<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516</id><updated>2012-01-22T01:26:29.898-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Singapore, Stand Up For My Home Party</title><subtitle type='html'>To uphold the system of parliamentary and democratic government; To maintain the enforcement of human rights; To ensure the peaceful progress and growth; To work for and promote a high standard of living by increasing and improving the productivity of the country; To promote and maintain social justice, economic security and equal opportunities for every citizen of this country;</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>37</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-9075932010821586401</id><published>2010-05-04T18:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T06:59:36.213-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Un-democracy System in a Dominant Party with the United Front NCMP/NMP</title><content type='html'>The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference abbreviated CPPCC, is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China. The organization consists of delegates from a range of political parties and organizations, as well as independent members, in China. The proportion of representation of the various parties is determined by established convention, negotiated between the parties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In practice, the largest and dominant party in the Conference is the Communist Party of China. Other members are drawn from the United Front parties allied with the CPC, and from independent members who are not members of any party. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United Front in the People's Republic of China is a nominally popular front led by the Communist Party of China. It is managed by the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee and besides the communist party it consists of eight minor parties. Its current department head is Du Qinglin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United Front is represented together with other mass organizations such trade unions, women's and youth organizations, minorities etc. in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United Front holds no real power independent of the CCP. It serves a merely symbolic function and its leaders are mostly selected by the Communist Party of China or are themselves CCP members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conclusion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We should support Dr Sun Yet Sen on the Singaporean Nationalism, the Singaporean Power and  the Singaporean Welfare and Livelihood. The People Action Party who support One Dominant Party with NMP and NCMP is a copy system of the Communist Party of China which has One Dominant Party with the United Front.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-9075932010821586401?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/9075932010821586401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=9075932010821586401' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/9075932010821586401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/9075932010821586401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2010/05/un-democracy-system-in-dominant-party.html' title='Un-democracy System in a Dominant Party with the United Front NCMP/NMP'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-2936490171458635986</id><published>2009-08-11T21:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T21:56:17.186-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE HEART OF PRAJNA PARAMITA SUTRA</title><content type='html'>When Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara was practicing the profound Prajna Paramita, he illuminated the Five Skandhas and saw that they are all empty, and he crossed beyond all suffering and difficulty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form. So too are feeling, cognition, formation, and consciousness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shariputra, all Dharmas are empty of characteristics. They are not produced, not destroyed, not defiled, not pure; and they neither increase nor diminish. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, or Dharmas; no field of the eyes up to and including no field of mind consciousness; and no ignorance or ending of ignorance, up to and including no old age and death or ending of old age and death. There is no suffering, no accumulating, no extinction, and no Way, and no understanding and no attaining.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because nothing is attained, the Bodhisattva through reliance on Prajna Paramita is unimpeded in his mind. Because there is no impediment, he is not afraid, and he leaves distorted dream-thinking far behind. Ultimately Nirvana! All Buddhas of the three periods of time attain Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi through reliance on Prajna Paramita. Therefore know that Prajna Paramita is a Great Spiritual Mantra, a Great Bright Mantra, a Supreme Mantra, an Unequalled Mantra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; It can remove all suffering; it is genuine and not false. That is why the Mantra of Prajna Paramita was spoken. Recite it like this:&lt;br /&gt;Gaté Gaté Paragaté Parasamgaté&lt;br /&gt;Bodhi Svaha!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-2936490171458635986?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/2936490171458635986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=2936490171458635986' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2936490171458635986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2936490171458635986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/08/heart-of-prajna-paramita-sutra.html' title='THE HEART OF PRAJNA PARAMITA SUTRA'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-5004495906319172294</id><published>2009-08-11T20:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T20:39:37.499-07:00</updated><title type='text'>May All Beings Be Well</title><content type='html'>1. Bearing in mind that “Loving Kindness” (Metta) is perfection (Paramitha)2. Do not be attached to anyone.3. Do not dislike anyone.4. Cultivate the quality of equanimity (Upekka).5. Have no regret about losses.6. Do not expect new gains and rewards.7. Do not expect inheritance.8. Collect stable treasures viz-meritorious deeds (Kusala karma).9. Collect treasures that will follow you viz-Virtue, Meditation.10. Do not think of the past.11. Have no wishes for the future.12. Spend the present time mindfully.13. Do not be shaken by the ways of world.14. Cultivate a stable mind.15. Have no attachments to families.16. Know that the truth wins.17. Bearing in mind that “Truth” (Satthya) is perfection (Paramitha)18. Do not interfere in other people’s affairs.19. Do not be concerned about the fault of others possession.20. Do not judge other people’s activities.21. All things having life or not are subject to change all the time.22. Do not think that you also should hanker for wealth and possessions like others.23. Fill yourself with righteous and pure wealth.24. Collect all “Noble Possession” (Arya Dhanaya).25. Do not find faults about others at any time.26. Become pure by focusing attention on your self.27. Bear in mind the saying “advise others after practicing what you say”.28. Practice patience.29. Follow the example of ascetic Shanthivada.30. Bearing in mind that “Patience” (Kshanthi) is perfection.31. Considering that all beings like to be happy like yourself, wish “may all be happy and peaceful”.32. Think of virtues of your parents.33. Look after elders.34. Do not harbor thoughts about the misdeeds done to you by other people.35. Even false accusations are made against you, bear them with equanimity. It’s a noble virtue.36. Do not criticize others.37. Do not engage in dispute about any matter.38. Bear in silence about matters whether they are true or false.39. Do not give mental pain to anybody.40. Accept good advice, even if it comes from a younger person.41. Follow the Arahath Sariputta as an example.42. Do not be a slave to “Four Wrong paths” (Sathara Agthiya) viz greed; hate; delusion; cowardice.43. Guard your speech.44. Speak mindfully.45. Do not scold anyone in anger.46. Do not listen to what is not agreeable to you.47. Do not pay any attention to objects that is not agreeable to you.48. Strive to guard the “Three Doors” viz Body action, speech and thoughts.49. Determine not to do even a minor misdeed, which will be censured by the wise.50. Bearing in mind that”Determination” (Adistanaya) is perfection (Paramitha).51. Be aware that even a minor fault has a bad effect.52. Constantly remember that all things are conditioned by the mind.53. When you are moving in a crowd/group think of the comforts of others regardless of your own comfort/convenience.54. Erase hatred like a line drawn on water.55. Practice Loving Kindness (Metta) when you encounter enemies/unfriendly people.56. Practice Compassion (Karuna) when confronted with disagreeable and unpleasant objects.57. Do not inflict suffering on others in order to please your senses.58. Follow the middle path industriously even with reference to meritorious deeds.59. Use frequently the “Dasa Dhamma Sutta”.60. Follow the good example of being grateful, being aware of gratitude.61. The Buddha after his enlightenment showed his gratitude to the Bodhi Tree by gazing at it continuously for seven days. Meditate on this.62. Cultivate the “Four Sublime States”(Brahmma Vihara – Metta, Karuna, Muditha and Upakka).63. Strive to put up a “Mansion of Compassion”.64. Develop the “Four ways of showing favor (Sathara Sangraha Vatthu) viz – liberality; kindly speech, beneficial actions; impartiality.65. Cultivate the “ Seven Factors of Enlightenment” (Saptha Bojjhanga) viz – mindfulness, investigation of law; energy; rapture; tranquility; concentration; equanimity.66. Follow the example of The Buddha who did not commit any misdeed even secretly.67. Practice what you preach.68. Cultivate the qualities of “Bodhisatva”.69. Remember that aspirations made with a pure heart yield results.70. Make the “Mansion of your heart” a “Buddha Mansion”.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-5004495906319172294?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/5004495906319172294/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=5004495906319172294' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/5004495906319172294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/5004495906319172294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/08/may-all-beings-be-well.html' title='May All Beings Be Well'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-5962544942410141812</id><published>2009-08-10T18:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-10T18:43:30.360-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Democratic Society</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"&gt;Democratic Society&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;Democracy&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;is a principle that the control of authority comes from public, and ruler and non-ruler are the same. It is derived from the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;Greek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="el"&gt;, "popular government",&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;which was coined from, "people" and, "rule, strength" in the middle of the fifth-fourth century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Athens" title="Classical Athens" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;Athens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;following a popular uprising in&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/508_BC" title="508 BC" style="background-repeat: initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;508 BC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;A democracy can denote either direct or indirect rule by the people.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;In political theory,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;democracy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;describes a small number of related&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government" title="List of forms of government" style="background-repeat:initial; background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial;-webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color:initial;background-position:initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;forms of government&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and also a&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy" title="Political philosophy" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment: initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial;-webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color:initial;background-position:initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;political philosophy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Even though there is no specific, universally accepted definition of 'democracy',&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;there are two principles that any definition of democracy includes. The first principle is that all citizens, not invested with the power to govern, have equal access to power and the second that all citizens enjoy legitimized freedoms and liberties.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;There are several varieties of democracy, some of which provide better representation and more freedoms for their citizens than others.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;However, if any democracy is not carefully legislated to avoid an uneven distribution of political power with balances, such as the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers" title="Separation of powers" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment: initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial;-webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color:initial;background-position:initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;separation of powers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, then a branch of the system of rule could accumulate power and become harmful to the democracy itself.