Paid cyber troopers Gomen Man

OCT 11 I caution Malaysiakini, The Malaysian Insider as well as other websites that a Barisan Nasional government has hired about 200 cyber troopers to try as well as change perspective on portals, amicable networking sites similar to Facebook.

These paid hands will post nonsensical comments as well as even plea webmasters to put up their comments. The idea is to create a sense that there have been many supporters of Najib Razak as well as his government in cyberspace as well as dominate others.

But in truth, they number about 200 as well as have been paid by taxpayers. I urge a brand new sites not to put up their comments since they have been paid hands as well as have been not meddlesome in any beliefs or in a better Malaysia.

Their solitary aim is to perpetuate a benefaction complement despite all a flaws. The Najib government has assumingly been advised by a good friends in Singapore that it needs to change opinions in amicable networking sites as well as a Internet. That is because they have hired these cyber troopers.

So, greatfully beware, Malaysiakini as well as others.

* Gomen Man reads The Malaysian Insider.

* This is a personal perspective of a bard or publication. The Malaysian Insider does not validate a view unless specified.

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Cops kicked boy, pushed girl to ground, Bersih inquiry told

KUALA LUMPUR - Riot military vigourously shoved a tudung-clad reporter to a ground whilst others repeatedly kicked a child during a Bersih 2.0 convene crackdown, a declare told a open exploration in to a Jul 9 protests today.

Kenneth Steven Chan Wen Chin told a Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) exploration he saw a Selangor TV female reporter accosted in Brickfields.

"We were headed to Jalan Tun Sambanthan where we listened military crew shouting "Tangkap! Tangkap!" (Arrest! Arrest!). We saw a Malay lady with a tudung, military grabbed her as well as pushed her to a ground really roughly, pulling her head down upon a road," pronounced Chan.

He pronounced his girlfriend, who is a reporter, was benefaction with him when a situation happened as well as they took pictures.

Chan also claimed he saw multiform policemen kicking a child in Jalan Pudu, as well as that he had also taken photographs of a purported incident.

"The military warned us against taking pictures, observant they would b! reak our camera. The child was observant something about a military as well as they changed in upon him."

Chan is a initial declare to testify in a exploration that has set itself 3 terms of references to identify tellurian rights violations upon or before Jul 9, to determine how a violations occurred, a process as well as group involved as well as to make recommendations to forestall any recurrence.

The exploration is led by Suhakam vice-chairman Professor Datuk Dr Khaw Lake Tee, commissioners Datuk Dr Mahmood Zuhdi Abdul Majid as well as Detta Samen.

The Bar Council is represented by Roger Chan as well as Richard! Wee, wh ilst a military are represented by ASP N. Rajagopal as well as ASP Lim Chee Wah.

- Malaysian Insider

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Malaysias budget and the grim outlook for the youth Nawawi Mohamad

OCT 11 It is right away good accepted which one of a crucial drivers of a crises in a Middle East is a discontent of its youth.

Arab countries have been incompetent or reluctant to yield jobs, education, event as well as rights for their immature as well as so, finally, they revolted. Is there any doctrine in this story for a Malaysia? Not directly; there is no analogy in between Middle-Eastern dictatorships as well as Malaysian democracy.

But if a troubles of Arab girl have us shine a light upon a state of Malaysia's youth, a design which emerges is grim.

As countries get rich, you might assume which they concentration greater attention upon their children. Not in a Malaysia. The sovereign government's expenditures have been often only sugar-coated programmes which do not strech a aim areas as well as compromise a applicable issues.

The youths in Malaysia need to be supposing with affordable preparation as well as ability which have them marketable as well as relevant. At benefaction with a simple actuality which preparation in Malaysia is not giveaway over Forms 5 as well as 6 where it is required to steal from banks as well as PTPTN only proves which upon their own family financials, these youths simply can't means higher education. The other simple actuality which their English is bad proves which their skills have been hardly marketable.

Many unfamiliar workers have been indispensable in a service, building a whole as well as plantation industries proves which a supervision has not been means to yield our youths inside of which spectrum of a pursuit marketplace a applicable knowledge, ability as well as combined value to ensure which they have been some-more rival in a eyes of a employers rsther than than a foreigners.

The girl without a normal preparation credentials contingency be supposing with primer skills, discipline, work concentration as well as dedication which they can consequence a concordant salaries to their worth as well as surpass a ! foreigne rs.

If a work ambience cannot be blending to a youths' expectation, afterwards their expectations contingency be blending to a atmosphere. For example, in a building a whole industry with very difficult as well as oppressive conditions, a Indonesians as well as Bangladeshis have been means to ward off it as well as they consequence some-more than most of a internal junior supervisors.

What a supervision can do, for example, a Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB), is to train these girl in a skills of bricklaying, barbending as well as carpentry work to really go into a field similar to soldiers being trained to fight during a war front, rsther than than only issuing them skills certificates as well as hoping to be a trainer in a little small building a whole firms, albeit a lowly-paid junior trainer it may be. The same approach could be implemented in other industries.

Of march it won't compromise a need for unfamiliar workers, but our youths will all be productive. The preparation as well as training become inestimable as well as means to strech a target, revoke employment, improve lives of a workers, meet a smallest salary requirements as well as we to illustrate have supposing them with a ability to fish by themselves.

By contrast, spending upon a adults has skyrocketed, in a form of subsidies, enlarge in their salaries, some-more infrastructure as well as fluctuating a grant age encompassed in a new overall sugarine coated pre-election budget.

Why is this happening? To put it bluntly, young kids don't opinion or contribute to elections, as well as a adults do both aggressively. Our political complement is responsive to votes as well as money, so a healthy consequence is which those who bring most votes will get some-more money.

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Belanjawan Najib Untuk Beli Undi. Pilihanraya March 2012

Belanjawan Najib telah joke dibentang kepada Parlimen minggu lepas. Sekarang ini dalam proses perbahasan. Tampaknya seperti Belanjawan tersebut akan diluluskan.Setakat yang Tulang Besi nampak, belanjawan Najib cuma penuh dengan pemberian wang "one-off"(sekali sahaja). Pemberian seperti: a. RM500 untuk semua isi rumah yang berpendapatan kurang dari RM3000b. RM 100 untuk semua pelajar yang berusia antara 6-16 tahunc. RM200 voucher kepada pelajar2 IPTd. RM3000 kepada pesara tentera yang telah terlib ... Read More

Guan Eng : How did an illegal project go unnoticed?

"SHOCKING" is not a strong sufficient word to describe what has happened during a vicinity of a landmark Kek Lok Si temple in Penang. Appalling would substantially be a closest outline of what has happened there, right under a noses of a local legislature as well as other regulatory bodies.Why they chose to turn a blind eye to a blatant destruction of a hill slopes as well as sourroundings there remains

Choosing among the devils

Both Bn as well as PR have since their 'political' budgets, so how have been you going to choose?

As the voter, you should not be narrow-minded though rather you should demeanour during the series of things before you expel the support to one side.

If both sides give necessity budget, afterwards you must demeanour during alternative areas , similar to how most leakages have been to be tightened as well as how most of the borrowing to fund the deficits would go to people pockets by such leakage.

If there is no 308, as well as there is no risk of losing the subsequent election, similar to in the past couple of decades before to 308, would there be reforms as well as handout bill such as these 2 rebuilt by the 2 sides?

Had BN defended their 2/3, would ISA be repealed? you was once inside Gerakan as well as was nearby to the energy of corridor, as well as had even met PM as well as uttered out directly to him; i had been pushing unequivocally tough for ISA abolition. What you got is the guarantee which sure clauses would be reviewed..

It is usually when BN is right away confronting the awaiting of losing, as well as PM's own position is not firm in the BigBrother, which reforms have been being carried out, as the last review to connect his position. It is usually similar to but the Arab spring, there would be no reforms as those promised by the little of the Arab countries now.. History has shown us again as well as again which The powers-that-be have been forced to concede to popular demand ONLY when there is the risk of losing power. Histoy has also shown us the direction of dominant supervision tortuous to people's wishes, ONLY when there is the risk of losing power.

So do you still want the dominant supervision , or is it improved to have the supervision which is some-more responsive to the rakyat's wishes? would the dominant supervision or the 2 celebration complement attend kid he belligerent more?

These have been thoughts which should be considered..!

What is the central ill of the benefaction government? the enlightenment of crime as well as mindset of greed.. It is the enlightenment of 'what you can do for me as well as not what you can do for you".. Will the pick be any better? you wouldnt know until you try.. We might get the same thing, you might get even worse, though afterwards if you choose the alternative, you would have settle the 2 celebration system, as well as break the parable of invincibility as well as dominance of the aged system..

