RM49bil to Implement 330 Local Govt Projects in Sabah

KOTA KINABALU, twenty-three APRIL, 2012: The Housing as well as Local Government Ministry around a Local Government Department has allocated RM48.9 million to exercise 330 projects for all a internal authorities (PBT) in Sabah this year to safeguard that a PBTs maintained their best service. ... Read More

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Incumbent Menteri Besar Kedah is a Reactionary Rube and a Political Albatross

April 23, 2012

Incumbent Menteri Besar Kedah is a Reactionary Rube as well as a Political Albatross

by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com

COMMENT Kedah Menteri Besar Azizan Abdul Razak's decrease from efficient Islamic fury part of to reactionary rube has been a unhappy business.

The Kedah State Assembly's new passage of an legislative addition to an dramatization whose outcome is to render comprehensive power to a Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee detracts from a Sultan's position as conduct of a religion in a state.

Besides, a legislative addition confers autarky standing on a State Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee, something which would be at odds with a truth of governance espoused by Pakatan Rakyat.

The magnitude has drawn a Police report by a Tunku Laksamana Kedah, Tunku Mansor Tunku Kassim, a part of of a Royal Council. The pierce is firm to trigger a crisis since a Sultan of Kedah is worshiped by his subjects. This debate is a final thing PAS would want.

With a ubiquitous election fast approaching, a embarrassing mistake place Azizan's stewardship of state back where it has been for some years right away in a glisten of unwelcome publicity.

PAS contingency right away bewail they did not compel Azizan to retire when heart problems quickly laid him low final year; it was pronounced a tip care pushed for him to renounce though corroborated off when he resisted their importuning.

The care had been wakeful of flourishing unease with a MB, not only felt by a DAP as well as PKR complement of a Pakatan Rakyat state supervision though additionally by Kedah PAS leaders.

Perhaps a niceties which attend intra-party wrangles in an Islamic party prevented a ! forceful presentation to a ailing Azizan which he should step in reserve simply since he was not effective.

The Kelantan Lesson

Anwar Ibrahim was in a more enviable incident when he was faced with a same complaint in Penang in 2009 when his collect for a emissary chief minister's purpose incited out to be a niggling embarrassment.

However, Fairuz Khairuddin was a nobody plucked from shade for a post; Anwar had an easier time easing him out a door. By contrast, Azizan is a senior part of of a PAS hierarchy. Telling him to go since he was simply not great was never starting to be easy.

The MB was adamant in dire his claims for retention as well as a tip leadership, with an eye to averting internecine troubles which could be triggered by an Azizan-led rebel motionless to surrender as well as wait for things out.

After all, a ubiquitous election was rapidly approaching; mouth-watering internecine troubles have been not a approach to prepare for it.

PAS have been aware of a proviso of a story of their administration department in their building of Kelantan.
There, in 1977, a breach in PAS led by a incumbent Menteri Besar Mohamed Nasir enabled Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to tract a ouster of PAS from a reins of supervision as well as to establish an UMNO zenith which lasted until 1990 when stream MB Nik Aziz Nik Mat reasserted a PAS domination.

With which important as well as lesson-teaching proviso of their story in Kelantan as background, a tip care of PAS treaded gingerly when coming a festering care issues in Kedah.

Also, a fact which a ubiquitous election was in a offing constrained them to tiptoe. Unfortunately, long-germinating care issues do not obey a option demanded by election year schedules.

These can emanate as well as twist at awkward moments, withdrawal proponents of timely, though withheld, action regretting their procrastination.

PAS will need to punch a bullet

Earlier this year, dual PAS members of a Kedah State Executive Council voiced they would decrease reappointment to a legislature (appointments in Kedah have been finished on an annual basis).

That was a evidence a displeasure with Azizan had arrived at a critical mass. DAP as well as PKR leaders muttering opposite a maladroit Azizan is a single thing: a grumbles can be dismissed as a duty of people who do not assimilate a Islamic style of administration.

However, a frustrations of PAS State Exco members opposite a MB, as demonstrated in dual compatriots' refusal to be reappointed to a Exco, is a more serious matter.

But if a tip care of PAS found itself in a bind final year when they attempted to force Azizan's departure, regulating his seizure as pretext, they were in greater worry this time round, what with a ubiquitous election imminent as well as a chances of BN regaining a state as well as PAS maintaining it pronounced to be evenly poised.

Azizan again won out in a contest of wills in between him as well as a tip care in PAS which decamped to Alor Star to work out a compromise. If a single felt which a crisis caused by dual PAS State Exco members disappearing reappointment should have induced Azizan to henceforth ensue with caution, he has right away referred to it had a opposite effect.

Passage of a legislative addition to a dramatization making a State Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee an absolutist physique is something which is simply not done.

PAS would have to punch a bullet as well as absolved their Kedah care of someone who is plainly an albatross. If there is a china backing in this cloud, it is which there is no mystique which clings to an ulama when it comes to a subject of bearing for political leadership.

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Author-Reseacher Barry Wain sees Najib as a Selective Reformer

April 23, 2012

Author-Researcher, Barry Wain sees Najib as the "Selective Reformer"

by Nigel Aw (04-21-12)@www.malaysiakini.com

Barry Wain, who in 2010 raised red flags at the Home Ministry with his book 'Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times', has described Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak reformer image as the selective one.

The journalist as well as author, whilst acknowledging which the current premier had given some-more substance to his remodel agenda compared with his prototype Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, he had only instituted changes where the government's position was not endangered, he said.

"Recognising his personal as well as domestic limits, Najib has turn what I call the tactical or selective reformer, the less giveaway outline competence be an opportunistic reformer," pronounced the Australian, who has lived in Middle East for nearly 40 years.

"Skirting some of the areas many in need of reform, he is hoping he can make enough changes around the edges of certain policies, package them attractively as well as sell them to Malaysia to detain UMNO's slide," Wain told some 30 members of the Foreign Correspondence Club Malaysia (FCCM) at the talk in Kuala Lumpur last night.

