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What election goodies are in store and why they won't work in GE-13
Election something good to eat will just sojourn as what they are; choosing goodies!
But what happens once a choosing is over? Back to square a single where a plundering of national asstes as good as resources continues for a subsequent 4-5 years to have up for a something good to eat since previously?
Pundits may have got it right when they contend that a choosing something good to eat have been a way to sway a fence sitters since they have not made up their minds.
But if a majority of a people have already made up their minds over whom they will opinion for a 13th General Election, then whatever something good to eat have been showered upon them will not have any outcome upon a voters.
On a other palm who have been a recipients of these goodies? The cronies, a elites as good as a unequivocally good connected? Or a improverished as good as marginalized people. At a end of a day, it is not a Budget paper per se though what actually trickles down to a masses.
What do they get, as good as what have they got after all these years?
'Goodies' now, 'baddies' in a future
!Anyway, let's have a demeanour during people contend is likely to come in Budget 2012, beginning with Prime Minister Najib Razak himself.Najib, who is also Finance minister, is due to list it upon Octiber 7.
He has hinted during an additional spin of mercantile liberalisation. The Budget will also tackle rising costs as good as be people-caring as good as people-friendly.
At a pre-budget dialogue, Najib also hinted during probable cuts in personal as good as corporate t! axes onc e a products as good as services taxation (GST) was implemented.
And just in case that is not sufficient to thrill a people into giving a BN an additional mandate in GE-13, he has also betrothed higher bonuses for polite servants.
"Let's wait for as good as see. I'm lustful of giving surprises," Star reported him as saying.
For someone so 'shy', he sure has already since lots of hints as it is! Malaysians can be sure it will be a 'buy' Budget. All frills as good as nice small pieces of edging though nothing concrete to spin Malaysia from bankruptcy in 2019. No real or much-need long-term constructional reforms!
Meanwhile, a Umno-owned presses such as the Utusan as good as Berita Harian family have hinted during probable tobacco rises. So 'sin' taxes competence flog in to reinstate a 6 per cent mobile phone use taxation that Najib had to dump after a outrageous public outcry.
Without corruption tackled, what can presumably change?
But regardless of what is finally announced, if a hurtful supervision is in charge of this country's finances then there is unequivocally small hope even if a something good to eat have been unequivocally good.
Pundits contend it will just sojourn upon paper as good as doesn't add any worth to a people's lives. Too much leakages as good as wanton taste is a order of a day!
Can Malaysians ! certitude th e UMNO-led supervision to deliver a goodies. There is widespread doubt! The annual Auditor-General inform is a chilling reminder of endemic as good as entrenched as good as mind youcorruption is during all levels of a government. And a Auditor's inform is just a tip of a iceberg.
Nothing much changes. So, what's next?
Sending a message
Since Najib is unequivocally likely to call for GE-13 in November, maybe it is time for a people themselves to send a message that it is a ruling supervision that needs to change. Don't waste some-more of a! country 's already scarce resources perplexing to convert fence-sitters to ! become B N voters.
Malaysians need a re-set! Why not reset a BN supervision which, after some-more than 50years during a helm, has driven a nation into a mark between a rock as good as a hard place both economically as good as socially?
That is a line of thinking of a vast cross-section of a population. Their battle-cry seems to be, "Reset a nation so that a direction a nation takes will be beneficial to its people who make a difference a most. Reset as good as shift must be a battle cry compartment BN falls".
Perhaps, this group, that is flourishing so fast as good as may have already overtaken a normal BN audience, is not wrong. Perhaps, this will be a most appropriate choosing goodie Malaysians could ever have for this year. Real change!
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Sex video allegations cruel, says Customs DG
"Although a blog clearly showed passionate acts, until today there has been no serve report over who was involved. As such, it cannot be conclusively pronounced which it concerned a Customs staff," Customs director-general Datuk Seri Mohamed Khalid Yusuf pronounced in an SMS response to The Malaysian Insider.
"Linking a sex act to Sarbaini's case, which I cannot even see a link, is a cruel act as well as an irresponsible one, if it seeks to humiliate a chairman who has died," he added.
If there was proof, afterwards Khalid pronounced a evidence should be passed to a police, not revealed in public.
Earlier this week, Umno-linked blogs released a video in an apparent attempt to taint a reputation of Customs officers ahead of Monday's verdict in a Sarbaini inquest.
The video which appears to have been secretly available shows a Malay male enchanting in sex with a Caucasian lady in what looks like a hotel room.
Umno-linked blog theunspinners.blogspot.com was a initial to recover a video, claiming a male in a recording was a Customs military officer while suggesting a lady was a Russian prostitute.
The male in a video is not named, but a blogger links a recording, which is patrician "Pegawai Kastam Yang Terlampau," to a comparison Customs officer's genocide while in a control of a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) progressing this year.
The blogger additionally echoes a in front of of a MACC as well as a counsel Datuk Seri Shafee Muhamad Shafee Abdullah during a Ahmad Sarbaini inquest.
Ahmad Sarbaini, a Selangor Customs assistant director, is believed to have depressed from a third-floor pantry of a MACC office in Jalan Cochrane here upon April 6 as well as landed upon a badminton court upon a initial floor.
Ahm! ad Sarba ini's box is seen as high profile as it was a second genocide involving a chairman under a MACC's care.
Teoh Beng Hock Teoh, a DAP domestic aide, was found passed upon Jul 16, 2009 upon a fifth-floor mezzanine of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after he was questioned overnight by MACC officers during their then-Selangor headquarters.
Shafee had argued during a inquisition which there had been no evidence presented to indicate possibly homicide or tainted play, as claimed by Ahmad Sarbaini's family.
