RH Call For Witnesses

IN THE COURSE OF THE NORMAL WORKINGS OF THE LAW EVEN IN FAIR AND DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES, JUDGES CAN, EVEN AFTER HAVING HEARD ALL THE ARGUMENTS AND STUDIED ALL THE EVIDENCE, STILL MAKE MISTAKES AND FIND INNOCENT MEN GUILTY, LET ALONE IN A DICTATORSHIP LIKE SINGAPORE WHERE THE JUDICIARY AND EVERYBODY ELSE AND EVERY INSTITUTION HAVE BEEN CORRUPTED TO LIE KY's WILL, ABETTED BY STUPID, VICIOUS, RACIST, AMERICAN THUG PRESIDENTS AND THEIR EQUALLY THUGGISH MEN. IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO TRY ME IN COURT. INDEED, GIVEN THE VICIOUS AMERICANS AND TOTALLY CRIMINAL THUGS LIE KY LHL WKS, THIS IS MY ONLY HOPE OF HAVING MY NAME CLEARED AND SOME JUSTICE AFTER 15 YEARS OF TOTALLY UNWARRANTED AND UNJUSTIFIED CRIMINAL TORTURE PUNISHMENTS THAT HAVE GONE BEYOND ME TO MY SON AND LITTLE NIECE.

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Date: Jul 29, 2006 3:20 PM
Subject: The Great Robert HO Game, State of Play 29 Jul 06

1. It has been about 15 years since LKY and his American co-criminal conspirators [started by Clinton in his first term and now into Bush's second term] began their torture and attacks on me, my then little son and even littler niece.

2. What is now accepted realities that were not thought to be so 15 years ago? Here's the state of play, 29 Jul 06.

3. First, my innocence. 15 years ago, LKY was seen as a kind of Great Asian Stateman whom a certain stupid woman gushed "was never wrong". In other words, LKY was seen as a Great Manager of a tiny little tropical city, never mind if he tended to be a bit strict with his draconian laws and social engineering. Thus, when LKY declared that Robert HO is guilty of attempted murder, everyone believed him because, after all, Singapore under LKY seemed to be run on the basis of law, never mind if the laws were draconian. So, presumably, LKY must have consulted his judges before he adjudged me 'guilty' and went on a rampage of extra-judicial attacks on me and my son and niece, still ongoing with physical attacks, mostly sleep deprivation and verbal foulmouthing attacks {Kan Ni Nau and Ah Kua to my face whenever I venture out].

4. On the other hand, the Americans 15 years ago were respected as defenders of democracy, human rights and legalist practice. So, when Clinton initiated his co-criminal attacks on me together with LKY, who tricked the dumb Clinton into co-criminalising with him, the world went along. After all, the Americans have great legal tradition, where the law is constantly invoked, debated and used to adjudicate a huge arena of human contentions, from business claims and counterclaims to civil rights for gay marriages and rights of prisoners and victims of corporate malfeasance. The thinking, 15 years ago, is that if the Americans are playing this Great Robert HO Game, then it must be all right to join in.

5. Today, 15 years later, the Game has changed. This is the State of Play 29 Jul 06.

6. To begin with, my innocence. Many people are now aware who were unaware 15 years ago, that I had actually been tried in a Singapore Subordinate Court in 1979 under circumstances that were truly fair and non-political, since LKY had not taken an interest in my case then in 1979, so the verdict was truly fair, which can never happen again with LKY now deeply involved in insisting on my guilt, so that, perforce, if I am guilty as LKY wants to pretend I am, then I have absolutely no rights and LKY and his American co-criminals can do anything they like to me and it will all somehow be 'justified'.

7. In that trial in 1979, I was arrested in an ambush by HDB security men who caught me redhanded cutting HDB wires in my father's block, Block 100 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh. I was arrested and charged in court the next day. Then, as the circumstances warranted, the hearing judge ordered me into Woodbridge [Mental] Hospital for 3 weeks of psychiatric evaluation. At the later trial after the 3 weeks, the prosecutor asked me whether that was the only time I cut wires and I replied telling the truth that I had done so several times, climbing onto the roof of the Block to do so. Telling the truth then could have resulted in more than the 3 mandatory strokes of the rotan and a longer jail term. But, even though I was mad then, I told the truth. I was mad from 1976 [from the stress of doing 2 jobs, teaching by day and sub-editing by night as a Straits Times sub-editor. No one else among my grandparents and parents and siblings and relatives had ever been mad. The stress and lack of sleep tipped me into madness and I resigned first from my teaching job, then the subbing job -- the latter on no more than hearing a fellow sub saying the words, "When you've got to go, you've got to go." which I thought meant that the Chief Sub, Roger Yue, was going to sack me so I walked out of the job and was jobless. In those days, you don't walk out of your only job, not when it is a nice job as a sub and you've got little paper qualifications for a better one].

8. Thus, my hyper sensitivity to words, which is the main trait of my paraoid condition, led me to walk out of the subbing job at ST in 1976. Months later, I found another job as an advertising copywriter but my condition was already deteriorating. I heard words that I thought were aimed at me and pushed an account-executive's desk of files and documents onto the floor, for which I was sacked. I drifted a bit into other agencies but was becoming too paranoid to hold a job.

9. [It is ironic, to say the least, and cruel, to say the least, that the main kind of attacks on me are sleep deprivation, still ongoing 15 years later, when they all know that lack of proper sleep was what caused my descent into mental illness in the first place so this is deliberate pushing me to the edge of madness once again. The other main attack is to play mind games with me, to convince me that my wife was unfaithful to me, which was another major trait of my mental illness. They know all these, but deliberately chose these 2 major manner of attacks on me for their fun. [For LKY, it is not so much fun as a humongous publicity stunt to make himself and his tiny little city famous, in which he succeeded. For the Americans, to whom it is none of their business if I had actually indeed committed murder, it is all a vicious game of fun because their nature and idea of fun is to inflict pain and hurt. After all, LKY has been constantly assuring them that this is all 'justified' and indeed, far less than what his court would have ordered, which is another LKY lie and self-justification.]

10. Thus, the judge's verdict in 1979, that I was "Not guilty on grounds of unsound mind" not only appled to the single case of vandalism I had been caught redhanded committing, but also to the several counts of equal vandalism I had admitted to under oath in court. These were taken into consideration. I WOULD FURTHER APPLY THIS VERDICT TO ALL MY ACTIONS BETWEEN FIRST DESCENDING INTO MADNESS IN 1976 TILL 1979 WHEN I WAS ORDERED BY THE JUDGE TO BE REMANDED AT WOODBRIDGE UNTIL CURED, which I was after 4 months of medication and which I am still taking [some patients never respond to medication and are remanded for life].

11. Thus, my innocence is proven. LKY had fooled the stupid ignorant Americans into giving him a humongous publicity stunt from which only he and Singapore benefited while this game dragged the Americans' reputation through the mud.

12. Today, about 15 years later, the state of play has changed. Clinton and his reasonableness is gone and with that, the American reputation for fairness, truth, justice, democracy and human rights. Bush was a godsend for me. In just 2 terms, he invaded Iraq and brought about the total destruction of America's reputation among all the civilised and thinking pepple of the world. As for LKY, I had another godsend when on 9 May 03, Mr David DUCLOS emailed me [I was living in London on my wife's Work Permit then] and at UK time 1044 hrs and Singapore time 1744 hrs, I posted the bombshell that LKY rigged the Cheng San GRC election in 1997. When I was preparing to post that article in soc.culture.singapore, the fire alarms outside my flat went mad ringing to warn me to stop [LKY and American agents were living next to me practically and had wired the whole flat up with their devices]. Little did Mr DUCLOS know that when he emailed me, in that instant, his email was being read by hundreds, and later thousands, around the world. I am not sorry for naming him outright in some of my later emails and documents BECAUSE THE WORLD HAD ALREADY READ HIS EMAIL AND HIS IDENTITY RIGHT THERE AND THEN THAT FATEFUL DAY.

13. Mr DUCLOS changed my life and probably that of Singapore's history on 9 May 2003. With the whole world, so to speak, watching me and reading every word I read or write, in the very first 'reality show', LKY's reputation went rapidly downhill. From Great Asian Statesman to election rigger! He went on to destroy his own reputation even more. For example, in the 2006 General Election just past, he proved that he and his heir are capable of deceit, lies and manipulation of corrupt judges. In short, the entire Singapore has been corrupted by LKY, systematically and totally, from police and judiciary to the army, civil service and govt companies. LKY's reputation could sink no lower. The whole world knows this now.

14. This, then, is the state of play, 29 Jul 06. The Americans are despised totally by the world, even among the least well informed. It is not just the Muslims who hate America but thinking Europeans and Asians and Latin Americans and Africans, too, and everywhere in between. America stinks from pole to pole. LKY is no better. The publicity stunt from which he and Singapore has benefitted so much has at last backfired, also dragging his reputation through mud like the Americans.

15. Does this matter to the Americans and LKY? Maybe not much. But in politics and world and human afairs, all human beings have an innate sense of justice and fair play. Even monkeys possess this sense. By falsely arresting me so many times and incarcerating me in the mental asylum and by vandalising my equipment and attacking my son and niece, not to mention the nightly sleep awakening, often for hours, and the mind games, LKY and the Americans have proven their viciousness and less than sterling roles as leaders of men and intelligent actors for the human race. They, especially LKY, have proven to be vicious, petty, cruel, vindictive and totally power crazy and power abusive. The Great Asian Statesman is no more. The Americans have thrown in their lot with him and are no more. The world, mostly secretly, and in their heart of hearts, DESPISE LKY AND HIS AMERICAN FRIENDS.

16. I have won.

Robert HO
29 Jul 06 1520
Singapore

Date: Jul 30, 2006 10:30 AM
Subject: Fwd: The Great Robert HO Game, State of Play 29 Jul 06

Contextual Quotes for the Day:

1. When they drag you through mud, struggle as hard as you can and they will be muddied, too, right up to their faces...

2. Politicians never admit mistakes. They always try to brazen it out. Only when you have a free and independent media who spotlights their mistakes will they recant and admit they were wrong. Even then, they excuse themselves for "honest mistakes" and that "it was right at the time"...

2a. "Never admit fault" so that you can do 'damage control' and leave yourself some bargaining room...

Date: Jul 31, 2006 11:02 AM
Subject: Fwd: The Great Robert HO Game, State of Play 29 Jul 06

8a. Footnote to Paragraph 8 of main email: Before I became totally unable to hold down a job and became a penniless, jobless man, dishevelled and unshaven mostly, totally absorbed in fighting my demons every day and every hour, I was briefly in Pace Advertising as a copywriter. When there, I wrote a short letter, actually just a note, to ST columnist Paik Choo, who then was writing a column on Singlish. The note was simply "You are a bitch" or something close to that. Why? In my madness, I thought that she had referred to me in her writings and so scolded her. Like always, I did not lie about my identity and signed my real name and was later apprehensive that she would sue me. This is just another proof of my condition then. Paik Choo may remember that strange letter and can testify. The secret police should also have a copy of that letter. A Pace Advertising Director, Ellen Chong, once offered to help me when she saw me troubled and I had confided that my troubles "were political." She said she knew a few MPs. This conversation is probably recorded as well. My job in Pace Advertising was just before I brought my girlfriend, now my wife, to UK and US, so my condition was clear even then. If LKY insists that he is right to persecute me, I am prepared for an open trial, where I may at long last, be able to testify in my own defence, something I had never been given the chance in 15 years of torture and persecution by LKY and the Americans DESPITE KNOWING THAT I, LIKE OTHER LKY OPPONENTS, HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE OF A FAIR TRIAL IN HIS KANGAROO COURTS. My facts are strong enough to embarrass LKY and the Americans, EVEN IN A KANGAROO COURT. I only need to be able to speak under oath and maybe, call a few witnesses. I don't know law but it is very stupid and totally illogical to take the stance that my cutting wires was due to madness [as adjudged by a fair judge] but that cutting my wife cannot be due to madness [or not mad enough] WHEN BOTH OCCURRED DURING MY MAD PERIOD FROM 1976 TO 1979. Thus, if LKY continues to send police vans and police cars to intimidate me during my drives, I say, BRING IT ON! I can prove my innocence in court, even in a kangaroo court. If any of you out there reading this want to interview me whether officially or unofficially, or by email, please do so. The Truth is on my side. You will NOT be harming but HELPING me by exposing the Truths of this whole matter.

Date: Aug 1, 2006 11:41 AM
Subject: Fwd: The Great Robert HO Game, State of Play 29 Jul 06

8b. Further to 8a: Clinton is a clever man but clever people are easily fooled by clever arguments. For example, on my state of sanity or insanity. Normal people of ordinary intelligence, upon hearing my case, would IMMEDIATELY say, "Robert HO? Doesn't he have a proven record, both in psychiatric assessment report and later in court in a fair trial, of being mentally ill? Therefore, how can he be guilty of cutting his wife, even though slightly and hesitantly? [Not a vicious slash as PAP media are wont to exaggerate]. But Clinton, brain impaired by having been too often squeezed between Lewinsky's legs, BELIEVED LKY's SELF-SERVING ARGUMENTS THAT I WAS 'NOT MAD ENOUGH' ACCORDING TO HIS 'THOMAS LOH-TYPE DOCTORS' AND KANGAROO JUDGES. So Clinton happily went along TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLY, WHIPPING UP A VICIOUS CAMPAIGN THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANYONE CAN STOP ONCE UNLEASHED. How could they embark on something they knew they could never stop? That once my private life is exposed, it cannot be undone. That once simple minded people ever willing to prostitute to their superiors are ordered and encouraged to victimise me and my family, this, too, cannot be undone. And not just me but my entire family, too. This victimisation is not only illegal and criminal, but degenerated into real biological attacks with virulent flu viruses fed to me, my son and my little niece, among other vicious mental and physical abuse bordering on real torture, not to mention vandalism of my various equipment and psychological defiling attacks by frequently putting shit on my car, etc. Even high-tech radiation attacks, daily on me and often on my son and niece as well. My wife was threatened with rape. Even today, my son, soon to study in the London School of Economics in September, has been threatened with death, besides the 'less serious' threat of being kept totally under hostile surveillance with the sole purpose of harming him and his interests! This is what LKY is doing, with the active connivance of the Americans and other 'friendly' govts. Clever people are easily fooled by clever arguments. Politicians never admit mistakes unless politically jeopardised otherwise.

8c. As I expected, LKY is unrepentent. He is sticking to his guns. He is continuing in his campaign as though this is 15 years ago. Facts don't matter to him. Truth doesn't matter to him. Changed circumstances don't matter to him. HE HAS NEVER ADMITTED A SINGLE MISTAKE SINCE HE SEIZED POWER IN 1959. Even though he has reversed many policies that have proven wrong and outright disastrous, like the forced sterilisation of women. [If they don't sterilise themselves, they are ineligible for HDB flats]. Somehow, his psychological persona is incapable of admitting mistakes and there is no political or media pressure to force him to, since he is the most powerful man in the world over his tiny city.

8d. Even though I dread speaking in public, I am willing to hold a press conference to detail all these truths. However, LKY will quickly put me away as a lunatic. So, if SOME CREDIBLE PERSON OR PREFERABLY A CREDIBLE ORGANISATION WERE TO CONFIRM AND AFFIRM THAT THEY HAVE INDEED HEARD OF MY CASE AND DETAILS THROUGH OTHER CHANNELS AND SOURCES OTHER THAN FROM ME, THAT IS, CORROBORATING WHAT I HAVE CLAIMED FOR YEARS, I WILL BE HAPPY TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY THIS CREDIBLE PERSON OR ORGANISATION TO TELL THE TRUTHS OF HOW MY FAMILY AND I HAVE BEEN TORTURED PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY AND SOCIALLY FOR 15 YEARS. Bloggers who want to interview me can also do so in person or by email. I shall say nothing but the truths. My only request is that my replies be in full and unedited [to prevent PAPies from distorting everything, as is their usual practice, if they come disguised as friendly]. My contacts:

Robert HO
28 Bukit Batok Street 52
#20-03 Guilin View
Singapore 659248
Tel: 68989553
Email: ic019@yahoo.co.uk

8e. Some of you may wonder why I have taken so long to come to this. Actually, I have been publicising these attacks and criminal acts on me and my family and property for years in soc.culture.singapore. Just do a search using my preface RH: I always preface all my postings there with RH: so this will call up all my postings there. Also, NOBODY HAS EVER DIRECTLY TOLD ME WHAT I WAS BEING TORTURED FOR, TO THIS DAY. It took me a year or two 15 years ago, to realise that these torture attacks were for cutting my wife. Then took me more years to realise, entirely from their innuendoes only and NEVER DIRECTLY, that they didn't consider me mad enough. Since I was never directly even told of my 'crime', I could not even say anything in defence. This is a Catch-22. If they never directly tell you what you are being tortured daily and nightly for, how could you even know what this is all for let alone say anything in defence? Also, I knew early on that LKY did all this FOR SELF-AGGRANDISING PUBLICITY, AS A PUBLICITY STUNT, SO THAT HE COULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK OFTEN TO CLINTON AND LATER, BUSH. His humongous publicity stunt succeeded so well that almost all Hollywood films now mention "Singapore" where previously, nobody there even knew it existed. Thus, if you have independently heard about my case and some of its details, contact me or email me. I will answer any questions because I have Truth and Right on my side and have nothing to hide.

Date: Aug 2, 2006 11:19 AM
Subject: Fwd: The Great Robert HO Game, State of Play 29 Jul 06

8f. As for the scarring, as PAP propaganda media are wont to exaggerate, THIS IS NOT DUE TO A SEVERE CUT BUT DUE TO HER POOR RECOVERY [she had pierced her ears before for earrings but both holes developed cysts or growths due to poor biological recovery powers. Also, she bruises easily and the blue-black marks last for weeks even after very slight bruising, some so slight she didn't even know how or what she knocked into. I have said the cut was "slight and hesitant" and this is because, even up to the moment of cut, I had expected hidden ISD men to spring from hiding probably from behind the curtains, to stop me. When that didn't happen, I was so shocked and confused I did not continue and gave up. That was my state of mind then. It is totally dictatorial to slant a version of events without asking me for my version or defence and then to 'find me guilty' without giving me a chance to testify as to what really happened. The whole humongous publicity stunt was not designed to impose [illegal and criminal] punishment but to play to the [mostly American] gallery, to put on a humongous show for the edification of the Americans and the watching world, which continues even today. With every word and act being broadcast instantaneously, to an avid watching audience, LKY continues, even after some 15 years, to play to the gallery, directing a cast of prostituting men and women he controls, to pass remarks at me or to insult me to my face [Kan Ni Nau and Ah Kua] as well as other epithets. Daily and nightly, he wakes me from sleep and honk car horns to intimidate me into a fearful state, so much so that my urine has turned brown for more than a decade, probably from overproduction of stress hormones. From the very beginning some 15 years ago till this day, it was never about justice but about power play and putting on a show for the Americans to enjoy so that LKY can get the chance to call Clinton and later, Bush frequently, ostensibly to talk about me but more because LKY glories in being on first name terms with Clinton and Bush. I am just a convenient scapegoat to launch his conversations and contacts with the Americans. If I had not been such a convenient LKY excuse for conversation, no American President would even bother to accept a call from such a tiny tinpot despot of a tiny city. But today, things have changed somewhat. I sense that Hollywood is at last, beginning to see things as they are, more my way, and to become fairer to me. So probably has Hongkong movie makers and tv productions. The truth, so long raped by LKY, is beginning to surface and attitudes are changing. I had always known what the real LKY motivations are and my side of the story, which is why I fought tooth and nail. If I had thought I was guilty as 'charged', I would have lain down and allowed myself to be tortured because then, as guilty, I would have nothing to say and no reason to fight back. This, then, is the state of play and I am being vindicated, at long last.

Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:29:48 +0800
Subject: Fwd: The Great Robert HO Game, State of Play 29 Jul 06

8g. As I said, clever people are easily fooled with clever arguments. People of normal or average intelligence would have simply looked at my behaviour pre-1979 and post-1979, or rather, before I went to Woodbridge [Mental] Hospital in 1979 and after I came out and concluded that I had indeed been mad before I went in and was normal or cured after I came out. The difference couldn't be greater. It is like night and day or black and white. Before I went in, I was penniless and jobless, mostly unshaven and dishevelled, unable to even apply for a job let alone hold one, fighting demons every day and every hour, climbing out the window onto the roof of my father's 16th storey HDB flat in Block 100, Lorong 1 Toa Payoh, to cut every wire I found, armed with wire cutter. After I came out of Woodbridge in 1979, I immediately applied for a job and was working within a week. I did not do any mad things like before, since. From this, any average intelligence person would conclude correctly that I had been mad but was cured. It is so obvious. But no, LKY wanted a publicity show and he has many Thomas Loh-type doctors and Chan Sek Keong-type judges to back him up in finding me 'guilty'. Apparently, I was not mad enough to be found not guilty, as though there are different degrees of madness. To put it shortly, cut wires, not guilty, but cut wife, guilty, EVEN THOUGH BOTH OF THESE HAPPENED AROUND THE SAME TIME. When I was pronounced by the judge to be "Not guilty on grounds of unsound mind," I was immediately relieved at not having to be caned and jailed but then dismayed at being ordered to Woodbridge so I wanted to shout, "This is a govt conspiracy! I am NOT mad!" but the judge had already turned away and I was quickly led away by the police. When I was driven to Woodbridge, and it was Medicine Time the next day, I refused to take the psychiatric tablets prescribed by the doctor. The male nurses and some inmates held me to the floor and forced open my mouth to put the tablets in and pour water into my mouth, with me struggling all the while. I kept spitting out the tablets. In the end, the male nurses injected me with a tranquiliser [which made me sleep for hours] and also refused to give me my asthma tablets unless I also eat the psychiatric tablets so I had no choice but to eat them. When I was mad, I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS MAD. I had no clue and thought I was normal. I refused to even think I could be mad. So during the first half of my 4 months in Woodbridge, I was thinking thus, that I had been a victim of govt conspiracy and was not mad. This was so for about half of the 4 months. Then, after the first 2 months or so, I began to think that I could have been mad. By the third month, I was sure I had indeed, been mad and was on the way to recovery. By the fourth month, I was eligible and recommended by the doctor to be interviewed by the Visitors' Board, which interviewed me and found me fit for release and so I was released after 4 months in Woodbridge. It is all so clear and obvious. The difference from my mad behaviour and my cured behaviour is so stark, like night and day or black and white, that no normal person would dispute that I had been mad but cured. Only the clever are easily fooled with clever doctors who think there are different degrees of madness and politician legislators who believe that some mad people may not be mad enough and so must be punished. And LKY, whose only interest in my case is NOT justice but SELF-AGGRANDISING PUBLICITY STUNT, cynically and deliberately put on a torture show, every moment and act of which is broadcast to the Americans and world at large, in order to cultivate close contacts with American Presidents who would otherwise not even give him the time of day. But the Truth can only be raped for so long and it takes extreme violence to maintain the Lie and so, of late, even Hollywood and Hongkong have been creating shows closer to the Truth. As I said, when you look at the facts and not the self-justifications of LKY, everything is so very obvious. Truth will out. I have won. LKY, already famous now as an election-rigger, will go down in history as a serial criminal who committed thousands of separate acts of crime against me, my son and my little niece. He is guilty as I charged. Truly guilty. He is the guilty one. Together with his American co-criminals whose support has been instrumental in his being able to enforce the Lie for 15 years. If the Americans had not supported LKY, his show would have fallen apart in 15 weeks, let alone 15 years. The great moral stature of the Americans was what kept the Lie going for 15 years. It it had been LKY alone, his Lie could not have lasted 15 weeks because almost everyone knows he is a dishonest, dishonourable and totally devious criminal who is only totally focussed on enlarging his empire, his wealth and his own and his family's interests.

Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:15:32 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Fwd: The Great Robert HO Game, State of Play 29 Jul 06

8h. It is totally unlawful, unethical and immoral to find me 'guilty' without calling for my defence since I am the best person in the world and the only one who knows my state of mind and the truths of all the issues. Without even a direct allegation or charge, I cannot even know what are the grounds for finding me 'guilty'. I urge a trial, even in LKY's famous kangaroo courts. Without a direct question and answer, calling of witnesses, me testifying for myself, nobody in the world can even know the truths, let alone pass judgment. Let me give an example. Suppose a security guard [plus the shop's secret cameras] sees a man taking a piece of cheese and putting it in his bag and trying to leave without paying. Can you then say he is guilty and to be punished for shoplifting? After all, the security guard has witnessed it and it is on camera. But ONLY IN A COURT WOULD THE TRUTHS BE KNOWN. Which is that this man is a Director in his brother's computer firm, his monthly Director's fee amounting to several thousand dollars alone, he is a polytechnic IT graduate AND HE DOESN'T EVEN EAT OR LIKE CHEESE. This is a true case. This man I met during one of my stays in IMH. He told me he didn't know why he stole the cheese, since he doesn't eat cheese. He knew it was wrong and he would be fined and/or jailed. AND HE HAD SHOPLIFTED BEFORE. And, if I remember correctly, been fined and/or jailed briefly before for shoplifting, once or maybe twice before. This time, the cheese is so ridiculous an object, plus his previous convictions, that the judge sent him for observation at IMH, probably for kleptomaniac reason. When I told him he is a kleptomaniac, he didn't even know what that was.I had to explain to him. All these are recorded by LKY's secret police [yes, they followed me to IMH, too, because LKY's Great Robert HO Game is so gripping a reality show and he is milking every second of it for his own self-aggrandisement and to put his tiny city on the world map and he has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, with the World Bank-IMF meeting soon. When you consider that laws are made by unscrupulous politicians like him, and that what is legal in one country can be illegal in another, and vice versa, you will realise that "the law is an ass".

Date: Aug 11, 2006 9:40 AM
Subject: THE ROBERT HO TORTURE GAME. CALL FOR WITNESSES.

A. IT HAS BEEN SOME 15 YEARS OF DAILY TORTURE, DAILY USUALLY BODY ORGAN MALFUNCTION ATTACKS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ATTACKS FROM SMEARING SHIT ON MY CAR TO VERBAL ATTACKS USING OBSCENITIES TO NIGHTLY ATTACKS BY KEEPING ME AWAKE SOMETIMES FOR HOURS, LEADING ME TO BE TIRED DAILY AND A DANGER WHEN DRIVING TIRED, ALMOST CAUSING ME FATAL ACCIDENTS THAT WOULD HAVE KILLED MY ENTIRE FAMILY WHEN I DOZED OFF AT THE WHEEL DRIVING AT OVER 130 KMPH. MY URINE HAS, FOR YEARS ALREADY, TURNED TEA-COLOUR BROWN FROM THE DAILY AND NIGHTLY STRESS ATTACKS.

B. MANY OF YOU OUT THERE ALREADY KNOW ABOUT THESE TORTURE ATTACKS. I WOULD NOW LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU OUT THERE HAVE HEARD ABOUT THESE CRIMINAL ATTACKS ON ME, MY SON AND MY LITTLE NIECE.

C. SO, IF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT MY CASE INDEPENDENTLY, THAT IS, NOT DIRECTLY FROM ME BUT THROUGH OTHER SOURCES, PLEASE DROP ME A LINE JUST TO SAY THAT YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT MY CASE INDEPENDENTLY AND NOT DIRECTLY FROM ME.

D. THIS WILL GREATLY BOOST MY MORALE, TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE WILLING TO ADMIT THAT THEY HAVE HEARD ABOUT MY CASE INDEPENDENTLY. THAT'S ALL I ASK.

E. I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU, THROUGH EMAIL, OR EVEN ANONYMOUSLY THROUGH SNAIL MAIL. THANK YOU.

Date: Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 2:00 PM
Subject: Fwd: THE ROBERT HO TORTURE GAME. CALL FOR WITNESSES.

22 Sep 06, tonight leaving for UK with wife and son, who will be studying for his Economics degree in the London School of Economics. My wife and I will return after a week or so, leaving him to his fate, of which I have some apprehension, since he will UNKNOWINGLY be at the mercy of LKY's ISD thugs and sirens. I say "sirens" because I have myself been a target, twice, of ISD attempts at seducing me and I fear that Lee Hsien Loong, who met Tony Blair recently, have probably insisted on having the right to commit crimes against my son in UK, on British soil, to which Blair probably agreed, he being a prostitute to the Americans and LHL has the Americans on his side, somewhat.

Thus, Blair will in all probability, allow and facilitate the stationing of ISD agents near my son, not only living near/in his hostel to keep him under 24 hour surveillance, but also disguised as students to befriend him all the easier to put virulent flu germs [as had happened so many times already] into his food and water or even pass more harmful toxins and poisons to him, maybe including sexual diseases like Aids.

I joined Meridian Advertising on 21 Jan 1980. It was a tiny agency and there were nights when I stayed back late with some colleagues. The agency was in Market Street, CYS Building, and, like all streets in the City after nightfall, very quiet and deserted.

One night, we stayed back late to watch some sexy videotapes. After an hour or so of watching, I was thoroughly aroused but walked to the bus stop to catch an infrequent [after peak, after dark] bus home. The streets were deserted, with very few vehicles and quite dark then. When I reached my bus stop, still aroused after the videotapes, [supplied by an AE called Chong Gay, if I remember his name correctly], I saw a pretty girl already sitting there. It was quite dark, not well lit and she was pretty. If I had been a more adventurous person, I might have spoken to her and maybe, just maybe, ended up having sex with her.

I did not notice it then, but SHE WAS EXPECTING ME. Years later, when I thought about the incident, I now realise that she had behaved abnormally. An ordinary passenger waiting at the bus stop would have turned her head to look in my direction when I joined her at the deserted bus stop in the lonely and quiet part of the City. BUT SHE DIDN'T. She sat stiffly looking or pretending to look ahead for a bus, for which there was no need since we could both see quite far into the distance and in the quiet City, would have easily spotted an approaching bus.

So she sat stiffly pretending to look ahead for a bus, not turning to look at me even when I joined her at the bus stop.

Years later, thinking back, and knowing I had been under 24 hour surveillance since young, I knew I was lucky not to succumb to the ISD siren. The ISD knew I would be watching sexy videotapes with a few other male colleagues and that I would be at the bus stop immediately after that. So the siren was planted to lure me.

Why? I was no threat to security. I was a normal worker. Yet I was under 24 hour surveillance and this was an attempt to get me into trouble. If I had had sex with that pretty agent or maybe she was just a hired prostitute, I would have been photographed or videoed, which would have been handy later to break up my marriage or blackmail me. I suspect that LKY's ISD routinely mount these kind of operations to all in their surveillance list so as to have something handy should LKY want to destroy anybody. I wonder how many of my family and relatives have been similarly entrapped. Entrapment is probably a routine thing for the ISD.

And so, we leave tonight for the UK. My son will not be alone. He will be surrounded by hostile forces, ever watchful for the slightest mistakes, even entrapping him so that they will be able to destroy him later. And in his innocence, he won't even be on his guard.

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If you want me to stop sending you email, do drop me a line to say so. I have always complied with my recipients' wishes, the several who did ask. If you do not choose to opt out of my email list, I shall presume you wish to continue receiving my emails and will continue sending you. Those who may consider my emails recklessly defamatory, [as recklessly defamatory as LKY's slanders of me and my family], namely Lee Kuan Yew and his eunuchs, should apply the laws of the land and not engage in extra-judicial criminal attacks on me, my son and my little niece, such as sleep deprivation and other physical and mental attacks. Many know about these attacks and LKY takes their silence as further encouragement for more criminal attacks. Legal letters to sue me may be delivered to my address below:

Robert HO
28 Bukit Batok Street 52
#20-03 Guilin View
Singapore 659248

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Date: Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Subject: Fwd: LIE KY LHL WKS ISD dirty tricks against me and family as early as 1980 when they made my wife pregnant

RH: Besides making my wife pregnant around 1980 and trying to seduce me [bus stop incident], also around 1980, there was another incident around 1980 -- all these LIE KY ISD hatred and vindictiveness for typing and sending rants to the US Embassy -- in which LIE KY and his ISD set out to see if I had really been mad. They did not believe the assessments of their own govt psychiatrists in IMH!

So, around 1980, once when I was waiting for my turn to see my psychiatrist in IMH, a man approached me, sat next to me, and tried to befriend me. This is unusual because Singaporeans don't befriend strangers like that.

He talked to me, pretended that it was his mother who needed psychiatric help, and asked questions designed to test if I had been mad. After my turn was over, he suggested we go somewhere for coffee and so I sat in his car and he drove me somewhere I don't know where, and we had coffee in a kopi tiam in a quite ulu place. He continued to ask probing questions to test whether I had really been mad. My suspicions were aroused and later told my wife about this attempt to test whether I had been mad. My suspicions were further aroused when, after he had decided he was done with me, he drove off, without even the courtesy of dropping me off at a more convenient. So I had to find my way to a more convenient place probably boarding a bus and then maybe a taxi to get home or office, I don't remember.

In other words, LIE KY and his ISD didn't trust or believe their own psychiatrist's assessment that I had been mad and did their own 'befriend and question' incident. Because they refuse to believe I had been mad until after IMH 1979, they were spiteful and vicious, punishing me for typing and sending rants to the US Embassy in the years till 1979. With no internet then, and having few reading material, what I typed and sent to the US Embassy were insubstantial and hardly worth reading. I also did not go to the library to research, mostly because I was mad then and hardly left my flat -- my father's flat actually, then on the 16th floor of Block 100 in Toa Payoh. Also, I had not a single cent to even take the bus. So my rants were pathetically insubstantial. But LIE KY and his ISD continued to harm us for it. LIE KY does not take criticism lightly and exacts the heaviest punishment for my sending rants to the US Embassy. And his disbelief in my having been mad meant that he was totally vicious in criminally attacking me and my family. He thought that since I was not mad, I deserved the heaviest criminal attacks as a sane person, in revenge for sending rants to the US Embassy.

Date: Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Subject: LIE KY LHL WKS ISD dirty tricks against me and family as early as 1980 when they made my wife pregnant

RH:
1. It has been a long, long, night in which I was totally prevented from sleeping. I lay there the whole night trying to sleep but prevented. Lab mice continuously deprived of sleep keel over and die in about 2 1/2 weeks, so sleep deprivation is serious torture. I am now tired and sleepy. Apparently, seizing my pc wasn't enough. LIE KY LHL WKS ISD hatred and vindictiveness against me and family is totally incomprehensible. All these just for forwarding blogs to ~50 email addresses? But this 15 year campaign against me and family didn't just begin around 1994 or so. It began much earlier, in the mid-70s.

2. Around 1976, I began becoming mentally ill and imagined that LIE KY and his govt were persecuting me, so I fought back. No internet then, so no email and blogs. So I typed out my mad rants on paper and posted it by snailmail to the US Embassy, then in Hill Street. That was enough to drive LIE KY and his ISD into total hatred and vicious spite.

3. As you know, I was ordered into IMH in 1979 and was cured. My Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde transformation couldn't be more astonishing. Before IMH, I couldn't function as a human being. Jobless and not even seeking a job. After IMH, I applied and got a copywriting job within a week of release. And lived normally ever after until 1994 when CLINTON and LIE KY began their persecution of me and family.

4. But shortly after I was out of IMH in 1979, around 1980 or so, my wife and I were victims of LIE KY ISD dirty operations. They made my wife pregnant. Now, I had always been careful with condoms. I buy only the reliable brand of Durex and chose the Extra Safe version, which is thicker and safer. I also took great care to put on my condom well before any physical contact with my wife. Since I suffer from premature ejaculation, I would ejaculate in less than 30 seconds. So no prolonged rubbing that would compromise the condom. Thus, with all these factors, she couldn't have gotten pregnant. I know that condoms have a few % of failure rate but my several additional safety precautions would reduce that failure rate to zero. So the ISD made her pregnant by puncturing all my condoms so they would leak.

5. So my wife got pregnant around 1980, well before the current 15 year long campaign began around 1994. She was then freshly out of NUS and in her first job as a graduate and I had also just started a new life not long after my mental illness treated in 1979. So we got an abortion. If this ISD-caused pregnancy had been badly aborted, and doctors then were not as good as now, nor facilities, she could have become infertile and we'd never have a child. This is how serious the dirty trick of the LIE KY ISD is. I was puzzled and suspicious then but did not even know the ISD existed or its name, let alone know we had become targets of their hatred and vengeance for typing rants and sending them to the US Embassy. I voiced my puzzlement and suspicions to my wife then and the ISD did not do it again. Indeed, for decades after, my condoms worked fine, proving that the ~1980 pregnancy was a dirty trick by the LIE KY ISD.

6. All these dirty tricks just to get even with my typing and sending rants to the US Embassy. Unbelievable. Around this time of 1980, a seduction attempt, with another seduction attempt, too, was committed. I have written of a sting operation against me. On one occasion when I watched blue videotapes with male colleagues after work in the office conference room, I walked out into the dark bus stop and saw a pretty girl waiting alone. This stretch of road during that time is totally deserted, few cars or buses, typical during after peak hours in the old city area [in my earlier write up, I have given more detailed descriptions], what struck me was the behaviour of the girl. She did not glance up or glance at me when I joined her but pretended to look straight ahead for the bus. Now, the stretch of road where the bus would come is easily visible for many metres and so no need to keep looking. But she pretended to keep looking for the bus and pretended not to even notice me. It was an attempt at seduction knowing I was horny as hell after watching a night of blue videos. I did not know it then, about the ISD sting operations, because I did not even know there was an ISD or its name then. I was just an innocent citizen. I only remembered all these vividly after LKY started his vicious torture campaign and then I remembered this incident and it all connected. It was another sting operation.

7. There was another seduction attempt in which I boarded a bus and took a just-vacated [conveniently] seat just left of the door next to a pretty girl who pretended to sleep with her head on my left shoulder. The seat was vacated by her colleague for me to take. The bus was crowded, with passengers standing. When I made no response, she went further and pretended to sleep put her right hand practically into my left. I was actually quite flattered but didn't do anything. Another attempt to create an affair that could be used later to destroy my marriage. All these just for typing rants to the US Embassy then. LIE KY's vindictiveness knows no bounds.

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Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Subject: RH Quote of the Day on Being Mad

RH: "Almost everybody, including psychiatrists, think that being mad is like being drunk. It is not. Because you always know when you are drunk but you never realise you are mad. This is because when you are mad, your entire memories are intact, unchanged. You still remember exactly everything you have learned and experienced, like solving Pythagoras Theorem, or what you did last year. Your entire personality and character, insofar as these are based on memories and experience, remain exactly the same. So why do you behave so differently when mad? This is because although the memories and experiences remain unchanged, some of your INTERPRETATIONS of them change, although always in a 'logical' manner -- to you, this new interpretation is totally logical, natural, and not wild or delusional. So you never know that you are mad, like you always know when you are drunk. After you are cured or recovered, then and only then do you realise that your so-logical interpretation is wrong -- in fact, wild and delusional. When I had a relapse due to stopping medication for ~4 months, I again 'slipped' into a new interpretation that creatively and logically wove in the old, wrong, interpretation, plus my recovered, correct, reality -- and this new, wrong, interpretation was entirely logical [again]. After an injection and more tablets, again this new, wrong, interpretation was replaced by again, the correct, reality. So the diseased mind's ability to 'fool' all the tests of reality are extremely creative, totally 'logical' and cannot be recognised as wrong interpretations at all. In short, when you are mad, you never know that you are and thus, all your behaviours, no matter how bizarre, are totally logical and 'normal' to you. Bizarre behaviour is actually good because it is a clear indication to all others that you are mad but those whose mad behaviour are not so bizarre may be ignored and untreated for years or for life and thus never have a chance to recover. So my climbing to the roof of Block 100, getting arrested and sentenced to Woodbridge Hospital was actually good for me. Most others may not be so lucky."

