Ladies and Gentlemen,
Predictably Singapore's propaganda department, Lee Kuan Yew's state owned and controlled newspaper the Straits Times on line edition of Feb 1, 2011 reports "Over 90% of Singaporeans happy with quality of life". Not surprising at all why the very very good news just now. After all the national elections are just around the corner and it is time to ratchet up the good news. This is how all one party state dictatorships like Singapore function around the world.
It says "Singaporeans have higher levels of confidence in the country's future and economy......", "When asked if they were satisfied with the way Singapore was being run, 96% said "yes"', etc etc. All very nice indeed, but the truth is, just as in dictatorships around the world, completely opposite. It is like the former Soviet newspapers Pravda and Izvestia churning out the good news in elephant size portions. In fact there was a joke in Russia those days. Pravda in Russian meant "truth" and Izvestia meant "news". The joke was, there is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia, because when wheat production has dropped rock bottom, they would say there was a bumper harvest; when unemployment was at 50%, they would say there was a shortage of workers; when people were going hungry, they would say they were having holidays in San Tropez!
You could say the same about Singapore's state controlled Straits Times; there is neither any "truth" or "news" in it. What else can you expect from a State Controlled newspaper anyway, except propaganda? This government report is from Reach, Lee Kuan Yew's feedback arm. I wonder what response you would have got from Dr. Chee Soon Juan if he was asked the same questions, not so rosy I suppose.
I am tempted to use stronger language when describing the nonsense being put out but I must refrain.
Let me ask Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew these questions. If indeed 90% of Singaporeans are happy with how things are going on there then can he explain the following?
1. Why are 2 people on average jumping off high rise buildings or jumping onto oncoming trains to commit suicide? Why?
Over 90% of Singaporeans happy with quality of life
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Feb 1, 2011
Over 90% of Singaporeans happy with quality of life
But many surveyed express concern over cost of living
-- ST FILE PHOTO
SINGAPOREANS have higher levels of confidence in the country's future and economy, but a new survey found them concerned about issues such as affordability of public housing and employment opportunities for the elderly and needy.
Commissioned by Reach, the Government's feedback arm, the survey last year saw more than 90 per cent of the 2,013 respondents express satisfaction with their overall quality of life, compared to 2009.
When asked if they were satisfied with the way Singapore was being run, 96 per cent of respondents, who were aged 17 and above, said 'yes'.
A high percentage were also satisfied with the Government's economic policies, the quality of the public service, their living environment and issues such as the education system.
But the survey also found that a larger proportion of respondents expressed dissatisfaction with aspects of public transport and housing compared to a year earlier.
The questions put to respondents during face-to-face interviews conducted from October to November last year ranged from whether the Government was succeeding in promoting neighbourliness to its handling of foreign relations.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
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Huh???
Did they feed them crack just before the survey?
Anyway election year, so the PAP controlled media should come up with more positive propaganda to brainwash the public.
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"96 per cent of respondents, who were aged 17 and above, said 'yes'."
wat survey is this?
are 17 years old kids supporting the family or running the economy?
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10% in sgforums
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yeh sorry folks, those people you see on TOC and TR.. are the 10%. Not forgetting sgforums hehe.
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Wayang wayang wayang wayang~~~♫
NSNT or newspaper also can CSB one hokay~~~
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If so PAP should get 90 percent of the votes in upcoming election.
OPP 10 percent.
Siao survey at least gt 30 percent unhappy with life in Singapore.
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Do you believe in Polls? Utter Rubbish i say.
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if spore gov can fabricate how u should feel happy or even happier............high chance they can also fabricate that they win future elections.
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joke figures. all say only. cb. they government say what is what lor. figures from where, agency.
i believe more figures will show that singaporeans are contented. happy. good working environment. everything good good. best in e world. until the election.
election over. it's back to square one.
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does that mean the remaining 4% are all the whiners in the forums?
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I think at least 40 percent unhappy with government.
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Hello all..hope you all are fine..i am new to this forum..
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Originally posted by Graemepaul1985:
Hello all..hope you all are fine..i am new to this forum..
which part of u are new? the new happy singaporean?
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are they refering to new immigrants?
elections coming need to push PAP bullshit propaganda also no need to do until like that lah. what the fuck.
I also won't vote for you one lah PAP.
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Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:
are they refering to new immigrants?
elections coming need to push PAP bullshit propaganda also no need to do until like that lah. what the fuck.
