Maju Expressway (MEX) privatised - Najib's crony to milk the 'rakyat',charging toll over 33 years...

Putrajaya contingency insist why a Maju Expressway (MEX) fee concession was given to Maju Expressway Sdn Bhd (MESB) when it had already saved three-quarters of a 26km highway, Tony Pua asked today.

Labelling it a transparent box of "daylight robbery", a DAP inhabitant broadside cabinet member forked out which 74 per cent of a price of constructing a Kuala Lumpur-Putrajaya main road had been borne by taxpayers when Putrajaya gave MESB a RM976.7 million accede to to set up a MEX, which price an estimated RM1.32 billion.

MESB is 96.8 per cent owned by Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd, which is in turn owned by Tan Sri Abu Sahid Mohamed. The make a difference came to light when automotive tools maker EP Manufacturing Bhd (EPMB) sealed a RM1.15 billion understanding to buy a MEX main road here by appropriation MESB from firm Maju Group upon Mar 16.

"The question which needs to be asked is if a government can already fund three-quarters of a main road building a whole project, why was there even a need to 'privatise' it to a private sector?

"Why couldn't a government lift a serve tiny total of RM343 million to complete a main road but privatisation? Needless to say, a endowment of a contract was done around direct negotiations but any open tender," Pua(picture)said in a strongly-worded statement.

"According to reports by a Malaysian Rating Corporation, Tan Sri Sahid Mohamed only invested RM60 million as well as lent RM87 million in funds to a project.

"The rest of a building a whole as well as operational price of a main road was borne by borrowings which amounted to RM529 million during Dec 2010," he added, saying which a MEX agreements have not been publicly disclosed despite a fact main r! oad agre ements were declassified by a Cabinet back in November 2008.

Pua demanded Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak be obliged for ensuring a RM967.7 million accede to given to MESB be returned to a government.

"The MEX is a many definite box of making taxpayers pay for a building a whole of a highway, as well as subsequently permitting a Barisan Nasional (BN) crony to milk a taxpayers serve by charging toll, in this case, over a period of 33 years... RM976.7 million was paid for by Malaysian taxpayers," pronounced Pua.

The Petaling Jaya Utara MP pronounced which with EPMB's acquisition, Abu Sahid would "effectively be making a net distinction of RM1.09 billion".

"That functions out to more than an celestial 1,800 per cent return upon investment in reduction than 8 years given building a whole began in 2004 for MEX," Pua calculated.

According to a Malaysian Rating Corp Bhd (MARC) report, total traffic upon MEX was 28.8 million vehicles in 2010, while normal daily traffic was 78,962.

Latest figures from June 2011 uncover a normal volume has increasing 17.5 per cent to 92,785.
According to AmResearch, a MEX is already making money during a handling level, with monetary year 2011 gain prior to interest, taxes, depreciation, as well as amortization (EBITDA) during RM44 million upon normal daily traffic of 90,051, which exceeded projections by 9 per cent.

Traffic expansion is subsequently projected to grow 12.8 per cent in 2012 as well as 8.8 per cent in 2014, prior to levelling to 2.3 per cent by 2037, it combined in a investigate note.

The investigate residence additionally remarkable which a valuation of RM1.7 billion by EPMB pegs the merger price during RM65 million/km against the strange price of RM51 million/km.-malaysian insider

Lebuhraya MEX: Dana ! rakyat R M977j mesti dipulangkan...

Wang rakyat yang diberikan kepada Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd untuk membina Lebuhraya Kuala Lumpur-Putrajaya sepanjang twenty-six kilometer yang dikenali sebagai Maju Expressway (MEX) mesti dikembalikan, kata pengarah strategi PKR Rafizi Ramli, berikutan penjualan konsesi itu kepada EP Manufacturing Berhad (EPMB) dengan nilai RM1.7 bilion.

Rafizi berkata dana awam yang besar melalui geran kerajaan bernilai RM976.7 juta telah diberikan kepada Maju Holdings semasa pembinaan MEX, sebelum projek itu siap dibina pada tahun 2007. Keseluruhan projek itu bernilai kira-kira RM1.32 bilion.

AkhbarThe Edge, Jumaat lalu melaporkan bahawa EPMB akan membiayai pengambilalihan itu dengan menerbitkan sukuk RM1.2 bilion manakala bakinya pula akan diperoleh daripada pinjaman bank.

"Selain geran tersebut, saya menganggarkan suntikan dana yang dibuat oleh Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd hanyalah sekitar RM60 juta (iaitu 4.5 peratus dari kos keseluruhan) kerana ia turut meminjam RM370 juta dari institusi kewangan," kata Rafizi, dalam satu kenyataan.

Justeru, katanya, penjualan berjumlah RM1.7 bilion ini akan memberi durian runtuh kepada Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd sekiranya geran oleh kerajaan berjumlah RM976.6 juta tidak dikembalikan.
"Jika ini berlaku, selepas membayar hutang institusi kewangan berjumlah RM370 juta, bermakna Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd bakal membuat keuntungan berjumlah sekitar RM1.33 bilion sedangkan modal pelaburannya dianggarkan RM60 juta sahaja," kata Rafizi.

Sehubungan itu, menurut Rafizi, PKR mendesak Perdana Menteri selaku Menteri ! Kewangan mengesahkan sama ada Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd akan mengembalik! an dana rakyat sejumlah RM976.7 juta itu, kerana jika tidak ia menimbulkan lebih banyak persoalan yang akan terus menaikkan kemarahan rakyat.

"Jika keuntungan RM1.33 bilion itu disimpan oleh Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd, apakah perjanjian di antara Perdana Menteri dengan pemilik Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd yang diketahui umum penyokong kuat Umno?
"Adakah wujud persefahaman agar keuntungan atas angin yang merampas dana rakyat itu akan disalurkan kembali kepada Umno sebagai dana pilihan raya?" soal pengarah strategi PKR itu lagi.

Katanya, keghairahan Perdana Menteri meluluskan urusniaga melibatkan kroni Umno/BN Nasional bernilai berbilion ringgit menguatkan syak wasangka rakyat bahawa harga yang tinggi yang dikenakan kroni merugikan rakyat.

Lebih-lebih lagi, tambah Rafizi, urusniaga dalam serba kerahsiaan dan tiadanya ketelusan boleh menguatkan lagi wasangka rakyat itu. Penjualan konsesi lebuhraya ini adalah urusniaga yang kedua dalam masa sebulan yang didakwa membelakangkan kepentingan rakyat.

Kes pertama adalah semasa pembelian aset dan perniagaan Tan Sri Ananda Krishnan oleh dana 1MDB yang dikawal sepenuhnya perdana menteri berjumlah RM8 bilion, walaupun 1MDB tidak pernah ada sebarang pengalaman di dalam industri penjanaan tenaga.

"Perdana Menteri mungkin berfikiran beliau boleh mendiamkan diri mengenai NFC, tetapi sudah tentu jumlah dana rakyat sebesar RM976.6 juta ini memerlukan jawapan dari beliau memandangkan urusniaga tersebut tidak boleh berlaku tanpa kelulusan beliau sendiri sebagai Menteri Kew! angan, akhiri kenyataan Rafizi itu.-malaysiakini

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Latest Umno 'brainwave' to de-link Najib-Rosmah from Altantuya murder with Anwar plot

An engaging divide which drew my courtesy yesterday was from a blog post at'OutSyed The Box'by blogger as good as writer (of 'Club of Doom'),Syed Akbar Ali (SAA)who additionally sits upon a board of advisers of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

TheMarch 17th 2012blog post was titled 'Gag Order Against RPK' as good as a extraordinary divide wasQUOTE:

"Then this guy Azizan Abu Bakar, a complainant in a initial sodomy hearing suffered a strange "hit as good as run" accident where his pregnant mother was killed. The box was not solved.At which time theory who was still a Deputy Prime Minister?All these things happened."UNQUOTE.
The DPM during which time was, of course, Dato Sri Anwar Ibrahim.

Here's a rebuttal of SAA'sinsinuation by approach of an extract from MALAYSIAToday's 'THE CORRIDORS OF POWER' by Raja Petra Kamaruddin (RPK) datedAugust 3rd 2010:

"A pass declare in a hearing of Malaysia's sacked finance minister, Anwar Ibrahim, pronounced Tuesday which a former Cabinet apportion wasn't concerned in a death of a witness' mother earlier this year. Anwar's former driver, Azizan Abu Bakar, told a capital's High Court which his pregnant mother essentially died in a car accident in January..Asked upon a new detain of Anwar's former family motorist Azizan Ab! u Bakar for khalwat (close proximity), Dr Mahathir pronounced he believed somebody was examination Azizan closely. ''I consider all will be finished to disprove this witness,'' he pronounced of Azizan, a prosecution declare in a crime hearing of Anwar. (Utusan Malaysia, twenty Sep 1999).

