tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84843612153493792322024-03-19T03:57:57.451+08:00Suara KeadilanLiving on One Dollar: The Promise of Good Stories malaysiakitaonlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595604559525644346noreply@blogger.comBlogger1320125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484361215349379232.post-1615473796710719302017-04-07T21:52:00.001+08:002017-04-07T21:52:31.401+08:00Supreme Court says not Married lived like husband and wife Children born are legitimate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Supreme Court has said that if a man and woman “lived like husband and wife” for a long period and had children, the judiciary would presume that the two were married.</div>
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Giving an important clarification on live-in relationships, the Supreme Court has said that if a man and woman “lived like husband and wife” for a long period and had children, the judiciary would presume that the two were married.</div>
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A bench of Justices B S Chauhan and J Chelameswar on Monday issued the clarification on a petition filed by advocate Uday Gupta, who had questioned certain sweeping observations made by the Madras high court while dealing with the issue of live-in relationships. Importantly, the SC said children born out of prolonged live-in relationships could not be termed illegitimate.</div>
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We’ve often heard “you have to kiss some frogs before you find your handsome prince”. But it seems that women today are not interested in plunging into holy matrimony even if the prince were to pop up. Good bye child marriages and good bye arranged marriages! It’s now the era of career-driven individuals. Women no longer want to be born, brought up, and become just an extension of men</div>
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Someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s wife and someone’s mother is no longer the desired identity. Women want to explore their potential, establish themselves and rise to great heights professionally; they enjoy their economic independence and the fact that their lives are a masterpiece coloured by their own choices. As a result, marriages are a “later in life” agenda for most. Instead of being married off in their teens, women are waiting till as late as 40 and consequently premarital sex and live-in relationships seem the obvious options to keep life and hormones in balance.</div>
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I’m not going to moralise or sermonise the obvious merits and demerits of such options, to each his or her own, but there’s a certain ruthlessness I see in the fervour for self-gratification which is honestly quite off putting. Random sex, one-night stands and flings with multiple strangers (sometimes in 100’s), just because you can, or just for the fun of it, seems actually purposeless, rather than purposeful. Fact is, it’s a very personal space you’re sharing, and there are bound to be major emotional and physical repercussions to such indiscriminate actions. I can understand enjoying and exploring sex with no strings attached as an experience and not wanting to jump into commitment, but I just can’t understand the desire to be a public toilet. It’s not just about the numbers; it’s also the mechanical ruthlessness of it.</div>
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Gupta had challenged the HC’s observation that “a valid marriage does not necessarily mean that all the customary rights pertaining to the married couple are to be followed and subsequently solemnized”.</div>
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His counsel, M R Calla, sought deletion of the HC’s observations terming them as untenable in law. He apprehended that these remarks could demolish the very institution of marriage.</div>
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The bench went through the judgment and said the HC’s observations could not be construed as a precedent for other cases and would be confined to the case in which these were made.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">he Supreme Court has said that if a man and woman “lived like husband and wife” for a long period and had children, the judiciary would presume that the two were married. It’s OK to want a better life an a life patner Giving an important clarification on live-in relationships, the Supreme Court has said…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">read the fullstory </span><a href="https://nambikaionline.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/supreme-court-says-not-married-lived-like-husband-and-wife-children-born-are-legitimate/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; color: #117bb8; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Supreme Court says not Married lived like husband and wife Children born are legitimate</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Budget airline Malindo Air found itself in a public relations mess after news broke that they perform body checks on interview candidates that their.woman must have a certain allure to them, a sultry exotic sex appeal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This strange measure, described as <a href="http://malaysiakini.com/news/378096" style="border: 0px; color: #117bb8; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“grooming checks”</a>, was necessary to identify “visible marks” which may appear when one dons the company’s uniforms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Competitors AirAsia and Firefly swiftly reacted with witty ads at Malindo Air’s expense, but some <a href="http://malaysiakini.com/news/378129" style="border: 0px; color: #117bb8; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">female lawmakers</a> said that this was no laughing matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Malindo Air has denied a news report earlier today that it requested interviewees to strip down their tops during a walk-in interview.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“In perspective of an article on Malindo Air’s recruitment process of cabin crew in <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Malay Mail </em>newspaper dated April 5, 2017, the airline denies the allegations upon internal investigations done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“Grooming checks for visible marks are conducted privately by female supervisors in a professional manner and is part of the interviewing process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“Herein candidates are briefed ahead and consent from each candidate is required prior proceeding to ensure there is no prominent marks will be visible while wearing the uniform,” the airline said in a statement today, without mentioning how the checks are conducted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Malindo Air has been mired in controversy after it reportedly made the request in a walk-in interview on March 11.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Its public relations and communications director Raja Sa’adi Raja Amrin, however defended the move, saying it was the right of the employer to request potential flight attendants to expose their chests to interviewers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He, however clarified that the interviewees were required to remove their tops, but not bras as claimed by the complainants who went for the interviews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The airline wanted to see if applicants had visible marks due to the material of Malindo’s uniform, as their uniforms were “partially see-through”, he was quoted as saying by <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Malay Mail</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“It is not an issue. We have the right to conduct such body checks on them. I think most airlines do the same,” he said, adding that this was a norm for most airlines as the cabin crew needed to be presentable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“We need to see if they (applicants) have scars, pimples or tattoos that could be seen through the uniform. Our flight attendants wear a corset inside and if it is covered by the corset, it is okay,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Malindo Air’s stewardesses are clad in either a high-collared white blouse or a white kebaya top paired with a sarong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“We need to know if there are scars or any marks as you can see their legs when they walk,” he said, responding to question that the interviewees claimed they had to bare their legs thigh-high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“The slit is also tailored in such a manner where it will enable flight attendants to move around easily, especially during an emergency,” he elaborated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Malaysiakini</em> has attempted to contact Raja Sa’adi and the airline’s CEO Chandran Rama Muthy for their comments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Malay Mail</em> also quoted several stewardesses who served in other airlines, who complained that they had never encountered such screening procedure, and described it as “ridiculous and disgusting”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the daily, Malindo Air’s interviewees were told to expose their chests, lift their skirts, fold up their pants or remove their pantyhose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Malaysia Airlines cabin crew staff Sherifah Muhazlisa Syed Mohd Bakar reportedly recalled that her employer only asked those with long sleeves to roll up to check for tattoos and scars but never required them to remove their clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“The official from the airline should know better,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Another flight attendant with AirAsia said it was unacceptable to ask female interviewees to remove their clothes to check their skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“My current employer asked if I had any tattoos or scars but I was never asked to take my clothes off,” he said on the condition of anonymity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“The airline (AirAsia) will not have a problem with stewards or stewardess having tattoos or scars as long as they were covered by the uniform. This is the 21st century. No organisation should be asking their employees to remove their clothes. It is extremely derogatory,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“That is crazy! I do not understand why they would have to do that. Those girls are not there to show off their bodies,” said a flight attendant from Singapore Airlines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Malindo Air posted the cabin crew walk-in interview on its Facebook page on March 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Budget airline Malindo Air found itself in a public relations mess after news broke that they perform body checks on interview candidates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This strange measure, described as <a href="http://malaysiakini.com/news/378096" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0077dd; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">“grooming checks”</a>, was necessary to identify “visible marks” which may appear when one dons the company’s uniforms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The airline claims that the checks are done by female staff in a professional manner and that candidates had consented to it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Malindo Air has denied a news report earlier today that it requested interviewees to strip down their tops during a walk-in interview.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“In perspective of an article on Malindo Air’s recruitment process of cabin crew in <em style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif !important;">The Malay Mail </em>newspaper dated April 5, 2017, the airline denies the allegations upon internal investigations done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“Grooming checks for visible marks are conducted privately by female supervisors in a professional manner and is part of the interviewing process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“Herein candidates are briefed ahead and consent from each candidate is required prior proceeding to ensure there is no prominent marks will be visible while wearing the uniform,” the airline said in a statement today, without mentioning how the checks are conducted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Its public relations and communications director Raja Sa’adi Raja Amrin, however defended the move, saying it was the right of the employer to request potential flight attendants to expose their chests to interviewers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He, however clarified that the interviewees were required to remove their tops, but not bras as claimed by the complainants who went for the interviews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The airline wanted to see if applicants had visible marks due to the material of Malindo’s uniform, as their uniforms were "partially see-through", he was quoted as saying by <em style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif !important;">The Malay Mail</em>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"It is not an issue. We have the right to conduct such body checks on them. I think most airlines do the same," he said, adding that this was a norm for most airlines as the cabin crew needed to be presentable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“We need to see if they (applicants) have scars, pimples or tattoos that could be seen through the uniform. Our flight attendants wear a corset inside and if it is covered by the corset, it is okay," he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Malindo Air's stewardesses are clad in either a high-collared white blouse or a white kebaya top paired with a sarong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“We need to know if there are scars or any marks as you can see their legs when they walk,” he said, responding to question that the interviewees claimed they had to bare their legs thigh-high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"The slit is also tailored in such a manner where it will enable flight attendants to move around easily, especially during an emergency," he elaborated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the daily, Malindo Air’s interviewees were told to expose their chests, lift their skirts, fold up their pants or remove their pantyhose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Malaysia Airlines cabin crew staff Sherifah Muhazlisa Syed Mohd Bakar reportedly recalled that her employer only asked those with long sleeves to roll up to check for tattoos and scars but never required them to remove their clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“The official from the airline should know better," she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"My current employer asked if I had any tattoos or scars but I was never asked to take my clothes off," he said on the condition of anonymity.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"The airline (AirAsia) will not have a problem with stewards or stewardess having tattoos or scars as long as they were covered by the uniform. This is the 21st century. No organisation should be asking their employees to remove their clothes. It is extremely derogatory," he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"That is crazy! I do not understand why they would have to do that. Those girls are not there to show off their bodies,” said a flight attendant from Singapore Airlines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Malindo Air posted the cabin crew walk-in interview on its Facebook page on March 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Laura Bushney, 26, told Seven’s <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sunday Night</em> yesterday that she was attacked twice by the chief steward Mohd Rosli Bin Ab Karim on flight MH20 from Kuala Lumpur to Paris, August 4.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">She fought back tears as she recounted the alleged incident, also showed chilling footage taken from her phone on board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ms Bushney was sitting at the back of the plane in a row that was vacant except for a traveller six seats away. It was dark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Three hours into the flight turbulence hit, scaring Ms Bushney. Moments later she claims that Mr Karim allegedly sat next to her to “comfort her”, blocking her exit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Concerned, she secretly hit the record button on her phone. She says she was uncomfortable when he grabbed her hand so asked him to get her a drink so that he’d leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When he returned she claims he rubbed her legs and put them on his lap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“He’s massaging my legs,” she can be heard saying in the recording. “I’m so scared, I just want to get off this plane.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“He then started pushing his hand down, moving his hand down towards my belly button and I pushed his hand away and he was massaging my legs and I thought by pushing it away that I was telling him I didn’t want that to happen but I didn’t want to say it, I was just scared.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When asked why she didn’t scream for help, Ms Bushney said she froze: “I keep saying ‘why didn’t I scream, why didn’t I shout, why didn’t I stop it?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“I’m a strong person because I can, I can do that, I know I can, but when I was in the moment I couldn’t. I felt so scared, so petrified.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When he’d left to get her a drink Ms Bushney told a woman seated in front of her what had happened. That woman was Canadian traveller Sophie Lachance, who encouraged her to report what had happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“Somebody touched my arm … and I remember I woke up and I saw her face full of tears and she was sobbing really, really strong,” Ms Lachance said. “She told me that this man put his hand in her pants.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Let us get this out of the way. What Tasek Gelugor MP Shabudin Yahaya said amounts to endorsing paedophilia. Furthermore, he is a rape apologist as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When this MP says “girls who reached puberty as young as nine-years-old were physically and spiritually ready for marriage”, what he is really saying is that in his view, young girls as young as nine are ready for sex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When this MP claims that older male perpetrators “fall in love” with their underage victims and should be allowed to marry them, what he is really saying is that older men who groom their victims and then rape them should be allowed the legal and societal endorsement of “marriage” to cover up their crimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When he says that “maybe the husband had raped her (his wife, prior to marriage), we (can't) say that the husband will be a useless and evil person forever”, he is really saying that men who rape women should be forgiven for their crimes when they “atone” for them by marrying their victims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He also squarely places the blame on the “wild lifestyle” of women and girls which absolves men from their crimes and reinforces the victim-blaming and shaming that constitutes the foundations of a rape culture that is based on a paternalistic agenda of men like Shabudin Yahaya.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If you ever need an example of a Muslim who gives Islam a bad name, it is someone like this Umno parliamentarian. I consider what he says of women and children as akin to an act that gives the religion and its adherents the reputation of unsavouriness and bolsters the idea that Islam is the motherlode of bad ideas as propagated by atheists like Sam Harris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Amanah MP Siti Mariah Mahmud said, “I don't blame him totally because the law allows it. I'm not saying he is right, but that is the mindset of Malaysians today, of Muslims today."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">First of all, this is not the mindset of “Malaysians” today. I can confidently say that the majority of Malaysians - Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus or however they self-identify themselves - believe that child marriage and rape are anathema to any kind of moral thinking. It is only certain Muslim men who control the discourse and control the levers of government and set policy, who think this way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">They think this way because for years they have been allowed to say and do the most morally reprehensible things and do this in the name of religion, while those of us who attempted to resist and point out such immoral behaviour were told not to interfere with Islam and threatened with sanctions from the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In an article about <a href="https://www.malaysiakini.com/columns/375740" style="background: 0px 0px; color: #4d469c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">child abuse</span></a>, I highlighted what an activist from Sisters in Islam said - “Child marriage is actually exacerbating the abuse of the children by making it legal." Shareena (Sheriff) also highlighted the fact that politicians and religious personalities make statements advocating child marriages, which in turn makes it conducive for those ‘who want to go down that road will feel that it's perfectly all right to do so.’”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What does it say when religious men tell pre-teen girls to “cover up”, claim that they are ready for marriage (sex) at the age of nine and consider the marriage of a rape victim as “the power of God”? Whose is being seditious here - the person who questions such abhorrent behaviour in the name of religion or the person who uses religion to justify his...</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">rape is a crime and no matter what one says, the full course of justice needs to be served. So why not let the rapist face the full brunt of the law first and when his sentence is completed, nobody will care two hoots if the victim decides whether to marry the scum or not.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">To allow even the hint of such suggestion is an insult to women. Allowing it sets the precedent that men don't need ever to woo and pursue the woman of his dreams - just rape and that woman will be yours forever. Absurd, isn't it?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">And don't bring religion into this absurdity. No religion will condone this "rape and marry" practice. Let's see what he will say if a "haprak" rapes his daughter or niece and offer to marry that unfortunate girl after the incident.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Any woman (whatever her religion) has the right to give or withhold consent to sexual intercourse. Her guardian has no right, of course, to give consent to a man to have sexual intercourse with her!</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Furthermore, a Muslim woman's guardian's consent alone is not sufficient for a man to marry her, a point which should carry more emphasis than it actually does. Additionally, the woman's consent to the marriage too is required for it to be valid. Consent must be given by a woman of her own free will so as to be valid.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Is a rape victim to be "advised" or "persuaded" to marry the man who had defiled her? Who in his or her right mind would think that her consent, if given in such a situation, has been freely given and is valid?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A woman who marries her attacker can get divorced by him the next day, and there will be enough all-knowing types who will advise her that it is his right to do so. This MP with a twisted mind has not addressed the real issue of getting men to respect women.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Shabudin, you’re totally devoid of any feeling for the rape victim. What you say is abhorrent and disgusting. There is no justification for rape under any circumstances.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Can one imagine the poor rape victim having to marry the monster who violated her and continue to be raped in a forced marriage? Please don’t defend yourself by saying it is all okay that the marriage requires the permission of the Syariah Court.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> This sort if outrageous thinking has no place in any society and someone who thinks this way should not be allowed to hold any leadership position.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">This is the kind of thinking that allows other perverts to exist. This so-called 'lawmaker' as he is described, should immediately be told to resign and be banned from public office of any sort.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Grauco: What Shabudin said is true and I agree with him. All the comments here are from people who are narrow minded and don't respect other people's religion.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Rape as defined in the West includes underage children having intercourse willingly. In some Western countries, nine out of 10 of those under the age of 18 are no longer virgins. So, why are they not jailed for rape? If you lose your virginity before the age of 18, it either you are raped or you rape someone. Does that make sense to you?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Don’t talk about syariah law if you don't know about it. Respect other people's religion as we respect yours.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tony Soprano: Grauco, you don't understand Western law. First of all, the age of consent in Western European countries is between 14 and 16. The American age of consent is 16 to 18, depending on the state.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">It is not rape if a boy 17 or younger has consensual sex with a girl of 16 or older. It's only statutory rape if the male is an adult (18 or over) and the girl is under 18.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Vijay47: Shabudin's revelations on sexuality and marital bliss is enlightening to say the least and this is the first time I have heard that the rape of a child followed by the rapist marrying her somehow reforms him and makes him a better person.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Another gem from this inspired politician is that a nine-year-old child who has attained puberty is physically and spiritually ready for marriage. Shabudin's argument seems to be that a child whose body has developed into that of an 18-year-old woman is ready to be a wife.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What if the rapist, alas, does not reform as Shabudin expects him to and instead rapes another child-woman or even three more? No problem, since he has kindly given the comfort of matrimony to four children? And what if, pardon my crude analogy, if the child is raped by, say, five men?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Just one final question, Shabudin. Would your views be just as generous if the rape victim were your daughter?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Inevitably, we will soon see the enlightened side rising to the defence of Shabudin. First, that Malaysiakini be shut down for publishing such lurid details and all commentators on this topic be charged for insulting Islam, including a former syariah court judge.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Next, would be the demand that people who do not understand the teachings of the religion should keep their ignorant opinions to themselves. These people are willing tools of neo-imperialists and their comments clearly reflect their Western-Christian liberalisation and pro-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) inclinations.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Next, far from being a villain, Shabudin was only expressing his concern for rape victims and was merely suggesting a wise solution to this widespread social scourge.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">If he had delved with great relish into the physical attributes of nine- and 18-year-old bodies to the salivating arousal of his Umno and PAS parliamentary colleagues, it was only to emphasise the fact that children could yet be women and rape need not always be rape.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Imagine a nine-year-old girl, still so innocent and a virgin, is raped and forced to marry the rapist? What kind of a father would allow this to happen?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">By agreeing to that, Shabudin is encouraging rapes. I thought the Parliament was debating on the Sexual Offences Against Children Bill, and here you are suggesting that the kids can marry their rapists.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> save your victims, O rapists. Marry them, O merry men of honour, in order to return them their dignity. For otherwise they would be shelved and thus doomed.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> better be wed now to thy sexual offenders than to remain single and dignified. And after having done so, do not forget to kiss the feet of the brilliant Shabudin, the Problem Solver of Violated Desperate Women.</span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">‘Rape and marry’ choice - a solution for whose social problem?</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Shabudin Yahaya and our rape cultur</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="Text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On Feb. 23, 2016, an Indian woman, within hours of giving birth by C-section, was <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/02/24/new-mother-raped-in-india-hospital.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #4d469c; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 150ms ease;">raped in a hospital</a> near New Delhi. Some in India took consolation in the fact that at least she was not, like Nirbhaya—the 23-year-old female physiotherapy intern—beaten up after being raped.</span></div>
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There are two types of flirting, healthy flirting and flirting with intent. Healthy flirting is fun, frivolous, entertaining and makes everyone laugh and feel good. It makes people feel focussed on, important, attractive and in general it has a strong positive and playful vibe to it. It wakes people up from emotional inertia and reminds them that life, relationships and even parties can be far from monotonous if they ignite those aspects of themselves.</div>
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It doesn’t matter if you’re single or married, because healthy flirting is innocent, spirited and fun. I see so many people wary of flirtation. I see so many couples raise eyebrows if one was to healthily flirt or be flirted with. That’s also because with being a couple comes a sense of ownership and the jealousy of your partner being “poached” by others.</div>
