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If I were the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment
I try hard, by my work as well as writing,to protect a environment. you comprehend which you am not alone - countless alternative people have been additionally operative tirelessly in assorted capacities within a government, NGOs as well as private sector.
Despite all a efforts, it is clear which there have been still most basic issues which need to be resolved as well as this can usually occur by intervention from a tip i.e. a Minister of Natural Resources as well as a Environment. Since you am not a Minister, you can usually dream on. BUT if you were a Minister, a tip ten things (in no sold sequence of priority) which you will do are:
(1) Revenue Sharing in in between Federal State Governments
I will remonstrate a Cabinet which a income pity in in between a Federal as well as state governments contingency be restructured if a healthy resources as well as a environment of a nation have been to be stable sustainably. The present intrigue where most of a income generated goes to a Federal supervision forces state governments to rest almost completely upon exploiting healthy resources (forest, minerals, land) to fill up their coffers, as well as this represents probably a biggest threat to a environment. There is simply no incentive for state governments to protect their forests even for tourism, given tourism associated receipts such as make make make use of of of as well as sales tax go to a Federal government. State governments have been during a mercy of a Federal supervision for development grants as well as monetary assistance. you will delineate a intrigue which will give a state governments a improved cut of supervision income whilst giving them larger shortcoming for caring for a environment. you will provide performance-linked incentives to a state governments to protect their forests, H2O catchments, as well as alternative healthy resources.
(2) A More V! isible M inister
I will be some-more visible, some-more outspoken as well as strive to be a face of a countrys ! environm ental management. This sector has a prominence problem. All a key supervision people keep a low profile. The open has got no icon, no hold up to demeanour up to. Forget a notion of you do a work quietly. If a open cannot see us, if a open does know not who you am, dont expect a open to think you have been really working. If a open knows Karam Singh Walia improved than they know me, you have a problem. The nation needs an idol as well as you intend to be that.
(3) Better Support for NGOs
I will continue a make make make use of of of of my predecessors in engaging with NGOs, though you will take this a step further by upon condition which them with larger dignified as well as monetary support. you comprehend which most of a in effect environmental programmes in this country, quite those during a village level, have been implemented as well as funded by NGOs. There have been several environmental NGOs which have been you do glorious work in Malaysia as well as by operative some-more closely with them, you hold a Governments pursuit would be most easier. you will safeguard which my Ministry appreciates as well as takes comment of their eccentric thinking as well as constructive criticism. This undoubtedly calls for tolerance amongst my officers as well as this is something which you will all a time direct upon.
(4) National Transportation Policy
I will cajole (and if compulsory threaten) my colleague, a Minster of Transport, which a National Transportation Policy should be jointly formulated by 3 ministries namely my ministry, Ministry of Transport as well as Ministry of Energy, Water as well as Telecommunications. Transportation has such great impact upon a environment as well as appetite make make make use of of of which it cannot be left usually to a single Minist! ry to de cide. you do not wish a Ministry of Transport to usually invite a single of my officers to lay in a little committee. We wish to be in a joint driving seat. Transportation impacts a environment in so most ways emissions, land use, noise, societal, as well as by appetite use. Sustainable tr! ansport is fundamental to ensuring environmental peculiarity as well as shortening direct for energy.
(5) National Biological Strategy as well as Action Plan
The National Biological Diversity Policy is outdated, so problematic which almost no a single outward my Ministry knows it, sets no targets, provides usually a little deceptive directions as well as was formulated but critical stakeholder engagement. you will safeguard which a brand new National Biodiversity Strategy as well as Action Plan which my Ministry will delineate will holistically address all a requirements of a Convention upon Biological Diversity (CBD). We will set picturesque targets, develop a holistic biodiversity planning framework, with action plans, budget as well as timeframe which will assistance us achieve a targets. And you will do it with due stakeholder engagement. you will safeguard which Malaysia becomes a poster-boy or girl of CBD. you am well-aware which biological diversity is a inhabitant heritage as well as it is a duty to protect it.
(6) Environmental Quality Council
(8) Environmental Awareness as well as Education
I am entirely wakeful which you need to educate a people to improved appreciate their environment. you will work with a Minister of Education to interpose larger environmental bargain in to a propagandize curriculum. While there is a little ongoing bid in this respect, this is not enough. We need to maintain teachers who have been environmentally-sensitive hence a need to expand environmental preparation in teachers ! training . In short, you need an environmental preparation policy, as well as afterwards you need to consistently exercise which policy. We need to be very focused when it comes to formulating recognition you will safeguard which a preparation efforts have been tailored to meet a diverse needs of Malaysians.
(9) Water Resource Management
Too most ministries as well as agencies have been concerned in a supervision of a H2O resources - KTAK, NRE, SPAN, JPS, MOA, DOE, PUAS, LUAS, assorted state agencies as well as local councils, etc. And if you looked during a ! rivers, very quickly you will know which you have not got it right. Overlapping as well as opposing jurisdictions, gaps, responsibilities but authority, miss of tellurian capacity as well as a vagaries of a state-Federal scope of office all supplement to a problem. you will push for a reexamination of these shortcomings, streamline a purposes as well as responsibilities of a assorted agencies, as well as push for larger shortcoming of state governments in H2O resource management. you will additionally give importance to a most grey areas such as catchment supervision as well as protection, sullage discharges, riparian reserves, peculiarity of surface runoff, as well as insurance of stream aquatic life. And you promise to clean up during slightest 1 stream (yes, 1 only) by 2020.
