Newsintercom closing for good

Hi all,

Newsintercom has been irrelevant for a long time. There are now many avenues for debate and discussion online for Singaporeans, so there’s no need (even symbolically) for newsintercom to carry on.

I’ve archived a large amount of posts into these two pdfs. Someday they might be of interest to people who want to see what sintercom was like in its heyday.

cheers everyone, and to all those who have contributed to newsintercom in any way, shape or form: thank you.

Sintercom: all posts from beginning to May ’05
Sintercom: all posts from May ’05 to end

newsintercom editor (final farewell)

No Protests Equals Happiness with PAP?

That’s what the despots like to think.

How wrong they are.

The despots in their despotic ways are just alienating the young and every new election will see them losing more and more support as the old departs and the young comes of voting age.

What the despots believe:
Suppressing the freedom of speech equals no complaints.
No protests equals no complaints.
Running dogs and yes men will give real feedback.

To call the by-election in Hougang or not to call…

To be or not to be…

To be honorable or not to be…

To be a despot or not to be…

To be just or not to be…

To be a moral person or not to be…

To be incorruptible or not to be…

To be fair or not to be…

To be or not to be…

To be or not to be…

To be or not to be…

To be ethical or not to be…

To be decent or not to be…

To be a man or to be a dog…

D.amned B.loody S.tupid bank

What do the experts say?

Quote
Stealing ATM card data is all too easy, say experts
Unquote

Yet the damned bloody stupid bank seems at a loss when it happened.

If, according to the experts, Stealing ATM card data is easy, wouldn’t you expect precisely such fraud to happen? Yet the Damned Bloody Stupid bank  was ignorant of anything amiss and needed their customers to inform them that something is wrong.

Do they not have fraud detection software, that would, for example, detect unusual withdrawal patterns like Singapore accounts withdrawals from ATMs in Malaysia which in this case would have surely been unusual?

Today is Sunday 8th Jan 2012, it happened on Wednesday 4th Jan 2012

Yet it seems from reports, all they can do is guess at what happened. Do they not have a procedure to follow in such cases when “Stealing ATM card data is easy: Experts“?

Could they not retrieve the video files of these ATM machines and confirm that indeed the fraudsters attached the skimming devices? Can they not publish the pictures of the fraudsters? Do they not have procedures in place for that?

Finally, do all these simple questions show a cover up?

Could it be it is not skimming but an inside job in the stealing of the card details?

Sure, where pin numbers are concerned, the fraudsters could have attached a camera noting down the pin numbers in the affected ATMs and matched them with the stolen card details.

Think about it. If you see a camera at the ATMs, would it alert you? Would you not think it is a security camera? A bank employee would think that the building management put the camera there. Building security would think the bank put it there.

Lastly, a word about the S.tupid S.ingaporeans withdrawing money from the Damned Bloody Stupid bank’s ATMs. Frequently, you can see long queues at their ATM machines and no queue at the machine next to it, which belongs to another Singapore bank.

How difficult is it really, to open an account with another Singapore bank even if you do not close your account with the D.amned B.loody S.tupid bank?

How can Damned Bloody Stupid Singaporeans let the Damned Bloody Stupid bank get away with not joining the consortium to allow cross usages of the ATMs and cause such inconvenience to their customers?

Ministers Pay Cut Wayang Wayang

Singapore, 5th Jan 2011

What is there to stop them from appointing their Relatives, their Cronies and their Running dogs to positions where they can take more public money?

It was not too long ago that certain family members were and some continue in their appointments, appointed to positions that pay them massive amounts of public money as their salaries.

One cannot wonder if without their connections as somebody’s father or wife or in-laws, they would even be considered for such positions.

For example, would Chen Show Mao or Kenneth Jeyaretnam ever be considered for a position in Temasek holdings?

You and I know the answer to that, don’t we?

A Despot will always be a Despot

Singapore, 31 December 2011

Really, what right has a despot cursed with a weird disease, to force people to learn a second language?

After he admitted his gross mistake (Lee Kuan Yew admits his stupid mistake but failed to learn the lesson in bilingualism), he now, instead of reversing his mistaken policy, comes up with as so-called language fund.

“Donations, pledges for bilingualism fund
TODAYonline – ?5 hours ago?