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Firstly, it’s important to realise that jealousy only means you don’t trust your partner. If your partner were to cheat it wouldn’t be in public over laughing and banter. Body language, tonality and words used are what differentiate healthy flirting and flirting with intent. “Intent”, is when the objective is to carry the vibe forward from the party to the bedroom. That’s what singles thrive on (and rightfully so), and what married people should really be doing only with their spouses. I can tell you from experience that there is a huge difference in the two types of flirting. Intent based flirting is almost always clear from the very beginning. You can see it in their eyes, sense it in their touch and also in how they say whatever they say.</div>
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If you’re single you can choose to soak in the charm and vibration of it and simply enjoy it or walk away from it if it makes you uncomfortable. Both kinds of flirtation are acceptable and even necessary in their appropriate spaces, but I can also tell you, that flirting with “intent” is hugely disrespectful to your partner and also the person you are flirting with if you are in a relationship or married. It shows you don’t value your vows, and also that you see the other person as someone who will not only compromise their value systems but also be willing to settle for being an “illicit good time”. So put on your choice of flirting hat, but just know it takes more than a wink, more than a drink and more than you think, to be a good flirt.</div>
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There are two types of flirting, healthy flirting and flirting with intent. Healthy flirting is fun, frivolous, entertaining and makes everyone laugh and feel good. It makes people feel focussed on, important, attractive and in general it has a strong positive and playful vibe to it. It wakes people up from emotional inertia and reminds them that life, relationships and even parties can be far from monotonous if they ignite those aspects of themselves.</div>
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It doesn’t matter if you’re single or married, because healthy flirting is innocent, spirited and fun. I see so many people wary of flirtation. I see so many couples raise eyebrows if one was to healthily flirt or be flirted with. That’s also because with being a couple comes a sense of ownership and the jealousy of your partner being “poached” by others.</div>
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Firstly, it’s important to realise that jealousy only means you don’t trust your partner. If your partner were to cheat it wouldn’t be in public over laughing and banter. Body language, tonality and words used are what differentiate healthy flirting and flirting with intent. “Intent”, is when the objective is to carry the vibe forward from the party to the bedroom. That’s what singles thrive on (and rightfully so), and what married people should really be doing only with their spouses. I can tell you from experience that there is a huge difference in the two types of flirting. Intent based flirting is almost always clear from the very beginning. You can see it in their eyes, sense it in their touch and also in how they say whatever they say.</div>
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If you’re single you can choose to soak in the charm and vibration of it and simply enjoy it or walk away from it if it makes you uncomfortable. Both kinds of flirtation are acceptable and even necessary in their appropriate spaces, but I can also tell you, that flirting with “intent” is hugely disrespectful to your partner and also the person you are flirting with if you are in a relationship or married. It shows you don’t value your vows, and also that you see the other person as someone who will not only compromise their value systems but also be willing to settle for being an “illicit good time”. So put on your choice of flirting hat, but just know it takes more than a wink, more than a drink and more than you think, to be a good flirt.</div>
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don’t need someone who will blackmail, pressure or arm twist you into a life-long commitment. Simply become boring, irritating, and whiny. He will automatically start moving away.</div>
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This is possibly the worst way to find out that your boyfriend is cheating on you.</div>
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Twitter user Msixelaa was doing a shift when she picked a woman from the airport. But soon, she found out that it was her boyfriend’s mistress.</div>
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Msixelaa wrote that her boyfriend was going away to visit his mother in hospital. “He had luggage packed and everything, and I stayed with him the night before,” she wrote.</div>
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My man told me he was going to ny to see his mom she's in the hospital he had luggage packed an everything I stayed with him the night befor</div>
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We parted ways earlier this morning from his apartment he got in his car I got in mine he drove off like he was going to the airport</div>
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malaysiakitaonlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595604559525644346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484361215349379232.post-6991428829849725842017-04-05T14:40:00.003+08:002017-04-05T14:40:50.882+08:00Multimedia Minister Salleh demanded TonyPuamust be arrested for his act of treason,<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We are living in interesting times. Ever since the elevation of has been a flurry of activity in both the mainstream and social media. Every day, new posts pop up, arguing Najib leadership. Malaysiakini self-proclaimed neutral political watchers and average social media commentators have all been rattling a litany of praises for a man who, unfortunately, has had a steady record of making incendiary remarks, has a slew of criminal cases against Tony Pua and is a known rabble-rouser.</span><img alt="Image result for malaysiakini online" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3wAMuaNgUkIknShOFpf3tuBIRh_-iOC8hJ5rnBK7LuzztJDFWlw" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><img alt="Image result for malaysiakini online" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRtMrWIqx6IPmbb396lfJwhyM9UZT5pOSL9qKOjboXZAlsCDkfw" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; color: #444444; padding: 8px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Malaysiakini is also awash with reports of Muslims being very happy with the DAP. Some have even given examples of how the Lim Kit Siang personally touched their lives (and made them better). While these project a markedly different image of the man, TonyPua one also wonders if these are bids to make DAP look more acceptable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">But the most common refrain of the backers is this: givea chance, as will be controlled by</span> Lim Kit Siang <span style="color: #2b2b2b;">Only time will tell if the commentators are right or if theirs is a delusional hope springing from a misplaced faith in dog-whistle politics. But there are some striking similarities between this expression of hope and the faith reposed by the liberal West in the intentions of Nazi Germany in the early 1930s. Of course, I don’t mean to make apocalyptic comparisons between the two eras and regimes; I am only trying to find similarities in the approaches taken by the western press then and the Malaysiakini the new media now</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Misguided analysts an idiot likeTony Pua, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing.”The concerns of Tony Pua MP for Petaling Jaya Utara and DAP national publicity secretary.'s legion of critics have all been proven plain wrong Given the disputes about the measure’s wisdom and success, however, it is time to take stock of what was said in the aftermath of 1MDB and what has actually transpired since then. “It is a tale/ Told by Pua.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Collapsing economic growth, high inflation and corruption </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">crushing incomes and opportunities.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> must be stop</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Multimedia Minister Salleh demanded TonyPua must be arrested for his act of treason,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Satire is the thin wedge that separates fear from panic. businessmen are not yet panic-stricken, but thanks to Pua a<span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.1px;"> sudden flurry of stories appeared in Malaysiakini </span><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.1px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.1px;">foreign correspondents seemed particularly gullible</span><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.1px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.1px;"> they are edging towards the zone of fear. As haemorrhaging international confidence in Malaysia weakens fund inflows, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.1px;">When a nation’s confidence is undermined, adversaries abroad pounce to take advantage, and uncertainty within encourages social tensions.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.1px;">there is only so much harm that an indecisive DAP can inflict upon a nation’s ability </span><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;">restoring the economy to health and vigour. A nation is only as strong as its economy. There is no magic wand as we enter election year. There was no wand in 2013 either. We recovered because we needed the shock to come to our senses. It is time for a radical reboot once again</span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;">.</span></span></span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">Satire is the thin wedge that separates fear from panic. businessmen are not yet panic-stricken, but thanks to Pua a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;"> sudden flurry of stories appeared in Malaysiakini </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">foreign correspondents seemed particularly gullible</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;"> they are edging towards the zone of fear. As haemorrhaging international confidence in Malaysia weakens fund inflows, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">When a nation’s confidence is undermined, adversaries abroad pounce to take advantage, and uncertainty within encourages social tensions.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">there is only so much harm that an indecisive DAP can inflict upon a nation’s ability </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;">restoring the economy to health and vigour. A nation is only as strong as its economy. There is no magic wand as we enter election year. There was no wand in 2013 either. We recovered because we needed the shock to come to our senses. It is time for a radical reboot once again.</span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sabotaging Malaysia's economy by frightening off foreign investors is an act of treason, not patriotism, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak.</span><span style="background-color: white;">criticising the prime minister and are running down the country out of patriotism.</span><span style="background-color: white;">"Most historians agree that Adolf Hitler was also a patriot and that Naziism was the product of this patriotism. And 100 million people died because of this," Salleh said in a blog post last night...</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333;">a trauma turns into a struggle between anger and amnesia. It is a no-contest. Amnesia wins every time.explains the callous indifference to the perpetrators of crime evasion was prelude to escape local wrath. Over time, even the noise has become a passing perfunctory</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333;">Hey, corner office frog DAP lawmaker Tony Pua, keep that sticky tongue to yourselfIn a corner office with a view sits a loathsome frog, his tongue intermittently darting at all the little file-toting flies. This frog is not interested in turning into a prince — he already believes he is one — and stares bug-eyed at the flies, his toys or his employees whatever moniker fits them best in his mind.Politics has seldom walked the path of predictability. Opinions oscillate like an autumn in mood. Promises sun and cloud like the English weather. The phrase political commitment is the greatest example of an oxymoron. Once friends, turn foes overnight. We all know the language of politics.Johari is no‘caged parrot’, has the freedom to investigate his boss but but he is not Tony Pua's errand boy.. .A tale of two MPs DAP lawmaker Tony Pua you a narcissistic ?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333;">The ebb from outrage to rage, its decline to umbrage, and then a drift to amnesia is the narrative of the 12 months Our unstated reason has been that action against Najib, new </span><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333;">has done some moving reportage of in the last few days. It would be interesting to find out, possibly through market research, whether the readers of the nation’s most powerful newspaper have been moved at all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">eager eggheads </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">ideas. Most ideas were perceptive and prescriptive; some were even brilliant. The flexibility was exhilarating after too many decades of doctrine born in an open mind but killed by a closed one.Pragmatism became politically correct. But a serious problem was soon evident: it was difficult to make ideas work without a framework. The patterns of democracy encouraged spasmodic birth but hindered growth. Politics eroded the time necessary for nurture. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">It is entirely within the logic of turbulent democracies that a dream run should be interrupted by a wake-up call. It might be pertinent to note, in this context, that dreams are best shaped into reality with the help of daylight. Among the dangers of darkness is that it obscures the bumps on that twisting road to economic regeneration. Those who know are aware that, as master of the long game, he is not going to be deflected by the short pass; he will absorb the stumble and restore the stride towards that horizon.</span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; height: auto; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When it comes to elections politicians, psephologists, punters and pundits all begin to think RAC. This may not occupy them when discussing venture capitalists, or sports or financial crises. But come elections and the air is abuzz with caste calculations, caste chemistry, or pure casteism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> DAP wisely changed tack set out to unshuffle the race cards and pull in the Malays </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The niftiest thing about racism in Malaysia is that in the mind of its practitioners, it doesn’t exist.with Lim Kit Siang but partry DAP unlike UMNO is not racist but some memberes yes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Racism in DAP that is. Communalism, communism, , hooliganism,, yes. racism? Not in this country.but in DAP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How can it, since we have, since the dawn of pre-post-colonialism and other malapropisms, been the victims, and, as far as nationalism goes, been glorious ‘tryst with destiny’ victors against it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Indians, who at least don’t ‘look Chinese’, it is that horrid thing that gets Indians beaten up in Australia, Sikhs mistaken for West Asian Islamists in the US, construction workers and maids in the Gulf leading miserable lives, and the Mahatma thrown off the train at Pietermaritzburg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in those rare cases when the Indian is actually not the victim, racism is what US President Donald Trump supporters ‘do’ against Mexicans, swathes of the US practised before Jay ‘Success is the Biggest Revenge’ Z became one of America’s B R Ambedkars, and why Nelson Mandela became famous for being the Indian Gandhi. (More on the Mahatma a bit later.)Last Monday, four Nigerians — Nigerians being from a country in Africa, the way Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was shot dead in a racist attack in Kansas in February, was from the Asian country of India — were brutally attacked in Greater Noida by a mob. The mob had morphed from a reported group of angry protesters who believed that a Class 12 (Indian) boy died of a drug overdose from drugs allegedly supplied by his Nigerian neighbours.It is important to note that the four Nigerians beaten up on Monday — or the fifth Nigerian attacked in another part of Greater Noida on Wednesday —and a fifth were detained but released after the police found no evidence against them. Perhaps the mob and the cops can be forgiven, since it is really, really hard for Brown people to differentiate between Black Africans going about their own business and Black Africans peddling drugs. After all, when did another kind of -ism stop enough people from believing that Pakistan actor Fawad Khan also had a hand in the attack on the Indian Army headquarters in Uri, Kashmir?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since last week’s racist attacks, much has been aired about the traditional Indian prejudice against dark skin, with the usual examples of marriage adverts putting a premium on fair skin and ‘whitening’ creams trotted out. That is, indeed, a prejudice, and a deeply embarrassing one. But not fundamentally different from the ‘traditional aesthetic’ bias for large breasts or — among the ‘hipster’ crowd — big beards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Racism is both more toxic and, ironically, easier to stamp out. It is more toxic because it not only harbours a prejudice that is cooked in vats of noxious stereotypes, but it’s also regularly acted upon. Racist action can take the form of, as cited by Monday’s victims, name-calling and taunts, restricted entry and inflated prices to more violent forms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">South African social scientist Ashwin Desai and historian Goolam Vahed in their 2015 book, The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire, extensively collate Gandhiji’s own writing in the period in which the future Father of Another Nation lived in South Africa between 1893 and 1914.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this startling work of scholarship, the writers quote passages where Gandhi had described Black Africans as “savage”, “raw” and living a life of “indolence and nakedness” and making a case through campaigns of being “treated differently” from the indigenous Black population.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, the bull must be caught by the horns if racism in India is to be tackled with a little more seriousness than via parliamentary condemnation and tut-tuts about creating a bump in India-Africa trade, happy post-colonial ties and other pleasant things between the people of the ‘Great Continent’ and of the ‘Great Subcontinent’. Or rather, the bull must be caught by the horns and put before the cart: by cracking down on racist crime when it takes place in Mother India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Monday’s attacks — and countless other anecdotal evidence that goes beyond ‘Africans’ and includes fellow Indians from the northeastern part of the country — point to once again, the functionaries of law and order find these ‘crimes’ to be nothing but ‘incidents’ in a country where you don’t either have to be ‘kaalu’ or a ‘chinky’ to face a lynch mob. And ‘incidents’, as we all know, get taken as seriously as a prospective paying guest with a name that can be so hard to pronounce.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="content" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over 80 years ago, Germany had got her Vikas Purush in Adolf Hitler. And while Germany was floored by this “messiah of hope and development”, with the Fuehrer commanding unquestioned devotion and even inspiring coquettish love, the liberal West was also smitten by him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This can be gauged from the numerous laudatory articles that kept on appearing in the British and American press at regular intervals, as also quotes by the who’s who of the time. One of the earliest admirers of Hitler in the West was British MP Sir Thomas Moore. In 1933, he wrote in the Sunday Dispatch: “If I may judge from my personal knowledge of Herr Hitler, peace and justice are the key words of his policy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1934, Moore made a case for the “absolutely honest and sincere” Fuehrer by writing: “Give Hitler a chance.” But Moore wasn’t going to be the last of the fanboys. Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George joined the Hitler fan club after a visit to Germany in the mid-1930s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a newspaper interview, Lloyd George had said, “Germany does not want war. Hitler does not want war. He is a most remarkable personality, one of the greatest I have ever met in the whole of my life, and I have met some very great men.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The former PM had seen unmistakable signs of a growing personality cult, but he wasn’t alarmed or horrified by it. “Affection is a quite inadequate word to describe the attitude of the German people towards Hitler. It amounts almost to worship. I have never seen anything like it. Some men I met who are not Nazis told me that they did not know what the country would have done without him. They are inclined to blame Hitler’s supporters for some of the things which they do not approve, but there is no whisper of criticism of Hitler. It is just like our motto: ‘The King can do no wrong’,” Lloyd George had said, adding that Hitler was “the George Washington of Germany”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But how were the people of George Washington’s land reading Hitler? American journalist and public intellectual Walter Lippmann wrote in the New York Herald Tribune on May 19, 1933: “We have heard once more, through the fog and the din, the authentic voice of a genuinely civilized people. I am not willing to believe that, but it seems to me that all historical experience compels one to believe it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lippmann had heard a speech of the German chancellor and had called it a “genuinely statesmanlike address” that gave “evidence of good faith”. What’s worse: Lipmann, a Jew himself, argued that the persecution of Jews was a way of “satisfying” German yearning to “conquer somebody”, and therefore, the German Jewry were “a kind of lightning rod which protects Europe”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of months down the line, when more and more reports surfaced in the foreign press about atrocities on Jews, the New York Times front-paged a laudatory article in its edition dated July 10, 1933. “There is at least one official voice in Europe that expresses understanding of the methods and motives of President Roosevelt—the voice of Germany, as represented by Chancellor Adolf Hitler,” read the opening lines of the article headlined ‘Hitler seeks jobs for all Germans’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Times-Picayune, a New Orleans daily, published a cartoon that expressed a rather naive belief that conservative political and industrial leaders would prevent Hitler from implementing his radical ideas. It’s exactly the kind of argument put forward by Narendra Modi backers when he was voted to power in 2014, and Yogi Adityanath apologists today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But while the American press was hailing Hitler, the British press had gone even further. The Daily Mirror actually called him “a Man of the People” in an exclusive interview they managed with the Fuehrer. The “man of destiny” made an “appeal to reason” through Britain’s leading daily.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" />Finally, it was the Daily Mail that set the bar even higher for fellow apologists. It was so taken in by the Fascists that it gave them a “hurrah”. It also derided the British socialists, giving voice to the general conservative opinion that abhorred the idea of a socialist British PM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In today’s India, socialism is a taboo word; and if you criticise the government of the day or the party in power, or Narendra Modi himself, then you are branded a “Leftist” and “Congressi”, and therefore a “traitor” and “anti-national”. But as history has shown, it were the same derided socialists who had realised what Hitler was even before the rest of the world took note.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The answer to regression is not complicated: modernity. Modernity has four basic, non-negotiable principles. A modern nation must be democratic; it must believe in secularism; it must promote gender equality; and it must eliminate the curse of inequity and poverty. This is the charter for regions in chaos, which can save the future from ravages of the present.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">(Sanjiv Bhatt)</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">I have principle and no power</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You have power and no principle</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You being you</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">And I being I</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Compromise is out of the question</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">So let the battle begin…</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I have truth and no force</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You have force and no truth</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You being you</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">And I being I</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Compromise is out of the question</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">So let the battle begin…</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You may club my skull</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You may crush my bones</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You may bury me alive</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">With truth running through me</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">With every ounce of my strength</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">With my last dying breath</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight…</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight till the</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Castle that you built with your lies</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Comes tumbling down</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Till the devil you worshipped with your lies</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Kneels down before my angel of truth.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">May the kind God give you the requisite strength to be equitable and benevolent towards one and all!</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Satyamev Jayate!</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">With best wishes.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Yours sincerely,</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;"></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;">Imagine the Parliament was already gearing itself to table the amendments to the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965, but Najib chose to stay away from Parliament to visit India.</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;"> Only Hadi and his team of people believed that the Umno president was serious about Act 355.</span><span style="font-family: lato; font-size: 16px;">The centre of gravity in any democracy is best measured by the credibility of its Parliament, an institution that fuses a core Puritan simplicity with a Catholic electoral horizon. but in Malaysia There is position, represented by government. There is opposition. The space in between is occupied by debate. Socrates, famously, established democracy’s philosophical principles when he replaced competition with dialogue.read the fullstory</span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a href="https://nambikaionline.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/who-do-we-believe-modi-butcher-of-gujarat-puts-even-butcher-to-shame/" style="border: 0px; color: #117bb8; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who do we believe? Modi Butcher of Gujarat puts even butcher to shame</a><br /><br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As the debate continues to swirl around secularism, albeit with ebbing intensity, but still provoking a loose nerve or two, an intriguing question demands an answer. Is India secular because Gandhi was secular, or was Gandhi secular because India is secular? What precisely do we mean by secularism?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The western definition has two origins: the French Revolution, which separated church from state; and communism, which erased religion from political and social life. Between Voltaire and Karl Marx, religion was marginalized into the grey space of “unreason” from Europe to China, with ramifications that extended far beyond the extent of state power.Indian secularism is a very different story. It neither ignores nor excludes religion. It insists on equality of all faiths, irrespective of its following. The religion of those in power at any point of that rolling dice called time does not matter, for Indian secularism is far more than the law. It is a fundamental social right.India, therefore, is a country with “audible secularism”. You can be a Muslim in Washington and London, and go to a mosque of your choice, but you will not be able to hear the call to prayer. In India, dawn is welcomed with the wafting lilt of the azaan, followed by the music of temple bells, the harmony of the Granth Sahib being recited in a gurdwara, and the peal from the church.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'proxima nova', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'proxima nova', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">This week, the Prime Minister of UK, Theresa May, pulled the trigger of Article 50, starting the process of leaving the European Union in two years from now. Let´s get down to the nitty-gritty of the deal, which will require an enormous effort from apolitical bureaucrats, who will have to incorporate approximately 80,000 European laws into the British judicial system.</span></span><br /><div style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">After PAS piracy, an UMNO conspiracy <span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;">Hadi and PAS had been taken for a ride over what is otherwise known as Hadi’s private member’s bill. He was too foolhardy to accept Najib’s hand when Umno and PAS, as we all know, are politically a world apart...</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;">there was no mastermind behind it all. There were sceptics and there were people objecting to the amendments, but no one was masterminding the entire plot.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;">Most of us who read between the lines could tell what was happening, but not Hadi or any of the PAS leaders. I had kept my fingers crossed, and asked myself, “Could this be part of Hadi and Najib’s bigger plot? Or, maybe Hadi was already well aware of the U-turn, but he is playing along with the game because he is part of the script. If that were the case, it is all part of a bigger plot, isn’t it?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There will be many twists and turns of negotiations before the United Kingdom will be allowed to divorce the European Union after 44 years of marriage. The triggering of Article 50 is irrevocable and historic in the sense that UK has decided to leave a political and economic project, which has facilitated one of the steadiest periods of unprecedented economic growth, benefitting all the 28 countries which have become members since the signing of the Rome Treaty 60 years ago.</span></div>
