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Kejadian di JPM: Ada orang ketiga terlibat?
Liong Sik begins defence in PKFZ trial
Wong, the former open prosecutor, pronounced before the packaged courtroom which the counterclaim will uncover the cost in the sale as well as purchase of the land was in agreement with the Valuation as well as Property Services Department.
"The amount tabled does not include the seductiveness upon credit to the down payment issued," pronounced the lawyer.
"No one sensitive Tun Ling which the calculation was fraudulent or wrong. The Finance Ministry officials were confused over the amends nature of the land," he said.
Wong pronounced the counterclaim will uncover the land cost - RM25psf (per block foot) - was the face worth of the bond, as well as which there was no deception.
He claimed which the Ling had not at any time favoured contractor Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd.
Wong combined which the huge plan was upheld by the PM's special advisor Ali Abul Hassan, as well as which for Ling to cheat, it would have involved the high degree of supervision officials in both the Transport as well as Finance ministries.
The counsel also pronounced his client's rights had seriously been prejudiced as he had no entrance to the little of the supervision documents.
He also slammed former MCA assemblyperson Lee Hwa! Beng's book upon the scandal, which was published recently, as it denied his ex-party boss Ling the satisfactory trial.
Three options
Li! ng, 68, was ordered by the Kuala Lumpur High Court toenter his defenceon Mar 9 after justice Ahmadi Asnawi ruled the prosecution has successfully prove the prima facie case.
In fortifying himself, Ling has 3 options - to take the declare stand, to attest from the wharf or to remain silent. Ling opted to take the declare stand.
On Jun 21, he had unsuccessfullytried to recusethe hearing decider after Ahmadi ruled the counterclaim failed to uncover he was inequitable in his created judgment.
Ling is accused of intrigue the supervision by concealing from then-premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad's cupboard the existence of an one more 7.5 percent seductiveness rate per annum upon the purchase cost of the land for the PKFZ project.
Ling was charged upon July 29, 2010, underneath Section 418 of the Penal Code, which carries the chastisement of up to seven years in prison, or the fine, or both.
He faces dual alternative charges of intrigue as well as purposely omission information in his inform to the cupboard upon the one more seductiveness rate, which carries up to 5 years' prison or the fine, or both.
He faces dual alternative charges of intrigue as well as purposely omission information in his inform to the cupboard upon the one more seductiveness rate, which carries up to 5 years' prison or the fine, or both.
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Missing real estate agent found dead
PETALING JAYA, July 13 The physique of the half-naked man found in the little underbrush upon the banks of the river in Ara Damansara nearby here yesterday afternoon is believed to be which of real estate representative Tang Yong Ching, 45, who was recently reported missing.
Petaling Jaya military arch ACP Arjunaidi Mohamed pronounced the body, which had damage marks, was recovered following the detain of dual suspects, both foreigners, who were believed to linked to Tangs disappearance since final Thursday.
Police believed he was murdered formed upon the damage outlines upon the plant though the cause of death had nonetheless to be established, he told reporters final night.
The initial detain was made upon Saturday after the single of the suspects, 25, tried to use the debit card belonging to the victim. The think had entered the country upon the student visa though worked as the security ensure in the Damansara area, he said.
He pronounced the second suspect, the 20-year-old student, who was arrested here yesterday, led military to the body.
Police additionally recovered the Toyota Innova MPV belonging to Tang following report given by the second suspect, he said, adding which formed upon inquire of the dual suspects, military believed Tang was killed over the business skill understanding which additionally concerned other realtors.
He added which the victims physique was sent to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for the post-mortem and which the case has been classified as murder.
Tang was reported blank by his wife Ng Mooi Ning when he did not return home after withdrawal his house in Ara Damansara final Thursday afternoon to meet the client. Bernama
Altantuya pergi ke Perancis menggunakan nama Aminah Abdullah...
Mahathirism is alive and kicking!
Dr Mahathir seems incompetent to let go of a actuality which he isn't PM of Malaysia anymore. He plays a eternal smart aleck offering unsolicited advice. He employs sophistry of reasons to convince people of his biased conclusions. So, he says roughly sage similar to which Malaysia will be in dire straits if Pakatan takes over. But a age of unidirectional logic is over. Previously he had help from a media industrial complex- TV as well as mainstream newspapers. That isn't starting to occur anymore.
No right meditative chairman wants to read Utusex Malaysia where usually reports upon request times as well as 4-Digit lottery have been true; readership upon NST has left down since as Lee Kuan Yew observed, a paper has mislaid credibility. People have been turned off during watching TV3 since as shortly as you switched it on- you see a apparitions of Ustazah Umi Hafilda berating Anwar making it seemed as though, it was she who got bonked or wished she had been; you see Hassan `membetulkan aqidah Ali' as well as all a alternative mislaid souls picked up ravenously by talent-starved UMNO as well as right away dancing to a tune a paying pied piper plays.
Now, a people can talk as well as reason back. What Mahathir says is no longer supposed unquestioningly.