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Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Fwd: "Police are fundamentally honest" ??? ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!



RH: You never know you are mad because being mad is NOT the slightest bit like being drunk, in which you are still aware of your self and state, as most people and even psychiatrists think and assume. You can be slightly drunk or very drunk but you are either fully and really mad or not. There is no such thing as being slightly mad. Being mad is not a dimmed awareness of self and reality like being drunk. Being mad means you [suddenly] have a new [and false] INTERPRETATION of reality, in which you still accurately remember your Pythagoras Theorem or what you did years ago but EVERYTHING IS SUBSUMED INTO A NEW [FALSE] REALITY but which you think is real. Since all your memories are intact, like solving a math problem or what you did years ago -- these remain accurate -- it is the INTERPRETATION of reality that is wrong. But you won't know your reality is wrong because you are mad.

Date: Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Subject: "Police are fundamentally honest" ??? ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!

RH: If I may add, many of you may have read my court transcript by now. The HDB security men LIED in court under oath committing perjury. When asked pointedly and probably promptedly, the HDB security men lied that "He charged at us." when I clearly did no such thing. The prosecutor had asked why they had already arrested me but needed to call a police inspector, an Indian officer, to bang on my door in the middle of the night to ask us to open up and then came in to arrest me. The truth is, when the HDB security men arrested me, they were in plainclothes and I was angry. So I [probably] snatched my big wire-cutters [like grass cutting shears] from their hand, took out my key and opened the door and went in, locking it behind me. My anger was so apparent they must have been quite intimidated because I made no attempt to hide or run away. Instead, I was quite calm and shouted at them why they were doing it all, to me. Then, I took back the wire-cutters and went back into my flat. There were about 5 of them, so I couldn't have been violent or even aggressive. They were quite inexperienced at arresting people. However, someone, probably the police, prosecutor, etc, must have coached them what to say, and the prosecutor what to ask. I thought it was irrelevant but maybe not to the police. They probably had to explain why, if I was caught 'red handed', then why did they need a police officer of inspector rank to arrest me in my home? Embarrassing. So they lied. All of them. They said I "charged at them" so that was why they let me take out my key, opened the door, went in and locked the door behind me while they stood stupidly outside watching. So they lied. I was so nonplussed at their deliberate coordinated lies that I did not shout out in court that they were lying, since it was not my turn to cross examine and I didn't know the court procedure except what I know from tv. So, I let the lie stand. In any case, it is not important. I was then scared about the 3 mandatory strokes of the cane I would inevitably get, since I was going to be convicted, and some jail time, too. I didn't know I was mad then and that I would be found Not Guilty, Unsound Mind. That never occurred to me as a defence since I didn't know I was mad. Shortly after the trial, I was put in a police van and driven to Woodbridge Hospital, now called IMH. I refused all medication and 4-5 fellow patients inmates pinned me to the floor, held me down, while the male nurse forced tablets into my mouth and poured a cup of water to wash them down. I spat them all out. The inmates then forced and pinned me to a bed while the senior male nurse filled a huge syringe [probably to intimidate us all] but with an ordinary size needle, with a sedative and injected me on the buttock, warning me not to struggle or the needle might break. He also threatened to withhold my nightly Ventolin tablet for my asthma if I don't eat the anti-psychotics. So I duly daily took them. During the first month, I still believed it was all a govt conspiracy to put me in a mental asylum. By the second month, I began to doubt if I might not be mistaken and I might be mad. By the third month, I was sure I had been mad and was now thinking normally. But we court-ordered inmates are not allowed out from hostpital -- some stay years -- so easily so I had to wait to be recommended for the Visitors Board, around my fourth month. The Visitors Board of 3 persons consisted of the Hospital Director, and 2 others, probably prominent outsiders. I was interviewed by them. They recommended release and so after about 4 months, I went home. I then, unlike when mad, applied for a job and got it within a week or so, in EAM Advertising, and have been well since, except for a relapse [probably only one] when Dr CHEE Kuan Tsee thought I was doing so well he took me off the tablets. After about 4 months or so, I was then in Batey Ads, typing away on my typewriter on an ad, one day, when a sudden 'shift in perspective' or interpretation of reality happened. One moment, I was typing away normally, next moment, I 'suddenly realised' that it was all a false reality, an artificial set up to keep me typing away every day, not real. I then typed a resignation letter, short but quite mad in which I wrote that "I give up. I am not playing the game any more. I resign." And gave it to the General Manager C K Teng. I then walked out and probably wandered about, wrapt in my new reality. He called my wife since he like everybody knew about my past mental illness and told her that if I am not feeling well, take a break and come back when ready. This relapse, while I am again very sure I am now in the true and correct reality, I must have somehow had some doubts this time. After all, the last time I was mad, I was pretty sure I was not, too. Somehow, I took a taxi to Woodbridge and asked to see Dr CHEE. Fortunately, he was in and saw me, without an appointment. I don't know what I said but he gave me an injection and a bag of tablets. Soon, I was back at work in Bateys. C K Teng called me to his office, asked if I was back and tore up my resignation letter, saying he would treat it as never happened. And I was [mostly?] well since but have never stopped eating tablets. Some years on, I developed a head-turning side effect that further made me a freak. My head kept involuntarily twisting to the left so each time I hit a key on the typewriter, my head would swing left about 45 degrees and I would have to force my head back to look at the paper then hit the next key. Since I type fast, my head thus kept turning left-front, left-front, with every keystroke. Quite a sight. When not typing, by putting my right fingers under my chin, I could keep looking straight somewhat except my head would tend to be slightly inclined one side. Some of my old photos may have captured this. This was probably caused by my Orap 1 mg tablet daily for many years [but not prescribed any antidote which may explain why I developed this side effect]. In short, do not believe that our police, prosecutors or even judges can be trusted. Not when LIE KY has seen to it that every single important institution in the country is corrupted to his agendas and his interests. Any one who criticises him or opposes him is ruthlessly slandered, wronged and criminally punished. Doing so brings you promotions and riches.

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01 May 2009
NOT GUILTY BUT TORTURED + DEGRADED 15 YEARS FOR PUBLICITY + FUN
RH: Since you Cowardly Chickens refuse to charge me, I hereby very briefly summarise my defence :

1. It happened 30 years ago, in 1979 -- nobody died or was even hospitalised. Unlike Westerners, we Asians, especially Chinese, are not violent people

2. A domestic affair between husband and wife

3. I was certified mad then, recovered through medication in IMH, and then after stopping medication for ~4 months, had a relapse, and recovered again after an injection and put back onto medication. Each time I was mad, I TOTALLY DID NOT KNOW I WAS MAD and fully believed I was normal

4. A full court trial had already in 1979 found me Not Guilty, Unsound Mind, although watching me conducting self defence, you wouldn't know I was mad then -- read court transcript. When sent to IMH, I initially forcefully refused all medication until injected and threat to withhold my asthma medicine

5. The laws and police/legal procedures cannot be so stupid as to aver that, cut wires = mad but cut neck = not mad but sane and therefore guilty, when these happened at the same time in the same mental condition

Why are you all so Cowardly Chickens? We have all seen how the kangaroo courts, prosecution, witnesses and judges operate, meaning that I will be kept on a very tight leash and cannot testify about LIE KY LHL WKS elections riggings, or American, British and LIE KY LHL WKS tortures of me and family over 15 years because the prosecution and judge will jump up to shut me up as "Irrelevant!" so why so Cowardly Chickens? Charge me!

The real reasons are that the moment you sit down and try to frame the charges, you realise how stupid and unlegal it all looks. Try it! It will be an interesting exercise. You cannot frame the charges in words without looking political, stupid and unlegal. This is why I will never have my day in court, but I am still hoping...

You all have sensationally in thousands of innuendoes and allusions enveloping me totally, accused me of everything from murder to terrorism and have created an entire world and national industry based on those lies. An entire genre in itself. But I am winning, painfully slowly, but at long last, winning, as the Truths begin to take hold in the minds of the world.

But I also know you will continue forever purely to avoid losing face by stopping. As long as you continue business as usual, many of the stupid or not following closely, will still think you have a case. At this stage, it is all about EGO. In the end, it is always about your EGOs, for which I and my family will continue to suffer.

From the very beginning 15 years ago, it was never about justice but PUBLICITY for LIE KY, who, by criminally torturing me many times daily, got to speak to Presidents and PMs like Clinton, Bush and Blair, plus entertain a stream of VIPs and world conventions. While the Americans got the huge ENTERTAINMENT of a royal command performace which they and LIE KY jointly had so much fun 'directing' like a movie director -- the world's first torture reality show, better than any on tv because our sufferings are real. In the process of violating our privacy totally, 'televising' us 24/7, they also had the fun of 'target practice' shooting, vandalising light bulbs, fridge, washing machines, computers, dvd players, our car's various parts, aircons, wlan routers, flooded ceiling collapse, etc, about S$10,000 worth of damage. While mentally and psychologically, they toyed with my mind, delighting especially at creating and causing conditioned fear responses using loud motorcycles revving past, car honkings at me at home, a whole amateur pantomime performance 'messaging' at me to cause more discomfort and distress, especially the foul words directed at me whenever I go out, creating a 24/7 day and night all-surround HOSTILE atmosphere of unending stress that totally traumatised me, until I decided to literally fight to the death, after which I stopped fearing and the mental stress reduced but not the physical sleep deprivation, constipation attacks and other physical indignities, which not even the most resistant mental fortitude can lessen. To make me feel guilty and give up, they also criminally attacked my son and little niece, with lab-cultivated very virulent flu viruses that made us 3 sick for weeks, plus constipation and stomach pain attacks. Death and injury threats to my son are so common I have stopped fearing them. 15 full years of daily CRIMINAL attacks of every kind their imagination and entertainment could conjure, operating several shifts a day in the flat above mine, and following me everywhere I go, even overseas, a small industry in itself, all dedicated to create a permanent, unending HOSTILE atmosphere from which I cannot escape because I am watched like a lab rat 24/7 hostilely, with not a single word of sympathy from anybody, even today. All alone, all isolated, criminally attacked all the time, even when I sleep in my bed. I should have gone mad again, if not for my daily anti-psychotic medications.

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Date: Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Subject: Fwd: RH log 27 Apr 07; more hours of pain in arm sleep deprivation than before; more constipation attacks; medicines criminally altered

Date: Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Subject: RH log 27 Apr 07; more hours of pain in arm sleep deprivation than before; more constipation attacks; medicines criminally altered

RH: Why the British are a nation of prostitutes to the Americans, personified by BLAIR's prostitution of his entire military, diplomatic, manpower, services to serve the almighty Americans in Iraq, personified by BUSH, who rewarded BLAIR with personal honours. Since the entire nation of Britain went along, Britain is a nation of prostitutes to America.

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RH: It is now 0249am in the night of Sat morning 28 Apr 07. I had not wanted to continue this update but the American and LKY geniuses have again continued their sleep deprivation attack preventing me from falling asleep until now so I have to continue my update. These geniuses keep fucking up their own agendas. Time and again, I would feel conciliatory sometimes and maybe would have negotiated if approached officially and respectfully but each time, they would continue fucking around with my brain or my sense of self esteem and this would harden my resolve and redouble my determination to continue no matter what. They sure know how to screw up their own interests. I have sworn never, ever to respond to criminal intimidation or threats or any degree of pain and sleep deprivation. That means that no amount of stupid pantomine or sending me indirect signals will work. I have long cultivated the mental ability to quickly forget any pantomine or signal quickly after seeing it, so no amount of mini cars on the road, or convertibles, or sports cars, or special licence plates numbers and letters; letterings and signages on trucks, buses, vans, etc, even remain in my consciousness after a few seconds. So all this effort is not only unbecoming of govts but totally STUPID, like Bush, even Clinton, even LKY.

But the truth is, by now, the whole phenomenon has become self-sustaining, with tens of thousands of people around the world, including most world leaders and other important people, in the know, in this little conspiracy. SO THE ELABORATELY STAGED AND ARRANGED PANTOMINE AND SIGNALS ARE NOT SO MUCH FOR ME NOWADAYS AS FOR THE WATCHING AUDIENCE OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CONSPIRATORS. IT IS LIKE THE GROUP MASTURBATION OFTEN DONE IN THE MEN'S WARDS IN IMH. SEVERAL INMATES WOULD SQUEEZE INTO THE TINY TOILET CUBICLE, PULL DOWN THEIR SHORTS, PULL OUT THEIR PENISES, STAND AROUND THE TOILET BOWL, TRY TO GET EXCITED SEEING EACH OTHER'S PENISES, THEN MASTURBATE. IN OTHER WORDS, THE AMERICANS, LKY, AND THEIR HIRELINGS, ARE ALL PERFORMING FOR EACH OTHER, LIKE IN GROUP MASTURBATION. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN THE FT RECENTLY WROTE A HEADLINE ABOUT KILLERS, SO INAPPROPRIATE AND UNPROFESSIONAL AND TOTALLY OUT OF CHARACTER FOR A RESPECTABLE PAPER, [ALMOST A NEIL FRENCH TYPE OF WASTING MONEY] IT WAS TO THE THOUSANDS OF READERS WHO ARE PART OF THE CONSPIRACY AND WOULD THEREFORE KNOW THE HIDDEN MEANING AND REFERENCE. GROUP MASTURBATION. WHEN LKY GETS RESIDENTS LIVING IN MY BLOCK TO PUSH PRAMS IN MY SIGHT, IT IS NOT SO MUCH FOR ME AS FOR THE CAMERAS TO RELAY IT TO THE THOUSANDS AROUND THE WORLD AVIDLY WATCHING. GROUP MASTURBATION. I ONCE WAS THE CENTRE OF THIS INTENSE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL MANIPULATION, BUT NOW SERVE AS JUST AN EXCUSE TO PUT ON AN ELABORATE SHOW FOR THE CAMERAS AND WATCHING AUDIENCE. GROUP MASTURBATION. IT IS ALL ABOUT PUBLICITY, TRYING TO BE CLEVER, TRYING TO PLAY HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR, TRYING TO ORCHESTRATE A SHOW FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THOUSANDS. EVERY AMERICAN PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE TRIED TO BE A HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR IF HE HAD THE SLIGHTEST TALENT. HENCE, THIS CONTINUING SAGA OF GROUP MASTURBATION.

But the pain inflicted on me is real, not playacting. The sleep deprivation is real and designed to enervate and render me mentally and physically tired and depressed. After every bout of sleep deprivation lasting more than an hour or so, my urine turns dark brown, probably from the stress. For years, my urine had been a permanent dark brown but I had not noticed it until my wife pointed it out. Probably stress hormones like cortisol. Then when I developed inguinal hernia, probably from straining at stools in their constipation attacks, they let up a bit and my urine turned colourless. Nowadays, they have again increased their attacks and my urine nowadays is mostly brown again. I think public opinion is turning against them and they have to lie about the severity of their torture, probably saying, "Oh, it's just a wake up call".

I am not the only one attacked. My son has been attacked for years, with stomach pains requiring visits to the doctor, virulent flu viruses put into his food or drink resulting in an extremely damaging bout of coughing flu and even pharyngitis that made his throat very sore requiring antibiotics. Once, he was radiated in the brain until he felt dizzy and his head was spinning. This was often done to me too, over the years. Once, they even made my head spin inside my car in the UK, the attack carried out from the car behind me with 2 Whites. My son was attacked many, many times during his school days and even when doing his national service in the army. When you are totally unsuspecting and innocent, it is so easy for the political commissar in the camp to slip a packet of flu viruses into your army water bottle. The ISD has perfected the cultivation of these potent viruses for use against me, my son and my niece. It is kind of like a simulation exercise when they would assassinate someone with a vicious virus. The ISD once shot me in the back with a simulated weapon when I was walking from my son's school, Bukit View Primary, and when I looked, there seemed to be no vehicle or hiding places around nearby. When I reached home and took off my t-shirt, I found a red stain where I was shot. They were using me for target practice. Another fun show for the watching audience. Once, the flu fed to me was so bad I lost my voice and the doctor told me to be careful in case it developed into serious pneumonia. Most times, the flu viruses fed me make me cough for more than a month, deep, phlegmy coughs that produce thick, yellow-green phlegm. I would need to see the doctor 3 times usually, before I recover, since each bottle of cough mixture cannot last through. My niece also suffered flu attacks. Probably put there by some teacher or the school police. She had also suffered constipation so bad she cried in school and when I took her home. Once she fell down the stairs in school, probably shot out of consciousness by the ISD for a split second, like they have done to me, so she fell down the stairs. LKY, the Americans and their watching audience enjoy seeing pain inflicted on innocent people. The ISD enjoy inventing criminal attacks on innocent children and me. Singaporeans approve of all these. So do Americans, but since they are not civilised, they don't count. They are animals basically. Only animals would hurt for the sake of hurting. At least, LKY does all this for SELF-AGGRANDISEMENT, which means he is the only one getting the most out of all this. Real value. Real worth. Palpable gains that are worth in real economics BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. The stupid Americans get nothing except fun. And for this fun, they have lost the world. They have lost their moral authority. They have lost any respect they once had. They leave the world aghast at their animality. The Europeans are quietly sniggering at their stupidity. The Chinese are quietly laughing at how unserious the Americans are in battling for world leadership, choosing fun and games over serious contention. The Arab world quietly rejoice at the way the Americans are damaging their reputation by torturing me and my family. Thus, the Americans get nothing except fun out of all this. For this fun, they lose the world.

I sometimes drive in Singapore, so sleep deprivation can cause me a serious car accident. In fact, overdosing me may also cause me a car accident due to stiff neck unable to turn to watch traffic. Long term overdosing will cause my head to keep turning involuntarily to the left, like happened before, untreatable by almost all psychiatrists. If I again suffer this head turning side effect, I may not be able to drive, or it would be dangerous for me to drive because my head would keep turning to the left. Sleep deprivation was worse when my wife, son and I were living in the UK. Then, the sleep deprivation got so bad because basically there it was planned and orchestrated by the Americans and British govts, with LKY reduced to trying to act with the Big Boys, and the Americans and British really don't give a damn for our health and safety and went to callous extremes. I got so sleepy that once, on our fortnightly trip to visit our son in Shrewsbury, I dozed off at the wheel while driving at over 100 mph, not kmph, on the expressway. The car veered to the left, I quickly woke and straightened the wheel. We could all have been killed. Over 100 mph crash is like jumping down from 30 storeys. That's the impact on the bodies. My family could have been wiped out. All so that the Americans could have some fun. And the British could suck up to their American masters. Oh, Tony Blair even took a personal attack at me on tv. The British behaved exactly like LKY in Singapore, proving that big countries are no better behaved or civilised as small countries led by despots. Everywhere I went in Britain, the UK govt sent men to harass me. Once, they sent 2 agents, fit, young men, probably with holstered guns since both wore jackets even though the weather was not cold. They taunted me by imitating my voice in a high pitch and when I scolded them, they prepared to beat me up, maybe even shooting my kneecap probably. Goodness knows whose orders or what they were allowed to do. After Abu Ghraib, nobody is under any illusion that the Americans, or the British, hold any national's life as precious or sacrosanct. That the sleep deprivation in the UK continued unabated even after my near sleep at the wheel disaster, proves that the Americans, nor the British, care very much about our lives. They knew it because everything was recorded. My car there, like my car here in Singapore, is totally rigged out with several hidden cameras and microphones, as well as tailing transmitters. Usually, if I remember, when side effect occurs, it means that the psychosis and the medication are not evenly balanced and that the medicine is excessive. So stop fucking around with my equilibrium. I have been fine for more than the last 15 years, non-psychotic. The fact that my psychiatrist of several decades has been misdiagnosing me all these more than the last 15 years proves that even top, professor psychiatrists don't know much. Mental illness is not like a physical disease where an x-ray or an ultrasound or a palpation can quickly diagnose the disease and the severity of the condition. There is no test to tell if a person is mentally ill. You can barely tell by the only method practical and that is to interview him. In the last more than 15 years, I have been well but diagnosed wrongly as being still somewhat mentally ill. By a professor emeritus psychiatrist with many decades of experience. While medicine has advanced greatly, the medication and understanding of mental illness is far backward. Even recently, a study found that the so-called new generation mental illness medication are no better than the old ones used decades ago. There has been little progress in understanding or medication.

And so the show goes on. Every day, I am surrounded totally by hostility. In the nights, I am sleep deprived and this is rubbed in into me by revving motorcycles, sometimes also by bangs on my ceilings or the water hammer noise in my water pipes in the bathroom. In the day, there are often taps and bangs on my ceilings at strategic moments, when they want to draw my attention to a line or phrase I am reading in the newspaper, magazine or internet on my pc -- yes, they read everything I read and know from scanning my eyes, which line in the page I am reading. They even stupidly pre-read every English subtitle in the Channel 55 Hongkong serials I watch every night with my wife and mother in law so that when a particular subtitle appears, they would signal me by honking loudly once or sometimes twice, or more. These are the acts of govts! These stupidities are actually discussed, planned, assiduously carried out and kept up over nearly a decade! What they hope to achieve I don't know or care. I trust nothing. They are full of tricks and deception. For example, for more than a decade, they tried, by carefully planting clues in newspapers, tv, advertisements, internet, etc, to give me the impression that my wife had committed adultery or that she had kissed other men before me. The Americans played this game. The British played this game. The Singaporeans played this game. Many others also played this game. AND THESE ARE ENCOURAGED, INSTIGATED, EGGED ON BY GOVTS! HAVE THE WORLD GONE STARK, RAVING MAD! AREN'T THERE MORE SERIOUS PROBLEMS TO SOLVE AND CITIZENS TO HELP? IS POLITICS SO BORING AND POWER SO CORRUPTING THAT TIME, EFFORT, MONEY AND VALUABLE RESOURCES BE DIVERTED FROM LEGITIMATE PURPOSES TO TRY TO FOOL ME THAT MY WIFE WAS UNFAITHFUL? AND ALL THE OTHER SIGNALS AND MESSAGES THAT ARE OFTEN CONTRADICTORY AND VAGUE? WHAT ON EARTH COULD BE ACHIEVED BY ALL THESE INDIRECT MESSAGES, STUPID PANTOMINES AND SILLY ACTING? WOULD I OBEY SUCH STUPID VAGUE MESSAGES? I HAVE NOT FOR AT LEAST A DECADE AND I WILL NOT IN FUTURE.

But as I have explained, the whole charade circus show has gone beyond me. Now, and for long, it is all Group Masturbation. They are all putting on shows purely for each other to enjoy. They stimulate each other to orgasm by watching each other masturbating. I am no longer relevant.

The closest they came to giving me a direct message was when I was driving my wife to work in the UK. Twice, a totally covered up suited motorcyclist wearing boots kicked our car when we stopped at a red light. It was just criminal intimidation and minor vandalism.

But other vandalism back in Singapore cost me plenty. Not content with surrounding me with hostile messages and bangings and honkings day and night, the Americans and LKY took great delight in vandalising my possessions. They have damaged beyond repair my DVD player forcing me to buy a new one, remote control, a computer in UK forcing me to replace the hard disk, very costly in UK, hacked into every computer I ever owned and harassed me by doing tricks with their hacking, from popping up fake error messages to slowing down my pc until it was excruciatingly slow, hanging, freezing, deleting a section of my internet email containing Goh Chok Tong jokes, for months now, making 2 copies appear when I copy and paste blogs into my gmail, sometimes even 3 copies, forcing me to waste time manually deleting the extra copies, bouncing back all my sent emails, all 60 or so of them, so I never know if any, part or all of my emails circulars ever reach their receipients.

Other vandalism attacks include leaking the coolant gas in my aircon compressors so that my aircons become not cool requiring me to pay for servicing and coolant gas top up requiring an appointment and visit from the aircon company this happening about 10 times until the aircon company thought my pipes were holed and wanted to do an expensive pressure test. My car tyres were punctured several times while parked in my condo car park, requiring time wasting tyre change and repairs. Once, a circular saw hole cutter was left upturned in my car's path just after the Alexandra Exit of the AYE and both of my left tyres were shredded, the front burst immediately and I had to replace and buy a new tyre costing quite a sum. The rear tyre, changed to the front, burst shortly after and again, I had to change and buy a new one costing quite a sum. Not to mention the inconvenience.

For years, LKY had his ISD agents put 'bird shit' on my car. When we moved into Guilin View condo, this continued, even though our car park is patrolled by security guards. Once, the shit smeared was so big it was bigger than a man's palm and I had to wash it all off as it would be unfair to my maid to do it. GOVTS PLAYING WITH SHIT! AND ENJOYING IT! BURSTING MY CAR TYRES WITH A SHARP CIRCULAR SAW HOLE CUTTER! GOVTS!

The Americans are so powerful [well, now they are not so powerful after losing their moral authority but Bush is too stupid to realise this] that they 'persuaded' every other govt to allow them to continue their sleep deprivation and other attacks even when I am holidaying in a third country. Even on the plane, the Americans installed their briefcase sized electronics equipment over my head, made sure I am seated directly under that equipment on my ceiling and operated it remotely to jerk me awake as usual when I nod off on the plane. So fun! So satisfying! So edifying! So govt-like! So worthwhile! In hotels, the same. The Americans arrange for my family to take a particular room while they take the room above and install their equipment their to continue their sleep deprivation and banging on the ceiling attacks. LKY does not have this clout so the most he can do is to arrange for a kid to sit behind me on the plane and kick my seat hard and keep kicking, until once my wife annoyed, asked him to stop. Wherever we holiday, the whole circus show followed and the sleep deprivation continued in every country we have holidayed in the past 15 years. The Americans take their games seriously and spare no effort or monies to keep playing, even when the whole point is lost and the whole game has degenerated into an openly vicious, bullying, nasty, stinking, counterproductive backfire.

Why is it a backfire? Surely, nothing can stop the Americans? Well, I believe that every human being has evolved a deeply ingrained sense of justice and fair play. For most of mankind's history, man has lived with many siblings. If a parent is unjust or unfair and favours one sibling over other/s, then the very survival of the disfavoured sibling/s are in question, given the early primitive conditions. Thus, for survival, every sibling tries to ensure justice and fair play because the only way for ALL the siblings to survive is for there to be justice and fair play in the family. The favoured one may gain more at first, but if the other siblings take revenge, from simple ostracising to fighting over the food or toy, then the whole household suffers so eventually, everyone realises that justice and fair play is best. I seem to remember an experiment that shows that even primates have a sense of justice and fair play. When primates are rewarded with a fruit for a work, the pair diligently work for their fruit. But then, when one has to work while the other is given the fruit without doing any work, the other goes into a pique and refuses its own fruit in protest. So, even primates may have evolved a sense of justice and fair play. In every culture, there is a systematised form of reward and punishment roughly based on justice and fair play. We all love to watch the baddies [in our case, Clinton, Bush and LKY] in films, spoken and written stories, tv serials, etc, get their comeuppance. We rejoice when our heroes in novels, films, tv, etc, win and are delighted when the villains that have been giving the heroes a bad time get punished. This is the entire basis of all stories, the fundamentals of the tv and movie industries. And it is deeply ingrained in each and every human being and maybe even non human beings.

Thus, the Americans were powerful enough to ask the French govt to shut and cordon off the Eiffel Tower when we were there to prevent us visiting it. But the world, with its sense of justice and fair play, were watching. Thus, history is on my side. I am the hero, the good guy and the Americans and LKY, the bad guys villains who have been giving me and my family a bad time. That is why I fight till the end, no giving in. No serving of criminal despots either. That is why I will never respond to signals, indirect messages, etc, or ridiculous pantomines. Anyway, these are not for me. They are Group Masturbation.

There is much more to my story than just these and my numerous arrests by LKY takes too long to tell so for these, please read my blog containing Martyn SEE's interview with me. My blog is "I came, I saw, I solved it" but the interview is contained in my other blog, "I came, I saw, I wrote it", which you can access through the first blog.

I had hopes of using that blog to gift the world some of my ideas but maybe I will wait 15 years first, since they have made me wait 15 years. Justice and fair play again. It's there in all of us, and maybe every living creature.

Robert HO
28 Apr 07 0552 [May be continued]

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RH: Here is an update on the 15 year torture-entertainment-publicity campaign by the Americans and LKY. The Americans do it for fun, because their idea of fun is to torture others, especially non-Whites and therefore not deserving of human rights, which they only pay lip service to anyway [Abu Ghraib is typical of American thinking, behaviour and ethics]. Those of you who are new to my case may well ask, "What have the AMERICANS to do with you? You are not even an American or an American enemy! For God's sake, the AMERICANS have absolutely nothing to do with you!

And right you are. I have absolutely nothing to do with the Americans nor they with me. It so happens that a Briton by the name of Neil French made it such an art to spend his clients' advertising monies, [not cheap], into disguised verbal attacks on me, that he aroused the pique and interest of the entire world, first the advertising world, then the closely related journalistic publishing world, which then led to the political world since journalists in the West often hobnob with even top politicians unlike in Singapore where they are dogs to be used and despised by LKY.

So when the American political and journalistic establishment [later, even Hollywood], got interested, things became a nightmare for me and my family far beyond Neil French's wildest dreams -- BECAUSE BILL CLINTON MADE THE EXECUTIVE DECISION TO SPEND AMERICAN TAXPAYERS' MONIES, MEN, EQUIPMENT AND OTHER RESOURCES, TO TOTALLY INVADE ME AND MY FAMILY'S PRIVACY ABSOLUTELY AND TOTALLY, SPARING NO EFFORT OR RESOURCES. ME AND MY FAMILY BECAME 'TELEVISED' 24 HOURS A DAY, EVERY MOMENT WAKING OR ASLEEP, EVERY WORD SPOKEN OR WRITTEN ON PAPER, HANDPHONE OR COMPUTER, EVERY FACIAL SLIGHTEST CHANGE NOTED, EVERY EXTRA HEARTBEAT RECORDED, EVERY EMOTION CAUGHT ON SOPHISTICATED EQUIPMENT SO WE COULD NOT EVEN LIE OR FEEL ANY EMOTION WITHOUT THEM RECORDING AND NOTING IT. IN SHORT, THEY KNOW EVERY ONE OF MY FAMILY NOW BETTER THAN WE KNOW OURSELVES. ALMOST.

Clinton later admitted in interview that he "did it because he could". In other words, very American. That is, bullying is not a moral or ethical issue if the victim could not hit back and you can "do it simply because you can". He never bothered to undo the horrendous nightmare for my entire families or even try, beyond the pious admission in interview. Just words. No intention of action, even now. Also, very American. Clinton presided over this nightmare for TWO WHOLE TERMS AND EXIT THE PRESIDENCY WITHOUT BOTHERING TO EVEN TRY TO UNDO WHAT HE WROUGHT.

Then Bush came. Determined to complete 2 terms without admitting the whole of America had conspired to commit such unmentionable evil on a helpless and innocent family half a world away. Bush is intellectually challenged so cannot be compared with Clinton who has no intellectual block to seeing that this whole thing is preposterously evil and unbelievably vicious and nasty. Where Bush is too dim to realise anything on ethics, and his religiosity biases him against any non-Christian non-White, ESPECIALLY A CHINESE, now the worry of the Americans, never mind that I am not much of a Chinese except in appearance, not even speaking Chinese well [I think in English]. Besides, Bush didn't start this torture-for-fun campaign. Clinton did. So why should Bush stop it? Just continue bankrolling the campaign and throw the usual resources into the campaign and sit back and enjoy this made-in-America pseudo-Hollywood production, for the first time, MADE BY POLITICIANS.

Unlike we creative types, people like Clinton, Bush and LKY, who have never done anything remotely clever all their lives, or artistic, think hugely of this vicious and vile torture and harassment campaign. They actually think they are being clever! Even artistic! How pathetic. Non creative types don't understand this. They just don't get it. Plainly, this is simple torture and harassment. Against a helpless man and his family who cannot fight back. Bullying plain and simple. "Because we can". Yet they actually believe, honestly, that they are being clever and even artistic or witty. Worse, their hirelings, equally uncreative and inartistic and totally lacking in wit or cleverness, stodgy types, stupidly follow along and try their best to invent more vicious ways of inflicting pain and humiliation on me, even deliberately bringing my family into play.

They even call it a "game". Now, a game, by definition, is played ACCORDING TO DEFINED RULES. BOTH OPPONENTS MUST HAVE EQUAL CHANCES OF WINNING. BOTH OPPONENTS MUST HAVE EQUAL RESOURCES, SUCH AS PLAYERS. RULES ARE ENFORCED BY AN INDEPENDENT UMPIRE OR REFEREE. BOTH SIDES WILLINGLY ENTER INTO THE CONTEST.

In this totally unfair, vicious campaign of torture, not a game, I am watched 24 hours a day. They not only know what I am going to do, but watch my wife, son, sister, in-laws, etc, so they know what my family will do -- even before I do. And because my family is deliberately kept in the dark on this campaign, they do not take precautions or even watch what they say or do, thus they are in great danger of endangering their lives, reputations and happiness by not knowing that they are being watched 24 hours a day. Thus, they are also attacked without being able to be careful or watch what they say or do. This is criminal, not just vicious. Attacking my family members to further hurt me. Even innocent schoolkid fun is turned into sinister lapses of character and evil intentions and the whole unethical, immoral, circus conspiracy plays everything up without regard to the truth or my feelings. Thus, my family are conspired against even by friends and colleagues, leading to an abnormal life. We all need privacy to live normal lives. When our privacy is totally invaded, and entire govts instigate, egg on attacks, and even lead by example in indulging in personal attacks as well, we, the victims at the centre of this bullying, cannot live normal lives. Even my son's friends and teachers are, at the very least, kept off, from him, and prevented from normal interactions with him. My son may not get a good job or keep it or rise normally, or even have real friends, due to this vicious invasion of his privacy. If he turns out to be a loner, it may be because from the age of kindergarten, he was already viciously gossiped at and the American and Singapore govts take the lead to encourage ostracisation of him. My wife had worked about 2 decades before this vicious campaign began and so had managed to establish a career and reputation before this nightmare began. My son is not so lucky. Our lives are all distorted, for the worse, far worse, by this vicious campaign.

That there is nothing remotely clever is seen by this brief recount of what happened in the last 15 years: most of all, sleep deprivation on me. Every night, without fail, I would be awakened several times, sometimes kept awake for hours. It is painful to lie in bed prevented from sleeping, when the whole world is asleep peacefully, getting much needed rest. It is painful to lie awake in bed tossing and turning KNOWING THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A MEDICAL CONDITION, THAT YOU COULD EASILY FALL ASLEEP BUT THAT EVIL CRIMINALS ARE ABUSING THEIR TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT TO BEAM RADIATION INTO YOUR BRAIN SO AS TO PREVENT YOU FROM SLEEPING, THAT ALL THIS IS DONE TO HURT YOU AND THAT ALL THIS IS DONE SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU CANNOT FIGHT BACK OR EVEN TELL THE WORLD OR YOUR FAMILY OR SEEK SYMPATHY BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD STUPIDLY GO ALONG IN THE BELIEF THAT 'IF THE ALMIGHTY AMERICANS ARE DOING THIS, THEN IT MUST BE RIGHT BECAUSE THE ALMIGHT AMERICANS ARE SO FAMOUS FOR DEMOCRACY, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS THAT, IF THEY ARE DOING THIS, THEN IT MUST BE RIGHT'.

I hate Clinton, Bush and the Americans because without them, LKY would never have been able to justify this vicious campaign. LKY is just a small time, election-rigging despot whom nobody respects. But the Americans are different. For so long, the rest of the world have admired the Americans for their democracy, rule of law, human rights and even moral rectitude. Until the Americans and LKY did this to me, I, like everybody else, also had this impression. Most people around the world do. So when the Americans conspired with LKY to perpetrate this vicious campaign, especially during Clinton's 2 terms, the whole world went along. "It must be right, if the Americans are doing it." In other words, if the Americans did not go along, this campaign would have been impossible.

Then Bush came. The American voters deserved what they chose. Twice. Bush invaded Iraq, committed Abu Ghraib, and slowly, the image of America began to unravel and the Coalition of the Willing began to disappear. Today, the moral authority of America is about zero and my victimisation becomes clearer. Today, it is no longer possible to say that, "Oh, if the Americans do it, it must be right". Doubt has crept in. After all, America did invade Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands, ruining a once-functioning country, FOR ITS OIL. Not democracy. Not rule of law. Not human rights. BUT TO STEAL OIL. Just like any Third World country. With ethics and morals to match. Now, the world is slowly, yes, slowly, because these mindset changes take time, beginning to see America as just another country, maybe even with Third World morals, ethics and politics. Just more powerful economically and militarily, that's all. But Third World, essentially. Oh, they still make nice movies like Spiderman, and they are good with the Internet, but the American govt could be Third World if a President like Bush can rule for 2 terms. Perhaps, it is true that American govts and public life is shit and it is the American private sector that leads the best in America.

So, in order to increase the pain of lying awake for hours at night when the whole world is asleep, knowing that you are being kept awake by evil men beaming radiation deliberately into your brain to prevent you from blissful sleep, they increase the pain by revving loud motorcycles in the middle of the night past your window, to rub in the fact that they are doing this to you and there is nothing you can do about it, that they can. They actually think this revving of motorcycles is very clever. Even macho. Not stupid and unbecoming of govts. They actually think this is clever.

Before all this STUPIDITY happened, I always thought govts were comprised of careful, rational men and women, who mostly did their best for the voters who elected them and put them in positions of responsibility and respectability. Now I know that power corrupts totally and that, once in power, politicians seek only to fix their opponents and enemies, never mind the methods, and in the case of LKY, rig elections so as to enrich himself and his family and cronies to unimaginable heights. It is all about doing things to people who cannot defend themselves against you, SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU CAN. Ethics, morals, right and wrong have no place in a leader, even a world leader. Or govt.

The revving of the motorcycles went on for years, even at all times of the day. Not just to reinforce my pain during sleep deprivation. At one time, it became so traumatic just to hear a motorcycle revving loudly that my hearbeat went up and I swallowed saliva involuntarily every time it happened. And they knew it, from their monitoring equipment, the fear I felt and so kept it up.

But even that did not seem so clever and artistic after a while. We are talking about 15 years after all. So they tried many other ways to amuse themselves. They beamed radiation into my genitals to make my penis go soft during sex. It was fun and clever. And so amusing and entertaining to the watching audience. Many Americans and much of the world is watching all these. So the American govt actually invented this Reality Show and with it, entertained numerous Americans and much of the world. Most of the world didn't know the American equipment could do all these, so it was quite entertaining.

Then, to be more vicious and nasty, diarrhoea and constipation attacks. In the diarrhoea attacks in Singapore and UK, they tried to force me to shit into my pants. It was only by superhuman effort that I managed to hold it back and run to a toilet before nearly soiling my pants. In the even more numerous attacks of constipation, mostly at home necessarily, they would beam radiation into my bowels to harden my stools so much that when I finally try to evacuate my bowels, the hardened faeces would break blood vessels lining my anus and blood would drip into the toilet bowl, turning it crimson. It is painful. Another variation is not to harden the stools but to prevent the usual urge to evacuate. I am normally regular, going in the mornings. When they attack my bowels this way, I would feel no urge for a day or two, or until they relent. They can make me shit any time they like.