(10) Environmental Legislation
My method as well as a departments underneath it will publicize as well as gazette key environmental legislations as well as amendments which have been critical to plunge in to a little of urgent environment as well as biodiversity associated issues in a country. These embody (i) Marine Parks Act; (ii) Access as well as Benefit Sharing Act; (iii) regulations to control non-point sources of pollution (iv) amend a Federal Constitution to concede larger share of supervision income to states. you will additionally run to enlarge a series of environm! ental cr ew in a supervision to 1 to 10,000 race by 2015. The current rate is about 1 to 14,000 persons (DOE, NREB as well as EPD combined) which equates to which you have to employ about 1,000 crew in in between right away as well as 2015. At a same time, there is an viewable need to significantly boost a staff force during a wildlife as well as forestry departments.
There have been so most things to do as well as so little time or resources. you am wakeful which there have been most some-more things which have been equally important. Combatting illegal trade in wildlife, biosafety, ecolabelling as well as climate change have been usually a few in a ocean of a million things which you have to do.
We cannot live but a environment to support us as well as it des! erves be tter diagnosis than you have been currently giving it. We have a big pursuit to do as well as a earlier you put some-more resources as well as bid in to it, a improved for all a futures.
Malaysian Diplomacy in Islam Hadhari Style
September 5, 2011
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Malaysian Diplomacy in Islam Hadhari Style
Malaysiakini reports: Pak Lahs Working Visit has US envoys scratching heads
US deputy chief of mission to Barbados Mary Ellen T Gilroy (left) made this observation in a diplomatic wire from a US embassy in Bridgetown, leaked by whistleblower website Wikileaks.
According to a wire personal as sensitive, Abdullahs revisit from Apr 29 to May 2 was unequivocally a vacation, as good as not a working revisit as claimed by Wisma Putra as there was no petrify agenda.
The wire was leaked upon August 30, a day prior to stream Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razaks right away scrutinised revisit to Perth, Australia.
The PM was conspicuously missing from Malaysia upon National Day, though a jet pronounced to be his central craft was speckled by a Malaysiakini reader at a Perth Airport upon August 31.
Malaysiakini contacted PMs aides to get acknowledgment though was repeatedly refused a information.
However, inhabitant news group Bernama had upon a following day reported th at he was there for physiotherap! y for a knee injury as good as held a assembly with Malaysian students in Perth.
Working revisit enclosed eighth month upon luxury islands
In a cable, Gilroy wrote that Abdullah had vacationed for a few days upon a Grenadine islands Mustique as good as Canuoan after assembly with Gonzalves, who had additionally accompanied him upon a fishing trip.
She remarkable that a Grenadine islands of Mustique as good as Canuoan have been in vogue compared to a beggarly main island of St Vincent.
Mustique is a private island containing private villas, most of that owned by general celebrities, while Canuoan is home to high-end resorts as good as a golf course developed by mogul Donald Trump.
Gilroy observed that besides a primary assembly with Gonsalves upon Abdullahs arrival, Abdullahs usually central undertaking upon a outing was an residence to a St Vincent parliament, prior to departing to Jamaica upon May 2.
According to a Bernama report in Apr 2006, Abdullah is approaching to residence a House of Assembly, meet ordinary Vincentians as good as be briefed about Malaysian investment projects in Saint Vincent as good as a Grenadines.
The commission enclosed afterwards functions apportion S Samy Vellu, afterwards girl as good as sports apportion Azalina Othman, afterwards higher education apportion Mustapa Mohamed as good as afterwards deputy unfamiliar apportion Joseph Salang as good as comparison officials of a Prime Ministers Office, Foreign Ministry as good as other government agencies.
The revisit would capacitate a PM to settle personal hit as good as shape metal closer good dialog as good as bargain with both Gonsalves as good as (Jamaican PM Portia) Simpson Miller.
He will addi! tionally weigh intensity areas of team-work as good as find ways to raise traffic as good as investment activities between Malaysia as good as a two Caribbean countries, Bernama reported.
How can UMNO take out Mat Sabu
Konspirasi mekanik bodoh dari RPK si penipu II
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2. Laporan perubatan Pusrawi dalam pemeriksaan Saiful didapati di mahkamah
Presumptuous Khairy rushes for PAS debate but keeps avenue to chicken out
In his common spotlight-grabbing style, UMNO Youth arch Khairy Jamaluddin has rushed to accept a plea from PAS over a argumentative Bukit Kepong incident, insisting which he would take upon only Mat Sabu, a PAS emissary president, as well as no a single else.
But a ultimate 'Communist ' assault opposite PAS is already starting to get unstuck, only similar to many a alternative plots similar to a JAIS-DUMC raid opposite a Pakatan Rakyat Selangor government as well as a Christian prime apportion quarrel opposite a DAP.
"It will backfire because UMNO is basing a explain upon falsehoods. They have been twisting a chronological contribution to suit their own domestic motives, so how can it final unless a people have been really so stupid. This time, UMNO has angered many established people in a Malay community. It has raked up bad memories for these groups who still remember how rigourously UMNO treated with colour their families to win domestic energy from a British," PKR clamp boss Chua Jui meng told Malaysia Chronicle.
