Thomas Hart Benton, by Justin Wolff

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Detail from "Threshing Wheat" by Thomas Hart Benton (1938-1939).

In 1934, Thomas Hart Benton, purveyor of robust scenes of American life, was a country's many famous house house painter as well as one of a unequivocally few ever to have his picture upon a cover of Time. In 1949, Jackson Pollock, house house painter of abstract drips as well as swirls, appeared in a four-page spread in Life teasingly headlined "Is He a Greatest Living Painter in a United States?" Yes or no didn't unequivocally matter: he was a nation's brand new art star.

THOMAS HART BENTON

A Life

By Justin Wolff

Illustrated. 400 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $ 40.

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Thomas Hart Benton

What altered in a 15 years which separated a public betterment of these dual artists as well as their radically opposite art? The world changed, for one thing, relocating out of a Great Depression, by World War II, as well as in to a bomb-haunted cold war. America altered from a strong fortress to an outreaching global imperium. And American art, together with Pollock's, altered from illustrating provincial sagas to performing universal myths.

Benton, however, did not change, or altered in a wrong, opposing direction, going from experiments with vanguard modes, together with abstraction, to a nativist realism which quickly done his name. He w! as barel y during midcareer when he had to watch which realism pass in to obsolescence, a sight done all a some-more sorrowful by a actuality which Pollock, a many visible agent of a brand new art order, had once been his student. Benton's response was to stick to his guns, demand which his brand of art was a only valid art, as well as fire divided during all who disagreed.

This is a story, or part of it, told in "Thomas Hart Benton: A Life," by a American art historian Justin Wolff. Benton, who lived from 1889 to 1975, is not a poignant participation now. The particular audience he painted for is prolonged gone; a one which has replaced it knows zero about him. Generally speaking, a chosen art establishment of museums as well as scholars which he reviled has pegged him as during most appropriate a duration artifact as well as during worst, as, in Pollock's Oedipal words, "something against which to react unequivocally strongly."

Small wonder that, faced with a shelf of books upon American art, few readers are likely to go for one about Benton. Yet Wolff, who teaches during a University of Maine, creates a artist interesting, mostly by receiving a offset view of him. He neither praises nor critically buries Benton but rather, as well as with what feels like an undercurrent of empathy, works hard to give him his day in court. To this end, he pays relatively small courtesy to a artist's cranky, ill-natured as well as intensively documented late years as well as dwells during length upon a reduction informed story of how he became a person he was.

Benton was born in Neosho, Mo., in to a family of lawyer-politicians, big-deal sorts who, in Benton's words, "drank heavily, ate heartily as well as talked prolonged over fat cigars." His great-uncle had been a United States senator; his father, Maecenas Benton, well known as a Colonel, was a congressman. As a child Benton accompanied his father upon rural campaigns. He done note, as well as after done use, of a Colonel's pronouncement-prone stump s! tyle. An d he never forgot a experience of hearing everyday people talking about what mattered in their lives.

But veteran governing body was not for him. He longed for to be an artist. His father, who considered art an female trade, was furious; a dual were never close again. But with a support of his mother, Lizzie, a strong-minded woman with amicable ambitions, Benton embarked upon what would be a long, awkward as well as episodic cultural education.

Still in his teens, he enrolled during a School of a Art Institute of Chicago, focusing upon illustration as well as journal cartooning. But he soon became interested in painting as well as decided to head to Paris, where he landed with small money, no French as well as only a deceptive idea of how to wield a brush. He stayed for 3 years, splitting his time in between duplicating old masters in a Louvre as well as immersing himself in a modern art scene which was, in a years before World War I, upon a boil.

Holland Cotter, an art censor for The Times, won a Pulitzer Prize for critique in 2009.

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Colin L. Powell: By the Book

What book is upon your night mount now?

"The Summer of 1787," by David O. Stewart. As we grow older, we am increasingly fascinated by a founding fathers. The hurdles they faced as well as a compromises they made, good as well as bad, to emanate a nation have inspired us as well as people around a world. we instruct today's domestic leaders, especially in Washington, would uncover a courage as well as willingness to quarrel for what they believe in, though possess an understanding of a need to concede to compromise a nation's problems. They all need to go off as well as examination "1787."

When as well as where do we similar to to read?

On a plane. No phones, e-mails or meetings to interfere. we used to examination in bed, until we proposed to fall asleep after dual minutes of celebration of a mass anything.

What was a final truly good book we read?

Sorry, can't answer. we find a little mass in almost each book. It's similar to asking which is my greatest kid.

Are we a re-reader? What book do we examination over as well as over again?

It's a book I've had for over 50 years called "The Armed Forces Officer." It was written by Brigadier S.L.A. (Slam) Marshall. After World War II he was commissioned to examination a actions of a soldiers as well as provide a historically formed book of guidance for Army officers. It is a singular of a excellent leadership books I've ever examination as well as was since to each troops troops troops officer back then. It was always with me as well as is right in front of me now. It once went out of print, as well as we was means to convince a Pentagon to reissue it with a brand new cover as well as an update. The book has perceived some-more updates as well as can right divided even be found upon Amazon.

Right next to it is "The Professional Soldier," by Morris Janowitz. It was published in 1960, dual years after we becam! e an off icer. It is a sociological analysis of a troops troops troops troops officer during which time. we schooled which a normal senior Army troops troops troops officer was white, a West Pointer, farming as well as an Episcopalian from South Carolina. we nailed a singular out of five. In my early years in a Army, my focus was upon guidance about as well as understanding my selected profession. we was study to be a good lieutenant. And, of course, a Bible.

What was a most appropriate book we examination as a student? What books over a years have most influenced your thinking?

In tall school, we eventually was compulsory to do serious reading. we do not recall how or why, though a initial big, serious adult book we picked up was "Tales of a South Pacific," by James Michener. Romance, mystery, geography, geology, culture, history, denunciation as well as fauna, all blended together in a singular tranquil book. we couldn't wait for for "Return to Paradise." And we examination each singular a singular until there were no brand new ones. For most of my troops career, my celebration of a mass was historical, leadership, government theory, as well as troops as well as domestic autobiographies as well as biographies. Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs as well as Dean Acheson's were standards to be inhaled. "Street Without Joy," by Bernard Fall, was a text for those of us starting to Vietnam in a initial wave of President Kennedy's advisers. "This Kind of War," by T.R. Fehrenbach, was a classical story of a Korean War as well as a cost of unpreparedness.

If we could need a boss to examination a singular book, what would it be? What book would we need all heads of state to read?

"The Best as well as a Brightest," by David Halberstam. Theories as well as grand ideas have been important. But they occasionally unfold as planned. People it is all about people.

Do we tend to reason upon to books or give them away?

We have hundreds of ! books in a home; my wife, Alma, is a voracious reader. We inform them once a year as well as give a purged ones to a annual book satisfactory during a State Department conducted by a Associates of a American Foreign Service Worldwide. We inform until we have several dull bookshelves waiting for brand new books. we have a pretty good collection of books upon African-American history, especially troops history. we never inform those, as well as they will be sent to a library after I've upheld upon to a remainder table.

What were your favorite books as a child? Did we have a favorite character or hero?

There is usually a singular which we recollect vividly, "My Antonia," by Willa Cather. Growing up in a South Bronx, a story of a integrate of kids my age growing up upon a good prairie of Nebraska was exciting as well as took me to a place distant divided from "Fort Apache, a Bronx." we loved a story of hold up in a full round touching upon love, adversity, tragedy, goal as well as optimism.

Disappointing, overrated, only not good: What book did we feel we were ostensible to like, as well as didn't?

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America the Philosophical, by Carlin Romano

Illustration by Christopher Brand

The French have been wittier than a Spanish, as well as a English know some-more than a Danes. The very old Athenians were ingenious as well as polite, though modern Greeks have been stupid as well as indolent. Jews have been noted for fraud, of course, as well as Armenians for probity. Or so it seemed in 1742 to David Hume when he wrote an essay, not his best, upon inhabitant characters.