Of course, all these expensive and sophisticated equipment is not designed just for constipation, diarrhoea or penile erection attacks, they are designed to burst an artery in the heart or brain without any doctor being able to say it was murder and not a stroke. It is just that the doctors operating these equipment, and their equipment, are now being made into an ENTERTAINMENT PROJECT for the amusement of the Americans and the world, courtesy of the American GOVT.

Lately, they have started inflicting a sharp pain in my right upper arm to wake me and keep me awake. Now it is real pain that is keeping me awake. Sometimes, even during the day, lately. This pain means that they can 'focus' the beam of pain even when I move, to keep the radiation pain going. This is not surprising. They have also shot a brief burst into my brain to black me out and make me unconscious for a split second when I was standing and I recovered my balance just before falling. They have also shot my eyes out so that I see nothing but whiteness for a few seconds and gradually recovered my eyesight. They have also shot a stronger burst of radiation into my brain so that my legs, resting on the coffee table while I tried to nap on the sofa, jerked a foot into the air.

But worse is that they tamper with my psychiatriac medicine like they are doing now. They have increased the dosage of my medicine without my permission or that of my psychiatrist, illegally and criminally. This has made me do the involuntary legs shuffle when I was buying a new Casio watch, when I had to balance first on one leg, then the other, shuffling involuntarily. This is not the only side effect of overdosing. The other side effect I noticed a few days ago is the ache in the neck muscles due to 2 opposing sets of neck muscles pulling against each other, one set involuntary from the side effect of overdosing and the other voluntary muscles because I am looking ahead. This opposing sets of muscles make my neck muscles ache. My brain is balanced by 3 things. First is my over firings of neurons that makes me psychotic. This over firings is reduced by the Amisulpride medicine, which dampens the firings. But the Amisulpride causes side effects like neck muscles turning involuntarily and the legs to shuffle. So I also take Benzhexol as an antidote to counter the side effects. When the over firings, Amisulpride and Benzhexol are in equilibrium, I am fine and normal and suffer no side effects. But when the dosage is increased without my permission and knowledge, or my psychiatrist's, and when my normal equilibrium is upset, I suffer side effects. So the vicious perpetrators have overdosed me and maybe even added other mind or mood altering drugs. This is vicious and totally unprofessional and no doctor would approve of it. Mind you, I know there are doctors monitoring me and probably operating the Through The Wall Surveillance Equipment [google this] from the flat above, but not too long ago, even the best scientists, psychiatrists and doctors thought that the best way to treat mental illness was to cut out part of the brain in lobotomies. That was not too long ago. Doctors know very little about the mind and mental illness, even now. And often get it wrong. So stop fucking around with my equilibrium and medicines!

The pain in neck muscles from side effects is not the deliberate pain in the neck I suffered in UK and Singapore. Then, the Americans, British and LKY tried to be clever by radiating me so that I got a long lasting pain in the neck. So much so that I could not turn my head when driving and took risks when joining a main road from a joining road, relying only on the right wing mirror, which did not view traffic clearly. The recent ache in my neck caused me to take a risk early this week driving from Toh Tuck Ave joining Commonwealth Ave Road when I did not turn my head due to the side effect neck ache and simply looked at my right wing mirror. When I turned out, a gold coloured van honked angrily at me for dangerous driving into his path. I had not seen him in the mirror. Fucking around with overdosing me can cause an accident. It will also not prevent me from doing anything I am determined to do so it is counterproductive and a waste of time.

Not to be outdone, LKY has done his best to continue this project forever. Once the Americans showed interest in me, after Neil French's disguised advertisements roused the pique and interest of the world, LKY realised the PUBLICITY VALUE I HAD. HERE WAS MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLICITY, TARGETED AT AMERICAN PRESIDENTS AND LEGISLATORS AND HOLLYWOOD, ALL THE WAY TO HONGKONG FILMMAKERS AND SITCOM PRODUCERS, TO AUSTRALIAN TV, ETC. AND MUCH OF THE WORLD GOVTS BESIDES. ALL FOCUSING ON ME. THUS, BY VICTIMISING ME, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, GETTING THE ALMIGHTY AMERICANS TO JOIN IN TO VICTIMISE ME, LKY COULD GET TO SPEAK AND CONTACT ALMIGHTY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS AND GOVTS AND HOLLYWOOD, ETC, AND MUCH OF THE WORLD WOULD GO ALONG.

LKY WOULD BECOME FAMOUS BY RIDING ON ME. THUS, HE COULD AND DID, AGGRANDISE HIMSELF BY ABUSING ME. THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY TO DO IT. HE COULD NOT SIMPLY ARREST ME BECAUSE I WOULD BE FOUND NOT GUILTY. I WAS INSANE FROM 1976-1979 AND HAD ACTUALLY BEEN CHARGED AND TRIED IN COURT IN 1979 AND FOUND NOT GUILTY BUT SENTENCED TO A MENTAL HOSPITAL WHERE I WAS CURED AFTER 4 MONTHS AND WENT BACK TO A NORMAL LIFE.

HE KNEW I HAD TALENT EVEN THEN BECAUSE IN THE 1980s, IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, I HAD SNAILMAILED [NO INTERNET THEN] HIM IDEAS TO DEVELOP DIRTY BOMBS AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, I HAD SUGGESTED THAT HE BUY ATOM BOMBS FROM CHINA [HE FEARED CHINA THEN AND HAD KEPT AWAY FROM CHINA BECAUSE HE FEARED COMMUNISTS AND EVEN DISALLOWED SINGAPOREANS FROM VISITING CHINA THEN]. SHORTLY AFTER MY LETTER TO HIM TO BUY ATOM BOMBS FROM CHINA, LKY WENT ON A QUIET VISIT TO CHINA AND I WAS SURPRISED THE MEDIA KEPT SO QUIET BECAUSE NORMALLY THEY SPLASHED SUCH OVERSEAS VISITS AS PAPAGANDA OUTBURSTS WITH MANY PAGES OF RELATED ARTICLES]. SO HE PROBABLY MANAGED TO BUY ATOM BOMBS FROM CHINA. IF SO, I MAY HAVE SAVED SINGAPORE WITH JUST ONE LETTER. AND CHANGED ITS HISTORY.

BUT LKY WAS NOT AND IS NOT INTERESTED IN MY TALENT. HE IS 100%, TOTALLY AND ABSOLUTELY, SELF-AGGRANDISING. EVEN IF HE COULD HAVE A GENIUS TO ADVISE HIM, HE WOULD NOT, IF HE CANNOT BENEFIT FROM IT PERSONALLY. LKY IS NOT INTERESTED IN SINGAPORE, ONLY HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY AND HIS PLACE IN HISTORY AND HE THINKS HIS PLACE IN HISTORY IS BIGGER THAN SINGAPORE. LKY WOULD RATHER SINGAPORE BE WITHOUT A GENIUS OR GENIUSES IF HE AND HIS FAMILY CANNOT BENEFIT IMMENSELY FROM SUCH. AND THE OPERATIVE WORD IS "IMMENSELY". LKY IS NOT INTERESTED IN SMALL GAINS. AND WHETHER SINGAPORE GAINS MUCH OR LITTLE FROM GENIUSES IS UNIMPORTANT TO HIM. HE IS INTERESTED ONLY IF HE AND HIS FAMILY GAINS AND GAINS IMMENSELY.

THUS, THESE WERE HIS CALCULATIONS WHEN HE PERSUADED CLINTON AND OTHER AMERICANS TO JOIN HIM IN HIS TORTURE CAMPAIGN. TO MAKE THE CAMPAIGN EVEN MORE INTERESTING TO THE AMERICANS, LKY BROADCAST AND MADE AVAILABLE ALL THE AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDINGS AND ISD SURVEILLANCE NOTES MADE OF ME AND MY FAMILY FROM DECADES BACK, SINCE I WAS A KID.

THESE RECORDINGS AND NOTES WERE EXAGGERATED AND TWISTED BY THE AMERICANS EVERY WAY POSSIBLE, AND THE HONGKONGERS AND OTHERS FOLLOWED SUIT, TO HUMILIATE ME IN PERSONAL ATTACKS THROUGH PRESS, INTERNET, TV, FILMS, NEWSCASTS, ON EVERY POSSIBLE CHANNEL OR MOVIE I AND MY FAMILY ARE LIKELY TO WATCH, OR THOSE IN THE KNOW OF THIS CAMPAIGN ARE LIKELY TO WATCH, SINCE NOW, THE CAMPAIGN IS NOT JUST TO DIRECTLY HUMILIATE ME WITH PERSONAL ATTACKS, IT IS ALSO TO AMUSE THE THOUSANDS WHO ARE IN THE KNOW AND WHO WOULD UNDERSTAND THE DISGUISED PERSONAL ATTACKS IN THE MOVIE, TV, NEWSCAST, NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, INTERNET POSTINGS, ETC.

IT HAD BECOME A WORLD PHENOMENON STRETCHING FROM JAPAN AND TOKYO TO SOUTH KOREA TO FRANCE, GERMANY, AUSTRALIA, AND OF COURSE, THE ENTIRE GOVT AND LEGISLATORS OF THE US, AS WELL AS CHINA, HONGKONG, ETC.

Not content with releasing the recordings of my entire life and that of my family to his accomplices for the purposes of everybody reviling me and my family, and so that everybody can make personal humiliation attacks on me, LKY also went into overdrive to inflict as much pain as he possibly could without actually killing me. Not only did the sleep deprivation continue for 15 years, with different degrees of viciousness depending on his mood or that of his ISD and American agents who operate the devices and plan the attacks, he ordered his ISD agents following me to utter Hokkien obscenities in my earshot whenever I go out. This so traumatised me I did not go out for months to avoid the nastiness of the targeted remarks. I even stopped going to the barber to avoid the obscenities and my wife has been cutting my hair for years. It may seem small beer to be abused in Hokkien obscenities but not when you are extremely sensitive and you are surrounded by total hostility, from tv, films, newspapers, internet, neighbours, and even strangers. When you are totally surrounded by such a never-ending and totally enveloping hostile environment, every attack is painful and traumatic. Thus, I have had to stop watching CNN, BBC, or even any of the entertainment channels like Discovery or National Geographic because they have succeeded in totally surrounding me with hostile personal attacks. Of course, I have stopped reading or watching the local media because these dogs have long obeyed the Supreme Master LKY and have led the personal attacks. LKY has even used his media dogs to personally attack me, and his personal example is far more influential than anything else in instigating his lapdog media to do likewise. His Chinese tv media is worse. Here, you have to understand the Chinese. For milleniums, the Chinese have lived and evolved under Emperors. So they have become very LOYAL, OBEDIENT AND SUBSERVIENT -- to whoever is in authority. It does not matter who is in authority. This has become ingrained into the entire Chinese language, culture and hence the Chinese race. It is not something I am prone to because my Chinese is not good and I think in English. But to the Chinese educated, brought up in a Chinese culture and using mostly Chinese, like the Chinese in Chinese tv in Singapore, they are totally LOYAL, OBEDIENT AND SUBSERVIENT TO AUTHORITY. This is something Americans will have to understand and take into account if they are ever to come into confrontation with China and want to calculate scenarios. Thus, the Chinese tv in Singapore have attacked me with more viciousness than say, the English media. When you are English educated, you imbibe the culture along with the language and so the English media tends to have more liberal, western leanings.

Not content with his ISD agents following me to shopping centres to deliver personal insults and obscenities, LKY even ordered his ISD agent to carry shit with them and at WestMall Shopping Centre FoodCourt, ordered the foodstall to put shit into my plate of Chai Tau Kway [Fried Carrot Cake]. Just as I was about to eat, I heard a man say, "Chiak Sai!" ["Eat Shit"]. I could not tell if this was another trick, or whether the remark was directed at me, so I ate it all. Later, in the movie by Steven Spielberg, whose title I have forgotten, when the hero Tom Cruise had his eyes operated and changed by an illegal doctor for a new pair of eyes, when Cruise with eyes bandaged, fumbled in the fridge for a sandwich and took a bite, only to spit out the nauseating mess, the ISD agents planted in the cinema with me and my wife and son deliberately burst into loud raucous laughter on cue from the movie, which they had watched and known the scene. I felt murderous and helpless and trembling with rage but there was nothing I could do. I could not even get the sympathy of my wife and son. For 15 years, they have misunderstood me because of the vicious conspiracy. My wife was often troubled. We had quarrels. My son had grown up misunderstanding me and what hurts most of all is that he not only does not know I am a genius, he has a low opinion of me, which he sometimes shows. The Americans and LKY know all this but enjoy it as only nasty, vicious and stinking monsters can.

Not only do my wife and son misunderstand me, my brothers in law, like the Chinese educated types in Singapore, obediently, loyally and subserviently obey LKY and are stupidly impressed with the fact that the Americans are leading the charge and the almightly Americans cannot be wrong, what, after all, they often promote democracy, human rights and moral rectitude from Christian values to great ethical and philosophical ethos. Most people have little experience of Americans or know much about America beyond Hollywood and Pop Music and American Internet. However, my brothers in law are probably PAP members like their father. And having all 3 of them gone to university on bursaries or scholarship and worse, working for the govt, it is little wonder that they have chosen to be loyal to LKY rather than their own sister [my wife]. Indeed, Sunny took great pleasure in attacking me like his mentor LKY and probably got his promotion for it. They exemplify the populace at large in Singapore. Because they do not think in English, having a huge dose of Chinese language in them, they are Obedient, Loyal and Subservient. Only the English educated can save Singapore because the future does not rest on obedience, loyalty or subservience but ingenuity, problem solving and flexibility but those with these will not stay around for long. I have written that the "PAP should throw its black sheep out" meaning LKY but that is not likely to happen. Worse, the types that he has brought in and surrounded himself with, are even more kiasu than him. What with the uncritical, unthinking, loyal, obedient and subservient types and the extreme kiasuism of the LKY cronies, Singapore is done for once LKY is non-sentient.

Much play has been made of my mother. She was tricked by ISD operatives through her longtime mahjong friend by the Cantonese name of Pak Tai [White Madam or Madam White, sort of]. My mother told me she had made a passport and went with Pak Tai to Pontian. This is on record by the ISD machines. My mother cannot afford taxis but on any infrequent trip had to take taxis because she does not know how to take buses or later, the MRT. She never had a passport. Thus, there was no way she could have thought of going to Pontian [where the hell is that?]. She was led there by her mahjong friend Pak Tai. Now, Pak Tai is just as ignorant a middle aged woman as my mother so she couldn't have thought of Pontian as well. So the ISD must have planned the whole sting and suggested and taught Pak Tai how to get there and do it. Even today, even with young people who are well educated and well travelled, hardly anyone knows how to get to Pontian, let alone 2 middle aged women who have never travelled or even had a passport. It was an ISD sting operation. That conversation should be on record, as well as one or two more relevant ones.

Much play has been made of my aunt. This is an even stronger proof of ISD sting operation. My aunt was paid enough money, probably thousands of dollars, to take the risks of several years' jail, to tape a packet of opium to her leg to fly to Hongkong. Why my aunt for this smuggling operation? She had never flown, never had a passport. Did not know the inside of an airport and its airport procedures and operations. Was a total greenhorn. And why opium? It is low value, even then, bulky and hard to hide let alone sell or dispose of. Why taped to the leg when it would be so much easier and normal practice to hide it in a secret compartment in a bag? Taping to the leg is so obviously to directly incriminate her. All this means that any potential 'profits' from the whole smuggling would be far less than the thousands they paid her, plus the airfares to and fro, quite expensive then. It is in fact, cheaper, easier and safer to smuggle opium by car from the Golden Triangle to Hongkong than to smuggle it, at great risks and costs first into Singapore, which is a tiny islet of 700 sq km or 230 sq mi, with only 5 entry points -- 1 airport, 2 road/bridge links to Malaysia, 2 ferry points, one to Johor and the other, Batam, Bintan -- all well guarded; and then to re-smuggle it back to Hongkong. Further, Singapore is too tiny and a police state so there are no labs to process any drugs and totally no opium grown locally or even in our Muslim neighbours of Malaysia and Indonesia. So why ship opium from Singapore to Hongkong? Obviously, it would have been more logical to acquire opium from Burma/Thailand Golden Triangle and smuggle from there to Hongkong, not from Singapore! If you were to check the entire history of the Hongkong police, customs and anti-drug agency, you will find practically NOT A SINGLE CASE of drug smuggling FROM SINGAPORE TO HONGKONG. More likely the other way round. Singapore does not originate drugs. And how did the Hongkong authorities know to immediately seize her once the plane landed? Obviously, they were tipped off by the ISD and the Hongkong police should be able to confirm this. The ISD probably told the Singapore airport police to deliberately let her exit without any checking so as to incriminate and jail her in Hongkong. As a result of this ISD sting operation, my aunt was jailed several years. She has since died of cancer.


Note the similarities in both cases. Both women are related to me. Both cases happened around the same time, when I started fighting LIE KY, although then, I was very cautious in everything I wrote, then mostly in faxes to Dr CHEE Soon Juan and Mr Jeyaretnam and later to the online Singaporeans For Democracy. So cautious that nothing could be even remotely defamatory -- most of these writings are in my second blog, I came, I saw, I wrote it. Read how cautious they are, most of them, especially the earlier ones. I got angrier and angrier with time, as the torture intensified and prolonged and after Mr David DUCLOS emailed me in London about his witnessing LIE KY LHL WKS rigging the 1997 Cheng San GRC elections, it was then that I was emboldened enough to throw caution to the winds. Continuing with the similarities of both cases, both women are lowly educated and country bumpkins and hardly went to Orchard Road or ate in a restaurant -- no money. Both moved around their neighbourhood only, and on foot, had no car or access to a car or a family member with a car. Both walked to the market, nearby shops, etc, and could not even figure out how to take the complicated buses systems so on the rare need to travel out of the neighbourhood, had to spend some money which they could hardly afford, on taxis. Both had never been abroad or even had a passport. Both are too country bumpkin and lowly educated to be able to navigate airport, customs and immigration procedures or to be able to deal with the taxi or transport or hotel procedures once they were abroad. Yet both were lured abroad to commit offences. It has the hand of LIE KY and his ISD writ large all over it. The similarities of the modus operandi proves it.


I have written of a sting operation against me. On one occasion when I watched blue videotapes with male colleagues after work in the office conference room, I walked out into the dark bus stop and saw a pretty girl waiting alone. This stretch of road during that time is totally deserted, few cars or buses, typical during after peak hours in the old city area [in my earlier write up, I have given more detailed descriptions], what struck me was the behaviour of the girl. She did not glance up or glance at me when I joined her but pretended to look straight ahead for the bus. Now, the stretch of road where the bus would come is easily visible for many metres and so no need to keep looking. But she pretended to keep looking for the bus and pretended not to even notice me. It was an attempt at seduction knowing I was horny as hell after watching a night of blue videos. I did not know it then, about the ISD sting operations, because I did not even know there was an ISD or its name then. I was just an innocent citizen. I only remembered all these vividly after LKY started his vicious torture campaign and then I remembered this incident and it all connected. It was another sting operation.

I believe there is a god or gods [read my article on my blog of similar name]. That is, there are ghosts [I am certain] so some ghosts may have evolved into gods [not the same as some religions' god/s]. It is also possible that these ghosts/gods also love to play games of retribution and karma. For example, during Clinton's 2 terms, nobody doubted the Americans moral rectitude or fitness to lead the world. Now? Bush? Ha, ha [short cut for many typing]. Similarly, when LKY first started his vicious campaign against me, he was riding high on moral authority. Now? Thanks to God-sent Mr David DUCLOS, and his lawyer friend, the whole world knows, through the very same publicity machine that LKY and the Americans have imposed around me, that LKY rigged the 1997 Cheng San GRC elections to deprive the Workers Party of 5 seats in Parliament. Mr DUCLOS is a Catholic and in 1987/88, LKY slandered and libelled the Singapore and Vatican Catholics as Marxists and subversives with 22 mostly-Catholic arrestees arrested and jailed without trial for trying to overthrow him by violent means, ha, ha, ha. See? I was helped by gods giving me Bush and making him stupid. I was helped by gods giving me Mr DUCLOS to retribute LKY for jailing innocent Catholics. The Americans and LKY have cast me and my family into public odium and now, the gods have cast the Americans and LKY into public odium. It is difficult not to believe in god/s.

When I named my blog, "I came, I saw, I solved it", I had thought that if one day, I became rich and would never need for money, I could then use my blog, which I named for that main purpose, as a vehicle to gift to the world some of my ideas. I have some commercial and some non-commercial ideas. Unfortunately, I have been blocked by this vicious campaign from selling any ideas and so am in no mood for generosity. Worse, I have stopped looking for ideas and have had few, at least, big ones. Maybe, I am spending too much time reading and forwarding blogs. But I am certainly not going to look for a job, after having been prevented for 15 years and having been cast into public odium. So, if I am paid what is owed, and it is enough, I will probably relent and give some ideas that I have no use for, maybe even some that are commercially profitable but hard to realise or maybe due to the continuation of the vicious campaign, only without my knowledge. Whatever, I will certainly not be waking to a 9 to 5. Keep watching my blog. Maybe if I get lucky, the world will also get lucky.

Robert HO
27 Apr 07 2100 [May be continued but it is tiring to type so much and think and remember horrible things]

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

MY ONLINE POLICE REPORT ON LKY LHL WKS CHEATING ELECTIONS:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/2009/06/police-report-lee-ky-lhl-wks-cheating_02.html

THE MOST COMPLETE RUBBISHING OF LEEconomics EVER:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2009/06/most-complete-rubbishing-of-leeconomics.html

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

ALSO AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2007/03/filmmaker-martyn-see-interviews-robert.html

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Not%20nominated%20for%20a%20Nobel%20so%20LIE%20KY%20gives%20himself%20many%20others

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/

PHOTOS OF LIE KY SCRATCHING MY WIFE's NEW CAR:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/LIE%20KY%20scratched%20my%20car%20S%242800%20to%20repair

NOT GUILTY BUT TORTURED, DEGRADED 15 YEARS FOR PUBLICITY, FUN

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/2009/05/not-guilty-but-tortured-degraded-15.html

Video RH on LKY LHL WKS cheating elections

Police Report LEE KY LHL WKS cheating elections

[Click on image to enlarge]

LIE KY LHL WKS repeatedly cheating elections

http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/11/20-years-of-the-grc-a-closer-look-part-one/

Comments

31) Robert HO on November 12th, 2008 8.03 pm

RH:
1. LIE KY has been cheating in elections since 1959 when he sucked up to UK PM Harold MacMillan so as to get his PAP chief, LIM Chin Siong, arrested with many of his fellow leaders leaving a vacuum which he then filled, with the blessing and maneouvring of the British govt. LIM was so charismatic that LIE KY once introduced LIM to a visitor as “the next PM of Singapore”. Thus, only by unscrupulous cheating that LIE KY took over the PAP from LIM to win the 1959 GE and become PM.

2. In the 1963 GE, LIE KY cheated again. The Barisan was leading by a landslide in the counting, in >30 constituencies out of the ~50. Then, PM LIE KY caused an electricity ‘blackout’ around the City Hall counting centre, ordered everyone out, and changed the votes. After 6 hours, when electricity was ‘restored’, LIE ‘won’ by a landslide. Go to the National Library and check the microfilms of all the Chinese and English newspapers then.

3. Proof LIE KY cheated yet again in the 1997 Cheng San GRC elections is on my blog. Please read my blog by clicking on the link in this comment. My proofs include the name, address, telephone number of my eyewitness, Mr David DUCLOS, a Singaporean eurasian catholic former police inspector; and his lawyer friend, who has his own law firm in Singapore. That is why, after 1997, Cheng San was redrawn out of the electoral map, disappeared, absorbed into PAP strongholds.

4. It is also said that LIE KY also cheated to make ONG Teng Cheong President when he actually lost. During the Referendum to join Malaysia, LIE KY also cheated somewhat when he gave 3 Options — ALL FOR JOINING MALAYSIA, NONE AGAINST. Only the terms of joining were different.

5. Some may think cheating elections or stealing elections dont matter as long as Singapore is a ’success’. Is it? All that SG is, is a Huge Bubble that will burst one day, probably in this Recession. Property bubbles are deadly, as proven throughout the world in many countries. Japan lost a dozen years. The US is now collapsing. Our own property bubble, since the so-called Asset Enhancement Policy, saw prices of HDB flats being inflated to unbelievable and unsustainable levels. HDB pays its contractors ~$30,000 to construct a 4-room HDB flat, as proven in newspaper tender notices, but charges nowadays some >S$640,000 for a 4-room. Can this énhancement policy’ continue indefinitely? The Americans will tell you not. So this decades-long bubble will burst. Maybe this Recession. And it will wipe out billions from the over-inflated property market. There will be no ásset enhancement’. No such thing as a free lunch.

6. All this unbelievable inflation of HDB prices is done simply by using the HDB-CPF nexus. A cunning arrangement in which firstly, the HDB monopolises the property market [in which 85% of us live] so can charge anything it wants. Then, the CPF withholds ~35% of every paycheque and since we cannot use it for anything, we then sign it away for our HDB flat. Clever, no? This means we get a flat but no money for retirement. As long as the ásset enhancment’ continues to raise prices, we can feel smug that our theoretical and paper HDB flat worth is rising. But at >$640,000 for a 4-room now, the end is nigh. When the prices cannot be increased further, the music stops and everybody stops dancing. And LIE KY will be proven the vicious, election-rigging, corrupt, nepotic, INCOMPETENT, EVEN STUPID, despot he really is.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

ALSO AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2007/03/filmmaker-martyn-see-interviews-robert.html

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Not%20nominated%20for%20a%20Nobel%20so%20LIE%20KY%20gives%20himself%20many%20others

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/

PHOTOS OF LIE KY SCRATCHING MY WIFE's NEW CAR:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/LIE%20KY%20scratched%20my%20car%20S%242800%20to%20repair

NOT GUILTY BUT TORTURED, DEGRADED 15 YEARS FOR PUBLICITY, FUN

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/2009/05/not-guilty-but-tortured-degraded-15.html
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Idea: New Mandarin script : sinograms + pinyin

[Click on image to enlarge, for better sense of what I mean]

RH:
1. First, I would like to use the word "sinogram" to mean the Chinese "word" instead of the usual "ideogram". The reasons, as given in this Wikipedia article :

Chinese characters have often been called "ideograms", but since many Chinese characters also have morphemic and often phonetic significance, there were many attempts to abandon the name "ideogram" in favour of a term that more accurately represents their nature. One alternative is logogram, from the Greek roots logos ("word") and grapho ("to write"). Others include Sinogram, emphasising the Chinese origin of the characters, and Han character, a literal translation of the native term. These terms have gained some currency among scholars, but have failed to spread into common usage. The native terms (Chinese hanzi, Japanese kanji, Korean hanja) are also fairly widespread in the contexts of the individual languages, but they are not generally considered suitable for discussion of the script as a whole.

2. Like most, I found Chinese very difficult to learn. Each word or sinogram is a little graphic in itself, and although there is sometimes a similar sound whenever a certain root or radical is used within the sinogram, mostly you cannot tell how a sinogram is pronounced just by looking at the sinogram. This means you must memorise each sinogram graphic, not only how it looks and is written, but also its sound -- purely by memory. Compare this to the Latin-derived languages such as English, where just by looking at how a word is spelt and written, you can almost always guess how it sounds, thereby making the link between spoken English and written English very intuitive and easy and the language therefore easy to learn.

3. Since there are some 3,000 to 4,000 words to be fully literate in Chinese, this requires memorising some 4,000 individual sinograms, with their strokes and pronunciation. Source : Wikipedia --

The number of Chinese characters contained in the Kangxi dictionary is approximately 47,035, although a large number of these are rarely used variants accumulated throughout history. Studies carried out in China have shown that full literacy in the Chinese language requires a knowledge of only between three and four thousand characters.[1]

4. We all know what Chinese sinograms look and sound like. We also know that there is a romanised version of sinograms that try to give the pronunciation of each sinogram -- the hanyu pinyin system. But if there ever was any intention to use only pinyin to write Chinese, it is doomed from the start. No matter how good you are in pinyin, nobody can read a sentence of pinyin and know what the Chinese sentence is. For an interesting exercise to try exactly this, try reading this pinyin-only text and see if you understand it :

http://www.pinyin.info/chinese_characters/simplified_traditional/zhang_liqing/pinyin.html

I reproduce the first para for your convenience : Jiǎntǐzì hé fántǐzì shì shǔyú wénzì fànchóu de wèntí. Dànshi xiànzài wǎng shàng guānyú zhè gè wèntí de yǒuxiē shuōfa chángcháng bǎ yǔyán hé wénzì hùn zài yīqǐ, yě yǒu rén bǎ wénhuà, chuántǒng děngděng dà màozi kòu zài zhè gè wèntí shàng, jiéguǒ líkāi tímù hěn yuǎn, yě déchū yīxiē bù zhèngquè de jiélùn.

5. Clearly, pinyin-only does not work. Memorising by rote some 4,000 sinograms is not something we want to inflict on children, since they have much better things to do, even though it trains the memory and the character wonderfully. This is an example text on some of the 4,000 sinograms : http://www.pinyin.info/chinese_characters/simplified_traditional/zhang_liqing/simplified_chinese.html

I reproduce the first para for your convenience : 简体字和繁体字是属于文字范畴的问题。但是现在网上关于这个问题的有些说法，常常把语言和文字混在一起，也有人把文化，传统等等大帽子扣在这个问题上，结果离开题目很远，也得出一些不正确的结论。

6. The teaching approach, especially for those who know English, is to teach each sinogram together with its pinyin equivalent -- the pinyin mostly to help with the pronunciation. Once the sinogram is mastered, both in written form and pronunciation, the pinyin is no longer used as a crutch, and dropped, leaving the pure written sinogram alone to represent the word, the sound and the concept of the word. This has largely worked for millennia, especially for the Chinese in China, who have no alternative. But its difficulty has daunted foreigners and quite a few overseas Chinese, from learning Chinese. But this dual versions of the language is unwieldy and cumbersome in print, and unless you have 2 brains or a split personality, reading 2 very different systems at once is impossible. Here is an example : http://www.pinyinannotator.com/index.php [You may have to click on Add Sample Text, then Annotate, buttons].

7. What if we incorporate BOTH the sinogram AND its pinyin equivalent into ONE sinogram? For example, I have done a few sentences of this idea in the Attachment. I have roughly used gray sinogram overlaid with a small black pinyin [ideally, a tall and thin font] to create the new sinogram. This is a very crude example since I am not a language expert or graphic designer and worse, I do not know GIMP2 photo editing software well enough to do a good job, even if I spend far more time than I did for this rough example. The idea is to EMBED the pinyin into the sinogram to form a new word-sinogram that those who know the standard Mandarin will be able to read as per normal, while giving those not so proficient, a romanised pinyin to help with the reading. At first, it would appear weird to the standard Mandarin reader but will be as quickly mastered as when Simplified Chinese was introduced. For those who know English, which is increasingly the whole world, especially the younger people in all the important countries and in international orgs like the UN and trade and tourism industries, this new sinogram system can make learning Chinese much easier. At one stroke, you can look at each sinogram and know how it is pronounced, just like with English. Yet you also learn how the original sinogram is written. At last, Chinese can become as easy and intuitive as English or any of the Latin-based languages.

8. Do not be put off by my bad graphics. There are dozens of ways this EMBEDDING of pinyin into sinograms can be beautifully done. I have used a pinyin equivalent about 2/3rds down from the top of the sinogram but obviously, some study and experimentation are needed to achieve the most elegant results. I have used gray sinograms with black pinyin since most documents are read and printed in black & white, seldom in colour. A good designer will also consider 'airbrushing' a soft-edge white 'hole' in the centre of the sinogram so that the pinyin can sit nicely and legibly inside the airbrushed hole. Thus, there are many design options even for black and white, let alone colour combinations for the sinogram and embedded pinyin. Do hire some experts to try out various possibilities.

9. You will need experts like this TSAI Chih Hao, whose combination of talents seem exactly what is needed:

Chih-hao Tsai
His research page covers romanization, psycholinguistics, the psychology of reading, and cognitive science, while his technology page covers his computing and programming work, which is primarily related to the processing of Chinese.

10. The reason why this idea is feasible now and not earlier has much to do with computers. For millennia, the Chinese language developed according to its tools -- the ink brush. So Chinese sinograms are calligraphy and each word almost a brush art, which today is still practised as such. Meanwhile, the pinyin system is English-based, using the same English alphabet. There was no combination possible. Even when computers were developed, the 2 languages, as composed on computers, developed totally separately, although some use pinyin to type Chinese on a computer. Today, because pinyin is often used to type Chinese on a Qwerty computer keyboard, pinyin became more important, and not just for pronunciation, as before. So the computer led to a closer link between sinogram and its pinyin equivalent. If you don't know the pinyin of a sinogram, you usually cannot type that Chinese word on a Qwerty keyboard. Thus, it is time for this idea to be born.

11. Because we now do almost all our writing on a computer, and most of our reading too, the idea is now possible when it was not feasible before. For example, creating this new script will take no more work than designing a new font for Chinese. Part of it can be automated by a good software program. It only needs to work in black & white as well as colour and to look good when printed on paper. On computer screens, there is no problem at all, since everything is possible.

12. However, for schoolchildren, who still do a lot of hand writing, both sinogram and its pinyin equivalent must necessarily be written separately. But in their books, and worksheets printed by their schools and teachers, the new script can be used.

13. Quickly, all users of Chinese would get used to the new script and regard it as normal in just a short time, like the introduction of Simplified Chinese. Foreigners would find learning Chinese much easier. Each new sinogram is no more than a few extra strokes more than the original sinogram, so not much is new. Each sinogram would look exactly like the original sinogram, so no new learning curve for old users. While the addition of the embedded pinyin will quickly be assimilated into the new character and after a while, look perfectly 'normal'. Just like adding a few extra strokes -- but that doesn't change the character at all out of recognition.

14. Users of the Chinese language do not often invent a new sinogram for the simple reason that no one would know how to write it or pronounce it, unlike the inventive users of the better English writers. When Chinese users want to invent, they have to use existing sinograms but in new combinations. Inventing a totally new sinogram means that nobody else knows how to write or read it. With this new script, you can actually invent a totally new sinogram, with you defining how to pronounce using the embedded pinyin. This may be useful for new inventions and new technical terms. In the English language, all the words are composed of the same 26 letters of the alphabet and so inventing a new word is easy -- just reshuffle some of the 26 letters into a new combination. Since language is the basis of thought, as I theorised, this may explain why the Westerners are so much more creative than the Chinese. I have also theorised that language is to the brain what the OS is to a computer. So, adopting this new script not only makes the Chinese language easier to learn and use, but may also help to make Chinese more creative. This could be important for survival and progress in the 21st Century. It is an idea for all the Chinese, and foreigners learning Chinese, in the world, from China, Taiwan, Hongkong to states with significant Chinese populations. An idea whose time has come?

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

ALSO AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2007/03/filmmaker-martyn-see-interviews-robert.html

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Not%20nominated%20for%20a%20Nobel%20so%20LIE%20KY%20gives%20himself%20many%20others

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/

PHOTOS OF LIE KY SCRATCHING MY WIFE's NEW CAR:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/LIE%20KY%20scratched%20my%20car%20S%242800%20to%20repair

NOT GUILTY BUT TORTURED, DEGRADED 15 YEARS FOR PUBLICITY, FUN

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/2009/05/not-guilty-but-tortured-degraded-15.html
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NOT GUILTY BUT TORTURED + DEGRADED 15 YEARS FOR PUBLICITY + FUN

RH: Since you Cowardly Chickens refuse to charge me, I hereby very briefly summarise my defence :


1. It happened 30 years ago, in 1979 -- nobody died or was even hospitalised. Unlike Westerners, we Asians, especially Chinese, are not violent people
2. A domestic affair between husband and wife
3. I was certified mad then, recovered through medication in IMH, and then after stopping medication for ~4 months, had a relapse, and recovered again after an injection and put back onto medication. Each time I was mad, I TOTALLY DID NOT KNOW I WAS MAD and fully believed I was normal
4. A full court trial had already in 1979 found me Not Guilty, Unsound Mind, although watching me conducting self defence, you wouldn't know I was mad then -- read court transcript. When sent to IMH, I initially forcefully refused all medication until injected and threat to withhold my asthma medicine
5. The laws and police/legal procedures cannot be so stupid as to aver that, cut wires = mad but cut neck = not mad but sane and therefore guilty, when these happened at the same time in the same mental condition


Why are you all so Cowardly Chickens? We have all seen how the kangaroo courts, prosecution, witnesses and judges operate, meaning that I will be kept on a very tight leash and cannot testify about LIE KY LHL WKS elections riggings, or American, British and LIE KY LHL WKS tortures of me and family over 15 years because the prosecution and judge will jump up to shut me up as "Irrelevant!" so why so Cowardly Chickens? Charge me!

The real reasons are that the moment you sit down and try to frame the charges, you realise how stupid and unlegal it all looks. Try it! It will be an interesting exercise. You cannot frame the charges in words without looking political, stupid and unlegal. This is why I will never have my day in court, but I am still hoping...

You all have sensationally in thousands of innuendoes and allusions enveloping me totally, accused me of everything from murder to terrorism and have created an entire world and national industry based on those lies. An entire genre in itself. But I am winning, painfully slowly, but at long last, winning, as the Truths begin to take hold in the minds of the world.

But I also know you will continue forever purely to avoid losing face by stopping. As long as you continue business as usual, many of the stupid or not following closely, will still think you have a case. At this stage, it is all about EGO. In the end, it is always about your EGOs, for which I and my family will continue to suffer.