What does Mahathir want? What can he do if people do not hold what a supervision says as well as have been peaceful to accept Anwar- warts as well as all? If a people have been peaceful to accept a degenerates in UMNO as leaders, because can't they try out Anwar? Of march Mahathir believes Anwar will never have it to Putrajaya.
What he essentially desire is for Mahathirism to be translated rightly which Najib isn't you do properly. Najib is messy relying heavily upon others you do a meditative for him. Mahathirism needs a male of sterner stuff. Mahathir does not hold Najib has got what it takes to exercise a doctrine of Mahathirism.
Mah! athirism in governing body means a concentration of power in a chief senior manager (the PM) as well as a emasculation of all alternative contending forces- a judiciary as well as a polite service. Mahathirsim needs ISA. Mahathirism needs a yielding judiciary. Mahathirism needs a resilient polite service headed by a sycophant. Najib seems to get usually which part right in Ali Hamsa.
Mahathirism in economics means a economics of cronyism. Since 1981, a economics by organic expansion was transposed by a economics of choosing as well as picking winners. But Mahathir chose from a limited talent pool consisting of those he knows or those recommended by tighten associates such as Tun Daim. The strategy has been proven wrong. Malay share in a manage to buy is only underneath 20%. But those who got picked as well as chosen got rich over imagination. The general Malay open remained cursed to be dependents of a government. UMNO runs a paternalistic as well as during times, bullying government.
Mahathir is preparing a belligerent for a inevitable ouster of Najib. He's getting help from a chief auctioneer of Malaysia Muhyidin Yasin who has sold whatever available land there was in Johor when he was MB there. The alternative associate watchful in a wings is Mukhriz Mahathir who will group up with Muhyidin.
For a time being, Najib has no preference though to ape what Mahathir says. The nation has no destiny underneath any supervision though UMNO-BN. So Najib continues to crisscross a nation airing slogans loudly. When hosting a thousands of UMNO members transported to Stadium Bukit Jalil, Najib announced which he felt so uplifted which he was meditative of meeting up a Agong to acknowledgement elections then. But which was usually shrill noises entrance from a nervous PM. The ground, as Tun Daim told a personal emissary of Najib, Jamaludin Jarjis, is not ready to support UMNO-BN. though Najib is assured pronounced JJ. We have reports observant which a belligerent! is supp ortive of Najib as well as demeanour during his personal rating.
So a chief domestic seer in this nation retorted by asking JJ- can you hold all those reports? If they have been prepared by which eager-to-please-his-master Rais Yatim, then you have been dead. Rais will inflate BN chances by 50% as well as downplay Pakatan chances by 30%. You have been starting to decide upon groundless foundations. Hence Najib has to postpone a elections which he longed for to hold in June 2012.
In Melaka, he played football announcer by boasting which UMNO-BN will win 14-0. If which is so, Najib would have spoken elections yesterday. Najib knows, a unity which UMNO pretends it has will disintegrate by 30% a really day Najib announces a BN possibilities for GE13. So how to face elections with a house divided? He does what a unfortunate male will do.
The UMNO foot soldiers have been fatigued. They have waited energetically for elections. Elections for them have been a outrageous legal holiday where loads of income will be poured indiscriminately. How to continue paying for a Myvy as well as a Kris motorcycle which they have ordered right away which Najib is flip-flopping in announcing choosing date?
They know UMNO has degenerated in to a celebration offered pirated porno VCDs as well as a celebration which installs hidden cameras in toilets. So a next time people go in to open toilets recollect to move umbrellas to cover yourselves. Otherwise UMNO will politicize a distance of your penises. It's which desperate.
The biggest distortion which UMNO hawks around is to claim which all alternative Malays not in UMNO aren't Malays. If Malays join any alternative domestic celebration than UMNO, she or he ceases to be Malay. When we was in UMNO, my Malay credentials were taken for granted as well as never disputed. Now when we join DAP, my Malayness is disputed. The same person, whose Malayness isn't questioned when in UMNO, right away has his Malayness doubtful as shortly as he leaves UMNO. No Malay ceases to be one when he abandons UMNO. One's Malayness resides in a chairman not in UMNO. UMNO need not be so arrogant. The Malay is a chairman not a domestic party.
When both Mahathir as well as Najib expressed their fears about a gloomy destiny underneath Pakatan, they have been essentially display their excitability about essentially losing power. When UMNO-BN loses, a myths as well as all a falsities about a policies which UMNO-BN has implemented will be exposed as well as along with those, a purpose played by Mahathir as well as his team.
Start for asking for example because after so most years, a Malay manage to buy hasn't completed a target? The Malay manage to buy which got improved is a manage to buy for a comparison Malay elite- a royalty as well as a scions, a manage to buy of Mahathir's son. Also, a manage to buy of a not long ago retired Chief Secretary's daughter. These have been a Malays who do not give a rat's ass about a alternative Malay economy. That's a manage to buy which concerns typical Malays, farmers, fisherman, felda settlers etc. a lot of these people isn't tip priority for a name Malays. They have been more concerned of their own future.