<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">After a PAS piracy, an UMNO conspiracy?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">A decisive battle between modernity and regression was fought between PAS and UMNO after 1957. </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">PAS used, often and provocatively, the rhetoric of superiority in its pursuit of separation Muslim governance. </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Another barbaric chapter of an epic conflict between the presence and promise of modernity, and the bitter, toxic romance of regression was written on </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">Abdul Hadi Awang face </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">a confrontation between the lethal adrenalin of faith supremacy and belief that faith equality is the basis of civilised political and social stability.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Their rulers no longer believed in the supremacy of Islam, chosen by God as the final testament for this world. UMNO no longer displayed the courage to grow a religious beard, proclaim the faith, or pick up the sword — in defence of Islam.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">this revisionism went against innumerable tenets of the Quran, which advocate acceptance of other faiths, particularly “people of the Book”, and explain why Christian communities like the Yazidis continued to live in Muslim Iraq for 1,400 years until the supremacists of ISIS began their rape, pillage and murder of the “infidel”.</span></span><br /><div style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">But as a sense of loss, and fear of the future, intensified, the ideas of exclusivity, separation and dream of dominance began to gather momentum in the 20th century.<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">PAS has cheated the rakyat before - we will not let it happen again.</span>Muslims had slipped into decadence, compromising purity of practice in prayer and trust in the sharia; their behaviour and dress had been corrupted by other cultures, whether it was Hinduism in India or the growing influence of Europe among Ottoman elites.<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;"> The rakyat will much rather Pakatan lose GE14 without PAS, than to win with them, and give them more power to force syariah on all Malaysians.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">PAS has cheated the rakyat before - we will not let it happen again. The rakyat will much rather Pakatan lose GE14 without PAS, than to win with them, and give them more power to force syariah on all Malaysians</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">Umno has been enjoying the spoils of power and wealth all this while and they will not be so stupid as to allow PAS to come up with some amendments to some syariah law which may not be enforced.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">It was very clear that Najib had fooled and betrayed Hadi.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">Najib's timing in announcing that Umno would not table the Act 355 amendments came after the </span><a href="https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/377195" style="background-position: 0px 0px; color: #2979ff; cursor: pointer; line-height: 24.65px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">official formation</span></a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;"> of the new Pakatan Harapan coalition which includes Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu), without PAS.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">This could not be coincidence, less than one week after Harapan's announcement.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">Wake up, dear Malay brethren; when are you going to stop this nonsense and take charge of the country? Religion is personal, and religion and politics are two different rivers that never meet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Get rid of PAS and Umno and give the young Malays a chance and just see what they can do. Unshackle their minds and see the transformation. Wake up, it is already 2017. We can't wait till 2050<span style="line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">Youth chief Nik Abduh Nik Aziz and their ilk, it is a case of twice bitten and looking more and more stupid by the day. How are they to earn respect from others?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">Umno. PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang should quit immediately.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">Umno has played out PAS once again, and now we know who is the biggest sucker. No, it is not Hadi, but it is its gullible members who believe in him.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">made an enemy of your opposition partners and backstabbed them many times and blamed them for no reason.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">the moderate voices in PAS, led by deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man must make their voices heard in the upcoming muktamar.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has been challenged to guarantee that he would no longer make another policy "U-turn" on the bill to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;"> Umno leaving PAS red-faced again with regard to the government's new stand on PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's private member's bill.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">Sadly, Umno has chosen to make a fool of PAS just like what happened in 1977 when PAS was kicked out of the federal government (during the time of former prime minister Hussein Onn).</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang said that while he welcomed Najib's "U-turn" by declaring that Putrajaya </span><a href="http://malaysiakini.com/news/377462" style="background-position: 0px 0px; color: #2979ff; cursor: pointer; line-height: 24.65px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">would not take over</span></a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;"> the private member's bill, there is no guarantee that the latter won't change his mind later</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">The party president has had his grandiose moments rubbing shoulders with the prime minister and sharing the public stage with top Umno cabinet ministers.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">Najib probably pulled out as he was about to cross the line, so as to show the other BN component parties that he cares and in turn satisfy the public and the members while at the same time, pass the baton to Hadi.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Some even went as far as to allege that he had personal benefits for ‘working’ with PM Najib Razak. And as an excuse to work with Umno, they make an enemy of DAP, its former ally.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">als read this </span><br /><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">
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malaysiakitaonlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595604559525644346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484361215349379232.post-71789231720550645552017-03-30T23:07:00.000+08:002017-03-30T23:07:02.490+08:00Misguided analysts Tony Pua take on PM and finance minister<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b> </b>Misguided analysts an idiot likeTony Pua, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing.”The concerns of Tony Pua MP for Petaling Jaya Utara and DAP national publicity secretary.'s legion of critics have all been proven plain wrong Given the disputes about the measure’s wisdom and success, however, it is time to take stock of what was said in the aftermath of 1MDB and what has actually transpired since then. “It is a tale/ Told by Pua.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">The government constantly lacks funds for badly needed infrastructure.</span></span></span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">Finance Minister II Johari</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> ’s solution is for government undertakings to routinely sell existing assets, and use the sale proceeds to finance fresh investment.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">So, the government can sell old roads to finance new ones; sell old ports to build new ports; and sell old power stations to build modern ones. Public sector entities can sell entire subsidiary companies, or projects, or vacant land to finance fresh projects.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">From a market-friendly viewpoint, the government’s role is to facilitate private enterprise.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">a strong case for raising the government’s share in investment, but the government lacks cash.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">A truly counter-cyclical approach requires bigger fiscal deficits to kickstart growth. Should the government abandon its fiscal targets to step up investment?</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">The same may be said of much of the commentary on</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">With no compelling precedent for such a move in a growing and stable economy, not one suffering hyperinflation – it was no surprise that most commentators failed to grasp its implications and many got it plain wrong.</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">was a goal in itself, this may perhaps have been the ideal approach, but surely this was not the case in Malaysia where corruption, tax evasion and the accumulation of black wealth were instead the primary targets. Rogoff’s concern that the system lacked the logistical capability to implement</span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Tony Pua MP for Petaling Jaya Utara </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 1.1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">had asked PM and finance minister to justify the award of the RM55 billion East Coast Rail Link project to China Communications and Construction Company (CCCC) and why Malaysian companies were not given the opportunity to tender for the project.</span></span>In the Finance Ministry’s reply, it said “to qualify for this financing offered by China Exim Bank, the project had to be executed by CCCC”.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />The minister said that the Export Import Bank of China (China Exim Bank) offered a soft loan to Malaysia for the project at low interest rates. He added that the loan, for a period of 20 years, also allows for a grace period of seven years where the government does not need to repay the principal.In addition, “the government has, in principle, agreed at least 30 percent of the infrastructure work will involve local companies and contractors”.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />If studied carefully, the reply carried very sinister undertones.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />Malaysia now appears so desperate for foreign financing for its so-called national interest projects that it is willing to subject itself to terms and conditions of foreign powers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />Just because somebody is willing to lend you the money at seemingly favourable terms does not mean that you should accept the condition to select the product that will cost nearly double the estimated price.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />This is no different from unscrupulous retailers duping Malaysian shoppers into ‘zero-interest’ financing schemes on products costing significantly higher than if you have paid for it in cash. Any financial consultant will educate you that the real cost of financing is already built into the jacked-up price of the product.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />Worse, the real cost of funds for the project is now opaque because we do not know the real cost of the project as it was awarded without any open and competitive tender. We do know however, that the government’s own appointed consultants, HSS Integrated, has estimated that the cost of the 600km railway project will be less than RM30 billion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />Therefore, to pay for the project at RM55 billion just because China Exim Bank offered an “attractive financing package” is absolutely scandalous.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />Worse, only 30 percent of the project will involve local companies and contractors, despite an abundance of experience and expertise which are already widely available in Malaysia. We now have many companies who have built double-tracking railway projects, dug award-winning tunnels systems and constructed the MRT. And yet, the government is awarding a standard rail link project at substantially higher cost to a foreign company with minimal local participation.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />The irony is that the Finance Ministry has advised or even instructed our government-linked companies to halt their investments abroad and repatriate its foreign funds from overseas to check the drastic decline of the ringgit. Bank Negara even put in harsh measures to force private companies to convert their foreign currency receipts into ringgit.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />‘Doesn’t practice what it preaches?’</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />However, the government clearly doesn’t practice what it preaches because the overwhelming bulk of the inflated RM55 billion cost will be paid to China despite available local options.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br />There can be no better example of the English saying, “penny wise but pound foolish”. What boggles the mind is, the Finance Ministry doesn’t comprise of idiots - they should know that we are paying well above what is a fair price for the project. What is the ‘real’ reason why the project has been awarded to CCCC - is the real ‘quid pro quo’ the fact that CCCC will help launder part of the astronomical profits to pay off 1MDB debts as widely speculated?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Najib and Rosmah is scheduled for an official <a href="http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/377342" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0077dd; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">visit</a> to India from this Friday until next Tuesday. The visit, at the invitation of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be Najib's third to India since assuming office as prime minister in 2009.<span style="line-height: 1.6;">The fortunes of Najib and Rosmah change, thanks to their trip to India to consult upon astrologers </span><span style="line-height: 1.6;">Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak gave the strongest hint yet of the election date. Like the US presidential election, he pointed to a November polls.</span><span style="line-height: 1.6;">Speaking in Sabah, Najib brought his favourite number 11 into prominence, saying that the double digits were “significant” this year because 2012 is the 66th year of Umno, with Malaysia marking the 55th year of Merdeka and Sabah Umno notching 22 years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“All these numbers could be multiplied by 11,” he said. “Six times 11 equals 66, five times 11 equals 55 and 2 times 11 equals 22. The factor of 11 appears in all. It is unique and good.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though I pay little or no attention to astrology and feng shui, it’s interesting to read what one astrologer has to say about Najib’s electoral hint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">According to astrologer Master Yuvaraj Sowma of Tamil Nadu in India, the “auspicious” election dates for Najib, based on Vedic astrology, are Nov 5, 14 and 23.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“The dates were regarded suitable when read with the Prime Minister’s date of birth – July 23, 1953,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Yuvaraj was quoted in a national daily as saying that the plus point for Najib was that he shared the same moon of Virchika (Scorpio) with Barisan Nasional, formed on July 1, 1974.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Yuvaraj said November and December appeared to be the most favourable period for Najib to call for the general election because the planet Jupiter would have a strong positive influence on his zodiac sign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“The good period continues until May 2013 and the Prime Minister should take advantage of the favourable planetary position,” said Yuvaraj.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He said that although Barisan was expected to face a tough challenge because the planet Saturn would also have some similar influence in November, the ruling coalition would emerge better than in the last general election.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“This is simply because the ruling stars governing Najib’s horoscope are strong and favourable,” he said. Yuvaraj said the 11th month symbolises “gain and divinity” and would also be the best period to woo voters because they would be in a more cheerful mood. Whatever hint, whatever astrology may predict, one thing is certain – the 13th general election must be held before June next year.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #282828; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Do politicians abroad believe in superstition? </span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Astrology, religion and politics have been closely linked in Hindu-majority India. Hinduism traditionally combines faith with a strong belief that cosmic events have effects on earthly life.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently, the Godman predicted that Thatcher would go on to become PM and that she might remain PM for 9, 11 or 13 years. The circumstances in which this forecast was made are interesting. At the first meeting that Singh set up between the two of them in London, the godman floored Thatcher with his extra-sensory powers:</span></span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Bob Dylan almost sang, the heavens they’re a-changin’. And with it, the political landscape in India could also change.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">The planet Pluto, which 10 years ago was demoted by astronomers from planetary status to that of a mere heavenly body, has now regained planetary stature.</span></span><br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; height: auto !important; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The reason that Pluto was stripped of it planetary title was because of its relatively small size, which is comparable to many other non-planet bodies found in the zone known as the Kuiper Belt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So has Pluto put on weight in the past 10 years to attain full planetary dimensions? No, Pluto’s size remains the same as it always has been.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What has changed is the official scientific definition of what can be called a planet. A young American scientist, Kirby Runyon, has proposed that any naturally formed object in space which is of sub-stellar (smaller than a star) mass, has never undergone nuclear fusion, and has enough gravitational spin to make itself into a sphere, should be called a planet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If this proposition is accepted by the scientific community at large, many other heavenly bodies – including our very own moon – could be redesignated as planets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This could lead to a lot of debate and conjecture not only in scientific circles, but also in the realm of politics, particularly politics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps in no other country do politicians set so much store by various forms of fortune-telling as they do in India. And arguably one of the most widely used systems of predicting the future is astrology, the occult branch of the science of astronomy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Indian politicians, across the board, rely upon astrologers to formulate their strategies, particularly when elections are in the offing: whom to ally with and whom not to ally with, what’s a good mahurat for launching their electoral campaign, what pujas or penance should be done to offset the baneful effects of adverse planetary conjunctions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, however, if the skies above start teeming with a whole host new planets – thanks to the definitional change in terminology – all astrological predictions could be thrown into utter confusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Even skeptics who don’t believe in astrology will admit that such predictions can have a psychological effect on those who do believe in them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For instance, a positive prediction could have the positive effective of inspiring self-confidence, which could prove to be the winning advantage over one’s opponent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, a negative prediction could also have a positive effect by motivating the person concerned to put in extra effort, which could result in victory. So will the new astrology created by the sudden proliferation of planets effect political fortunes in India?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Will the repeatedly faltering Grand Alliance against the BJP finally be formed, thanks to changing planetary configurations?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Will Rahul Gandhi be able to revive the moribund Congress Party?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever else may or may not be safely predicted, one thing is certain. Planetary change or no, followers of the duo will remain starry-eyed about the partnership company of Modi and Shah Private Limited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Can lawmakers and lawbreakers be one and the same? </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">but many of our lawmakers – a large number of whom have criminal records – have little or no compunction placing themselves above the law by virtue of the fact that, as legislators, they are ones who make the law in the first place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The creator is always greater than the created. By this logic the maker of the law – any-law – is greater than the law created. Something which is legal today can by our lawmakers be turned illegal tomorrow,like </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Laws are made and unmade at the whims and fancies of those responsible for designing and maintaining our society’s legal framework, the scaffolding which supports our polity.As the architects of this legal edifice not a few of our legislators have shown themselves to be above it.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so Pua you asking Johari to break the law</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If that is so, now that he is the second finance minister, with all the necessary access to all the documents and transactions within the Finance Ministry subsidiaries - has he figured out why and how 1MDB and its sister company, SRC International lost tens of billions of ringgit?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;">Pua </span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;"> even tried </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Johari as</span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;"> scapegoat for his failure as </span><br style="line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Johari’s deeds and actions only goes to show the hypocrisy of his moral high ground and his claims of “doing the best for this country”. In fact, in his attempt to cover up the stolen funds without answering for their crimes, whose crime are you saying that Johari is a criminal who is betraying the country and sacrificing the interest of our future generations.? Pua, this editor is not wrong calling you the real mother f--ker!<span style="line-height: 16.1px;">Analogy comes easily in conversation.but </span><span style="line-height: 20.79px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 20.79px;">hard, tough competition for circulation, for newsbeats, for exclusive stories. Just so long as it doesn’t damage the prestige and privilege and position of the owners. If it does, down comes the lid.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not from any book of quotations. But it does suggest that truth finds a better home in fiction than anthology. The author is Raymond Chandler, an authentic master of modern fiction who created the shabby and sharp private detective Philip Marlowe. Marlowe — and Chandler — lived amid the shadows that enveloped wealth and crime in mid-20th century Los Angeles; they knew that the difference was marginal and the price was high if you talked too much. Marlowe talked too much. He did something even more risky. He spoke the truth.like Johari.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the architects of this legal edifice not a few of our legislators have shown themselves to be above it.What’s to be done about it? As the assaulted Air India manager put it, “God save our country if this is the culture and behavior of our MPs.Everyone who drives or rides a motor vehicle in India is a cheat, in the sense of being a rule-breaker.Indeed, it is a commonplace saying that if you were to follow road rules as laid down in the book you’d be more likely to cause an accident than if you flouted the rules, as everyone else is doing and which everyone expects you to do as well.DAP has been described as a functioning anarchy, and with good reason. DAP break rules, all rules, all the time. And if breaking the rules is cheating, all DAP are cheats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Asking Johari cheat even in calling a spade a spade. Pua said we don’t call what we do cheating. We’ve invented another word for it. We call it jugaad.As the architects of this legal edifice not a few of our legislators have shown themselves to be above it.What’s to be done about it? As the assaulted Second Finance Minister put it, “God save our country if this is the culture and behavior of our DAP MPs.”But DAP lawmaker <span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Tony Pua</span> of this world seem to be beyond the jurisdiction of divine intervention. And as such, not even God can save us from them and their actions.</span></div>
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malaysiakitaonlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595604559525644346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484361215349379232.post-30808478465004548672017-03-29T10:05:00.004+08:002017-03-29T10:05:43.597+08:00Johari’s Historic Move:to tell the truth but Pua and Malaysiakini attacking<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not from any book of quotations. But it does suggest that truth finds a better home in fiction than anthology. The author is Raymond Chandler, an authentic master of modern fiction who created the shabby and sharp private detective Philip Marlowe. Marlowe — and Chandler — lived amid the shadows that enveloped wealth and crime in mid-20th century Los Angeles; they knew that the difference was marginal and the price was high if you talked too much. Marlowe talked too much. He did something even more risky. He spoke the truth.like Johari.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> Malaysiakini and DAP enjoying the privilege of a harlot, exercising power without responsibility. But this a </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> self-serving taunt.</span>uncovering multi-billion ringgit hanky-panky within his ministry part of his minister’s scope of work? Is it because Johari not dare to ask because he already knows the answer, but doesn’t want to rock the boat <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;">Be that as it may, money has always chased power through media, and every democracy has provided this incestuous opportunity.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">The key to media does not lie in ownership, but in credibility. Without credibility, a newspaper is just wrapping for fish and chips if not a rag for rubbish. Credibility makes journalists indispensable to publishers.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">Are publishers indispensable to politicians?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">We will not find out the full truth till the end arrives,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Johari taking the position that what has happened in the past, even if it involved billions of ringgit of stolen funds, who stole it?Did Johari stole? should be left alone, and who blinkered ?role is just focus on how to cover up the massive hole which has been created?unlike in <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;">the Watergate exposé,</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;">brought down Richard Nixon just after he had won a landslide endorsement from the people.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> because Nixon lied </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;">Discourse, therefore, is about accusation, not comprehension. This is perfect for the latest version of television dialogue, which bridges brevity with hysteria. Anyone who seeks any more is dumped into the dustbin of boredom. Do not blame journalists alone. This is what the viewer wants; this is what the viewer gets.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;">Obviously there should be a lifetime achievement award </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.79px;"> to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.79px;"> self-serving taunt.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.79px;"> as well, for shortest sentence with maximum impact. It would be inappropriate to hand out a statue for this. A tweezer could be a good substitute.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">also read this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Tony Pua</span><span style="color: #444444;"> an irritating nuisance, a mirror before our guilty conscience? Who wants to be measured by the yardstick of a saint who was so disconcertingly honest ,</span><span style="color: #444444;"> mere handful of professions are honoured with an honorific that survives beyond the office. Priests, judges, armed services officers, professors and doctors, of both the medical and academic disciplines: that’s about it. Journalists, even editors, and politicians, even cabinet ministers, would invite ridicule if they handed out visiting cards marked ‘Editor X’ or ‘Cabinet Minister Y’. Malaysians are, at best, ambivalent about media and politics. They respect our guardians of law, knowledge and security. There is a new tendency among former envoys to add ‘Ambassador’ before their name, a practice borrowed from America, but this is a title snatched from vanity rather than bestowed by popular acclaim.</span></span></div>