From the very beginning 15 years ago, it was never about justice but PUBLICITY for LIE KY, who, by criminally torturing me many times daily, got to speak to Presidents and PMs like Clinton, Bush and Blair, plus entertain a stream of VIPs and world conventions. While the Americans got the huge ENTERTAINMENT of a royal command performace which they and LIE KY jointly had so much fun 'directing' like a movie director -- the world's first torture reality show, better than any on tv because our sufferings are real. In the process of violating our privacy totally, 'televising' us 24/7, they also had the fun of 'target practice' shooting, vandalising light bulbs, fridge, washing machines, computers, dvd players, our car's various parts, aircons, wlan routers, flooded ceiling collapse, etc, several thousands of dollars worth of damage. While mentally and psychologically, they toyed with my mind, delighting especially at creating and causing conditioned fear responses using loud motorcycles revving past, car honkings at me at home, a whole amateur pantomime performance 'messaging' at me to cause more discomfort and distress, especially the foul words directed at me whenever I go out, creating a 24/7 day and night all-surround HOSTILE atmosphere of unending stress that totally traumatised me, until I decided to literally fight to the death, after which I stopped fearing and the mental stress reduced but not the physical sleep deprivation, constipation attacks and other physical indignities, which not even the most resistant mental fortitude can lessen. To make me feel guilty and give up, they also criminally attacked my son and little niece, with lab-cultivated very virulent flu viruses that made us 3 sick for weeks, plus constipation and stomach pain attacks. Death and injury threats to my son are so common I have stopped fearing them. 15 full years of daily CRIMINAL attacks of every kind their imagination and entertainment could conjure, operating several shifts a day in the flat above mine, and following me everywhere I go, even overseas, a small industry in itself, all dedicated to create a permanent, unending HOSTILE atmosphere from which I cannot escape because I am watched like a lab rat 24/7 hostilely, with not a single word of sympathy from anybody, even today. All alone, all isolated, criminally attacked all the time, even when I sleep in my bed. I should have gone mad again, if not for my daily anti-psychotic medications.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

ALSO AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2007/03/filmmaker-martyn-see-interviews-robert.html

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Not%20nominated%20for%20a%20Nobel%20so%20LIE%20KY%20gives%20himself%20many%20others

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/

PHOTOS OF LIE KY SCRATCHING MY WIFE's NEW CAR:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/LIE%20KY%20scratched%20my%20car%20S%242800%20to%20repair
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Math+Science types inferior to Lit+Lang types

RH: "The corrupt, nepotic, dishonest, lying, unscrupulous, usurper, election-rigging criminal LIE KY made yet another stupid, fatal mistake decades ago when he channeled the best and brightest into Math and Science, and made the best of these M&S scholars into Ministers. You see, M&S lack subtlety unlike Lit and Lang. M&S is always, inevitably, wholly right or wholly wrong, no two ways about it. Simplistic. 1 + 1 is always = 2. No in-betweens. No doubts. No infinite gradations of Truth and Meaning like in Lit and Lang. In L&L, right may sometimes be wrong. Sometimes neither. Sometimes both. Like humans, human nature and society. Language is also the basis of thought meaning that M&S types think poorly and simplistically, in blacks and whites while humanity is one huge spectrum of intermixed colours. His stupid bilingual policies also resulted in the vast majority of Singaporeans being semi-lingual in both, thus resulting in a total inability to think. Thus, by choosing only M&S scholars for Ministers and all top govt posts, LIE KY ensured stupidity all round, which is why Singapore is what it is today, a totally stupid govt and country. In no other country is this stupid choice of Ministers and top bureaucrats so pronounced. This explains why our Ministers and top civil servants cannot think, cannot reason, cannot empathise. Let alone communicate intelligently or blog. While our best bloggers, the serious sociopolitical ones who spellbind their readers day after day, week after week, prove so clearly they make far better Ministers, with their acuity of vision, empathy for Singaporeans and brilliant analyses of why and where the stupid LIE KY and his LIEgime have gone so fatally wrong. Yet, instead of being grateful for all this free advice, they are threatened because LIE KY is infallible and therefore, any criticism must be sedition. In Singapore, LIE KY is God, all-powerful and thus can mould this tiny city any way he wants. With his stupidity and belief in M&S types, he has set Singapore back decades and it will take the next govt decades more to reverse this greatest stupidification of a country in mankind's history, that only the great and infallible LIE KY can commit. This is one of his most enduring legacies and the stupid elites you see everywhere owe entirely to his stupidity."

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

ALSO AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2007/03/filmmaker-martyn-see-interviews-robert.html

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Not%20nominated%20for%20a%20Nobel%20so%20LIE%20KY%20gives%20himself%20many%20others

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/
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Idea: A preliminary sketch of the new world

RH:
1. My worldview has been totally shattered of late. I read 2 books by Gavin MENZIES entitled 1421 and 1434 [www.1421.tv] and came to the conclusion that most of history is totally wrong. Magellen did not discover the Magellen Straits, nor Columbus America nor Gama the Cape of Good Hope -- the Chinese did, although not a word about this Chinese feat is even mentioned in the English history books. The Chinese also sparked off the European Renaissance with the gift of a series of books and encyclopaedias to the Pope teaching astronomy, printing, machines and other civil and military Chinese inventions and again, not a word of this is mentioned in English history books. A History Channel programme I watched yesterday, Inside Islam, also transformed my worldview and made me realise how recent and short European domination of the world is and how the previous empire in the Europe region, the Arab empire, contributed so much to math, science and learning. Our numeral system of 1, 2, 3, etc, is Arabic. As is algebra, an Arabic word itself.

2. So I began researching. The various European countries' domination and colonisation of many parts of the world began only in the 15th Century, that is, about 600 years. Against this ~600 years are China's ~3,900 years of civilisation, most of which as the most advanced in the world, and India's ~4,200 years or so, if I remember MENZIES' book correctly. American domination began only after WW2, or about 64 years, although it seemed forever. Its rise coincided with, and is probably the direct result of, the Bretton Woods agreement which made the US$ the world reserve currency, originally backed by gold, now backed by nothing, so the Americans simply print as much as they want, to buy up the world's assets and resources and to enslave other countries.

3. We are captives of our senses. We can only live in the moment, and have memories of events no longer than the time we have lived. The rest of what we know of history is what we read or learned. And history is written by the victors. After reading 1421 and 1434, I concluded that history is mostly lies and inaccuracies and historians and history books cannot be trusted. I have also learned the hard way, that the media, even the supposed free media of the West and America, also cannot be trusted to print or describe the Truth. I now don't believe anything I read or hear in English. I have, like most Singaporeans, learned to read between the lines and distrust any Singapore media; now I apply this to all Western media as well. They are sama-sama. Thus, currently, since we must live in the moment, and our memories extend to no more than the date of our birth, we may believe that America is the most powerful empire in the world, just like the various Europeans' variously before it, but we only have to think a bit and realise that this may not be so or can continue for long. Indeed, the economic crises of the US and, to a lesser extent, the EU, may mean that the European domination of ~600 years and the American domination of ~64 years, may come to an end.

4. But isn't America the world's biggest economy and therefore military? Like everything else, what result you get depends on what you measure it with. Economics is measured in dollars, usually US$, and by this measure, the US economy is indeed the biggest. But if you measure economies in non-dollar terms, other economies are far bigger. Here, I introduce the concept of Unit Economics.

5. Currently, all economic production is measured in dollars, ultimately the US$. Like rice, dvd players, pc software and services like a haircut or a massage. What if you measure these in their Units? For example, the rice produced by the US could be measured in tonnes, the dvd player as a unit of dvd player, similarly, a piece of software, a haircut or a massage, etc. Then, you will discover that the true US economic production is far smaller than that of China or India. Because China produces far more tonnes of rice, dvd players, haircuts, etc.

6. Economics is a form of accounting and like all accounting, far from the reality it describes. For example, the balance sheet of a company is far from the reality of the company itself. You can no more understand a company's size, operations, and impact on the world from its balance sheet than you can understand an economy from the usual economics measurements, especially the US$ measure.

7. Proof of this is in the comparison of military might. When you compare the military might of Russia vs US, you don't say that Russia has $4 trillion of nuclear warheads while the US has $10 trillion, etc. You actually say how many warheads, that is, using each warhead as a Unit measure. You don't even measure by the megatonnage of the explosives although that works well like the US$ in economics. Thus, when clear thinking and accurate comparisons are needed, comparisons are made in Units, not US$. Apply this Unit Economics to compare the economies of countries and you will paint a totally and vastly different picture of the globe. Generally, the bigger the population, the bigger the Unit economic production, so China and India would be far ahead of the rest of the world. If a billion people in India and China are NOT starving or homeless, then their economic production must be enough to keep them roofed, clothed and fed, even with some of life's other necessities, thus totalling a far greater production than the 300 million in the US despite its much higher productivity due to higher mechanisation and computerisation, etc.

8. The European domination of the last ~600 years and the American domination of the last ~64 years worked to better their economies and people's lives by taking by force the raw materials and the colonised people's work and shipping these back to Europe. The subject colonies also served as captive markets for the Europeans' productions. But these methods are no longer possible, meaning that world domination is no longer profitable, so American domination means little. Indeed, quite the opposite, as vast sums are needed to subjugate a subject country, like in Iraq and Afghanistan since modern insurgencies are efficient and effective against even superpowers. Are American oil companies making much money from Iraq? Or is the cost of this robbery not quite worth it? Thus, world domination is unprofitable nowadays. Meaning that America cannot profit from it like the Europeans did, thus its continuing quest can only result in over-reach and over-extension leading possibly to swift decline.

9. Another horrific inaccuracy lies in the different EXCHANGE values of currencies. The currencies of most of the developed world is much higher than those of undeveloped countries. Thus, economic production of the developed countries, ultimately measured in US$, are far higher than those of undeveloped countries. But a US$10 haircut or dvd disc in a developed country is much the same as a US$1 haircut or dvd disc in an undeveloped country. Generally, WITHIN a country, that is, domestically, the exchange rate is unimportant but when buying and selling overseas, a low exchange rate means a great disadvantage because you have to pay so much more in products or services worth to get something that may be of much lesser intrinsic value. Just because of the low exchange rate. Thus, it is possible that for future international trade, across borders, undeveloped countries may want to barter instead of paying in US$. In the old days of cross-border trade, merchants bartered, sometimes using gold as a barter instrument. Today, with internet websites, email, fax and phone, barter is even easier. The first few times would be hard but quickly, norms and quantities would be quickly established, for example, 10 tonnes of rice for 1,000 dvd players. It would be easy to also devise a Barrel of Oil Equivalent. Thus, 10 tonnes of rice for 100 BOE, at which point, the BOE would become the international trading 'currency'. Russia, with its huge oil and gas reserves, could begin instituting this. The BOE could be backed by a real barrel of oil, like the US$ was previously backed by gold. This would make the BOE superior as a reserve currency. The BOE would be issued primarily by the oil producers, since they produce oil and can back each BOE with a real barrel of oil, but others who also can acquire oil would also be able to issue BOE probably. As long as each BOE paper is backed by a barrel of oil if redeemed. Since every country needs oil, it is a universal store of value, which is why currently, oil is traded in US$. Countries may also want to consider having 2 currencies, 1 for internal, domestic use and the other, for international exchange for trading use. For example, a domestic Renminbi and a foreign Renminbi. The China govt would probably set the exchange level between this D-renminbi and F-renminbi so as to control trade and monetary policy. Every country can do this.

10. High exchange rates usually go with high costs. Generally, costs of everything are high in developed countries and much lower in undeveloped countries. This means that it costs many times more to build a condo or mall in the West than in the East. Together with the higher densities and bigger pops of the East, thereby making everything more efficient [see my blog for my explanation of "high density = high efficiency = high quality of life"
Iconoclassing Pt 1: http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/ICONOCLASSING%20SINGAPORE%20GDP%20MYTHS
Iconoclassing Pt 2: http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Iconoclassing%20Pt%202
Iconoclassing Pt 3: http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/ICONOCLASSING%20Pt%203%20or%20RH%20Zero%20Sum%20Game%20Theory ], this means that buildings and infrastructure are much cheaper in the East meaning they get built, renovated and maintained, which is usually not the case in the West. Soon, the East will be far more modern and efficient than the West. Already, tourists are discovering that a holiday in the East is far more value because of better, newer hotels and tourist facilities at a lower cost than in the West, like 5-star hotels in Asia for the price of 3-stars in the West. For the local people, too, all this gives a more efficient and better quality of life. With the internet, satellite tv and mass travel, the West will become more widely known as being inferior. Soon, the West will be widely regarded as the backward regions and the East as far more modern. You only have to look at the inner city slums in the West and their old creaking metro train systems and compare these with the brand new ones in the East. High density and bigger pops create ever-increasing demand for new homes, which are then built. With these come the malls and metro systems. At major metro hubs soon rise office towers of steel and glass. This story is repeated all over Asia but not in the West where new developments and projects are agonisingly slow and expensive.

11. However, because of the higher exchange rates, the West can buy up real estate, companies, etc, in the East at what, to them, are small prices. This means that the East should have laws regulating what and how many 'cheap' assets can be sold to the West, otherwise the exchange inequalities will put the Eastern assets at a disadvantage, at risk of being bought for cheap.

12. But people are the hardest to change. Until the economic crises happened, nobody dared even broach the idea of a change in the US$ Hegemony fiat currency or trading practices and US financial dominance. Now, as the US and the world roils further into depression, things will begin to change. Gone forever is the US model. It is a model of moral decay and collapse. I very much doubt the Americans can dominate the world for longer. Its ~64 year reign is ending even though we, living by the moment, cannot see it so clearly. What were the last days of the Roman or British Empires like? We may be seeing its equivalent with the dawn of each day.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

ALSO AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2007/03/filmmaker-martyn-see-interviews-robert.html

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Not%20nominated%20for%20a%20Nobel%20so%20LIE%20KY%20gives%20himself%20many%20others

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/
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Idea: Russia can sell Electricity instead of Gas

Map illustrates Europe's major natural gas pipelines. Ukraine is the main route for Russia's gas exports to western Europe, with more limited amounts going via Belarus. SOURCE: Inogate (EU oil and gas transport co-operation programme)
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RH:
1. From the article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7812860.stm from which the map above is taken, it seems that most of Russia's gas pipes go through Ukraine before they terminate in southern europe such as Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria. My idea may not help these much, if indeed, my idea works at all.

2. From the map, it seems there is/are pipes through Belarus and Poland before reaching Germany. If the idea works, it would be here. However, if the idea works beyond my expectations, depending as it does on technicals of which I am clueless, then it may work for every country currently depending on Russian gas, including the south europe countries mentioned.

3. As I understand it, the problem is that Ukraine, through which most of Russia's gas pipes to europe runs, can thereby divert or take gas meant for europe.

4. Russia is currently increasing its piping of gas through its other pipes while reducing piping of gas through Ukraine to prevent Ukraine stealing it. If this works, there is no need for my idea, except for less emergency, longterm consideration as a permanent solution.

5. The idea is simple. I assume that most of the gas is eventually used in power plants to generate electricity. So why not pipe electricity instead of the gas?

6. For this to work, Russia or its neighbours would have to step up its gas-fuelled power plants to generate as much electricity as possible and pump these surplus electricity into its neighbouring countries' electrical grids systems. Russia could thereby pump electricity into Belarus, Poland and even to Germany. It may not be feasible to pump electricity all the way from Russia to Germany in one continuous relay but we could use a step by step method. Meaning that Russia pumps its surplus electricity into its neighbour Belarus' grid, which then frees up Belarus' power plants to produce surplus electricity for its next neighbour, Poland, which then... to Germany. This way, the entire europe continent could be supplied by electricity, starting from Russia.

7. The logistics are not so daunting because all the electrical grids are already in place and only some major main power lines need be created to connect to a neighbouring country's grid. Costings again, are not so daunting because all the electricity prices to end customers are all published and known and the costs of each power plant producing electricity are also easily known. There is only the govts who need to sit down to discuss all these details, best to do it all together in one big meeting.

8. Depending on the technicals, the idea could be implemented this year, in time for the next winter. It all depends on how the quarrel with Ukraine goes. If this idea even seems possible and would be implemented, Ukraine could capitulate and the idea need not even be implemented, although as a permanent, longterm solution, it will always be attractive.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

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Idea: Treasure Hunt games on Google Earth

RH:
1. Google Earth 5.0 is now a stunning program. Its inclusion of Sky and Space; and Oceans depths, make for very exciting computer games that may be sellable and profitable.

2. There are opportunities for both professionally-created games that are as sophisticated as any now currently on sale; and User created games such as Treasure Hunts or Amazing Race type formats [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Race_(U.S._TV_series) ] in which a Games Master lays a trail with clues for Players to follow. Google Earth 5.0 already has enough User features as is, for an Amazing Race or Treasure Hunt type games to be created but if Google can tweak its Google Earth program a little, it will be a lot easier and more fun for both Games Master and Players.

3. For example, TH or AR type trails can be laid that require googling. The clues can span the entire internet and knowledge contained therein. For example, starting from any point in Google Earth 5.0, the first waypoint or WP1, can be clued as "the nearest star" and upon googling, the Player/s discover that this is Proxima Centuri. So the Player types in Proxima Centauri into Google Earth 5.0 and is taken to it. There, he finds a PlaceMark with the next clue, and so on. For more fun and creativity, clues at each PlaceMark can be in the form of Text, Audio or Video file. The PlaceMark icon of a Pin, for such games, can be transformed into something else and here, an opportunity for an advertiser to put his name, logo and even audio and/or video clip onto the Game PlaceMark Clue. The AR format seems to be very well established and more importantly, widely known, so Games Masters should copy it unless copyrighted. AR may want to officially do a Google Earth version of its race, either as a standalone programme or to advertise its tv version more widely. The clues are limited only by creavitiy and invention and knowledge of obscure facts and figures. Even very difficult clues are possible because googling is available. It may be more convenient to have a google search box right within the Google Earth program for such gameplay.

4. Thus, these TH or AR type of games can be implemented almost immediately. This should lead to greater use of Google Earth. Games can be in any language, so worldwide appeal. AR is strictly a tv programme and only for passive tv watching but this game on Google Earth will be played by huge numbers and by anybody. The Game PlaceMark holding such games clues can be set to expire or auto delete after a set time but those games that are very good can be kept forever and played by all new users for all time. Thus, the small kid can also create a game trail for his friends while professionals like AR can create very professional game trails that will remain forever, thus adding to the value of Google Earth over time. You may want to let AR types make permanent trails while amateurs with lower standards gmail their creations to their friends for private use only, without filling the official version of Google Earth with too many unprofessional placemarks and files.

5. As for computer or video type games, there is no limit to the kinds of gameplay possible. First Person Shooter games, Strategy games, group players games, aliens from outer space games, space warfare, spaceships, conquest of other star constellations as well as Earth, SIM games, etc, every known game format is possible. Games developers need only to have access to Google Earth's source codes, maybe. Or Google itself can create these games in partnership with games developers. Games music and sound effects, etc, are all possible. Wars can take place in space, on Mars and other planets, on Earth and even underwater on Earth. No limits except imagination.

6. You could also have educational games. For these, talk to educationists. Geography, Oceanography, Volcanology, Marine Biology, etc, all are fair game for educational games.

7. Also, every time Google Earth gets into the world news, like the Swiss officials who found a marijuana field hidden in the middle of crops, Google should quickly capitalise on this kind of publicity [can create some yourself] and quickly put a new Google Earth In The News section highlighting this Swiss field, for example, to let users see for themselves.

8. Games are limited only by imagination. There are quite a few good games companies who would love to create games based on Google Earth.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

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[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

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Idea: RFID Ring as personal identifier

RH:
1. This Wikipedia article on Radio Frequency Identity tags or chips, [ http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RFID ] explains that there are active RFID tags that are powered and Passive tags or chips that require no battery or power to work. These passive RFID tags work when exposed to a radio frequency and send back signals and info just like any transmitter.

2. For photos of how small these RFID tags can be, click on these 2 photos :

http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2109/1558650428_d9e560ab97.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.techdo.com/your-worst-nightmare-rfid-powder/&usg=__GtplWE90mtgURV0MnhAzuthJhpE=&h=397&w=475&sz=24&hl=en&start=5&sig2=RRCac052m-dt8FVZCmQd1w&um=1&tbnid=zi2dpX7nJEsIJM:&tbnh=108&tbnw=129&ei=k3CFSYz3PNWNkQWwqOWfAw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drfid%2Btiny%2Btag%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DG

http://www.wdr.de/themen/_images_/images/3/computer/schiebwoche/2004/rfid_cypak_400q.jpg

3. Since RFID tags can be so tiny, even powder-size, it is easy to incorporate one or more into a nice ring to be worn on a finger, say, the middle finger of the right hand, for example. For those who may object to wearing a ring, here are photos of how nice they can look :

http://images.google.com.sg/images?q=jewellery%20rings&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

4. But signet rings are what I have in mind as this design is probably more useful, allowing engraving or printing of name or numbers or logos on the flat surface :

http://images.google.com.sg/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=jewellery+rings+signet&btnG=Search+Images

5. So, what purpose would a signet ring RFID have?

6. Plenty. For one, it could unlock your office security door, like the big plastic card you are currently wearing round your neck [which also works by RFID]. But more.

7. Your Employee ring could also be programmed to communicate with your office telephone regularly, say, every second, and only allows this telephone to ring when you are within range and not ring when you walk away from it. So no more office phones ringing loudly and annoyingly and disturbingly when the intended person is not at his or her desk.

8. Go one step further and make any of your office telephone ring when it is your call and you are within range. In a meeting, all the participants would be able to be followed to the meeting room's telephone. It is possible to make the phone call out the name of the intended call recipient instead of ringing, a significant improvement over the present indeterminate ringing. RFID range can vary from inches to several metres. So your call follows you wherever in the office you happen to be. Nice isn't it? Maybe not so nice if you want a quiet, unharassed moment at the water cooler or pantry.

9. Why stop at the office phone? Why not make your wireless mouse, keyboard and computer stop and go into power saver mode the moment you walk away? Not only saves power but also more secure since no one else can see your screen or use your computer.

10. While we are at that, why not also programme your cellphone to similarly not ring or not work when you are away from it, that is, out of range? Good for privacy.

11. You could even let your RFID ring open your car park gantry to enter no matter which car you are driving, since the ring is on your finger and not stuck to the inside windscreen of your car.

12. You could enter printing instructions to your office printer but it only prints from the queue when you are within range. Again, great for privacy and secure documents you don't want that nosy secretary from the next dept to read.

13. The drawback to this grand scheme is that all such equipment will have to be redesigned to cater for RFID communication. Big problem since no office manager will change the entire systems just for such. So the best way is to design a tiny chip or circuit that you can retrofit into any telephone, printer, computer, etc. This retrofit chip will have almost universal application to most office phones, hopefully. But much, much, easier for computers since they already come pretty standardised with Windows or Mac OSes. Just plug the chip into a usb port and draw its power, too. Like some Bluetooth usb plug-ins today.

14. There are probably many more uses I cannot think of. This signet ring can become a Personal Identifier for many equipment and systems. Eventually, even pay for buses and trains or even restaurant meals, although security from hackers and fraudsters will have to be improved, which is currently being worked on at many orgs.

15. Meanwhile, ring designers can get creative designing plastic, metal or other material rings since wearers will want many designs to choose from.
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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

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Idea: Blind Users Interface

RH:
1. Many lifestyle devices nowadays seem to be digital and based on the computer, for example, mp3 players like the iPod, cellphones that are practically small computers, with Operating Systems like Symbian, Windows Mobile, etc. This idea is for devices like these, with the characteristics of being digital; small and therefore difficult for blind people to operate, since there are no big, easy-to-feel knobs to use; and producing an audio signal either from earbuds in the case of the iPod or built-in speakers like the cellphones.

2. Small sized devices cannot have big knobs that home hi-fi devices can have, so blind users find it much harder to use these small devices. Indeed, these small devices often have no knobs, just a small touch-dial or thin, shallow button/s that may be pressed, rotated, etc. They invariably have a small screen display for normal, sighted, users to see which menu is being active [open] and which menu option to select [by pressing] to operate the device.

3. It is impossible to request ALL these device manufacturers to build in easier features for the blind since blind users are a minority. Even legislation will not be able to compel device makers to make them blind-friendlier. So, taking the iconic iPod and the typical cellphone as primary devices, what are their common characteristics such that we can create a Blind Users Interface that will work for ALL of them, such that all these device makers need only add this free and open source code without cost to their devices to make them useable by the blind as well as sighted users? With minimum adaptation work.

4. Common characteristics : the usual interface for sighted people are a small display screen that displays the current 'page' of the menu that is being 'open', this menu of several options any of which can be 'selected' by pressing a button after rotating a dial. This visual interface would be in words on the screen while selection will be by pressing a button after rotating a dial through the various word options.

5. Suppose we write code for a BUI? This code should be easily incorporated into all the major OSes used by mp3 device makers and cellphone makers initially, then maybe ported to other, bigger, devices. Its basic structure will be similar although many versions would have to be adapted for various OSes.

6. This BUI can use text-to-speech tech to read out any word selected on the menu of the screen. Other than the bulk of the text-to-speech program, this should not be difficult since the program in the device will already recognise which word is being selected or which button pressed to action the chosen menu option -- since this is already the interface for sighted people. Thus, the BUI will sit on top of whatever program is used for the sighted interface. Except that while the sighted user will read the word on the menu, the blind user will hear the word spoken out loud, either through the earbuds or built-in loudspeaker/s.

7. When the blind user rotates the dial, the various menu options selected in turn will be read out until he comes to the option he wants. He will have to rotate slower than a sighted user because it takes more time to read out a word than to glance it with eyes. Once he hears the menu option he wants, he presses the centre button on the iPod to action that option, just like the sighted user.

8. If the text-to-speech program is too big and slows down the small device, then discard this. Instead, link every word option in the menu with its spoken audio-file equivalent, a one-for-one correspondence that should use less space and memory. Do this for all the languages used in the device. This should not demand too much capacity or slow down the device.

9. The above would apply for iPods and the like which have no user-created words but in cellphones, there are not only menu options to be read out loud but also user-created contacts names and numbers so a text-to-speech program is probably the only way. Alternatively, it may be smaller in size and memory requirements to have someone like the blind user or a friend to read and record these contacts names and numbers and have this input into the program, I dont know. Quite some work to link these audio files to their corresponding lines of code in the program. [It may be possible to first code in a list of numbered 'spaces' which the blind user can then read in HIS numbered order, for easier one to one correspondence of audio to corresponding lines of code].

10. Hopefully, by version 2.0 or 3.0, this open source, free BUI will be robust and powerful enough to make a difference to blind users.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

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Idea: Recorded readings to the blind

RH:
1. It must be very difficult for the blind to live among the sighted, in a world not designed for them. Ideally, all the blind should live in a blind community where all their needs are catered for in an environment designed for the blind but this is not possible. The question then is, how to make the sighted environment a little more friendly to the blind? Here is a small way.

2. Suppose a blind person walks into a diner to order a meal, a frequent enough occurrence to warrant a solution. Currently, he cannot read the menu and has to ask the busy waiters to read it to him. Not ideal. Far better that he does it himself.

3. So, he takes or is given the menu. He feels for the raised Dymo [ http://global.dymo.com/enUS/Categories/Embossing_Label_Makers.html ] embossed label stuck on it and finds it easily because the Dymo letters are raised. [A cheap Dymo embosser costs US$7.99]. He uses Braille to read the Braille instruction-words and numbers on it and enters this telephone number into his cellphone, which he knows how to use already without having to see the number keys.

4. His call is answered by an answering machine, US$11 at http://www.shopping.com/xPP-answering_machines , which gives a recording of the diner's menu beginning with an overview such as "[Welcome to Joe's Diner]. The menu has 4 sections, the first is Today's Specials and Set Lunches, the second is the Pastas, the third the Spaghettis and the fourth and last is the Drinks and Beverages. Beginning with the Today's Specials and Set Lunches, One: Condoleeza Fried Rice; Two: Barbecued Chicken Wings, etc, etc. All voice recorded by the diner's boss or one of his staff.

5. Once the blind person hears a menu item he wants, he remembers the number/s and orders. Thus, he accomplishes negotiating the menu and ordering his selection without any help that busy and harassed waiters will be too impatient to give. And gets the lift of doing something for himself without help.

6. Just ensure that the answering machine is not connected to such a busy line that it is unavailable when needed by a blind customer. This number should not be a public-known number so no incoming calls will be made to it although outgoing calls can be made on this to maximise use of the phone line, esp when no blind customer is accessing it.

7. Dymo will need to make new wheels for its Dymo embosser that gives the number and letters in English [or any other language] but the embossed label comes out in Braille numbers and texts, a very simple matter costing no more than a dollar or so per new wheel [which are interchangeable].

8. I have used the example of a diner [the blind need to eat as often as us] but there are other set ups in which this idea can be used, too. For example, giving instructions in a library or some other kind of shops where the blind may need some audio help to negotiate a transaction or listen to some instruction on how to proceed in a transaction.

9. Can some association for the blind take up this idea and try to publicise it and encourage its adoption?

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

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Ideas: Improving air travel

RH:
Slideable rows of airplane seats
1. Anyone who has flown economy class knows that legroom or the space between seats is a premium. Those who fly regularly also know that often, the plane is not full, especially in the recession now. So, for competitive reasons among airlines, why not consider sliding seats that can be slid forward or backward like car front seats, to create more legroom or space between rows? This could give economy class flyers as much legroom as business or first class. Of course, to preserve business and first class status, economy class passengers would probably not know whether they will have extra legroom until they check in, since this depends on the fullness or otherwise, of the flight. Since there are likely more economy passengers than can be given this extra legroom, this extra legroom can be charged extra at the point of check in upon the request of the passenger, meaning extra revenue for the flight that would otherwise be wasted.

2. Since some flights stopover at various airports along a route, a flight could depart half empty but become full at the next stopover airport en route, so this idea would be a little more complicated for flights that have a stopover in between, but non-stop flights would surely be able to implement this, which would add to the attraction of non-stop flights vs flights with 1 or more stopovers. But flights that stopover can also easily ask all its passengers to disembark from the plane and engineers easily slide the rows of seats back to their original configurations, although this would mean a passenger cannot be charged the extra if the flight does not give him the full extra legroom all the way to his destination.

3. Practically, I had, in an earlier email, discussed a Flexible Interiors Concept for the AirBus A380 but it was probably too ambitious, so never implemented. Today, I would like to suggest that in economy class, just alternate rows of seats in the middle section between aisles be slideable. This would be easy to do because only every alternate row in the middle section of economy class be changed to slideable fastenings onto the floor. Thus, the centre of gravity of the plane and its loads distribution would be little changed by the slidings of these rows.

4. So, just before a flight, engineers would board the plane with simple hydraulic levers, loosen the bolts fastening these slideable rows of seats, and push them forward or backward a foot or so, so that every alternate row of seats in the mid section of the economy class would then enjoy this extra legroom. This would be easy to do and not change the loads distribution of the plane much. At the next stop, whether a stopover airport or final destination airport, other engineers could slide these rows back if desired, also very easily and quickly.

5. Airlines offering this chance of more legroom -- if enough seats are unoccupied -- would thus enjoy a very competitive advantage, and gain much advertising and marketing bragging points. They can even claim or allude that the extra legroom makes for easier and faster evacuation in an emergency, and therefore safer. The extra fee would also be nice in these recessionary times.

Seatback webcam in monitor display
6. There are only a limited number of toilets onboard every plane due to costs but many passengers queue for a toilet for no other reason than to check their hairdo or to comb their hair and smarten up before landing. These passengers can avoid going to the toilet to do these if they have a mirror in front of them, fixed to the back of the seat in front, exactly in the position of the screen display used for watching movies. Glass mirrors cannot be used for safety reasons.

7. So, a tiny webcam and microphone like in most PCs nowadays should be fitted to the movie screen display. This webcam and mike costs little and can be fitted to the next upgrade of the screen monitor, or straightaway for new planes. The development cost is very low. The webcam mike may be too noisy if used, so a better option would be to give a mike built in to the headset currently used for private listening to the movies. This extra mike plus headset costs just a few US dollars.

8. This webcam would operate exactly like any pc webcam. It would show the passenger's face right in the display, like a virtual mirror. The passenger should be able to zoom in or zoom out his image, to better smear on lipstick or study a pimple even. The flight attendants would have given each passenger 2 or more plastic-sealed wet towels to wipe faces with so passengers can wipe their faces with the moist towels to freshen up and then comb their hair nicely at any time without going to the toilet to do these.

9. To further refine this webcam idea, if desired, it is possible to allow a passenger to webcam another passenger, or a flight attendant station, or even the pilot and co-pilots if really necessary. It is a simple matter of programming the code for these additional uses.

10. Another refinement, if desired, is for the flight attendants or security personnel to capture each and every face by their seatback webcam and run these faces in a face-recognition program to see if any face fits that of known and photographed criminals, or terrorists, even. This would require that a webcam can be switched on even without a passenger's knowledge to steal a look. Flight attendants can discourage or disallow passengers to block their webcam with any tape or object, etc. This Big Brother-like surveillance during the flight can be convenient for the crew to look in on any passenger without them knowing. Any suspected criminal or terrorist face can be radio-ed to the nearest ground station for futher confirmation or for more info that the crew can then check on the suspect. Computer programs can do face recognition automatically, without any human or pilot intervention.

10a. The world has witnessed the SARS scare during which thermal scanners were installed at airports to scan faces of arriving passengers for fever or higher temperatures for further checks as to whether they are carrying SARS viruses that may spread into a pandemic. This was followed by the recent bird or avian flu scare. Now, the current scare is swine flu or swine fever. The built-in webcam can also be programmed to, in addition to face recognition, also scan for fever or higher temperatures. Since this can be done many times during a flight, this can catch fevers that develop AFTER boarding the plane and is thus, far more effective. Any passenger thus scanned as having fever could then quickly be isolated or compelled to wear a mask, such as the N95 mask, to prevent or reduce infecting the other passengers and crew, who are all breathing the same [mostly] recycled air, and in close proximity. This would be superior to a hasty scan with a thermal scanner upon landing, since the queues are long and the tired passengers want to clear immigration as soon as possible. Airports will still need to scan, but as a second line of defence, while the onboard scanning on the plane would be the primary, and superior, defence.

Seatback airbag
11. While you are designing the webcam and mike into the seatback monitor display, also consider fitting an airbag into the seatback, around the vicinity of the monitor display or behind it. Like in a car crash, this seatback airbag will blow up in a crash to cushion the impact of the passenger hitting the seatback in front. Car airbags are a proven tech so adapting one for airplane seatbacks is simple and cheap. Airlines that install this can advertise and brag about it.

12. Airbags are light enough for aircraft use since they are just air trapped in a bag which inflates in a crash. However, 1 important difference is that in a car, the blown up airbag can remain blown up but in an airplane crash, the airbag MUST immediately deflate after protecting the passenger, then be immediately pulled back into its cavity by a Retractor. Which can be a simple thin rope or elastic in a recoiler. This is to allow maximum unimpeded space for evacuation since most airplane crashes are followed by fire, even into the cabin.

Collecting luggage at destination airport
13. Currently, you check in your luggage at your departure airport, easily enough with friend, family or porter help [since check in takes place in public space accessible to all], but then have to collect it yourself at your arrival airport's luggage carousel. No one can do it for you since the carousel is situated in restricted airport space. This works well enough for most flyers but there are always some for whom this procedure is difficult.

14. For example, if you are a small-sized woman with heavy luggage, or too old to lug luggage, or too sick to, or suffer from hernia or a bad back, or are handicapped, or are a child unaccompanied by any adult, or simply so rich that you dont want to hassle with waiting at the carousel and dragging your luggage off it, then you need this new service.

15. This new service, which hopefully, will soon come to an airport near you, is to have someone wait and collect your luggage for you at the arrival airport carousel. Even load your luggage into a waiting car, taxi or limo. For a fee. Again, airports offering this will be able to advertise and brag.

16. At your departure airport, you check in your luggage as usual. This is photographed by the usual cheap ubiquitous cameras. Maybe even you, as the luggage owner, is photographed as well. These photos, together with your personal and flight details, are entered into the computer, which then sends a cellphone MMS to the MMS cellphone and/or computer, of the arrival airport's Luggage Porter [LP] service. With the name, flight details and jpgs of the luggages and owner/s, the LP can then easily collect the luggages from the carousel and hold them for collection by the owner/s when they clear Immigration at the arrival airport.

17. In some cases when there is no problem with the possibility of smuggling drugs or other contraband, or when the Immigration & Customs [I & C] has checked the luggages [which should either be left unlocked for this purpose or the number of the combination lock given to the LP] and cleared them, the LP can even load the luggages into the waiting car, taxi, limo, etc, that the owner/s has designated to him. If need be, both can talk on their cellphones to refine the arrangements or make any changes.

18. To expand on Para 16, luggages are usually tagged by barcode stickers [which may also contain RFID tags] after they are checked in, then conveyored to the luggage holding room. In unusual circumstances or a suspected bomb or contraband threat, some suspected luggage may need to be retrieved quickly for further inspection. Currently, with just barcode stickers or even with RFID tags, this is difficult. But this new service would have a jpg of every piece of luggage checked in, together with the owner/s details, so a visual glance should quickly and easily pick out the luggages by their colour, size, make, etc. Thus, for security and operational reasons, this idea would work as well.

19. For this new service to start, LPs would have to be appointed at destination airports. This can be private arrangements or private companies or individuals or groups, not necessarily an airport operation. All that is needed are MMS-capable cellphones. Indeed, as long as you have someone as an LP at your destination airport who can access the carousel, you dont even need any prior arrangement at your boarding airport because you yourself can take jpgs of your luggage, maybe also yourself for easier and quicker identification at the arrival airport [since you will be wearing the same clothes, etc], and MMS these jpgs together with your flight details, this should work fine. You can either pay the LP when you arrive or even have your meet and greet people pay him first. Best of all, once there is an LP at your destination airport, you can always phone him to make any further or unusual arrangements. Since this LP is a local and works in the airport, he can even help you with queries and info, if you are new to the airport and environs. It can be a very useful full porter service besides luggage.

20. Thus, now you need not hurry through I & C to retrieve your luggage from the carousel. You can shop, eat, or do whatever you want, secure in the knowledge that the LP has your luggage and in communication with you at any time.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

ALSO AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2007/03/filmmaker-martyn-see-interviews-robert.html

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Not%20nominated%20for%20a%20Nobel%20so%20LIE%20KY%20gives%20himself%20many%20others

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Idea: What if America never was?

RH:
1. In normal times, change is almost impossible. Everybody continues in the same mental and physical rut or groove of daily grind. In severe crises like this one threatening the very existence of America, everything is changeable and everything is being rethinked. So this may be a good time to consider what is right and wrong with America so the good can be retained while the bad discarded or modified.

2. The usual, understood, disclaimers of me being a non-expert in everything, apply. Everything I write is only for further thought and discussion and, of course, the usual intellectual entertainment which seems to be my biggest contribution to the human race -- I am essentially a blogger, albeit with a big readership.

3. We roughly know what the world is today. Suppose America never existed, or were vanquished by the Germans in WW2.

4. It is likely then, that today, I would not be able to Google Earth to see the rooftop of my maid's home in Purwerkerto, Java. Indeed, I would probably not have a pc at all. Or the Internet. Of course, there would be computers, but only a few expensive big ones owned by govts, militaries and big business.

5. There would be satellites, but fewer, and again, owned and operated by the same. Maybe some satellite tv but much, much, smaller in scale. I would not have GPS on my cellphone; indeed, I would not have a cellphone at all.

6. In short, a far poorer world.

7. America can be credited with much of modern life. All those things mentioned above that exist now, exist thanks to America. But why?

8. Firstly, America is very rich, with all its advantages. This comes partly by having the sole right to issue the world's reserve currency after the WW2 Bretton Woods agreement, so it can print unlimited dollars to pay for whatever it wants. But more importantly, it is capitalist.

9. Being capitalist, the economy is organised around companies that are owned and funded by selling shares to many, while management is by professional managers. There is fierce competition among companies, and all strive for profits and growth in order to reward the shareholders so they continue to hold shares and others buy more. The legislative and legal systems enforce fair competition and this rule of law ensures an orderly practice of commerce and dispute resolutions. The legal system is so well established generally, that even a citizen or group can take out class action lawsuits against even the govt or big business, which hardly happens elsewhere.

10. It is this combination of happy circumstances that I get my Google Earth, internet, cellphone and GPS, etc. Since in this capitalist system, big business is more important than the govt, and the govt does not set directions or force directions onto the economy, which thus can go in a million different directions as long as they lead to profit and shareholders approval. This system is so fertile to new ideas, concepts, projects, processes and R&D of products and services that America is singlehandedly responsible for much of the world's modern life and way of living, from skyscrapers, surburbia life, shopping malls, jumbo jets, nuclear power plants, tv and all its myriad shows, news gathering and propagation, PCs and internet -- a plethora of inventions in itself, cellphones and their rapid developments -- almost everything modern. Future historians studying the fossil record of our last few decades would probably describe this era as an 'explosion' of innovations, inventions and creativity never before seen in human history. It is this capacity for innovation and ferment of creativity that will pull America out of crisis, if nothing else will.

