A Nation Cheated selling fast

[Perspective]

I find this type of behaviour strange and curious in this day and age. Before NLB would probably never carry any titles that were highly critical of LKY and PAP written in a coherent rational compelling manner. However nowadays I note that NLB seems to carry almost all if not all titles including chee's works; francis seow's works; the 'slapper' book etc. That being the case I would think it makes no sense for the commercial bookstores not to carry these titles unless they find it is of no commercial value to them. You see the net appears to have changed everything that and PAP government's desire to turn S'pore into one of the world's most liveable cities attracting creative innovative talent from all over the world which means it then has to open up more.

Actually, from what I recall, Chee's first book "Dare To Change" was already carried by the NLB way back in 1994.

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

Did not know that.

Actually, from what I recall, Chee's first book "Dare To Change" was already carried by the NLB way back in 1994.

 

[Perspective]

Did not know that.

I am sorry, a minor clarification. "Dare To Change" was written in 1994 by CSJ. I saw a copy of it in the old "red brick" National Library (which is now torn down) in 1997.

 

[one2unite]

I suggest you go ask the 66.6%

The sham "election results" cooked up by a department taking orders from the dictator being bandied about as mandate of the people!

 

[silverfox@]

I find this type of behaviour strange and curious in this day and age. Before NLB would probably never carry any titles that were highly critical of LKY and PAP written in a coherent rational compelling manner. However nowadays I note that NLB seems to carry almost all if not all titles including chee's works; francis seow's works; the 'slapper' book etc. That being the case I would think it makes no sense for the commercial bookstores not to carry these titles unless they find it is of no commercial value to them. You see the net appears to have changed everything that and PAP government's desire to turn S'pore into one of the world's most liveable cities attracting creative innovative talent from all over the world which means it then has to open up more.

This is from my experience of writing a book and publishing myself before years ago. So let me recall.
When you wish to publish your book, you need to apply for ISBN. When you apply for ISBN, you need to submit to the library a few copies of your books in order for them to "approve" your book. So when you submit to Library, they will distribute to various libraries.

I submitted 10 books then. So if one submit 20 or 30, then more libraries will carry the book.
That is also why you can find Chee's book, or FS's book etc.

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

What about if the book is not published in S'pore? I think Francis Seow's books were not published in S'pore.

This is from my experience of writing a book and publishing myself before years ago. So let me recall.
When you wish to publish your book, you need to apply for ISBN. When you apply for ISBN, you need to submit to the library a few copies of your books in order for them to "approve" your book. So when you submit to Library, they will distribute to various libraries.

I submitted 10 books then. So if one submit 20 or 30, then more libraries will carry the book.
That is also why you can find Chee's book, or FS's book etc.

 

[leetahbar]

FS' books are available in any malaysia MPH store. his newest book is not cheap. i bought FS' "TO CATCH A TARTAR" in the old subang airport for a mere MR18. the write out about the "marxist plot" was very interesting. how true they tortured female detainees in whitley retention camp leave much to be verified.

 

[silverfox@]

What about if the book is not published in S'pore? I think Francis Seow's books were not published in S'pore.

Every country got its own agency to apply for ISBN. So probably he applied through other country.

 

[tonychat]

This is from my experience of writing a book and publishing myself before years ago. So let me recall.
When you wish to publish your book, you need to apply for ISBN. When you apply for ISBN, you need to submit to the library a few copies of your books in order for them to "approve" your book. So when you submit to Library, they will distribute to various libraries.

I submitted 10 books then. So if one submit 20 or 30, then more libraries will carry the book.
That is also why you can find Chee's book, or FS's book etc.

The most important thing is whether the book is sellable, in other word, will there people to buy it.

The whole world do not revolve around singapore. It is not that you need SG's approval then you can print a book out and sell.

 

[metalslug]

Biggest savings, lowest income

http://yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/1744-biggest-savings-lowest-income

Biggest savings, lowest income
Sunday, 11 January 2009
Singapore Democrats

It was recently reported that Singaporeans have the lowest retirement income from pension savings in the Asia-Pacific region. And yet, through the CPF scheme, we are the biggest savers in the world. What gives?

This issue is discussed in Dr Chee Soon Juan's latest book A Nation Cheated which Singaporeans continue to buy the publication in numbers as Kinokuniya Bookstore makes yet another order of the book (its ninth).

The economic deterioration and the recent revelations of the financial scandals in the US are heightening the fears of Singaporeans that they are not being told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about their savings. Hence, one suspects, the enhanced sales of the book.

Obviously the book's title is also making Singaporeans wonder if they have indeed been short-changed. All these years the PAP has been telling the people that the brightness of their future can be guaranteed only if they forfeit their civil and political rights.

But the rhetoric has not been matched by reality. Despite the political sacrifice, our economic well-being has plummeted: We were the first economy to tumble into recession in Asia, our downturn has been the sharpest, and the GDP forecasts in the region puts our economy the gloomiest if the lot.