'UMNO Insider no healthy reformer'

Despite the recent flurry of legislative reforms, it appeared evident which no try has been made to detain institutional plunge of the police force as well as judiciary, pronounced Wain, right away attached to Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.

Among examples he cited was the lack of accountability in the genocide of Teoh Beng Hock, the conviction of two Police officers without well known motive! for the attempted murder of Mongolia Altantuya Sharibuu as well as Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's second sodomy trial.

"No critical researcher in Malaysia or abroad would hold which Anwar's prosecution as well as hearing was giveaway of domestic influence," pronounced the keen observer of Malaysian politics.

The Premier, Wain (left) added, had not signaled intention to remodel the internal mechanics of UMNO where corruption was many autochthonous as well as his proposed reforms to domestic financing were likely to by-pass income governing body inside of UMNO.

"Should Najib try to seriously quell the upsurge of clientele inside of the statute party, he would substantially follow Abdullah out the door," he said.

Before the Najib's remodel pull to soften the government's image, his involvement in the the Perak manoeuvre had not not helped his repute as the healthy reformist, he added.

"Throughout Najib's career, he has been cautious as well as pragmatic, he has never questioned Malaysia's ethnic-based domestic complement nor has he proposed poignant innovation, not even during his approach ministerial responsibilities.

"It is formidable to define what he stands for Najib is not only partial of the system, the single of his closest associates said, he trusts the system, he is the system," pronounced Wain.

On the mercantile remodel front, he said, there additionally appeared to be an absent of genuine change.

"I remember the first time he voiced the New Economic Model as well as pronounced we'll have the world-class preparation system, you know preparation in Malaysia is the mess, if you got the right policies it would substantially take years if not generations to move! about c hange.

"Yes, he articulates it, it's true you need the world-class preparation complement but there is no follow-up action, infrequently it's only like once he has pronounced it he pretends it is done.

"With any politicians, the single must watch what they do as well as not only what they say, as well as this is some-more true with Najib as there is the big gap between what he says as well as what they have", he added.

UMNO's salvation, losing power

Wain combined which he had oral to people who Najib had consulted at the World Bank as well as they were convinced which the premier was able of understanding the nation's problems. "But he is not instinctively confidant or brazen nor does he have strong await from the party to make those reforms," he said.

The truly outstanding leaders such as former Deputy Prime Ministers Musa Hitam as well as Anwar Ibrahim, as well as former Finance Minister Tengku Razaliegh Hamzah, Wain said, had prolonged been suspended by former Premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad (left) during his 22-year reign.

"Mahathir failed to yield future care for Malaysia his prolonged tenure additionally shut off the ascendency of others with care potential.

"The many able people Mahathir got rid of as well as the people who have been left have been simply only second or third rung," he said.UMNO in its current form, he added, was incompetent to remodel whilst it remained in the fork of power.

"I do not hold UMNO will remodel itself, I think the most appropriate approach for UMNO is to be degraded as well as turn the Opposition as well as then go as well as do some critical remodel as well! as find new leadership."

Mahathir, Wain said, completed UMNO's passing from one to another from the humble self-sacrificing party of peasants as well as schoolteachers to the party of self-indulgent corporate chieftain as well as dealmakers.

Even after the longest portion premier handed over power, his legacy lingered on as he had engineered both Abdullah as well as Najib's premierships. "The country has been run for some-more than eight years by fairly diseased men put there by Mahathir," he said.

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Incumbent Menteri Besar Kedah is a Reactionary Rube and a Political Albatross

April 23, 2012

Incumbent Menteri Besar Kedah is a Reactionary Rube as well as a Political Albatross

by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com

COMMENT Kedah Menteri Besar Azizan Abdul Razak's decrease from competent Islamic fury part of to conservative rube has been a sad business.

The Kedah State Assembly's new thoroughfare of an legislative addition to an dramatization whose outcome is to render comprehensive power to a Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee detracts from a Sultan's in front of as head of a sacrament in a state.

Besides, a legislative addition confers autarky standing upon a State Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee, something which would be during odds with a philosophy of governance espoused by Pakatan Rakyat.

The measure has drawn a Police report by a Tunku Laksamana Kedah, Tunku Mansor Tunku Kassim, a part of of a Royal Council. The move is firm to trigger a predicament because a Sultan of Kedah is worshiped by his subjects. This debate is a final thing PAS would want.

With a ubiquitous choosing fast approaching, a embarrassing mistake place Azizan's stewardship of state behind where it has been for some years now in a glare of unwelcome publicity.

PAS must now bewail they did not compel Azizan to retire when heart problems briefly laid him low final year; it was pronounced a tip care pushed for him to renounce though backed off when he resisted their importuning.

The care had been aware of flourishing confusion with a MB, not only felt by a DAP as well as PKR complement of a Pakatan Rakyat state supervision though additionally by Kedah PAS leaders.

Perhaps a niceties which attend intra-party wrangles in an Islamic party prevented a forceful! present ation to a ailing Azizan which he should step in reserve simply because he was not effective.

The Kelantan Lesson

Anwar Ibrahim was in a some-more enviable incident when he was faced with a same problem in Penang in 2009 when his pick for a deputy chief minister's role incited out to be a niggling embarrassment.

However, Fairuz Khairuddin was a nobody plucked from obscurity for a post; Anwar had an easier time easing him out a door. By contrast, Azizan is a comparison part of of a PAS hierarchy. Telling him to go because he was simply not good was never going to be easy.

The MB was austere in pressing his claims for retention as well as a tip leadership, with an eye to averting internecine troubles which could be triggered by an Azizan-led revolt motionless to relent as well as wait things out.

After all, a ubiquitous choosing was fast approaching; mouth-watering internecine troubles have been not a way to hope for for it.

