UMNO Beri Gunung Pada Taukeh Judi. UMNO Barua Tokeh Judi?
Dont play blame game over Bernama mans death, says Najib
PKR says BN bending over backwards for Communist China
PKR communications director Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad protested a decision, observant it was a defilement of fundamental tellurian rights as it placed a refugees during risk of torture.
Why is Malaysia bending over backwards for Communist China in an emanate not usually involving tellurian rights though additionally a plight of Muslims which Umno has claimed to hold up for so-long?
It is unfortunate which this ultimate e.g. of a timidity of Datuk Seri Najib Razaks administration takes place not usually while Muslims have been celebrating though Malaysians have been additionally celebrating a liberty anniversary, he said, referring to a only resolved Hari Raya jubilee as well as Merdeka Day.
Malaysia deported eleven Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity back to China upon Aug 18, after it was found which a group was allegedly involved in tellurian trafficking as well as were wanted by a Chinese government.
The Chinese supervision has been intent in aggressive policing in it's Muslim segment of Xinjiang as a number of a ethnic Uighurs there seek liberty for a horse opera segment as East Turkistan. China has been well known to have a zero-tolerance policy for any of a far-flung regions from capital Beijing looking liberty or separate rule. Hundreds of Uighurs have been reportedly killed in assorted riots over a decade, especially in opposition to a China's infancy Han competition who have been transmigrating to Xinjiang.
Apart from PKR, a Bar Council has additionally cursed a move, observant a Uighurs should have been prosecuted here instead for their crimes, if any.
However, they have been deported to Ch! ina, as well as zero has been listened about safeguarding their tellurian trafficking victims. There is additionally no information about a whereabouts of a eleven Uighurs, what has happened to them, or in truth either or not they have been still alive. One of a eleven is married to a Malaysian, legislature president Lim Chee Wee had said.
Nik Nazmi (picture) concurred with Lim as well as demanded Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein insist as well as pledge which a superfluous 5 Uighurs currently underneath apprehension here would be treated with colour as legitimate haven seekers following international law as well as practice.
The five, he added, have already applied for refugee status from a UN Refugee Agency or UNHCR as well as should be accorded due protection.
He forked out which a UNHCR had earlier additionally requested to encounter with all 16 Uighur Muslims in Malaysia though was turned down by a government.
UNCHR has voiced their bewail during a Malaysian governments preference as well as a Human Rights Watch (HRW) has already cursed a governments preference to lapse a eleven Uighurs as well as titillate a supervision to not lapse a superfluous five.
US Republican Representative Chris Smith as well as Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, co-chairs of a Congressional-Executive Commission upon China have additionally cursed Malaysias actions upon a Uighur haven seekers, he said.
The HRW, combined Nik Nazmi, had additionally suggested which China has purportedly been bullying countries together with Malaysia, Thailand as well as Pakistan to lapse Uighur haven seekers.
He pronounced this began in 2009 in Cambodia when a nation was forced to lapse twenty Uighurs underneath a protection of a UNHCR together with a profound lady as well as dual infants to China.
The Chinese Government have routinely responded to demands for a use of a Uighur language as well as peaceful use of Islam as terrorism, separatism as well as treason.
OIC, ! of which Malaysia is a member, has called for China to residence a underlying problems of oppression for a Uighurs, he said.
Killed journalists body returned home
SUBANG, Sept 4 BernamaTV cameraman Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, killed in Somalia dual days ago, was brought back here this morning during 10am, his headlines group reported.
He was received by family members who had been watchful given 7 am, for his physique to flown in by Royal Malaysian Air Forces (RMAF) C-130 aircraft during their Subang base.
The coffin draped in Jalur Gemilang was brought down from a aircraft, along with a 54-member humanitarian aid goal to Somalia, led by Putera 1Malaysia Club leader Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim.
The 39-year-old was shot whilst in a 4-wheel-drive streamer with alternative media members to placement site in a famine-struck country.
Among those watchful for his relatives Mohd Nor Mat Yassin, 66, and Naemah Abd Majid, 63.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was benefaction with his deputy Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin during a airport. They were accompanied by Information, Communications and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim who oversees Bernmaa, , Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman and Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
The coffin was taken to a RMAF mosque.
Umno attacking Mat Sabu to protect own version of history, say analysts
The republic is engulfed by story debates following a purported remarks by a Kubang Kerian MP at a domestic gathering final month about a conflict upon Bukit Kepong in 1950 during British occupied Malaya.
Political analysts told The Malaysian Insider which Umno wanted to say a interpretation of story which has been propagated in schools as well as by a official media which it was a main force at a back of a nations fight for independence.
Of course, a Umno at which time is all opposite from a Umno of today, as well as autonomy came about by a efforts of various forces, including a Malayan Communist Party, pronounced Lim Teck Ghee, a executive of process remodel organisation Centre for Policy Initiatives (CPI).
