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大内幕！李光耀儿媳被迫自杀的真实原因

新加坡是一个长30多公里宽25公里的巴掌岛国（20%的地域靠填海所得），这个国家42％ 是佛教徒，15％ 回教徒，14％ 基督徒，9％ 道教徒，4％ 印度教徒，奇怪的是这个国家人称“国父”的李光耀却宗教信仰空白。

和中共高官犯一个病，权力欲非常强的李光耀虽然不相信神佛的真实存在，但却非常相信算卦、看风水、驱邪。

在新加坡有不少人知道，控制权力的李光耀平生最重视「血统基因」。但他却在这个上面摔了大跤。

在第二本回忆录中，他写道：“我的弟妹们跟我特别亲密。我不但是大哥，也协助母亲做出重要决定，父亲生性吊儿郎当，早在我还年少时，母亲就认定我是代替父亲的一家之主。直到今日，弟妹们还是把我这个大哥视为一家之主。我们的大家庭每年至少聚会两次，一次是在农历除夕吃团圆饭，另一次是在阳历新年。他们会到我的住家探望我。举凡家里有大事，比如添了个孙子，我们都会互相通知，保持联系。如今，我们都六七十岁了。每当有人生病，医生都会通过检查，确定其他人没被类似的病痛折磨，因为我们体内都有父母的基因。”

「基因」这个东西从医学角度来讲，可以使有些可怕的遗传病影响到家族人种的品质承传。结果李光耀怕什么就来什么。

他的大儿子李显龙1978年与第一任妻子黄名扬结婚，先育一女，1982年生下第二个孩子，也就是李光耀的长孙李毅鹏，但是长孙的诞生没有让李光耀感觉脸上有光，所以他没有象回忆录中所说「添了个孙子，我们都会互相通知」。李光耀的长孙一生下来就患有白化病。视力有障碍，后来因为受到家庭歧视，又患了自闭症。

白化病，俗称「羊白头」，是一种皮肤雪白，连头发、眉毛和睫毛都是白色的人。这种人在阳光下更是睁不开眼睛，十分难受。日晒后皮肤表皮增厚，角化过度，甚至发生鳞状上皮癌。部分病人易出血，可同时出现耳聋、智力障碍和某些器官发育不全等。另外缺乏肾上腺素，严重的可以造成智力发育不全和精神状态紊乱。

这事发生在整个家族中一言九鼎的李光耀门内，这让他感到颜面尽失。

李光耀在新加坡是第一家族，自认为具有「最优秀血统」怎么会得个白化病的孙子呢？当然，孙子是不能掐死，于是搅乱李家后代血统基因的责任就落在了31岁的大儿媳黄名扬头上。孙子生下3个星期后，李光耀家族宣布黄得了心脏病死亡，黄身后遗下只有19个月大的女儿李修齐。

这个事在新加坡流传了好一阵子，圈内人都知道此事，说总理李光耀得个「羊白头」孙子是他平日尽干坏事，他的罪让孙子来分担了，他不但不自省，反而逼死了儿媳。

不管国人怎么说，一向不信报应的李光耀不能不半信半疑，偷偷找到一位当地有名的老和尚问凶测运，老和尚当时向李光耀指点了两招，一是需在全国摆八卦图形，驱凶化吉；二是李光耀的总理之位不能坐过1990年，否则大凶。平时眼睛长到头顶的李光耀吓得不敢违抗，1985年利用职权让新加坡政府破天荒的发行了八角外形的一元流通硬币。李光耀对外说「八卦币」可以增加就业，经济繁荣。市民们还以为这是李总理对人民的爱护，至今有人提起还赞不绝口。其实是为了化解他自己家里的凶事。

视权如命的李光耀在90年形式上退位，安排自己能操控的了的吴作栋当总理作为过渡，自己搞出个「资政」头衔，在幕后垂帘听政，维持权力不变。

1985年李显龙与第二任妻子何晶（Ho Ching）结婚，几年内生有两子，没有发生血统基因问题。李光耀认为灾难已经过去了，决定再把总理的权位拿回来。就在筹划如何让李显龙「合理合法」接班时，1992年李显龙被诊断患上了淋巴癌。这对于李光耀又是一次沉重的打击。

那时，中国的气功正热，李光耀安排李显龙秘密到中国接受了气功高人的特殊治疗，对外却说是三个月的化疗彻底征服了儿子的癌症。那一次李显龙与死神擦肩而过。

后来，李光耀安排长子李显龙担任了总理，大儿媳何晶担任新加坡财政部全权控股的政府投资公司淡马锡控股董事，次子李显扬则是新加坡最大国有企业新加坡电信的总裁，……李光耀又一次找不着北了。

2006年初，李光耀家又出现些问题，于是新加坡又发行了新版胶制2元钱，和过去的纸币设计不同，那个几十年未动过的新加坡象征性经典图标「立狮扶星月盾牌」被硬生生拉变形成八角形，货币变成为李光耀私家的「避凶」工具。

有高人说，坏事被化解，并不等于是没有了，谁干了坏事是一定要偿还的，只不过是用另外的形式偿还而已。例如最常见的一种偿还方式是「破财消灾」（不是破国家的财消自己的灾），还有一种偿还方式是「父债子还」，用家族族员、子孙患疑难病或者失去生命为代价等来偿还。不偿还是不可能的。对此，目前自认为一切顺利的李光耀根本没有认识。

据一位有功能的高人讲，看到李光耀的第三个大劫正在形成，这个大劫来势凶猛，正在向他和他的家族奔来。至于如何化解，高人讲，解药就在李光耀自己手里。

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Oops, I may be related to Lee Kuan Yew!

