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“If we just send away the foreign workers now, it will do us harm, because the company already in difficulty and they hire half foreign workers, half Singaporeans and you tell them foreign workers must go out, you take Singaporeans, its cost may go up and the company may close.”
Lee Hsien Loong

“We did not pay this govt so much to give explanations on why they can’t do things better for Singaporeans…”
Lucky Tan

Singapore is not ready for . . . anything its citizens’ beloved elected-into-Parliament-via-walkover leaders claim it is not ready for.”
mollymeek

This week’s recommended reads after the break.

High Notes and Minibombs
- sgpolitics: Bank deposits guarantee should not lull customers and investors into complacency
- TOC: Letter to TOC: Minibonds investors given runaround
- Tan Kin Lian: Is this fair ?
- Tan Kin Lian: Loss in Singapore’s reserve
- Wayangparty Club: Paternalism to control Singaporeans, free will and flexibility for banks
- The Lycan Times: Weekend Discourse - Town Councils and Lamer Brothers
- Under The Willow Tree: The Minibonds / High Notes Fiasco: Who Should Bear the Blame???
- Sgpolitics: Some remarks made by MM Lee deserve further scrutiny
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MM Lee on Lehman Minibonds..
- Tan Kin Lian: Investors should be aware about the risk: MM
- Tan Kin Lian: Who can be trusted?
- Tan Kin Lian: Call by govt to be fair to affected persons
- Tan Kin Lian: Reply from MAS on the 3 petitions
- Tan Kin Lian: Letter to Prime Minister
- Singapore Watch: Tracking the Minibond Saga
- Return Our Money, DBS: An Open Letter to Mr Koh Boon Hwee (Chairman, DBS)
- Mr Wang Says So: Damage Control Exercise for DBS
- EastStop: Singapore and Iceland - why Singapore’s USD 400bn war chest makes all the difference
- Carpe Diem: DBS blaming the wrong people
- Wayangparty Club: Options fast running out for Singapore’s minibond investors
- Tan Kin Lian: Reuters: Financial crisis politically awakens Singapore investors
- Wayangparty Club: Video dedicated to minibond investors - Let’s open our eyes for Singapore’s 3Ms

Recession
- Gerald Giam: Billion dollar profits but still axing jobs
- Wayangparty Club: MM Lee: sorry, golden period no more
- Chia Ti Lik’s blog: Ti Lik’s doomsday predictions
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Why the Singapore Government should NOT saved the Marina IR
- Singapore Alternatives: Las Vegas Sands to detail plans next week
- Wayang Party Club: Lim Swee Say: CPF won’t be cut for NOW, (but for the future…..)
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Taking DBS’s lead, lets ‘retrench’ some Singapore Ministers!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Recession : Bad leadership in times of trouble?
- My sketchbook: Astrology 101:Reading into Singapore’s future
- Wayangparty Club: Singapore tax payers’ money held ransom by Las Vegas Sands
- Everyday’s life in a snapshot: The Paradox of Thrift in Singapore
- Sgpolitics.net: Will Las Vegas Sands hold Singapore Government to ransom over the Marina Bay IR project?
- Feed Me To The Fish: Integrated Resort Disintegrated?
- mrbrown: Let General Motors die already
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore taking time to tackle recession
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Poker Faces in the Marina Gamble
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Singapore government will not bail out Marina Bay Sands IR…directly
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Is now the time to be an entrepreneur?
- Tan Kin Lian: Retrenchment and its impact on Singaporeans [Recommended]
- Information read by me: DBS use axe le
- Sgpolitics: Financial crisis tips
- The Itch to Write: Retrenchment - last resort
- StaticVariable: What’s Next

Minority as PM
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Race and Political Leadership in Singapore
- My Game of Life: Change Ur Head Lah!!!
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore, UK yet to transcend race in politics
- The Extra Scoop: Can Singaporeans accept a ‘Mohamed’ as Prime Minister?
- TOC: Minority PM: Time for the leadership to take the lead
- Groundnotes: Thank Goodness for Reality Checks
- Where Bears Roam Free: Not ready for non-Chinese PM? Who is PM to speak on our behalf?
- TOC: Three obstacles to a non-Chinese PM
- TOC: Minority PM: Singapore boleh in 1955 but not in 2008
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: A non-chinese Prime Minister in Singapore? Let’s look at the cold hard facts [Recommended]
- Alamak: “Singapore” Not Ready for Non-Chinese PM?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: A non-Chinese Prime Minister for Singapore? HA!
- Wayangparty Club: A rebuttal to TOC’s article by P N Balaji
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Random Readiness [Recommended]

Time to Cast Our Vote?
- TOC: What will you do when the elections come?
- Wayang Party: Misleading ST headline: PAP has no right to call for elections
- Wayangparty Club: Why the PAP will win the next election with an increased majority
- Blowing in the Wind: Early elections could mean worse to come [Recommended]
- Jacob’s Weblog: The next General Election guessing game is on
- Sam’s Alfresco Coffee: Papee planning early election
- HWZ: PAP calling snap elections?