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_rule" title="Majority rule" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;majority rule&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;" is often described as a characteristic feature of democracy, but without responsible government it is possible for the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_rights" title="Minority rights" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;rights of a minority&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;to be abused by the "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority" title="Tyranny of the majority" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment: initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial;-webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color:initial;background-position:initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;tyranny of the majority&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;". An essential process in representative democracies are competitive&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections" title="Elections" style="background-repeat: initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;elections&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, that are fair both substantively&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and procedurally.&lt;sup id="cite_ref-12"&gt; &lt;/sup&gt;Furthermore,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_(political)" title="Freedom (political)" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment: initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial;-webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color:initial;background-position:initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;freedom of political expression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;freedom of speech&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press" title="Freedom of the press" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment: initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial;-webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color:initial;background-position:initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;freedom of the press&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;are essential so that citizens are informed and able to vote in their personal interests.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_sovereignty" title="Popular sovereignty" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment: initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial;-webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color:initial;background-position:initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Popular sovereignty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;is common but not a universal motivating philosophy for establishing a democracy. In some countries, democracy is based on the philosophical principle of equal rights. Many people use the term "democracy" as shorthand for&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy" title="Liberal democracy" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;liberal democracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which may include additional elements such as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_pluralism" title="Political pluralism"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none"&gt;political pluralism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law" title="Rule of law" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;equality before the law&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_petition" title="Right to petition" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;right to petition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;elected officials for redress of grievances,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_process" title="Due process" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;due process&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_liberties" title="Civil liberties" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;civil liberties&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;human rights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and elements of&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_society" title="Civil society" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;civil society&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;outside the government. In the United States,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers" title="Separation of powers" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment: initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial;-webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color:initial;background-position:initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;separation of powers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;is often cited as a supporting attribute, but in other countries, such as the United Kingdom, the dominant philosophy is&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty" title="Parliamentary sovereignty" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment: initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial;-webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color:initial;background-position:initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;parliamentary sovereignty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(though in practice&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_independence" title="Judicial independence" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment: initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial;-webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color:initial;background-position:initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;judicial independence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;is generally maintained). In other cases, "democracy" is used to mean&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy" title="Direct democracy" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;direct democracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Though the term "democracy" is typically used in the context of a political&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;state&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the principles are also applicable to private&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization" title="Organization" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;organizations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and other groups.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;Democracy has its origins in&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;Ancient Greece&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;However other cultures have significantly contributed to the evolution of democracy such as&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;Ancient Rome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Europe,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and North and &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;South  America&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;sup id="cite_ref-isbn0-449-90496-2_17-0"&gt; &lt;/sup&gt;Democracy has been called the "last form of government" and has spread considerably across the globe. The&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrage" title="Suffrage" style="background-repeat: initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;Right to vote&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;has been expanded in many Jurisdictions over time from relatively narrow groups (such as wealthy men of a particular ethnic group), with&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;New Zealand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;being the first major nation to achieve &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage" title="Universal suffrage"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none"&gt;Universal suffrage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Suffrage still remains a controversial issue with regard to disputed territories, areas with significant&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration" title="Immigration" style="background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial;background-color:initial;background-position: initial initial"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"&gt;immigration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and countries that exclude certain demographic groups.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;Definition of a Democratic Society&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"&gt;Democracy Watch's mandate,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/../camp/twenty.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;20 Steps towards a Modern, Working Democracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"&gt;, is based upon the following definition of a democratic society (Click&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/democracy.html#International%20Democracy#International%20Democracy"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"&gt;to see other organizations' definitions of the key elements needed for a democratic society):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"&gt;A DEMOCRACY IS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;a society in which all adults have easily accessible, meaningful, and effective ways:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;to participate in the decision-making processes of every organization that makes decisions or takes actions that affect them, and;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;to hold other individuals, and those in these organizations who are responsible for making decisions and taking actions, fully accountable if their decisions or actions violate fundamental human rights, or are dishonest, unethical, unfair, secretive, inefficient, unrepresentative, unresponsive or irresponsible;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;so that all organizations in the society are citizen-owned, citizen-controlled, and citizen-driven, and all individuals and organizations are held accountable for wrongdoing.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;All children should also have easily accessible, meaningful, and effective ways to hold organizations accountable as set out in #2 above, but it is acceptable in a democracy to limit children's participation rights until they reach adulthood, mainly because psychological research has shown clearly that almost all children below a certain age do not have fully formed brains, and are not capable of reasonable deliberation and discussion.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;The following participation and accountability measures need to be in place in every organization (both government and corporate, public and private) in any society to fulfill the definition set out above (and Democracy Watch's&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/../camp/camplist.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;campaigns&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;push governments and corporations to implement these measures):&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;a constitution that sets out the essential operating rules for the organization (or the country, province/state, and municipalities), including strong protection of fundamental human rights;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;an election system for choosing representatives that is fair and results in a governing body that represents citizen votes accurately;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;a direct decision-making process (initiative and referendum, for example) that allows citizens to initiate decisions and actions on issues that their representatives refuse to address;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;strong requirements with no loopholes that apply to every organization (especially every government or government-funded institution, but also every corporate organization (especially large corporations -- for details, go to the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/../camp/bankdir.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Bank Accountability Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/../camp/corpdir.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Corporate Responsibility Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), non-profit citizen group, and charitable social service agency) in the areas of:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;representativeness (elections, public consultation and direct decision-making processes -- for details, go to the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/../camp/voterdir.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Voter Rights Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;);&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;openness (disclosure requirements and access-to-information laws -- for details, go to the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/../camp/accessdir.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Open Government Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;);&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;honesty (including an honesty-in-politics law with an easily accessible complaint filing process -- for details, go to the &lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/../camp/honestydir.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Honesty in Politics Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;);&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;ethics (including limits on donations, gifts and other money-related ways of influencing decision-makers, and strict regulations on lobbyists -- for details, go to the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/../camp/ethicdir.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Government Ethics Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/../camp/moneydir.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Money in Politics Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), and;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;spending (strict waste-prevention measures), responsiveness and responsibility in general operations (including publicly disclosed performance standards and performance reports -- for details, go to the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/../camp/voterdir.