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18 October 2009

Why Singapore has no economy

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/business/worldbusiness/11iht-sing.html

SINGAPORE POSTS DROP IN GROWTH OF ECONOMY

Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2005

SINGAPORE — Singapore's economy shrank at an annual rate of 5.8 percent in the first quarter, according to figures released on Monday, exceeding the most pessimistic forecast by economists, as makers of pharmaceuticals cut production.

The decline in gross domestic product, reported by the Trade Ministry, was the first in almost two years. It compared with growth of 7.9 percent in the fourth quarter.

The economic report added to speculation that the central bank would seek to stimulate growth by abandoning its policy of a "modest and gradual appreciation" in the currency at a twice-yearly review on Tuesday.

The government forecasts that Singapore's growth may fall to as little as 3 percent this year from 8.4 percent last year, as exports of electronics slow.

A rebound in production of drugs may soften the slump, said Chua Hak Bin, an economist at DBS Group.

"This report tells us that the economy is slowing down, but I think it is slowing down at a moderate pace," he said. "The decline was largely due to the volatility in pharmaceuticals."

Pharmaceutical output fell because manufacturers switched to producing different chemicals and shut plants for cleaning, said Song Seng Wun, an economist at G.K. Goh.

Shutdowns and expansions cause swings in output because of the small number of factories in Singapore.


Some analysts said the vital electronics industry, accounting for nearly a third of manufacturing output and about half of non-oil exports, could post stronger output in the second quarter as global demand picks up. That would allow Singapore to avoid a recession, which occurs when an economy contracts for two consecutive quarters.

"The first quarter's contraction was driven mostly by volatility in the pharmaceuticals industry," said Euben Paracuelles, economist at DBS Bank.

"Electronics indicators show there is a likely upturn in the electronics cycle. Going forward we don't think there is a risk of recession."

Last Wednesday, the Asian Development Bank forecast that economic growth in Asia's developing nations will slow to 6.5 percent this year from a seven-year high of 7.3 percent in 2004. Growth in Singapore may slow to 4.1 percent from 8.4 percent.

Last Tuesday, Homi Kharas, the top regional economist at the World Bank, said it was planning to cut the 2005 economic growth forecast for Asia excluding Japan and the Indian subcontinent because it expected oil record prices to curb demand in Europe and Japan.

In Singapore, manufacturing, which accounts for a quarter of the economy, rose 3 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, slowing from an expansion of 14.1 percent in the previous three months. In 2004, manufacturing grew by 14 percent.

"The first quarter was soft for business machines like printers and servers," said J.R. Ong, managing director of First Engineering, which supplies parts to Hewlett-Packard and Seagate Technology.

Singapore has offered tax breaks to lure drug makers to the island to reduce its reliance on electronics.

"For Singapore it's a double whammy from electronics and pharmaceuticals," said Nizam Idris, an economist at IDEAglobal in Singapore.

"Other Asian countries probably won't see such a sharp slowdown because they are largely affected by weaker electronics demand."
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RH:
1. Over the years, I have often read Singapore news like this one above in which the GDP drops several percent due to the pharmaceutical sector 'pills factory closed for cleaning'.

2. Now, I know that LIE KY LHL have spent billions to lure pharmaceutical companies to set up factories in Singapore BUT THE TOTAL NUMBER IS VERY SMALL, PROBABLY NO MORE THAN HALF A DOZEN. So, how is it that when 1 or 2 such pills factories close for cleaning, which they have to do now and then, THIS AFFECTS THE GDP TO THE TUNE OF SEVERAL PERCENT?

3. This means that the whole so-called pharmaceutical industry is so small it shouldn't even be called a sector. The case is exactly the same in the 'electronics sector', another grandiose term for a couple of Seagate disk drive factories. When 1 or 2 factories slow production, the effect is a couple of percent drop in the 'sector'. Thus, like every Look Good operation mounted by the LIEs, all the so-called "sectors" in Singapore's "economy" are pretty fake, false. Truth is, we don't really have an "economy", only a few factories making different products -- like pills or disk drives.

4. Thus, we have no economy, really. Only a couple of factories here and there. Everything is miniscule in scale. This means that our "GDP" is also not real GDP but a simple-to-manipulate number that very quickly and responsively responds to any incentive -- simply lure a few factories to set up in Singapore and voila! you have another "economic sector" boosting GDP several percent. And because there are so few factories, you can easily manipulate their production higher [or lower] at will, by giving incentives, etc.

5. Conclusion: Singapore has no economy. It is too miniscule an islet of 700 sq km [270 sq miles]. Singapore is not a country although it has every trapping of a country like President, Cabinet, Parliament, Ministries and even a very expensive military -- again, too miniscule. Its GDP is not real GDP but a simple sum total of a few hundreds of factory and office productions, mostly foreign. That is why, when LIE KY LHL pull out all the stops, 'GDP growth' can seem miraculous -- just a few factories increasing output. And based on these seemingly impressive GDP growth numbers, they award themselves even more millions in bonuses. Miracle workers? The most successful 'economy' and 'country'? No, more like David Copperfield illusionists.

6. How is this Great Illusion created? Here is the Secret: first, take the British-started CPF and enormously increase it to 40% of every employee's pay and bonus, the highest forced savings in the world. In just ~2 decades, you have billions and billions in govt coffers to play with, which you use to buy personal clout for yourself and big welcomes everywhere you visit, and to get Advisor positions on unscrupulous company boards who covet some of those billions invested in their companies.

7. However, CPF nominally belongs to the people, so to permanently take most of these monies, you make the British-started HDB [then called the SIT] the monopoly for 85% of all housing, then sell enormously overpriced flats at humongous profits paid for by the victims/people using their CPF monies, so they officially hand over most of their CPF monies to you. Also, to ensure they cannot take back what little is left of their CPF monies, you set rules to practically prevent any lump sum withdrawals, only small monthly sums upon reaching a very advanced age -- this is a classic pyramid scheme, with new workers CPF paying off the retired ones withdrawing their small monthly sums, so the bulk is yours to keep.

8. To further your billions, OverTax & UnderSpend on everything, from schools to hospitals, giving the moronic excuse of 'Deliberate UnderSupply For More Efficient Use of resources'. Make the people pay for everything. They cannot protest because you make it illegal to hold even a 1-man protest. You also repeatedly rig elections so need not fear being voted out. You blackmail voters into voting you or else their flats, blocks and neighbourhoods will be deliberately left to "degenerate into slums" meaning their flats' value will drop.

9. Control every mass media so that every single word or image is fawning and favourable to you. Over decades, there isn't a single negative word or image of you. Extend this papaganda to schools from kindergartens which you also build and control, to the 3 universities. Make even academics fear to criticise any of your policies by sacking some, like former lecturer Dr CHEE Soon Juan, now permanently unemployed and a bankrupt.

10. Prosecute and sue political opponents so that at every election, you are returned to power on Nomination Day itself, there being too few opposition candidates who dare contest. To ensure judges convict and find for your lawsuits, sack some like former Justice Michael KHOO. Also promote some like retired Justice Sinnathuray all the way to the Supreme Court for verdicting what you want. Promote to Chief Justice, CHAN Sek Keong when, as AG, he ridiculously refused to prosecute your son then-DPM LEE Hsien Loong together with PM GOH Chok Tong, DPM Tony TAN and PAP MP S VASOO for breaking your own law on illegal entry into polling stations as unauthorised persons.

11. Refuse to hold official commissions of inquiry when caught accepting illegal 15% discounts on purchases of luxury condos, totalling >S$1m in all for the famiLEE. Instead, hold a fake 'hearing' in Parliament and start by threatening the 2 Opposition MPs that you will sue if they dare say anything, so they kept quiet throughout. Then have every word and image airbrushed to appear innocent, cleared and angelic, by your tightly controlled media.

12. With your billions and billions, spend enough to make your little islet clean and green, very cheaply using huge hordes of cheap foreign workers, who live in exploited wretched conditions with squat toilet holes overflowing with faeces, living quarters so cramped they often catch diseases from one another such as chicken pox, etc, living in modified ship containers in secluded forest so the world cannot see the wretchedness. Spend enough on public buildings to look First World.

13. But the key to looking First World is luring the >26,000 foreign companies to locate in Singapore. This is done by giving generous incentives such as tax holidays, grants and free monies -- for example, the ~half dozen pills factories got billions in incentives. Never mind if you lose money on luring these >26,000 foreign companies, and never make money from them, they make your little islet look like the Hubs which you constantly boast of, a Hub of Hubs, etc. They are important because they do things your small little domestic rubber-slippers and plastic-pails-making companies cannot even begin to do and can never master the kind of skills needed for these truly First World foreign companies. These >26,000 foreign companies are what truly make your little islet First World. The Singaporeans they employ get good wages and learn First World skills and do First World kind of work in First World swank offices, gleaming office towers and modern factories. So, these >26,000 foreign companies are the key reasons you look First World, not anything local which you have, which are pathetically Second World at best.

14. To sum up, the real money is obtained by screwing the people, from the CPF-HDB nexus, which billions are what you see in the GIC which you make sure you and your son control. These hundreds of billions, together with more hundreds of billions in Temasek Holdings, which your daughter in law controls, give the impression of success. After all, what bigger symbol of success and First Worldness than billions? But these are all borrowed billions, which, when the tide turns and all the Bubbles burst, will have to be returned to the people one way or another, unless you let them starve and sleep in the streets. The other major component of First Worldness are the >26,000 foreign companies, lured here at great losses and expense, but which Look Good. Yes, if you use every dirty trick in the book to Look Good, you do succeed. At least, for some time until someone comes along and exposes your Secret.

Note: For the LIEs most recent cheap trick -- their 3rd Wave of Labour -- done as usual, to excess in the last decade or so, I highly recommend you read "ICONOCLASSING Pt 2": http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/2008/06/iconoclassing-pt-2.html . The point is that, since Singapore is too miniscule to be a real economy, importing just a few thousands of foreign workers pushes up the GDP by several percent, just like luring half a dozen pills factories. Hence, the addiction to importing relatively huge numbers of foreigners. When you have no ideas or understanding of how the economy works, you are a rat pressing Green Levers and thinking you are a great success, when all you are doing is distorting the entire little, miniscule islet's education, social, economic, housing, even cultural lives into one stupendously STUPID meaningless pressing of green levers to make more marbles drop into your cage. The unthinking, meaninglessness of lab rats.


RH: "It's like a certain Mr LEE who pays big money to a classy, well-dressed, well-groomed lady doctor driving a Lexus to rent a room in his HDB flat and then claims he and his flat are First Class because of the lady doctor."

RH: "Another Look Good sector is Chartered SemiConductor, started with enormous billions which were all lost. But never mind, LIE KY LHL got to boast of a "high tech computer chip wafer fab sector" which boosted GDP a few percent. Also, whenever Channel NewsAsia mentions the 'economy' in a telecast, they get to show a clip of clean room technicians garbed in dustless coveralls operating robotic arms handling wafer chips. Looks Good."

RH: "Basically, the >26,000 foreign companies in Singapore are First World; the LIEgime govt and all its local industries are Second World at best; while the low income and cheap foreign workers are Third World. Generally, you cannot go from Third World to First, especially by luring high tech foreign companies and hoping their First World skills and technologies will trickle down to Singaporeans and local companies. But they do Look Good and give your little islet a First World appearance."


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RH: ME ON VIDEO DESCRIBING lky lhl wks NUMEROUS ELECTION RIGGINGS:
http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Video%20RH%20on%20LKY%20LHL%20WKS%20cheating%20elections

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

MAKING HOME MOVIES IS THIS EASY:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2009/08/making-home-movies-is-this-easy.html
.

29 September 2009

Idea: YouTube News on demand

ComScore: Google Sites Surpass 10B Video Views In Aug
Wall Street Journal - ‎5 hours ago‎
Google Inc.'s (GOOG) sites continued to dominate online-video viewing statistics in August, as the company surpassed the 10 billion mark and took in 40% of all viewership, according to comScore Inc. The search-engine giant's popular video site YouTube ...
Labels and studios could have access to your YouTube metrics BetaNews
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RH:

1. I think the idea of a YouTube Current News or Hot News -- or just, News -- will work because, for a little money and work, the benefits -- and profits to Google -- can be huge. For example, currently, all the tv news channels create their news reports, then air them and maybe repeat some segments later, but soon all these are gone for good, overtaken by new news.

2. A YouTube News section would effectively be a re-run of these quite-latest news videos, thus giving each news segment a new lease of life, a kind of recycling and re-use -- easily searchable and dowloadable at will with just a search. This means that all the tv news channels will only be too happy to give away their news stories videos for free or a small share of the profits.

3. For example, if a news video from CNN or BBC is aired then 'discarded' or lapsed, the editor could quickly and easily take the news story, say, about Zimbabwe's Z$100 trillion dollar note, convert it to YouTube video format and upload it to a pre-defined YouTube channel, say, a CNN or BBC News channel -- thus without any work from Google. The editor would also type out all the tags for this video, to make searching easy. This takes only seconds and any news editor would do this really easily and well. Since every word read by the tv news reader would be first typed and edited in digital form, it is possible to take the entire text of news copy and put all this into the tag, probably automatically omitting all the useless words. [However, off the cuff remarks from the news reader or 'live' quotes from a speaker would not be in digital form, so a little work is needed to type out enough of these 'live' spoken words as tags].

