The Singapore formula of the highest science – Part 2

In my first article I doubted there is such a magic formula to select an infallible man. Impossible, human nature is such that they will fall to temptation or their ego, or personal interest would get the worst out of them.  But I made a mistake. I forgot about the great formula to make men and women incorruptible. Singapore has created this exceptional formula that makes men and women incorruptible and for so many years since it was in practice, there is no corruption among the politicians. Everyone is upright and honourable.

The formula is also applied to top civil servants. Unfortunately it was not too successful here but not because the formula was flawed. The few corrupt civil servants that were charged in court were likely caused by them not being paid enough not to corrupt. You see, the formula is to pay a person so much that he would not be tempted to become corrupt. There is a little fine tuning required as some have a bigger appetite or a bigger ego to think they should deserve more. So the trick is to make sure the person is paid beyond his expectation.

This exceptional formula can also be applied to the Elected President. Pay the Elected President well enough so that he would not become a rogue. Same principles applied. So simple. No need any super talent or genius or a bunch of genius to crack their brains to reinvent the wheel.

This is a simple formula, a simple solution that is guaranteed to work. It worked for the last few presidents and none became a rogue.  If money not enough, can always pay more in case of more demanding and talented candidates. The Constitutional Committee can be dismissed to do some more important things.

The solution is in the hands.

Asean showed Obama the middle finger in Sunnylands 鸿门宴

The 10 Asean leaders were ushered to a discreet corner in the Californian desert for a historic meeting with Obama and with a special American agenda. Without whispering a word aloud, every Asean leader knew exactly what was in Obama’s mind and what was the top agenda, confrontation against China. The Asean leaders played along, exceedingly well, to waltz with the wolf but without being eaten.

No, Asean is not going to go along with the American agenda. Asean was there to talk about trade not about quarrelling with China, their Number One economic trading partner.  They entertained Obama’s fanciful wet dream of hammering an agreement or joint declaration to corner China or better still a list of actions to take against China. Nothing to it. The Asean leaders would want to maintain status quo as far as issues in the South China Sea are concerned. Vietnam and Philippines tried, the western media kept painting a picture about a hostile and dangerous China culminating in a Fox News report of Chinese missiles in Yongxin Island strategically timed to psycho the Asean leaders.

No, the Asean leaders are not going to bite. They ignored all the hypes about China and refused to engage Obama in any talk on China except to repeat what they had been saying all the time, all of the same as in many Asean meetings. They wanted to continue with the adherence to the rule of law and the international order and a commitment to peaceful resolution of disputes, no arms provocation and threats of war or use of military means. The Asean leaders did not give an inch to Obama despite being holed up in the Californian desert.

Sorry Obama, you got slapped by Asean without knowing it, or knowing it but putting up a brave front that it all went the American way as orchestrated and schemed in Washington. No way.

There was no consensus or declaration to take on China in a joint US Asean anti China declaration. Asean would not be coerced or hookwinked into another Coalition of the Unwilling to fight a war against China for the Empire. The white men, oops I mean the black man, misunderstood that Asean leaders were no longer the naïve and meek ex colonial lesders of yore, to be dragged into a war they did not want and to court disaster and destruction to their economies, people and countries for the benefits of the American Empire.

Tough luck Obama. See you next time, if you come visiting as a tourist in Asean and pay homage to your childhood hometown in Indonesia.

Year of the Monkey for Asia and SE Asia

The Year of the Monkey is not even into its second week and big things are happening and developing in Asia and SE Asia. War is coming, if not in the South China Sea it would be in the Korean Peninsula. It could have started earlier in the South China Sea if the Chinese did not restrain themselves in the face of intimidations and provocations by the Americans. The Chinese are squeezing their balls real tight and tolerating the aggressive acts by the Americans.  Any reaction or miscalculation would have blown up into full scale wars. The Chinese are trying very hard to avoid a war with the Americans in the South China Sea. China would have nothing to gain and a lot to lose should a war break out with the Americans.

This is not the case between the two Koreans. The South Koreans are really very happy to go to war with the North Koreans. They could not stomach the North Koreans sending up their own satellites to space and chose to call it provocation, developing its missile and nuclear technology and capability. Can North Korea, a sovereign state develop its own weapon system to defend itself? This kind of thinking is like an Asean state crying for war because its neighbouring state bought better weapons of war, better aircraft or naval ship or submarine. All these acts, in the eyes of a bully, can be used as an excuse to condemn and start a war.

What is going to happen in the Korean Peninsula and to the two Korean people? War is inevitable with the South Koreans thinking war is a tea party. They are so eager to go to war. And with the Americans and Japanese waiting to push them into it, a false flag incident is so easy to create. So you will have war coming very soon in East Asia.

Who would be the first to die and their countries destroyed? No reward for the correct answers. The two Koreans would soon be killing each other and bombing their country to pieces. And the Americans and Japanese would only be too happy to help in a big way, to kill more Koreans and destroy that country.

Then the Chinese and Russians would have no choice but to come in to help the North Koreans, and more Koreans on both sides would be killed, and some Americans and Japanese would also be killed together with some Chinese and Russians.

