3/22/2016

Chee Soon Juan – 10 reasons for and against his chances in Bukit Batok

Gilbert Goh wrote an article stating 10 reasons why Chee Soon Juan would stand a good chance to be elected in Bukit Batok. In The Independent blog, there was a reply with 10 reasons why Chee would not be elected in the by election.

The reasons given by both parties were nothing new nor exciting but some can be comical. Let me amuse you guys with one favourite reason that is the mantra of the day, and I quote from The Independent.

8. No Experience Running a Town Council
The SDP has zero experience running a town council. They may claim that they managed town councils when the Party had Members in Parliament. But their MPs, Ling How Doong and Cheo Chai Chen, who were elected in the GE 91 did so badly managing their town councils that the voters decided to give them the boot at the next election. The fact is, besides Mr Chiam See Tong, who subsequently left SDP to form his own party, no one has effectively managed a town council. From rats to mosquito breeding, Bukit Batok has a number of municipal issues which only an effective town council can resolve.

I am not going to belabour the point why MPs should not be managers of town councils. Leave it to the professionals to do the job, 7/24, not part timers who have no experience in managing town councils or should be managing town councils. The MPs are the people’s representative to the highest body in the country, to be law makers, to talk about national interest and the people’s interests. Do not downgrade this vital role of an MP to become estate managers.

Ok, let me come to the point. How many people have experienced in marriage before they get married? How many people have experience in managing a family before they get married? How many of the PAP MPs have experienced managing a town council or running a govt, or have experience as a minister?

No experience cannot meh? Ok, make sure all those people wanting to get married get some experience in getting married first or else cannot get married. It applies to being MPs and ministers, go and get the experience first.

How many people got experience becoming a PM or the President?

3/21/2016

Dear Leader, We love you

The annual ritual in North Korea to pay homage and respect to Kim Il Sung has been going on for several decades and would not go away. The North Koreans truly love their Dear Leader for his great contribution to the building of their country and to give them a good life, peace and tranquility, low cost of living, cheap housing when freehold landed properties likely to cost a fraction of what Singaporeans are paying for a car. Free medical, free school, and many other free social services.

Yes they don’t have all the gadgets and all the luxury goods you find in Orchard Road. They do not need to keep building the Towers of Babel to accommodate more and more people, to maximize the use of our limited land and resources, limited water supply and practically zero energy sources, only to want to bring in more people to increase the population. This must be the only good reason why Singapore exists, the reason for Singaporeans to continue to work so hard, to build more towers into the sky.

Let’ say the North Koreans have different priorities. Life is simple and decent, no mad rush, no need for everyone to get a degree to live decently. We just discovered this secret to life, that it is silly to spend a life time struggling to pay hundreds of thousands for a worthless piece of paper. There is no need to have a degree to live well. Our ministers have been telling the daft Singaporeans not to be obsessed with degrees. Kim Il Sung’s Korea already been doing that decades ago.

What’s the point? They really, truly love their Dear Leader. At one time many daft Singaporeans were laughing themselves silly at the North Koreans for lining up in the streets to pay their last respects to their Dear Leader, to cry like babies for their Dear Leader, to build silly monuments for their Dear Leader, to want to commemorate their Dear Leader, to want to remember their Dear Leader.

After 23 Mar, I think many Singaporeans understand how important is the Dear Leader to them. We are doing exactly what the North Koreans are doing today. True or not? Can we now appreciate the North Koreans a bit better and stop laughing at them if we do not want others to laugh at us for loving our Dear Leader so deeply and so zealous and enthusiastic in wanting to build more monuments to remember our Dear Leader? Their love for their Dear leader is as real as our love for our Dear Leader. Would anyone want to claim that the North Koreans are fake and we are the real stuff?

Is loving and honouring Dear Leader such a bad thing, to be mocked at as silly, brainless and unthinking people, that only the illiterate and poor farmers of North Korea will do?  Singaporeans are intelligent and thinking people, pragmatic and sophisticated, and should not be indulging in such silliness of the medieval age of kings and emperors?

