Weekly Roundup: Week 38
“I really begin to wonder if my very own country whom I had sworn to protect when I was 18 is really worthy of my protection.”
J
“..if CPF Board can cherry pick who to insure and who to reject, then what makes it different from any profit-oriented private insurance company?”
Gerald Giam
“The fact that government officials are rewarded economically, through salaries and bonuses…for delivering GDP growth, may also lead to ‘growth fetishism’… and thus to preference for the easiest route to growth, which is through the addition of inputs of foreign capital, labour and skills.”
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Professors Lee Soo Ann and Linda Lim
Written, produced and directed by Jacen Tan
This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
Singapore’s Newest News Hub: SingaNews
- The Secret Political Blog: Thio Li-Ann and Singanews. What to make of it?
- The Temasek Review: Singanews: a Thio-like news portal wrapped under the guise of secularism?
- The Kent Ridge Common: Launch of the SingaNews portal
- Yawning Bread: Anti-gays’ new online platform launched [Recommended]
- Sam’s thoughts: Singanews
- TOC: Give SingaNews a chance, says CEO
- The Temasek Review: $90K seed funding: Who is the real sugardaddy of Singanews?
- Gimme Some Truth!: And Just Like That, Watch the Gay/Anti-Gay Rhetoric Fly
- The Void Deck: Holy!@# Singa-Spotting [Thanks halleluyah]
- The Temasek Review: Thio Li Ann lashed out at TOC for “victimizing” her
- Gimme some Truth!: What Does the Church Make of Thio Li-Ann?
- The Temasek Review: Singapore netizens sceptical about Singanews’ real agenda
- The Brotherhood Press: Singanews, the theory and reality – A study in internet stupidity
- TOC: About SingaNews
- Trapper’s Swamp: Bring it on, Singanews
- Illusio: Plausible deniability; or, are you stupid enough to buy their excuse?
- Sam’s Alfresco Coffee: Singanews – Reporting “Mainstream Value”
- MyCarForum: SingaNews: Can a Christian Backed News Portal be Secular?
- Trevvy Forums: Links between Thio Li-Ann and Singanews… [Thanks The Truth]
Mainstream vs X-Stream Media
- Yawning Bread: Mainstream media here continues to hold ground, said minister [Recommended]
- Singapore Social Activist: ‘Adversaries’ are patriots as well
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore media thriving on quality or monopoly?
- Trapper’s Swamp: We teach critical thinking through propaganda
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee questioned new media’s journalistic standards
Strangers in a Strange Land
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PM : The fix for the foreign Influx is fostering integration..
- The Temasek Review: PM promises to review immigrant policy under mounting pressure
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee’s inappropriate use of Israel as an example to promote the merits of immigration
- TOC: Room for more, but at what cost?
- Mr Wang Says So: Citizens in the Vice Trade Up Against Strong Foreign Competition
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: The Mysterious 100% PRC Staffing at Geylang Restaurants
- TOC: Foreign worker buffer is not working [Recommended]
- The Kent Ridge Common: Singapore to tighten the inflow of foreigners
- The Secret Political Blog: Reviewing Immigration Policy: Israel As Role Model? [Recommended]
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: We have enough Spices!
- Where Bears Roam Free: Slower Intake of Foreigners
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Property Prices, New Singaporeans and the PAP’s Social Contract
Housing
- The Temasek Review: HDB Deputy CEO: singles earning $2,500 a month can afford resale flats
- The Temasek Review: HDB hardware has improved, but not the software
- StaticVariable: HDB and CPF
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Breaking news : Govt curbs property speculation!
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Petition featured in Singapore’s Chinese papers, Lian He Zao Bao
- Singapore Watch: Removal of Interest Absorption Scheme (IAS) and Interest-Only Housing Loans (IOL) should curb some speculation
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: So…Minister Mah hasn’t really heard us after all !
- Yaw Shin Leong: On Affordable HDB flats?
- Sgpolitics.net: Root Cause of Sky-High HDB Flat Prices [Recommended]
- The Temasek Review: HDB: buy resale if you cannot afford private
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: A rather meaningful comment that says it all..
Road to Perdition Repression Election
- The Kent Ridge Common: LGBT topics as individual parliamentarian agenda or the focus of an election?
- The Temasek Review: The PAP in crisis (Part 3): Lack of real political leaders in a team of technocrats
- The Temasek Review: The PAP in crisis (Part 4): Likely post-LKY scenario and implications for Singapore [Recommended]
- ed’s Blog: Understanding Confucian societies : how a one-party democracy can be democratic
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Is a tsunami of good news about to hit Singapore?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Did I Miss Something?
