Shit just escalated

[Loofydralb]

It's better than ruling obedient serfs whose sole purpose in life is some bullshit promise of 72 virgins in paradise. Seriously, how dumbfuck are you to believe that drivel?

Poor John. The only one believing that psycho-propaganda from the zionists are people like you.

No muslims believe that.

Singapore has done very very well since leaving Malaysia.
{/QUOTE]

Average it economically, yes. But socially and in terms of contributions to human development and potential? Nil. Zilch. Nada. That is why the Gini Index is so huge. That is why you have elderly collecting cardboard and wiping tables at food centers or cleaning toilets and doing guardhouse duty at 70 years old. You don't see that in Malaysia.

The 1960s and 1970s were a very tough time for Singapore. Goh Keng Swee and Ah Gong built the SAF with pragmatism. The SAF was built to counter possible moslem invasion from hostile moslem neighbours. We couldn't risk having ourselves shot in the back by moslem religious fanatics who would betray us in the name of our religion.

Ask yourself honestly if you would shoot a non-moslem singaporean or give military intelligence to moslem invading forces simply because you share their religion.

This policy of excluding minorities from NS have long been reversed. m&d moslems do NS now, and m&d moslem ministers serve in Mindef. How many non-moslems serve in high ranking positions in jiuhu's military or defence ministry?

You people were conned by LKY. He created the Malay/Malaysia bogeyman to scare and unite the majority behind him. Classic social engineering. Until today not a single justification or evidence of conflict thus the trillions spent since then goes to waste that could have been used for those 70 years old table wipers et al.

Ask yourself honestly if you would shoot a Chinese China or give military intelligence to them invading forces simply because your race? Fact is a SIngaporean Chinese is caught spying for China and God know how many more we have roaming around our security organisations.

The fact that PAP is trying to reverse the policy is an admission that LKY IS guilty of racist policies. Thus the tokenism of putting one or two Malays here and there. You think we cannot see through the charade?

It's better than ruling obedient serfs whose sole purpose in life is some bullshit promise of 72 virgins in paradise. Seriously, how dumbfuck are you to believe that drivel?

Poor John. The only one believing that psycho-propaganda from the zionists are people like you.

No muslims believe that.

Singapore has done very very well since leaving Malaysia.
{/QUOTE]
Average it economically, yes. But socially and in terms of contributions to human development and potential? Nil. Zilch. Nada. That is why the Gini Index is so huge. That is why you have elderly collecting cardboard and wiping tables at food centers or cleaning toilets and doing guardhouse duty at 70 years old. You don't see that in Malaysia.

The 1960s and 1970s were a very tough time for Singapore. Goh Keng Swee and Ah Gong built the SAF with pragmatism. The SAF was built to counter possible moslem invasion from hostile moslem neighbours. We couldn't risk having ourselves shot in the back by moslem religious fanatics who would betray us in the name of our religion.

Ask yourself honestly if you would shoot a non-moslem singaporean or give military intelligence to moslem invading forces simply because you share their religion.

This policy of excluding minorities from NS have long been reversed. m&d moslems do NS now, and m&d moslem ministers serve in Mindef. How many non-moslems serve in high ranking positions in jiuhu's military or defence ministry?

You people were conned by LKY. He created the Malay/Malaysia bogeyman to scare and unite the majority behind him. Classic social engineering. Until today not a single justification or evidence of conflict thus the trillions spent since then goes to waste that could have been used for those 70 years old table wipers et al.

Ask yourself honestly if you would shoot a Chinese China or give military intelligence to them invading forces simply because your race? Fact is a SIngaporean Chinese is caught spying for China and God know how many more we have roaming around our security organisations.

Let's face it, madrasahs outside of Singapore are a key source of radicalizing, women discrimination and religious intolerance in nearly every country in the world. There's also little practical relevance in memorizing arabic and religious studies besides being a religious preacher. Jiuhu parents send their kids for religious education because they are either dumbfucks or they want their kids to become politicians in moslem societies like kelantan. Singapore government exerts direct control over the madrassahs here so that they don't stir up shit in society like what we see in indon and jiuhu and pakistan.

