Why ?

In this era of high technology and living standards, there are rogue leaders in the global communities that has no qualms to kill their own countrymen to stay in power.

The charred remains of more than 50 bodies were found inside a warehouse in Tripoli. They were believed killed on Tuesday 22 August, in the dying days of Col Gadaffi regime.

It has been estimated that about 60,000 men were arrested by the regime in the past six months. The fear is that more atrocities will come to light.

And 60 years ago during the second Worls War, Germany's Adolf Hitler carried out a programme of genocide which killed about 6 million people mainly of Jewish descent.

Research from Britanica has proven that Hitler actually had breeding farms in Germany where volunteer teenage girls were impregnated by blond, blue-eyed SS- men, to bear children for the Fuhrer. He was was trying to play God, he wanted to create a new world order.

Why did Hitler hated the Jews so much ?

Firstly it was suspected that the jews were the cause of Germanys downfall in WW1.

Hitler’s animosity towards Jews is that his rejection from the Vienna Art Academy (in which Jews were prominent) embittered him.

Hitler lived in Vienna from 1907 to 1913. He wanted to become an artist to make himself a name in field of arts. He was twice rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Art. He claimed that the professors that rejected him were Jewish.

Hitler said in a speech given in Munich in July 1922 - the Jews are a people of robbers.

And during the same period of the war, Japan carries out the mass genocide of chinese civilians in Nanjing.

After the war, an International Military Tribunal indicated the total number killed were over 200,000.

Will such killings ceased as the world enter a period of economic growth ?

No one can answer that. Not even God.

A Real Superstar

Celine Dion performed in Caesars Palace theater between 2003 and 2007, with her "A New Day" show playing to more than three million fans and grossing more than $400 million.



The US$100 million contract was for 3 years.

Dion will receive $100 million, plus 50 percent of the profits during the three-year contract.



With the collaboration of Franco Dragone of Cirque du Soleil fame, the show continued for an additional two years for an undisclosed sum.




M J Wylie 49, a health-care consultant from Denver and die hard Celine Dion fan saw the show 62 times. She estimated she had easily spent US$15,000 to US$20,000 on her Dion habit.

Caesars Palace consider the price tag money well spent. Gary Selesner, the president credited Ms. Dion with revitalizing the fortunes of the hotel itself.




This year she signed a new US$100 million dollar deal to return to Las Vegas. The three-year contract will see Dion perform 70 shows a year and will kick off on March 15, 2011 at the same 4,100-seat Colosseum, which was originally built for her "A New Day" shows.



Tickets
Front Orchestra US$468.00
Rear Orchestra US$810.00
First Mezzanine US$360.00.
Second Mezzanine US$300.00

Changi Airport

Getting to and from Changi Airport is a breeze.




A taxi coordinator at Changi Airport signaled to a waiting cab to the next available lot where a pair of male visitors from China were waiting.

Indian Cabby: Where are you going ?
Visitor: Jia Dong
IC : Where ?
V: Jia Dong




The flustered cabby called the coordinator to hail the next taxi because he could not understand the destination the china visitors wanted to go.

The not so flexible coordinator made a quick translation service with the visitors and discovered that they wanted to go to Katong. He then insisted that the cabby drive on with the allocated passengers.

"But Katong is a damn big place" the cabby protested.

After a little dose of fiery exchanges, a kind local passenger offered to exchange his allocated taxi driven by a chinese cabby. Problem solved.

The 2011 Parade

Singapore celebrates its 46th National Day since seperation from Malaysia in 1965.


The flag bearer Chinooks and the escort helicopters flying over the heartland on the way to the parade fly past.




And of course the traditional fireworks in the city centre.

Heroes and their Zeros

Singapore's 40 richest are collectively worth US$54.4 billion.

Hong Kong top 40 super rich have a combined net worth of US$167 billion.

Taiwan net worth of the island's 40 richest is US$92.7 billion.

South Korea collective wealth of the top 40 totals $65.6 billion.

Thailand boasted ten billionaires and are worth a collective US$19 billion.

Li Ka-shing Net Worth: US$ 26 Billion

Cher Wang & Chen Wenchi US$8.8 Billion

The single horse chariot heroes

Carlos Slim Helu - Net worth US$74b


Bill Gates- Net worth US$56b


Warren Buffett - Net worth US$50b

Lynching

After his debut as director in 2002, Denzel Washington goes on to direct his second movie, The Great Debaters in 2007. The movie uses the power of words.

The faulty assumption, classic fallacy. "The unemployed are starving" Mr Burgess is unemployed, but he is not starving.

The irony in the name Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
Bethlehem is the birthplace of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
Bethlehem Steel Corp makes weapon of war.

Who is the judge?
The judge is God.
Why is he God?
Because he decides who wins or loses, not my opponent.
Who is your OPPONENT?
He does not exist.
Why doesn't he EXIST?
Because he is just a dissenting voice to the truth I speak.

When a hungry Negro steals a chicken, he goes to jail.
When a rich business man steal bonds, he goes to Congress.

The movie also mentioned "lynching" originated from Willie Lynch, a white slave owner and a mysterious 18th century businessman. He developed the process of breaking a slave, a technique for taming and subduing a man to behave like a slave similar to the process of taming a wild horse.