KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 Lim Guan Eng has decried what he claims have been attempts by the mainstream media to whitewash MCA boss Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Leks personal attacks opposite him during Saturdays debate. The DAP secretary-general forked out that whilst he had stuck to the subject of debate, Dr Chua had not only launched personal attacks ... Read More
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June 1 Trial on Preliminary Issues of Law in Kelantan-Petronas Case
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Najibs PAS-DAP remarks signals end of 1 Malaysia, says Pakatan
KUALA LUMPUR, February 20 Datuk Seri Najib Razaks try to spin Muslims off PAS by linking it to DAP shows he has turned his behind upon the 1 Malaysia togetherness pledge for competition politics, antithesis leaders have said.
The budding apportion alluded yesterday during the gathering of ulama, Muslim scholars as well as bloggers that the opinion for Islamist PAS was the opinion for secular, infancy Chinese DAP.
His remarks came the day after MCA boss Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek told Chinese voters that await for DAP will strengthen PAS, that he claimed would force the values upon non-Muslims.
Najib has definitely abandoned all pretenses for remodel or transformation. Its behind to the aged realpolitik of race, religion as well as money, PKR vital director Rafizi Ramli told The Malaysian Insider.
He pronounced it was amusing that Barisan Nasional (BN) still resorted to aged divide-and-rule tactics in an age where voters have larger access to information, as well as suggested that the ruling coalition was in panic mode as elections loom.
Rafizi (picture) additionally stressed that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) remained firm in the commitment to the non-racial message as well as would speak with the single voice as well as language.
The policies implemented in the states you rule were additionally not written along racial lines. Those are commitments you have delivered so far, he said.
PAS executive committee part of Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa pronounced Najibs remarks, that echoed those of Dr Chuas, served to strengthen the racial view that has put the draw towards upon the countrys progress.
I would say Najibs 1 Malaysia is going down the drain. Najib is unfortunate as well as attempted to fool around the racial card... So it is behind to competition governing body again for BN, he said.
He stressed that PR, unlike ! BN, wish ed to eliminate such divisive politics, not slightest given the brand new era of Malaysians would no longer opinion along racial lines but in await of design issues.
DAPs Zairil Khir Johari called the budding apportion the confused man, observant that Najib still mostly resorted to competition governing body notwithstanding desperately perplexing to portray himself as the assuage following BNs rare losses in Election 2008.
Either he wakes up the little days as well as feels similar to the 1 Malaysia (and the little days not) or hes intensely confused, he said.
PR will not tumble into the racial trap set by Najib, whose remarks appeared distributed to irritate the sentiments of the Malays notwithstanding BNs avowedly multi-racial platform, he added.
Without naming either antithesis party, Najib suggested yesterday that the opinion for PAS was the opinion for DAP, that he strongly pragmatic would be catastrophic for Muslims as well as Islam in Malaysia.
Even if you opinion for that faction, it is the a single who sleeps in the same bed with them that will profit, he pronounced during his luncheon residence during Himpunan Ulama, Cendekiawan Islam dan Penulis Maya here.
The Chinese held the debate upon Chinese during the crossroads. Muslims too are during the crossroads, some-more so given the general election is not distant off. We contingency choose, as well as the a single you select contingency be able to pledge the honour as well as virginity Islam.
The budding ministers remarks appeared to protest Dr Chuas warning to the Chinese yesterday that the opinion for DAP was the opinion for PAS, that he claimed would settle an Islamic state should PR win federal power.
Leading Umno backbencher Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan has defended both views as consistent, saying the usual denominator was antithesis lynchpin PKRs inability to control the partners excessive policies.
Of 'zina Chua' and 'bad Muslim Najib': BN's amazing propensity for corruption and vice
WASN'T our prime apportion Najib Abdul Razak comfy, comfy, upon theatre with a incorrigible MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek when officiating at a worthless Lim-Chua Debate?
The discuss completed nothing, other than to endorse a rowdy as well as gangster-like MCA audience. Surprisingly, a DAP supporters present at a discuss were calm as well as well-behaved.
Since, we find a discuss worthless, we am branch my attention to Najib's presence. Why?
Is he a true Muslim? If so, since is he so supportive ofzinaChua? Does Najib not know a Koran, Islamic Law as well as Hudud?
we contingency state here which we am not a Muslim as well as we know really tiny of a Koran as well as a religion. we am just observing as well as regulating common sense.
Committingzinameans committing adultery. And, this most we know which committing unlawful love affair is banned in Islam.
Good, bad as well as a hypocritical
All we can interpretation is which there have been bad Muslims as well as great Muslims. Likewise, there have been additionally bad Christians as well as Buddhists, and, great Christians as well as Buddhists, who should be guided by their faith.
So, will we additionally be wrong to contend which there have been Umno Malays, PKR Malays, PAS Malays as well as DAP Malays? They all have opposite political! ideals, as well as presumably opposite levels of bargain as well as make use of of their religion.
So, Chua's bootlickers as well as cronies will argue which their incorrigible leader is not a Muslim, sozinacannot be applied? What about Malaysia's Penal Code 377 upon committing unnatural sex? Is Penal Code 377 still valid or just recorded as a tool for those in energy (read Barisan Nasional) to make use of against political rivals?
If former emissary prime apportion as well as stream Opposition Anwar Ibrahim can be charged, since not Chua?
Yes, Chua admitted to his unlawful sexual poise in 2008? Does which mean which anyone who admits to committing a crime lonesome by a Penal Code can be forgiven as well as need not be charged?
That was in 2008. We have been right away in a year 2012. There is ample evidence to assign though since have been a military as well as Attorney-General's Chambers not acting? Have a military sealed a box with a standard NFA (No Further Action)? Is it which formidable to assign Chua?
Why is a Barisan Nasional (BN) government, led by an Umno Malay condoningzinaand unashamedly associating with an incorrigible male in public? Just unbelieveable!
Why have been a women gripping quiet
Likewise, a barbarous Cowgate Scandal additionally obviously displays BN-Umno's high tolerance of purported crime by their own kind.
If it involved a non-BN politician, no matter how tiny a amount, you will be picked up for inquire as well as presumably finish up passed like DAP's Teoh Beng Hock as well as Selangor Customs assistant director Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamed who presumably knew too most about a mud in Customs as well as was ready to spill a beans upon a higher-ups.
And what about all a women MCA members who support Chua? Do they agree to their father engaging in extra marital affairs? If not, since have been they still in MCA ancillary an adulterer president?
It has suddenly dawned upon me which Malaysia is in serious trouble socially, economically as well as politically since a infancy of Malaysians appear to acquit immorality by continuously re-electing a same type of incorrigible politicians to lead them.
Jackson Ng is a Retired Journalist
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Grounding Those High-Flying Kampong Boys
February 20, 2012
Grounding Those High-Flying Kampong Boys
By Dr M. Bakri Musa
Morgan-Hill, California
As you simulate upon a most contemptible scandals which have blighted Malaysia over a years, you am struck by a singular sobering observation. That is, a principal players have been Malays similar to me, as good as of my vintage.
There have been exceptions, of course. The mega-ringgit Port Klang Free Zone Development is one. Then there was a Malaysian Chinese Association's Deposit Taking Cooperative debacle of a midst 1980s. So as not to slight a Indian community, there was a similarly nauseous event of MAIKA, a investment arm of a Malaysian Indian Congress.
In East Malaysia there was a Chief Minister of Sabah, a singular Osu Bin Haji Sukam, who skipped upon his multimillion-pound gambling debt incurred in a London casino. His Haji father would hurl over in his grave upon which one. On a distant grander scale with respect to sheer covetousness as good as vast trash would be a still-to-be-fully-accounted glutton of an additional arch minister, this a singular of Sarawak. Purists may disagree which these two characters have been not Melayu tulen ("pure" Malays), so you will not focus upon them.
That would still leave me with copiousness of loathsome characters with whom, embarrassingly, you share distant as good most ready commonalities. Meaning, between others, you were poor, from a kampong, as good as a initial in a family to go to college.
Stated differently, in an defenceless moment, scratch a bit as good as a "kampongness" would ooze
out of a pores. you could straightforwardly barter aged familiar stories with these high-flying former kampong Malays, of carrying to light pelita (kerosene wick lamps) in order to study during night, of hauling water in pails hung during a ends of a bamboo pole painfully strung opposite a shoulder, as good as of back-breaking plowing of rice fields with a primitive cangkul (hoe).
Those have been not only distant hazy memories. Every time you revisit my kampong, you am painfully reminded of this oppressive reality.