The male who accused Malaysian ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim of sodomising him was Tuesday locked up by an Islamic justice for trying to have sex with a woman, a state headlines agency Bernama reported. The Islamic justice in southern Malacca state locked up Azizan Abu Bakar, 39, for 3 months as good as fined him 7,000 ringgit after he pleaded guilty to being in tighten proximity with Norhayati Saad.

Azizan, a pass declare in Anwar's ongoing sodomy trial, additionally certified attempting to have unlawful sex with Norhayati, it added. Norhayati, a twenty-two year-old college tyro whom he married a few days after they were caught, was locked up for 3 months as good as fined a sum of 6,300 ringgit, a inform said. The span were held together in a rented residence in Malacca this month during a raid by Islamic religious officials as good as military officers. Islam bans sexual family outward marriage."
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So, perhaps Syed, we should ask a Prime Minister during which time, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, a male who started a round rolling with a military review of Anwar, as good as saidQUOTE: "I consider all will be finished to disprove this witness."UNQUOTE,if he knows anything about a death of Azizan's wife. Surely a good doctor was not implying which Azizan was swayed to dedicate khalwat by Anwar or PKR members?
Justice Ariffin Jaka had pronounced which Azizan was akin to a Rock of Gi! braltar in his integrity as good as honesty as good as went ahead as good as convicted Anwar,:

Claiming Azizan had a aloft dignified ground notwithstanding him being convicted of committing khalwatduring a trial.

Ignoring completely (thrice) Azizan's numerous backtrackings upon a date of a purported sodomy.

Despite a place (Tivoli Villas) which Azizan claimed a purported crime was committed, did not exist during which time.

Rightfully, upon appeal, a Federal Court burning Jaka's verdict down his honour's toilet!
So Syed, even after Azizan had, underneath oath, himself vindicated Anwar from any impasse in his wife's death, we go upon to make these unwashed insinuations?

But readers may wish to know who Syed Akbar Ali is, as good as what sterling personal certification he is means to table to behind up these innuendos as good as insinuations about Anwar.

Let's go to an extract from Haris Ibrahim's 'People's Parliament' blog of July 2nd 2011 titled 'Syeditious Akbar Ali':

"Dr M's arch turn doctor, Syeditious Akbar Ali, who binds thatsemen is liberated by women, in his post on15th June, urges a military to detain Ambiga if she'steps out in to a street'... Syed, of course, has had his own run in with a group in blue. Syed essentially alludes to this in aninterview with The Staron 6th March, this year. This is what he says of which episode:

'I was charged though a box was nothing. we was charged for an anonymous criticism upon his blog. My criticism was upon Arabs misbehaving in Bukit Bintang, so we do not know how factious which is'.

Case was nothing, eh, Syed? Syed was charged underneath territory 4(1)(c) of a Sedition Act, 1948. No box against him?

Let me imitate here for we his criticism in full, which he says was nothing. Hehe, nothing, ehSyed?

"IS EASY TO IMPRESS THE MALAYSIn Malaysia, ever wonder because rub a body centres have been mushrooming in Bukit Bintang? Because of SUDDEN increasing of ARAB visitors.

EXACTLY BTN. The Arab camel shaggers have been here in town. Also please note a volume of alcohol sole in Bukit Bintang. The Arabs have been celebration up too. Not usually prostitution though a Arabs have been additionally in to immature boys, their all-time favourites. You will notice immature Malay boys as good as a little Chinese hanging around a Bukit Bintang area. The Arabs have been infirm man. It takes an unusually foolish people (the Batu Gang Malays) to consider which it is such a good thing to welcome Arab camel shaggers to our country.

The Arabs have been kafirs or disbelievers. They founded a sacrament of a Batu Gang. They have conned millions in to believing which a foolish mill make up in their shit hole dried should be a centre of focus of people's ceremony - another foolish concept. True to Arab homosexual tradition, a sick Arabs have conned millions of people in to raising their jerk above their heads five times a day - supposedly in prayer. Ass holes! Staring up each other's backsides! Yo Brader Anwar. Just thought of you."

"Inanother post, where Syeditious admits to receiving RM3,000 from RPK towards account of a bail he had to compensate in his case, he claims which h! e had wa nted to compensate a sum behind after a charges against him were dropped as good as a bail income returned to him. This is how he puts it.
"I did ask Haris Ibrahim which we wanted to lapse a RM3,000. He only gave me a 'forget it lah' type shake of a head."

Syeditious is a liar. This never happened."
CLICK HEREfor a full blog post by Haris ibrahim.

As distant as I'm aware, Syed has not replied to Haris's branding him a liar or filed a defamation law suit against him.

To be satisfactory to Syed, he does write fairly good upon a extended operation of engaging issues. we agree with him which sacrament is a scandal of man, as good as should not be allowed to meddle in government, politics, schools as good as aloft institutions of learning. An elderly wise gentleman recently explained to me which a Sanskrit/Tamil word 'Sanatana-dharma' means 'right behaviour' as good as if one thinks about it seriously, that's all a sacrament humankind unequivocally needs.

But, once in a while Syeditious we love which moniker coined by Haris lets slip his guard. Then we get to locate a glance of a little unfortunate flashes from a chinks in his armour. In his successive misrepresentation of Anwar, his demand which Ambiga as good as Bersih organizers be locked up by a police, which foreigners have been plotting regime change in Malaysia, as good as more, written regularly in a excitable tone, suggests something is not utterly alright in his make up. More so, from a male who quotes a Koran chapter as good as verse.

And unequivocally Syed, did Anwar levy any wisecrack sequence upon RPK? Does Anwar own a Skype global forum, or have influence over its organizers? This is a real world, not a NEP dictated fantasy one, where those who feet a check will wish their money's ! worth. S o, they logically decided not which RPK was reduction newsworthy, though which Anwar was more. If we were going to recover your investment outlay of millions of dollars, who would we contend is internationally some-more bankable, Anwar or RPK? Money talks, bullshit walks.QED!

Then again, has Anwar ever denied RPK's right to free speech? Has he gagged RPK from blogging, giving interviews or speaking his mind?
Last we read MALAYSIAToday, RPK is alive as good as kickin' swimmingly well, thank you!

Donplaypuks with wild accusations, syeditious man!

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The fight Guan Eng's deputy shouldn't have started

Karpal Singh is neither forgiving nor forgetting. The Malay Mail's front page today says it.

DAP's shoeshine rookie P. Ramasamy's battle with veteran Karpal Singh was a substitute fight, everyone knows. It was a single which a Chief Minister of Penang, Lim Guan Eng, should have stopped prior to it started. But he didn't, everyone knows which also. In fact, political pundits said it was Guan Eng who set Rama up opposite a strange "Tiger of Jelutong" though I'm not sure if everyone knows which or agrees with a theory.

If Guan Eng had attempted to send veteran Karpal Singh to green hills around a Deputy CM, which act has backfired badly. And we can agree which this is going to haunt Kit Siang's son for a long, prolonged time.

The blogs have been personification up a substitute fight. A really good anxiety is found upon Apanama, blog entry End of Ramasamy in DAP?

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BR1M=BNS money politics

Where did a supervision acquire a one some-more supports for a programme as usually RM1.8 billion was allocated in a bill authorized final year?

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A meagre RM500 packaged underneath a guise of Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) competence not do a pretence in influencing a country's electorate to lean in foster of Barisan Nasional. The alm was zero some-more than a trickery, conceived by a sovereign supervision to have sure a people's nambikei or trust is paid for during a cheapest price possible.

To hypothesise which a BN supervision is prihatin or supportive towards a tall price of living plaguing a rakyat would be wrong; if BN was bona fide in a concern, a authority as well as Prime Minister Najb Tun Razak would have some-more prudent with his monthly electricity as well as water bills, both amounting to RM160,000 as well as RM66,000 respectively.

Likewise, if Najib was frank in wanting to support a people, he would not have used income from a inhabitant purse to finance his daughter's engagement ceremonies, as claimed by opposition PKR vital director Rafizi Ramli.