- TOC: Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy on leadership succession
- The Temasek Review: The PAP in crisis (Part 5): Reforming the party and state to level the playing field
Lee vs Chee: Singapore Rebel
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Ban on ‘Singapore Rebel’ lifted, rated M18
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Ban on ‘Rebel’ lifted; film by Young PAP under review
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Singapore lifts ban on film about Chee Soon Juan
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore Rebel : UNBANNED!
The Broad of Film Censors
- Yawning Bread: Film censorship correspondence, part 1
- Jacob 69er: Seelan Palay submits ‘Francis Seow: The Interview’ for rating
The Gospel of Harry: Harry Lee and the Men in White
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Men In White author responds to Martyn See’s blog post
- Today in Singapore: Interviewing Fiction
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Men In White: Read it at your own risk, it’s hard to put down
- Sgpolitics.net: Men In White — Another example of PAP’s “managed dissent” strategy
- TOC: Passion And Patriotism (PAP)
- Rachel Zeng’s blog: Just for Yew
Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Temasek Review: Third Most Competitive Nation in the World – What it means to the Average Worker [Recommended]
- Singapore Alternatives: ECONOMIC GROWTH Just a numbers game? Quality counts too [Recommended]
- Under the Willow Tree: France to Count Happiness in GDP – Why Singapore is Still Nowhere Near World Class
Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: MediShield should cover congenital illnesses [Recommended]
- The Secret Political Blog: MediShield: Cover your child with insurance before they are born with congenital problems
- The Gigamole Diaries: Salmonellosis epidemic in Singapore – strange silence from MOH and AVA
- The Gigamole Diaries: Salmonellosis and diarrhoea epidemic in Singapore
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Offer window period for uninsured to join Medishield
- Yaw Shin Leong: On Slow Medicine Movement
- The Gigamole Diaries: Diarrhoea – the mystery continues
- The Gigamole Diaries: Stents and prostheses – are they regulated?
- The Gigamole Diaries: The Transplantation Ethics Committee (TEC)
- The Gigamole Diaries Minister of Health’s Blog
Re education
- Mr Wang Says So: Medical School and the Uselessness of Being A Citizen
- Singapore Dino: Singapore’s National Education: A broken system
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: A Bill With No Bite
- The boy who knew too much: A look inside a Singaporean company.
Recession
- Blowin’ In The Wind: What worries Tharman, Joseph Stiglitz and Nouriel Roubini
- The Temasek Review: Unemployment rates higher for all education groups
Singaporeans. A Dying Breed
- The Itch to Write: ‘Few Babies? It’s the Hotel Mama mindset’.
- Sgpolitics.net: Single mothers should be given Baby Bonuses and other benefits
ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Install fans on MRT platforms
National Service
- Senang Diri: Wall of silence [Thanks Mike]
Daily Discourse
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Our One-Party Democracy
- Bernard Aw’s Blog: Youthful Activism – if not now, then when?
- The boy who knew too much: Singapore’s Richest Top 40: a comment.
- Today in Singapore: Coming Full Circle
- The Temasek Review: The resignation of Taiwan’s Premier Liu: A lesson for Singapore in public governance
- Singabloodypore: Singapore: Freedom for Sale by John Kampfner
- TOC: ASEAN Human Rights – Going Forward or Stalled?
- ErniesUrn’s Xanga: My mom and her politics
- still me.: Organic intellectuals
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Hanky-panky in Hourly-rate Hotels
Life, the universe and everything
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Zo Gang – Singapore Short Film
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Singapore 360 – Day 16: Airplane Watching, Watching Airplanes [Thanks Major]
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Bungee Jumping in Singapore or Skiing in Dubai?
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Thank you, Alam Shah, for telling the truth about the S-League and Singapore football
- ALVINOLOGY: Supermodelme.TV Finale @ Zouk
- No Buns No Life: SIGNS, a short film. 1 of Cannes 2009 Winner. ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!
- under a Pipala Tree: Noh Alam Shah
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Neoliberalism miscontrued?
- nofearSingapore: Singapore Athletics- Still stuck in the 70’s
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: The Singapore football fan is speaking up and backing Noh Alam Shah’s blast against the S-League
- Ian On The Red Dot: Everyone Should Data An Asian
Infoblogaramous
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 12-19 Sept
- TOC: The Reform Party invites you to its 1st anniversary celebration
- Virtual(ly) Thursday: SHOOOT to Stardom (17 Sep 2009) [Thanks Peter]
September 19th, 2009 | Category: Weekly Roundup
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Say NO to internet regulation in Singapore.