The Laggak (Swagger) of these Malays
I encounter most of these high-flying Malays when they revisit America upon their taxpayer-paid junkets; you could not have guessed their common origins from their laggak (swagger). One central stayed during a presidential apartment of a five-star hotel, a arrange customarily reserved for President Barack Obama. She afterwards had a audacity to protest which her automobile in which she was driven in was not a ultimate oppulance model! As for her flight, it was initial category all a way.
Recently Prime Minister Najib stayed during a $ 20,000-a-night penthouse apartment of a Darling Hotel in Sydney while his mother splurged upon a $ 100,000 shopping spree in a singular day. Even if those figures were in a devalued ringgit, which would still be obscenely extravagant. Najib's mother denied which Australian report, though carrying seen her behavior while she was visiting America, you hold a Australian account. Najib's prototype from Kepala Batas, Penang was even some-more indulgent, what with his affinity for custom-made, ultra-luxury Airbus as good as yacht!
Najib as good as his wife, self-sty! led Mala ysia's "first couple," review themselves to a Sultans, who in turn indication themselves after a British as good as Saudi monarchs. More a latter as a House of Windsor is right away much some-more restrained; not so a House of Saud, still abundantly funded by their overflowing oil wells. Ours have been quick parching up.
With such extravagances as good as excesses during a top, no consternation lesser kutus (characters) try to outdo any other. Consider a singular Khir Toyo, a former dentist. Thanks to a liberalized legal definition, this son of a Javanese immigrant is right away Melayu tulen. He fancied himself a intelligent businessman who could drive a hard bargain as good as thus secured for himself a mega-mansion during half-price! The only complaint was which his "victim" was someone who did considerable business with Selangor while Toyo was a Chief Minister.
It was of march no intelligent bargaining, merely of, as Prime Minister Najib would inelegantly though nonetheless fairly put it, "Gua tolong lu, lu tolong gua!" (You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours!). A some-more appropriate term would be extorting, though afterwards this Khir Toyo was a product of a all-Malay preparation system as good as had only recently schooled English; as a result his inability to mind a not-so-subtle disproportion between negotiating as good as extorting.
Too bad this Toyo did not use his negotiating prowess to secure for Selangor identical lean contracts! Thank God which he is right away a former arch minister! He would still be Chief Minister if Barisan Nasional had won a last election(2008). This indicate is value pondering come a next general elections.
The ultimate though by no equates to most egregious e.g. of these contemptible scandals! involve s a National Feedlot Corporation, tasked with spearheading a meat-production industry to assistance poor rural dwellers. At least which is a rationale, as a result a inexhaustible supervision low-interest loans.
The principal there is a singular Dr. Salleh Ismail; he is right away some-more good well known as a father of a federal minister. Many Malays who strech a tip today have been not good well known for their brilliance; they may have degrees though mostly from third-rate universities or even obvious degree mills. Imbecility is a norm during a highest levels. Salleh however, is a exception. He is a singular of a early Malay PhDs in science, as good as not only any doctorate though a singular from Cornell during Ithaca, New York . He is precisely a arrange of Malay a supervision should be rewarding. So you have no complaint with his removing a cattle project instead of a little incompetent UMNO operatives or science-illiterate retired civil servants. Nor do you oppose with his putting his young kids upon his company's payroll; after all it is his company.
As with any project, a most appropriate approach to get a most appropriate claimant or price would be by competitive bidding. Today, there have been most some-more qualified Malays with proven entrepreneurial flair generally in this margin of rearing animals. Many also have proven research imagination directly in a area. The likes of Salleh Ismail have been no longer a rarity.
My biggest disappointment is with Dr. Salleh using taxpayer-subsidized loans to buy oppulance condominiums. The irony of his removing special Bumiputra discounts! Dr. Salleh is, of course, free to do what he wants with his personal assets. Equally if not some-more reprehensible would be a obliged ministers as good as treasury officials; they should have disbursed a loa! n condit ionally as good as in phases, upon proof of satisfactory performance.
This "cowgate" scandal pales in comparison to an earlier as good as much some-more expensive a singular 
involving Tajuddin Ramli as good as Malaysia Airlines. Like Salleh, Tajuddin is a son of a villager from Simpang Empat Kangkong, near Alor Setar in Kedah, a predominantly Malay as good as really poor state. Like Salleh, Tajuddin as good still has most poor kin behind in a kampongs. You would consider which a memories of their still miserable kin in a kampong would put a damper upon a laggak of these high-flying Malays.
Shaming By Showing Them Up
Dr. Salleh is from Kelantan. you was upon eighth month there once as good as witnessed a appalling poverty which tugged during my sensibilities. you consternation whether Salleh feels which approach as good when he visits Bacok; those villagers could good be his cousins, once or twice removed. He could have invested in building homes for them as good as his would-be authorization farmers instead of splurging upon oppulance condos. He would afterwards be hailed a hero instead of nonetheless an additional associate or relations of an UMNO apportion hogging a public trough.
To develop a society you contingency give young Malays, generally those from a kampongs, a first-class preparation which would prepare them for a most appropriate universities, a kind which Dr. Salleh was absolved to partake. That is a only hope. Yes, a little will dont think about their common origin as good as be used up with their newly-acquired oppulance tastes, pleasantness of Ketuanan Melayu of course. However, there will some-more than a couple of with sufficient conscience; their medium behaviors would afterwards shame these high-flying pseud! o-sophis ticated kampong Malays with their taxpayer-supported laggak.
There is a viral video upon a Internet showing Gary Locke(left with Mrs Locke), a stream American Ambassador to China, carrying his own luggage as good as ordering his coffee during an airfield cafe. Locke is an American Chinese, though his really American character singularly not in in pretensions is causing much discomfort between Chinese officialdom.
We have most shining as good as artless former young kids of a kampongs. They have been you do their most appropriate under really trying circumstances for a nation. you am shamed as good as some-more than only a bit broke in their presence. Unlike Dr. Salleh or Khairy, these Malays have been not tied together or associated to tip UMNO operatives. Many would consider which plain unlucky, though those intelligent dedicated Malays feel otherwise. They consider themselves propitious to be spared a guileful influences around them.
In my forthcoming book, Liberating a Malay Mind, you profiled a couple of of these excellent individuals. One in particular, Professor Badri Muhammad, deserves special mention. Like Dr. Salleh, Badri was also from a village in Kelantan as good as performed his PhD (Dalhousie, in Cchemistry) a couple of years earlier than Dr. Salleh.
Badri's legacies, however, have been not oppulance condominiums or multimillion-ringgit companies, though his children, biological as good as academic, a most undergraduates as good as doctoral candidates he inspired as good as guided. Yes, his biological young kids as good have finished well, sporting degrees from tip universities, together with one, Adam, a Carnegie Mellon PhD in engineering.
Here is an additional significant difference; despite Badri's medium educational income, he was able to give h! is young kids a higher preparation sans JPA, MARA, or other Ketuanan Melayu crutches. Contrast which to a singular Rafidah Aziz, also of my vintage. Like alternative UMNO officials, she as good had her share of scandals. On a revisit to America most years ago she bragged about her daughter removing a MARA "scholarship." Tiada maruah! (No sense of shame.)
With characters similar to Dr. Salleh, Tajuddin Ramli, Rafidah Aziz as good as Khir Toyo, it is tempting to indict Malays of my generation. However, you am certain which Malays similar to Badri have been not a exceptions. There are, for example, Syed Mokthar Albukhary as good as Zaid Ibrahim; both were named as Asia's munificent heroes by Forbes magazine a couple of years ago. Syed Mokthar gave generously to causes similar to preparation while Zaid has dedicated a home for a infirm in Kota Baru.
You do not realize how slothful you look until you have been in a association of a well-groomed. Thus you need some-more Malays similar to Syed Mokthar, Zaid Ibrahim as good as my recently-departed dear crony Dr. Badri Muhammad to shame as good as bring to a belligerent these high-flying former kampong boys as good as girls, as Ambassador Locke is right away you do to Chinese officials.
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Rotten journalism from a rotten society
A comment was posted here yesterday which is standard of the sweeping condemnation of Malaysian reporters which frequently arises generally from the chattering classes of the urban middle-class. In Internet terms, the commenter was the troll, completely except the points in Saturday's square How about prostitution, for Hew's sake or the prior square Political hacks blade media 'pimps as well as prostitutes' surfacing only to have the put-down, the kind dear of policemen as well as infrequently of parachute unfamiliar correspondents.