11. It is because business is more important than the govt in America that even its military gets its toys from private companies contracting for profit, whether battle tanks, missiles, ICBMs, radars, nuclear bombs, or military satellites and space shuttles. And because big business invents and develops all these, much of these technologies leak into civilian use, to the benefit of the world, like GPS, which started as a military tech. The openness and transparency of America helps leak these military tech into civilian tech. So, today, you can buy a walky-talky good enough for military use. Or a ham radio to listen in on even police communications. Or a satellite phone useable deep in Amazonian jungle, first developed for military use.

12. Thus, this investors-company profit-based relationship created enormous innovations and inventions, which free and open competition between companies sharpened and made much more efficient, widespread and cheap enough for everybody to own and use. This kind of drive is what made America great and put it forefront in almost every modern development. There is only 1 drawback, chasing profits does not always result in the best products and services for America or the world. So we have Botox injections and breast implants while malaria and cholera still remain. We give Nobel Prizes for fluorescent mice while our energy needs remain dire and pollution threatens to poison our Earth and us.

13. Could we have just a little more directed R&D? Like the military specifying what kind of missiles it wants? The military always gets what it wants by contracting private firms so if America could define and contract for green energy or whatever, it should get them too, given the genius of the American systems, and the whole world would be grateful. It may be profitable, too, although it must be remembered that often, the govt [military] has to fund projects that fail and are eventually scrapped at great loss. So the profit motive may not be enough to get green energy or any other worthwhile tech. Knowing this weakness in the capitalist American system can mean that the contracts and the firms be chosen such that the full energies of the American systems can be unleashed to solve all the world's problems. I think it is a matter of setting directions, funding, and ensuring a good profit during and after successful developments.

14. This direction into new techs may be strategically sound, too, given that the Japanese, Koreans, even Chinese, are fast undercutting older techs such as car making. The new techs such as pc, internet, cellphones, gps and their related techs such as broadband and wireless are clearly dominated by American companies with the rest of the world trailing far behind. So it makes sense to do what you do best rather than compete in what you cannot do well or cheaper. However, it is too early to give up jumbo jets even as Airbus is proving such a strong competitor. Is there a contract for new jets for the military that could become civilian or dual-use?

15. Thus, an economic strategy for the OBAMA administration could be the setting of directions for certain new techs such as green energy. First, Pres OBAMA and govt could set the direction, then talk up the interest in these directions through speeches, papers and seminars, among academics, PhD students, researchers, companies and investors. All these to reduce govt spending and to set the herd stampeding in the chosen direction. Then, the govt could fund some key projects just like its military fund projects to ensure that key projects get done. This may result in new techs even as the US loses in older tech. Generally, it is unwise to set too many directions lest the economy becomes a command or guided economy, all of which have proven inefficient and wasteful. Going off in a million different directions chasing profits is still the best economic system. But setting and pushing in just a few key directions would be legitimate and unharmful like Pres KENNEDY's goal to put a man on the moon. He made great speeches, fired up the imaginations and efforts of his country and organised and funded the key projects and the result was success, new techs and a man on the moon.

16. While the capitalist system, as practised by America, underpinned by its freedoms, openness and transparency, and buttressed by its rule of law and orderly developments, all have resulted in unprecedented progress, all along, there have been poor and homeless people. Even as a small minority, they blight America's achievements and undermine its human rights record. Here, more must be done even if it means welfare cheques leading to higher taxes. Socialism or whatever it is called is just a label, a term. So is capitalism just a label or term. Pres OBAMA has the opportunity to define a new label or term and reconstruct an economy and a society that is fairer to all, put a roof over every head, food on every table, medical care for every sick, schooling for every child, care for every aged and handicapped. This will need great speeches, leadership, clear directions, unwavering commitment, sense of purpose, but even if only half could be achieved, Pres OBAMA will earn a high place in American history. There needs to be a Martin Luther KING and Pres Abe LINCOLN campaign for the poor, who no less deserve this drive than negro slaves deserved to be emancipated. A new Abolitionist effort is needed, an effort to abolish poverty. The Chinese word for "Crisis" is made up of "Danger" and "Opportunity". Pres OBAMA has an Opportunity like never before.

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"AMERICA is an economic system,
organised around companies that are owned and funded by selling shares to many, while management is by professional managers, with fierce competition at every level among companies all striving for profits and growth in order to reward the shareholders so they continue to hold shares and others buy more,
underpinned by legislative and legal systems that enforce fair competition,
upon a bedrock of a rule of law, freedoms, openness and transparency that ensures an orderly practice of commerce and dispute resolutions,
such that this investors-company profit-based relationship has created much of the world we know, especially the recent world."

If the above quote is correct, and it is a fundamental truth that every American instinctively knows even if he cannot articulate it, then this may explain why the instinctive, immediate response to the developing crisis by both the BUSH and OBAMA administrations is to bail out banks and other companies. Not just because they are 'too big to fail' but more because THEY ARE THE HEART OF THE ENTIRE AMERICA. This owning of companies by many shareholders capitalising these professionally managed companies for dividends and share price growth, IS America. Economists have offered very different remedies to the crisis but this is not just an economic crisis. It is THE crisis of America -- the way it works, has always worked, its most basic assumptions, and its long success and triumphs, all define America so much so that no politician or President can act otherwise. Pres OBAMA may or may not succeed with the Stimulus, but he is as much trapped by the need to save something so fundamental that it is beyond politics, beyond everything else, as evidenced also by the behaviour of BUSH or any other member of Congress. Thus, the bailouts and the stimulus are an instinct, a reflex, and about as right or wrong as instinctive reflexes can be. If this is understood, then all debates within or across the aisles can then be more intelligent, because a better understanding of what is at stake, and what is really being proposed, for what is the real crisis, can then happen.
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LIE KY scratched my car S$2800 to repair

[click photos to enlarge]

RH:
1. For the past 15 years, LIE KY LHL WKS got their ISD secret police to hurt me physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, psychologically as much as a watching but silent world would stand for. For 15 years, I did not get a full night's sleep, since sleep deprivation is their principal form of torture. I got as much or as little sleep as they allowed, night after night, operating from the flat above mine, first in Block 203 in Bukit Batok, a 5-room HDB, and now in Guilin View condo Block 28 on the 20th floor [me ; they operate on the 21st].

2. In addition, my entire flat, car and everywhere I go, even overseas on holidays, we are 'televised' 'live' 24/7 to all those who know where to find the live feed. This total deprivation of privacy adds to the fear, trauma and siege I feel. Those privileged to watch my 'reality show' and working in the media are encouraged to allude to everything I do or say, to add to the sense of all-enveloping siege and helplessness. The world went along and kept silent on this spectacle.

3. LIE KY did this as a publicity stunt to make himself famous, and to get to talk to Presidents CLINTON and BUSH on a regular basis, with me as the talking points. He could do all this blatantly for so long because he got these 2 Presidents to not only go along, but to participate as co-criminals, since every single act they committed on me and family are criminal. With these 2 powerful American Presidents on his side as co-criminals, the whole world kept silent even if disapproving. After all, if the Americans, famous through recent history as the defender of human rights and democracy, liberty and freedom, go along, it must be all right, isn't it?

4. Some of the more vicious criminal attacks include feeding me shit in my chai tow kway [carrot cake] in Westmall foodcourt by ordering the cook to put it in from their pre-prepared pack; poisoning me, my young son and little niece many times with lab-prepared virulent flu virus that made us sick for weeks; acute constipation numerous times on me and my little niece so bad I bled red bloody stools and she cried in school from the pain and had me fetch her home crying; attempts to make me shit in my pants in public which I averted only through superhuman effort to run to the toilet; plus others I have documented in the soc.culture.singapore forum where a search will find most of them [search for Robert Ho and RH: as these 2 terms will call up almost all of my postings]. In order to vary this reality show to amuse CLINTON, BUSH and their cronies around the world, LIE KY LHL WKS also had me arrested and/or incarcerated in IMH several times, all televised live, of course, to amuse the Americans, whom LIE KY was fixedly self-aggrandising to.

5. In addition, my entire life history and that of my family were given wholesale to any who wanted it and any unsavoury aspects of me and my family were repeated ad nauseum to humiliate me and to degrade me as much as possible. LIE KY abused his influence and friendship with CLINTON and BUSH, who gave him 100% support and encouragement and co-participation, to bend as many of the world's media, from news medias to tv serial makers in Hollywood, Hongkong and South Korea, and film makers from the same, to humiliate me by repeating ad nauseum the same degrading attacks LIE KY has been fomenting. LIE KY's home ground media in Singapore, needless to say, were 1,000% pushing the same degrading attacks.

6. Not just allusions in the media, but actual social ostracism and outcasting me and my family. Every shop or shopping mall I frequent, LIE KY LHL WKS and their ISD would get their agents to fan out to talk to every possible salesman or woman to tell them every degrading gossip about me and my family, true or not, including the lie that I or my family shoplift. This social isolation and outcasting made me very traumatic and uncomfortable every shop I go to because every sales staff would have a bad opinion of me and even pass remarks within my hearing, which added to my sense of distress and deep isolation. LIE KY agents also directed Hokkien swear words AT me every time I go out, to compound the distress. At home, I am constantly reminded of the total hostility enveloping me, by aggressive bangs on my ceiling, car honking and motorcyles revving loudly to distress me plus various hostile noises to create a total, all-surround atmosphere of all-out hostility. I am an outcast by deliberate govt campaign. The Americans and the watching world, including the previous and present Popes, went silently along, such is the power and influence of the American Presidents. Of course, they made sure I could not work all these years so I have no income. So my parents both died without enjoying any money from me since I have no income. I am kept by my wife, which lowers my status to everybody including my wife and son.

7. Not just keeping me awake for hours at a time or waking me after just a few hours of sleep, LIE KY LHL WKS and their ISD deliberately vandalised several thousand dollars worth of my home assets, from DVD players to fax machines to printers to aircons to fridge to washing machine to light bulbs to their favourite, my computers. My computers are totally under their control and surveillance and my hard disks have been vandalised and my data lost forever. They even delete files which I only get to realise later, unrecoverable since they also delete the back up DVDR disc.

8. Acting as killjoy and vandal, they smeared shit on my wife's car innumerable times when I get to drive, so I always have to clean the shit. They have also punctured our tyres many times, scratched our previous car many times in the carpark of Guilin View knowing the patrolling security guards and condo manager can do nothing even if spotted. Even bent our front car licence plate into a U requiring a new plate. They communicated to me in the usual ways that they would vandalise our new car -- even before we got the car, just after we signed the sale agreement with Borneo Motors for our new Altis. So, this Jan 27 new vicious, deep scratch from end to end on both sides of the car was simply their carrying out their threats. It will cost S$2,800 to repaint the 7 car panels, which have to be removed for repair.

9. Other threats they have communicated to me include numerous death and injury threats to me and my son [in London, where they have many agents, possibly some pretending to study with him in the London School of Economics]. He is studying in LSE because Cambridge and Oxford universities rejected his application to study for political reasons [at least one classmate got in with worse results], on the orders of BLAIR, BUSH and LIE KY. Worse, my son's British A Level results were falsified lower. He had achieved all As but his examination board, Edexcel, falsely lowered his English and Chinese from A to B. All because years ago, I had written that LIE KY's stupid and incompetent education policy of bilingualism produced several generations of Singaporeans who are "half past six in English and half past six in Chinese". LIE KY had also falsified my son's Primary School Leaving Examination so that he could not apply to Raffles Institution Gifted Education Programme [GEP] so he had to enter the Anglo-Chinese Independent's Gifted Programme, where he was so good, he won academic prizes from Secondary 2-4, including First In Standard and 9 A1s in O Level, thus proving he should have been with the elites in RI because 9 A1s or better are rare even in RI GEP. LIE KY took especial glee from victimising my son thus because his children and grandchildren are nowhere as good as my son. All through 15 years and still ongoing. With clear threats to continue forever.

9a. My son was in kindergarten when this 15-year long persecution of me by social, mental, physical, emotional and psychological methods, began. At first, he was probably unaffected, especially in his first 3 years in a nondescript neighbourhood Primary school, Bukit View Primary School from Pr 1-3. He was second in standard all 3 years and together with the first in standard, won a place in the Primary Gifted Education Programme [GEP] in the premier Primary school of Nanyang Primary, where Ministers and MPs children attend. Thus, in Pr 4 in Nanyang G.E.P, he was immediately surrounded by politics because the teachers, principals and even some elite students, all knew what was being done to me and my son, as my son, could not have been unaffected, esp in such a tiny islet city.

9b. He took his Primary School Leaving Exam at Pr 6 and had his results amended lower by LIE KY so he could not qualify for the elite Raffles Institution Secondary School Gifted Programme where all the future leaders and future scholarships scholars are. So he got into Anglo Chinese Secondary Independent School Gifted Programme whereupon he proved to be at/near the top by winning academic honours in subjects, First in Standard [Gifted] and 9 A1s in O level, from Sec 2-4.

9c. But ACS [I] is also quite an elite school where most parents are rich and even MPs, and by then, my notoriety was island-wide, so my son, unknowingly [still till now], was surrounded by somewhat hostile teachers, principals, even some well-connected students who knew about what LIE KY was doing to me. One teacher I met in school at a Parent-Teacher meet even alluded to me, confirming he knew. So did the Principal when he applied a test by a British school specially for my son when he was applying overseas.

9d. One reason why my son may have wanted to study A levels overseas may be because of the strained and even hostile atmosphere surrounding him, although he does not know [still]. Thus, LIE KY, who is still revered as a god, and whom everyone knew was backed to the hilt by the almighty Americans with their equally saintly reputations, can do no wrong so I must be the villain and my son suffered accordingly for being my son.

9e. My son was accepted into Concord College in Shrewsbury. Most students are foreigners, mostly Asian and many Chinese from Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong and China, THUS THE STANDARD OF SCHOLARSHIP WAS ALWAYS HIGH IN CONCORD, as Chinese and Asian students are always hardworking and the ones who study overseas are often very good as well. Although the students came from different countries and qualifying certificates, my son's 9 A1s must have been the best Concord ever had. If you check Concord's standing in the A levels in Britain, it ranks among the top 20 or so every year in A level results, because of its foreign [Chinese] students. AND MY SON WAS THE BEST OF THE BEST THERE.

9f. And if you check the number of Concord students who get into Cambridge and Oxford universities every year, you will find that at least half a dozen succeed. So my son, as the best of the best in Concord, would have succeeded, too, IF NOT FOR POLITICAL REASONS, namely BLAIR, BUSH and LIE KY playing gods to fuck me and my son. Who, through no fault of his, and still unknowing of the injustice and harm done to him, to this day suffers forever the stigma of not being good enough for OxBridge.

9g. As further indication of my son's abilities, by his second year exam in London School of Economics & Political Science, he had already won enough distinctions to qualify for First Class Honours, all distinction A1s except for 1 subject in First Year exam which the Paper Setter had incompetently set with too little time to complete the exam paper in full, so my son and many other students had insufficient time to finish the questions, in my son's case, about 2 Questions, otherwise this solitary blemish of a non-distinction should have been a distinction, too, making every single subject taken a distinction in both Years [LSE does not moderate the students' results so the grievous error remains].

9h. My son does not talk much to me, since the 15 year victimisation, outcasting and social ostracism of me means I could not work and so seem useless while my wife goes to work every day to bring home a good salary and buys him his computers while I do nothing. Even get arrested, which is a shame to him. But in a casual remark, he mentioned to me that a former classmate of his in Concord was studying in Cambridge and his results were worse than my son's. So, more proof my son was denied a place in OxBridge for political reasons.

9i. You can deny all you want but the Truth is clear. You are all politicians and all spin and all damage control mode now. But please don't ever say my son was not good enough for OxBridge. Or that Edexcel exam board did not reduce his English and Chinese grades from A to B for politiical reasons to fuck me and my son.

10. And what did I do to deserve all this unending deliberate govt-fomented hatred, from the most powerful govts in the world against the most helpless 24/7 watched man? Just 100% truthful emails like this one. I only started this emailing in the last few years. Before that, I did nothing, could do nothing. It was so one-sided for the first decade that I had no way to fight back and so unending and totally enveloping surrounding me 24/7 at home and everywhere I went, including malls and even overseas holidays, that I contemplated suicide. Then, I thought that if I was prepared to die, why not take them with me? And so, I emailed. And they prosecuted and persecuted even harder, including like this deep, vicious scratch of my wife's brand new car. All for some emailings. Do not believe them when they pretend to be the victims! They started all this and still refuse to stop. From Day 1, they knew they were committing crimes, innumerable crimes, many times daily, so they took care to spin and spin. Pretending to be the victim is just one of their pathetic spins, which, by having his agents act out, they convince THEM I am the one at fault. Spin, politicians do little else.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

ALSO AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2007/03/filmmaker-martyn-see-interviews-robert.html

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Not%20nominated%20for%20a%20Nobel%20so%20LIE%20KY%20gives%20himself%20many%20others

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/
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Idea: HIV Register

RH:
1. This Chinese New Year, Year of the Ox, hongbao, goes to all, esp those at higher risk of HIV infection.

2. HIV is mostly transmitted through sex with a HIV positive person, a lesser number through blood transfusions using tainted blood, a few from sharing needles among drug addicts and a tiny, even lesser few from lab exposure to the germs infected through broken skin which allowed penetration of the HIV virus.

3. From the several methods in Para 2, a HIV Register will not mean anyone on it got it through sex, although the sex transmission is so big that this will be the main aim of the Register.

4. First, laws must be enacted, such as an HIV Register Act, that compulsorily enrols or lists anyone diagnosed with HIV. This may mean that HIV will have to be a Notifiable Disease compelling any doctor who has tested a patient positive to report him or her to the Register. This may be a privacy problem in some countries but not in others. The rationale is that HIV is as deadly as smallpox, leprosy, etc, and so equally in need to be a Notifiable Disease.

5. Once the Register is set up, each person on the Register will also have his or her personal details filed in the HIV Register database, such personal information corresponding to the easily obtainable details in his or her driver's licence or national identity card, including a photo.

6. The Register will be completely automated once set up. So, when a man or woman wants to have sex with another man or woman, he or she will obtain his or her sex partner's cellphone number, this being the easiest to obtain in all dating or sex situations. This person then sends his partner's cellphone number by SMS to the HIV Register Telephone Number, which should be as short and simple as possible, like 1800-HIVREGISTER, for example, toll-free.

7. The Register Computer, once it receives the cellphone number of the person being queried, will search its database and return an SMS stating whether the User of the Cellphone Number being queried is on the HIV Register or not. The SMS will also give the bare info as contained in a driver's licence or identity card, such as Age [calculated instantly by the computer], Race, and whatever is deemed providable. A second, separate, SMS will send the person's photo for easier identification, in case the person is using a borrowed or stolen cellphone.

8. For countries with strong privacy traditions, an additional step may be imposed. When a man wants to query whether his prospective sex partner is on the HIV Register, he sends an SMS to the Register but the Register first sends an SMS to the prospective sex partner asking if he or she allows the HIV Register to go ahead to divulge the info. Thus, no partner would have his or her HIV status revealed without first agreeing by a Reply SMS to the Register Computer. This additional step will safeguard against frivolous or malicious abuse of the Register. For multiple sex partners, all must send back Reply SMSes agreeing and any one who refuses would cancel the whole query. The SMS from the Register Computer can read like this : "The User of Cellphone Number 12345 has queried our HIV Register whether you, User of Cellphone Number 56789, is listed in our HIV Register or not. If you allow us to reveal your HIV status to 12345, Reply to this SMS with a single YES. To refuse, Reply NO; or just ignore. For more info, visit www.hivregister.com . The Register Computer can read and process such YES or NO [or ignore] instructions automatically.

9. The man who queries on a woman will thus know whether his prospective sex partner is on the HIV Register or not. However, HIS cellphone number [he must use a cellphone number for such queries, not any landline or other such as VOIP phone] will also be captured by the Register Computer, which will then send an SMS to the woman being queried. This SMS will be worded like "The User of cellphone number 12345 has just queried if you, User of cellphone 56789 is on the HIV Register and we have SMSed this person that you are [or not]. This info is given to the Enquirer according the HIV Register Act. Under this Act, if you believe that the Enquirer is obtaining your HIV status not for personal but for other or malicious use/s, you have recourse under the Act. Please visit www.hivregister.com for more info on your rights and redress. A copy of all SMSes we sent to each of you will be sent to the other. The Enquirer is ON [or NOT ON] the HIV Register."

10. Thus, both parties, the Enquirer and the Enquired, will have a copy of all SMSes generated by the Enquirer.

11. A disclaimer about the accuracy of the HIV Register may need to be incorporated into the SMS and/or the website if legalese requires.

12. Thus, a man who approaches a woman for a date and sex will have a good likelihood of obtaining her cellphone number and can quickly check whether she is HIV positive or not. The woman being checked will also know she has been checked on and also get to know whether HER prospective sex partner is HIV positive or not. All done quickly and automatically. Through cellphones. SMS is a must because every cellphone in use has SMS while only the better cellphones and mobile subscription plans can receive photos, which must therefore be sent separately from the text SMS to ensure at least the text SMS gets through.

13. However, for threesomes or group sex or orgies, 1 SMS containing all the participants' cellphone numbers should be enough to inform all the participants.

14. Some time AFTER the HIV Register Computer has sent out the SMSes for the query, the query and its info can be deleted from the Computer if necessary. In countries with strong privacy laws and practices, this may be necessary. It can be minutes, 1 day or more. The Computer program can be written such that it auto deletes all the query info after the lapsed time after all the SMSes have been reliably sent out.

15. For countries which can keep all such data, there is a further benefit : tracing back all sexual contacts for follow up checks for HIV upon any one of the partners getting into the HIV Register later. Assuming a man has had many sexual encounters and queried each partner, this builts up a chain of sexual contacts, each of whom is traceable through his or her cellphone number. [So only cellphone numbers based on subscriptions should be allowed to use this HIV Register service, not prepaid cards, rented cellphones or other where the User cannot be traced to a contact address or location]. Once this man is put on the Register as HIV positive, all his previous sexual partners can be traced [and THEIR partners also traced] and a warning sent by SMS to urgently go for HIV tests. Common sense would allow only for a period of likely infection and not every single partner going back decades.

16. With global travel patterns, there is a need to allow queries from a foreign cellphone but used in the country. But this would mean that the foreigner will not be on the HIV Register even though positive. Unless there is cooperation among major countries to allow each other's Register Computer to query theirs. This will require possibly a UN directive and close cooperation among prevalent countries.

17. This HIV Register is a balance between impossible to apply draconian measures and voluntary measures that won't work. It balances between the rights to privacy against rights of not being exposed to danger, health and medical costs of treatment. Above all, it is workable since anyone about to have sex with a partner can reasonably be expected to be able to obtain the partner's cellphone number, at least. Abuse should be minimum and depends entirely on how the Act is legislated. By being completely automated, this protects privacy, too, and makes it practicable and workable. A good hongbao, no?

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

ALSO AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2007/03/filmmaker-martyn-see-interviews-robert.html

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:

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WHY GOVTS SHOULD ALMOST NEVER BE EFFICIENT or GENERAL THEORY OF ZERO SUM GAME

RH:
1. The word "Efficient" is a loaded one, all good and no bad. It is so loaded that it is often an argument-stopper. Once you say that "This is Efficient" or "This is the most Efficient way", there is no comeback, no way to argue further, for isn't the most efficient way always the best way? End of argument.

2. Today, it is time to examine this underlying and unspoken premise, maybe weave something of value into this essay, enough to be something of a first gift to the new President OBAMA, although a small one.

3. We can begin by stating a general theory of Zero Sum Game, which could be that "In Almost All Human Endeavour, One Party's Gain Is Almost Always At The Expense Of Another's Corresponding Loss. In Other Words, A Zero Sum Game."

4. Some examples. Suppose you manage a shopping mall and want to buy trash bins for it. You have to decide between buying many or buying 'just enough'. If you buy many and place them handily everywhere in your mall, the shoppers find it easy and convenient to dump their trash without having to walk far or hunt for one. It is Efficient for them, the shoppers, but means that you need more workers and more work to constantly clear them during busy times when many shoppers throw rubbish away, thus INefficient for you because you need more workers and more work. Thus Zero Sum Game. What is Efficient for your shoppers is Inefficient for you as mall manager.

5. Another example. Suppose you are a govt dept and you handle lots of phone calls daily. So you partially automate it like is common nowadays. You make each caller listen to several stages of menu, press the appropriate button, before getting to speak to a human, if at all. Very efficient for you but very inefficient for the callers. Zero Sum Game again.

6. Worse, if you as a govt dept decide that you have very few Teochew-speaking callers and therefore provide none to answer calls from Teochew speakers, you save money and convenience, therefore Efficient but thereby also totally shutting out any Teochew speakers from calling you. Efficient for you but therefore inefficient for them.

7. In almost every human endeavour, this is true. What is efficient for you is inefficient for your counterparty.

8. This general theory of Zero Sum Game has ramifications for govt because all modern govts strive mightily after Efficiency because efficiency lowers costs and saves much work. This explains why privatising public transport may be a very bad idea. Private operators operate for profit and this demands maximum efficiency since efficiency lowers costs thereby increasing profits. But my general theory states that someone loses correspondingly -- the commuter. For example, if metro trains run so frequently that you can always board one with less than 2 minutes wait, plus always find an empty seat due to the trains always being only half full, this means that the train operator is inefficient in terms of resource usage of trains and stations, etc, but efficient from the point of view of the commuters. And if you are pregnant, old, or with 2 small children in tow, being always able to board a train quickly and be seated is a godsend and saves you the taxi fare you would otherwise need since you cannot safely or comfortably commute by train. This could mean a wholesale improvement in the lives of the people who commute. An important improvement not to be underestimated. It could cut down the use of cars, even. Thus, govts have no business being efficient. Or private operators being efficient, either. The key word is Service to the people. That should be paramount although it rarely is.

9. This explains why democracies are usually inefficient whereas dictatorships are very efficient. People who have experienced living in the US or UK are often appalled at the many inefficiencies there compared with highly efficient Singapore, for example. But now, we know that Efficiency is no virtue and is usually a defect in govt. So there is no need for the US or UK to feel apologetic about their many inefficiences compared with highly efficient Singapore, which also has the overwhelming advantages of a tiny population squeezed onto a tiny 700 sq km islet -- probably measured at low tide. Efficiency is a loaded word, all good and no bad, which, as we have seen, is wrong. True democracies can never wander too far from the common good, unlike dictatorships, which are usually horrendously wrong. Thus, democracies, because they need to win the popular vote and govt every few years, have to cater more closely to Service To The People which dictators usually ignore in favour of whatever pet projects they are besotted with, which is high GDP in the case of the LIEgime, even to the extent of stupidly and incompetently building mega Bubbles which are now imploding.

10. One point established so far is that public transport should be inefficient, putting service to the people foremost and profits a distant second. This requires a new govt thinking. Similarly with every govt dept interacting with the public. This means that almost the entire govt should be deliberately inefficient. Sure, this costs more money but provides better service to the people, which should be paramount.

11. Once we drop the idea of govt needing to be efficient, possibilities emerge. For example, service to the people should be foremost but other goals could equally well be placed foremost. President OBAMA has pledged to create ~4 million jobs but mostly indirectly through bailing out industries, which in practice, means a couple of huge companies. This is like what is termed 'pushing on a string' because huge companies have so many divisions and complicated systems that billions could be sucked up by these black holes before a single additional job is created. Why not just hire more govt employees? There are ~22.5 million govt employees and if each govt dept is encouraged to hire say, 18% more staff, the goal of 4 million jobs is reached. Just like that. Pushing on a string is much harder and fewer jobs are created for the same money. Of course, it need not be 18%; can be less. Whatever is optimal and politically possible. You could channel these new hires into the perennially shorthanded important jobs like the police [non-uniformed jobs if cannot real cops], teachers, hospitals, social services, etc -- whatever does the most good for society. Once you drop Efficiency, you gain much in possibilities.

12. Thus, govts and even private companies have no business being efficient. We need to reorient our thinking and our fundamental premises. With that lead-in, we can now go further into questioning the undisputed Efficiency of Free Markets. This is important since this underpins much of govt, economics and the way we order society. We all know and agree that free markets are best to produce the best and most goods and services at the least costs [measured in dollars and almost always, leaving out such costs as environmental degradations, damage to land, sea and air, even the whole planet]. If we begin to question whether the Efficiencies of Free Markets are such a good thing, we will make much progress towards understanding and moving towards better alternatives, not totally rejecting free markets but tempering these with other important objectives and set goals.

13. This is a good time to question the Efficiency of Free Markets because the massive bailouts leading to quasi-nationalisation of banks, etc, has already led to a wholesale abandonment of ideology. Ideology is dying, maybe dead. In its place is an opportunity to question its premises. Should important infrastructural assets of society such as public transport, utilities or, to stretch the argument a little, if dangerously, further, even banks and mortgage companies, as is currently the case, be govt owned and operated? Once you accept that Efficiency is not the most important consideration, then why not govt run and operated infrastructural assets like these? Even if govts cannot be as efficient as free markets?

14. There is an oblique indication that this point is already proven. For example, for all of these important assets, there are govt Regulators who try to force some semblance of public good into what otherwise would be untrammeled free markets. The fact that Regulators are needed to moderate these free market operators and operations prove that virtues other than free market efficiencies need to be instilled, even legislated into being. From these Regulators, it is just a small step to govt owned and even govt operated assets, even banks as in today's environment.

15. Thus, arguments over Big Govt and Small Govt, Free Market Efficiency, Regulation and DeRegulation, etc, are all beside the point. When you ask the wrong question, you never get the right answer. What you need to ask and keep remembering, is what is the Best Public Good? The financial crises happened mostly because ideology triumphed over common sense. The ideology of free markets and capitalism led to un- or under-regulated banks and other financial operations leading to disaster. If Public Good had been foremost in the minds of govt and regulators, the disasters may not have happened. Divining the Public Good is not always easy. It may even require bold thinking and imagination. But we know by now, that leaving people and operators to pursue their own individual self interests does not lead to the best Public Interest.

16. To use an analogy, the free market is like the roads and highways. Everyone in the free market of stocks and other financial instruments is like the driver of cars on the roads. Every investor pursues his best self interests to maximise profits and minimise risks. Just like every driver tries to drive fastest and easiest to reach his destination without wrecking his life and car in an accident. This unfettered pursuit of self interests is supposed to result in the most free flowing traffic, meaning the most profits for the most people. After all, which driver would recklessly jeopardise his life and car by driving dangerously or recklessly? If this assumption is correct, there should hardly be any accidents on the roads. The fact is that thousands are killed in car wreckages every day proves that even when everybody pursues his own best interests at least risks, accidents happen. The financial crises are a pileup of humongous proportions.

17. I hope I have raised enough doubts about the supposed efficiencies of free markets and govt operations. Maybe even restore the rightful place of Public Good in all thinking and planning of govt and even private operators. The hardest thing to change is people's thinking. We have carried old thinking into a new century. The best thing we can do now is to rethink all of these old assumptions, theories and practices to see how they fit our needs in the new century. We really, really, need to.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

ALSO AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2007/03/filmmaker-martyn-see-interviews-robert.html

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Not%20nominated%20for%20a%20Nobel%20so%20LIE%20KY%20gives%20himself%20many%20others

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

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Idea: Bespoke software clothes to change the way the world dresses

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Locksmiths, Computer Scientists Say

Scenes from one of the proof-of-concept telephoto experiments using a new software program from UC San Diego that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key. Credit: UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.

"We built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys are not inherently secret," said Stefan Savage, the computer science professor from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering who led the student-run project. "Perhaps this was once a reasonable assumption, but advances in digital imaging and optics have made it easy to duplicate someone's keys from a distance without them even noticing."

Professor Savage presents this work on October 30 at ACM's Conference on Communications and Computer Security (CCS) 2008, one of the premier academic computer security conferences.

The bumps and valleys on your house or office keys represent a numeric code that completely describes how to open your particular lock. If a key doesn't encode this precise "bitting code," then it won't open your door.

In one demonstration of the new software system, the computer scientists took pictures of common residential house keys with a cell phone camera, fed the image into their software which then produced the information needed to create identical copies. In another example, they used a five inch telephoto lens to capture images from the roof of a campus building and duplicate keys sitting on a café table more than 200 feet away.

"This idea should come as little surprise to locksmiths or lock vendors," said Savage. "There are experts who have been able to copy keys by hand from high-resolution photographs for some time. However, we argue that the threat has turned a corner—cheap image sensors have made digital cameras pervasive and basic computer vision techniques can automatically extract a key's information without requiring any expertise."

Professor Savage notes, however, that the idea that one's keys are sensitive visual information is not widely appreciated in the general public.

"If you go onto a photo-sharing site such as Flickr, you will find many photos of people's keys that can be used to easily make duplicates. While people generally blur out the numbers on their credit cards and driver's licenses before putting those photos on-line, they don't realize that they should take the same precautions with their keys" said Savage.

As for what to do about the key duplication threat, Savage says that companies are actively developing and marketing new locking systems that encode electromagnetic secrets as well as a physical code. "Many car keys, for example, have RFID immobilizer chips that prevent duplicated keys from turning the car on." he says. In the meantime, he suggests that you treat your keys like you treat your credit card, "Keep it in your pocket unless you need to use it."

How it works

The keys used in the most common residential locks in the United States have a series of 5 or 6 cuts, spaced out at regular intervals. The computer scientists created a program in MatLab that can process photos of keys from nearly any angle and measure the depth of each cut. String together the depth of each cut and you have a key's bitting code, which together with basic information on the brand and type of key you have, is what you need to make a duplicate key.

The chief challenge for the software system, called "Sneakey," is to adjust for a wide range of different angles and distances between the camera and the key being captured. To do so, the researchers relied on a classic computer vision technique for normalizing an object's orientation and size in three dimensions by matching control points from a reference image to equivalent points in the target image.

"The program is simple. You have to click on the photo to tell it where the top of the key is, and a few other control points. From here, it normalizes the key's size and position. Since each pixel then corresponds to a set distance, it can accurately guess the height of each of the key cuts," explained Benjamin Laxton, the first author on the paper who recently earned his Master's degree in computer science from UC San Diego.

The researchers have not released their code to the public, but they acknowledge that it would not be terribly difficult for someone with basic knowledge of MatLab and computer vision techniques to build a similar system.

"Technology trends in computer vision are at a point where we need to consider new risks for physical security systems," said Kai Wang, a UC San Diego computer science graduate student and author on the new paper. Wang is a computer vision researcher working on the creating systems capable of reading text on product packaging. This is part of a larger project on creating a computerized personal shopping assistant for the visually impaired from the lab of computer science professor Serge Belongie.

As a computer security expert, Savage said he particularly enjoyed working on a project with computer vision students.

"UC San Diego is very supportive of interdisciplinary work. There are many opportunities for students and faculty to get their hands dirty in fields they may not know much about a lot at first," said Savage.
Provided by University of California - San Diego

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RH:
1. With this advance in software measurement of photographed objects, a whole new industry or whole new way of buying clothes and other apparel such as hats, sweaters, scarves, ties, etc, becomes possible, making it more efficient, easier, less wastage and therefore, cheaper for all, from clothing maker to end customer.

2. Since the above software can measure accurately even keys in a digital photo, a simple adaptation of the software will be able to measure a person's major tailoring dimensions, such as waist, hips, chest, arm length, leg length, girth of neck, thighs and arms, etc. All from 1 or 2 digital photo/s of the person, with or without the person holding an ordinary foot-ruler to help in the measurements [the foot-ruler would make it even more accurate and easier]. For best accuracy, perhaps the person should hold the foot-ruler vertical in one hand, with both arms outstretched sideways, horizontal to the ground. Perhaps, the distance of the camera to the person photographed should also be indicated roughly, for best results. Another photo capturing the side of the person may also help improve accuracy. Since most digital cameras and cellphones also capture in video, the person could also capture a video of himself turning slowly 1 complete round and send this to the custom tailor online.

3. Cellphone and digital cameras are now uniquitous and a person would only need to take 1 or 2 digital photo/s or videos of himself or herself [and be able to use these for years unless the body measurements change significantly]. Most probably, this Measurement Photo/s should best be taken with minimum clothing on but this depends on the accuracy of the software and need not be so. Wearing tight-fitting clothes such as a singlet, t-shirt, shorts or leotards, etc, should be enough for the software to obtain accurate body measurements. Or, the men can wear just swimming trunks and women, bikinis.

4. Once this Measurement Photo/s is taken, it is easy to email it to a China clothing maker or New York or London Savile Row famous clothier or a Paris couture maker depending on what clothes you want custom-made, or from even a small bespoke tailoring shop in the next city or next continent. Thus, suddenly, bespoke tailors may again become a big industry, rescued from an extinction caused by cheap mass manufacturing.

5. The China clothing maker or Paris couture maker would probably have an online catalog of all the clothing designs available and you would indicate which design/s you want tailor made to your photo's measurements. Then you pay online and wait for the finished-tailored clothes to arrive in your mail. All the way from China or Paris, and probably much cheaper than if you had it tailor-made at your nearest mall, if indeed, anyone offers such a service, which is almost extinct. This could revive the tradition of wearing tailor-made clothes again and end the sameness and almost uniform looks of all our clothes. Further, because your clothes are custom made, you can specify your own designs and needs, such as special or extra pockets. For example, an engineer who often carries a meter when he makes site visits may want a special pocket located on his pants or shirt, of a certain size to nicely fit the meter in. Another technician may want to carry some specialised tools like calipers, short steel rule and marker pens, and all these could be fitted nicely into custom pockets anywhere on his clothing.

6. Even a Hollywood star may want to order a unique dress creation for the Oscar ceremony. For example, she can email her body measurements to a Paris couture maker and the Paris couturier then dresses up a mannequin or a real human of approximately the same size, in a few dress creations using just pins and tacks to show the design, photographs it and emails it back for comments and approval. Once the star approves and pays, the couturier then goes ahead with making the dress.

7. At a time when the China clothing makers are facing recession, this could create much new business. For example, orders can come from all over the world, from America to Mozambique. The clothing maker only needs to know what designs different cultures prefer, from the standard suit and tie to an African robe.

8. We may soon be able to wear truly-fitting custom-tailored clothes at mass-manufactured prices. In unique designs, too, if we prefer.

9. Perhaps the most significant change will be cutting down wastage. Currently, with the mass production business model, clothes are mass manufactured to certain limited sizes but this probably means that a huge percentage are never sold and probably discarded eventually. With custom tailoring, every piece of clothing would be made to fit the customer, so there would be no wastage at all. This results in huge costs savings for everybody, from the clothes maker to the end customer. Since China can make everything cheaper, it can thereby also make custom suits and clothes more cheaply.

10. There will be some communication issues when a customer emails his or her requirements in say, English while the China tailor may email back in Chinese. This is not much of a problem because there are free online machine translations like Babel Fish and WorldLingo, etc, which can instantly translate short text between many languages for free, with good enough accuracy of around 60-90%. Or, a paid service can quickly translate any emails for a small fee, since emails can easily be forwarded [and translated] back and forth anywhere in the world. Also, if the online catalog website is well designed, there will be many pictorial instructions and guides which can make the whole transaction quick and easy with minimum text instructions needed. Also, websites are easily viewable in different languages thus making the transaction quick, convenient and easy.

