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So as the Singapore government, who own the Sports Hub/National Stadium, have now been forced to admit that they paid millions of our taxpayer dollars to billionaire Taylor Swift (TS) to only play Singapore in SEA my question is well, what about the rest of us who don't like boring, bland paint drying dire pop music? When are you going to spend some of OUR taxpayer dollars on bringing non-pop acts into Singapore to achieve the same objectives of tourism? The government is trying to justify spending what could be over USD$15m in ensuring that TS's 6 shows were all in Singapore, (when she would have probably done this anyway), what about catering for ALL Singaporeans and PRs? Why only TS? Singapore LOSES money when people like me have to travel outside of Singapore to watch my favourite metal and rock bands. A good example is Pearl Jam who just went on sale with a global tour that doesn't play anywhere in Asia. I had to buy tickets to see them in Melbourne in November because they won't be playing in Singapore because the SGGOV presumably didn't see them as being very valuable. Pearl Jam have just sold out one night at both Sydney and Melbourne stadiums (not arenas), that's 54,000 a night in Melbourne and 24,000 a night in Sydney and just added second nights which will soon sell out making that 156,000 people plus they're also playing Queensland to another 50,000, that's over 200,000 sold tickets. Pearl Jam last played Singapore in 1995. So given their track record of selling concerts, targeting a more affluent older market of fans who would travel here to see them and the fact that hey haven't played here for 30 years, why hasn't the Singapore government through STB or KASM looked at catering for ALL Singaporeans tastes and still kept to the reasoning of bringing acts that wouldn't otherwise play here for many nights and would bring in tourism dollars? I could add Metallica to this list too. I am spending thousands of dollars flying to Munich, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Warsaw and Madrid and thousands more staying in hotels and on FnB and merchandise in those countries which are economically benefiting. Australia will soon add dates and I will be going to them too. Metallica have sold millions of tickets on their M72 tour as they play to stadiums of up to 90,000, outselling TS in some cities in fact. Metallica fans also drink more than any other metal or rock fans. Only the Rugby World Cup match between Ireland and Scotland beat the amount of beer than Metallica fans drank at the Paris stadium for example. The same happens around the world. So Metallica has a proven record of bringing economic value to a city. So SGGOV show them the $ and bring them here. You did it for TS so why not for Pearl Jam and Metallica too? Or is the use of taxpayer $ only for boring pop acts that SGGOV approves of and not rock and metal ones? What do you think? And of course my favourite PJ song is "Black"! 👊😏🤘 #singapore

A great simple, intelligent and succinct history lesson, by the one and only Bill Maher!

A snippet of My Jamaica! https://lnkd.in/eKSe6ZWb

📽️ Film Recommendation > National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: ▶️ Dancing Around the Table (1987) I finally watched Dancing Around the Table, a fascinating two-part documentary about the tumultuous and antagonistic multi-year process to shape the Canadian Constitution between 1983 to 1987 from the perspective of Indigenous negotiators. In 1980, triggered by the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution, Indigenous leaders travelled to London to petition the Queen over their exclusion from the Canadian constitutional process. At that point, they succeeded at two things from what I can understand: 1 - enshrining Indigenous rights in the Constitution under Section 35, and 2 - the creation of a series of "Federal/Provincial Conferences of First Ministers on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters". The later is what this documentary covers. I personally thought it was quite fascinating and disturbing, yet not surprising, to see how power, bullshit, disinformation, money, ignorance, arrogance, racism, bad faith and more played out so openly in these recorded public conversations which ended without a deal. Only one Prime Minister, Richard Hatfield from New Brunswick, seemed willing to speak the truth at some point by saying: “When we started on this course, I can’t believe there was anyone that didn’t know that the Aboriginal Peoples were going to ask for self-government. They’ve been very specific about what they meant, and they’ve been willing to compromise. They’ve acted admirably. I’m not very proud of the way the first ministers have responded.” Provincial premiers end up refusing to reach an agreement with the First Nations, Metis and Inuit leaders, even though data showed at the time that a majority of Canadians / us, supported the inclusion of Indigenous rights to self-government. A must watch.

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