Start by asking because income disparities inside of a Malay communities have been highest compared to intra-income disparities inside of alternative races. Because since Mahathir took over a country, policies aimed during pushing mercantile expansion of Malays have been transposed by policies of picki! ng winne rs by Mahathir. That's when you saw a presentation as well as took off rise of Mahathir's golden boys. They were given licenses, concessions, monopolies as well as a opportunities to privatize state owned income generating resources. They grew fabulously wealthy, whilst a rest of Malays, deprived of sources of organic mercantile growth, grew to become dependents, relying upon a supervision for mercantile succor.
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14 sebab orang PAS sesat kerana dewakan orang sesat
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Mahathirism is alive and kicking!
seems incompetent to let go of a actuality that he isnt PM of Malaysia anymore. He
plays a eternal busybody offering unsolicited advice. He employs fallacious logic of
reasons to convince people of his inequitable conclusions. So, he says almost sage
like that Malaysia will be in dire straits if Pakatan takes over. But a age
of unidirectional logic is over. Previously he had help from the
Uncle Seekers re-arrested for investigation under Sedition Act
"Syed Abdullah was expelled yesterday after investigations opposite him underneath Section 8(1)(d) of a Official Secrets Act 1972 were completed. The investigation writings upon a box have been forwarded to a Public Prosecutor for further action.
"He, however, was re-arrested underneath Section 4 (1) of th Sedition Act 1948 in connection with 64 entries in his blog as well as military currently were postulated a justice sequence to have him remanded for 3 days until Saturday," he told reporters during a Johor military headquarters here.
Ismail said Syed Abdullah's girlfriend, who was also remanded together with a researcher, was expelled yesterday underneath military bail as well as which military were right away investigating dual more friends of Syed Abdullah, who have been placed upon remand during a Jalan Pantai Kundor military hire in Tanjung Kling, Melaka, since Jul 8.
Earlier today, Syed Abdullah, who was in lock-up attire, was brought to a Johor Baharu justice complex by Nusajaya military during 1:50pm prior to being brought out of a magistrate's chambers during aroun! d 4pm.
The remand application was done prior to Magistrate Maslinda Selamat. Syed Abdullah was represented by counsel D Thiru Kumar.
Syed Abdullah, 46, was arrested together with a 26-year-old woman during a Senawang Toll Plaza in Negeri Sembilan during 9.45pm upon Jul 4.
On Jul 1, thirty individuals had lodged military reporters opposite Syed Abdullah for allegedly defaming a sultan in a blog entries. Read More @ Source
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Cronkite, a Biography by Douglas Brinkley
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"President Kennedy died during 1 p.m. Central Standard Time." Walter Cronkite, Nov. 22, 1963.
"From Dallas, Texas. . . . " The haggard newsman has only been handed handle copy. He removes his glasses. He looks in to a camera as well as gives us a initial tough news which our young trainer will never grow old. He marks a time of death upon a newsroom clock as well as holds a impulse of silence.
CRONKITE
By Douglas Brinkley
Illustrated. 819 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $ 34.99.
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Times Topic: Walter Cronkite
This was Walter Cronkite upon Nov. 22, 1963, announcing a death of John F. Kennedy.
It was consummate Cronkite unscripted, accurate as well as heartfelt. For nineteen years, a anchor of "The CBS Evening News" shared in our open pique as well as celebration. He was one of us, as well as Douglas Brinkley's "Cronkite" is a majestic autobiography of America's biggest as well as many beloved broadcast journalist.
"He was reassuringly permanent when so much was in flux," writes Brinkley, a historian as well as contributing editor during Vanity Fair. "Even when he was announcing comfortless news, he was himself a reminder which America would persevere."
Perseverance was a hallmark of Cronkite's surprisingly choppy career. He was buoyed by his ability to connect with an audience, a connection never more strong than during CBS's marathon coverage of a Kennedy assassination. Seventy million Americans as well as viewers in twenty-three countries tuned in. "CBS News became a! meeting hall, a cathedral, a dilemma bar as well as a locale square wherever people went when they longed for a recovering joy of a group," Brinkley writes, as well as Cronkite was a "impresario" of mourning, a unofficial national pique counselor.
Cronkite never shied divided from revelation tough truths. Recall his half-hour "Report From Vietnam" upon Feb. 27, 1968, in which he spoken a Vietnam War a "stalemate." It was a outcome a veteran fight match didn't relish delivering, but Cronkite, who had recently returned from stating upon a Tet offensive, right away believed which a fight was unwinnable as well as indefensible. He felt "conned" by Lyndon Johnson, Brinkley writes, as well as "sickened" which his network had swallowed a Pentagon's spin.
"The movement of Cronkite's reports was seismic," Brinkley adds. President Johnson reportedly said, "If I've mislaid Cronkite, I've mislaid a country."
How did Cronkite get a credentials to be taken during his word which an American fight could not be won?
Born in 1916 in St. Joseph, Mo., Cronkite dreamed of apropos a broadcaster. An unexcited student, he dropped out of a University of Texas after dual years as well as entered a journal business, covering a nightclub as well as church beats for The Houston Press.