4. Also, Google would have to decide if a news story on the Z$100t note for example, should be pure news story or could include an ad or commercial within it. There is a money making possibility to insert a 2-second silent Slide advertisement into every YouTube News channel video. 2 seconds are enough because that's how long we look at an ad in a newspaper or online. Besides, if the viewer is interested, he can pause the video at the Slide for a longer look, even note down the url to visit the webpage. Inserting the ad Slide can even be done automatically, say, at the exact halfway point of the newscast or its approximate -- with slight adjustment to find a silence, 'nobody speaking' point lasting probably ~0.5 second at the end of a complete sentence, to insert the 2-second slide. All in all, it will be just a blip and then the newscast resumes. This ad would be cheap and simple to create, not be too irritating and can generate huge revenues. However, this is a policy and profit matter for Google and participating news channels like CNN, BBC, etc. Of course, Google may initially need an editor to review each news story to set editorial policies, etc, but once these policies are determined and agreed to by the participating tv news channels like CNN, BBC, etc, even this Google editor may not be needed, since all the big tv news channels operate under far more restrictions than YouTube in general.

5. The result of this idea would be to create a vast bank or repertory of video news stories that anyone can search for and watch. Currently, there is no way we can get hold of a 'discarded' or 'lapsed' news video, so this idea actually creates a new form or genre of watching tv news -- or watching YouTube videos, if you like. This is like news videos On Demand, only shortly after it has been telecast on regular tv news channels. This will benefit many people who cannot watch a news telecast at a certain time but now can watch it on demand, at a time and place of their convenience. If you missed a Bloomberg news telecast, now you can watch it on YouTube. If you want to watch all the news telecasts on say, the latest G20 meeting, you could now, on demand, watch every news video on this on YouTube, in all the languages and as reported by all the news telecasts in the world. Thus, the world is better off. There is now a back up copy of most news stories telecast, a permanent video record of what is happening in the world, available for future historians and lay researchers.

6. It also means you are not tied to telecast times. Since there is likely to be a YouTube back-up copy of the tv news telecast, you can now watch it at your choice of time and place. This is a great advance in tv news watching. It also effectively lengthens the lifespan of every news telecast, way into the indefinite future, forever.

7. For Google, not much work. Just ensure you double and quadruple your YouTube servers and bandwidth because YouTube content will really multiply and re-multiply -- literally explode. Just ensure that tagging is comprehensive, for easy searching and cross-searching. For the world, now, news videos on demand, from anywhere, in every language, without need for a tv or cable news subscription, just your pc and a broadband connection -- and a good Chrome OS and good Chrome browser optimised for this kind of YouTube video watching because many will now get their daily news fix from YouTube. A new world of news and information without borders or restrictions.

8. This idea will be good news for telcos, too, because once people start watching their newscasts on computers via the Internet YouTube, they will also do so from smartphones, which can already access the Internet. Here, a good cellphone OS and browser optimised for video watching will further this development. There will be many smartphone apps to quickly and easily bookmark Favourite YouTube News channels for regular watching. Ideally, these apps should make it easy to go to a desired YouTube News channel, stream the first news video so that the user can start watching in seconds, and while he is watching the first video, the next video should stream in the background, so a continuous video watching experience almost like watching a telecast. All these are easily do-able with current technology already.

9. Many young people do not watch the news much. This idea may bring back this lost generation because they grew up with the computer and the cellphone, and this idea puts the News right into computers and cellphones.

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RH: ME ON VIDEO DESCRIBING lky lhl wks NUMEROUS ELECTION RIGGINGS:
http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Video%20RH%20on%20LKY%20LHL%20WKS%20cheating%20elections

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

MAKING HOME MOVIES IS THIS EASY:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2009/08/making-home-movies-is-this-easy.html
.

18 September 2009

Ideas: Inertia Theory and Similarising Effect Theory

RH:

1. Newton's First Law, Inertia, may be stated: "An object at rest tends to remain at rest while an object in motion tends to remain in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an external force."

2. I believe that Newton's First Law applies not only to celestial bodies and smaller everyday masses, but even more so to Govt and all Human affairs.

3. In other words, INERTIA is the great human condition and it explains much of our successes and failures and anyone who seeks to change the world or his country -- like Hatoyama -- will more likely succeed if he takes into account this very human Inertia.

4. Some examples of Inertia:

a. In 1965, LIE KY wept on tv announcing that Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia. He knew Singapore was finished, will collapse. But to his amazement, weeks and months followed and life went on business as usual. The big British trading houses in Malaysia, and the numerous Chinese businesses, continued to send their goods to Singapore for export. Slowly, LIE realised that Singapore would not collapse. So Singapore, like Hongkong, continued to thrive and prosper, to this day. Lesson? States, govts and humans tend to continue doing the same things day after day unless acted on by an external force big enough to change that. A trajectory, once set, is almost impossible to change, which is why hated dictators like LIE can continue indefinitely and Singapore can continue to prosper on the trajectory [including British administration, law, port hub commerce, etc] set by the British, as in Hongkong.

b. Recent US disasters like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina did not collapse New York and New Orleans. Life went on business as usual and people did not lay down and gave up hope but instead turned up for work within days.

c. Zimbabwe has printed Z$100t notes but life still goes on business as usual and Mugabe remains in power.

d. Millions starved to death in China and North Korea not long ago but life went on business as usual and the govts remained entrenched.

5. All these show, not so much the resilence of humans, but their lack of imagination and creativity, and inability to think of alternatives to their predicaments, so thus quietly accepting their fate whatever that may be, even starving to death. In other words, continuing in a straight line until acted on by a big enough external force.

6. Yet it is this inertia that saved mankind and humans and while we should understand it, we should not eradicate or reform it to such an extent we do the human race in, or our countries and communities in. For example, it takes a pretty plodding, uncreative, unimaginative kind of man to wake early every morning, carry pails of water from the river to water his crops and keep doing this every day until he can harvest and eat. A less unimaginative and less uncreative man would refuse to daily toil and resort to killing and robbery to get the other man's harvest. Hence, you have the 2 classic types of people, the primary food producers and those who prey on what they produce. Today, nothing has changed. There are those who produce and those who live off that produce while they themselves produce little or nothing. Marx described them as the capitalists vs the workers, or bourgeoisie vs the proletariat. Today, politicians, even those in govt, are the bourgeoisie, too, living off their people. Politicians, including govts, not only serve their own interests and agendas, but have become the problem, not the solution. If we could somehow govern ourselves without politicians, we'd all be better off. Today, a kind of Govt By Referendum is already possible but it will not happen unless 'acted on by an external force', thanks to Inertia. Without an external force, people will continue to remain in inertia, unimaginative and uncreative in a straight line trajectory.

7. What if people are NOT unimaginative and uncreative? Look at the most imaginative and creative country in history -- the US -- and the most unimaginative and most uncreative -- China -- and choose which you would want to create, assuming you can conjure up enough 'external force' to overcome the inertia.

8. The US has given the world the internet, computers, MNCs, earth-destroying military technologies, most of its popular culture from rap and moonwalk to blockbuster 3D movies; but also drugs, serial killers, random drive-by shootings, Woodstock hippie-ism, schoolkids who attend school only for fun and to organise parties, workers so switched off and uncontrollable they produce shoddy goods they themselves won't buy, etc.

9. On the other hand, China has 1b more people than the US but produces far less ideas and inventions. It is so plodding its students routinely practise 100 sums a day and score near full marks in universities overseas. If Chinese were to suddenly become like Americans, China would fracture in less than a decade.

10. Happily or unhappily, nothing much will happen, thanks to inertia. This inertia explains why the "OBAMA first term is turning out to be a Bush third term". Why the US is still in Afghanistan and pursuing pretty much the same anti-Russia policies following the straight line trajectory from the Cold War, especially in Central Asia. Inertia also explains why China, which could easily squeeze the US simply by dumping some or all US$, cannot. Not that it cannot, but more because China doesn't have the imagination or creativity to imagine what would or could be the result, so better to do nothing -- inertia.

11. Inertia is so much the, not just a, human condition, that it applies to individual humans as well as their govts and societies. Many Americans have become unconventional and taken to drugs, free sex, school shooting sprees, even kidnap and murder, and dropped out of 'mainstream' life, but they are a tiny minority and the vast majority still work 9-5, Mon-Fri, with 3 weeks annual leave, and keep at it year after year.

12. The American trajectory was set in the last 230 years or so while the China trajectory was set in the last 5,000 years or so, which implies that probably, the American trajectory is easier to change than China's. This probably explains the greater experimentation in lifestyle, culture, business organisation and methods in the US, and the overall greater imagination and creativity, not forgetting this could be bad.

13. OBAMA won his Presidency on the promise of Change, but it looks like he cannot create enough of the kind of 'force' that could change trajectories. He needs a 9/11 kind of force that helped BUSH change trajectory and invade Iraq. OBAMA himself has to understand why he is also following a trajectory before he can change it. Similarly for Hatoyama. He not only has to understand what is and why Japan is following a trajectory, like everybody else, but why the economic trajectory has remained unchanged for a dozen years -- if he wishes to change it. Then, he has to find a 9/11 force to succeed. It will not be easy and I wish him all the luck in the world.

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14. The above 13 paras more or less conclude my theory on Newton's First Law in Govt and Human Affairs, or my Inertia Theory. It stands by itself regardless of my second theory below on Imagination and Creativity even if this be discredited.

15. I call this second theory the "Similarising Effect".

16. I have noticed that many, if not most, geniuses work alone or even are loners. Throughout history, the wise men of the tribe was often alone, exempted from the normal hundrum work of producing food, tending animals, the usual 'drawers of water and hewers of wood', etc. Often, when the wise men needed inspiration or insights, they would go alone to the holy mountain to get inspired. The question is, why alone? Can't they think great thoughts and insights while bustling around their community actively involved in all the daily affairs? It seems not. Not only are they alone or loners in habit and temperament, from a practical standpoint, they obviously cannot think unusual thoughts, and therefore potentially great thoughts, if they need to hew wood and draw water. In short, they have to be alone.

17. I would go further and postulate that these geniuses or wise men cannot think different if they are surrounded by too much sameness. In other words, if they allow themselves to be surrounded by too many people, too much sameness, they BECOME just like them, like their surroundings, and lose their genius or wisdom. They have to go alone to the mountain. Even in the midst of their community, they have to be alone, to gain their great insights and wisdom.

18. This could be because of the Similarising Effect. I believe that all human beings, and maybe animals and even plants, too, tend to become more and more like one another with constant interaction and over time. I say this because all 6.8b of us here on earth now are almost exactly the same, AND THIS IS ASTOUNDING! Why should we all, all 6.8b of us, have 2 eyes, a nose, 2 ears, etc, and even more astoundingly, our eyes see exactly the same subtle shades of colour when our retinas absorb the same wavelengths of light! Our nose perceive the same subtle perfume, our tongues taste the same pepper or lime tastes. All of us and our traits, fall into the Bell Curve with only a tiny few at both ends of the bell. This is astounding, or should be. How come there aren't many dwarfs and giants, people with 3 eyes, 10 hands, etc, when we are all busily evolving and mutating? Thus, there must be a powerful, physical, force that makes us more and more similar to one another, when we are close and interact enough in community.

19. There is an obvious evolutionary benefit to sameness. The more same we all are, the less different and therefore, less conflicts there are, and we all get along fine. Even babies instinctively notice people who are different. This is inborn and being the same, or rather, NOT being different, means being accepted by others and the community, and therefore important for survival. To be different, like a gay, usually means ostracism, even hatred and physical attacks. Thus, my Similarising Effect helps explain xenophobia, too.

20. Note that community members are very alike but different communities are different. For example, all 1.3b Chinese are so similar we instantly recognise them as Chinese but can instantly tell them apart from Whites or Blacks, by several traits including height and body size, etc. This can be explained by assuming that the Similarising Effect 'makes people living and interacting closely, more and more alike', while across communities, they are all different because they are not close enough or interact enough, over time.

21. We know the terms 'herd mentality' and 'groupthink'. These are well understood but the explanation is my Similarising Effect. When you are close enough and interact enough, over time, you become like those you are close to. EVEN THINK THE SAME, TOO. This is why people who are alone, or loners, are able to think different. They are free from the powerful Similarising Effect.

22. I cannot end without a practical advice. If you want to think different thoughts and thereby potentially great thoughts, the last thing you want to do is convene a meeting or committee. You'd do better to ask everybody to go into isolation and think, before meeting to discuss. Long term, you should always go into retreat, preferably alone, for as much time as possible. This way, you are more likely to think different, free from the Similarising Effect. That said, thinking is a skill and the more you do it, the better you are at it. Sadly, most people don't think so they cannot think. Once you have started, it gets easier and easier. This is why geniuses can think such astoundingly different thoughts and keep doing it at will. Be alone and gain the world of understanding.

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05 August 2009

Idea: Made FOR China business strategy

RH:

1. This new essay is a rambling mashup and a further development of 3 earlier emails of mine:

A. an article "Homegrown CBHD discs outsell Blu-ray by 3-1 margin in China" at http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/08/homegrown-cbhd-discs-outsell-blu-ray-by-3-1-margin-in-china.ars

B. my earlier email on my "Poptimum Effect" which states "If there is such a thing as an optimum pop for industrial success, Japan's 127m pop may be it. It is just big enough for economies of scale and customer size for R&D, product development and improvements, to produce world-beating products, yet small enough to force companies to aggressively market and sell to the rest of the world. America, with 300m, may be too big, being a big enough, often the biggest, market all by itself, to bother exporting and customising its products to sell outside the US. We can call this the Poptimum Effect."