Again that proves how paranoid you are because simply there is zero evidence madrasahs in SG did anything nefarious. It like saying your mother is guilty for screwing another man and producing you even without waiting for the DNA tests. I say it is purposefully targetted at the minorities.
Also you are way behind in your intel because the madrasahs here produce the best Malay students in its cohort. They are on their way to rival your racist SAP schools.

It's better than ruling obedient serfs whose sole purpose in life is some bullshit promise of 72 virgins in paradise. Seriously, how dumbfuck are you to believe that drivel?

Poor John. The only one believing that psycho-propaganda from the zionists are people like you.

No muslims believe that.

Singapore has done very very well since leaving Malaysia.
{/QUOTE]
Average it economically, yes. But socially and in terms of contributions to human development and potential? Nil. Zilch. Nada. That is why the Gini Index is so huge. That is why you have elderly collecting cardboard and wiping tables at food centers or cleaning toilets and doing guardhouse duty at 70 years old. You don't see that in Malaysia.

The 1960s and 1970s were a very tough time for Singapore. Goh Keng Swee and Ah Gong built the SAF with pragmatism. The SAF was built to counter possible moslem invasion from hostile moslem neighbours. We couldn't risk having ourselves shot in the back by moslem religious fanatics who would betray us in the name of our religion.

Ask yourself honestly if you would shoot a non-moslem singaporean or give military intelligence to moslem invading forces simply because you share their religion.

This policy of excluding minorities from NS have long been reversed. m&d moslems do NS now, and m&d moslem ministers serve in Mindef. How many non-moslems serve in high ranking positions in jiuhu's military or defence ministry?

You people were conned by LKY. He created the Malay/Malaysia bogeyman to scare and unite the majority behind him. Classic social engineering. Until today not a single justification or evidence of conflict thus the trillions spent since then goes to waste that could have been used for those 70 years old table wipers et al.

Ask yourself honestly if you would shoot a Chinese China or give military intelligence to them invading forces simply because your race? Fact is a SIngaporean Chinese is caught spying for China and God know how many more we have roaming around our security organisations.

The best part is, you believe and endorse discrimination as long as it is your race and religion doing the discriminating. You only oppose discrimination when you are on the receiving end. Your religion openly disagrees with the concept of equality.

Nope that is patently false and you're lying as I have repeatedly mentioned to you:
Abide by the Constitution that provides special privileges to the Malays and stop the discrimination as it is detailed in the Constitution.

 

[tiongsrshit]

tiongs now threatening to close US consulate in HK. tiongs want war

 

[blackmondy]

tiongs now threatening to close US consulate in HK. tiongs want war

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Good news for trump haters.

Biden holds daunting lead over Trump as US election enters final stretch | US elections 2020
A poll this month showed Donald Trump trailing Joe Biden 55%-40% among registered voters as ratings for his handling of the coronavirus crisis have plummeted.
A poll this month showed Donald Trump trailing Joe Biden 55%-40% among registered voters as ratings for his handling of the coronavirus crisis have plummeted. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
With 100 days to go, polls show the president languishing as the pandemic takes its toll. But analysts expect surprises

Lauren Gambino in Washington
Sun 26 Jul 2020 17.00 AEST
One hundred days before the presidential election, Joe Biden has built a commanding and enduring lead over Donald Trump, whose path to victory has narrowed considerably in the months since the coronavirus pandemic began.

The president’s fortunes appear increasingly tied to the trajectory of a public health crisis he has failed to contain, with the death toll past 145,000 and the economy in turmoil.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll this month showed Biden far ahead of Trump, 55% to 40% among registered voters. That contrasted with March, when Biden and Trump were locked in a near tie as the virus was just beginning to spread.

The same poll found Trump’s approval ratings had crumbled to 39%, roughly the same share of the electorate that approved of his response to the outbreak while 60% disapproved. Especially troubling for the president are a new spate of polls that suggest he is losing his edge on the economy, formerly Biden’s greatest vulnerability.