Should not Singaporeans be proud to show their love and affection for Dear Leader and wear it as a badge of honour, of pride on their chests?

What do you think?

If Singapore wants more monuments for Dear Leader it can send missions to North Korea to learn from them in this area.  Our multi million dollar talent’s most able skill is to go on missions abroad to learn from other less talented people that are paid only a pittance. The North Koreans are really paid only for a song, but they are really good at building monuments. There are many things we can learn from them. We have many things in common.

The US has no time for the Middle East and ISIS

We know the story of how ISIS came about. We know the story of WMD. We know the story of how two Arab leaders were dethroned and their leaders murdered and their regime changed. We know ISIS is now an international problem for the whole world to cope with. The incidents of suicide bombings and surprise attacks are increasing and the death tolls are getting bigger in numbers. Shanmugam has just spoken about how serious is this ISIS threat with more and more people joining their ranks as fighters and suicide bombers. Singapore is facing the highest level of threat today, from ISIS.

The Middle East is burning, caught in a war that would last another hundred years and another hundred years to rebuild, if they are successful, or would be in a state of perpetual warfare? Where are the Americans? Mission complete, time to move on to start another fire somewhere in Asia. We came, we saw and he died. The rest are just collateral damages. No need to waste a tear, no need to look back. This is exactly the state of affair that The Americans have planned, wanted and executed. It is time to move elsewhere, to create another Middle East in turmoil.

Pivot to Asia, move 60% of American military resources to Asia to start another war in the region. This is the new American priority. The Americans are busy moving their big weapons into the region, signing up military alliances and negotiating for more military bases and facilities to conduct war. Asia is the next war zone to be burning. Many Asian countries love wars and wanting to show how good they are with their expensive weapons of war. It shall start either in the South China Sea or in the Korean Peninsula. The latter is easier to instigate. No need WMD, just scream loudly that the North Koreans are a threat to peace in Asia, plant a false flag incident and the two Koreans will be so eager to flatten their countries and to kill their own brothers and sisters. See, the Koreans are the perfect specimen of daft and unthinking Asians that could not see anything further than their nose. The Americans and the Japanese are prodding them from behind, go fight, we will support you, the North Koreans are bad.

The fall back position for the Americans, if the Koreans are reluctant to go to war, is the South China Sea. The ambitious Asean states are more silly and more daft than the Koreans. They wanted to go to war with China to claim Chinese islands, some just rocks, in the South China Sea. They could not see themselves as expansionist regimes that are ripe for regime change. They think that they are big and strong countries, with the backing of the Americans, and can claim and seize islands belonging to China. They are buying more American weapons of war, spending more in their military budget, providing military bases and facilities and inviting the Americans into their countries, to prepare to go to war with China. They are going to push China back.

What would happen to their countries and people when war starts in South East Asia? They are going to defeat China, with the help of the Americans, and to own a few pieces of rocks in the South China Sea? Or would the region be turned into another Middle East, all the countries in the region engaging in a senseless war of mutual destruction till eternity?

What are the American’s goal, agenda and strategy for Asia and SE Asia? What is the American game plan? Do Asian countries want to turn themselves into countries in the Middle East, embroiled in incessant warfare and forgo the development and progress they have built in the last few decades of peace and stability, without the Americans messing around with their warships and war planes?
 
 

3/20/2016

Jeff J Brown a renown American International writer shares his experience of the negative side of US and the West

The Truth Behind US Military Aggression In The South Sea

My first book, 44 Days, really gave me a deep understanding of China and its peoples. This book, China Rising- Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations- The True Face of Asia’s Enigmatic Colossus, has enabled me to discover my own countries (the United States and France), past and present, as well as digging much deeper and wider into all things China, past, present and future.

This whole process has been a voyage to learn the truth and I slowly realized this means questioning a lifetime of conventional wisdom, the popular consensus and their accepted myths. Looking back, I was not really prepared to do this, until coming back to China in 2010. The alternating bookends of growing up in America and then living and working in Africa and the Middle East, 1980-1990; living in China, 1990-1997, France and the United States, 1997-2010 and then back to China, 2010-2016, were and are the doors of my newfound perception.