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Voter Rights Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, AND that apply to every individual in the areas of relationships with other individuals and individual responsibility;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;to emphasize, the requirements must be strong enough and comprehensive enough to ensure that citizens not only own governments (as voters and taxpayers), corporations (as shareholders), unions and citizen groups (as members), and public resources (land, water, air, TV/radio airwaves, publicly generated research and infrastructure), but also that citizens effectively control governments, corporations, unions and other citizen groups, and public resources;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;watchdog agencies (including police) that are fully independent (from political or other biased influence), fully empowered (to investigate and penalize), and fully resourced (to ensure a high chance that violators will be caught) that strictly enforce the strong requirements in the areas of elections, public consultation and direct decision-making processes, access-to-information, honesty, ethics, spending, and general operations, and the strong requirements for individuals concerning relationships with other individuals and individual responsibility;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;courts/tribunals that are fully independent (from political or other biased influence), fully empowered (to investigate and penalize), fully resourced (to ensure justice is not unreasonable delayed) to handle disputes about rights and responsibilities in every other area of society (including protection of fundamental human rights);&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;a clear right for anyone to "blow the whistle" on any violation of any requirement, and to be protected from retaliation and rewarded if the requirement violation is proven true;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;a clear right for citizens to complain to the watchdog agencies, and to the courts/tribunals, if any requirement is violated, including the right to sue as a group (known as "class actions");&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;penalties for the violation of requirements that are high enough to actually and effectively discourage violations of the requirements;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;every large organization (especially government and large corporations) required to assist the citizens affected by it to organize into, and sustain, a citizen group that will advocate for the interests of the citizens and help them hold the organization accountable (For details, go to&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/../camp/cubdir.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Citizen Association Campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;);&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;an easily accessible means (TV, radio, print publications, Internet sites) for citizens to share key, accurate information with each other about every organizations' record in complying with the strong requirements set out above;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;an economy large enough to finance the operation of all of the above organizations/investigative agencies/courts/citizen groups, and equitable enough so that every citizen (adults and children) has easy access to the above participation and accountability rights, and;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;enough people with the needed skills, knowledge and integrity to ensure that the operation of the above organizations and agencies, and participation and accountability rights, actually functions.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;However, it is important to note that even if all 14 measures set out above are in place and functioning effectively, it is still essentially impossible to stop three key undemocratic activities, and as a result these three activities (even if they only occur at infrequently) will always remain a threat to all societies aspiring to be democracies, as follows:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;it is essentially impossible to stop secret gifts of money and favour-trading corrupting politicians and government officials;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;it is essentially impossible to stop secret lobbying of politicians and government officials, and;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;it is essentially impossible to stop police, security and armed forces from abusing their investigative powers by invading people's privacy and rights.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;International Definitions of Key Elements of a Democratic Society&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul type="disc"&gt;  &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:      auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.globalintegrity.org/index.cfm"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;      text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Global Integrity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(non-governmental organization      that, through an international research effort involving local      organizations, individuals and journalists, rates countries good      governance and anti-corruption systems and democratic processes)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:      auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.demcoalition.org/pdf/warsaw_english.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;June 2000      Warsaw Declaration of the Community of Democracies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(PDF format, to see the      Declaration in HTML format,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ccd21.org/articles/warsaw_declaration.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;click here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)      -- the Community of Democracies is a coalition of more than 100 countries      initiated in 1999 with the common goal of strengthening democratic institutions      and values at the national, regional, and global levels -- the Warsaw      declaration resulted from the first meeting of the countries' governmental      representatives in Warsaw Poland in June 2000, a plan of action was      developed and endorsed by 95 countries at the 2nd meeting of the      governments in Seoul, South Korea in November 2002, and the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ccd21.org/Initiatives/bamako/bamako.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;4th meeting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;of governments was held in      Bamako, Mali in November 2007)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:      auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wmd.org/conference/founding.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:      black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Founding Statement of the      World Movement for Democracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wmd.org"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;World      Movement for Democracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;is      a network of non-governmental organizations, politicians, academics and      others supporting the development of democracy world-wide)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:      auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"&gt;The&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iefd.org"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;International      Endowment for Democracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;is      a networking organization formed in spring 2006 in the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;U.S.&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; to push for democratic reforms in the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;U.S.&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-5962544942410141812?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/5962544942410141812/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=5962544942410141812' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/5962544942410141812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/5962544942410141812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/08/democratic-society.html' title='Democratic Society'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-6319295080010829767</id><published>2009-08-10T05:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-10T05:20:32.714-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Poverty</title><content type='html'>Poverty is the majority of the Singapore’s people and nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is this?&lt;br /&gt;Is it enough to blame poor people for their own predicament?&lt;br /&gt;Have they been lazy, made poor decisions, and been solely responsible for their plight?&lt;br /&gt;What about their governments?&lt;br /&gt;Have they pursued policies that actually harm successful development?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such causes of poverty and inequality are no doubt real. But deeper and more global causes of poverty are often less discussed. Behind the increasing interconnectedness promised by globalization are global decisions, policies, and practices. These are typically influenced, driven, or formulated by the rich and powerful. These can be leaders of rich countries or other global actors such as multinational corporations, institutions, and influential people. In the face of such enormous external influence, the governments of poor nations and their people are often powerless. As a result, in the global context, a few get wealthy while the majority struggle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poverty is the shortage of common things such as food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, all of which determine the quality of life. It may also include the lack of access to opportunities such as employment which aid the escape from poverty and/or allow one to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens. Ongoing debates over causes, effects and best ways to measure poverty, directly influence the design and implementation of poverty-reduction programs and are therefore relevant to the fields of public administration and international development. Poverty may affect individuals or groups, and is not confined to the developing nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Possible causes of poverty include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Recession. In general the major fluctuations in poverty rates over time are driven by the business cycle. Poverty rates increase in recessions and decline in booms. Extreme recessions, such as the Great Depression have a particularly large impact on poverty.&lt;br /&gt;• Economic inequality. Even if average income is high it may be the case that the poverty rate is also high if incomes are distributed unevenly. However the evidence on the relationship between absolute poverty rates and inequality is mixed and sensitive to the inequality index used. In general the extent of poverty is much more closely related to average income than it is to the variance in its distribution. At the same time some research indicates that countries which start with a more equitable distribution of income find it easier to eradicate poverty through economic growth In addition to income inequality, an unequal distribution of land can also contribute to high levels of poverty.&lt;br /&gt;• Shocks to food prices. Poor people spend a greater portion of their budgets on food than richer people. As a result poor households and those near the poverty threshold can be particularly vulnerable to increases in food prices.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-6319295080010829767?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/6319295080010829767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=6319295080010829767' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/6319295080010829767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/6319295080010829767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/08/poverty.html' title='Poverty'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-2863520739274014949</id><published>2009-08-10T05:14:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-10T05:14:44.027-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dr Anthony Ng Chiew Kiat</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://singaporepeoplejusticeparty.blogspot.com/2009/06/dr-anthony-ng-chiew-kiat.html"&gt;Dr Anthony Ng Chiew Kiat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On September, 1963, Dr Anthony Ng Chiew Kiat was born to a Malaysian Teo Chew Chinese family in a small town of Pontian Kecil, Pontian, Johore, Malaysia.1960 Parent:-Father (Teo Chew) was originated from Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore Town.Mother (Hakka) was originated from Tengkera Road, Malacca Town.Education:-1968 Presbyterian Church Kindergarten in Pontian Kecil, Malaysia1970 Tengku Mahmud Iskandar Pontian (Two) Primary School, Malaysia1976 Sri Perhentian Pontian Secondary School, Malaysia1981 Benut Secondary School, Malaysia1982 Malaysia Royal Police Academy, Malaysia1985 Science Electronics (Pte) School, Singapore1990 International Correspondence Schools (O) Ltd, Singapore (Diploma)1993 SAF Supply &amp;amp; Transport Training School, Singapore1994 NPB Institute for Productivity Training, Singapore (Diploma)1996 SIM, the Open University, Singapore (Bachelor of Science)2001 Victoria Brooke University Online, American Council (Higher Education) (BBA)2003 Preston University, Singapore (MBA)2005 Ashbourne University Online, London (DBA)Appointment:-2005 Committee Member of Youth Wing for Singapore People’s Party2006 Appointed as Estate Manager, Town Council2006 Appointed as Acting Town Secretary (General Manager), Town Council2006 Appointed as Election Agent for YB Chiam See Tong in Potong Pasir SMC2006 Elected as Secretary General for Red Star Community Service2006 Appointed as Executive Director for Red Star Community Service2007 Appointed as Group General Manager in Indonesia (MNC)2007 Appointed as Board Oversea Investment Committee Member in Malaysia (Listed Company)2007 Committee Member of West Wing for National Solidarity Party2008 Elected as President for Red Star Community Service2008 Appointed as Managing Director for Red Star Community Service2008 Appointed as HR &amp;amp; Admin Manager in Singapore (MNC)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-2863520739274014949?