PAS have been aware of a proviso of a story of their administration department in their stronghold of Kelantan.
There, in 1977, a schism in PAS led by a incumbent Menteri Besar Mohamed Nasir enabled Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to plot a ouster of PAS from a reins of supervision as well as to establish an UMNO ascendancy which lasted until 1990 when current MB Nik Aziz Nik Mat reasserted a PAS domination.

With which vicious as well as lesson-teaching proviso of their story in Kelantan as background, a tip care of PAS treaded cautiously when coming a festering care issues in Kedah.

Also, a fact which a ubiquitous choosing was in a offing compelled them to tiptoe. Unfortunately, long-germinating care issues do not obey a discretion demanded by choosing year schedules.

These can emanate as well as turn during ungainly moments, leaving proponents of timely, though withheld, movement regretting their procrastination.

PAS will need to punch a bullet

Earlier this year, dual PAS members of a Kedah State Executive Council announced they would decrease reappointment to a legislature (appointments in Kedah have been done upon an annual basis).

That was a cue a displeasure with Azizan had arrived during a vicious mass. DAP as well as PKR leaders muttering against a clumsy Azizan is a single thing: a grumbles can be dismissed as a function of people who do not understand a Islamic character of administration.

However, a frustrations of PAS State Exco members against a MB, as demonstrated in dual compatriots' refusal to be reappointed to a Exco, is a some-more critical matter.

But if a tip care of PAS found itself in a bind final year when they attempted to force Azizan's departure, using his seizure as pretext, they were in greater difficulty this time round, what with a ubiquitous choosing approaching as well as a chances of BN convalescent a state as well as PAS retaining it pronounced to be uniformly poised.

Azizan again won out in a competition of wills between him as well as a tip care in PAS which decamped to Alor Star to work out a compromise. If a single felt which a predicament caused by dual PAS State Exco members declining reappointment should have prompted Azizan to hereafter ensue with caution, he has now referred to it had a opposite effect.

Passage of a legislative addition to a dramatization creation a State Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee an absolutist body is something which is simply not done.

PAS would have to punch a bullet as well as absolved their Kedah care of someone who is plainly an albatross. If there is a silver lining in this cloud, it is which there is no mystique which clings to an ulama when it comes to a question of suitability for political leadership.

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Brazil: Legal Change is not central to Financial Development

April 23, 2012

Project Syndicate: Brazil as well as Development (April 17, 2012)

Brazil: Legal Change is not executive to Financial Development

by Mark Roe as well as Joao Paulo Vasconcellos

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's revisit last week to Washington, DC, offers an arise to cruise how a little once-poor countries have damaged out of poverty, as Brazil has. Development institutions similar to a World Bank have advocated improving commercial operation law as being necessary to success. Are they right?

Such thinking goes back during least as far as Max Weber's argument which an effective commercial operation environment requires a authorised structure as predicted as a clock.

Investors, it is thought, need transparent rules as well as effective courts. Security of stipulate as well as clever mechanisms which protect investors are, in this view, foundational for finance, which in spin fuels mercantile growth. If a intensity banker is unsure of being repaid, he or she will not invest, firms will not grow, as well as mercantile expansion will stall. Rules as well as institutions come first; genuine mercantile expansion follows.

But, compelling as this proof seems, Brazil's rise does not endorse it: monetary as well as mercantile expansion was not preceded by or even accompanied by elemental improvements in courts as well as contracts.

Growth is unmistakable: Brazil's monetary markets have stretched robustly, with stock-market capitalization taking flight from 35% of GDP in 2000 to 74% in 2010. In a eight years before to 2004, usually ! six comp anies went public; in a eight years since, 138 have. Last year, Brazil overtook a United Kingdom mostly seen as an exemplar of contractual confidence as a world's sixth-largest economy.

And nonetheless legal shift was not executive in Brazil's success. Brazilian courts were conjectural in 2000 to handle investors' lawsuits solemnly as well as poorly, as well as they have been conjectural to handle them solemnly as well as feeble today. Even basic elements of commercial operation classification similar to limiting open shareholders' obligation for corporate debts have been said by Brazilian authorised experts, such as Bruno Salama, to sojourn an open question, with all shareholders potentially exposed, especially in work as well as tax lawsuits.

If courts have been not safeguarding investors, is something else? New, important stock-exchange rules have strengthened outward investors' confidence, though usually for brand brand brand new companies. For authorised scholars, most prominently Columbia University's John Coffee, batch exchanges have historically been a first step toward safeguarding investors. An research by Ronald Gilson, Henry Hansmann, as well as Mariana Pargendler of Brazil's Novo Mercado a batch exchange's special intentional inventory segment, which provides clever protections for investors in newly listed companies supports this view.

But batch exchanges have limits, utterly in Brazil. In a absence of reliable courts, they cannot sue to enforce their rules. Their usually chance is to push recalcitrant firms off a exchange.

The Novo Mercado dealt with this complaint by subjecting disputes involving its newly-listed companies to arbitration. Commercial settlement as well as courts' obligations to enforce a arbitrators' decisions can assure investors, even if a courts generally do not.

But settlement which has nonetheless to be deeply tested for resolution disputes upon a Novo Mercado ! does no t appear to be a linchpin of Brazil's recent success. After all, its institutional innovations request usually to a brand brand brand new Novo Mercado-listed companies, as well as not to a bulk of a Brazilian economy's large firms, which have been listed upon a batch exchange's main segment, as well as thus sojourn stranded with a old rules, old institutions, as well as an ineffectual court system.

Two other pass changes, a single viewable as well as a single surprising, were some-more necessary to Brazil's monetary development.

The viewable shift is which economic-growth opportunities mushroomed, owing to greater monetary stability, disinflation, as well as natural-resource wealth. Better macroeconomic policy led to faster GDP growth, which compulsory financing as well as encouraged a little insiders to forego pernicious maneuvering which would scare divided brand brand brand new outward investors.