In the meantime, our leaders are by far the highest paid in the world -- and this is after taking a 19 percent pay cut! With top civil servants living the high-life and traveling to Paris for cooking lessons, the decadence is clear for all to see.

And Singaporeans came to know of this matter only because the Government employee was stupid enough to brag about his escapade. Imagine what the ministers can do and are doing with their opulence even as Singaporeans face a bleak future.

Then the Government announces that it is increasing the official retirement age to 65. It tells Singaporeans that it is doing the people a favour, never mind that a majority of people don't want to work till the day they expire.

Of course we have the model of Mr Lee Kuan Yew who at the age of 85 still goes to the office. But then if we paid our senior citizens the way the MM pays himself, no one would want to retire.

The truth is that the raising of the retirement age will mean that the CPF withdrawal age will also be delayed. The truth is also that more and more of our CPF savings will be withheld.

So how do we rectify the problem? By waiting for the next general election to check on this Government? Think again...

Read how this is impossible to do under the present elections system. Get a copy of A Nation Cheated.

Pension & retirement income: S'poreans ranked lowest
The Straits Times
9 Jan 09

Singaporeans are at the bottom of a ranking of retirement income from pensions in the Asia-Pacific region, says the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).And this is true at all income levels, according to the study, which covered 19 locations including Hong Kong, Taipei and Japan, The Business Times reported on Friday.

The Pensions at a Glance study, which also involved the World Bank, found that Singapore's average gross replacement rate - the value of the pension as a percentage of earnings when working - is just 13.1 per cent.

Taipei has the highest gross replacement rate of 70 per cent, the report said.

"This means that the gross pension income for average earners in Taipei is over two-thirds of their previous earnings level, whereas pensioners in Singapore receive less than one-seventh the amount of their earnings," says the study.

Singapore's pension is provided by the Central Provident Fund (CPF).

"The relatively low replacement rate for Singapore is because the calculations only consider the earmarked retirement account," says the study. "If an individual were to put the general account towards retirement-income provision as well, then the replacement rate would be 82 per cent."

It points out that it would be foolish to say that one Singaporean who withdrew from the CPF to buy a house is worse off than another who built up a retirement income and then had to use some of it to pay for housing.

"Nonetheless, there is a risk that older people find themselves asset-rich and income-poor in retirement and facing difficulty in unlocking the value of their housing assets to pay for essentials," the study says.

Replacement rates - the most familiar indicator for pension analysts - are not the only factor governments are concerned with. They also need to measure the value of the overall pension promise.

"This is measured by the indicator of pension wealth which takes life expectancy into account," the study says.

Again, Singapore has the lowest measurement - a retiree's pension here is worth just an average 2.2 times their earnings at retirement. The figure for China is 21.2 times - the highest in the region.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_323961.html


Asian economic outlook: From grim to grimmer
The Malaysia Insider
11 Jan 09

Poor Performer: Singapore
Singapore’s open economy is being battered by the global crisis. We are now expecting the city-state’s GDP to contract by 2.9 per cent in 2009, following estimated growth of just 1.9 per cent in 2008. Exports are set to contract as demand in the US and most of Singapore’s other important markets stagnates.

The prospects for Singapore’s crucial technology sector – which depends on electronics exports – are looking particularly poor. But it is not only the external economy that will be troubled in 2009.

We also expect growth in private consumption, which accounts for about two-fifths of economic activity, to weaken sharply, primarily because of the deteriorating labour market and tight credit conditions.

To be sure, the government will spend vigorously to prop up domestic demand. A spike in government consumption should help to offset a drop in private-sector investment growth.

But policy makers in Singapore, as elsewhere in Asia, face a severe test of their capacity to avert a deep and prolonged recession.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/...3-asian-economic-outlook-from-grim-to-grimmer

 

[metalslug]

http://yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/2032-greed-and-poverty

Greed and Poverty
Sunday, 08 March 2009
Singapore Democrats

Even before the advent of the financial crisis that has gripped the world Dr Chee Soon Juan talked about the evil of greed and exploitation of the poor in a capitalist world. In A Nation Cheated, the SDP secretary-general wrote about how PAP policies have marginalised the working class in Singapore especially in the last ten years:


The only difference between communism and capitalism, it has been said, is that the communists have admitted that they were wrong.

Such an observation, undoubtedly made with tongue firmly in cheek, is nevertheless a serious indictment of the economic system that has enveloped this planet. The widening disparity between the world's rich and poor continues to ask questions about the way humanity conducts itself.

Poverty brutalises and dehumanises the victims it claims. It is an evil that tears at the very heart of civilisation.

Giving succour to us all is the knowledge that people are not defenceless when it comes to combating poverty. The weapon of choice is, of course, democracy. For without it, capitalism becomes nothing more than exploitation in disguise.

And yet, in Singapore the situation is such that while the ruling PAP remains alive to the capitalist world, it ensures that democracy is kept dead and buried. Such an arrangement renders the working poor voiceless and powerless, opening them up to abuse and exploitation.