Rafizi pronounced he had profits to infer how RM409,767, which was a price to hold a luxurious dinner eventuality during a five-star hotel in executive Kuala Lumpur, was billed to a Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

The bill, for an eventuality upon Jun thirteen final year, showed which RM18,792 was outlayed for 36 VIPs as well as RM309,975 for 862 attendees while doing price amounted to RM81,000.

Among a dishes in a menu were an array of intemperate Wagyu beef, smoked salmon, lobster bisque as well as scallops.

The receipts, circul! ated to a media, indicated which a engagement was done by one of Najib's confidant Mohd Po'ad Jelani who was additionally implicated in an one more crime allegation.

Making matters worse was a claim which a PMO had additionally footed a bill for Najib's birthday bash. In exposing this unbecoming act of Najib, Rafizi pronounced a premier's birthday celebration upon Jun twenty-four final year price RM79,053 as well as was billed to a PMO.

Acccording to a banquent eventuality sequence from Shangri-La Hotel, which granted a food, a bill was not usually addressed to a PMO though was additionally billed underneath a PMO's account.

Has a PMO become a "Najib as well as family" entity or does a premier care two hoots about abusing a "privileges" which come his way?

With his own family's "expenses" unaccounted for, how does a country's personality design to lend a helping hand to a needy?

BR1M no trump label for Najib as well as BN

Did a RM500 assist unequivocally reach deserving hands or was it something of a "bonus" since out to just about anyone who had filled up a duplicate form correctly?

Or was a BR1M a domestic gimmick to pressure a rakyat in to voting for BN in a entrance ubiquitous election? Some of a recipients who turned up to pick up their vouchers were allegedly shown pictures of opposition celebration DAP confidant Lim Kit Siang as well as which of Najib as well as asked whom they would support in a 13th ubiquitous election. Does this simulate frankness upon a part of a sovereign supervision in helping a rakyat?

Maybe BN was hoping to "use" a BR1M as a trump label to secure goal of making an impressive quip in a next polls. But looking during a premier's "breach of trust" as distant as open supports go, there is no reason for recipients of a BR1M to accord heartfelt gratitude to BN.

Clearly, a keikhlasan or frankness behind a RM500 alm is missing. The BR1M is being used as! an ammu nition by a BN supervision to move down a enemy, Pakatan Rakyat.

This was clear when Najib bragged which Pakatan-controlled states Selangor as well as Kelantan have a highest series of households which were allocated assist underneath BR1M.

The premier pronounced Selangor took up 13% of a inhabitant grant as well as Kelantan 84%.

"This shows which a supervision is unprejudiced towards race, sacrament as well as domestic leanings," Najib had said.

If in truth a sovereign supervision underneath BN does not discriminate, because does it have a difference which state received a many series of BR1M? Is a design around BR1M to suggest assist or to have a domestic statement, which is, to send a message home which both Selangor as well as Kelantan underneath a Pakatan-ledership have failed to look after a welfare of a people?

Pertinent question

It is still hard to believe which a BN leadership cares about a rakyat. The conviction is hard to come by, especially when headlines about Najib's extragavant lifestyle abounds, which as well during a responsibility of a inhabitant coffers.

As of Mar 1, there were 4.78 million applications for a RM500 aid, of which 3.74 million were approved. Twenty percent of a applications were rejected for incomplete information, between other reasons.

"In total, 59% of households nationwide or 3.8 million households were since a aid. The supervision outlayed a sum of RM1.92 billion upon a programme," Najib had pronounced during an answer- and-question event in Parliament upon Mar 13.

He additionally did not order out a probability of stability a BR1M in time to come, all depending upon a government's income.

The premier keeps dismissing claims which a supervision had used open supports or sought help from a World Bank to exercise a BR1M.

The BR1M has additionally been extended to capacitate those living in a interiors of Sa! bah as w ell as Sarawak to request for a aid.

The stirred Azan Ismail (Indera Mahkota-PKR) to lift a impending question: where did a supervision acquire a one some-more supports for a programme as usually RM1.8 billion was allocated in a bill authorized final year.

"In a budget, it is settled which RM1.8 billion would be allocated for a programme. But right away Najib voiced which RM1.92 billion was spent. Where did a supervision get a extra funding from?

"What's worse, he is right away observant which a deadline might be extended," Azan said. He pronounced no applications were done for a supplementary bill to encounter a one some-more expenses.

Azan added: "We have been not opposite a programme to support a bad though one can't use open supports lackadaisically." He pronounced a full audit of a BR1M programme was necessary.

Is it therefore wrong to think which a BR1M is yet an one more form of "money politics" devised by BN in a recklessness to win a entrance ubiquitous election, seen as a many severe ever?

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

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Cronyism still rules, Mr Prime Minister Sam Peh

MARCH 19 Najib Razak has no shame. He goes before former senior polite servants as well as proclaims which Putrajaya will give contracts to usually competent Malays.

That is an wrong statement. He patently has chosen to forget about a RM2.2 billion Kinrara Damansara Exchange (Kidex) main road understanding which was since to a competent builder aka former Chief Justice Zaki Azmi as well as Umno counsel Hafarizam Harun.

The PM chairs a Economic Council as well as he would have been instrumental in giving this sweet understanding to two people who do not by any magnitude qualify as builders.

He can repudiate it as much as he wants but a main road contract follows a pattern of endowment which has turn synonymous with Najib's government.

The West Coast Highway upon paper went to IJM as well as other respected builders but it is an open secret which a main customer is a same man who was since a licence to operate a radio station!

Defence deals have been since to cronies, a stand in tracking is since to kingship or nominees of kingship or those who carve out deals with continuous people in Putrajaya.

Don't for a minute believe which a NFC is a rare case. Mahathir's cronyism as well as nepotism is behind in vogue as well as in a approach this is how Najib keeps a Umno warlords in his corner.

Even when listed companies get a chunk of supervision mega projects, it is because they have worked out side deals with those tighten to power.

So Najib can scream all he wants as well as can even swear but a reality is which a politically continuous as well as cronies have been removing fat similar to never before.

Today's polite servants know this as well as it is their duty to this nation to blow a whistle upon Najib's stand in talk.

* Sam Peh reads The Malaysian Insider.

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Najib: Expect Fair Treatment from Government

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak pronounced he had every goal of keeping to his word which underneath his administration, the people would receive satisfactory treatment from the government.

"When I took office roughly 3 years ago, there was my promise to the republic which you'll have the satisfactory understanding as well as satisfactory treatment from the government, andI intend to broach on which promise," he said.

He pronounced this when launching Sri Murugan Centre's (SMC) 30th anniversary celebrations during Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil (SJKT) Vivekananda here. Najib forked out which his transformation plans as well as other initiatives meant for the contentment of the people were not about the next general election.

Noting which the supervision was sincere in assisting the people, together with the Indian community, he pronounced which it would not promise something which it could not deliver.

"I'm not the statesman of which nature," Najib said, stressing which he was committed to, as well as would not compromise, the destiny of Malaysia. The Prime Minister pronounced which he as well as the supervision would do some-more for the people if they were given an additional five-year mandate.

Najib asked all Malaysians to join him in building the better destiny for the nation. He told his assembly which since 2009, the supervision had allocated RM440million to build new national-type Tamil schools (SJKT) as well as urge conditions during scarcely 400 such schools nationwide.

Later, Najib, who is authority of 1MDB Foundation's ! board of trustees,presented 1MDB academic grants to 75 SMC students who have been pursuing their preparation during local universities.

The students, who each perceived RM15,000, had finished during slightest the single year during the local open or private institution of higher learning as well as obtained the smallest CGPA (cumulative grade point average) of 3.00 out of 4.00.

1MDB as well as SMC have been operative together to assist honourable students basedon consequence as well as needs. The partnership started in 2010 with 50 students, followed by an additional 50 students last year.

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Begitulah kata-kata Naib Ketua AMK, Jonah atau nama sebenarnya Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin pada seorang kawan.Kata-kata itu membayangkan sentimen yang rata-rata dalam sekelompok kepimpinan PKR dan PAS faction Attartuk. Suatu yang diketahui adalah kumpulan Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia SMM, ramai memperakui bahawa mereka percaya orang yang di dalam videotape China doll itu adalah Anwar.Di atas,

John Leonards Reading for My Life

When John Leonard died in 2008, it did not rught away register which we had lost a single of a final as good as best of a scarcely extinct breed, a lifelong book reviewer. Some might cite a some-more dignified label "literary critic," or "cultural critic" (he did write during length about air wave as good as alternative subjects); though Leonard himself did not insist upon dignity. His roots as good as demeanour were journalistic he fit into a world of newspapers (including The New York Times Book Review, which he edited in a 1970s), magazines (Harper's, The Nation, New York), air wave ("Fresh Air") as good as air wave ("CBS Sunday Morning") as good as which casual, accessible tone might be why, for all his erudition, he is usually not discussed in a same exhale with alternative good review arbiters who radiated some-more gravitas.

