tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post4812620446351810723..comments2024-02-14T04:53:18.295-08:00Comments on Singapore Dissident: A silenced people not conducive to Singapore's progress. Gopalan Nairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-29553013396040863702015-12-26T01:13:11.864-08:002015-12-26T01:13:11.864-08:00Shall we say, the new Venice of the East or better...Shall we say, the new Venice of the East or better still the lost undersea city of Atlantis. Gopalan Nairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-24144625900166762042015-12-26T01:11:41.029-08:002015-12-26T01:11:41.029-08:00And don't forget, the place has a tiny populat...And don't forget, the place has a tiny population, just a medium sized city in an even tinier island which is by the way being attacked by climate change global warming sea level rise and driving the tiny bit patch of real estate under the sea in daily flooding awash across the island in knee deep water, on a daily basis! Only thing is the knee deep daily flooding is going to become waist deep by which time you need small water boats to get around. Gopalan Nairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-16292078851950454692015-12-26T00:59:37.475-08:002015-12-26T00:59:37.475-08:00To Stephen Moraiza,
My prediction will eventually...To Stephen Moraiza,<br /><br />My prediction will eventually come true, although it may take some time. It is just like Russia today. Putin, a downright corrupt dictator, in many ways like Lee Kuan Yew's son of Singapore, has popularity ratings that hit the roof. Yet Russia today is crumbling from under its feet. <br /><br />It is quite clear, international investors can care 2 hoots whether a regime is democratic or not. All it wants is the bottom line, of dollars. The world knows how corrupt the man is but it has stability, so they continue investing in the island. Any student of history knows that the most powerful economies of the world were once all dictatorships, Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain and Salazar's Portugal. <br /><br />But this sort of thing will not last in this day and age. Just look at the island. Brain drain has hit the roof, childbirth is non existent and the island has more than 50% foreigners to work in Lee"s son's Singapore Inc aka the island. The other 50% absent Singaporeans have either emigrated or dead. <br /><br />How long do you thing this sort of thing would last. It would soon be another Dubai with a few Lee Kuan Yew son's and cronies employing an entire island of foreigners. But Dubai has the oil money that the other Emirates pour into it. What does this island have. Nothing. Soon there will be so much to and fro revolving door of Chinese nationals coming in and going out and it will be the end of the island. Gopalan Nair types would have all left them island and would be contributing to its downfall from San Francisco or the other western capitals of the world. <br /><br />Collapse is sure my friend. Just as collapse is sure for Russia. The question is only when. It will be either be a gradual collapse or a sudden one in the event of some economic catastrophe. It is too small to withstand such things. Gopalan Nairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-87314833052803968442015-12-25T19:23:50.608-08:002015-12-25T19:23:50.608-08:00So Gopalan, what do you hope to achieve with the p...So Gopalan, what do you hope to achieve with the post? Singapore stinks AND sinks, you have been saying this for a long time. The former is true, Singapore does STINK! I agree 100%. The latter is yet to happen; Singapore DID NOT SINK. You insist it is inevitable for the last several years. LKY is dead too and you were sure investors will flee and Singapore will descend into turmoil, but it did not enter chaos like you predicted. Now what?Stephen Moraizanoreply@blogger.com