Growth plausibly drove monetary expansion as most as, or some-more than, institutional expansion did. While open as well as in isolation coercion will need to improve if Brazil's manage to buy is to pierce to a next level, dramatic authorised improvement has not underpinned Brazil's altogether monetary expansion so far.

The second shift is both less viewable as well as some-more important: a political fortitude which came with a election in 2002 of President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva. The surprise here is which Lula, a former work leader who had been upon a far left, was widely opposed, if not despised, in commercial operation as well as monetary circles. How, then, did his victory assistance to fuel a monetary expansion of a subsequent decade?

Despite his past, Lula betrothed not to interrupt Brazilian corporate capitalism, running with a market-oriented vice president. Why he did so is difficult to determine: utterly plausibly, a little multiple of Lu! la's rea lism, his greeting to stock-market declines attributed to his chances of being elected, as well as debate donations was during work.

Once elected, Lula governed from a pragmatic left, continuing a before administration's core policies. True, Brazil still has a "hard" left, as well as a little in Lula's own celebration have been comfortable with, say, Cuba's Castro brothers as well as Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez. But a accord had emerged in Brazil which a left celebration could neither win nor govern with hard-left ideas, as well as Lula's presidency did not challenge this view.

The accord may have reflected a success of Lula's predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a relative success of privatization as well as magnanimous marketplace economies around a world, as well as a expansion of Brazil's center class. Whatever a case, for pass leaders of a Brazilian left, together with Rousseff, capitalism became partial of a solution, not a elemental problem.

Investors take all kinds of risks. The greatest have been not regularly a authorised ones upon which a World Bank as well as expansion agencies have focused; rather, they have been a commercial operation risks of a association which fails or a polity which implodes. If commercial operation conditions have been portentous as well as there is a clever accord in favor of magnanimous capitalism as a polity's core mercantile principle, monetary markets can rise as well as reluctantly catch risks stemming from a authorised system's defects. Institutional improvements help, but they can come later.

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PAS Views on PTPTN Contradicts PKRs

KUALA LUMPUR, 23 APRIL, 2012: PAS boss Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said a National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) should not be abolished as it will not resolve a complaint of students who cannot afford aloft education, reported The New Straits Times. ... Read More

The West must work to understand a New World Order

April 23, 2012

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Financial Times: Kishore M's Article (April 20. 2012)

The West contingency work to assimilate a New World Order

by Kishore Mahbubani*

As a universe becomes inexorably smaller, denser, some-more interconnected as well as some-more complex, a biggest danger a universe faces is horse opera groupthink, which fails to mark a thousands of nuances which have been critical to interpretinternational affairs. Crisis after crisis would be avoided if a west could learn to assimilate these nuances better.

Take, for example, a crisis a west worries about most: Iran. The horse opera account is clear: a Israeli supervision may have no preference though to explosve Iran this year, as time is running out to forestall an Iranian chief bomb. Yes, time is running out for a Israeli government. But a immediate threat in a minds of a Israeli supervision is not a Iranian bomb. It is a fright of Barack Obama's re-election. As Mr Obama whispered to Demetri Medvedev, he will have some-more leisure to launch bold initiatives in his second term. And this is a Israeli government's nightmare: which Obama will push for a two-state solution (even though, incidentally, it would be in Israel's long-term interests).

Yet horse o! pera gro upthink suggests which a west is honest as well as straightforward whilst Iran, as usual, has been lying as well as mendacious. In fact, therecord is less clearcut. For reasons still unknown, a US supervision walked away from a understanding it asked Brazil as well as Turkey to offer to Iran, which Iran had accepted. This is because Mohamed ElBaradei, a former head of a UN chief watchdog,asked: "Can a West take yes for an answer?" Equally importantly, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's strongman supreme leader, said: "the Islamic Republic, logically, religiously as well as theoretically, considers a possession of chief weapons a grave sin." This is as strong a message as Iran's leader can convey to a Iranian people. If Iran is bombed after denouncing chief weapons, it will furnish a century or some-more of angertowards a west, only as a Anglo-American manoeuvre opposite Muhammad Mossadegh in 1953 constructed half a century of distrust. In short, any bombing of Iran would be an pure disaster for a west.

Now let's take another crisis: North Korea. Yes, it was ridiculous as well as unnecessary for impoverished North Korea to launch a rocket. But did a North Korean system of administration have any agenda besides building a capacity to strech America with a ballistic missile? Was itpure fluke which it was launched upon the100th anniversary of a birthday of Kim Il-Sung, a regime's founder? Was system of administration legitimisation an similarly important goal? And wait something even some-more amazing happened in North Korea. Immediately after a space station failed, a North Korean supervision certified failure.

Holy cow a North Korean supervision certified it was fallible. This is truly a big deal. North Korea has taken a outrageous jump towards apropos a "normal" country. Did anyone in a west notice this nuance? Alas, no one. The US supervision once again imposed some-more sanctions. Does isolating an isolated nation really work?

To answerthis question, let us look during a thir! d nation which is slowly though steadily walking away from a crisis: Myanmar. Here too, a widespread horse opera account is clear: horse opera sanctions eventually forced open Myanmar. Sadly, a widespread horse opera account is wrong. Western sanctions did not work. ASEAN rendezvous with Myanmar did. The informal organisation forced Myanmar's officials as well as leaders to attend thousands of meetings in ASEAN countries. These travels non-stop their eyes to how far Myanmar was falling behind: they realised ithad to turn a some-more "normal" country.

Malaysia's Prime Minister, Najib Razak, was rightin saying "that ASEAN has been instrumental in driving both mercantile growth as well as political development, as well as which there can be no clearer e.g. than its family with Myanmar. For most decades, Myanmar was upon a receiving end of really open tactful scoldings, mostly corroborated up by sanctions But ASEAN members took a some-more nuanced view, desiring which constructive rendezvous as well as support were only as effective, if not more, than sanctions as well as isolation in formulating positive change."