However, a hope is which a Umno propagandist as well as self-serving chronicle would be a unchallenged as well as pre-eminent interpretation of which duration of a history, he added.
Umno Youth pronounced yesterday it would assemble all former soldiers, policemen as well as kinsmen of a Bukit Kepong tragedy victims in a nationwide roadshow called a Pentas Patriot or Patriot Stage to opposite Mohamads perspective of a fire-fight.
Mohamad (picture), widely well known as Mat Sabu, stirred controversy when he told a Bukit Gelugor ceramah which leisure fighters attacked a military hire which killed 25 during a pre-independence comrade insurgency.
The maverick politician has given been accused of being a comrade sympathizer by Umno leaders as well as sniped at every day in Umno-owned journal Utusan Malaysia, despite denying which he had used a word communism in his speech.
Umno appears dynamic to use Mohamads statement to woo await from a Malay electorate, bet! ween who m communism stays a bogeyman, ahead of expected snap polls.
Mohamad, however, has forked out which Muhammad Indera a single of a individuals he praised in his ceramah upon Aug 21, was already recognised as a leisure fighter by Umno-controlled every day Berita Harian upon Aug 13, 2010.
Muhammad, better well known as Mat Indera, was a Malay comrade personality who led a guerilla attack opposite a military barracks manned by policemen under a British administration.
Monash University domestic researcher James Chin echoed Lims remarks, saying: The genuine story of Malaysia is (that) Umno is usually a single of a autonomy fighters; theyre not a usually one. Theyre perplexing to paint themselves as a usually one.
The Malay Nationalist Party (PKMM) was a first Malay domestic party shaped after a Japanese Occupation in 1945 which fought for independence. Umno was shaped in 1946 by Datuk Onn Jaafar.
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) domestic scientist Dr Sivamurugan Pandian stressed which rewriting story should be left to historians to prevent misunderstandings which could start race relations.
Looking in depth, I think what is being contested right away is to recognize communism contribution between a Malays, he told The Malaysian Insider.
Confusion will prolong not usually between Malaysians, but also PAS or PR (Pakatan Rakyat) supporters themselves, added Sivamurugan.
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When the Frogs failed to leap
September 4, 2011
http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com
September 16, 2008: When the Frogs unsuccessful to leap
Written by Maclean Patrick, Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle
The Malaysian domestic landscape is dotted with instances of politicians leap-frogging from the single celebration to another. It is something to watch for in the aftermath of any general election, to the extent which it is no longer seen as aberrant though rsther than the facet of domestic life.
Currently, there have been no authorised drift in Malaysia to say which when an inaugurated parliamentarian decides to switch to an additional party, he or she is liable to lose the seat. Neither is there the law which can stop the single from jumping ship. All of it is authorised as well as lawful. Not just here though in many countries all over the world together with the United States, Japan as well as Britain. There, when the single jumps, it is customarily due to the falling apart in beliefs or the really clever feeling of antithesis to the particular policy or law which the obligatory celebration wishes to introduce, though which is totally opposite the representatives beliefs as well as boundaries of acceptance.
Sad to say, jumping in Malaysia is seldom about issues, beliefs or beliefs though rsther than about the amount of inducements, enticements as well as in many cases even blackmail! Where offers for switching faithfulness have been corrupt in inlet as well as where extort is involved, defectors as well as their motivators should be punished as well as ostracised by both the electorates as well as the nation.
The difference
< p>So when Anwar Ibrahim plainly spoken in 2008 which the series of Sarawakian as well as Sabahan MPs were ready to cross to the Pakatan Rakyats side of the Parliamen! t, he di d not do anything wrong nor unlawful. Neither was he reprobate or unprincipled.But since it harked behind to the 1994 Sabah failure when Joseph Pairin Kitingan was unjustly deprived of his infancy by the BN using unsavoury equates to to tempt his MPs, Anwars plan to wrest the sovereign government upon Sep 16, 2008, was regarded as the mom of all leap-frog fiascos. Ironically, Anwar was additionally concerned in the 1994 pierce opposite Pairin.
In 2008, when Anwar unsuccessful since he could not lift over enough MPs to the Pakatan during the same time, he suffered the extensive blow to his credibility. Yet it was not his lack of leadership, though the combination of threats, hiked-up enticements from the BN, as well as mostly, since the MPs themselves were not informed with Anwar as well as his style.
Three years have passed as well as there is small doubt which the Pakatan can govern, so cold feet as well as the flop such as the 2008 the single is unlikely to repeat itself should the event come again to Anwar as well as his team.
Nonethleless, Anwars Sep sixteen did in law rile up the BN to the extent which it was forced to invite MPs from Sabah as well as Sarawak to the paid study tour to Taiwan to sense about agricultural techniques. The BN may have discharged Anwars claims which he was means to sway the numbers to his side, though the law was it was frightened stiff during the prospect, which was really genuine indeed.