Obama wins US Presidential Elections
- Desparatebeep: Best and Worst 08
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singaporeans, change we can! [Reccomended]
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: PROMISES from Barack Obama, and PROBLEMS He will Faces in Delivery of his PROMISES
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Media Brainwash, Optimism and the Obama Presidency
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Obama for Palestinians (we ask the question again)?
- Carpe Diem: Obama: Now we believe
- The boy who knew too much: The meaning of Barack Obama’s election
- mrbrown: The Straits Times says US media biased politically
- TOC: Obama’s win: Lessons for local politicians

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why we don’t need DEMOCRACY…
- TOC: Singapore Government screw-ups
- Wayang Party: Debunking the three eternal myths of the PAP and its mouthpiece

ERPains, Trains and Automobiles
- Vinyarb: distance based ERP charges [Thanks vinyarb]
- Musings: S’pore copies HK
- Singapore Skeptic: World Class Public Transportation
- vinyarb: Fewer seats on MRT Trains

Do we have Strong Leaders?
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Yet again ST submits to the call of its political masters [Thanks SilentAssassin]
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Strong Leaders = Strong Reserves??? ha ha :)

Power to Cost the People
- Wayangparty Club: PAP MPs teach Singaporeans new ways of generating electricity
- Singapore Complain Hub: Survey for People Staying in Singapore On Using/Investing on Renewable Energy for cutting electricity bills

Fixing the Opposition
- Enjoy the Breeze: Spoiling your vote
- TOC: 20 Years Of The GRC: A closer look (Part One)

Lee vs Chee
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: TBT Trial - the 7th day and then we rested :)
- Jaslyn Go’s Blog: The Trial Begins - Part 4 - Our Unity [1] [2]
- Singabloodypore: Australian education union enquiring into John Tan’s suspension

Poly Student Transport Fare Petition
- TOC: Transport petition – good response at first public outreach

CPF
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Govt wants you transfer money into CPF SA…why?

Paper Chase
- Sam’s thoughts: Sunday Times: MDIS should focus on education, not fashion
- The Enquirer: S/U an insurance for laziness

We don’t need no regulation
- Wayang Party: How to wage and fight a cyber-guerilla war

SG Press rank 141 and falling
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Singapore Journalism: Lim Swee Say and CPF cuts

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Wayangparty Club: PM Lee says Singaporeans should thank foreigners for keeping their jobs

Housing
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: S’pore govt delays some public projects, but not spendings on HDB flats…
- My Singapore News: Mission confused or mixed up kids
- TOC: Singaporean, 57, employed, married but cannot buy HDB flat
- The Rot Within: Another fish in the barrel
- Choosing my own adventure: Letter to HDB - Mah Bow Tan on cat ban

SG Press rank 141 and falling
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Poor Commentary from The New Paper - Decoupling Excitement from Politics

Censorship and Pink Issues
- Where Bears Roam Free: How did the gay community miss this one?
- the world is thinking: Prop 8

Ragging. The Raggers and the Ragged
- The fire in my life: ACJC Birthday Celebrations!!!! [Thanks ecko as]
- ALVINOLOGY: ACJC girl gets tied up and tortured… by friends “celebrating” her birthday

Daily Discourse
- Feed Me To The Fish: Conflict of Interest?
- Yale Daily News: Army service for foreign Elis [Thanks Laremy]
- Aussie Pete: Australia’s Version Of NS?
- Mr Wang Says So: And Then Suddenly The Tide Came In …
- My sketchbook: Sands’ commitment
- Anonymous_X: Shoplifter caught on MRT security camera
- Sam’s thoughts: Sex ed: The day I got ’suan’ by Su’ An
- Yawning Bread: Bali bombers and the death penalty
- SG Energy Crisis: Singapore Government On Singapore Sustainability?
- inter alia: [NEA] Response to Letter
- Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City: Do not ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country
- Global Problems: Singapore’s “National Identity”
- Wayang Party Club: Mediacorp’s fixation on Taiwanese protest
- Almost Infamous: Bandwagon Jumping
- Mr Wang Says So: A Real-Life Case Study of Euthanasia
- Beautiful Monster: NAC pumps $3.5 mill into arts fund
- Sam’s thoughts: Sex ed: The day I got ’suan’ by Su’ An 2
- Mathia Lee: Living with HIV in Singapore
- Singapore Social Activist: Poor Examples for Pro-Establishment [Recommended]
- TOC: Tax cuts not the way to go

Life, the universe and everything
- ALVINOLOGY: Blogger who exposed his dad and brother’s dirty businesses online: 大义灭亲 or 大逆不道?
- Ian On The Red Dot: What’s Wrong With Prostituting Yourself?
- Beautiful Monster: Teen pregnancies linked to TV
- Aussie Pete: We’re All Human - Celebrity Jobs Before They Became Famous
- TOC: RI/RJC merger displeases students, principal sought
- EastCoastLife: MediaCorp Subaru Challenge, Day 2
- The Neo Dimension: The Only Goat Farm in Singapore
- Burmese Gold Bull: Singapore Runway Roads
- With one’s past: The Singlish, English in Singapore
- Open the Future: 80 Hours in the Air-Conditioned Nation
- ALVINOLOGY: Singapore Biennale 2008 entries [1] [2]
- eastcoastlife: Ultimate Winner of Subaru Challenge 2008! - WW
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: Egyptian Man have STRENGTH of 30,000 Men, 260 Horsepower
- Webs@Work: Crowd Funded Journalism as Biz Model
- Otterman speaks: “In Flanders fields the poppies blow”
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Google: Video-ing into the Flu Pandemic
- thegreatsze: Japan Breaks Record for Largest Orgy
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: Miss Tuning Calender 2009. Highly Contrasted Babes! [Editor's Notes: PNSFW]

Now Showing
- Empty Vessel: Quantum of Nostalgia

Infoblogoramus
- Jacob’s Weblog: Vigil on Nov 15 at Speakers Corner for peace in Sri Lanka
- Paw Pledge: Adoption Drive at the Blessing Home on 15, 16, 22 and 23 Nov!
- Rambling Librarian: Call for bloggers in Singapore: Preview of Yishun and Choa Chu Kang public libraries
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Love Amplified - World AIDS Day Concert
- vinyarb: Love Amplified - World AIDS Day concert Singapore [Thanks Richard]
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Peace vigil for Sri Lanka in Singapore