As usual, horse opera media mostly abandoned this reality as well as gave all a credit to Hillary Clinton as well as David Cameron. A self-serving horse opera account only cannot assimilate a formidable new universe which is rising as well as progressing, whilst a west languishes. Yet a era of horse opera prevalence is gone. Can a west proceed to assimilate a new as well as some-more formidable universe sequence unfolding before our eyes day by day?

*Kishore Mahbubani is Dean as well as Professor in a Practice of Public Policy of a Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy during a National University of Singapore. He formerly served for 33 years in Singapore's tactful use as well as is recognized as an consultant upon Asian as well as universe affairs! . < /p>

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Oh brother, whats going on?

Tan Sri Kadir Sheikh Fadzir, one of Kedah's many charming politicians, is pronounced to be upon a verge of joining PAS though his brothers have been vagrant him not to take a step.

Joceline Tan, The Star

ON a day which former Umno minister Tan Sri Kadir Sheikh Fadzir was scheduled to verbalise at a PAS ceramah in Kupang, a tiny encampment near Baling, his younger brotherDatuk Musa Sheikh Fadzirphoned him to beg him not to go.

"That is ourkampung, our family is there. we told him, greatfully do not damage our name," pronounced Musa, who is a Bukit Mertajam Umno chief.

His pleas fell upon deaf ears as well as Baling is still abuzz over Kadir's coming upon a PAS theatre last week. It was something few people in this still as well as laidback locale ever thought they would see in their lifetime.

Kadir was one of a many decorated total in politics. There is something rsther than theatrical about him, from his clothes to a approach he expresses himself.

Some in Umno used to call him a Bollywood Minister becaus! e of his part-Indian heritage.

He is regularly immaculately groomed, nonetheless his hair has incited a rsther than peculiar shade of orange as well as is sort of longish as well as curling over his collar.

Charming as well as flirtatious, there has regularly been which ladies' male design about him.

He is a cosmopolitan male who enjoys a lighter side of hold up as well as it is tough to see him wise in to PAS, where people have been expected to heed rsther than than be individuals.

Kadir, 73, has been creation headlines since joining forces with his old friendTengku Razaleigh Hamzahto form Angkatan Amanah Merdeka (Amanah) last year.

But sparks flew when he started to criticize Umno for u! sing inc ome to win elections as well as of being intolerant of criticism.

It did not assistance which he went upon to describeDatuk Seri Anwar Ibrahimas having a makings of a great Malaysian leader.

By then, a Umno stay was all worked up over Kadir's about-turn as well as he found himself underneath attack, especially upon a Internet. One thing led to an additional as well as upon Mar 19, he quit Umno.

But some-more play lies ahead as well as Kadir is formulation to take things to an additional level.

You will be hearing about it (what he intends to do) in a subsequent few weeks, he promised.

Apart from Musa, there is an additional younger brotherDatuk Aziz Sheikh Fadzir, who is still an active politician in Kedah, as well as their nephewSenator Datuk Omar Fuadzar, who is a Bukit Gelugor Umno arch in Penang.

They have been really most a pro-Umno family as well as feel which Kadir, who is a second in their family of 11 siblings, has put them in a really awkward situation. They contingency be having heart palpitations wondering what their large hermit is going to do next.

"It has zero to do with contracts or business. He felt not asked as well as ignored. He misses a old life, his ego exceeds his genuine self," pronounced Aziz, who had taken over a Kulim Bandar Baru chair from Kadir in 2008 though mislaid to counsel Zulkifli Noordin.

Kadir, it is learnt, had primarily hoped to spin Amanah in to a domestic celebration as well as to competition upon which ticket though ran in to opposition from Amanah members.

Besides, Amanah boss Tengku Razaleigh is staying put in Umno as well as Gua Musang, which is his for a taking in a ubiquitous election.

"He is a male of many talents as well as he feels people have not recognized his contributions though which does not justify joining a other side to conflict Umno.

"We contingency be means to retire gracefully," pronounced Kedahan! Da tuk Zainuddin Maidin, who t! ook over as Information Minister when Kadir retired.

Kadir's movement might pull this usual reaction: what is he angry about? He has a palace in Baling as well as a castle in Janda Baik.

Villa Shakira (picture above), named after his late mother, is a stupendously grand-looking residence in Baling. Kadir additionally has a whim Tudor-style palace in a inexhaustible spread of land in Janda Baik.

"When we suffer a good, we speak great things. When we have been out, unexpected we start talking bad. Everywhere we go, people have been asking me what happened. we still love him as a hermit though we have mislaid apply oneself for! him as a politician. The whole family feels undone about this," pronounced Musa.

His friends in Umno think he has bitten a palm which has enabled him to suffer such a wealthy lifestyle.

They say a celebration has finished as most for him as he has for a celebration as well as which he should be grateful.

They can understand veteran politicians feeling left out though to go to a border of joining a other side to conflict Umno is too most for them to accept.

"I review somewhere which he criticised a Government expenditure upon a BR1M payments. My eyes almost fell out," pronounced an additional late politician from Kedah.

Kadir is being greeted similar to a long-lost hermit by Pakatan Rakyat politicians as he prepares to revitalise his domestic career.

The speculation is which he might form his own domestic party, failing which he might stick on PAS or PKR. His debut upon a PAS theatre seems to indicate which he might be heading which way.

His brothers have been bracing for a worst. But his biggest enemy is not Umno or Barisan though a container which he carries over from his years in a Government.

He seems to have found note in his golden years. Unfortunately, many of his remarks today is contradictory to his time as a heading figure in ! a Govern ment as well as which affects his credibility. Moreover, crossover politicians have been no longer as delectable as before.

He has lots of bullets to make make use of of against his old celebration though his Umno friends have as most ammunition to glow behind at him. It might get really nasty when friends conflict friends as well as brothers take upon each other.

"I am vagrant him, greatfully do not do it (join a Opposition). We helped him when he was in politics. Now is our time, he should assistance us. we told him PAS will make make use of of you, Anwar Ibrahim will exploit you, then they will chuck you," pronounced Musa.

