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		<title>Cultural revolutions, wilting flowers</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/cultural-revolutions-wilting-flowers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ng E-Jay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Polemic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singapore’s cultural failure cannot be separated from its illiberal regime and climate of insularity: a wishful utopia haunted by a litany of laws. By <b>Choo Zheng Xi</b> and <b>KJ</b>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>56</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unraveling his story</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/01/unraveling-his-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dominant Singapore Story dominated everything but ‘the truth’. <strong>KJ</strong>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>We, the citizens of no country</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/11/we-the-citizens-of-no-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[K. Shanmugam’s manoeuvre was to explain away the PAP's unsavoury tactics and style of governance, by exploiting Singapore’s size and insisting on difference. <strong>KJ</strong>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>81</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fascism that works</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/10/fascism-that-works/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/10/fascism-that-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[facism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LKY]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theonlinecitizen.com/?p=15174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He was a leader who held a nation in his thrall. <strong>KJ</strong>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Requiem for a dream</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/09/requiem-for-a-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/09/requiem-for-a-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lee Hsien Loong]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PM Lee’s dare to dream is revealing in itself. <b>The Polemic</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>71</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Emperor’s new clothes</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/05/the-emperor%e2%80%99s-new-clothes/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/05/the-emperor%e2%80%99s-new-clothes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 08:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terence</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theonlinecitizen.com/?p=10302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Conservatism is an obstacle to true democracy in Singapore. <b>KJ.</b>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>273</slash:comments>
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		<title>Disadvantageous Mandarin</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/03/disadvantageous-mandarin/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/03/disadvantageous-mandarin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[MM Lee]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[speak mandarin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How much are Singaporeans living on benighted money, leaving our history behind? By <b>KJ</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>130</slash:comments>
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		<title>Totally Defensive – Totally Defenseless</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/02/totally-defensive-%e2%80%93-totally-defenseless/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/02/totally-defensive-%e2%80%93-totally-defenseless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deconstructing the rhetoric of Total Defense. By <b>KJ and Molly Meek</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>78</slash:comments>
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