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malaysiakitaonlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595604559525644346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484361215349379232.post-49260177479886538762017-03-28T21:39:00.001+08:002017-03-28T21:39:56.707+08:00Pua you are the real mother f--ker!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px;">Every corrupt transaction .victimize the people but Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng will not crush his spirit. </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px;">in furtheringcorruption .</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px;">The rationale for the most transformative event is the currency of corruption uncomplicated. All cash transactions are not corrupt. But every corrupt transaction is corruption like Lim Guan Eng case.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">If you want to challenge corruption root and branch you cannot merely trim the branches periodically to appease public opinion. You have to attack the curse at the roots.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Corruption is the mechanism through which a section of our elite has poisoned the credibility of our nation’s political and economic edifice. Governments have been either complicit or helpless as high end individuals, buoyed by the arrogance of unaccounted wealth, began to believe that they were above the law or beyond the reach of coercive instruments. That comfort zone has been wrecked. And the message </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> like </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">that </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Lim Guan Eng case.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> like</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">There is opposition. The space in between is occupied by debate. Socrates, famously, established democracy’s philosophical principles when he replaced competition with dialogue.but </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">DAP lawmaker Tony Pua </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">insists on discussion over</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">1MDB.only nothing else DAP </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">under the elbow-jerk leadership of </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">DAP lawmaker Tony Pua </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">If you insist on judgment without trial what is left to discuss? The mordant joke doing the rounds is that </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Pua </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> will do anything to avoid speaking in court </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Perhaps the truth is simple:</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Pua </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> shout instead of talking only when you have nothing to say.</span></span><br style="line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">The plainer fact is that no one in DAP was innocent.including Lim Guan Eng </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">did not resign because of mere allegations.Hewill go only when proof appeared in the public domain through a competent process..</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Pua disappointed, although not surprised by Johari Abdul Ghani’s immediate decline of his invite to speak at DAP fund-raising dinner What perfect opportunity is Pua talking about?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">After all, Pua could have demonstrated his conviction that “the folks of Petaling Jaya Utara elected him as their MP to do better things than just being obsessed with 1MDB”..</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Johari Abdul Ghani </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">justified his decision to turn down DAP invite by claiming that “ He has to do his job as a minister and I would do the best for the country”.and not become a running boy to DAP</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">“Even if I had lunch or dinner (with Pua), it would not solve the problem the way he wants said Johari,because I am not the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), police and investigation agencies. So, let these agencies do their work. Nowhere in my letter did I mention I want these agencies to stop their investigation,” he told Malaysiakini.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Malaysian MP Tony Pua files suit linking PM Najib Razak to $970m from wealth fund A civil lawsuit has been filed against Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his government over the country's multibillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund scandal, claiming he wrongly exercised his lawful authority.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Pua you are the real mother f--ker! </b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> why Johari need to escape he has done no crime like <span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng yes </span>the moral high ground.Johari has taken wants “to do his job as a minister” and he “would do the best for the country”not like DAP traitors</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">The second finance minister, with all the necessary access to all the documents and transactions within the Finance Ministry subsidiaries - he has figured out why and how 1MDB and its sister company, SRC International lost tens of billions of ringgit?he is fordden due his solemn oath to the Agong.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Johari not bothered asking the Finance Minister, who also happens to be the Prime Minister, Najib Abdul Razak, whether he did indeed receive US$731 million in his personal bank account which originated from 1MDB? and you and the DAP criminals want Johari to be the traitor.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Why must Johari question Najib? Pua you had done that </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Malaysian MP Tony Pua files suit linking PM Najib Razak to $970m from wealth fund A civil lawsuit has been filed against Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his government over the country's multibillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund scandal, claiming he wrongly exercised his lawful authority.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-sues-to-seize-us1b-in-assets-tied-to-malaysian-state-fund-wolf-of-wall-street-production-20160720-gqa8ga.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d469c; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">International investigators</a> believe Pua take note associates of Mr Najib siphoned billions of dollars from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) fund that the then deputy prime minister set up in 2009 and oversaw through his chairmanship of an advisory board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 110-page claim filed in a Kuala Lumpur court by opposition MP Tony Pua details how $US731 million ($977 million) was transferred into Mr Najib's personal bank accounts that allegedly originated from 1MDB.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">After all they knew the narrative of the past. They understood the dilemma at the heart of governance. How do you challenge corruption through institutions that have been corroded by venality? Alternately, as a perceptive friend pointed out, there can be no perfect solution to 60 years of imperfection.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Nor should we underestimate the power of those vested interests which have been challenged. Their ability to shape public opinion by compounding some inevitable pain in process through exaggeration and fear was on full display. But they underestimated one fact.</span></div>
malaysiakitaonlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595604559525644346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484361215349379232.post-83541428836924418772017-03-28T13:21:00.000+08:002017-03-28T13:21:58.252+08:00The Pua frog that boiled: Indifference to rising Xenophobia and Racialism in Malaysia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> his surgical strike against the burgeoning</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> DAP GOONS Cadreism in DAP is as pernicious as Racialism in society. A vast number of people, especially private sector or have been fed on doctrinaire notions of work culture and entitlement that encourage sloth.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Johari must be commended for his attempt at explaining the mismanagement of 1MDB.</span><span style="line-height: 20px;">Johari said that there is no clear-cut evidence of crime, and asked Pua what the government can do now.yes his </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">25 years of corporate experience. It means nothing to .</span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua because he</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> branded a “Leftist” and traitor, and therefore a “traitor” and “anti-national”. But as history has shown,that DAP is that class..</span></span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Arguments over what precisely is to blame </span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;">Johari</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> apotheosis — inequality, callous globalized elites, corruptible local legislators, zealous ideologues, Malaysia a news media either toxic or complaisant — will only intensify in the coming months.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">One hopes </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Finance Minister II Johari</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> will not just wring his hands like ministers, but grasp the nettle and show, in the words of Andrew Jackson, “One man of courage makes a majority.”</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">ALSO READ THIS </span><a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/03/finance-minister-ii-johari-abdul-ghani.html" style="color: #4d469c; font-stretch: normal; text-decoration: none;">Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani intellectually stimulating analytical and strategic.</a></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Under </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua</span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">leadership f</span><span style="line-height: 20px;">orm a bipartisan parliamentary select committee with full authority to look into all MACC relevant investigation papers, reports and recommendations, including those submitted to the AG, and to summon MACC and AG’s Chambers officials to answer questions.</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua</span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> has threatened as never before when he has to reconfigure himself to serve the “utopian experiment of </span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2px;">self</span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2px;">centered</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">.politician.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> T</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">he legal scholar David Kennedy has argued, the administration of a professional global class of hidden persuaders and status-seekers.<span style="line-height: 20px;">Pua is not doing exactly what he has been elected to do </span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;">-</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani extraordinary act upon his ideas. They are not afraid of losing; the only thing that matters to them is realising his dreams. not afraid of being wrong either, or of accepting mistakes and stepping back. You cannot hope to be more than ordinary if you do not believe in yourself and your own strengths.An extraordinary person lives his life fully. The trick to leading an extraordinary life is to lead your simple, ordinary life and be open to experiencing the extraordinary you find within it. Striving too hard to be different is not the way to stand out; rather it is the way to becoming an object of ridicule. Just live your life fully and by your rules; do not make compromises you do not believe in. Stand up for what is right and work with focus and sincerity.</span></span><img alt="Image result for tony pua lim Eng Guan" height="362" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQj2KA6-D3-91objOVt5qmezdA8MpsuScpNdG-SMUpLLh5UYyMA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; line-height: 18.2px; padding: 8px;" width="640" /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Interesting! What </span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;">Johari</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> thought was his limit, turned out not to be the limit after all. he could still go beyond. That encouraged him to wonder what other limits are we capable of crossing – the good and the bad. What is the worse that we are capable of doing if pushed to the edge? Also, what is the best we can do </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">to win plaudits with a surgical strike against</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">and under what conditions?</span><span style="line-height: 24px;">obnoxious behaviour towards Najib and Johari, eliciting urban popular outrage, is no isolated incident. “We the people” are supposed to be equal, but many are increasingly enabled to be more equal than others.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Public servants – both elected representatives and babus – are afflicted by anti Malay syndrome and cannot comprehend people’s trials and travails. Let DAP MPs now set an example across the country.</span><span style="line-height: 24px;">Hence the ruckus created DAP representative. </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">.</span></span><img height="597" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QS3n6OFsIhRI-sjvtux5wqbimfAAszPruS8Wp7kfKOTFdVdTPDcmqW46zJX4g78wir_jTvih5UtQDKWMkdTGpZVtdtSRTxLKb3sFxgZGYIgF_NcGt2iKdYibeeQEzY4yUWL35Qsq7lc/s640/liers.JPG" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px; padding: 8px;" width="640" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">To build a new Malaysia DAP and Malaysiakini must rid the system of entrenched habits</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: auto !important; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strategic and financial scenario analysis has a long, venerable history at energy companies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shell Oil popularised the technique in the 1970s, and almost all othem have adopted it as a vital part of their decision-making processes. But as executives know well, scenario planning has its pitfalls; 40 per cent of the leaders we surveyed in 2013 said that it didn’t meet their expectations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Often, companies fall prey to one of several tendencies, such as availability or stability bias, that hinder the exercise and produce unusable results. Energy companies are finding that in today’s volatile world, one flaw of scenario planning is particularly acute: when business leaders consider a range of scenarios, they tend to “chop the tails off the distribution” and zero in on those that most resemble their current experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Extreme scenarios are deemed a waste of time because “they won’t happen” or, if they do, “all bets are off.” But this approach leaves companies dangerously exposed to dramatic changes. Consider the shocks and disruptions of recent years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster had far-reaching effects on the oil companies involved, and many others. The 2011Fukushima earthquake and tsunami upended nuclear policy in Japan and elsewhere, changing the industry’s structure. Geopolitical shocks have upset the plans of energy companies in too many countries to name. Most recently, the rise of anti-globalisation sentiment has thrown a new wrench into energy planning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The great Hindu revolution of Narendra Modi </i><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; max-width: 100%;">All these clever journalists got it wrong: true UP voted for Narendra Modi – but more than anything, they voted for a man who works 17 hours a day, who puts the country before himself, who is bold enough to take a huge gamble- demonetisation- because he believes it is necessary for India. A man who fights against corruption without fear and is the Prime Minister of all Indians, though once more, it is the Hindu vote which elected his party the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).</em></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This election may also have signalled the beginning of the end of caste politics, another cancer that gnaws at India’s entrails – and Mrs Mayawati had become a champion at it, taking a leaf from the Indian National Congress, who for 70 years, mostly got elected on the Dalit & Muslim vote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Many newspapers and television channels blazed across the headline: “Saffron wave in Uttar Pradesh”. This is another ill-advised coin word, that wants to sensationalize and demean, but which falls flat. What does ‘saffron’ mean? First saffron is mainly cultivated in Kashmir – and that by Muslims – so it’s a wrong comparison. Secondly, in Hinduism, saffron is the color of renunciation, a beautiful and noble tradition, that has been followed all over the world, by Buddhists, Jews, or Sufi saints. Mr. Modi and many of his ministers, such as Manohar Parrikar, have renounced many of the worldly pleasures to work for their party and their country. When will Indian journalism stop being small, petty, untruthful, without any depth or vision? The mastery of English does not make an Indian better than a simple country folk of UP or Tamil Nadu, who lives more in his or her heart than these arrogant journalist and intellectuals. I was most of the day, when the election results came, on the WION TV studio, with different panels of journalists. Most of them were of the old Nehruvian-Marxist mold, dinosaurs, who do not realize that they are out of sync with reality and are clinging to an obscure and anti-evolutionary path. One of them, from the Hindu newspaper, even said that demonetization was ‘communal’! Can you imagine how biased the guy can be?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All right, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got four out of five states. Nothing wrong with that: Chanakya would have approved and the Indian National Congress, who cries foul about Goa and Manipur, did much worse than that. One doesn’t need a deep political insight to predict that the BJP is soon going to rule the whole of India – both at the Centre and in the states – exactly the way Congress had done during the Nehru-Indira Gandhi era. And that the writing for Congress has been on the wall ever since. Will the sycophancy of the Indian National Congress ever stop? It’s a remnant of colonialism, a legacy of Macaulay, who wanted to have brown sahibs as tools. On top of that, Rahul Gandhi has no dignity: he should immediately have taken responsibility for his party’s thrashing and resigned. There are plenty of talented people in the Congress ranks who can take his place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the big tasks of Mr Modi, now that he has secured more of a majority in the Rajya Sabha, is to reform education. Many have said that his choice of Yogi Adityanath as the UP Chief Minister, shows that he is moving towards a Hindu India, away from secularism. However, as I have explained in a series of articles in this blog, Hindu power will always be compassionate: Hindu men and women are still today the only people in the world who recognise that God may manifest Himself or Herself at different times, using different names, and different scriptures. This is why a Hindu is still capable of worshipping not only in his own temple, but also to enter in a Christian church or a Muslim mosque, and that with respect and devotion. The reverse is not true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">But for that it is important that Hindu children, know their own history, their poets, such as the great Kalidasa, who is on par with Shakespeare or Homer; their warriors, such as Maharana Pratap, Shivaji Maharaj and many others, who are as good, if not more visionary and more spiritual than Napoleon; their heroines, like the Rani of Jhansi, or Ahilyabai of Indore, or Chennama, who easily compare with Joan of Arc; their philosophers, such as Sri Aurobindo, whose depth, height and knowledge is as wide and much greater than Nietzsche or Kant; their artists, whose sculptures, such as the dancing Nataraj, or architects, who built the Meenakshi temple or the Rajasthan palaces, are so beautiful that they even survived the holocaust of repeated savage and bloody Muslim invasions – see the Hampi/Vijaynagar statues, every one of which the noses and ears have been chopped, but which still retain their ethereal beauty…?In this way, they will grow up proud to be Hindus, wile retaining Hinduism’s broad outlook and tolerance, which actually is the knowledge that God is One but manifests Himself or Herself in multiple avatars, men and women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead, what happens? Most of Hindu kids are brought up in schools and universities that mostly teach them western subjects and concepts and even Indian history is viewed through the negative western prism. As a result, not only do not they grow-up as Hindus, which would be a boon both to India and the world, but they become clones, good only for export – indeed Hindus are the biggest brain drain of the world, from India to the West.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Narendra Modi can succeed in his task only if a new generation of Hindu youth grows up with that knowledge and help him and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to introduce the essential reforms – not only educational, but also, economic, constitutional, judicial, cultural, sports wise, that are needed for India to become a real superpower and spread this great Knowledge that will save the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">The centre of gravity in any democracy is best measured by the credibility of</span><span style="font-family: 'proxima nova', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> lawmakers of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Parliament, an institution that fuses</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">here is position, represented by government. There is opposition. The space in between is occupied by debate. Socrates, famously, established democracy’s philosophical principles when he replaced competition with dialogue.but </span><span style="font-family: 'proxima nova', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">DAP lawmaker Tony Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">insists on discussion over</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'proxima nova', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">1MDB.only nothing else DAP </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">under the elbow-jerk leadership of </span><span style="font-family: 'proxima nova', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">DAP lawmaker Tony Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">If you insist on judgment without trial what is left to discuss? The mordant joke doing the rounds is that </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> will do anything to avoid speaking in court </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Perhaps the truth is simple:</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> shout instead of talking only when you have nothing to say.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">The plainer fact is that no one in DAP was innocent.including Lim Guan Eng </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">did not resign because of mere allegations.Hewill go only when proof appeared in the public domain through a competent process..</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a fund-raising dinner, a closed-door affair,why an UMNO Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani to a DAP fund-raising dinner, Has DAP lawmaker Tony Pua become so has invited Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani to a fund-raising dinner, at which Johari can put forth his arguments on 1MDB.a fund-raising dinner, A fund-raising dinner a closed-door affair, reported and interpreted by a select few from print like Malaysiakini UMNO Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani like to have democratised debate to a spectacular degree. Members speak in front of the largest jury in history, in the court of public opinion. By sabotaging debate, DAP is denying the Malaysian people the opportunity to hear evidence from all sides, and then make up their minds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span>Finance Minister II <span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> said Governments today have to respond fast, and transparently, not because any opposition party wants this to happen, but because Malaysian public opinion will not tolerate any cover-up. Our citizens constitute the most stringent judiciary in history. If Malaysian democracy is safe, it is because of the vigilance of citizens, not the outbursts of politicians.like </span>DAP lawmaker Tony Pua</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Other speakers attending the May 6 dinner will be DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang, former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) president Mohamad Sabu and PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli, they have no </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;">locus standi</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"> so no way to </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><b>debate</b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;">;</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;">thrash out, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;">hash out,with </span> Johari </span><br /><div style="line-height: 20px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani has turned down DAP lawmaker Tony Pua's invitation to attend a fund-raising dinner to put forth his arguments on 1MDB.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Thanks for inviting me, but I have said enough in my <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/376351" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0077dd; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">open letter</a></span> to him. I hear him and I take note of his opinion. I respect him as (an) opposition (lawmaker)," Johari said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Science journal Nature published an investigation conducted by researchers of the University of Wroc³aw, Poland, that found 48 academic journals offering their editorship to a non-existing individual cooked up by the sting operators (</span><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-journals-recruit-fake-editor-1.21662" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">‘Predatory journals recruit fake editor’</a><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">).</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Gross scientific misconduct, fake data, plagiarism, retractions and faulty experimental designs have become an inseparable part of research publication.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Suddenly, the hallowed portals of scientific magazines look suspect. There are thousands of ‘scientific’ journals that do not care much about quality research. They merely exist to extract fees from ‘unsuspecting’ authors. Why these authors choose to publish in these ‘predatory’ journals is another question. The journals use the worst possible marketing schemes to publish research, often without scientific rigor or transparency.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The scientific community knew this for years. In 1978-79, professors at Yale and Harvard were at the centre of research fraud that rocked the very ethos of scientific inquiry. In 1989, the US came up with regulations that defined scientific misconduct and laid out a legal procedure to address such allegations. In their research, they found peer review was ineffective against misconduct. But now it looks that even those regulations were not enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his 1942 essay, The Normative Structure of Science, sociologist Robert K Merton analysed the ethos of science. “Four sets of institutional imperatives — universalism, communism, disinterestedness, organised scepticism — are taken together as the ethos of modern science,” wrote Merton. While describing ‘disinterestedness’, he wrote “passion for knowledge, idle curiosity, altruistic concern with the benefit to humanity, and a host of other special motives have been attributed to the scientist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The quest for distinctive motives appears to have been misdirected.” So, ascientist demonstrates the “willingness to work to extend knowledge, apart from personal benefit”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Merton defined ‘communism’ as the free sharing of one’s discoveries with others. What makes such ‘altruism possible’ is the “reward system of science”. This ‘reward’ comprises a host of things: “honour, position, power and money go to those who make discoveries first — and who claim priority by promptly publishing their findings.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems with the growth of aggressive consumerism and the opening up of digital frontiers, only parts of Metron’s ‘reward system for science’ has been the prime focus for many scientists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this mad rush to publish for ‘honour, power, position and money’, ‘disinterestedness’ has been given a quiet burial. In fact, predatory journals extend a helping hand to those who care to get on rooftops to shout about a discovery often backed by an invisible industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Commercialisation of scientific research has its own issues, as is reflected by ‘code of conduct and best practices guidelines for journal editors’ of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Under the guidelines for ‘commercial considerations’, COPE states, “Journals should have policies and systems in place to ensure that commercial considerations do not affect editorial decisions (e.g. advertising departments should operate independently from editorial departments).”