Now a event presents itself to re-engage as good as consider his essays as good as reviews, with this healthy preference by his widow, Sue Leonard, drawn from a half-century of writing. It comes framed with an key by E. L. Doctorow as good as a coda of tributes (less sticky than we feared) by his friends, family members as good as colleagues, who execute him as a mensch, a celebrant of women writers, defender of underdogs, clinging sports fan, heavy unreformed alcoholic as good as mix of contradictions. According to a writer Letty Cottin Pogrebin, "He was both a fair-minded publisher and an unreconstructed lefty, a challenging genius and a unchanging guy."

In a title essay, "Reading for My Life," he tells us of flourishing up in California, where "I couldn't tan, hated cars, refused to roller as good as flunked volleyball, grunion-hunting as good as puberty rite. Like waste kids everywhere, we entered into books as if into a swindling for company, of course, as good as for narrative as good as intrigue as good as advice upon how to be decent as good as dauntless as good as sexy. But additionally for transcendence! , a zap to a synaptic cleft; for a slice of a strange, a startle of an Other, a declare not yet heard from, archaeologies forgotten, ignored or despised; which radioactive glow of genius in a dark: grace notes, ghosts as good as gods."

That youthful craving for conceptual good review incantation would develop into a adult reviewer's embrace of Vladimir Nabokov, Gabriel Garca Mrquez as good as magic realism, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Maxine Hong Kingston as good as Gnter Grass. He was drawn to overstuffed books that, as he says about Doctorow's "City of God," were "about, good . . . everything." He additionally specialized in supposing ambitious, relaxed novels by major writers past their prime, similar to Milan Kundera's "Immortality," Doris Lessing's "Four-Gated City," Ralph Ellison's "Juneteenth," Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland," Ernest Hemingway's "True during First Light" as good as Norman Mailer's "Harlot's Ghost."

He would typically have review all by a writer underneath review; his critical process was not so most to disintegrate a book or set up a systematic argument, though to approximate it with a unenlightened register of fondly, infrequently mockingly paraphrased plot details as good as quotes, so which a reader could imbibe its ambience. For instance, take this characteristic passage from his review of "Harlot's Ghost":

"When his battery's charged, Mailer windmills from a single divide to a next baroque, anal, Talmudic, olfactory, portentous, loopy, coy, Egyptian; down as good as unwashed in a cancer, a aspirin or a plastic; sharpened moons upon perfect vapor; blitzed by paranoia as good as retreating for a shade pass, as if bitten in a pineal gland by a deranged Swinburne, with metaphors so meaning-moistened which they hang to a thumbs, with 'intellections' (as he once put it) slapped upon 'like adhesive plasters.' When he chooses to, he additionally speaks in tongues. Harlot sounds similar to Whittaker Chambers. Modene Murphy sounds similar to Lauren Bacall. Bill Ha! rvey sou nds similar to L. Ron Hubbard or Lyndon LaRouche. The guilt-ridden Uruguayan double representative Chevi Fuentes sounds similar to Frantz Fanon as good as Octavio Paz. Harry sounds similar to Rousseau's mile when he isn't sounding similar to Wilhelm Reich, as good as Kittredge sounds similar to Flaubert's Salammb when she isn't sounding similar to Hannah Arendt, as good as together they sound similar to Nichols as good as May. And everybody sounds similar to Mailer, as if picking up quasar signals from Sirius a Dog Star by a plate in a head; as if bodies, vegetables as good as objects all had particular vibrations, special stinks as good as personal divinities, angels in a meatloaf, demons in a Tupperware. Even money comes 'in all kinds of romantic flavors.' Ghosts! Pirates! Indians! Animism! Alchemy! You either similar to this stuff or we don't, as good as we do."

The same could be said about a above: You either similar to this sort of critique or we don't. Actually, I'm mixed. we similar to a bravura written goods ("angels in a meatloaf"!), a witty wit when he's upon a roll, a range of references, a throwaway insights. But we additionally get tired of a careening, cumulative lists; we yearn for a some-more straightforward or prioritized analysis. And infrequently Leonard's poetry preens too most as good as comes off as cute or glib. Still, a nobleness of his process is which he regularly seems some-more amused by abnormality than offended. While by no means uncritical, he clearly liked writers as a class as good as tended to give them a benefit of a doubt. Himself a writer of multiform novels, he sympathized with a effort it took to write even a injured one. You will find nothing in him of which anger or green disappointment which is a hallmark of most critics. He reserved his outrage for governing body (his scathing commentaries upon Richard Nixon, a government's slight of AIDS), or for indignity of women (he could not pardon Bob Dylan for behaving churlishly toward Joan Baez).

At a impu! lse when it counted, Leonard conspicuous himself unapologetically multicultural, championing writers of tone as good as unfamiliar authors as most as he did women writers. Toni Morrison testifies in her tribute: "John, we were a first we suspect usually critic/reviewer to review as good as decider my work but deference or patronage." Indeed, Leonard seems rsther than to have been in astonishment of Morrison, never some-more so than when invited to attend her Nobel Prize ceremony. As he described it: "The leader of a prize came down a marble stairs during last, upon a arm of a king of Sweden. Never thoughts which we am pale as good as we am male. She'd taught me to suppose a lost story of her people, to review a signs of adore as good as work as good as nightmare passage as good as redemptive music, to hear a deepest chords of exile. we was unapproachable to be a citizen of whatever nation Toni Morrison came from. And which night she gave lessons to a noble debase of Europe upon what majesty really looks like."

This comes close to stage-door Johnny gush. But it additionally demonstrates a dauntless vulnerability, a willingness to be exalted in full view as good as spread out over his informative credentials to delight a Other. Margaret Fuller, a 19th-century American Transcendentalist, wrote, "Critics have been poets cut down, says someone by way of jeer; though in truth they have been men with a poetical spirit to apprehend, with a philosophical tendency to investigate." There was some-more than a touch of a poet in John Leonard, alongside a cheerful investigator. It would be grand to have available a most larger preference of his pieces, either in subsequent volumes or online. Meanwhile, let's be grateful for this eloquent representation of his writings, discovered from a dust of past periodicals.

Phillip Lopate, a writer of "Waterfront" as good as "Getting Personal," directs a nonfiction graduate module during Columbia University.

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VAN CONVERTED TO BANANA STORE AT TANJONG ARU, KOTA KINABALU

STORE....The damaged down outpost sitting in the parking lot converted as the banana store

THERE IS the damaged outpost taken up the open parking space in the Tanjong Aru locale here which caused open censure filed to the Sabah DAP Kota Kinabalu Women Wing.

The people pronounced how come the damaged down outpost is authorised to take up the open parking lot as well as being converted to the banana store whilst there is the critical miss of parking space during rise hours.

It is impossible to find the parking space in Tanjong Aru since there is only not sufficient play ground lot here. They additionally pronounced which either the damaged down outpost is profitable the parking fees or not, though even with which it is not right to play ground there henceforth since someone else additionally need to make use of the space.

KK DAP women wing pronounced which DBKK must act on this issue as well as get the outpost removed. The parking lot has to be opened for make use of by everyone as well as not for parking the damaged down outpost only. There are most people can make make use of of it during rise hours. It is astray for someone to monopolize which particular lot.

The KK DAP women wing additionally calls on the DBKK to create as well ! as to in crease the parking lots in Tanjong Aru in sequence to support for the ever increasing series of cars here. It is almost impossible to find the parking lot nowadays, as well as bootleg automobile parking is rampant. May be someone should cruise to build the multi-storey automobile play ground here soon. - Sabahkini

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Myra B. Young Armsteads Freedoms Gardener

Spence Collection, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox as well as Tilden Foundations.

Hudson Valley, perspective from Fishkill, N.Y.