What happens if the pick is as corrupt? We chuck them out after an additional round.. It is the usually approach for the Big Brother to clean himself.. Even most UMNo moderates have uttered which it would not be the bad thing for large hermit to remove one term.. Then perhaps, the competition formed biase , which is essentially used to perpetuate BigBrother's reason onto energy as well as to illustrate income supply for its warlords, would be solemnly finished away, so will constructional distortion in the economy. Similarly, most veteran MCA as well as Gerakan members, the little of them my personal friends as well as i can discuss it you which they unequivocally adore the parties (it is roughly all to them after spending their total lives inside the parties), believe which it would in fact be good for BN to remove one tenure as well as for MCA as well as Gerakan to unequivocally be reformed as well as rebuilt by casting out the miserly ones ( these miserly ones would be the initial to leave if BN loses power).. It is similar to when you adore your young kids so much, as well as you know which they would be improved to experience the tumble (figuratively speaking), you won't thoughts letting them tumble once in awhile; it is ironic though essentially loyal which if you adore the person so much, it might be good for which person to o by sure hearing as well as tribulations of life, instead of giving him silver spoon in the mouth.

Unless there is extreme remodel from the benefaction supervision! to do a way with the hurtful practises, as well as all being equal, you would not thoughts trying the alternative side for once.. Just to set the precedence as well as connect the 2 celebration complement so which the voters got to be the Boss.

So all being some-more or reduction equal, the side which would guarantee to cut leakage as well as wastage as well as used the saving for handouts would get my support, not which you am for handouts , though rather it is the choice of choosing the POTENTIALLY (It might not happen) some-more advantageous demon over the aged hurtful devils which you know..

Unless of march the Old hurtful demon can unequivocally infer to me which it is unequivocally critical to clean itself of the greedy as well as hurtful mindsetsI will afterwards be some-more than happy to expel my vote to the aged devil, if the aged demon can unequivocally change into the some-more magnanimous , cleanser as well as some-more advantageous one!

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GEMPAR! UPIN IPIN BAKAL BERWAJAH TERESA KOK DAN RONNIE LIU!

Penerbit UPIN IPIN telah didekati dan ditawarkan dana yang sangat besar untuk menerbitkan sebuah animasi bagi tujuan mempromosikan Fuckatan Harami. Kerja-kerja memujuk pemilik LES COPAQUE itu dilakukan oleh Ketua Pemuda PAS Pusat, Nasruddin Tantawi dan Kamaruzzaman Mohamad.

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Penyanyi veteran Ahmad Jais meninggal dunia pagi ini

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 Okt Seniman Datuk Ahmad Jais yang bulan lalu dimasukkan di Pusat Perubatan Darul Ehsan Shah Alam kerana sesak nafas meninggal dunia pagi ini. Allahyarham dilapor menghembuskan nafas terakhir sekitar pukul 9 pagi tadi. Penyanyi veteran itu yang nama sebenarnya Mohd Jais Ahmad, 75, dimasukkan ke Unit Rawatan Rapi (ICU) pusat ... Read More

Budget 2012: By The Numbers

October 11, 2011

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Budget 2012: By The Numbers

by Hishamh

I've always found it useful to dig into a numbers as well as chart out a evolution of a assorted components of a budget. It helps enormously in slicing by a tongue actions, after all, verbalise louder than words (RM billions):

Off a bat, I've already found a little reordering of priorities counterclaim spending is set to be cut though internal confidence raised; operating output upon education as well as training is up, though a expansion output cut substantially; expansion spending upon agriculture has doubled, though during a responsibility of trade as well as industry, that halved.

My initial instinct, looking during a sum numbers as well as all a something good to eat in a budget, was that something had to give as well as that seems to be borne out by a breakdowns.If your reaction to a announcements during a budget was that this was a bank breaker, we do not censure you. But a being is that planned supervision output (operating + development) shows roughly zero expansion over this year's (log annual changes; 2011 interpretation based upon estimated expenditure; 2012 output interpretation based upon budget allocation; 2012 income guess without 2012 tax measures):

See anything display expansion most above zero? Neither do I. Th! e reason because so many commentators have been fooled into believing that there will be output expansion subsequent year is that they're comparing this year's budget numbers opposite final year's. But from a macro perspective, what matters isn't what a supervision thought it would spend, though what it actually spent as well as thinks it will be spending for a rest of a year. And that series (RM229 billion) isn't all that far off from a 2012 budget allocation (RM232 billion).

It's additionally been a robe for a supervision to blink both income as well as output roughly consistently by about 10% every year over a past decade. The usually difference to that settlement was during this past retrogression when for obvious reasons income tanked, though amazingly output hit a planned target roughly exactly despite dual additional stimulus packages totaling RM65 billion (in short, there was no stimulus). But if both income as well as output go up by about a same amount, a net figure would be approximately a same.

The debt position, most like a mercantile balance, won't shift a great deal either:

I wouldn't be concerned as well most about either worsening conditions subsequent year will force a substantial shift in a net figures. This supervision has shown a conspicuous facility for managing its output when driven to a wall. If there is a shift as well as a deficit comes in aloft than expected, it will roughly certainly be by a shortfall in revenue, rather than by chronic overspending.

So taking it all in there's a couple of of ways of looking during this first, we competence want to! give a little kudos to a supervision for managing to pull together all these social benefits, proxy though they may be, during virtually no increase in sum cost. Or we competence say, that services are we losing due to these handouts, since there's been an effective send from a 2 million-odd taxpayers to a rest of a population. Or third, we competence take Hafiz's tack as well as point out a counterfactual how most reduce could a deficit be if we could pattern all these assets while not on condition that these social benefits during all?

They're all valid viewpoints.

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Postscript Renditions & a Bangsa Requeim

October 11, 2011 by shuzheng

Postscript What's Wrong with One Bangsa?

There's only a single colour, spelled immature as well as that in a hot, gummy peninsula of jungle butterfly swamps, nonetheless bragged about underneath a name of Tanah Melayu, sometimes Nusantara.

But a fake Malay magpies don't know their place in a world. They like consider they have it all when nothing, positively nothing, in their possession came with a sequestered butterfly tanah. The name is made up. The story is uncertain, like it were a pasar make a difference for evidence as well as so to be paid for as well as traded. Even their desert essence has to be imported, only a way Hannah Yeoh imports a desert name as well as buys a Christian essence for her child, an additional satu bangsa for Malaysia, a single more copycat phoney as well as an complete Sham. Adora it seems.

And they call this forgery Satu Bangsa? Like in Satu Bangsa Ridhuan Tee? Other times they'd call it bangsa Malaysia. Or Anak. Or whatever so many whim bangsas. No thanks for a Ridhuans as well as Adoras, Magpie: we can have them for the Aedes.

Autumn returns in multi-coloured hues to a mountains, farms, forest, river

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EU Slams Syria's Al-Assad, Slaps Sanctions on Iran

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'Allegations Umno's bid to dampen Khalid's popularity'

Allegations as well as attempts in a bid to get Khalid Ibrahim discharged as a state's chief executive are a approach for Umno to downplay his taking flight popularity, a Selangor menteri besar's domestic cabinet member Faekah Husin says.

The moves are made to affect Khalid's recognition as well as credibility, that have overpassed a repute of Umno as well as other Pakatan Rakyat leaders, Faekah pronounced in a matter today.

"The blog (AntaraPos.com) was rubbed by a (state subsidiary) Communication Corporation Sdn Bhd (CCSB) former general manager, whose contract was terminated last June, as well as is being used for this purpose.

"From report you obtained, this web is backed by Umno as well as it is destined to urge Najib Abdul Razak, who is facing an open fight from his emissary Muhyiddin Yassin," Faekah said.

CCSB is a companythat runs Selangor TV as well as a monthly state bulletinSelangorkini.

Faekah was commenting on allegations made in a blog about multiform PKR assemblypersons as well as MPs wanting to give Khalid a boot.

She certified that there were certain Pakatan Rakyat leaders worried with a approach Khalid administered Selangor as he was a well-known corporate figure.

'The people want Selangor corruption-free'

"The organisation is tiny in number, but it appears to be outspoken as well as using a members' positions in a celebration as well as society to criticise Khalid," she said.

Faekah pronounced a people longed for a transparent administration that is responsible as well as giveaway from corruption ruling Selang! or.
< br>She additionally pronounced she had heard of a chit being passed around to criticise Khalid's leadership.

As domestic cabinet member to Khalid, she said, it was incumbent on her to urge a menteri besar from his detractors as well as enemies, as well as she described Khalid as a good, clean, transparent as well as committed leader.