Anwars Sep sixteen real, not the pipe-dream
And of all people, BN should know. They have regularly been in the business of buying over the antithesis or recruiting BN-friendly parliamentarians over to their stay to seaside up their numbers. One has usually to demeanour to the Perak energy squeeze of 2009 to understand the disproportion in methods employed by Prime Minister Najib Razak, who! controv ersially enticed 3 pass Pakatan Rakyat defections, as well as Anwars 2008 call made plainly to BN MPs to cross over as well as assistance build the improved Malaysia.
Najibs Perak turnover was finished shadily with MACC prosecutions leveled during dual of the lawmakers whilst the third was believed to have perceived an 8-figure cheque. Anwar, without resources to match, could usually suggest improved power-sharing, the just as well as kind Malaysia as well as larger accountability to the people who voted the MPs to power. The disproportion is in law telling.
Just days ago, WikiLeaks suggested which the Sep sixteen defections had created panic inside of the BN leadership. Sarawak as well as Sabah parliamentarians were upon the tipping indicate of making history. The wire leaked upon WikiLeaks reliable which Sep sixteen was real, not the pipe-dream as the BN has painted it to be. An entry in the diplomatic note sent from the US embassy in Kuala Lumpur to Washington quotes former Sabah arch apportion Salleh Said Keruak as revelation US officials which potentially more than half of the twenty-five Sabah MPs were ready to abandon the BN.
Matter-of-factly, Salleh settled which between (eight) as well as fourteen BN MPs (out of Sabahs twenty-five MPs) would leave the BN, naming (five) from UMNO as well as (four) from Upko, in addition to (two) from SAPP, the cable, dated June 24, 2008, read.
Why did they leave Anwar unresolved in the air
Then, because did the defections not materialize, withdrawal Anwar Ibrahim with the hugely annoying incident upon his hands. Until his vindication by the recent cable, Anwar has had to suffer the consequences of havin! g unhapp y the people. With hindsight, it is obvious which the seasoned statesman similar to him would shun such the jolt unless he had been sincerely sure of success. Why did the East Malaysian MPs lift the carpet from underneath him then?
Firstly, Sarawak as well as Sabahan parliamentarians have been not really flushed with the frog mentality, although they have been severely ruled by the flock instinct. Once the personality with the clever character announces he will pierce in the certain direction, the rest would follow. For Anwar to have the parliamentarians defect, he needed to have the personality amongst the Sarawakian as well as Sabahan MPs to lead the approach or sound the gong, so to speak.
Secondly, the East Malaysian politicians have been community-based leaders. To forsake from the status quo is tantamount to betraying ones own village as well as family. Communities have been mostly times built along family lines. Almost all the time, the statesman is related to his supporters possibly via red blood or through marriage. Before the parliamentarian defected, he would need to convince his own believer base to switch over. And this would not be something any East Malaysian statesman would brave risk unless there is the clever pull by the village to defect.
The East Malaysian mindset for defection is really different from than the the single hold by many West Malaysian politicians. A peninsula man may jump ship for personal good as well as benefits, though the Sabahan or Sarawakian would usually do so if the village additionally supported it. And during which time, Pakatan was new, unheard of as well as untested still. Pakatan additionally did not have clever village leaders upon fire its route then.
New laws to protect voters
Even so, ! the eman ate of leap-frogging or defections will regularly be the tack in Malaysian politics. To the BN, it is normal usually if they good from it, similar to in Perak. But if the Pakatan attempted it, BN can be counted upon to thwart as well as demonize their efforts.
Strip away the domestic foreplay, during the finish of the day what counts is, what do the Rakyat o! r the pe ople want? Are they voting in convincing men as well as women who can really run the government? Or have been they small ballot pawns for domestic parties who see them as the stepping mill to energy as well as wealth?
In GE-13, all Malaysians need to take larger responsiblity for their own fate as well as not blindly follow. How can they allow their own future to be dictated by those who have invariably sole them out decade after decade? On this basement alone, they should opinion for change as well as give the other side the try.
Finally, brand brand new laws governing defections should additionally be considered. The first to be removed is the unfair 5 year ban imposed upon an MP who resigns his seat. This has provided frog MPs an forgive not to renounce their seats when they switch parties for the sake of financial good or benefits.
A brand brand new law should additionally be deliberate requiring MPs to automatically quit their seats if they renounce from their party, protecting the people as well as permitting them to decide once again what it is which they really want.
Use and Abuse of History.
Communist Malaya?
"production for use as well as a approach allocation of mercantile inputs to satisfy mercantile demands as well as human needs (use value); accounting is formed upon earthy quantities of resources, some earthy magnitude, or a approach magnitude of labour-time.[4][5] Goods as well as services for consumption have been distributed by markets, as well as placement of income is formed upon a principle ofindividual merit/individual contribution..." - Socialism
Malaya was conquered by a Hindu Indonesian from Palembang. Malaya was then well known as Tanah Siam. Sejarah Melayu confirms this, when it demonstrates how a King of Temasik was murdered by this incoming Hindu Prince from Indonesia. This murdering Hindu Indonesian did not apply oneself a Sovereignty of Thailand. He just came in as well as took whatever he wanted. None of his descendants have been punished for those crimes yet. Yes, Sin can be upheld down Genealogically. Just ask any Christian, Muslim or Jew. So, if your Grandaddy did something wrong, as well as if he was not punished yet, then you, a grandchild needs to compensate for it. Illogical? Tell which to all those who contend "I believe, as well as therefore, a true".