What about Americans? Hume, a Scottish reflective thinker as well as historian, never said what he done of a colonists, though he after upheld their cause. He would certainly have been startled by Carlin Romano's explain in this desirous new book which Americans have been outstandingly philosophical. Romano was a literary censor with The Philadelphia Inquirer for a entertain of a century as well as has additionally been a highbrow of philosophy. He as if enjoyed this latter job, because he writes which today's America is a most appropriate place to do truth which there has ever been, leading even a Athens of those ingenious as well as respectful men Socrates, Plato as well as Aristotle. In a single fit of eager chauvinism he goes nonetheless further, as well as announces which it is a "perfectly written environment" to manipulate his trade, as if no larger egghead paradise could be imagined.

This news will not provide most comfort to declinists who feel a domestic as well as economic omnipotence of a United States to be vanishing fast. But perhaps it will help a little. Let deficits grow, great jobs disappear as well as China loom cling to it all, America will regularly have world-beating epistemology as well as metaphysics up its sleeve. Well, may be which isn't utterly fair to Romano, because his explain depends upon redefining a term "philosophy," ! giving i t a cloudy definition which embraces far some-more than is taught under which name in universities. (More after about this revisionist wordplay.) Also, a single partial of his case is convincing, as well as oddly still value making: America is not nearly so dumbed down as its detractors during home similar to to say.

"Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in a Land of a Free," "Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future" as well as "The Age of American Unreason" have been just 3 of a books from American writers in a past 5 years which elaborate eremite fundamentalism, conservative talk shows, scientific illiteracy or a most available flavors of junk food for thought. The fallacy of such books, as Romano argues, is which they take some rotten tools for a mostly healthful whole. It's not so most which they compare American apples with unfamiliar oranges, though which they destroy to acknowledge which a United States is an enormous ripened offspring bowl. Everything is to be found in it, customarily in abundance, together with a vibrant egghead life. Rather similar to which of India which has over a third of a planet's illiterate adults though additionally a single of a largest university systems in a universe a egghead stature of America eludes simple generalizations.

More than half of "America a Philosophical" is an encyclopedic consult of a hold up of a thoughts in a United States, in which Romano usefully draws upon decades of cultural broadcasting as well as some 190 interviews conducted over a years. There have been sections on, among most alternative things, literary critics, domestic theorists, mathematicians, broadcasters, science writers as well as purveyors of unhelpfully empty self-help. (Romano does not emphasize a fact which these final dual categories have been starting to overlap.) As an illustration of a unconventional bearing of America's cultural milieu, Romano additionally reports upon a battery of what he calls "cyberphilosophers." Many! of thes e have been a irascible folk who live a universe of Wired magazine, which balmy upland where it is regularly tomorrow. But some-more sober observers of record have been here, too. We sense which William Gibson, a sci-fi writer who coined a term "cyberspace," does not most similar to computers.

Anthony Gottlieb is writing a supplement to his book The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy From a Greeks to a Renaissance.

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Streamline efforts, Sabah CM tells Islamic missionaries

Musa pronounced a Islamic companion efforts should make use of a ultimate technology. File pic

SANDAKAN, Jun 30 Islamic companion bodies as well as institutions in Sabah should plan as well as coordinate their companion activities to safeguard their well-spoken implementation, Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman pronounced today.

He pronounced it was consequential for them to safeguard a message reached a targeted group.

This includes receiving account a involvement of youths in activities which interest them, he pronounced when opening a convention upon Islamic companion here.

He pronounced programmes which were carried out should not focus only upon Islamic teachings, though additionally with activities which done a query for knowledge a culture.

Towards this end, an in effect approach as well as a ultimate record should be used, he added. Bernama

From Uthaya to Ambiga: Indian votes on a golden plate, again?

COMMENT - The array of harassments as well as hate speeches opposite Bersih 2.0 co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan, in a horizon of Malaysia's secular politics, may infer to be a recipe for disaster for Barisan Nasional during a entrance polls.

The ultimate debate targeting Ambiga came yesterday in a form of a call for her execution, not from worried Malay groups linked to UMNO, though from nothing alternative than UMNO's part of of council Mohamad Aziz.

If anything, Aziz's debate is a strongest proof nonetheless which a attacks upon Ambiga, who shares a chairmanship of a electoral reforms bloc with Malay poet A Samad Said, have more to do with her competition as well as religion than a challenge she poses to a government.

This perspective is additionally echoed by Samad, who wondered because he had not suffered a kind of harassments which Ambiga had been subjected to. These include a 'butt protest' by multiform UMNO supporters job themselves army veterans, as well as alternative rowdy protests outward her home.

Will such actions result in nonetheless another criticism vote opposite BN by a Indian electorate?

The manly force

The Indian vote bank, notwithstanding a seemingly negligible size, stays a manly force in Malaysian politics. After all, a euphoria of magnetism among Malaysian Indians over a harm of Hindraf following a group's important rally in 2007 had translated into votes for Pakatan Rakyat candidates in 2008.

Then, a escape of magnetism for incarcerated Hindraf personality P. Uthayakumar saw most! constit uencies with seizable Indian votes being snatched away from BN.

One such seat, Selangor's Kota Raja parliamentary chair where one-fourth of electorate were Indians, was won by PAS's Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud with a whopping 20,751 majority. Four years earlier, she was degraded by MIC by a infancy of 8,239 votes.

And a single does not need to discuss a unceremonious rain of what was once hailed as pitch of Indian political power, MIC boss S Samy Vellu, who lost a Sungai Siput chair to socialist Xavier Jeyakumar.

This time around, Ambiga, an Indian as well as a Hindu, may not be representing a Indian-Hindu cause. But which does not necessarily mean a attacks upon her have been being ignored by a Indian community. It is a kind of magnetism which is usually a healthy greeting of any minority communities.

Final spike in coffin?

So will a subsequent polls see Indian votes being expel around a Ambiga factor?

"Go anywhere as well as speak to any Indian, they will discuss it we which Ambiga is their new icon," says Teluk Intan MP S Manogaran.

Aziz's debate yesterday may just be a last spike upon a coffin as far as Indian await for BN is concerned.

Which explains because MIC boss G Palanivel wasted no time in condemning Aziz's genocide call.

Yet, even while grasping what small possibility he has been given to redeem himself - as well as thereby BN's image among Indians - Aziz chose to direct his reparation to his BN comrades, not to Ambiga, a lady he had singled out to be hanged for treason.

Not prolonged ago, most competence have thought which a array of government gestures to a Indian village following a Hindraf part would bring their votes behind to BN.

Nowadays, with a stability Ambiga episode, UMNO as well as a counterparts may have again delivered to Pakatan Rakyat a bulk of Indian votes upon a golden plate.

-Harakahd! aily

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Delaying GE-13: Who says we're not confident, support for BN overwhelming - Najib

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak pronounced there was no subject of lack of certainty upon a part of a Barisan Nasional (BN) as claimed by a opposition which he deliberately behind a ubiquitous choosing date.

The prime minister pronounced a BN was since a charge by a people for 5 years to uncover its capability to lead as well as govern a country, move swell as well as hold up a people.

"If you call for a snap elections, it equates to which you have condensed a period since to us by a people.

"So a subject of not assured does not arise. For us, what is important is to uncover a capability to continue to hold up a people," he told reporters after chairing a BN Supreme Council meeting at a Putra World Trade Centre here, Friday night.

Najib, who is also Umno president as well as BN chairman, forked out which a people had shown good reply to mutation programmes implemented by a government.

This can be seen from his as well as his deputy, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's visits to a states, he said, adding which a support of a people was overwhelming as well as reflected growing certainty in a BN.

"We cannot be haughty, but a certainty turn is formed upon a people's reception to a visits as well as a 1Malaysia-themed programmes," he said.

Citing a Government Transformation Programme as well as a Economic Transformation Programme, he said: "We had delivered them which equates to (our confidence) is not without any particular assessment."

Najib also pronounced a programme hinged upon rendezvous with various community groups such as a People's 1Malaysia Taxi programme (TR1MA).
In a meantime, he reminded a BN not to raise issues which competence hurt a feelings of any competition or poise a complaint between BN component parties.

Commenting a opposition's claim which he had interfered in a Light Rail Transit's Ampang Line, he said, "Everything is done properly. There's no such thing."

-- BERNAMA

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Hanging Ambiga: Umno has DEEPLY hurt the feelings of the Indians

Some "Pakatan Rakyat" leaders can never learn from history. Over 50 years holding upon to energy has finished them arrogant. It is regularly threats as good as secular tinges that have finished them survive to illustrate far. But a equation has right away altered in Malaysian politics. "Pakatan Rakyat" is no some-more seen as a domestic entity that is expected to survive in a next ubiquitous election.