Faekah pronounced claims that a menteri besar was prioritising obtuse well known programmes were unfounded, as a Selangor government had outlayed RM500 million to revive a state manage to buy as well as up to Aug this year, some-more than a single million people had benefited from it.

Such benefit was given to a various state constitutencies to safeguard a assemblypersons could without delay be in contact with their voters.

In less than five years, Faekah added, Khalid had increasing a state's reserves to RM1.1 billion as well as a Selangor Agriculture Development Corporation, that had not been essential given it was formed, available a distinction of RM11 million this year.

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Nothing civil about the service

Budget 2012 contains a horde of something good to eat for polite servants, though will this help progress their lacklustre performance?

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The Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) is beaming from ear to ear, vivacious that a wishes of a 1.3 million polite servants have been taken caring of in Budget 2012.

If MTUC boss Osman Omar is happy, a rakyat as well is seeking forward to an fit use from a open sector, no longer having to put up with a antics of open servants least interested in their jobs.

But a rise in capability stays to be seen, as is a decrease in corruption.

In detailing Budget 2012 upon Oct 7, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak voiced a prolongation of early retirement age for polite servants from 58 to 60. He additionally voiced an annual increment of 7 percent to 13 percent for all polite servants.

Najib additionally voiced a reward of smallest RM500 for polite servants as well as supervision pensioners that would be paid in December. This released a RM500 that had already been paid in August.

"It is comprehensive as well as meets a wishes of a polite servants. I would like to thank a budding apportion as well as a supervision for heeding a polite servants' instruct list," Omar said.

He added that a bonuses, salary increments as well as salary adjustments would additionally increase capability of a polite sector.

Previously, he said, there were dissenting voices though a polite service-focused budget is means to resolve dissenting voices as all a demands are met.

Sad, since it were those very dissenting voices that so often shortchanged a open through their "couldn't-care-less" approach to work when a latter approached them for assistance.

Where's a honour in polite service?

While a "goodies" positive by Najib have gratified a polite service, some-more has to be finished to make sure a rakyat is since a most appropriate use during all times. Gone should be a days when a part of of a open is since a run-around by those in a polite sector.

Stories of people being pushed from a single counter to a next or from a single dialect to an additional have serve blemished a image of a open use in this country.

So, whilst a monetary captivate as well as an prolongation of early retirement age competence or competence not do a trick to figure up a polite service, it is a perspective of a open servants that has to change. And change can usually come through "leadership by example".

The responsibility lies with a supervision of a day to set a benchmark in so distant as peculiarity use is concerned. There should be no some-more of such sights where instead of all five open counters, usually a single is in use as a rest are possibly off for their long tea breaks or are simply "missing in action".

Will a enticement offering by Najib to a polite use action as a desperately indispensable model change in a polite service? Only time will tell.

Rakyat can usually be hopeful

With a 13th ubiquitous choosing not as well distant away, a rakyat has every reason to doubt a Najib government's munificence vis--vis Budget 2012. To try as well as fill a pockets of a polite servants underneath a stratagem of "Barisan Nasional cares" competence be Najib's approach of securing support from these open servants.

But afterwards having faced years of unsatisfactory use dished out by t! he publi c service, a rakyat has wisened up to a "tricks as well as treats" of a BN government.

In 2007, a consult carried out by a Hong Kong-based Political as well as Economic Rick Consultancy pronounced unfamiliar businessmen perceived Malaysia's manage to buy to be some-more corrupt in ! 2007 com pared to 2006. The consult polled 1,476 ostracise commercial operation management team in 13 countries as well as territories across a region.

A few years back, Transparency International cautioned that crime had reached a vicious turn in Malaysia, with a nation falling in international rankings.

The UN's Asia-Pacific Human Development Report highlighted an International Country Risk Guide anticipating that saw Malaysia decrease from a score of 4.00 in 1996 to 2.38 in 2006, with a lower score representing larger corruption.

"It is worrying since it is a commercial operation index that reflects upon the domestic investment, unfamiliar approach investment as well as confidence in a economy," pronounced Ramon Navaratnam, afterwards head of graft watchdog Transparency International Malaysia.

"Corruption is during a vicious turn here," he had warned.

Ramon pronounced crime in Malaysia was deeply entrenched in a traffic of contracts, with bribes being paid to supervision officials to speed up traffic licences, for military protection as well as for loan transactions.

"Our mercantile structure, a approach you do commercial operation here, needs to be reviewed, renewed as well as redesigned," Navaratnam had ! said.

He warned that Malaysia could lose a rival edge if it remained "complacent as well as inefficient".

"Malaysia can do most improved if there is stronger domestic will to quarrel corruption. Given a fast pace of globalisation as well as augmenting mercantile foe between Asian countries, it's time to pull the hosiery up," Navaratnam was afterwards quoted by Thomson Financial News as saying.

Speaking of domestic will, is Budget 2012 "feel-good" handouts to a polite use a BN-government's approach of overhauling a opening of supervision servants, that during present leaves most to be desired? Only time will tell.

Jeswan Kaur is a freelance writer as well as a FMT columnist.

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DUMC : Laporan Tipis Buat Sultan?

Sultan Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah amat tersinggung dengan usaha pihak tertentu yang cuba melemahkan kepercayaan dan akidah orang Islam di Selangor.Titah baginda, cubaan memesongkan akidah umat Islam itu berjaya dibuktikan dalam hasil siasatan Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS) terhadap Gereja Methodist Damansara Utama (DUMC) pada 3 Ogos lalu.Bagaimanapun, titah baginda, bukti yang

Even we cant take clean air for granted Nicholas Fang and Henrick Tsjeng

OCT 11 Three new events remind us in Singapore not to take purify air for granted. First, a mist from land as well as timberland fires in Indonesia has returned. Second, a glow blazed during a Shell Bukom refinery for a little 34 hours before being put out. Third, data expelled by a World Health Organisation (WHO) upon Sep twenty-eight reveals which Singapore's air, while in all among a best in Asia, is unwell in a little measures, generally in a concentration of particulate make a difference in a air.

There is no reason to panic. Singapore's air has remained full of illness except for really short periods, when a mist tipped a recorded levels to moderate. Compared to almost every pick vital city in Asia, air pollution levels have been low.

This creates up part of a captivate as well as liveability of a city. Clean city air underpins so many things you take for postulated like outdoor sports, walks in a park as well as open-air dining. It allows those with skyscraper views to see a horizon, given high towers in a little pick cities have been hidden in smog.

Clearly Singapore cannot take purify air for granted. Looking during a three events, there have been different issues to be addressed.

The Bukom fire, while dramatic, is probably a easiest to deal with. Shell has a single of a strongest safety records in a industry as well as can be expected to do all things possible to forestall a recurrence. This is generally as a glow closed down a single of a many important plants in a world, costing millions of dollars.

The mist is extremely trickier as well as a recurring problem. Much bid has been expended given a worst fires of 1997-98 as well as incidences given then have been reduction serious. Asean has negotiated a covenant to address a issue as well as while Indonesia has yet to sanction a terms, a ministers continually meet with a Singaporean as well as pick counterparts.

A tiny breakthrough was finished in 2007 when Indonesia concluded to concede offic! ials fro m Singapore to work upon a belligerent in Jambi. With continuing efforts, a mist complaint might not be utterly solved, though can be managed as well as contained.

The WHO report, however, might prove problems which have been harder to deal with.

Even though counting a mist or new fire, Singapore as a city is unwell upon sure counts of particulate matter. Singapore's concentration of particles up to 2.5 micrometres in diameter, or PM2.5, was found to be nineteen micrograms per cubic metre in 2009, upon top of a WHO recommended turn of 10 micrograms.

According to a WHO, PM2.5 is some-more dangerous than incomparable particles of up to 10 micrometres as a former can travel some-more deeply in to a lungs. Exposure to PM2.5 increases a risk of cardiovascular as well as respiratory illnesses, as well as reduces life expectancy.

The sources of PM2.5 in Singapore as well as elsewhere can be traced generally to appetite generation plants as well as vehicular emissions. Singapore cannot do though physical phenomenon or vehicles, though a target is not 0 as well as blunt instruments have been not needed. Focus upon specific issues is instead required.

Some appetite plants have been some-more fit as well as cleanser than others. According to a United States Environmental Protection Agency, appetite plants which make use of coal as well as oil, as opposed to healthy gas, tend to evacuate some-more particulates. To revoke emissions, Singapore has enhanced appetite efficiency, successfully promoted healthy gas as a main source of electricity, as well as taken stairs to foster renewables like solar energy.