UMNO's Somalia Medical Mission: Genuine or Publicity Stunt?
A short demeanour during the Armys hospitals websites indicate that roughly all their hospitals have frequency any patients, that will afterwards beg the question. What do the armed forces docs as great as medics do with so much giveaway time upon their hands? Shouldnt they have left instead of the UMNO club?
By Blackhawk
By the time this essay is published, the body of 39-year-old Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, Bernamas late cameraman, who had apparently followed UMNO Putra clubs humanitarian goal to Somalis would have arrived in Malaysia. It is tragic, that apart from the hundreds of lives mislaid during the Raya period upon Malaysian roads due to the balik kampong mayhem, Faizul should meet his genocide in fight ripped Mogadishu, Somalia.
Was this usually an accident? Could it have been avoided? Did UMNO rush to Somalia to genuinely assistance Somalians? Or did UMNO chuck counsel to the wind as great as rush callously upon the night before of Raya to Somalia usually for the broadside stunt? If it was for the broadside stunt, afterwards Faizul would have died in vain as great as this wouldnt have been the initial time when the personnel, both healing as great as non-medical would have risked not usually their lives though some-more importantly the people around them who might be completely oblivious to the dangers of this sort of missions.
In 2003, Mercy Malaysia likewise put healing crew during risk. Its dual doctors, Dr. Jamilah as great as Baba Deni were propitious to get away alive although both were shot in Baghdad. Not so propitious were their Syrian motorist as great as the Iraqi healing crew who were accompanying them. Both mislaid their lives in the shooting. Malaysians might meant well, though fluctuating assist to fight ripped as great as disaster areas carries measureless risks as great a! s requir es specific training. It is not the boy scout outing. Apart from the reserve aspect, questions have arose as to how these trips have been being financed as great as who actually audits the! se ventu res.
When the 2004 tsunami flattened Acheh, Malaysians were the single of the initial to reach Acheh. But they were hopelessly ill-equipped for the task ahead. In direct contrast, Singapore as great as Australia sent in their armed forces as great as naval outfits to attend to the distribution of aid. Humanitarian assist carried out by lerned forces tend to be some-more orderly, organized, triaged as great as focused to help. Malaysians out to assistance nuclear-disastered Sendai, Japan following this years tsunami were not even allowed to leave Subang for Japan by Japanese authorities, as the Japanese kindly refused meaningful great they could not pledge the reserve of their own people let alone foreign volunteers untrained in doing arch fall-outs.
From the images shown upon local TV, the UMNO Putra Team appeared to be untrained crew doing their rounds upon unfriendly as great as infrequently antagonistic terrain. How would giving adhoc cholera/typhoid vaccinations as great as holding unpretentious outpatient clinics during interloper camps assistance civilians there in the long-term? And because would you want to do the office you have been not lerned to hoop especially upon turf you have been not informed with as great as unfriendly during that too. Shouldnt it have been the office for the armed forces boys. We have been in assent time any way as great as this would have been the great goal to keep them upon their toes. There is no approaching danger of the submarines sinking as they apparently cannot dive, or the air force jets with no engines crashing as great as there have been positively no communists to demeanour out for who might be waiting to emanate an additional Bukit Kepong situation.
A short demeanour during the Armys ho! spitals websites indicate that roughly all their hospitals have frequency any patients, that will afterwards beg the question. What do the armed forces docs as great as medics do with so much giveaway time upon their hands? Shouldnt they have left instead of the UMNO club? Unless of march the assistance UMNO wanted to deliver was the sideshow, the main menu being broadside for UMNO or its leaders judging from the daily repo! rting in the MSM as great as TV images during prime time. Is this GE-13 choosing campaigning regulating the Somalians wretchedness as great as the journalists' lives to save the kampong folk?
UMNO contingency right away be ready to answer the little difficult questions. The Mission arrived in Somalia upon 30th August during the single of the worlds many dangerous destinations as great as to the nation that is home to pirates that can put to shame even the mightiest of navies in the Indian Ocean, including the US Navy. Apparently it was timed to yield Hari Raya assist as great as according to the statement issued by its chief, Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim to even have Hari Raya prayers there! If the Health Ministry was involved as great as had sent the little of their personnel, Liow Tiong Lai improved have the little answers ready! With the own Malaysians getting literally fight conditions diagnosis in many of the supervision hospitals, it would be interesting to attend to Liows excuses, in his own Tung Shin way.