An ex-collleague made me a ceramic figurine based on my portrait. But why do I look like the younger version of Lee Kuan Yew?



Perhaps I should do some genealogy research and see if I can lay claim to the famiLEE jewels.

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We sure could use a little good news today

Just once how I'd like to see the headline say
"Not much to print today, can't find nothin' bad to say"
~ Anne Murray, "A Little Good News"

Just imagine if the Chinese were to wake up one day and find these "good" news in the papers...


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A bit of genderalisation

Men do 29% of laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
9% of women and 8% of men have had cosmetic surgery.
53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.
58% of women paint their nails regularly.
33% of women lie about their weight.
46.5% of men say they ALWAYS put the seat down after they've used the toilet, yet women claim to ALWAYS find it up.
56% of women do the bills in a marriage.
66% of women and 59% of men have used a mix to cook and taken credit for doing it from scratch.
20% of women consider their parents to be their best friends.
1 in 5 men proposed on his knees.
12% of men never use their car blinkers.
44% of men tailgate to speed up the person in front of them.

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How to pronounce Eyjafjallajokull

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Some ads you just don't understand

"Life is Rugby. Stay strong." What the fuck is that supposed to mean? And I think the image makes more sense with the corrections made in red.


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多听就懂

老师：我们学校由下学期起，转用全英文授课。
甲同学：哗！我们会听不懂的。
老师：不要担心听不懂，学语言就是要多听。你们每天听我说英语，时间久了自然就会明白。
乙同学：可是我每天听家中小狗叫，也不知道它在说什么呢。

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Love in three sentences, Japanese-style

The music is Teshima Aoi's cover of The Rose, which I think is better than the original Bette Midler's version.



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Battery stretch? What battery stretch?

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No Tom, Dick or Harry

John and Margaret are the luckiest lottery names, according to Britain's National Lottery figures. In an effort to con more of the unsuspecting public into wagering their hard earned money, it revealed that the top 10 men's names among winners who have banked prizes of more than £50,000 are John, David, Michael, Peter, Robert, James, Paul, William and Stephen, while the luckiest women are named Margaret, Susan, Patricia, Mary, Christine, Elizabeth, Jean, Janet, Linda and Karen.

Well, anyone with a bit of gray matter should be able to tell that people with the aforementioned names may not be inherently lucky. It's just that these names are more common and hence the odds of people with such names winning a lottery are higher. The stupidity of National Lottery's "findings" is mindboggling. Do the PR people who churn out this really believe their own crap?

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An affair to remember

1 in 3 have had an extramarital affair. So theoretically, there should be more Tiger Woods and Jack Neo out there.

62% think there is nothing wrong with affairs

2 out of 5 have married their first love.

The biggest cause of matrimonial conflict is money.

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Fuck me, fuck you

Sexual predators, watch out! The Rape-aXe, an anti-rape female condom invented by Sonette Ehlers, is designed to make unauthorised sex a pain in the vagina. Worn like a tampon, the Rape-aXe is a latex sheath embedded with shafts of sharp, inward-facing barbs. If a woman's vagina suffers an unwanted intrusion, the attacker's penis would be snagged by the barbs, causing him excruciating pain during withdrawal and (ideally) giving the victim time to escape. The Rape-aXe can only be surgically removed once it is embedded, so the perpetrator would be identified if he seeks medical treatment. Of course, if he seeks his own treatment, that's another story.

Ehlers, a South African who has met her fair share of rape victims while working as a blood technician with the South African Blood Transfusion Services, was motivated to create the Rape-aXe when a rape victim remarked, "If only I had teeth down there." However, her invention has been criticised as "a medieval instrument, based on male-hating notions and fundamentally misunderstands the nature of rape and violence against women in this society" by Charlene Smith. Ehlers, in response, called the Rape-aXe "a medieval device for a medieval deed".

Some critics fear that the use of Rape-aXe could possibly enrage an attacker and further jeopardise the victim if the device fails to incapacitate the man. There is also potential for abuse, in that a woman may wear it just to get a man (e.g. an ex-boyfriend whom she is mad with) arrested for rape.

Maybe this will persuade some guys to go anal. What? You're going to stick this thing up your butt too?

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Amazing precision

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Bet you haven't watched these Oscar-nominated movies

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不成宫，变成（女）人

话说东方不败得到葵花宝典后，迫不及待地翻开第一页，面对‘欲练神功，引刀自宫’八个大字倒吸了一口凉气。苦苦思索了七天七夜，终于痛下决心，喀嚓一声，引刀自宫。

强忍着身体的剧痛，怀着凝重的心情，东方不败缓缓翻开了第二页，映入眼帘的又是八个大字：‘若不自宫，也能成功’。东方不败当即晕死过去。。。

苏醒过来后，翻开第三页，还是八个大字：‘即使自宫，未必成功’

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How research sometimes gets ahead of itself

You know how researchers sometimes make projections that not only sound implausible, but laughably so.

For example, Richard Wiseman cited the work of researchers who measured the pace of life in major cities across 32 countries in his book, Quirkology, which found that:

"In the early 1990s, the overall average walking speed in the sixteen countries was 13.76 seconds. In 2006, this figure had fallen to 12.49 seconds. Our global walking experiment suggested that people around the world are indeed moving faster than ever.

This increase has taken about ten years. Projected forward, the results suggest that by 2021 people will be covering the same distance in almost no time at all. By 2040, they will arrive at their destinations several seconds before they set off."

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