C. the article "For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Get Tricky" at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/technology/companies/26mozilla.html

which include my following comments:
RH:
a. From this article, it seems that while Mozilla and its Firefox will not soon lose Google's funding and shared aims, here is a "In Case Of Fire, Break Glass" idea that may provide Mozilla with alternative funding, programmers and code-writers, and even a new purpose in life should Google's Chrome and other browsers reduce Firefox's current popularity.

b. The idea is simple and in a word : China.

c. China today is beginning to feel confident about its place among the top countries in the world after a successful Olympics, next year's likely successful World Expo in Shanghai, the passing of the crucial 300m internet users mark so now China has more internet users than America has people, some US$2t in the bank, a desire to obtain the latest tech esp IT, and growing use of pcs and the internet in China govt and businesses.

d. All these means a China govt that may be interested in acquiring some ownership and say in a high tech company. Currently, the US has forbidden transfer of high tech to China, essentially regarding China as a potential enemy but Mozilla is not really the kind of sensitive high tech that the US govt may want to restrict. Besides, with >300m internet users, all of whom need a browser, what is more logical than to target and focus more on Chinese users?

e. With regards to funding, if Mozilla ever needs funds, it could approach the China govt and offer some kind of a deal. In return for funding, Mozilla could give China some kind of a seat on the board, some kind of ownership and some kind of say. Here, the China govt is likely to be reasonable and not really want to take over and dictate how the company is run or change policies. Everything will more likely be largely symbolic. Only Mozilla can offer this kind of a deal because the other browser makers are purely American companies, from Microsoft, Google to Apple. So, only Mozilla has a diffused ownership and corporate structure that will arouse no special anti-China sentiments on the part of the US govt or people, while China obtains a seat in a largely diffused company.

f. Also, since Mozilla is open source, there is no transfer of tech. In fact, the bigger problem is that since Mozilla's core techs are open source, what would the China govt get out of it? Here, Mozilla could start looking into the China market for browsers and Chinese users of browsers and see if there are opportunities to produce a Chinese version of Mozilla more suited to China than your current multi-lingual browsers. Here, you can be cunning. You know that the China govt is trying to clamp down on online porn and certain sensitive political websites and search engine results. If you can customise or tweak a China version of Mozilla to achieve these, you could have a deal. There are also peculiarities of the China govt that you can cater to. In short, customise, tweak or create a China version of Firefox for Chinese users. You could, for example, use baidu as the default search engine for this version.

g. Language translation is also important. It would be nice if your browser can translate websites and websearches from English, etc, to Chinese, on the fly. If you are the best in doing this, you should have a deal.

h. China has 55 ethnic minorities numbering >100m or ~10% of the pop. If you can cater to these minority languages, you would also have a strong case, since official China govt policy favours its minorities.

i. The China govt and businesses are using and increasing their number of websites. If Mozilla can create good, open standards for creating websites of various kinds, from news webpages to online retailing, and propagate these to the Chinese, this will also spur adoption of Firefox. Like everywhere, there will be increasing use of videos and audios, including animations, and all these can make Mozilla even more valuable to Chinese users.

j. In short, China is not exactly like a Chinese language version of America. There are distinct differences, in need for control of porn and some political websites and even searches, as well as vast ethnic minorities who need, and can be, catered to, esp language-wise.

k. Once China comes onboard, and Mozilla commits to a Chinese version of say, Firefox, not only would the China govt provide some funds, but also probably encourage China programmers and code-writers to join in the effort. This will be mutually beneficial. The Chinese programmers know better than anybody else what China is and isn't. Or what kind of features are most likely to succeed in China.

l. You probably don't need all this for some time but you never know. In the meantime, start looking at China as a growing market of >300m internet users, and growing, growing, growing...

2. From para 1 above, taking the article on the stunning success of CBHD, then allowing for some Poptimum Effect, and then taking my comments for Mozilla, what would be the way forward for both China and those orgs like Mozilla that may learn to do business with China such that both win-win?

3. To illustrate what I am trying to say, we all know that Toshiba developed the rival to Sony's Blu-Ray DVD [BD] that was known as HD-DVD. It lost to BD and prob lost much money. Whereas now it seems that CBHD, which the article says used some tech from HD-DVD, may well succeed and maybe even dethrone BD ultimately. Or force Sony to reduce prices so much that it will be little profitable. Is there a lesson to be learned? What if Toshiba had gone in with the China developers of CBHD from the very start? Would Toshiba then have won and beaten Sony? Here, we may see the Poptimum Effect having a very big effect. China is so huge that it can create any standard or format it wants and it will have enough users to make it viable and even profitable. I remember buying a cheap little Chinese mp3 player that also played video -- not in any popular format but its own Chinese format. A video-playing watch I bought online from China played mp3 and videos in the China .mtv format, not any of the popular formats used in the West. An American who also bought a China player also asked in a forum about getting a converter program to convert videos to .mtv to play on his player. In other words, given China's huge Poptimum Effect and its still-growing mass of users of everything, companies like Toshiba may well find success BY DEVELOPING FOR THE CHINA MARKET FIRST BEFORE TAKING IT WORLDWIDE. If Toshiba had done that for its HD-DVD, it may have beaten Sony today.

4. In other words, whatever you are thinking of developing, you had better consider developing it FOR and maybe also IN China. This is not new, in a way. For the last few decades, The Market was the US. Every product was designed with the US in mind. It was not only the biggest market but also the richest, able to afford the best. If Jeffrey Sachs on CCTV-9 last night is correct, that free-spending American market is gone, at least for years, maybe forever. Another sign that free-spending, 'money is no object', kind of American buying of all manner of goods is at an end is the low [~8%] penetration rate of Sony's BD players in the US. That is now threatened by China's CBHD, which seems likely to succeed and even displace BD. Of course, developing a product FOR China and maybe IN China means being price-conscious, since the Chinese buyers are not the free-spending Americans but it means that IF YOUR PRODUCT CAN SELL IN CHINA, IT CAN SELL EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. Even in the US and other rich countries. We are seeing a huge economy of scale never seen before in history, that can take even a technically inferior standard like .mtv and still make it a success. Just like prob CBHD is inferior to BD but may still triumph in the end. This huge economy of scale will increasingly dictate how companies develop and sell their products. If companies continue to focus on the free-spending American consumer like before, they may well find that their new products, while technically superior, may still lose in the end to cheaper China products, developed either by Chinese companies or in joint ventures with foreign companies. This happened before, to Sony, when its Betamax lost to VHS. In other words, it is not enough to develop something that is technically better, to win. It has to be a hybrid of price-features that may not be the best technically but at such a price point that products sell furiously. If Sony's BD loses out to CBHD, it will be the Betamax war all over again. This time, the decider will be the 1.3b people in China. And the hungry Chinese companies that are furiously developing everything for them and the rest of the world.

5. There is another phenomenon that bears on my essay : many new products are far better than they have to be or need to be. Every week or so, I walk into Best Denki and the most eye-catching displays are the huge flat tvs. Every few months, their specs get better and better and once in a while, noticeably sharper and more brilliant picture. Yet I don't buy. Why? My few years old 37" flat panel plasma tv is good enough. Besides, the tv channels I watch are not HD anyway. So the phenomenon is that new products are far too good. True, they start off expensive but get cheaper quickly, especially when the even newer, even better replacements come on stream. Unless you are an increasingly extinct American 'money no object' kind of spender, everybody else needs to calculate price-features equations and would settle for something not as sharp and brilliant, not as elegantly thin, but much cheaper tv. This is where China will make most of its breakthroughs.

6. This Made FOR China business thinking will soon be alongside the Made In China business thinking, which is already so well established it needs no elaboration. Made For China business thinking is prob best exemplified by the success story of CBHD. I had in a dim way, anticipated this with my essay on how Mozilla can produce a custom version for China's >300m internet users. Mozilla, like every other maker of hardware or software in every field from blue ray laser disc players to Linux operating system, can profit from a focussed and deliberate Made For China business strategy. For example, Linux has languished behind Windows. What if Linux were to develop a version specially targetted at China's >300m users? It could take off like a rocket. And because China is quite like Taiwan, Hongkong, Japan and Korea in language and culture, and further, to most of Asia, a Linux success in China could mean success in the whole of Asia. Thus, a Made For China success could be extended to Taiwan, Hongkong, Japan, Korea and the rest of Asia. This implies somewhat that its present failure, if it can be called that, is due to its focus on Made For USA or at least, Made For The West. That could be the limiting factor that has denied Linux the explosive success of sheer numbers, which could in turn translate into bigger successes in features and usage.

7. To ramble on, suppose Linux and FireFox were to adopt the strategy of Made For China. It could start by customising a version for Chinese users, cunningly tailoring features for the China internet and its peculiarities. When customised enough, Linux and FireFox could consider going [backwards?] from open source to proprietary. In other words, Linux and FireFox's China version could very well be sold to a China company or the China govt, which will then develop it further to whatever they want. The advantage for the China company or govt is that it doesn't have to develop from scratch, which is not only difficult but almost impossible to catch up with the leaders as even the mighty Google will find with its Chrome operating system when it appears, just like its Chrome browser is lagging far behind the leaders. When the leaders are not standing still, but running hard, and you start from scratch, it is almost impossible to catch up. Thus, for the China company or govt, to develop a China Linux and FireFox version from scratch will be difficult but to buy over a version together with the key people involved, will be far easier. There are legal implications of who should get the money since many developers contribute code to open source softwares but nothing that cannot be thrashed out. All those who contributed code should get some money; more for the bigger contributors. If the practice is established of open source being bought over to become proprietary, and all those who contributed getting some money, the open source movement will benefit because then, more people will be willing to contribute, in the hope that if it goes proprietary one day, they might get paid.

8. I would hesitate to call this Made For China strategy new. It is already prob practised by many firms operating in China, from foreign firms to of course, domestic firms producing for their local market. What I hope to do is to crystallise the thought that firstly, most big firms have consciously or unconsciously, declared or undeclared, had a policy of Made For America as their core business strategy. This now has to change to Made For China AS A CONSCIOUS, DECLARED STRATEGY. If you believe my arguments above, and your own further thinking, then you will profit from this new business strategy, whether you are an American firm like Mozilla, a Japanese firm like Toshiba, or from any other part of the world. China, on the other hand, has to think through all the ramifications if many companies adopt this strategy, in other to encourage and support it if it is considered beneficial to China and its companies. There is much work to be done but most of it thinking. I have merely fired the starter's gun.

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25 July 2009

Ideas: H1N1 solutions

http://news.google.com.sg/news?q=h1n1&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn

RH:
1. Now that you earthlings seem to have given up the fight against H1N1, some temporary and permanent changes to the way we live, work and do business seem necessary :

a. develop a cheap and effective vaccine so that enough at-risk people can be vaccinated
b. H1N1 can either be regarded like dengue fever etc, which is sometimes fatal, or like the fearsome SARS which is more fatal
c. H1N1 may be between the 2, that is, between dengue which we don't do much about, and SARS, which causes too much economic and social losses for society to accept
d. H1N1 is probably here to stay like dengue and there may be more of such unfightable flus, H1N1 v. 2.0, etc, coming along, given earthlings' now greatly increased travel, overcrowding, and the increased and enhanced abilities of bugs to mutate and develop into threatening forms

2. What then are possible solutions, given that solutions must be cheap, reasonably effective, easy to implement, for universal application in rich and poor countries and areas alike?

3. Probably the first of these would be a powerful liquid or gas bactericide sprayed from a cheap, simple sprayer. Such are probably already available so it is a simple implementation measure to ensure that all walls and floors, and preferably ceilings, doors and door handles, too, are sprayed regularly to kill any bugs that may be floating in the air or touched by infected persons who may have transferred their bugs onto their hands. Thus, doors and especially door handles must be sprayed. Long-term, you may want to design doors and door handles to be opened with the foot, which is not difficult, so get your designers and inventors going. If the bactericide for all the walls, etc, is long-lasting, you'd only need to spray once in a long while, preferably no more than once a month in high-risk areas like hospitals.

4. In almost every office or govt counter where counter staff have to interact with the public, it is unfair to subject them to exposure to an unregulated public that may not be as diligent or conscientious in keeping hygienic enough not to pass on flus and bugs they may have, so glass barriers are needed to prevent direct droplets of bug-laden coughing to infect the counter staff. These glass screens should also, like the walls, floor and ceiling, and especially doors and door handles, be sprayed with the bactericide -- both sides, in case it is the counter staff that have the flus, not the public. This is good for psychological reassurance and reduces resignation or not taking jobs as counter staff when epidemics break out.

