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  1. You cannot use 2015 yardstick to apply it to events in 1980s, 1960s or 1940s. This young brat did just that.

     

     

     

    https://www.rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/rsis/co15086-alternate-historians-post-lky-the-four-tactics-of-mass-distraction/

     

    ‘Alternate’ Historians Post-LKY: The “Four Tactics of Mass Distraction”

     

     

    Hence what really drives some Alternate historians and their supporters is what is called presentism – an orientation to the past coloured by current ideological and political biases and concerns. Some Alternate historians appear to sift through the historical record purposefully to find facts that mesh with what they want to say. This, lest it be forgotten, is not history but propaganda.

  2. What happened to angmoh standard of Human Rights? [sleeping]

     

    Britain's MI6 aided torture of Nepal Maoists, book claims

     

     

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    British authorities funded a four-year-long intelligence operation in Nepal that led to Maoist rebels being arrested, tortured and killed during the country's civil war, according to the author of a new book on Kathmandu.

    Launched in 2002, "Operation Mustang" targeted Maoist guerillas and saw British intelligence agency MI6 fund safe houses and provide training in surveillance and counter-insurgency tactics to Nepal's army and spy agency, the National Investigation Department (NID), writer Thomas Bell told AFP Saturday.

    Nepal's decade-long civil war left more than 16,000 dead, with rebels and security forces accused of serious human rights violations including killings, rapes, torture and disappearances.

    "According to senior Nepalese intelligence and army officials involved in the operation, British aid greatly strengthened their performance and led to about 100 arrests," said Bell, whose book "Kathmandu" hits stores in South Asia on Thursday.

    "It's difficult to put an exact number on it, but certainly some of those who were arrested were tortured and disappeared," he said.

    Maoist commander Sadhuram Devkota, known by his nom-de-guerre "Prashant", was among those captured during "Operation Mustang" in November 2004. Six weeks later, he was found hanging from a low window in his cell, with officials saying he had committed suicide.

    Despite protests, no independent investigation was ever carried out.

    British authorities helped construct a bug-proof building in the NID headquarters, created a secure radio network for communications and supplied everything from cameras to computers to mobile phones and night vision binoculars, according to Bell's sources in the Nepalese security establishment.

    "The agency also sent a small number of British officers to Nepal, around four or five -- some tied to the embassy, others operating separately," Bell said.

    The officers gave the Nepalese training in how to place bugs, how to penetrate rebel networks and how to groom informers.

    - 'They knew what was happening' -

    Bell spent about a year interviewing some 20 highly-placed sources to corroborate the details of the operation, and said a senior western official told him the operation was cleared by Britain's Foreign Office.

    A Foreign Office spokeswoman told AFP: "We do not comment on intelligence matters but, as we have repeatedly made clear, the UK does not participate in, solicit, encourage or condone the use of torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.

    "In no circumstances will UK personnel ever be authorised to take such action; we neither condone such activity, nor do we ask others to do it on our behalf.

    "We would never authorise any action in the knowledge or belief that torture would take place at the hands of a third party."

    A Nepalese general with close knowledge of the operation told the writer there was no doubt that British authorities realised that some of the arrested suspects would be tortured and killed.

    "Being British they must have thought about human rights also, but they knew exactly what was happening to them," the general said.

    "The thing must have been approved at a high level."

    Bell said it was "a peculiar contradiction that while calling for an end to abuses... the British were secretly giving very significant help in arresting targets whom they knew were very likely to be tortured".

    The British-born writer covered Nepal's civil war from 2002 to 2007, reporting for The Economist and the South China Morning Post before moving to Bangkok for a two-year stint as The Daily Telegraph's Southeast Asia correspondent.

    Tejshree Thapa, senior researcher at the Asia division of Human Rights Watch, said: "Nepal's army was known by 2002 to be an abusive force, responsible for... summary executions, torture, custodial detentions".

    "To support such an army is tantamount to entrenching and encouraging abuse and impunity," Thapa told AFP.