“It is very hard to envision a scenario where you can make an argument for the president’s re-election if unemployment is well over 10% and there’s no sign that the pandemic is under control,” said Michael Steel, a Republican strategist who was an adviser for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign.

“The political environment and the economic situation could look very different 100 days from now, but if the election were held today, it is very likely that the former vice-president would win – and pretty substantially.”

Surveys show Biden ahead in a clutch of battleground states that secured Trump’s victory in 2016, including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. A Quinnipiac University poll of Florida, seen as crucial for Trump, found Biden up by 13 points.

Biden’s campaign is now eyeing an expanded electoral map that could also deliver control of the Senate, challenging Trump in traditionally Republican states like Arizona, where the president has consistently led in statewide polls, as well as in conservative strongholds like Texas, where a new Quinnipiac poll found the candidates neck-and-neck.

Trump has dismissed polling that shows him losing as “fake”, adamant that he defied Beltway prognosticators in 2016 and is poised to do it again. “I’m not losing,” he insisted during a recent Fox News Sunday interview, when presented with the network’s latest poll showing him trailing Biden by eight points.

Political strategists caution that much can – and almost certainly will – change in the coming months, especially in a race shaped so profoundly by the pandemic. There is a general expectation the contest will be closely fought, as presidential elections have been for decades in a deeply polarized climate.

At the same time, widespread uncertainty hangs over the security and administration of an election again threatened by foreign interference and disinformation. The pandemic has raised new concerns about voting procedures, amid Trump’s escalating attacks on mail-in ballots and unprecedented efforts to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the result in November.

Trump’s prospects likely hinge on his ability to persuade Americans he deserves a second term. Yet he remains almost-singularly focused on rallying a loyal but shrinking core of supporters. In recent weeks, he has sought to stoke white fear and cultural backlash with an aggressive response to anti-racism protests, a defense of Confederate monuments and a dark Fourth of July speech in which he claimed children are being taught to “hate” America.

Trump this week endorsed mask-wearing for Americans, months after resisting health experts’ advice. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
The approach worked in 2016, but the nation has changed, transformed by the pandemic, economic crisis and a growing racial justice movement ignited by the death of George Floyd.

“Trump’s problem is that he wants to run a campaign like it’s 2016, but he’s been the guy in charge for the last four years,” said Heidi Heitkamp, a former Democratic senator from North Dakota.

Heitkamp believes Trump’s re-election chances are bound up with his economic approval rating. Once a bright spot for the president, voter dissatisfaction with his handling of the economy has risen ominously as the outbreak worsened in many parts of the country.

Without a strong economy to preside over, she said Trump “doesn’t have a theory of the case for his re-election.”

In recent weeks, the president has tried to draw attention to criticisms of Biden and frame the election as a choice between a political outsider and an establishment insider. But Trump is no longer the insurgent of 2016. He is the president, amid a historic crisis that a majority of Americans say he has mishandled.

Even his supporters view November as a referendum on his presidency. Among Trump voters, 72% said re-electing him was most important to them in this election, the Washington Post-ABC News poll found. Among Biden voters, 67% said it was most important to defeat the president.

There are signs the president is beginning to grasp the severity of the challenges facing him. After weeks of dismissing surges in infections, hospitalizations and deaths across the south and west as the last “embers” of a pandemic that had been largely curbed, Trump abruptly changed his posture.

He has encouraged Americans to wear face masks – which he had long resisted – and resumed the White House coronavirus news conference.

On Thursday, Trump announced that the Republican convention in Jacksonville, Florida, would be cancelled, citing the threat of the virus, which is ravaging the state. Democrats have also scrapped plans for a traditional convention, moving their event largely online.

Joe Biden has largely been conducting his campaign from his basement – and the polls suggest it is working. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee in April, Biden has run a relatively low-key campaign from his home in Wilmington, Delaware, improving his standing in the race even has he shrunk from the national spotlight.