We can additionally observe which sure kinds of vehicles evacuate some-more particulates, generally diesels. Singapore has been supporting a make use of of pick fuel vehicles, such as dense healthy gas (CNG) as well as electric vehicles, nonetheless issues such as a lack of CNG stations have cropped up.

Nonetheless, a new electric car-for-hire intrigue in Paris sets an! gloriou s e.g. for Singapore to follow. The scheme, well known as Autolib, allows a renter to pick up an electric car during a sold location as well as drop it off elsewhere. This intrigue promises to give electric car usage in Paris a vital boost.

These solutions to revoke particulates can be allied to another environmental effort: obscure a carbon footprint. While revoke carbon does not always meant cleanser air, a dual can be combined. In a bid to commander electric cars in Singapore, for instance, a hope is to revoke both PM2.5 as well as carbon.

Even though a lane record in progressing purify air is sound, you cannot afford to take purify air for granted. With mercantile growth, emissions will likely increase if nothing serve is done. Steps contingency be taken to revoke not usually hothouse gas emissions, though additionally particulate make a difference which affects a illness of Singaporeans. Today

* Nicholas Fang is a director of a Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA). Henrick Tsjeng is a researcher in a SIIA.

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Who will say it?

OCT eleven With both a supervision as well as a Pakatan Rakyat having unveiled their budgetary commitments, I feel similar to were missing something here. Its obviously an choosing bill for both sides written around controversial projections to win a hearts as well as minds of a electorate. Thats part as well as parcel of a diversion roughly each democracy does it ... Read More

Court quashes MP's bid to check on funds

Dr D Jeyakumar's bid to subject a supervision over its annual RM1 million grant for a Sungai Siput subdivision was shot down in a Court of Appeal today.

His lawyer Ambiga Sreenevasam pronounced it is a unsatisfactory preference as Jeyakumar was hoping which a justice would offer as a check upon a supervision in terms of transparency, as to where a income has gone.

Jeyakumar pronounced a justice - a last citadel of justice for a people - should have been understanding of a preference to safeguard which a income allocated is not wasted.

"I do not want a income for myself ... but to safeguard (that whatever is allocated) is scrupulously outlayed ....opposition MPs do not without delay get a grant from a sovereign supervision as well as this is disappointing.

"Following this decision, my summary to a people is which as we cannot depend upon a courts to look for clarity as well as it is people energy (that will) decide in a entrance ubiquitous election."

Jeyakumar pronounced he will consult Parti Sosialis Malaysia as to either or not to appeal this decision.

This is because a last opportunity to go to a Federal Court could be dear although a lawyers have been providing their services giveaway of charge.

Justice Low Hop Bing, sitting with Justices Abdul Wahab Patail as well as Anantham Kasinater, unanimously authorised a sovereign government's appeal currently as well as discharged Jeyakumar's application.

Jeyakumar had named a director-general of a Implementation Unit of a Prime Minister's Department, a executive of a Perak Development Department as well as a sovereign supervision as defendants.

In February Justice Aziah Ali of a Kuala Lumpur High Court had granted Jeyakumar leave to request for authorise! d review , to challenge a government's movement not to give or provide details of its annual grant of RM1 million to his constituency.

On Sept 23, a same High Court refused a supervision a stay of a authorised examination proceedings, leading to a appeal being filed.

Low: Judge erred in law

Justice Low, whose preference was examination out by a emissary registrar, pronounced a appellate justice is of a perspective a High Court had erred in granting leave for authorised review.

"We concede this appeal, set aside a order of a High Court as well as surrogate it with an order which a Notice of Motion be dismissed," he said.

His logic was which a value of a grant is entrusted in a director-general as well as director. And this involves a practice of option formed upon a detailed as well as extensive process of evaluation.

"The DG or executive is not compulsory to approve all as well as various applications for a allocation. The respondent (Jeyakumar) contingency uncover which there is a authorised or statutory avocation upon a partial of a DG as well as executive as a matter of course to approve his 2010 application."

Justice Low pronounced a respondent contingency settle a life of a avocation of a open nature, a opening of which is needed as well as not optional or discretionary.

"The respondent has failed to do so. The notice of suit is clearly premised upon a DG's as well as or director's option to approve as well as expend funds. There is not an iota of law which a DG or executive contingency do so," he pronounced in his 21-page judgment.

Justice Low serve pronounced there can be no disbelief which a approval as well as value of account involves a practice of discretion.

"The DG or executive contingency weigh a applications for a allocation. These ! applicat ions can only be motionless by a DG or a executive in line with process considerations as well as government prerogative.

"The significant background did uncover which a appellants had authorized (Jeyakumar's) duplicate amounting to RM1.72 million, whilst other applications have been being since consideration."

He serve forked out a Perak growth department head had referred to which Jeyakumar should channel applicable applications to applicable supervision agencies.

He pronounced that, in a process of evaluation, a DG or a executive contingency safeguard which value of allocations is consistent with supervision policy.

"Our courts do not retain a knowledge of process considerations t! shawl unde rlie a decisions pursuant to a DG's or director's evaluation.

"The issues lifted in a notice of suit have been issues of process considerations as well as government prerogative. We find which a acquiescence presented by a respondent is legally unsustainable.

"There we have been of a perspective which a issues lifted in a notice of suit have been not judicially reviewable as well as as a result not justiciable."

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Sultan: Insufficient evidence for prosecution in Jais raid

Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah currently pronounced there were attempts to subvert the conviction as well as idea of Muslims during the duty during the Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) during Ramadan.

Despite this, legal movement cannot be taken since of miss of evidence, pronounced the sultan in the matter faxed to the press.

The Selangor Islamic Affairs Department (Jais) had raided the invocation duty during the DUMC on Aug 3 as well as later investigated twelve Muslims who had been present which evening.

"Therefore, after carefully comparing opinions the report by Jais as well as after obtaining advice from eremite authorities as well as legal experts, we have been in agreement which there would be no charge against any party," pronounced the sultan.

He pronounced which he scrutinised the Jais report on the "search" carried out by Jais on the DUMC as well as was assured which the dialect had acted correctly.

"We have been satisfied which the actions of Jais were scold as well as did not breach any law enforceable in Selangor," the sultan added.

As for the twelve Muslims under probe, the ruler pronounced they would be subjected to counselling sessions by Jais to "restore their idea as well as faith".

Do not subvert Muslim faith

Meanwhile, the sultan urged members of the open not to delude or dispute Jais' actions before they knew exactly what happened.

He additionally voiced hope that! from no w on, there would be no more activities carried out with the purpose of spreading alternative religions to Muslims.

"The sacrament of Islam as practised in Selangor is one of tolerance. Muslims have been always encouraged to apply oneself the believers of alternative religions.

"Howeve, persons or parties cannot take the opportunity to widespread alternative religions to Muslims," he said.

The sultan pronounced this was in line with Clauses (1) as well as (4) of Article eleven of the Federal Constitution as well as Selangor non-Islamic Religions (Control of Propagation Amongst Muslims) Enactment 1988.

He urged non-Muslims to protect their leisure of sacrament in Selangor with apply oneself for the laws.

"This leisure has been practised in peace in this state. We wish which this harmony, which has existed for the prolonged time, will continue to exist.

"Protect your rights as well as sacrament as well as do not attempt to subvert the idea as well as conviction of Muslims," he said.

Sultan's decree (full text)

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What price freedom from restricted residence?

Last count, there were 32 responses to my 'UMNO's brand new election bankers'post.

Allen Tan as well as Delilah hit a nail square upon a h! ead.

Apologies for this late post. Was in Kuantan for a Himpunan Hijau.

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Last Wednesday, in Parliament, while debating a check to dissolution a Restricted Residence Act, 1933, Najib stated which a supervision had 'decided to abolish a 1933 Act since a law is outdated as well as no longer applicable to a current situation', as well as went upon to speak about how, in a benefaction epoch of mobile broadband as well as smart phones, a limited chateau orders had turn ineffective.

Was Najib being positively vehement about a incident heading to this repeal, or were there alternative considerations?

Malaysiakini reports that Najib went upon to contend which a supervision had embarked upon this journey'not since of any p! ressure a test (is) either you broach upon a promise or not.Other parties can recklessly or unashamedly admit which this is their thought or opinion They have been not supervision mandated by a majority of a people to honour what was promised'.

What promise?

And to whom?

And were there any promises done in return?

That same Malaysiakini inform quotes Kerismudin as saying, in relation to a recover orders, then already signed, relating to a 125 individuals who were starting to rught divided benefit from a law which would later be repealed, which a ' groundwork was finished much earlier this was not something you plucked from a air' .

What, precisely, did this grounds entail?