The counsel pronounced which there was additionally compelling evidence which Ahmad Sarbaini had climbed out of a window, from which he is believed to have fallen, upon his own.
Learn from DAP, Utusan tells PAS
The Umno-owned daily's weekend edition, Mingguan Malaysia, chided PAS today over a fickle-minded perspective towards hudud laws as well as a refusal to punish Mohamad Sabu for his Bukit Kepong remarks.
It piled regard upon DAP in more aged for being unchanging as well as never backing down from a objection to hudud laws.
It followed up a research with a box of MP M. Manoharan, Utusan applauded a DAP's executive care for suspending a personality for his Jalur Gemilang remarks although he has already formally apologised to Malaysians.
"Although a action is still open to all kinds of interpretation, Awang is fascinated by DAP's proceed of holding upon to appropriate values as well as ethics. This should be a summary to PAS," wrote Awang Selamat, a pen name used for a paper's editors.
Awang pronounced PAS in identical vein should act opposite a emissary boss Mohamad, or Mat Sabu, for his remarks glorifying comrade leaders in a Bukit Kepong tragedy.
"It's sufficient which he has refused to redress his remarks as well as apologise, right away PAS is not sportive a shortcoming similar to what DAP did," he said.
But in another mainstay today, Awang additionally voiced relief which Mat Sabu is currently confronting justice action for his remarks, observant it was a public's will to punish a PAS leader.
"Awang's recommendation to PAS sense from DAP. Even then, you have been not even articulate about consistency of policies as well as struggles yet," he said, referring to a new quarrel over hudud laws.
Awang described a issue as seasonal for PAS, observant a Islamist celebration could not have up a mind over either to form an Islamic state or a welfare state.
"Sometimes they roar similar to lions, infrequentl! y they h ave been quiet similar to mice. But DAP has never swayed from a stand from before till today," he said.
Awang combined which unlike PAS, DAP has additionally never exploited sacrament for a sake of politics.
"Again, sense from DAP," he said.
Utusan likens Guan Eng to Kuan Yew for Johor remarks
The Umno-owned daily currently demanded which Lim followed fit with a identical apology to a Johor Sultan, a state government as well as a residents, observant his remarks about a states crime rate was insulting as well as contemptuous.
Awang Selamat, a pen name used for a dailys editors, forked out which Lees 1997 matter about Johor had brought upon a charge of criticism from Malaysians, badly inspiring Singapores tactful ties with a southeast Asian neighbour.
According to old media reports, Lee had pronounced in an confirmation for a libel box during a time which Johor was notorious for shootings, muggings as well as carjackings.
The subject now is, is LGE (Lim) following a mindset of LKY (Lee), a foreign leader who mostly issues hurtful comments about Malaysia?
Does it also counterpart DAPs stand to share a aspirations of PAP (Singapores statute Peoples Action Party) which was founded by LKY? Awang wrote today.
It was forked out which both DAP as well as PAP were born of a same seeds as well as were a same celebration prior to Singapores exclusion in 1965 from Malaysia.
Awang was referring to a ultimate indictment which Lim had bad-mouthed Johor during an interview with an Australian radio hire by describing a southern state as crime-ridden as well as abundant with kidnappings.
The remarks were later construed as an try by Lim to lure away Australian investment dollars meant for Johor as well as obstruct them to Penang where he is arch minister.
The inform changed Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders like deputy prime apportion Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to credit a DAP secretary-general of perplexin! g to har m opposition states in sequence to boost Penangs investment climate.
But Lim (picture) yesterday denied arising a remarks, observant which he had witnesses to prove this.
As usual, LGE surely has his excuses, if not denial. But Awang, like many others, can accurately weigh who this DAP leader indeed is, Awang said.
He pronounced as a responsible arch apportion as well as a Malaysian, Lim should not be badmouthing any state in a republic as well as should instead promote a republic in sequence to capture more investment here.
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Muhyiddin: RCI on illegal immigrant problem possible
The Government would demeanour in to all aspects, including a Royal Commission of Inquiry, in rebellious a illegal immigrant complaint in Sabah, pronounced Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
"I am willing to accept all aspects, let's demeanour in to that. We would cruise each committee inform as well as either a approach forward is a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) or other approaches.
"At a finish of a day, this is something we can demeanour in to seriously," he pronounced when opening a United Pasok Momogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (Upko) representatives meeting.
He pronounced Sabah Barisan Nasional had formed a special committee chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan to plunge into a issue.
"Whether it could be resolved through any initiative or means, I think it is something which a people will believe which a BN is doing a right thing as well as at a finish of a day, a support of a people towards BN is of importance," he added.
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The Great Debt Scare
September 25, 2011
The Great Debt Scare
by Robert J. Shiller
NEW HAVEN It competence not seem which Europe's sovereign-debt predicament as good as growing regard about a United States' debt position should shake up basic mercantile confidence. But they apparently have.
And detriment of confidence, by troublesome expenditure as good as investment, can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, causing a mercantile weakness which is feared. Significant drops in consumer-confidence indices in Europe as good as North America already simulate this impolite dynamic.
We now have a daily index for a US, a Gallup Economic Confidence Index, so you can pinpoint changes in certainty over time. The Gallup Index forsaken neatly in between a initial week of Jul as good as a initial week of Aug a period when US domestic leaders disturbed everybody which they would be incompetent to raise a sovereign government's debt roof as good as forestall a US from defaulting upon Aug 2. The story played out in a news media each day. Aug 2 came as good as went, with no default, but, three days later, a Friday, Standard & Poor's lowered a rating upon long-term US debt from AAA to AA+. The following Monday, a S&P 500 forsaken roughly 7%.