At 19, he got his initial radio job during Kansas City's KCMO station, broadcasting college football games underneath a name Walter Wilcox (Cronkite sounded as well German). He read a plays off a handle ticker, afterwards re-enacted them for a audience as if he were during a game. "I didn't need any facts," he said. "I only used my imagination."
Cronkite's KCMO years were notable for dual events: He met as well as married Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, well known as Betsy, a KCMO advertising copywriter, as well as he was abruptly fired. He refused to report upon a glow during city gymnasium in which three firefighters had supposedly died. He defied his boss, insisting upon removing a second source before going upon ai! r. It wa s a standard which mattered: get a story right as well as then, first.
He landed upon his feet as a night editor during United Press. It was "his proving ground," Brinkley writes, a job which formed Cronkite as a journalist. He did everything from fact-checking to reporting, as well as in 1943 he covered a American bombing debate over Germany. He assimilated a cadre of correspondents together with Andy Rooney; they called themselves a "Writing Sixty-Ninth," as well as they were instructed by Hugh Baillie, trainer of U.P., to "get a smell of warm red blood in to their copy."
Chris Matthews is a horde of Hardball upon MSNBC as well as The Chris Matthews Show upon NBC. His many new book is Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero.
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Of Royalty and High Society and Politics
July 13, 2012
Of Royalty as well as High Society as well as Politics
by Dina Zaman (07-12-12)@themalaysianinsider.com
It would appear that they have been skittish, as well as prefer to possibly side with the stream supervision or action as fence sitters. There have been the "different" Royals who have articulate as well as smart opinions Tunku Abidin Muhriz of Negri Sembilan, Raja Nazrin Shah of Perak, the Sultan of Kelantan Sultan Muhammad V Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra, who is quick gaining the repute as the people's Sultan. However, these have been the very few. The wealthy as well as corporate types evade broadside or speak usually upon businesses issues. Politics is an curiosity to them.
At one of The Malaysian Insider's closed-door forums, the professional Malay, educated, as well as soft-spoken approached me during the door. He was deeply concerned about Malaysia, as well as he was horrified by what he reads as well as sees.
The neo-Malays of 2012 were not the Malays he grew up with as well as looked up to. You contingency write about this, how you Malays have mislaid our way, he said. He is what others would call the useful nationalist.
"There is the way," he said, as well as looked up during the uproar inside the venue where the forum was all produce as well as tongs.
"You have to get the royals in to the political picture." you stared during him. Malaysian Royals have been not favourites of the public, you reminded him. Their excesses offend many, as well as almost everybody remembers their Malayan history. Most Malaysians appear bitter during how the royals of yesteryears sold their souls to the colonials, during the responsibility of the people.
The new generation of Royals have been dignified for very little: their wealth, even some-more so if warranted by merit as well as perfect industry; their titles as well as lifestyles, by amicable climbers as well as commercial operation opportunists.
"Er," you said, holding the play of taco chips dip, "I suppose they have been popular among our artis-artis."
He disagreed. There have been hundreds if not thousands of lengthened family Rroyals who have been politically aware, as well as who have their own opinions upon how the nation should be run. These have been people who work for the living as well as do not benefit from the perks of the Royals tighten to the apex of the aristocracy.
"They might not be termed as strictly 'royals' tighten to the Sultan, though of stately red blood they still are! And they as well have been probably some-more concerned about the state of the kingdom as well as how it should be conducted. They should be lumped together as the rakyat."
He smiled.
There was Tunku Aziz of the DAP (who has given resigned). Of course, Tunku Abdul Rahman. Yes, yes, you said. Ah. Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.
"You forget. Who represents the Malays of the country? The royals. The Sultans. At the finish of the day, even the basest of Malays demeanour up rather to their Sultan. Apa lagi you all ada? Our maruah? What?"
He continued: "I belie! ve the S ultans, no disbelief the pitch of Malay birthright as well as history, should be the Sultan of as well as for everyone, of every creed as well as of every political leaning. HOWEVER, what is function is that they have been as well gentle sleeping with the powers-that-be, relying upon their relations with the supervision to get projects, to await their lifestyle that they forget that they should be the Sultan of/for everyone.
"They forget that 51 per cent of the race voted for the Opposition as well as since have been the representatives of these people not part of governance similar to in England? Does the Sultan need to get permission from the Mentri Besar to encounter an additional statesman who is not from BN? Why? Why have been the Sultans not practising fairness, openness as well as approachable to all as well as sundry? Why shouldn't they encounter politicians from Pakatan?
"The Royals should not worry about their standing in the country. The Constitution will protect them. The state takes caring of them. What they need to do is encounter with politicians who have been influencers, as well as talk. The Sultan can action as the role of the mediator. Politics haschanged. The power equation too."
I reminded him again that the Sultan might action usually as the head of his people as well as sacrament of his state. The supervision as well as antithesis might approach him upon these matters, though what power does HRH have? "He might not have much (power) though he certain can have life difficult for people who have crossed him."
"Does the 'Daulat' still exist?" you asked. you as well was curious. you grew up in Terengganu hearing about people being booted out of the state, buang negeri since of the Royal's wrath. Was this true, since this would be great for my research?