In August 1827, a 33-year-old slave named James F. Brown ran away from a camp in Maryland. Before he escaped, he wrote a minute explaining his actions as well as vowed that once he had warranted sufficient income he would reimburse his owner, Susan Williams, to prove "that I dont mean to be prejudiced though instruct to pay her every cent that I think my Servaces is worth." Brown's minute reveals many about his character. He was nurse as well as moderate. He hated to do something that was "criminal" though felt he had no choice. His had not been a hasty or irrational decision. He was usually receiving a freedom that had justly been given by his previous master, who had betrothed it prior to his death.

Refused recover from bondage, Brown decided to save himself. A couple of months after his escape, as Myra B. Young Armstead reports in "Freedom's Gardener," Brown was in Manhattan operative as a waiter for a rich Verplanck family. Unfortunately, a single of their cooking guests recognized him as well as dashed off a minute to Susan Williams, who promptly acted to reclaim her property. Letters sailed back as well as onward between Williams as well as Brown's employer, Daniel C. Verplanck, until it was agreed that Brown would be available to buy his freedom with his wages, protracted by a loan from Verplanck.

Within a couple of years, Brown had additionally bought his wife's freedom. By then he was operative as a conduct gardener during Verplanck's estate, Mount Gulian, in a Hudson Valley during Fishkill Landing (the present-day Beacon, N.Y.). Unlike many alternative free blacks, Brown had not left from outright slavery to wage slaver! y; he wa s earning a decent salary as well as could even means to buy a house. Not usually was he a free male as well as financially eccentric but, as a skill owner, he was authorised to vote. On Nov. 8, 1837, he proudly noted in his diary: "James F Brown voted for a first time."

Brown was truly an American citizen, his life that of a self-made man, a epitome of a American dream. Most unusual of all (though it competence not sound as sparkling as his shun from slavery) is a actuality that Brown kept his diary for roughly 4 decades. Small entries, filled with mundane daily events a weather, his work in a garden, his appearance in internal agricultural organizations reveal a day-to-day life of a Hudson Valley through a good understanding of a 19th century.

Armstead, a highbrow of history during Bard College, presents Brown's diary as a approach of gaining entrance to a incomparable perspective of antebellum America as well as "the growth of inhabitant citizenship." And she uses Brown's contention to paint a portrait of a male who wholeheartedly embraced middle-class sensibilities. She argues, convincingly, that given cultivation of gardens was regarded as a craft, Brown should be considered an artisan rather than a common laborer. It was his function that authorised him to stand a amicable ladder, creation him partial of an informal network that crossed racial, category as well as gender lines. He accompanied his employer's daughter to horticultural galas, as well as he met as well as corresponded with noted horticulturists similar to Andrew Jackson Downing as well as Henry Winthrop Sargent, both of whom lived nearby. He review a ultimate gardening magazines as well as catalogs, as well as exchanged cuttings with colleagues.

"Freedom's Gardener" is beautifully researched, ripping with detail. But whilst it will be many appreciated by academics, it's not a kind of book that rught away grabs a lay reader. Armstead tries tough to keep a many lax ends of a story together, attempting to fill a gap! s in Bro wn's life as well as wobble a tale around them, though infrequently there have been just as well many uncertainties. Much is "blurry," Armstead admits, that explains a many pages peppered with "most likely" or "may seem." One paragraph alone features quite a collection: "may have," "a possible indication," "somewhat suggestive," "might have been," "presumably."

In a little sections, a account thread roughly disappears. And although a broader context is critical in order to constitute Brown's story as well as understand pre-Civil War America, a reader can get mislaid among intricate as well as extensively excursions into, say, a "cultural meanings of gardening" or mini-biographies of black newspaper owners. After receiving us through a page-long discussion of a probability that Brown competence have met a black abolitionist David Ruggles, for example, Armstead eventually concludes that a male he encountered was substantially a white horticulturist with a same name.

In a end, Brown's life was remarkable simply because, paradoxically, it was in so many ways unremarkable. He was not feverishly involved in a antislavery movement; he subscribed to newspapers similar to The New York Sun as well as The New York Weekly Herald, that were politically regressive as well as against to emancipation. Armstead tries to argue that celebration of a mass these journals made Brown "an sensitive political actor," though he certainly was no Frederick Douglass. Instead, a upwardly mobile Brown aligned himself with a white elite. He believed in open order, personal responsibility as well as self-discipline. Rather than opposing a statute class, he followed his employer's interests, worked tough as well as kept a close eye on his own finances. He was, as Armstead concludes, above all "a little capitalist."

Andrea Wulf's many recent book is "Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, as well as a Shaping of a American Nation."

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Anatomy of Injustice, by Raymond Bonner

This much we know to be true: On the cold winter weekend in early 1982, somebody murdered 76-year-old Dorothy Edwards. Apparently she knew the perpetrator, given she let him in to her handsome home upon the still side street in Greenwood, S.C. The crime itself was horrific. She was beaten with the brief object, stabbed regularly the single ear was roughly severed substantially sexually assaulted; her body was stuffed in to the bedroom closet, where it was detected upon Monday afternoon, Jan. 18. The next day the military arrested Edward Lee Elmore, the 23-year-old handyman whom Edwards had recently hired to do the few odd jobs around the house. He was rigourously charged with first-degree attempted murder upon Jan. 21, tried in the second week of April, found guilty by the jury which deliberated for dual as well as the half hours, as well as sentenced to death.

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Edward Lee Elmore

ANATOMY OF INJUSTICE

A Murder Case Gone Wrong

By Raymond Bonner

Illustrated. 298 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $ 26.95.

We know this as well: As of this writing, there have been 1,283 executions in the United States given 1976, when the Supreme Court finished the four-year moratorium upon collateral punishment. There have additionally been 134 genocide quarrel exonerations, roughly half of them given 1999. In his hypnotizing brand new book, "Anatomy of Injustice," Raymond Bonner, the onetime prosecutor as well as the former investigative reporter as well as foreign correspondent during The New York Times, makes the impressive box which Elmore ought to be added to the list of the innocent. Instead, he outlayed nearly thirty years in the South Carolina state penitentiary, most of which time upon genocide ro! w, trapp ed by the formidable of forces which as well often warp the legal process, even when the man's hold up hangs in the balance.

Like most collateral cases, Elmore's was made by the fearsome combination of competition as well as class. Edwards was the well-to-do white lady whose attempted murder made front-page headlines; small wonder which the Police Department wanted the discerning arrest, the prosecutor the genocide penalty. And Elmore, the poor black man with the tangential tie to the victim, seemed so obvious the suspect, conjunction the military nor the prosecutor considered any alternatives, yet there was the single tighten during hand. Their box was incredibly weak, Bonner shows, resting upon inference, the little very indeterminate earthy justification as well as the sworn statement of the jailhouse inform upon who claimed the defendant had confessed to him. But Elmore, who had an I.Q. of 61, was in no in front of to fight back; he couldn't discuss it time, much less follow the intricacies of the law. His court-appointed attorneys didn't help. At trial they hardly interrogated the prosecution's witnesses as well as called only the single of their own: Elmore, whom the prosecutor, with thirty years of experience during the behind of him, savaged.

Once Elmore was upon genocide row, his box moved in to the miasma of appeals. Twice his lawyers had his self-assurance overturned upon procedural grounds. But upon retrial he was convicted again as well as again sentenced to death. Then, in the summer of 1993, his file finished up in the hands of Diana Holt, the law tyro operative as an intern for the South Carolina Death Penalty Resource Center. And the case's trajectory suddenly changed.

Like Elmore, Holt came from the hardscrabble background. Brutalized by her stepfather, she'd run away from her home in Waco, Tex., during 17; dabbled in drugs; raced by dual marriages, the single to the man who beat her; as well as outlayed dual years in prison for armed robbery. Somehow she managed ! to pull herself behind from the brink. With her grandmother's help, she returned to school, initial during the internal community college, afterwards during Southwest Texas State. She graduated summa cum laude, practical to law propagandize as well as to her great surprise was admitted to the University of Texas. There she found her passion for public use channeled in to genocide chastisement cases, the little of the hardest work the counsel can do.

Elmore's box became her obsession. Holt understood the importance of procedural issues. But she was certain which Elmore was innocent, so she proposed to burrow in to the justification which had persuaded 3 apart juries to convict her client. Bonner follows along in most ways "Anatomy of Injustice" is Holt's book more than Elmore's examination as she peels behind the prosecution's omissions, manipulations as well as deceits, as well as tries to uncover what unequivocally happened in Dorothy Edwards's home upon which brutal weekend in 1982. It's the miraculous move: in Holt's relentless investigation, Bonner has found the way to spin this sad, sordid story in to an utterly engrossing true-crime tale.

