SPH publishes new book on MM Lee Kuan Yew’s ‘Hard Truths’
January 13th, 2011 | 
Author: A NEW book to be launched on Jan 21 will offer a rare glimpse into the mind of the most influential man in Singapore’s history.
Lee Kuan Yew
Titled ‘Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going’, it is based on 16 interviews the Minister Mentor gave to seven journalists from The Straits Times from December 2008 to October 2009.
The 458-page, 11-chapter tome is a comprehensive examination of Mr Lee’s beliefs. It covers weighty topics such as Singapore’s political system, climate change and international relations, but also lighter ones, like his views on tattoos, fengshui and movies.
One distinctive feature is its extensive use of the question-and-answer format, which the authors hoped would engage younger readers and capture unvarnished, the robust exchanges between Mr Lee and his interviewers.
‘There hasn’t been a book like this where his views are subjected to such intense questioning and scrutiny in 32 hours of interviews,’ said The Straits Times editor Han Fook Kwang, 57, who led the team of seven writers.
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Source: Straits Times
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I wouldn’t want to read a book of interviews conducted by the very media organisation, LKY has controlled since 1959. If they really want the ‘hard’ truth, they should be asking the following questions:
Were you also working for the British (undercover) during WWII?
How did you manage to get on board a military ship ‘Britanica’ to head off to UK to do your studies when you were not in the military?
Did you believe in Merger for the sake of uniting Singapore and Malaysia or did you have any other ulterior motives? and other questions like that!!!
Two recommended books:
Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore by TJS George
No Man Is An Island: A Study of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew – James Minchin
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The book should be renamed/titled:” Hard Lies To Keep Singapore Going”.
Also, 32 hours of “intense scrutiny and questioning”, by a Team Of Seven, “Hard Media Fabulists”
These are in fact the “Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going”
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“”", it is based on 16 interviews the Minister Mentor gave to seven journalists from The Straits Times “”"
hmm..
theres this program ” hardtalk”. he should go on it.
cheers.
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waste my precious $ and my time to read his books
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Latest strategy to win votes…..Enough is Enough…..I’m not going to be fooled by the government controlled media or books portraying a good image of LKY or PAP!
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Wow! Daily Straits Times propaganda, pre-election goodies, property cooling measures, MPs asking “difficult” questions about helping the poor, etc … and now … A BOOK! Man, the election is really round the corner, isn’t it? Anyway, I know who I’m voting for.
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“A NEW book to be launched on Jan 21 will offer a rare glimpse into the mind of the most influential man in Singapore’s history.”
Rare glimpse? This old man has been spouting his senile mind out every day for the last 40 years, and publishing yet another book every other year… what rare glimpse? To many glimpses already…
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This is the story of Harry Lee Kuan Yew,
Promised us he’ll govern Singapore anew,
Claimed to be better than Marshall the Jew,
So to him and the PAP our votes flew,
Then seemingly he came in as PM the new,
But soon us S’poreans he started to screw,
One by one all our rights away he blew,
Our brave ones disagreed with his view,
So under the ISA in prison them he threw,
One such poor soul was Dr. Lim Hock Siew,
With a hatchet everyone he threatens to slew,
And in extreme fear of him Singaporeans grew,
Highest salaries he and his ministers withdrew,
Boasting that they are the only brightest few,
Today life in Singapore is no honey and dew,
It has become so bad even a gum you can’t chew,
So its time time to vote out Lee and his crew
Since all their evils we have now already knew.
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Cheap propaganda.
Next will be – 50,000 copies were sold.
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Oh, just go to Hell!! Literally!
MY VOTE IS FOR OPPO. OPPO, PLEASE CONTEST IN MY CONSTITUENCY.
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Aiyah,LKY ego about to burst just like the economic bubble soon liao.Also good lah,afterall at 88 he can only do “countdown” now become meeting Judgment Day.After that we can write our unedited version of “Hard Truths of a Liar”with 600 interviews by ex-political detainees and Human rights organisations,sure sell better than Stale Times.
