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		<title>Three-Cornered Fight in Hougang? by Matthew Koh</title>
		<link>http://sonofadud.com/2012/05/17/three-cornered-fight-in-hougang-by-matthew-koh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is reported in the newspapers that Dr Poh Lee Guan, 51, a former Worker&#8217;s Party Central Executive Committee member who is a veteran of three general elections is going to stand in the Hougang By-elections as an Independent candidate. He is doing this without the approval of the WP CEC. This will make Hougang [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sonofadud.com&#038;blog=19579152&#038;post=709&#038;subd=sonofadud&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew Koh on Politics and the Ideals of Civil Service</title>
		<link>http://sonofadud.com/2012/05/05/politics-and-the-ideals-of-civil-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 15:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am of the view that people who are talented in making money, should be in the Private Sector rather than in the Civil Service or even MPs or Ministers. There is a tendency that a top scholar will want to prove him or herself by making money for the government while in the capacity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sonofadud.com&#038;blog=19579152&#038;post=702&#038;subd=sonofadud&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not You Too Foo! Pinjam also can!</title>
		<link>http://sonofadud.com/2012/05/04/not-you-too-foo-pinjam-also-can/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 03rd 2012 During the election, I offered some assurance to Singapore’s PM who seemed to be at the helm of a  Party that had clearly run out of ideas. “Don’t worry, PM Lee, if you don’t have any policies you can pinjam them from the Reform Party.” You can watch and hear me saying it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sonofadud.com&#038;blog=19579152&#038;post=688&#038;subd=sonofadud&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation a Problem? Just Change the Way You Measure It!</title>
		<link>http://sonofadud.com/2012/05/03/inflation-a-problem-just-change-the-way-you-measure-it/</link>
		<comments>http://sonofadud.com/2012/05/03/inflation-a-problem-just-change-the-way-you-measure-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 17:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to explain away the steep rises in theCPI, Tharman has pointed out that they are mainly due to rises inCOEcosts and market rents which do not affect the majority of Singaporeans. Rents for public housing may have outpaced house prices over the past year. However this barely begins to correct the divergence between house [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sonofadud.com&#038;blog=19579152&#038;post=682&#038;subd=sonofadud&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Elephant Shoots Part 2</title>
		<link>http://sonofadud.com/2012/04/28/royal-elephant-shoots-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I wrote about the PAP government’s willingness to bail out the Eurozone with generous contributions to the IMF’s lending facility (http://sonofadud.com/2012/04/25/659/). Yet a US$4 billion loan (which represents more than US$1200 for every Singaporean man, woman and child has seemingly been given without Parliamentary approval or informing Singaporeans beforehand: As usual, this has all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sonofadud.com&#038;blog=19579152&#038;post=672&#038;subd=sonofadud&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tharman joins the King of Spain in a Royal Elephant Shoot.</title>
		<link>http://sonofadud.com/2012/04/25/659/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Austerity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the Spanish King was in the news after it was discovered he had been shooting elephants in Botswana. The outrage was not sympathy for the elephants but the discovery that he was on a luxury safari in Africa so soon after expressing his sympathy for the plight of the 20% Spanish unemployed. This demonstration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sonofadud.com&#038;blog=19579152&#038;post=659&#038;subd=sonofadud&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The rich are different to us&#8230;..they have more money</title>
		<link>http://sonofadud.com/2012/04/19/the-rich-are-different-to-us-they-have-more-money/</link>
		<comments>http://sonofadud.com/2012/04/19/the-rich-are-different-to-us-they-have-more-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjeyaretnam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cadre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communist Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dictatorship of the proletariat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our new buzzword should be transparency. While we have a Code of Conduct for Ministers that requires them to disclose their income, assets and liabilities to the PM upon taking up office - this does not go far enough. I propose that we need to  move to full annual public disclosure including the property and incomes of spouses and dependents. The same rules should be extended to senior civil servants, judges and senior management and directors of GLCs. This would only bring us in line with what public servants are required to do in democratic countries. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sonofadud.com&#038;blog=19579152&#038;post=642&#038;subd=sonofadud&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Democracy is the Solution Not Shock Therapy</title>
		<link>http://sonofadud.com/2012/04/16/more-democracy-is-the-solution-not-shock-therapy/</link>
		<comments>http://sonofadud.com/2012/04/16/more-democracy-is-the-solution-not-shock-therapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjeyaretnam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The market]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Prof.Lim’s undoubtedly good intentions, the solution to wage stagnation for Singaporeans is not some central planning directive taking us back to the Soviet era. It is Singapore’s lack of democracy that is holding us back. What we need now is thoroughgoing reform ofSingapore’s political institutions so that they become more democratic and inclusive and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sonofadud.com&#038;blog=19579152&#038;post=636&#038;subd=sonofadud&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In defence of my stand on the chilling effects of defamation laws.</title>
		<link>http://sonofadud.com/2012/03/14/613/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjeyaretnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My letter to Wall Street Journal.Son of a Dud, Reinventing the Rice Bowl  is not  a political blog but as this debate affects all bloggers and goes to the  heart of my integrity,  I have reproduced the  letter below.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sonofadud.com&#038;blog=19579152&#038;post=613&#038;subd=sonofadud&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defamation Laws and Control of the Media as a Tool for Repression</title>
		<link>http://sonofadud.com/2012/03/07/defamation-laws-and-control-of-the-media-as-a-tool-for-repression/</link>
		<comments>http://sonofadud.com/2012/03/07/defamation-laws-and-control-of-the-media-as-a-tool-for-repression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjeyaretnam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a letter of mine was published in the Wall Street Journal.  This was prompted by  two items, firstly an article WSJ published on the recent action taken against bloggers . http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2012/03/01/debate-over-blog-limits-intensifies-in-singapore/ original WSJ article is here. The second prompt for my letter was a memory of something the PM said during the election period. At [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sonofadud.com&#038;blog=19579152&#038;post=607&#038;subd=sonofadud&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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