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-5859372960766262658</id><published>2009-08-08T01:11:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T01:11:50.559-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Abstaining from intoxicating drinks and drugs will bring the 30 rewards</title><content type='html'>Abstaining from intoxicating drinks and drugs will bring the 30 rewards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An immediate understanding of whatever activity is done at all times&lt;br /&gt;Mindfulness&lt;br /&gt;Never being insane&lt;br /&gt;Wisdom&lt;br /&gt;Being free from indolence&lt;br /&gt;Not done unruly actions&lt;br /&gt;Not being garrulous&lt;br /&gt;Not being subject to passion with the passion of youth&lt;br /&gt;Diligence&lt;br /&gt;Being free from irrational behavior through ignorance&lt;br /&gt;Freedom from fear&lt;br /&gt;Not indulging in revengeful behavior&lt;br /&gt;Absence of jealousy&lt;br /&gt;True speech&lt;br /&gt;Abstain from slander, harsh speech and meaningless speech&lt;br /&gt;Diligent activity at all times&lt;br /&gt;Being graceful&lt;br /&gt;Returning favors&lt;br /&gt;Freedom from miserliness&lt;br /&gt;Generosity&lt;br /&gt;Being virtuous&lt;br /&gt;Being forthright in action&lt;br /&gt;Being a noble person who harbors no hatred&lt;br /&gt;Being a virtuous person who shun sinful deeds through a sense of shame&lt;br /&gt;Having fear of bad deeds&lt;br /&gt;Being forthright in thought&lt;br /&gt;Great wisdom&lt;br /&gt;Great mind power&lt;br /&gt;Being a wise person with philosophical ideas&lt;br /&gt;Wisdom enabling the discrimination of good and bad&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-5859372960766262658?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-3702601097148338787</id><published>2009-08-08T01:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T01:11:22.040-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Abstaining from false speech will being the 14 rewards</title><content type='html'>Abstaining from false speech will being the 14 rewards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extremely pleasant sense organs&lt;br /&gt;A sweet and sonorous voice&lt;br /&gt;Pure white and well set teeth&lt;br /&gt;Not having an ugly and fat body&lt;br /&gt;Not having an ugly and lean body&lt;br /&gt;Not being an ugly dwarf&lt;br /&gt;Not having an ugly and tall body&lt;br /&gt;A pleasant touch&lt;br /&gt;A mouth being the fragrant smell of a blue lotus&lt;br /&gt;Obedient followers, pleasant in speech&lt;br /&gt;Trustworthiness&lt;br /&gt;A soft and red tongue like the petal of a lotus&lt;br /&gt;Humble person&lt;br /&gt;Not being fickle in thought and action&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-3702601097148338787?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/3702601097148338787/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=3702601097148338787' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3702601097148338787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3702601097148338787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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and ornaments and shelter&lt;br /&gt;Sound sleep&lt;br /&gt;Wake up fresh&lt;br /&gt;Have no fear about hells&lt;br /&gt;Not being born in any unfortunate state&lt;br /&gt;Being rid of anger&lt;br /&gt;Capacity to analyze things and situations&lt;br /&gt;Not being timid&lt;br /&gt;Not being inactive through fear and doubt&lt;br /&gt;Being life partners with mutual affection and love&lt;br /&gt;Possessing perfect limbs and organs&lt;br /&gt;Well-form features&lt;br /&gt;Freedom from doubt&lt;br /&gt;Earning wealth without much effort&lt;br /&gt;Leading a life of leisure and comfort&lt;br /&gt;Being free from fear at all places for any reason&lt;br /&gt;Not being parted from those whom one loves&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-8839376299393944490?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-9077577256931388550</id><published>2009-08-08T01:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T01:09:58.390-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Abstaining from stealing will bring the 11 good effects</title><content type='html'>Abstaining from stealing will bring the 11 good effects&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A being a very wealthy person&lt;br /&gt;Acquisition of wealth and property&lt;br /&gt;Infinite comforts&lt;br /&gt;A good ability to earn wealth&lt;br /&gt;Ability to safeguard ones possessions&lt;br /&gt;Ability to acquire desired wealth immediately&lt;br /&gt;The fortune of having well-earning&lt;br /&gt;Being a noble person in this world&lt;br /&gt;Being a person who will never ever hear the word ‘ I do not have’&lt;br /&gt;Leading a life of leisure and comfort&lt;br /&gt;Possession cannot be destroyed by kings, robbers, fire, water and undesirable children&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-9077577256931388550?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/9077577256931388550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=9077577256931388550' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/9077577256931388550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/9077577256931388550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/08/abstaining-from-stealing-will-bring-11.html' title='Abstaining from stealing will bring the 11 good effects'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-2386138927857592669</id><published>2009-08-08T01:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T01:09:24.368-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Abstaining from killing will bring the 23 good effects</title><content type='html'>Abstaining from killing will bring the 23 good effects&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A well built handsome appearance&lt;br /&gt;Ability to run speedily&lt;br /&gt;Ability to walk with steady steps&lt;br /&gt;A golden complexion&lt;br /&gt;A soft and tender body&lt;br /&gt;Pure Conduct&lt;br /&gt;Heroic Behavior&lt;br /&gt;A powerful personality&lt;br /&gt;Steadfastness in speech&lt;br /&gt; Winning the love of all being&lt;br /&gt;Being free from any fault&lt;br /&gt;Freedom from fear&lt;br /&gt;Being a noble person whom no one can ruin&lt;br /&gt;Being not subject to untimely death by wicked schemes of others&lt;br /&gt;An unlimited number of followers&lt;br /&gt;Beauty of form&lt;br /&gt;Pleasant features&lt;br /&gt;Absence of major health problems&lt;br /&gt;Freedom from sorrow&lt;br /&gt;Not being parted from those whom one loves&lt;br /&gt;A longer life&lt;br /&gt;Well formed body and limbs&lt;br /&gt;Having followers who will not be influenced by slander&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-2386138927857592669?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-8405092293866868085</id><published>2009-08-08T01:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T01:08:55.053-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Let us build a society that observes the five precepts</title><content type='html'>Let us build a society that observes the five precepts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Homage to the Blessed one,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Worthy one,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Perfectly Enlightened one,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Five Precepts are the basic ethical guidelines of the teaching of the Buddha. They are not a rigid set of rules, but provide a practical basic for good living for householders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I undertake the precept of refraining from destroying living beings.&lt;br /&gt;I undertake the precept of refraining from taking, that which is not given. (stealing)&lt;br /&gt;I undertake the precept of refraining from sexual misconduct.&lt;br /&gt;I undertake the precept of refraining from false speech.&lt;br /&gt;I undertake the precept of refraining from intoxicating drinks and drugs which lead to carelessness.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-8405092293866868085?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/8405092293866868085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=8405092293866868085' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/8405092293866868085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/8405092293866868085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/08/let-us-build-society-that-observes-five.html' title='Let us build a society that observes the five precepts'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-5019414483090668387</id><published>2009-03-22T00:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-22T02:56:52.559-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welfare Dependent, Independent and Interdependent Economy</title><content type='html'>Welfare Dependent, Independent and Interdependent Economy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welfare dependent economy (Singapore Alliance 1963)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depends on Singapore Government for welfare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employee Class A, B, C, D and Special Grade Leader pay is very low. Food, Water, Utilities, Transports, Education, Medical and so on is free or subsidy. Workers enjoy pension scheme. Low salary attracts investors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government will fund their SME.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Low abilities to purchase imported product and national currency are very low. National incomes are main come from tax or natural resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welfare independent economy (People Action Party 1965)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not connected or related to Singapore Government for welfare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employee Class A, B and Special Grade Leader pay is very high. Most of their money is saves to purchase properties, share or investments. They like to spend money at overseas and imported products. Their personal income had been tax for welfare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employee Class C and D pay is very low. They are not depending on Government Welfare but they are depending on total family income and saving. Many of their jobs had been taken by imported cheap labor. Workers live in hire and fire contracts scheme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only long term jobless and hardship are consider poor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welfare Interdependent economy (Post 65 Twenty One Century Generation Party)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Within Depend on Singapore Government Welfare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GIC, GLC and Listed Company will allocate 3% of gross income for social welfare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employee Special Grade Leader pay is depends on market value. Most of their money is saves to purchase properties, share or investments. Their personal income had been tax for welfare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employee Class A, B, C and D pay are reasonable and depend on hard work, performance and market needs. Salary, Job Scope and Working Condition are interdependent on Employment Act. CPF, Family Welfare and Pension benefit are paid by employer insurance. They had ability to purchase local services and products. The reasonable income make them to purchase by generate more GST and local economy demands. Quality Work life attracts quality work and investors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needy: Baby, Student, Elderly and in, or characterized by, need, or poverty; not having enough to live on; very poor.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-5019414483090668387?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/5019414483090668387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=5019414483090668387' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/5019414483090668387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/5019414483090668387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/03/welfare-dependent-independent-and.html' title='Welfare Dependent, Independent and Interdependent Economy'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-7862140001899979938</id><published>2009-03-05T05:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-05T06:32:55.460-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Technocrat Politic, Assume Politic or To take for granted Politic</title><content type='html'>Our Technocrat Politician had take away the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ketua&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Kampong&lt;/span&gt; Election and the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Penghulu&lt;/span&gt; Lower House or Mayor Lower House. As a good politician, shall not take thing for granted. Any problem from a baby, a young kid, a youth, an adult, an elderly, a rich person, a poor person, a male or a female, we shall take it into our accounts to understand why the problem happen, what make them reported to us and how to help them. We need a strong social defend and an effective social problem solving. We shall not take thing for grant by refer to policy, refer to white &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Chiang&lt;/span&gt; Kai &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Sek&lt;/span&gt; politic and not Dr Sun Yet San, refer to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;LKY&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;philosophy&lt;/span&gt; and not the human right &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;philosophy&lt;/span&gt; or any rules and regulations of law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Technocrat Politician had take away our democracy in Parliament by one party system that had full capabilities to manage a nation rather than an abuse of democracy systems. As good politician will &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;always&lt;/span&gt; take international problem without &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;bias&lt;/span&gt; and improve our parliament policy which is &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;always&lt;/span&gt; make Singapore competent and benefit to all. We shall not take thing for granted with an acceptable Theory, an acceptable Policy, a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;successful&lt;/span&gt; Model or according to a Book. Each problem happen maybe is a business for us. Each problem happen is an opportunities for us. We will never &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;bias&lt;/span&gt; to any nation. We will always respect other nations with sincere. Our Technocrat always &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;bias&lt;/span&gt; by books. Sometime with China. Sometime with USA. Sometime with EU. Sometime with India. Sometime with Arabs. In 1963 promote Malay. In 1965 promote English. In 1980 Promote Japanese. In 1990 promote USA. In 1999 promote Indonesia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we are not &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;bias&lt;/span&gt;, the fact of Singapore is a Malay Country with Chinese Society. We are not British, United States and Japan but we can accept the Chinese and Malay need to reform the country without &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;bias&lt;/span&gt; or take thing with granted according to books.