Finally we have arrived at the dreaded third world that we have left a
few decades ago. In the media, everyday without fail, there will be
reports of train breakdowns, and now even accident that caused more than
30 people injured and needed medical treatment. Here are some samples
of comments that were posted in Yahoo News.
Commuters travelling on the North-South Line on Wednesday evening (15
November) were advised to add 40 minutes of train travel time, rail
operator SMRT said on social media.
Free one-way bridging bus services from Bishan to Yishun and free
regular bus services between Bishan and Yishun in both directions were
available, SMRT added in the tweet posted at 6.29pm.
“They (SMRT) have been saying that they’ve been upgrading… but this has
been going on for at least one, two years already,” the shipbroker told
Yahoo News Singapore.
Earlier on Wednesday morning, commuters on the SMRT-run East-West and Circle Lines were hit by delays.
There was also a train collision at Joo Koon station on the East West Line that injured 28 people.
The govt has invited Taiwan's rail operator, an organisation that was
much younger than SMRT and has lesser years of experience in train
operation and management, with their top management being paid a
pittance compared to the millions SMRT is paying here, to help to solve
our seemingly unsolvable problems of daily breakdowns. And here is what
the Taiwan train president was reported to say in Channel News Asia.
With 117 stations, .... has a punctuality rate of close to 100 per cent,
reporting fewer than 30 delays exceeding five minutes a year.
“We always plan ahead of all the maintenance operation procedures for
every system, and execute thoroughly in order to ensure the system can
operate smoothly, ” said B C Yen, president of Taipei Rapid Transit
Corporation.
This requires proper training for maintenance staff, as well as strict
controls on system parts thorough execution of construction works and
material supplies and qualities in order to maintain the system’s
stability, he added.
I am sure what the Taiwan train president said above is not rocket
science and simply basic management processes in train management or in
the management of any systems. We don't even do these things? We need to
be told that this is how it should be done?
But this is not why I said Red Dot is now in the Third World. Look at
this pic. Photo credit to Yahoo News.
This reminds me of the days when there were no computers and
word processors and the secretaries were typing with manual typewriters.
When there were errors, they either blanco it and typed over it or
typed on another slip of paper, cut it and pasted over the errors. This
is exactly what this sign board is all about. Third World starring at
you in the 21st Century. My eyes popped out when I saw this.
Unbelieveable that no one thinks this cut and paste thing is unacceptable except in the
Third World. But it is happening, it has arrived!
Watch this video to get an education for yourself and free yourself from
the clutches of neo colonialism of your mind by the West. Many western
scholars have been trying very hard to do this to help the unthinking
Asians and Africans to think and to find some self respect in
themselves, and to stop them from continuing in their unthinking ways,
allowing the West to think for them. This is a video that is very
educational and the things said would hopefully remove the blinkers and
the clogs in the minds of daft Asians and Africans.
Bill Jones, EIR Washington, DC Correspondent, joins us for a discussion
on the silly lies spewing out of the Western media establishment about
China. What most Americans have been fed this week about China and how
it views the world is utter nonsense. It is the crudest of cartoon
characterizations. According to our fake news media the Chinese have
overtaken the arch devil Putin in attempting to emasculate the United
States. Breitbart even went so far as to compare China’s current
thinking to national socialism. These are all ludicrous lies peddled by
the same people who are out to destroy Donald Trump — precisely because
he might ally with Xi Jinping to bring real economic development to the
United States and the world. These lies will increase in intensity the
closer we come to the President’s state visit to China in early
November.
Our guest tonight, Bill Jones, has been a key aide to Helga
Zepp-LaRouche in fighting to bring China's Belt and Road Initiative into
collaboration with the United States. He has closely followed the
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human history. He understands the unique perspective of China's Belt and
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geopolitical zero sum calculus employed in the West. This western world
view, authored by the British Empire, creates the perpetual warfare we
have suffered for the last decades. Join us tonight for what promises to
be a most intriguing discussion.
When Khaw Boon Wan mentioned that it was bad luck that caused all the
problems in SMRT, or something like that, many took it with a pinch of
salt or laughed it away as market talk. How can technical problems be
attributed to bad luck?
With each passing day, this bad luck thing seems to get more real.
Whenever the media quoted Boon Wan or someone in the SMRT management
claiming that services had improved, banged, something worst would
happen, and the trains would suffer more breakdowns to press the point
that it was not so, that the train services were not improving.
The point I am making about this bad luck thing is that it is not due to
poor management or poor maintenance. Whatever maintenance processes
they are doing, using high tech, big data, 3D printing or rocket
science, if the breakdowns are due to bad luck, nothing will work. The
SMRT staff is working very hard, I am very sure about that. Working hard
is not the solution if they did not know what is the real problem.
Worse if it is due to bad luck.
Perhaps a little divine intervention may help in some cases. From what
Boon Wan had done, including inviting the religious leaders to pray to
protection, it is still not working. Got blessing and things get even
worse. It was just inconvenience, now people are getting hurt. Some said
it was so lucky that no crowded train drove into the flood tunnel as
the consequences of commuter drowning inside a flooded tunnel is beyond
comprehension. So what can be worse than that? Would that be the end of
the bad luck?