I now understand that getting de-brainwashed takes a lot of effort, humility and personal courage. I get inspired reading about others people’s journeys to discover the truth. Please allow me to share mine.

I grew up in Oklahoma, USA, in the 1950s-1960s, a very unique period in modern American history. Every school day started with the Pledge of Allegiance, class prayer and singing the Broadway musical, state song, Oklahoma. Patriotism, God, country, the goodness of America’s government and the nobility of its institutions. Beacon on the hill. America’s selfless sacrifice to bring freedom, democracy and Adam Smith’s invisible hand of righteous capitalism to the world’s oppressed masses. Domino theory. Red scare. Commies. Nuclear bomb shelters. Teachers practicing with us, “When you see the flash of light, duck and cover”....

My first indoctrination to government propaganda. Every week at elementary school, we had this drill, to “protect” ourselves from a Russian atomic blast. This massive disinformation campaign served two purposes: to make America’s citizens think that atomic annihilation was feasible and the Cold War nuclear arms race was a patriotic necessity. (Image by Wikipedia)....

We lived in China 1990-1997, during what I call the Wild East Buckaroo Deng Days. I learned Mandarin fluently and became a naturalized French citizen....After 21 years, what a symbolic way to return home, for what was to transpire.

The America I left and the one I came back to, were two different countries. I was shocked by how rundown everything was, all the poverty below the surface, how superficial and self-centered everyone was, and how reactionary and insular the people were. It was buy-buy-buy-me-me-me. Given our eclectic experiences, my wife and I were like exotic, Dr. Seuss creatures from an alien planet. We never fit in,...

In 2010, we moved back to Beijing to teach in international schools, bringing our younger daughter with us. As depressing as it was returning to America in 2001, it was just as amazing and jaw dropping seeing China, after being absent for 14 years. Wow! This is the first time I began to sense that China was moving up and on, while the US was going down and out. The contrasts were that remarkable. I so much wanted to share what was happening, thus, I started a blog and doing extensive research in the process. Then I took a solo trip across China in the summer of 2012, to journal about it. This morphed into my first book, 44 Days, whose travels are really a metaphor about discovering China in history and current events, how it all relates to the West and what humanity can expect in the future....

After Xi Jinping was elected president of China, I was and am still so impressed with him, that I am now writing an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, which will be out in print and ebook, late 2016. In the meantime, Badak Merah Press has commissioned me to write, China Is Communist, Dammit! It will be out in print and ebook mid-2016. These two books involve a massive amount of research, learning and discovery. I’m having the literary time of my life....

While sensing the inequities and injustices, I was still firmly rooted in the myths of America’s moral superiority and divine righteousness. It was not until we returned to the US in 2001 and living in Bush World for nine years, that I began to see the rot of empire. Still though, I clung to the nobility of the “democratic” process and the mainstream media’s mind numbing consensus. I still believed at the time that the New York Times and the Economist were cutting edge journalism.

It was when we came back to China in 2010 that all the scales really started cascading off my eyes, traveling, researching and writing. Since then, I have spent thousands of hours studying genocide, empires, societal collapse, war, capitalism, colonialism, socialism, communism, fascism, false flags, the deep state, etc. I innately understood that I could never understand China and the Chinese, until I really knew the truth about the West. I was ready to question my 1950s-1960s upbringing, its conventional wisdom and official narrative. Like in the eponymous movie and its protagonist Neo, I was finally prepared to step out of the Matrix. There was no turning back.

After researching and writing 44 Days, I had now given up on the US, but being a dual national French-American, I still clung to the illusion that Europe, with its socialism, UN Charter on Human Rights and the lessons learned from two world wars, was the world’s last great hope for moral recovery. And then, like an amped up Hurricane Katrina, came the Western junta’s genocide in the Ukraine. For months, I followed with morbid horror (and continue to do so), the ugly face of not only American, but European fascism. My utter disgust and disillusionment with my ancestral home, Europe, boiled over and I clearly saw that American empire is nothing more than a continuation of European empire. I could now truthfully and coherently talk and write about a seamless historical spectrum: The West. And thanks to this epiphany, I could honestly and meaningfully write about China and its people, from their point of view.