He smi led, as well as left the event.You know, when it rains, it pours. That week itself, you was bearing in to society. you had my Dominick Dunne moment. you exaggerate. you had usually dual dinners. However it's not always the writer gets an airing, so you went along with the ride.
At the discreet European restaurant, cooking is being served to the family.These have been group who do not rely upon supervision contracts for their sustenance, as well as can means to demeanour during the country's governing body with the cold eye. These men, whose names would escape the normal Malaysian's mind, thrive upon their anonymity as well as have certain that they as well as their family groups exist below society's radar.
If you encounter them, you would probably pretence that these group have been successful professionals who have raised well-brought up families. It is usually those who have been very clued upon in the commercial operation universe who would know who they are.
Their wives have been tasteful as well as clever, though again, similar to their spouses, do not flaunt their presence in multitude magazines. Their young kids would put yours to shame. Again, fickle as well as successful. However, there is the disproportion between them as well as you.
Their friends own their own jets. The women discreetly keep the ailing sell scene afloat in Malaysia, as well as their young kids who tend to work in finance, understanding with hundreds of millions. US dollars as well as euros, thoughts you. Ringgit Malaysia is usually paper.
They have been observing BERSIH as well as internal governing body keenly, despite in the isolated manner. Their reply is as measured as they.
They similar to Lim Guan Eng as well as Khalid Ibrah! im. Thes e politicians are, during the finish of the day, businessmen, as well as for tougher or stronger group similar to them, it is easier to understanding with the corporate mindset than the politician. You see, using the nation is similar to using the company. And our politicians destroy during elementary economics.
And in their world, honour is reason in tall esteem. Which is since they reason Tuan Guru Nik Aziz of PAS upon the same turn as triads as well as gangsters.
"PAS honour their word. Just similar to gangsters. Many Chinese businessmen similar to working with PAS, since they never go behind upon their promises as well as have been direct."
"DAP too. The young in DAP have pointy minds."
What about Barisan as well as PKR?The group have been silent. One of them pats his mouth with the linen napkin, as he finishes the meal.
"Hmmm," he says. There have been great people in BN ("Saifuddin fellow. He's good.") as well as Pakatan, though he feels that their great intentions might be blocked by gatekeepers. The dual parties give them the headache. They have been as well messy.
Anwar Ibrahim?
But the international commercial operation community similar to him, you ventured.
"This speak about his sexual proclivities you do not care. What you do remember is when he was in power, as well as that is the contention that won't be disclosed. We read The Malaysian Insider, God usually knows what will come out."
There is open resentment. Malaysians have been fed up, plain as well as simply put. While the rakyat calls for people power as well as civil society, they might have to swallow the actuality that (perhaps) in Malaysia, they will have to convince the commercial operation community as well as yes, the Royals, that the shift is ne! eded.
Likewise, with our wordless rich as well as Royals: they as well have no preference though to concur that to do commercial operation in Malaysia, as well as to rule it, changes need to happen.
High multitude as well as politics. What an interesting refreshment they are.
*Dina Zaman is an API Senior Fellow 2012-2013 as well as her investigate is upon saints as well as their impact upon Malaysia, that is part of her mainstay Holy Men, Holy Women that is now upon hiatus, as she pursues research. She is the sap nomad.
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Something fishy with Noh Omar's 30-acre farm land...
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Of Royalty and High Society and Politics
July 13, 2012
Of Royalty as well as High Society as well as Politics
by Dina Zaman (07-12-12)@themalaysianinsider.com
It would appear which they have been skittish, as well as cite to either side with the stream supervision or action as blockade sitters. There have been the "different" Royals who have clear as well as smart opinions Tunku Abidin Muhriz of Negri Sembilan, Raja Nazrin Shah of Perak, the Sultan of Kelantan Sultan Muhammad V Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra, who is quick gaining the reputation as the people's Sultan. However, these have been the very few. The wealthy as well as corporate sorts evade broadside or speak usually upon businesses issues. Politics is an curiosity to them.
At one of The Malaysian Insider's closed-door forums, the veteran Malay, educated, as well as soft-spoken approached me during the door. He was deeply endangered about Malaysia, as well as he was horrified by what he reads as well as sees.
The neo-Malays of 2012 were not the Malays he grew up with as well as looked up to. You contingency write about this, how you Malays have mislaid the way, he said. He is what others would call the pragmatic nationalist.
"There is the way," he said, as well as looked up during the conflict inside the venue where the forum was all hammer as well as tongs.
"You have to get the royals in to the domestic picture." you stared during him. Malaysian Royals have been not favourites of the public, you reminded him. Their excesses disgust many, as well as roughly everyone remembers their Malayan history. Most Malaysians appear bitter during how the royals of yesteryears sold their souls to the colonials, during the expense of the people.
The new era of Royals have been admired for very little: their wealth, even more so if earned by merit as well as perfect industry; their titles as well as lifestyles, by amicable climbers as well as commercial operation opportunists.