5. For poorer countries and areas which cannot define, print and publicise tenders, and pay the successful contractor to construct such glass screens, you can use thin strips of cheap, clear plastic sheets sprayed with bactericide or better still, impregnated with the bactericide at the factory. These strips work like flypaper, but will be clear and transparent for glass-like maximum visibility, and, depending on the seriousness of the risk of infection, either overlap each other to form a continuous barrier, or form spaced-out or gapped type barrier with 2 or more barrier screens one behind the other like this _-_-_-_-_-_, or even be spaced slightly apart in a single barrier screen to give a non-barrier feel or effect. This last method of spacing or gaps will let through some germs but this may be OK depending on the estimated risk. Balance between looks and appearance and the risk of infection. These bugstrips, like flypaper, will be suspended from the ceiling onto the counter or even to the floor depending on need. To fix, you can even simply tape the plastic strips to the ceiling. Some light designs are possible on the strips, unlike with glass, which is harder to print onto. So it is possible to have bright, pleasant designs on the bugstrips. You can have these bright designs [changing to festive designs and motifs for Chinese New Year, for example] pre-printed at the factory or print designs yourself on standard plastic sheets on an ordinary inkjet printer and then scissored and fixed, glued or taped onto the bugstrips. However, this will cover any bactericide already impregnated into the bugstrip at the factory so must be sprayed again. Since the bugstrips will hang from the ceiling while the maximum visibility need only be around the eye level over the counter, there is ample space to print [and affix] any custom designs or letterings you may print on an inkjet printer. For a neater look, you can manufacture a bugstrip holder that is about 50cm to about 100cm, easily cut with a knife or small saw to length, bendable into curved or straight lines to fit around the counter for best looks. This bugstrip holder will be easily screwed or fixed to the ceiling or ceiling boards and allow quick and easy clip-on changes of the bugstrips, like for festive occasions or when torn and tattered. Each bugstrip can be about 5cm to 20cm wide and as thin as possible for maximum clarity but thick enough to hang down nicely, and to be made of the clearest plastic. If you choose a very thin plastic, you could weigh down the bottom with some decorative weights.

6. If a place is in heavy danger of bugs, such as hospitals and some clinics, these bugstrips may even be hung all over a room or corridor or walkway. You would have to estimate how much surface area you want [coated with bug-killing bactericide] for how much risk of bugs floating in the air. This could require people to walk into and brush past such strips, if these are hung below their face/head. Not very elegant but possible.

7. H1N1 is not easily detectable by human-temperature scanning since, I believe, it takes some time for the temperature to rise and an infected person could already be spreading the germs before any detectable temperature rise. But there are no easier way to detect fevers except through temperature rise, so this must continue to be one of the main solutions. However, until such thermal scanners can be cheap enough and tiny enough to incorporate into such as cellphones, as one forumer suggested, the most practical way could be for all or most of the cctvs, which are always located in public places, to incorporate such thermal scanners, with an automated alarm system to trigger a highlighted recording for playback later, any person who came into view in the scanner and found to have a high temperature. The alarm, if noted in realtime by such as security officer, police, or even residents in a block since some cctvs display their feeds into the tv sets of residents in a block, could lead to further actions to determine if the scanned person is infectious.

8. Almost all pcs have a webcam nowadays and pcs are ideal for processing information, including from a thermal scanner built into the webcam, which may be included quite cheaply, with the corresponding appropriate software or application. If pc webcams are used, then, given the ease and quickness with which digital processes are done, almost every pc webcam user can be required to turn it on, scan themselves, and the result, daily or so, can be easily captured in a database for managers to note and act on if necessary. Many pc users will not hassle to take thermometer readings of themselves but will quite happily switch on an app on their pc especially if that app is fun, entertaining or required by their office manager. With laptop webcams fitted with thermal scanners, every laptop becomes a thermal scanner or fever detector, so can be taken to any function or gathering or a classroom or kindergarten and everybody scanned. A gps chip now costs only US$5 so if the thermal chip is incorporated into every laptop and pc, its price could be as low. Software to go with the thermal chip could be open source and free.

9. Now we come to the regulation of infected people. In Hongkong, people who have a cough do wear medical masks to protect others. This should be encouraged with public campaigns, then maybe also made compulsory. In short, anyone with a cough should/must wear a medical mask. This means that all crowded public places should have individually-sealed masks available free. People should take one only if they put it on and not take them away for sale or others to use. On buses and metro trains, there should be such masks available and public opinion should encourage any cougher to take one and put it on. Make coughing in public as obnoxious as smoking in public. There are many similarities and thus amenable to similar public campaigns. However, I suggest that such masks also be impregnated with bactericide at the factory, to kill the germs at source. Otherwise, when such masks are thrown away, usually into rubbish bins, they are a biological hazard to cleaners who clear the rubbish bins or even to people who breathe near the [open design] bins because masks coughed into may release their germs, either right from the moment they are thrown away, or when the coughed up droplets dry up thus releasing the germs to float into the air. Any such bactericide should be non-irritating to the face areas covered, such as the mouth and nose.

10. Finally, keeping the hands clean is important. This means that handwashing taps, sinks and basins should be everywhere, especially at eating places. Wet tissues impregnated with bactericide in handy packs should be encouraged to be on sale everywhere so that everyone would carry a pack and wet-wipe their hands as often as desired. Shops, supermarkets and vending machines should make these widely available. However, every pack of such bactericide tissues should carry warnings whether they can be used to wipe eyes, nose, mouth and other sensitive parts.

11. The above are mostly passive measures. For a slightly more active measure, you could develop cheap and simple Air Cleaning Machines. These machines would look much like one of the currently available rollable or portable aircon machines that are simply rolled to any part of the room near a window, and it would suck in air, cool it and pump it back into the room while expelling the hot air though a plastic flexible hose of about 5cm diameter out the window. In our case, the Air Cleaning Machine would simply suck in air from a room, pass the air through a bactericide solution, thereby killing all the germs, then expel the cleaned air back into the room -- even warm or cool the expelled air depending on whether heating or cooling is needed for the room. You would need several of these machines for a big room. Somewhat like this idea here : http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Clean%20Air%20Ideas%20for%20HK%20Email%202%20Plan%20B .

12. In para 10a of this essay [ http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Ideas%3A%20%20Improving%20air%20travel ], I have discussed thermal imaging of passengers aboard a plane. This still holds good, I believe. Airlines may also want to consider using some Air Cleaning Machines aboard their planes, preferably built into the airconditioning system, if they do not want to reduce the amount of recycled air, which is about 50% for most airplanes. If a liquid bactericide solution is impractical, as would be the case in airplanes, HEPA filters can be used. These filter out almost 100% of airborne particles. Here, costs and practicality would determine which is used. You could also impregnate HEPA filters with bactericide to help kill germs.

13. Finally, here is a general idea not only for H1N1 but all epidemic diseases that may come along in future, which is a certainty. If the new epidemic causes too many fatalities to ignore, then, once recognised as a new strain of dangerous epidemic,

a. complete a detailed questionnaire for each and every infected patient, ESPECIALLY NOTING WHAT ILLNESSES HE/SHE HAD SUFFERED IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS OR UP TO SAY, A YEAR
b. forward this questionnaire, which should preferably be fairly standardised, to a central database, such as that of the World Health Org of the UN, which would then make all the data totally accessible to all countries' medical orgs who want to query the database and preferably continually updated and put on the internet
c. the questionnaire's main aim is to determine IF EXPOSURE TO A PREVIOUS ILLNESS CONFERS SOME OR ENOUGH PROTECTION TO LESSEN THE FATALITY OF THE CURRENT EPIDEMIC
d. note that there is an illogic here because we should be looking, not just for any previous illness that confers some protection but that people who are thus protected MAY NOT EVEN CATCH THE EPIDEMIC IN THE FIRST PLACE AND THEREFORE WILL REMAIN UNKNOWN AND WILL NOT BE FILLING OUT THE QUESTIONNAIRE. I do not know how unsick people can be asked to fill out such a questionnaire or be examined by doctors for their immunity, so I will just give up and let you people think of a solution to this illogic
e. suppose from the database, we discover that most of those who had suffered from Illness A in the past few months suffer less fatality than those who did not, then we have a basis for another solution
f. which is to deliberately infect at-risk people with Illness A so that if they catch the current epidemic, they will not die
g. this is actually the purpose of developing a vaccine for the current epidemic but vaccines take a huge effort in time and money to develop, and costs even more to inject enough people because vaccination needs expensive manufacturing of the vaccine, plus the medical facilities and staff to inject people in costly and troublesome mass exercises
h. so I propose a far more radical idea, which is to cultivate the germs of Illness A and spread it to the wider population as a cheap, effective and convenient method of 'vaccination'
i. this presumes that the Illness A is so mild that nobody, even vulnerable young or old, will die or be very sick from it
j. however, lawsuits and moral outrage could still ensue if even a few die from Illness A, so it is better to infect only those who want to be infected, in a controlled room filled with Illness A germs, which participants can simply walk through, through airtight double entry and double exit doors to keep the germs in and from escaping out. This will be cheap and easy. A participant would get a letter from his GP doctor, go to one of these centralised Infection Rooms, and simply walk through

14. Para 13d above is so important I must stress it again here. The key to fighting a new epidemic is not to study the sick but those who are unaffected even in an already-infected community, preferably with the epidemic still raging strongly. It is hard to study people who are not sick because they have no reason to present themselves for examination but they are precisely the key to why the epidemic failed to sicken them. If health authorities can devise a way to haul in large numbers of these unsick people who are likely to have been exposed to the epidemic yet remained healthy, we could find the key to defeat the epidemic, or ways to stay healthy even in the face of epidemics, that is, what are their common characteristics -- diet, exercise, lifestyle, etc?

15. On the other hand, after having surveyed large numbers of unsick people, if and when some of these do fall sick to the epidemic, it is possible that their recent past medical history may point to common characteristics THAT MADE THEM MORE VULNERABLE TO THE EPIDEMIC. This is as important as discovering what common characteristics they have for NOT falling sick. Thus, in both ways, we can better fight epidemics. Since we are going to see more and more epidemics, this surveying of large numbers of unsick people must become a standard procedure in fighting epidemics.

16. So, earthlings, some changes are needed because H1N1 and its cousins are here to stay. With these measures and a diligent public health regime, hopefully, as few people will be sickened or killed as say, dengue or some other diseases we have all learned to live with. Amen.

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Idea: Influencing the Chinese tourist wave usage of local and US$

http://www.forimmediaterelease.net/pm/1925.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism

Rank ↓ Country ↓ International Tourism Expenditures (2007)
1 Germany $82.9 billion
2 US $76.2 billion
3 UK $72.3 billion
4 France $36.7 billion
5 China $29.8 billion
6 Italy $27.3 billion
7 Japan $26.5 billion
8 Canada $24.8 billion
9 Russia $22.3 billion
10 S Korea $20.9 billion

RH:
1. Here are some unfocused, random thoughts on China outbound tourism.

2. As the above table shows, China in 2007 was already the 5th biggest tourism spender abroad, spending some US$30b. According to an outdated World Tourism Org projection around 2005, China will be the world's biggest tourist spender by 2035, a year that should now be brought forward in view of the economic crisis in the US and EU which is impoverishing the top 4 Western countries while China continues robust GDP growth. As the above table shows, China already outnumbers Japan in outbound tourists and Chinese tourists spend as much, often more than, Japanese tourists, due to many Chinese tourists often being given money and tasked to buy [often luxury goods, a favourite shopping for most Chinese for various reasons] goods for family, relatives, friends and even neighbours resulting in the phenomenon of 'shopping for a group'. The average Chinese tourist spends US$1,000 per trip on shopping alone.

3. All this means that Outbound Tourism can be used as an economic pressure by China, either to favour and build better relations with another country, such as Taiwan [by directing or encouraging Chinese tourists to visit Taiwan] or the opposite, by reducing or discouraging visits, since China does require Exit Visas to leave the country to visit another. Even without exit visas, China can probably influence its outbound tourists. Economic pressure is often better than military pressure and far easier and cheaper, since the Chinese tourists will travel overseas anyway, and spend their monies, so channelling them here or there is extremely feasible and easy, costs nothing. Other countries are unlikely to be able to tit for tat because they cannot control or influence their outbound tourists coming into China. Control does not mean all or nothing. It can be a slight or big reduction in exit visas, or discouragement through higher taxes, levies or fees on all kinds of tourism-related applications or govt services.

4. Chinese tourists seem not to have any credit cards except for the beginning use of the China-issued UnionPay credit and debit card. If so, this could be a problem. For example, if a big proportion of the US$30b [2007 figure] spending overseas are paid for in US$, which is not surprising since many countries accept and even prefer the US$ to their own local currency, then China would need to hold at least several multiples of that proportion in US$ leading to losses if the US$ is devalued or falls. This means that if China can influence its outbound tourists and tourist agencies who pay for the tourist groups' hotel, transportation and even meals, to use local currencies, and not the US$, to pay for products and services, this will greatly reduce China banks and institutions having to keep vast amounts of physical US$.

5. On the other hand, what would be the ramifications if Chinese tourists and tour agencies are encouraged to carry the renminbi abroad and then to either settle their bills in renminbi or exchange them into the local currencies? This would internationalise the renminbi somewhat and make it more of an international currency. The 2007 figure of US$30b is set to increase many times in the next few years, given the huge % increase in outbound Chinese tourists every year.