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While it is not easy to identify fake data or plagiarism, over the years, organisations such as COPE have developed mechanisms to weed out suspicious submissions. The latest revelations unveiled how deep the malaise is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the early 2000s, when the ‘no peer review’ journals saw a mushrooming growth, the number of reported cases of scientific misconduct began to grow. Most of these journals only have an electronic avatar, their reach and appeal are deep. Visibility, reach and speed of publication make them an attractive proposition to researchers looking for a place in the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were watchdogs who kept an eye on them. In January, one of them, a blog that listed “potential, possible, or probable predatory” publishers and journals disappeared. Started in 2010 by University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall, at its prime, the blog evoked fear and controversy in the science publishing community. Its disappearance has dealt a body blow to science misconduct-watchers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The belief within the community is that science will get rid of these bugs. Let’s hope it’s right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #02141f; line-height: 29.5px;">Citing “lessons learned from online engagement with ‘Bernie Bros,’” a pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC is pledging to spend $1 million to “push back against” users on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram.</span><span style="color: #02141f; line-height: 29.5px;">Correct the Record’s “Barrier Breakers” project boasts in a press release that it has already “addressed more than 5,000 people that have personally attacked Hillary Clinton on Twitter.” The PAC released this on Thursday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PAC was created in May of last year when it was spun off from the American Bridge SuperPAC, which is run by longtime Hillary and Bill Clinton supporter David Brock. Brock also founded the left-wing media watchdog website Media Matters for America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">My one encounter,</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">When Gobind Singh Deo ‘encounter specialists’ shoot first and whistle later shocked Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani </span></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> if that is the appropriate word, with a </span>lawmaker<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> who had washed his hands in cold blood, </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The worry is that public opinion often condones “Dirty Harry” methods, in which a bullet takes precedence over due process.</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Only one thing is clear in this dust storm of fierce argument. We are not interested in truth. A complex reality has been distilled into campaign fodder in election season. Politics is the petrol that can turn such a fire into conflagration.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when Gobind Singh Deo (DAP-Puchong) posed the question to Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghaniwhether Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak was a suspect in the probes related to 1MDB led to an heated argument between a minister and lawmaker.At first, Johari said he did not have an answer to that question, but when pressed, told Gobind to meet him outside.This angered the DAP legal bureau chief, who said that he wanted an answer in the House.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life’s most traumatic cemetery is surely the memory of pain, for it is buried but not dead. Neither amnesia nor vengeance is a solution, although the timid find solace in the first and the violent seek options in the second. Individuals, communities, nations have to find the spirit that can liberate them from the bonds of past anguish, to discover a future in a new perspective that is something far more than a distorted reflection of fear.</span></span><br /><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">When a nation’s confidence is undermined, adversaries abroad pounce to take advantage, </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">The fulcrum of a tipping point in public life is that mortal enemy of a politician: humour. A joke might not destroy reputation quite as effectively as a corruption scandal, but it deflates credibility. Through his long career</span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">enough never to get tempted by a wisecrack; wit is not his forte. He might therefore be a little bewildered by the artillery fire of jokes after his disastrous mismanagement of DAP</span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">If it is any consolation to </span>Gobind <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"> jokes about Prime Minister i are far more harsh. As we leap-frog our way towards another general election, DAP might discover that its biggest problem is ridicule.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">We are in the last chapter of a drama that </span>1MDB <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">has gone on too long.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">dreaming of resurrection on DAP a deathbed is a waste of time. For most of this term, policy was lost in a swamp. Now, decisions are made to serve as slogans.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">An announcement now is mercenary: to milk the environment for what votes it can bring, and postpone ensuing problems. The timing is determined not by advantage to the people but by thoughts of benefit to the party.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">The dark side of today’s political satire is the evil of corruption. There is a school within the ruling establishment selling the theory that corruption as an election issue has been deflected. This is delusion. The voter is not going to be finessed by the argument that all politicians are corrupt, and so theft of the present lot should be condoned. A jury can punish only the person in the dock, and the present government is on trial in the next electoral court.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">Jokes are the evidence and the argument in this trial; the voter is both lawyer and judge in the court of the people. But there is some good news for those on trial. The maximum sentence is just five years in wilderness. The next five years will pass as quickly as the last five.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 14.7pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shakespeare, being a genius, got most things right. But, being human, he also got a few things wrong. A rose by any other name does often smell like a weed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One dangerous misnomer is this entity called an intelligence agency. These organisations, a consistent growth industry in every nation whether times are lean or prosperous, are information accummulators. Intelligence may or may not be a by-product of their endeavours. Look no further than the case of the latest American whistleblower, Edward Snowden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">America's spymasters lost this plot long before Snowden broke cover and revealed massive incursions by US and British agencies into private lives. Their rage reflects the fury of impotence, or perhaps incompetence. Snowden did not hit and run. His sting took much preparation: he copied data, and then established contact with Julian Assange's Wikileaks and China, at the very least. Directly or indirectly, China, Russia and Ecuador knew what he was going to do before he moved. CIA, NSA and FBI were blindsided. America's intelligence was shipwrecked in an ocean of information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One would assume, after the Wikileaks fiasco, that there would be alert mechanisms to track any unauthorized transfer of secret data by an insider. Wrong. Neither was there any security firewall between Snowden and either a pest like Wikileaks or a foreign power like China, although both must be equally high on CIA's watch list. If you imagine Snowden landed in Hong Kong by flipping a coin, you must be in kindergarten, still reading fairy tales. Conversely, if you believe China ignored the US demand for extradition because of a typing error in the application, your sense of humour is almost as nuanced as the Chinese official who thought up that whopper. The Chinese ran this operation for precisely as long as they wanted to, or Snowden would never have left Hong Kong, even if he had managed to enter this semi-liberal enclave of an authoritarian state. Snowden's story got top play in local media; and he was accompanied by a Wikileaks executive on his ride to Russia, both impossible without a silent nod from Beijing. Snowden went to Hong Kong because he was certain of a Chinese umbrella. And in Moscow, of a Russian shield. Try boarding a flight a Moscow without a valid visa on your passport. You won't get beyond check-in. Absolutely do not consider making Moscow airport a temporary residence, unless you are certain local police won't put you on the next flight to anywhere. Nor will Ecuador's friendly diplomats drop by to say hello without Kremlin's permission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the moment of writing, Snowden is discovering a few facts of life. Heroes have limited uses when playing cloak and dagger; the dagger can change direction in the switch of a blade. China, Russia and Ecuador were happy to use Snowden in the secret wars that continue below the surface of good relations, but reluctant to damage bilateral business with Washington beyond a point. Big boys like America carry aces up their sleeve when they sit at any table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For some time now America has been ratcheting up an international offensive against China's invasion of cyberspace. This was high on the agenda of the summit between Barack Obama and Xi Jinping in California earlier this month. China's President kept an admirable straight face while his shadow-security infrastructure timed this double-whammy to a nicety, producing Snowden just when American protests hit a crescendo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While spy fact imitates spy fiction, the world must come to terms with a difficult truth. Privacy, a cornerstone of individual liberty in a free society, now belongs to the past tense. America, the world's largest people-friendly democracy, and China, the world's largest people-friendly dictatorship, have used war as the excuse and technology as the means to monitor the language, and through that the thought process, of any individual they want to target. If other nations, including Russia or India, have not succeeded as spectacularly, it is not for want of trying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Governments know something that idealists are loath to admit: the argument for liberty does not travel very far with the populace when it is positioned against terrorism. The progress towards a free society has been led by a liberal elite that flourishes in the calm of peace, and bends before the hurricane of conflict. Barack Obama turns into George Bush. Obama knows that total information is the dream of every totalitarian, but will not intervene. He is in politics. Politics is about survival first and consequences later. For every Snowden briefly on the front page, and in limbo for the rest of his life, there are dozens defeated by helplessness. That is how a state defines victory over the individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obama invited Xi Jiang for their summit in California to a place called Rancho Mirage. What an excellent title for a sequel to George Orwell's 1984.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "lato"; font-size: 16px;">Nationalism as an ideology is inevitable, even necessary, in a world that began to be organised into nation-states a little over three centuries ago. It is a primary adhesive sentiment in an age in which nations have become the dominant global vehicle of group identity.</span><br />
there seem to be two distinct nationalisms: inclusionary and exclusionary. One symbolises loyalty to a nation that is tolerant, accommodative and open to evolving cultures and mores. The other advocates a nation which must resist diversity and construct an exclusive ethno-religious identity that must be defended against any dilution the Other might bring into society.<br />
Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua has taken aim at Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani for claiming that Malaysia cannot press charges over 1MDB without a full picture, pointing out that there were no efforts by the government to do so.<strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17.004px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Wrong Perception</strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> the message that </span>Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani <span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> offers for 2017 is clear: those who turned corruption into a doctrine will pay a heavy price.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">If you want to challenge corruption root and branch you cannot merely trim the branches periodically to appease public opinion. You have to attack the curse at the roots.</span><br />
"Of course, we need the complete story in order to charge any person for a crime. However, the question is there must be a concerted effort to investigate the crime.<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Corruption is the mechanism through which a section of our elite has poisoned the credibility of our nation’s political and economic edifice. Governments have been either complicit or helpless as high end individuals, buoyed by the arrogance of unaccounted wealth, began to believe that they were above the law or beyond the reach of coercive instruments.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><br />
"From what we can see happening in Malaysia at this point of time, there is no attempt at all to investigate the crimes everyone can see which have taken place in Malaysia," he said in a statement...<br />
It may not be the Cold War redux. But a war of world views is in full swing. It isn’t communism versus capitalism; it isn’t old-style fascism versus liberalism. It is an escalating global war between rising forces of nationalist populism and the idea of liberal democracy.The Brexit vote last year approving Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union was an initial shot fired by an inward looking, England-first majority of voters. Then came the shocker of Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election. Open-minded, tolerant people gasped, wondering whether the liberal democratic world order would soon disintegrate.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">Tell us, Mr </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">Tony Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">The Bengaluru mass molestation incident is a different sort of massacre, but a massacre nevertheless. A massacre of dignity. While the Istanbul killings were universally condemned,The Bengaluru molestation was shamelessly justified, rationalised and condoned by people in positions of influence and power. Sickeningly, the narrative in India remains unchanged when it comes to women under attack. This is how it reads: They asked for it!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;"> which law was broken ? Which crime committed? On the other hand, look at those brutes, look at the expression in their eyes as they drunkenly pounce on panic-stricken women screaming for help. If you can still justify what took place in beautiful city, you should quit your job. Trust me, Sir, had any female relative of yours been amongst the young girls being pawed that night, your sanguine, indifferent attitude would have taken a 360-degree turn. You would have moved swiftly to identify and round up the culprits. Your police would have thrashed them to pulp in custody. Charges would have been filed at record speed. But when molested/ raped/ knifed/ brutalised/abused women remain faceless, they are treated like fair game.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">The prime minister said they were the people who did not love the country and only wanted to see its destruction.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">"As prime minister, the interest of the people is my primary concern. I will ensure Malaysia continues to succeed and remained peaceful while the people continue to have the opportunity to find a living in this country.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">"To achieve this objective, it is important for me to remind everyone about matters which could destroy our own nation," he said in the latest entry in his blog najibrazak.com. last night.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">Reminding the nation of the Lahad Datu incident, he said the country lost many patriots following the irresponsible actions of some quarters.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">"We can still remember the incident in Lahad Datu where security forces personnel were sacrified because there were covert enemies. At that time, the intruders had obtained prior information on the movements of our security forces and ambushed our soldiers in a house," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">Recently, he said the people almost became victims due to the irresponsible actions of some acting to frustrate the country and nearly caused the loss of an investment by Saudi Arabia following the spread of slanders on the country's economy which was apparently going to go bankrupt and that it could not afford to pay the salaries of civil servants.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">"This is completely not true. Thank God, after showing the actual performance of the country's economy, Saudi Arabia agreed to invest RM31 billion in Malaysia through the petroleum company Aramco," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">He said Malaysians would suffer losses if these irresponsible parties succeeded in their slanders.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">Following the slander, Najib said the people would definitely be denied the employment opportunities of high income as well as opportunities from the supporting sectors from the Saudi Arabia investment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">At the same time, he was perplexed by a former national leader who was running down the country with news that were not true at all.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">"According to him, Malaysia is among the 10 most corrupt countries in the world. This is certainly not true. We are actually at the 55th spot out of 176 countries in the 2016 Corruption Perception Index and there is room for improvement.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">"But to lie, spread slanders and undermine one's own country, I ask where is the love of this national leader for the country?" Najib questioned.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">As a leader, he considered such matters as challenges and reminders to build the nation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">"Nonetheless, we as the citizens of Malaysia should continue to find the way forward. In facing the challenges, we also witnessed the real potential of Malaysia when the people are united," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">"We are patriots if we conscientiously carry out duties as civil servants," he added.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;">He said teachers are patriots if they teach the children with dedication, parents are patriots if they ensure their children grow up as useful human beings while the people should continue to show their love for the country.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: lato;">Is Malaysiakini being unfair to Najib and Johari ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato;">Tony Pua</span><span style="font-family: Lato;"> an irritating nuisance, a mirror before our guilty conscience? Who wants to be measured by the yardstick of a saint who was so disconcertingly honest ,</span><span style="font-family: Lato;"> mere handful of professions are honoured with an honorific that survives beyond the office. Priests, judges, armed services officers, professors and doctors, of both the medical and academic disciplines: that’s about it. Journalists, even editors, and politicians, even cabinet ministers, would invite ridicule if they handed out visiting cards marked ‘Editor X’ or ‘Cabinet Minister Y’. Malaysians are, at best, ambivalent about media and politics. They respect our guardians of law, knowledge and security. There is a new tendency among former envoys to add ‘Ambassador’ before their name, a practice borrowed from America, but this is a title snatched from vanity rather than bestowed by popular acclaim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lato;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">The most captivating within our current political theatre is surely </span></span><span style="font-family: lato;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Malaysiakini </span>being naïve to promote </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ezam Mohd Noor the</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> new opposition party is in the works with the single objective of fighting corruption.</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"We only have two demands from Pakatan Harapan. Ezam wants to fight Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in Pekan in the next general election..By himself Ezam Mohd Noor cannot win a seat . But add him to a larger formation and it has a multiplier effect. If one right partner generates arithmetical </span><span style="font-family: lato;">Use of outmoded tactics </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">by former PKR Youth chief Ezam Mohd Noor</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">made no effort to remove moral stains on him said </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Johari </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">his</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> inability to comprehend that the canvas of electoral politics will not alter dramatically </span><span style="font-family: lato;">will consequently fail .</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> will be </span><span style="font-family: lato;">dismissed as deceptive by voters </span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">on multiple fronts.Mahathir and Ezam humiliation will bigger than PAS and DAP indignity in 2013</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">could be shown piloting a ship called the Titanic and saying things like “We have just hit a little iceberg but everything else is fine”.</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">will just come across as a bunch of sore losers.</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">progression then two can fashion a geometric leap..says t</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">here are people struggling to sort out their inner world for a meaningful life, while others are trying to hold together a damaged relationship, or are trying to raise consciousness in society, change the political system, save our planet and create universal brotherhood. The journey is daunting and often people give up.The argument that’s given usually is that one is too small to bring a change. But no one is too small and no problem is beyond them.</span><br /><div style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px;">
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The party - mooted by former PKR Youth chief Ezam Mohd Noor yesterday - has two targets, according to former Umno man Khairuddin Abu Hassan.</div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Every good drama needs a few sub-plots whirling through the mainframe </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lim Guan Eng’s house is also very old, 40 years old to be exact. So it has very little value. Buckingham Palace is even older, 152 years old to be exact. And that is why it has even less value than Lim Guan Eng’s ‘palace’. No one would want Buckingham Palace even if the Queen gave it away free-of-charge </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Corruption is corruption. It does not matter whether it comes with a swimming pool or not. Did Khir Toyo go to jail because his house happened to come with a swimming pool?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Evidently no low is too low for Tony Puah, no theory too farfetched as long as it fulfils the twin goals of battering the current object of his hatred and keeping him on Malaysiakini. the media out poison the minds of malaysians</span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px;">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">in front of the largest jury in history, in the court of public opinion. sabotaging debate, DAP is denying the Malaysians the opportunity to hear evidence from all sides, and then make up their minds. If Tony Pua is dissatisfied with Irwan Serigar’s explanation,for reasons, unfathomable Tony Pua refusesto engage but criticise.If DAP feels that it has not got satisfaction from this democracy process, it can consider other options. Malaysian democracy has come to a curious pass. A government insists on discussion over an opposition demand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lato;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Tony Pua his </span></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Dap’s home is said to be his castle. No one – not even the monarchy – can invade its privacy.</span><span style="font-family: lato;">However,when </span><span style="font-family: lato;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lim Guan Eng’</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> ’s home could have not just its privacy but also its privy invaded and be turned into a loo open to any member of the public willing to shell out the established fee for the purpose.</span><span style="font-family: lato;">Even more important is the fact that Malaysiakini and the other pro-opposition portals and Blogs are already playing the Lim Guan Eng apologist role.</span><br /><span style="font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Why is Rafizi Ramli not planning a road show to travel the whole country to inform the rakyat of this matter?</span><br /><span style="font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Why is Tony Pua not asking the PAC to investigate this matter and for a Royal Commission of Inquiry to be set up so that the truth can be revealed?</span><br /><span style="font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Why is Teresa Kok not doing a satire on YouTube so that everyone can be entrained by her clownish antics?</span><br /><span style="font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Why is Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad not launching a Save Penang Campaign and signing a Penang Peoples’ Declaration?</span><br /><span style="font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Why are Sarawak Report and the Wall Street Journal plus the many opposition portals and Blogs not fighting for the truth and justice?</span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"We only have two demands from Pakatan Harapan. Ezam wants to fight Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in Pekan in the next general election..By himself Ezam Mohd Noor cannot win a seat . But add him to a larger formation and it has a multiplier effect. If one right partner generates arithmetical </span><span style="font-family: lato;">Use of outmoded tactics </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">by former PKR Youth chief Ezam Mohd Noor</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">made no effort to remove moral stains on him said </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Johari </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">his</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> inability to comprehend that the canvas of electoral politics will not alter dramatically </span><span style="font-family: lato;">will consequently fail .</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> will be </span><span style="font-family: lato;">dismissed as deceptive by voters </span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">on multiple fronts.Mahathir and Ezam humiliation will bigger than PAS and DAP indignity in 2013</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">could be shown piloting a ship called the Titanic and saying things like “We have just hit a little iceberg but everything else is fine”.</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">will just come across as a bunch of sore losers.</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">progression then two can fashion a geometric leap..says</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There are people struggling to sort out their inner world for a meaningful life, while others are trying to hold together a damaged relationship, or are trying to raise consciousness in society, change the political system, save our planet and create universal brotherhood. The journey is daunting and often people give up.The argument that’s given usually is that one is too small to bring a change. But no one is too small and no problem is beyond them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Political commentators agreed that it was too close to call, although UMNO was in pole position. If there was one certainty it was that there was no wave. There were a few notable voices, particularly towards the end that gave the election to UMNO</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lato;">It is likelier that the bias was implicit in the way a significant section of media frames reality and this shades what it is able to see. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a deeper problem, for here the desire to report objectively does not necessarily translate into objective reportage. Election coverage, in particular, comes with its own grammar and vocabulary.like Malaysiakini<span style="color: #2b2b2b;"> Datuk Johari Umno supreme council member is absolutely right in pin-pointing that we need to dig deep into our consciousness and decipher from where this inferiority complex has crept into the veins of our society.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">There are people struggling to sort out their inner world for a meaningful life, while others are trying to hold together a damaged relationship, or are trying to raise consciousness in society, change the political system, save our planet and create universal brotherhood. The journey is daunting and often people give up.The argument that’s given usually is that one is too small to bring a change. But no one is too small and no problem is beyond them. The thing is that our attention is rarely focused as we wish to multitask owing to our greed, restlessness and sensory needs.Those who understand the temperamental nature of any electoral season know that predictions are risky. It is far safer to keep your eyes open and mouth shut. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lato;">, but very few, including those sympathetic to the party, had a sense of the magnitude of the victory. And without question, this is an absolutely stunning victory. To repeat the performance of 2014 two and a half years on, in the wake of what many saw as the failed demonetization gambit, without announcing a CM candidate, is a staggering feat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> it has become clear that it is not possible for anyone to offer a meaningful prediction of the eventual outcome. The electorate is too large and diffuse, and the interplay of local and national factors too complex to be amenable to accurate forecasting. Neither the personal and direct experience of seasoned election watchers nor the scientific surveys, of which there is no shortage, seem to be able to produce results that can be relied upon. Pre-poll surveys are now entertainment rather than science, and should be viewed as such.</span></h1>