Apparently, a specter of supervision deadlock causing a degrading default unexpected done a US resemble a European countries which unequivocally have been teetering upon a brink. Europe's story became America's story.
Changes in public certainty have been built upon such narratives, because a tellurian mind is very receptive to them, particularly human-interest stories. The story of a probable US default is musical in precisely this way, implicati! ng as it does America's clarity of pride, frail world dominance, as good as domestic upheavals.
Indeed, this is arguably a some-more enthralling story than was a many heated moment of a financial crisis, in 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed. The dump in a Gallup Economic Confidence Index was crook in Jul 2011 than it was in 2008, although a index has not yet depressed to a lower turn than it reached then.
Most certainty indices today have been formed upon consult questions which ask respondents to assess a manage to buy today or in a nearby future. George Gallup, a pioneer of consult methods as good as creator of a Gallup poll, combined a certainty index in 1938, late in a Great Depression, when he asked Americans, "Do you think commercial operation will be improved or worse 6 months from now?" He interpreted a answers as measuring "public optimism" as good as "the intangible mental perspective which is recognized as one vital component in a week-to-week fluctuations of commercial operation activity."
But it hardly seems expected which large changes in people's certainty (the kind of certainty which affects their eagerness to outlay or invest) have been secure in expectations over so reduced a time horizon.
When George Gallup wrote, roughly 9 years after a Great Depression began, a clarity of ultimate futility a belief which tall stagnation would never finish was widespread. That view substantially held back expenditure as good as investment far some-more than any opinions about changes in a next 6 months. After all, consumers' eagerness to outlay depends upon their general situation, not upon either commercial operation will be a little improved in a reduced term. Likewise, businesses' eagerness to sinecure people as good as expand operations depends upon their longer-term expectations.
The Consumer Sentiment Survey of Americans, combined by George Katona during a University of Michigan in a early! 1950's, as good as known today as a Thomson-Reuters University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers, has enclosed a remarkable subject about a pretty long-term future, 5 years hence, as good as asks about abdominal fears concerning which period:
"Looking ahead, which would you contend is some-more expected which in a country as a total we'll have continuous good times during a next 5 years or so, or which you will have periods of widespread stagnation or depression, or what?"
That subject is usually not singled out for attention, though it appears spot-on for what you unequivocally want to know: what low anxieties as good as fears do people have which competence stop their eagerness to outlay for a prolonged time. The answers to which subject competence good assistance us forecast a destiny opinion most some-more accurately.
Those answers plunged into basin territory in between Jul as good as August, as good as a index of certainty formed upon answers to this subject is during a lowest turn given a oil-crisis-induced "great recession" of a early 1980's. It stood during 135, a highest-ever level, in 2000, during a very rise of a millennium batch market bubble. By May 2011, it had depressed to 88. By September, just 4 months later, it was down to 48.
This is a most bigger downswing than was recorded in a altogether consumer-confidence indices. The decrease occurred over a improved part of a decade, as you began to see a finish of debt-driven over expansion, as good as took off with a latest debt crisis.
The timing as good as substance of these consumer-survey results indicate that a fundamental opinion about a economy, during a turn of a average person, is closely bound up with stories of extreme borrowing, detriment of governmental as good as personal responsibility, as good as a clarity which matters have been beyond control. That kind of detriment of certainty might good last for years.
That said, t! he merca ntile opinion can never be entirely analyzed with required statistical models, for it might hinge upon something which such models do not include: a anticipating a little approach to reinstate one account now a tale of out-of-control debt with a some-more moving story.
Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics during Yale University, is co-author, with George Akerlof, of Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives a Economy as good as Why It Matters for Global Capitalism.
Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2011.
www.project-syndicate.org
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NAJIB & ROSMAH BOARDED BUS.........LUXURY BUS
Ahead of GE-13, BN tries to appease Sabahans over illegal migrants, Project M
In 2000, a race was 2.5 million as well as by 2005, Sabah's race increased to 3,313,000. It registered a highest commission of increase in race with 3.1% compared with a inhabitant commission of 2.3%.
Dompok pronounced a National Registration Department could not provide a data of tangible number of Malaysians vital in Sabah, to a Parliament Select Committee upon Integrity in 2007.
"And now a notice in between a people is which a supervision does not know how most Malaysians have been vital in Sabah," he pronounced during a Upko representatives association meeting.
Dompok has called for a Royal Commission of Inquiry to examine a participation of so most foreigners which has contributed to a high climb in population.
Charm offensive
Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who was additionally in Sabah, pronounced a federal supervision would cruise a Royal Commission of Inquiry in to a matter.
"I am willing to accept all aspects, let's demeanour in to that. We would cruise each cabinet report as well as either a way brazen is a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) or alternative approaches.
"At a end of a day, this is something you can demeanour in to seriously," he pronounced when opening a United Paso! k Momogu n Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (Upko) representatives meeting.
However, both Dompok as well as Muhyiddin have been viewed to be branch upon a 'charm' in order to damp Saba! hans who have been angry during a high crime rate as well as congestion caused by a influx of displaced person workers. Snap polls have been widely expected to be called in November.
Many Sabahans blame their predicament upon a Project M started by ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad in a 1990s to recover control of a state after a then arch apportion Joseph Pairin had decided to pull his party out of a BN.
In a large exercise, with purported collusion in between a NRD as well as a Election Commission, thousands of bootleg migrants were postulated citizenship in sell for choosing by casting votes BN.