Actually hor,the ST title should be “Hard Truths to see Singapore gone” more appropriate because that’s how he “demolished” Singapore lor.
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Harry Lee was able to get on board the military ship “Britanica” heading for UK after the end of WW2 because of his mother’s amoral liaison with a contractor in the Harbour Board.
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A book written by a stooge of the imperial amry is worth nothing bu a can.
A book written by someone who abuse human right and fake democracy is worth nothing but a con.
A book written by someone who say good thing to his neighbour and back stabbing them from behind is worth nothing but a con.
A book written the someone, who deny people of their vote via the ISD, GRC or redrawing Election boundaries is worth nothing but a con.
A book written by someone, who purchase properties with his gangs and claimed not knowing there is are discount is worth nothing but a con.
A book written by someone who betrayed his race, by shutting down a chinese university own not by him is worth nothing but a con.
A book written by someone who do anything to setup his dynasty to be run by his family is worth nothing but a con.
A book written by someone who uses legal bribes/corruption to ensure the survival of his dynasty is worth nothing but a con.
Unfortunately, this someone has been caught pant drop by the internet technology. This is how nature deal with tyrant such as him.
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Becareful on how he uses the media again. ISA might oso set in this time if his son fail to secure his next term.
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3 words: GO TO HELL!
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COME COME GENTLEMEN,
rare glimpse mean new hallucinations, la.
look out for the rare glimpse about how god spoke to him in his dream…..
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I read till the last 2 lines where it says, “The Straits Times editor Han Fook Kwang”. What do you expect? Only 1 word comes to mind:
KELONG!
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“hard truths” mean hallucinations of the truth.
aiya, singaporeans are really not talented at all.
sure to lose again this election if you don’t rush out to buy this book.
but, if you’re patient and wait out and want to save some money, it
may be given out for free with this chinese new year cum election-year “ang pow” -like all pre-election year bonuses/bribery.
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Errh it does say much. I thought some word of wisdom coming out from MM Lee. I prefer hard politics lah, not feng shui and movies leh.
MM Lee should make some bold prediction 5 yrs from now…
His prediction on North Korea having a nuke (USA will never attack North Korea, Seoul is just to close to the firing range)
His prediction on Japan and South Korea have a nuke
Then is will be very peaceful, nobody dares to provoke on another because either one can annihilated the other
MM Lee should make some bold prediction on world economy 5 years from now…
Made In China = Own By China (European Big Brother China)
China is buying up debts bonds of Portugal, Greece, Iceland, Ireland and now Spain, maybe Italy or France in the future
Made In China = Own By China (USA Big Brother is China)
China is buying up debts bonds of USA, she owe China 990 billion dollars. USA is head to war with Iran or North Korea that will add up to another 2 trillon dollars she had to borrow from China.
Currently 25% of USA GDP is given free to Iraq and Afghanistan war fund every year. The Republican Party can’t wait to start another war
MM Lee just spit it out, don’t worry…(speaking moderately is not a trend now)
China Army General told:”Robert Gates don’t sell weapons to Taiwan, we are not happy, don’t you do that again, if you want the to preserve the special relationship”
MP Jack Straw said:”it is true white are easy meat for men” it is true their culture is like that.
Hillary Clinton:”I am going to put it bluntly, Iran nuclear progammes had slow down, the sanction is working”
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After GE, SPH will publish another book on Hard Fucks he received from the voters.
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I would prefer to donate the money to the poor RATHER than spending the money to buy the book glorifying on this old bastard tyrant scum.
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Better to read the transcripts of the interview given by LKY to foreign journalists.
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Hard Truth? His full name is probably the only Truth in this Book~
Perhaps it should be renamed “Hardly True”~
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OMG! there he goes again. Nothing other than his usual self praising on how capable he himslef was in bringing Singapore to what it is today other than all those strings of dirty underhanded sabotages he did to those innocent beings which were well kept undercover all these years.
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OMG!!!
http://laksawithhum.wordpress.com/
Have Mercy…
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Who penned the questions?