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-7862140001899979938?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/7862140001899979938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=7862140001899979938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/7862140001899979938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/7862140001899979938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/03/technocrat-politic-assume-politic-or-to.html' title='Technocrat Politic, Assume Politic or To take for granted Politic'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-4283425160473373232</id><published>2009-01-27T05:51:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T03:19:47.242-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Party Member conduct</title><content type='html'>Refrain from killing living things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Refrain from stealing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Refrain from sexual misconduct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Refrain from lying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Refrain from taking intoxicants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Refrain from taking food at inappropriate place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Refrain from gambling, singing, dancing, playing music and computer games.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Refrain from wearing perfume, cosmetics and decorative accessories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Refrain from sitting on luxurious chairs, luxurious cars and sleeping on luxurious beds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Refrain from accepting money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;News, Media and Public will always monitor the issues.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-4283425160473373232?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/4283425160473373232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=4283425160473373232' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/4283425160473373232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/4283425160473373232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/party-member-conduct.html' title='Party Member conduct'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-3043571478963253554</id><published>2009-01-27T05:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T01:24:35.308-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Filial Piety</title><content type='html'>During the second lunar month, the embryo congeals like curds. In the third month it is like coagulated blood. During the fourth month of pregnancy, the fetus begins to assume a slightly human form. During the fifth month in the womb, the child's five limbs- two legs, two arms, and a head- start to take shape. In the sixth lunar month of pregnancy, the child begins to develop the essences of the six sense faculties: the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. During the seventh month, the three hundred sixty bones and joints are formed, and the eighty-four thousand hair pores are also complete. In the eight lunar month of the pregnancy, the intellect and the nine apertures are formed. By the ninth month the fetus has learned to assimilate the different nutrients of the foods it eats. For example, it can assimilate the essence of peaches, pears, certain plant roots and the five kinds of grains."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Inside the mother's body, the solid internal organs used for storing hang downward, while the hollow internal organs used for processing, spiral upward. These can be likened to three mountains, which arise from the face of the earth. We can call these mountains Mount Sumeru, Karma Mountain, and Blood Mountain. These analogous mountains come together and form a single range in a pattern of upward peaks and downward valleys. So too, the coagulation of the mother's blood from her internal organs forms a single substance, which becomes the child's food."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"During the tenth month of pregnancy, the body of the fetus is completed and ready to be born. If the child is extremely filial, it will emerge with palms joined together in respect and the birth will be peaceful and auspicious. The mother will remain uninjured by the birth and will not suffer pain. However, if the child is extremely rebellious in nature, to the extent that it is capable of committing the five rebellious acts*, then it will injure its mother's womb, rip apart its mother's heart and liver, or get entangled in its mother's bones. The birth will feel like the slices of a thousand knives or like ten thousand sharp swords stabbing her heart. Those are the agonies involved in the birth of a defiant and rebellious child."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To explain more clearly, there are ten types of kindnesses bestowed by the mother on the child:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first is the kindness of providing protection and care while the child is in the womb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second is the kindness of bearing suffering during the birth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The third is the kindness of forgetting all the pain once the child has been born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fourth is the kindness of eating the bitter herself and saving the sweet for the child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fifth is the kindness of moving the child to a dry place and lying in the wet herself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sixth is the kindness of suckling the child at her breast, nourishing and bringing up the child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The seventh is the kindness of washing away the unclean.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The eight is the kindness of always thinking of the child when it has traveled far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ninth is the kindness of deep care and devotion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tenth is the kindness of ultimate pity and sympathy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-3043571478963253554?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/3043571478963253554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=3043571478963253554' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3043571478963253554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3043571478963253554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/filial-piety.html' title='Filial Piety'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-8358504330751749238</id><published>2009-01-27T05:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T05:24:26.242-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wise Man</title><content type='html'>Wise Man&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should one find a man who points out faults and who reproves, let him follow such a wise and sagacious person as one would a guide to hidden treasure. It is always better, and never worse, to cultivate such an association.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let him admonish, instruct and shield one from wrong; he, indeed, is dear to the good and detestable to the evil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not associate with evil companions; do not seek the fellowship of the vile. Associate with the good friends; seek the fellowship of noble men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He who drinks deep the Human Right lives happily with a tranquil mind. The wise man ever delights in the Human Right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Irrigators regulate the rivers; fletchers straighten the arrow shaft; carpenters shape the wood; the wise control themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On hearing the Teachings, the wise become perfectly purified, like a lake deep, clear and still.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The good renounce everything. The virtuous do not prattle with a yearning for pleasures. The wise show no elation or depression when touched by happiness or sorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is indeed virtuous, wise, and righteous who neither for his own sake nor for the sake of another, who does not crave for sons, wealth, or kingdom, and does not desire success by unjust means.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-8358504330751749238?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/8358504330751749238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=8358504330751749238' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/8358504330751749238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/8358504330751749238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/wise-man.html' title='Wise Man'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-1075434307771196777</id><published>2009-01-18T05:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-18T05:02:23.863-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The path to liberation</title><content type='html'>Wrong view occurs, when we impose our expectations onto things; expectations about how we hope things will be, or about how we are afraid things might be. Right view occurs when we see things simply, as they are. It is an open and accommodating attitude. We abandon hope and fear and take joy in a simple straight-forward approach to life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The right intention proceeds from right view. If we are able to abandon our expectations, our hopes and fears, we no longer need to be manipulative. We don't have to try to con situations into our preconceived notions of how they should be. We work with what is. Our intentions are pure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once our intentions are pure, we no longer have to be embarrassed about our speech. Since we aren't trying to manipulate people, we don't have to be hesitant about what we say, nor do we need to try bluffing our way through a conversation with any sort confidence. We say what needs to be said, very simply in a genuine way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The right discipline, involves a kind of renunciation. We need to give up our tendency to complicate issues. We practice simplicity. We have a simple straight-forward relationship with our dinner, our job, our house and our family. We give up all the unnecessary and frivolous complications that we usually try to cloud our relationships with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right livelihood is only natural and right that we should earn our living. Often, many of us don't particularly enjoy our jobs. We can't wait to get home from work and begrudge the amount of time that our job takes away from our enjoyment of the good life. Perhaps, we might wish we had a more glamorous job. We don't feel that our job in a factory or office is in keeping with the image we want to project. The truth is that we should be glad of our job, whatever it is. We should form a simple relationship with it. We need to perform it properly, with attention to detail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wrong effort is struggle. We often approach though we need to conquer our evil side and promote our good side. We are locked in combat with ourselves and try to obliterate the tiniest negative tendency. Right effort doesn't involve struggle at all. When we see things as they are, we can work with them, gently and without any kind of aggression whatsoever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right mindfulness, involves precision and clarity. We are mindful of the tiniest details of our experience. We are mindful of the way we talk, the way we perform our jobs, our posture, our attitude toward our friends and family, every detail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our minds are completely captivated by all sorts of entertainment and speculations. Right absorption and concentration means that we are completely absorbed in things as they are.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-1075434307771196777?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/1075434307771196777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=1075434307771196777' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/1075434307771196777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/1075434307771196777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/path-to-liberation.html' title='The path to liberation'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-3672608055412000868</id><published>2009-01-18T04:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-18T04:36:27.576-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Six Awareness</title><content type='html'>1) We get into the habitual pattern of becoming consumer oriented. We have made an occupation out of craving. We can never find satisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) We find security by making certain that everything is totally predictable. The thought of new possibilities frightens us and we look with scorn at anyone who suggests anything innovative. We put on blinders and only look straight ahead, never to the right or left.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) We build a wall of anger between ourselves and our experience. Everything irritates us, even the most innocuous, and innocent statement drives us mad with anger. We are so busy fighting that we can't find an alternative to fighting; the possibility of alternative never even occurs to us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) We are always concerned with "making it". Everything is seen from a competitive point of view. We are always trying to score points, and trying to prevent others from scoring on us. If someone achieves something special we become determined to out do them. We never trust anyone; we "know" they're trying to slip one past us. If someone tries to help us, we try to figure out their angle. If someone doesn't try to help us, they are being uncooperative, and we make a note to ourselves that we will get even later. "Don't get mad, get even," that's our motto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Everything sparkles with love and light; we become godlike beings. We become proud of our godlike powers. We ignore everything that doesn't confirm our godhood (wealthy).