Presumptuous KJ though keeps entrance open to duck out
Meanwhile, a discuss call in was released by PAS report arch Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man to his reflection in UMNO over a weekend, as well as eyebrows in PAS were lifted during Khairy's presumptousness in pulling himself forward.
"He is only a UMNO Youth chief, as well as whilst we welcome his acceptance, it would be improved for him to meet his own turn similar to a own Youth chief. But I beheld Khairy pronounced he wants to discuss Mat Sabu as well as no physique elese. This shows he is no! t sincer e as well as has already put a premonition so he can duck out later," Kuala Krai MP Ha! tta Raml i toldMalaysia Chronicle.
The UMNO-owned Utusan journal had in a week heading to a Hari Raya legal holiday influenced up a ruckus over a speech made by Mat Sabu upon August 21, where a PAS No. 2 had slammed UMNO as not being a loyal fighters for Malaya's autonomy as they have always claimed to be. For days, UMNO leaders a single after an additional came out to attack him for being a 'traitor' as well as a 'communist'.
Yet a attacks have additionally combined great confusion towards UMNO. Indeed, a backlash is right away flourishing as some-more historians as well as experts indicate out a chronological contribution which support Mat Sabu's remarks. Additionally, within a Malay community, a situation has combined bitterness during a mental recall of a many Malay individuals as well as groups which had additionally fought for autonomy such as Mat Indera, Shamsiah Fakeh as well as a PUTERA-Amcja. These had been victimised as well as tricked by UMNO to a British, which had tended to foster a snob UMNO.
Anti-Mat Sabu tour: No adulation for UMNO though might be decaying eggs
A roadshow programmed by UMNO Youth is right away starting to come unstuck, especially in a arise of a deadly sharpened of a Bernama cameraman whilst upon a aid-mission to Somalia organized by an UMNO-linked NGO. Nonetheless, it did not stop a desirous Khairy from trying to explain 'victory' for being a a single who had pushed PAS in to throwing a discuss challenge, although he additionally made certain to keep an exit entrance open for himself.
Done. Got call in to rumble w/ Sabu. Ill be there, Khairy said upon his Twitter. No need to look for a neutral venue. Your lions den. See you there, Mat Sabu.
According to Malaysian Insider, Khairy additionally pronounced only Sabu (will do) for me.
Meanwhile, in his invitation, Tuan Ibrahim slamm! ed UMNO for a accordant attacks opposite a PAS No. 2, who is feared for his bombastic skills. The PAS-proposed discuss will lift a pretension Siapakah layak digelar pejuang kemerdekaan sebenarnya? or 'Who have been a real free ! fighters for Malaya's independence?'
UMNO had regularly attempted to crucify Sabu as a 'traitor' as well as a 'communist' for his speech which purported a loyal heroes were not UMNO though a alternative groups similar to PUTERA-Amcja.
"UMNO's accusations have been a biggest joke, a many comical stupidity becasue in between PAS as well as a Communist struggle, there is no likeness during all," Harakahdaily quoted Tuan Ibrahim as saying.
There is expectancy which UMNO Youth leaders might have misjudged really bad their recognition as well as chances have been tall which instead of adulation as well as standing ovations, they might be pelted with decaying eggs as well as tomatoes.
- Malaysia Chronicle
NGO chief says told Malaysian team would be safe in Somalia
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 The Malaysian humanitarian goal to Somalia was given assurances by internal military as good as soldiers there which a aid group would be safe while in a war-ravaged country, a head of a Putera 1 Malaysia Club pronounced this sunrise amid ascent criticisms which a Malaysians were ill-prepared for a trip which resulted in a genocide of a Bernama cameraman.
Datuk Azeez Abdul Rahim, who is additionally an Umno autarchic council member, pronounced Noramfaizul Mohd Nors genocide appeared to be fated since a cameraman had insisted upon starting to Somalia even though he had not been originally assigned by Bernama to cover a mission.
Azeez (picture) appeared upon RTMs Selamat Pagi Malaysia this sunrise to urge his bar opposite attacks as good as calls for it to be hold under obligation for Noramfaizuls death.
Noramfaizul was killed in a Somali capital of Mogadishu when African Union peacekeepers allegedly shot during a lorry in which six goal members, together with a 39-year-old, were travelling.
The cameraman who worked in national news agency Bernama for eleven years leaves a wife, Norazrina Jaafar, as good as two sons elderly eight as good as 3 years.
Azeez pronounced this sunrise which Noramfaizul had been a last-minute inclusion in a goal as good as had asked to go only two days prior to a group left for Somalia.
He told us he should go since he had experience covering alternative missions to Gaza as good as Pakistan with us.
I told a people in Bernama I was comfortable with him as good as they concluded to send him, pronounced Azeez.
The Putera 1 Malaysia Club arch added which his NGO had additionally sent a recce group consisting of a former ambassador as good as an ex-army colonel to Somalia as partial of a missions preparations.
!When you arrived there you were additionally told by a military as good as army men there... they positive us it would be! safe... everything was starting well. We were careful.
Azeez pronounced a Malaysian group was additionally fast by internal soldiers as good as which was a reason why Malaysian soldiers did not accompany them.
He forked out, however, which all of those who participated in a goal did so voluntarily as good as they were done aware of a risks.
International media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranks Somalia as a deadliest nation in Africa for media personnel, with 23 media workers killed since 2007.
The famine-stricken nation has not had a functioning government for more than twenty years.
Azeez pronounced all participants, together with those from a media, were done to pointer indemnification forms, as good as were told right up to their departure which they could withdraw from a mission.