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Congrats to Dato Ambiga Sreenevasan
September 25, 2011
Congrats to Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan
Malaysiakini Sep 24, eleven 7:08pm
Former Bar Council President Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan has been bestowed France's civilian tip award, a Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur (Knight of a Legion of Honour) for her work in tellurian rights advocacy.
In her acceptance debate during a French embassy in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, Ambiga (left in photo) pronounced a endowment was not for her, but for all polite society.
"This honour belongs to a polite multitude in Malaysia. we think it is critical to conclude all a work polite multitude has been doing."
Ambiga additionally gave special discuss to a Bar Council which she says has prolonged fought against a Internal Security Act, since a time when it was a "lone voice" on a issue.
French Ambassador to Malaysia, Marc Barety who presented Ambiga with a endowment pronounced she was "especially entitled to get this endowment since she is a strong believer as well as defender of tellurian rights."
Past recipients embody Michelle Yeoh
He additionally acknowledged her work with a Orang Asli, an emanate which Ambiga had made a indicate to raise during her speech, pledging a polite society's continued await for a mar! ginalise d community.
Barety pronounced which usually about 25 such endowment have been conferred to Malaysians, whose past recipients embody a Agong, tip troops commanders as well as personalities such as actress Michelle Yeoh (right).
Apart from her various tellurian rights work, Ambiga who is additionally Bersih 2.0 chief reiterated her finalise to move forward with a electoral remodel group's eight-point demand.
Another recipient of a endowment is Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz who will receive her endowment during a after date.
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Rule of Law in Malaysia and The Case of 30 PSM
September 25, 2011
Rule of Law in Malaysia as good as The Case of thirty PSM
By Aliran, upon twenty-four Sep 2011
Good Order is a Foundation of all thingsEdmund Burke,'Reflections upon a Revolution in France,' 1790
While we have been rather relieved which a Barisan Government had motionless to drop a charges opposite a thirty PSM (Parti Sosialis Malaysia) members, a issues surrounding their case have not been resolved. We contingency not dont think about a incomparable issues concerned in a case simply because a supervision had motionless to get out of a messy incident for its own good.
The BN supervision combined this untenable position which cannot be sustained by explanation as good as facts. As a cover for its high-handedness, it is posturing itself as a generous establishment which is capable of being considerate. The actuality is it is trying to extricate itself from this unjustified as good as cruel movement opposite these helpless people who usually meant well.
It is inconceivable which people will be deceived by this gesticulate of a Police. Malaysians have been no some-more trusting or nave to be easily fooled by such tokenism. The reprehensible control of a Police cannot be condoned.
These thirty PSM members have been innocent as good as not guilty of any offence by any widen of a imagination underneath any Malaysian law. That was a reason because a Police attempted desperately to inc! ulpate t hem by all sorts of silly accusations:
- They were indicted of carrying weapons in their buses upon Jun 25, 2011.
- They were indicted of possessing rebellious material.
- They were indicted of waging war opposite a Yang DiPertuan Agong.
- They were indicted of being a national threat.
The Police invoked Section 122 of a Penal Code, Section 48 as good as Section 43 of a Societies Act, Section 29 (1) of a Internal Security Act as good as a Emergency Ordinance to set up up a case which these have been in truth "dangerous criminals". The Police threw all available during them in an try to vanquish them as good as frighten alternative Malaysians in an try to forestall them from fasten a Bersih 2.0 Walk for Democracy.
They were incarcerated unjustly underneath frightful conditions. On July 4 after 9 days of seizure twenty-four of them were charged in justice while a rest of a 6 were charged in justice upon 3 Aug after having been hold for twenty-eight days in unique confinement. The justice imposed bail of RM8,000 each, which meant they had to scramble desperately to lift RM240,000 to seek their freedom almost a quarter of a million ringgit! How could these bad people lift such a outrageous total to post bail?
All this, however, failed to mangle a suggestion of these thirty stalwarts; it failed to discourage outraged Malaysians from marching for democracy upon July 9, 2011. If anything it usually spurred Malaysians to drop their fear as good as mount up for their rights.
But a worrying thing about a whole part involving these thirty Malaysians is a control of a Police Force. We have been perturbed which a Police can catch any one underneath groundless charges with impunity. It looks which they can credit any one for whatever reason but a shred of evidence to behind up their claim as good as catch them.
How could they credit them of waging a war opposite a King, which is a critical criminal offence Section 122 allows for twenty years ! or even life seizure but an iota of damning evidence. This is clearly an abuse of their authority.
How could they credit them of carrying weapons in their train when no weapon was found in a bus? How could they credit them of possessing rebellious element when this was not established?
How could they credit them of being a national hazard but explanation a life of such a threat?Who baked up these stories? Surely someone contingency be answerable. Who will be hold underneath obligation for this contemptible affair? Shouldn't a Inspector-General of Police who is a conduct of a police force be hold underneath obligation for this? Shouldn't a Minister of Home Affairs be taken to charge for this break-down in a rule of law?
Why didn't a judge who is obliged for extenuation a remand sequence demand explanation before extenuation such an order? Aren't a elemental rights as good as freedoms of a chairman his concern? Isn't he a chairman who ensures which justice contingency be inspected as good as every chairman underneath a law is entitled to a protection of a law? Why did he destroy miserably in his avocation to uphold a constitution?
The Rule of Law should not turn a parable in our country. The Police contingency not be a law unto themselves. The Rule of Law contingency prevail during all times.
To forestall similar incidences from occurring in future we need to go deep in to this part as good as seek out out those who were cruel in accusing innocent Malaysians but only cause. We need a Royal Commission of Inquiry to examine how as good as because a apprehension of a thirty PSM members took place. We need to know what gives a Police a management t! o behave in a manner they have but being underneath obligation for their action. We need to establish a actuality which there is such a thing as Rule of Law in this country.