Malaysian reporters deserved no respect, the commenter said, because of "half the century of made news, domestic propaganda as well as apple-polishing", an observation which to illustrate in the centre absolves Malaysian multitude of condoning as well as meekly accepting the corruption of Malaysian broadcasting by domestic as well as commercial operation interests.
The decaying quasi-totalitarian Malaysian domestic complement which has grown over the past half-century was additionally meekly accepted by the masses. Western media as well as their local flunkies, infrequently in tandem with their unfamiliar offices, were additionally quite rebuilt to praise as well as even provide fawning support by branch a blind eye when it suited them.
It's the bit rich o! f those who were regularly the partial of the gravy train to right away condemn Malaysian reporters for being little opposite from what they themselves have been, collaborators in the harlotry of Malaysian democracy by commercial operation as well as alternative interests, some of them vast transnational conglomerates. Frigates as well as fighters, tanks as well as technology transfers have been the powerful incentive to forget principle.
That domestic flacks for antithesis parties have right away turn highly regarded as flame bearers of apostolic eccentric broadcasting is merely the alternative side of the coin of the Malaysian nicely left rotten: Malaysian politicians of either side are as willingly indifferent to repression, as others of which ilk, by in the centre looking the alternative way when it's not in their interests to notice.
They had the lot of help from friends during that.
Such friends. Friends like we wouldn't believe. Feh.
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Issues Soi Lek raised in the debate
Dr Chuas aim was to discuss it that MCA had accomplished real things for a Chinese as well as he wanted to display Lims climax as well as politics, as well as to spike him on how DAP intends to reconcile a partnership with a celebration that has a Islamic State as well as hudud law as a goal.Taking passages from The Star reports here, here as well as here, Dato Dr Chua Soi Lek lifted a following issues in his discuss with Guan
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Najib, Soi Leks remarks two sides of same coin, says BN MP
By Yow Hong Chieh
February 19, 2012
Datuk Seri Najib Razak's remarks currently came the day after MCA boss Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek pronounced await for DAP would accelerate PAS. file pic
Datuk Seri Najib Razak's remarks currently came the day after MCA boss Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek pronounced await for DAP would accelerate PAS, which would impose its Islamist values upon non-Muslims.
BN Backbenchers Club clamp boss Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan, however, shielded both views as "consistent", saying which the common denominator was opposition lynchpin PKR's inability to control its partners' impassioned policies.
"Either way, if Pakatan Rakyat (PR) wins, PAS or DAP will be in control. PKR, or specifically Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, won't be able to rein in their impassioned views," he toldThe Malaysian Insider.
Abdul Rahman, who is Kota Belud MP, had earlier pronounced upon micro-blogging site Twitter which PKR was "spineless when confronting PAS as well as DAP", distinct BN which spoke with one voice.
He also pronounced the statements made by Najib as well as Dr Chua were paradoxical as both had merely overwhelmed upon the same issue from different angles.
"MCA is MCA. Umno is Umno. MCA has its own concerns, same thing with Umno. They were articulating views vis-a-vis DAP as well as PAS," the Sabahan lawmaker said.
Abdul Rahman also hit behind at critics upon Twitter who questioned why Umno had tried holding unity talks with PAS if the Islamist party was so extreme, indicating out which such discussions did not mean Umno wished t! o form t he supervision with PAS.
"We were talking to the Communists in Baling too. Tunku Abdul Rahman talked to Chin Peng," he said, adding which such talks were also the approach to "un-extreme" PAS.
But he stressed which he was not job DAP as well as PAS nonconformist parties as he contended it is not necessary to be an nonconformist to reason impassioned views.
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February 20, 2012 Morality and Accountability: Message to
February 20, 2012
Morality as good as Accountability: Message to Minister Shahrizat
A Question of Morality
by www.freemalaysiatoday.com
"When a man's energy of tolerance runs out, afterwards whoever is in front of you, if a slap is given, afterwards a brain is put behind in place. That is a only highway open now." India's anti-graft campaigner Anna Hazare upon how to bring corrupt politicians to their senses.
It is only in Malaysia which ministers will not give up frankly when they strike a stinking patch in their domestic career. They will cling to their seat similar to a leech for fear of losing a hold up of privileges as good as power. So it is with a singular apportion who is sticking upon for dear hold up to her bureau despite a liaison which has brought contrition to a country.
Shahrizat might not be a direct participant in a failed multi-million ringgit venture though by mere organisation with a project, she is positively a celebration to a unsavoury business. She might beg her innocence, though it will not change a grim fact about her family members allegedly siphoning off open money for their personal use. She cannot squirm her approach out by arguing which she is an "outsider". A family is not made of outsiders.
When a call came for her to go as good as meet a graft-busters, she gave a impression which she is unassailable as good as guiltless by virtue of her eagerness to be quizzed. She even thanked a corruption-fighters for giving her a event to tell her side of a story. Was she invited to a "barbecue party"? Were they all having a great time laughing off a critical matter?
Wh! en a cha irman who binds a open bureau is pulled up by a authorities to answer critical allegations of wrongdoing, he or she goes in underneath a clouded cover as a suspect. Your name is not cleared only since we cooperated frankly with your interrogators. Your name is not cleared until as good as unless a whole "mess" is spotless up to a finish satisfaction of a law enforcers as good as a public.
The authorities might not pursue a "dung" route after listening to all a explanations laid out upon a table. They might be confident with a minister's "defence" as good as close a box though it is not starting to remonstrate a open a singular iota. In a face of ban "data", any try to chuck a file in to a dustbin will pound of a cover-up. The box is of open interest as good as cannot be discharged out of hand. More so when a apportion is related to a debacle. Shahrizat might not be during a centre of a storm, though she herself cannot shun from a large fallout. This is a high-profile box as good as her ministerial standing has been severely compromised. A open figure contingency take a rap when his or her family members have been mired in a scandal. It is what is called collateral damage.
Clean government
Ultimately, it all comes down to promoting a purify government. An ideal supervision is a singular where a hands of every Cabinet apportion contingency be clean. It means a number a singular trainer himself contingency not have a singular spot upon his record. If a conduct of supervision is himself not above suspicion, he cannot design his ministers to toe a dignified line.
If a supreme leader has skeletons in his cupboard, he will not have a dignified authority to lead 
the country. Then a incident will arise when all a ministers will be safeguarding each other's behind since al! l have i n a singular approach or another been complicit in a little dim act. The Cabinet becomes a gang where similar to disposed crooks have been only meddlesome in appropriation more energy as good as wealth. As a result, if a singular falls, all fall.
The predestine of a apportion is not solely determined by a Prime Minister. The latter might choose his ministers though it does not meant which he additionally decides when they can stay or go. A apportion does not need a permission of a Prime Minister to renounce over a make a difference of impropriety. He or she can give up upon dignified grounds.
If a overpass collapses, a apportion obliged for infrastructure should take dignified responsibility as good as step down. Do not put a censure upon God (that is a Samy Velu way). Do not wait for for a big trainer to pronounce for or opposite you. By giving up your in front of in a Cabinet, we will spare a nation a pang of anger, contrition as good as resentment. It will be a supreme action of bravery if a Prime Minister himself takes a censure upon himself for a misdeeds of his apportion as good as call it a day.
Malaysia has nonetheless to witness a day when a Prime apportion as good as his Cabinet renounce en masse upon allegations of abuse of energy or corruption. One nation in a Middle East as good as another a singular in Eastern Europe saw only such dramatic event unfold in new times. The governments there did not wait for for review to be finished in to complaints of crime levelled opposite them by a opposition. They give up upon their own accord. Nearer to home a vast sub-continent is experiencing a "crisis of credibility" in a face of autochthonous corruption, which might good lead to a rain of a ruling government.
In Malaysia, domestic energy is a prize which is fought for as good as contingency be shielded during all costs even if it means on foot "over dead bodies". For with energy comes untold riches as good as constantly abuses. A one-term ministership is enough to turn a ! homeless in to a fabulous fat cat. When a rotten Cabinet will not crawl down to a will of a people, as good as "public tolerance has run out", it is left to a adults to administer a slap or two upon a faces of politicians to "bring them to their senses".
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Vietnam man next to crying child opens plane door
HANOI: A mom with a screaming kid longed for a quick getaway from a craft upon a tarmac in Vietnam as well as asked for help. The male subsequent to her thankful by opening a emergency exit as well as triggering a shun slide.
Read More @ Source But that's as far as they got.