6. Another way to eliminate the risks of China banks and institutions having to carry huge amounts of physical US$ in view of demand by Chinese travelling overseas, is to issue One-Time credit cards only for use abroad and not valid for use in China. This should be easy to arrange by Chinese banks and institutions, which can guarantee the cards and guarantee repayments to foreign merchants demanding payment. This can be a lucrative service for China banks. A simple way to issue these One-Time credit cards is to require the prospective Chinese tourist to have or put enough money into the bank either in his personal Savings or Fixed Deposit accounts -- Business or Company accounts probably not qualifying for this. He must leave a minimum sum or % until after his overseas bills are settled. Thus, this ensures that all credit card holders are solvent and not depend on credit or owe the bank for his overseas spending. After this condition is met, the bank issues a One-Time credit card with an expiry date of say 1 to 12 months, depending on how long the particular trip is and also, how often he travels abroad. Longer expiry dates would require better financial standing and maybe, a higher fee. Having a credit card is more convenient since most tourist facilities in most countries accept credit cards. Also, since all the tourist spending is thus on credit, only when the merchants forward their claims for payment would the bank then pay out, in the merchants' local currency, thereby eliminating the need to carry or hold US$. For prudence, banks would only allow total or almost total withdrawal of the initial Savings and Fixed Deposits by the tourist only after all the bills have been settled, plus a margin of a month or so for safety. Thus, a bank issuing such One-Time credit cards will get more depositors opening accounts, so good for business -- at least, for those banks allowed by the govt to issue these credit cards. With computers so advanced, it is possible to set different maximum spending limits for each card or each category of card [which could be proportionate to the expiry date]. Lost or stolen cards would be subject to much the same terms, penalties and safeguards as say, VISA cards.

7. Another way to encourage more buying of non-US local currencies and therefore to discourage buying of US$, is to levy a small fee on top of the usual exchange rate commission. In other words, if a Chinese intending to visit Thailand wants to exchange his renminbi for US$ instead of Thai baht, he pays slightly more. This should increase the China banks holdings of most other currencies and reduce its need to hold US$, thereby reducing risk of losses should the US$ devalues or falls.

8. The sum of US$30b in 2007 is big enough to look into. It will get bigger and bigger and so deserves a thorough look and review.

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

MY ONLINE POLICE REPORT ON LKY LHL WKS CHEATING ELECTIONS:

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THE MOST COMPLETE RUBBISHING OF LEEconomics EVER:

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17 July 2009

Idea: Why China should place Confucius above the Rule of Law

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RH: How Law began

From: Robert Ho (ho3@pacific.net.sg)
Subject: RH: How law began
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RH:

1. Above many courts of law is usually a statue of a woman holding a
scale in one hand and a sword in the other, usually blindfolded to
indicate that she is blind to persons of status or privilege. It is a
nice artistic presentation but sorely mistaken in point, like many
works of art created by artistic souls who do not understand the true
nature of what they are portraying. In this case, if you think that
law is the handmaiden of justice, you are sorely mistaken. Like many
myths that mankind has invented to glorify its sordid acts, like
democracy, for instance, this notion of law being justice is totally,
totally wrong.

2. How so?

3. Well, to begin with, law is not justice. I would define justice as a sense of natural justice that almost all of us are born with,
intuitive and instinctive. From early childhood, we know that if we
are good, we usually receive praise or some other tangible reward. Or, more to the point, if we are bad, we receive a scolding or even a
caning. BUT IF WE ARE CANED WITHOUT HAVING DONE ANYTHING BAD, WE
RESENT THE CANING LIKE HELL, BURNING WITH A SENSE OF INJUSTICE.

4. There, the sense of justice and injustice is inborn.

5. The sense of justice or natural justice is also ingrained in us
from early childhood by the inevitable squabbles with siblings. When
food or something nice like candies are dispensed to us children, we
all expect a fair share. If one gets more and the other/s less, the
shortchanged sibling raises hell. I now deem to have proven my point,
that the sense of natural justice is inborn and not taught. I believe
monkey studies should also prove my point.

6. What then, is law? if it is not a direct derivation of justice?

7. For that, let us look at the most famous laws of all, the 10
Commandments.

8. These seem to be the handmaiden of justice. Do they not enforce a
conduct that is just? Are they not justice?

9. No, no, no, no, NO!

10. Firstly, most of them begin with "Thou shalt not...". In other
words, they are commands or orders. Ah, orders! We begin to see the
light.

11. In other words, laws are orders, usually prohibitions. Usually
all negatives. Many with prescribed penalties for infringements of
these orders.

12. We begin to see the light.

13. If the 10 Commandments are orders, so, too, are all other laws,
from the most ancient to the most modern. This gives us a clue as to
the true nature of law.

14. In other words, law is an instrument of control, NOT JUSTICE!
With something of a blinding flash, we realise that laws are designed
to control people, NOT to create a just and equal society.

15. Now, think back to the 10 Commandments. God gave Moses the
tablets so as to enforce his will upon his people. In exactly the same way, politicians [who make the laws] devise laws to control their people and not for any fancy notions of creating justice for all. And since all politicians are corrupt and self-serving, this means that laws are never just in the natural justice sense of the word.

Politicians devise laws to control their people and populations, to
enforce their will exactly like God gave Moses 10 Commandments to
enforce his will upon his people. In so-called democracies, the need
to get re-elected does somewhat ameliorate the corrupt natures of the
rulers so they do need to temper their laws somewhat, but still the
true nature of their laws are also for social control, not justice.

16. Why is law necessary to enforce the will of the ruler? Cannot he
simply dictate his will?

17. Well, in the olden days, long, long ago, that may have been
exactly the case. Long ago, the head of the tribe probably summarily
ordered the people around and gave verbal instructions as to what
cannot be done, for example, criminally defame him, for instance.

18. But with time and growing complexity of tribal life, no single
chief could go around giving orders and deciding who should live and
who should be tormented and tortured. It was simply too much work. So, law was invented as a generalised form of the orders of the chief.

Instead of the chief having to be brought to each alleged evildoer to
decide whether he was innocent or guilty, to be released or punished,
a written set of laws would become the generalised orders or commands
of the chief. And when the chief himself could not personally decide
all the cases, judges were invented to take his place as the decider
of guilt and punishment.

19. In time, this became law. Notice that even in our modern times,
the phrase "law and order" often go together. This close relationship
of the two shows that order is the true nature of law and not justice.

In fact, we often are puzzled at why and how some obviously guilty
persons are let off free while others receive what we feel to be
inordinate sentences. This, again, indicates that natural justice is
no longer, if it had ever been, the handmaiden of law but that order
and commands are -- in short, the instruments of social control.

20. By now, we have an elaborate system of law and the procedures of
the court. Judges even wear special gowns or even wigs to appear
infallible or to project an aura of superhuman ability. Pooh, pooh.
Underneath, they are often no smarter than you or me, especially me.

21. To sum up, if you ever had the airy fairy notion that law is
justice or has anything even remotely to do with justice, forget it!
Law's first and only purpose is social control, to enforce the will of the guy in charge, or the biggest bully. Even the playground bully
makes laws, such as how often to pay him money and how much. Or to be
careful not to talk bad about him or he will beat you up. This is the
true nature of law. If I have raised some doubts in you about the true nature of law, and set you thinking, then my time spent in writing this essay will have been very worth while.

Robert Ho
11 Jul 04
Singapore 0703

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RH: :Philosophy of Law all wrong and how to put it right

From: Robert Ho (ho3@pacific.net.sg)
Subject: RH: Philosophy of Law all wrong and how to put it right


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RH: Having had about half a dozen tangles with the law, at the wrong end of the law, that is, I have ruminated about the nature of law and come to some surprising observations.

For instance, notice that law is fixatedly associated with punishment. In other words, the whole business of law is only to lay down what is NOT permissible, infringement of which draws a prescribed punishment.

Why should it be that way, or remain that way?

Why, for instance, can not law prescribe rewards for compliance with
the laws? After all, any psychologist will tell you that rewarding
good behaviour is far more effective in eliciting a desired behaviour
than punishing an infringement of a rule. The carrot, they say, works
better than the stick.

Even the statue of justice is a woman, a goddess presumably, carrying
a scale balance in one hand but a fearsome sword in the other. [She
wears a blindfold to indicate that she is impartial; but on our City
Hall and Supreme Court Buildings, if I remember right, she is NOT
blindfolded, which is very appropriate; next time you pass by, see if
I am right].

This one-sided emphasis on punishment thoroughly skews the whole
business of government, which is mostly about laying down the law and, of course, prescribing the punishment for any infringement of those laws.

For example, because of this, all leaders see themselves as Punishers, rather than as Encouragers. They spend all their lawmaking time devising punishments to, hopefully, fit all the various degrees of crimes that may be committed for any law they want to pass.

And then, having thoroughly sown the entire edifice of law with
copious declarations of what is not permissible, and the resulting
punishments thereof, leaders and governments devote the entire justice system to catching offenders, determining their guilt, and of course, laying on the punishment, which tends to be harsh in Singapore so that drug takers are forcibly interned in Drug Rehabilitation Centres, drug carriers are hanged, and many other offences have their offenders' buttocks split with a well-oiled rotan.

Think what could happen with a legal system that rewards good
behaviour as much as it punishes bad. That is, using both the carrot
and the stick.

For supreme 'good' behaviour that we want to encourage, we could give
medals, for example, in the US, giving say, the Congressional Medal of Honour to UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, for being Anglo-Saxon enough to volunteer his people into a war that had nothing to do with
anyone's security, let alone Britain's, a war that is a US naked grab
of Iraq's oil and strategic location.

Or, for another supreme reward for 'good' behaviour that we want to
encourage, we could give Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, another hefty
pay rise of a million or two. Oh, I forgot, he already gave himself a
'salary' of S$2 million or so. [I put a quote mark on the word
'salary' because the ordinary meaning means 'payment for work done'
which is not the case of Lee, since he has hardly done any work for
ages].

You get the drift. Reward people for good behaviour. Like income tax
deductions for every year that they remain crime-free. Even a road tax reduction if you did not even get a parking ticket that year.

This could translate to outright cash gifts or National Vouchers
[think of a slicker name, please, readers] for sports heroes who won
big games for the country, etc, with smaller incentives for smaller
organisations like clubs, etc. Or the scientist who invented a nifty
gadget that saves lives in hospitals. Or recognition for a Mother
Theresa. [Need not be money because there're tonnes of other rewards
than money].

Wow! This could change society dramatically. This could change the
nature of government. From seeing itself as keeper of the laws to
encourager of all that is best in human nature.

Instead of keeping eyes peeled for infringers, this new law under this new philosophy will keep its eyes peeled for do-gooders. Before we know it, we could have a society of polite, considerate, even
altruistic people that each and every subsequent generation will grow
up to be, even if this present generation is a write-off.

Human nature itself could change. And, with it, the world. Did someone say that "to change the world, begin with yourself"? Before you know it, we'd all be fighting [oops, wrong word?] to be last through the door: "After you", "No, after you, please".

Children would grow up knowing that good guys win something. Schools
will be founts of encouragement where good behaviour will constantly
be proven to be better in the long run, than short-term rule-breaking
advantages.

We'd all believe in Heaven again. And no priest need dwell on the
other destination.

This "emphasise the positive, not the negative" approach will be
difficult to bring about because for too long, since that idiot Moses
brought down 10 rules, law is all about the bad in people, not the
good. God should have given him other tablets. So, it was God's
original mistake. Any wonder that weak-minded non-thinkers like Lee
Kuan Yew tried to be God by being sadistic, thinking that this is
God-like?

Of course, changing the world before dinner [apologies to the
PowerPuff Girls] is not done in this one posting or two. I have
planted the seed. Future generations can grow it with water and manure -- both very necessary - meaning arguments for and against.
Philosophers and lawyers and judges and lawmakers and most
importantly, people, real living breathing people, will want to put
their collective thinking caps on and see how it could work.

Who knows, when the best and most complete exposition is made, and it
is deemed a good act, the expositor may get a reward as encouragement, too?

Robert Ho
17 Nov 03
UK 1549 Singapore 2349

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1. The above 2 articles I wrote years ago have questioned the most fundamental basis of law and if they have put some doubts in your mind about the nature of law and questioned your previously unquestioning notions of what law is or isn't, then gee, you are intellectually honest. If not, you are probably LIE KY, LHL or the PAP.

2. I have little time to ruminate further, except to illustrate my above articles with 3 true-life legal events that I happened to notice, not that I am interested in law or are exposed to it any more than a taxi driver.

3. The first is that of the case of Prof Shorvon : read more about it here :
http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=shorvon&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

What I want to point out is that when the Singapore Medical Council, egged on by LIE KY's daugher, Dr LEE Wei Ling, who took over Shorvon's post when he was forced out in disgrace, went all the way to London to file a civil suit against Shorvon, the judge acknowledged all the legal points brought by the SMC and allowed their full impact, but HE STILL ACQUITTED SHORVON. He threw out the case. This proves my point that judges and lawyers and politicians are no better or fairer in implementing justice than anybody else. British judge, too.

4. The second case also relates to the LIEs. Since LIE KY is a very careful man, and he takes excruciating pains to paint himself in the best light possible, to put on a great show, so to speak, he usually sends his best lawyers to London to ask the opinions of QCs as to whether the words complained of are indeed "defamatory" and whether LIE KY "has a case" in suing the hapless victims. Always, the QCs asked to give such opinions would pocket the huge cheques and then proclaim that indeed, the words complained of are indeed "defamatory" and that LIE KY "has a case". However, these very same QCs who proclaim that in their opinion, the words are "defamatory" and that LIE KY "has a case" never take the case in court and it is always left to the trusty PAP MP, Davinder Singh, I think his name is, an SC [equivalent to UK's QC] to argue in court.

