Can Gerakan rock Batu?

Dr Dominic Lau seems all set to close horns with PKR's 'street fighter' Tian Chua in a Batu parliamentary seat Teoh El Sen, FMT The Batu parliamentary subdivision has been described as a hot seat in a largely opposition-controlled Federal Territory even a current MP admits to that. Tian Chua, who is also a PKR vice-president, told FMT in a new talk which he was sure a going to be a hot seat yet in a same kick he expressed confidence which PKR will retain a ur ... Read More

Selangor's "manufactured water crisis" as Khalid steps in...

Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim has voiced that the state is to practice the right to take over the operations of state H2O concessionaire Syabas.

This is because it doubts the veracity of the explain behind thewater rationingexercisethat Syabas voiced on Saturday.

All seven dams in the state have been not usually full to capacity, but overflowing, Khalid told the press discussion in Shah Alam today.

"The state supervision has decided to make use of the energy underneath Clause 32 of the benefaction agreement to notify the sovereign supervision that you will step into Syabas' operations," he said.

It has sent the notice to the sovereign supervision which, as the celebration to the tripartite agreement, must give the nod, as well as to the inhabitant H2O services commission Span.

Khalid also pronounced the state government's advisors have indicated that the H2O necessity explain might have been manufactured.

He further highlighted the fact that Syabas:

- has unsuccessful to revoke non-revenue H2O below the contractual starting point of twenty percent;

- owes scarcely RM3 billion to the H2O diagnosis trickery operators; and

- has unsuccessful to invest in facilities as well as infrastructure to fulfill the shortcoming of provision competent H2O to the state

It was Syabas' disaster to deliver on the contractual responsibilities, as well as the likelihood of deception, that has stirred the state supervision to act, Khalid explained.

Asked what would occur if the sovereign supervision objects to the takeover, Khalid pronounced the state supervision will take the matter to court.

Oversight cabinet set up

Pending the response of the sovereign supervision as well as Span, Khalid voiced the creation of the cabinet to manage Syabas operations.

He pronounced Syabas will have to table daily reports to state secretary Mohamed Khusrin Munawi(left)and state H2O regulator Nordin Sulaiman, who is also State Water Management Board chief.

Water consortium Abbas will also be roped into the cabinet along with review firms, Halcroo, Suez as well as Wessex Water, that will review as well as determine Syabas' reports.

On Saturday, Syabas had voiced ! that it will apply to Span to control evident H2O rationing in Kuala Lumpur, Hulu Langat as well as Klang.

Syabas CEO Ruslan Hassan pronounced this was needed as reserves at diagnosis plants have been now down to about 2 percent compared to the twenty percent required to maintain! compete nt supply.

The company, that had been appointed by the BN-led state government, has been intent in an open tussle with the current Selangor supervision over H2O supply operations.

Selangor has claimed it is the victim of the unilateral stipulate as well as the antagonistic BN-linked contractor.

The company, meanwhile, has accused the state of preventing it from augmenting the H2O tariff, that has stopped it from improving the services.-malaysiakini

Catuan Air yang meragukan & Khalid Ibrahim mahu ambil alih operasi SYABAS...

Menteri Besar Selangor Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim mengumumkan bahawa kerajaan negeri itu mahu melaksanakan haknya untuk mengambil alih operasi syarikat pemegang konsesi air negeri - Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (SYABAS).

Katanya, ini kerana kerajaan Selangor meragui pengumuman cadangan catuan air oleh SYABAS kerana pengawal selia air negeri dan ahli lembaga pengarah SYABAS tidak dimaklumkan.

Bercakap dalam satu sidang akhbar hari ini, Khalid berkata, tujuh empangan negeri di seluruh Selangor mempunyai kapaisiti air yang cukup dan melimpah.

Berikutan itu, katanya, kerajaan negeri telah membuat keputusan mengunakan kuasa di bawah Klausa 32 dalam perjanjian konsesi untuk memberi notis kepada Kerajaan Persekutuan untuk Kerajaan Negeri "step-in" dalam operasi ! SYABAS.< /span>

Sementara itu, dalam satu kenyataan, Khalid menjelaskan, bagi menjaga kepentingan rakyat Selangor, kerajaan negeri telah meminta Datuk Setiausaha kerajaan negeri bersama pengawal seelia air negeri untuk memantau perkhidmatan air oleh SYABAS.

Jawatankuasa tersebut, katanya, akan minta SYABAS memberi laporan harian untuk menerangkan kedudukan air semasa.

Sementara itu, kata Khalid lagi, Konsortium ABASS juga akan diminta menyertai jawatakuasa ini yang mana syarikat itu akan memanggil pakar bebas yang berpengalaman semasa krisis air 1998 untuk memantau kesahihan laporan dan maklumat oleh SYABAS.

"Perlu ditekan di sini, keadaaan sekarang tidak boleh disamakan dengan krisis air pada 1998 kerana tujuh empangan negeri di seluruh Selangor mempunyai kapaisiti air yang cukup dan melimpah.