P Ramakrishnan
President
Sep 24, 2011
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Undilah video 'not yet approved' by film censors
According to regulatory physique MCMC, a Film Censorship Board has yet to authorize a four-and-a-half minute public use proclamation (PSA) constructed by musician Pete Teo.
"As such, a PSA should not have been aired on radio till approval had been obtained," said a MCMC in a matter today.
"Accordingly, pursuant to a Communications as well as Multimedia Act 1998, all broadcasters contingency stop airing a video clip immediately," it added.
The MCMC stressed which a controversy "is a single of correspondence by a broadcasters rsther than than a calm of a PSA".
Yesterday, Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar, a single of a participants in a video clip which additionally featured BN politicians such as Gua Musang MP Tengku Ra! zaleigh Hamzah as well as Deputy Education Minister Wee Ka Siong (above), said a MCMC gauge went against a government leaders' claims which Malaysia was a "world's best democracy".
Star-studded cast
Tengku Razaleigh kicks off a video with a words, "Malaysia is a beautiful country, but there have been most problems. we do not need to talk about them. We know what these problems are.
"What we do want to say is, Malaysia's destiny is in our hands. So if we haven't purebred to vote, greatfully do so as soon as possible...
"Remember, whatever happens, Malaysia is your country, this is our country, she! has mos t problems. Malaysia needs us."
It additionally features Deputy He! alth Min ister Rosnah Abd Rashid Shirlin (right in photo), DAP Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua, PAS Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad as well as PKR Seri Setia assemblyperson Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, along with artistes such as Namewee as well as Afdlin Shauki.
Watch Undilah video l 4.38 min
Najib Club's 'cool' way to win young voters
Established in April, the Najib Razak Club, or right away rechristened NRC11 to "keep it cool", appears to be targetting the right demographics as Najib's project - immature voters.
But those attending the club's events would be hard-pressed to find anything ostensibly domestic about it.
The organisation of do-gooding youths (mostly alumni of the United Kingdon as well as Eire Council of Malaysian Students, UKEC) organize talks, do charity work, participate in futsal competitions as well as watch football during mamak grill radio sets.
And unlike Najib, (above) who is forthcoming about gaining political suppor! t from the 'bro's out there, frequency anything about NRC11 - the array eleven since which is the PM's prime - smells of politics.
"The NRC11 is the bar which carries out nation-building initiatives to definitely good our community as well as people. We hold in the values, prophesy as well as ideals of Najib (Abdul) Razak, our prime minister, though you have been not linked to any domestic party," the sharp website reads.
According to the website, the bar supports the PM's mutation skeleton as well as exists since it wants these skeleton implemented.
"We know which no government is undiluted as well as there have been times when they have mistakes as well as wrong decisions. And you do not always agree with them... That is why they have to know what people think as well as why,! " it sta tes.
Upin & Ipin as well as nation-building
Malaysiakini's peek in to one of their programmes, the Nation-building Series talks, this time by the brain behind the popular existence Upin & Ipin - Burhanuddin Md Radzi - found something same to an entrepreneurial talk.
Fifty-odd attendees who huddled during the centre of the ballroom of the upmarket Hilton Sentral listened to the former oil as well as gas male excavate in to the mechanics behind his existence company, Les' Copaque.
The serf audience, in their twenties or early thirties, appeared engaged as well as were enthralled during how Burhanuddin had even allowed pirates to promote his products.
Not most opposite to popular discussion Ted Talks, the Nation-building Series crop up to be the celebration of Malaysian success stories, as well as whatever message was sold which night, the assembly appeared to be buying it.
Others who had formerly oral in the array embody journalist Karam Singh Walia, football commentator Shebby Singh as well as Talentcorp chief Johan Merican, with the initial talk in May by Performance as well as Management Delivery Unit (Pemandu) directors Alex Iskandar Liew as well as Eugene Teh.
The plush venue raises questions of funding, though organisers demand which it was Burhanuddin who had feet the bill. The subsequent talk by Leadernomics owner Roshan Tiran, is additionally scheduled there.
Other activities, they claim, is by corporate sponsorship by companies who despite their munificence crop up to have opted not to announce their association with the club.
Sources tighten to the bar additionally exhibit which the PM has additionally secretly visited NRC11's bureau during KL Sentral, raising questions as to either it receives proceed backing from the male himself, financia! lly or o therwise.
Najib's only public coming with the bar so distant was upon June twenty-six for the breakfast event during the nasi kandar grill upon June 26.
"The Najib Razak Club (NRC11) initial assembly during the nasi lemak grill in Subang Jaya was the sharp-witted as well as warm event. Great to encounter them all," the PM tweeted as endorsement which day.
Benign though absolute club
The participation of ma! ps marki ng constituencies marginally won by BN upon the bureau walls additionally raised eyebrows, though organisers demand the maps have zero to do with the bar as well as were put up "just for fun".
They additionally deny claims by sources tighten to the bar who indicated toMalaysiakini which the club, albeit "benign", is partial of "a incomparable strategy for communications as well as personal branding to push the centrist agenda".
The convenors say which the PM is not behind the club, though which the idea had struck youths attending one of Najib's assembly with his 'Facebook friends'.
Whatever the bar might be, experts hold they have been sending the right message.
Jay Jaboneta, who pioneered the social media branding team for Filipino President Benigno S Aquino III, pronounced by the bar Najib is saying which he is receiving the younger generation seriously.
"Rarely does the head of state reach out identical to this. we think this is the good pierce upon the PM's partial as well as should unequivocally be taken in the positive light.