Aid was supposed to be distributed to 5 areas, with Mogadishu being the initial stop. Others included Badbadur, about 25km from Mogadishu, where about 250,000 people have been receiving refuge, Al Shabeb in Merka where 300,000 people have been influenced by the fast as great as in the Balet Veni camps that residence 100,000 people. Both areas have been located 100km from Mogadishu. Even the Operations arch Lt-Col Zahani Zainal Abdin had warned observant it would be risky to even fly in to Mogadishu during night. In sum there were ! the sum of 55 volunteers as great as members of the media who formed part of the goal to cover the radius of roughly 200 km in the nation where there was no law solely for the 9000 strong UN corroborated force - the usually law in the nation of 10 million.
Make no mistake, in this nation even 12 year olds carry AK-47s. UMNO bar members had no business being in this nation as great as in their office of cheap broadside endangering the lives of other civilians both Malaysians as great as Somalians. Any goal that carries with it civilians as great as reporters have been the handicap to any milit! ary pers onnel exposing even the many well-trained military commando to being nothing some-more afterwards the sitting duck. Al- Fatihah to Noramfaizul Mohd Nors family. Lets hope Bernama as great as Utusan dont spin his untimely as great as unnecessary genocide in to the mati syahid affair.
Journalists safety in war zones
Politics, Politicians ... and Leaders
Some pea-brained champions of autocracy have been bustling arising foot-in-the-mouth statements following a genocide of Bernama TV cameraman Noramfaizul Mohd Nor in Somalia.
These pea-brained beings who also hap! pen to b e Oppos! ition po liticians have been fundamentally working overtime to politicise Noramfaizul's genocide just since he was partial of a humanitarian assist goal led by Putera 1Malaysia Club.
While these pea-brained beings have been bustling bitching, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has cut reduced his knee treatment during a sports therapy dilettante centre in Perth.
A comparison central from a Prime Minister's Office reliable that Najib would be returning home tonight from Australia.
Both Najib as well as his deputy Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin have been approaching to be during a Royal Malaysian Airforce bottom in Subang early tomorrow (Sunday) to embrace a stays of Noramfizul as well as members of a Putera 1Malaysia Club assist goal to Somalia.
All a applicable authorities, responsible NGOs as well as able disposed tellurian beings have been you do their partial to ease a pain of Noramfizul's parents, siblings, mother as well as children.
The RMAF C-130 carrying a assist goal members, who were in Somalia distributing 250tonnes of food as well as medicine, have been approaching to hold down during a Subang bottom during approximately 8am. (4th of September, 2011)
*** Noramfizul, 40, is approaching to be laid to rest during theU! niversit i Putra Malaysia (UPM) Muslim tomb in Serdang after a Zohor prayers.
TV3 re ported earlier that Statesman Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had telephoned Noramfizul's father to convey his condolences.
MIC perlu satukan dan dihormati kaum India dulu
Presiden MIC ada menyatakan beliau tidak bersetuju jika IPF atau MIUP dimasukan kedalam Barisan Nasional. Mungkin Datuk G.Palanivel ada alasan tersendiri namun kita harus memahami keadaan yang sebenarnya.
Mengapa terlampau banyak parti politik kaum India atau parti
Netto cautions Mat Sabu
September 3, 2011
Netto cautions Mat Sabu: Do not right away waste Pakatan Rakyats gains with folksy imprudence.
Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
Sep 3, 11
5:08pm
PAS Deputy President Mohamed Sabu likes, with great reason, to think himself a statesman of a typical Malaysian a undoubted Mat Public, if you like.
His popularity derives from this ordinariness as well as his confidence in a adequacy to encounter a hurdles which accumulate to his purpose as aspirant for a layer of inhabitant governance. The moniker, Mat Sabu by which he is popularly called promotes this picture of him as a statesman of a common man.
But ordinariness does not meant he is paltry which could divert a attention a single in to thinking which Sabu is a merely a statesman of likeable personality as well as limited range. His bombastic skills, for which he is rarely regarded by his throng of supporters transcending racial lines, have been suited for a stump, though his calm is great to be forgotten though not his smoothness which is valued for a comic touches as well as a timing of a barbs.
However, Sabu is not usually an interesting speaker. He has a capability to douse himself in a incident which he wants to get a feel of, a better to come up with a clarity of what functions as well as what does not.
His choosing in Jun as PAS Deputy President, beating a some-more intelligent incumbent Nasharuddin Mat Isa as well as a some-more religiously credentialed Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, must have bolstered Sabus confidence which his listening-post where he takes soundings from not usually a PAS true though also a inhabitant citizens is flattering sensitive.
Otherwise he could not possibly ha! ve finis hed a No 2 position in his celebration after three years of underemployme! nt, inha biting a forest which is a lot of antithesis luminaries who catastrophic to get inaugurated in a ubiquitous choosing of Mar 2008 as well as were catastrophic in their own partys polls afterward (Sabu did not get inaugurated in his first try during a emissary presidency in celebration elections in Jun 2009).
