Posted on 03/27/2015 8:28:53 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Don’t know about the tanks as such but a lot of their air force assets are based/deployed to Australia, France (mainly training) and of course the US. While their navy frequently deploys to Australia and India for training.
http://xbradtc.com/2013/04/09/mountain-home-afb-home-of-the-singapore-air-force/
The reason for this, according to this report, is that everybody is treated equally under the law, and is subject to the same "oppressive" treatment. And I mean everybody. They cited an example from a few years ago from a case where the young adult son of one of the nation's rulers was caught committing some kind of petty/mischief crime (vandalism, maybe).
The guy was subjected to the same punishment that anyone else would have faced.
He was flogged in public.
On national television.
Same here, every time I visit my sis working in HK and on route to the RP. Damn clean (and i thought Seoul had the cleanest city as you will notice people fishing at the public river).
There’s a good reason why Eduardo Saverin (one of the founders of Facebook) settled in Singapore. The tax structure there is business -friendly)
One of the guys I grew up with lives in Singapore. He has lived there for 35 years. When we had our 40th HS Reunion, he entered the U.S. at LAX. He said it was like traveling to a 3rd World country’s airport.
I wish we could flog perps caught spray-painting graffiti over here.
In addition, most people who visit NYC think only of Manhattan or possibly the area between the three major airports and Manhattan with multi-story buildings. Most of Staten Island and the outer boroughs have large tracts of single family homes with nice, albeit not spacious yards.
Only about one third of Singapore's area is densely settled. The remaining two thirds consists of industrial parks, nature preserves, small towns with tract homes and minimal yards and, yes, military bases. It is about a 20 minute train ride and a slightly longer bus ride from downtown Singapore to Johore Baru, the first town across the straight in Malaysia. Most of that trip takes you through relatively sparsely settled areas as described. The locals will even point out the military bases for you if you ask them politely because the chances are pretty good that they've done reserve duty there.
La Guardia is by far the worst of them all, in America, imo.
Interesting. Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world's_busiest_container_ports
Anyway, I woke up the next morning to rooster crowing and looked out the landside of the hotel to typical shantytown just outside the airport.
“Weird Al” Yankovic - Headline News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU95v23MQ4c
I think Rotterdam would be much closer to the top of this list if the container lift count only includes cargo originations and destinations at the port.
If I recall correctly, they built special purpose facilities for refitting American carriers to make up for the loss of Subic Bay Naval Base in the early 90's. That level of commitment to the relationship *without* a formal treaty of alliance is presumably why Lee Kuan Yew always received a warm welcome stateside whenever he showed up.
They've ordered the F-35. With the exception of countries looking for an excuse to cut their defense budgets, countries that have gotten a close look at, and tested the F-35 have loved it. It is truly a revolutionary advance, even relative to the F-15.
I expect if a neighbor invades, Singapore will suddenly increase its land area by an order of magnitude - which isn't difficult given that the country's only a couple of hundred square miles. That will give its tanks something to do.
I lived in Singapore for 4 years. It’s not illegal to chew gum in Singapore. It’s illegal to sell gum. It’s illegal to litter which includes dropping gum anywhere, but in the garbage bin. You can possess gum and chew it all you want.
I am sure you are correct...the tourist guide probably exaggerated a little lol
I was told in Singapore, there are no food stamps and there is no unemployment compensation. I guess they do not need that welfare because of their business friendly government. The unemployment is NEGATIVE 40% or so. Which simply means they have more jobs than citizens. Most menial jobs are done by imported workers on 2 year work visa’s.
United States on the other hand has a wealth re-distributionist president, hell bent on killing small businesses.
They are very proud of their clean sidewalks. I never realized how much gum was on the sidewalks of big cities until after I lived in Singapore. When you go to any big city in the States or Europe after being there you are disgusted by the gum and trash you see.
There is a lot other countries can learn from Singapore.
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