"Er," you said, holding the bowl of taco chips dip, "I suspect they have been popular among the artis-artis."
He disagreed. There have been hundreds if not thousands of lengthened family Rroyals who have been politically aware, as well as who have their own opinions upon how the nation should be run. These have been people who work for the vital as well as do not great from the perks of the Royals tighten to the apex of the aristocracy.
"They might not be termed as particularly 'royals' tighten to the Sultan, though of royal blood they still are! And they as well have been substantially more endangered about the state of the kingdom as well as how it should be conducted. They should be lumped together as the rakyat."
He smiled.
There was Tunku Aziz of the DAP (who has given resigned). Of course, Tunku Abdul Rahman. Yes, yes, you said. Ah. Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.
"You forget. Who represents the Malays of the country? The royals. The Sultans. At the finish of the day, even the basest of Malays demeanour up somewhat to their Sultan. Apa lagi you all ada? Our maruah? What?"
He continued: "I believe the Sultans, no disbelief the pitch of Malay birthright as well as history, should be the Sultan of as well as for everyone, of every creed as well as of every domestic leaning. HOWEVER, what is happening is which they have been as well gentle sleeping with the powers-that-be, relying upon their relations with the supervision to get projects, to support their lifestyle which they dont think about which they should be the Sultan of/for everyone.
"They dont think about which 51 per cent of the race voted for the Opposition as well as because have been the member of these people not partial of governance similar to in England? Does the Sultan need to get permission from the Mentri Besar to encounter another politician who is not from BN? Why? Why have been the Sultans not practising fairness, honesty as well as approachable to all as well as sundry? Why shouldn't they encounter politicians from Pakatan?
"The Royals should not be concerned about their standing in the country. The Constitution will protect them. The state takes caring of them. What they need to do is encounter with politicians who have been influencers, as well as talk. The Sultan can action as the role of the mediator. Politics haschanged. The energy equation too."
I reminded him again which the Sultan might action usually as the conduct of his people as well as religion of his state. The supervision as well as antithesis might approach him upon these matters, though what energy does HRH have? "He might not have most (power) though he certain can have reason up formidable for people who have crossed him."
"Does the 'Daulat' still exist?" you asked. you as well was curious. you grew up in Terengganu hearing about people being booted out of the state, buang negeri because o! f the Ro yal's wrath. Was this true, because this would be great for my research?
He smiled, as well as left the event.
You know, when it rains, it pours. That week itself, you was bearing in to society. you had my Dominick Dunne moment. you exaggerate. you had usually dual dinners. However it's not always the writer gets an airing, so you went along with the ride.
At the watchful European restaurant, dinner is being served to the family.These have been group who do not depend upon supervision contracts for their sustenance, as well as can means to demeanour during the country's governing body with the cool eye. These men, whose names would escape the normal Malaysian's mind, flower upon their anonymity as well as have certain which they as well as their family groups exist below society's radar.
If you encounter them, you would substantially assume which these group have been successful professionals who have raised well-brought up families. It is usually those who have been very clued upon in the commercial operation universe who would know who they are.
Their wives have been tasteful as well as clever, though again, similar to their spouses, do not flourish their participation in multitude magazines. Their children would put yours to shame. Again, fickle as well as successful. However, there is the disproportion in between them as well as you.
Their friends own their own jets. The women discreetly keep the bum retail stage afloat in Malaysia, as well as their children who lend towards to work in finance, understanding with hundreds of millions. US dollars as well as euros, thoughts you. Ringgit Malaysia is only paper.
They have been observing BERSIH as well as internal governing body keenly, albeit in the isolated ma! nner. Th eir reply is as measured as they.
They similar to Lim Guan Eng as well as Khalid Ibrahim. These politicians are, during the finish of the day, businessmen, as well as for tougher or stronger group similar to them, it is simpler to understanding with the corporate mindset than the politician. You see, using the nation is similar to using the company. And the politicians fail during simple economics.
And in their world, honour is held in tall esteem. Which is because they reason Tuan Guru Nik Aziz of PAS upon the same turn as triads as well as gangsters.
"PAS honour their word. Just similar to gangsters. Many Chinese businessmen similar to operative with PAS, because they never go back upon their promises as well as have been direct."
"DAP too. The young in DAP have sharp minds."
What about Barisan as well as PKR?The group have been silent. One of them pats his mouth with the linen napkin, as he finishes the meal.
"Hmmm," he says. There have been great people in BN ("Saifuddin fellow. He's good.") as well as Pakatan, though he feels which their great intentions might be blocked by gatekeepers. The dual parties give them the headache. They have been as well messy.
Anwar Ibrahim?
But the international commercial operation village similar to him, you ventured.
"This speak about his passionate proclivities you don't care. What you do recollect is when he was in power, as well as which is the discussion which won't be disclosed. We read The Malaysian Insider, God usually knows what will come out."
There is public resentment. Malaysians have been fed up, solid as well as simply put. While the rakyat calls for people energy as well as civil society, they might have to swallow the fact which (perhaps) in Malaysia, they will! have to persuade the commercial operation village as well as yes, the Royals, which the change is needed.