Kevin Boyle teaches American history during Ohio State University. He is the writer of "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights as well as Murder in the Jazz Age."

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The Story of Lawrence v. Texas, by Dale Carpenter

Texas probity has frequency been kind to homosexuals. Take, for example, a box of Calvin Burdine, who was sentenced to genocide in 1984 for a murder of his male companion. Burdine's court-appointed lawyer, when not dozing, referred to his client as a "fairy." The prosecutor, meanwhile, demanded a genocide penalty by arguing which gays actually demeanour brazen to a rewards of jail life. "Sending a homosexual to a penitentiary," he claimed, "certainly isn't a really bad punishment for a homosexual." Astonishingly, a sovereign appeals panel first inspected a outcome upon a drift which nothing in a law guarantees a defendant a right to a fully conscious attorney. Burdine eventually won a brand new trial, during which he was again convicted, though this time sentenced to hold up in jail a undoubted candy store, it was said, for a "pervert" identical to him.

Illustration by Christoph Niemann

FLAGRANT CONDUCT

The Story of Lawrence v. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans

By Dale Carpenter

Illustrated. 345 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $ 29.95.

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John Lawrence, left, as well as Tyron Garner recite a Pledge of Allegiance during a Houston convene after a Supreme Court's 2003 preference in Lawrence v. Texas which a Texas sodomy law was unconstitutional.

Texas, identical to many states, has a long story of criminalizing sodomy. What creates it special, however, is a mania with a issue, which led Lone Star lawmakers to regularly r! efine th eir element over time. In 1943, Texas added verbal sex to a long list of prohibited offenses. Thirty years later, it upheld a law containing a "Homosexual Conduct" provision, which banned both verbal as well as anal sex, though usually when achieved "with another individual of a same sex." As such, a brand new law stretched a sexual leisure of heterosexuals while doing just a conflicting for homosexuals. Put bluntly, it was right away authorised in Texas to have sex with a farm animal, though not with someone of a same gender.

The law was enforced in open spaces, identical to a park or a tavern, though frequency in in isolation settings identical to a home. It was in many ways symbolic a means to disgrace happy group as well as women as well as keep them in a shadows. But it did earn a notorious, if indirect, endorsement in 1986, when a bitterly divided United States Supreme Court inspected a Georgia sodomy law in a little ways identical to a a single in Texas. The court had formerly approved of "privacy" rights for both tied together as well as unmarried heterosexuals as well as for pregnant women. But in a box of Bowers v. Hardwick, involving a military military military officer who had encountered a happy couple having sex in a in isolation dwelling, it refused to go further. "The emanate presented is either a sovereign Constitution confers a elemental right upon homosexuals to rivet in sodomy," Justice Byron White wrote for a majority. The answer was no.

The Supreme Court is not above correcting a misfortune mistakes. It took half a century to reverse itself upon a evils of secular segregation, for example, though usually three years to overturn a gross 1940 statute against those who refused, upon religious grounds, to salute a American flag. Normally, a court follows a element of stare decisis "to mount by what is decided." It is not inclined to challenge a own precedents unless there is a compelling reason to do so. Reversing Bowers was certainly possible; a opinion had bee! n 5 to 4 , after all, as well as issues per same-sex couples were right away reception sensitive media attention. But a second defeat was also possible, with unknown consequences for happy rights.

Dale Carpenter's "Flagrant Conduct" is a stirring as well as richly minute comment of Lawrence v. Texas, a useful 2003 preference which overturned Bowers. Carpenter, who teaches during a University of Minnesota Law School, tells a story through a eyes of a major players a plaintiffs, arresting officers, attorneys, judges as well as prosecutors many of whom were interviewed during length. The result is a book which turns conventional wisdom about Lawrence upon a head. Indeed, a readers many likely to be surprised by "Flagrant Conduct" are those who consider they already know a basic outlines of a case.

In a standard account, in 1998 four sheriff's deputies from Harris County (Houston), responding to a fake inform of someone fluttering a gun, entered an apartment and, after loudly identifying themselves, found dual group Tyron Garner as well as John Lawrence enthusiastically violating a Texas sodomy law. Both group had been drinking, as well as Lawrence was particularly aggressive, a deputies reported. Joseph Quinn, a lead officer, had multiform options. He could warn a dual as well as let them go; he could assign them as well as emanate citations; or he could arrest them as well as haul them off to jail. Quinn chose Option 3, setting Lawrence v. Texas in motion.

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London's legal eagles to assist Selangor in water tussle

The Selangor state supervision has intent a London-based authorised firm, in an attempt to finalise a ongoing tussle with a sovereign supervision in reclaiming control of a state's waterworks.

Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim (left) has met with a team of senior lawyers to demeanour during authorised avenues to finish a deadlock, according to a matter from a state's secretariat today.

"We explained a hostility of a sovereign supervision to concur in a doing of a act that they enacted. The perspective of a sovereign supervision reeks of cronyism as well as an emphasis upon domestic interests prior to a interests of a people," said a statement.

Puncak Niaga Holdings Bhd as well as a auxiliary Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) have been partial of a tug-of-war between a state as well as sovereign government.

The opposition led-Selangor is insisting upon buying over a company in order for it to be restructured prior to allowing it to be federalised under a Water Services Industry Act 2006 (WSIA).

The state administration department had repeatedly argued that this move was necessary since Syabas' performance had unsuccessful to encounter a stipulations in a H2O concession agreement as well as also refused to have a accounts audited.

However, Puncak Niaga, whose boss Rozali Ismail has strong links with Umno, has refused to budge, observant that a cost offered for a takeover is too low.

"As it is a reputable law firm, we goal that it will be means to pull upon their authorised knowledge in dealing with similar situations elsewhere.

"A miss of transparency as well as accountability lies during a base of a problem. Concession contracts were supposed to have been conducted via open te! nder - a simple tenure though a single that is difficult to execute if a single is not critical about weeding out corruption," it added.

The secretariat reiterated that sovereign government's actions to serve check a complaint as well as to sabotage a doing of WSIA is putting during stake a welfare of millions residing in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur as well as Putrajaya for "petty domestic considerations".

"The people of Selangor go upon to bear a financial burdens of a privatisation exercise left terribly wrong. Instead of maximising a resources of a state that go to all citizens, a concessionaires compromised upon H2O peculiarity as well as delivery, continually pulling tariffs up while essentially delivering worse levels of service."

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The link between Anwar and Dickens

Improbable as it seems there is a connection in in between Charles Dickens as well as Anwar Ibrahim.

There is a thread which links a year's bicentennial of a world's initial luminary writer as well as a tellurian peregrinations of Asia's heading orator of inherent governance.

This is which a former, who is renowned for formulating such indelible characters similar to Ebenezer Scrooge as well as Tiny Tim, Pip as well as Miss Havisham, Fagin as well as Oliver Twist, has come to be regarded as a autarchic artist of democracy as well as a latter has determined himself, in a face of all manner of repression, as a Pied Piper in a modern age of supervision by agree of a governed.

"You usually have to look around a multitude as well as all he wrote about in a 1840s is still relevant," pronounced Dickens' biographer, Claire Tomalin.

"The good cove in in between a rich as well as poor, corrupt financiers, corrupt Members of Parliament ... You name it, he pronounced it."

The same can be pronounced about Anwar Ibrahim.

You usually have to give him a pedestal as well as this evangelist for democracy will use it to espouse ! a them es of freedom as well as equivalence with an ardor which is comparable to a ferocity Dickens displayed in attacking their lack in English institutions of a 19th century in such works as 'Oliver Twist', 'Hard Times', 'Bleak House' as well as 'Little Dorrit'.

Sure there is guess of a huckster in Anwar when he is held in such liberty-negating twists as his decision to repel from a conference in New Delhi yesterday to which a writer Salman Rushdie (left) was invited.

But which does not mean which Anwar supports a Khomeini fatwa of capital punishment against a novelist; usually which! he decl ines to be seen in a association of someone who wrote a novel which derided a Prophet of Islam.

Not a radical

Like Dickens, Anwar is not a radical: a writer stopped way reduced of wanting to take apart English institutions by a roots - he pronounced they were not working well for wish of compassion as well as equality; Anwar sees a same lack in presumably democratic institutions in countries where a forms of inherent governance is a cover for violations of their tangible suggestion - he wants form as well as duty to match to profitable effect for a hoi polloi.