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) We begin to wonder whether it is possible to relate to the world as simple, dignified human beings. We is the only one in which liberation by doubt and inquisitiveness and the longing for something better.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-3672608055412000868?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/3672608055412000868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=3672608055412000868' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3672608055412000868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3672608055412000868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/six-awareness.html' title='Six Awareness'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-2282661068436105366</id><published>2009-01-18T03:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-18T03:24:08.373-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Used Wisdom Ego Consciousness To Manage Leadership</title><content type='html'>The identification with confusion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a) Form externally is the physical world.&lt;br /&gt;b) Form internally includes the material body and the physical sense organs.&lt;br /&gt;c) Feeling sensing an object as either pleasant or unpleasant or neutral.&lt;br /&gt;d) D&lt;a title="Saññā" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%C3%B1%C3%B1%C4%81"&gt;iscrimination&lt;/a&gt; registers whether an object is recognized or not.&lt;br /&gt;e) &lt;a title="Saṅkhāra" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%85kh%C4%81ra"&gt;Volition&lt;/a&gt; all types of mental habits, thoughts, ideas, opinions, compulsions, and decisions triggered by an object.&lt;br /&gt;f) &lt;a title="Viññāṇa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%B1%C3%B1%C4%81%E1%B9%87a"&gt;Consciousness&lt;/a&gt; a series of rapidly changing interconnected discrete acts of cognizance and the base that supports all experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the identification with confusion, ego begins to explore how it feels about the formation of this experience. If we like the experience, we try to draw it in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we dislike it, we try to push it away, or destroy it. If we feel neutral about it, we just ignore it.&lt;br /&gt;The way we feel about the experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next stage is to try to identify or label the experience. If we can put it into a category, we can manipulate it better. Then we would have a whole bag of tricks to use on it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ego begins to churn thoughts and emotions around and around. This makes ego feel solid and real.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-2282661068436105366?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/2282661068436105366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=2282661068436105366' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2282661068436105366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2282661068436105366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/used-wisdom-ego-consciousness-to-manage.html' title='Used Wisdom Ego Consciousness To Manage Leadership'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-1156852495681478722</id><published>2009-01-18T02:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-18T02:23:44.846-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Good leader shall stop being so manipulative and complex</title><content type='html'>The life is frustrating and painful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things may be fine with us, at the moment, but, if we look around, we see other people in the most appalling condition, children starving, terrorism, hatred, wars, intolerance, people being tortured and we get a sort of queasy feeling whenever we think about the world situation in even the most casual way. We, ourselves, will some day grow old, get sick and eventually die. No matter how we try to avoid it, some day we are going to die. Even though we try to avoid thinking about it, there are constant reminders that it is true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The suffering has a cause.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We suffer because we are constantly struggling to survive. We are constantly trying to prove our existence. We may be extremely humble and self-deprecating, but even that is an attempt to define ourselves. We are defined by our humility. The harder we struggle to establish ourselves and our relationships, the more painful our experience becomes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cause of suffering can be ended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our struggle to survive, our effort to prove ourselves and solidify our relationships is unnecessary. We, and the world, can get along quite comfortably without all our unnecessary posturing. We could just be a simple, direct and straight-forward person. We could form a simple relationship with our world, our coffee, spouse and friend. We do this by abandoning our expectations about how we think things should be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Path to end the cause of suffering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We practice being mindful of all the things that we use to torture ourselves with. We become mindful by abandoning our expectations about the way we think things should be and, out of our mindfulness, we begin to develop awareness about the way things really are. We begin to develop the insight that things are really quite simple, that we can handle ourselves, and our relationships, very well as soon as we stop being so manipulative and complex.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-1156852495681478722?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/1156852495681478722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=1156852495681478722' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/1156852495681478722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/1156852495681478722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/good-leader-shall-stop-being-so.html' title='Good leader shall stop being so manipulative and complex'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-539865569055833661</id><published>2009-01-18T01:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-18T02:03:35.336-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pain, Impermanence and Egolessness</title><content type='html'>Political leader shall had wisdom and policy to help our Singaporean out from any emotional suffering that may they occur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Political leader shall understand wealthy, political leader status and life is not forever with us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We shall share our country wealth with our nation. We shall also share our political view and leadership. Life is very short and not more than 150 years old. We shall limit our leadership for each post not more than 10 years.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The success of the country are come everybody hard work. Our nation problem is our problem. Leadership is come from supporting votes from members and not from having an authority on Juridical Power and Arm Forces Power. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wisdom:-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emotional suffering&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Impermanence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The property of not existing for indefinitely long durations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Egolessness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is an &lt;a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/emotional"&gt;emotional&lt;/a&gt; state of having no distinct &lt;a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/being"&gt;being&lt;/a&gt; apart from the world around oneself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-539865569055833661?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/539865569055833661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=539865569055833661' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/539865569055833661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/539865569055833661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/pain-impermanence-and-egolessness.html' title='Pain, Impermanence and Egolessness'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-2793204487367487768</id><published>2009-01-10T07:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-10T07:31:39.756-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MP membership :- For Election or For Appointment</title><content type='html'>Qualifications for membership of Parliament44. —&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) Members of Parliament shall be persons qualified for election or for appointment in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and elected in the manner provided by or under any law for the time being in force in Singapore or appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Fourth Schedule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(2) A person shall be qualified to be elected or appointed as a Member of Parliament if —(a) he is a citizen of Singapore;(b) he is of the age of 21 years or above on the day of nomination;(c) his name appears in a current register of electors;(d) he is resident in Singapore at the date of his nomination for election and has been so resident for periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than 10 years prior to that date;(e) he is able, with a degree of proficiency sufficient to enable him to take an active part in the proceedings of Parliament, to speak and, unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, to read and write at least one of the following languages, that is to say, English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil; and(f) he is not disqualified from being a Member of Parliament under Article 45.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(3) Any question whether any person possesses the qualifications mentioned in clause (2) (e) shall be determined in such manner as may be prescribed by or under any law for the time being in force in Singapore or, in so far as not so prescribed, as may be provided by order made by the President and published in the Gazette.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-2793204487367487768?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/2793204487367487768/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=2793204487367487768' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2793204487367487768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2793204487367487768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/mp-membership-for-election-or-for.html' title='MP membership :- For Election or For Appointment'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-461382338365558389</id><published>2009-01-10T07:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-10T07:27:22.328-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Non By Election and Walkover MP Appointment</title><content type='html'>Fourth Schedule never mention Non BY Election appointed MP and Walkover appointed MP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FOURTH SCHEDULE(Articles 39 (1) (c) and 44 (1))APPOINTMENT OF NOMINATED MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT1. —(1) If within 6 months after Parliament first meets after any general election, it has resolved that there shall be nominated Members during the term of that Parliament, the provisions of this Schedule shall have effect in relation to that Parliament. (2) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the President shall, within 6 months after Parliament has so resolved under subsection (1), appoint as nominated Members of Parliament the persons nominated by a Special Select Committee of Parliament. (3) The Special Select Committee of Parliament shall consist of the Speaker as Chairman and 7 Members of Parliament to be nominated by the Committee of Selection of Parliament. (4) Subject to Article 46, every person appointed as a nominated Member of Parliament shall serve for a term of 2 1/2 years commencing on the date of his appointment. (5) The President shall, if advised by the Special Select Committee of Parliament, extend the term of service of every nominated Member of Parliament appointed before the date of commencement of section 4 (a) of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (Amendment) Act 2002 for a further period of 6 months so that the total period of any such nominated Member's term of service shall be 2 1/2 years commencing from the date of his original appointment as such. 2. —(1) In preparing the list of persons to be appointed as nominated Members of Parliament by the President, the Special Select Committee shall invite the general public to submit names of persons who may be considered for nomination by the Committee. (2) Every name submitted under subsection (1) shall be made in such form as the Special Select Committee may determine, and shall be signed by 2 persons as proposer and seconder, respectively, and by not less than 4 other persons, all of whose names shall appear in any current register of electors. (3) Before making any nomination for the appointment of nominated Members of Parliament, the Special Select Committee shall, wherever possible, consult other Members of Parliament in such manner as it thinks fit. 3. —(1) The Special Select Committee shall, from the names of persons submitted to the Committee under section 2, nominate not more than 9 persons for appointment by the President as nominated Members of Parliament. (2) The persons to be nominated shall be persons who have rendered distinguished public service, or who have brought honour to the Republic, or who have distinguished themselves in the field of arts and letters, culture, the sciences, business, industry, the professions, social or community service or the labour movement; and in making any nomination, the Special Select Committee shall have regard to the need for nominated Members to reflect as wide a range of independent and non-partisan views as possible. 4. —(1) Whenever the seat of a nominated Member has become vacant by reason of the expiry of his term of service, the vacancy shall, as soon as practicable, be filled by the President by making an appointment on the nomination of the Special Select Committee referred to in section 1. (2) Whenever the seat of a nominated Member has become vacant for any reason other than a dissolution of Parliament or the expiry of his term of service, the Special Select Committee may, if it thinks fit, nominate a person for the President to appoint as a nominated Member to fill the vacancy. 