He pronounced which even though a participants had waived their rights by signing an indemnity, a bar had still taken out special word for a members.
Azeez pronounced he had been informed by a word association which RM200,000 would be paid out to Noramfaizuls family.
Yesterday, Noramfaizuls kin demanded which Putera 1 Malaysia Club be hold responsible for his death.
They (Putera 1 Malaysia Club) are a ones who organized (the mission). They cannot lepas tangan (evade responsibility), Noramfaizuls uncle Abu Bakar Md Yasin told The Malaysian Insider at a Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) base here yesterday after a Bernama mans remains were sent back.
Another uncle, Md Tahir Md Yasin, pronounced his nephews genocide could have been avoided.
They should wear bulletproof vests. Its not a fast country, he told The Malaysian Insider.
The 69-year-old late teacher pronounced Bernama should additionally be hold under obligation for Noramfaizuls death, on top of a Putera 1 Malaysia Club.
How can UMNO take out Mat Sabu
Elite-Grassroots Split in PAP
September 5, 2011
www.thestar.com.my
Alternative Take on Singapore Presidential Election 2011: Elite-Grassroots Split in PAP
Insight Down South
By SEAH CHIANG NEE
AN inner difference in the absolute Peoples Action Party (PAP), that has governed Singapore for 46 years, isnt the arrange of news the single mostly gets to read about here.
That it flush final week three months after founding leader Lee Kuan Yew left the Cabinet caused much conjecture in in between citizens, as good as with celebration member hurrying to deny it.
The informant was not the little flippant source but the respectable former celebration stalwart, Dr Tan Cheng Bock (left), who not long ago give up the celebration to competition in the presidential election.He missed defeating former Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tony Tan, the PAP-favoured candidate, by the slim 7,269 out of 2.2 million votes.
The dismal display by the one-time PAP center cupboard member (Dr. Tony Tan) was the vital blow to the statute elite. The man who roughly pulled it off was the popular doctor as good as PAP MP for 26 years.Despite being an outsider, Cheng Bock said, he had perceived the support of the PAP grassroots.
Theres really the multiplication in the PAP.The separate is right down the middle, he told the press.
Grassroots leaders had abandoned advice not to opinion for him. Many old MPs have additionally came out to support me. Its dual ca! mps so t he quite level, he said. The celebration will need to take the vicious demeanour during the approach of doing things.
For years,! people had speculated that once celebration strongman Lee Kuan Yew stepped down, the PAP the single of Asias longest statute parties would separate in to factions.
Lee, himself, had once talked of the probable separate when he was no longer around. Only recently, he warned of the danger of PAP losing energy in Singapore. That day will come, he said.
After the bad choosing display three months ago, the 87-year-old Lee resigned from the cabinet, retaining usually his Parliament seat. Since then, there has been no pointer of PAPs carry out slipping but as Dr Tan pointed out the separate of the rank as good as record is real.
Throughout the order for half the century, the partys clever indicate was the capability to keep the inner conflicts the in isolation affair, fought inside of four walls.
In 1961, the celebration separate in to dual when the impassioned left wing coterie separate to form the Socialist Front. Since then, inner rifts were occasionally whispered to have taken place in in between cupboard members, or with Lee, over vital policies.But most of the quarrels were in private.
Usually the losing side would blur away, pronounced the retired publisher who reported the PAP for decades.
Open hurdles against Lee were harshly dealt with.Lees retirement in May was unquestionably regarded as the key impulse in Singapores political history.
Traditionally, the departure of the strongman who has exercised energy over his people for the long period is mostly followed by inner upheavals as sections shove for power.
This dismissal of the executive indicate of carry out usually unleashes forces that had been underneath patience to move to fill the energy vacuum, pronounced the polytechnic lecturer.In Singapore, this is unlikely, he said, since the nature of the moderate, well-educated population not since to open combat.
But peaceful changes by the ballot box as good as the changing citizens have been another make the difference as good as cannot be ruled out, analysts say.They may likely emerge from inner reviews conducted after heated debates inside of the younger celebration care as time passes as good as th! e Kuan Y ew era fades.
Currently, the single transparent means of the separate inside of the PAP, as good as in in between the supervision as good as the public, is the widening gap in in between abounding as good as poor. The dissatisfied members Dr Tan referred to include most from the 25,000 grassroots leaders, that have been the absolute part of the PAPs energy machinery during the past half the century.
For simplicity, the little analysts have termed it the PAP chosen contra grassroots conflict.Another clever debate raging now is: how far the celebration care should act to address open melancholy or encounter demands for process changes.
If conjecture of the PAP separate becomes the reality, it is doubtful to be identical to the ideological break-up of 1961.
Singaporeans have been largely ideology-free.
Instead, the separate is in in between the younger as good as older generations on how far as good as quick reforms should proceed. Referring to the differences with his father (Minister Mentor, or MM, in the final cabinet), PM Lee Hsien Loong pronounced in May: MM is MM, you have been different. We do it the way.
Lee Kuan Yew would tell it straight from the shoulder no ifs, no buts, solid tough talk, he said.
I consider you have got used to the style.We assimilate what you need to do, but you dont try to do it MMs style. We do it the way.
The older conservatives have been evidently some-more worried about the changing politics.One of Lee Seniors close friends, Philip Yeo, not long ago said: My greatest fright now is that the supervision is terrified of the people. You cannot have the complement where the people have been pampered.