Earlier this week, Anwar told a 20th World Public Relations Conference in Dubai he saw no disproportion in in between a suggestion which animates a Arab Spring from a one which drives a Occupy Wall Street movement.

"The repercussions of a Arab Spring have been so distant reaching which a small contend which Occupy Wall Street has been sired from its loins," intoned Anwar.

"Many might take emanate with that," he acknowledged.

But, Anwar argued which "a some-more apt description" of a two phenomena is which both have been "borne from winters of discontent."

He elaborated: "Indeed, Occupy Wall Street is a transparent indictment against marketplace fundamentalism. It wants to nail a lie upon a Wall Street mantra of 'leaving it to marketplace forces.' It exposes a flaws, a small contend fatal, in a foundations of a capitalistic mercantile model."

Anwar buttressed his argument thus: "Arab Spring aspirants wish giveaway as well as fair elections i.e. next to event to contest as well as upon a level personification field. Likewise Occupy Wall Street wants equivalence as well as is which is not possible an egalitarian deal, a 21st century New Deal."

Anwar pronounced a Occupy Wall Street transformation was a "clear indictment of a invisible pa! lm which has remained invisible so mostly which governments in a giveaway universe have felt constrained to meddle in situations traditionally left to marketplace forces."

Toward what would be a bearing of these interventions?

"Social justice," is Anwar's unequivocal response.

Egalitarian principle

Anwar told theFinancial Timeswhich highlighted him in an essay in a weekend edition of a prestigious paper in late Jan which his speculation of amicable probity would be modelled upon a egalitarian ideas of John Rawls.

The American philosopher, who died in 2002, laid a whole weight of his speculation upon an egalitarian principle which holds which an increase in a prospects of a better-off have been justified usually if they maximise a expectations of those most disadvantaged.

The FT journalist who interviewed Anwar was sceptical which Rawls could be a common anxiety point in what he described as a "ideologically immature opposition movement" (Pakatan Rakyat) in Malaysia which Anwar leads.

But Anwar pushed back against a doubts by observant which any major reform or shift his supervision would deliver would have to take heed of a rights of minorities as well as would have to have widespread support.

In other words, Anwar was observant which he would request a Rawlsian principle which a reasons his supervision would give for any policy would have to have clarity to adults who do not share a beliefs or conviction of its proponents.

This would put Anwar Ibrahim, John Rawls as well as Charles Dickens in a same boat, distrusted by both left as well as right, theocrats as well as liberals, for reason which George Orwell in 1939 gave for Dickens' enduring appeal - which a writer was a 19th century liberal who tightly exercised his "free intelligence, a type hated with next to hatred by all a sharp small orthodoxies which have been contending for a souls."

TERENCE NETTO has been a journalist for tighten! upon 4 decades. He likes a occupation because it puts him in hit with a eminent without being underneath a prerequisite to admire them. It is a ideal occupation for a spirit which finds power fascinating as well as its practice abhorrent.

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The sit-in protest in the office of MAS Italy

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MAS bureau in Italy. There is the sit-in criticism by MAS employees.

Yourstruly has been informed by the employees ofMAS in Italythat since 13-3-2012 they have been in a"sit-in"protest opposite MAS government headed byEn Ahmad Jauhari Yahya (AJ)andEn Mohammed Rashdan Yusof, the ex commercial operation partner as well as associate of Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar (Amok), the MD of Khazanah Nasional Bhd .

MAS Italy has seventeen employees. One of them will be terminated in June 2012 as well as the superfluous sixteen will be terminated 0n 1-4-2012. Some of them have been operative for MAS for the past18 years. They have been extremely unhappy with the way in that they have been treated. They have purported that the MAS government has broken the promises done to them. Yours indeed have been informed that the sit-in criticism commenced upon 13-3-2012 as well as willNOTgive in. The seventeen employees have been now represented by their unionFilt CGILin Italy.

Yours indeed hopes that the MAS staff in sold the MAS kinship leaders will take note of the predicament of the their colleagues in Italy as well as will action in solidarity with their Italian colleagues during this formidable time.

AJ as well as Amok's crony, Rashdan, can regularly say that this was the single of the recommendations ofPlaneConsult, that is additionally theconsu! ltant fo r AirAsia as well as AirAsia X Sdn Bhd, as well as the pronounced consultant has been since far-reaching powers to action upon interest of MAS. For some-more sum ofPlaneConsult, please review inHERE.

Yours indeed has been informed by MASEUS members that the little 2 weeks agoMASEUS leadershave sealed aCollective Agreementon interest of its members where MAS staffretirement age has been lengthened by two years as well as there will be the income increment of 5%.

Syabas MASEUS leaders! What an feat during this sold time as well as the morale of your members must have been upifted upon conference this illusory news! But what will be the destiny of your members comes 1-5-2012 if Amok's crony, Rashdan, succeeded in bulldozing through"my airlines"(this was how he has been showing off about it in front of the staff) called"MAS Sdn Bhd". Hope MAS staff will ask their particular MAS Union leaders,what is going to occur to them comes1-5-2012if they do not join"MAS Sdn Bhd"?

Dear MAS Union leaders, May 1st, 2012 is at the corner!

Below is the press matter of the MAS employees in Italy.

COMMUNICATION FROM THE EMPLOYEES OF MALAYSIA AIRLINES ITALY

After 18 years of combined participation in the Italian market, upon sixteen Dec 2011 Malaysia Airlines announces the suspension of the flights from Italy to Malaysia as well as vv., in effect 31 Jan 2012.

We, employees of Malaysia Airlines Italy, would like to provide t! he chron icle as well as views upon the whole matter, entrance from the in depth hold of both the Company as well as the market.

The worth as well as the potential, that the Company unquestionably showed in the final few years, has brought us to hold that this decision is reckless as well as not suspicion through.
Last Nov the 27th, during an internal meeting, an enlarge in frequencies from the current three to five weekly, in effect Nov 2012, was discussed. After usually fifteen days, these intentions were topsy-turvy by the communication from the Company announcing the termination of Italy-Malaysia vv. route.

In the past, grave moments of predicament (bird flu, SARS, tsunami in Indonesia) have strike the influx of Italian trade towards the Asian region. These were overcome thanks to the initiatives of the Italian management, strongly supported by both the European Regional bureau as well as the Central Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

In sequence to face the heavy goods upon the air ride industry of the final 3 years of economic crisis,Malaysia Airlines Italy has proposed innumerable sales as well as pricing initiatives to await as well as connect its presencein the internal market. These initiatives wereNEVER listened to, NOR considered, NOR evaluated by the Regional as well as Central managements, that remained totally blind to the needs of the Italian market.

On the contrary,strategies as well as policies have been imposed, that were completely visitor to the being of the Italian marketand formed upon reasoning that contrasts with the internal peculiarities. The failure of these strategies determined the significant drop in capability as well as the on-going detriment of marketplace shares for Malaysia Airlines Italy.

The Regional bureau in Amsterdam abused its in front of by forcing Malays! ia Airli nes Italy to implement theseinappropriate strategies, written to streamline Italy into unsuited European models, notwithstanding visit indications from the Italian office.

We hold that the Regional bureau in Amsterdam unsuccessful in its duty to heed as well as coordinate the European offices as well as intercede their differing needs to Kuala Lumpur. Instead, they singular themselves to the firm control administered with arrogance towards the Italian market, that led the Company to its unavoidable alienation from the internal market.

From the 31st of March, the GSA for reservations as well as ticketing (ATT, Asian Tour Travel) will stop all activities. As of yet, the Company, while gripping the operations from other European gateways (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris as well as London), did not show any opening towards maintaining the probable offline office, that has happened in other European locations such as Zurich, Zagreb, Brussels as well as Madrid, all manned with Malaysia Airlines personnel.

At this time, there is no justification of any allocated European deputy to pledge continuation of commercial operation as well as service to Italian agents as well as passengers, to illustrate confirming the sum disinterest in the Italian branch.

With deep regret, you have to note that even the "internal clients" of the Company were since no consideration.

The Company's usually care wascollective redundancy, that will be in effect after suspension of work, that started upon the29th of February. This decision was incorrigible as well as did not even follow the suggest of extraordinary measures such as price slicing campaigns or special worker contracts (e.g. "contratto di solidariet").