Maybe MM did it himself.
Can you really imagine ST journalists (big word) asking MM any questions.
They would pee in their pants just thinking about it.
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still got so many cerita from him meh? just finished off with an eulogy…save us the agony!
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PAPAYA still think like stone age . Time has changed with internet . Nothing can hide now so freak election coming
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The only hard thing I want him to have is when he lies down there in the coffin with his morbid body.
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It is a remix of the old tunes.
I wonder why having an overdose of lky from media corp and yet the journalist think there is still a market for a written version of his crap.
it is a joke.
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Deen’s done it again! Hahahahahahaha!
Maybe you should publish a book of your limericks, Deen. Might even sell better.
The proceeds might even out-pay the defamation lawsuits!
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he is a liar
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check Han Fook Kwang and the team of seven writers bank acc,shame on you.
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What’s the difference between us and North Korea?
Do we want a 200 feet tall statue of LKY at Marina Bay with Laser shooting out in the eyes?
Do we want to address him as “Dear Leader”?
The real history was his role as a Traitor in WW2 along with prata man.
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whatever good impressions the book attempts to capture of LKY’s exploits is only totlaly tainted by the mere fact that countless loyal singaporeans have been made JOBLESS because of one daft FT POLICY.
BTW,many jobless singaporeans are still shouldering the burden of his son’s poorly conceived and chaotic FT policy implementation.
pride of our leaders has go the better of whatever little wisdom – moral or economics/secular – that is left of them.
sticking stubbornly to the FT POLICY is akin to ‘SLAUGHTERING’ our own citizens,it is not unlike extermination of our own kind as economic well-being is closely tied to a person’s physical,mental and spiritual well-being ultimately.
sad,supposedly ‘wise’ leaders can grasp such simple wisdom at all or are deliberately nonchalant about it.
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I wonder if LKY reads the comments on TR. Hi Harry.
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Tune in to Rediffusion for Chapter 3 by Lee Tai Saw on 21 Jan 2011.
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Oops miss out the most impt part..
Tune in to Rediffusion for “Hairy Truth’ Chapter 3 by Lee Tai Saw on 21 Jan 2011.
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Make a guess why he is publishing his books, soon we all will see the obvious
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Is the book half-truths or hard truths? I need to read it.
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Ya, reading is not ur strenght. If it were, u wont be struggling. So dont read, just talk
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SPH published a book on Lee Kuan Yew?
Then its objectivity and subjectivity will comes into questions as this is the very newspaper company that was being controlled by LKY in the past and is still being controlled by his son and his party PAP.
Ask yourself, would you dare to write anything bad or negative about your boss and then published it into a book? I rest my case.
Please don’t buy this book, it is full of lope-sided truth in favour of the man himself.
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This could be another propaganda attempt by the ruling party to “remind” singaporeans about the contribution of our octagenarian politician before the Election?
Don’t fall for the trap.
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Aiyah! Aiyoh! Alamak!
Must Be Type Error.
Not “HARD TRUTHS” lah!
Correct Term should be “HALF-TRUTHS” (ie political propaganda bullshit crap) leh!
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Aiyah! Aiyoh! Alamak!
Looks like a typo error on “HARD TRUTHS”, leh!
Correct Term should be “HALF-TRUTHS” (ie political propaganda bullshit crap), lah!
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LKY is writing his own “bible” again. Sorry lah, I will organise a “Burn The LKY Theory Book” Day even before the GE & your death! Turkmenistan has a book called Ruhnama. But now, it’s favour is somehow lost…
About Ruhnama: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhnama
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Ask any South Indians who is the ‘SUPERSTAR’ and they will all say ‘Rajinikanth’. All the movie industry like Bollywood, Kollywood and so on will also not deny that title to this Tamil star.
Guess who did he say was his ‘Superstar’ when asked by a famous film director.
This Superstar in India said his ‘SUPERSTAR’ is MR ### #### ###
Maybe, an outsider can see somethings we cannot see.
Maybe, when we stand to close to a masterpiece we may not see the full picture.