Threats as good as secular overtones have right away even climaxed to uncouth statements perfectionist for a person's life. An "Pakatan Rakyat" MP's suggestion that Ambiga is a hypocrite as good as should be hanged is too most for a Indian community in a nation to swallow.

Ambiga exploded most myths

Ambiga Sreenevasan, a co-chairman of Bersih 3.0 a bloc of NGOs (non-governmental organisations) that seeks to reform a stream electoral complement in Malaysia to ensure free, purify as good as fair elections has proven to "Pakatan Rakyat" that a Bersih rallies in a past had seen people of different ethnic as good as religious backgrounds working in unanimity as Malaysians.

She has exploded most misconceptions prolonged held by "Pakatan Rakyat" leaders that multi-racial Malaysia cannot work as a team. "Pakatan Rakyat" is to illustrate not pleased with Ambiga. "Pakatan Rakyat" has all this while speciously suspicion that usually they can lead a nation with their divide-and-rule policies stained with an astray electoral process.

Just not long ago it was reported that an "Pakatan Rakyat" MP had derided Ambiga to a border that she was ma! rked dow n as a hypocrite as good as went to suggest that "she be hanged" for treason. Just since Ambiga was involved in a Bersih 3.0 convene upon Apr twenty-eight this year as good as has won a hearts of majority Malaysians a MP invidiously marked down her as a hypocrite as good as equating her to a Al-Ma'unah leader who was found guilty of fraud as good as sentenced to death about a decade ago.

The Al-Ma'unah was a militant militant organisation headed by a leader Mohamed Amin Mohamed Razali at Bukit Jenalik upon 6 July 2000 as good as brought to hearing for charges of "waging war opposite a King". This became a first people convicted of such corruption in Malaysia. Amin as good as his two lieutenants, Zahit Muslim (ex-police VAT-69 commando) as good as Jamaluddin Darus, were sentenced to death.

The color is right away cast

Though a MP was after forced to redress his statement by a Speaker in council he did not contend contemptible to Ambiga for his uncouthness. His demeanour has harm a feelings of a Indians in a country. The color is right away cast as a damage has already been done.

In fact derogatory terms were freely used to label Ambiga by a little bigots who upheld "Pakatan Rakyat". They had no qualms over regulating upsetting difference such as "pariah" as good as even "sex nuances" to corrupt her. This has essentially backfired as good as turn an ignominy to "Pakatan Rakyat".

Ambiga has been tormented for too prolonged while a police as good as Najib have been keeping an superb wordless about a whole issue. Before this was a setting up of burger stalls in front of her home by a organisation of disenchanted traders, followed by a organisation of supposed army veterans who went to perform "butt exercises".

They contingency be mindful that beef is not consumed by devote Hindus. Ambiga is a Brahmin as good as a vegetarian. This blasphemous act by those zealots is really offensive! to all Hindus as good as those important citizens of a country.

The Indians have been currently disappointed by all these crackpots, as they were not reproached by a "Pakatan Rakyat" leadership. Najib as a budding minster has perceptibly been wordless over this make a difference feasibly thinking that all these "uncivilised" actions by a little insane fanatics could move him a little brownie points to uplift his sagging image.

Ambiga is a devoted Hindu as good as is a Malaysian lawyer who served as a President of a Malaysian Bar Council from 2007 to 2009. A distinguished personality she was conferred honorary doctorate in law byUniversityof Exeter.

Study with Raffles University Iskandar

She was a singular of 8 recipients of a US Secretary of State "International Women of Courage" Award in 2009. Marc Barety, a envoy of France to Malaysia, granted a Legion of Honour insignia to Ambiga in twenty-three September 2011. She was recognized for her contributions to a tellurian rights defence.

Alternative to "Pakatan Rakyat"

UMNO can remain arrogant. But story has proven that no domestic celebration in any partial of a world can remain in energy forever. In a Malaysian context a indications have been that "Pakatan Rakyat" is apropos reduction relevant to a Malays. PAS is right away apropos a pick to "Pakatan Rakyat".PAS is gradually as good as surely overtaking "Pakatan Rakyat" as a celebration that represents a majority Malays.

Malays are, as most would expect, embracing PAS, PKR as good as even DAP.

PAS as a relatively assuage as good as unassertive domestic celebration is being loving not usually by Malays as good as Muslims though additionally a Chinese as good as Indians. The people have n! ot heard a singular PAS lawmaker or part of in a past hurling abusive difference opposite a Chinese or Indian in a country. Their piety as good as clever leaning towards sacrament has finished them handle thus.

No Malaysians have ever heard of uncalled-for loutish terms such as "pengkhianat". "pendatang", "kesal diberi kerakyatan", "pecat kerakyatan", "Cina babi", "penumpang", "tak suka boleh balik ke negara asal", "kurang ajar", "pelacur" "celaka", "pariah" entrance from PAS (or a Opposition) lawmakers or members. Such is a graciousness of a God-fearing people in PAS. They have been a bigots in "Pakatan Rakyat" as good as a little NGOs allied to "Pakatan Rakyat" that have antagonistic a Indians as good as Chinese in a nation by regulating all a boorish expressions opposite a non-Malays.

These foul-mouthed difference were never heard of from alternative locals in a nation opposite a Indians as good as Chinese. The majority of them have been peaceful to live together as Malaysians. But rhetoric upon competition relations by "Pakatan Rakyat" has essentially turn a assume as good as this has finished a people some-more polarised.

The Indians as good as Chinese have been usually finished up of reduction than 35 percent of a population. They have been here to stay as this is their country. It's "Pakatan Rakyat"'s bad policies of 55 years that have failed to move all a races together as good as they should right away stop blaming a non-Malays for not ancillary them.

Indians especially have been not as fortunate

First of all a non-Malays in this nation have been not deliberate as "natives" by "Pakatan Rakyat" as good as they do not suffer a privileges since to a "natives". But as ordinary tellurian beings they have their honour as good as most have struggled opposite all contingency to survive. Many have turn successful as good as most others have not.

The Indians especially have been not as fortunate as a ! Chinese or a Malays. Over 60 percent of Indians in a nation have been in a bad cluster. With poverty comes deprivation that usually brings to humiliation. This should not be a reason for demeaning a Indians.

The majority being deprived, bad as good as underprivileged they have regularly been mocked by politicians. They even had a novel "Interlock" used in schools that did not execute a bad Indians in a couth as good as amiable fashion.

"Interlok" is a 1971 Malay language novel written by Malaysian inhabitant laureate Abdullah Hussain. The novel was enclosed in a syllabus for a Malay Literature theme as mandatory celebration of a mass for students in Form 5 in schools via Malaysia.

"Interlok" caused a debate when detractors claim that a novel contained derogatory difference to describe Malaysian Indians as "pariah". The book has since been cold from a syllabus.

Not supportive to a feelings of a minority

It looks like a little of these "Pakatan Rakyat" bigots have been not supportive to a feelings of a minority in a country. Post-2008 ubiquitous choosing saw most upsetting events happening in a country, that enclosed a stomping of a severed cow head in public, temples as good as churches being desecrated, a ridicule Hindu funeral rites in front of a arch minister's home in Penang. This has annoyed both a Indians as good as a Chinese.

The Indians as good as Chinese were often branded as "pendatang" when over 90 percent of these people currently have been Malaysian-born. By virtue of been innate in a nation shouldn't they be deliberate locals of this country?

Irrefutably, a ancestors of all Malaysians can be traced to "pendatang". The theory says a little came to this nation really most progressing as good as a little others really most later. But currently you see a large era of Malaysians almost all were innate in this country.

This extremist governing body of "Pakatan Rakya! t" becam e some-more sincere commencement 1981 when Mahathir Mohammad (by virtue of a same theory can be described as a product of "pendatang") took over bureau as budding minister. His divide-and-rule policies have finished competition relations in a nation turn ghastly as good as some-more divergent.

UMNO lacks a domestic will to make all Malaysians unite as good as live together as Malaysians. "Pakatan Rakyat"'s bulletin is to play a Malay-centric governing body as good as this has left a nation polarised until today.