SINGAPORE – The Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism, set up by former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew last month to supplement efforts by the Government in the teaching and learning of English and the Mother Tongue languages, has received more than S$58 …
Related
Lee Kuan Yew »
Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism draws $58mBusiness Times (subscription)
Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism gets $58 millionStraits Times
See all 4 sources »”

For what the fund is worth, it does not change his despotic “I know how best you should live your life” attitude and abusing his power to do social engineering. Unless and until he admits that people have a right to live as they please without infringing other people’s rights, he will always be noted as a cursed despot.

Mud in despotic faces

QUOTE
Human trafficking claims upset Singapore
Roberto Coloma
June 15, 2010
AFP
Singapore has reacted indignantly to a US government report putting it on a human-trafficking watch list and bluntly told Washington to examine its own record on immigration.
UNQUOTE

If you are a stay at home, partying is immoral, Singaporean you might have agreed with the despots way back in 2010 when the USA marked Singapore as one of the “as countries that failed to prevent women from being forced into prostitution.”

Now in 2011 we read:

QUOTE
HOME to set up anti-human trafficking centre in S’pore
By Imelda Saad | Posted: 27 November 2011 0029 hrs
HOME to set up anti-human trafficking centre in S’pore
SINGAPORE: Plans are underway for a one-stop resource and help centre for human trafficking in Singapore. Led by the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME), the initiative marks another step towards Singapore’s effort to address the problem.

Last year, the Singapore government set up the Inter-Agency Taskforce on Trafficking in Persons (TIP). By mid-2012, the taskforce will come up with a National Plan of Action against human trafficking.
UNQOUTE

That the USA has more information and is more aware of the situation in Singapore than the despots ruling the country goes to show just how “in touch” the despots are with what is happening in the ground and/or they turn a blind eye to what is happening as long as it “improves tourism”, think the casinos.

Which goes to show that when there is a “harm to the common man” vs “more money in their own pockets” situation, without someone kicking them in the posterior (in this case the USA state department), these despots will always choose “more money in their own pockets”. Pay And Pay, how apt.

Wayang Wayang on the Singapore Flyer

Singapore, Saturday November 26 2011 0500am

QUOTE
AsiaOne
Tighter advertising & promotions guidelines for casinos
Channel News Asia – ?10 hours ago?

SINGAPORE : Singapore authorities have tightened advertising and promotions guidelines for the country’s two casinos to ensure that they do not target the domestic market.
Related
Marina Bay Sands »
Gambling Industry »
Singapore govt tightens casino advertising rules AsiaOne
Singapore government tightens casino advertising rulesStraits Times
In Depth:Tighter advertising & promotion guidelines for casinos TODAYonline
UNQUOTE

Let’s see, what is the most prominent landmark you see when you drive pass Benjamin Sheares viaduct? The Indonesian island of Batam across the Straits of Singapore? The tallest buildings, UOB and OUB plazas?

What is the most prominent landmark you see when you stand along Parliament Lane between the Supreme Court and Parliament House looking towards the sea?

What is the most prominent landmark you see when you drive or walk along Esplanade Drive? When you stare out of many buildings in the CBD looking out to sea?

What prominent landmark of Singapore do you see regularly featured on TV and print media?

The Singapore Flyer, of course.

For you and me that do not do the Singapore Flyer, that it is staring you in the face have no effect. For those that have a compulsion to go round and round the Flyer, the “in your face” constant reminder of its existence will arouse a desire as strong as sex for them to visit.

Those people with a Singapore Flyer addiction will feel a physical force like a strong magnet on metal pulling them towards the landmark.

So what will tightening Singapore Flyer promotions do when the Singapore Flyer is constantly put in front of your face by its sheer presence physically and on TV other than wayang wayang?

Why was the cursed despot struck with a rare disease in October 2009?

November 8th 2011

According to Lee Wei Ling in the Sunday times, the despot was struck in 2009. According to her he was walking properly in September and she noticed that he had a problem in October.

She said: “The deterioration within the space of a month was worrying.”

So, it was out of the blue. It was as if someone had struck him, out of the blue. It was like, you are happily walking in the rain and out of the blue, struck by lightning. One minute you are well and the next, you are in a serious condition.

So, is there any significance that he had to be struck with the disease in October 2009?

When the gambling licenses were issued in 2006, the expected launch was in 2009. In fact parts of the casino resorts opened in 2009!