A state media report upon Tuesday's incident during Ho Chi Minh City airport says nobody used a slide. It wasn't clear if they got second thoughts or if a cabin organisation intervened.
The man, identified as 29-year-old Le Van Thuan, told authorities a child's mom asked him to open a door so she as well as a kid could exit faster.
An airfield central says a male will be fined up to $ 950, as well as it will price $ 10,000 to refit a slide.
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Will they be sue for copyright?
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RM500 million sandcastles in Penang
And while a Menteri Besar of Terengganu is busy perplexing to (or not to) set up themost costly palace in Malaysia, his reflection in Penang, theChief Minsiter Lim Guan Eng, is office building sandcastles around a island. Blogger SatD follows up upon his Bayan Mutiara display after uncovering discrepancies in Guan Eng's statements per a multi-million ringgit plan upon housing for a affordable.
SatD'sThe AliBabeng of Penang: Lividend of Land Conversioncontains a little critical allegations - as well as hints of evidence to await those allegations. At a rate he's exposing Guan Eng as well as his proofiness, Abu Kassim as well as his graft-busters from MACC should be profitable a Penang CM Lim a revisit really soon. Doesn't make a difference if it's before or after a revisit to MB Ahmad Said's office in Kuala Terengganu to check upon that billion-ringgit state palace.
- rocky's bru
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PICTURE OF THE WATERFALL AT ULU MELAKA ORANG ASLI SETTLEMENT IN SERENDAH
Waterfall during Ulu Melaka Orang Asli Settlement in Serendah - amazing sight.
A revisit there will unequivocally dazzle you and your family.
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Malaysian Chinese at The Political Crossroads Forum & Debate: Our Real Dilemma!
I had criticized a plead subject for a secular slant as well as a miss of intellectualism."Chinese during a Crossroads: Is a Two-Party System Becoming a Two-Race System?" is not usually inaccurate as well as intellectually inept. It is additionally insane as well as illogical.
The forum referred to which a Malaysian Chinese have been during a domestic crossroads for a actuality which they have to choose between a stronger supervision or a stronger opposition. It hinted which a stronger supervision should be a healthy choice to strengthen a multiracial supervision as well as to equivocate a creation of two-race system.
This idea is not usually fallacious but an insult to a domestic maturity as well as wisdom of a community. In fact, a final ubiquitous choosing reflection a shift of civic electorate await divided from a supervision for a incapacity to compromise eclectic issues confronting a urbanites. It is unfortunate which many Chinese reside in civic areas.
I attended a forum in itsentirety anticipating to be proven wrong of my initial observation. However, many of a panel discussions had unsuccessful to remonstrate me which you was wrong.
Why?The panelists as well as proposers had unsuccessful to tell me because you am during a domestic crossroads. It is not credible to merely suggest which a quandary when domestic parties have been clueless to a voting trends, preference, issues as well as concerns of a community.
The organizers had responded which a forum was not extremist but they had unsuccessful to explain because usually Chinese pan! elists a s well as moderators were invited to plead a domestic crossroads. They had unsuccessful to remonstrate observers which a forum was conducted to damp as well as fulfill a domestic agenda of domestic celebration anticipating to make use of racial as well as religious fright to draw await from a Chinese community.
I attended a concert overwhelmed by not unrestrained but fright as well as concern which what a forum competence finished up creating misunderstanding which Chinese have been Hudud-Islam haters. Most Muslim would determine which it is unfit to take Hudud out of Islam as well as Islam out of a Muslim. It would be some-more progressive for a parties to plead methods as well as ways to help raise a bargain of Hudud prior to starting upon as well as upon about how dangerous, heartless as well as primitive a Islamic penal law.
Theperpetrators of anti-Hudud view should take cognizance which Malaysia is a Muslim infancy country as well as not all Muslims (including incomparable Muslim countries such as Indonesia as well as Turkey) determine with a full doing of Hudud in a primitive as well as outdated form which symbolizes gory met! hods of punishment.
MCA should take extra caring to safeguard which in their enthusiasm to relive a magic of Hudud to win big opposite a Dap possibilities in 1999 should not turn Hudud bashing in to Muslim punching bag. There's a limit as well as respect which contingency be celebrated for a Muslim friends as well as associate citizens.
I have a complaint with a forum's generalization of Malaysian Chinese. No, not all of us voted upon colour of a skin. There were many Chinese electorate who had voted for Pas possibilities opposite those non-Malay possibilities from Barisan Nasional.
! < br>A number of us voted for good governance, some-more manly antithesis to safeguard improved check-and-balance, reduction domestic audacity et cetera. Ironically, many of us - generally younger electorate - had voted opposite a duration of institutional racism as well as governing body domination in a country.
I find it uneasy for a organizers as well as purpose players to put a shortcoming of a potential creation of a two-race complement upon a Malaysian Chinese voters. Using a broad brush to paint a voting trends of Malaysian Chinese as general as well as predictable is both too uncomplicated as well as ignorant. Political parties such as MCA, Gerakan, SUPP, LDP as well as DAP have a purpose as well as a resp! onsibili ty to a electorate to safeguard which their particular bloc does not turn in to a extremist monster.
Instead of revelation us how they could contribute towards improved racial family as well as to safeguard a success of indeed multiracial, only as well as democratic society, a little of a domestic parties as well as politicians continue to rivet in dangerous race as well as religious politicking. Such domestic parties as well as politicians contingency be all rejected by all Malaysians who adore their peace as well as harmony.
It is precisely a disappointment of inaction opposite corruption, abuse of power, domestic arrogance, leadership ineptness as well as sameness which many electorate would rsther than await any possibilities who can give them improved accountability.
It is due to a miss of bargain of a voters' view as well as an viewable act of domestic audacity as well as stupidity which a organizers, which have been linked to a domestic party, had chosen such ridiculous topics for discussion. The result of a forum i! s now ob vious.
It has brought zero enlightenment to a society. Now, you have been seriously in a dilemma. Our quandary is you may have to endure for a couple of some-more conditions an inept, clueless as well as insane regime.
My assessment: I! would g ive a forum a 3-C verdict -Contradictory, Confusing as well as Chaotic!
The forum referred to which a Malaysian Chinese have been during a domestic crossroads for a actuality which they have to choose between a stronger supervision or a stronger opposition. It hinted which a stronger supervision should be a healthy choice to strengthen a multiracial supervision as well as to equivocate a creation of two-race system.
This idea is not usually fallacious but an insult to a domestic maturity as well as wisdom of a community. In fact, a final ubiquitous choosing reflection a shift of civic electorate await divided from a supervision for a incapacity to compromise eclectic issues confronting a urbanites. It is unfortunate which many Chinese reside in civic areas.
I attended a forum in itsentirety anticipating to be proven wrong of my initial observation. However, many of a panel discussions had unsuccessful to remonstrate me which you was wrong.
Why?The panelists as well as proposers had unsuccessful to tell me because you am during a domestic crossroads. It is not credible to merely suggest which a quandary when domestic parties have been clueless to a voting trends, preference, issues as well as concerns of a community.
The organizers had responded which a forum was not extremist but they had unsuccessful to explain because usually Chinese pan! elists a s well as moderators were invited to plead a domestic crossroads. They had unsuccessful to remonstrate observers which a forum was conducted to damp as well as fulfill a domestic agenda of domestic celebration anticipating to make use of racial as well as religious fright to draw await from a Chinese community.
I attended a concert overwhelmed by not unrestrained but fright as well as concern which what a forum competence finished up creating misunderstanding which Chinese have been Hudud-Islam haters. Most Muslim would determine which it is unfit to take Hudud out of Islam as well as Islam out of a Muslim. It would be some-more progressive for a parties to plead methods as well as ways to help raise a bargain of Hudud prior to starting upon as well as upon about how dangerous, heartless as well as primitive a Islamic penal law.
Theperpetrators of anti-Hudud view should take cognizance which Malaysia is a Muslim infancy country as well as not all Muslims (including incomparable Muslim countries such as Indonesia as well as Turkey) determine with a full doing of Hudud in a primitive as well as outdated form which symbolizes gory met! hods of punishment.
MCA should take extra caring to safeguard which in their enthusiasm to relive a magic of Hudud to win big opposite a Dap possibilities in 1999 should not turn Hudud bashing in to Muslim punching bag. There's a limit as well as respect which contingency be celebrated for a Muslim friends as well as associate citizens.
I have a complaint with a forum's generalization of Malaysian Chinese. No, not all of us voted upon colour of a skin. There were many Chinese electorate who had voted for Pas possibilities opposite those non-Malay possibilities from Barisan Nasional.