Despite a contentious primary, the party has largely united behind him while his campaign has ramped up fundraising, narrowing the president’s once-vast cash advantage.

Biden is also buoyed by polls showing him carrying women by a historic margin and building a lead with independents and moderates. Since Trump’s election, white suburban women have fled the Republican party, joining with women of color to help Democrats regain the House in 2018. In recent weeks, Trump has attacked Biden on such turf, issuing blunt appeals to the “Suburban Housewives of America”.

As in 2016, both candidates are widely disliked, a reflection of deep polarization and the disenchantment many Americans feel. That year, voters who disliked both candidates swung hard for Trump. Four years later, polling suggests voters who don’t like their options – the so-called “haters” – strongly prefer Biden.

Perhaps even more worrisome for Trump is an erosion of support among older voters, who are disproportionately vulnerable to the pandemic. Retaining his dominance with such Americans, who tend to turn out at higher rates and are overly represented in swing states, is critical.

There are risks for Biden, too, particularly as the race intensifies.

Trump supporters are far more enthusiastic and committed to voting than are supporters of Biden. And Democrats worry particularly about support from black, Hispanic and young voters, who are crucial to building a winning coalition.

“Who he picks for VP is going to tell us a lot about not only what his vision is but it’s going to tell us the direction of the Democratic party,” said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, describing it as the “most significant” decision Biden will make in the next 100 days.

Biden has vowed to name a woman, but Brown believes choosing a black woman would “meet the moment”.

“We’re in the midst of a highly racially polarized environment,” she said. “Black people are, quite frankly, fed up. People are not going to be OK with politics as usual.”

Ed McGinty, a 72-year-old retiree from Philadelphia living in the Trump stronghold retirement community The Villages in Florida, stages his daily protest. Photograph: Bryan Smith/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
Few count Trump out. If the pandemic abates and the economy rebounds, he could benefit. A national disaster or a supreme court vacancy could shift the dynamics of the race. The Trump campaign’s massive ad campaign to define Biden as weak and ineffectual could begin to resonate.

“This race is far from over,” said Sam Nunberg, a former adviser to Trump. “The president has proved that he can come back from behind before.”

Yet after years of bending reality to his political will, Trump has seemingly accepted that he cannot will the coronavirus away.

Ian Sams, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Navigator Research, a left-leaning polling firm which tracks public opinion on the coronavirus, has closely monitored the relationship between approval of the president’s handling of the pandemic and judgements of the candidates.

Most voters view the 2020 election “through the prism of the pandemic”, said Sams, who previously worked on Kamala Harris’s campaign for the Democratic nomination and for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

“Unless something fundamentally changes – and we have 100 days so anything can happen – the handling of the pandemic is going to be the central question in voters’ minds when they step into the voting booth in November.”

Topics

 

[leeisphtui]

Good news for trump haters.

Biden holds daunting lead over Trump as US election enters final stretch | US elections 2020
A poll this month showed Donald Trump trailing Joe Biden 55%-40% among registered voters as ratings for his handling of the coronavirus crisis have plummeted.
A poll this month showed Donald Trump trailing Joe Biden 55%-40% among registered voters as ratings for his handling of the coronavirus crisis have plummeted. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
With 100 days to go, polls show the president languishing as the pandemic takes its toll. But analysts expect surprises

Lauren Gambino in Washington
Sun 26 Jul 2020 17.00 AEST
One hundred days before the presidential election, Joe Biden has built a commanding and enduring lead over Donald Trump, whose path to victory has narrowed considerably in the months since the coronavirus pandemic began.

The president’s fortunes appear increasingly tied to the trajectory of a public health crisis he has failed to contain, with the death toll past 145,000 and the economy in turmoil.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll this month showed Biden far ahead of Trump, 55% to 40% among registered voters. That contrasted with March, when Biden and Trump were locked in a near tie as the virus was just beginning to spread.

The same poll found Trump’s approval ratings had crumbled to 39%, roughly the same share of the electorate that approved of his response to the outbreak while 60% disapproved. Especially troubling for the president are a new spate of polls that suggest he is losing his edge on the economy, formerly Biden’s greatest vulnerability.