This ‘unseen truth’ even happen to us at home, we always say to the people at home how ungrateful they are for all the ’sacrifices’ we have made yet it is taken for granted.
Just sharing what i heard.
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Is world record salary sustainable?
Is pegging to CEO salary sustainable? for how long?
If so, the other world leaders salaries should rise soon.
Have theirs risen?
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A Little Red Book (copied from Chairman Mao) for little red dot..
Too free to write books (maybe the last book of his life)
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PM “I can’t live without it”
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Old man is trying to keep everyone busy…
Otherwise, very soon no one will hear from him anymore.
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Soon there will be Chinese and Russian translation.
He is going to bring them to Beijing and Moscow.
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I guess Han Fook Kwang must be trying very hard to get the attention of PAP so that he can be invited to PAP tea session. I guess after watching his colleague Irene Ng being invited, he must be feeling pretty sore inside… especially when he was more senior… LOL!
This fella has been writing books after books for LKY… still no tea session… LOL!
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too bad. he is a gone case of an old fart wants nothing but power and greed to satistify his ego.
shit!
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what a waste of money and time
history is going to be rewritten when MM meets his creator
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“”"”‘There hasn’t been a book like this where his views are subjected to such intense questioning and scrutiny in 32 hours of interviews,’ said The Straits Times editor Han Fook Kwang, 57, who led the team of seven writers.”"”"
7 writers they are not? writers write what they want to write?
are they not , hmm. the ppl that sits and copy note? what u call them? ” stineographers?” or something?
so the editor han fook kwang asked all the questions with 7 ppl that took all the notes? im not sure lei.
was it a one to one, ( one ask, one answers) ? not live on some sort of tv , nowadays called multimedia? live debate? no?
from what i`ve been reading in this site, or any others, even the msm, i have not seen any thing “live”. oh well.
like i mentioned, he should be on hardtalk. or a live tv program of sorts. the one that asks the q`s. he does not give chance one lor.
heres a q. u answer. the whole populace watches.
i have read his book. his frist one. yes. ill say i did. ill say too its a good book. makes one open their eyes. true.
but this 2nd book. im not so sure. the frist book was a one to one. ( i think). this 2nd book is not. so it leaves a lot of things open .
hmm…
cheers,
nick la.
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The purpose of this book, is so that the local papers can carry pages and pages of propagenda everyday, just before the election, in the name of reviews for the book.
The only place for such a book is in the trash bin.
They think Singaporean are stupid, don’t they?
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The hard truth is that they are still trying to make him look good as if he is a hero when he isn’t one to begin with. And he is just making use of all these resources at his disposal to re-write history in the only way that he others to look back at him. A real gentleman would not have to resort to such means to achieve his ends.
The true to life gentlemen that I can remember are people like Goh Keng Swee, Ong Teng Cheong, Wee Kim Wee, and maybe even Jeyaretnam.
He is what he is today simply at the liberty of everyone else. In fact he should be ashamed that what it takes him to achieved today is at the expense of the sacrifices and sufferings of so many fellow citizens and their immediate families. That to me, is really nothing to brag about.
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A revised version of my earlier post. Sorry wake up on the wrong side of the bed and posted wrongly
This is the story of Harry Lee Kuan Yew,
Promised us he’ll govern Singapore anew,
Proven to be better than Marshall the Jew,
So to him and the PAP our votes flew,
Then seemingly he came in as PM the new,
But soon us S’poreans he started to groom
One by one all our pockets fatter he helps to grow,
Our idiotic ones disagreed with his view,
So under the ISA in prison them he threw,
One such idiotic soul was Dr. Lim Hock Siew,
With a hatchet outcast one he threatens to slew,
And in extreme admiration of him Singaporeans grew,
Highest salaries he and his capable citizen withdrew,
Deservedly that they are the only brightest few,
Today life in Singapore is pure honey and dew,
It has become so good even a abalone you could chew for a penny,
So its time to vote in Lee and his team.
Since all their glorious deed we have now already knew.