5. As soon as practicable after 10th September 1990, the President shall on the nomination of the Special Select Committee appoint not more than 6 persons as nominated Members of Parliament.6. Where under section 3 the Special Select Committee has nominated less than 9 persons for appointment by the President as nominated Members, the Committee may, if it thinks fit, from time to time nominate one or more persons for the President to appoint as nominated Members but the number of persons so nominated together with the number of persons already nominated under section 3 shall not exceed 9.7. Sections 2 and 3 (2) shall apply to any nomination made by the Special Select Committee under section 4, 5 or 6; and for the purpose of section 4 (1) the Committee may invite the general public to submit names of persons who may be considered for nomination by the Committee before the seat of the nominated Member has become vacant&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-461382338365558389?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/461382338365558389/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=461382338365558389' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/461382338365558389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/461382338365558389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/non-by-election-and-walkover-mp.html' title='Non By Election and Walkover MP Appointment'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-2751946607008505589</id><published>2009-01-10T07:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-10T07:24:44.053-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Unfair General Election Results</title><content type='html'>If GE Results:-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) PAP win 1 GRC&lt;br /&gt;2) WP win 1 GRC&lt;br /&gt;3) SPP win 1 GRC&lt;br /&gt;3) NSP win 1 GRC&lt;br /&gt;4) RP win 1 GRC&lt;br /&gt;5) SDP win 1 GRC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rest PAP candidates walkover how?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is fair for Opposition party and elected members?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-2751946607008505589?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/2751946607008505589/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=2751946607008505589' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2751946607008505589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2751946607008505589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/unfair-general-election-results.html' title='Unfair General Election Results'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-3647490437286400585</id><published>2009-01-10T07:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-10T07:21:33.190-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Single Minority Constituency</title><content type='html'>Single Minority Constituency is more reasonable than GRC or so call vote for Minister to get a bunch of rambutan not Tanjung Rambutan or Tampoi or Woodbridge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Group representation constituencies39A. —(1) The Legislature may, in order to ensure the representation in Parliament of Members from the Malay, Indian and other minority communities, by law make provision for —(a) any constituency to be declared by the President, having regard to the number of electors in that constituency, as a group representation constituency to enable any election in that constituency to be held on a basis of a group of not less than 3 but not more than 6 candidates; and(b) the qualifications, in addition to those in Article 44, of persons who may be eligible for any election in group representation constituencies, including the requirements referred to in clause (2).(2) Any law made under clause (1) shall provide for —(a) the President to designate every group representation constituency —(i) as a constituency where at least one of the candidates in every group shall be a person belonging to the Malay community; or(ii) as a constituency where at least one of the candidates in every group shall be a person belonging to the Indian or other minority communities;(b) the establishment of —(i) a committee to determine whether a person desiring to be a candidate belongs to the Malay community; and(ii) a committee to determine whether a person desiring to be a candidate belongs to the Indian or other minority communities,for the purpose of any election in group representation constituencies;(c) all the candidates in every group to be either members of the same political party standing for election for that political party or independent candidates standing as a group;(d) the minimum and maximum number of Members to be returned by all group representation constituencies at a general election; and(e) the number of group representation constituencies to be designated under paragraph (a) (i).(3) No provision of any law made pursuant to this Article shall be invalid on the ground of inconsistency with Article 12 or be considered to be a differentiating measure under Article 78. (4) In this Article —"election" means an election for the purpose of electing a Member of Parliament;"group" means a group of not less than 3 but not more than 6 candidates nominated for any election in any group representation constituency;"person belonging to the Malay community" means any person, whether of the Malay race or otherwise, who considers himself to be a member of the Malay community and who is generally accepted as a member of the Malay community by that community;"person belonging to the Indian or other minority communities" means any person of Indian origin who considers himself to be a member of the Indian community and who is generally accepted as a member of the Indian community by that community, or any person who belongs to any minority community other than the Malay or Indian community.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-3647490437286400585?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/3647490437286400585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=3647490437286400585' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3647490437286400585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3647490437286400585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/single-minority-constituency.html' title='Single Minority Constituency'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-735218485434186535</id><published>2009-01-10T05:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-10T05:11:04.841-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Equal opportunities</title><content type='html'>Equal opportunity is a descriptive term for an approach intended to provide a certain &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(3)" onmouseout="t_o(3)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/social+environment"&gt;social environment&lt;/a&gt; in which people are not excluded from the activities of society, such as &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(4)" onmouseout="t_o(4)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/education"&gt;education&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(5)" onmouseout="t_o(5)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/employment"&gt;employment&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(6)" onmouseout="t_o(6)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/health+care"&gt;health care&lt;/a&gt;, on the basis of &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(7)" onmouseout="t_o(7)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/immutable"&gt;immutable&lt;/a&gt; traits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Equal opportunity practices include measures taken by organizations to ensure fairness in the employment process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In job advertisements and descriptions, the fact that the employer is an equal opportunity employer is sometimes indicated by the abbreviations EOE or MFDV which stands for Male, Female, Disabled, Veteran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Social Theory&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the pursuit of a &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(8)" onmouseout="t_o(8)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/meritocracy"&gt;meritocracy&lt;/a&gt;, equal opportunity is essential.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Equal Opportunity is often considered separate from basic Freedoms. For example, Freedom of Speech is usually not within the realm of Equal Opportunity but rather within basic rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Equal Opportunity consists of additional elements crucial to a meritocracy, such as:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Consideration for employment, housing, and education free from immutable characteristics such as race, age, or disability;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Equal access to goods and services from the government&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-735218485434186535?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/735218485434186535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=735218485434186535' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/735218485434186535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/735218485434186535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/equal-opportunities.html' title='Equal opportunities'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-6868041937682040370</id><published>2009-01-10T04:56:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-10T04:56:56.547-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Productivity</title><content type='html'>&lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(1)" onmouseout="t_o(1)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Productivity"&gt;Productivity&lt;/a&gt;, in economics, is the amount of output created produced per unit input used. Productivity may also refer to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Productivity (corporate finance), the current year's sales to expense ratio over the previous year's sales to expense ratio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Workplace productivity, a focus on getting work done efficiently, especially &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(2)" onmouseout="t_o(2)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/labor"&gt;labor&lt;/a&gt; by individuals and teams in a &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(3)" onmouseout="t_o(3)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/corporate"&gt;corporate&lt;/a&gt; setting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(4)" onmouseout="t_o(4)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Productivity+(linguistics)"&gt;Productivity (linguistics)&lt;/a&gt;, the degree to which a grammatical process can be extended to new cases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(5)" onmouseout="t_o(5)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Social+productivity"&gt;Social productivity&lt;/a&gt;, the ratio of the volume of a group’s collaborative output produced per unit input (e.g. time) used.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(6)" onmouseout="t_o(6)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Primary+production"&gt;Primary production&lt;/a&gt;, in ecology is a measure of the amount of energy incorporated into a biological system.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-6868041937682040370?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/6868041937682040370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=6868041937682040370' 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type='html'>Growth refers to an increase in some quantity over time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The quantity can be physical or abstract.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can also refer to the mode of growth&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-18296274119032262?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/18296274119032262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=18296274119032262' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/18296274119032262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We never stop just had reached but keep moving forward.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-3960779072306053421?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/3960779072306053421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=3960779072306053421' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3960779072306053421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3960779072306053421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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Undisturbed by strife, turmoil, or disagreement; tranquil.&lt;br /&gt;2. Inclined or disposed to peace; peaceable.&lt;br /&gt;3. Of or characteristic of a condition of peace.&lt;br /&gt;4. Nearly or completely motionless; undisturbed: the calm surface of the lake.&lt;br /&gt;5. Not excited or agitated; composed: The President was calm throughout the global crisis.&lt;br /&gt;6. An absence or cessation of motion; stillness.&lt;br /&gt;7. Serenity; tranquillity; peace.&lt;br /&gt;8. A condition of no wind or a wind with a speed of less than 1 mile (2 kilometers) per hour, according to the Beaufort scale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solution:-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) President Council need to appoint a crisis committee to had a collective agreement with any NGO or Registed Society Organisation to solve crisis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Nonviolent action only can be done at current Hong Lim Park or other Industry Park that approve by Parliament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nonviolent resistance (or nonviolent action) is the practice of applying &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(1)" onmouseout="t_o(1)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/power+(sociology)"&gt;power&lt;/a&gt; to achieve socio-political goals through &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(2)" onmouseout="t_o(2)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/symbolic"&gt;symbolic&lt;/a&gt; protests, &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(3)" onmouseout="t_o(3)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/civil+disobedience"&gt;civil disobedience&lt;/a&gt;, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-6455326367778634759?