As for gambling itself, RWS started their casino operations on the first day of the Chinese New Year in February 14th 2010. MBS let the gamblers in on 27 April 2010.

Let this be a warning to all those that participated in the approval of the casinos. Let this be a warning to all those that supports the casinos. Let this be a warning to those that supports cursed individuals and cursed political parties. Let this be a warning to all those that gambles at the casinos (actually addicted casino gamblers are by definition, a cursed lot).

Sure, when your role is limited, your punishment is limited; but why would you want to incur the wrath of heaven?

I thought my work was done.

Singapore, 7 Nov 2011

If you read this site regularly you will not be unfamiliar with my pronouncements of how cursed the despot’s family is.

The last few weeks, I found this site inaccessible. If you come here often, I am sure you too would have found the site unavailable.

When the big news broke that the old despot suffers from a queer disease it was to me another sign that a great curse has befallen on him and his family.

I wanted to write about it but this site was down! So I thought “OK forget it. You don’t have to write about this anymore.” In a way it was a relieve. I do not “push” myself to do heaven’s work. If the site is down, then heaven does not want me to write about it, period.

Just when I decided on that, something prompted me to try this site again and lo and behold, it is up again. So I take it as a sign from heaven to continue what I have been writing about for the longest time.

I thought, till now, how unjust heaven was to punish his family, his wife, his grandson, his late daughter in law for the dishonorable deeds of the man. Maybe inflicting suffering on one’s relatives for one’s crimes against heaven is heavier punishment, I do not know.

Furthermore, the bible speaks of curses on descendants unto the 3rd or 4th generations. I do not know the bible that well and I do not know if the curses are on the man and down to the 3rd and 4th generations or that curses will only fall on the descendants.

I understand from Buddhism that one’s actions have consequences beyond the immediate.

Then I read that he has this disease.

It would seem that heaven reserved the best or should I say the worst for the man himself.

So what is “sensory peripheral neuropathy” that he suffers from? According to wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_neuropathy the symptoms include:

muscle weakness
cramps
spasms
loss of balance and coordination
tingling
numbness
PAIN – sensation of burning, freezing, or electric-like, extreme sensitivity to touch
abnormal blood pressure and heart rate
reduced ability to perspire
constipation
bladder dysfunction (e.g., incontinence)
sexual dysfunction.
PAIN, which is characterized as deep, aching pain that is worse at night, is frequently in the lower back, hip, or leg

It seems he is going to live to a ripe old age in PAIN, constipation and incontinence.

This extract from the USA Institute of Health:
“Some chronic neuropathies worsen over time, but very few forms prove fatal unless complicated by other diseases.”

So why, do you think he and his family suffers from all these curses?

Despotic behavior?
Arresting people and locking them up for 20years and more without trial?
Imposing capital punishments on possibly innocent drug couriers?
Abuse of (heaven given) power?
Persecution of opposition members?
Causing opposition party leaders to choose exile or suffer like JBJ? – BTW JBJ had what can only be described as a “Good Death”.
Creating conditions where many honorable Singaporeans felt they had to leave their own country?
Taking massive amounts of public money for himself and his family?
Building the casinos and consorting with the casino bosses?

All of the above?
Some of the above?
None of the above?

GROSS IMMORALITY!

3 Filipinas and 1 Caucasian man accused of obscene behaviour

AsiaOne
Thursday, Sep 29, 2011

SINGAPORE – Three Filipino women failed to turn up in court on Thursday to face charges of appearing nude and committing an obscene act, The Straits Times (ST) reported.

Cacho Jaquelyn Rosario and Lumbre Carla Jane Alaras, both aged 23, were arrested by police on Tuesday night for allegedly baring their breasts at the Embazy nightclub along Princep Street.

Another Filipino, 22-year-old Avila Rosela Mae Mallon, is suspected of performing oral sex on an Australian man in a KTV room at the nightclub, ST said.

If you are going to jail people on grounds of morality, WHAT ABOUT RUNNING DOGS OF DISHONORABLE DESPOTS TAKING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF PUBLIC MONEY FOR THEIR SALARIES?


GRAB PUBLIC MONEY AND SUFFER THE CURSES, IS IT WORTH IT?