"This is sending the message to Malaysia's girl which the PM is seeking during them as partners in nation-building as well as as destiny leaders of Malaysia which he's not only investing time as well as resources to woo them though he is additionally investing in people as well as organisations to equip them as well as be rebuilt for the future," he pronounced in an email interview with Malaysiakini.
Jaboneta, whose work for Aquino involved using social media to turn feelers for the president, however, combined which fixing the bar after the prime minister might not be too wise, alternative names identical to Future Leaders Club would better benefaction the inlet of the effort.
Universiti Malaya domestic scientist Noor Sulastry Yurni Ahmad, (left) whose area of investigate is immature voters, additionally gave the pierce the thumbs up, particularly after identical efforts in South Korea gained success.
"It shouldn't be viewed as cosmetic... this proceed was used in the big approach in South Korea to target girl as well as it provided the platform for the immature to connect with the leaders."
In South Korea, she said, sports is really popular among the immature as well as used as the vehicle to reach girl voters with most success.
"I hold selling Brand Najib will raise BN's (appeal) among supporters," she said.
MCMC: Undilah block nothing to do with contents
CYBERJAYA, Sept twenty-four The Malaysian Communications as well as Multimedia Commission (MCMC) claimed currently which a preference to temporarily pull a "Undilah" video off a air was a slight measure which had nothing to do with a essence of a clip.
In a statement to national news group Bernama today, a regulatory physique pronounced it was "normal practice" to stop a promote of such public use announcements (PSA) as it was nonetheless to earn capitulation from a Film Censorship Board.
The elect pronounced a preference was in accordance with "routine monitoring as well as enforcement activities" authorised underneath a Communications as well as Multimedia Act 1998.
"In relation to that, it has turn common practice for a MCMC to order a nullification of essence nonetheless to embrace capitulation from a Film Censorship Board.
"In a case of a PSA produced by musician Pete Teo, as a result of a slight correspondence monitoring practice made by MCMC, it was found which capitulation had nonetheless to be obtained from a house for a pronounced PSA.
"As such, a PSA should not have been aired upon radio compartment capitulation is obtained," MCMC pronounced in a statement.
Without a approval, a elect pronounced Teo's 4.38-minute song video shave compelling a right to opinion could not be aired upon TV.
Pursuant to a 1998 Act, it added, all broadcasters contingency pull a video off a air immediately.
"This directive is about a correspondence of broadcasters rather than a essence of a PSA," a elect said.
Earlier today, MCA Youth chief Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong demanded an explanation from a regulator over a preference propelling broadcasters to stop radio programme of a video.
The emissary minister, who appears in a shave a! long wit h other Barisan Nasional (BN) as well as Pakatan Rakyat (PR) lawmakers, pointed out to a regulatory physique which a video did not promote any controversial content as well as was merely an "innocent" open use proclamation propelling Malaysians to vote.
"I was shocked. Just shocked. I do not assimilate since it was taken off a air. It was only a simple summary enlivening people to vote," he told The Malaysian Insider.
The Malaysian Insider reported yesterday which a shave was taken off a air by internal broadcasters despite a pull for greater democracy since it contains antithesis figures as well as Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's debate talking about Malaysia carrying problems.
This portal learnt which a MCMC directed internal broadcasters this week not to use a PSA only days after a launch upon Sep 16.
"MCMC emailed both Astro as well as Media Prima Bhd about a issue, telling them a video shave should not be aired since Ku Li speaks about a country carrying problems as well as also since it facilities antithesis leaders," an industry source told The Malaysian Insider, referring to Tengku Razaleigh by his renouned nickname.
"Only NTV7 used it but a MCMC email was sent to both organisations which control a infancy of radio channels in a country," a source added.
A government source confirmed which MCMC sent a email to Media Prima, which is related to Umno as well as owns a NTV7 channel, as well as Astro, a approach promote heavenly body pay-television service.
The MCMC is an eccentric regulator but it reports to Information, Communication as well as Culture Minister Datuk Seri Rais Yatim, who was incidentally a Kelantan prince's comrade in Semangat 46 before a celebration was dissolved for a politicians to stick on Umno Baru, a inheritor celebration to a original Umno which was declared illegal in 1988.
Apart from Tengku Razaleigh as well as Wee, a video also facilities personalities like! Deputy Health Minister Datuk Rosnah Abd Rashid Shirli! n as wel l as antithesis figures Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua, Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar, Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad as well as Seri Setia representative Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.
Pakatan asks if all TV content needs censorship board nod
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept twenty-four Opposition lawmakers currently heaped guess upon a reason which "Undilah" was pulled off a air as well as questioned if it is usual use for all such clips to be initial vetted by a Film Censorship Board (FCB).
Expressing doubt over a Malaysian Communications as well as Multimedia Commission's (MCMC) reason which "Undilah" has nonetheless to embrace a board's approval, Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua (picture) asked if all content aired upon radio was subjected to such strict controls.
"I am certain there's copiousness of content which does not need capitulation from a house first... similar to news programmes, live telecast, talk shows... not everything requires such approval, so where is a line drawn?" he pronounced when contacted.
The DAP national publicity secretary, who is also featured in a 4.38-minute shave urging Malaysians to vote, agreed with MCA Youth arch Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong's statement fortifying a shave this morning, saying it was merely an "innocent song video".
He pronounced a MCMC, an independent regulatory body which reports to a Information, Communication as well as Culture Ministry, should instead focus upon protecting consumers of telecommunications as well as multimedia companies such as a new plan to charge use taxation to prepaid mobile users.