Last Thursday, during a meeting with a comparison polite menial where others were also present, this chairman pronounced which a 125 persons to be expelled as well as a 200 others who would have a unserved limited chateau orders cancelled following upon a dissolution of a limited chateau law have been all well known big-time criminals with enough justification to put them all divided for a long, long time.

Trouble is, they wont go down alone.

They'll also take with them many half a cabinet, scores of comparison polite servants as well as many tip cops.

So limited chateau was never a punishment or a deterrent.

At most, an inconvenience.

Otherwise, it was commercial operation as usual.

So ! why, ask ed a polite servant, a hurry to dissolution this Act as well as giveaway these tip dog hoodlums, nonetheless there is not a same pour out with a ISA where many of those incarcerated have been not criminally tainted?

The answer, he said, was in a guarantee which Najib spoke of.

The 325 well known cash-rich criminals, whose commercial operation interests have been each, in their own right, a 'goose which lays a golden egg', have betrothed to provide UMNO with cash for a 13th GE, in lapse for their new-found unfettered freedom.

I asked if these hoodlums had already done good upon their guarantee of cash for a elections.

The polite menial pronounced he was not sure.

Then how, I asked, was UMNO starting to ensure these crooks would broach upon their promise?

He referred me to a following inform in Bernama.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of a Royal Malaysian Police has been destined to guard all 125 Restricted Residence Act (RRA) detainees expelled today.

Inspector-general of military Ismail Omar pronounced this would ensure which a detainees did! not con trol activities which could bluster public order.

"We goal which they will not do commit anything criminal, generally gambling," he told reporters after launching a book 'Crimson Over Borneo Untold Police Stories as well as Communist Cessation of a Sarawak Communist Insurgency' by Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud in Kuching today.

Ismail was assured which a expelled detainees could change their ways as well as contribute to inhabitant development.

All detainees under a action were expelled currently following a proclamation of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak when tabling a suit to dissolution it in parliament yesterday.

125 towkay besar from a underworld, formerly a subject of limited chateau orders, have been right away walking around scot-free.

Malaysia boleh, kan!

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True Folk vs. Good Folk

Dear Pete

I saw the following post in MT underneath your essay "So, teach me the 'jalan yang betul' then!" (inserted by Rev. Thomas on Oct 07, 2011 during 06:23:42):

"Correction: True Jews as well as Christians do not hold Allah is God. He is God of the Muslims. To the Jews as well as Christians He is YAHWEH ELOHIM or the English interpretation LORD GOD."

I looked hard to see what usually Rev. Thomas was correcting, though you found nothing. you can usually pretence he contingency have been referring to the essence of the deleted post.

Nonetheless, this elementary sufficient two-liner, joined with the essence of your essay as well as the alternative comments thereto, usually kept bugging me all day long, to the indicate where you usually had to put my thoughts in to writing.

Rev. T starts off his correction by saying which "True Jews as well as Christians do not hold Allah is God", as well as so you found myself wondering usually what which meant. After all, the Christian concept of God as the Trinity, where the single of the 3 is Jesus Christ the Son of God (God in the flesh), is not during all what the Jews believe. The commonality in the God of the Jews as well as the Christians precedes the concept of the Trinity as well as lies in the God of Abraham. Now, as it happens (and which you, Pete, know full well), the God of the Muslims is the same as the God of Abraham.

Thus, if the Jews can call which same God "Yahweh Elohim" while the Christian! s make use of th e tenure "Lord God", afterwards the Muslims using the name "Allah" does not alter the actuality which it is the same God which all 3 religions have been referring to. Any "thinking" Jew or Christian (in my book, the single who has an open as well as enquiring mind) would have to agree which Allah, Yahweh as well as the Lord God ! have bee n the single as well as the same entity. So why does Rev. T contend which the opposite is true.

Well, Rev. T did not impute to "thinking" Jews as well as Christians; instead, he used the tenure "true" to report them. If the Rev. T means "true" in the sense which "true" Jews as well as Christians have been 100% devoted to their respective religions, afterwards what has which got to do with not straightforwardly accepting which the God of Abraham, called Allah by the Muslims, is not the same entity as the God of the Jews or the Christians? Sadly, you can usually interpretation which Rev. T's comment is the acknowledgement of the bigot, which means which he himself cannot thus be the loyal Christian.

The next thing you wish to indicate out is which Rev. T, along with most others, happily ascribes the masculine gender to God. Why is that? After all, to be masculine means bei! ng the lif e form of the passionate course which cannot have babies. If it is an entity which can imitate inside of itself, afterwards it is hermaphrodite. If God could reproduce, even inside of God's own entity as well as but outward assistance, afterwards God would presumably emanate the God replica, thus destroying the "one as well as usually God" concept. This thus leads to the conclusion which God is substantially sexless. That being the case, who decided which God should be included with masculine qualities as well as addressed as the man (i.e. Lord God, instead of Lady God)?

Yes, you were right, Pete. We, personkind (women as well as group collectively), really do not know the first thing about God, do we?

Warmest Regards,

Wally

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DUMC-Jais: Bishop troubled by sultan's statement

Catholic Bishop Paul Tan Chee Ing described a matter from a Sultan of Selangor upon a Selangor Islamic Affairs Department (Jais) inform upon alleged proselytisation of Muslims by Christians during a Damansara Utama Methodist Centre final August as "dipped in a ambiguity which would have vulgar accusations opposite Christians no some-more formidable in a future than it is now."

"Begging a Tuanku's pardon, how is it possible to assert which there were attempts to deviating a faith of Muslim attendees during a cooking duty during a DUMC though there is, then, not sufficient justification to prefer charges," queried a suggested head of Catholics in a Malacca-Johor diocese, in an immediate reply to a statement upon a matter released today by a sultan.

"If there is not sufficient evidence, there ought to be no indictment of wrongdoing it's as elementary a! s that! exclaimed Tan (left), who is parallel president of a Catholic Bishops' Conference of Malaysia.

"As it stands now, a sultan's matter paints a Christian organisers of a cooking duty as carrying been since a discharge not amounting to exculpation from accusations which they proselytised to Muslims," he asserted.

"I would have most preferred no matter during all to one which is neither here nor there," offered a Jesuit-trained prelate.

"Christians have waited patiently for vindication from fake accusations by people whose vigilant is to grandstand upon behalf of their losing causes," pronounced a bishop.

"It's a great thing a ubiquitous choosing is imminent, since there seems to be no let-up in this ugly debate of innuendo and insinuation opposite Christians, so which a list box becomes t! he usual ly chance from persecution by vile slander," he concluded.

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Lynas and the Malaysian Green Movement

October 10, 2011

Lynas as well as a Malaysian Green Movement

By Dr Kua Kia Soong@www.malaysiakini.com

The Green Assembly (Himpunan Hijau 109) during emergence during a Kuantan beach yesterday (October 9) was a harbinger of a Malaysian Green transformation that has been a long time coming.

Kudos to a organisers of this inspirational eventuality that managed to pull together alternative immature campaigns as well as environmentally unwavering Malaysians throughout a country.

It was generally heart-warming to see a Orang Asli from circuitously Chini taking an active part in a event. There you affianced a joining to a Earth Charter as well as tolerable growth as well as a opposition to projects that have been socially disruptive as well as health-threatening.

Green alertness in Malaysia has been growing with each poisonous plan in a country, as well as many noxious has been a estimate as well as storage of hot waste.

The BN supervision has always attempted to transparent their prolongation by observant that "impartial experts" have testified to their safety. In a latest box of a Lynas singular earth plant during Gebeng, nearby Kuantan, they have invited a IAEA as an afterthought as well as they say that subject to sure recommendations, a plant should be safe. But a people have been not assured as well as will go upon to oppose this poisonous project.

The parable of just experts

In 1984, during a debate over a chief dum! ps of As ian Rare Earth (ARE) during Papan in Perak, you wrote an article in The Star (Sept 2, 1984) entitled 'The parable of a just scientist'. The supervision was perplexing to convince a open that a dumps for a hot rubbish were constructed to a compulsory specifications as well as systematic experts were carted out to back up their case.

But a people of Papan were not tender as well as they a single after another to organize a long insurgency to a dumps until they won.

The ARE bureau had proposed handling in Bukit Merah New Village in 1982. In Feb 1985, a Bukit Merah residents filed an application in a Ipoh High Court to stop ARE from handling in a closeness of their village. The residents incited out in force during a court as well as their organization as well as joining to a cause of environmental reserve were an impulse for a rest of a country.

On Apr 12, 1987, some 10,000 people marched by Bukit Merah to criticism a resumption of operations by ARE after a association had overlooked an injunction to stop operations. They finally won by their postulated campaign as well as ARE had to pack up as well as compensate them compensation.