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50 sebab perlu TIBAI

Papagomo melaporkan pelancaran TIBAI begitu panas malam tadi. Melayu Cina, India joke mari. Baca laporan-laporan sini.Anwar adalah pemimpin yang mahu dicadangkan Pakatan Rakyat sebagai Perdana Menteri jika mereka menang. Tapi ada banyak sebab mereka tidak boleh dan patut menang. Ini hanya salah satu senarai-senarai yang ada untuk mengatakan Anwar dan Pakatan ini tak patut dipilih jadi

CILI KASI TARUK! KHALID GAGAP DIHALAU DARI IJOK? MARI BACA KENAPA!

Ketika Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim dihantui oleh pengundi-pengundi India yang mengungkit janjinya untuk beri geran tanah, dia menepis dengan menyalahkan UMNO.

Ketika Khalid mengadakan Majlis Tahun baru Cina di Ijok, sambutan untuknya dingin. Tiada pula dia menyalahkan UMNO.

KLPos pula melaporkan pengundi Melayu di Ijok pula bersuara mengenai ketidak prihatinan Khalid. Suara yang sama ada didengari juga di bandar Tun Abdul razak di mana Khalid adalah ahli Parlimen.

Masihkah UMNO akan dipersalahkan?



Berikut laporan KLPos tersebut:



MB Tak Boleh Diharap Penduduk Ijok Berang Dengan Khalid Ibrahim

IJOK eighteen April Menteri Besar tak boleh harap, demikian luah seorang penduduk Kampung Ijok ketika ditanya pendapat mengenai Menteri Besar Selangor, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim yang juga merupakan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Ijok.



Haji Mohd Afandy garbage bin Dahalan, 49 memberitahu sejak 2008, Khalid seolah-olah bersikap lepas tangan tentang kebajikan penduduk-penduduk Ijok. Menurutnya, Khalid selaku ADUN di kawasan tersebut menyerahkan segala tanggungjawab pentadbiran kepada wakil yang dilantiknya.

Kita nampak MB memang tidak bertanggungjawab. Dia tak tahu apa-apa. Semua perkara diserahkan bulat-bulat kepada wakilnya, kata Afandy. Masalah pula timbul bila wakil-wakil yang dilantik joke lepas tangan sekali. Jadi kita lihat MB memang tidak menjaga orang Ijok, tambah beliau.

Menurutnya, sepanjang empat tahun menjadi wakil raky! at di Ij ok langsung tiada sebarang pembangunan yang dibuat oleh Khalid yang boleh memberikan manfaat kepada penduduk-penduduk Ijok.

Tambah beliau, janji-janji yang dibuat ketika pilihanraya umum yang ke twelve lalu juga masih belum dilaksanakan oleh Khalid.

Sudah empat tahun berlalu, tiada satu sumber ekonomi joke yang dibawa ke Ijok. Inikah pakar ekonomi? Janji nak berikan hak tanah pada masyarakat India, sampai hari ini masyarakat India di Ijok masih tak dapat menikmati apa yang dijanjikan itu, katanya.

Menurut beliau, situasi ketika ini lebih teruk jika dibandingkan dengan sewaktu Barisan Nasional berkuasa di mana katanya ketika itu kebajikan rakyatnya terjaga.

Beliau turut membandingkan pentadbiran Khalid dengan bekas Menteri Besar Selangor, Tan Sri Abu Hassan Omar di mana menurut Afandy walaupun hanya menjadi Menteri Besar selama dua tahun, tetapi banyak pembangunan yang dibawanya ke Kuala Selangor.

Abu Hassan jadi MB hanya dua tahun, tapi pembangunan untuk Kuala Selangor naik. Ada stadium, perpustakaan dan banyak lagi. Tapi Khalid dalam tempoh empat tahun ni, langsung tiada pembangunan. Yang ada hanya rumah urut yang tumbuh macam cendawan di Kuala Selangor, katanya.

Seorang lagi penduduk Ijok, Zaini Korman, 61, Pesara, turut bersetuju dengan Afandy. Menurutnya, peruntukan untuk memperbaiki kerosakan pada kemudahan penduduk kampong juga sukar untuk diterima daripada pejabat Khalid.

Selalunya bila orang kampong minta peruntukan, mesti tak dapat. Saya sendiri sebagai pengerusi surau, minta peruntukan untuk lampu jalan sampai sekarang tiada apa-apa tindakan daripada MB ataupun wakilnya.

Jalan-jalan yang rosak, tidak dibetulkan. Kutipan sampah tidak teratur, tiada tindakan. Kebajikan kami penduduk di sini langsung tidak terjaga. Mujur wakil Barisan Nasional di sini banyak membantu. Tapi tak banyak yang dapat dibuat kerana yang ada kuasa di Selangor adalah Pakatan Rakyat, kata Zaini.

Tambah beliau, sebagai Menteri Besar yang datang dari DUN ! Ijok, se patutnya penduduk Ijok mendapat sedikit kelebihan dari segi kemudahan tetapi sebaliknya berlaku apabila mereka seolah-olah dianak-tirikan.

Rugi orang kampung pilih Khalid, tegas Zaini.



Baru-baru ini didedahkan di blog bahwa Khalid kini adalah pengundi Lembah Pantai. Dia cuba menafikan dan mainkan persepsi seolah-olah ianya kesalahan SPR.



Namun begitu, rasminya Khalid sudah pindah alamat dan ini bermakna dia tidak boleh bertanding sebagai ADUN dalam Selangor .

Langsung ini menimbulkan kemungkinan besar bahawa dia tidak lagi Menteri Besar. Jika demikianlah langkah Khalid, itu adalah terbaik buatnya. Istana kediaman Khalid joke adalah di Damansara, Wilayah Persekutuan.

Tiada erti menjadi Menteri besar sedangkan kawasan yang diwakilinya joke tidak lagi menerimanya.