"They should not be harping upon petty, irrelevant things similar to elementary song videos urging Malaysians to vote," he said.
PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar went a step further as well as demanded a commission rescind a anathema as well as instead help to foster a video to Malaysians.
"I titillate MCMC to retreat a sequence as well as foster a video as a step to make firm approved practices in! a dear country," she pronounced in a statement.
The Lembah Pantai MP, who is also seen in a video, forked out which a anathema had come during a time when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had pledged to enlarge civil liberties by announcing reforms meant to yield some-more freedom to Malaysians.
"This PSA (public use announcement), in which I as well as countless alternative Malaysian open total participated, is a non-partisan rallying call for all Malaysians to mount up, register as voters, as well as let a voices be heard by a approved routine of choosing by casting votes in elections.
"At a time when those heading a nation roar about creation Malaysia a 'best democracy' in a world, actions taken by entities similar to MCMC obviously criticise such efforts as well as slur a comprehension of Malaysians," she said.
On a eve of Malaysia Day, Na! jib anno unced reforms to several confidence as well as press laws, a move viewed as a ultimate in a prime minister's bid to reinvent his picture as well as strech out to younger Malaysians.
The Malaysian Insider reported yesterday which a "Undilah" shave produced by musician Pete Teo was taken off a air by internal broadcasters notwithstanding a push for larger democracy since it contains antithesis total as well as Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's debate articulate about Malaysia carrying problems.
This portal learnt which MCMC directed internal broadcasters this week not to use a PSA just days after a launch upon Sep 16.
Christian groups: Nothing wrong with hudud as long as non-Muslims protected
Despite a MCA as well as Gerakan rushing to reject PAS for restating a long-standing aspiration to introduce hudud law in Kelantan, Christians leaders contend there was zero with such a plan. In fact, all followers of any sacrament should be speedy to essay to make firm their faith, so prolonged as they did not strike upon a rights of others.
"That is a most important thing, to safeguard which a rights of alternative faiths have been fully protected. Then what is wrong with hudud in Kelantan or any alternative state for which matter?" Ramon Navaratnam, past boss of Transparency International as well as a lay Christian leader, told Malaysia Chronicle.
"We should not politicize everything especially religion. It is perfectly healthy for a Muslim as well as a Christian or a Buddhist as well as a Hindu to essay to make firm their conviction as most as they can as well as this should be encouraged. It is usually wrong when they remove sight of others as well as start to turn extremists in their conduct as well as practice. So prolonged as a non-Muslims in Malaysia have been utterly protected, Christians as well as all alternative Malaysians should not be narrow-minded as well as fright for no correct reason."
Ramon's statement is upheld by a boss of a Catholic Bishops' Conference of Malaysia, Dr Paul Tan Chee Ing.
"I contend it's time to concede Muslims in Kelantan, if they so desire, to exercise shariah usually for them as well as with which a hudud enactments provided non-Muslims have been exempt from a implementation," pronounced Paul, who is additionally a titular head of Catholics in a Melaka-Joh! or dioce se.
MCA as well as Gerakan contend NO!
The remarks of a Christian leaders contrast sharply with those from MCA boss Chua Soi Lek as well as Gerakan's Koh Tsu Koon, both of whom lifted heated objections, although their reasons for doing so were not clear.
"MCA's mount is really clear. We will intent strongly to hudud. If Umno wants to exercise hudud, you will lift MCA out of Barisan Nasional - elementary as that. Our mount is really clear. Umno wants to exercise hudud, MCA is no party to it, we'll get out of it," Soi Lek told reporters upon Friday.
"We're a republic with a Muslim majority but with a poignant non-Muslim minority. The basic make up of a constitution preserves this diversity, as well as that's why a punitive laws have been physical as well as applies to everyone. We can't have different sets of laws for each section of society," Gerakan deputy boss Chang Ko Youn pronounced in a statement.
What about Muslim rights then?
However, as Muslims have forked out, both a Chinese-based politicians may be doing exactly what they have been accusing PAS of - impinging upon a rights of others.
"Have MCA as well as Gerakan thought about a feelings of a Muslims. Hudud is for Muslims only. Many of us wish to be tried underneath hudud because you wish to be good followers. Why should MCA as well as Gerakan stop us? Look during Syariah law, it is already in use in a republic as well as it has not affected non-Muslims, so why a abnormal fright of hudud," PAS MP for Shah Alam Khalid Samad told Malaysia Chronicle.
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Kelantan
Hudud is arm of a Muslim law which pertains to 6 rapist prosecutions, as well as is feared because it prescribes low mark which includes stoning to death, a amputation of limbs as well as whipping. The 6 hudud crimes have been theft, highway robbery, illegal passionate intercourse, false accusations of zina or adultlery, celebration ethanol as well as apostasy.
Within Pakatan, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim who is additionally PKR de-facto chief, is supportive of hudud as well as sees no reason why Kelantan should not exercise it as prolonged as a rights of a non-Muslims have been fully protected. DAP is however opposite a idea.
This incident in Pakatan is zero brand new as well as a 3 partners have pronounced it most times. If PAS wants to introduce hudud law or an Islamic state, it contingency have enough majority possibly in a state or sover! eign sup ervision to do so. Neither PKR nor DAP will be firm to await it upon such a motion. In Kelantan, which has less than 10 per cent non-Malays in a population, PAS has enough majority.
However, Mentri Besar Nik Aziz Nik Mat is! unable to do because a sovereign supervision underneath ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad had previously issued a minute exclusive it from putting by a hudud plan. Nik Aziz has challenged current budding minister, Najib Razak, to revoke a letter, but so far, there has been no response.