The people of Papan as well as Bukit Merah were some-more endangered about their illness as well as a illness of their destiny generations than they were about a short-term gain of employment that ARE provided.

Today, a people in Kuantan who have been hostile a Lynas singular earth plant have been displaying a same admirable organisation, joining to safeguarding their sourroundings as well as regard for their illness as well as a illness of their destiny generations as well as you salute their efforts.

Far from being impartial, a IAEA is deeply involved in promoting chief energy. It unsuccessful to correct! ly asses s a dangers caused by chief disasters during Three Mile Island, Chernobyl as well as recently during Fukushima. For all a "impartiality", it additionally unsuccessful to prevent a Iraq war, when Bush as well as Blair had insisted that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. It incited out to be an blow up distortion to transparent a western advance of Iraq.

Since a key question to allay a fears of a people is that of reserve as well as a goods of a plant upon a people's health, a single would have approaching a supervision to bring in eccentric members outside a IAEA with imagination in chief safety, open health, environmental protection as well as alternative social concerns.

Besides a risk of radiation, a Lynas plant additionally produces large quantities of industrial acids as well as chemicals that will adversely affect a environment.

The lesson of Bukit Merah should be exegetic for a Lynas controversy. The ARE expert there had insisted that their facilities were safe. you remember upon vacation their premises as well as a Japanese physical education instructor had assured me of a same. When you asked a physical education instructor if he would allow his profound mother to work in a premises with those drums of hot rubbish around her, he was utterly stumped as well as couldn't answer me.

During a Bukit Merah court case, alternative general experts testified that a inauspicious illness goods upon a residents cancer, congenital deformities, cardiovascular disease, etc were a direct result of a radioactivity from a rubbish constructed by ARE.

Whatever IAEA might recommend for a Lynas plant, they have no energy to umpire or make correspondence upon Lynas. We additionally know that a Malaysian government's record upon monitoring as well as implementing such environmental reserve standards as well as a maintenance enlightenment have been legendary! If not, how did a DOE as well as a Atomic Energy Licencing Board destroy a residents of Bukit Merah?

N eutrality of scholarship is a myth

The lesson from all these controversies is that there is no such thing as a "neutral expert". Science as well as record have never been neutral a neutrality of scholarship is a myth. You can as shortly find an expert who will say a plan is protected as well as another who will warn you of a dangers.

Through a ages, scholarship has been carried out in a demeanour reflecting a norms as well as ideology of a social order. Thus, whether it is environmental pollution, genetic engineering, meridian change, mental control technologies, computer advance of privacy, biological as well as chemical warfare, systematic research is not eccentric as well as separate to scientists' activity.

The story of scholarship reveals that systematic discoveries emerged as a effect of a specific technological sequence of a particular social order. For example, Newtonian mechanics developed during a growth of industrial capitalism. The atomic devastation of Hiroshima as well as Nagasaki exploded a parable of a autonomy of scholarship once as well as for all.

The Vietnam War in a mid-sixties saw a biggest proportion of university scholarship in a US finished upon federal contract, generally for a Department of Defence. Today, scientists interfuse each branch of government, advising as well as conceiving mentally a many effective types of weapons of war.

Fortunately, there has been insurgency to this growth among socially unwavering scientists upon a side of a people. Thus, during a Vietnam War, a Bertrand Russell Tribunal sent scientists as well as doctors to pick up evidence of a experimental nature of a war as well as a make use of of new technologies of destruction. Moral as well as political issues were brought out to a front as well as it was no longer adequate to pose a problem in conditions of a "uses/abuses of science".

The response constructed such movements as a Union of Concerned Scientists, a Society for Social Responsibility i! n Scienc e as well as Science for People.

Poisoning Pahang

While you have been in a surrounded by of a debate regarding a Emergency, it is worth indicating out that when a 30-year secrecy order was carried in Britain, it was discovered that a authorities had used Agent Orange to mist during least 20 sites in Pahang. Pahang happened to be a state in that a Tenth Regiment of a Communist Party of Malaya was particularly active as well as it was a regiment that was made up of Malays.

I lifted this in an article in The Star entitled 'Emergency Secrets' upon Mar 30, 1984. Malaysian supervision officials were quoted in The Star (Jan 29, 1984) as observant it was not their responsibility to control studies since a spraying happened prior to independence.

Well, if according to a professors, Malaya was never colonised, then shouldn't a Malaysian supervision do something about anticipating out how many of a nation was sprayed with Agent Orange during a Emergency? How great have been a healing annals to show if congenital deformities in new years have been caused by a spraying of defoliants during a Emergency?

At a healing discussion in France in 1970, courtesy was drawn to a probable cancer-producing goods of dioxin, a lethal component of these poisonous herbicides. Questions were additionally lifted of aberrations in a chromosomes of those affected that might affect their reproductive ability.

These findings upon a long-term goods of Agent Orange that was used by a Americans to mist insurgent areas during a Vietnam War were presented during an general symposium of 140 scientists in January 1983. Their end was that there is great reason to suspect that a defoliants used not only have noxious goods upon a benefaction generation though additionally for destiny generations!

In Malaysia, a proliferation of a domestic military-industrial formidable has been in a closeness of Kuantan, namely during Pekan, a Prime Minister's constitu! ency. Th e Prime Minister roughly lost a seat in 2004 though he has now ensured that a military automotive attention is there to provide contractors, sub-contractors, servicemen as well as alternative workers with a vested interest.

Defence companies suffer "feather bedding" in that contracts have been awarded but competition. But is arms prolongation in a seductiveness of a people even if they might marker up a GDP figures?

Not in my backyard, mate!

The reason since by Lynas for because this singular earth estimate plant has to be in Malaysia rather than in West Australia where it is mined certainly takes a biscuit! Their spokesperson has pronounced that Malaysia has a infrastructure not in in Australia! It seems transparent to many that a Aussies do not wish this hot attention in their backyard.

It reminds me of that alternative energy-guzzling highly poisonous aluminium smelting attention from Australia that a Sarawak/federal supervision has been perplexing to capture into Sarawak in sequence to make use of a abounding electricity from a Bakun dam. Once again, a single wonders because Alcoa does not smelt aluminium in their own backyard.

Either Malaysians have been a many gullible people upon this earth or a Malaysian supervision merely wants to capture a large projects regardless of their sustainability or toxicity. Big projects meant large commissions, seem to be a motivating cause in Malaysian growth logic!

Thus a experts you call upon to weigh Lynas' singular earth estimate plan will give us different conclusions depending upon whether their prime regard is people or profits. As in all capitalist enterprises, there will be cost cutting. Whether they make use of welded steel drums or cosmetic bags to store a processed singular earth will affect a cost drastically. So will alternative measures to safe! guard th ere is no environmental repairs or emissions to affect a residents.

The people of Kuantan have been righteously indignant that their lives have been being reckoned upon a weighted scale as well as they do not wish this poisonous attention in their backyard. All Malaysians who caring for people prior to increase entirely await them as well as you contingency do all you can to safeguard that Lynas processes a singular earth in their own backyard as well as not in ours.

The people of Kuantan have asserted their rights as a community. It underpins a inseparable connection in between a environmental transformation as well as a peoples' transformation for democracy, probity as well as human rights. They have instituted an public that hopefully, will be a start of a immature transformation whose time has come.

It is time to establish a inhabitant coalition of await as well as solidarity for all communities underneath threat from such insane as well as dubious projects as well as essay for an alternative path of growth in that a interests of a people come prior to profits. The success of campaigns such as Papan as well as Bukit Merah demonstrate a truism that a people joined will never be defeated!

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Reckless Rooneys red mist

OCT 9 England's gift for a European Championships came during a complicated cost, with Wayne Rooney confronting cessation from during slightest a opening diversion of a contest after removing himself sent off during a 2-2 pull in Montenegro on Friday night.

It was a strange game. England were definitely widespread in a opening half hour opposite a Montenegrin side which seemed completely overawed by either their opponents or a occasion, or both.

The home side had hardly touched a round when Ashley Young headed home Theo Walcott's smashing cranky after 10 minutes, as good as a same settlement of play continued with Montenegro sitting low as good as permitting England to all carry out possession.

When Young accomplished off a crisp pierce by branch provider to set up a tap-in Darren Bent after half an hour as good as give England a 2-0 lead, there seemed to be no way behind for a hosts. But afterwards England took their collective foot off a gas as good as became sloppy, as good as Montenegro took value by pulling behind a idea by Elsad Zverotic on a cadence of half-time.

