protection Agency sharply criticized these plans because of a water shortfall, sewage problems and the impact on coral reefs.[27] By 2012, these plans had been cut to only have a maximum of 4,800 Marines stationed on the island, two thirds of which would be there on a rotational basis without their dependents

American military facilities in Diego Garcia

Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia[edit]

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B-1B Lancer bombers on Diego Garcia in November 2001 during the Afghanistan bombing campaign

Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia provides Base Operating Services to tenant commands located on the island. The command's mission is "To provide logistic support to operational forces forward deployed to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf AORs in support of national policy objectives."[124]

United States Air Force units based on Diego Garcia[edit]


China should not back down when the Americans are militarizing the South China Sea and raising tension in the region. China should respond accordingly and bring in their defensive weapons to counter the irresponsible provocations and aggressive moves of the Americans. The US is forcing China to militarise the islands in the South China Sea. The Chinese must do it. The Americans only understand the reason of might. Learn from Putin and put military hardware in the islands and ask the Americans what do they want? War?

The hypocrisies of the Americans must be pasted on their faces. They have been militarizing the seas and oceans and have been the biggest provocateurs of war. Wherever there are Americans, there will be military tension and wars.

10/21/2015

Britain committed an abominable sin

The whole of the western world, particularly the American allies, are fuming mad at Britain as if this ex world Empire has committed an unforgiveable sin. They are furious, how could Britain go it alone, broke ranks to party with their ‘enemy’ that they pretended to be friendly with?

What did the Brits do that invited the curse from every corner of the American alliance?  The British broke ranks when they took the lead to join the AIIB, A Chinese initiative to help the developing world in infrastructure development. This Chinese initiative was bad, anything the Chinese did must be bad. The American and western allies have always stayed together to divide the world among themselves, to stay together to whack and bully the rest of the world, one country at a time. They succeeded for several centuries by breaking up the countries of the world into individual targets to be ruled by the West.

Now, after joining the AIIB that led to the breaking of the dam for all the European countries to follow suit, Britain again has done the unspeakable, opening the door, roll out the read carpet, to invite Xi Jinping to Buckingham Palace and all the sacred places in Britain. How could Britain do these things? These places are only meant for the allies, not for the rest of the African and Asian countries, and definitely not for Communist China. They forgot that the wealth of Britain and many European countries, including Japan and the USA, were robbed from China and other colonized countries of the world.

Britain, the ever brilliant strategists, they did not rule the world for being daft, has seen the opportunities opening up for them in a China that is growing richer economically and a strategic alliance is the best thing for Britain. Britain will be the leader of Europe again, to take the lead, as the leader into a new world of cooperation with China. By courting China, Britain is positioning itself to benefit from trade and investments with China, undercutting the rest of Europe as the biggest beneficiary for being the first mover.

According to a senior western intelligence officer, too ashamed and afraid to be identified in case he needs to make a living in Beijing or Shanghai, as reported in the Financial Times, ‘The most charitable spin we can put on the current China policy of the British government is to say it is a pure mercantilist, unprincipled, self serving decision aimed at attracting short term investment. The big question is whether it works.’

What is so principled about western domination of world trade at the expense of Asia and African countries? What is so unprincipled to trade with China, to court China on mutually beneficial terms? Is he letting the cat out of the bag? What had the western allies been doing under cloak and dagger to control the world trade and to isolate and contain China?

Britain would have nothing to do with the old western dominance theory and policy. The world has changed and the Brits have seen it and are taking the bull by the horns to move ahead and leaving the scheming European and American allies sulking and sucking their thumbs. They can cry foul, but what is best for Britain, a former world empire, would be best left to the Brits. They needed China to grow, and so is the rest of the world. The European and western allies can cling on to their past glory and old method of divide and rule, and try to contain China, which is no longer containable. Not only China is rising, the rest of the world, Asia, Africa and Latin America are also rising.

Good luck to the ageing American Empire and their allies. The world is not going to wait for them and to be controlled by them anymore. They can frown and cry in disapproval, Queen Elizabeth is going to host Xi Jinping and his wife in Buckingham Palace as planned. British interest comes first.

Welcome to Britain and a decade of golden years in Sino British ties. It’s elementary, Watson. This is British diplomacy at its best.