Likewise, with the wordless rich as well as Royals: they as well have no choice though to concur which to do commercial operation in Malaysia, as well as to order it, changes need to happen.
High multitude as well as politics. What an engaging potion they are.
*Dina Zaman is an API Senior Fellow 2012-2013 as well as her investigate is upon saints as well as their impact upon Malaysia, which is partial of her mainstay Holy Men, Holy Women which is currently upon hiatus, as she pursues research. She is the weary nomad.
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Scorpene's Friday the Thirteenth
Don't skip a end to a story tomorrow, Friday a 13th,h e r e.
The Debunking Scorpene Scandal Series over a last two weeks:
Part V (July 12): Distorting Leaked Documents
Part IV (July 11): Dramatizing a Courts
Part III (July 5): Questioning Defense Spending
Part II (June 30): Perimekar, a bona fide operation
Part we (June 28): Sensationalizing Altantuya
p.s. we understand which others have been watchful to discuss it their side of a stories, too. We have not heard from a French. And Razak Baginda has not spoken out since his acquittal. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, meanwhile, has finished some critical probing ...
No need to be God, just do your job
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Tidak Habis Kisah Mahathir-Anwar: Mengapa?
July 12, 2012
Tidak Habis Kisah Mahathir-Anwar: Mengapa?
Oleh Mohd Rashidi Hassan (07-11-12)@www.harakahdaily.net
Sudah hampir sepuluh tahun Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad bersara dari jawatan Perdana Menteri dan Presiden UMNO. Ada orang kata buang 'dakwat' sahaja kalau hendak menulis atau mengkritik mantan PM ini.
Namun, kadang-kadang kita perlu diimbaskan kembali wajah politik Dr Mahathir, yang sehingga kini, masih mendominasi atau dictate masa depan UMNO, khususnya pelbagai gesaan yang beliau lakukan terhadap PM, Dato' Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak.
Walaupun usianya sudah lanjut, tetapi sehingga hari ini Dr Mahathir masih aktif berpolitik, mengeluarkan kenyataan politik dan menghentam Pakatan Rakyat.
Ketua Pembangkang, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim sering menjadi sasarannya. Nampak jelas mantan Presiden UMNO itu sangat berjaki dengan Anwar. Baru-baru ini beliau terus menyerang Anwar dan menggesa Ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh itu bersara daripada politik.
"Ada pemberita tanya, Dr Mahathir suruh berhenti sekarang. Saya kata tak apalah. Yang itu biar saya dengan rakyat. Kamu Dr Mahathir, duduk diam-diam. Jaga syarikat anak kamu yang berpuluh bilion ringgit. Kalau kamu pemimpin bersih, malu tahu tak, malu! Seorang pemimpin, puluh bilion kekayaan anak-anaknya," tegas Anwar dalam ceramahnya di Selayang, baru ini.
Anwar mempersoalkan mengapa Dr Mahathir terlalu marah kepadanya. Sedangkan selama ini, beliau tidak pernah mengacau dan telah joke memaafkan bekas Perdana Menteri tersebut.
"Sudahlah. Yang kena pukul saya, Mahathir, bukan kamu. Yang kena penjara saya, yang kena telanjang saya. Sudahlah, saya dah maafkan.
"(Tetapi) yang kamu takut ini apa? Rupanya, dia takut saya nak r! ampas ha rta dia dan anak pinak dia," katanya sambil mengimbau detik-detik perselisihan beliau dengan Dr Mahathir sebelum dipecat daripada kerajaan pada September 1998.
Ramai kalangan rakyat Malaysia yang dibutakan dengan fakta. Mereka digelapkan daripada mengetahui kekayaan Dr Mahathir anak-beranak. Kita tidak menuduh beliau kaki rasuah, namun sewaktu beliau masih menjadi PM lagi, anak-anaknya didapati menguasai lebih 160 buah syarikat, mengikut dokumen daripada Pendaftar Syarikat.
Apa yang disebutkan Anwar harus dibongkar. Bagaimana mereka sekeluarga boleh memperolehi kekayaan mencecah puluhan bilion ringgit? Ini tidak harus kita diamkan.
Apa pun, Dr Mahathir adalah seorang pemimpin yang berjaya membangunkan negara. Beliau juga berjaya mendidik anak-anaknya, supaya berjaya dalam politik dan perniagaan.
Dr Mahathir adalah bapa mithali. Seorang bekas PM yang hebat dan bekas Presiden UMNO yang berjaya. Beliau berjaya kerana beliau dan anak-anaknya menguasai konglomerat terbesar.
Bukan sahaja di Malaysia. Khabarnya kekayaan mereka meliputi Filipina sehingga ke Buenos Aires, Argentina. Kita tidak tahu sama ada syarikat yang dikuasai mereka, meliputi negara-negara bekas jajahan Soviet Union seperti Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan dan lain-lain.
Justeru, seluruh anggota dan pemimpin UMNO harus mengambil contoh kejayaan Dr Mahathir, anaknya Mirzan, Mokhzani dan Mukhriz.