No ordinary person

Ambiga is no ordinary chairman in a society. She has turn a new icon of a Indians as good as a alternative races in a country. Her name is currently upon a lips of each Malaysian not since she is a hypocrite though a saviour of a country's democracy.

The Indians rejected "Pakatan Rakyat" as good as BN in a final ubiquitous choosing (2008). It was Hindraf under a care of Uthayakumar that significantly brought about to a demise of MIC leader's domestic career as good as BN's loss of a couple of states to a Opposition.

Samy Vellu mislaid to a PSM candidate in Sungai Siput. Many alternative MIC as good as PPP possibilities mislaid in that election. BN additionally mislaid its two-thirds majority in parliament.

The Indians as good as Chinese together with a Malays gave victory to most Opposition possibilities then. They did not hesitate to opinion for PAS. Many PAS possibilities won with a large majority since of their votes,

Najib is off beamed by keeping an superb wordless upon so most supportive counts affecting competition relations in a country. With all these tomfooleries by a little "Pakatan Rakyat" chauvinists it has reflected badly upon Najib as good as "Pakatan Rakyat". MIC as good as PPP can dont think about about removing consequential await from a Indians. "Pakatan Rakyat", MCA as good as Gerakan can additionally dont think about a same. .

The relentless conflict upon Ambiga by a little "Pakatan Rakyat" extremists just since she is an Indian, a Hindu, a lady as good as comes from a minority organisation has annoyed not usually a Indians though additionally a majority of a Malays, Chinese as good as women in a country.

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A real Malaysian ghost story

You realise which our mistrust of a future creates it hard to give up a past.- Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

COMMENTHere you go again. The central thesis of myprevious piecewas how you as Malaysians frankly played Dr Mahathir Mohamad's competition diversion as well as lost.

That's not surprising since a Umno house regularly wins. We have been still playing a same diversion usually this time, you have changed a rules. Prime Minister Najib Razak as well as MCA arch Dr Chua Soi Lek obviously have not caught upon to this fact.

I do not find either Najib'smendacious assurancesto a Chinese village which a systemic racism faced by them is a border beliefs as well as not mainstream Umno convictions or a predictable banal recoil by a sure territory of a Chinese community, particularly newsworthy.

Perceptive observers would assimilate which competition relations in Malaysia is solely tangible by these dual communities - Umnoputra as well as a Chinese community, while a Orang Asli, non-Umno Malays, Indian, et al, have been merely 'passengers' (or traitors in a box of non-Umno Malays) - a step-up from 'pendatangs' you suppose.

Pointing out a inconsistencies in Najib's 'reassurances' would be similar to shooting fish in a barrel though there have been a little insights to be gained from a tongue oozing onward from a complement of administration with regards to a domestic being of Malaysia.

"We do not intend to lose," Najib! proclai ms so sure of he of a democratic ! routine in Malaysia, as well as seeing as how a numbers have been constantly being manipulated you do not disbelief him. But by 'we' he doesn't unequivocally mean BN though Umno.

He warns a Chinese if they wish to have a 'voice' in a system, they should opinion for MCA, never thoughts which having a voice hasn't halted a institutional racism which is a substructure of Umno routine or which he (and Umno) have been supposed to represent each Malaysian in any case of race, or so they claim.

But a questions still remains, what would Umno do as distant as communal expectations have been concerned if their bloc partners lose?

Malays go during it alone

Well, a answer to which is simple. The hawks in Umno have already motionless which a "Malay go during it alone" routine is a many appropriate strategy. No disbelief buttressed by a hurtful coalitions from Sabah as well as Sarawak, Umno could theoretically reason upon to power as well as wait a opposition out.

By progressing control in a supposed 'Malay heartland' by any means necessary, they goal to cut off Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim from a mainstream Malay polity. This, as well as of march a "flawed" electoral process, should keep a diversion starting for a little time even if by electoral attrition their influence wanes.

The supposed moderates realising a inevitable futility of this have been chaotically coming up with other strategies.

The newish plan of Najib echoing a Anwar give up of supervision assist not being a zero-sum diversion as well as implying which BN, or during slightest his BN, is offering a class-based proceed to problems even if BN is in speculation a race-based domestic coalition, has been flattering limp starting so far.

The usually difference between him as well as Anwar is which distinct Anwar, who has been flattering consistent in his summary to a assorted communities he is campaigning to (much to a fear of his domestic opponents); Najib as well as his allies have one summary for each community, which during slightest in this courtesy is consistent with a underlying beliefs of their domestic pact.

This abrupt change of ideological tongue of Umno is frequency surprising. Former budding apportion as well as Perkasa enthusiast Dr Mahathir Mohamad claimed not as well long ago during a Perkasa/Gertak 'mega' rally which May 13 was in reality a class-based dispute though of march his polemic was kaleidoscopic with a usual 'communist' undertones directed during Anwar as well as a DAP.

The reality which a former premier could suggest such a thing during a supposed 'race-based awakening' was amusing, though you reckon usually to me.

But afterwards again, nobody should be astounded with BN's ideological dissonance since Pakatan Rakyat itself is a bundle of barely suppressed ideological as well as religious impulses. Not which it matters of course.

Pakatan partisans have displayed a conspicuous intolerance during challenging their own domestic convictions or even possible policies preferring instead to fill upon a daily financial scandals as well as a resultant shade fool around arrests, which have been fed to them by canny domestic operatives.

The opposition bloc has played a domestic diversion shrewdly though unequivocally Umno's incompetence is half a battle won. Pakatan's own financial as well as domestic scandals have been dismissed by their supporters as insignificant (compared to BN's) or as BN promotion meant to destabilise a frail coalition.

Modern-day slavery
Najib's ultimate "goody" - how you disgust which tenure - bag to cab drivers is a ultimate state-sanctioned bribery which has blown up in Umno's face. Predictably Pakatan supporter! s have l apped this up gleefully indicating out a countless cronycrats, who have benefitted from this system.

Taxi drivers as a possible voting retard have been awash with a plod which soils a system. Playing a complement with price-fixing gangs, employing 'foreigners' as substitute drivers, as well as a list goes on.

Najib's rsther than preposterous explain which a corner of private companies of cab licences is a form of modern-day labour is despicable though fits in easily with PAS' 'mahafiraun' account with regards to a citizen labour to Umno.

If Najib unequivocally wants to wage a jihad upon modern-day labour here in Malaysia, he should privately demeanour into a tellurian trafficking of children, women as well as group who use a assorted industries - both legal as well as bootleg - which contribute to a economy of this nation as well as Umno coffers.

He should demeanour during a 'slave wages' earned by a little in a Indian as well as Chinese village who have a added violation of being denied citizenships for bureaucratic reasons. And afterwards of course, there's a 'Orang Asli problem'.

But all these really genuine issues have been subsumed beneath a domestic one-upmanship which Umno seems to be losing in a cyber promotion fight as well as let's face it, Pakatan is unable to address for assorted reasons. All which is stirring have been assurances which by winning federal power, they would be means to compromise these 'issues"' Exactly how they intend to do this is something you have to take upon faith.

Faith. Something which Umno doesn't appear to realise is practically self-existent in a sure territory of a voting public, which Umno is aggressively courting. Najib talks of "ghosts" which have been being created out of a Lynas emanate as well as he's ! right.
There has been really little design sermon upon a Lynas emanate so distant solely appeals to tension from both sides of a domestic divide. BN, of course, has got zero to tumble back upon since decades of! senior manager interference has left all a supervision institutions abandoned of credibility staffed by cronycrats unable to command an iota of respect.

Pakatan, upon a other hand, has had a margin day turning this emanate into their categorical environmental as well as safety (sic) emanate in lieu of any substantive environmental policies of their own.

And great for them though bad for us in a long tenure if any emanate will regularly been used as stakes in a domestic diversion since a alternative alliance which claims to be brazen thinking as well as on-going regularly has a forgive which it is concerned in a hold up as well as death onslaught with their domestic opponents.

Najib's wingman

I'm not astounded which Umno has a little arrange of 'reality distortion field' during work in Putrajaya though I'm astounded which it has influenced Najib's wingman to a Chinese community, Chua Soi Lek.

Chua a sleek user with a great work ethic - he would have finished well during Tunku Abdul Rahman's tenure (sex liaison as well as all) - though seems to have unequivocally mislaid a plot.