Neither did the Company pick up the event offered by the State Redundancy Scheme ("Cassa Integrazione ! Straordi naria-CIGS-"), that would have price them nothing, superfluous realistic in their decisions.

We, employees of Malaysia Airlines Italy,do not enter into with the Company position, that you hold is detrimental to the picture of Malaysia in Italy, as well as take this arise to appreciate the marketplace for the await shown in all these years.

16-March-2012

The emphasis on top of is yours truly.

Please review an interesting article byAnother Brick In The Wallon how the WAU's expert,Tan Sri Md Nor Yusof, the brand new Chairman of MAS, who is trying to do the WAU no. 2 after he had unsuccessful in WAU no. 1 when he was the MD of MAS in 2002, inHERE.

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RAKAMAN CCTV RAFIZI HAMDAN MAUT DILANGGAR KERETA!

BIGGEST "JOKE" BY UMNO SECRETARY-GENERAL - Umno does not use MONEY to buy votes

What explanation do we require when we know for yourself which UMNO uses MONEY to "buy" votes.

Remember your own past President as well as Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad himself has told this which UMNO uses MONEY to buy VOTES.

What else do we require....will we set-up your Lembaga Disiplin as well as take actions against all those involved....

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WHY KG KIANGARAN ROAD NEVER UPGRADE?

AS ANNOUNCED which a Prime Minister will be coming to Kg Kiangaran in Tambunan to perform a belligerent breaking rite in Jun this year for a proposed KadazanDusun College.

The internal folks pronounced which a supervision should make great a existent highway first. They also brought their grouses to a Sabah DAP clamp chairman cum a Local supervision as well as housing Bureau Chief Edward Ewol Mujie connected with a really abominable condition of a benefaction access highway which is heading from a Tambunan roundabout in to a Kg Kiangaran.

They pronounced a proof is to compromise a benefaction complaint first, before embarking upon alternative destiny plans. They pronounced they acquire a environment up of a college, though will which occur in a really near future, as well as during a meantime a people here continue to suffer bone ache as well as to compensate for complicated upkeep cost to their vehicles.

The highway had been in a same bad condition for most years, as well as complaints had been done repeatedly, as well as really unhappy to say all these fall in to apt ears of a authorities a YB there.

Edward pronounced a proclamation could be an additional dull promise done by a BN for a purpose of a coming ubiquitous choosing to attract votes from a area. This sort of trick had been used most times before, as well as whether a BN will set up a college when they take back power after a subsequent election, is still questionable.

There have been most examples in a past choosing where BN regularly done large make known as well as betrothed a sky, as well as later they just accidentally forgot all about it. Many large projects were announced as well as a people can only see a construction of a simple sign board upon a site.

The typical e.g. can be seen in a construction of a SMK Nabalu as well as Sg. Damit Bridge both in a Tuaran District.

Edward pronounced a Prime Minister Datuk Najib Tun Razak should visit a area by highway as well as not to fly there in a helicopter. He should take a automobile float low in to a various kampongs in a area to knowledge a bad roads here.

Don't sit in a large Ninja King or comfortable 4x4 vehicles, though should try a kampong cars as a villagers does in traveling in as well as out a kampongs every day. He should do this if he wants to walk a speak as well as be with a people. We want to see he does that! - Sabahkini

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GEMPAR TAHAP BABI! BETUL KE VIDEO KE 2 ANWAR BAKAL DISIARKAN ESOK?

Aku diberitahu bahawa esok pagi jam 10.30 pagi akan disiarkan video kedua Anwar bersama Siam doll pulak!

Betul ke? Wah ini sudah hebat! Sama-sama kita nantikan esok jam 10.30 pagi!

Habis la kau Anuwar!

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Hot Air over Mount Kinabalu

Well congrats to a Mount Kinabalu climbers for setting yet an additional record, probably a world's first of carrying a largest inflatable ego...ehh 1Malaysia inflatable trademark actually, in Southeast Asia's top mountain.

K.Ragunathan is positively a man of perseverance, call him a true BolehLand hero. Lugging all those material up there, as good as prohibited air as good to inflate it After all, it's BolehLand as good as a people have been challenged, (directed most times really) to do all kinds of unusual feats to uncover a total universe we have a 'we can' do it suggestion in us. Well, during slightest which is what a strange fellow who recognised a thought envisaged it..

The peculiar thing about this 'Boleh' 'Can Do' suggestion is, a Boleh suggestion is ostensible to have a republic great. Creative ideas than can turn in to creation as good as can have us abounding as good as looked up as a republic of contriver as good as creators of things which can sell as good as people can buy.

So when a great personality asked typical folks to have a 'Boleh' spirit, a typical folks as good as kids enclosed showed they have which spirit. So we had a longest ketupat, roti canai, tosai, even a largest yee sang, largest 1Malaysia trademark done out of recycle products, or a glass of teh tarik being done during a top peak, lowest point of Bolehland, driest part, wettest part, youngest group to have a 1Malaysia logo, do a synchronised dance routine, blow a flue, barbeque satay sticks, most number of people (same-same gender do not count) combining a 1Malaysia logo.

Hey if we use toothpicks, used ones which is, to have a top 1Malaysia logo, you'd be in a hall of BolehLand fame, no?

Where is a creation of a BolehLand spirit? Today, there have been those who still urge their right to rights as good as privileges. So what is a BolehLand suggestion ostensible to be huh? Doing all those non productive things to get in to a MGBOR - Malaysian Guinness Book of Records huh?
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Or f or which matter 1Malaysia trademark as good as judgment when we feel even some-more widely separated as good as put on! a touri st uncover we have been all a single family when after a festivity, we have been reminded who is since billions in commercial operation loans, government contracts, cab licence, scholarships, even homes!

So a Malaysia Boleh as good as 1Malaysia concept, trademark as good as what not, we get all kinds of superhuman feats with really very minimal translated in to creation this republic a people (well not all), who can't mount upon their own dual feet but feel unapproachable to urge their rights to have handouts. More form than substance have been being speedy to progress a ego of a contriver of a tagline or a logo, right?

Bet this contingency be a largest inflatable ego..eh trademark in a universe during such a tallness as good as high elevation!

It obviously shows which BolehLand folks have lots of inventive ideas. This Malaysia Boleh suggestion has combined lots of firsts. Check out a Malaysia Guinness Book of Records as good as we will be vacant by a creativity of BolehLand folks.

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<--One man's most small stairs up, One Big Ego Leap for 1Malaysia

Our heroes contingency certainly be unapproachable to have done someone genuine unapproachable too! This maybe have diffuse a accusation by most pessimists which typical folks do not know what a heck this 1Malaysia judgment is all about.

This large prohibited air trademark in Mount Kinabalu proves 1Malaysia judgment is not all prohibited air as most think now eh?

Look during this magnificent inflated ego..ehm trademark which is, standing so ! case up ther! e in a c old atmosphere. All alone solely for a hero. So high up noone can see it solely usually a creator. And since it's so high up in a clouds it becomes really fuzz most times since of a mist.

The usually thing which keeps this 1 large inflatable trademark standing high is we need lots as good as lots of prohibited air. When all a prohibited air gets cold, it becomes limp.

It can't mount upon a own really. It needs people to blow prohibited air in it to keep it afloat.

It will fall prosaic if we left it alone! And a usually permanent jot down it leaves it was a great attainment or looking trademark is it found a way in to Facebook, a media as good as of march blogs, like yours truly.

Well during slightest this attainment showed which there have been a little who hold in a concept.

Definitely this attainment will spur others to do a repeat, during Mt Everest? or even underneath a deepest ocean, what about a North as good as South Pole! Or a 1Malaysia Hot Air Balloon during subsequent year's Hot Air Balloon Fiesta (ie if 1Malaysia survives GE13?)?

Now there is truth when a a single who recognised of this thought additionally advocated it to a universe leaders which 1Malaysia is truly a 22nd century wonder which will turn a judgment 1World judgment where a universe will live in assent as good as harmony as good as which everyone's rights is preserved (Is which what 1Malaysia is all about?) And a universe universe will live in harmony with any other. But with dual proviso in a excellent print. The first, underneath 1World a director is UMNO as good as as prolonged as we do not hold Is! lam afterwards we can have your peace, unity as good as what have you, huh?

Pray, a dauntless traveller is a county a single as good as not handle like most rival climbers who forgot to take down their things as good as leave it up there to turn a pile of trash as good! as poll ute a mountain! hah!

YAHMEH!!!

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