11. The above may be termed Bespoke 1.0 . Given that software development is now racing forwards, why not go further into what may be termed Bespoke 2.0? This software development of Bespoke 2.0 would adapt from such sites as Second Life, in which players create a virtual avatar of themselves and move their avatar into all kinds of online virtual situations paralleling the real physical world. For example, in Second Life, players can make their avatars go into a virtual clothing shop and buy some virtual clothing and even wear these new virtual clothing.

12. This means that Bespoke 2.0 software can easily be adapted from Second Life type softwares except that the virtual avatars must have exactly the same physical body measurements as their owners. Now, it gets interesting. As before, the customer takes some photos or videos of himself and emails it to an online bespoke tailor in Savile Row or Shenzhen. This tailor then runs the received photos or videos in the new Bespoke 2.0 program and quickly produces an exact virtual avatar of the customer, all body measurements exactly the same. Using this avatar, he then designs or adapts the clothes chosen by the customer or which the tailor thinks will best adorn the customer, like in the case of the Paris couturier. Ideally, the Bespoke 2.0 software should be so powerful, like cadcam, that the tailor, being no computer whiz, can simply pull, stretch, snip, create folds, tighten, etc, with just a mouse or a stylus or even touchscreen, to either create a totally new design or adapt from a template of the design chosen by the customer, to fit onto the body of the avatar. The tailor should also be able to easily scan a sample of any cloth into a simple scanner and the designs, colours and patterns of the cloth would appear digitally on his Bespoke 2.0 software for virtual 'cutting' into designs around the virtual avatar body.

13. Once the clothing is finished on the avatar, the tailor saves several images of it like jpg photos or even videos and emails them back to the customer for final approval. Then makes and mails the clothes to him.

14. The Bespoke 2.0 software will possibly create a new, intermediate industry of clothing designers or adapters who are good at using this software and have some fashion design talent. These can take orders from customers who trust their fashion design sense and are willing to pay for it. These fashion designers would operate locally, in every mall, for example, and provide a very personal service much like an interior decorator. Many customers may not like to transact and deal online with a tailor far away but would prefer a living, breathing human to talk with, discuss fashion designs with and come back next week to check the final designs. After approving the final design, the design can then be emailed to Shenzhen and the finished clothes mailed back. This would be a viable industry, much like the interior decorator industry. The tailor, on the other hand, would be only too happy not to have to engage in endless discussions and emails or phone calls with the customer. Or to struggle with abstruse computer software. Thus, a local industry would be created, employing local fashion designers talking with local customers and understanding their tastes and needs, for future repeat orders and referrals business. Only the final tailoring need be done elsewhere, in the cheapest place, probably China.

15. If all this comes true, we are looking at a world in which everyone could be wearing unique clothes, and the current uniform, same, mass-manufactured clothes will all be history.

16. This is my New Year gift for 2009.
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ICONOCLASSING Pt 3 or RH Zero Sum Game Theory

RH:

1. Today's essay is Iconoclassing Pt 3, which continues from "Iconoclassing Singapore GDP Myths" and "Iconoclassing Pt 2", whose urls are just below :

19 June 2008
ICONOCLASSING SINGAPORE GDP MYTHS

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/ICONOCLASSING%20SINGAPORE%20GDP%20MYTHS

19 June 2008
ICONOCLASSING Pt 2

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Iconoclassing%20Pt%202

2. Today's essay takes off from a speech "The Puzzle That Never Was" given by Dr CHEE Soon Juan in 2001 to Stanford University, Institute of International Studies, url and complete text just below :

http://www.singapore-window.org/sw01/010129sj.htm


THE PUZZLE THAT NEVER WAS

January 29, 2001
Dr Chee Soon Juan
Secretary general, Singapore Democratic Party

Speech given at Stanford University, Institute for International Studies

Singapore society confounds the theory that wealth leads to an opening up of society. The Lion City is an affluent society unable, some say unwilling, to break out of its authoritarian mode. Therein lies the puzzle that the Singapore is.


A. THERE is a myth that goes something like this: Singapore's post-independence story has been one of a money-making miracle and the miracle-maker is, of course, the People's Action Party. We all know a myth, when repeated enough and left unexploded, gradually becomes fact. When you add to this another myth which is that Singaporeans, having become rich, seem not to mind living in an authoritarian state, a veritable puzzle develops.

B. Sieve out the hubris and scoop away the public relations puff, however, you have a reality that is very different and a politico-economic puzzle that is very explainable.

C. Singapore's economy has been designed to maximize GDP gains in the shortest time possible. The best way to go about doing this is to yell like crazy to foreign investors about the generous tax incentives that are on offer with cheap wages to boot. To make sure that the locals go along with the plan, the opposition, labour movement, and civil society in general is dismantled through laws such as the Internal Security Act which enables the ruling party to arrest anyone at pleasure and detain them at leisure. Workers must also be maintained on a strict diet of intellect-numbing presentation of government pronouncements sans critical analysis through a controlled mass media. Once these conditions are in place, one will be surprised how quickly multinational companies come in.

D. More than 7000 of these multinationals, involved in every type of business conceivable, have setup shop in Singapore. They account for more than 90 percent of investments in the manufacturing sector, 70 percent of the gross output in the manufacturing sector, over 50 percent of those employed, and 82 percent of direct exports.

The addiction to foreign capital

E. As foreign capital poured in and employment grew, the PAP started to get too comfortable in government and rationalized that continued discipline brought about by its austere measures was the way forward.

F. Of course with growth, cost has also risen. With its neighbours competing for foreign investments, the government has had to rethink its strategy. One solution would be to get Singapore out of direct competition with its neighbouring economies for low-end, labour intensive industries. Thus in 1979, the government embarked on a series of measures to encourage the influx of high-tech industries to replace low-tech ones. With typical authoritarian efficiency, the PAP raised the level of real estate prices and wages of the workers. Political economist Garry Rodan wrote: "Without any apology, the PAP tried to force lower-value-added, labor-intensive industries to upgrade operations or close operations in Singapore altogether."

G. The result was that unit labour costs rose by 40 per cent in six years.

H. But instead of responding to the PAP's call to upgrade their operations in Singapore, many of the low-tech companies simply moved to cheaper countries. Magaziner and Patinkin wrote: "The EDB [Economic Development Board] people explained that they'd misunderstood why companies had come to Singapore. Good infrastructure was important, but it wasn't the main driver. Cheap wages were."

I. In 1985, this policy resulted in a full-blown crisis. A combination of a 40 percent decline in investments and slothful international trade saw Singapore's economy plunge into a recession with the GDP registering a negative 2 percent down from its usual 8-10 percent.

J. Then, as it is now, it is the people who end up picking up the tab. With the same autocratic style that announced the switch to a high-wage, high-skilled economy, the government now decreed that wages of the workers be cut by 15 percent. Lee Hsien Loong, who was then the Minister for Trade and Industry, exhorted workers to increase their working hours to "44 hours a week...and to do third shifts and keep plants open 24 hours per day." In the meantime, the government declared that it no longer mattered whether the techs were high or low, "all forms of investment which can make profits were welcome."

K. And so with wages cut and dissent muffled, the government went about serenading foreign investments again and growth was subsequently restored. The question was for how long and how much do the people have to sacrifice again when difficulties revisit the economy?

L. By the early 1990s the economy was wheezing and puffing again. In 1994, nearly 8000 workers were laid off by more than 200 companies. This was an increase of 19 per cent of retrenched workers over 1993. In 1995, the number of retrenched rose to more than 14,000. By 1996 there were unmistakable signs of an imminent recession. Again the government pointed to the "restructuring" and "upgrading" of the economy. Then Minister for Trade and Industry, Yeo Cheow Tong - without a hint of knowledge of the problems that the triggered the 1985 recession - said: "In actual fact, such restructuring and upgrading are signs of a healthy manufacturing sector." Someone forgot to tell him that the companies that were moving out were high-tech electronic ones which the economy was supposed to be upgrading to.

M. As it turned out, the PAP was saved from an embarrassing situation by the Thai government which buckled under the weight of the baht and devalued it on July 2, 1997, sending Asia into its worst economic nightmare. Perhaps, we will never know the severity of that economic downturn because of the Asian crisis. It does, however, make the PAP's claim that Singapore's economy tumbled during the crisis only because of it was dragged down by its neighbours' financial misfortunes seem, at best, disingenuous.

N. As before, the workers end up having to make yet more sacrifices. In 1999, the Singapore government announced that it was cutting wages by 10 per cent. The retrenchments continue into the present and is set to get worse. The government's latest explanation for the loss of jobs is not very different from that in given in 1994, or for that matter, way back in 1979. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told Singaporeans that "economic restructuring also meant retrenchments will rise" and this was because "low-skilled jobs are being lost and high-skilled ones created." Here we go again.

O. The fact of the matter is that Singapore cannot, or doesn't know how to, get out of its dependence on foreign investment. Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld noted: Despite its seeming prosperity, Singapore in 1990 is trapped in the treadmill of the export-oriented economics that it once so enthusiastically embraced. Having so completely opened itself up to the world market and the multinationals with the illusion that it could influence the former and manipulate the latter, the PAP technocrats now see that their policies have reduced Singapore's economy to a mere service economy, the fate of which is totally dependent on the calculations and whims of the multinationals.

Economic growth for whom?

P. The reliance of Singapore's economy to foreign investment exacts a significant toll on the welfare of the people. The government's willingness to sacrifice workers' wages whenever economic conditions become unfavourable means that Singaporeans are consigned to having to work harder and harder just to maintain a standard of living that, contrary to government pronouncements, is not all that its made out to be. Let me give you a few indicators.

Q. In the Global Competitiveness Report 1999 which surveyed a total of 59 countries, Singaporean workers, especially those in manual jobs, were found to be relatively one of the worst paid in the world. The median wage of an office cleaner or driver, adjusted for productivity, "is among the lowest in 59 countries worldwide." Only Russia, Ukraine and Ecuador are paid less. Secretaries don't do much better, their wages rank 50 among the 59 countries.

R. During the Asia crisis, monthly wages for low-skilled workers fell up to 34 percent from $746 in 1998 to $492 in 1999. During that period, 16 percent of the work force earned below $1000 a month. Nearly 30 percent of households were not earning enough to afford the minimum standard of life. But when the crisis was over, salary increases among 14 Asian economies was the lowest in Singapore. While Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan had rewarded their workers between five to eight percent in wage increments (after accounting for inflation), Singapore averaged only 3.6 percent with the number predicted to decrease to 2.9 percent this year. It was reported that between 1998 and 2000, the average monthly income of the lowest 10 percent of households fell further by half to $133. The subsistence level in Singapore is estimated to be $1000 for a household of four persons.

S. All this in a city that is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive in the world. In the mid 1990s the Union Bank of Switzerland ranked Singapore as the 7th most expensive city - even costlier that Paris, New York and London. Just last week, the London-based Economic Intelligence Unit rated Singapore as the ninth most expensive city in the world.

T. And yet Lee Kuan Yew, without batting an eye, recently boasted: "Foreigners have noted how the people of Singapore have responded, putting national interest first by taking CPF cuts that helped this rebound (from the Asian crisis)." With trade unionism rendered comatose by the government - the umbrella National Trades Union Congress' chief is a government minister - a significant question arises: How do the workers tell the Senior Minister that they are hurting? How do they tell him that they don't want to be the ones having to put 'national interest first by taking CPF cuts' when the ministers increase that own salaries, which is already the highest in the world? Under the new pay scheme Goh Chok Tong's annual salary will jump by 14 percent to S$1.94 million, five times that of the US President's. How do they let him know that they don't want their employers to cut their wages by 10 percent when in the same period, the average household income for the top 10 percent rose by more that 3 percent while the number of millionaires in the country increased by 40 percent to a record high 742?

U. Gerald O'Driscoll, Kim Holmes, and Melanie Kirkpatrick wrote in the Index of Economic Freedom report 2000 that in Singapore "the authorities strive to be first but at the cost of efficiency and the ultimate well-being of the people."

V. For all the hype about Singapore being a near-paradise, 20 percent of its citizens indicated that they want to leave the country predominantly because of the stressful lifestyle and high cost of living. In 1999, a consumer health survey found that among the various Asian societies, Singaporeans are more likely to have suffered depression, stress and fatigue.

W. But in spite of all this, the PAP apologia will point to the political stability in the country and the notable lack of strife, and tell you that this is due to the ruling party's sound economic record and the people's contentedness. If the lack of civil strife is taken as an index of a government's popular support, then the North Korean regime must be one of the most loved ones in the world; Saddam Hussein, still in power after the rest of his counterparts in the US and Europe have left office, must go down in history as one of the most endearing political figures; and Burma's military outfit must be doing everything right since the crackdown in 1989.

X. Just because the surface of the water is calm, don't always assume that there is nothing lurking beneath. In an authoritarian state, the seeming tranquility is more a reflection of fear and of the effectiveness of the tactics of repression, than it is an indication of the masses affection for the ruling elite.

Y. There is no question that economic growth can occur in authoritarian states under the guise of free market regimes. There is no puzzle here. However, for there to be economic development, one that genuinely benefits the masses and one that is sustainable, the people must be active participants rather than mere digits of the assembly line. For this to happen, democracy is vital. History has shown that how right wing, free-market authoritarian regimes were not able to hang on to power forever. Singapore is no exception. The reason why the regime is still firmly in place is that the founder of the authoritarian system is still alive and very much in the political equation. The second reason is that Singapore is a much smaller country both physically and in terms of its population and because of this control is that much more effectual. Put Lee Kuan Yew in charge of a bigger country like say Malaysia (let alone even bigger ones like Thailand and large ones like Indonesia) and the results could be very different.

Living with fear

Z. I have related how much of a myth the PAP's economic achievements have been and shown you how the picture of the rich, fat, and politically contented Singaporean is just as fictitious. Let me now tell you about the climate of fear that Singaporeans live under and how this fear is induced.

AA. On the eve of nomination in the last general elections in 1997, I received a phone call from a woman who was the wife of one of our candidates. She pleaded with me to persuade her husband not to stand for elections. She was in tears. When I tried to explain to her the situation, she grew increasing desperate and threatened to jump off from the flat and take their children with her. We quickly sent some of our women folk to see her to make sure that nothing tragic happened. In between sobs she said that they had a family to look after and joining the opposition would ruin everything. She didn't want to see her husband again unless he agreed not to stand as an SDP candidate. Our candidate later managed to return home and pacify his wife. He continued on with the elections but hardly campaigned as he stayed home most of the time to make sure nothing happened.

BB. On an earlier occasion, I met up with an academic to discuss the possibility of him standing as a candidate. He picked me up and we quickly drove to a field that was unlit. We sat in the dark and started talking. He was visibly nervous and suggested another spot. And so we found another darkened place, this time in a carpark to talk about the business of his candidacy. We were behaving as if we were planning something illegal when we were just making plans for the elections.

CC. Another instance involved a well-known Asian author who had come to Singapore to work as well as do some research for her book. She told her Singaporean housemate that she was going to have lunch with me, whereupon the housemate became so terrified that she immediately asked the author to move out.

DD. In 1998 I was in Perth, Australia, to give a talk. A professor there told me that some students confided in him that they were interested in attending my talk but were afraid they would be blacklisted. In a similar occasion in Sydney, I was walking to the toilet after giving my presentation when a few students came up to me and said they were very supportive of what I was doing, but didn't want to be seen in public talking with me.

EE. We presently have a few younger Singaporeans who started the youth wing of the SDP. It is called the Young Democrats. Each and every one of them has come under intense pressure from their families not to get involved with the opposition. I am very glad they were able to persuade their families otherwise and stand firm in their convictions. Needless to say, I'm very proud of them.

FF. In case you think that these are just anecdotes that may not be reflective of the political situation in Singapore, a recent survey found that 93 percent of Singaporeans are afraid to speak out against governmental issues.

Is such fear unfounded?

GG. Singapore still retains the Internal Security Act (ISA) that allows the government to detain citizens indefinitely. Scores of opposition leaders, trade unionists, and social activists were arrested under the ISA and detained for years. Chia Thye Poh was one of them. He was imprisoned for 23 years without given a trial.

HH. Then there are the lawsuits. J. B. Jeyaretnam has recently been bankrupted because he could not pay the costs and damages outstanding to his opponents some of whom are PAP MPs. He has been sued repeatedly by Lee Kuan Yew and other PAP leaders and has paid more than a million dollars to these people, selling all his possessions in the process.

II. Tang Liang Hong, a successful lawyer who stood as an opposition candidate in the last elections has also been sued. He was declared a bankrupt and charged with tax evasion. He now lives in Australia.

JJ. Francis Seow, the former solicitor-general, was also detained under the ISA. He later ran for elections with the Workers' Party. He now lives in exile in the US after he was charged and convicted in absentia while he was in this country receiving treatment for his heart condition.

KK. These are just some of the higher profile cases. There are many more which time does not permit me to relate. I tell you about them because you will not read them in political science books or journals. Nevertheless, they are very real cases involving real people. The next time you read or hear anyone telling you that Singaporeans live in the comfort zone under cheerful climes with relatively little to fear, you can at least carry on a discourse with some intelligence.

More obstacles

LL. Which brings me to my next point. Why is there such a mistaken impression of Singapore in the first place? The mass media has much to do with this. Singapore's local media has been comprehensively subjugated in the 1970s when editors and journalists who crossed the government with their reports were put in prison. Many of the newspapers were closed down. Today all of the country's newspapers are published by state-run companies, the biggest being the Singapore Press Holding which is run by a former cabinet minister and a former ISD director.

MM. What about the foreign media? Time, Newsweek, the International Herald Tribune, Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review, and the Economist have all been either sued or have had their circulation restricted, or both. The foreign broadcast media also recently came under attack. These actions by the PAP has had a lasting impact on the way the foreign media tends to report about Singapore.

NN. In such a situation who are the losers? The PAP? Hardly. It was a resounding victory for the government over the international media. The owners of these foreign publications? Not when you consider that their bottom line is to keep up their sales. The real losers are the people who have been deprived of yet more independent and uncensored sources of information. The PAP may have won the battle this round. But it has not solved the problem of the people being denied the right to freedom of information. All it has done is to set Singapore up for a much bigger fall in the future.

OO. This is not the only way people are deprived of dissenting opinion. Books critical of the PAP system, cannot find their way onto shelves in bookstores. None of them would carry my books. When I sell them on the street, I am prosecuted for illegal hawking. When I call up the Ministry of Environment to apply for one, they say that no such licenses are given. None of the newsvendors dare sell newspapers published by opposition parties.

PP. I have not even begun to relate all the appalling tactics employed by the ruling party during elections. Because of time restrictions, I will instead refer you to a report entitled 'Elections in Singapore: How free and how fair?' published by the Open Singapore Centre, copies which are available for sale here.

QQ. Having heard all that I've just said, can you truthfully say that this sounds like a government that has the kind of support it claims? Does this sound like a people who are unafraid and willingly allow the PAP this continued control over them? Or is there some truth to the fact that the PAP knows that the people want democracy and the only way to deny them of this is to institute more controls and device more ways of intimidating them?

Conclusion

RR. It is important to disabuse ourselves of the notion that the PAP is this visionary architect of Singapore's economy and, worse, that Singaporeans are so comfortable that they will just roll over and play dead every time the PAP cracks its whip. Why should Singaporeans be any different from the rest of the world which has unreservedly embraced democracy. From Mexico to Mongolia, Soviet Union to South Africa, people want to live in freedom and dignity, and to be able to hold their governments accountable. The last time I checked Singaporeans are humans too. And because we are humans we have this one thing in common that cannot be crushed. It's called the human spirit.



3. Dr CHEE is the only person in Singapore who has spent his entire recent life, >a decade, fighting/understanding/critiquing/writing/exposing the crooked, corrupt, nepotic, murderous, torturous, election-rigging, greedy, venal, LIE KY LHL WKS Cronies PAP LIEgime. He is also the only one who has done this well, with courage, skill, talent that no one else has displayed in Singapore. That makes him uniquely qualified to not only know and identify what is wrong -- and the entire system is hopelessly wrong -- but also how to fix it, given the chance. His books are not mere rants but contain insights into the problems and solutions to the problems.

4. As a sometime essayist/blogger, I would today like to take off from his above Puzzle speech, that portion relating to cheap labour that I have paragraphed-named as F to J and L, N and O.

5. It is my contention that Singapore has all along been a cheap labour economy, despite the few showcase high-tech and service sectors that are always trotted out and boasted to foreigners, like when they are bussed to some spanking HDB township touted as evidence of success. Dr CHEE has done me the service of stating the facts and figures in the paras mentioned. However, as in my 2 previous Iconoclassing articles, my theme is how LIE KY's GDP is a Myth. In today's article, I would like to postulate that "Singapore has always been a cheap labour economy." Evidence of this is in Para O : "O. The fact of the matter is that Singapore cannot, or doesn't know how to, get out of its dependence on foreign investment. Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld noted: Despite its seeming prosperity, Singapore in 1990 is trapped in the treadmill of the export-oriented economics that it once so enthusiastically embraced. Having so completely opened itself up to the world market and the multinationals with the illusion that it could influence the former and manipulate the latter, the PAP technocrats now see that their policies have reduced Singapore's economy to a mere service economy, the fate of which is totally dependent on the calculations and whims of the multinationals."

6. If you allow my arguments in my first 2 Iconoclassing articles and allow Para O, then it is clear that LIE KY is far, far, from being the genius and miracle worker that he and his lapdog media have endlessly portrayed him to be, but a total failure whose overhyped image is due to faked statistics, the Green Lever Effect, and an economy driven to ruin through 'managing FOR numbers'. The collapse of the Singapore economy and country will be when the Housing Bubble and Foreign Cheap Labour Bubble burst, as burst they must, as is inevitable with all bubbles. If you allow that "Singapore has always been a cheap labour economy", then you understand why so many citizens are unemployed, their woeful statistics disguised by renaming citizens + PRs as "Residents" and why an astounding 35% of the people on this tiny 700 sq km islet are FOREIGNERS.

7. Singapore has always been a cheap labour economy, only that, in the early days, we Singaporeans were the cheap labour, nowadays, the foreign workers are. This is inevitable. Through the years, due to the moronic policies of OverTax & UnderSpend in order to amass huge surpluses and reserves, which are regarded as evidence of success, as all money wealth seems to indicate success, the LIEgime raised the prices of everything, especially HDB flats where a typical tiny 4-room flat that costs S$30,000 to build, as proven by successful contractors' published tender prices, are now selling for >S$640,000. This Bubble can only burst and it will make the US subprime crisis seem modest. So, with frequent price hikes in GST, HDB flat prices, transport, utilities, every single possible cost, Singaporeans cannot pay their mortgage and eat 3 meals without a salary of at least S$1,000, which would be subsistence level. So, in order to keep the cheap labour economy going, Singaporeans are deliberately undercut by importing cheap foreign workers, until now they comprise 35% of people on this islet. UnderSpend means that the housing, transport, whole infrastructure do not keep pace, hence overcrowded metros, buses, malls, even parks. So, high GDP growth is at the expense of or balanced by ruinous social policies and conditions of life for the vast majority.

8. The common thread running through my Iconoclass series is that the supposedly high GDP growth that LIE KY got is false and distorted. Today, I would like to postulate that "True GDP growth is almost impossible and growth in one sector is always offset by decline in another or in a future foregone." We can call this the Zero Sum Game Theory.

9. Let us look at this puzzle or paradox by briefly checking the GDP growths of the advanced economies, especially that of Europe. After all, they have many of the best economists, planners, experts, think tanks, economic data gathering and studies, in the world. So how is it that they can manage no better than the ~2.5% in the best of times, even less in the inevitable troughs and downturns? If you minus the bad times GDPs from the good times, you get No Growth. Even the ~2.5% in good times becomes 0 when inflation and other factors are factored in. So, it is entirely possible that my Theory is right, that GDP Growth is impossible.

10. What of China and Singapore and other seemingly high GDP growth countries? Remember my Theory about 'future foregone'? In the case of China, its laudable record of >10% GDP growth over 3 decades is probably due to its one-child policy in which 2 adult parents pay taxes and contribute to economic activities while producing only 1 child to use back some of those taxes, mostly in minor expenditures such as schooling and a little healthcare, etc. This gives the China govt a big surplus for every family of 2 adults taxes/economics - 1 child's spending. Further, when that child leaves school to work, all 3 contribute for many years thus giving the China govt all 3 surpluses in economics. Any wonder China developed so quickly in just 3 decades? This may seem to contradict my Zero Sum Game Theory that no true GDP growth is possible and any growth is just a rebalancing of different sectors in which some sectors' growth are balanced by others' declines OR balanced by a future foregone or decline. In China's case, when the demographics turns bad, when there are many more old non-working people than young working people, the Zero Sum Game will happen and all the years of positive growth will then be nett off by years of decline. 7 years fat followed by 7 years lean.

11. The US also has had better GDP growth than the advanced European countries but this is offset or balanced by poorer societal conditions and many poor sectors. There is also future foregone in the huge deficits that future generations will have to pay back for the current generation's enjoyment. Zero Sum Game again. Nothing is for free. There is no free lunch.

12. If my Theory is right, then govts and economists must be very, very, careful what they wish for. If they want Big Growth in some sectors, then they must be very careful to ameliorate the declines in other sectors, or society, which will be inevitable. Or costs to future generations. The one salutary effect of my gloomy Theory is that govts and economists may stop chasing the mirage of high GDP growth and ask themselves what it is they really want to do, what they want for their societies. They may then become more like the advanced but slow-growing European countries and try to better the lives of their people, not just feed the economy. Better childcare, better healthcare, better schools, better public transport, better and more rewarding careers and jobs, more fulfilling lives. In the end, isn't this what govt should be all about?


RH Zero Sum Game Theory : "True economic growth is impossible. Growth as measured by GDP and other accountings are possible in some sectors, but are always negated by declines in others, usually measured over-optimistically for the growth sectors and under-pessimistically for the decliners. True growth over a defined period is possible, but only at the expense of future declines, like booms are always followed by busts and bubbles eventually burst. All this is due to the finite natures of Man and his systems. An emphasis in one area/s of endeavour is negated by neglect in another/s. A gain now leads to a loss later. In the end, it all adds up to zero."

Related somewhat to :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/search/label/RH%3A%20Robert%27s%20TorchLight%20Effect

and

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081021061251AASf7sU .


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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

ALSO AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2007/03/filmmaker-martyn-see-interviews-robert.html

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Not%20nominated%20for%20a%20Nobel%20so%20LIE%20KY%20gives%20himself%20many%20others

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/
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Idea: Low Rations, Propellor Disabling, etc, Strategies to defeat pirates hijacking of ships for ransom

Pirates Seize Saudi Tanker off Kenya
from International *News* - The New York Times
The Saudi-owned supertanker loaded with more than $100 million worth of crude oil is the largest ship ever hijacked, according to U.S. Navy officials.

Somali pirates vow to resist any rescue efforts
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali pirates holding an oil-laden Saudi super-tanker will fight back should any military intervention to free the ship be attempted, a member of the pirate group told AFP Saturday from the coastal village of Harardhere.

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RH:
1. One solution may be for all vulnerable ships passing this pirates-infested region to carry no more than say, a week's worth of food and water. If pirates succeed in boarding and taking control of the ship, they and the crew will have only a week's worth of food and water. This forces them to bring their own food and water along, which raises additional work and difficulty to hamper their operations somewhat.

2. If they dont or cannot, they will need to be resupplied with food and water. Then, this will create logistical and other vulnerabilities that their supply boat may be blocked, arrested, interdicted, etc. Thus, hampering the otherwise smooth and easy hijacking.

3. So, if police or navy boats can race to the hijacked ship fast enough to lay siege to the pirates, the hungry pirates may surrender after the week's food and water are consumed. [The pirates will consume the food and water and deny these to the captured crew but the crew will not be allowed to die because then, nobody can operate the ship].

4. If this Low Rations strategy is standard for all ships passing this region, piracy may be much reduced, since it will no longer be plain sailing.

5. It is not a good idea for the crew to jettison all the food and water [even if arranged to be thrown overboard at the touch of a button] because the pirates will exact revenge on the crew for this jettisoning of food and water].

6. After passing safely through this region, a waiting small supply boat can resupply the ship for the rest of its voyage. Quite a nice little business and wont take too much time.

7. If a hijacked ship needs to be stopped from being sailed to Somalia, etc, a last resort can be to disable the propellors much like a car illegally parked can have its wheel/s clamped. Inventors can start designing a Propellor Clamp/Disabler such that it would be easy to, in the case of a Rope-type Disabler, coil round and round the rotating propellor until the nylon rope strangles the propellor into stopping.

8. If a Tube-type Jammer, this jammer should stop the propellors without damaging it too much. Probably made of a hard plastic like the fibreglass material of kayaks and canoes. Once jammed into the propellor housing, this Clamp/Disabler device should be jammed and stuck into the propellor housing until removed. Even if only 1 Disabler is used on only 1 propellor, this would prevent the ship from being steered, maybe only going round in circles, etc. This jammer should be easy to jam from a small boat or dinghy. Another possibility is to disable or jam the Rudder/s, which would make the ship unsteerable.

9. With more time to develop from standard torpedo technology, a Torpedo-type Jammer could be perfected, that can be fired from afar, travel under its own power, and steer itself towards the propellor housing. Maybe a sea version of the remotely-controlled Predators. Torpedo technology is already very advanced and a minor modification to current tech is enough to make a good Disabler.

10. If this Propellor Jamming Torpedo can be carried and dropped/launched from a helicopter or plane, this will be much easier to do, since helicopters and planes can get to a ship by air far quicker than any sea ship. It is also possible to deploy these torpedoes around a pirate-infested sea region at floating buoys and markers, etc, then activated remotely when needed. It would be cheaper to make these torpedoes re-useable, since only the front part of say, nylon rope coils or fibreglass tube needs to be jammed to disable a propellor. So the rest of the torpedo carrying the electronics and engine can be re-used because only the front nylons or fibreglass will be damaged by the propellor rotations, leaving the rest of the torpedo behind it undamaged. Some disengaging/separation mechanism like the explosive bolts for warplane cockpits can instantly separate the front jammer part of the torpedo from the rest of the expensive torpedo the moment the jammer hits the propellor.

11. An even easier way is to fit an Electronic Disabler, that, at an encrypted radio signal bounced off from a satellite from the ship owner, commands an electronic circuit to disable the electrical system controlling the propellor/s. This will not damage the propellor or its housing at all. However, in all these propellor-disabling strategies, care will have to be taken to ensure that the motion-less ship does not drift onto rocks or aground, although this is a relatively minor problem. In heavy seas such as during storms, a motion-less ship may capsize more easily, too.

12. Finally, it may be possible that another encrypted radio signal from a satellite also controls the Anchor-Lowering circuit such that the anchor is also lowered to the sea bottom, to prevent the ship from moving, also for its safety from rocks or aground. The captain and crew should be powerless to restore normal functions of the propellor/s and anchor until the correct code is entered into the system, [radioed to the captain once the hijack is over].

13. However, while the signal may disable the propellor/s and lower the anchor, care must be taken to NOT disable the engines that generate the electricity for communications and safety operations of the ship. Communications and normal operations should continue for the safety and comfort of the crew and expensive cargoes on board.

14. You may want to consider having a helium airship constantly hovering over the area for surveillance and operations guidance and control. A stationary airship is better than high-up satellites or too-fast planes and helicopters that cannot stay still for long.

15. In addition, if, as I suspect, the only way pirates can board a ship is by throwing up grappling hooks, possibly with rope or rope ladder attached, then wouldnt it be simple to thwart this method by replacing all the straight horizontal railings with say, a series of separate-standing railings THAT ARE CURVED DOWNWARDS TO SLIP OFF THE GRAPPLING HOOKS, each downward curving railing leading outward and downward so grappling hooks slip off, unable to catch on to any part of the railing/s? The separation distance between each free-standing [upturned Ú'] railing should be wide enough to slip off even the biggest grappling hook but small enough to prevent crewmen and loose objects/cargoes, etc, from rolling/slipping off overboard in heavy seas/waves.
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Idea: Airport Naming Convention to reduce runway accidents

RH:

AIRPORT RUNWAYS NAMING CONVENTION TO REDUCE RUNWAY ACCIDENTS

1. From this article [ http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080509-135573/IATA-Number-of-airline-accidents-rise-fatalities-drop ], we get :

“The report showed that the 2007 global accident rate of 0.75 losses for every million flights by Western-built jet aircraft was slightly higher than the 0.65 rate recorded in 2006.

“The number of global fatalities declined 19 percent to 692, as passenger numbers increased by six percent to over 2.2 billion passengers in 2007.

“In total, there were 100 accidents in 2007 -- 57 for jet aircraft and 43 for turboprop -- compared with 77 accidents in 2006.”

2. The above Para 1 mentions only 'real' accidents on the runways and real fatalities but the total number of what is termed “runway incursions”, that is, mostly near-misses of airplane collisons, is far higher.

3. Specifically, I would like to refer to the tragic case of SQ 006 which took off on the wrong runway [closed, with construction pits and equipment halfway down the runway], crashing, burning, killing ~82 people on 31 Oct 2000. See : http://www.airlinesafety.com/editorials/Singapore006.htm

4. A report is given in this url, from which the airport maps are taken : http://www.asc.gov.tw/downfile/04_airport.pdf

5. This is the map of the whole airport layout. The beginning of the fatal wrong take-off on [closed] Runway 05R instead of the [correct] parallel 05L, occured top left of this map, circled in red and also detailed in a closer, zoom-in smaller map of the area circled [click on pictures to enlarge] :





6. Look at the closer map just above and note that in this fatal accident, SQ006 was suppposed to taxi along NP, then turn a right angle 90 degrees onto taxi-way N1 to taxi across Runway 05R to the correct Runway 05L. This means that SQ006 should have cut across and passed Runway 05R towards the further Runway 05L. From the taxi-way NP into N1, after turning right, SQ006 would taxi ~100 metres to reach Runway 05R but ~300 metres to reach the correct Runway 05L. Instead, SQ006 taxied from NP, turned right 90 degrees onto N1 BUT TAXIED ONLY THE ~100 METRES INSTEAD OF ~300 METRES ONTO THE CORRECT RUNWAY 05L. It may seem incredible that an experienced pilot and his officers could mistake 100 for 300 metres and thus take off from the wrong runway but this happens very frequently in airports all over the world even in the best of visibility and conditions. I believe the main reason is an over-reliance on abstract, technical procedures that are totally divorced from our daily, human experiences and judgments. For example, in this case, the pilot and his flight crew had runway and taxi-way lights, signboards, painted letterings on the runways and taxi-ways, control tower instructions, even advisory notes in hand, but still took off from the wrong runway BECAUSE NONE OF THESE CATER TO OUR INNATE, HUMAN EXPERIENCES AND JUDGMENTS.

7. So the crux of my idea is to build in clues or data into the runway procedures through nomenclature such that the very Name of a runway would have enough data that are cognizant to all pilots' human experiences to make it that much more intuitive and 'normal' thus hopefully, preventing such runway incursions or accidents.

8. For example, suppose we try to name humans. It is perfectly OK to name them Tom, Tan, Thambu, etc. But if you want to add data to these names, you could, for example, name them Tom28, Tan32, Thambu67, etc, the numbers signifying their age. Similarly, you can name them Tom75, etc, to signify their weight in kilos. Thus, this addition of data to the names makes them a lot more informative, even more meaningful.

9. In the case of our Runways, naming them, as currently, 05R and 05L, is like Tom and Tan. But if we rename them Runway 05R100 and Runway 05L300 or shorter, Runway 100 and Runway 300, WE WOULD HAVE ADDED THE DATA OF 100 METRES AND 300 METRES [FROM THE NP TAXI-WAY], THUS GIVING A VERY HUMAN, INTUITIVE DATA THAT ALL HUMAN PILOTS CAN FROM THEIR OWN INNATE EXPERIENCE, UNDERSTAND, 'FEEL', AND ESTIMATE PRETTY ACCURATELY. All pilots drive and experience [mostly road] distances in metres and yards, so this Data is directly relevant, intuitive and easily estimated even without any training or special effort. Thus, making runway taxi-ing and manoeuvring less abstract, more easily and intuitively understandable, almost like driving a car to a carpark or onto roads nearby. So, overall, much safer. From the air, pilots can also 'see' and estimate say, Runway 100 and Runway 300, especially when the Starting Point from which the 100 and 300 metres are measured, is clearly indicated.

10. The numbers should be taken from METRES because most of the world thinks and estimates in metres but since Metres are close to YARDS, non-metric pilots can also estimate pretty well, too. Thus, only the Number needs to be given, to the nearest 10 metres or so; no need to state Metres or Yards, etc.

11. Of course, all measurements and numbers must be taken from a clear and obvious Starting Point. In the case of this Taipei Airport, and probably in the vast majority of airports in Asia and probably also the world, I believe most runways are parallel, like in Taipei, so the Starting Point would be the Turning From NP. This should be clearly indicated by the usual Big Signs, Special Lights, Painted Letterings on the runways and taxi-ways, etc. As well as in Control Tower communications and literature. This would be about the cost of this idea. A lot cheaper than Airport Surveillance Radars [ see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_surveillance_radar ].

12. This Naming System can make for easier and hopefully, safer, more intuitive, control tower instructions. For example, suppose you want a pilot to taxi 50 metres onto NP, turn Left, taxi another 400 metres, turn Right onto N1 taxi-way, taxi another 300 metres to Runway 300, you could use shorthand thus : 50=NP/L=400/R=N1=300@Run300. You could even SMS this. Since all distances and turnings on the runways and taxi-ways are already mapped and calculated to the nearest metre, this is easy to implement.

13. However, not all airports are so symmetrical. Some, like the one just below, are pretty confusing in layout, especially without a detailed plan drawing or blueprint. For this minority of airports, I leave the task of improving or implementing my idea to people more familiar with airport and runway operations. This kind of layout is putting me out of my depth.



Robert HO; Sun 16 Nov 2008.
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Idea: Towards a 7/7 economy

Idea: Towards a 7/7 economy; 24 Oct 2008

RH:
1. For most of China's 5,000 year history, its people, mostly peasants -- still today numbering 800 million -- worked every day, resting only when tired or other chores require a change. They took time off work only on festivals and other celebrations. It was pretty much the same in the cities and towns. Business people also worked every day and took time off only when tiredness, rest or other chores required it.

2. Like the Western sartorial suit and tie, which today is worn even by China's leaders, the 5 or 5-1/2 or 6 day week is a Western invention. In the Christian Bible, God rested on the 7th day after creating the heaven and the earth. So, in the West, and later through Western hegemony, throughout the world, the 7 day week was adopted, with the 7th day, the Sunday, ordained as the Rest Day, like the Christian God rested on the 7th Day.

3. Today, there is no reason to stick to this 5- or 6-day Western work week. Indeed, there are many, many advantages to a 7/7 work week. To list but a few :
2/5th increase in work thus higher employment;
2/7ths better use of otherwise wasted office/factory rented space;
stock markets that open all week thus avoiding the end-of-week defensive buying/selling;
traffic flows that thus 'evens out' over the week instead of jamming roads and other transportations over 5 or 6 days while being under-utilised on weekends;
electricity use also evens out over the week [electricity capacity has to cater to peak use but cannot be stored during slack use];
malls, leisure and entertainment centres, etc, all also evened out in patronage rather than suffering peaks and troughs;
this all leading to better utilisation of expensive and even scarce resources. When everyone is off-work on weekends, this creates crowds and inefficient use of leisure resources which are then, under-utilised on weekdays;
this idea even greatly reduces corruption;
greater work arrangements flexibility leading to better work arrangements such as part-time work;
etc.

