Category Archives: Political Stuff

Ron Paul for U.S. president!

The Republican Congressmen nailed it with this speech before the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 April 2006: What the Price of Gold Is Telling Us Related posts:Who to vote for as U.S. president?Who would you vote for as president? Technorati Tags: Ron Paul Congressman House of Representatives US president gold US dollars economy

Will the wind of change finally blow our way?

In the aftermath of Malaysia’s election, a blogger by the name of Lee Lilian asked in one of her posts (“A new Malaysia, when will it be our turn?“): Will this election change Singaporeans’ perception/ mindset? Will it have a positive impact for the opposition in Singapore? Has it awaken our people and make them… Read More »

One man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric

Bruce Einhorn, Asia regional editor in BusinessWeek’s Hong Kong bureau, wrote a heavily politicised article on China’s snowstorm in which he suggested that “with millions stranded by snowstorms and infrastructure problems, antigovernment protests are likely”. Having recently relocated to Shenzhen and as someone who hails from a country where leaders are arguably elected, all I… Read More »

Does this sound like a mad man to you?

This one-year-old article of Robert Ho by Martyn See at AsiaTimes Online tells the odd story of a Singaporean cyber-dissident who has been routinely painted (or should it be tainted?) by the PAP government as mentally unsound. If you read the whole interview, you will wonder: Is this really the mind of a mad man?