“It is very hard to envision a scenario where you can make an argument for the president’s re-election if unemployment is well over 10% and there’s no sign that the pandemic is under control,” said Michael Steel, a Republican strategist who was an adviser for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign.

“The political environment and the economic situation could look very different 100 days from now, but if the election were held today, it is very likely that the former vice-president would win – and pretty substantially.”

Surveys show Biden ahead in a clutch of battleground states that secured Trump’s victory in 2016, including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. A Quinnipiac University poll of Florida, seen as crucial for Trump, found Biden up by 13 points.

Biden’s campaign is now eyeing an expanded electoral map that could also deliver control of the Senate, challenging Trump in traditionally Republican states like Arizona, where the president has consistently led in statewide polls, as well as in conservative strongholds like Texas, where a new Quinnipiac poll found the candidates neck-and-neck.

Trump has dismissed polling that shows him losing as “fake”, adamant that he defied Beltway prognosticators in 2016 and is poised to do it again. “I’m not losing,” he insisted during a recent Fox News Sunday interview, when presented with the network’s latest poll showing him trailing Biden by eight points.

Political strategists caution that much can – and almost certainly will – change in the coming months, especially in a race shaped so profoundly by the pandemic. There is a general expectation the contest will be closely fought, as presidential elections have been for decades in a deeply polarized climate.

At the same time, widespread uncertainty hangs over the security and administration of an election again threatened by foreign interference and disinformation. The pandemic has raised new concerns about voting procedures, amid Trump’s escalating attacks on mail-in ballots and unprecedented efforts to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the result in November.

Trump’s prospects likely hinge on his ability to persuade Americans he deserves a second term. Yet he remains almost-singularly focused on rallying a loyal but shrinking core of supporters. In recent weeks, he has sought to stoke white fear and cultural backlash with an aggressive response to anti-racism protests, a defense of Confederate monuments and a dark Fourth of July speech in which he claimed children are being taught to “hate” America.

Trump this week endorsed mask-wearing for Americans, months after resisting health experts’ advice. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
The approach worked in 2016, but the nation has changed, transformed by the pandemic, economic crisis and a growing racial justice movement ignited by the death of George Floyd.

“Trump’s problem is that he wants to run a campaign like it’s 2016, but he’s been the guy in charge for the last four years,” said Heidi Heitkamp, a former Democratic senator from North Dakota.

Heitkamp believes Trump’s re-election chances are bound up with his economic approval rating. Once a bright spot for the president, voter dissatisfaction with his handling of the economy has risen ominously as the outbreak worsened in many parts of the country.

Without a strong economy to preside over, she said Trump “doesn’t have a theory of the case for his re-election.”

In recent weeks, the president has tried to draw attention to criticisms of Biden and frame the election as a choice between a political outsider and an establishment insider. But Trump is no longer the insurgent of 2016. He is the president, amid a historic crisis that a majority of Americans say he has mishandled.

Even his supporters view November as a referendum on his presidency. Among Trump voters, 72% said re-electing him was most important to them in this election, the Washington Post-ABC News poll found. Among Biden voters, 67% said it was most important to defeat the president.

There are signs the president is beginning to grasp the severity of the challenges facing him. After weeks of dismissing surges in infections, hospitalizations and deaths across the south and west as the last “embers” of a pandemic that had been largely curbed, Trump abruptly changed his posture.

He has encouraged Americans to wear face masks – which he had long resisted – and resumed the White House coronavirus news conference.

On Thursday, Trump announced that the Republican convention in Jacksonville, Florida, would be cancelled, citing the threat of the virus, which is ravaging the state. Democrats have also scrapped plans for a traditional convention, moving their event largely online.

Joe Biden has largely been conducting his campaign from his basement – and the polls suggest it is working. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee in April, Biden has run a relatively low-key campaign from his home in Wilmington, Delaware, improving his standing in the race even has he shrunk from the national spotlight.