4. In jobs, simply by having the whole city or country operate 7/7, this means that every job now done by 1 worker working 5 days a week = 5 worker-days can be increased to 7 worker-days, an increase of 2 worker-days or 2/5 x 100 = 40% increase in work-jobs. Of course, if there is no demand for the extra worker's output, then there will be no increase or a smaller increase than 40%. But the potential is there. China already has hundreds of millions unemployed or underemployed, so this is an idea that should be considered. Plus the fact that many of the 800 million peasants will want to move to the cities for a better life, which may be possible with the new land policy, makes this idea worth considering.

5. Why is this idea not thought of before? Besides the obvious, the main resistance against this idea is human nature. A manager who rose to his position only after much hard work and politicking does not want someone to deputise for him when he is not around. This human nature resistance is present at almost every level, not just the manager position. Of course, a check-out girl at a supermarket check-out counter does not have such misgivings because her job is easily interchangeable and so lends itself perfectly to a 7/7 job.

6. So, some measures are needed to ensure that in every dept, company, govt dept, city and the entire country, the workers who most fear someone taking away their jobs be given some reassurance. This is important for the 7/7 economy to be implemented smoothly and even successfully. In most big companies nowadays, especially in important or critical positions, the worker must take leave each year for at least 1 week or 7 days consecutively. This is to ensure that the job is handed over to a deputy who can then, in the course of doing his/her superior's job, find any corruption or criminal wrongdoings of the main jobholder. This is now standard practice to reduce corruption and wrongdoings but clearly 1 week is not enough. If all jobs in China, both in the govt and in private companies, have this 7/7 work week with at least 1 day done by a deputy, most corruption in China will be eliminated, thus also reducing mistakes and cover ups like the tainted milk scandal. When you have someone deputising for you every week, looking at your work, you have to be a lot more careful. It is also much harder to bribe someone who is sharing his job and responsibilities with another.

7. There are other reasons for a 7/7 economy. With computers and modern communications and processes, each and every employee now does a lot more than a similar employee in a similar job did say, a decade ago. In fact, each employee is now so productive that he/she does so much that in almost every dept, when 1 employee is away for even a few weeks, nobody can do his/her job. There is no back-up. The more efficient a dept, the less each employee knows about the work of his/her colleagues because work is now complicated, complex, highly efficient and computerised -- even though each colleague is sitting only arms-length away and they lunch together every day. Thus, a 7/7 work week will automatically make back-ups of each and every job so when 1 employee is gone for weeks or for good, the stand-in can continue business as usual.

8. Office space and factory space rental is a big item in every company's monthly and yearly expenditure. By leaving the expensive office and factory space empty each weekend, 2/7ths of the rental is wasted. You pay 7/7 office rentals but use only 5/7ths. You waste 28.57%. Imagine how much this translates in renminbi. Of course, to work 7/7, you will need to pay more aircon, electricity, maintenance costs, as well as hiring 2/7 more workers, but if you have enough business or demand for your output, reclaiming 28.57% of wasted office rentals can translate into much bigger profits.

9. Another reason why this idea was not done before is that it requires a whole town, city or country to do it all together at once. For example, a family has 2 grandparents, 2 parents, and 1 child. Both parents work and the child goes to school. Thus, both parents and their child must coordinate their work week so as to have the same days off together, like they do now on weekends. But this is not difficult because even the schools and teachers will also work 7/7. So, suppose everyone works 5 days a week with 2 days off as required by labour laws, then offices and companies must allow employees to choose their days off to coordinate with their spouses and child. This is not difficult.

10. Since the major jobholder will work 5/7 and the stand-in or deputy only 2/7, the deputy can actually stand in for another 1-1/2 employees. This versatility and back-up of all the functions in a dept can only be good. Much of today's jobs are computerised and mechanised [as in factories], so this versatility will promote learning of more diverse skills and trades. This is good for the individual as well as the company and the country as a whole. Indeed, for many boring, dead-end jobs, this working as back-up in varied jobs and job functions will appeal to many.

11. Currently, there is the illogic of employed workers being worked very hard while unemployed people have no work at all. By implementing a 7/7 economy, work will be more évened out' so that the employee with a job can choose to work a little less while the unemployed can get some work. This leads to greater flexibility. For example, a working mother may want or can work only 2 days a week. This 7/7 economy allows this flexible working arrangement when previously, a worker has to work 5 or 6 days a week or not at all, as unemployed. Thus, many part-time work will be possible. Thus, in the 7/7 economy, the lines between employed and unemployed will blur. It may even make no sense to report statistics on employment and unemployment since most people will work as much or as little as they want.

12. Even professionals may implement this 7/7 week. For example, a doctor operating a clinic may work 4 days a week and have a locum stand in for him/her on the other 3 days. Lawyers, consultants, stockbrokers, etc, can all implement this 7/7 week.

13. After or maybe before the successful implementation of a 7/7 economy, the govt may want to consider new labour laws. For example, the old definitions of employed vs unemployed may need to be revised. Some may work 1 day, others 2, and so on. Thus, labour laws may need to recognise payment on a daily-rated basis instead of the monthly wage. This is optional and depends on what the govt wants to do for its economy and workers.

14. In mixed populations like Malaysia, which has big populations of Malays [muslims] and Chinese and Indians, the Malay muslims may want to take Fridays off because that is the day of prayers. Thus the muslims may take Fridays off while the other races can take other days off. Thus, the 7/7 economy caters to different rest-day needs.

15. When this 7/7 economy is implemented, maybe as a pilot project in some town or city first, like, say, Shanghai, the road traffic will be evened out over the whole week thus reducing jams. But this gain is only a one-time gain and if other measures are not done, soon the roads will be jammed all 7 days a week. This evening out also applies to other public transport such as buses and metro trains, all of which will be better utilised.

16. Stock markets will open all week so a sudden bad news over the weekend can allow for buying/selling stocks. This leads to more stable stocks trading. With events happening so fast nowadays, this is important.

17. Electricity use will also be evened out over the week. Currently, power stations have to be big enough for peak use during the work week but cannot shut down or reduce production during weekends since electricity cannot be stored.

18. Similarly, leisure and entertainment complexes will be patronised all week instead of just weekends. This evening out will reduce weekend over-crowding and ensure better utilisation of all the facilities.

19. You may want to reinvent the week. For example, you can have a work week that is 10 days, with workers getting 2, 3 or even 4 days off. Everything is now flexible and can be reinvented. There is no need to stick to the Gregorian calendar [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar ]. You can use back the old Chinese Lunar calendar if you want. Or invent something new. With modern computers and the Internet, it will be easy to 'translate' from the standard Gregorian calendar to any calendar you choose to invent. Just like now we can, with 1 click, get the time anywhere in the world.

20. The needs of a modern economy and society require new work-life balance and arrangements. A 7/7 economy is most likely to provide the best arrangements for everybody.

21. China is now trying for more GDP growth through greater domestic consumption, since exports to the US and EU are decreasing in the financial turmoil. With a 7/7 economy, Chinese spending will take place over 7 days instead of the current weekends only. This will increase domestic spending as desired. Also, with more people employed, spending will also rise.

22. RH: "A 7/7 economy solves EVERYTHING. Creates 2/5 or 40% more Work-jobs, at only [2/5 more Workers Pay - 2/7 Office/Factory Rental costs]. PLUS Immeasurably, Many, Many other recurring Benefits worth $b $b $b pa!!!"

23. RH: It is entirely possible that the above BOLD may even be LESS than the ITALICS, thus leading to NO COST of the extra 2/5 or 40% workers, or even SUBSIDISED, that is, when BOLD - ITALICS returns a negative, that is, the savings in Office/Factory Rentals exceeds the extra 2/5 or 40% workers pays, in which case there is an overall REDUCTION in ALL the workers salary costs, both the 5/7 + the extra 2/7 of workers. In other words, moving to 7/7 could actually REDUCE the total wage costs while increasing the workforce by 2/5 for free or even for an overall wage costs subsidy.
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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

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Idea: Random thoughts on World Govt

Idea: Random thoughts on World Govt; 17 Oct 2008

RH:
1. Although it is possible to conceive and implement a World Govt from scratch, which has many advantages, given that humans are slow to change mindsets or embrace startlingly different ideas, proponents of a WG may need to build upon the current UN, just as the UN was based on the old League Of Nations. One advantage is that building from the UN allows use of many current UN agencies and procedures.

2. The US will try to take over the WG and thus achieve what they tried but could not as a big power, that is, turn every country into its control. Now even impossibler given that the US is now in terminal decline. So the WG may anoint as its first World President, a person from a small state that has no or few world domination ambitions.

3. A WG needs money so one way would be for it to issue the Fiat Currency, the W$ or World Dollar. Probably all oil trades would be in W$ to reinforce this as the universal currency. Then so would all other trades. For a while, individual currencies may remain as the respective medium of exchange and interchangeable into W$ but eventually, only the W$ would circulate, in every country. When this universal currency is established, no country would be able to stay out or opt out of the WG.

4. The WG should 'worldise', as in 'nationalise' as many of the global resources as possible. The easiest would be to worldise all the Earth's oceans. The current 200 mile exclusive economic zones may need to be abolished. Thus, any use of the oceans whether by ships transporting goods, fishing, mining, or oil and gas production, etc, would come under WG control. A WG tax may be levied for use of this global resource. All fishing boats would be licenced and taxed by the WG and licences would be distributed to all, even non-coastal or landlocked countries.

5. One justification for the WG would be that 'global problems require global solutions' which only a WG can do since single countries acting selfishly have glaringly failed. Among the global problems that WG is best able to tackle include ozone depletion, climate change, water insufficiency, clean energy, natural disaster help, human poverty, human diseases, pandemics, genocides, refugees, failed states, etc.

6. The air, atmosphere and near space may need to come under WG control as well, which can levy a tax on any use of the air and atmosphere by planes, space satellites, or air pollution.

7. Individual govts may need to pay a tax to the WG as well.

8. All supra-national agencies such as the World Bank, IMF, WTO, etc, would come under the WG, which will then establish the Rules for world trade and financing, etc. These may allow for more WG taxes.

9. All govts are ultimately based on force, so a WG must have a big standing armed forces to settle disputes. The soldiers can be drawn from various countries and trained. Having different nationalities of soldiers will make it easier to send in those nationalities soldiers who would not have a national interest or agenda to push. The Gurkhas would be a good start. A World Police is necessary to investigate crime, whether by individuals or govts, for prosecution.

10. Prosecution would be in World Courts, according to World Laws. Judges, prosecutors and juries would be drawn from all over the world's judges and lawyers. A World University will produce World Lawyers.

11. The World University will also produce graduates trained in global disciplines, such as World Laws, World Govt Studies, climate change, water issues, clean energy, oceans sustainability, pollution [since this transcends national boundaries], etc. This is better than the ad hoc, random studies done by disparate groups currently.

12. World Research Institutes would focus on global problems ignored by the advanced countries, such as Malaria, which still kills millions in poor countries. Also, WRI can develop better products, systems, procedures to alleviate poverty and wretched living conditions in poor countries.

13. The WG may need to be physically sited somewhere but not necessarily forever. It can move every decade or so to another continent, thus by its location, help to understand and focus on its region or continent. The WG needs this kind of perspectives to be effective and obeyed.

14. The World President would need to have a World Legislature to draft laws and debate issues. He or she will also need a Cabinet for implementing various functions.

15. The WG would need to have its own World Media, that is, TV, Radio, Internet, Newspapers, etc. This is to propagate its existence, its policies, its leading personalities, its works, etc. It should own its own satellites.

16. World Passports would be issued to its members and employees. This will be universally accepted.

17. World Citizens would be able to live and work everywhere. However, there may need to be some limits on the number any country has to take. Refugees without a country will be considered for WC.

18. There are already some failed states. The WG can take over some failed states to establish a territorial presence or even to site its headquarters or base its military or various agencies. It has money, so it can quickly build the buildings, roads, airports, telecommunications, etc.

19. Proponents of a WG can first spread the idea through a novel, movie, tv series and computer game. WG is an inherently dramatic concept and lends itself to many dramatic possibilities, from wars against rogue anti-WG states and insurgents, to strategic manoeuvrings and alliances between various country-groups, etc.

20. For the last few decades, the main obstacle to a better, more effective UN was the US. The US, President after President, saw no need for a stronger UN because that would hinder the unfettered action of America upon the world. So it single-handedly prevented the UN developing into a more effective world body that could truly develop 'global solutions for global problems'. Today, America is beginning to realise that it has severe limitations disproportionate to its ambitions; that it no longer calls the shots. It now has to choose whether to recognise and acknowledge its limitations and cede power to a WG and then try to use that WG to attain some of its cherished world objectives -- OR FACE 1 OR MORE RISING POWERS WHO WOULD TOTALLY ACT AGAINST ITS VERY SURVIVAL AND INTERESTS. Thus, American support for a WG is in its mid and long term interests. Either it transfers power and authority to a neutral WG over which it has some influence, or totally lose all influence when push comes to shove and a new Coalition of the Willing Anti-American Powers coalesce to undermine its very existence, as all top dogs are reduced by former under dogs. Here is an insightful article that lays out the facts and the dwindling options that America now faces :
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JJ18Ak03.html


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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

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ICONOCLASSING SINGAPORE GDP MYTHS

RH:
1. An Iconoclass is an iconoclast who does it with class. This essay is an expanded version of a comment I penned in The Online Citizen 2 days ago on January 15, 2008 at 6:10 pm as Comment 22 in http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/01/15/mm-lee-lucky-indonesians/#comments in which I first publicly penned thoughts I had recently conceived. Thoughts that are a sudden realisation of something I had skimmed recently, probably a UN Report on Cities and its mention that many/most? people are now living in cities. The sudden realisation was that this fact, that many/most of humanity are now living in cities, must be because of the many advantages/efficiencies of city life versus suburban or countryside life. This instantly crystallised the thoughts that Singapore's -- and Hongkong's as well as other similar cities' -- economic progress owe much to the efficiencies of CITIFICATION and HIGH DENSITY LIVING. AS WELL AS TINYNESS. These latter thoughts are not new and I have had them for some time, maybe even a year or more, and have exampled them in the closeness of bus stops in Singapore -- and Hongkong, etc -- where buses can come far more frequently than in Less Dense Cities. There, future historians can now trace these ideas that follow in this essay.

2. We all know vaguely that cities, especially very dense cities, offer higher efficiencies and therefore a higher quality of life. For example, to reprise my Bus Stop examples, bus stops in Singapore -- and Hongkong, etc, can be sited less than 1 km apart and buses come frequently, even 5 minutes apart, and it can all be still profitable. Thus, high density = high efficiency = high quality of life. The 3 HIGHs Theory. Another example; in dense cities, you can find everything nearby, from cardiologists and toe transplant surgeons to shops selling pet chihuahuas. If you un-migrate from the city to the suburb or countryside, you will instantly suffer loss of or unreliable cellphone signal reception as well as a host of other inefficiencies and inconveniences from sparse petrol stations to lack of Chinese restaurants. Thus, I don't need to labour the point further.

3. Given that cities are automatically far more efficient than suburbs or countrysides, we can now examine Singapore, Hongkong and similars. Singapore and Hongkong are among the densest cities in the world and renowned for their efficiencies and high quality of life. The S$3.7++ million dollar question is then, "Are these the achievements of their govts or simply the inevitable effects of simple economic laws such as supply and demand, low costs of logistics, the efficiencies of tinyness where a deliveryman and his van/truck can do a dozen trade deliveries a day compared with say, having to drive 50-100 km to each delivery point and hence only making 2-3 deliveries a day. In shopping [very important for economics and quality of life, since life and economics revolve around buying and consuming], a Best Denki or Challenger electronics store can revenue even S$1 million a day and hence can afford to display lavish displays of laptops and flat panel TVs for shoppers to try and experience, etc. A Giant hypermarket need only be a km or 2 away and offer a vast cornucopia of products you can never try them all even in a lifetime.

4. Thus, the unending PAPaganda of Good News and Even More Triumphs of LIE KY LHL PAP and its controlled, fawning, worshipful, media must be countered with the understanding that almost all of Singapore's -- and for that matter, Hongkong's, etc, economic achievements ARE DUE TO CITIFICATION, TINYNESS AND ULTRA HIGH DENSITY OF POPULATION. In fact, I will proffer that even China's astounding economic progress over the last few decades, is largely due to Density. Of course, being Chinese, with all the usual, typical, Chinese characteristics and cultural values, etc, also help but it is probably Density that explains everything. Realising and proving this is important because it offers lessons for the rest of humanity and the world. An indication of my theory as expressed in China is the fact that almost all of China's economic juggernaut progress is in the Dense Cities and not the suburb or countryside. Point proven? Probably.

5. The fact that Hongkong never had a LIE KY -- or China, or Taiwan [among world's 20 biggest economies], for that matter, proves conclusively that LIE KY is not the reason for Singapore's progress. Singapore would have made similar progress under LIM Chin Siong, if he had not been treacherously supplanted by LIE KY in a secret deal with then British PM Harold MacMillan, to serve British interests in return for the arrest, jailing and political elimination of LIM without charge or trial under the ISA. LIE KY's treacherous nature also saw him collaborating with the Japanese during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore in WW2, when other young Singaporeans were going into the jungles to fight and resist the Japanese.

6. However, although with some research, I could probably draw many other cities and countries as examples of my theory, I consider it proven, even with these limited, unacademic examples. I would like to finish by comparing Hongkong's progress with Singapore's, since they are almost as identical as twins. At first glance, Singapore and Hongkong's economies seem comparable, with Singapore slightly ahead [2006 estimates of Nominal Per Capita GDP puts Singapore slightly ahead at 21st spot with US$34,152 against Hongkong's 27th spot with US$29,149] but these figures OVERSTATE for Singapore due to LIE KY LHL PAP incessant manipulation and falsification of statistics so the Cabinet can pay themselves bigger million-dollar 'Performance Bonuses', since these bonuses are directly correlated to GDP! while the Hongkong Govt gains nothing from exaggerating GDP numbers and so doesn't lie about it like LIE KY LHL PAP.

7. In fact, I believe that Hongkong's GDP is grossly UNDERSTATED and exceeds by far that of Singapore's. For example, prior to around 1978, Hongkong was the biggest toy maker in the world and every kid in the world had at least 1 water pistol or model car Made In Hongkong. After Deng Xiao Ping opened the adjoining Shenzhen SEZ around 1978, Hongkong's toy industry disappeared. Relocated to nextdoor Shenzhen. Thus, although official statistics would seem that Hongkong today has little or no toy [and other] manufacturing industries, THESE STATISTICS ARE CAPTURED AS CHINA [SHENZHEN] PRODUCTION EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE OWNED AND DRIVEN BY HONGKONGERS. Hongkong has no manufacturing? Only services, mostly financial? That is erroneous. To correct this, economists should include most of Shenzhen's economic output to Hongkong, not China. Worse, Hongkongers, having conquered Shenzhen, went on to other parts of China, especially Shanghai and Beijing, not just in toy manufacturing but also a vast outpouring of goods and services industries. Hongkong businessmen are so brilliant they dance circles around the Singaporean, whose Chineseness and business acumen and native ingenuity have been distorted by LIE KY into obedient, even STUPID, fearful, cowed sheep who cannot think, let alone solve problems or start and run businesses. Every Dictator produces stupid people and since LIE KY is an Absolute Dictator, the most powerful in history over his people, naturally the Singaporean is now very, very stupid. The GLCs' dominance and deliberate elimination of small businesses so as to reduce the ranks of financially independent [and hence politically independent] Singaporeans to render all subservient to LIE KY also deleted the business genes from Singaporeans.

8. Thus, there are several lessons for humanity here. High density living = high efficiencies = high quality living. Town planners and architects, please note. Cities offer better lives than suburbs or countrysides. Hongkong is what a truly free and open society and economy can achieve in quality living as well as GDP, trumping Singapore by far in everything. LIE KY LHL PAP are stupid and cheats, not only cheating in elections but also true GDP figures and other statistics. Overpaid, incompetent, cheats. I rest my case.

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Recommended Reading :

RH:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/search/page.news.php?clid=33&id=30038130

Recent 500-page brilliant, extensively-researched book, “Lion Without Teeth” that proves that everything most people, especially foreigners, know about Singapore and LIE KY are carefully planted and fabricated LIES.

ICONOCLASSING Pt 2

RH:

1. I had, in this previous Comment in The Online Citizen [ http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/02/knowledge-based-economy-needs-more-uni-education-financing/#more-527 ] first tried to reason dispassionately about Foreigners and their effects on GDP, which have led to an unbelievable tidal wave of foreigners that has swamped our islet. Today, I will try to fuller.

2. What makes a Singaporean? -- vs a foreigner? I had postulated that it is SCE [Shared Common Experience]. "Thus, a Chinese and a Malay Singaporean can have More Shared Experiences than with a Chinese from China. However, if that Chinaman has enough Commonalities when he arrives, and gains more with time, he can be as Singaporean as any local-born." [self quote].

3. Thus, while we become emotional and even angry at Foreigners many advantages over locals, we need to remember that our ancestors were once immigrants but became Singaporeans. Singaporeans vs Foreigners is not one or the other, not Black vs White, but a SCALE which we all, locals or not, are on, each at various points of being more or less Singaporean. Simply, it is how much SCE you have, I think. My maid has worked here ~15 years. She can MRT and commute about, speak, read and write fairly good English, speak Teochew and some Mandarin besides Indonesian, and in looks and behaviour, indistinguishable from Singaporeans. I think, on my basis, she deserves to be given PR instead of the 'Foreign Talent' [FT] who flies in with few Commonalities. This SCE principle may already be implicitly recognised by some countries. My wife's colleague took his maid to London for several years. When he returned, his maid did not — she had qualified for PR!

4. Thus, countries may look into granting PR also on the basis of SCE and not just 'economic value'. This will save much maladjustments to both the immigrant and the receiving society.

5. In PAPadise, it is purely economic value but as usual, stupidly and typically UNTHINKING, leading to great harm and tragic results.

6. For example, suppose you vacuum your floor and wash clothes and dishes. You are generating NO economic value or GDP activity. Thus, a housewife, according to current Economic theories, generates little or no 'economic activity' and thus no GDP. So Singapore housewives are encouraged to work outside home because earning a salary gets recorded as 'economic activity' or 'economic value' and thus gets into the GDP figures. So when she earns $1,000, she 'generates' far more than $1,000 because she commutes, eats outside, buys office clothes, etc. All these suddenly boost the GDP simply because that is how GDP is measured. Further, the maid she has to hire to look after her kids, for $350, also 'generates' far more than $350 because the maid also consumes some personal-use goods and services, etc, thus also boosting the GDP -- again, since this is how GDP is measured. This explains the Second Wave in my 3 Waves Of Labour theory in my essay on Leeconomics [ http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/search/label/RH%3A%20Robert%27s%20Complete%20Case%20against%20Leeconomics%20%5BMain%5D ].

7. Thus, we see the ATTRACTION of foreigners to the MinisterMoron, PrimeMoron, and their Cronies Morons. Even a lowly maid or other foreigner cheap labour generates far more 'GDP activities' than just their nominal salary. To crystallise it, suppose they import a foreigner cripple without arms or legs. This cripple will still 'generate' appreciable GDP activity because he will house, eat, buy diapers, medical care, etc. So more GDP activities. In short, like in the movie "Matrix", just Human Bodies are enough to generate GDP. So the Morons keep importing bodies, almost all cheap labour since they cannot lure betters. Thus, today, >1 in 4 of people in Singapore are foreigners! The most astounding rate in world history! Do LIE KY LHL PAP know something we don't? The contrary.

8. I don't think these Morons, or anybody else, have reasoned it all thus. What they do know is that every time they import foreigners, the GDP goes up and hence, their Performance Bonuses, so they keep importing foreigners even when these DISPLACE LOCALS. In fact, by not understanding all this, their importing policies have the effect of Displacing Locals because the GDP GROWS EVEN MORE THIS WAY. Let me explain : suppose a cheap labour foreigner is imported to displace a local low-wage labourer. This cheap foreigner generates far more than just his nominal salary in GDP activities, so good for the Morons Bonuses. But the unemployed local labourer does not become 0 upon being displaced and unemployed. He still needs to house, eat, utilities, etc, so he still consumes and thus generate GDP activities. So the NET GAIN is not just from the foreigner but also the captive local who still needs to consume and thus generate GDP. Thus, 2-WAY net gains from this Displacement policy. This explains the callous policies and insane tidal wave influx of foreigners, almost all cheap labour -- but never mind, they still generate big GDP. The so-called FT are only handfuls and mostly used to justify the real tidal wave influx of cheap foreigners. FTs have better options elsewhere so most don't come or stay.

9. The Morons are like lab rats in a cage. They have discovered that by pressing the Green Lever, more marbles drop into their cage and somehow, the lab scientists reward them more titbits as a result of the more marbles. So they furiously keep pressing the Green Lever, thinking they are "successful" [Performance Bonuses] even though there are so many marbles they have little living space left. But they still keep pressing as if addicted. This analogy explains the Morons unthinking addiction to foreigners and DELIBERATE DISPLACEMENT of locals -- nothing is NON-Deliberate in Singapore, except maybe the unique or extremely rare KASTARI escape from an ISD prison! Which is why it is so unbelievable and led to so many conspiracy theories.

10. Another example of this unthinking Green Lever Syndrome is the DELIBERATE [like Displacement of low-wage Singaporean workers -- IN MANY CASES, ALSO HIGHER WAGE ONES, TOO] policy to bias towards Manufacturing as against Services. Our Morons have always scorned Hongkong for its Service Economy and prided themselves on still having a big Manufacturing sector. The Green Lever Syndrome at work again.

11. In the first place, Hongkong DOES have manufacturing and very big, too, except that it is all captured as China statistics in Shenzhen and other centres. Second, it is Green Lever Syndrome again because manufacturing is mostly measurable in $ [as in widget parts costs and final selling prices] and so easily captured into final GDP figures whereas Services like a Hongkong clerk processing forms or answering calls in a Call Centre is difficult to value in $ and so only their nominal salaries get into the GDP. This doesn't mean that Manufacturing is superior to Services! as the Morons think. Only that one is more measurable than the other -- at least in $ and GDP terms. But, just like reading to a child or volunteer social work instructing elderlies in exercise, activities that are not capturable in GDP does not mean inferior or not worth doing, as the Morons believe in both thought and action.

12. Thus, Hongkong has a more 'normal', REAL economy as opposed to the LIEgime FALSE and distorted economy. For example, like all Real economies, Hongkong considers many factors besides GDP numbers, such as inflation, unemployment, jobs creation, consumer spending, social spending and welfare, govt spending and taxations, etc, and devises policies towards these [multiple] ends, whereas the False and distorted economy of the LIEgime is constructed and deliberately designed to produce high GDP numbers only. The US, probably the most intelligently monitored and managed economy, has a whole slew of economic indicators besides GDP numbers. US business media almost daily analyse dozens of indicators, from housing starts to PMI to Producer Price Indices, stock indices and prices, etc, and not just the final GDP numbers. Only the LIEgime stupidly constructs an economy solely to produce high GDP numbers. Thus, Hongkong's Real economy is probably many times bigger and better than the False economy of the LIEgime, which is more like a shop window display, artificial and FOR SHOW ONLY, like everything else about the LIEgime.

13. This False economy of the LIEgime is paralleled by its equally stupid education policies. In Education, there is also obsession with scoring high marks in exams, thus paralleling the construction of the False economy to score high GDP numbers. So, schools, principals, teachers and students are obsessed only with scoring high marks in exams. This means that non-exam subjects are hardly taught and studied. Worse, teachers and students choose subjects purely to score high marks, hence the decades-long bias to Math and Science subjects [far easier to score] than say, Lit and Lang. Unfortunately, due to the nature of Singaporeans and the way Math is taught from primary to university, this bias produces several generations of unintelligent 'scholars' [many become Cronies Ministers or Generals who later metamorphosise into GLC CEOs] who, other than high Math marks, cannot think, since Language is the Basis of Thought, not Math. Thus, when you teach [and learn] TO the test or exam, you do score high marks but learn little, in not much of an education.

14. Thus, the LIEgime has only 5 aims of govt. First, to entrench and further the LIE family stranglehold on power and to increase that power without limit so as to control every aspect of work and life in Singapore. Second, to LOOK GOOD always -- an obsession -- even if this is only surface or cosmetic. Third, as regards the economy, to produce high GDP numbers. Fourth, to produce huge budget surpluses. This means decades of unremitting, relentless, Overtax and Underspend policies, overtaxing exorbitantly on everything possible, especially HDB housing, car taxes [both giving many, many, multiples of profit or rather, profiteering], GST, etc, while underspending on everything else except the military, which always has the biggest budget allocations. Thus, Singaporeans are overtaxed in every way possible and imaginable while spending on heathcare, education, the poor, etc, are all shortchanged. The budget surpluses are not enough apparently, so in order to create even bigger and more impressive Reserves and SWF [Fifth goal], Singaporeans CPF are withheld to make the Reserves bigger. Thus, Singaporeans have little access to and cannot even withdraw their own monies because the LIEgime wants it in its own kitty. CPF was as much as 40% of every worker salary and bonus OVER HIS LIFETIME CAREER, now slightly less. Thus, 'managing by/for results', which is pretty legitimate, became bastardised, like everything else, to become 'managing by numbers', further bastardised to 'managing FOR [GDP] numbers'. Thus, the economy is constructed mainly to score high GDP numbers and the easiest way is to massively import foreigners -- preferably rich -- but practically, mostly cheap labour, since millionaires or FTs cannot be imported in numbers for various reasons. This explains why the LIEgime bends over backwards [this time] to play nice to all foreigners. It also explains why there is such an unbelievable tidal wave of foreigners in Singapore, the Third Wave in my essay.

15. The >1 in 4 of us being foreigners has obviously [how can anyone NOT notice!] become 'sensitive', meaning actually 'explosive' -- as it would be in a democracy instead of the secretive, suppressive dictatorship here. So, being politicians, and a govt obsessed with looking good ["Every time LIE KY looks good, the Truth doesn't" -- self quote] they spin and rationalise. They also Reclassify. This Reclassification trick reclassifies foreigners as Residents, PRs and even citizens to reduce resentment when the 'official' figures are out. If we grant PRs and citizenship more on SCE, this Reclassification trick will be harder. As is now, they can, with a simple sleight of the hand, change the numbers of foreigners into Residents, PRs and citizens. There is here, the 'magic trick' of DOUBLE or 2-WAY 'gains', just like in Displacing local low wage and even HIGH WAGE workers with foreigners. When the LIEgime reclassifies a foreigner into a PR or citizen, 1 MORE is added to the PR or citizen group while 1 LESS is reduced in the foreigner group. So double-counting 'gains'! But foreigner or local or whatever, the buses, trains, food centres, roads, infrastructures, malls, etc, are all overcrowded [noticed the many big groups of dark-skinned young men watching the big tv displays or loitering near the money-changers or just loitering]? The problem is vaster than anyone, including the Morons, realise. They are just rats pressing levers and thinking they are doing a great job.

16. What can anyone do about it? Nothing. LIE KY LHL PAP are proven to have rigged the 1997 Cheng San GRC election, almost certainly also the 1963 General Elections in a suspicious 6-hour electricity blackout centred around the City Hall Vote Counting Centre, most probably also the Ong Teng Cheong Presidential election, plus the Malaysia Referendum that offered no, only rigged, choices. We can all do nothing because LIE KY LHL PAP need no mandate since they cheat massively ['winning' 82 out of 84 seats is mathematically, politically and electorally impossible without massive cheating -- like Saddam Hussein >90% votes every 'election'] so they do what they like, "never mind what the people think" -- LIE KY.

17. According to a 2008 report from the Asian Development Bank, "The Singapore govt estimates that foreign labour contributed 3.2% of its annual growth rate of 7.8% in the 1990's." Another factoid : >40% of Singapore total labour force are cheap foreign labourers and >170,000 of the nearly 1 million foreign labourers are maids.

18. In an official Report from the ManPower Ministry for 2006 : http://www.mom.gov.sg/publish/momportal/en/communities/others/mrsd/Publications/ReportonLabourForceinSingapore2006.html

The 2006 Total Labour Force was 2.59m; 'Residents' [note Reclassification Trick] were 1.80m. UNEMPLOYED 'Residents' [seasonally adjusted] were 70,000 or 3.6% but 84,000 or 4.5% non-seasonally adjusted.

19. The point to note is that the overwhelming PAPaganda which has overpowered all thinking and discussions about foreigners, is that firstly, "foreigners do the dirty and dangerous jobs we locals shun". Secondly, "FT do the kind of Talented Jobs that we locals don't have the Talent to do so shut up and don't dare complain when YOUR job goes to a foreigner". Thirdly, "foreigners average DOWN business costs so businesses can profit more" [this is actually done by rigidly tying foreigners to employers so they cannot jobhop to better, plus other draconian conditions to give employers great advantages to exploit them, which explains why no employer wants Singaporeans!]

20. To this, I can only ask, pointing to MOM statistics in Paragraph 18, are there really so many "dirty and dangerous" jobs in Singapore? Or so many Talent jobs we cannot do? To the extent 3.6%/4.5% of us are unemployed? Or is it the usual politicians scapegoating and 'blaming the victims'? After all, even garbage collection is highly mechanised, requiring few workers. Same for cleaners who even drive cleaning machines. Same for construction work, since there is a limit to how many workers can work at any time because concrete floors are laid and harden floor by floor. The Truth is, employers PREFER foreigners because they can be exploited far more easily due to LIEgime policies, entirely pro-business and anti-workers at the best of times, having jailed union leaders from the moment LIE KY seized power half a century ago, who then constructed and maintained by force, a fake NTUC 'union' body to further supppress workers, an NTUC whose main objective like every LIEgime org or institution, is to profit from its multiplicity of businesses from supermarket 'co-ops' to condos and even funeral parlours.

21. This is the tragedy for us -- not for the Morons. They just keep pressing levers and collecting marbles and Performance Bonuses. While the tidal wave of foreigners continue to swamp every aspect of life on this little islet.

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Recommended Reading :

RH:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/search/page.news.php?clid=33&id=30038130

A recent 500-page brilliant, extensively-researched book, “Lion Without Teeth” that proves that everything most people, especially foreigners, know about Singapore and LIE KY are carefully planted and fabricated LIES.


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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Robert HO wrote:

RH:
1. Since this is INFLATION Week in TOC, thought I would contribute the following snippets. Just short quotes and their urls :

http://www.europac.net/externalframeset.asp?from=home&id=10612

"...fixated on wholly meaningless govt data that managed to report the lowest inflation... However, the govt's ability to make 'economic growth' magically appear is based purely on statistical finesse."

"...govt [should] adjust nominal GDP gains using the GDP deflator, which represents the inflation rate. This is done to strip inflation out of the GDP calculation so that only real growth gets counted: not nominal gains that result purely from inflation."

"Similar illusions are created in other numbers, such as retail sales, corporate earnings, and stock prices, which are all rising merely as a result of actual inflation being higher than the official reports. For example, higher retail sales reflect consumers paying higher prices for the products that they buy. They may in fact be buying less stuff, but are paying more for it."

"Similarly, just as inflation causes prices to rise for goods and services, it causes stock prices to rise as well. Though such gains may be less than the actual increase in the cost of living, as long as the govt gets away with using bogus CPI numbers which fail to fully reflect inflation, ...takes credit for nominal gains as if they were real."

"However, as ridiculous as the phony GDP number was, yesterday's biggest joke was a report on global competitiveness put out by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which ranked the [LIE KY LHL PAP] economy as [among] the world's most competitive. To arrive at this conclusion, the forum has obliterated the obvious under a mountain of theory. In determining country rankings, the WEF weighed strengths in their "12 Pillars of Competitiveness", including: institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, health and primary education, higher education and training, goods market efficiency, labor market efficiency, financial market sophistication, technological readiness, market size, business sophistication and innovation. It is as if the WEF decided to judge a weight loss contest without using a scale, by instead focusing only on mental attitude, dedication, perseverance, and nutritional education! As a result the prize is awarded to the fattest contestant. [Singapore] is clearly not [among] the most competitive economies in the world.

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2. http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/numbers-lie/2007/11/02/
"More Proof That Numbers Lie"

"Numbers don't lie, do they? Ha! Numbers are the biggest liars on the planet."

"...govt statisticians – and corporate ones too – typically "crunch" numbers into the shape they want. Numbers get punched, beaten, hammered, bullied, and bamboozled. When the torture session is over they'll admit to anything. That is how we get a "consumer price index" of only 3%...when everyone knows prices are rising a lot faster.

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3. http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/11/3/focus/19360112&sec=focus

"Increasing prices in just about everything has overshadowed the city state's prosperity in the last four years."

"The city-state has been hit by an unceasing bout of price increases that has overshadowed the city's prosperity in the past four years. Inflation is at its worst here in 12 years [now 26 years] and has become the people's biggest worry today. For many, the high costs are blurring the Singapore Dream."

"Worst affected is the broad middle class, ...a punishing [from] 5% to 7% rise in the Goods and Services Tax (GST)."

"There are two immediate effects. The value of money is dropping by the week, and savings are discouraged since consumer prices are rising faster than interest the banks pay on deposits."

"The govt appears unable to take action to stop the epidemic, a contrast to the first-generation govt during such crises."

"But so strong and persistent is inflation that many Singaporeans feel they are the poorer for it."

"...the govt ...priorities are economic growth and asset accumulation (for foreign investments) – even at the expense of a higher cost of living. To that end, it has increased GST from 5% to 7% and may eventually reach 10%. Fees for public services are being raised to ensure no drop in Treasury collection."

"Deficit budget, although not entirely unknown in Singapore, is a very rare happening."

"Many young professionals who just start off in life are worried that the sharp run-up in property prices has made it virtually impossible for them to buy a flat. Some are putting off marriage or raising children."

"Understandably inflation has become a hot debate subject. This is tough for the middle class and working class, which are just struggling for a living amidst the perceived wealth, unhappy and with few choices in life."

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4. http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_173723.html
"Grocery bills increase as prices for foodstuffs go up."

"A Straits Times check on a random basket of basic goods sold at supermarkets here revealed price increases in almost every category, from fresh chicken to coffee and milk formula."

"Rising food prices have contributed to inflation here. September's [2007] overall Consumer Price Index showed that prices generally retreated by 0.3 per cent from the previous month, but the food component - the biggest item at 23% - rose 3.7% as the cost of fresh vegetables, fruit, seafood and milk powder, as well as hawker and restaurant food, went up."

"Consumers The Straits Times spoke to said that while increases for each item may seem like a token sum, together, they add up to a much bigger grocery bill."

"She said that rental on her stall, which is now S$4,500 a month, is set to rise to S$5,500 at the start of next year, and then to S$6,500 in 2009."

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5. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/inflation-low-because-oil-prices/story.aspx?guid=%7BF29A8D00-50E5-44D6-9981-0E54430C3A96%7D

"In GDP math, sometimes one plus one equals zero."