His bare exposed shilling for Umno has reached preposterous heights. His 'counseling' of 'not dwelling' upon what happened in 60s as well as 70s to those youths is bizarre. you disbelief many Chinese, or even many Malaysians, have been even aware of what happened in a 60s or 70s. What they know of it is probably Umno promotion or unaccepted communal propaganda! . you doub t they have been up-to-date upon a subaltern narratives which have been released from a discourse.

No. What they have been home upon is what happened final year. Or final week or yesterday. What they have been home upon is a attempted murder of Teoh Beng Hock or a demonisation of a Malay! sian pol itician similar to Lim Guan Eng who is a noted man simply since he is Chinese arch apportion not authorised by Umno. They have been home upon a countless provocations by Umno outsourced thugs who a MCA is guilty by organisation with.

As you pronounced you have been playing a same diversion though you changed a rules. The categorical order change is which a Chinese village doesn't caring if they get illustration in a cabinet since a MCA has been doing a piss poor job. They do not give a damn about a vigorous discussions behind 'closed doors'. The communal issues which a MCA championed prior to is right away in a purview of a DAP.

The MCA, distinct Umno, has zero to tumble back on. That's a problem with being a minority race-based party in a multiracial country. Of course, a existential crisis MCA is confronting right away will eventually be experienced by any minority race-based party. Thinking long-term has never been a strong fit of a Malaysian voting public.

Ghosts from a past haunt this choosing as well as each other election. We will never be means to exorcise them since you continue to fool around a same game.

S THAYAPARAN is Commander (rtd) of a Royal Malaysian Navy.

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No allegiance owed to BN, Pakatan tells civil servants

Lim pronounced it must not be insincere which polite servants will blindly follow a brand new prompting for them to behind BN in a elections. File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Jun thirty Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders reminded a country's 1.4 million polite servants today which they should "be constant to a country, a King as well as a Federal Constitution as well as not to a statute party," among brand new concerns about a miss of forthrightness among senior supervision officials.

"They (civil servants) must remember which a supervision of a day can change. These political parties which form a supervision of a day, they can come as well as go.

"So if these parties which rule, if they go in to a wilderness, do you follow them? No. You still sojourn a polite menial as well as your loyalty is to offer a open professionally," DAP national emissary chairman Dr Tan Seng Giaw toldThe Malaysian Insider.

Newly-appointed Chief Secretary to a Government Datuk Seri Ali Hamsa had not long ago raised eyebrows when he told his brand new charges which they "should know better" than to hold a "empty promises" finished by a opposition.

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng pronounced Ali had clearly got off to a "bad start" with his statement.

"That was out of line. This is a initial time which a KSN (Chief Secretary) has finished that. He got off to a bad begin here," he toldThe Malaysian Insider.

The DAP secretary-general, who additionally sits as a lawmaker in Parliament, reminded Ali which as a country's tip polite servant, he should be particularly respectful of a Federal Constitution.

"And a opposition, which he is telling his charges not to hold in, is entitled to benefit a same respect (as a statute party). We have been a constant antithesis to His Majesty's governmen! t," Lim forked out.

The Bagan MP pronounced politics must be kept out of a polite service, as well as disagreed with Ali's assertion which which a loyalty of open servants lies with a statute celebration of a day.

"We must be constant to a country, a Federal Constitution as well as a King. We have been not to be constant to a statute party. At a same time, they cannot step in to politics," he said.

PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar concurred with Lim, adding which "loyalty to a nation" should never be equated as "loyalty to Umno as well as BN".

She acknowledged which open servants have been avocation bound to offer a supervision of a day, as per a General Orders they follow, though she reminded which their avocation was additionally to "serve professionally".

"They have been not to be finished tools as well as servants of a stream government... generally when it does not have their interest during heart," she toldThe Malaysian Insider.

"They must implement policies cleanly, effectively as well as with accountability as well as transparency which is what a polite use should be," Dr Tan agreed.

The 1.4-million-strong open sector has been a traditional vote bank for BN though a controversy over a brand new pay intrigue as well as attacks upon a statute parties by PR over bread-and-butter issues might offer a sovereign antithesis a glimmer of goal in a coming polls.

But brand new days have seen tip supervision officials go upon an strong overdrive to protect a BN supervision they serve.

Apart from Ali's summary to a polite service, Foreign Ministry undersecretary Ahmad Rozian Abdul Ghani not long ago attacked a Canadian journal for describing Najib as a "false democrat," as well as insisted which a prime apportion had "an impressive lane record by anyone's standards".

"While a prime apportion takes nothing for granted, he hopes he will be since a mandate to go upon ! Malaysia 's transformation," a diplomat added, appearing to campaign for a country's sixth prime apportion who is due to call for polls inside of months.

A executive during Putrajaya's efficiency unit, Pemandu, additionally finished a open attack upon PR upon Wednesday for not mending a states it governs as well as focusing upon sniping as well as criticising a sovereign government's efforts.

"All oppos do is snipe & censor wot is being finished though not focused upon mending their states! Wot hv they done??" communications executive Alex Iskandar Liew pronounced upon his open account upon micro-blogging site Twitter, duplicating @barisannasional as well as @NRC11, a air blower bar dedicated to a prime minister.

But despite this, Lim believed these forked messages infiltrating in to a polite use might be falling upon deaf ears.

"I don't think you should underestimate a intelligence of our polite servants," he toldThe Malaysian Insider.

"They might be constrained as well as forced to lift out their duties because they have been instructed to do so. But once they retire, you see most of them joining a opposition," he forked out.

Lim forked out which it is not easy for polite servants to go against an order they have perceived from on top of if they felt it was wrong.

"It is additionally not easy for them to only resign. It affects their rice bowls, after all," he said.

But this, he added, does not mean which polite servants will necessarily expel their votes for BN when mount before a ballot boxes

"Do not underestimate their intelligence," he repeated.

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Mana tahu ianya luar saja emas tapi dalam lain. Duit itu dibungkus dalam plastik dan tidak dibenarkan rasa dalamnya dan untuk lihat dalamnya.Mana tahu lain pula dalamnya?Kami hanya teringat makan coklat ketika kanak-kanak. Coklat dibungkus bagaikan duit emas.Ingat?Mana tahu emas dinar Kelantan itu luarnya emas tapi dalam diletak logam lain seperti plumbum yang lebih kurang berat emas?Nampaknya

FUYOH! DR ZAMBRY TERIMA ANUGERAH AHLI KEHORMAT PERKIM DARI TUN M!

Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir, sebentar tadi menerima Anugerah Ahli Kehormat Persatuan Kebajikan Islam Malaysia (PERKIM) 2012 yang disampaikan oleh mantan Perdana Menteri, Tun Mahathir Mohamad yang juga merangkap Yang Dipertua persatuan itu.

Anugerah itu dikurniakan pada majlis makan malam sempena Mesyuarat Agung Tahunan PERKIM Kebangsaan Kali Ke-51 yang berlangsung di Hotel Taiping Perdana dan buat julung-julung kalinya negeri Perak dipilih menjadi tuan rumah.

Tahun lalu, mesyuarat agung persatuan itu berlangsung di Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.

Dr Zambry dalam ucapannya, berkata pemilihan bandar warisan, Taiping sebagai lokasi mesyuarat agung tahunan PERKIM pada tahun ini cukup bermakna buat kerajaan dan rakyat negeri Perak.

Katanya, kehadiran Tun Mahathir dan isterinya, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Ali cukup dinanti-nantikan para hadirin yang begitu mengagumi ketokohan serta jasa besarnya dalam membangunkan negara, bangsa dan agama.

Jasa Tun Mahathir sentiasa dikenang apatah lagi generasi saya cukup mengenalinya dan sumbangan besar beliau dalam membangunkan negara tercinta ini tidak boleh dinafikan.

Daya pemikiran dan hasil tulisannya sentiasa dibaca dan dibahaskan kerana beliau bukan hanya seorang pemimpin tetapi juga pemikir dan ilmuwan yang dihormati, katanya lagi.