5. The third case is simply the huge numbers of cases whose verdicts have been overturned by a higher court thereby proving that even judges don't know the law. Or the facts. And this despite both sides being given ample time and resources to prove their cases before courts which follow proper procedures of fact-finding and legal arguments. What more of the one-sided case of Robert HO who did not even know what he was being tortured for in the initial years. Nobody has ever asked for my side of the story. Nobody has ever even tried to probe into my [in]sanity and state of mind. Nobody has ever given me a chance to answer any question that may be put to me. Nobody has heard my defence, to this day.

6. So, I urge all of you who have heard the gossip and false one-sided stories about me to contact me for the full story, to give me the chance even simple income tax evaders get, and that is a fair hearing in court. If you are a Democrat or Republican Presidential contender, I would welcome your interest even more. Let's get all this into the papers. Let us light up the sky. Let us do justice.

P.S. I met my first psychiatrist in 1976 and his first report was that I was suffering from "paranoid delusions of a persecutory nature" and this probably led to the verdict of "Not guilty on ground of Unsound Mind". He continued to treat me until today, with a change of psychiatrist around 1990/1 when I was at Adam Road Hospital. At Adam, I underwent electroshock therapy, a very serious treatment that could have broken my thigh bones if they were not properly anaesthetised as the electroshock causes such great body and brain convulsions that my leg muscles could have snapped my leg bones if they were not properly sedated. If I was sane, would Dr WONG Yip Chong there have electroshocked me? If I was sane, then how come Dr WONG couldn't tell? Similarly, my regular psychiatrist, Prof CHEE Kuan Tse, has been trying to prescribe heavier and heavier doses of ant-psychotics all these decades from 1976 when you and I know I don't need such heavier doses because I am doing fine with my current doses. How come Prof CHEE cannot tell if I am sane or insane or whether I am having a relapse or not? And Prof CHEE singlehandedly trained 75% of all the practising psychiatrists in Singapore so he is not some amateur. The truth is, there is no easy test to tell sanity from insanity. All a psychiatrist has is a 15 minute interview. Plus some observation notes from the nurses in the ward, if warded. That is why you can fool any psychiatrist into thinking you are sane or insane. Indefinitely. And psychiatrists' inputs and feedback to the politicians as they draft their laws are thus far from accurate or fair. Law is an ass anyway and worse still, in Singapore, where LIE KY doesn't even bother with medical or legal niceties but just does whatever he fancies, especially when what he fancies can bring fame to himself and Singapore, a huge publicity stunt that has been worth billions. What do the Americans get out of it? Just shame, that's all. Eternal shame.


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RH: Why Law is a disreputable subject

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RH:

1. I have ruminated again and will deign to pronounce my weighty
conclusions on the nature of Law and why it is a disreputable subject
unfit for study by good students.

2. To begin with, consider who makes laws?

3. The answer is, of course, Parliament. Or, Congress, in the US.
However, remember that Parliament, or Congress, consists of
politicians, elected often in total indifference to a huge minority or even a majority of their voters. And often elected by crook as much as by hook. With heavy donors to their campaigns often being able to put their interests first instead of the voters' interests.

4. In short, almost all politicians are corrupt.

5. This makes the laws that they pass, suspect, to say the least.
Corrupt politicians cannot be relied upon to pass laws good for the
country or the people. They can only be expected to pass laws that
keep them in power, as we have seen in Singapore, or that benefit
their campaign donors, as we have seen in the US. Thus, corrupt
politicians cannot pass good or intelligent laws.

6. This means that the entire edifice of law is bad. Since corrupt
politicians do not pass good laws, that is, laws good for the country
and its people, but only laws that perpetuate their power or enrich
themselves, law is a disreputable practice capable of great evil and
little good.

7. What little good that some laws do is entirely due to the
politicians' need to get re-elected. In Singapore, there has never
been such need and so, there has never been any good laws. Any 'good'
law in Singapore has been due more to the politicians' desire to
control and manipulate everything, rather than to do the right thing
or the thing good for the country.

8. Now, if almost all politicians are corrupt and cannot be expected
to pass good laws, then consider the nature of law-passing itself.

9. You will agree that most laws are little more than plasters to
stick to perhaps a deep societal wound, sore or condition. By that, I
mean that if the govt notices that there is too much litter, or
spitting, or toilet users not flushing the toilet after using it, it
passes a law outlawing such behaviour.

10. Thus, most laws are born out of a perceived need to outlaw
something or some acts. This is always a reactive act to a growing
social problem. Too many people jaywalking? Pass a law punishing it.
Drivers having accidents while talking on the handphone? Pass another
law. People taking drugs? Pass another law allowing for forced cold
turkey treatment in detention centres. Drug pushers? Pass another law
allowing for hanging them. Thus, most laws are reactive to current
problems. Most laws are little more than plasters to the societal
conditions.

11. And over time, the whole body of law resembles a human body
covered with plasters all over, and about as effective or intelligent
a way of keeping the body in good health and vitality. Let alone
develop the body into a really fine specimen of life and meaningful
existence. Remember that most politicians are not lawyers and so, are
fully capable of passing bad laws, evil laws, and even illegal laws
that are sometimes overturned in court. Blair and LKY were lawyers but are just as incapable and unthinking as non-lawyers.

12. Thus, there are many bad, evil, wrong and even illegal laws in
almost every country except in totalitarian ones where no independent
judiciary exists to challenge such laws, or an intelligent public
question such laws. We have only to look at the laws that have been
overturned in court challenges and outdated laws that often need to be repealed in the light of current society, to realise that law as an institution, is far from perfect or even competent as an instrument of govt.

13. Since society is changing faster and faster, often with new
technologies, and law is always playing catch-up, being reactive
rather than anticipatory, this means that law is becoming less and
less competent for the proper regulation of society. We have only to
look at the business and accounting scandals of the big businesses in
the US in the past few years to see this.

14. Thus, as society grows more complex and change comes faster, new
institutions growing perhaps out of law or separately, may be needed
to cope.

15. Thus, to recap the last few points, putting a law [plaster]
everytime there is a new problem [societal condition] means that there is no central vision [the whole body] in law, only a hotch-potch of plasters covering the body instead of a whole-body holistic solution or central vision. If there could be a central vision which then determines how the plasters and other treatments and ameliorations can be applied, the health of the whole body politic may be much improved.

15. To take another tack, consider the Constitution. This is the
closest to a central vision for law underpinning all laws passed by
Parliament. [Singapore does not really have a Constitution since the
PAP majority can and has changed it as easily as passing an
anti-spitting law, and with about as much debate or reverence].
However, the Constitution is usually a legalistic document and usually just another set of laws that may be repealed, amended, or added to, by Parliament exactly like any set of laws. As such, it does not provide for a central vision.

16. So, perhaps, for more democratic countries like the UK and the US and most EU countries, especially where there are flourishing 2-party democracies, a Sub-Constitution may be established. Or as many
Sub-Constitutions as there are real parties contending for majority
govt. There needs to be one for every party because there can never be total agreement on what the central vision should be. If there is
total agreement, then it is likely to be so basic that it would be
useless as a guiding vision.

17. This Sub-Constitution or central vision for each party, would be
simply amended by simple majority, unlike the actual Constitution,
which requires two-thirds majority. From this central vision would
flow all laws passed by the party in power, for example, whether to
nationalise industries or privatise them. Whether to foster
independent trade unions or favour companies. Whether to have free
medical care or partially or fully paid for by patients. Whether to
have free schooling up to university. Whether to have a totally free
media or some control. How and when to go to war. Etc.

18. These central visions would be a more permanent statement of each party's platform. A kind of permanent platform. They will not be party manifestoes because party manifestoes change too quickly and are subject to becoming mere election blandishments.

19. These central visions would be an instant summary of what
policies or set of policies a winning party would legislate for. While manifestoes would change quickly and tactically, these central visions would be more permanent and the party in power would have to be seen to legislate according to its central vision, hence the need to have it committed in a Sub-Constitution. If the incumbent party passes a law that can be demonstrated to be against its central vision, the courts may challenge it. Of course, some of the articles in central visions of opposing parties may be exactly the same. But there would be enough differences to tell quickly what each party stands for, and to hold that party to its central vision, by law, if necessary. Party manifestoes are often abandoned when the party gains power. This central vision would be harder to break. It also serves the useful purpose of distinguishing the parties, especially when the voters do not follow politics closely enough, like most voters everywhere.

20. In other words, the voters need only look, or be reminded of, the central vision of a party to know what they are voting for.
Manifestoes will then only be the steps to achieve the central visions and may be tactically devised to win elections. A party would have a Party constitution but once in power, it cannot be held to its
constitutional promises. It can even do the reverse of what its
constitution promises. However, the central vision, as a
Sub-Constitution, ensures that no legislation passed by the incumbent
party can go against it. The courts will ensure this since the
Sub-Constitution has the force of a Constitution subject to
interpretation by the courts.

21. If nothing else, this Sub-Constitution will clarify and simplify
politics. Politics today in almost all countries does not have a big
following even among the voters most affected by their govt. Apathy,
lack of time or interest are common everywhere. Also, most parties are becoming closer and closer in their policies often abandoning any
ideologies they may have started out with. This Sub-Constitution
should clarify and simplify the business of choosing a govt the voter
can live with and ensure the kind of legislation and thus government
he voted for.

22. It would also help to create a new political environment where
policies and issues are deciding factors instead of personalities. The Sub-Constitution will be the major electoral differences facing voters choice rather than personalities. It will therefore focus on
intellectual debates rather than personality attacks. Policies and
government rather than how a candidate appears and speaks. This can
only be good for voters, the govt, the country and ultimately,
democracy itself.

23. The articles below are from earlier postings and are part of my
original thinking on the topic.

Robert Ho
27 Apr 04
UK 1522 Singapore 2222
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From: Robert Ho (ho3@pacific.net.sg)
Subject: RH: Expiry dates for all laws?
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From: Robert Ho (ho3@pacific.net.sg)
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slicer77ee@yahoo.com (SLICER) wrote in message news: ...
> Like all other ' current ' topics, the recent case of a youth
> executed for drug trafficking will be debated and as usual , the
> debate will fall into two groups. Was he really guilty or not
> guilty?.
>
> One group would content - " well if he is guilty, then he should be
> punished, The other side would then counter arguing on the
> technicalities.
>
> This would go on for a few days and then some other 'hot' news item
> takes center stage as replacement. There are umpteen number
> of cases which raises questions of a fundamental nature, if allowed
> to.
>
> The game starts all over again only when another similar case of
> justice or its miscarriage of it grab the headlines.
>
> The sad part of all this is that the REAL and FUNDAMENTAL issues
> are not addressed at all. They get to be ignored totally by the
> constant barrage of 'guilty or not guilty ? ', crime and
> punishment debate.
>
> What we should be asking ourselves is about the very basis of the
> laws that are on the statute books. We fail to do that all the
> time.
> As a nation we pay a heavy price for this ignorance.
>
> How are the laws enacted ?. Are they just written down into the
> books and decreed as laws, by force of unquestionable authority of > an omnipotent state ? - " This is the law, you better obey it or
> else ".
>
> If this is the case, then indeed, a big gaping flaw already exists.
>
> Laws are based on enshrined constitutional rights and principles.
> Which again takes its root from the principles of natural justice.
> They are subject to review and determined to see none of them
> violate the principles of natural justice or constitutional rights.
>
> Then again, it does not stop there. It becomes law only through
> a parliamentary nod. But the parliament must be duly elected body,
> through YES, a free and fair election, to grant it legitimacy in
> the first place.
>
> This is a very important part of the justice system.
> It is the root from which the secondary branches such as the legal > as well as the judicial system take their directions and guidance.
>
> A law is not sacrosanct, holy or final, unless it is thus vetted
> out.
>
> Over the past three decades, we have been brainwashed and beaten
> into accepting as our natural duty, whatever is shoved down our
> throats.
>
> Even questioning the authors of these laws was considered illegal
> or not acceptable behavior. So like Pavlov's dogs, we have become
> used to telling ourselves " this is the law, we must accept it ".
> No further arguments, please.
>
> As long as these state of affairs continue, there is not much
> point in debating issues of 'guilty or not guilty'.
>
> The real culprit that should be in the dock for examination, is the
> law itself.
>
> There are no constitutional rights for the citizens.
> There are no free and fair elections.
> There are no principles of natural justice even taken into
> consideration
>
> All what we have here is ' This is the law " .
>
> To be a first world country, these issues need to be addressed
> first and foremost.
>
> That is what primarily makes a developed nation and a first world
> country above anything else.
>
> Merely having BMWs and large flat screen TVs does not place us in
> the first world. Let us not fool ourselves.

RH: Many good points, food for thought. How about if the world places an 'Expiry Date' on each and every law that is passed [by necessity also having to put Expiry Dates on all old laws, too]? That would firstly, enshrine the important point that laws are only temporary 'solutions' to current problems in society and not Moses' 10 Commandments'-type 'for all time' solutions.

By having all laws as temporary solutions, we allow ourselves to
acknowledge that human nature and morality, ethics, values, etc, are
also non-permanent and non-rooted in fundamental human nature, AND CAN CHANGE, THEREBY REQUIRING CHANGING SOLUTIONS WITH TIME.

Once we acknowledge that laws are mere contrivances to solve current
problems, we disabuse ourselves of the notions that somehow laws are
permanent and therefore human beings are of permanent natures. For
example, recently, a Muslim in UK killed his teenage daughter for
going with white boys, an 'honour killing' that, of course, cannot be
understood by the white judges. By not over-regarding the law, we
improve its effectiveness and powers.