Montenegro were a transformed side in a second period, unexpected finding a kind of energy as good as faith which had been conspicuous by their absence during a opening half hour. The home supporters also found their voices, cast of characters in reserve a surprisingly subdued atmosphere during a begin of a match.

Suddenly, from being 2-0 up as good as coasting, England were in a proper game.

The defence held firm for twenty-five minutes, though afterwards came Rooney's moment of madness. After a complicated reason from Rooney authorised Montenegro defender Miodrag Dzudovic to reason him off a ball, a Manchester United striker reacted by violently as good as blatantly hacking during a defender's legs.

It was a no-brainer for German referee Wolfgang Stark, who had a transparent view of a situation as good as was left with no option though to furnish a true red card.

With a m! an's adv antage, Montenegro were means to exert some-more pressure on a England behind line as good as eventually grabbed a deserved equaliser in blocking time when Dzudovic produced a brilliant low cranky as good as Andrija Delibasic bravely converted during a distant post.

The subsequent last alarm sparked scenes of unrestrained jubilation from a home fans as good as players, as good as unequivocally it should have been a double jubilee a point apiece had cumulative a place in a play-offs for Montenegro as good as a place in next summer's contest for England.

Yet, while Montenegro's delight was unquenchable, a china clouded cover of England's progress was accompanied by a complicated cloud. Not usually had a two-goal lead been squandered in sloppy fashion, though their most appropriate player will be suspended from during slightest a initial diversion of a contest may be some-more if UEFA's disciplinary cabinet regards Rooney's red label situation as violent conduct (which they would have every right to do).

It was a meaningless act from Rooney; unprovoked, nonessential as good as entirely brainless a classical e.g. of a intrinsic as good as destructive "red mist" which sometimes descends on sportsmen in a heat of battle (most memorably when French legend Zinedine Zidane ended his career by violently headbutting Italy's Marco Materazzi in a 2006 World Cup Final).

Why did he do it? Psychologists have been queuing up to share their theories, though nobody unequivocally knows not even Rooney.

Was it a greeting of anger to a bad reason which authorised Dzudovic to sneak in front of him? Frustration during his miss of involvement in a second half? Was it atonement for an progressing unpunished plea by Dzudovic? Or, as most people have automatically assumed, was it a subliminal greeting to a detain of his father in an purported gambling scam a previous day?

Maybe a single of a above; most a combination of them; may be none of them. The usually faith is which he wasn't a i! nitial d iver as good as won't be a last to be momentarily driven by demons as good as forced to bear a consequences.

Although it was positively an without protection act of stupidity, I'm inclined to not judge Rooney too harshly.

Yes, he is petulant; yes, he is explosive; yes, he is unpredictable. But we all know that, as good as it's only a partial of a package which creates him such an well-developed footballer. Without his inner fire, he would be only another player, as good as if we want to welcome a highs, we must be rebuilt to accept a lows.

Eric Cantona was a same; so was Zidane; so was Diego Maradona, so was Romario; so was Hristo Stoichkov... a list could go on. The biggest players have been often great since they have been fuelled by levels of drive as good as enterprise which simply do not exist inside of typical people, as good as partial of their DNA is an occasional, unavoidable bent towards self-destruction. It comes with a territory.

On a whole, Rooney has finished good to largely tame his inner fire in new years. Friday night's was his second red label for England, following his infamous squabble with then-clubmate Cristiano Ronaldo during a World Cup Finals 5 years ago, as good as he's not been sent off for Manchester United since a 2-0 defeat during Fulham in March 2009.

His outbursts have been controlled, as good as that's a most appropriate we can hope for since they will never be extinguished. It's only bad timing which this a single could price England so dearly.

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Najib has gone kaput! There are no measures to shield against global recession

The 2012 Budget has not made most impact to remonstrate a people to opinion for a incumbent Government. Malaysia's monetary strength should not be taken for granted. Any fine economist would have recommended a expansion bill pumping some-more income for expansion to encourage productivity, generally during these capricious times of a appearing tellurian mercantile slack as good as retrogression which might means most to remove their jobs. But this Budget seems not appear to adhere to this mercantile discipline. It's some-more of a spending Budget t! o safeguard a political survival of a incumbent government.

It's unequivocally a Budget which throws a small income here, there as good as everywhere, to get which "feel great moments" in order to gain votes in a entrance General Election. Economic capability has not been a categorical prong though a territory of a race would get a tiny monetary prerogative each as good as in a month or so a handouts would have been spent. The sum costs of these handouts would add up to a unequivocally outrageous sum which could have been better used to enlarge mercantile activities which have been some-more productive. But this is not a box with a Budget; political interests have overridden a nations' long-term mercantile interests.

In a 2012 Budget, a sum of RM232.8 billion is allocated. The sum income of a Federal Government is projected to enlarge 1.9 percent to RM186.9 billion. Taking in to account a estimated income as good as expenditure, a Federal Government deficit in 2012 is approaching to be around 4.7 percent of GDP. The shortfall in amount would in all likelihood ! be finan ced by borrowing. The supervision substantially has to borrow to pay losses over earnings. This would catch alternative monetary encumbrances which have been starting to indirectly affect a economy.

Still contingent upon unfamiliar investors

The Budget has not supposing enough boosts to bring in unfamiliar investors as good as control collateral flights from a country. Being a tiny nation which lacks entrepreneurial capability a nation cannot unconditionally rely upon internal investors to beget a economy, as even a couple of determined entrepreneurs in a nation have been withdrawal for alternative countries to invest. The nation has small choice though to rely heavily upon unfamiliar investors as good as a export industries to beget a economy. The miss of confidence in a country's governance, amicable as good as religious skirmishes as good as sure supervision policies adhered to have incited divided most intensity investors.! Not onl y investors have been shying divided from a nation though additionally collateral flights to unfamiliar countries have been inspiring a bum economy.

The country's exports have been mainly to a grown countries, China as good as India. It is in this mercantile zone which thousands have been employed. When you have been heading for a retrogression depending as good most upon export industries would affect a country's economy. Many locals would be out of pursuit as good as a unemployed, together with those immigrants authorised as good as bootleg in a country, would give a nation oodles of amicable problems.

Neglecting a cultivation sector

The cultivation sect! or has n ever been a success story in a history of Malaysia solely for a couple of export-oriented line similar to a palm oil as good as rubber attention as good as a small private-owned ventures. The 2012 Budget skeleton to exercise a Rural Mega Leap Programme covering 6,500 hectares in eleven Agropolitan Projects inhabitant ! for a cu ltivation of commodity as good as cash crops as good as fish caged enlightenment with an grant of RM110 million. Most government-run farming projects had never been successful in a past. There had been as good most monetary leakages when it came to a farming zone underneath supervision agencies due to a lackadaisical attitude of agencies, prevalent crime as good as amateurish management. The numerous inexpert supervision agencies could not have a farming zone profitable. Most supervision projects underneath farming schemes in a past were closed down due to loss of money, ineptness as good as negligence. Until a 12th Malaysia Plan you have nonetheless to see estimable swell in a farming zone in a nation despite spending billions of ringgit to sustain most agro-based industries. We still loiter far during a back of Thailand as good as even Indonesia presently, in this important mercantile sector. The 2012 Budget is not starting to induce enough for a in isolation zone to spearhead a farming zone to have it serve beget a economy.

Malaysia is better off than a small industrialised countries in which workers could lapse to a farming communities in box there is a recession. Ignoring a farming zone to face any mercantile predicament is during a country's own peril when a economies of grown countries collapse.

The complaint would movement when a countries which have been ostensible to buy a export-oriented industrial as good as production products stop or have no means to buy them, as good as afterwards a nation would face an mercantile snag. The universe mercantile situation is now unequivocally capricious as good as it competence lead to retrogression anytime soon. That is when laid-off workers have to lapse to a farm in a bid to seaside up cultivation as a motorist of a country's mercantile growth. Agriculture could no disbelief be a motorist of a country's mercantile growth. Industry could keep upon starting though a farming zone should not be neglected.

Competitiveness as goo! d as pro ductivity

Facts as good as figures upon a GDP might not always guarantee a viable as good as visible manage to buy for a country. Productivity expansion in figures might not unequivocally simulate a actual design of a manage to buy upon a ground. Talking about GDP estimates as good as expansion is usually for a feel-good reason in any mercantile plan. At a end of a day it's always capability which counts attention or agriculture. Pay enlarge for workers open as good as in isolation sectors which does not co-ordinate capability would destroy to prerogative a nation during this moment. This is bound to means serve inflation some-more income in a hand would coax some-more spending. The supply-demand theory would afterwards see a prices of line escalating. When so most income is starting to be spent upon "free lunch" a Budget is not starting to induce competitiveness as good as capability to safeguard mercantile outlay which could be enhanced to counter growing inflationary pressures.