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/6455326367778634759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=6455326367778634759' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/6455326367778634759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/6455326367778634759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/peaceful.html' title='Peaceful'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-2221504505846163222</id><published>2009-01-07T23:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-07T23:15:03.274-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Economic Security</title><content type='html'>Economic security can be thought of as:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;probable continued &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(1)" onmouseout="t_o(1)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/solvency"&gt;solvency&lt;/a&gt; . Capable of meeting financial obligations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;predictability of the future &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(2)" onmouseout="t_o(2)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/cash+flow"&gt;cash flow&lt;/a&gt; of a &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(3)" onmouseout="t_o(3)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/person"&gt;person&lt;/a&gt; or other &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(4)" onmouseout="t_o(4)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Economic+Entity"&gt;economic entity&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;employment security&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is widely believed that there is a &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(5)" onmouseout="t_o(5)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/tradeoff"&gt;tradeoff&lt;/a&gt; between economic security and economic opportunity. It addresses how secure people are in their economic transactions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economic security has been proposed as a key determinant of &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(6)" onmouseout="t_o(6)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/international+relations"&gt;international relations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-2221504505846163222?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/2221504505846163222/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=2221504505846163222' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2221504505846163222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2221504505846163222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/economic-security.html' title='Economic Security'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-203664438528889824</id><published>2009-01-07T23:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-10T05:21:49.016-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Social Justice</title><content type='html'>Social justice is the quality of a society's generalized right-ness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As there is no objective, known standard of what is just, the term can be amorphous and refer to sometimes self-contradictory values of justice. It is generally thought of as a society which affords individuals and groups fair treatment and a just share of the benefits of society. (Different proponents of social justice have developed different interpretations of what constitutes fair treatment and an just share.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can also refer to the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within a society. Social justice is both a &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(1)" onmouseout="t_o(1)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/political+philosophy"&gt;philosophical&lt;/a&gt; problem and an important issue in &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(2)" onmouseout="t_o(2)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/politics"&gt;politics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(3)" onmouseout="t_o(3)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/religion"&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(4)" onmouseout="t_o(4)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/civil+society"&gt;civil society&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most individuals wish to live in a just society, but different political &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(5)" onmouseout="t_o(5)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/ideology"&gt;ideologies&lt;/a&gt; have different conceptions of what a 'just society' actually is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The term "social justice" is often employed by the political &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(6)" onmouseout="t_o(6)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Left-wing+politics"&gt;left&lt;/a&gt; to describe a society with a greater degree of &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(7)" onmouseout="t_o(7)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/economic+egalitarianism"&gt;economic egalitarianism&lt;/a&gt;, which may be achieved through &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(8)" onmouseout="t_o(8)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/progressive+tax"&gt;progressive taxation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(9)" onmouseout="t_o(9)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/income+redistribution"&gt;income redistribution&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(10)" onmouseout="t_o(10)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/property+redistribution"&gt;property redistribution&lt;/a&gt;. (The 60% of Poor Singaporean)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(11)" onmouseout="t_o(11)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/right-wing+politics"&gt;right wing&lt;/a&gt; also uses the term social justice, but generally believes that a just society is best achieved through the operation of a &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(12)" onmouseout="t_o(12)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/free+market"&gt;free market&lt;/a&gt;, which they believe provides equality of opportunity and promotes &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(13)" onmouseout="t_o(13)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/philanthropy"&gt;philanthropy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(14)" onmouseout="t_o(14)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Charitable+organization"&gt;charity&lt;/a&gt;. (The 40% of Rich Singaporean)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both right and left tend to agree on the importance of &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(15)" onmouseout="t_o(15)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/rule+of+law"&gt;rule of law&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(16)" onmouseout="t_o(16)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/human+rights"&gt;human rights&lt;/a&gt;, and some form of a &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(17)" onmouseout="t_o(17)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Social+welfare"&gt;welfare safety net&lt;/a&gt; (though the left supports this latter element to a greater extent (e.g. to provide for capable individuals in society) than the right).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Social Justice features as an apolitical philosophical concept (insofar as any philosophical analysis of politics can be free from bias) in much of John Rawls' writing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the tenets of social justice, sometimes renamed civil justice, have been adopted by those who lie on the left or center-left of the political spectrum (e.g. &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(21)" onmouseout="t_o(21)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Socialists"&gt;Socialists&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(22)" onmouseout="t_o(22)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Social+Democrats"&gt;Social Democrats&lt;/a&gt;, etc).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Social justice is also a concept that some use to describe the movement towards a socially just world. In this context, social justice is based on the concepts of &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(23)" onmouseout="t_o(23)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/human+rights"&gt;human rights&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class="tip" onmouseover="t_i(24)" onmouseout="t_o(24)" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/social+equality"&gt;equality&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-203664438528889824?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/203664438528889824/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=203664438528889824' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/203664438528889824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/203664438528889824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/social-justice.html' title='Social Justice'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-8482718209380456164</id><published>2009-01-07T23:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-07T23:03:40.886-08:00</updated><title type='text'>High Standards of Living</title><content type='html'>A level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services, and luxuries available to an individual, group, or nation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-8482718209380456164?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/8482718209380456164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=8482718209380456164' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/8482718209380456164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/8482718209380456164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/high-standards-of-living.html' title='High Standards of Living'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-2874698552762186299</id><published>2009-01-07T22:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-07T22:30:50.394-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Human Right</title><content type='html'>Any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/right"&gt;right&lt;/a&gt; - an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/right+to+privacy"&gt;right to privacy&lt;/a&gt; - right to be free of unsanctioned intrusion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/right+to+life"&gt;right to life&lt;/a&gt; - the right to live&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/right+to+liberty"&gt;right to liberty&lt;/a&gt; - the right to be free&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/right+to+the+pursuit+of+happiness"&gt;right to the pursuit of happiness&lt;/a&gt; - the right to try to find happiness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/freedom+of+thought"&gt;freedom of thought&lt;/a&gt; - the right to hold unpopular ideas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/equality+before+the+law"&gt;equality before the law&lt;/a&gt; - the right to equal protection of the laws&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/civil+right"&gt;civil right&lt;/a&gt; - right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/law"&gt;law&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/jurisprudence"&gt;jurisprudence&lt;/a&gt; - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aviod Monasticism&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avoid Monarch&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-2874698552762186299?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/2874698552762186299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=2874698552762186299' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2874698552762186299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/2874698552762186299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/human-right.html' title='Human Right'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-4972777964237034323</id><published>2009-01-07T22:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-10T05:34:11.295-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Democratic Government</title><content type='html'>A Government system in which leaders are chosen or decisions are made by voting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chosen mean contest from two or more participates by voting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Decisions mean decided by elected members of parliament by voting, Example NCMP or NMP or Walk Over Election MP or Non By Election MP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A common voter having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual able to participate as a contester in a General Election with low deposit, low as per a Lowest Rank, Civil Service, General Worker Starting Salary, income per month.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-4972777964237034323?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/4972777964237034323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=4972777964237034323' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/4972777964237034323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/4972777964237034323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/democratic-government.html' title='Democratic Government'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673072371567932516.post-3423323550516459601</id><published>2009-01-07T21:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-07T21:59:20.895-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Singapore Parliament</title><content type='html'>The highest law-making authority in Singapore, consisting of the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the sovereign&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1673072371567932516-3423323550516459601?l=singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/feeds/3423323550516459601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1673072371567932516&amp;postID=3423323550516459601' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3423323550516459601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1673072371567932516/posts/default/3423323550516459601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://singaporeparty-myhome.blogspot.com/2009/01/singapore-parliament.html' title='Singapore Parliament'/><author><name>myhome</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15660424280340853077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rys26v022g0/SWWUohoQJJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Hp9Y657mUPc/S220/home.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