Fat hope. This morning, 15 Nov, one train collided with a stationary
train in Joo Koon and 29 commuters were hurt as reported in main media,
not fake news. This is first time in Singapore’s history, oops second
time, that a train crashed into another train. Talking about bad luck!
Sure this kind of accident must be bad luck. There is the train signal
system to prevent such a collision. Could you believe it that it was the
train signaling system that caused the accident? The train signaling
system that was supposed to prevent such accident ‘was inadvertently
removed’ when the train passed by a faulty signaling circuit. Holly
cow, how can this be? Does anyone know how dangerous this is when trains
are moving fast instead of this case when both were stationary and only
a few metres apart? And this is a new train signaling system! How can a
new train system have this kind of serious flaw embedded? This is
totally unacceptable. A safety feature cannot and must not be allowed to
be removed by accident or unintentionally even by a faulty circuit.
The most important thing now is to find the source of bad luck. Oh, also
debug this new train signal software to make sure it is fit for
operation. Many lives are put in danger if this bug is not removed
completely and the system declared 100% safe for installation. As for
the bad luck, if it is due to an individual, then the individual must be
removed. This time big data can come in handy. Use big data to
correlate the bad luck with some individual and remove the individual to
remove the bad luck.
For a good start, all the top management staff and Boon Wan must go and bathe with flower water as a precaution.
Is this an admission that the no lunch break decision was a failure or
an act of farce? Before it was introduced they gave reasons like longer
hours meant more business. Such a simplistic view was unbelieveable! Now
that six years have elapsed and the business boom that was supposed to
come along with no lunch break with longer trading hours failed to
materialize and failed miserably, what else is new? Should every laugh
or clap at the naiveity?
Another reason was to keep the market open for continuous trading across
regions and across different stock markets so that the traders, were
they funds managing millions and trading across borders or little
kuching kurap traders thinking that their two cents worth of trades
justified the market to open and to trade without breaks, could
capitalize on this great scheme of things or not to lose out because the
SGX was closed for lunch and they lost big monies or did not helped
themselves with huge profits from the sacrifices of remisiers having to
work with no breaks? Was there another stock exchange that thinks this
is really necessary? What about the big funds in the USA and Europe and
Japan, do they also believe in this myth that they cannot live with if
their markets are not open longer, dispensing with lunch breaks, to
breach the gap of different time zones?
Or were there other reasons that were not told, not spoken that made
this no lunch break so bloody important? If it is, then it should not be
changed. Or if the big funds or little traders needed the market to be
open just in case they missed the golden opportunities or to cut
positions when big changes happened in other markets then it is even
more important to keep the market open with no lunch break.
So, would these funds and traders be complaining now if they made losses
because of the market being closed for lunch? Now, would the return of
lunch break, ie shortening of trading hours, reduces the trading volume
further and reduces the income of remisiers even further?
What would happen to the future of the SGX when longer trading hours did
not help and shorter trading hours too would not work? What is or are
the real problems that are driving the stock market to irrelevance,
becoming dysfunctional? Dunno leh.
‘The Harvard College Open Campus Initiative (HCOCI) announced online
that it has cancelled a talk by Singapore’s most infamous teenager Amos
Yee.
Our upcoming event with Amos Yee has been cancelled. Our apologies to those who were planning to attend.
— HCOCI (@harvardfree) November 12, 2017
This came less than two days after the event was publicised.’ Quoted from the mothership.sg
Many were pleasantly surprised that an esteem top university in the
country where freedom of speech and human rights are sacrosanct in their
constitution was inviting a young rebel to speak on its sacred ground.
The event was scheduled to be held on 13 Nov and with the topic, ‘Jailed
for Dissent’. Amos Yee even went to his facebook to invite people to
attend. It was something that the Americans should be proud of, could be
proud of, till a sudden turn of event.
Amos Yee was invited to speak but was disinvited two days later. This
kind of flip flop only happened in third world countries and pretentious
third world countries trying to pass off as first world countries. But
not America, the USA, the Empire ruling the world.
Even for a tiny little country like Singapore, our govt pride itself as a
country that would not comprise its policies and national interests or
be pressurised to do so by outside parties. And it is unbelieveable to
even harbour the thought that the American govt or Harvard, the seed of
freedom and freedom of expression, is being pressurised to do so, to
turn down a young kid from speaking his peace in the land of freedom.
No, it cannot be. Harvard or the American govt would not be pressurised
to do such a cowardly and shameful thing. It is unimaginable that any
country could have such a great influence to change what Harvard decided
to do. No way. And there is Donald Trump that believes America is great
or he is going to make America great again. He would not tolerate such
an act of cowardice that undermines the greatness of the USA and to make
America small again. I think if Trump comes to know about this, someone
in Harvard or in his govt is going to get grilled.
The only reason I can really think of is that it was all a mistake. There was no such invitation. It was fake news.
What do you think?