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style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lato;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">JOHARI ABDUL GHANI is Second Finance Minister.</span></span><span style="font-family: lato;"> perhaps the world’s most articulate politician in the first decade of the 21st century.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">COMMENT I refer to a press statement issued today by YB Tony Pua.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">YB Tony Pua is well-versed in the facts concerning 1MDB, given he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Thus, it is disappointing to note that he has chosen to misrepresents the facts and has accused me of lying, in his desperate attempts to mislead the rakyat.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">The matter at hand is clear, simple and has been publicly explained, as evidenced in page 81 of the PAC Report on 1MDB.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">The facts are as follows:</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">1. The TRX and Bandar Malaysia lands were originally owned directly by the government. The government made a decision to sell the lands in 2010 and 2013 respectively, to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a holding company 100 percent owned by MOF Inc. 1MDB in turn owned the lands via its 100 percent equity shareholding in two subsidiary companies, ie TRX City Sdn. Bhd. (TRXC) and Bandar Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (BMSB).</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">2. It is clear that from the above transactions, the government ownership of the lands shifted from direct to indirect ownership, via MOF Inc ultimate ownership of 1MDB and its subsidiary companies.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">3. Although the Bandar Malaysia land was sold at a nominal sum to BMSB, there was a responsibility to construct/upgrade six bases for the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) and two bases for the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM), for a total development cost of RM 2.7 billion, of which 1MDB had to contribute RM1.6 billion.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">4. Although the TRX land was sold at a nominal sum to TRXC, there was a responsibility to construct infrastructure not only in TRX but also in the surrounding areas, including a vehicular tunnel under Jalan Tun Razak, for a total sum of approximately RM 3 billion.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">5. TRXC and BMSB undertook debts of RM 800 million and RM2.4 billion respectively, to undertake the construction of infrastructure and the six air force/two police bases referred to above. These debts were always attached to the said land when these two companies raised their financing and thus form part of the security for the said debts. In other words, it is an operating debt of these two companies.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">6. With the infrastructure development and planning approvals obtained by TRXC and BMSB from 2010/2013 to the present day, the value of the TRX and Bandar Malaysia lands have increased in value significantly.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">6. The PAC recommended in April 2016 that MOF Inc take over direct ownership of Bandar Malaysia and TRX lands from 1MDB. The most efficient and cost-effective way to achieve this is via a transfer of TRXC and BMSB shares to MOF Inc. So, instead of owning those companies via 1MDB, MOF Inc will directly own BMSB and TRXC, along with all the assets and the operating debts of the respective companies.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">7. The TRXC and BMSB debts will be repaid by future cashflows of these companies as described in page 81 of the PAC Report. Further, whilst TRXC will continue to be 100 percent owned by MOF Inc, it is pertinent to note that a sale and purchase agreement has been executed with a consortium for the sale of 60 percent equity shareholding in BMSB.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">8. More importantly, page 81 of the PAC Report also makes clear that the debts that will remain on the balance sheet of 1MDB are the RM 5 billion sukuk, the US$3.0 billion bond and the 2x US$1.75 billion bonds. These 1MDB debts will be serviced from matching cashflows, as described in the PAC Report. Whilst MOF Inc will not be taking over these 1MDB debts, the substance of the letter of support and guarantee from the government, remains intact, as described in the PAC Report.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"></span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">There is therefore a clear distinction between 1MDB debts, which will not be taken over by MOF Inc, and the BMSB/TRXC project company operating debt, which are part of the assets and liabilities of the company and which will be serviced from the project cash-flows.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> It is crystal clear to me that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang is morbid about non-Malays and non-Muslims winning seats in GE14 and is bent on working with Umno to deny the opposition from getting any further footings from the last election.</b><b style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">: PAS has only 25 seats because it had lost many seats which it had contested. The 89 seats in the opposition camp are the actual seats won, and not the number of seats PAS contested.</b><b style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">: PAS has only 25 seats because it had lost many seats which it had contested. The 89 seats in the opposition camp are the actual seats won, and not the number of seats PAS contested.</b><span style="font-family: proxima nova, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>PAS and UMNO alliance or end of the road for PAS</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: proxima nova, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>As per sources, umno seems to be coming around to contesting in 170 of the 222 seats . The remaining 52 seats are likely to be divided among PAS other smaller parties Earlier talks had hit a road block when pas insisted on at least 20 seats, but the state unit seems to have prevailed upon the central leadership not to ditch the alliance due to this.The first direct outcome of this alliance could be PAS becoming the biggest casualty as it will put the umno-PAS alliance in a direct fight with Mahathir. This will have a double adverse impact on PAS as the Muslim vote could shift loyalty towards the new alliance while UMNO quietly nibbles into their strong supporters .</b></span></span><b style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">What Hadi is saying is that UMNO must sacrifice their mixed urban seats to PAS because PAS cannot win with Muslim votes alone. Why should UMNO make this sacrifice?</b><b style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> This will dent UMNO which is banking heavily on non Muslims and Muslims to provide them a winning formula.also read this</b><a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/01/pass-historic-move-skewered.html" style="color: #3778cd; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">PAS’s Historic Move: the skewered gerrymandering, the winner is UMNO</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>You can teach an old dog new tricks</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The masterful manipulator of redefined democracy. PAS President a role model oligarchy,in democratic Malaysia </span><b>In the seats negotiation for the last general election, PAS had demanded for seats but failed to deliver. Now Hadi is using the discrepancy in the seats to justify his claim. If only PAS can translate contested seats into actual seats in Parliament.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the great toss-up between perception and evidence, the former generally wins. Conventional wisdom, for instance, suggests that unity within a party brings victory. Reality: It is the scent of victory that encourages unity.Did DAP invent that opinion poll? No.Lim Kit Siang is an honourable man. if anything, is even more honourable, with proven credentials in the opinion poll business.PAS Hadi did make up that claim. By that measure, PAS’s support declined by nearly 20 seats between the opinion poll and polling day. The struggling UMNOI picked up momentum, reaching first place but not entering comfort zone. Has Hadi, therefore, lost an election that he could have won comfortably? This question seems to have evaporated in post-results hyperbole.Tilt the perspective on what seems an obvious fact, and the picture changes to startling effect why did PAS only win 21 seats out of the 73 parliamentary seats that it contested?The lion's share of the parliamentary seats was given to your party and you failed to even win half of the seats you contested against Umno-BN. Is that the fault of the non-Muslims?In fact, PAS would have done worse without the support of Chinese and Indian voters. Truth be told, even among Muslim voters they do not trust PAS and its brand of politics.<b>, why did the rural and semi-urban Muslim voters reject PAS overwhelmingly in favour of Umno?</b></span><br />
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Malaysiakini haves been particularly nasty in the last few years against UMNO and Najib<br />
journalists and still biased against Najib,The difference between stenography and journalism is that journalists have the right to twist a fact, bring in alternative facts, make a fact check and question the very premise of presentation. they are supposed to report honestly about, so that their readers,Malaysian who are mostly ignorant, get enlightened? should be to report truthfully and create some empathy amongst its readers or viewers for a country that is unique and endearing and whose Malay civilization, that viewed the world as One family, has survived centuries of savage onslaught, including by the British, who are still trying to lecture Najib AND UNMO also read this.<a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/02/has-najib-and-hadi-charting-muddled.html" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Has Najib and Hadi charting a muddled path for Malaysia at the most severe political risk</span></a><br />
Stenography presents things as they are, similar to the way imagined a good spiritual life. Learning the art of seeing things as they are, as he used to say, learning to see what is.also read this <span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/02/azmin-ali-if-mahathir-want-to-kiss-feet.html" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Azmin Ali :If Mahathir want to kiss the feet of PAS leaders that is his business</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> Arithmetic or chemistry? <span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Political calculations Mahathir had not got the right read on the state PAS of today. the infighting would really undermine the party candidates, with opposing camps proving much more iinjurious to PAS than :</span><b><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">Pakatan Harapan a</span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">nother p<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">olitical calculations o</span>f illogic from Hadi to justify his rejection of the opposition front and the embracement of Najib Razak/Umno, is another strong indication that he has allegedly received something ‘unholy’ from Najib (as widely perceived by the public) to make him obligated to the latter.<span style="line-height: 1.1;">sometimes patronizingly hypocritical? </span>It’s time to dump Hadi if PAS still wants to save the party from impending ruin.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">The unknown factor in DAP is the emergence of as a brand in his own right. In the last few weeks, he has shown deft political footwork and has emerged as a new kind of option in the political landscape. The alliance with the DAP gives him just that little edge that might turn out to be decisive, but it isn’t entirely clear as to how deep his support runs. He is a new variation on an old theme, the strength of whose appeal is an open question.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> a larger uncertainty that both the government and the party are exuding currently. The party seems tentative about the exact proportions in which to juggle its electoral ingredients- how much to back development, what role should race and religion fault lines play, how effective would the plank of nationalism be in GE14 elections, and of course whether to try and ride on 1MDB or to hold back given the uncertainty around its impact on the voter. The government too seems to be in wait-and-watch mode, not giving any clear indication about what its future direction might be. Will it continue it’s wooing of the poor- ‘the tired pro-poor PAS rhetoric’, as it has been described, at the cost of its traditional support base, or will the reform thrust return in any significant way?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Some things however are a little more certain. Whether or not party hopping will work electorally, what he has achieved however is something potentially not significant in the long run for Hadi Awang It has NOT made him a truly mainstream brand.onlyMuslim voter in Malaysia now knows him and has some personal emotional reaction to him. Money reaches everyone; as a vehicle of a political message it is a more effective advertising medium than any other. It is possible that some or indeed many of these reactions are negative, but he has become the only politician in recent times, after Indira Gandhi to have managed this depth of reach.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> It is crystal clear to me that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang is morbid about non-Malays and non-Muslims winning seats in GE14 and is bent on working with Umno to deny the opposition from getting any further footings from the last election. PAS looks doomed for certain, and that is hardly a surprise, but the real revelation has been that Umno is likely to gain much as a result.</span></span><br />
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This Saturday, President Trump, while addressing a rally in Florida, said the following to defend his travel ban for refugees from seven major Muslim countries: “You look at what´s happening in Germany, you look at what´s happening last night in Sweden”. He further added, “Sweden, Who would believe this? They took in large numbers. They´re having problems like they never thought possible.”<br />
The fact of the matter is that it is true that Sweden took in a record- breaking large number of refugees last year. Approximately around 160,000 new arrivals to Sweden. Did they have any terrorist attack last Friday? No. These are straight facts. Was Donald Trump referring to Sehwan in Pakistan or Sweden in Scandinavia? Sehwan in Pakistan did witness a terrorist attack in which more than 70 people lost their lives at a famous Sufi shrine. Malaysiakini an unconscious sense of superiority<br />
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Fact checking is the new fashionable word added to our political lexicon, used in the modern world for justifying one’s point of view. Those who fought the campaign for President Trump and his supporters feel that it was outrageous when, just a day before the presidential election, The Huffington Post published a presidential forecast, predicting that Hillary Clinton had a 98.2% chance of winning the election. Mildly speaking, this turned out to be incorrect.<br />
contrast to the spiritual experience, the political world gets complicated by facts, such as who presents it, for what purpose and with what particular affiliation. Questioning strengthens journalism, makes it highly relevant and interesting, but when facts are presented without consulting the source or substantiating them with verifiable facts, it raises concern.Wouldn´t it be nice if some journalist, somewhere in the West, bothers to check an alternative fact: The United States and its allies were dragged into a war in Afghanistan, trying to catch Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda supporters, who were probably hiding in Pakistan? After having donated 20 billion dollars during the period 2002 till 2011 to Pakistan, Americans truly became aware of the double-game played by that country. Osama Bin Laden was not in Afghanistan, he was in Pakistan. American tax payers paid for an expensive war in Afghanistan, while donating money to the country that was actually housing the terrorist. A bitter truth, a bitter pill to swallow for a country that spends billions of dollars to research and investigate terrorism.<br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">Najib’s historic Malaysians asks a question that repeatedly withers on the dry sand of evasive clichés. How long will the apartheid of two laws for the same crime continue?Another barbaric chapter of an epic conflict between the presence and promise of modernity, and the bitter, toxic romance of regression was written by Najib and Hadi </span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">Neither goes into a brown study to ponder the causes of political terrorism, a manipulative phrase designed specifically to provide cover for perpetrators of political terrorism Neither the Chinese nor Hindus public opinion would accept such a pussyfoot leadership.This war, raging across the world, is a confrontation between the lethal adrenalin of faith supremacy and belief that faith equality is the basis of civilised political and social stability. The epicentre of this war is within the Muslim successor states of the Mughal and Ottoman empires; but its destructive reach extends far beyond its immediate habitat.Corruption is the mechanism through which a section of our elite has poisoned the credibility of our nation’s political and economic edifice. Governments have been either complicit or helpless as high end individuals, buoyed by the arrogance of unaccounted wealth, began to believe that they were above the law or beyond the reach of coercive instruments.Nothing illustrates the complacency of this class more than the manner in which it ignored we underestimate the power of those vested interests which have been challenged. Their ability to shape public opinion by compounding some inevitable pain in process through exaggeration and fear was on full display. But they underestimated one fact that voters to assault this pervasive monsters with sustainable commitment. that Malaysians are not willing to accept passing discomfort as the collateral price of the struggle against the rampant PAS fanaticism. This is why such a massive change to take place without violence. </span><br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">Malaysians asks a question that repeatedly withers on the dry sand of evasive clichés. How long will the apartheid of two laws for the same crime continue?Another barbaric chapter of an epic conflict between the presence and promise of modernity, and the bitter, toxic romance of regression was written by Najib and Hadi </span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">Neither goes into a brown study to ponder the causes of political terrorism, a manipulative phrase designed specifically to provide cover for perpetrators of political terrorism Neither the Chinese nor Hindus public opinion would accept such a pussyfoot leadership.This war, raging across the world, is a confrontation between the lethal adrenalin of faith supremacy and belief that faith equality is the basis of civilised political and social stability. The epicentre of this war is within the Muslim successor states of the Mughal and Ottoman empires; but its destructive reach extends far beyond its immediate habitat.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">Another barbaric chapter of an epic conflict between the presence and promise of modernity, and the bitter, toxic romance of regression was written on January 7 in Paris.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">This war, raging across the world, is a confrontation between the lethal adrenalin of faith supremacy and belief that faith equality is the basis of civilised political and social stability. The epicentre of this war is within the Muslim successor states of the Mughal and Ottoman empires; but its destructive reach extends far beyond its immediate habitat.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">The warriors of this Islamic jihad are the masked vanguard of a movement that found its spurs in the 19th century, when the last two Muslim empires, the Mughal and the Ottoman, began to wither and then die. Behind the masks is a supply chain that, like all religious extremism, is magnetised by inspiration beyond the control of boundaries.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">The rationale for contemporary Islamist violence was first provided by two doctrinaires, Shah Waliullah in Mughal Delhi and Muhammad ibn Abd-al Wahhab in Ottoman Arabia. They were born in the same year, 1703, and watched a historic comfort zone crumble. Their prescription (restricted for Sunni Muslims) was simple and stern: Allah had not abandoned Muslims; Muslims had forsaken Allah.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">Muslims had slipped into decadence, compromising purity of practice in prayer and trust in the sharia; their behaviour and dress had been corrupted by other cultures, whether it was Hinduism in India or the growing influence of Europe among Ottoman elites.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">Their rulers no longer believed in the supremacy of Islam, chosen by God as the final testament for this world. The umma no longer displayed the courage to grow a religious beard, proclaim the faith, or pick up the sword — or a gun in Paris, a bomb in Peshawar — in defence of Islam.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">Ironically, this revisionism went against innumerable tenets of the Quran, which advocate acceptance of other faiths, particularly “people of the Book”, and explain why Christian communities like the Yazidis continued to live in Muslim Iraq for 1,400 years until the supremacists of ISIS began their rape, pillage and murder of the “infidel”.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">But as a sense of loss, and fear of the future, intensified, the ideas of exclusivity, separation and dream of dominance began to gather momentum in the 20th century.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">A decisive battle between modernity and regression was fought on the Indian subcontinent before 1947. The Muslim League used, often and provocatively, the rhetoric of superiority in its pursuit of separation.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">Mahatma Gandhi offered the counter-narrative, that true strength lay in faith equality, not faith supremacy. For him, dharma represented the underlying truth common to every religion. The singular duty of the state was to enshrine freedom of faith as a basic right; the citizen was enjoined to treat every faith with equal respect.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">In a marvellous message, Gandhi urged that the Gita should be read with the eye of a Hindu and the Quran with the eye of a Muslim: with sympathy, not invective. Swami Vivekananda, who sought India’s resurgence through India’s unique philosophy, was equally forth-right: if you were born a Hindu, he said, be a good Hindu; if born a Muslim, be a good Muslim, and that would make both good Indians.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">It might seem anachronistic to those who confuse a loincloth with the primitive, but Gandhi’s great contribution was to construct a modern framework for the post-colonial Indian state — Gandhi wore the loincloth to identify with the impoverished and starving peasant, not to offer a model for the future.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">What is modernity? It has four non-negotiable pillars: democracy, which is impossible without free speech; freedom of faith; gender equality; and economic equity, through which the poor are the principal beneficiaries of economic growth.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">Nations that deviated from this model are paying an existential price. From Pakistan to the north of Africa, there is a gathering wasteland of countries which, for one reason or another, cherry-picked between the four essentials. Their governments are not in control. Militias and shadow armies have filled this vacuum, the most powerful of which operate in a loose alliance under the banner of terrorist theocracy.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">Turkey, in contrast, became a success story because its 20th-century saviour Mustafa Kemal rejected the Caliphate, and wrenched his nation out of the looming trap of faith supremacy. Courageously, he defused the very symbol of Muslim conquest, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, a great Byzantine church turned into a mosque in the 15th century. Ataturk converted it into a museum.</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">For two centuries, revivalism was in search of geography; with the creation of Pakistan, its progeny Taliban Afgha-nistan, and now the Islamic State in Iraq, there are sanctuaries for continuing generations of jihadists. Their targets, governments and people invested in peace, are trapped by questions they often fear to raise, worried by consequences. For how long can they prevent rage from becoming outrage? How do we manage the tipping point?</span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;">As Gandhi said, an eye for an eye will leave us all blind. Principles are vulnerable in pursuit of barbarians. But we must also defeat the enemy before it destroys us. That is the challenge.</span></div>
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malaysiakitaonlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595604559525644346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484361215349379232.post-4633232993676114602017-02-19T11:17:00.001+08:002017-02-19T11:17:18.508+08:00A rampant PAS fanaticism in Malaysia at war with modernity <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 2.5;">Hadi: Act 355 critics are 'mosquitoes', ignoramuses</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Rampant PAS fanaticism in Malaysia at war with modernity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hadi to MCA, DAP and MIC either we pass the Act 355 , or brace for the fury Musllim voters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">All prime ministers are potential until they have uttered that hallowed oath of office: mundane words to us, but almost mystical to politicians.</span> rampant PAS fanaticism in a Malaysia at war with modernity, PAS institutionalised the idea fanaticism. reinvented a top-heavy political party with some radical engineering.. Malaysians believes in democracy, faith freedom, gender equality and economic equity.its time, but it has arrived. Malaysians must determine the state of Malaysia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The political radar of some parties seems transfixed on obstruction, floating above the fragile, hungry and increasingly angry millions trapped in strangulating coils of extreme fanaticism .Change is a mist which floats through events, often obscured by the daily cloudburst of facts. It is noticed least by those it affects most.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Politicians have a sharper eye than they are given credit for, but they can miss the obvious. A tectonic shift is taking place in the structure of party politics. After a long and dominant reign, the high command is dead. It has become a dinosaur, a museum piece whose skeletal jaw hints at the massive bite it once possessed.Najib and Abdul Hadi Awang are the last inheritors of a concept that has exhausted its moment in history. After them, there will be command, but it will not be very high. PAS created a high command,PAS Taliban wing , which which can serve primarily as a guardian of ideology. This involved some contradictions. When the Najib is too weak to protect the Muslims in a national crisis,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PAS institutionalised the idea fanaticism. reinvented a top-heavy political party with some radical engineering.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">umno’s melee of socialists, who were more democratic than PAS but not necessarily more egalitarian, despised the idea of command so much that they went the extra mile and destroyed their leaders. The movement, paradoxically, could only survive by splitting . It has quietly abandoned ideology for race , and inducted some stability through dynastic rule in smaller but more homogenous units.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The British metaphor for a political party is a broad church. It must have substantial space for an elastic congregation, continually tempted by wayward choices in the absence of hard doctrine. There is God, of course; but as an idea rather than an ideology. And in any case God created the conditions for democracy when He blessed, or cursed, the human being with free will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The magic potion of democracy is options. There lies the problem, for this potion is not a glue for discipline, with its attendant terrors. The parson’s primary responsibility is to keep any sermon lucid but limp to cover a multiplicity of views, and ensure order inside and outside the church. But, since power breeds politics more often than politics leads to power, passions climb sharply whenever the bells of public opinion announce that the time has come for change. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">India has almost 200 million Muslims, the world’s largest minority segment. How should common people view Islam? Its conundrum is getting more complex by the day making it difficult for people to comprehend what exactly they are up against. It is equally important for Indian Muslims to realise their unique position.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the Trump era unfolds, disruption of the old order is the flavour of the day. Nowhere is such disruption more profound than in the world of Islam where radical theology has been making strides for some time. There have been various explanations of the phenomenon, from Huntington’s notion of clash of civilisations to theories around today’s churning within Islam being a precursor to reformation within the faith.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Current perceptions arising from the Trump administration’s travel ban against seven Muslim-majority countries (now stayed by a court order) has brought to the fore the paradox of US liberal values pitted against extreme nationalism. The problems of Islam worldwide remain highly diffused with no clarity on the direction the faith wishes to follow. The one common thing is the general negativity with which followers of the faith appear to be universally viewed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the Trump era unfolds, disruption of the old order is the flavour of the day. Nowhere is such disruption more profound than in the world of Islam where radical theology has been making strides for some time. There have been various explanations of the phenomenon, from Huntington’s notion of clash of civilisations to theories around today’s churning within Islam being a precursor to reformation within the faith.