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Singapore politics and history. By Jess C Scott.

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Devan Nair

Excerpts from “Not by Wages Alone,” and others.

March 16, 2015November 2, 2019 Jess C.

Lim Chin Siong

Well, the Lim Chin Siong of 1961 turns out to be an incompetent juvenile in the art of demolition compared to the awesome efficiency displayed by the Lee Kuan Yew of 1988.

devan_nair
April 3, 2014June 21, 2019 Jess C.

Excerpts from What Singapore Means to Me, by Devan Nair

If the best young people in our midst do not aspire to leadership roles, the field will be occupied by lesser persons. This would be a tragedy, for Singapore requires and deserves our best young persons to come forward.

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April 3, 2014June 21, 2019 Jess C.

Excerpts from Not by Wages Alone, by Devan Nair

To regard the worker as nothing more than a wage slave enhances neither productivity nor the quality of our society. It merely diminishes the one and depraves the other.

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March 25, 2014July 13, 2019 Jess C.

Excerpts from The Emerging Elite, by Devan Nair

On the self-centered elite and insincerity and hypocrisy at the top.

PAP: Family Tree

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