! < br>A number of us voted for good governance, some-more manly antithesis to safeguard improved check-and-balance, reduction domestic audacity et cetera. Ironically, many of us - generally younger electorate - had voted opposite a duration of institutional racism as well as governing body domination in a country.
I find it uneasy for a organizers as well as purpose players to put a shortcoming of a potential creation of a two-race complement upon a Malaysian Chinese voters. Using a broad brush to paint a voting trends of Malaysian Chinese as general as well as predictable is both too uncomplicated as well as ignorant. Political parties such as MCA, Gerakan, SUPP, LDP as well as DAP have a purpose as well as a resp! onsibili ty to a electorate to safeguard which their particular bloc does not turn in to a extremist monster.
Instead of revelation us how they could contribute towards improved racial family as well as to safeguard a success of indeed multiracial, only as well as democratic society, a little of a domestic parties as well as politicians continue to rivet in dangerous race as well as religious politicking. Such domestic parties as well as politicians contingency be all rejected by all Malaysians who adore their peace as well as harmony.
It is precisely a disappointment of inaction opposite corruption, abuse of power, domestic arrogance, leadership ineptness as well as sameness which many electorate would rsther than await any possibilities who can give them improved accountability.
It is due to a miss of bargain of a voters' view as well as an viewable act of domestic audacity as well as stupidity which a organizers, which have been linked to a domestic party, had chosen such ridiculous topics for discussion. The result of a forum i! s now ob vious.
It has brought zero enlightenment to a society. Now, you have been seriously in a dilemma. Our quandary is you may have to endure for a couple of some-more conditions an inept, clueless as well as insane regime.
My assessment: I! would g ive a forum a 3-C verdict -Contradictory, Confusing as well as Chaotic!
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VOTING GE13 - Exercise your precious right as "MALAYSIAN"
Exercise your precious right as "MALAYSIAN"
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"Sekiranya anda memilih untuk tidak mengundi, anda bukan sahaja kehilangan hak untuk bersuara, malah anda langsung tidak layak untuk bersuara!" [-EL]
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Fears of Iran Threat
February 19, 2012
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Fears of Iran Threat
by Fareed Zakaria
"I am suggesting which it is profoundly shortsighted to bottom a vital decision to go to fight upon slight technical considerations similar to windows of vulnerability."-Fareed Zakaria
WE are conference a new concept these days in discussions about Iran a "zone of immunity". The idea, often explained by Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, is which shortly Iran will have sufficient chief capability which Israel would not be able to inflict a crippling blow to a programme.
In fact, while a specifics are fresh, this is not a new vital concept during all. Nations have often believed which they face a shutting window to act, as well as roughly always such meditative has led to disaster. The many important e.g. was Germany's decision to begin what became World War 1. The German General Staff believed which Russia a archenemy was rearming upon a scale which would shortly stop Germany's higher troops strength. The Germans believed which inside of dual years by 1916 Russia would have a significant, as well as perhaps unbeatable, vital advantage.
As a result, when misunderstanding began in a Balkans in June 1914, Germany motionless to act. To stop Russia from entering a section of immunity, Germany invaded France (Russia's main ally) as well as Belgium, which forced British entrance into a war, thus environment in motion a two-front European conflict which lasted four years as well as resulted in some-more than 37 million casualties.
Now, you am not suggesting which an Israeli conflict upon Iran would have anything tighten to these consequences. But you am suggesting which it is profoundly shortsighted to bottom a vital dec! ision t o go to fight upon slight technical considerations similar to windows of vulnerability. Many in Washington in Mar 2003 insisted which you could not wait for for chief inspectors to keep during their work in Iraq since you faced a shutting window a weather was going to get as well prohibited by June as well as July to send in United States forces. We rushed into a really bad planned troops advance as well as occupation in which soldiers had to continue fight in Iraq for nine long as well as really prohibited years.
Israeli officials explain which you Americans cannot understand their fears, which Iran is an existential hazard to them. But in actuality you can understand since you have gone by a really similar knowledge ourselves. After World War 2, as a Soviet Union approached a chief capability, a US was seized by a panic which lasted for years.
Everything which Israel says about Iran now, you pronounced about a Soviet Union. We saw it as a radical, revolutionary regime, opposed to every worth you hold dear, dynamic to overpower a governments of a Western world in order to settle tellurian communism. We saw Moscow as irrational, aggressive as well as definitely unmotivated with tellurian life.
Just as Israel is openly considering pre-emptive strikes opposite Iran, many in a West urged such strikes opposite Moscow in a late 1940s.
To get a sense of a mood of a times, consider this entrance from a November 29, 1948, diary of Harold Nicolson, one of a coolest as well as many sober British diplomats of his generation: "It is probably true which Russia is preparing for a last conflict for world mastery as well as which once she has sufficient bombs, she will destroy Western Europe, take up Asia as well as have a last death onslaught with a Americas. If which happens as well as you are wiped out over here, a survivors in New Zealand might contend which you were insane not to have prevented this."
In a speech during a Boston Navy Yard in August 1950, Navy Secretary Francis M! atthews argued that, in being "an initiator of a fight of aggression", a US "would turn a initial aggressors for peace".
In a end, however, a tellurian revolutionaries in Moscow, a insane autocrats in Pyongyang as well as a terrorist-supporting troops in Pakistan have all been deterred by mutual fears of destruction.
While a Iranian system of administration is often called crazy, it has finished most reduction to merit a term than did a system of administration such as Mao's China. Over a past decade, there have been thousands of self-murder bombings by Saudis, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians as well as Pakistanis, but not a singular self-murder conflict by an Iranian. Is a Iranian system of administration even if it got one crude device in a couple of years likely to launch a first?
"Israel is eventually confronting a sort of choices a US as well as Great Britain confronted some-more than six decades ago," says Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs.
"Hopefully it, too, will come to recognize which absolute security is impossible to achieve in a chief age, as well as which if a enemies' chief programmes cannot be delayed or disrupted, anticipation is reduction catastrophic than surety war."
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Water crisis in Klang Valley by 2014: The State Gomen seeming recalcitrance in facilitating Langat 2 is worrisome
I wrote late last year upon a imminent Selangor Water Sypply Crisis in 2014:
Impending purify H2O predicament in Klang Valley by 2014: A dangerous diversion a Selangor Pakatan led State Government play
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Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Tetap, Kesihatan, Pekerja, Ladang, Kemiskinan dan Kerajaan Prihatin negeri, Dr Xavier Jayakumar mendakwa, krisis air yang dibangkitkan selama ini merupakan promotion politik kerajaan Barisan Nasional.
"Ini adalah usaha pihak tertentu untuk meracun pemikiran rakyat Selangor dalam usaha mereka untuk merampas kembali negeri ini.
"Kerajaan negeri berpendapat bahawa projek mega pemindahan air dari Pahang ke Selangor serta tindakanSyarikatBekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) memaksa kerajaan negeri meluluskan pembinaan Loji Rawatan Air Sungai Langat (Langat 2) yang menelan berbilion-bilion ringgit itu tiada tujuan lain.
"Apa yang diketahui ia hanya bertujuan memberi kontrak dan habuan keuntungan kepadasyarikat-syarikatkroni yang rapat dengan mereka," katanya kepada pemberita selepas menghadiri mesyuarat Exco di Bangunan Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah di sini, Rabu.
Menurutnya, kerajaan Selangor dengan menggunakan teknologi rawatan air terkini telah mengenal pasti beberapa punca air yang telah dirawat dan boleh diguna ! pakai ba gi menampung keperluan rakyat Selangor, Kuala Lumpur danPutrajaya.
"Bagi menampung keperluan air kita akan mengambil air mentah dari bekas-bekas lombong yang banyak terdapat di seluruh negeri Selangor,pengambilanair bawah tanah, rawatan dan penapisan air sungai, penggunaan air hujan dan juga air mentah dari takungan hujan.
"Malah kerajaan negeri juga bersetuju dengan cadangan Persatuan Pengguna untuk memaksimumkan penggunaan sumber-sumber air tersebut untuk menampung keperluan harian rakyat Selangor," katanya.
Jelas beliau, cadangan tersebut merupakanalternatifyang lebih bermanfaat dan menjimatkan daripada projek pembangunan infrastruktur pemindahan air dari Pahang yang me! nelan be lanja berbilion ringgit wang pembayar cukai.
Mengulas lanjut, Xavier berkata, kerajaan negeri juga sedang mempercepatkan langkah bagi merawat air sungai untuk penggunaan sektor perindustrian di Selangor.