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Current perceptions arising from the Trump administration’s travel ban against seven Muslim-majority countries (now stayed by a court order) has brought to the fore the paradox of US liberal values pitted against extreme nationalism. The problems of Islam worldwide remain highly diffused with no clarity on the direction the faith wishes to follow. The one common thing is the general negativity with which followers of the faith appear to be universally viewed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among the important issues remain the development differential between the Western Christian world and the core centre of Islam, the Middle East; as also the socio-political systems revolving around the conservatism of Islam’s values and the lack of modernism in political thought.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Muslims around the world have to realise that the sectarian divide within Islam can only lead it to doom. The Shia versus Sunni conflict is forcing both groups to withdraw deeper within the folds of conservative thinking to protect their beliefs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crisis within the Sunni sect is profound due to the rise of obscurantist sub sects. The Shia linkage with Iran involves them in an apparently eternal conflict with the US and its allies ever since the Iranian Revolution of 1979.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Geopolitics mixed with faith based conflict has settled into the Middle East. The Saudis fear dilution of their control as keepers of the faith. This fear arises from two causes: first, their reduction in US perceptions of strategic importance due to the changing profiles and narratives of worldwide energy resources, demand and technology; second, due to the perceived rise in Iranian ambitions leading to its potentially greater domination of the Levant, presence of the Hezbollah, the likely victory of Bashar Assad in Syria and the Iraqi Shia domination of Northern Iraq.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the above is a complex handful. As if that is not enough, there is Europe and its problem with migration, both old and new. The older Muslim migrants are facing a generational problem which is preventing the integration of their young. At the same time many of them are being misled by Islamic State (IS) propaganda to rise against the West. On a different count Erdogan’s Turkey is in the midst of a counter revolution, almost reversing the secular and benign Islam promoted by Kemal Ataturk a century ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Islam therefore appears highly unsettled and we have not even begun to describe the problems of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan promises to be in the throes of internal conflict for much longer as the Taliban is unlikely to relent and the US presence may just increase once Trump is a little more settled. Jammu & Kashmir, a conflict with more political than ideological or faith based differences, has slowly drifted.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The separatist camp has no qualms about using faith as a weapon. Pakistan remains the hub of radical Islam both as a counterweight to Shia Iran and the promoter of faith based conflict in Kashmir. Its strategic importance continues to draw US and Chinese support.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bangladesh remains high strung about the violence within, said to be IS influenced yet having extremely local overtones in a society sharply divided over culture-led nationalism against radical Islam.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where do Indian Muslims stand, and how should they perceive the situation in the Islamic world? They must understand that they enjoy the benefits and rights of full scale democracy which few of their co-religionists are fortunate to possess or experience across the world. Even as Islam struggles to balance itself in the Middle East and other regions, Indian Muslims are already balanced and must therefore project this to the Islamic world. They have rejected radicalism to a great extent, although no one can deny the fact that efforts to turn their minds have not yet diminished.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The educated and evolved Indian Muslim community must come out to engage with conservative Muslims whose fears may still be alive. Living in many isolated areas in smaller towns and cities there are a large number who are still poverty-stricken and unsure of themselves. As Islam witnesses turf and sectarian battles elsewhere, Indian Muslims must shun them, battle poverty and enhance their social empowerment. They should avoid becoming pawns in the larger games of other nations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The decision of their parents, to remain in India and be Indian should be deeply respected. It is the duty of the Indian Muslim clergy to protect their community from negative influence and project their will to be model followers of the Islamic faith; eventually virtual role models for the reformation which is bound to come within Islam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a media statement, the DAP veteran said that reasons must be provided as to how the airport could become a “playground for foreign agents.”One female suspect seen on CCTV was found wandering in the airport," police said. She had apparently been "left behind" by the other assailants. The suspects are North or Korean, police sources said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> But the principle of a spy’s mentality holds. Since there is never sufficient justification for the betrayal of a country, and the greed (whether for money or sex) involved must be rationalized by layers of self-deceit, the spy converts a complex, tortured fiction into his or her version of that malleable commodity called truth.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="File photo of the information desk at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2, where Kim Jong-Nam was attacked by two women" height="249" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/02/15/airport2-large_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqbRJKWhcMdxw5raWg35Kf1Vx0vitBIW5mwRMm3pKFkxI.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /></span><br /><div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a media statement, the DAP veteran said that reasons must be provided as to how the airport could become a “playground for foreign agents.” Ahmad Zahid Hamidi expertise in the seductive arts.more vulnerable to the inflammable concoction of ego and libido. cocoon world of an embassy could only have heated her fantasies to an unbearable conflagration. You can see that she had lost any mooring with reality in the taunt after her arrest — “What took you guys so long to get it?” It would not even occur to her that institutions are reluctant to condemn their own, particularly when the final responsibility with those who decided to send her to </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoUh-2DSmstpAqhfqQg1wJ_XkBq1a-hVR65XH_9VmiAGhzshsEghK_AOGPpq-wzXN1uuTI7Iv5LxAatHc3NXveRreq_76IRO9pwS712nSHdt6ihSQgee1y9y-LgyQTNzfmhFjSWARFt9U/s400/Emily+Ratajkowski+Nude+Photos+For+Treats+Magazine+www.GutterUncensored.com+006.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="315" /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">she had an extraordinary talent, the ability to trump the real with the surreal. She reinvented herself as an expert in the secret and mysterious arts of “Indian” erotica (hence the name ‘Mata Hari’), learnt during her interlude in Java, and became a sensation. She was not much of a spy actually; she did more spending than spying. t</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">here is an obvious problem in the analogy with Mata Hari.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB4W70cq2DF2WtoJwQTOjrOTfgpn39seCRbzraq5o0B0dZS-sFTUU92c_s5XZXEP9UgYXZvM8ivBOEQae6aL4BUK9kNVoX03dPLs72AjA_2XMDuTewX5V8-8F7zXrH4tneYxrYSA2APJk/s400/Emily+Ratajkowski+Nude+Photos+For+Treats+Magazine+www.GutterUncensored.com+011.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One pithy observer thought she was as attractive with clothes as without them, which may or may not have been a compliment. She was driven to be by despair: </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Image result for the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-unpicture of assassin at KLIA" 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style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is not, presumably, compulsory, but it is clearly useful for a potential spy to have a split personality. The pain of the tragedy, or failure, is subsumed by the surreal. But a fevered imagination also weakens or even erases the constraints of duty and morality that bind real life.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was about 8.20am on Monday and there was a bustle of passengers in the departure hall of KL International Airport's budget terminal when the two women moved in on Kim Jong-nam, estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few steps away from a Starbucks cafe and a Puffy Buffy Malaysian food stall, one of the women stood in front of their quarry to distract him. Her accomplice approached from behind, pulled a cloth drenched in some chemical from a blue handbag, reached around his head and clamped it onto his face.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was enough to deliver a deadly poison to the portly 46-year-old relative of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, according to a senior Malaysian government source and Malaysian police official Fadzil Ahmat, who both spoke to Reuters.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the attack, Kim Jong-nam approached a help desk and explained that someone seemed to have grabbed or held his face and now he felt dizzy. He was taken to the Menara Medical Clinic, a small glass-fronted surgery one floor down near the arrivals area.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"He still felt unwell there, so they decided to send him to the hospital, and he died in the ambulance on the way to Putrajaya Hospital," said Ahmat.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Media reports said the two women fled the airport in taxis.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The government source declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the case.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malaysian officials have publicly released little about the killing. Indeed, it was 36 hours after the murder before they acknowledged it had happened, and then only after the news was broken by South Korean media.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malaysian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a woman with a Vietnamese travel document as she was trying to take a flight from the same terminal. According to local media, this was the same woman whose image was captured in a grainy airport CCTV image wearing a white shirt with the acronym 'LOL' on it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A second woman, who was holding an Indonesian passport, was also identified from CCTV footage and detained on Thursday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vietnam has said it is investigating. Indonesia has confirmed the second arrested woman was an Indonesian national and is seeking consular access to her.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A third suspect, apparently a boyfriend of one of the women, has also been taken into custody, Malaysian police said.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It's like a mystery novel," said a foreign diplomat in Kuala Lumpur who is closely following developments, which have included comments by South Korean officials that Pyongyang agents were behind the killing, and now the arrest of two women carrying passports from South-East Asian countries.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many key details about the brazen attack on Kim Jong-nam are still unclear, particularly information about the two arrested women and whose orders, if any, they were following.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">North Korea has made no public comment on the killing, and calls, an email and a fax message to its embassy in Malaysia were unanswered. A source in Beijing with ties to the North Korean and Chinese governments told Reuters that Pyongyang was not involved and had no motive for killing Kim Jong-nam.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Malaysian police and the government source's accounts of what happened in the departure hall contradicted early media reports that Kim Jong-nam had been poisoned by injection with a needle.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An autopsy began on Wednesday and is still ongoing, a senior police officer said.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When asked if he could confirm that a woman with the Vietnamese documents was the one seen wearing the 'LOL' T-shirt, state police chief Abdul Samah Mat said: "We are investigating to confirm that."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Local media identified her as the main attacker.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Manhunt for four accomplices</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sources said Kim Jong-nam - travelling under the name of Kim Chol - had flown on Feb 6 from Macau to the Malaysian capital, which he visited often because he had friends there. He was booked on a return flight with the low-cost airline AirAsia on Monday, the day he died.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police are looking for four foreign men they believe worked with the two women, the government source said.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The entire team involved in the attack landed in Malaysia - although it was not clear where from - some days before the attack, checked into a hotel near the airport and monitored their target's movements, the government source said.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two employees of the help desk Kim Jong-nam approached declined to discuss the incident when asked by Reuters reporters, several people working at the Starbucks cafe said they had seen nothing unusual that morning, and the medical centre's receptionist said she could not confirm that he had been brought into the clinic.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The government source said the woman whose documents showed the Vietnamese name of Doan Thi Huong told police that the group split up after the incident and had not seen each other since.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The woman said she hadn't been aware that she was killing someone, but the source said police doubt that and believe it was a well-planned operation.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CIA intelligence about Putin’s interference in elections is considered dubious by many commentators. Masha Gessen, a critic of both Putin and Trump, writing in the New York Review Daily (’Russia, Trump & Flawed Intelligence’, goo.gl/fOM7fG) pointed out that the US intelligence report on the role Russia and Putin had allegedly played was hardly convincing as no proof had been given.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Donald Trump, owner of Trump Organization, is now the president of the United States. In his journey to the White House, Trump tore the playbook of those have been used to wielding real power in the US — the kingmakers and dynasts from Wall Street, the East and West Coast notables. The campaign was ugly and divisive, of a kind never seen in the US. Then the disgruntled elite turned against Trump even after the results were announced. Clearly a case of bad losers.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, no, I don’t mean not doing good that way. That way I’m fine. I meant I’m not doing good because of all these darned critics and what they’re saying about me. First that Hollywood dame, Meryl Creep, or whatever, says those nasty things about me, then all these women go on protest marches against me saying I’m racist and sexist. Heck, I don’t even know what those words mean, so how can I be them.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were campaign letters in August 2016 opposing Trump by about 50 former intelligence officers, including a former head of the National Security Agency (NSA) andthe Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a former Director of National Intelligence (DNI), two former Homeland Security secretaries. Later in October, 55 retired general officers of the military signed a statement describing Trump as being “utterly unworthy of being commander-in-chief and president”.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there were the bizarre stories about Trump in Moscow and his ‘bromance’ with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Earlier this month, outgoing CIA chief John Brennan warned on public television that Russia had interfered in US elections, continued to undermine democracy in many countries, was engaged in manipulating elections in Europe and that this was not acceptable.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To Russia Without Love</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The report alleged that Putin was seeking revenge against Hillary Clinton for her role in inspiring a popular unrest against him in 2011-12. The 25-page report had three key judgments where the agencies assessed that the Russian president had ordered an influence campaign aimed at the US presidential election.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That this campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blended covert intelligence operations (including cyber) with overt efforts by Russian agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries and paid social media users. And third, the agencies assessed that Moscow would apply lessons learnt worldwide especially against America’s allies.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last December, President Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats on unproven charges of hacking by Moscow. This evoked no reaction from Putin but came at the end of a year when relations with Russia had begun to freeze rapidly. Earlier in October, Obama used his red email hotline with Putin alleging that if hacking in an election year did not stop, there would be reprisals. Paradoxically, the hotline was meant to prevent wars, not to threaten them.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Accusations against Putin may or may not be true. It is not unusual for major powers to intervene in such situations. US intelligence had publicly warned about ‘evil Russian designs’, but they were unable to preempt or prevent this. The hacking is believed to have ended on November 8.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beginning early last year, there were several commentaries about how Putin was reviving the KGB. Although the KGB had been wound up, Putin, himself an old KGB hand, preferred its style of functioning and was reviving old agencies or creating new ones. The implication was that Putin was reverting to Cold War tactics against the US. Russian intelligence operations against Americans by the internal service FSB (Federal Security Service) had also reportedly increased in the last three years.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other Reasons for Hate</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The US wishes to be seen as being threatened by the Russians for a number of other reasons. It was knocked out of much relevance in Afghanistan when Russia, China and Pakistan met in December last year without the US to discuss the country’s future. The Russians have similarly outsmarted the US in Syria when their military defeated US-backed proxies in Aleppo. It would now seem that the US is going to be out of reckoning in most of West and Central Asia. This turf increasingly belongs to China and Russia. Hence the bogey of Russia, something probably more manageable than China.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides, the Deep State of America — the US military-industrial-technology-intelligence complex — has to retain relevance and profits. New weapons are being paraded, such as the the next secret weapon, electromagnetic pulse artillery shells that can apparently paralyse cities by cutting off all communication links without damage to property and lives. Or the next superstealth weapon that is ‘neither a helicopter nor an aircraft’.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The F-35s and F22s will get Artificial Intelligence to control nearby drones equipped with weapons, test enemy air defences and perform intelligence functions. These upgrades need to be sold, for which the country needs enemies and repeated wars while heightened threat perceptions help purchases.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The evolving Russian threat is the diversion and US troops have recently been dispatched to Poland and Norway to make the threat appear realistic. Considering President Trump’s statements in his inaugural speech it appears that he and his Cold Warriors are on a collision course. Who will blink first?</span><br /><div>
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malaysiakitaonlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595604559525644346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484361215349379232.post-17498428011265610232017-02-14T23:29:00.003+08:002017-02-14T23:29:26.219+08:00 Azmin Ali :If Mahathir want to kiss the feet of PAS leaders that is his business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b> Mahathir is not waking up to reality ,<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: 'proxima nova'; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> Wan Ismail is Pakatan Harapan's opposition leader who will lead the coalition in the coming general election, said PKR deputy president Azmin Ali.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A plea for ‘alternative facts’: When truth is singular it becomes a territory and thus, a battlefield PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's stance not to cooperate with any parties that have relations with DAP and Parti Amanah Negara has by default voided cooperation with PKR,in principle, the cooperation between PAS and PKR is void based on the position taken by the PAS president,<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18.2px;">‘tail strategy’ has fallen into a tailspin. As ideas go, this had its merits for a party desperate to earn any dividend from divided opposition parties. Bersatu recognised that UMNO was a spent force, and its only hope lay in becoming an attachment to any party ready to accept it as an appendage. Votaries of this theory must have congratulated themselves with the prospect that if UMNO could lengthen with vindictive, manupulitive, and vengeful Umno the tail with disparate alliances, one bright morning the tail would become long enough to wag the dog </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Individual dynamics require special circumstances, not to mention the heavy propulsion of hidden political boosters. Mahathir succeeded because he had terribly long arms; he held the PAS by one hand, and the Anwar by the other, while he reinvented himself as an honest politician, sympathetic to Malay concerns. It required too much heavy engineering and the end product was so unstable that it kept Malay politics off-balance for a decade.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">History does not repeat itself, but does it imitate itself? The answer will take a while.Umno is unfazed about defectors from their party joining the newly formed Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu), the biggest advocates of this game</span></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Arithmetic or chemistry? <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18.2px;">Political calculations Mahathir had not got the right read on the state PAS of today. the infighting would really undermine the party candidates, with opposing camps proving much more injurious to PAS than :</span><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; line-height: 18.48px;">Pakatan Harapan</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another p<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18.2px;">olitical calculations o</span>f illogic from Hadi to justify his rejection of the opposition front and the embracement of Najib Razak/Umno, is another strong indication that he has allegedly received something ‘unholy’ from Najib (as widely perceived by the public) to make him obligated to the latter.<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 1.1;">sometimes patronizingly hypocritical? </span>It’s time to dump Hadi if PAS still wants to save the party from impending ruin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of cronyism and acronyism:<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Federal Territories Youth chief Khairil Nizam Khairudin today lambasted those unearthing claims that PAS spiritual leader Hashim Jasin owns a Porsche Cayman car, in light of the RM90 million controversy.</span><span style="line-height: 20px;">However, it speaks volumes of the moral and ethical health of PAS that the </span>charting a muddled path for his party</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">also read this<a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/02/pas-leadership-failurepowerbrokers-mohd.html" style="color: #3778cd; font-stretch: normal;">Pas Leadership failure:Powerbrokers Mohd Nor Hamzah said Hadi has his right to live a lavish life</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b;">If you want a glimpse of this emerging saga do no more read </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 18.2px;">http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b;"> the inside articles with care. No newspaper can offer a comprehensive account. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">T</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">he memory last</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"> general elections</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"> </span>DAP and PKR in past elections had forced Umno and BN's defeat in 89 parliamentary seats, and wrested the popular vote. party president Abdul Hadi's Awang new imperatives of strength with UMNO but will it work DAP is predominantly made up of non-Muslim members while Bersatu is the converse says Hadi</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18.2px;">PKR, which has a balance of Muslim and non-Muslim members, is maintaining talks with PAS in hopes to forge a political pact between Pakatan Harapan, Bersatu and PAS.is history says Mahathir.He said political co-operation with DAP and PKR in past elections had forced Umno and BN's defeat in 89 parliamentary seats, and wrested the popular vote.also read this </span><a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/01/hadi-pas-duty-to-ensure-muslims-in.html" style="color: #3778cd; font-stretch: normal;">Hadi: PAS' duty to ensure Muslims in power No election is an echo of the past</a></span><br />
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malaysiakitaonlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595604559525644346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484361215349379232.post-53322928903370625362017-02-11T22:07:00.003+08:002017-02-11T22:07:27.613+08:00 Mohamed Azmin Ali : Najib's ability to not compromise with Tengku Adnan Mansor <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px;">Hitler chose to persist with the Jews, pursuing their extermination to the Holocaust and associated politics by other means across the globe. Trump told Americans they were the victims of elite selfishness and grandiose altruism that saw America sacrifice its own security and prosperity for the benefit of others.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">It was always ‘Mahathir first,’ .Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan What’s new?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">UMNO secretary-general Tengku Adnan Mansor is a monument to narcissism,just he be the evil twin</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Voter can have intriguing effects on election in the wake of an embarrassing revelations</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Former Umno Batu Kawan vice-chief Khairuddin Abu Hassan has blasted Tengku Adnan his reverse stings revelations that Tengku Adnan of fabrication not to withdraw his police report. .</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Khairuddin in a statement called Tengku Adnan a "liar", Malaysians need to discover that Tengku Adnan better than what we have come to believe of him.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Datuk Khairuddin reveal that Tengku Adnan told him not to withdraw his police report.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">also read this </span><a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2016/09/datuk-khairuddin-reveal-that-tengku.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Datuk Khairuddin reveal that Tengku Adnan told him not to withdraw his police report</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor has taken a swipe at Selangor menteri besar Mohamed Azmin Ali for claiming a senior Umno minister had tendered his resignation from the cabinet.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">"I also heard he's going to resign as MB of Selangor! I heard he is going to resign. So same, lah.</span></span><br />
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Tourism and Culture Minister Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar Ibrahim appear to be “in love” but warned that it may quickly turn to hate as it has been for decades.<br />