Lee, himself, has warned again of the dangers of Singapore relocating towards the two-party complement as good as electing diseased as good as ineffectual governments.
Dr Tans revelation of the PAP separate was not the first.After losing in Mays ubiquitous election, Former Foreign Minister George Yeo pronounced he would work from inside of to help the celebration reform.
I consider you have most celebration members (who) feel that way. And in the entrance weeks as good as months, there will be most discussions an! d debate s about the approach forward, Yeo said.
Weve got to gather feedback from all supporters from outward the party, as well from all classes, all groups, as good as try the approach to grasp this new unity.The Star (September 3, 2011)
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Azeez: Report on Noramfaizul's Death Submitted to PM
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Puppets on a string, BN parties to surrender seats for Umno to decide
It is quite transparent that UMNO does not wish to give room to a BN partners. UMNO leaders have brazenly as good as arrogantly educated BN components that fared really bad during a last ubiquitous choosing to give up their chair allocations as good as return these to UMNO to contest.
In an intractable tone, UMNO clamp boss Shafie Apdal told BN parties to listen with an open heart so that UMNO could win those seats back for BN. Shafie insisted that all BN components heed his advice to return a seats that they mislaid or have no confidence to win, that is in a spirit of pity between any other in a BN.
So finally, it is out in a open. What Nazri Aziz, Prime Minister Najib Razak's spokesman, has been trying to do with all his stinging attacks against a MCA as good as Gerakan has now reached a open direct level. It is additionally a sign that a 13th ubiquitous choosing is tighten by - within a subsequent 6 months.
True colours
UMNO is display a true colours by not with regard to a bloc partners, conjunction honouring a agreements upon chair allocations or valuing their membership as next to partners in a coalition.
If that is a case, what is a use of having a coalition? Only UMNO has a full powr to determine a choice of possibilities even between a BN member parties, while a leaders of these parties leaders have no say during all!
Because of this demand, is it a wonder since there have been surprise announcements by a leaders of MCA, Gerakan, MIC as good as PPP to leave it to a BN care (the UMNO president) to determine a choice of possibilities for their respective parties?
It s ure looks lik! e a le aders of a BN member parties have been infirm as good as miss a full power to select their own possibilities of choice, by leaving their predestine to a UMNO boss to determine.
In a 2008 choosing UMNO won 79 Parliamentary Seats, while Gerakan only mustered 2, LDP 1 seat, MCA 15, MIC 3, PBB 14, PBRS 1, PBS 3, PRS 6, SAPP 3, SUPP 6, as good as UPKO 3.
For state seats UMNO managed to take 239 seats, Gerakan 3, LDP 2, MCA 32, MIC 7, PBRS 1, PBS 12, SAPP 5 dan UPKO 6. Since afterwards BN has additionally mislaid a series of Parliament as good as state seats as a result of a jot down fibre of by-elections, a SAPP's preference to leave a coalition, as good as a Sarawak state choosing held in Apr this year.
How long can a leaders of a BN Component parties mount such unruly poise from a BN that reeks of arrogance as good as supremacy? It is a parsimonious slap to a partners of a BN member parties. Or have been they starting to tighten a single eye, in a hope of safeguarding their positions as good as jobs in a government?
A suggestion for MCA, Gerakan as good as SUPP to leave BN?
Some time ago, there was speak of a secret discussions involving leaders of MCA, Gerakan as good as SUPP to unite underneath a brand new coalition, if these 3 parties were to leave a BN. Anyhow, this did not come to pass, as they were purported to have chickened out, since everyone was fearful to lose their positions in a government.
A predicament in Gerakan
Lately, a disastrous news-flow about Gerakan boss Koh Tsu Koon has been glaring. He has been a butt of criticisms by a party's own leaders as good as a little eccentric MPs aligned to UMNO who said his weaknesses had caused Gerakan to be swallowed by a tide of current politics. Party leaders additionally blamed him as good as his lame care for a downfall of Gerakan as good as a detriment of Penang.
Other BN member partners similar to MCA, MIC as good as P! PP appea r to have transient substantially since all three have left by a little care shift or tussle after 2008. Currently, desp! ite thei r miss of credit - from Chua Soi Lek to G Palanivel to M Kayveas - no a single seems daring sufficient to challenge their care yet.
There have been additionally problems in a BN member parties in Sarawak, such as PRS as good as SPDP, that have been uneasy by internal politicking. SUPP, a second largest after Chief Minister Taib Mahmud's PBB, has been stuck in a care predicament after a large detriment in a state polls. Fresh party elections have been expected to be held shortly as good as all of SUPP's top posts will be up for grabs.
While in Sabah, UMNO does not appear to have any competition, chiefly due to Joseph Pairin's PBS that is seen to be loyal as good as in sum agreement with UMNO. Smaller parties similar to PBRS as good as LDP do infrequently show their dissatisfaction with a state BN upon a variety of issues that includes chair allocation as good as positions in a government.
The last straw
But until when will a BN member parties go on to bow to a demands as good as a tall handedness of UMNO? Isnt it time for them to have a stand, as good as direct for next to rights as good as integrity as next to bloc partners?
Conceding seats as good as all a time bowing to pressure from BN boss UMNO, instead of making a transparent mount is not starting to be good perceived by a ubiquitous open as good as nor by voters. Instead, it will be seen as a sign of diseased care during a member parties, not to discuss a damaging stroke of detriment of face as good as self respect.