September 20th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/singanews-the-theory-and-reality-a-study-in-internet-stupidity/
Its heartening to see the BP is taking a mature view to all this. They are wise and many have it seems listen to them. They have certainly lowered the temp considerably. Someone told me one reason why they are so effective is because unlike our gahmen who see the internet as one homogeneous mass. The brotherhood see it as tribal patchwork very much like Afghanistan where there are thousands of leaders, each with their distinctive cachet of interest groups. There is no centralised authority.
My fear is this is just a show by Darkness to pacify many of their christian readers. History shows, he is very good at playing games and if there is a pay out, he will not hesitate to switch sides. For example every time he has a reader revolt when they threaten to sue him. He threatens to go. And so they relent. This is such an embarassing scene that gets played out again and again, that I really do not know what to make of it. I just hope it is sincere Darkness. This way you will be blessed and hopefully you will set aside your evil ways and you shall be able to step into the light.
September 20th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
There is nothing heartening here. Lets try to see it from Brotherhood shades.
(a) Darkness is not like Yawning Bread aka Alex Au. The later can shoot from the hip. Darkness cannot, too many factional interest within and outside the gaming scene. He is constrained by these realities. So he needs to be diplomatic to the extent of even accomadating the gay pride movement/ That could be why he decided to refrain commenting abt singaNews.
(b) Second reason has to do with tactics. YB likes to comprain, but if you look, that is all he ever does. No firepower. What do we have? On record, he has told everyone online they deserve “a fair go.” Tell me, if he turns around and says one day, they are out to dominate the net, who will not believe in. The beauty of his strategy is either way, he wins.
(3) They want to find out about the 90K. To you and me this is addendum. To them, it is power, they want to know who, how along with what is the strength of the networks and linkages that makes this possible and if possible even infiltrate it. Does Yawning bread even know how to think like that? I think not!
Like comparing a F-16 with a kite.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:25 am
According to Yap, the CEO, the portal will be written from the perspective of mainstream family values which he emphasized is a man, his wife, both with a view to procreate. Fair enuff.
I am all for “mainstream family values”. Sounds good as I am a family man. What remains an “unknown quantity” is what if the portal takes an adversarial and aggressive approach to anything that does not conform to that definition?
Will they then go around talking down to other people? Will they try to assert their “acceptable” way on others? Do we have a right to opt out or will it be like blogger 13, you are automatically a member whether you like it or not?
If u ask me. I think that is what the brotherhood is really afraid of. If the new portal adopts a live and let live stance, I think judging from what I see in the gaming world, they can co-exist and even find many subjects of common interest to build on.
But one thing is certain should it be otherwise, the brotherhood will be the first to take bites out of this new portal, they dont even need you and I to say it is bad or even put it to the ballot. The dont even need the rest of the net to join them. They will just bring it down all by themselves very much in the way they did with the blogger 13 once upon a time, till there is nothing left, then and only then will they go to the United Nations and talk shop.
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:44 am
Good Morning all,
Understand this! We had nothing to do with the demise of the “deregulate the net” movement aka blogger 13. Please refer to this vid for further clarification on the subject raised @ September 21st, 2009 at 10:25 am:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3llbMhVDQEk
We advise you chief justice to take the matter up with Cheong Yip Seng et al for further clarification.
Our position is as follows: We believe everyone has a right to project online. But there remains a caveat – in the long run it pays to be honest, truthful and open abt the goal. The way I see it, problems usually arise, when people aren’t honest and harbor hidden agendas – and when other people eventually find out their real intention – it’s only natural, they feel slighted as no one likes the wool to be pulled over their eyes.
Under those circumstances. I don’t think is it reasonable to expect people to remain calm or even expect them to respond logically. No one after all likes to be treated like a fool and taken for a ride. Respect must cut both ways, if the goal is to sustain a working relationship based on trust and respect. It cannot be demanded. Not online at least. I think this is common sense and will remain key to the whole question of whether SingaNews succeeds or fails as an online enterprise. Again I do not see what bearing we may have to either shape or modulate the final outcome, setting aside the issue of motivation.
It is conceivable many of you over estimate us our capabilities. We don’t have a mind control machine. We are really quite insignificant in the whole scheme of things. Having said that, we do however have a right to blog.
Thank you and do have a productive week ahead.
SD
Internet Liaison officer of the brotherhood
September 24th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Nice to c u again friendly liason officer of the brotherhood. Where have you guys been?