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Lawak pagi: Nasihat Ibrahim Ali kepada Hadi

Kecoh sangat Haji Hadi pasal musim Haji dan pilihanraya. Berikut kata Ibrahim Ali kepada Haji Hadi."Mungkin Abdul Hadi boleh menghubungi Raja Arab Saudi, Raja Abdullah untuk merayu supaya tarikh wukuf tahun ini ditunda kerana orang Pas hendak mengundi," kata Dato Ibrahim Ali kepada Utusan Malaysia.Baca sepenuhnya di Utusan Malaysia sini

Talk (Ceramah) DSAI Merdeka Rakyat at Kulim Kedah (video)

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A VIDEO THAT MUST BE VIEWED - LIFE MUST HAVE A MEANING - YOU CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE IF YOU CARE!!!!!!

If people CARE, this arrange of things will never occur to a young!!!!!

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Gov't defends Najib's private holiday in Milan

Pressed by an antithesis MP, a Prime Minister's Department has conceded which Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak went for a in isolation legal legal holiday in Milan upon an central aircraft, but argued which usually a minimal series of officials trafficked with him to ensure his security.

The sum in isolation revisit from May 18 to twenty-five - a two-day outing in Washington followed by a five-day outing to Milan as good as movement in Dubai - has taken up RM273,799.57 of taxpayers' money, Deputy Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Liew Vui Keong told Parliament final night.

The environment with "minimal series of officials" enclosed military escorts, in isolation officers, a doctor as good as confidence officers, as good as all their losses were borne by a supervision as they were upon central duty, pronounced Liew.

"Although a budding apportion was upon holiday, his duty as good as responsibility as a budding apportion of Malaysia was not terminated.

"Hence it is inappropriate if there are buliding which think a confidence emanate of a budding apportion should be put in reserve simply since he was upon holiday.

"Based upon confidence policy as good as national interest, a government's capitulation for a budding apportion to use supervision executive aircraft during his in isolation revisit lifted by Yang Berhormat (Teresa Kok) (right) should not have arisen," he replied.

Liew was responding to a follow-up subject lifted by Kok (Seputeh - DAP) who was not confident with a p! rior rep ly since by Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz upon spending during Najib's overseas trips.

In theprevious reply, Nazri usually revealed which Najib with his officers went off to Washington upon a six-day "private visit" from May 19 to twenty-four which price RM452,985.75, but referring to which there was a Milan revisit which took up most part of a trip.

Last night Liew clarified which a RM452,985.75 figure since by Nazri was usually an estimation based upon Najib's primary plan to revisit usually Washington.

"However a budding apportion had decided to have a in isolation revisit to Milan from May twenty to 24. This shift had caused a emanate of coordinating a repo! rt about a revisit during a executive as good as financial level, as good as it was not enclosed in a reply to a prior question."

'Figure taken from primary estimation'

At a time of responding Kok's prior question, Liew pronounced a officials of a environment as good as a Malaysia embassy in Washington had not done their claims, as a result a figure was taken from a primary estimation.

The sum estimation of RM452,985.75 lonesome a air tickets, food allowances, hotel payments, vehicle rentals, telecommunication facilities, laundry, tips, loss from banking exchange as good as welcoming events, he said.

But a exact sum losses were usually RM273,799.57, Liew clarified.

Liew stressed which Najib deserved a legal legal holiday as he has been "working in any case of time" to "implement assorted transformations to enlarge growth as good as move Malaysia to turn a high-income republic in 2020".

Although it was a in isolation holiday, Najib had met with tip officials of a US State Department, comparison politicians of a republic as good as intensity investors,! he clai med.
On a outing to Dubai before returning to Kuala Lumpur, Liew explained which it was a movement for refuelling.

Kok also questioned either Najib's visits to London from May thirteen to fifteen which price RM849,175.33 as good as an additional revisit to New York from May 16 to 18 which price RM1,606,402.75 were a waste of taxpayers' money.

Liew defended both trips, explaining which a accepting in Oxford was hosted by Prince Charles in as well as with a endowment of a royal licence to a Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies (OCIS) by a Queen of a United Kingdom.

"The invitation was a approval of a budding apportion who is a autarchic legislature member of OCIS, as good as Malaysia has been actively contributing to a development as good as enrichment of a centre."

As for a New York visit, Najib had chaired a second meeting of a Global Science as good as Innovation Advisory Council (GSAIC) which witnessed a signing of 5 memorandums of bargain which could move smart partnerships as good as investment to Malaysia, he said.

Najib also met with unfamiliar investors as good as received courtesy calls from corporate leaders during his trip, Liew added.

"Therefore a emanate of wastage does not arise for a budding minister's central visits to a nations mentioned."

Liew after told media by a phone call which Najib's personal losses during a visits, together with shopping, were not borne by a government.

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Zunar rejects cartoonist award from PM Najib

Political cartoonist Zunar pronounced which he rejected an endowment which was to be conferred by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak for a 1Malaysia existence as well as animationexhibitionat Pasar Seni, last Sunday.

"I do not wish awards or money. What we wish have been my rights. Return my rights to me," a cartoonist, whose real name is Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, toldMalaysiakini.

"Anyway Najib is a a single who is ostensible to consult a award. The male underneath whose administration department we was arrested, my books were banned as well as confiscated, military raided my bureau as well as restrictions were placed on publishers, distributors as well as printers from printing as well as edition my book.

"Return my rights, concede me to publish my books as well as take divided a restrictions against me, afterwards may be we shall cruise to attend."

Zunar (above) had also oral out against what he perceived to be Najib's try tomake cartooniststoe a supervision line.

He related how he was approached by a corner organisers of a event, Cartoonist At Work (CAW) as well as Putera Umno who wanted him to be a single of a recipients of a cartoonist feat award.

"I rejected it because we think it is an try to buy as well as silence me," pronounced Zunar, poi! nting ou t which CAW's enthusiast is actually Sohaimi Shahadan, a Putera Umno exco member.

CAW have also recently perceived aRM5 million grantfrom a Information, Communication as well as Culture Ministry to produce local existence as well as existence products

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MACC probes Prasarana over Rafizi's revelations

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has paid inhabitant transportation company Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd a revisit this afternoon following revelations done by PKR strategic executive Rafizi Ramli over Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's intervention in a Ampang LRT line project.

Sources said they came in after 4pm, though officials inside Prasarana have denied that it was a raid.

Prasarana media affairs manager Azhar Ghazali told Malaysiakini it was a "fact-finding mission".

"It is not a raid, it is a fact-finding mission. There was a explain done by Rafizi, so we (Prasarana) are being manageable and proactive," he said.

"Prasarana had signed an integrity agreement with MACC last February, and a anti-graft authority had set up an bureau in Prasarana's bureau in Wisma UOA, Bangsar. There is already an MACC bureau during our bureau during turn 26. Since they are part of our establishment, so they come," explained Azhar.

He, however, has no idea how most MACC officers came to Prasarana though added that no papers were taken away by a MACC.

Another source claimed that MACC might be compiling report over what had been purported by Rafizi. However, MACC investigations executive Mustafar Ali did not have any comments when contacted by Malaysiakini to endorse a visit.

Toda y, Rafizi (right) had lodged a police inform overpossible abuse of powerby Najib as he claimed he trusted a police some-more compared to a graft-fighting body.

Rafizi had two days ago purported that Najibhad interferedin a RM1 million LRT Ampang line prolongation plan so that a consortium led by George Kent Bhd, that allegedly submitted a aloft bid than others, is to get a job.

Following his revelation, a MACC visited Rafizi a same day.

Meanwhile, Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department executive Syed Ismail Syed Azizan, when asked whether a CCID would be investigating Rafizi's report, said he would have to demeanour into a matter.

"I am currently outstation in Malacca and I will check it out. I will yield report as shortly as there are details," he toldMalaysiakini.

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Najib denies interfering in Ampang LRT deal

Najib speaks before the start of the BN autarchic legislature assembly in Kuala Lumpur, Jun 29, 2012.Picture by Choo Choy May

KUALA LUMPUR, Jun twenty-nine Datuk Seri Najib Razak denied currently having the hand in the preference of George Kent for the RM1 billion Ampang Light Rail Transit (LRT) prolongation project, insisting which the routine was "done properly."

PKR has claimed to possess "solid, documentary proof" which the budding apportion intervened in the awarding of the contract, as well as lodged the military inform currently over purported rapist crack of certitude as well as abuse of power.

