<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 16:48:51 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/leekuanyew/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Aleksa's Book Review: Rajaratnam on Singapore]]></title><description><![CDATA["Mr Rajaratnam says that we're obsessed with profit here in Singapore. Precisely - it is our lifeblood, and it is good that we should be obsessed with that which keeps us thriving." -LKY This]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@aleksaburmazepam/aleksa-s-book-review-rajaratnam-on-singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@aleksaburmazepam/aleksa-s-book-review-rajaratnam-on-singapore</guid><category><![CDATA[singapore]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[aleksaburmazepam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 06:04:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPUaMDuDo64WGEEGkwE1xXEmDuAhzxhKYW6pRRU6KYt23F1pCUeEaezxGwHM7jgsJmGpVjpA6aa?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aleksa's Book Review: Singapore in 2065]]></title><description><![CDATA[I used to rant about how I hate "TED books" which just pander to the 115 IQ people who think that they're the very finest humanity has to offer. The books are fine of themselves, but a spirit]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@aleksaburmazepam/aleksa-s-book-review-singapore-in-2065</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@aleksaburmazepam/aleksa-s-book-review-singapore-in-2065</guid><category><![CDATA[singapore]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[aleksaburmazepam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 05:57:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPEbzYjuYZS8QwGJpDdJstyyyTo3tLEUHH6U9rhd8z5p2R1TJFrH2aZdzqCMmkQKcPhCebghwr6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aleksa's Book Review: Government in Business]]></title><description><![CDATA[My trips through Singapore's reading material have been pretty interesting: they focus a lot on prudent government and making sure that Singapore becomes and remains wealthy and competitive. They're not]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@aleksaburmazepam/aleksa-s-book-review-government-in-business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@aleksaburmazepam/aleksa-s-book-review-government-in-business</guid><category><![CDATA[singapore]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[aleksaburmazepam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:11:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iQCeFgBxdJLEpCZ6RwVhSPi7rC91nW62df8aAjzt38qnu2fwjPQJwKHsdXXb8xdPe7sw7qz8Sjx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aleksa's Book Review: The Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's not often that I get to read autobiographies and call them "Professional reading". As always, the exception is the stellar, 4-digit-IQ human marvel that is Lee Quan Yew. This book was on]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@aleksaburmazepam/aleksa-s-book-review-the-memoirs-of-lee-kuan-yew</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@aleksaburmazepam/aleksa-s-book-review-the-memoirs-of-lee-kuan-yew</guid><category><![CDATA[singapore]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[aleksaburmazepam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:09:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iQXBkhak7gSFyefnKtgBEAB6jcdiEtH8hKwJLsorAsnAEZ3GzGPeCPEPScHrKdTVCPsUndApuXc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aleksa's Book Review: Singapore in Transition]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week will be dedicated to the Lion of the Golden Horn: the city that binds and divides is well-known to us all. The work is a well-written tirade on the history and future of Singapore, sparing no]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@aleksaburmazepam/aleksa-s-book-review-singapore-in-transition</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@aleksaburmazepam/aleksa-s-book-review-singapore-in-transition</guid><category><![CDATA[singapore]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[aleksaburmazepam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:28:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iQMFTDY5e7zPe39fBkxp8YqvYNQwVRwyrY5Lp9fJowRYZfKVQWHeHWxHM9oMeS3vLA5pzDJaNTQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition versus Inequality according to Lee Kuan Yew]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a continual need to balance between a successful, competitive society, and a cohesive, compassionate one. That requires judgment, to strike a bargain or social contract. Each society must arrive]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@petrmisan/competition-versus-inequality-according-to-lee-kuan-yew</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/singapore/@petrmisan/competition-versus-inequality-according-to-lee-kuan-yew</guid><category><![CDATA[singapore]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[petrmisan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2017 03:59:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc18GVREvvsnAjfLwLF5qHHFduNHKinqAh6rwVs2PmX4LxBCEgHSXHPz2W7vFb1CGHz7A1LnrWC5FZTbEHtj7WrXLNs8ZJRTz5g9G3cJgCEGeSzbuDY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lee Kuan Yew on Xi Jinping]]></title><description><![CDATA[(The