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They follow rigidly the principles of government analyzed in Machiavelli's The Prince, in which political expediency is placed above morality and the use of deception and deceit to maintain the authority and carry out the policies of a ruler is described.

Good observation!

Go north during off-peak period. You will find the trip worthwhile.

Re: Smrt: "vulnerabilities" at the bishan depot caused the security breaches "...This presents vulnerabilities that are unique to the Bishan depot." Why is it that these vulnerabilities were not discovered before the arrest of the two German nationals?

They still use the tactic used in the pre-internet era.

Re: Oil Price Collapses Not true. Assuming a full tank of petrol bought in local petrol station can last for 5 days under normal usage. It would be the same if the petrol is bought in JB. It could also last for 5 days.

Re: Oil Price Collapses Going by the current exchange rate, it's about S$1.00/litre. Almost half the price here. Very hard to resist.

Re: Oil Price Collapses In JB, Shell V-Power 97 grade fuel had already dropped to RM2.55/litre since last week. Before the price drop, it was RM2.85/litre.

PAP ministers’ salary increased by 3,600% since independence but problems also increased, no solution in sight September 28, 2014 by phillip ang In 2011, PM Lee Hsien Loong said that Ministers should be paid “properly so that Singapore will have capable and committed leadership over the long...

Re: PAP Propaganda Mouthpiece Shit Times Is Swift In Spinning The HLP Protest Haha.. Very soon the MDA will ban the show The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (倚天屠龙记)!

What kind of great man who wrote a book and in it wrote of making a competitor crawl on his knees, beg for mercy, meet in the cul de sac and there is a very sharp hatchet in his bag? What kind of great man leadership when they took away the freedom and rights of another man for 3 decades...

Re: Singapore To Match Malaysia’s Causeway Toll Charges 'In Due Course': Josephine Te If they wanna match the toll charges set by the M'sia, they will also have to match the ministerial salary set by the M'sian Govt.

How about those vehicles with windows that are heavily tinted? One could hardly see the people inside the car let alone catching the driver using the mobile phone while driving! Does anyone have a picture to share? Are traffic police going after the owners of those vehicles? Otherwise it will be...

From Idioms and phrases dictionary, via copy and paste: Have one's cake and eat it too You can't have your cake and eat it (too) is a popular English idiomatic proverb or figure of speech.[1][2][3] Many people misunderstand the meanings of "have" and "eat" as used here but still understand the...

If they wanna to match the toll charges, they also have to match the minister salary that the M'sian set.

This statement must have been deemed sacrosanct and upheld across the board.

To put him on par with Qin Shi Huang would be flattering for him. If you really want to remember him together with someone in Chinese history, it would be the insidious and revengeful woman Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧太后) who once said if somebody were to make her unhappy for a day, she would make...

Soursop juice is good. Able to get minute stone formed in bladder dissolved / dislodged.

There's no LKY in Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan. Are the people in these countries worse off than the rest of SEA?

It's the whole spectrum of Singaporeans. Not just the young.