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As a quitter for 8 years now, I hardly keep up with news from the home much. However I was back recently for 3 weeks and I was surprised by the number of floods, in July! Now, I remember the floods when I was a kid, but that was over 20 years ago, and far as I can remember, there was no major floods in the years before I left. I know there had been tons of threads, thousands of messages being posted on this and every other forums about the the flood of foreign talents, over paid scholars or god pxxsing on the Old Man. Well, here is the reason as I see it... Posed Photo Back in 2005, I was working in Manchester when I got to know this girl from China, lets call her J. She just stepped off the boat, sorry, plane from China to do her Masters degree in the University of Manchester. Her plan was, at that time, to get a job and stay in the UK. Now zoom forward to 2006, J should have finished her Masters, but no! She is so useless that she had to repeat! This tells us a lot about her, no? So she only managed to graduate in 2007, a year late. Now, in UK, there was also a FT scheme called the Graduate Placement Scheme, which basically allows a graduate of an UK university to work in the UK for 2 years, work permit free. (Sorry, this scheme is now closed if anyone is wondering) Now, graduating in 2007, with a 2 years visa, would means J will have up to 2009 to get a job in the UK with proper work permit right? Well not really, she could not secure a job for over a year. Instead during the time, she was working 10, 12 hours in silly part-time jobs like waitress, supermarket cashier, sales assistance, etc..., with a Masters degree! I did ask her back in 2005 what if she cannot get a job in the UK and she answered that she will try Singapore then. And after 2 years of failing to get anything in the UK, she had to leave. Guess where she went? Yeap! The Little Red Dot! Which also happens to be her second choice. Now I did not actually keep in touch with her in the past 5 years, but had been keeping track of her on MSN Live and Facebook. When she first moved to Singapore, she was complaining and moaning about Singapore and Singaporeans, about how poor Singaporean's English and Chinese is, about how she does not like it there and so on. If she does not like Singapore so much, why go there? There is a motive. Ok, what about the flood then you may ask. Guess whats her job? Environmental Consultant providing consultancy services to the NEA! Now the Old Man was talking recently about bringing in more "talents" to Singapore, and look at the "talents" that are in right now. She started working for NEA in 2009 and we get floods in 2010! And that is not all, few months before the flood, she posted an update about how she cannot cope with the environmental issues that she is facing at work as she do not know how to solve it. 6 months later, the flood came. So she is the kind of "intellectual class" the old man wants to bring in? And one not enough, he wants 3 more? Mind you, she is not prepared to stay around to watch the "fruits of her labour", she had applied for and was granted Australia PR in April this year, to be used within a year. All this while, Singapore is just a "stop-over" for her, for her to gain some experience in her work before going somewhere else. She applied for Australia PR the moment she got to Singapore. Now it is approved, should not take too long for her to leave. But then the old man will just bring in 3 more to replace her. This is what a real FT is like, yet the government want to "integrate" them into Singapore with Singaporeans? "Talent" that cannot make it in their studies, cannot make it in real first world countries, do not know about their job, using Singapore as a stop-over and to gain experience before finally moving somewhere else. That, my friends, is what the Old Man's policy is all about. by Alvin LWH Please join our Facebook page here and invite your friends to do so to create awareness of the current affairs affecting Singaporeans. Please use our online web form to contact us.  Read More →