See law as temporary solutions, like say, a company's rules on
overtime pay rates, or release of information to outsiders, or wearing of casual wear on Fridays, etc, and society will be better off. Paradoxically, the law will then, shorn of its pretention to eternal rightness, be better obeyed and enforced. Then, lawmakers will not enjoy this Godlike powers of making permanent rules for the obedience of all peoples for all eternity.

Expiry Dates on every law will require a relooking into every law when the law is about to expire. Relooking will require deep thought on whether the law is still needed in the light of current times
[Singapore's Internal Security Act will, of course, need to be
rejustified instead of being allowed to continue indefinitely]. There
will be debate. There will be agonising. There will be pressure groups for and against the Renewal of the law/s. All this can only be good for the country. Good for the legislature [otherwise they have nothing to do but collect their MPs pay for nothing, except the infrequent warming of the Parliament seat once only a few times a year, while nodding to sleep].

Expiry Dates will reinforce the notions that all things in society are temporary, from standards of porn and censorship, to drugs use and abuse, to strictures governing relations between state and individual, individual and individual, corporation and individual, etc.

Different laws will, of course, have different Expiry Dates. Some laws will be fairly 'permanent', others can be expected to have a short shelf life. This is good because it will require detailed study and analysis by judges, lawyers, sociologists, philosophers, etc, not just politicians. This call for expert consideration, plus debate in the media and awareness of the issues by citizens, will all lead to better behaviour, which is what law is all about. Laws are only for the regulation of behaviour or the encouragement of lawful behaviour. With such close study on every law, due to the need to justify its very existence, its term of reference, its shelf life, better laws will be created.

What do you think?

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RH: Slicers' post and my thread have argued for a look at what the
law is and what it should be. Just to add a short note: if a victim of a crime, for good reason, does not want 'justice' to be meted out to the offender, then the State has no business in insisting on meting out 'justice' when such meting out hurts her as much as the offender!

Thus, it is the height of the ridiculous to insist that 'justice' as
defined by the powers that be and inflicted by the powers that be,
even if it hurts her, must be carried out irregardless. Thus, she becomes a victim twice over, once by the offender which she has already forgotten but suffers another by the powers which totally distorts her life. Thus, it is Moses Complex at work here, not 'justice' and only those with little understanding of their own psychology and need to play God can justify such a vicious campaign of hate, torture and humiliation. There, the truth is out. It is ultimately not 'justice' but a power play of the most vicious.

Robert Ho
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RH:

Ever wondered why most human organisations like States, Nations and
Kingdoms are usually run by one man?

Why couldn't States and Nations be run by a council of wise men or a
partnership of say, 2-3 men?

Ever wondered why most rulers are men, with women distinctly a rare
species, when they make up half of the human race?

Ever wondered why this one-man rule is the rule even in smaller human
organisations like clubs and societies?

I don't believe that a council of wise men or a partnership of 2-3 men cannot work. Why can't there be co-Presidents instead of just one
Idiot President, like Bush? If there were co-Presidents, the US
wouldn't be able to inflict on Iraq the sorry mess it had done.

Why can't there be co-Prime Ministers in Singapore, for instance?

Why must there be only one supreme ruler?

My point is, since absolute power has such powerful ramifications to
the society and country ruled, such power should better be split among 2-3 equal co-PMs or co-Presidents. It is entirely workable. Especially now with better communications technologies and better ways of working and arriving at policies and decisions. For example, joint authoring of papers is entirely feasible and common now, with modern computers and writing software.

Similarly, reports are easily copied on photocopiers and multiplied
exactly to give every joint PM or President equal access. There is
nothing to stand in the way of co-PMs and co-Presidents, etc.

Joint TV press briefings or addresses to the nation could very well be done by joint PMs and joint Presidents, for instance. In private
cabinet meetings, it is even easier to discuss policies and actions,
etc, both as a group and by joint PMs or joint Presidents. Nothing
difficult at all.

So, why the continuing one-man rule?

The answer, I believe, lies deep in the most fundamental unit of
society -- the family. Every family has a father, a mother and
children. Sometimes, there are the grandparents as well.

Thus, in this most fundamental unit of human organisation, the father
is the one who rules. And as father, he sets the rules by which the
rest of the family may live by, especially the children. He enforces
the rule by force [spanking] if necessary and by withholding food and
privileges. He can play favourites, and choose to favour one against
the other siblings. Thus, he is the most powerful person in the family unit.

He is the Father Figure.

And from this sole supreme ruler in the most basic unit, other human
organisations copy the structure of this family unit, so that, today,
from clubs and societies to the State itself, only one man may be
found to be ruling the organisation or State.

Thus, one-man rule is a throwback to the past when the man of the
family was the sole economic provider [although it is probable that
the woman of the house was as important in that she was the one who
gathered crops and cooks the food]. She, nevertheless, plays a
subordinate role, having little say in the ruling of the family.

Thus, this relic of the past has continued to this day, with the
Father Figure firmly established as the only ruler model, from clubs
to States.

Why should it?

Why cannot a council of wise men work? Why cannot a partnership of 2-3 men [and women] work? There is no reason at all, except that probably no one thought of it until today, with this my posting.

Father Figures enjoy power. They make the rules, just like the PM and
President make the rules by which all must live. Some enjoy it so much they will kill and murder and act viciously to gain power and then to enjoy using or abusing that power. It feels God-like to make rules for all others to obey and even more God-like to punish those who infringe the rules or even to question the rules.

Thus, a key aspect of the Father Figure is the Moses Complex. I call
it this because of the 10 Commandments that Moses was supposed to
bring down from the mountain. Rules, again.

The Father Figure who does not understand himself, [practically none
of them do], does not realise that in playing God, he is merely
engaging in simplistic pre-civilised behaviour from the Stone Ages. He thinks that it is right that, being at the top of the human pyramid, he has the right to make laws and to enforce laws. A God-given right.

Even more than making laws, it is even more fun enforcing them, to
punish those who infringe his laws. The law assumes something of a
sacrosanct nature, a big taboo which cannot, must not, be broken.
Thus, this Stone Age behaviour has been retained till now in most or
even all societies.

The Moses Complex explains many things. Why the one single ruler at
the top enjoys making and enforcing rules so much. Why it must be
enforced even when it is totally stupid. And the consequences
disastrous, even.

Every ruler, especially supreme rulers, invests his rules with a
messianic fervour. His rules are cast in stone with the backing of God himself. His rules cannot be disobeyed or challenged. He himself may not live up to his own rules but all others must. On pain of death and terrible retribution.

This also explains why there are so many dictators and near-dictators
in the world today. And why there are no co-PMs and co-Presidents in
the world today. Not because this wouldn't work but because the Father Figure is the easiest metaphor in rule. The State or society as simply an enlarged family unit. And the Father, the supreme ruler.

Much of today's ills in the world would be gone if we had more co-PMs
and co-Presidents instead of the single supreme rulers, if only
because two heads are always better than one.

The EU is the only possibility now of a system of co-Presidents. In
the EU, rotating the Presidency takes too long. There are simply too
many states in the grouping. Soon, it will be as many as 25, if I
remember correctly. A system of 2-3 co-Presidents would work there. I
see no reason why not. Thus, the EU could lead the way with a system
of co-Presidents.

As for the rest of the world, nothing much will change. The top
leaders will always want a one-man show. The Father Figure from the
Stone Age. A throwback to the past. An inabliity to think and innovate in the most important arena of life -- the ruler.

Father figures love one-man rule. It is almost God-like to make rules, like the 10 Commandments. And to enforce obedience to these rules. Thus, much of the ills of the world arise from one-man rule. There are far too many dictators and erstwhile dictators. Far too many supreme rulers. Just by having one other co-PM or co-President could make a lot of difference to the world. For one, policies and decisions need not be tied to one man and his ego, but would stem from a joint rulership, which would automatically de-emphasise any one man's ego and devolve onto the more pertinent issue as to whether that decision or policy is the best for the country.

The Moses Complex is deeply etched in the human mind. From the Stone
Age father who made the rules by which his family lives to the present day Moses. Little has changed. Surprisingly little. Where are the theorists and philosophers?

To end, it is depressing that so little has changed in rule from the
early days till now. The Greeks invented democracy but that was
thousands of years ago. As for dicators, there have always been
dictators and supreme rulers. Why has there been so little innovation
in governance? Why no big ideas? Why no questioning, even, of the
present systems, which clearly are not working.

Is it that difficult to innovate against the natural 'bend' of the
human being? And lead him away from the Stone Age Father Figure with
the Moses Complex to a more civilised, efficient and more workable
system of rule?

After all, this is the 21st Century.

Robert Ho
19 Jan 04
UK 1435 Singapore 2235

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RH:

Why China should place Confucius above the Rule of Law [this new part in bold]

1. Please read this new part in bold in context with my earlier thoughts above, esp the points that firstly, laws are almost all negative, prohibitions and never positive or encouraging and secondly, laws are reactive and piecemeal, being passed only after some evil has been identified or has happened, and refers only to that single, specific evil and thus piecemeal like a plaster, so cannot be a central or complete vision to promote a whole, healthy body.

2. The Chinese probably realised this millennia ago when Confucius [551 to 479 BCE] taught his famous moral and ethical teachings. It is interesting to speculate whether Confucius invented all his teachings or simply compiled them all from existing precepts already written by others or already practised widely by the Chinese. It is also interesting to speculate whether the huge sway of Confucius to this day among all Chinese is due to the power and logic of his precepts or due to cunning Emperors and officials who saw their value in maintaining an orderly society, and hence, promoted them as much for their own control as well as societal good.

3. Whatever, the genius of the Confucius system is that it solves the 2 big problems I identified above in para 1. For example, by providing a moral and ethical framework for all Chinese -- as individuals, as family members with different relations to one another, relations between fellow Chinese of equal rank or standing, or between the Emperor and his people, Confucius put a complete, central vision of what a Chinese should be or aspire to, whether he is an Emperor, official, businessman, commoner, father/son/brother, etc. A kind of Perfect Man, in each and every role he may be. This is the Central Vision so lacking in the Rule of Law. A Chinese need only live life according to Confucius' precepts and automatically, will be perfect and thus never run foul of the law. In other words, laws are not even needed. Society would automatically be orderly, harmonious and fair [all these are related since you cannot have order without fairness or harmony without order].

4. Confucian thinking has been so deeply embedded into every Chinese and Chinese culture that China's 1.3b people today do less crime than the 300m people in the US and this is not due to harsh punishment or repressive communist control. It is thanks to Confucius. Proof of this are the big overseas Chinese communities living in the West and other countries. They do far less crime than other comparable foreign immigrant communities.

5. If you accept my logic, then it follows that China, with a huge 1.3b pop, will do well to keep or reinforce the force of Confucianism rather than rely on the Rule of Law, which is overhyped and over-regarded. All other countries in the world except China, Taiwan, Hongkong, Singapore, Japan, Korea and some of the IndoChina countries, do not have Confucius and therefore need the inferior Rule of Law, which is all they have for society organisation. The Chinese have Confucius and so should strengthen Confucianism and find ways to integrate Confucianism into the Rule of Law, ideally, even to place it at the apex of the Rule of Law. In other words, Rule of Law should be invoked only after Confucianism has failed.

6. In America, the Rule of Law has failed and failed disastrously. There, the Rule of Law has not prevented the US from having the highest crime rates in the world, in history. The jails are numerous and full. The average American will likely commit crime if he has a good chance of escaping the law. Since law [as in para 1] is piecemeal and reactive, many crimes are not even recognised in time or outlawed and thus, disasters like the current financial crisis happen.

7. Although China has had written laws for millennia, the term Rule of Law is Western and its concepts are Western. This by no means, means it is superior, the best or even worthy of being adopted by China or the world. They are simply making do with what they have, because they do not have our superior Confucius system. For example, they also have the concept of Human Rights, not because they thought of it first, or because they are smarter or more humane and civilised, but because human rights abuses were/are so rampant in the West that in horrified reaction, they had to develop and define the concept of Human Rights. In the East, we are more civilised and always have been, so don't abuse human rights and consequently, didn't invent the concept of Human Rights. Just like the Chinese didn't invent Fast Food because all our roadside-type foods are already fast, usually cooked in less time than a MacDonalds hamburger. So it was left to the West to invent Fast Food. The moral of the story is, don't copy everything from the West esp America. Because they are heading for collapse. Just copy the obvious superiorities, such as computers, internet, free markets [but not all, be very careful], some capitalism [but tempered with socialism or communism], reasonably honest media, reasonable personal freedoms to pursue happiness as long as the pursuit of such does not infringe on others [I almost wrote "rights of others" but Rights is another Western, Rule of Law concept that China should debate deeply before accepting it, if ever].

8. America has not always been in systemic collapse. Like their more backward cousins in Europe, they had had the Christian work [and other] ethics, just like the rest of the world has 'conscience' and this worked fairly well. Then, they started innovating and developing farther and faster, developing the most complex society ever, changing faster and faster, until their laws and institutions like their govt fell far behind such rapidly and dangerously innovating big businesses like the banks, social changes like relations between people and families like the gays, medical ethics in advances like organ transplants and stem cell tech, etc, to what you see today. In short, the Rule of Law has failed because NO GROUP OF MEN, HOWEVER BIG, HOWEVER INTELLIGENT AND WELL-MEANING, CAN ANTICIPATE OR RESPOND FAST OR WELL ENOUGH TO RAPIDLY CHANGING SOCIETY TO GOVERN IT ADEQUATELY. When politicians cannot even do SMS, MMS or set up a wireless lan, or understand carbon trading or caps, etc, everybody is in trouble.