History furnishes many examples of leaders who have inhabited which romantic widen called a political forest usually to lapse with a bang. It would be a widen to report Sabus successful try during a emissary presidency final Jun as a stirring quip from a forest solely to say which defeat would have relegated him to a certainty of contesting a difficult-to-win chair in a fast coming 13th ubiquitous choosing during which failure would have ensured his oblivion.
In a event, Sabus feat was ballast thrown to a great swimmer held in unusually stormy waters. That is substantially why he has used a couple of months since his choosing to a No 2 post in a countrys greatest Islamic celebration as a platform to vent radical views, assured these opinions would reverberate in between perspective makers as well as in places to which Sabu, as a peoples politico, is connected into.
Frank though impolitic remarks
Sabus style does resemble which of late Abdurrahman Wahid, a renouned Indonesian leader of a Nadhlatul Ulama (NU), who became boss in 1999 by default as well as anticipating himself in which unaccustomed position, could not curb his instinct for solid speaking.
The upshot: Gus Dur, as Abdurrahman was popularly called, finished many straightforward though impolitic remarks, causing unnecessary offense in several quarters such which leaders of other parties who did not jus! t dislik e Gus Dur, ganged up in Parliament to sale him in 2001 when a corruption scandal, to which Abdurrahman was not directly! tied, b roke out on his watch.
Abdurrahman was sunk usually dual years after getting in to harness, finished in by his gusto for impolitic fairness than by any suggestion of incompetence.
This was a empathize since a presidency which had begun with refreshing dollops of truth-telling came unstuck by an additional of it, underscoring a doctrine of Shakespearean tragedy: we have been great to be felled by a exaggeration of a virtues than by a weaknesses.
Mohamad Sabu is without disbelief a exhale of fresh air in Malaysian politics though he has to reconcile himself to a conduciveness of a moment upon which effective care is dependent: hes got to gait his purposes to events which predispose a open to await them.
Questions such as who really speeded a British to accede to autonomy to Malaya, similar to who triggered a May 13, 1969 race riots, have been issues which have been glimmering in a distance. These issues await a gainful eventuality or dual before they can detonate along a interface in between dire stream concerns as well as a spawning drift of a past.
Getting way forward of a detonators places a positions gained with most persperate by a antithesis coalition Sabu helps lead during unjustified risk. The ISA-detained Sabu did compensate in persperate for a vantages obtained; he should not right away waste a gains with folksy imprudence.
Singapores Presidential Election 2011: A Review
September 3, 2011
www.theedagemalaysia.com (September 5 issue)
Singapores Presidential Election 2011: A Review
In recent weeks, a startling number of unfamiliar observers with interests in Singapore has been asking either a city-state would adopt some-more populist policies which would undermine a attractiveness as a commercial operation center or lift costs. Some have even asked either a domestic fortitude they took for postulated was during risk.
A clever look during a domestic as good as mercantile determinants of Singapores domestic fortitude as good as process creation suggests which these concerns have been utterly unwarranted. Singapore is changing; it is becoming some-more of a normal country with normal governing body as good as so there night be a small some-more uncertainties than you have been used to. But a pillars of a complement have been robust, implying which businesses as good as investors, either local or foreign, have small to fear.
Singapores Politics: More Competitive as good as Complex
That Dr. Tony Tan, a candidate adored by a establishment, cumulative victory with usually 35.25% of a opinion as good as .4 percentage pooint forward of his subsequent many popular opposition marks a elemental structural change in Singapore politics. Dr. Tan Cheng Bock, a former parliamentarian from a statute Peoples Action Party (PAP), who had turn an occasional censor of a supervision garnered 34.8% of a vote. But which did not paint a splitting of a ! votes of PAP loyalists between dual candidates who both agreed with a PAP universe view. In stead t! he elect ion showed obviously which a hardcore of await which a PAP could rest upon has positively been reduced to usually about a third of a electoratefrom something to half a citizens a couple of years ago.
More than that, a results show a Singapore citizens which is basically widely separated 3 ways:
- A tough core of about 35% who have been PAP loyalists through as good as through;
- Another hardcore of around 30% (representing a votes garnered by Tan Jee Say as good as Tan Kin Lian, who were some-more vigorously vicious of existent PAP policies) who have been alienated from a PAP as good as wish deeper changes in Singapore; and
- A middle belligerent of around 35% who have been uncomfortable enough with a small aspects of PAP order to opinion tactically against a celebration though who do not wish domestic incoherence to be combined by a some-more confrontational style of politics. These voters have been probably comfortable with continued PAP order as good as would cruise choosing by casting votes for a PAP again should policies change.
In alternative words, a citizens is divided, though a nature of a groups does not affect prolonged tenure stabilitythe groups have been not along ideological or ethnic lines though upon reduction emotive policy-oriented lines.