Singaporean political genius compared Xi with Hu) "He [Xi Jinping] has had a tougher life than Hu Jintao [the previous Chinese President]. His father was rusticated, and so was he. He took it]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/xijinping/@petrmisan/lee-kuan-yew-on-xi-jinping</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/xijinping/@petrmisan/lee-kuan-yew-on-xi-jinping</guid><category><![CDATA[xijinping]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[petrmisan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 22:22:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2ai8Wx7yRZDohiWHZy5QxEfuB1oq36sdFAF6gt6s1bhqZ4opSrrqXwvrYarhDsMKzYkwqJUf4LP5F74bp1mBbKiykANT3Xwc6qRqh4jQ2VxgQqeQG1iq8rcN5txxbwReoCnqJL9JA6mXoFeQ4KW6L9RxLroWRJENXyy79iw5TZCZamP111pqD7qqQo3JA6qYzPBqUjkaHSqVKubZxUM6yuJ7n3fftH78YN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA["Western liberal democracy cant achieve political stability and economic progress" - Lee Kuan Yew]]></title><description><![CDATA[27 Years ago Lee Kuan Yew said that the Western liberal #democracy can not achieve political stability and economic progress, I have made an video and by comparing whole Taiwan with a small city Shenzhen,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/democracy/@goldman168/western-liberal-democracy-cant-achieve-political-stability-and-economic-progress-lee-kuan-yew</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/democracy/@goldman168/western-liberal-democracy-cant-achieve-political-stability-and-economic-progress-lee-kuan-yew</guid><category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goldman168]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 23:58:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eLkb3sDXErxWppgJDATCrBGgDwjLgSgBuvv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lee Kuan Yew's Final Challenge to Democracy and the British Empire]]></title><description><![CDATA["I have never believed that democracy brings progress, I know it to have brought regression. The British never governed these countries by one-man-one-vote policies."]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/democracy/@goldman168/lee-kuan-yew-s-final-challenge-to-democracy-and-the-british-empire</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/democracy/@goldman168/lee-kuan-yew-s-final-challenge-to-democracy-and-the-british-empire</guid><category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goldman168]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2017 10:34:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/qjrE4yyfw5pQYiuVvgYiUBP16WHGGN7UNn1BCdGdbRRx11vL7GVCjUMbyNvXVhCF2mTQtEc2fpUZBk5RB52VjATJE5PcTM2KgDpLzU38ih2bEW3mVCfTD8nz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lee Kuan Yew's Challenge to Democracy - 4. 李光耀看西方式民主]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/democracy/@goldman168/lee-kuan-yew-s-challenge-to-democracy-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/democracy/@goldman168/lee-kuan-yew-s-challenge-to-democracy-4</guid><category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goldman168]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:18:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UondJxcjVaienfhVaNb7LJVWG6e787gZxK2p1iKvDbT7btQVft3MSDJXhCTFZyMU5L8NHZDZcRinb5RX7RHibG96mTTu4ZsAG3PqTxqHpqen?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lee Kuan Yew's Challenge to Democracy - 3. 李光耀看西方式民主]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/leekuanyew/@goldman168/lee-kuan-yew-s-challenge-to-democracy-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/leekuanyew/@goldman168/lee-kuan-yew-s-challenge-to-democracy-3</guid><category><![CDATA[leekuanyew]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goldman168]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 11:05:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP5xqHVTtgzxr9jRnPYTxeDK7ZMexdNw7UU1PU9XwCdB7oqN93ekNUXqAqZF5NHfejjifwXqKMnpn6YSZpKRNrGpUE21w99wNaVzeS2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lee Kuan Yew's Challenge to Democracy - 2. 李光耀看西方式民主]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/democracy/@goldman168/lee-kuan-yew-s-challenge-to-democracy-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/democracy/@goldman168/lee-kuan-yew-s-challenge-to-democracy-2</guid><category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goldman168]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2017 12:25:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNchGPKLQuxAL7oEwDJ42cT977qXjChQ9f5X57wGYjbcxxDQUJfr6ZMabhXPbMettQSRxg8vXFNCgSiaQeVkzNNu2UyZUgtspqTQTonXbtdaSA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lee Kuan Yew's Challenge to Democracy - 1.   李光耀看西方式民主：對亞洲來說不是最佳道路]]></title><description><![CDATA[With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries…What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/democracy/@goldman168/lee-kuan-yew-s-challenge-to-democracy-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/democracy/@goldman168/lee-kuan-yew-s-challenge-to-democracy-1</guid><category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goldman168]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 10:36:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP5xqHVTtgzxr9jRnPYTxeDK7ZMexdP1LWAT5y5ohvohuLwXozc2KcoUqcLc14SCxrSafjBRG1BxLUYXWqYqQqc6CGAJyhhHQkT9LdL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>