    Nepal army spokesman Jagdish Chandra Pokharel denied all knowledge of the operation, which apparently continued even after a coup in February 2005 by the then-king Gyanendra seizing direct control prompted the British to publicly suspend all military aid to the country.

    "I have no idea about MI6 training the Nepal army or any Operation Mustang," Pokharel told AFP.

    Nepal is in the process of drafting a new constitution, a key step in a stalled peace process begun after the end of the civil war in 2006.

     

    http://news.yahoo.com/britains-mi6-aided-torture-nepal-maoists-book-claims-025143311.html

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  3. Lol, Can Straight Times write something about dolphins having mass orgies instead of penguin having depressions? It will be so much more sensational.

     

    You very bian tai. [laugh]

     

    I am rushing a presentation and report with my collicks in office now and the cube next 2 me suddenly laughed out loud. Then he IM-ed us this link.

     

    For a moment I thought it is real until I realised the twist. I totally blur and LOL!

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    Why would you need to slow down if you're within the speed limit?

     

    I admit my avg speed is hovering around 100-110 KPH on high ways.

    PIE one I always 90+ bo tai ji. My fren said he done 120+ before but nth happen also.

     

    One comfort taxi driver told me he received a speeding ticket 1 year after the incident. [:|] His daughter went to TP and LTA to KPKB. In the end, pay up the fine and sua.

  5. I wonder what are the different political parties' views on Pinkdot and the emerging promotion of alternative lifestyle.

     

    For instance, Workers Party did not have a position and remained sitting on the fence (neither showing support or against) but its members behaved otherwise.

     

    Prof. Daniel Goh has pledge support for the LGBT camp by attending a book launch which talks about & supports LGBT issues in Singapore while elected MP Faisal Manap from Aljunied GRC was lauded by the conservative #Wearwhite community for his support towards the conservatives.

     

    WP are very strict with its members' conducts, especially how they conduct themselves online. WP members were sacked for their outspoken attitude previously, remember Goh Meng Seng who stood under WP banner in 06?

     

     

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  6. @slyison, the nature vs nurture debate was discussed before by a scientist who pointed out that there are cases of identical-twins (same genes, same everything) but one is gay, one is straight. Hence, if identical-twins have identical setup, how to explain the nature side of the argument if one of them turns out to be gay?

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  7. Getting a maid is about heng or suay...

    All agency same same....roll and roll...

     

    I have to agree. It all depends on the maid's character... Heard so many horror stories from old classmates.

  8. http://news.asiaone.com/news/asian-opinions/problem-vincents-allegation

     

    The problem with Vincent's allegation

    Why make the claim now and why do it so publicly?

    In a stunning revelation posted online, former opposition politician Vincent Wijeysingha claimed that a Catholic priest tried to molest him when he was a teenager.

    In a statement posted on his Facebook page, Dr Wijeysingha, 44, said: "I haven't, till now, disclosed this sorry incident publicly.

    "It never seemed momentous and, so far as I'm aware, it didn't damage me. But Archbishop William Goh's pronouncements this weekend prompted me to."

    But the claim is momentous, and the timing, troubling. It's an emotive claim that would worry any number of parents. While Dr Wijeysingha may have been strong enough to not have the alleged unsavoury episode damage him, what about other victims? Why did he not out the priest back then and save other children from the clutches of an alleged paedophile? Why not name the priest now? Think of the closure it can offer other possible victims if the authorities were to act on his allegation.

    Dr Wijeysingha's claim is not just about the Church and his contrarian views on homosexuality.

    This is about bringing to justice an alleged paedophile.

    There is no statute of limitation here for criminal offences and the law can move swiftly if Dr Wijeysingha acts on his claim.

    There's also the question of timing.


    His claim comes as battle lines are being drawn between the whites and the pinks ahead of this Saturday's Pink Dot SG event, to be held at Hong Lim Park.