No a singular is denying! which th ere has been a small poignant expansion in a inhabitant manage to buy since a final mercantile downturn in 1998. However, as a present income placement pyramid depicts, a placement of income in Malaysia is skewed towards a rich, as good as there is still poignant misery in Malaysia. The 2012 Budget stipulates which Income per capita is estimated to enlarge to RM28, 725 in 2011 compared with RM26, 175 in 2010. But this does not unequivocally simulate upon a 40 percent of Malaysians who earn reduction than RM1500 per month. The one-off RM500 remuneration to households 53 percent households (3.5 million) earning reduction than RM3000 indicates which misery is still a poignant emanate in a country.

The country's mercantile opening purebred 4.4 percent in a initial half of 2011. It seems which this expansion was driven by expansion in a domestic economy. This expansion movement is approaching to enlarge in a second half of 2011, spurred by a some-more "vibran! t" in is olation consumption as good as investment. Growth in 2011 is, therefore, estimated to enhance between 5 percent as good as 5.5 percent. These figures, however, might not be achieved with ease with a present as good as future mercantile slowdown. The mercantile expansion for 2010 would in all likelihood not strech 5 percent with all a uncertainties clouding a universe economy. A! t most appropriate i t would usually hum around 4 percent or less. This is due to a mercantile slack in a United States, Europe as good as Japan, inflationary pressures due to rising commodity prices, European debt predicament as good as slower universe trade. With tellurian mercantile decline, a manage to buy would see a continuous downward slide, as good as projected figures have been bound to change.

Inequality fell over a past couple of decades

Malaysia ranks between a most unequal societies in Southeast Middle East in conditions of income placement despite having figures upon considerable expansion rates as good as aloft per-capita incomes. The 40 to 53 percent of a bad Bumiputera, Indian as good as Chinese have been still artificial as they have been economically as good as socially marginalized. There is small postulated gratification or employment-based await for low-income Malaysians who have been anticipating it increasingly difficult to have ends meet.

Reports mostly indicate to a tumble in comprehensive misery levels in Malaysia from 29 percent in 1980 to about 5-6 percent in 2000 as good as to reduction than 3.0 percent in 2010. But critical analysts complain which these figures have been disingenuous. They indicate out which a income starting point used for a misery line now an normal monthly domicile income of RM500 is unrealistic since a aloft cost of living. If RM1, 500 per month a some-more realistic figure is taken as a essential misery line, afterwards around 60 per cent of Malaysians have been categorised as poor.

According to a World Bank, Malaysia ! is a sin gular of a couple of countries in East Middle East where lack of harmony fell over a past couple of decades. Despite this long-term reduction in misery rates in all a past Plans, a trend has not significantly changed for a past dual decades. It has no reduction than increasing a opening between a abounding as good as a poor.

Inequality misfortune between all racial groups

Another report indicates which Malaysia's Gini Coefficient a dimensions for income lack of harmony where 0 indicates undiluted equality as good as 1.0 indicates undiluted lack of harmony of around 0.49 is between a top in a region. This is significantly larger than a levels in poorer countries such as Indonesia (0.32), Vietnam (0.36), as good as Laos (0.37). It is additionally aloft than Thailand's 0.41 as good as a Philippines' 0.46.

According to an additional study, intra-ethnic lack of harmony appeared to be misfortune between racial Malays as good as a Indigenous people of Sabah as good as Sarawak followed by racial Indians, who have up some-more than half of a country's 27 million people. Four decades of affirmative-action policies did not enlarge much! a sta ke in a manage to buy of a Bumiputera (ethnic Malays as good as alternative inland groups) though it led to a emergence of a Malay center class. And for a marginalised Indians as good as Chinese they were forlornly left to deflect for themselves opposite a heartache of misery though most supervision aid.

Disparity: a rural-urban divide

By 2010, farming domicile incomes stood during just 60 percent of a civic figures. Many of a bad farming households could be found in Sabah, Sarawak, Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah, Perlis as good as tools of Pahang, Johore, Negeri Sembilan as good as Melaka states. The inland groups in a farming as good as interior areas of Sabah as good as Sarawak have been between a misfortune affected. Economic assist has not significantly reached a bad locals of these! dual st ates. Among a inland minorities in Peninsular Malaysia, a Orang Asli remain desperately bad despite all a attempts to alleviate poverty.

In a civic areas, a poignant series of bad between all racial groups has emerged as good over a decades. Squatter allotment conditions have been depressing. A large series of travel children, undernourished young kids as good as singular parents with young kids vital in dilapidated shelters could be found in almost all squatter areas in most tools of a country. And this additionally includes a bad in estates as good as plantations. This is not a kind of picture of mercantile success a nation would wish to portray to a world.

There is still poignant misery in Malaysia, which a pro-government media chose to ignore to paint an angelic picture of a Government. Unfortunately, usually misery found in Opposition-controlled states have been mostly highlighted by these media to fallaciously paint a opening of a states.

Proportion of bad has increased

There have been still a poignant series of families of all racial groups in a nation earning reduction than RM1500 per month. The cost of vital currently is inspiring them most. The suit of Malaysians vital in civic areas increasing from twenty-five percent in 1970 to about 65 percent in 2010. The official figure for contemptible civic misery is since as reduction than 3 percent though this significantly underestimates civic poverty, as a misery line is set during RM500 per month for a family of 4 a monthly income which has been disputed as unrealistically low for a family of 4 to meet a needs. A consult of a small civic areas in a nation has referred to which about a quarter of a country's civic race lives in squatter as good as quasi-squatter settlements as good as this is a reasonable estimate of a misery rate. At a singular time, civic misery was largely a complaint confined to a non-Malay communities in Peninsula Malaysia, as they were significantly urbanised during a time ! of auton omy as good as after. However, racial Malays from a farming areas have since shifted to a civic areas as good as a suit of racial Malay bad has accordingly increased. The bad in Sabah as good as Sarawak has remained during not reduction than 60 percent when misery line is set during RM1500 per month.

Financial leakages as good as mismanagement

The bill has not looked in to longer term measures to defend a essential element of t! he Malay sian economy. The 2012 Budget is full of something good to eat merely dictated to prepare for a subsequent General Election though it has not taken in to consideration upon how to defense a Malaysian manage to buy opposite a declining tellurian economy.

Fiscal as good as monetary fortify by a supervision was never a norms in a past. With monetary leakages, miss of competitiveness, as good most bureaucracy, miss of transparency, incompetence, crime as good as mismanagement a nation would again not see this Budget implemented effectively. As ensued in a past, a miss of transparency, accountability as good as competency has failed most of a Plans. The transparent as clear Auditor-General's Reports in a past have been sworn statement to these incessant problems bilking out a Government Treasury.

The Auditor-General's Reports had in a past highlighted a most flaws in a monetary supervision of supervision agencies nonetheless no stern actions were taken to this effect. Again taxpayers' income has been abused as a outcome of unhandy governance of a country. Many farming as good as industrial skeleton went kaput, outrageous contracts since to unqualified cronies were subcontracted to others for quick as good as easy profits as good as there were cases where income was siphoned out prior to a devise could take place. Exorbitant as good as unreasonable payments were found to be paid by a small supervision agencies for buying of products as good as services. Millions of ringgit had been wasted because of mismana! gement o f open funds by a small supervision agencies underneath all a previous Plans.

No postulated mercantile devise for a poor

To a bad 60 percent of a race it is bread as good as butter which is a issue. Despite giving out a small giveaway candies a unequivocally short-term remedy to a territory of a people a infancy of a people have been still deprived of any tangible benefits, as there have been no postulated mercantile skeleton for them generally a marginalised Bumiputera, Indians! as good as Chi nese. When there have been most special allocations in a Budget for a singular racial organisation in conditions of business, loans as good as alternative opportunities a bad Indians as good as Chinese have been left out with no palpable skeleton for them to boost their mercantile status. This is a fate which a marginalised groups have so patiently endured for a past 6 decades.

The typical self-employed citizens would have to face an additional cost hike of all products in a marketplace after this Budget. As happened in a past, each time a inhabitant bill was voiced as good as a slight pay enlarge or reward remuneration was voiced a prices of line as good as essentials shot up in geometrical proportions. This would offset whatever small gain salary earners would make. Unlike a small alternative efficient governments this Budget has voiced no in effect resource to stop this inflationary effect which would keep upon haunting a bad some-more than a rich. The bad Bumiputera, Indians as good as Chinese would be a most affected by this Budget in a long-run.

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