Chances have been tall a parliamentary seats won by SUPP, MCA as good as Gerakan in 2008 will be even more during risk of being mislaid once they concede to UMNO. That would substantially be a last straw, when even their long-standing members will mutiny.
- Malaysia Chronicle
Is it history or his-story?
Potpourri story of Malaysian independence
Noramfaizul death: No blame game, No diplomacy cover-up
Kelab Putera 1Malaysia have done a necessary confidence arrangement.
Safety measures taken prior to Somalia mission: Foreign Minister
PETALING JAYA: Wisma Putra had sent a team of officials to demeanour in to safety measures in Somalia prior to a Kelab Putera 1Malaysia humanitarian assist mission
Wikileaks : Local politicians criticised the King
Impossible to help Somalia says aid group chief
Mdecins Sans Frontires [Doctors Without Borders] is all a time being forced to have tough choices in deploying or expanding a activities, in sticking to a principles of neutrality with a daily realities of people going without healthcare, without food. Our staff face being shot. But glossing over a man-made causes of hunger and starvation in a segment and a good difficulties in addressing them will not help resolve a crisis. Aid agencies have been being impeded in a area.
MSF has been working in Somalia for twenty years, and you know which if you have been struggling afterwards others will not be means to work during all. The being upon a belligerent is which there have been serious difficulties which affect a abilities to reply to need.
Dr Unni Karunakara
International president, Mdecins Sans Frontires
Quoted in a Guardian
FULL REPORT: Charity boss says assist groups have been misleading a open upon Somalia
Filed under: Journalism, Politics
Wikileaks : Local politicians criticised the King
Sept 16: Why was Anwar blamed and what went wrong?
The Malaysian domestic landscape is dotted with instances of politicians leap-frogging from a single celebration to another. It is something to watch for in a issue of any general election, to a extent which it is no longer seen as abnormal though rsther than a facet of domestic life.
Currently, there have been no authorised drift in Malaysia to contend which when an elected parliamentarian decides to switch to an additional party, he or she is probable to remove a seat. Neither is there a law which can stop a single from jumping ship. All of it is authorised as well as lawful. Not just here though in many countries all over a universe including a United States, Japan as well as Britain. There, when a single jumps, it is customarily due to a descending detached in ideology or a very clever feeling of antithesis to a sold policy or law which a incumbent celebration wishes to introduce, though which is totally against a representative's beliefs as well as boundaries of acceptance.
Sad to say, jumping in Malaysia is occasionally about issues, ideology or beliefs though rsther than about a amount of inducements, enticements as well as in many cases even blackmail! Where offers for switching loyalty have been hurtful in inlet as well as where blackmail is involved, defectors as well as their motivators should be punished as well as ostracised by both a electorates as well as a nation.
The difference
So when Anwar Ibrahim plainly declared in 2008 which a series of Sarawakian as well as Sabahan MPs were ready to cross to a Pakatan Rakyat's side of a Parliament, he did not do anything wrong nor unlawful. N! either w as he reprobate or unprincipled.
But since it harked back to a 1994 Sabah fiasco when Joseph Pairin Kitingan was unju! stly dep rived of his majority by a BN using tasteless equates to to tempt his MPs, Anwar's devise to wrest a federal supervision upon Sep 16, 2008, was regarded as a mother of all leap-frog fiascos. Ironically, Anwar was additionally concerned in a 1994 pierce against Pairin.
In 2008, when Anwar failed since he could not lift over sufficient MPs to a Pakatan during a same time, he suffered a tremendous blow to his credibility. Yet it was not his miss of leadership, though a combination of threats, hiked-up enticements from a BN, as well as mostly, since a MPs themselves were not informed with Anwar as well as his style.
Three years have passed as well as there is little disbelief which a Pakatan can govern, so cold feet as well as a flop such as a 2008 a single is unlikely to repeat itself should a opportunity come again to Anwar as well as his team.
Nonethleless, Anwar's Sept sixteen did in law rile up a BN to a extent which it was forced to invite MPs from Sabah as well as Sarawak to a paid 'study tour' to Taiwan to sense about 'agricultural techniques'. The BN might have dismissed Anwars claims which he was means to lean a numbers to his side, though a law was it was frightened unbending during a prospect, which was very real indeed.
Anwar's Sept sixteen real, not a pipe-dream
And of all people, BN should know. They have regularly been in a commercial operation of buying over a antithesis or recruiting 'BN-friendly' parliamentarians over to their stay to seaside up their numbers. One has usually to look to a Perak energy grab of 2009 to assimilate a disproportion in methods in use by Prime Minister Najib Razak, who controversially enticed 3 key Pakatan Rakyat defections, as well as Anwar's 2008 call made plainly to BN MPs to cross over as well as help build a improved Malaysia.
Najib's Perak turnover was done sh! adily wi th MACC prosecutions levelled during dual of a lawmakers while a third was believed to have perceived an 8-figure cheque. Anwar, without resources to match, could usually offer improved power-sharing, a just as well as kind Malaysia as well as greate! r accoun tability to a people who voted a MPs to power. The disproportion is in law telling.