Despite a contentious primary, the party has largely united behind him while his campaign has ramped up fundraising, narrowing the president’s once-vast cash advantage.

Biden is also buoyed by polls showing him carrying women by a historic margin and building a lead with independents and moderates. Since Trump’s election, white suburban women have fled the Republican party, joining with women of color to help Democrats regain the House in 2018. In recent weeks, Trump has attacked Biden on such turf, issuing blunt appeals to the “Suburban Housewives of America”.

As in 2016, both candidates are widely disliked, a reflection of deep polarization and the disenchantment many Americans feel. That year, voters who disliked both candidates swung hard for Trump. Four years later, polling suggests voters who don’t like their options – the so-called “haters” – strongly prefer Biden.

Perhaps even more worrisome for Trump is an erosion of support among older voters, who are disproportionately vulnerable to the pandemic. Retaining his dominance with such Americans, who tend to turn out at higher rates and are overly represented in swing states, is critical.

There are risks for Biden, too, particularly as the race intensifies.

Trump supporters are far more enthusiastic and committed to voting than are supporters of Biden. And Democrats worry particularly about support from black, Hispanic and young voters, who are crucial to building a winning coalition.

“Who he picks for VP is going to tell us a lot about not only what his vision is but it’s going to tell us the direction of the Democratic party,” said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, describing it as the “most significant” decision Biden will make in the next 100 days.

Biden has vowed to name a woman, but Brown believes choosing a black woman would “meet the moment”.

“We’re in the midst of a highly racially polarized environment,” she said. “Black people are, quite frankly, fed up. People are not going to be OK with politics as usual.”

Ed McGinty, a 72-year-old retiree from Philadelphia living in the Trump stronghold retirement community The Villages in Florida, stages his daily protest. Photograph: Bryan Smith/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
Few count Trump out. If the pandemic abates and the economy rebounds, he could benefit. A national disaster or a supreme court vacancy could shift the dynamics of the race. The Trump campaign’s massive ad campaign to define Biden as weak and ineffectual could begin to resonate.

“This race is far from over,” said Sam Nunberg, a former adviser to Trump. “The president has proved that he can come back from behind before.”

Yet after years of bending reality to his political will, Trump has seemingly accepted that he cannot will the coronavirus away.

Ian Sams, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Navigator Research, a left-leaning polling firm which tracks public opinion on the coronavirus, has closely monitored the relationship between approval of the president’s handling of the pandemic and judgements of the candidates.

Most voters view the 2020 election “through the prism of the pandemic”, said Sams, who previously worked on Kamala Harris’s campaign for the Democratic nomination and for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

“Unless something fundamentally changes – and we have 100 days so anything can happen – the handling of the pandemic is going to be the central question in voters’ minds when they step into the voting booth in November.”

Topics

given what happened in the 2016 elections polling in the US should be taken with a pinch of salt. Hillary was up just like biden is now, and trump won

 

[JohnTan]

JohnTan said:
It's better than ruling obedient serfs whose sole purpose in life is some bullshit promise of 72 virgins in paradise. Seriously, how dumbfuck are you to believe that drivel?

Loofydralb said:
Poor John. The only one believing that psycho-propaganda from the zionists are people like you.

No muslims believe that.

You are ignorant of your own religion. This is the kind of porn your hafiz are memorizing like parrots.

“There is no one whom Allah will admit to Paradise but Allah will marry him to seventy-two wives, two from houris and seventy from his inheritance from the people of Hell, all of whom will have desirable front passages and he will have a penis that never becomes flaccid (i.e., soft and limp).’”

Sunan Ibn Majah Volume 5, Book 37, Hadith 4337

https://sunnah.com/urn/1294400

Abide by the Constitution that provides special privileges to the Malays and stop the discrimination as it is detailed in the Constitution.

Here's the 152th cock that you have been sucking.


