UNfactually: How the Singapore Government Tries to Bully Citizens into Accepting Misleading Statistics and Fake News
With the election is supposedly just around the corner and the new Protection from Online Falsehood and Manipulation Act (POFMA) just having become law, the Prime Minister must have been […]
LKY Made JBJ Homeless and Was Proud of It. PAP Could Not Care Less About 1,000 Homeless
The PAP, like other faux Communist regimes which pay lip service to equality while actually existing to benefit a small elite who enjoy hereditary rule, long claimed to have eliminated […]
Heng’s Performance Shows He Would Not Survive If He Was Not Protected from Competition
The main reason I chose to study Economics was that it truly is the Queen of all Sciences. Economics provided the blinding insight that competition leads to the survival of […]
Why Is LHL Making So Much Effort to Destroy His Tame Opposition?
Let me declare straight away that I am not here to excuse Sylvia, Pritam and Low’s actions. They have done a grave disservice to the cause of the Opposition in […]
What Lee Hsien Loong Really Means When He Talks About The Dangers of Populism
I wrote a week ago about LHL’s fake history peddling at the PAP’s NTUC Delegates’ Conference. He warned about greater political awareness and democratization leading to “deep social angst” and […]
Justice Jasvender Kaur’s Judgement Is Not an Outlier But Reflects LKY’s and the PAP’s Thinking
There has been a predictable outcry among Singaporeans to Justice Kaur’s decision not to send NUS molester Terence Siow to jail but to give him probation based on the astonishing […]
Ho Ching, please stop dissembling and tell us how much you earn as a Gov employee
Today Ho Ching posted a defence of her husband’s (PM Lee Hsien Loong) salary after an article appeared on a blog called Seedly (which appears to be selling loans, credit […]
LHL’s NDR Pre-Election Broadcast: Instead of Hot Air We Need to Talk About Where the Money’s Gone
State media lost no time in branding PM Lee’s plans announced at Sunday’s National Day Rally (NDR) as “ambitious”. Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they since their whole raison […]
When You Don’t Know What To Do Claim It’s All Part of a Long Term Strategy
Any wishful thinking that the US-China trade war would soon be over was dispelled by Trump’s announcement last week of a 10% tariff, effective September 1st, on the $300 billion […]
PAP is Relaxed about Singaporean Extinction as Fertility Rate Hits All Time Low
Today the Government announced that the number of babies born last year was the second lowest on record while the fertility rate dropped from 1.16 children in 2017 to 1.14, […]
No Get Out of Jail Free Cards for LHL This Time Round
Coming right after the awful GDP figures for the second quarter (see Hey Lee Hsien Loong Dude, What’s the Plan?), the trade figures announced by Enterprise Singapore on 17 July […]
Why Temasek? As a Vehicle to Allow the Lees to Secretly Extract Money?
Temasek’s results were announced on 9 July and they were not a pretty picture. While the Board claimed a 1.5% return for the year to 31 March 2019 this was […]
Hey Lee Hsien Loong Dude, What’s Your Plan?
Today the Government announced some shockingly awful growth numbers for the second quarter of 2019. They showed the economy shrinking at a 3.4% quarterly seasonally-adjusted annualized rate from the first […]
When the Government and its Ministers and Wives Are in Business, Business Comes First Not Consumers
State-owned ( but actually Ho Ching-controlled) CNA reported yesterday on a new Bill (the Point-to-Point (P2P) Passenger Transport Industry Bill) tabled in Parliament to regulate the private car-hire industry. I […]
Why Ho Ching Must Declare Her Salary
On 1 July Malaysia’s Parliament passed a motion to require all MPs, as well as their wives and children, to declare their assets. While it has not yet been passed […]
The Myth of the Lee Family’s Public Service
Last week I published a blog post, “How Many More Years Will Go by Before We Learn How Much the Lees Have Paid Themselves While in Public Office?”https://kenjeyaretnam.com/2019/05/20/how-many-more-years-will-go-by-before-we-learn-how-much-the-lees-have-paid-themselves-while-in-public-office/. I said there […]