"Bagi tujuan ini kerajaan negeri telah meluluskan lesen pemindahan air mentah kepada anaksyarikatKumpulan Darul Ehsan Berhad (KDEB), Konsortium Air Sdn Bhd yang mempunyai mass departure rekod dan kepakaran teknologi terkini dalam menguruskan dan merawat air.
"Sekali lagi kerajaan negeri memberi jaminan bahawa isu bekalan air tidak akan timbul malah ia mencukupi sehingga tahun 2020," ujarnya.
Justeru, beliau menegaskan bahawa kerajaan negeri akan meneruskan urus tadbir bekalan air bagi memastikan rakyat Selangor terus mendapat manfaat pemberian twenty meter padu air percuma."
"Menurutnya, kerajaan Selangor dengan menggunakan teknologi rawatan air terkini telah mengenal pasti beberapa punca air yang telah dirawat dan boleh diguna pakai bagi menampung keperluan rakyat Selangor, Kuala Lumpur danPutrajaya.
"Bagi menampung keperluan air kita akan mengambil air mentah dari bekas-bekas lombong yang banyak terdapat di seluruh negeri Selangor,pengambilanair bawah tanah, rawatan dan penapisan air sungai, penggunaan air hujan dan juga air mentah dari takungan hujan.
"Malah kerajaan negeri juga bersetuju dengan cadangan Persatuan Pengguna untuk memaksimumkan penggunaan sumber-sumber air tersebut untuk menampung keperluan harian rakyat Selangor," katanya."
Treat Ground Water as well as Catch sleet water? How, Ground Water have been not a most appropriate as well as not a cheapest supply for treated with colour H2O as well as we still need multimillion dollar pumping stations andtreatmentplants during befitting locations to provide a ground H2O andyou willneed additional brand new H2O pipes to conn! ect with a existent servicereservoirs. Ground H2O pumping also lowers down a H2O list of a surrounding area causing alternative problems to a environment too it would also cause land subsidence. Readhere:"The city ofNew Orleans, Louisiana, is essentially next sea level today, as well as a subsidence is partly caused by dismissal of groundwater from a assorted aquifer/aquitardsystemsbeneath it. In a first half of a 20th century, a city ofSan Jose, California, forsaken thirteen feet from land subsidence caused by overpumping; this subsidence has been halted with softened groundwater management."
The only/ most appropriate method to obtain/! catch sl eet H2O in economical quantities fortreatmentis from a rivers as well as studies had shown that prolongation oftreatmentplant from stream off-takes in Selangor had reached roughly full production, readhere. Building newtreatmentplants as envisaged by a Selangor Pakatan led state Gomen to siphon as well as provide H2O from already burned out rivers a little of that have been heavily polluted, have been a waste of publicfund, it will be an contemptible failure in no time. That is because after most studies thePAAB technical peoplehad motionless upon a tender H2O send of H2O from H2O abounding Pahang to Selangor as well as a tender H2O to be treated with colour underneath a Langat 2 project. NOT because a little PKR chosen rumor mongers like Xavier say that it is an nonessential plan to fatten a little abounding cronieslah.
OK this is what a people who have been in a know as well as concerned about Malaysia's H2O supply issues, quite a Selangor H2O supply issue is saying:
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Reject those honeyed promises
Loji Rawatan Air Sungai Langat 2 Perlu Di Bina
Malaysia faces appearing H2O crisis
Impending purify H2O predicament in Klang Valley by 2014: A dangerous diversion a Selangor Pakatan led State Government play
.... if a current Selangor State Government led by Pakatan is still playing a diversion of brinkmanship by refusing to concede a ongoing Langat 2 H2O supply plan to proceed smoothly causing a delay, afterwards they will be hold obliged as well as accountable for a entrance H2O predicament as well as a ensuing H2O cuts that will not just cause hard times to a ordinary Malaysian consumers yet also to a Multi-billion Ringgit industries that had been set up in a Klang Valley as well as Selangor that all depends upon a constant supply of purify H2O for their operations.
Friends, do we know because we take for granted as well as do not think too most about a H2O entrance out from a tap, a because we have been so used to purify using H2O that we courtesy it as something that we have around us all a time like a Parents as well as siblings. Do we know because we have been means to get a constant supply of purify water, a because a State Governments as well as a Federal Government had regularly worked palm in palm to meticulously study, plan, design, finance as well as erect a dams,water diagnosis plantsand intakes as well as a servicereservoirsand H2O pipes necessary for a smoothness of treated with colour purify H2O to ourhomes, offic es, commercial as well as public buildings as well as industries, droughts notwithstanding.
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And friends, guest what? this routine has been starting upon as well as continues to go upon since before a Merdeka day. This H2O supply planning/ implementation routine is so important that even a DAP State Government of Pulau Pinang give full cooperation to a Federal Government when it comes to H2O matters. Not a same can be pronounced about a Selangor Pakatan led Government though, this is a ultimate what they have to say:
Oleh NURUL AIN MOHD HUSSAIN.. Feb fifteen 2012
"SHAH ALAM: Kerajaan Negeri Selangor memberi jaminan tidak akan berlaku krisis air menjelang 2014.Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Tetap, Kesihatan, Pekerja, Ladang, Kemiskinan dan Kerajaan Prihatin negeri, Dr Xavier Jayakumar mendakwa, krisis air yang dibangkitkan selama ini merupakan promotion politik kerajaan Barisan Nasional.
"Ini adalah usaha pihak tertentu untuk meracun pemikiran rakyat Selangor dalam usaha mereka untuk merampas kembali negeri ini.
"Kerajaan negeri berpendapat bahawa projek mega pemindahan air dari Pahang ke Selangor serta tindakanSyarikatBekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) memaksa kerajaan negeri meluluskan pembinaan Loji Rawatan Air Sungai Langat (Langat 2) yang menelan berbilion-bilion ringgit itu tiada tujuan lain.
"Apa yang diketahui ia hanya bertujuan memberi kontrak dan habuan keuntungan kepadasyarikat-syarikatkroni yang rapat dengan mereka," katanya kepada pemberita selepas menghadiri mesyuarat Exco di Bangunan Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah di sini, Rabu.
Menurutnya, kerajaan Selangor dengan menggunakan teknologi rawatan air terkini telah mengenal pasti beberapa punca air yang telah dirawat dan boleh diguna ! pakai ba gi menampung keperluan rakyat Selangor, Kuala Lumpur danPutrajaya.
"Bagi menampung keperluan air kita akan mengambil air mentah dari bekas-bekas lombong yang banyak terdapat di seluruh negeri Selangor,pengambilanair bawah tanah, rawatan dan penapisan air sungai, penggunaan air hujan dan juga air mentah dari takungan hujan.
"Malah kerajaan negeri juga bersetuju dengan cadangan Persatuan Pengguna untuk memaksimumkan penggunaan sumber-sumber air tersebut untuk menampung keperluan harian rakyat Selangor," katanya.
Jelas beliau, cadangan tersebut merupakanalternatifyang lebih bermanfaat dan menjimatkan daripada projek pembangunan infrastruktur pemindahan air dari Pahang yang me! nelan be lanja berbilion ringgit wang pembayar cukai.
Mengulas lanjut, Xavier berkata, kerajaan negeri juga sedang mempercepatkan langkah bagi merawat air sungai untuk penggunaan sektor perindustrian di Selangor.
"Bagi tujuan ini kerajaan negeri telah meluluskan lesen pemindahan air mentah kepada anaksyarikatKumpulan Darul Ehsan Berhad (KDEB), Konsortium Air Sdn Bhd yang mempunyai mass departure rekod dan kepakaran teknologi terkini dalam menguruskan dan merawat air.
"Sekali lagi kerajaan negeri memberi jaminan bahawa isu bekalan air tidak akan timbul malah ia mencukupi sehingga tahun 2020," ujarnya.
Justeru, beliau menegaskan bahawa kerajaan negeri akan meneruskan urus tadbir bekalan air bagi memastikan rakyat Selangor terus mendapat manfaat pemberian twenty meter padu air percuma."
Since 2008 a Pakatan led state Gomen, in their bid to keep a state, will politicise everything as well as anything, they right away even have a preposterous guarantee that a H2O supply will be good until 2020 (promise not backed by any verifiable census data upon treated with colour H2O prolongation as well as projected consumption - domicile & industries until 20120! or beyo nd) . What will they devise to do? Xavier Jayakumar said:
"Menurutnya, kerajaan Selangor dengan menggunakan teknologi rawatan air terkini telah mengenal pasti beberapa punca air yang telah dirawat dan boleh diguna pakai bagi menampung keperluan rakyat Selangor, Kuala Lumpur danPutrajaya.