Just days ago, WikiLeaks suggested which a Sept sixteen defections had created be scared within a BN leadership. Sarawak as well as Sabah parliamentarians were upon a tipping indicate of creation history. The wire leaked upon WikiLeaks confirmed which Sept sixteen was real, not a pipe-dream as a BN has embellished it to be. An entry in a tactful note sent from a US embassy in Kuala Lumpur to Washington quotes former Sabah chief minister Salleh Said Keruak as telling US officials which potentially some-more than half of a twenty-five Sabah MPs were ready to desert a BN.
"Matter-of-factly, Salleh stated which between (eight) as well as fourteen BN MPs (out of Sabah's twenty-five MPs) would leave a BN, naming (five) from UMNO as well as (four) from Upko, in addition to (two) from SAPP," a cable, antiquated June 24, 2008, read.
Why did they leave Anwar unresolved in a air
Then, why did a defections not materialize, withdrawal Anwar Ibrahim with a hugely annoying incident upon his hands.
Until his clearance by a recent cable, Anwar has had to humour a consequences of having disappointed a people. With hindsight, it is obvious which a seasoned statesman similar to him would evade such a stun unless he had been sincerely sure of success. Why did a East Malaysian MPs lift a carpet from underneath him then?
Firstly, Sarawak as well as Sabahan parliamentarians have been not unequivocally imbued with a frog mentality, although they have been greatly ruled by a herd instinct. Once a personality with a clever character announces he will pierce in a certain direction, a rest would follow.! For Anw ar to have a parliamentarians defect, he indispensable to have a personality amongst a Sarawakian as well as Sabahan MPs to lead a approach or sound a gong, so to speak.
Secondly, theEeast Malaysian politicians have been community-based leaders. To forsake from a status quo is tantamount to betraying one's own village as well as family. Communities have been mostly times buil! t along family lines. Almost all a time, a statesman is related to his supporters possibly around red blood or by marriage. Before a parliamentarian defected, he would need to convince his own supporter bottom to switch over. And this would not be something any East Malaysian statesman would brave risk unless there is a clever push by a village to defect.
The East Malaysian mindset for defection is very opposite from than a a single hold by many West Malaysian politicians. A 'peninsula' man might jump ship for personal gain as well as benefits, though a Sabahan or Sarawakian would usually do so if a village additionally upheld it. And during which time, Pakatan was new, unheard of as well as untested still. Pakatan additionally did not have clever village leaders blazing its trail then.
New laws to strengthen voters
Even so, a issue of leap-frogging or defections will regularly be a tack in Malaysian politics. To a BN, it is normal usually if they good from it, similar to in Perak. But if a Pakatan attempted it, BN can be counted upon to thwart as well as demonize their efforts.
Strip away a domestic foreplay, during a end of a day what matters is, what do a Rakyat or a people want? Are they voting in convincing group as well as women who can unequivocally run a government? Or have been they small list pawns for domestic parties who see them as a stepping mill to energy as well as wealth?
In GE-13, all Malaysians need to take greater responsiblity for their own fate as well as not blindly follow. How can they concede their own future to be commanded by those who ha! ve conti nuously sold them out decade after decade? On this basis alone, they should opinion for change as well as give a other side a try.
Finally, brand brand new laws ruling defections should additionally be considered. The initial to be private is a unfair 5 year ban imposed upon an MP who resigns his seat. This has supposing 'frog' MPs an excuse not to renounce their seats when they switch parties for a consequence of monetary gain or benefits.
A brand brand new law should additionally be considered requirin! g MPs to automatically give up their seats if they renounce from their party, safeguarding a people as well as allowing them to confirm once again what it is which they unequivocally want.
WikiLeaks: All 994 Kuala Lumpur cables now online
This map from Der Spiegel shows a activity of US wire transmissions around a world. It shows a scale as well as widespread of US diplomatic power, as well as is a rough indicator of which countries have been a main concerns.
There have been 994 cables from a US embassy in Kuala Lumpur in a full WikiLeaks database that have now been expelled to a public. Of these
- 462 have been unclassified cables, a little noted for central make use of only
- 438 have been personal as confidential; and
- 94 have been personal as secret, a little noted not for unfamiliar distribution
The secret cables often concern security counts (nuclear non-proliferation, arms exports), higher-level regional as well as general matters, assessments of Malaysian politics, as well as visits by senior US domestic officials as well as military officers.
Nine secret cables have been assessments of a domestic fortunes of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Najib Tun Razak as well as Anwar Ibrahim.
Where to review a cables
CableGate Search: 251,287 cables found.
Cablegate during WikiLeaks 251,287 cables released.
Cabledrum search 143,912 cables indexed.
The full wire database download
This is a couple for a full Cablegate download
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Its a Torrent download link, for 368 megabytes. Uncompressed, a full archives expands to 60 gigabytes
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The Death of a Bernama Cameraman
September 4, 2011
The Death of a Bernama Cameraman: Stop a Blame Game, says Prime Minister Najib
by Hazlan Zakaria@www.malaysiakini.com
Sep 4, 11
1:03pm
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak today chastised those looking to find fault in a genocide of Bernama TV cameraperson Nuramfaizul Md Nor whilst covering a charitable assist goal to Somalia.
Let us not fool around a blame game now. we think which is a really callous thing to do, pronounced a Premier during a press conference during a Royal Malaysian Air Force bottom airport in Subang, after watching a attainment of Nuramfaizuls body.
The 40 year old was shot passed upon Friday whilst travelling in a procession with a UMNO Youth corroborated Putra 1Malaysia assist goal to Somalia.