In a recent interview with BBC News over the Shadrake case which has sparked an international outcry, YPAP leader Abner Koh said that certain"restrictions" are necessary in Singapore to ensure social harmony. 75 year old British author Mr Alan Shadrake was charged by the PAP regime for "contempt of court" in his book on the mandatory death penalty in Singapore - "Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the dock". He was offered a chance to close the case by apologizing unreservedly to the Singapore judiciary, but he declined to do so and vowed to have his "day" in court. Though the case has brought a chorus of protests from human rights organizations around the world including Amnesty International, a perennial critic of Singapore's mandatory death penalty, the PAP regime is adamant that such drastic measures are necessary to protect the reputation of its judiciary. Two days ago, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said there is a need to defend the integrity of the Singapore judiciary from "malicious" attacks. “We must robustly defend the integrity of our institutions of justice and law enforcement when anyone maliciously attacks and undermines the public confidence and trust which have been earned over the years,” he was quoted as saying in Channel News Asia. The case brought international spotlight to Singapore's atrocious human rights records which is incompatible with a first world nation. YPAP leader Abner Koh was quick to jump to the defence of the PAP regime. "We have to bear in mind that Singapore is a multi-racial and multi-religious society. Certain forms of restriction are definitely necessary to ensure harmonious living amongst the different communities in Singapore," he was quoted as saying in BBC News. The PAP has often resort to fear-mongering to justify its repressive laws to curtail the political rights of Singaporeans by reminding them constantly of the racial and religious riots the country had experienced in the 1950s and 1960s. However the PAP has no qualms playing the race card in politics to smear its opponents. During the 1991 elections, Workers' Party candidate Mr Jufrie Mahmood was labeled as a "Malay chauvinist" by the PAP followed by Mr Tang Liang Hang who was portrayed as a "Chinese chauvinist" in the subsequent election though he was fluent in both Malay and Tamil.     Please join our Facebook page here and invite your friends to do so to create awareness of the current affairs affecting Singaporeans. Please use our online web form to contact us.  Read More →

作者:冀居·谢 新加坡政府向来不允许以政治课题进行民意调查，不能因为跛脚马跑了就来对黄根成的声望进行调查，或者以乌节路淹水来调查对李显龙内阁的施政满意度。 但是这个政府近来却很爱通过一些貌似中立的机构，如报业控股或政策研究院来进行非政治性的民调，以巩固自己仍是最受欢迎的这种假象，实在有够伪善。 像政策研究院这种至少还懂得扮清高，而早报这班二丑就真的很不要脸，竟然写出《珍惜得来不易的民气》这类马屁文章，老实说他们不是帮忙，是在帮倒忙，把公仔画出肠就连遮羞布也没有了。 『总体而言，国人对新加坡的国家认同感和政治参与感是强烈的，97%表示“我爱新加坡”；93%认为“新加坡比大多数国家都好”；93%“以新加坡经济成就为荣”；88%表示“即使在国外担任高薪工作，仍会保留新加坡国籍”。』 这样的答案在于问卷是怎么设计的，让人们没有附加但书的机会，当然就是这样的成绩，闭门都可以造出来的。 这段厉害： 『积极的参与意味着国民的政治意识和期待也相应地提高。62%的受调查者认为“公民有能力影响政府的决策”；但也有高达53%觉得“政府在决策前没有让公民先辩论政策利弊的机会”；同时，高达97%表示“即使有必要迅速决策，政府也应花更多时间听取民意”。国人的政治冷漠同样在逐渐降低，觉得自己有政治疏离感的国民，已经从1998年的43%下降到20%，觉得自己在政治上没有疏离感的国民，则从1998年的3%猛增到41%。』 不过前面他们声明了，所谓政治参与和期待提高，是以参与执政党任何卫星组织有关，其他的任何方式都不算： 『国民对国家的忠诚感，相当程度来自于他们的政治参并在过程中产生的归属感。在这一点上，调查结果显示国人在政治上的参与呈现出可喜的趋势。例如，48%受调 查者愿意为有官方背景的基层组织服务；58%愿意为民间公益或专业团体服务。这两组数字都远比1998年调查的24%和39%来得高很多。』 负面的就只提几个字，甚至不解读： 『外来新移民的大举涌入，对国人的心理冲击越发变得强烈。63%受调查者担心外来移民越来越多，会削弱原有国民的国家认同意识，这比1998年的38%高出许多。』 下面这段，二丑性格尽显，猜来猜去就是没有猜到还有政治因素： 『与此同时，我们也不能忽视另一些让人担忧的事实。新加坡人移民外国的人数，似乎也在持续增高，向警方要求良民证（Certificates of No Criminal Conviction），以便向外国移民机关申请定居的国人，从1998年的4996人跃升到2007年的1万2707人，平均每个月有1000多人。个中的原因当然很多，或许是结婚移民，或许是追求更好的职业，也可能希望有不同的生活方式；无论如何，有办法移民外国的国人，应该都是有较好教育背景和能力 的一群，他们为何选择连根拔起地离去，需要社会给予重视。』 来源：大马论坛  Read More →