Jika difikirkan Ijok adalah kampung halaman tempat kelahiran dan ia membesar, tindakan itu sangat berat buat Khalid.

Jika kampung sendiri tidak menerimanya, mahukah tempat lain menerima Khalid sebagai wakil mereka?

Mungkin sekali kawasan Parlimen Lembah Pantai. Masaalahnya kawasan ini joke berhadapan dengan ahli parlimen yang tidak peduli dan prihatin terhadap kawasan dan pengundi. Hanya asyik berpolitik dan bermain promotion dari bekerja.

Agak-agak mahukah juga mereka ahli parlimen yang rekod perkhdimatan di Ijok dan Bandar Tun Abdul Razak joke sama buruk?

Jawapannya senag saja Khalid. Kamu tak faham orang dan orang joke tak faham kamu Pencen sajalah!

Sumber: Sel13.com

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Gaddis Reviews Ike Eisenhower

April 22,2012

NY TIMES SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW

Gaddis' Review of 'Ike Eisenhower'

He Made It Look Easy
'Eisenhower in War as good as Peace,' by Jean Edward Smith

by John Lewis Gaddis (04-20-12)

Dwight D. Eisenhower's memoirs came out whilst we was in connoisseur propagandize in a 1960s, as good as a single of my professors commented not entirely facetiously which he'd been astounded to see imitation upon a pages. My associate students as good as we were being taught which notwithstanding Eisenhower's victories in World War II, a presidency had been over his capabilities.

Like Ulysses S. Grant, a final ubiquitous to have it to a White House, Ike won elections easily, yet did not climb to a responsibilities these thrust upon him. Jean Edward Smith challenged which evidence about Grant in a well-received biography published a decade ago: Grant had been a improved boss than contemporaries or prior biographers realized, Smith maintained.

In "Eisenhower in War as good as Peace," ! Smith (< em>right), who is now a comparison academician during Columbia after most years during a University of Toronto as good as Marshall University, creates a some-more extraordinary claim. Apart from Franklin D. Roosevelt (whose autobiography Smith has additionally written), Ike was "the most successful boss of a 20th century."

Historians prolonged ago deserted a view which Eisenhower's was a failed presidency. He did, after all, finish a Korean War yet getting in to any others. He stabilized, as good as did not escalate, a Soviet-American rivalry. He strengthened European alliances whilst withdrawing await from European colonialism. He rescued a Republican Party from isolationism as good as McCarthyism. He confirmed prosperity, offset a budget, promoted technological innovation, facilitated (if reluctantly) a polite rights movement as good as warned, in a most memorable farewell residence given Washington's, of a "military-industrial complex" which could discredit a nation's liberties. Not until Reagan would an additional boss leave bureau with so strong a sense of carrying accomplished what he set out to do.

But does Eisenhower merit a place in a pantheon just behind Franklin Roosevelt? Smith's case would be stronger if he had specified standards for presidential success. What allowances should a single have for astonishing incumbencies, like those of a initial Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman, Johnson as good as Ford? Or for holding bureau in wartime? Or for "black swan" events mercantile crashes, healthy disasters, protest movements, self-inflicted scandals, militant attacks? What's a correct balance in between planning as good as improvisation, in between being a hedgehog, in Isaiah Berlin's important distinction, as good as being a fox?

Smith doesn't say. But he does! careful ly snippet Eisenhower's credentials for a presidency, as good as that's what this autobiography is really about. (Only a entertain of a book is clinging to a White House years as good as beyond.) From it, Eisenhower's own views upon success in care emerge pretty clearly. To revoke them to a length of a tweet an use my students recommend, as good as which Ike competence good have approved they amount to achieving one's ends yet corrupting them.

Ends, Eisenhower knew, have been potentially infinite. Means can never be. Therefore a charge of leaders possibly in a presidency or anywhere else is to reconcile which contradiction: to muster equates to in such a approach as to equivocate doing as good little, which risks defeat, yet additionally as good much, which risks exhaustion. Failure can come possibly way.

Exhaustion was a problem in World War I, in which a costs upon all sides allowed no decisive outcome. As a young (and disappointed) Army captain, Eisenhower was kept stateside during a hostilities, precision infantry in a have use of of a not long ago invented tank. After assent returned, he as good as his associate officers assumed there would be an additional war, yet they had to devise for it under conditions wholly opposite from a open-handedness with which a final a single had been fought. With cuts in troops spending which left ranks reduced, Eisenhower's generation took singular equates to as their default position.

Doing as most as probable with as small as probable compulsory environment priorities, so Eisenhower done himself an expert, during a 1920s as good as 1930s, upon a speculation as good as use of singular mean! s.

The speculation came from a 19th-century Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz, whose formidable classic, "On War," Eisenhower mastered, as roughly no a single else in a Army during a time did. The use came from serving upon staffs: of Fox Conner in Panama, who introduced him to Clausewitz; of John J. Pershing in Paris, who had him map World War we conflict sites; of Douglas MacArthur in Washington as good as a Philippines, from whom Eisenhower schooled a pitfalls of audacity in command; and, in a final years of peace, of a essential George C. Marshall, who catapulted Eisenhower above hundreds of some-more comparison officers to have him, after Pearl Harbor, a Army's chief planner.

Eisenhower's skills were not those compulsory to management armies upon battlefields: in this respect, he lacked a talents of his World War II contemporaries Bradley, Patton as good as Montgomery. But in his ability to weigh costs against benefits, to nominee authority, to promulgate clearly, to concur with allies, to maintain morale as good as especially to see how all a parts of a design related to a total (it was not just for fun which he after took up painting), Eisenhower's credentials for care proved invaluable. Lincoln went by most generals prior to he found Grant, Smith reminds us. Roosevelt found in Eisenhower, with Marshall's help, a usually ubiquitous he indispensable to run a European war.