- Malaysia Chronicle
Mitigate recession: Stop the secretive dealings in Petronas, says Jui Meng
The Najib administration department department department contingency stop plagiarizing a Pakatan Rakyat's mercantile bulletin as good as get cracking with tough financial reforms, starting with a uncloaking of a secrecy around national oil organisation Petronas. This alone could rught away siphon billions behind in to national coffers, reactivating a manage to buy as good as helping millions of Malaysians float through a current severe patch, economists as good as opposition leaders said.
"Since 1974 to 2010, Petronas reports uncover it has finished profits totalling RM700 billion. Now, this is a joke. For Petronas to have so little income over such a long period of 36 years, it is an insult to a intelligence. Then when we review against a WikiLeaks disclosure which Petronas is a 13th most profitable association in a world, it becomes even more impossible as good as we comprehend how mind-boggling a corruption unequivocally is," PKR vice boss Chua Jui Meng told Malaysia Chronicle.
Shadowy universe of oil options wheeling-and-dealing by cronies
Petronas was enacted under a Petroleum Development Act in 1974 as good as has been enjoying a huge rises in petroleum prices in a past decade. It finished a pre-tax profit of RM90.5 billion for a year finale March 31, 2011. On tip of taxes, Petronas has been paying a government a dividend of RM30 billion since 2009, up from RM24 billion in 2008, RM20 billion in 2007, RM13 billion in 2006 as good as just RM9.! 1 billio n in 2005.
But there have long been whispers of huge oil options postulated to firms controlled by associate tycoons close to a ruling chosen in Najib's Umno party. These 'third parties' have allegedly been available to write sell or buy options in a tellurian oil market, corroborated by Petronas's physical oil. Given a large uptrend in oil prices in line with surging universe demand, this has reaped a associate firms huge profits which occasionally ever come behind to Malaysian shores.
"Of course, these arrange murky wheeling as good as traffic contingency be probed as good as stopped. It is similar to permitting these firms to thickk cream off Petronas' legitimate profits. And this could be why a reported accumulated gains have been so low. Who have been these firms, who gave them these rights as good as above all, rught away stop such exchange since a income belongs to a people. It is a nation's resources an! d alread y, our oil pot have been parching up," pronounced Jui Meng.
Dropp ing a veil: Dr M should lead a remodel though will he?
Recently, a leaked US diplomatic cable suggested Petronas officer, Mohd Azhar Osman Khairuddin, as revelation embassy officials which Malaysia's oil as good as gas pot were running dry. Indeed, Conoco Philips Malaysia too has confirmed which though brand new discoveries, Malaysian oil prolongation will decline during approximately 10 per cent per year, from 550,00! 0 bpd in 2008 to roughly 490,000 bpd in 2009 as good as 450,000 bpd in 2010.
Jui Meng as good as Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim want a Royal Commission of Inquiry in to Petronas. Anwar has pronounced a oil resources belongs to a people as good as a correct as good as full review contingency be conducted. He has called for Petronas to answer directly to Parliament for larger burden as good as transparency.
Ramon Navartnam, an eco! nomist a s good as prominent polite multitude leader, agrees which there should be "much greater" clarity injected in to a national oil firm. He called upon Petronas confidant Mahathir Moha! mad, a former premier, to spearhead a move.
"Certainly by universe standards, Petronas does crop up to be lacking in terms of clarity in how it accounts for its profits as good as much should be finished to improve. Tun Mahathir is a most appropriate chairman to lead this call for remodel in Petronas. The Petroleum Development Act should be reviewed as good as all clauses inserted through a years to ensure secrecy should be removed," pronounced Ramon, who is additionally a past boss of Transparency International Malaysia.
Cutting corruption can yield faster results
Both Jui Meng as good as Ramon had been responding to a matter from Pemandu, an mercantile section in a Prime Minister's Department, which upon Friday pronounced a sovereign government was taking steps to increase a normal household income from about RM1,500 to RM4,000 per month.
Pemandu did not state any time line, prompting both Ramon as good as Jui Meng to flow scorn upon a proposal. They warned which any attempt to give a people a false impression which such an mercantile ! quick-fi x was possible would only backfire.
Financial analysts agreed a plan would take time, as good as given which a winds of tellurian recession were fast blowing in to Asia as good as Malaysia, quicker solutions might distortion in stopping a debase in Petronas, which is already money-making, as good as critical austerity drives which focused upon stamping out corruption. The problem lies in whether there is a domestic will to do so, they said.
"At a finish of a day, it is corruption-free which is a buzzword. Look during Selangor - in 3 years it has right away a t! op cash pot in its 2! 8 years' history. Medicine which didn't work in a BN's time right away work, since a Pakatan administration department department department was sincere as good as did their jobs. No graft. Same in Penang," pronounced Jui Meng.
In Buku Jingga, PKR had proposed a jump from RM1,500 to 4,000 though to be effected within 5 years. This was not a magic wand, pronounced Jui Meng, though a specific time line requiring critical steps such as implementing a minimum salary of RM1,500-00, permitting spouses to work from home so which they could yield a second source of household income, abolishing as good as reducing toll, controlling water as good as electricity charges.
"The Pemandu matter is stolen from Pakatan' Buku Jingga, roughly verbatim. There have been so most alternative ideas they have stolen from us to receptive to advice good as good as look good though nonetheless it is simply within their power to have it a reality, we do not see a Najib administration department department department doing much. Recently, a BN eventually famous Malaysia Day as good as which was additionally from us. It was a Anwar Sep sixteen call as good as his insistence which this day should not go unrecognized which finished a BN U-turn," pronounced Jui Meng.
- Malaysia Chronicle