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I wonder what he is trying to prove by writing this book. Give him credit where it is due, he was responsible for some good things but those are days looong gone. Sides he is only managing Singapore, a tiny city state. If Singapore were the size of JB or Suzhou.. I wonder if he will be able to run it so efficiently like in the 80s..
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• A Striving Man will Talk about What He Will & Can Achieve~
• A Penitent Man will Talk about His Wrong Doings & Seek for Forgiveness~
• A Dying Man can only Reminiscent about The Self Glorifying Past~
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7 servants who technically got paid and served its master is now writing a book for him. The content and substance will be perceivable like his earlier books and so does the questional “Man In white”. For $39/copy, I would give it to the poor for their week of wholesome meal. I will feel more rewarding giving such donation than to pay to be deceived by someone I already knew from the bottom of my heart.
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Hard Truth is that Singapore is collapsing because of what MM has done to this country.
Before he dies, he just wants to cover himself with glory. SPH is prostituting for him. This book is worthless. Only an idiot will buy such a book. Who cares what he says. It will not be a best seller. It will collect dust just like some of the useless books in the bookstore.
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A Died to this World Man has Peace Always and Nothing can Make him Anxious.
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All his books are written for self glorifying purposes only and it is fit for the trash bin. Every words and sentences is nothing but lies.
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“Beste Byeu Keur Niey Bieyr Niet Lesye Nesye Miesje Buuet”.
If you are wondering what the above sentence means, don’t bother. It is pure nonsense. This is what you will get in this book about
“Hard Truths”. All nonsense.
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There is a time for every thing.
Mr Lee Kuan Yew has taken that path.
He is not giving any taughts to what is said about him now.
There was a time he used to be paranoid about what people things, now he is not bothered.
There is a time for everything.
He has even let go of his good friend (spouse) and believes there is a time for everything.
Nothing in this world can give him great joy then to meet his Maker.
He is now using the the time to repent and be close to his maker at the right time.
This man is surely good in time management.
There is a time for everything. A time to sow and a time to reap.
We cannot just be sowing discord or goodtiding with reaping what we have sown.
People, please take time to take stock of what you have sowed and be prepared for the harvest the same type in many folds back to you be good or bad in many folds. Some 10, some 30 and some a hundred.
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CANT STOP LAUGHING…..HARD TRUTHS…..STRAITS TIME JOURNALIST
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Lee Kuan Yew seeking adulation. Kim Jong Il laughing through his arsehole.
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What is the most disturbing ‘Hard Truths’?
Did the interviewers ask MM Lee what was the most disturbing ‘Hard Truths’ that, if he could turn back the clock, he would not have hesitated to have it fixed?
It must be the one-man-one-vote democratic voting system.
The Chinese communist system allows only the card-carrying cadres vote in the government.
I believe MM probably would have preferred to allow only property owners, landed and not landed property owners,to vote in red dot. It will mean less chance of a ‘freak’ result at the GE.
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whatever good impressions the book attempts to capture of LKY’s exploits is only totlaly tainted by the mere fact that countless loyal singaporeans have been made JOBLESS because of one daft FT POLICY.
BTW,many jobless singaporeans are still shouldering the burden of his son’s poorly conceived and chaotic FT policy implementation.
pride of our leaders has go the better of whatever little wisdom – moral or economics/secular – that is left of them.
sticking stubbornly to the FT POLICY is akin to ‘SLAUGHTERING’ our own citizens,it is not unlike extermination of our own kind as economic well-being is closely tied to a person’s physical,mental and spiritual well-being ultimately.
sad,supposedly ‘wise’ leaders can grasp such simple wisdom at all or are deliberately nonchalant about it.
hi MODERATOR.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE PROBLEM OF THIS POST,MAY I KNOW,PLEASE?
OR ARE YOU BIAS AGANST MY POSTS AS THIS IS UMPTEEN TIME?
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS.
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THE PAP INTERNET BRIGADE IS OUT TO DISTORT DEEN’S POEM. SEE ABOVE POSTING AT 11.52am.