He said this when responding to Mahathir’s second meeting with Anwar yesterday after the duo buried the hatchet.They deserve each other. Mahathir and Anwar are in a love-hate relationship.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Political calculations Mahathir had got the right read on the state of UMNO today. the infighting would really undermine the party candidates, with opposing camps proving much more injurious than opposition parties:In fact it’s being reported that communication between Najib and Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan has completely broken down</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.compared to Najib As the battle intensifies between Mahathir and Najib atvigilantism in the back UMNO room Najib must defuse this ticking time bomb more poweful than C4</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">makes clear the fact that an atmosphere has been created wherein is not mere suspicion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali today insisted mention of an Umno minister's resignation by Azmin Ali must be hard on Tengku Adnan. How much longer and how much more money can retain some of the thinking Umno ministers from the guilt of 1MDB against ?I also understand that if the name is revealed, Malaysia practices a police state, they (authorities) will threaten and pressure the individual," claimed Azmin, who was bombarded over his tweet yesterday that questioned whether a senior minister had resigned over the 1MDB imbroglio.who had purportedly voiced his intention to resign from the cabinet.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">without any integrity and without any moral principle</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">should save UMNO must resign as Umno secretary-general </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Some truths: If your party Umno is in disorder should you put it right or</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Yesterday’s Story?Wear and tear: In politic, it’s not about rags to riches </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have come into his own and two recent but different episodes have emphasised this. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Loud and unclear: When it comes to a shouting match no one’s a match for us Malays</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In good faith: Why umno mmbers are such suckers for all sorts of conmen like Tengku Adnan Pak of lies: Tengku Adnan’s not-so-secret about resorting to the ‘politics of vendetta’ as Umno secretary-general,It is this equation of an individual can claim political immunity from ordinary citizen conversions to Tengku seems claiming immunity is setting a dangerous precedent which could have far-reaching consequences for the power structure of UMNO</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Najib real victims of the politics of vendetta, and the vendetta that has become Umno secretary-general, politics.unfazed about defectors from umno joining the newly formed Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu), </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Don't be Najib's hidden enemy "Don't ever insult or mock or act in arrogance to assume oneself as a "big brother Najib Hyper-patriots – patriots who claim to be more patriotic than thou – should ask themselves whether their hype is not a misspelling of hypo – as in hypocrisy.,Thanks to reactance, will always backfire" all-conquering hero Najib will become failure due to Tengku Adnan's greed working for Mahathir new party</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor. a traitor – and should leave the the right but the duty of every UMNO members who genuinely loves UMNO to speak up in protest when things are going seriously wrong in UMNO? Is it treasonable to point out that a number of things are going wrong in our party have already prepared the groundwork for Najin's fall The need to project Najib as the disaster this raises a larger question. Can umno member counter accusations or any other wrongdoing by Tengku Adnan can claim political immunity claiming that such charges are only a conspiracy devised by political adversaries?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, who last month quit as second finance minister, said those who have some self-dignity left in them have opted out and those who were not prepared to completely forego their statutory duties to act against the suspect were either forced out or annihilated (for example, Abdul Gani Patail and Abu Kassim Mohamed). And so, what do we have in replacement?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Through such process of successive elimination of the not so bad and successive replacement with the really bad, this country will increasingly be helmed by true-blooded scoundrels who command zero credibility from the public.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For how Najib can such a regime last before the entire country goes bust?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Husni saw this opportunity last year when the attacks on 1MDB began. He knew that if he very cleverly played the game trying to hurt Najib by making the 1MDB issue appear like an exercise of trying to mislead the public and trying to cover up the truth.hoping that by doing Najib would get deeper and deeper Husni saw this opportunity last year when the attacks on 1MDB began. He knew that if he very cleverly played the game then he could hurt Najib quite badly. And Husni felt that if the fire got too hot Najib would opt to get out of the kitchen Najib’s Boffin Boys began to smell a rat and felt that this is more than just honest mistakes or shoddiness or stupidity or whatnot. These are actually moves by a clever person who is trying to hurt Najib by making the 1MDB issue appear like an exercise of trying to mislead the public and trying to cover up the truth.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang is yet again shocked, this time by former finance minister II Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah being the only MP from the incumbent government to submit a question on 1MDB.Husni's question, he said, was directed at the Finance Ministry, asking them to state whether 1MDB and SRC International have achieved their purpose of formation</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">question by Husni speaks volumes."In fact, Husni should be answering his own question, as he was second Finance Minister until recently when he quit the cabinet when he could not stand the stress and strain of defending the indefensible in the 1MDB</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Individual dynamics require special circumstances, not to mention the heavy propulsion of hidden political boosters. Mahathir succeeded because he had terribly long arms; he held the PAS by one hand, and the Anwar by the other, while he reinvented himself as an honest politician, sympathetic to Malay concerns. It required too much heavy engineering and the end product was so unstable that it kept Malay politics off-balance for a decade.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">History does not repeat itself, but does it imitate itself? The answer will take a while.Umno is unfazed about defectors from their party joining the newly formed Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu), said Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor visibly benumbed shock, the biggest advocates of this game</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> ‘tail strategy’ has fallen into a tailspin. As ideas go, this had its merits for a party desperate to earn any dividend from divided opposition parties. Bersatu recognised that UMNO was a spent force, and its only hope lay in becoming an attachment to any party ready to accept it as an appendage. Votaries of this theory must have congratulated themselves with the prospect that if UMNO could lengthen with vindictive, manupulitive, and vengefulUmno secretary-general Tengku Adnan the tail with disparate alliances, one bright morning the tail would become long enough to wag the dog</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">also this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">The MCA do not have the courage divorce UMNO.while PAS is begging to join UMNO</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The swing voter, who determines the fate of elections, is not interested in whether you are pro-religion or anti-religion; he wants to know whether you are pro-poor or not; whether you understand how the deprived live and have the ability to do something about it; know what a bank account means to a family that has been psychologically unable to cross a bank door,</span><br />
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malaysiakitaonlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595604559525644346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484361215349379232.post-51888373340282390982017-02-10T21:07:00.000+08:002017-02-10T21:11:25.131+08:00Zaid joins DAP to Rape Politics Selva Kumar back to rape as usual whats new!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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franchise rape from Canada now in Malaysia Selva Kuma will get to rape anybody he feel like,<br />
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Wave after wave of rape seems to be getting unleashed on the women at a pace that is getting difficult to keep up with. had happened. Bizarrely, as this piece was being written, there are reports acts as a franchise operation- random disaffected individuals or groups act as voluntary ambassadors of hate, carrying out self-assigned acts of violence in the name of an ideology or organization.<br />
The man, who may have attacked up to 1,000 women, will be sent back to Malaysia now that his 24-year prison sentence is complete.<br />
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A Toronto serial rapist who is suspected of assaulting up to 1,000 women and girls will be deported to Malaysia now that his 24-year prison sentence is complete.<br />
Selva Kumar Subbiah, 56, was ordered held in custody Monday until the weekend, when he will be accompanied back to his home country by three guards from the Canada Border Services Agency.<br />
“You are the worst offender and the highest risk that has ever come before me in my career,” said Andrew Laut, who chaired the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada hearing.<br />
Subbiah was convicted at two separate trials of drugging and sexually assaulting 30 women, but Monday’s hearing was told that he’s believed to have victimized hundreds more.<br />
“As many as 500 to 1,000 could have been attacked,” said Naima Karimullah, a lawyer for the Canada Border Services Agency.<br />
One of Subbiah’s victims told Torstar News Service that she’s still struggling to cope with the attack on her in the mid-1980s.<br />
“It’s painful,” the woman said. “It’s not easy to go through. But it’s important to talk, to move forward…to know that you’re not the only one.”<br />
Subbiah, a short, soft-spoken man with a slight British accent, said he’s prepared to return to Malaysia, where he has not lived since 1980.<br />
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“I’m ready to leave, sir,” he told Laut at Monday’s hearing.<br />
Malaysian officials have already approved a flight permit for him, the hearing was told.<br />
There was no mention of whether he would walk free in Malaysia or be turned over to law enforcement officials ther<br />
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One victim who spoke to the Star said it’s important for the public to see Subbiah’s face now.<br />
“I believe the Malaysia public should be fully aware,” she said. “Every border should have his picture.”<br />
Another said she hopes she can finally relax when Subbiah has finally been deported.<br />
“It’s still sort of a presence,” she said. “Maybe the day after he’s finally gone, I’ll maybe celebrate with a glass of wine.”<br />
Subbiah arrived in Canada in 1980 but never obtained permanent resident status. He was granted student and visitor’s visas, and claimed to have studied divinity at McMaster University and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, but did not graduate from any post-secondary course.<br />
He married two women, one of whom fled the country to escape abuse, the hearing heard.<br />
In 1992, he was convicted at the first of two trials that would ultimately see him sentenced to 24 years in prison for 19 counts of sexual assault, 28 counts of administering a drug or noxious substance, 10 counts of various kinds of assault and a dozen other charges, including extortion.<br />
At the time of his sentencing, Justice David Humphrey ordered police to accompany Subbiah back to his native Malaysia and give police there his extensive criminal file when his prison term was complete.<br />
His criminal file sat before him on Monday and appeared to be more than a foot high.<br />
When he was denied parole in 2016, Subbiah was told “you continue to struggle in the areas of victim empathy, remorse and your inability to take full responsibility for your personal choices which results in your lack of mitigation in risk.”<br />
He made no comment at that hearing.<br />
Subbiah committed several of his crimes while posing as a model agent or movie talent scout, often using the names Richard Wild and Ryan Hunter. Occasionally, he also posed as a professional dancer, a lawyer or a diplomat. He also lured women to the basement of his home on Macdonnell Ave. through ads offering to sell exotic pets.<br />
He would offer them a drink laced with drugs, then rape them and take photos of their naked bodies while they were unconscious.<br />
One victim who spoke with The Star said he was polished when he attacked her, some 33 years ago.<br />
“I remember him being smooth, well-practiced,” she said. “He was practiced already, in ’84 or ’85.”<br />
His trial heard that he was carrying a black book containing the names of 170 women, rated on a scale of 0 to 10, when police arrested him on<br />
The real change has been the conversion of covert fantasy into a sense of overt acquisition, which has been aided by a new sense of power and its legitimacy. The implicit restraints that had been put in place socially have been dismantled, and power in its new form begs to be converted into opportunity. The primacy of desire means that the eye is always hungry, avid in its quest for acquisition, and any action is seen to lack consequences that cannot be reversed or managed through the use of some form of power. The brute force of power has replaced the unwritten rules that governed behaviour as the primary arbiter of our actions. Currently, we live in a world between rules — those of an earlier era do not apply and new codes have not been framed or agreed to. The responsibility shifts to the enforcement of the law, but this is deeply compromised by the fact that the process is managed by those that cannot fully comprehend the meaning of the changes that we see around us.<br />
The change in the gender climate that can be seen around us needs to be understood differently for something fundamental has changed. Women have always been subject to violence in a variety of ways, but both the frequency and the nature of this violence seem to be escalating. One of the key aspects of the horrific Mumbai gang rape is that it happened in the middle of the day, in the heart of town, in the bustling city of Mumbai, even if the location itself was secluded. The underlying assumption is that daylight, busy streets and male company are somehow guarantors of safety. The truth is that the real problem is that increasingly, what were once signs of safety, are now the sources of danger. The idea of the ‘public’ being a provider of safety is rooted in the comforting feeling that any crime and misdemeanour will raise an outcry if it happens in public. In so many incidents of this kind, we find the opposite to be true. Whether it was the Assam pub case, where a young girl was molested, or the experiences of the American student that have recently gone viral, the problem that women in Malaysia face stems from the very public that is deemed to provide safety.<br />
This is true of all behaviour but particularly true in the case of gender. Unless bad behaviour carries with it a social cost, other forms of deterrence will always struggle to make an impact. We have had enough of recrimination — what we need is a constructive conversation about creating social mechanisms that reinforce the newer meanings of gender today, in a way that is inclusive.This is true of all behaviour but particularly true in the case of gender. Unless bad behaviour carries with it a social cost, other forms of deterrence will always struggle to make an impact. We have had enough of recrimination — what we need is a constructive conversation about creating social mechanisms that reinforce the newer meanings of gender today, in a way that is inclusive.<br />
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "proxima nova";">This guy is not consistent & steadfast in his loyalty to the opposition cause. In the recent past, he stupidly called on the people & the Chinese to give their wholehearted support to Najib & BN!! Now he wants to suppprt MM as opposition leader?? Next, is he going to ask the people to support Hadi Awang & PAS?? the good people wants to believe you are sincere to fight for a better country for all Malaysians.but Shut up Zaid. Loose cannon don't know how to toe the party line. Even just joining a party must make a big fanfare of it. Why cannot do things quietly without big publicity? If not for you being a Malay, I doubt DAP would even bother with you. Just window-dressing.don't behave like a Prima Dona, submerge your pride, be humble, talk less and work more don't say say the Opposition is leaderless. there should be room for DAP members to express their views. This is part of democracy. I don't think it is right to stop Zaid Ibrahim from expressing his views.Barely 72 hours after joing DAP, Zaid Ibrahim appears to have ruffled feathers in the party with his remarks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "proxima nova";">In a media statement today, DAP lawmaker Gobind Singh Deo denied the former law minister's statement on Dr Mahathir Mohamad being the de facto leader of the opposition.Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail is Pakatan Harapan's opposition leader who will lead the coalition in the coming general election, said PKR deputy president Azmin Ali.</span></div>
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The unknown factor in DAP is the emergence of as a brand in his own right. In the last few weeks, he has shown deft political footwork and has emerged as a new kind of option in the political landscape. The alliance with the DAP gives him just that little edge that might turn out to be decisive, but it isn’t entirely clear as to how deep his support runs. He is a new variation on an old theme, the strength of whose appeal is an open question.<br />
a larger uncertainty that both the government and the party are exuding currently. The party seems tentative about the exact proportions in which to juggle its electoral ingredients- how much to back development, what role should race and religion fault lines play, how effective would the plank of nationalism be in GE14 elections, and of course whether to try and ride on 1MDB or to hold back given the uncertainty around its impact on the voter. The government too seems to be in wait-and-watch mode, not giving any clear indication about what its future direction might be. Will it continue it’s wooing of the poor- ‘the tired pro-poor PAS rhetoric’, as it has been described, at the cost of its traditional support base, or will the reform thrust return in any significant way?<br />
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Some things however are a little more certain. Whether or not party hopping will work electorally, what he has achieved however is something potentially not significant in the long run for Hadi Awang It has NOT made him a truly mainstream brand.OnlyMuslim voter in Malaysia now knows him and has some personal emotional reaction to him. Money reaches everyone; as a vehicle of a political message it is a more effective advertising medium than any other. It is possible that some or indeed many of these reactions are negative, but he has become the only politician in recent times, after Indira Gandhi to have managed this depth of reach.<br />
It is crystal clear to me that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang is morbid about non-Malays and non-Muslims winning seats in GE14 and is bent on working with Umno to deny the opposition from getting any further footings from the last election. PAS looks doomed for certain, and that is hardly a surprise, but the real revelation has been that Umno is likely to gain much as a result.<br />
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So, what possibilities and avenues are there left for DAP, PKR and Bersatu to work with PAS to deny BN's victory when the Islamic party has brazenly declared that they are all-out to ensure a Muslim victory and that includes working with Umno?<br />
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Amanah leader Husam Musa's recent claim that Hadi's PAS is all for three-cornered fights in order to deny DAP or opposition winning seats is very real indeed, even though they have not an iota of chance to win these seats.<br />
Please explain, Hadi, why did PAS only win 21 seats out of the 73 parliamentary seats that it contested?The lion's share of the parliamentary seats was given to your party and you failed to even win half of the seats you contested against Umno-BN. Is that the fault of the non-Muslims?<br />
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In fact, PAS would have done worse without the support of Chinese and Indian voters. Truth be told, even among Muslim voters they do not trust PAS and its brand of politics.<br />
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Otherwise, why did the rural and semi-urban Muslim voters reject PAS overwhelmingly in favour of Umno?<br />
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What Hadi is saying is that DAP and PKR must sacrifice their mixed urban seats to PAS because PAS cannot win with Muslim votes alone. Why should the other parties make this sacrifice?<br />
PAS has only 25 seats because it had lost many seats which it had contested. The 89 seats in the opposition camp are the actual seats won, and not the number of seats PAS contested.<br />
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In the seats negotiation for the last general election, PAS had demanded for seats but failed to deliver. Now Hadi is using the discrepancy in the seats to justify his claim. If only PAS can translate contested seats into actual seats in Parliament.Do not blame others for PAS’ failure to win more seats. Hadi’s argument shows his stupidity as well that of those who agree or follow him.It’s hard to believe he is so revered among his kind, but then fanatics and zealots have shown to be dim-witted throughout history.PAS agenda is simple. Win power to impose Islamic rule. Their mission is clear and their priority is to make sure their interpretation of Islamic rules is applied to all aspects of economy and society.<br />
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If only they can replace parliamentary democracy with their version of one-party state. PAS doesn't believe in diversity and political inclusion. It's their way or no other way. If they lose, it’s fine; they will capitalise on the downfall of BN.It's now up to voters. Given the increasing number of Muslim voters in the years to come, PAS can afford to wait. They could possibly hope for the collapse of secular politics.It’s an irony the more they court PAS, the more mileage these bigots will end up with. That's a double-edged sword for all.If you want 40 seats, you must also win the support of non-Muslims. Forget about DAP whom you have been fighting with. What is your pledge for the non-Muslim voters?<br />
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You want to enhance syariah punishment or ensure accountability, transparency, integrity, and efficiency? What about the 1MDB, RM2.6 billion and MO1 (Malaysian Official 1) issues?<br />
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Mushiro: What is the use of ensuring Muslim clout in Malaysian politics if most of these Muslim leaders that PAS endorses are very corrupted, kleptomaniacs, murderers, thieves and cheats?<br />
when will Hadi and politicians who think like him realise that good governance is not based on religion and race?This country ought to be governed by people who do not think about their racial origin or religious beliefs in all decision makings. Only then, the question of imbalance in representation would not arise.<br />
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malaysiakitaonlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02595604559525644346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484361215349379232.post-72979160455976025392017-02-02T13:11:00.002+08:002017-02-02T13:11:45.487+08:00Nur Jazlan Mohamed,why tampering with High politicisation issue ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In his explanation to Parliament, Anwar said that his jurisdiction as the Finance Minister at the time had only allowed him to force Nor’s resignation from the Bank and order for his removal from any involvement in the country’s financial affairs, whether public or private.But he could not charge Nor without Mahathir’s green light.to have caused the central bank’s massive RM30-billion loss in the international foreign exchange speculation scandal some 20 years ago.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">the central bank ventured into speculative forex market in a big way during Daim’s tenure as Finance Minister.</span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The order to go and make money in the forex market was from Daim with Dr Mahathir’s blessing,that Jaffar was their “Yes Man” Governor at that time.</span><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6ggsOA5RMGQQ5mrXalm3tgRnQ_OijL8awRWCkKGAGuOtxj2xF5AsSL53tygNQIrYWGI2_G3fD6p_NZw-gq5xuHeYCYv_FqLbLI3h8So88ZLwSROWxTtICjUuoFXfGddFd6W8RexB/s640/jmahathiranwar.JPG" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" /><br /><div>
<span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nor Mohamed Yakcop the </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">biggest culprit by going overboard in the speculative foreign currency venture.he speculated and gambled recklessly and irresponsibly with no regard to the safety of Bank Negara’s assets.</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">that he wanted to beat George Soros, perhaps, to impress his bose</span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Dr Mahathir Mohamed</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">that he is the expert in forex dealings.</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">then Bank Negara advisor in charge of Investment Department, would use his computer and other staff computers to speculate and gamble in foreign exchange market.But truth is it was Nor Yakcop did it all Bank Negara Forex Scandal – When Government Becomes Speculator. Nor was forced to resign from Bank Negara on July 10, 1994, which Rosli described as a grossly insufficient punishment for such a big a crime he committed against the nation.</span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Anwar said the deal was that Nor shall never be involved with Bank Negara again.But, in 1997, Rosli said Nor was ‘rewarded’ when he returned to Bank Negara to handle the ringgit crisis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Nor Mohamad has never pointed the finger at Mahathir or implicated the older man. However, the fact that Mahathir has consistently refused to punish Nor has stirred suspicion. He even promoted Nor to Special Economic Adviser and gave him a key role to play in Malaysia’s controversial implementation of currency control measures during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><img alt="Image result for tan sri dato' jaffar bin hussein" src="https://dinmerican.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/a96eb-tansrinoormohamedyakcop.png?w=450&h=384" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" /><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Mahathir protected and promoted Rogue Currency Trader Nor Mohamed Yakcop</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">the “forex scandal elite club masters including former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamed and ex-Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin</span></span><br /><img alt="Image result for Bank Negara Governor Jaffar Hussein" src="https://dinmerican.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/c6983-tansrijaafarhussein22.jpg?w=447&h=444" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" /><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Deputy Home Minister Nur Jazlan Mohamed, your father-in-law (the late Jaffar Hussein) had to resign because he did not discharge his duties to protect the integrity of the central bank. In fact, the entire top echelon of Bank Negara was trying to hide these losses.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nur Jazlan y</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ou are pawning your own credibility. if any </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, you had the cheek to say now that your late father-in-law had "resigned" for someone else's mistake. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><img alt="Image result for Deputy Home Minister Nur Jazlan Mohamed," height="227" src="http://www.justreadonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/jazlan-mahathir.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="400" /><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Why don't you resign for MO1's alleged corruption? Is that not a misuse of rakyat's money? Not only this, the 1MDB fiasco had brought great "shame" to us and yet it had been swept under the carpet by you.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Did you resign from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) allegedly to cover up for somebody else? Don't you see the irony of it before you open your mouth? the masters were Mahathir and Daim, while Jaffar and Nor was given the dirty job to gamble. He said this was the reason why Jaffar and Nor were left scot-free and rewarded later, and no independent investigation held on the scandal.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<br />In an interview with New Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia, the 64-year-old shared the workings of the Bank Negara forex operations, claiming that there was no proper documentation of the huge transactions.<br /><br />Only a top central banker and a junior staff had a record of all the deals, claimed Murad.<br /><br />The losses, he added, valued at RM44 billion at the current exchange rate, were “real money that went down the drain”.<br /><br />“It means that our (forex) reserves in US dollars, British pounds and Japanese yen all went down the drain.<br /><br />“It disappeared just like that... This is accumulated losses over several years.”<br /><br />Claiming that there was no control over the matter, Murad said nobody knew what was happening at the time.<br /><br />“The most important thing is that there was no investigation at all. You lost US$10 billion, but there was no investigation.<br /><br />“The police or the Anti-Corruption Agency (now the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) did not come. No one came to investigate,” he said.<br /><br />As a central bank, Bank Negara’s role was not to speculate in the forex market and was supposed to only intervene to smoothen the movement of the ringgit, added Murad.<br /><br />“There are two things, one is speculation and another is reserve management. Reserve management is moving your assets. It’s a real thing and real assets... if you want to invest in Treasury bills, government bonds.”<br /><br />“That’s the role of Bank Negara - the real assets. But what they did was (pure) speculation.”<br /><br />'Bank gave conflicting data'<br /><br />Bank Negara, he further claimed, had given conflicting and confusing data when put under scrutiny over its purported dubious activities.<br /><br />“It’s a big loss, but there is no investigation. Bigger than other cases. Why was there a cover-up? The truth must prevail.<br /><br />“It is not easy to conceal a dead elephant... the carcass is just too big for the hole. We are not talking about a chicken.”<br /><br />Murad, therefore, wants the authorities to reopen the case.<br /><br />“They should and I’m willing to cooperate. The records are more than 20 years old and might have been eaten by termites... The dealings were done here.”<br /><br />The New Straits Times reported that Murad’s claims were expected to cause a political stir and renew calls for a thorough probe into the losses, which occurred during the tenure of Dr Mahathir Mohamad as prime minister.<br /><br />Bank Negara, by 1994, had conceded that it had lost as much as RM15 billion. It had betted heavily against US billionaire and infamous currency trader George Soros on the pound sterling.<br /><br />However, the central bank eventually lost the gamble and Soros emerged as the victor, earning him Mahathir’s ire.<br />also read this <span style="color: #3778cd; font-size: xx-small; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/01/power-corrupts-not-whistleblowers.html" style="color: #3778cd; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none;">Power corrupts not whistleblowers curbed arbitrary,discretionary power</a></span><br />and this <span style="color: #3778cd; font-size: xx-small; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/01/nur-jazlan-urgent-need-for-msia-to-have.html" style="color: #3778cd; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none;">Nur Jazlan: Urgent need for M'sia to have Bribery , Corruption and Sex offenders - Registry</a></span></div>
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