(Senior Minister of State Dr Balaji has passed away – Dr Balaji was suffering from colon cancer. )

(Lee Hsien Loong – lymphoma, a cancer in the lymphatic cells of his immune system.)

(Lee Kuan Yew’s wife, Kwa Geok Choo, has suffered a second serious stroke.)

(Lee Hsien Loong’s first wife, Malaysian-born doctor Wong Ming Yang, died 3 weeks after giving birth to Lee’s first son Li Yipeng, an autistic albino.)

(Ong Teng Cheong was diagnosed with cancer of the lymphatic system)

()

Fri, Mar 26, 2010
The Straits Times
3 fined for baring breasts
By Khushwant SinghTO ENTICE their customers to buy them drinks, three Filipinas bared their breasts in a Duxton pub.On Friday, Bernadeth Sonido, 35; Michelle Alejo Bacorro, 28, and Ma Lourdes Dela Cruz, 26, were fined $1,000 each.


Fined for baring breasts
Fri, Feb 13, 2009
The Straits Times

ONE of two women who had exposed her breasts in a KTV room of a nightclub was fined $1,000 on Friday.

Dinh Thi Diem Truong, 23, who is on social visit, admitted to committing the obscene act at Hollywood Nite Club at Eu Tong Sen Street on Wednesday.

A magistrate’s court heard that a party of officers went to the entertainment outlet that evening to check when one of them entered a KTV room and saw Diem Truong and another woman inside with their breasts exposed.

Funny Ahmad

funny_ahmad

Selamat Malam,

Saya Funny Ahmad, wartawan kanan dari The Straight Times.

Saya suka PAP.

PAP adalah kerajaan yang terbaik.

PAP adalah Pertama.

Workers’ Parti adalah sangat sia-sia.

Low Thia Khiang tak boleh membuat.

Mari kita sokongan PAP.

PM Lee Hsien Loong adalah perdana menteri yang kacak.

Dia bapa Mr Lee Kuan Yew adalah negarawan yang bijak.

Rakyat Singapura, Marilah kita bersatu.

Majulah Singapura!

Majulah Singapura!

=)

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Chun Sing the 5th

Chan Chun Sing_1988

Forget Ser Luck. Ignore Yam Keng.

CHUN SING is here!

Tipped to be the 5th PM of Singapore, this President’s scholar has entered parliament by the back door, so claimed by the people in the coffeeshop.

It’s a pity he was seeded in a GRC that wasn’t contested. Not that we are blaming papa, but he did not go through the proper “ritual”.

So one day if you see Chun Sing ascend the throne, remember: The back door.

By the way, why the 5th?

The 4th is Chee Hean.

=)

BN

Despots and despotic governments never get it, do they?

When its time to go, they should just go.

Their despotic behavior, building the casinos despite massive opposition by the middle classes and their traitorous act of swamping Singaporeans with foreigners has shown clearly to the people that this bunch of dishonorable despots must go.

Yet they are clearly trying to do anything and everything except the right and decent thing to stay in power.

Despots are the same all over the world.

Quote: “casinos at Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa are the main reason for their money woes”

More gamblers in Singapore seeking help for addiction
Straits Times – Published on Sep 8, 2011

Counselling centres say about seven in 10 of the gamblers they see say the casinos at Marina Bay Sands (above) and Resorts World Sentosa are the main reason for their money woes.

UNQUOTE
Casino aslicker

aslicking the casino mongul

aslicking the casino mongul

Why do people love money so much even when they cannot bring it with them when they die; they are willing to bring such curses on their family, their descendants and their supporters?

He has the damned cheek to say that…

It was his despotic nepotism, greedy casino mongols aslicking behavior and paying himself, his cronies and his family tens of thousands of times the average Singaporean’s wage that brought about the divide and yet he has the cheek to say such cr@p.

Independent Online
Lee Kuan Yew cautions against turning political divide into national divide
Channel News Asia – ?3 hours ago?

By S Ramesh | Posted: 05 September 2011 2030 hrsSINGAPORE: Singapore’s former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has cautioned Singaporeans against turning the current political divide into a national divide.

Be nice Tony

while we congratulate you on your “crowning”, we also like to highlight to you that, your ignoring CNA reporter May is seen and heard by many.

We feel you should have given May more attention, for she was trying to cover your story and helping you.

Pray about it, since you are Anglican.

Glorify God.

=)