There were setbacks, to be sure: a North African as good as Italian campaigns, a Battle of a Bulge after a delight of D-Day. But since Eisenhower showed! himself to have schooled from these crises, Roosevelt as good as Marshall never mislaid confidence in him.

At a same time, Ike was perfecting a art of heading whilst withdrawal no snippet a "hidden hand" for which he would be good known whilst in a White House.

The most appropriate wartime example, Smith suggests, was a approach he gave his subtle await to Charles de Gaulle as a personality of a Free French, which left Roosevelt no fan of le grand Charles with a fait accompli. Eisenhower was getting to be good during governing body as good as war.

Politics beckoned, after his victories, as it did with Grant prior to him, yet a situations they hereditary upon apropos boss could frequency have been some-more different. Facing no convincing external enemy, a United States in 1869 was as central looking as it ever had been or would be. But by 1953, a interests were tellurian as good as threats seemed to be too. Grant, in a issue of a Civil War, struggled to maintain any weapons some-more lethal than those compulsory to quarrel American Indians. Eisenhower tranquil weaponry that, if used yet restraint, could have finished hold up upon a planet.

Success in his mind, then, compulsory not just avoiding a crime of ends by means, yet additionally their annihilation. How could a United States wage a quarrel which competence final for decades yet branch itself in to an authoritarian state, yet exhausting itself in singular conflicts upon turf chosen by adversaries, yet risking a brand new world quarrel which could destroy all a participants? And how, via all of this, could a nation keep a culture in which a normal values even a tasteless as good as tedious ones could flourish?

Eisenhower's greatest fulfilment may good have been to have his presidency demeanour tasteless as good as boring: in this sense, he was very opposite from a flamboyant Roosevelt, as good as that's because historians during initial underestimated him. Jean Edward Smith is among a most who no l! onger do . The greatest virtue of his autobiography is to uncover how good Eisenhower's troops precision rebuilt him for this task: like Grant, he done what he did appear easy. It never was, though, as good as Smith stresses a fee it took upon Eisenhower's health, upon his matrimony as good as ultimately in a lonesomeness he could never escape. Perhaps Ike earned his place in a pantheon after all.

John Lewis Gaddis teaches history as good as grand plan during Yale. His latest book is "George F. Kennan: An American Life."

A version of this review appeared in imitation upon Apr 22, 2012, upon page BR14 of a Sunday Book Review with a headline: He Made It Look Easy.

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Malaysias Baghdad Bob in the Election Commission

April 22, 2012

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Election Commission's Absurd Aziz is Malaysia's Baghdad Bob

COMMENT by Terence Netto: The timing could not have been worse.Just when a Election Commission chairperson pronounced a electoral register a cleanest in a world, video footage surfaces as explanation of a claim a rolls are sullied.

In his constant avowals which a electoral register is as clean as a hound's tooth in a face of recurrent justification of a contamination, EC Chief Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof is getting to resemble 'Baghdad Bob'.

Followers of CNN's coverage of a 2003 American allege of Iraq will remember 'Baghdad Bob', a Iraqi Information Minister who cut a pathetic figure in his every day press briefings which insisted a American allege upon his country's capital was a angel tale.

If a performances of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, dubbed 'Baghdad Bob' by a press, were something out of absurdist theatre, what to make of Abdul Aziz's insistence a past year, as sundry signs emerged to a contrary, which a electoral rolls for a 13th ubiquitous choosing in Malaysia are above board?

'Absurd Aziz' might not be as phonetically pleasing a moniker as 'Baghdad Bob' but a EC chair's chutzpah would clear a epithet if he, after viewing a latest video of attempted gerrymandering of a rolls in Malacca, continues to say which a EC is an just actress in a play of Malaysia's 13th ubiquitous election.

Over a past year, Abdul Aziz as well as his EC cohort have retailed, with steadily diminishing credence, one explanation after another to inhibit doubts sowed by polls reform vigour group BERSIH upon a flawlessness of a electoral rolls.

Thus far, a evidentiary jot down purporting to uncover irregularities in a rolls has not had a "smoking gun" which could spin a clash between BERSIH claim as well as EC counter-explanation decisively in favour of a former.

This lack seems right away to have been furnished by a ultimate video which purports to uncover UMNO politicians, Election Commission as well as National Registration Department officials in flagrante delicto. This must give a EC arch pause.

Neutral cover blown to shreds

Certainly, it should force him to rethink his settled stand which if Selangor does not disintegrate a legal physique concurrently with a sovereign parliament's dissolution, a same rolls which will be used in a polls for parliamentary seats in a state would be employed in a behind choosing to a state assembly.

If a video which has surfaced about shady goings-on in a preparation of a rolls in Malacca withstands a doubts which will inevitably be cast upon a authenticity, further obduracy upon Abdul Aziz's part would clear a BERSIH stand which a male has to go before a ubiquitous choosing can be held.

Aziz's forthrightness was in doubt in a lead-up to a Bersih-organised proof of final July when a EC as well as a military held a briefing for religious representatives as well as other NGOs which was organised by Minister in a Prime Minister's Department, Tan Sri Koh T! su Koon.

Under a fusillade of questions from polite society representatives present, Aziz drew flak for being some-more concerned about a inquiries of Koh than he was of a queries of a NGO leaders.

The assembly was convened to diffuse a latter's qualms about a EC's forthrightness but a chairman's deportment did not inspire confidence.

In a revelation of some of his inquisitors which day, Aziz was less a neutral party attempting to clear doubts about a integrity of a process a physique he heads supervises than an accessory of a government which Koh represented.

His supposedly neutral cover would be blown to patches if after a appearance of a video seemingly depicting an attempt at electoral fraud in Malacca involving domestic flunkeys, EC officials as well as polite servants, he again insists upon a EC's just bona fides.

In a circumstances, it's not much use to disagree which a EC arch should be above suspicion, like Caesar's wife, but Abdul Aziz would coquette with a preposterous if after viewing a video he continues to say which our rolls are a cleanest upon a planet.

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