Stalin, Our Contemporary

Stalin, Our Contemporary
Timothy Snyder 2010-Nov-16
NEW HAVEN – Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1930, Joseph Stalin enforced a policy that changed the course of history, and led to tens of millions of deaths across the decades and around the world. In a violent and massive campaign of “collectivization,” he brought Soviet agriculture under state control.

Categorical Response to 'Smickno' Re: I served NS, but now I'm Stateless

Re: I served NS, but now I'm Stateless - 10Nov2010, 08:55 PM

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Hi 'Smickno', categorically , you're wrong/ I disagree:

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Originally Posted by smickno Short answers: 1. Will he be required to do reservist? Obviously not since he is not a Singapore citizen.

Response to 'Smickno' Re: I served NS, but now I'm Stateless

Re: I served NS, but now I'm Stateless - 10Nov2010, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by smickno I read your c/p. What are you trying to say?

Response to 'vyoldman': Re: I served NS, but now I'm Stateless

Re: I served NS, but now I'm Stateless - 9Nov2010, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by vyoldman (emphasis mine) Can you believe that someone who is a non-Singaporean was conscripted to SAF?! Where is the process of filtering??...

ICA a heartless robot, forever bound to the Minister's apron strings.

 ICA a heartless robot, forever bound to the Minister's apron strings.  

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Originally Posted by stevepower I remember on the day I went in NS, I was under the oath to protect my country, the President and its people. Isn't this oath sufficient to pledge a NSman loyalty to Singapore. Why ICA is still so rigid in insisting going thr another oath for someone who has pledge to protect Singapore durng his NS ? Kind of losing their focus on the fundamentals and rationals of doing things.

I served NS, but now I'm Stateless

 I served NS, but now I'm Stateless
Youth loses chance to be Singaporean after giving up his Japanese citizenship and serving NS, because he missed the deadline for taking Oath. -TNP 

Lessons from the Great Depression

Lessons from the Great Depression

BRITAIN'S policy of fiscal consolidation, recently announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, sent shock waves around the world. Mr Osborne argued that Britain was on the brink: that there was no alternative to his policy if the country was to avoid a massive crisis of confidence.

A question I hope my children will never have to ask me

A question I hope my children will never have to ask me

05:55 AM Nov 03, 2010

Letter from Chan Hean Boon

I AGREE with Mr Lim Zi Rui, who commented during the ministerial forum at the Nanyang Technological University last Friday that young Singaporeans no longer feel a sense of ownership in Singapore.

ST: The folly of patenting genes

The folly of patenting genes
Straits Times; Andy Ho, Senior Writer
IN 1994, biopharmaceutical company Myriad Genetics won the race to isolate and patent two genes in which certain mutations point to heightened risks of breast and ovarian cancers.
Using these patents, the University of Utah spin-off then developed diagnostic tests for the two genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2.