9. Along the way, America developed the most 'advanced' Rule of Law ever. So today it has the most lawyers. Every transaction is done to a mass of legal contracts, nothing left to trust or the olden days handshake and honouring one's word. This emphasis on the Rule of Law, or rather, the letter of the contract, means that once you figured out a loophole in the contract, it becomes fair game to take every advantage of it, fair or not. It is also enforceable in court. All this eroded trust, honouring one's word, and fair play. It became a game where winning is all that mattered, no matter how unfairly. In the movie Syriana, one man expostulated to the other "But that's why we have laws -- we have laws so that we can work around 'em!" And since the politicians are corrupt, cater to their self interests and those who funded them or lobbied them, these corruptions compound their inability to keep pace with or even understand the rapid changes in society, leading to tragic consequences for the Rule of Law. Thus, not only is the Rule of Law a failure, govt is also a failure, esp the model of US govt being pushed as an exemplar for the world. Those in China who argue for democracy towards the US model should have their heads examined. China must find its own way, its own form of democracy, maybe the Govt By Referendum form of democracy I have advocated in my blog and to Hongkong's Donald TSANG, which, incidentally, is not incompatible with China's current form of govt, requiring only minor, technical changes.

10. Now comes the hard part, of which I have no confidence I will make sense. If Rule of Law is inadequate, how to improve it? I suggest that firstly, the Rule of Law be de-emphasised. This means that someone suing on the basis of the letter of the contract may not be awarded the lawsuit if the judge and a competent jury think otherwise. In other words, the INTERPRETATION of the judge and jury would be more important. This is only common sense as a group of [hopefully] unbiased and intelligent judge and jury, after hearing all arguments, would make a far fairer judgment than merely ruling on the words and sentences drafted into the contract. Extending this example to criminal cases in which a law is interpretated, the letter of the law should not decide the case. Rather, the INTENTION of the law should be guessed at. This can be difficult. For example, it is not enough to divine the Intention of the law drafter but to go beyond to ask what SOCIETY GOOD did he have in mind when drafting the law? This is quite Confucian because Confucius taught not only about how a subject should behave towards an Emperor and the State but how the Emperor should behave towards his subjects. In other words, the Emperor is also bound by Confucian precepts to be a good Emperor.

11. This would be inefficient because most trials would then probably debate the Society Good of a law before applying it and this actually would be modifying the law through interpretation. In dictatorships and rigid govts, this would be a no-no but if China were to adopt this, it would lead to probably the fairest legal system in the world and in history. I have written about Why Govts Should Almost Never Be Efficient in my blog, which explains why inefficient trials are good. Trials also serve an educational, news, even entertainment, thereby deterrent purpose in modern societies with active media and internet. This means that feedback from the public during a trial should be allowed, not blocked. There is a danger of Trial By Media but the positives include the fact that public attention forces every participant in the trial, from judge to lawyers to jury, to do a better job. Without public attention, trial judges, lawyers and juries are often derelict in their effort and duty. Public attention means that even the President of China may be watching and this is salutary. All trials should be televised by official media or videoed by bloggers or the family members who may want to point out mistrials. This is not revolutionary. All courts keep records of the trial, usually in written transcripts and sound recordings, so this is merely updating it to 21st Century media.

12. To make trials faster and more efficient, and above all, FAIRER, all accused should be allowed to ask for a lie detector test. Modern lie detectors include polygraph machines and even truth serums. While their accuracy is not 100% a combination of these, plus repeated experiments, can be taken into account by the judge, jury, lawyers and the watching public. The accuracy of each device, plus general warnings about relying solely on such devices to determine guilt, should be repeated on each day of each trial.

13. There is one aspect of the Rule of Law which is sometimes cited as its justification, and that is to foster Certainty in business transactions, from foreign investments to deals between companies or individuals and companies. But certainty does not rely solely on the Rule of Law. Certainty is a function of Fairness. And you can achieve Fairness through a Confucian-based Rule of Law. If a foreign business or investor sues in a Chinese court, as long as justice is done and fairness is openly seen as the goal of the court and the entire Chinese judicial system, confidence in the courts and the law will result. There is no need to stick to the letter of the contract. In any case, legal contracts are now worded in such dense legalese that no ordinary person understands it. And there is the question of which language will be the legally binding language of the contract, which adds to the uncertainty of sticking strictly to the letter of the law as against intention and fairness. This is another unfortunate result of over-reliance on the letter of the law. In some cases, a company may have an unfair advantage or clause/s simply because it has a cleverer lawyer drafting the contract than the counterparty. Or a bank cleverly disguises its high-risk bonds as low-risk through dense legalese no buyer can understand, and drafts legal clauses to escape penalty. In such cases, in China's court, there will be redress and justice, but not in a Western court. Allowing any media, esp the foreign media, to televise and video the court proceedings will also greatly increase confidence in China's courts.

14. You in China may not realise the extreme versatility of the English language compared with Chinese. English is a language made for liars and spin while Chinese is far more straightforward and honest. Thus, contracts and laws written in English are capable of very different interpretations and great exactitude must be expended to make it as exact as possible for legal purposes. Even translated into Chinese, this slippery language of English may still be very difficult to pin down so it is far better not to rely on the exact letter of the words in the contract and far better to interpret the Intentions and thus strive to be fair and deliver true justice. This language problem is yet another argument for my Confucian-based Rule of Law. Furthermore, not all foreign investors in China are American or British. There are also Japanese, Germans, French, Arabs and many other languages from the rest of the world. It is absurd for everybody to use English when both counterparties are not English-speaking. So, a court system that frees itself from the constraints of language sentence and grammar and focusses on truth, honest intentions and fairness will be far superior.

15. There is a notion that courts should merely apply the law, not MAKE law. This is cited as the Separation of Powers Doctrine. Let me point out that courts and judges debate law and crime, guilt and innocence, on a daily basis and so are infused with the richest body of experience and expertise on crime and punishment unlike politicians, no matter what their exalted titles. Politicians are further compromised because they have to politick, compromise, horse-trade, listen and even obey special interests and lobbies, and worse, are usually rich elites who have no experience or understanding of how the rest of their people and societies live their lives. Thus, their understanding of their people and societies are far inferior to the courts and judges who daily deal with these. A proposed law may be debated only days or at most, a week in Congress or Parliament, then passed and forgotten by the politicians while the courts and judges debate and study its every word and comma in great detail daily. So who has the richer experience and even expertise -- since most politicians are not even lawyers? Furthermore, a law, once passed, is forgotten by the legislators but continues to be enforced by the police, prosecutors and courts even though this law may be totally outdated and irrelevant. Congress and Parliament do not have my suggestion of setting expiry dates on all laws to ensure they stay relevant, current and above all, FAIR. If courts and judges were to Interpret law, thereby modifying and even making it, every law that seeks to be applied would be scrutinised and have to be justified, thereby ensuring its continuing relevance. Congress and Parliament cannot do this. Only the courts can perform this important function.

16. All this probably means that in considering and drafting every law in Congress and Parliament, the INTENTION of the law must be considered, debated and expressly defined and written as the first part of every law. Then the rest of the law may be written as now. But in the courts, the judges and lawyers would carefully and primarily first consider and place uppermost in importance, this said Intention of the law, then decide guilt and punishment to serve such Intention, rather than as now, according to the letter of the law. Such Intentions can refer to say, keeping order in society, adjudicate between competing interests, set conditions for businesses, define rights of children, minorities, handicappeds, groups such as gays vs non-gays, the powers of provincial, state and even the national govt, etc. All this will reduce the supremacy of Congress, Parliament and politicians and elevate the courts into more than just the current tool to enforce the will of the politicians into becoming a true institution of justice, in the natural justice sense of the word. This is OK because politicians are the problem, not the solution. And the world will be a better place.

17. My ideas will also make Congress and Parliament better institutions and literally force politicians to become better, too. This is because they will not simply make law in their usual politicking, self-interested, compromising, horse-trading, special interests and lobbies dominated fashion, but will have to focus on what is best for society and country -- or state, in the case of state govts. This will help greatly to keep them honest. Further helping to keep them honest will be the courts, where with this new system, the prosecutors and especially the defence lawyers, and the judge and juries, will keep asking and debating the INTENTION/S of the law. No longer is it enough to do the current lazy, if efficient thing, which is to merely apply the letter of the law. There will be more and even agonising debate on broad ideals of what is best for society. At first, every law will be questioned down to its fundamental basics, of why such a law is good for society, why and how it should be applied to achieve social good. Thus, firstly, the politicians will be forced in Congress and Parliament to be honest, then secondly, the courts will help keep them honest by constantly querying their Intentions. Prosecutors and defence lawyers would also keep debating the common good and society good. Ideals would come into both Congress and Parliament and also into every court. Lawyers and especially judges would not only have to be trained in law but also know some broad ideals of the social arts and sciences. But with time, practice and precedents, all cases would soon be dispatched with more efficiency because broad parameters would already be established.

18. I have critiqued the PIECEMEAL, REACTIVE, BELATED, HAPHAZARD AND ONCE-OFF way of current lawmaking. These deficiencies make Law one of the least intelligent inventions of mankind, not surprising since it was invented by rulers-bullies/strongmen and not wise men or philosophers. A further defect is that laws are once-off but for all time, completely permanent until revoked. Obviously, since society is constantly changing, and nowadays changing very rapidly, a permanent law, especially if interpreted strictly to the Letter, is soon outdated and even counterproductive in addition to probably being ineffective as well. Thus, permanent laws are now a bad idea, if it was ever good. What is needed are laws that can evolve and change with society, society ideals and new understandings of itself, as well as new wisdoms. Since all these are works in progress, it follows that laws must also be works in progress because that is the only way laws can keep pace with the ever changing and rapidly changing society. And the only way it can stay fair and relevant and obeyed, because there are too many stupid laws that nobody obeys any more because they are obviously stupid. This acknowledgement that laws are a work in progress will lead to a better respect for laws in general and an appreciation that laws are an institution for improving society and not merely a hotchpotch of prohibitions -- and judges would not have to put on airs, ceremony, robes and wigs to enforce a false respect and respectability. I have also written about how the current laws lack a central vision that can posit the ideal/s that society needs and wants. With my Intentions doctrine, wherein every law is headed with a statement of Intentions, there arises a Central Vision of sorts. You cannot write a statement of Intention without having in mind What Society Should Be or what a perfect society should be. Thus, when all the Intentions in every law are put together, a partial Central Vision appears, necessarily incomplete because it is a work in progress and constantly, organically adapting to changing society mores, from porn to gays, in part defined by lawmakers but also modified and remade by the courts in interpreting it. This partial Central Vision thus comes into existence, whether through deliberate debate in the legislatures and courts, or as unspoken backdrop to the legal thinking behind the passing and interpretation of the laws. Because this Central Vision is thus more formalised instead of the current nebulous, even confused ambiguity, countries can make and interpret their laws more intelligently. For example, China would probably base its entire legal structure on Confucian ethics, which is already in every Chinese. Other countries in the West may base their central vision on democratic, liberal values and rights including human rights. Muslim countries may base their central vision on Islamic beliefs and practices. This is not revolutionary. It is in fact, the practice already as you would know if you commit an offence in an Islamic country. I have merely articulated, defined and extended it to its logical conclusions. This implies that there are no or few universal laws, and international laws must survey ALL legal jurisdictions to compile what are truly universal. This would be good because such a survey would lead to better understanding of what are truly universal values and laws and which are merely Western preoccupations, as is currently the case. With truly universal values and laws established, the world would then be ready for truly International Law. Many writers have written Utopias but these all have the drawbacks of being once-off. They describe a Utopia at one stage of time, which is quickly outdated by real life and real society. A true Utopia is a work in progress, constantly evolving and organically adapting to changing values and mores, especially in our modern, fast-changing times. Almost everything is a work in progress, from software whose version number goes from say, 1.0 to 1.1 or even 2.0 if the changes are big enough, to computers that are frequently upgraded to better specs, to new car models -- everything. Congress and Parliament, with their attention-deficit habits and once-off method of debating and passing laws, cannot create a Utopia alone, but together with my courts and my new doctrine of writing statements of Intentions -- as simply and as easily as that, have the best chance ever of evolving society towards a Utopia.

19. To end, Confucius may have lived millennia ago but he is hugely important to China and the world today. America is proof that 'when you lose your morals, you lose your economy, then your military, then everything'. America is collapsing because of one word that Confucius well understood : Morals.



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RH: ME ON VIDEO DESCRIBING lky lhl wks NUMEROUS ELECTION RIGGINGS:

http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Video%20RH%20on%20LKY%20LHL%20WKS%20cheating%20elections

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
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02 July 2009

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

18 June 2009

"Video RH on LKY LHL WKS cheating elections"

video

02 June 2009

"Police Report LEE KY LHL WKS cheating elections"





[Click on image to enlarge]

31 May 2009

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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26 May 2009

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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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, 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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27 March 2009

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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12 March 2009

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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03 March 2009

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" :

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: 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" :

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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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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[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: 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" :

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:

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ALSO AT:

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12 February 2009

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

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09 February 2009

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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04 February 2009

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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27 January 2009

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:

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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23 January 2009

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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04 January 2009

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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09 December 2008