"Bagi menampung keperluan air kita akan mengambil air mentah dari bekas-bekas lombong yang banyak terdapat di seluruh negeri Selangor,pengambilanair bawah tanah, rawatan dan penapisan air sungai, penggunaan air hujan dan juga air mentah dari takungan hujan.
"Malah kerajaan negeri juga bersetuju dengan cadangan Persatuan Pengguna untuk memaksimumkan penggunaan sumber-sumber air tersebut untuk menampung keperluan harian rakyat Selangor," katanya."
Treat Ground Water as well as Catch sleet water? How, Ground Water have been not a most appropriate as well as not a cheapest supply for treated with colour H2O as well as we still need multimillion dollar pumping stations andtreatmentplants during befitting locations to provide a ground H2O andyou willneed additional brand new H2O pipes to conn! ect with a existent servicereservoirs. Ground H2O pumping also lowers down a H2O list of a surrounding area causing alternative problems to a environment too it would also cause land subsidence. Readhere:"The city ofNew Orleans, Louisiana, is essentially next sea level today, as well as a subsidence is partly caused by dismissal of groundwater from a assorted aquifer/aquitardsystemsbeneath it. In a first half of a 20th century, a city ofSan Jose, California, forsaken thirteen feet from land subsidence caused by overpumping; this subsidence has been halted with softened groundwater management."
The only/ most appropriate method to obtain/! catch sl eet H2O in economical quantities fortreatmentis from a rivers as well as studies had shown that prolongation oftreatmentplant from stream off-takes in Selangor had reached roughly full production, readhere. Building newtreatmentplants as envisaged by a Selangor Pakatan led state Gomen to siphon as well as provide H2O from already burned out rivers a little of that have been heavily polluted, have been a waste of publicfund, it will be an contemptible failure in no time. That is because after most studies thePAAB technical peoplehad motionless upon a tender H2O send of H2O from H2O abounding Pahang to Selangor as well as a tender H2O to be treated with colour underneath a Langat 2 project. NOT because a little PKR chosen rumor mongers like Xavier say that it is an nonessential plan to fatten a little abounding cronieslah.
OK this is what a people who have been in a know as well as concerned about Malaysia's H2O supply issues, quite a Selangor H2O supply issue is saying:
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Last page PAGE 3read in full here For Xavier as well as a rest of a Selangor intelligent alec Excos as well as a YAB MB, greatfully note that we have been full time politicians as well as have been not H2O experts buy any stretch of any one's aptitude together with yours. Just leave a study, planning as well as implementation of highly complexed infrastructure like H2O supply to those who knows OK.....you knowlah a Water Engineers as well as Technical Professionals inPAAB.The Selangor State Gomen shouldStop beingrecalcitrant,its starting to be my life as well as a lives ofmillionsof Malaysians we have been mucking about with. Thank You.
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Ada pemimpin Selangor anggap maksiat hak asasi - HasanKUALA LUMPUR 17 Feb. - Bekas Pesuruhjaya Pas Selangor, Datuk Dr. Hasan Ali berkata, terdapat pemimpin kerajaan Selangor termasuk daripada Pas sendiri menerima perbuatan maksiat oleh umat Islam sebagai satu cabang hak asasi manusia.Menurut beliau, dalam tempoh lebih tiga tahun menjadi anggota Exco menjaga hal ehwal Islam kerajaan Selangor,
Robert Zoellicks Successor at The World Bank: An American, of course?
February 19, 2012
Robert Zoellick's Successor during The World Bank: An American, of course?
by Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian (02-17-12)
Robert Zoellick (left) will depart in June as President of a World Bank, once again raising a troublesome emanate of care of a Bretton Woods twins (the Bank as good as a International Monetary Fund). At their birth, John Maynard Keynes memorably warned which if these institutions did not get great leaders they would "fall in to an almighty slumber, never to waken or be heard of again in a courts as good as markets of Mankind."
Getting a great leader, of course, requires a clever preference process. Today, however, a universe is stranded with only a opposite: a dreadfully superannuated routine whereby a United States as good as Europe, despite their economic travails, keep a monopoly upon a care of a Bank as good as a IMF, respectively.
There is grudging agreement which this complement should change. But a forces perpetuating a status quo European as good as American insurgency to shift as good as emerging-market countries' acquiescence sojourn powerful, as a preference final year of Christine Lagarde to lead a IMF illustrated. Election-year governing body in a US will strengthen these forces further, with President Barack Obama's administration unlikely to give way a symbol of tellurian power, which would invite opponents' charges of diseased leadership.
But, in a little ways, a easy partial is to state a case for a obvious: a Bank requires a brand brand new preference routine which will capacitate it to select a most competent person, regardless of nationality. The some-more difficult partial is to brand a education indispensable to run a Bank during a time when a ro! le conti ngency be blending to inclusive tellurian changes.
For a initial time in a long time, a significant series of bad countries are throwing up to a modernized economies, as good as a list of growth successes is lengthening. That equates to which some-more of a lowest countries will therefore connoisseur out of a need for concessional lending from a Bank.
The Bank's non-concessional lending agency, a International Bank for Reconstruction as good as Development, competence good keep a rationale, generally since three-fourths of a world's bad now reside in middle-income countries. But easier entrance to private finance will force a re-evaluation of a IBRD's methods as good as a bulk of a lending. For example, countries competence wish a Bank to continue to yield neutral advice as good as set standards upon procurement as good as quality, though but a high exchange costs which have become a hallmark of Bank finance.
At a same time, most of a growth challenges in a foreseeable destiny meridian change, low agricultural productivity, flourishing water nonesuch are increasingly tellurian in nature. Looking ahead, a Bank will have to shift from lending to governments towards financing a sustenance of tellurian public goods.
A some-more successful developing universe additionally poses an egghead challenge to a Bank as a custodian of investigate as good as policy meditative in a field of growth economics. The Bank, which has drawn predominantly upon US-based centers of learning, can no longer manipulate a singular model or dictate from a concept template. To be fair, a Bank has embraced a summary of eclecticism, though a brand brand new personality will have to go further, paying larger attention to a specific contexts as good as final of particular borrowers as good as learning from a wider set of successful growth experiences.
The Bank's vital shareholders additionally face a stark choice. If they hold which a Bank has a suggestive destiny value supporting, it is a fast flourishi! ng emerg ing-market countries, not a indebted West, which can yield a resources (this equates to China, of course, though even Brazil as good as India have flourishing aid programs). In return, they will rightly direct a larger voice in running a Bank, generally if a Bank's focus shifts towards tellurian public goods.
But if a status quo powers are reluctant to cede control, a complement of central general financing determined by Bretton Woods will become increasingly fragmented. Countries like China will be reinforced in their idea which going it alone is a best option, with adverse consequences for multilateralism.
These thespian shifts as good as daunting challenges meant which a World Bank's next boss will have to be someone whose primary charge is to initiate as good as sustain shift while commanding support as good as legitimacy opposite a Bank's membership. He or she will additionally require a demonstrated capacity for political care as good as a core conviction which a Bank needs a brand brand new vision as good as path forward.
The current preference procession is losing legitimacy in a becoming different world, as good as it carries larger risks of a bad outcome: an unsuited candidate. The consequences of maintaining it competence not be as thespian as Keynes' prophesied, though there is a genuine probability which a Bank will fix in to an establishment whose increasingly impoverished G-7 donors dispense gradually smaller sums of income in a same controversial ways to a timorous series of supplicants.
Devesh Kapur is co-author of a central story of a World Bank. Arvind Subramanian is a comparison associate mutually during a Peterson Institute for International Economics as good as a Center for Global Development
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Fears of Iran Threat
February 19, 2012
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Fears of Iran Threat
by Fareed Zakaria
"I am suggesting which it is profoundly improvident to bottom a major decision to go to fight upon slight technical considerations identical to windows of vulnerability."
WE have been hearing a brand new concept these days in discussions about Iran a "zone of immunity". The idea, mostly explained by Ehud Barak, Israel's counterclaim minister, is which shortly Iran will have sufficient chief capacity which Israel would not be able to inflict a crippling blow to a programme.