Who would next to send their boys to be killed in Korea? The eager beavers of course, The Philippines, Australians and some SE Asian states would also be drawn in to fight for the Americans and to die for the Americans.  I just hope that Asian countries are smart enough not to go to war for the Americans. But with so many eager beavers wanting to prove themselves, with some silly American blue eye boys that would do anything the Americans asked them to do, SE Asian countries would be involved for sure.

And there will be many dead heroes and people with no arms and no legs returning to SE Asia to be celebrated by their people. There will be war memorial to honour them, there will be dead heroes day, a lot to cry about and a lot to celebrate.

Who is the real winner? When everyone is made a monkey of by the merchants of war, by the evil Empire, 2016 is indeed a Year of the Monkeys. And many monkeys will be from Asia and SE Asia. Stupid Asians would be going to war like monkeys not knowing why they become monkeys in a deadly circus.

Chinese missiles in the Paracels

This is the latest good news reported by Fox News. Whether it is western media fabrication like the WMD in Iraq or real, the deployment of military assets in view of the provocative actions by the American gunboats aircraft sailing into the area is necessary and urgent. China must put in real missiles, fly in their fighter aircraft and sail in more naval ships and submarines into the region to protect its national sovereignty or be violated by the Americans at wil, and be seen as weak and unable to defend its territorial integrity.

‘South China Sea dispute: Chinese missiles in Paracels, says Fox
News

Feb. 17 (Sydney Morning Herald) -- 

Fairfax exclusive, May 2015: China puts weapons on its new artificial islands

The Chinese military has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of its contested islands in the South China Sea, Fox News reported, citing new civilian satellite imagery.’

And little Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is telling the Chinese to stop reclamation and construction work in the Chinese islands. Who does she think she is, the Foreign Minister of the Empire?’

 

China should use the provocations by the Americans as a legitimate reason to militarise the South China Sea in the same way the Americans are using freedom of navigation to justify their military presence in the region.  China cannot let the Americans threaten its sovereignty and appear weak and do nothing when confronted by the American missile destroyers. No country would back out and do nothing in the face of foreign military intimidation. The Americans are using freedom of navigation to for military intervention. The Chinese should thank the Americans for the provocations as the reason to militarise and defend the islands.  They should move in more military hardware to match the American ships and aircraft in the region.

What China is doing is purely defensive in nature. The missiles are to protect the islands from being attacked, unlike the B52s, F22s and missile destroyers deployed by the Americans.  Compare these to the militarization of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, Guam and many other Pacific Islands by the Americans, the Chinese action is legitimate and non aggressive in nature. The Americans are deploying offensive weapons in Diego Garcia to control the Indian Ocean and India is hapless and could not do anything, and in other Pacific Islands as well as military bases in South Korea, Japan, Australia, the Philippines and other South East Asian countries. They are moving all their big guns into the region for war. And China must to everything it can to defend against the Americans should the Americans start to attack China or Chinese islands in the South China Sea.

The American military allocations into the region is many times more hostile and offensive than the North Koreans sending satellites into space. The latter is a peaceful and commercial mission. What the Americans are doing is preparation for war, to attack China and North Korea but harping about peace and not to raise tension.

China must intensify its military build up in the South China Sea and prepare to defend them or face an American attack like the Japanese attacking the British colonies in WW2. The Americans are the provocateurs, the aggressors, the invaders. The Chinese are the defenders, defending their own territories.

What is a rogue President?

Lye Khuen Way:

February 16, 2016 at 7:13 am  Lye Khuen Way(Quote)

It’s probably time to do away with this wayang Elected President thing. Why? From President Ong onwards, we never had any Presidents, Elected or Appointed who dare to ask probing questions of the Government of the day.

With impending changes that will make further mockery of this institution of an Elected President, let’s not fool ourselves that it’s for Singapore good.

Then what? No symbolic Head of State? What State is my retort! Aren’t we a place that belongs to Everyone? I didn’t say it. One PM did and he is still the new PM!

 

The above is a comment by a blogger in TRE. Lye is very cynical and suspicious about the purpose of this ‘wayang Elected President thing’. What was Lye Khuen Way saying in this sentence, ‘From President Ong onwards, we never had any Presidents, Elected or Appointed who dare to ask probing questions of the Government of the day.’? These Presidents cannot be rogues right? Everyone is an honourable man, high net worth, with plenty of money, ‘chiat buay leow’, how can they be rogues?  Not asking probing questions is not a condition to be  a rogue. And when everything is fine, country so well run, all the reserves so well taken care of, what is there to ask? And when the govt is making all the right policies and supported by the people, elected by the people, lagi no reason and no question to ask. Like that how to blame them?

There is no point asking simple questions or silly questions just to be put on record that one actually spoke up right?  The president is not like MPs, need to speak up in parliament or to ask questions to be seen to be working.  There is no need to waste people’s time asking questions that meant nothing or take too long to answer.  As the most dignified person in office, the President cannot anyhow open mouth to ask question when there is no question to be asked. To be presidents, all must be very smart and know when to ask questions when they know something is wrong.

The impending changes must be good, how can it be a mockery? Have faith in the popularly elected govt to do the right thing for the good of the country. Cannot anyhow cast doubts and demand an explanation like asking opposition politicians to explain everything. An elected govt is not the same as opposition parties.  Everything tip top, everyone honourable and integrity cannot be doubted. That is why the people trusted them and elected them to be the rulers of the country.

Anyone knows what is a rogue president?