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Democracy | DPA Panels

https://youtu.be/WCWkDVpeVFo

0:00 📖 Defining democracy
2:20 🏛️ Vox Populi, Vox Dei
4:08 🇺🇸 United States - Constitutional Republic
4:58 🇸🇬 Singapore - Westminster Parliament
7:14 🇦🇺 Australia - Westminster Parliament
10:11 🇸🇬 Singapore - Compulsory election, The silent majority
11:40 🇸🇬 Singapore - President, secret reserves, second-key, checks and balances
16:14 🇸🇬 Singapore - Supermajority
16:48 🇳🇬 Nigeria - Presidential Republic
24:40 🇨🇭 Switzerland - Swiss Confederation
32:33 🇨🇭 Switzerland - Political parties and direct democracy
35:44 🇺🇸 California - Referendum system
41:19 🇨🇭 Switzerland - Is direct democracy functional
44:05 🇨🇭 Switzerland - EU, Brexit, fiscal sovereignty, centralization vs federalization
46:32 🇺🇸 United States - Checks and balances, senate, centralization vs state rights
53:29 🇳🇬 Nigeria - Regional system, education, military, centralization, corruption
59:13 🇨🇭Switzerland - Cantons, EU taxation, banking, privacy
1:06:39 💵 Corporations buying politicians
1:24:13 🛑 Closing Statements

#Democracy #Singapore #Switzerland #Nigeria #UnitedStates #Elections #DPAOpenMic
#Singapore Presidential Election 2023: Sample results (100 random votes sampling)

Tharman: 70%
Ng Kok Song: 16%
Tan Kin Lian: 14%

From Singapore General Election's sample vote records, sample vote is at least 80% accuracy to final vote counts.

Voting counting is still ongoing...
Ng Kok Song concedes defeat and sent his congratulations to Tharman, as he give his thank you speech to his supporters to the press.

#Singapore
Tharman Shanmugaratnam is now officially elected as the next Singapore President with 70.4% of the votes (1,746,427 votes).

The sample count had been spot on, as Ng Kok Song received 15.72% (sample: 16%) and Tan Kin Lian received 13.88% (sample: 14%).

Congratulations to Mr Tharman as the new President of #Singapore!
Today marks the end of #Singapore's President Halimah Yacob's presidency.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam's inauguration as #Singapore's 9th President - swearing-in ceremony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlyP12rhIso
Time is running out to "make peace" with Russia, before permanent damage to Singapore's future

https://youtu.be/cfRgKpJzFD0

#Singapore #Russia #ASEAN

This is a very emotional topic for me (Wyatt), as it pertains to the geopolitical future of Singapore (my country) - and that further missteps today is going to have hard to recover consequences down the road.

No one is perfect -
Singapore also cannot forever always be making the best decisions that led Singapore to where it is today. But the Russia sanction was a massive blunder, one that Singapore had yet to fully remedy for.

I want to bring this to the forth, and hope the government change course soon, before its too late - resulting in
Singapore becoming irrelevant geopolitically, and thus, economically.
If you want to know how corruption is frowned upon in Singapore, read the charges commited by the former Transport Minister of Singapore, S Iswaran.

Such "favors" and "goodwill" are common place all around the world - but it is considered "corruption" in #Singapore.

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/singapore/iswarans-27-charges-details
SINGAPORE: NON-ZERO RISK OF WAR in South East Asia (or a Global War) in the near future

https://youtu.be/HL1MWWyiDfw

00:00 Risk of War is now 'Non-Zero'
05:24 Singapore will not depend on another country for defense
09:08 Singapore spents more percentage of GDP than Europe
11:23 Singapore buy more F35s
12:17 Geopolitical situation in South East Asia
19:15 Risk of War in Taiwan
22:22 Risk of War with Philippines and China
23:35 Singapore-Indonesia-Malaysia alliance
25:01 Most likely war scenario

#Singapore #Indonesia #Philippines #China