In fact, while a specifics have been fresh, this is not a brand new strategic concept during all. Nations have mostly believed which they face a closing window to act, as well as almost regularly such meditative has led to disaster. The most famous e.g. was Germany's decision to start what became World War 1. The German General Staff believed which Russia a archenemy was rearming upon a scale which would shortly stop Germany's superior troops strength. The Germans believed which inside of dual years by 1916 Russia would have a significant, as well as perhaps unbeatable, strategic advantage.
As a result, when turmoil began in a Balkans in Jun 1914, Germany decided to act. To stop Russia from entering a section of immunity, Germany invaded France (Russia's main ally) as well as Belgium, which forced British entry in to a war, thus setting in suit a two-front European conflict which lasted 4 years as well as resulted in some-more than 37 million casualties.
Now, you am not suggesting which an Israeli attack upon Iran would have anything tighten to these consequences. But you am suggesting which it is profoundly improvide! nt to bo ttom a major decision to go to fight upon slight technical considerations identical to windows of vulnerability. Many in Washington in Mar 2003 insisted which you could not wait for chief inspectors to keep during their work in Iraq because you faced a closing window a continue was going to get as well prohibited by Jun as well as Jul to send in United States forces. We rushed in to a badly planned troops invasion as well as function in which soldiers had to endure fight in Iraq for 9 long as well as really prohibited years.
Israeli officials explain which you Americans cannot assimilate their fears, which Iran is an existential hazard to them. But in actuality you can assimilate because you have left through a really identical knowledge ourselves. After World War 2, as a Soviet Union approached a chief capability, a US was seized by a be scared which lasted for years.
Everything which Israel says about Iran now, you said about a Soviet Union. We saw it as a radical, revolutionary regime, opposed to every worth you held dear, determined to overpower a governments of a Western universe in sequence to establish tellurian communism. We saw Moscow as irrational, aggressive as well as definitely unconcerned with tellurian life.
Just as Israel is plainly considering pre-emptive strikes against Iran, most in a West urged such strikes against Moscow in a late 1940s.
To get a sense of a mood of a times, cruise this entry from a Nov 29, 1948, diary of Harold Nicolson, one of a coolest as well as most sober British diplomats of his generation: "It is substantially loyal which Russia is scheming for a final conflict for universe poise as well as which once she has sufficient bombs, she will fall short Western Europe, take up Asia as well as have a final death onslaught with a Americas. If which happens as well as you have been wiped out over here, a survivors in New Zealand might say which you were mad not to have prevented this."
In a speech during a Boston Navy Yard in August ! 1950, Na vy Secretary Francis Matthews argued that, in being "an initiator of a fight of aggression", a US "would become a initial aggressors for peace".
In a end, however, a tellurian revolutionaries in Moscow, a mad autocrats in Pyongyang as well as a terrorist-supporting troops in Pakistan have all been deterred by mutual fears of destruction.
While a Iranian system of administration is mostly called crazy, it has finished much reduction to merit a tenure than did a system of administration such as Mao's China. Over a past decade, there have been thousands of self-murder bombings by Saudis, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians as well as Pakistanis, though not a single self-murder attack by an Iranian. Is a Iranian system of administration even if it got one wanton device in a few years likely to launch a first?
"Israel is finally opposed a arrange of choices a US as well as Great Britain confronted some-more than 6 decades ago," says Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs.
"Hopefully it, too, will come to recognise which absolute security is unfit to grasp in a chief age, as well as which if a enemies' chief programmes cannot be behind or disrupted, anticipation is reduction catastrophic than preventive war."
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In debate, Soi Lek gives himself away: He has no answers for the Chinese
Inspite as good as notwithstanding a supposed great discuss just concluded in between Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng as good as MCA president Chua Soi Lek, as good as divided from it, a latter continues with his normal themes to scare a Chinese in to submission: income as good as hudud, between alternative things.
The usually approach which a Chinese will buy Chua's speak is if they had suddenly undergone shift as good as regressed sufficiently, intelligence-wise, upon a evolutionary scale to forestall them from seeing by a MCA leader's self-serving double-talk.
Not to strike below a belt, though there's no guarantee during all which Chua can shift his spots, as good as suddenly be a benchmark for being true as good as constant to a Chinese community. After all, he could disparage his own wife in open with an illicit love affair box when a some-more caring as good as responsible man would have opted to quit to gangling his partner of decades further suffering for what is after his own impiety as good as error.
Who's Chua to speak about hudud when he doesn't even assimilate a sovereign constitution
To put it mildly, a MCA's line upon hudud is zero though a container of politically-motivated lies. This is an emanate routinely dredged up by MCA leaders as good as steady mindlessly by a mainstream media to communicate a open impression which a Chinese village is endangered as good as alarmed over hudud, a n! on-exist ent issue.
The Federal Constitution is clear in a clarity which Malaysia is a physical republic notwithstanding Article 3 saying which Islam is a sacrament of a Federation, though so have been alternative religions. Nowhere does Article 3 state which Islam is a central or inhabitant religion. In Sabah as good as Sarawak, Islam is not even a sacrament of those tools of a Federation, as underlined by a 1963 Malaysia Agreement.
Chua additionally belabours underneath a myth which a Chinese believe in usually a single thing as good as have been peaceful to accept any amount of abuses to concentration upon which belief: which income is a many critical thing in a world as good as which zero else, even maruah, matters.
In short, a Chinese should concentration upon creation income as most of it as possible as good as await Umno to hoop a politics, according to Chua.
MCA failing for a share of Umno's loot
This is a same discredited approach used by MIC as good as alternative political parties in subservience to Umno in a statute Barisan Nasional. Politics of this kind has seen not usually a Chinese as good as a Indians though additionally Dusun, Dayak, as good as alternative Sabah as good as Sarawak leaders offered their people lock, batch as good as barrel to Umno for a proverbial thirty pieces of silver.
The Malay-speaking communities have not benefited possibly a presentation of Pas as! good as PKR is proof of a need for alternative as Umno has degenerated in to a den of thieves serving a couple of family groups during a expense of a nation.
Each Umno bend seems to be owned, controlled as good as managed by mini-political dynasties as good as warlords as good as excluding others from a Malay-speaking communities. They don't give an inch, convert night to day as good as day to night as good as consider zero of offered their souls just to stay in power.
This is a kind of politics, which Chua as good as his kind in MCA ceremony as good as goal to emulate a single day if a village is foolish enough to vote them in to open office.
No some-more opportunities for a Chinese
The Chinese, a others as well, have been not improved off underneath a brand of governing body practised by Umno. The Chinese know which side their bread is buttered. It's an open secret which opportunities for a Chinese in business, others as well, to make money, have been increasingly being limited underneath a Umno Government.
The GLCs, a mom of all distortions of a economy, comment for half a marketplace capitalization of a batch marketplace as good as virtually keep a Chinese out from any big as good as remunerative sectors of a economy. Nothing could be some-more opportunistic than this daylight robbery perpetrated by a statute elite.
The GLCs have been a gross flaw as good as exaggeration of a New Economic Policy (1970-1990) which pledged, between a three tenets, which there would be no identification of competition in actuality usually a statute chosen -- with economic duty as good as place of residence.
Article 153 of a Federal Constitution holds which a legitimate interests of a non-Malay communities will be respected.
The Government has no commerci! al opera tion being in commercial operation as good as a GLCs have been a clearest evidence of a Umno Government given ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad as good as his successors being a many anti-Chinese as good as anti-people government in Malaysia.
Bankruptcy as good as plunging batch market
For starters, is he deaf, dumb as good as blind to a GLCs which act as a damper upon a internal batch market? So most of a batch have been tied up to be in actuality immobile as good as this reduces a opportunities to make income upon a batch market.
Even so a Government, a MCA included, need not worry about a Chinese handling their money.
The village has finished a distant improved pursuit in income management than a Government which has been steadily indebting a nation, especially a generations unborn, so which a statute chosen can feather their nests from a Public Treasury. The Shahrizat Jalil-NFC liaison is a tip of a proverbial iceberg.
Make no mistake, MCA leaders hunger to be partial of such scams, as good as have been rebuilt to demeanour a alternative war in lapse for a share of a booty of office. The investing Chinese additionally know a batch marketplace has a mind of a own as good as reacts to any situation where income can be made. If there is some creation money, there contingency be others who would not be which fortunate.
Even in an up market, there have been shares which keep starting down as good as vice versa. The predestine of a batch marketplace does not hinge upon a BN alone a GLCs in reserve -- though upon a variety of factors including a all-important confidence factor.
So stop a lies, though perhaps which competence be asking as well most from a MCA as good as BN.
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