"Everything is finished properly. No such thing, nothing was improper," the Umno president told reporters after chairing the Barisan Nasional (BN) autarchic legislature meeting.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has started investigations at Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd (SPNB) this afternoon over the award of the RM960 million stipulate for the project.

PKR had formerly questioned the Business Times inform which the George Kent Bhd joint-venture could win the RM960 million stipulate for the Ampang Light Rail Transit (LRT) prolongation project, observant the consortium was knocked out in the bidding process.

Rafizi had pronounced upon Jun 22 he "can display which George Kent is not the consortium who was chosen in Prasarana's open proposal process" despite the conjecture in the business daily.

The Malaysian Insiderreported this morning which the speculated winner of the Ampang LRT system works, the George Kent consortium, was one of 3 bidders which failed both the technical as well as blurb analysis for the RM960 million contract.

Sources toldThe Malaysian Insiderthat usually five of the 8 bidders passed the technical as well as! blurb a nalysis theatre but plan owners SPNB finally recommended one of the two South Korean consortiums in the running PDA Consortium as the other consortiums were pronounced to not have complied with all conditions.

PKR officials have shown copies of central papers to the press, showing which the Ministry of Finance's (MoF) Acquisition Committee, which met this January 25, had motionless to award the stipulate to Balfour Bratty Invensys Consortium.

The cabinet is the highest decision-making physique in the MoF as well as is chaired by Najib himself, who is additionally finance minister.

The Business Times pronounced Putrajaya was due to make known the winning bidder by the end of June, adding which George Kent was tipped to get the lucrative project. The highest bid perceived for the plan tender, which closed upon Jun 16, was RM1.45 billion.

But PKR's sheaf of papers showed which the SPNB assembly upon December 2, 2011, had recommended PDA Consortium to commence the plan for RM1.12 billion over 44 months. SPNB is the wholly-owned section of the MoF as well as the company has budgeted RM1.5 billion for the system works.

SPNB is spending the little RM7 billion for the prolongation of both the Kelana Jaya as well as Ampang LRT rail networks. The Ampang network will be extended by 17.7km.

Apart from extending the current LRT lines, Putrajaya is additionally undertaking the multi-billion ringgit My Rapid Transit (MRT) which will snake by the collateral city. The country's many expensive infrastructure plan is to be ready by Jun 2017 but there have been delays as well as hostility by international companies to bid for the tenders upon offer.

The Land Transport Commission (SPAD) has announced which up to RM160 billion could be spent upon railway infrastructure projects in the country, creation Malaysia the tantalizing destination for international engineering firms.

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Lebanon, politically frail after the 1975-1990 polite war, has been tormented for weeks by roughly every day demonstrations using blazing tyres to cut off categorical highways in to criticism all from domestic disputes to physical phenomenon cuts.

BEIRUT: If we can't beat them, join them.

Dozens of Lebanese, exasperated by rampant tyre-burning protests opposite the country, rolled out tyres and stopped trade in the capital Beirut on Thursday.

Police armed with automatic rifles fast deployed down the street, seeking baffled at the small crowd raising the ensign "We have been tyred", and blocking trade with colourfully flashy tyres. Angry motorists honked their horns.

! Lebanon, politically frail after the 1975-1990 polite war, has been tormented for weeks by roughly every day demonstrations using blazing tyres to cut off categorical highways in to criticism all from domestic disputes to physical phenomenon cuts.

Laughing as the organisation fast dispersed, the military military officer in charge said: "I won't give them the ticket. We're all sick of this problem. And their tyres have been pretty."

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Kassim Ahmad goes over the top on Anwar Ibrahim

June 30, 2012

Kassim Ahmad goes over a tip upon Anwar Ibrahim

by Fathi Aris Omar & Jimadie Shah Othman

INTERVIEW: There might be no Malay intellectual some-more opposite to opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim than Kassim Ahmad.To him, Anwar is a "forked-tongued" politician as well as a slandering "traitor" to a republic who has been concerned in various issues such as usurpation unfamiliar funds.

At a mere discuss of his name, a argumentative author's tone hardened. He regularly voiced his enterprise to "spit", "hang", "behead" as well as "slap" a de facto PKR leader."As we have said, we am willing to hang Anwar to death. Even now we am willing to fire him". "He is evil," pronounced Kassim whilst fortifying Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak upon a Altantuya Shaariibuu issue.

The ostensible couple in between a Premier as well as a Mongolian national is only "slander" by Anwar, he told Malaysiakini at his home in Kulim.The authorities need not fear taking action opposite Anwar despite his oratory skills, because he has been indicted of regularly lying, he added.

Even Pakatan Rakyat is nervous with a Opposition Leader, he charged, citing DAP chairperson Karpal Singh's "slip of a tongue" upon a non-Malay Prime Minister issue.

The interview with Malaysiakini had not even started when Kassim read out a minute in The Star criticising Anwar in relation to unfamiliar spectator groups during a BERSIH 3.0 rally.

Nik Aziz 'deified'

The gen! eral gro up upon an electoral system fact-finding goal consisted of Anwar's friends, purported a letter, between alternative things. Kassim afterwards went upon to heavily criticise PAS spiritual adviser Nik Aziz Nik Mat , saying he feels which Nik Aziz is as well deified by his followers.

His criticisms were vague, though he often mentioned a enlightenment of "feudal ulama (religious scholars)" in a Islamic party. He is known to be critical of a academician "caste" in Islam.

Shifting to associate comrade PKR senator Syed Husin Ali's joining of Pakatan, Kassim pronounced a former PKR Deputy President was only "being influenced".Syed Husin was formerly with Kassim in Parti Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia (PSRM). Kassim headed a revolutionary party from 1966 to 1984, as well as was succeeded by Kampo Radjo as well as afterwards Syed Husin.

"When Anwar was sacked (from UMNO as well as a supervision in 1998), thousands came to attend to him speak. He claimed which it was a people's uprising. we pronounced masya-Allah, (Adolf) Hitler also collected millions," he said.

'Late as well as stupid'

However, Kassim's 'cold war' with Anwar might have started even progressing in 1986, when he believed which Anwar was behind a banning of his argumentative book Hadis: Satu Penilaian Semula (Hadith: A Re-evaluation).

Anwar conspired with a "scholars" to pressure him despite primarily similar with him "in principle", he claimed.In a 1990s, Anwar blocked his offer to reason a dialogue with Perak mufti Harussani Zakaria upon a essence of his book, despite Dr Mahathir Mohamad's ostensible approval, he added.

Even his initial meeting with Anwar was not encouraging, when a former Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM) leader arrived 45 minutes late, he revealed.

"When we e! ntered, we spoke. He listened though did not contend a word. That is Anwar. He was afraid, really fearful which we would write or ask him anything.That is my experience with Anwar once he was late, once he acted stupidly," he said.www.malaysiakini.com

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Chinese King Makers?

As GE-13 approaches, theory which UMNO chairman is a most disturbed male upon earth, or during slightest has shown highlight by all as well frequent open statements?


No, it's not Najib, nor Zahid Hamidi, nor KJ, nor Muhyiddin, nor Hishamuddin, where perhaps a final dual have been far as well thick to know their fate, to illustrate may not worry during all wakakaka, yet you heard Hisham has been suggested to move fromhis current federal constituency of Sembrong where 40% of a voters have been Chinese.

Politically accident-prone, a Home Minister has a healthy bent in offending a Chinese as well as Indians, so even thick-skull him would have satisfied by right away which a Chinese as well as Indians won't be as well lustful of him. And he has correctly assessed, no, some-more substantially suggested (as he is far as well foolish to think for himself), which he'll be stuffed in Sembrong in a subsequent general choosing - for more, read The Malaysian Insider's (TMI)'s In Johor, Chinese set to snub BN in polls.

The most disturbed UMNO chairman is Dr Mahathir who has in a final couple of days become some-more as well as some-more strident, creation TMI headlines in a fashion not distinct a repeated cheering of a Star newspaper boy selling early sunrise editions in market places or highway junctions (like kaytee did aeons ago in great olde Penang, wakakaka).

The following have been credited to him:
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• Dr M: GE13 will be about race
  
  And you should ask him since after 52 years of Independence, a any day lives, thoughts as well as generally politics have been about race, bearing in thoughts he was PM during a large half of those 52 years. We should additionally ask him what have been his contributions towards such a race-conscious Malaysian society.