Long Term Political Stability enhanced
In fact, you would go serve to disagree which such changes not usually break domestic stability, though they actually strengthen Singapore in a prolonged run. Why?
First, Dr. Tony Tan is right away President, an investiture which keeps all a key agencies of appetite firmly in a hands of a establishment, ensuring conformity in domestic g! overnanc e. He is an independent-minded, highly experienced as good as severely reputable withing supervision as good as between Singaporeans. He will positively fulfill a purpose of President with a grace as good as knowledge which Singaporean desire.
More fundamentally as good as second, domestic fortitude is a duty of a strength of institutions, a capacity of a domestic complement to regulate as good as conform to changing circumstances as good as a domestic enlightenment of a people. All 3 factors disagree for plain domestic stability:
- Singapore has clever institutions. The polite service, judiciary, police force, town councils, statutory boards, universities, as good as so upon arrange between a worlds best. Institutional strength equates to which domestic fortitude does not depend upon particular personalities as good as also helps to anchor a complement of governance;
- Unlike unsuccessful domestic systems such as a Soviet Unions, Singapores domestic complement has be adjusting to accommodate a changing demands of a some-more complex polity. The opposition parties have been right away stronger, a media has loosened up, non-governmental organisations express themselves some-more forcefully upon a operation of issues such as collateral punishment as good as protection of unfamiliar workers, as good as both a statute celebration as good as a supervision it runs have turn some-more sensitive as good as responsive to a public; and
- What is also important is which Singapores domestic enlightenment is set by a unsentimental minded, unexcitable as good as well-educated citizenry who value fortitude as good as receptive policies as good as have been not easily convinced by populist giveaways or appeals to tummy issues. The vast infancy of voters will give a reduced shrift to any celebration proposing blatantly giveaway policies.
Economic Fundamentals
Some observers have wondered either a small recent process adjustments i! n such a reas as immigration as good as unfamiliar worker restrictions mark a change to populism, a departure from a headstrong process creation which has stood Singapore in great stead.
We think this is fantastic for multiform reasons:
- First, a supervision is not being populist when it adjusts a policies upon immigration. The tightening of restrictions as good as levies upon unfamiliar workers proposed good before a gene! ral elec tion (May 11, 2011) when a Economic Strategies Committee inform found which coherence of as well many unfamiliar workers was land behind increasing productivity which is vicious to prolonged tenure mercantile growth. The presidential choosing outcome is not starting to change a studied as good as graduated recalibration of unfamiliar worker process settings.
- Second, conjunction is it populist for any supervision to take comment of a feedback supposing to a supervision by a people as good as regulate policies in a essential manner, which is what is happening. The feedback supposing by a May eleven choosing as good as a presidential choosing is not a demand for populist handouts or zenophobic policiesThus, a process changes you have been saying areto take improved comment of societys capacity to absorb large increases in population.
- Third, there is positively small ardour in Singapore for a sort of populism which has hurt alternative countriessuch as extreme gratification spending, large fiscal deficits, insular protectionism as good as alternative distortions. Sure, there is a enterprise for changes such as an stretched safety net, especially with courtesy to early retirement appropriation as good as healthcareSingapore regressive domestic enlightenment of emphasising a work ethic nad family values is a consequential barrier to process excesses.
Managing Rising Costs due to Policy Changes
Rising costs have been positively a complaint in Singapore, though costs have been taking flight since a manage to buy ! until re cently was flourishing as well quick compared to a underlying intensity growthGlobal inflation has also pushed up food as good as appetite costs. It is true, however, which a small costs have been taking flight as a outcome of process changesHere again, a categorical driver is mercantile reality. The governments strategy of raising a price of labour, for example, is to incentivise businesses to pierce up a value sequence as good as economise upon labour appropriate.
Conclusion
MNCs take great heedfulness to study countries they invest in. Any MNC analyst conducting a study of Singap! ores pol itical as good as mercantile fundamentals will cruise a determinants of domestic fortitude discussed above as good as interpretation which these have been strongly in favor of domestic fortitude as good as a process regime which will remain rational, commercial operation friendly as good as open to unfamiliar investors.
With a general choosing as good as a presidential choosing out of a way, process makers can right away pierce forward with a full operation of process changes needed to keep a country upon a plain track.There will be hurdles ahead, though a complement in Singapore is robust enough to cope.The EDGE MALAYSIA
Manu Baskaran is an economist as good as partner as good as conduct of mercantile research during US- formed Centennial Group Inc. in Singapore.
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Kerajaan Negeri Johor Sokong Komunis
Dont put journalists at risk to cover political publicity stunts
Many questions have been being asked in a arise of a genocide of Bernama TV cameraman Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, 41, strike by a stray bullet fired by rebels in Somalia, according to headlines reports which pronounced he as well as others in a media group had been starting into a city to file their footage, accompanied by a Somali armed forces truck.