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The PAP Internet Brigade is out to distort Deen’s good poem.
SEE ABOVE POSTING AT 11.52am.
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Kim Jong II prance around the stadium for Adulation, only hot airs.
Lee Kuan Yew’s Adulation comes in the form of Books.
All this books will compiled like a ‘bible’ it will bw called “LKY says”……and still collect royalties for his mega familees.
Smart man.
So “symbolically” don’t buy this book.
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The 1st HARD TRUTH, my dear Harry, is that you have screwed up true blue native citizens with you and your PAPigs’ self-serving FT policies over the last 4 years.
The 2nd HARD TRUTH, my dear Harry, is that the true blue native citizens have had enough of you and your PAPigs and the PAP will be screwed up in the coming GE.
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What a stupid book. You mean MM knows what is the truth? He only knows how to fix people and count his money. I bet my last bottom dollar that a book on the hard life of a prostitute will sell better that a book on hard truths by someone with zero credibility.
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It take a hell of a Narcissist to go on like this at his age… megalomaniac + narcissist?
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If one needs to know what epitomizes real megalomania, real avarice and real venality – this is a must read.
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The main purpose with the Illuminati is to create a One World Government and with them in charge over mankind. To be able to control the population, they need to reduce us from a world population of 6 billion to approximately 500 million. This is done by creating conflicts, wars, inventing diseases and viruses and now as of recent, orchestrating a War on Terror and a financial meltdown (2008). But old fart’s son did the otherwise by increasing the population. His son will go down with cancer soon.
Old fart already sold his soul to the demonic Illuminati and in exchange he has power and money. The only catch in the contract is that by using all his negative energy towards the rest of us, which is required from him, old fart has to face the consequences eventually; it’s just how the laws of the universe work. He finally creates his own Hell.
You can find this script written in the Zohar.
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Had Lee Kuan Yew not helped the Japanese in their occupation of others’ lands, Singaporeans would accept his hard truths. BUT since he had worked with the world’s worst enemy in WW2, hard truth or half truth, no difference anymore la.
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The hard truth is also that there are other loyal and patriotic Singapore citizens who hold different view points of what would make Singapore thrives as a nation of the future. And the hard truth is why did not the PAP allow these people to freely expressed themselves openly and engage the population in an open debate?? Another hard truth is the danger of relying on a one-man wisdom.
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Old man is prancing around looking for self adulation again.
His ‘Hard Truths’ is the basis for the ‘Hard Life’ for the serfs of Sinkapore.
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Well done Sir. I will be buying this book. You are the greatest Singaporean ever!!!!!!
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This book is deceptively entitled. The true title should be:
LEE KUAN YEW: HARD LIES TO KEEP SINGAPOREANS GOING DOWN AND DOWN
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The book is and never will be a best seller! Most know the truth, without even reading the book, as what is the political turmoil the very citizens are going through.
This is a tyrant state! A state full of manipulations!
The very basis is simple, Papies , made the elites and the cronies and their children, and the Sinkaporeans all educated derilics,besides the majority,whom we are.
That was their biggest mistake, forgetting, “a hungry man is an angry man”.
OUR VOTES ALWAYS DECIDE THEIR FATE, AS WE ARE MAJORITY, NOT THE ELITES OR SINKAPOREANS!
NOW IT IS OUR TURN, THEIR LIVELIHOOD IS IN OUR MAJORITY HAND, OF THE VERY PEASANTS!
VOTE THEM OUT PEOPLE! YOU ARE THE BOSS NOW!
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I will burned ONE of this BOOK for you when u pass on. Let you read your own shit to pass time when HADES recite your numerous crimes against the innocent.
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You can write a thousand books–but the truth cannot be hidden.
Question for all old-timers– with his WW2 record, how the hell did he get elected??
Also how did the sycophantic times reporters dare to grill him when even cabinet ministers get the shakes the moment he walks into the same room?
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AS I SEE IT, LKY IS DREAMING OF ANOTHER PAP LAW TO COMPEL ALL SINGAPOREAN HOUSEHOLDS TO PURCHASE A BOOK BEFORE HE KICKS THE BUCKET.