This section addresses the fallacy that Singapore has a well-run, free-market economy system put in place by the PAP that continues to benefit the island's inhabitants. In fact, this report clearly demonstrates that there is nothing free or market-oriented about Singapore's economy.

Worse, developmental trends over the last 10 years show how Singaporeans have been economically displaced and socially dislocated as a result of PAP policies.

A Nation Cheated continues to sell rapidly at Kinokuniya Bookstore and Select Books. In this economic climate, Singaporeans are obviously keen on finding out more about how the PAP has been exploiting them.

 

[leetahbar]

if the books are selling very well, then please refrain from asking donations from unwary peasants.

practise what you guys love to preach.

A Nation Cheated continues to sell rapidly at Kinokuniya Bookstore and Select Books. In this economic climate, Singaporeans are obviously keen on finding out more about how the PAP has been exploiting them.

 

[guavatree]

if the books are selling very well, then please refrain from asking donations from unwary peasants.

lanjiao sucking unemployed parasite old fart faggot fake monk PAP dog Bob Sim Kheng Hwee,

temple thief, swindler, fraudster, cheat, con-artist, liar, hypocrite, deceiver, all rolled into one!

mai hau lian lah

how much money you stole from temples last week?

how much money did you cheat & con your 'frens'?

fuckwit got ask you for donation meh?

 

[jimmyfallon]

Anybody read this book? Chee says that there are recently declassified british public documents showing how LKY is a coward and a traitor. How come this is not picked up by the foreign press?

 

[leetahbar]

cheating and cheeting have its limit. exploitation of foreign media with half-truths maybe considered for media attn. so far, chee has proven he is the real traitor who tried desperately to bring singapore down by complaining to president obama on his presidential inauguration.

chee is exposed. his red undies is showing!!

 

[guavatree]

cheating and cheeting have its limit. exploitation of foreign media with half-truths maybe considered for media attn. so far, chee has proven he is the real traitor who tried desperately to bring singapore down by complaining to president obama on his presidential inauguration.chee is exposed. his red undies is showing!!

paranoid chao ah kwa exposed ki lan!

lanjiao sucking unemployed parasite old fart faggot fake monk PAP dog Bob Sim Kheng Hwee,

temple thief, swindler, fraudster, cheat, con-artist, liar, hypocrite, deceiver, all rolled into one!

you are fucking jealous!

go get a job and stop being a fucking kaypohji!

your appalling gay behavior is worse than a menopause woman!

did you had your menses lately chao ah kwa?

LOL

 

[metalslug]

http://yoursdp.org/index.php/compon...a-nation-cheated-warned-about-the-spore-model

A Nation Cheated warned about the S'pore model
Wednesday, 08 April 2009
Singapore Democrats

The Wall Street Journal recently wrote that Singapore's “export-led economy is falling on its face” with the onset of the global financial crisis. The newspaper added that our economy would be more resilient if it were better balanced and this could be achieved by trimming back GLCs and allowing the domestic private economy to grow.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong admitted as much in an interview where he acknowledged that Singapore might have to rethink its export-led growth strategy.


Way before the problem became dire, Dr Chee Soon Juan had already been warning that Singapore's over-reliance on foreign multinational companies to manufacture goods to be re-exported may not be sustainable.

In Dare To Change published in 1994, he wrote: “Have we become overly reliant on the MNCs and foreign capital?...For the long-term well-being of the economy, Singapore must pay more attention to its private sector." This idea was expanded in his latest publication A Nation Cheated, which continues to sell briskly at Kinokuniya and Select Books. The bookstores have placed yet another order despite the recession.

Perhaps, with the downturn, Singaporeans are waking up to the idea that things may not be quite the way the PAP has been telling them all these years. The excerpt below reveals how backward the PAP Government has been:

‘The truth of the matter is that Singapore cannot, or does not know how to, break free of its dependence on foreign investment. Analysts Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld summed up:

'Despite its seeming prosperity, Singapore in 1990 is trapped in the treadmill of the export-oriented economics that it once so enthusiastically embraced. Having so completely open itself up to the world market and the multinationals with the illusion that it could influence the former and manipulate the latter, the PAP technocrats now see that their policies have reduced Singapore's economy to a mere service economy, the fate of which is totally dependent on the calculations and whims of the multi-nationals.'

Singapore's reliance on MNCs has remained deep. The attempts made by the government to "restructure" the economy served only to attract a different category of industries to the country and did little to lessen the economy's dependence on external investments.

Even in 2001, economic analysts still point out that Singapore's problems are caused by its heavy dependence on foreign capital, because "strong competition for FDI [foreign direct investment] has mounted, with cheaper centres in the region already drawing away investments from Singapore."

The convenience of constructing an instant economy fed largely on foreign capital may have served the PAP's interests well. Whether this strategy has helped the welfare of workers, however, remains another matter.

 

[tonychat]

Fantastic piece of article. That is why i say Dr Chee is a genius.