"If you don't understand that, welcome to the confusing world of national income accounting, where up sometimes is down, and where sometimes one plus one can equal zero."

"Because of the way govt counts and reports the numbers, real-life inflation was understated and growth was [therefore] overstated."

"The economy didn't really grow 3.9%, and inflation really wasn't 0.8%. The numbers aren't as good as they look."

"...it did produce quirky numbers that don't accurately reflect reality, even though they are correct from an accounting point of view. The accounting is right. But it's not reality."

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6. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/specialreport/news/269666_26/1/.html

"Why the GDP link?" "...the higher the gross domestic product (GDP), the bigger the bonus — even some ruling party MPs question the wisdom of such a link."

"If Monday's parliamentary debate on pay revisions for ministers and civil servants focused mainly on that "benchmark thing", yesterday's session saw the spotlight being trained on the GDP bonus."

"This bonus is a component which ministers, parliamentary secretaries, top civil servants and MPs are eligible for. Several of the 13 backbenchers who spoke yesterday had reservations about the GDP bonus. One common refrain heard in the House was whether it is a fair performance peg to use."

"We all know that a rise in GDP may not benefit all sectors of society equally. Some may even lag behind. I would suggest that the Govt consider using indicators that directly impact the livelihood of all Singaporeans," said Dr Lim Wee Kiak (Sembawang GRC)."

"He proposed one other indicator to be considered: That of the total cost of running the Govt as a percentage of total revenue. After all, CEOs in the private sector have to ensure profits are not eroded by increasing [inflation] costs and expenses, Mr Loo said."

"Other suggestions of alternative benchmarks included: The consumer price index and the inflation rate, as a way to keep cost of living affordable and protect savings; citizens' feedback to major public services; the number of jobs created for Singaporeans; and even the number of Singaporeans who migrate."

"Based on the latest revisions, ministers will enjoy a GDP bonus of between 3 and 8 months if the economy grows between 5% and 10% or more. But they will not get any bonus if the economy grows by 2% or less. For example, the entry-level annual salary of a minister this year is expected to include a 5.9-month bonus based on Singapore's estimated GDP growth of between 4.5% and 6.5%."

"Another comparison, between the civil service pay increases and the S$30 monthly increase for those on Public Assistance, was raised in the House. Said NMP Kalyani Mehta: "If we are going to be [so] generous to civil servants, then let's be generous to the very poor." In response, Mr Teo Chee Hean, Defence Minister and Minister-in-Charge of the Civil Service, said: "The needs of these individuals are quite different and we need to find more holistic and flexible ways of looking after their needs.""

"One new issue that cropped up yesterday was the danger of concentrating too much power and money in the hands of top public officers. MP Denise Phua (Jalan Besar GRC) said: "As responsible leaders, we must be careful not to leave behind a system or structure that combines power and monetary rewards to such high levels that incumbents are so handcuffed by this lethal combination that they find it hard to let go." NMP Eunice Olsen argued that the coupling of political and financial power is more likely to lead to the creation of a rogue govt."

"On this issue, Mr Teo said that the checks are elections [RH: a lie since elections are routinely rigged] and the ruling party's selection process. "If (a person's) motivations are self-serving or to make money, we do not select him. And if we discover that's what he's about after he has come in, we drop him," he said.
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7. http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_172073.html

"But economists say one crucial aspect to watch out for is rising inflation. It hit 2.9% in August - the biggest monthly rise since 1994. MAS expects inflation of 1.5% to 2% this year, and up to 3.5% for the first half of 2008. But it expects this to ease in the second half of the year, with inflation at 2% to 3% for the whole of 2008."

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RH: Many, many, THANKS to Mr Kaye Poh, from whose brilliant email all the above articles are sourced and excerpted here. The thrust of all these articles prove convincingly enough, that GDP Numbers are faked Higher when Inflation is faked Lower than it really is. They prove why LIE KY LHL PAP kept reporting abnormally Low inflation numbers for decades, when the experience of every Singaporean is of rampant inflation. Also, by reporting falsely Low inflation numbers, LIE KY LHL PAP disguise the simple fact that our CPF monies are actually Reducing in value, eroded by Inflation because the miserable, exploitative, cheating, scam 'interest' they give us are far, far, below inflation -- "an implicit tax" as Prof Mukul Asher [ http://www.spp.nus.edu.sg/Faculty_Mukul_Asher.aspx ] wrote. . Also, by reporting -- and convincing us through their PAPaganda media -- that inflation is 'low', the alleged GDP each year becomes automatically and fakedly Higher thereby giving the Ministers and top civil servants more millions in GDP 'Performance Bonuses'!!! Disgusting, dirty, cheats and scammers who routinely rig elections so as to be able to keep paying themselves more millions.
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Idea Invention of Portable Ramps for Wheelchairs

RH:
1. This idea is primarily for those who are wheelchair-bound but will also be useful for movers, deliverymen, ambulance men, etc, and all those who need to push heavy trolleys up a step, etc. It is a simple idea, to have 2 small, carryable, convenient, portable, flexible ramps so that those on wheelchairs or pushing heavy trolleys can negotiate up the ramps onto the higher landing or floor. [For example, the front step from my flat is 117mm and that of my mother in law new flat is 102mm. My idea allows for a FLEXIBLE Ramp that will ramp different steps/heights like these common obstacles]. A small step like these front door steps can prevent many wheelchair bounds from leaving their flats or movers from easily pushing heavy trolleys up or down the step.

2. For a wheelchair-bound person, suddenly coming to a step or higher stepped floor is a huge obstacle. Often, the only alternative is to push yourself along further parallel, to find a natural ramp, but every additional metre for a wheelchair person is a metre too far. This idea means that the moment you come to a higher stepped floor, you simply take out your 2 portable, flexible, ramps, place them onto the step, 1 ramp for the left wheel, 1 for the right, then push yourself up the ramps onto the higher floor, then, using the strings attached to each ramp and tied to your wheelchair for convenience, you simply pull the ramps [after you have used them to climb onto the higher floor] into your hands and then keep/hook them onto the wheelchair and continue your way, until the next step. Going down a step may not be a problem but if so, this procedure can also be done, although trickier in terms of the handicapped placing the ramps, unless he/she has a stick to push the ramps into position. A short, foldable stick or rod either loose or attached to each ramp may make this positioning easier. Especially if specially designed with the Ramps for pushing the ramp/s into position onto and against the step.

3. Thus, while these Ramps must be long enough to allow easy rolling up/down the ramp, they cannot be too long or big, otherwise, not very portable or convenient to store or hook onto the wheelchair, etc. I here suggest some dimensions but since it is such a cheap and simple idea, you can quickly and cheaply make different prototypes to test how wheelchair users, movers, deliverymen, etc, can or will use them.

4. Material: suggest steel -- cheap, easily formed, strong and thin enough, about 2 to 3 millimetres thick, corrugated or fluted in both directions for non-slip even when wet, or coated with non-slip surface such as rubber, etc. The whole Ramp could be coated in rubber or rubberised compounds for non-slip. The parts resting on the floor or upper part of the Step should also be rubberised for non-slip for greater safety.

5. Cross-section shape: Basically U-shape, like this: |_________________| . The bottom of the "U" is about 200mm to 300mm wide. If too narrow, it will be harder to place both ramps, correct distance apart, such that the 2 wheels or 2 sets of wheels [front and back if 4-wheeler] can easily 'find' the ramps. If too broad, clumsy. The LIPs along the entire lengths of the ramps are GUIDES for the wheel/s so the wheel/s don't veer off the ramp. I suggest about 50mm high LIPS or GUIDES. The LIPs have to prevent the wheel/s from veering off the ramp but also take holes at/near the JOINT or HINGE [joining the Sloping Part and the Flat Part] to allow for the Stiffening of the 2 parts of each Ramp or the Rigidising of the 2 parts of each Ramp so that when the heavy wheel/load presses down on the Sloping part of the Jointed or Hinged Ramp, the Flat part of the Ramp [on the upper part of the step] does not flip up and the Ramp collapses downward onto the lower floor.

6. Length: Each Ramp consists of 2 parts Jointed or Hinged together, so that when folded, the Flat Part can fold INSIDE the Sloping Part. So if the Inside LIP to Inside LIP distance of the Bottom of the Sloping Part is say, 200mm, then the Flat Part, to fit inside the Sloping Part must be no more than 200mm OUTER dimensions of LIP to LIP, minus at least 2-4mm tolerance for easier fit to allow for distorted shaping or misshapened parts due to heavy use, etc. Give more tolerance because this won't affect the effectiveness of the Ramps. Also allow for the thicknesses of the non-slip rubber, etc. As for the Lengths of the Sloping and Flat Parts of each Ramp, I suggest the Length of the Sloping Part be about 450mm and that of the Flat Part to be about 120mm. Feel free to develop other dimensions or variants or models for different purposes.

7. Thus, each Ramp will have a Sloping Part, hinged or flexibly jointed to a Flat Part. The Flat Part is the horizontal part placed onto the flat upper part of the floor or step. A sideways view in words would be: the Sloping Part has its lower portion on the lower floor of the Step, sloping upwards to the top of the Step where it is jointed or hinged to the Flat Part of this Ramp, this Flat Part resting flat on the upper part of the Step.

8. Why the Joint or Hinge? Because this is the simplest solution to different heights of steps to be negotiated, because you never know how high the step you will come across. With a Flexible Joint or Flexible Hinge, the Flat Part always rests FLAT on the top of the step while the Sloping Part flexibly slopes down from the Joint or Hinge, either sloping more steeply when the step is high or less steeply when the step is low. As mentioned, this contraption works only if the Flat Part does NOT flip up when the heavy wheel presses down on the Sloping Part due to the natural Lever action. How? There are many ways and more ways than I know or can think of. 1 way is to have many holes on both the LIPs of the Flat Part and the Sloping Part near the Joint or Hinge and these LIPs should OVERLAP each other so that a metal PIN can simply be pushed through a hole in the LIP of the Flat Part, through a corresponding hole in the overlapping LIP of the Sloping Part, thus RIGIDLY locking the Sloping and Flat Parts into position. If PINs are used, there should be 1 pin for each of the 2 LIPs sets for each ramp for evenness. More importantly, the 2 pins for each ramp should be pushed in from the INSIDES of the "U" and this probably means that each pin should be attached to the inside thus forcing the pin to only be pushed from the inside. This is to prevent the pins from being 'pushed out' by the wheel/s as may be the case if the pins are pushed in from the outside of the LIPs towards the insides of the "U". Also, the head of the pin should be a sort of Round Head, like a round head screw, to prevent the wheel/s 'catching' onto the pin.

9. To make the Flexible Ramp more convenient to carry, the Sloping Part could be made of Telescopic Sections, such that the full length of about 450mm is made up of say, about 3 sections that slot inside each other, to be pulled out telescopically when needed. Note that each section cannot be fully pulled out but must have an overlap with its next section of at least about 50mm, this Overlap giving sufficient strength and rigidity so the Sloping Part sections don't buckle when the weight of the wheelchair or load is pressing down upon the joining sections.

10. [SEPARATELY]. Here is an additional Idea for wheelchairs and other wheeled users. It will be good to develop a Rachet Wheelchair or better still, develop a Ratchet Device that can be bought cheaply and RETROFITTED onto wheelchairs. This Ratchet Mechanism will help wheelchairs and other wheelers because when going up a slope or any ramp, the Ratchet will allow the wheel to turn forward and prevent any backward rotation so the wheelchair cannot roll backward down the slope. Preferably, this Ratchet Mechanism should be retrofitted once onto the existing wheelchair and thereafter, only locked into Use Position only when needed as in going up a slope and the wheelchair user is not confident of rolling all the way without stopping and hence the ratchet mechanism will prevent any backward rolling.

11. No patents or copyright for these ideas. However, you may be able to trade mark your designs. Check with your Patent lawyer.

"A LIE KY + U.S. STENCH EVEN FOREVER CANNOT STANCH"

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Hansard

Parliament No: 11
Session No: 1
Volume No: 83
Sitting No: 14
Sitting Date: 2007-10-22
Section Name: WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

Title: INCIDENTS OF VOLUNTARILY CAUSING HURT

MPs Speaking: Mr Wong Kan Seng; Ms Sylvia Lim

INCIDENTS OF VOLUNTARILY CAUSING HURT

2. Ms Sylvia Lim asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs for the years 2005, 2006 and the first half of 2007, in respect of incidents of voluntarily causing hurt (a) what is the number of reports or calls for police assistance regarding such incidents received by the police; (b) what is the proportion of domestic to non-domestic incidents; and (c) what is the number and percentage of cases in which the police voluntarily initiated prosecution of the suspect and the reasons for police initiation of such prosecutions.

Mr Wong Kan Seng:

In 2005, 5,490 cases of Voluntarily Causing Hurt (VCH) were reported to the Police. In 2006, 6,406 VCH cases were reported while 3,697 cases were reported in the first half of 2007 (from January to June).

Police does not actively track the proportion of domestic to non-domestic incidents for VCH cases.

In 2005, out of the 5,490 VCH cases, Police initiated action on behalf of the victims in 734 cases, which constituted 13.4 % of the VCH cases reported. In 2006, out of the 6,406 VCH cases, Police initiated action on behalf of the victims in 468 cases, which accounted for 7.3 % of the VCH cases reported. In the first half of 2007 (from January to June), out of the 3,697 cases, Police initiated action on behalf of the victims in 319 cases, which constituted 8.6% of the VCH cases reported.

Police will initiate prosecution into VCH cases where there is harm to the public interest and safety, and when it is assessed that the assailant is a bully who is taking advantage of the weak and vulnerable - especially young children, senior citizens and physically or mentally-disabled persons. Police will also initiate investigations into suspected cases of maid abuse or road bullying.

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http://www.littlespeck.com/content/security/CTrendsSecurity-060808.htm

Police
Hitting a controversial patch
They regard some assault cases as civil disputes, raising public furore. By Seah Chiang Nee.
Aug 8, 2006

Not long ago, a gang of older girls beat up a 12-year-old girl in public, video filming the assault, and the tape was widely posted in the Internet.

The assailants were known, but the police said it would not act because nobody had lodged a report with them. It sparked questions about the responsibility of the police when public violence was committed.

Yesterday, another Singaporean wrote to the press to complain that her brother, a doctor in a Singapore hospital, was eating alone at a Geylang food-stall at night when he was approached by six to eight youths who accused him of staring at them

"When he denied doing so, they assaulted him, beating him in the face and abdomen," said Ms Liew Sok Kuan.

According to Ms. Liew, he suffered multiple facial fractures and damage to one of his facial nerves. He had to undergo a three-hour operation, which included having two metal plates inserted around one of his eyes, she said.

"He suffered multiple facial fractures and damage to one of his facial nerves. He had to undergo a three-hour operation, which included having two metal plates inserted around one of his eyes," related Ms. Liew.

They escaped in their motorbikes, but the victim noted two of the bikes' numbers and rang up 999 and reported to them what had happened.

Despite the serious injury in what was clearly a criminal case, she alleged the police shockingly declined to go after the assailants, and instead asked him to lodge a report with the Magistrates' Court, and left

"They advised that this was a civil case and it was for the magistrate to decide if any action was to be taken."

Ms Liew added: "It was only when an appeal was made that my brother's case was reclassified under Section 325 (from Section 323), 10 days after the incident, by which time witnesses would have dispersed and memories faded.

"Had the police acted promptly, especially when they were at the scene, they might have had a better chance of apprehending the culprits as there were witnesses around."

It sparked off a debate about the role and the priorities of the police. Two questions immediately arose: -

* Do they regard violent crime as less important than political activism? A dozen anti-riot policemen carrying shields and batons recently were rushed to disperse four opposition party activists protesting peacefully in central Singapore.

* How many such public assault cases have been classified as civil cases? If it is a general policy, how has it affected the record of crime statistics in Singapore, since civil cases are not classified under 'crime'. In other words, should crime statistics be higher than what is announced?

Public opinion was largely against the police in this case and I believe that a high-level public statement is needed to explain what the police role and responsibility is in the event of a public assault.

Comments online (excerpts)

By ardeedee
The incident (mentioned by Ms Liew) should have been classified as a riot as more than five members involved in this assault…
It appears from what the report that the Police were remiss in their action and that they also were not being properly advised as they had or should be in contact with Radio Police at 999 where there used to be a senior officer (an Inspector) on duty to ensure proper classification and action to be taken at the scene.
Someone should be telling the Police that their inefficiency is showing and affecting their reputation and eventually that of Singapore.

By "yingyang"
Some years ago, my daughter's flat was broken into, the (police) investigator didn't even bother to come down to her flat to look for fingerprints.
In another case early this year, there was a boy from a poor family who suffered two fractured legs as a result of a reckless driver near Woodland. The policeman in-charge of the case only called the father.
Despite of several appeals to ask him to come down to see for himself the seriousness of the injuries the boy had, this investigator simply just couldn't be bothered.
What is the point of having so many police investigators, if they do not want to perform basic functions?

Stayer Ong
I read with concern the letter in today's Straits Times, "Assault 'a civil case', so no police action".
With the upcoming IMF/World Bank meeting in September, such police inaction ...when police intervention and help are genuinely needed is totally unacceptable.
How will the world view Singapore's law and order when our police are not responsive to genuine needs?

Whispers from the heart said...
All his (police) are now practicing how to control violent protests and learning to operate those cool gadgets they bought to control violent crowds.
Singaporeans who still boast about being able to walk on Singapore streets without worrying about safety better have their brains examined.
You can't even eat at a hawker centre safely.
Probably, the whole Police force is mobilised at the Stadium today to look out for people wearing brown shirts (in support of blogger mrbrown) and making them change into red and white ones.

The modern sikh said...
I've lodged two complaints before and not one of them has been acted on. They're too busy stopping people from bringing DVDs across the Causeway.

Anonymous said...
Has any one wondered why our "efficient" police force always claims that Singapore has one of the lowest crime rates in the world? The reason seems obvious now, isn't it?

Kevin said...
Perhaps it's a case of who's really working for whom. I hate to say this but I am seeing our government as more self-serving than actually citizen-centric. Where's the goodwill?

Radikaz said...
Three years ago, my mobile phone and wallet were stolen at Bishan sports complex. The items were taken off from my bag and incredibly I wasn't alone. Another guy's bag was stolen as well, I also realised the front desk's ceiling was installed with a round-camera system and a recorder as well. So quickly, we logged a police report at Bishan police post.
Despite my constant reminder that my wallet and phone were stolen, the police on duty logged it as a "loss" case.
I re-logged the case next day at another police post near my house and wasted 1/2 hour to remedy an incorrect police report. Because they need to call back to Bishan post and rectified the error and concerted it with the HQ whatever so.
I told them that the Bishan sport complex had a camera which recorded.. and they would look into the video.
I later checked. No police had viewed the tape. So routinely, the theft case at Bishan gym was chucked under the drawer. And god knows how many more wallets and phones were stolen there since?

Anonymous said...
When I was much younger, there was a gang fight taking place just downstairs at my flat, with two gangs approaching each other with parangs and other weapons. I called the police who arrived in half an hour or more by which time the fight was over.

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RH: "No prosecutor in the world would even dream of prosecuting a man already certified insane in a marital causing hurt incident long forgotten by both sides for decades, if LIE KY had not intervened to thus secure for himself and Singapore billions of dollars worth of free publicity. This, simply, is what it is all about. The Americans were just evil and stupid to get involved."

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RH: IT IS NOW PROVEN BEYOND DOUBT THAT FIRSTLY, THE POLICE DOES NOT ACT, LET ALONE INITIATE PROSECUTION, UNLESS A POLICE REPORT IS FORMALLY LODGED AND EVEN THEN, THERE IS NO CERTAINTY THAT THEY WILL FINALLY PROSECUTE.

SECONDLY, THE POLICE NEVER ACTS, LET ALONE INITIATE PROSECUTION, IN MARITAL SPATS.

THIRDLY, THE POLICE NEVER ACTS, LET ALONE INITIATE PROSECUTION, IN "CERTIFIED INSANE" CAUSING HURT CASES.

FOURTHLY, THE POLICE NEVER ACTS, LET ALONE INITIATE PROSECUTION, IN MARITAL SPATS THAT HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN FOR DECADES BY THE COUPLE, WHO INDEED, AFTER THE INSANITY HAS BEEN CURED, WENT ON TO NORMAL WORK AND LIFE AND EVEN BORE A CHILD, NOW AN ADULT.

FIFTHLY, IT IS NOW PROVEN BEYOND DOUBT THAT LIE KY DID ALL THIS FOR PUBLICITY STUNT REASONS, TO GAIN FOR HIMSELF AND HIS TINY CITY, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF FREE PUBLICITY.

SIXTHLY, IT IS NOW PROVEN BEYOND DOUBT THAT THE AMERICANS WERE SIMPLY INDULGING THEIR NATURALLY VICIOUS NATURE AS POWER ABUSERS AND HYPOCRITES, ABUSING EVERY NORM OF DECENCY, HUMAN RIGHTS, LAWFUL BEHAVIOUR OR AS HONEST, SELF-RESPECTING PEOPLE.

HISTORY IS WATCHING AND RECORDING EVERY CRIMINAL ATTACK AND LOW BLOW FOR POSTERITY. YOU WILL STINK FOREVER.

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RH: MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

READ ALSO MARTYN SEE's INTERVIEW WITH ME AT:

http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/

Clean Air Ideas for HK Email 4 Plan D

To:

Office of the Chief Executive
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
People's Republic of China

5/F, Central Government Offices, Main Wing,
Lower Albert Road,
Hong Kong
Telephone : (852) 2878 3300
Fax : (852) 2509 0577
E-mail : ceo@ceo.gov.hk

Dear Mr Donald Tsang,

1. I do not presume that you remember me or my 4 emails to you [attached] so I crave your indulgence for a quick recapitulation of my last 3 emails detailing ideas to clean the polluted air of Hongkong. These 3 ideas are Plan A: Using jet engines to blow away the dirty air; Plan B: Using numerous water tanks to bubble dirty air through, thereby cleaning it; and Plan C: Making roads sticky with glue to stick most of the dirty vehicle exhaust particles to prevent them spreading into the air we breathe.

2. The more of these 3 Plans we implement TOGETHER, the more successful the overall effects. Plans B and C are simple to implement and so cheap they cost the Hongkong Govt or Hongkongers practically nothing. In return, these 2 Plans implemented TOGETHER should clear the air considerably. Probably enough to win kudos for the Hongkong Govt for taking effective action to solve a problem that is driving many expatriate and Hongkong families from Hongkong to cleaner places like Singapore, which has little air pollution.

3. However, my 3 Plans have been rejected outright without much thought, let alone experiment. The speed of rejection, within a few days, proves that little real consideration was given, further proven in the reasons for rejection. The rejections were directly from gut reaction, not rational thought. It was the bureaucrat's fear of doing anything unorthodox, that had not been established and precedented in the West, that had not been studied and trialled in the West and then taught to Asians. The simple fact that the West has not solved their air pollution problems means that Hongkong will continue to suffer along with them until ideas such as mine are studied and trialled there first. Meanwhile, people are migrating from Hongkong to cleaner pastures and the Hongkong Govt is seen as doing nothing except the standard, conventional, measures that the daily Air Pollution Index prove is inadequate. What a sad state of affairs.

4. The fact that this bureaucrat rejected my Plan B EVEN BEFORE I WROTE A SINGLE WORD OF IT TO YOU AND HIM is instructive. I need say no more. Further, the fact that he saw fit to reject my Plan C through a proxy shows that he is beginning to feel uneasy about rejecting my ideas, that he is beginning to realise that HE MAY BE GUILTY OF REFUSING TO SOLVE HONGKONG's AIR POLLUTION PROBLEMS. He stands in danger of going down in history.

5. Is Hongkong's air polluted enough to trouble us all into taking action? Is it bad enough for us to rouse ourselves from our comfortable routine of meetings and emails into direct action? Even unorthodox action? Here, I need only to point to your Environmental Protection Department website which has copious texts on how bad the air is. However, much of these read like Copy & Paste from Western sources, not surprising because much of the world do exactly this. Just to reiterate that the West has not solved its air pollution problems and so, if Hongkong refuses new ideas and solutions, it may continue driving away those who can migrate while harming those who cannot or would not.

6. I know that my ideas are kitchen science. Or kitchen chemistry. But the good thing about kitchen science is that THE PRINCIPLES ARE SO SIMPLE THEY WORK. For example, Plan B's idea of bubbling dirty air through water so that cleaner air emerges is A PROVEN CONCEPT, without me having to do a single experiment.

7. For example, there are many models of home water-filtration vacuum cleaners in Hongkong selling for about HK$1,000 that use exactly the principle of Plan B. These water-filtration vacuum cleaners suck in dirt [and necessarily, air, too], then trap the dirt in a small water tank, and the air that emerges is free from dirt and even some air pollutants. Of course, this vacuum cleaner is not an exact experiment to prove the concept and principle of Plan B because the bubbles of air are not tiny enough, the water tank not tall enough, etc, but the principle is clearly proven beyond doubt.

8. If you need further experiment, you can buy 1 of these water-filtration vacuum cleaners, and a cheap bottle of perfume [about HK$50], then find a fairly airtight room, empty the perfume onto an open dish, let the perfume fill the entire room with its telltale smell, then turn on the vacuum cleaner, and, returning to the room every hour or so, you will notice that almost all the perfume smell would have been removed by the water-filtration vacuum cleaner. This proves that the molecules of perfume, like the molecules of air pollutants, can be removed by water filtration.

9. If you need a more visual proof of the concept, find a fairly airtight room or shipping container, seal it airtight with simple household silicone from a tube, fill the room or container with thick, black smoke -- a smoke flare will do nicely -- switch on the water-filtration vacuum cleaner and see all the smoke filtered off by the water after a few hours.

10. Thus, Proof of Concept indubitably proven. All that needs to be done is to scale this Concept up enough to make a difference to Hongkong's air. If every rooftop in Hongkong, or most rooftops, house several large installations of this water-filtration air-cleaning tanks, big enough, that is, practically industrial scale, this Plan B alone will clean the air considerably. For best effect, the air should be sucked up from near street levels and returned to street levels after cleaning. This is not a problem as most tall buildings have wet and dry risers for firefighting and these riser holes run continuously from the bottom to the top of the buildings and so can house an air intake and air outlet ducting of up to 20 centimetres in diameter. Thus, these air ducts, which can be flexible or rigid. will run INSIDE the buildings, within the riser holes, but emerge OUTSIDE the building near street levels, say, either 1st Floor [Ground] or 2nd Floor. Further, if indoor air pollution within the building is bad, 1 of the installations can pump clean air to within the building, that is, indoors, to benefit the people working and using the building. This will motivate many building owners to install the installations since it will become an additional marketing advantage. Clean air is a big marketing advantage to any building owner and for self interest alone, they will do it.

11. Now, I will prove the Concept of Plan C, which is to make roads sticky enough to stick away most of the dirty vehicle exhaust particles especially the toxic Lead particles. For this, you only need an ordinary vehicle with the engine running for a few hours. Then, place a stool directly behind the exhaust tailpipe of the car. Fix to the stool, a thin material like cardboard or plastic sheet, etc, coated with glue, directly in the path of the exhaust tailpipe. The distance of the glued sheet to the tailpipe should be that of the tailpipe to the ground. That's all. To be more accurate, incline the glued sheet about 45 degrees to the path of the exhaust, as I have explained in my 4th Email on Plan C. After a few hours or so, bring the sheet to a chemistry laboratory to measure What particles and chemicals have been stuck and How Much of it. These particles and chemicals and their amounts will be those removed from the air we breathe. By simple scaling up, you can calculate roughly how many micrograms or grams of pollutants can be removed by how much surface areas of glued roads in what time.

12. In the Beijing sandstorms, if every available surface area is glued, a significant amount of sand and pollutants can be removed from the air we breathe. For example, if all tall buildings are coated with glue or, more reasonably, if every window is covered with glue, or pasted with a transparent plastic sheet covered with glue, this can remove much sand and other pollutants. In Hongkong, too. However, to reasonably enforce this without invoking the building owners' ire, the removal and pasting of new sheets should be done only during the regular window washing which is done only once or twice a year. But every little helps. If this new Plan D, of sticky windows, [which is a subset of Plan C], is done TOGETHER with Plans B and C, the overall effect will be considerable.

13. As I have said, the good thing about kitchen science is that it is so simple it works. The principles are simple and PROVEN. If you are sending Chang E 1 to the moon, you need rocket science. But if you merely want to reduce air pollution, the principles are much simpler. I suppose that if I had posed as a professor from MIT, written my ideas in scientific mumbo jumbo, added in regression analyses, tables of data, dozens of footnotes referring to academic theses authored by Western authors, then your bureaucrat may have given my ideas more credence and interest.

14. I don't blame him entirely. He is a bureaucrat whose comfort zone is meetings, email and reports. His entire training is Western-based and his entire work methodology is to adopt Western solutions and orthodoxies. He does not have a support system for evaluating new ideas for implementation, no matter how practical and feasible. A government is nothing but a complex web of systems and procedures. When my ideas come up against such a system that does not have prior procedures for evaluation and implementation, the inevitable result is total rejection of those ideas. This would be true of any government, not just yours. However, he had to struggle to find excuses to reject my ideas. EVERY REJECTION EXCUSE HE GAVE WAS FROM ME! I had, in detailing the best procedures and conditions for testing the ideas, warned of certain conditions and he simply restated these conditions as excuses. In the only excuse he gave that I did not anticipate, I did not anticipate it because it was ridiculous.

15. So where do we go from here? We could do what your bureaucrat suggested, which is to forward the entire set of ideas to experts or academics for evaluation. He has clearly shown he wants nothing to do with it. Of course, if experts and academics, preferably Western, succeed with the ideas, then these would become orthodox, which means that, then, he would be happy to adopt them. Here, I need your help. I cannot forward these to experts and academics because I do not know any. Nor do I have the clout. So could you exercise your executive prerogative and order that this be done? Just a sentence to someone to "Forward this to some expert or academic for evaluation and report back to me". This could be the start of the end of bad air in Hongkong. And Beijing in time for the Olympics in August 2008. And the rest of the polluted cities in the world. INCLUDING WESTERN CITIES.

16. Or you could call for a local or international Design & Build Tender to build a Working Prototype for Plan B [Bubble Tanks]. This would be quite cheap. Like all turnkey projects, this would be simple to write. Your bureaucrats would simply need to specify the required results, which is a sizeable reduction in air pollution by say, 50%, within a specified Test Area. And some of the suggested design features such as the water tanks and pumping systems, etc. Since this would be Design & Build, turnkey, this can be done within weeks and sent out, probably privately, to interested parties. However, there is no design and build for Plan C [Sticky Roads] which is more amenable to academic analysis and experiments. I suggest that Plan B be done first, and the success of which can then be the confidence to proceed with Plan C.

17. I would like to end by reiterating that I have absolutely no ownership of these ideas or intellectual property thereof. Please feel free to forward these ideas, in whole or in part, or edited and rewritten, to anybody and everybody, who may be interested. The more people get involved the better because they will improve and add new expertise from their individual training and experience. Again, you can achieve this with a simple executive prerogative. Simply ask your staff to "Forward and discuss these with any or all your colleagues here and overseas who might be interested, and report back to me."

18. This is my good deed for the day. I hope you will act and make it yours, too.

For Clear Air and Clear Minds,
I am,

Robert HO
28 Bukit Batok Street 52
#20-03 Guilin View
Singapore 659248
Tel: [+65] 68989553
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Dear Mr Lee and Mr Pun, cc Mr Donald Tsang,

1. I think you and your department have totally missed the whole point and the whole stupendous issue. I propose all these ideas NOT FOR PERSONAL VAINGLORY. Indeed, when all these ideas succeed, and I have proven that they will -- and you and your department have not shown the contrary -- HONGKONG AND CHINA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD WILL BENEFIT FROM THE CLEANER AIR!

2. I will not reap a single cent in benefit nor do I need the publicity or fame. Far from it. Please don't even mention that I have been involved.

3. In other words, what I have been doing is to simply FEEDBACK to your government, like any concerned citizen or well-wisher would. I have been merely giving SUGGESTIONS just like any Hongkonger or well-wisher would. That's all.

4. What would your department do with FEEDBACK and SUGGESTIONS from the public? Reject them without even seeing them, as you have done? Discourage further ideas and suggestions like you have done in your last reply? Tsk, tsk.

5. Thus, the onus is NOT ON ME to prove the feasibility of the project by enlisting the services of a university or laboratory, etc. In fact, I have proven the feasibility of Plan B [Bubble Tank] beyond any shadow of doubt in my last email, [which includes the minor sub-idea Plan D]. Surely, when you draw a chicken, you need not be so detailed as to even draw its intestines? I HAVE PROVEN THE FEASIBILITY! BEYOND ANY DOUBT! NO NEED FOR A UNIVERSITY OR LABORATORY TO BUY THE HK$1,000 WATER-FILTRATION VACUUM CLEANER TO PROVE THE PRINCIPLE! ALL THAT IS NEEDED IS TO SCALE UP THE APPARATUS BIG ENOUGH TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO THE AIR IN A BIGGER AREA. AND THIS CAN BE DONE EASILY WITH A TENDER FOR THE DESIGN AND BUILD OF A WORKING PROTOTYPE, WHICH, IF SATISFACTORY, WILL LEAD TO MASS MANUFACTURE MEANING BIG PROFITS FOR THE SUCCESSFUL TENDERER! CAN IT BE SIMPLER? THERE ARE HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS OF COMPANIES OUT THERE WHO WILL JUMP AT THE OPPORTUNITY!

6. At this stage, we are not talking or arguing about technical feasibility. That I have proven beyond doubt that it works, Plan B Bubble Tank, at least. The scientific principles are PROVEN! Which is to dissolve and filter out chemical and particulate pollutants using a water tank. All you need is a big version of the water-filtration vacuum cleaner. We are now at the implementation stage, where we need to make some administrative and maybe, political, decisions. If we believe that the people of Hongkong, China and other world cities do deserve a chance of cleaner air, so that foetuses do not die stillborn like some are doing now, from the toxic Lead and other pollutants, then should we not rouse ourselves from our usual routine of comfortable meetings, email and reports to stick our neck out just once and say, "Let's do it". We can do it all quietly, without publicity or fanfare. Simply write out your Design & Build Tender and send it out privately to interested companies. They will do the rest. Within months, you will have several Working Prototypes ALREADY TESTED BY THE COMPANY BEFOREHAND BEFORE THEY EVEN HAND THEM OVER TO YOU, AS THEY MUST BE SURE OF THE DESIGNs' VIABILITY. Then, you install them somewhere quietly and note the improvement in API readings. Then, and only then, do you publicise the whole thing. The people of Hongkong, China and the world will then applaud you for your brave decisions. And we all live happily ever after.

7. Now, having said that, I will cease and desist. The more and the harder I push, the more it seems that I GET THE MOST OUT OF ALL THIS! Which cannot be farther from the truth. I get nothing out of it. I just want Hongkong, which I admire, especially your tv serials, which my wife and I watch every night, to be more liveable so that 1 day, if my son decides to work and live in Hongkong, the air will be good. [He is now a second year Economics student in LSE]. Thus, I do have a small, little, personal interest in Hongkong's clean air.

8. I will now stop pushing and let you all take over. No need to email or reply me further. If you go ahead, that's fine. If not, it's your city and you have the prerogative to do what you want with it. Thank you for your time and my apologies if I have ruffled any feathers with my pushing.


I am,
Robert HO
28 Bukit Batok Street 52
#20-03 Guilin View
Singapore 659248
Tel: [+65] 68989553
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9 Nov 07 1847

Clean Air Ideas for HK Email 3 Plan C

To:

Office of the Chief Executive
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
People's Republic of China

5/F, Central Government Offices, Main Wing,
Lower Albert Road,
Hong Kong
Telephone : (852) 2878 3300
Fax : (852) 2509 0577
E-mail : ceo@ceo.gov.hk

Dear Mr Donald Tsang,

1. I have previously emailed you on 18 Jun 05 on my idea of Govt By Referendum [attached].

2. I have also emailed you on 12 Oct 07 on my idea of using jet engines to blow away the bad air from the worst polluted and most peopled parts of Hongkong. In this regard, I have had a short exchange of emails with someone in the Air Science Group but he did not consider the idea "workable" [attached].

3. I have also emailed you on 23 Oct 07 on Plan B which also aims to clear the air over Hongkong. It is an alternative to Plan A or it can be used together with Plan A for even greater effect. Plan B tries to dissolve most of dissolvable air pollutants such as Sulphur Dioxide [SO2], Ozone [O3], etc; and possibly convert dangerous Carbon Monoxide [CO] into its very safe cousin Carbon Dioxide through the simple expedient of adding some household bleach containing Hydrogen Peroxide [H2O2] into the tanks. Some of the Respirable Suspended Particles such as Lead will also be removed by bubbling the bad air through water and these can be further removed completely if the Emerging Air is FILTERED after passing through the tank. That same someone also considers this Plan B idea "unworkable".

4. Today, I would like to interest you in my Plan C, which can be deployed by itself or in addition to Plan A or Plan B -- or both -- for even greater effect.

5. Plan C is based on the fact that as I am writing this, Central/Western, Eastern, Kwai Chung, Kwun Tong, Sha Tin, Sham Shui Po, Tai Po, Tap Mun, Tsuen Wan, Tung Chung and Yuen Long [as at 12 noon just past], are all showing HIGH readings of the Air Pollution Index, except Kwai Chung which is MEDIUM. All are due to high readings of Respirable Suspended Particles except the Medium Kwai Chung which shows Nitrogen Dioxide.

6. Your Roadside Stations monitoring air pollution shows even higher [as usual the Roadside air is much dirtier than at the main monitoring stations] air pollution index readings, with Causeway Bay at 69, Central at 60 and Mongkok at 87. The first 2 are due to Respirable Suspended Particles while Mongkok is due to Nitrogen Dioxide.

7. Taking the past 24 hours at the 3 Roadside Stations, which probably strongly reflect the vehicular exhaust pollution, from 1300 hours yesterday to 12 noon today, Causeway Bay 'started' at about 75 and declined only slightly in 24 hours; Central 'started' at about 70 and declined a bit thereafter, while Mong Kok 'started' at 100 and declined a bit in 24 hours.

8. Thus, my Plan C targets vehicular exhaust pollution. First of all, should we be concerned about vehicular pollution? After all, most of us don't spend much time on the streets. We spend most times indoors, in offices or at home, where the air is better. I would venture that people DO spend more time at street level than they realise. For example, if you commute by bus, you would spend some time at a bus stop waiting for a bus. Then, even after you board the bus, you continue your bus trip AT STREET LEVEL, breathing in street level air. If your bus trip is 30 minutes x 2 every day, that is 1 whole hour breathing in street level air. Even the underground MTR stations where you wait may also be quite polluted. Has anyone taken air pollution readings in underground MTR stations? It may be quite high, too, given that the air would move down into the stations as well.

9. Thus, if the 3 Roadside Stations are any guide, street level pollution hovers around 75 almost round the clock, that is, 24/7/365. Since your expert has rejected my Water Tank idea to dissolve some of the bad air, my Plan C will try a mechanical method to reduce some of the vehicular exhaust pollution.

10. For this Plan C, I note that every vehicle has a tailpipe producing exhaust and that this tailpipe is low slung, beneath and behind the vehicle, and that the vehicle travels along roads mostly guided by white lane markings on the road. This means that the exhaust-producing tailpi