PART XIII
GENERAL PROVISIONS

Minorities and special position of Malays

152.—(1) It shall be the responsibility of the Government constantly to care for the interests of the racial and religious minorities in Singapore.
(2) The Government shall exercise its functions in such manner as to recognise the special position of the Malays, who are the indigenous people of Singapore, and accordingly it shall be the responsibility of the Government to protect, safeguard, support, foster and promote their political, educational, religious, economic, social and cultural interests and the Malay language.

Here's how PAP has kept its word all these years. The m&ds have received

1) minister of moslem affairs (Yaacob Ibrahim, Masagos)

2) m&d moslem cultural centers in Kampung Glam and Geylang Serai

3) shariah laws strictly for moslem marriages and divorces and inheritances (no death or jail to apostates, no forced conversions to islam allowed)

4) state land to build mosques

5) madrassahs for moslem studies

What else are you looking for? Free money? Free admittance to NUS even if the m&d candidate has an IQ lower than Forrest Gump? Free guitars?

 

[kryonlight]

US warplane approaches Shanghai as tensions remain high amid consulate closures


US warplanes have again approached the Chinese mainland, including one that came less than 100km away from Shanghai, as tensions between the two countries continue to rise with the tit-for-tat closures of consulates.
A P-8A anti-submarine plane and an EP-3E reconnaissance plane entered the Taiwan Strait, flying near the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian on Sunday, according to the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, a Peking University think tank.
It first tweeted about the operation on Sunday morning, later adding that the reconnaissance plane was flying back “after approaching Fujian” and “the southern part of the Taiwan Strait”.
The think tank tweeted again at night, saying the US Navy P-8A was operating near Shanghai, with the USS Rafael Peralta, a guided missile destroyer, following a similar route, asking “might be a joint operation?”.


According to a chart from the think tank, the P-8A came within 76.5km (47.5 miles) of Shanghai, the closest any US planes have come to mainland China in recent years, while the other plane came within 106km of Fujian’s southern coast.

It was the 12th day in a row that US military planes have approached the mainland coast.

On Monday the institute tweeted that “it seems” a US air force RC-135W – another reconnaissance plane – had entered Taiwan’s airspace and asked if anyone could confirm it. The Taiwanese defence ministry declined to comment on the claims.


But in the late afternoon, the institute tweeted again, saying a EP-3E was conducting close-in reconnaissance of Guangdong less than 100km from the coast.

The P-8A’s approach to Shanghai came after Beijing had ordered the US consulate in Chengdu to close by 10am on Monday in response to the closure of its consulate in Houston last week.

The closures were the latest in a series of confrontations ranging from areas such as trade and technology to diplomacy and the South China Sea.

On Thursday, the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative released a scratchy audio recording of what appeared to be a warning from the Chinese navy to a US military plane to change course or be intercepted. The think tank said the audio had been captured by a radio amateur that morning.
It remains unclear which aircraft was involved but it was said to be flying close to the southern Chinese coast, north of the Taiwan Strait. It is unknown whether any subsequent aerial encounter took place.


According to the think tank, US air force E-8C surveillance planes have come within 185km or less of the southeast coast of Guangdong province on four separate occasions in the past week.

“At the moment the US military is sending three to five reconnaissance aircraft each day to the South China Sea,” the think tank said, adding the US military planes have come unusually close to mainland airspace several times since April.
“In the first half of 2020 – with much higher frequency, closer distance and more variety of missions – the US aerial reconnaissance in the South China Sea has entered a new phase.”
According to its statistics, US planes made a record 50 sorties over the South China Sea in the first three weeks of July – a time when both countries’ armed forces were conducting training exercises.
The project’s director Hu Bo said the frequent encounters between US and Chinese ships and planes raised the risk of a clashes, although he said the chance of this escalating into a large-scale conflict was small.