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Heard him over the radio this morning, when he was giving a speech when accepting some Rotten Idiot (RI) award. He was slurring so badly. His time is coming up very soon!
Let’s organise a bonfire when that time comes, his books will come in handy.
btw, someone told me some people have started receiving SMSes.
“The revised Registers of Electors are now open for checking till 27 Jan 2011. For more info, go to http://www.elections.gov.sg“
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Hard Truths
Is this going to be MM’s final legacy for red dot?
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Something ST Editors were afraid to ask MM.
What happened..then ,Sir?
“If we say that we believe in democracy, if we say that the fabric of a democratic society is one which allows for the free play of idea…then, in the name of all the gods, give that free play a chance to work within the constitutional framework.”
- Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore Legislative Assembly, 1956
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@ THE NEXT RULER OF SINGAPORE
• Heard him over the radio this morning, when he was giving a speech when accepting some Rotten Idiot (RI) award. He was slurring so badly. His time is coming up very soon!
You must understand it is not him that was speaking; it was the illuminati demonic spirit inside his body that does the speech. Because of his weak physical condition, it becomes more pronounce. Next time you visit a medium on trance, whereby a ghost deity’s astral body has entered the medium body. The speech is the same.
I’m very sure his time is not due yet. He has to see with his own eye the PAP he built collapsed before he is allowed to go off. That’s the reward he’ll get from Lucifer.
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Pity all the trees that were killed to serve the selfish conceited ego of a megalomaniac struggling to hoodwink the future and concealing the evil deeds.
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I’ve bought his first book ‘My Memoir’, after knowing his ugly side i’ve burnt the book. Wasted my money.
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The Hardest “Hard-Truths” for Lee Kuan Yew IS for him to stop thinking that he and “only he” knows everything and that his ministers also know and can do the best for Singapore. He can’t be furthest from the real truth.
Because WE SINGAPOREANS and NOT he alone inherited Singapore with adeep harbour great as a Shipping Port from The British Colonialist! And IT WAs Sir Stamford Raffles WHO HAD THE VISION of our God given harbour. And also Singapore’s strategic location which help to cut shipping through the equally and sufficiently deep Straits of Malacca for trade between East and West!!!
And so IT WAS Sir Stamford Raffles who IS the real “Father of Singapore” and no one before or after him is!!!
If he disagrees, pray let him compare our “National Health Care” System to the following and then tell his Health Minister so. As Woody Goh had said two things…
1. “He is probably the best health minister you ever had”!
Q1. Point is we agree that he is the best we ever had. But we can have the best and Mr. Khaw BW ISN’T the best as the best can still be replaced by someone even better!
Q2. Why “you” and not WE?
Q3. Isn’t this typical LKY in PAP snob!
2. “When the going get tough, the tough gets going”!
Q1. Is explaining things away by laying blame on something else when it is LKY in PAP that IS WRONG and Singaporeans, etc DON KNOW IT TOO?
Q2. So, what does LKY-PAP after 51 years stand for and reveal?
Q3. That NONE below LKY is good enough for Singapore?
Q4. And so by Q3 LKY become the default greatest leader of all times? Let remember again THAT Singapore
- IS ONLY 1/33 of Johor State,
- with only a 581 feet highest Bukit Timah Hill,
- has natural deep harbour in…
- a strategic location that make Singapore great for shorter shipping route between east and west.
And thus without the above advantages and foundation left behind by the British, can Lee Kuan Yew really built up Singapore’s material sturcture to what is is today?
And as for HEART, he and his PAP still has a long long way to go compared to Dr Devi Shetty! And SERIOUSLY so going by his and pappyism bragging…
BBC World Service – The Interview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/interview
• Dr Devi Shetty 14Jan11
Fri, 14 Jan 11
Duration:
27 mins
Devi Shetty is a top Indian heart surgeon with a big idea. He believes specialist healthcare should be available to the very poor of India just as much as the rich. Ten years ago he founded a hospital in Bangalore in southern India which charges people according to what they can afford. The rich go for the very best surgery. The poor go there because they can. Carrie Gracie asks him whether his model can really overturn healthcare provision.