    The event, which was started in 2009, is in support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here. Religious groups have called for supporters to dress in white to make a stand against homosexuality.

    Over 21,000 people attended last year's event, including several Muslim women who donned pink headscarves.

    Among those calling for a boycott of the event is a small group of Muslims who started a Wear White social-media movement, urging supporters to wear white garments to prayers as they usher in the holy month of Ramadan, which starts on Sunday.

    Joined in their anti-homosexuality stance is Pastor Lawrence Khong, the controversial head of the Faith Community Baptist Church. He has encouraged his church members to wear white at this weekend's services.

    In a Facebook post, he said: "We cannot and will not endorse homosexuality. We will continue to resist any public promotion of homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle."

    Bold and scandalous statements are being made online with scant attention to the potential impact offline. Would anyone dare say that a call to action online won't be translated into a confrontation on Saturday?

    Dr Wijeysingha's claim, if true, is sad and I hope he gets closure.

    But the claim is set to pit two groups against each other, even as the Government is trying to carve space for all while calling for calm, tolerance and understanding.

    Where does that leave the rest of us caught in between?

    A study by the Institute of Policy Studies this year found that nearly three in four Singaporeans separately felt sexual relations between two adults of the same sex was always or almost always wrong, and were against gay marriage.

    The last thing we want is for pink and white to clash and spill red here.

  9. wah, you damn sak leh.

    i was just reading the article, and you posted liow.

     

    I wonder if there is carcam video to back the claims that both parties had.

     

    if what transpired is true, the security guards at that condo is quite useless loh. I wonder is which property in Sentosa.

     

    TRS is quite entertaining and most stories are fake. But I post this one because it seems rather legit. [laugh]

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  10. Cue @Mockngbrd standard template.

     

    But a bit disappointed with SAF boy's inability to defend himself leh. If not PES A/B, then quite understandable. But if combat fit, he should've whacked that FTrash bugger until damn song.

     

    Stay in Sentosa leh. Should have wide private doctor contacts for specialist letters. Should be PES E lah. [laugh]

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  11. SKH3536D? Is this a one-sided story?

     

    http://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/angry-ang-moh-driver-tails-nsf-home-beats-him-lift/

     

    ANGRY ANG MOH DRIVER TAILS NSF HOME & BEATS HIM UP IN THE LIFT

     

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    To Editors of A.S.S,

    This happened at my residence in Sentosa this evening 25 June 2014. My son was driving back from his army camp and just after entering Sentosa, a car cut abruptly into my son's lane so my son horned at him to avoid any accident. As a result, the other driver horned back at my son. My son ignored this and continued driving not realizing that the other car driven by an angmo was following him.

    Once my son reached our residence car park the other car tried to follow but was stopped by the security. So the angmo left the car outside and ran inside the carpark even though the security guards tried to stop him.

    He ran towards my son who had parked his car and followed him. When my son entered the lift lobby using his access card, this ang mo barged into the lift and started shouting at my son accusing him of nearly causing an accident. My son denied this and then the ang mo pushed my son against the wall and strangled him while lifting him by the neck.

    My son was shocked and then the angmo took a picture of my son and threatened him. The attacker then rushed off but was stopped by the security. We called the police who is investigating the matter. We managed to take a picture of the assailant.

    Regards
    Mdm RD

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    if he was really serious he shld name that priest, if not he cld have just cooked it up to strengthen his LGBT agenda

     

    Agree.

     

    The Archbishop is preaching to his flock.

     

    Likewise, Vincent W, is also preaching to his gay flock.

     

    But VW's opportunistic nature & bitchy-ness is glaring. Imagine he was elected as an MP in 2011. Singapore sure mati.

  13. too chim for me to comment.. hahaha.

     

    Anyway, whether he got molested at age 15 or not, it has nothing to do with the LGBT event.

     

    Should separate the 2 issues altogether.

     

    That's why I feel he has a feud against the Catholic Church. Remember few days ago our Archbishop released a statement affirming the family unit.

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