The first subject is: what was he doing in Somalia (on reduced notice, it is said) upon this assignment, as well as had he been rebuilt for operative in a hostile environment? The second subject is: did a organisers, a Putera 1Malaysia Club, take each magnitude to protect him, which also equates to ensuring he had been adequately prepared?
Somalia as well as Mogadishu have been not different territories. They have been fight zones. Going upon an assist goal into a fight section is not a same as starting to upon disaster relief.
Until all a facts have been known, a only things which contingency be pronounced is which <no Malaysian reporters contingency ever be put in danger for a sake of a little poor domestic organisations poor publicity stunt.
Bernama, Bernama TV, TV3 as well as a Putera so-called humanitarians have a lot to answer for.
Journalists in hostile environments
security is expensive as well as can enlarge a cost of a single reportage substantiallya publisher has to decide whetherthe piece is value a cost or notthere have been a few golden rules as well as precautions: he low profile proceed is a single where pieces to camera have been finished unexpectedly as well as unannounced inside of reduced durations underneath thirty minutes, regulating internal fixers to range out locations as well as translators, moving around in cars but logos as well as security guards.
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STOP LYING ABOUT MALAYSIAS FORMATION
By : UBF MEDIA
THE FEDERAL Government should stop fibbing about a story of Malaysia as well as restate rightly a contribution of story to stop a confusion.
Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, a Chairman of a United Borneo Front (UBF) done this call during a Borneo Tea Party organized by Sikinor Gunu during Kg. Malanggang, Kiulu, recently.
This successive fibbing is an aspersion to a first fathers of Malaysia as well as a gross injustice to Sabah as well as Sarawak, he said.
In his speech, Jeffrey went by a list of what he called a deliberate misinformation by a federal government:
(1) That Malaysias autonomy is 31 August 1957 as well as which Malaysia is right away 54 years old. But a fact is which Malaysia usually came in to being upon sixteen Sep 1963;
(2) That Sabah as well as Sarawak assimilated Malaysia. The contribution of story is which Sabah as well as Sarawak together withSingapore as well as Malaya shaped Malaysia. Without Sabah as well as Sarawak, there is no Malaysia.
(3) That Malaya is a same as Malaysia. The Federation of Malaya which was shaped upon 31 August 1957 is not a same as a Federation of Malaysia which was shaped upon sixteen Sep 1963 as well as they have been separate as well as graphic entities as well as different countries;
(4) That Malaysia is a Federation of 13 States with Sabah as well as Sarawak being a 12th as well as 13th States. The contribution of story is which Sabah as well as Sarawak have! been eq ual partners with Malaya as well as Singapore to form a new Federation of Malaysia. Even a late Tengku Ab! dul Rahm an positive a Sabah as well as Sarawak leaders which Sabah as well as Sarawak will not turn a 12th as well as 13th States as well as even said; we (meaning Sabah as well as Sarawak) have been joining as equal partners. Unfortunately, contrary to a Tengkus assurance, Sabah as well as Sarawak have today turn a 12th as well as 13th States respectively in a unitary complement underneath Malaya, he said.
He expressed UBFs supports a rising concerns of a adults of Malaysia in Sabah as well as Sarawak who right away subject a distortion of a chronological facts.
I am also glad that the Federation of Malaya, Sabah as well as Sarawak should applaud in farrago their particular autonomy though come together in unity to applaud Malaysia Day upon sixteen Sep as well as a 48th year this year, he said.
Dr. Jeffrey combined which if not for a efforts of a opposition, Malaysia Day (September 16) would still have been a normal day in a calendar of Malaysia.
It took a Federal Government 47 years to strictly recognize Malaysia Day as well as have it a public legal holiday in 2010, he said.
The Federal Government should stop all a lies upon a chronological formation of Malaysia as well as remove all hidden bulletin as well as restate a tangible story of Malaysia immediately for a benefit of a total world, not just for Malaysians, he added.
He pronounced a continued distortion of story usually serves to nettle a people of a Borneo States of Sabah as well as Sarawak as well as will perpetually leave a sour ambience in a their mouth as well as add weight to a observation of Sabah as well as Sarawak being neo-colonized by West Malaysia.
He certified which due to this lengthy duration of distortion of a contribution of history, it will take a lot! of brav ery for leaders as well as a people to demand which sufficient is enough, a genuine story of Malaysia shall be put in order as well as corrected in the propagandize story books.
I hold which a current Prime Minister as a second generation ! premier should be brave as well as magnanimous sufficient to mount up for what is right. The old approach of propaganda no longer functions because people have been right away some-more prepared as well as informed. So there is no some-more indicate in perpetuating a lies, he said.
Kenapa BN/UMNO bersusah payah sangat nak jadi pembangkang?
Sejarah keganasan komunis
Di samping itu, pertubuhan-pertubuhan buruh Komunis telah juga muncul pada tahun 1926. Pada tahun tersebut, di Negeri Sembilan sahaja di mana terdapat ramai suku Hailam (suku Hailam dikatakan pendokong utama fahaman Komunis),