Download 13MB (right click & “save target as”)
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evil: January 13, 2011 at 10:18 pm evil(Quote)
waste my precious $ and my time to read his books
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DONATE the money to WP, SDP, RP, NSP, SPF etc by spreading out so that they can fan out and contest as many SMCs ^GRCs as possible. Only with our stake in them can WE Be sucessful!
Have you all given? NATO is a dead duckling!
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Did the SPH journalists work out how much was the total cost to the govt and to MM Lee for conducting the 16 interviews of more than 32 hours at MM Lee’s office?
Selling the book at $40 each, how much profit will go to SPH or to the SPH’s journalists?
How much will go to which public charities?
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‘Singapore’s World Press Freedom Index ranking has dropped to a new low from the previous year’s 133rd to 136th, according to the latest figures released by Reporters Without Borders. Singapore’s ranking by Freedom House remains at 151 out of 196 assessed, according to the “Freedom of the Press 2010 Global Rankings” report.’
What do you get from the Sycophant Prostitute Harlot place whose team has got such press freedom ranking for ST which is even below Iraq, Zimbabwe and Guinea. I would rather put my money for a worthy cause than to “massage his ego”.
Maybe someone should attempt to write an expose on “LKY : Hard thrusts to keep SG groaning.” Remember what he said that we are “daft”, “our spurs are not stuck in our hides, “hifalutin”, etc, etc.
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The Book will not be laku(saleable) in Singapore.
As far as Singaporeans are concerned, Lee Kuan Yew and his truth or tale are all kaput.
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Hard truth: In the interview between HIM & the 7 drawfs when responsing to probing on whether Singapore could afford to be more generous in its welfare policy he said “For 50 years, I’ve tried to pilot my way through. Did it succeed?
He and gang came into power in 1959. 1959+50=year 2009! That means HE PILOTS (CONTROL) ALL THE WAY FROM 1959 TO 2009 & maybe till to date. In between when he handed over the premiership to GCT (now it looks like he was only a tua pek gong)from 1990 to 2004 who then passed the baton to LHL (similarly also acted like a tua pek gong N0. 2). Looks like the whole lots of HIS $million ministers are just passengers, messengers, sitting bulls, etc…
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Guys one of my kaki in the public service told me that all his books are sold first to top civil servants with discount from MPH and after that,they release to the public,you should see the amount of order from the servants of pappies in the public service he told me sigh…such obedient servant they are because of the huge salary they are paid
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Did the SPH journalists ask MM Lee what were the key concerns in each of the five decades since red dot’s independence in 1965 to 2005?
What were the concerns, why they were considered as concerns to him and his Cabinet, what did they do to fix it, and could he have done better to fix it?
Did they ask him what will be the key concerns in the next five decades from 2015 to 2055?
Why are they considered key concerns, and what need to be done to fix these concerns?
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How to be more generous on welfarism policy?
Did the SPH’s journalists ask him how to become fairer than fair in red dot’s policy on welfarism?
What is MM’s concerns on becoming more generous, and what is holding him back from becoming a bit more generous, and what is considered as overly generous to Singaporeans?
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Jealous.
Envious.
Singapore and the whole world welcome MM’s book.
Hurray ….
We can’t wait to get a copy for keepsake.
Singapore owes it to MM.
Ask the world.
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So excited for this book! Without him, singapore might still be a 3rd world or 2nd world country. He’s a wise man, singaporeans just love complaning too much about every single thing. They haven’t see how government from other countries are like. When foreigners come to singapore, they say their government won’t even entertain small complains about ‘volunteer’s food, lift break down or anything’. It won’t even be published in newspapers. People would laugh if there are complaints about such things. I doubt those opposition can do a better job in governing singapore. Long Live MM Lee!!!
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Sore loser all jealous about his new book haha i going to buy one!!!!
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