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Recently Charles Hugh Smith, the well-known alternative philosopher and financial blogger wrote an article entitled “Vested Interests in Charge = Guaranteed Failure” and in it he noted: – “vested interests must suppress, undermine or co-opt structural innovation, which threatens to obsolete the status quo” and “Cartels... 

The mainstream media has been featuring articles with very attractive sounding headlines such as “4G leaders will partner citizens in policy making: Heng Swee Keat" (16 Jun 2019) and even featured an opinion piece by him entitled “Working with Singaporeans to create a shared future" on the same day. The above headlines show... 

Elections prior to the year 2001 were largely conducted by the ruling party on the platform of their perpetual claim that their candidates are exclusively far superior to those from the alternative parties. Though very much exaggerated, such claims had largely stuck in the minds of the people, as the ruling party had often used...