He additionally evaded questions if UMNO Youth should be blamed for a tragedy. This is an uncalled-for question which we shall not entertain, pronounced Najib (left) as he brushed a question aside.
Opposition leaders as well as publisher organisations have called for Putra 1Malaysia to be hold accountable for a genocide of Noramfaizul.They contend it has failed to provide competent protection as well as precision for reporters embedded in a assist mission.
Najib combined which when in dispute zones, assist missions will have to rely upon a horde authorities similar to UN peacekeepers or a local supervision to see to their confidence requirements.
He pronounced which Malaysia cannot insist or make a own arrangements. Even a issuance of bullet explanation vests is scored equally to a local requirements, he pronounced when asked if this would be partial of a preparations for destiny missions.
Stray shots
However he believed which it was an variable incident which res! ulted in a genocide of Nuramfaizal, observant which a confidence arrangements supposing were sufficien! t. It wa s an astonishing event. They were strike by wandering shots which were not directed during our convoy.
He additionally advised all parties not to jump to conclusions as a deadly sharpened is being thoroughly investigated by a Somali supervision adding which a full inform was betrothed to him by a Somali boss himself.
The Premier additionally pronounced which destiny Malaysian missions will attempt to be improved prepared subject to what a horde authority can provide. But infrequently even if you have been prepared, you cannot get 100 percent guarantee. Even if you wear a bullet explanation vest, there is no guarantee.
We have soldiers assigned as peacekeepers, versed with bullet explanation vests, who have lost their lives.
Part as well as parcel
Even if a supervision were to make some-more difficult steps, he insisted which such dangers have been fundamental to active dispute zones swarming with armed combatants. When most weapons have been in a hands of unsuited men, there is danger, warned Najib.
He additionally set in reserve questions upon either proper precision should be since to reporters prior to dangerous dispute section assignments, observant which such missions as well as a fundamental risks were partial as well as parcel of a profession.
Even international reporters get killed If you dont want to become a journalist, stay during home, he quipped.
Wikileaks : Local politicians criticised the King
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Wikileaks: Immigration dept linked to human trafficking
The cable, antiquated Sept 10, 2008, summarized a inform by Keith Luse, a professional staff part of of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee, upon his investigations in to claims which Burmese refugees were being trafficked during a limit with a involvement of Malaysian immigration officers.
The wire settled which Luse, who was here progressing which year from August 25-31, had met with assorted NGOs, activists, refugees as good as a UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) nation representative, who "generally advanced allegations" which lower-level immigration officers were involved in trafficking of Burmese refugees.
The activists as good as NGOs additionally sensitive Luse which a human traffickers dealing with a Malaysian immigration authorities comprised of Thai, Malaysian as good as Burmese nationals, a wire added.
Based upon sources' outline of trafficking activities during a Thai-Malaysia limit as summarized by Luse, immigration officers allegedly transported Burmese refuges from Immigration Detention Centres (IDC) regulating official vehicles to a limit in in between 1 as good as 3am.
The refugees were afterwards allegedly handed over to traffickers operating from a Thai side of a border.
"Immigration officials perceived in in between RM400-700 per refugee. The distance of a interloper group sold to traffickers averaged in in between 45-100 persons, including men, women as good as children," settled a cable, posted upon Wikileaks.
Luse's infor! m indica ted which during this point, a traffickers would give a refugees a chance to hit so! meone in Malaysia to compensate a release of RM1,500 to RM1,900 per person. Those means to compensate were smuggled back in to Malaysia as good as released.
"Those unable to compensate were sold to a Thai fishing industry, factories, farms or plantations if a man. Traffickers allegedly sell women to brothels, hotels as good as in to domestic servitude. Some sources indicated traffickers competence force some young kids to work as kid beggars in Bangkok as good as elsewhere," pronounced a cable, which however stressed which a last explain remained unsubstantiated.
The wire forked out which refugees' practice being sent to a border, as described to Luse as good as a senior embassy official, "closely match" a trafficking allegations, which were additionally "very similar" to written statements claiming immigration officers were trafficking in Burmese refugees as far back as 1995.
The wire remarkable which Luse had met with a afterwards immigration director-general Mahmood Adam as good as enforcement director Ishak Mohamad upon August 29 to discuss a allegations of involvement of immigration dialect personnel, which both men "categorically denied".
'Rela indirectly implicated'
Mahmood, now a Home Ministry secretary-general, was quoted by a wire as saying which a supervision paid immigration officers good with newly employed officers earning around RM1,300 a month.
However, a wire claimed which Mahmood had "indirectly attempted to implicate" Rela members in a alleged trafficking of Burmese refugees by noting which a proffer auxiliary force supports a immigration department's workforce during IDCs by providing guards.
Luse had additionally hold two separate meetings with Ramlan Ibrahim, a undersecretary! for Sou theast Asian Affairs in a Foreign Affairs Ministry as good as Kamal Khalid, who was during a time a head of a Prime Minister's Office's communications unit head to inf! orm them of an up-coming Senate inform upon alleged trafficking of Burmese refugees in Malaysia, pronounced a cable.
"On both occasions, a Malaysian officials focussed a discussion upon broader issues. Ramlan spoke about a ubiquitous immigration problems Malaysia faces; generally undocumented economic migrants," a wire said, adding a note which forked out which a federal supervision had "repeatedly" lifted pull-factor concerns during discussions upon Malaysia's interloper policy.