Posted on 12/11/2013 5:23:41 PM PST by Kartographer
This past weekend a country with one of the highest living standards in the world saw rioting in the streets!
According to Credit Suisse, Singapore ranks 8th in the world in terms of personal wealth. Since the year 2000, Singaporeans’ wealth has more than doubled.
It is clear that this is a very prosperous city state that is the gem of Asia. I know that when I have looked for offshore gold storage in the past, Singapore comes up as one of the top areas along with Hong Kong, Zuric, Perth, and Toronto.
However, on Sunday a riot was sparked in Singapore, the first one in more than 40 years. Long story short, an Indian national was struck by a bus and killed, the surrounding neighborhood went out by the hundreds to set fire to at least 6 police cars and the ambulance that responded to the young man who died.
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Preppers’ PING!!
Riots Break Out In Singapore; Think Your Country Is Immune?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-09/riots-break-out-singapore-think-your-country-immune
any opportunity to use this star trek quote. just make it your tagline.
Argentinian leaders appeal for calm after deadly riots
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/argentina-riots-police-strikes
There was a fellow on the radio the other night. Not sure what his position is, or where exactly he was speaking from.
He said with total confidence something most of us never want to think about - and I am thinking more and more that what he said was true.
Two weeks after any kind of SHTF, there WILL be cannibalism.
Ukraine protesters defy police, leaders reject talks with president
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/11/us-ukraine-idUSBRE9BA04420131211
Having been to Singapore more times than I can count, this really surprised me.
If it happens here, my family is ready.
The Singaporeans I know are vocally and adamantly proud of their nation’s cleanliness and education. I’m very surprised to hear that they had a significant riot.
Didn’t Jim Rogers move there because of the stability of the country. Any country with an underpaid or poorly treated underclass is not really stable.
I hate the quote too....
The ghetto rats will burn their neighborhoods and engage in some recreational pillaging of electronics stores periodically, but I really don’t see riots becoming widespread. Too many people paid attention to the lessons of LA.
Looks like you are in the minority Sarge.
They can’t Polar Bear hunt in their neighborhoods.
>>any opportunity to use this star trek quote.<<
My holosuite has been glitchy lately and I can already feel my temper growing and my patience level diminishing.
When things get really bad, your coworkers, friends and family are high in protein.
There was a man from my home town,
His name was Don Derbeck.
He sold a lot of sausages and sauerkraut by heck.
He makes the finest sausages that you have ever seen.
Because he had invented a sausage-link machine.
Chorus:
Oh, Mister Don Derbeck,
How could you be so mean?
I told you you’d be sorry
For inventing that machine.
All the neighbors’ cats and dogs
Will never more be seen,
They’ve all been ground to sausages
In Don Derbeck’s machine.
One day a little neighbor boy came walking in the store.
He bought a pound of sausages and laid them on the floor.
The boy began to whistle and he whistled up a tune.
And all the little sausages followed him ‘round the room.
- Chorus
One day the meat inspector came a-knocking at the door,
He said, “I’ve come to check your shop, so give me money more!”
Donnie got real angry, and pushed him in the meat.
He fired up the old machine and now there’s more to eat.
- Chorus
One day there was a shortage, there was no meat to grind.
So Donnie called the city pound to see what he could find.
They said, “We’re out of business, we keep the strays no more.”
“But we’ll refer all future finds directly to your store.”
- Chorus
One day the school’s head cook, he had a brilliant thought.
He’d spend the cash in Donnie’s store for meat that he had sought.
“Seven pounds of hot DOGS,” the recipe did read.
The irony was that the taste was fabulous, indeed!
- Chorus
Have you ever wondered, when you go to camp.
The food is good and plentiful and never gives a cramp.
But early in the morning you’ll see the trucker go,
And lettered on the driver’s door is “Don Derbeck & CO.”
- Chorus
One day the machine got busted. The blamed thing wouldn’t go.
So Don Derbeck, he climbed inside to see what made it so.
His wife, she had a nightmare, and walking in her sleep,
She gave the crank a heck of a yank and Don Derbeck was meat.
- Chorus
She woke to see him leaving, ground up by the machine.
But being oh so practical, she added spice and greens.
She sold the tasty sausage, then boarded up the scene.
And that’s the last we ever heard of Don Derbeck’s machine!
- Chorus
Okay. What kind of firearm is that?
Subtle difference out in the "country", there ain't a Polar Bear, there are Polar Bears.
Nuff said :)
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