I also won't vote for you one lah PAP.
My mom n i vote for reform party cos they coming our area. -
When election is over, the percentage will drop.
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Straits Times, Singapore's propaganda department goes into full gear
2. Why are Singaporeans having the lowest fertility rate in the world, where Singaporeans are almost disappearing by the day, not by pestilence, not by wars, but because no once wants to bring up a family there. Why?
3. Why are almost every single Singaporean, capable of doing so, leaving the island permanently for settlement in the West. Why?
4. Why are almost 80% of the students surveyed recently said they would prefer to live abroad if given the chance. Why?
5. Why are the children of almost every single judge, civil servant, teacher, businessmen either living or studying abroad and refusing to return to Singapore. Why?
6. Why is Lee Kuan Yew's grandson living overseas and refusing to return to Singapore. Why?
7. Why are the 4 daughters of Singapore Kangaroo Judge Judith Prakash all living overseas and not in Singapore. Why?
8. Why is Gopalan Nair, the Singapore Dissident, living in the United States and relinquished his Singapore Citizenship for that of the USA. Why?
9. Why are the multitude of Singaporean students now studying in New Zealand, USA and Australia simply refusing to return to Singapore on completion of their studies. Why?
10. Why is it that the most talented people in the world prefer to move to the West while Singapore only gets those whom no other country wants, without any knowledge of even English? Why?
Are all these things happening because 90% of Singaporeans simply love Singapore as the state controlled propaganda department so proudly says? Do you take us all for a bunch of morons?
The truth is simply the opposite. The people of Singapore simply detest the lives they live and are all clamouring to get out of that "paradise".
My message to Singaporeans before the elections is this. It is the duty of every person who loves freedom to obstruct baulk harm and disrupt the Lee Kuan Yew government as much as possible.
If you agree, then do anything you can to harm the Lee Kuan Yew government . Place any impediment you can in their way. Vote for the opposition. If not spoil the vote but never vote PAP. If for some reason you cannot do either and since voting is compulsory, simply leave the island before election day so you don't have to vote.
Otherwise send your children abroad for an education and tell them not to return. Don't have any babies at all if you live in Singapore, as the paucity of a population hurts the Lee Kuan Yew government the most. If you can emigrate overseas for your own good and future, as there is no future under Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. If you are abroad, discredit the Lee Kuan Yew government at every oppurtunity, to your friends colleagues both publicly and privately.
In other words, if you cherish freedom, try and hurt the Lee Kuan Yew government anyway you can, either from within Singapore or outside.
We all want to see the fall of this dictatorship and each one of us, in your own way can contribute to it's fall. What is happening to Hosni Mubarak and his son should happen to Lee Kuan Yew and son. Work at it my friends. We will after all see the back of Lee Kuan Yew one way or another.
We have to make Lee Kuan Yew realize that he cannot run Singapore on propaganda alone. He has to have the co-operation of the people which we should deny him.
Gopalan Nair -
let me guess.................the survey was done with 10 civil servants.....................LOL
i doubt we can even find 10% people that are satisfied with life here.................
work all your life just to buy a pigeon-hole of a home.......................
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Originally posted by Asromanista2001:
let me guess.................the survey was done with 10 civil servants.....................LOL
i doubt we can even find 10% people that are satisfied with life here.................
work all your life just to buy a pigeon-hole of a home.......................
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bo lan pah nair is still sick in the head, spoiled vote means pap smear gang still win.
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So i must be part of the 10% lah, i am not happy with life in singapore... or maybe i think pap's newspaper print wrong, they meant to print 99% of singaporeans happy... afterall they control the newspaper, they want to print 100% singaporeans happy we all also lan lan...
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before election they make u happy after election we make ourselves happier
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Originally posted by DailyFreeGames.com:
So i must be part of the 10% lah, i am not happy with life in singapore… or maybe i think pap’s newspaper print wrong, they meant to print 99% of singaporeans happy… afterall they control the newspaper, they want to print 100% singaporeans happy we all also lan lan…
100 percent too unconvincing.If they print 100 percent. It make headlines in international news.
Look at IMH and ppl in psych wards.
Singapore stress level so hi how can we be happy.
Unless PAP statistics exclude mental patients.( those in IMH,hospital or can stay at home one)
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PAP : '' 90% of ministers are happy............the other 10% still want higher pay.........''