 

[kryonlight]

US-China relations: Washington confirms suspension of Fulbright programme for Hong Kong, mainland


The United States has confirmed the suspension of its Fulbright programme in mainland China and Hong Kong, after
President Donald Trump
pulled the plug on the fellowship earlier this month in response to Beijing’s introduction of a national security law in the former British colony.
In an email sent to US scholars preparing to take part in the programme, the US state department said the 2020-21 exchange “will not operate”, though participants would be allowed to apply to take part in different countries.
The Fulbright programme was established by the US in 1946 and allows American and foreign academics to teach, research and study in each other’s countries. The first agreement was signed with China, but it now covers more than 160 countries.
Trump announced the termination of the exchanges in an executive order on July 14. It was part of a series of actions to remove the preferential treatment afforded Hong Kong.


The confirmation comes as ties between China and the United States continue to sour over a broad range of issues, including trade, technology, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and the South China Sea. The rising tensions also saw the Peace Corps end its China programme, which sent American volunteers to teach English in Chinese universities, in January.

 

[Loofydralb]

What else are you looking for? Free money? Free admittance to NUS even if the m&d candidate has an IQ lower than Forrest Gump? Free guitars?

For a start how about stopping the discrimination on hijab in the uniformed services.
Other western countries have adapted hijab into their official wear. Why is SG still discriminating?

 

[JohnTan]

For a start how about stopping the discrimination on hijab in the uniformed services.
Other western countries have adapted hijab into their official wear. Why is SG still discriminating?

KNN. You are not the one wearing the hijab. If you like it so much, wear it.

If you are into women's rights, start with ending support for child marriages and marriage to first cousins within your religious community. That will do women a lot more good than religious headgear.

 

[Loofydralb]

KNN. You are not the one wearing the hijab. If you like it so much, wear it.

If you are into women's rights, start with ending support for child marriages and marriage to first cousins within your religious community. That will do women a lot more good than religious headgear.

So you would rather religious discrimination be instituted on the minority?

 

[Charlie99]

I thought the Singapore government claims to be secular. Why have a Reserved Presidential Elections, and prohect to the rest of the world that the President of Singapore is a hijab wearing individual.

 

[laksaboy]

I thought the Singapore government claims to be secular. Why have a Reserved Presidential Elections, and prohect to the rest of the world that the President of Singapore is a hijab wearing individual.

Her appointment appeals to the twits who love 'diversity': more minorities and more wimmin in positions of power and influence!

Anyway, her main role is to keep her mouth shut when it comes to the country's reserves. Everything else is just decoration.

 

[JohnTan]

So you would rather religious discrimination be instituted on the minority?

If you are defining religious discrimination based on wearing a shawl instead of more serious problems like incest, drug addiction, terrorism, then it is clear your moral values and priorities are wrong.

And I'm sure you would gladly institute religious discrimination on the minority when moslems form the majority, which includes kidnapping non-moslem kids for forced marriages and forced conversion to islam. I never once met moslems who opposed religious discrimination against minorities. You think you will be the first?

 

[Froggy]

There's no need for any referendum because PAP has a super-majority in Parliament. Voters want the ruling party to have supermajority so that we don't end up with unstable coalition governments or hung parliaments.

Madam President is Malay because the Selection Committee agreed to it. She wears m&d attire and practices islam. Besides, it is hard to define what is exactly 'malay'. There are too many distinct ethnic groups in south east asia ranging from Aceh to Borneo to Madura. The common thread they have is being moslem.

With regards to the CPF, PAP has a supermajority. And voters are satisfied with the way PAP has exercised their supermajority in safeguarding our reserves and retirement plans.

Hang your lanjiao lah hang.

 

[JohnTan]

Hang your lanjiao lah hang.

It's thanks to PAP that your sing dollar is worth so much. Otherwise, can you live like a king in thailand? You would just be some menial worker peeling shrimp for us on some slave ship.

 

[Loofydralb]

If you are defining religious discrimination based on wearing a shawl instead of more serious problems like incest, drug addiction, terrorism, then it is clear your moral values and priorities are wrong.

And I'm sure you would gladly institute religious discrimination on the minority when moslems form the majority, which includes kidnapping non-moslem kids for forced marriages and forced conversion to islam. I never once met moslems who opposed religious discrimination against minorities. You think you will be the first?

The victim, in this case the muslims get to define in what form they are discriminated against. There are more but can be dealt later.