Now it is all very clear to me. Western colonialism, false flags and color revolutions have never stopped since 1492, when Columbus “discovered” the “New World”, as if it were devoid of humanity. The methods and instruments of destabilization, divide and conquer, exploitation and resource extraction have simply adapted. Western empire, with its racism, capitalism, war and fascism, is a four-headed Hydra, and it is insatiable. China has been struggling to rise up against this onslaught, since the first Europeans landed on China’s shores in 1514. The Chinese, with the world’s longest continuous civilization, were and are more than qualified to fight back. It is an irony of history that the West used four of China’s great inventions, gunpowder, moveable type, the compass and paper, to bring the Heavenly Mandate’s long history to its lowest nadir, the century of humiliation, from the 1840s to 1949.

There is a titanic struggle for the soul of humanity, our survival as a species into the 21st century, and it is China, Russia, BRICS, ALBA CELAC and NAM. It is Xi, Putin, Maduro, Castro, Correa, Kirchner, Zuma, Afwerki and all the hundreds of world leaders the West has assassinated or deposed, versus Western empire, Obama, Cameron, Hollande, Merkel, Abe and their thousands of satraps in the hallowed hall of imperial power.

The world needs a million more voices like The Greanville Post, The Saker, Pepe Escobar, Andre Vltchek, Kevin Barrett, Rory Hall, Dave Kranzler, Moti Nissani, Gail Evans, Dan Yaseen, Mo Dawoud, Jason Bainbridge, Dean Henderson (all of with whom I’ve worked), and the many other journalists/authors involved in this worldwide struggle for humanity’s very survival.
From the mouth of the Dragon and the belly of the New Century Beast, it is an honor to lend my voice from the viewpoint of China’s people and their leaders, past, present and future.

Part I: Deep State West (Wing)

What I have learned in writing this book, is that you cannot wrap your head around the popular notion of China’s rise, without also recognizing Western colonialism’s imperial past and ongoing decline, including the rampant use of false flags. They go together like soy sauce and steamed dumplings.

It takes great courage and overcoming an insurmountable mental hurdle to accepting the documented proof of just how common our Western governments commit false flags, in order to manipulate their citizens, get them to accept laws and norms against their own freedoms and safety and like all false flags throughout history, enabling our governments to victimize and attack perceived enemies at home and abroad.

No surprise then, that, Western false flags figure prominently in China’s modern history.
Don’t despair or be shocked. I know exactly how you feel. It took extensive research, while writing this and two other books, to have the scales of brainwashing and propaganda ripped from my eyes. The power of denial and conformity are oppressive. Ultimately, it is a very difficult and emotionally taxing journey to get there, but so liberating and cleansing when you finally reach the summit. While not a religious person, I think that when the clarity of the truth fulfills you, it is like an intellectual and spiritual baptism of sorts....


MH370, Chinese Cyberwar Geniuses and the Long Arm of Western Empire

I asked this same question in the previous chapter: why isn’t anybody looking towards the North? Now we know why. (Image by en.wikipedia.org)
Why are the Princes of Power keeping the 99%’s attention riveted on the middle of bumfug nowhere, in the Southeast Indian Ocean, looking for MH370, and why is nobody asking about the second possible escape route – to the North, in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Everybody I talked to, including journalists based in Beijing and other bright lights of the illuminati, just guffawed at the thought. Chortle no more. I do not have the means nor the tools to confirm all of this. And one thing for sure: if true, the mainstream media won’t touch it with a ten-meter pole, as it would implicate their masters and handlers. But as a rational thinker, the following scenario is looking more than credible, especially given the goose egg laid in the Indian Ocean, finding not even one shred of debris, in spite of a massive, extended, multinational search, other than a supposed flaperon, dubiously discovered a year and half later, all the way over on Reunion island, and which was never confirmed by an independent source....