Anak sulungnya, Mirzan membuktikan bahawa beliau adalah Bumiputera yang berjaya, hasil didikan UMNO. Beliau adalah intipati daripada profesional yang berjaya, hasil doktrin perjuangan kebangsaan Melayu UMNO.
Mana tidaknya. Bukan senang orang Melayu hendak berjaya dalam perniagaan. Bukan senang kaum Bumiputera, anak seora! ng pemim pin Islam boleh menguasai syarikat yang bertaraf antarabangsa.
Seorang lagi anak Mahathir, Mokhzani, bekas bendahari Pemuda UMNO adalah pemilik Kencana Petroleum. Kencana merupakan salah sebuah dari tujuh syarikat yang mendapat lesen menggali minyak daripada Petronas. Bapanya, merupakan Penasihat Petronas. Ada sumber memberitahu kekayaan Mokhzani, hasil daripada syarikat minyaknya, mencecah RM1.6 bilion.
Anak bongsunya, Dato' Mukhriz, walaupun kerjaya politik tidak seberapa, bertanding merebut jawatan Ketua Pemuda UMNO joke kalah, tetapi dilantik menjadi timbalan menteri. Sekarang ini, beliau mencadangkan Mukhriz menjadi antara bakal calon Menteri Besar Kedah. Itu joke jika BN menang, kalau BN melingkup, tiada ada apa hendak dikata lagi.
Bercerita tentang kehebatan Mirzan. Beliau sebelum ini, menguasai syarikat antarabangsa Filipina, San Miguel Corporation, yang juga pemilik syarikat San Miguel Brewery Inc, pembekal dan pengedar minuman arak yang terbesar di negara tersebut.
San Miguel Brewery menguasai 95 peratus pasaran arak Filipina. Syarikat yang sudah mencecah satu abad itu, difahamkan turut mempunyai kilang arak serta kepentingan di China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand dan Malaysia. Menurut laman web San Miguel, ia mempunyai pasaran 60 buah negara di seluruh dunia.
Walaupun San Miguel turut terbabit dalam beberapa bidang perniagaan lain, tetapi yang jelas penglibatan Mirzan, selaku anak kepada bekas PM, anak bekas Presiden UMNO yang beragama Islam, yang partinya mendakwa parti Islam terbesar dalam Malaysia, mencetuskan banyak persoalan.
Hari ini rakyat Malaysia mempersoalkan pula, bagaimana Mirzan melalui San Miguel berjaya menguasai syarikat minyak Esso Malaysia. Esso kemudiannya menukar nama kepada Petron dan Petron diberi kontrak untuk membekalkan minyak kepada Syarikat Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS).
MAS sebelum ini mendakwa mengalami kerugian, kerana terpaksa menanggung kos bahan api yang dibekalkan oleh Petronas, dan Dr Mahathir selaku Penasihat Petronas.
Esso sudah 'direbranded' sebagai Petron selepas syarikat asal dari Filipina, Petron Corp yang merupakan sebahagian daripada syarikat milik konglomerat San Miguel menjadi pemegang saham terbesar Esso Malaysia dengan pegangan saham sebanyak 73.4 peratus.
Apa yang jelas hari ini, Putrajaya yang dipimpin Najib begitu membisu dengan penguasaan ekonomi yang semakin rancak oleh anak-beranak Dr Mahathir. Yang jelas, mereka semakin mendominasi ekonomi negara. Penuh dengan 'conflict of interest.'
Kita menggesa Putrajaya untuk memberi penjelasan bagaimana syarikat-syarikat yang merupakan aset penting negara, boleh dikuasai oleh entiti asing dengan harga belian di bawah harga pasaran sebenar.
Seperti yang ditegaskan Anwar, Najib harus membuat penjelasan kepada rakyat, mengapa semua urusniaga yang membabitkan Petronas, MAS, Petron dan sebagainya, dilakukan untuk kepentingan Dr Mahathir anak-beranak?
Bagi Dr Mahathir, beliau anak-beranak, boleh tersenyum bangga kerana mereka merupakan Bumiputera yang berjaya dalam perniagaan, dengan nilai syarikat-syarikat besar yang mereka kuasai mencecah puluhan bilion ringgit.
Tetapi bagi rakyat, kami tidak akan berpuas hati. Kami tidak akan mere! dai hart a milik negara diserahkan kepada syarikat kroni pemimpin UMNO. Harta rakyat bukan harta yang mudah-mudah hendak dibidak-bidak pemimpin UMNO anak-beranak.
Justeru kita menuntut Putrajaya memberi penjelasan segera. Kita juga menuntut Dr Mahathir dipecat daripada Petronas kerana pelbagai kepentingan negara diraih beliau anak-beranak. Negara akan musnah jika pemimpin UMNO dibiarkan untuk bebas sebegini.
Kayalah kamu, mewahlah hidup kamu wahai pemimpin UMNO! Itulah berkat daripada kilang arak San Miguel! Berkat dari perjuangan kebangsaan, tanpa mengira halal haram. Meminjam kata Najib di Felda tempohari, memang 'haram jadah'!
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