• Chinese voters have been kingmakers for GE13, says Dr M
  
  As you posted inAh Jib Gor as well as a Casuarina Tree3 weeks ago, Chinese Malaysians have found themselves in an undesired domestic incident where they could as if play a role of 'king makers' in a subsequent general election.
  
  'Undesired domestic position', that's right!
  
  
  Most Chinese Malaysians (with exceptions of some younger ones) cite to stay out of a spotlight, not so most to carma (cari makan they leave which to MCA as well as Gerakan politicians wakakaka) yet to find an eccentric as well as unfettered livingwith a minimum of supervision interference.
  The Chinese would substantially appeal:
  
  
  "Leave us alone to conduct a commercial operation as well as find tall peculiarity preparation for a children usually do not levy some-more as well as some-more barriers, impediments as well as unfair quotas to restrict a commercial operation use as well as tutorial pursuit",
  
  
  But alas, any domestic party, generally PAS, UMNO as well as PKR have been hopefully investing in a Chinese domestic blue chips since their choos! ing by c asting votes energy (despite a gerrymandering as well as their usually 30-ish% presence in most mixed constituencies) will be quite significant as well as perhaps even consequential in 60 to 70 federal constituencies, creation them in to The Reluctant Ones, who will be deeply hated by a losing side wakakaka.
  
  
  Probably a usually celebration which doesn't give dual sh*ts about Chinese await is HRP since they won't get it, wakakaka. These HRP guys mental condition of whacking Dr Jeya in Sungai Siput as well as Dr Rama in Batu Kawan, reminding me of a Indian story of the 3 baskets of crabswakakaka.
  
  
  But poor Dr Mahathir is not usually disturbed about a entrance choosing by casting votes landscape yet deeply resents it. If there is a single thing which deeply offends as well as annoys Dr Mahathir, it's a suspicion of Chinese being in a higher in front of to Malays in any field or in a incident where they (the Chinese) can start a domestic result for Malays, quite UMNO.
  
  
  After years of observationofhim, hisstatements, actions, etc, you think he usually can't stand a really image of, say, some-more Chinese millionaires than Malay ones, some-more Chinese doctors, engineers, dentists, graduates, you-name-it than Malay equivalents, so upon so forth.
  
  
  I'm not so certain either a single could call him a racist, when you consider his feelings (if you step in to his shoes) have been which Malays, being a infancy in their own country called Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, should justly (in terms of numbers as well as heritage) be a infancy in any as well as any Malaysian sectors of ownership or profession.
  
  
  Thus if there have been 3 Chinese millionaires (and he isnotagainst them per se), afterwards there must be 6 to 7 Malay millionaires, as well as ! with whi ch perspective or belief carried as a protest upon his shoulders similar to dual humongous chips, he had set his policies when he was PM. you believe he is still really emotionally governed by this belief.
  
  
  Mind, he is not so endangered about a secular percentages in a polite service, police, armed forces as well as several hallowed departments.
  Yet, aristocrat makers or not, Dr Ma! hathir h ad upon a series of occasions certified it was Chinese await which got him over a line in 1999, yet he has right away somehow disfigured his admittance by reporting which a 1999support, where Lim Kit Siang as well as Karpal Singh mislaid their seats, was since a Chinese, in not choosing by casting votes for their own people (like Karpal Singh, yes, Bhai's genuine name is Kar Pah Sing) had believed they would good in you do so, which was, abandoning their own people similar to dear old Bhai.
  
  
  
  
  
  Bloody avaricious Chinese, distinct those who didn't opinion UMNO in 1999 as well as 2008, wakakaka.
  Mind you, all this while you had suspicion a 1999 Chinese desertion of DAP was due to full of blood foolish arrogant PAS who fearful a shit out of them, as well as which in spin resulted in DAP copping it sweet since of a latter's organisation with a blood-red Moon by a foolish Barisan Alternatif of 1999.

• Dr M: Privilege for non-Malays to keep race image
  
  Today he motionle! ss torat chetup a insult opposite a Chinese (and Indians) realkau kau, in his by-now customary statements of perfect rejection where he put a censure for his faults upon a Chinese, such asChinese as well as Indiansstill articulate about themselves, their rights as well as their privileges, as well as not usually about Bumiputeras.
  Then he preposterously claimed which a UMNO supervision has found which Malaysians have been still segregated as well as which they tried to do something about it yet there have been objections, as if from Chinese as well as Indians.
  
  I'm usually amazed by Dr Mahathir's 'creative' memories, his chronicle of story (especially about a period of his twenty-five years as PM), as well as his disfigured logic.
  
  Chinese as well as Indians have been still articulate about their rights as well as privileges is since they have none, or to be kind to Dr Mahathir, really most reduction than even some new 'new' Malaysians who obtained citizenship usually after a couple of weeks residency here.
  
  And then, did it help when Muhyiddin talked about him being a Malay initial as well as a Malaysian usually second, a publicly confirmation supported by UMNO's mouthpieces together with leading journalists-! editors similar to Kadir Jasin who told us pointedly since he wish to sojourn a Malay.
  Wakakaka, kaytee responded to Pak Kadir since distinct himI instruct to sojourn a Malaysian. you don't suppose D! r Mahath ir would want to discuss this, assuming for a single second he was even aware of my minute in CPI to Pak Kadir.
  And a biggest insult is which after umpteen generations here, with most Chinese as well as Indians portion in a Police as well as Armed Forces, where a series were awarded a SP as well as PGB, they as well as their children have been still considered reduction nationalistic than The Chosen Ones or even The 'New' Malaysians, as well as to Dr Mahathir, it's a PRIVILEGE for these non-Malays to reta! in their secular identities.
  He has of course in a centre failed to discuss a unchanging insults opposite non-Malays by his BTN-ized polite servants as well as teacherswho would constantly, with a help of specifically created books, remind most of us you have been children of dogs or prostitutes rsther than than Malaysians, as well as even perpetuations of assault by a UMNO military as well as UMNO MACC.
  As you said, sadly Dr Mahathir has in new times acquired an amazingly disfigured as well as selective mental recall since he has patently lost which it was his administration department which forced Chinese as well as Indians to remind themselves which they have been Chinese as well as Indians in their kad pengenalan, borang-borang kerajaan Malaysian, as well as in their limited quota in to universities as well as non-admittance in to UiTM, etc.
  
  It was additionally Dr Mahathir who stated not long ago which it is still beforehand for Malaysians to pretence a non-ethnic temperament similar to Bangsa Malaysia.
  And right away he in a centre makes a victims of his socio-political-educational-economic groups of Malaysians a culprits as well as perpetrators of his policies.

Memang Dr Mahathir adalah seorang Melayu yang mudah lupa. Bu! t upon sec ond thoughts, ! really, is he a mudah lupa type?

• Be careful of your actions, Dr M warns daughter
  
  In a end he revealed his hands, since he has been so highlight as well as strident, when he publicly slapped a wrist of Marina Mahathir, despite a really light tap usually yet yet an amazing unprecedented chiding of his daughter in public.
  
  He warns Marina to drive transparent of Bersih since such associations with a NGO, generally its sweet leader, Ambiga Sreenevasan, who has been repetitively threatened, reviled, cursed, mooned as well as not long ago 'hung' by UMNO warriors, would hurt a domestic prospective of his son, Mukhriz - for some-more see alsoDr M backs Mukhriz as subsequent Kedah MBand my January postNext MB of Kedah.

So in a end, you discover which Dr Mahathir's relentless debate quite opposite a Chinese has been for dear Mukhriz, yet in that,! you hav e to read as well that, despite a notice of him as an iconic force in UMNO, his powers have most waned, even in his own outpost of Kedah.

Where once he could , with a snapofhis fingers, ensure Mukhriz's in front of as which State's subsequent MB, he right away realizes he has to work hard, really hard (and a most appropriate way would be a usual generous dose of UMNO-style tongue lashing opposite a 'greedy arrogant as well as aggressive' Chinese), to giv! e his so n a image of a Heartland guardian as well as to illustrate a fighting chance, not usually opposite a domestic opposition yet opposite a internal opposition within UMNO.


Perhaps in this, a Chinese have been in truth aristocrat makers, yet a perverted broker form used by him for a diminutive bit of bashing as part of his debate to make his son a subsequent domestic aristocrat of Kedah.

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