Time to look elsewhere to unwind 2014’s Gordian knot of the year. The passengers’ families obviously smell a rat. They are getting together a $5 million reward, in hopes of enticing someone on the inside to spill the beans – if they live long enough to meet with the grieving. The half-life of informed people like this tends to be measured in days and hours, if there is a whiff of suspicion from on high....

In an Anonymous news release on YouTube, we learn that there were 20 (Chinese) employees of Freescale Semiconductor on board MH370, bound for where else – Communist China. Four of these employees shared a revolutionary patent on the new “KL Zero” computer chip, which will be used in missile defense (read Star Wars) radar systems. The patent was approved just four days after the disappearance of MH370. Therefore, the four Chinese patent holders could not legally pass the wealth and control of this patent on to their heirs. This leaves the fifth shareholder of the patent as 100% owner: Freescale Semiconductor itself. Who owns Freescale Semiconductor? Jacob Rothschild and the Bush Dynasty’s Carlyle Group. Either you are a conspiracy theorist or a coincidence theorist, but it’s funny how things work out that way.

So, the plot thickens. Why were they in Kuala Lumpur? Why were they all together? Why were they going back to China? Were they defecting back to the Motherland? Were they single or double agents?

Who wouldn’t want to get their hands on these Chinese scientist patent holders and their vast knowledge of warfare cybertechnology? Or better yet, who would want to make sure these geniuses did not help the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) use the very same “Western” stealth technology, to defend the Chinese Homeland? This is not primarily about Jacob Rothschild’s greed and the Carlyle Group’s Bush Dynasty-Bin Laden bedmates, although filthy lucre is often seen lurking around the stage set. This is more than likely about the United States and NATO making sure these Chinese scientists didn’t land in the Middle Kingdom and work for Baba Beijing. How big is a computer chip? The size of your fingernail? It would have been very easy for one of these Chinese brainiacs to hide this new KL Zero war-chip in their suitcase. One or some of these guys could have been PLA (double) agents all along, which if true, would be a John Le Carré-esque-spy-thriller infiltration of the century, into the dark heart of America’s most sensitive military technology....

The deep state of US/NATO, along with Russian intelligence, which together have well over 100 military reconnaissance satellites suffocating every square meter of the Earth’s surface, know exactly where MH370 ended up. If they know, Baba Beijing surely knows too, and is just holding its cards close to see how events shake out. In any case, without so much as a single solitary scrap of maritime evidence to show for the massive and exhaustive searches in the Indian Ocean, an Afghanistan-Pakistan change of flight plans is looking more and more believable. You are either a conspiracy or coincidence theorist. Pick you poison....

New rules for grassroot organizations

The popularity of grassroot organizations has taken an unusual turn for the better. Many are wondering how they could miss all the fun and happenings in grassroot activities. There are rumours that crowds and long queues are forming up, not to buy Toto but to join grassroot organizations and grassroot activities. And organizers of such organizations and activities are having a tough time trying to manage the crowd and the sudden surge in interest.

Because of exceptionally strong demand, new rules and regulations, new criteria are being mooted to limit and control the crowd. Among the new rules are things like female participants must be more than 60 years old. And for younger females wanting to join, for the singles they must get consent letter from their parents. For the more mature females they must get approval letters from their husbands. Oh, they must sign non indemnity forms as well as the organizers and organizations would not want to be liable for any mishaps or injury due to over zealousness and very hardworking members. Another condition is that all activities must end by 10 o’clock and office lights must be left on till morning daylight.

As for the manfolks, places are limited and will be on a first come first serve basis. It has also been reported that tussles and quarrels broke out in the queue because everyone is so excited and wanted to cut queue. Some have even paid their maids to queue for them overnight. Some more entrepreneurial foreign workers have been chopping places and selling them to the eager uncles for a good profit.

There is a new oomph in the air for grassroot activities. It is not just volunteering their time and services. People are paying just to be members and to participate in grassroot activities, locals and foreigners alike. And they are not asking to be rewarded.


Why not, many are using their skills future fund to pay for such activities so more.