Cempaka Asean: Social Media Shakes Up Singapore Political Terrain

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - Text version)

“….. Here is the prediction: China will turn North Korea loose soon. The alliance will dissolve, or become stale. There will be political upheaval in China. Not a coup and not a revolution. Within the inner circles of that which you call Chinese politics, there will be a re-evaluation of goals and monetary policy. Eventually, you will see a break with North Korea, allowing still another dictator to fall and unification to occur with the south. ….”

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Social Media Shakes Up Singapore Political Terrain

Jakarta Globe, May 11, 2011

Nicole Seah, 24, who lost as an opposition candidate in Singapore's election
on Saturday, had close to 97,000 “likes” on her public Facebook page on
Tuesday, overtaking a page set up by supporters of Singapore’s founding father|
Lee Kuan Yew, 87. (Reuters Photo)

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Singapore. The most popular Singaporean public figure on Facebook is not a pop star, actress or athlete. Nicole Seah, 24, who lost as an opposition candidate in Saturday’s election, had close to 97,000 “likes” on her public Facebook page on Tuesday, overtaking a page set up by supporters of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, 87.

Seah, who is back at her day job in advertising, generated a wave of support with her photogenic looks and passionate appeals to help poor Singaporeans left behind by the city--state’s rapid economic progress.

The neophyte’s rise into an instant icon among young Singaporeans underscored the dramatic emergence of social media in a society in transition from strict political control to a more open democracy.

The People’s Action Party (PAP), which has been in power for 52 years, was stunned when its share of all votes cast fell to an all-time low of 60 percent even though a bloc-voting scheme limited the opposition to six seats out of 87.

“Online media has definitely been a game-changer in that it allows for the democratization of all voices,” said Kelly Choo, co--founder of online business intelligence firm Brandtology.

“If all voters are only made up of people expressing their opinions online, then the opposition seems to be in a better position,” he said.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the son of Lee Kuan Yew, couldn’t agree more, acknowledging the impact of the social media on the results and describing the election as a “distinct shift in our political landscape.”

The PAP had long relied on pro-government media such as newspaper group Singapore Press Holdings and broadcaster MediaCorp during election campaigns.

It quickly found itself swamped by critics on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and web portals as technology and demographics conspired to undermine PAP domination of the political debate in the traditional media.

Official statistics show that nearly 30 percent of Singapore’s 3.77 million citizens and permanent residents are between 15 and 34, a generation that relies heavily on the web and mobile phones for information and social networking.

Alternative news site The Online Citizen saw its unique daily visitors spike to 100,000 in the week leading up to polling day, more than three times its regular audience of 20,000-30,000, said editor-in-chief Choo Zhengxi.

MSN said page views on the news section of its Singapore Web site xinmsn hit 2.87 million in the same week -- more than 10 times its viewership a year ago.

Another extremely busy site was Yahoo! Singapore, which said “Nicole Seah” was one of its most heavily searched keywords after she emerged as an opposition candidate in late April.

Even the Straits Times newspaper, long seen as a PAP mouthpiece, benefited from the shift to the web, declaring 6.5 million hits on its Web site on election night.

“The Internet has played a very prominent role in terms of enabling the various parties, especially opposition parties, to reach out to voters,” said Eugene Tan, an assistant law professor at Singapore Management University who tracks local politics.

The ruling party made an attempt to tap into social media in the final days of the campaign.

The prime minister hosted an hour-long Facebook chat but was swamped by 5,000 postings, leaving him unable to catch up with the torrent of questions, comments, praise and insults from the public.

Popular blogger Lee Kin Mun, who runs the satirical site mrbrown.com, said the PAP was not used to the spontaneous, two-way communication in social media.

“They have full control of the media here, so you’ve got mainstream media, papers and TV stations and radio stations toeing the line for you and disseminating your views, your spin to the public,” he told AFP.

“Now you can’t be shielded any more ... You tell people to ‘like’ you on your Facebook page, I will ‘like’ just to go in there and say something I don’t like about you,” he added.

Outgoing foreign minister George Yeo, the biggest victim of the opposition surge in the election despite being the most web--savvy cabinet member, said the PAP should transform itself to win back voters.

“It’s not good that so many of them feel alienated from the Singapore they love,” he said in a farewell news conference at the foreign ministry.

Agence France-Presse

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