"Kerajaan negeri menggesa supaya proses penstrukturan semula industri air diteruskan dengan segera kerana SYABAS jelas tidak berkemampuan untuk memberi perkhidmatan air yang baik kepada pengguna,&q! uot; kat the Khalid.

Ini, tambahnya, jelas ditunjukkan apabila SYABAS setakat bulan April 2012, mempunyai tanggungan jumlah tertunggak kepada user rawatan air dianggarkan sebanyak RM2.8 billion.

"SYABAS juga gagal menurunkan kadar air tidak terhasil (non-revenue water) kepada 20%. Tambah pula, laporan awal review mendapati SYABAS tidak melaksanakan kerja-kerja capex (capital expenditure) mereka dengan baik," kata Khalid lagi.

Berdasarkan alasan di atas, katanya, maka kerajaan negeri telah sebanyak dua kali menghantar surat kepada Kerajaan Persekutuan pada nineteen Disember 2008 dan twenty-one Januari 2011 untuk membatalkan perjanjian konsesi tersebut.

"Oleh kerana Kerajaan Persekutuan tidak memberi sebarang maklum balas terhadap surat-surat tersebut, kerajaan negeri telah membuat keputusan mengunakan kuasa di bawah Klausa 32 dalam perjanjian konsesi untuk memberi notis kepada Kerajaan Persekutuan untuk Kerajaan Ne! geri &qu ot;step-in" dalam operasi SYABAS.

"Kerajaan negeri juga akan meneruskan usaha mencari sumber air alternatif seperti air bawah tanah dan menambah baik kapisiti loji rawatan air sedia ada dengan mengguna pakai teknologi terkini," katanya.-malaysiakini

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pariah vs. pariah

Well well what do we know....in Malaysia, being the Malaysian of remote Indian origins aka"pariahs"( me included though I'm getting ill of this word !) in politics as well as the single who knows how to sucks up to Barisan National equates to we get to own or be the categorical financier to run your own each day newspaper. That alone is enough to pump up the juices of these buggers with magisterial egos.

So there's an additional brand brand brand new journal in town. So what ? That as well by the short-assed ex-chauffeur to the aristocrat who had the angel tale ending by marrying the tycoon's divorced daughter as well as who went upon to get his entire estate. Good for him though not for which ugly no-good son of an ex-minister, Vel Pari, CEO of Tamil Nesan, the single of the stream 4 Tamil dailies, from bitching about it.

This is the reason why Malaysians of remote Indian origins aka pariahs, have been treated with colour the approach they have been treated with colour by the UMNO led BN. But I'd ask here, is not the BN supervision defending each propagandize starting child with the lap-top as well as iPad already ? Where the pariahs' young kids denied the lap-top or iPad each ? And isn't the journal an obsolete form of media already when each the single is upon the net already ? And we already have 4 UMNO suck-up newspapers in Tamil, owned by MIC pariahs to spin lies to these pariahs in the rural areas already so why an additional ?

But this hobbit Eswaran is crafty as the fox with the hemorrhoid. He's said to be tighten to Najib as well as insists his paper"Naam Naadu"(Our Nation) is starting to be the mouth-piece of the BN supervision ! That's large speak for the little hobbit, right ? He's selling his paper at RM1 as compared to the alternative 4, priced at RM1.30 as well as this has got which idiot Vel Pari son of Samy Vellu fuming. The idiot wants to monopolise the propaganda arm of Najib. But most of all he wants to say as"top suck-up"to UMNO as well as he cannot means competition. He prides himself as most appropriate ass-licker.....up compartment now.....until Frodo Baggins has done the pierce for which position.

Will this brand brand brand new journal have any disproportion ? Nothing solely which the already vocally passed political parties which own these newspapers and! claim t o hold up the pariahs will do nothing to lift up the stream conditions of the rural folks in estates or elsewhere who live below misery line as well as in squalor. News upon brand brand brand new Tamil pictures, movie stars as well as politics of India have been what fills the stream 6 to 8 pages of all 4 broad-sheets dailies as well as that's all which keep these compliant pariahs happy.

UMNO as well as BN has no worries about losing the undying faithfulness of these cheap pariahs. These have been the group who lead though with no dignity or pride. These pariahs have been fighting amongst themselves over pricing of newspapers though not the single of them dares to subject UMNO or Najib for the make make use of of of the word"pariah"printed in the propagandize text book"Interlok",which is used for novel in the schools for students in Form 4 or 5 wherein the author has claimed in the book which all Indians who originated from India though came to Malaysia (then Malaya) were of the pariah standing or the squalid untouchables !! Thus my loose make make use of of of the word to tenure all Malaysians of remote Indian origins, including yours truly ! Will th! is brand brand brand new paper brave to plunge into which as well as the alternative cow-head, temple as well as pendatang issues ? Naah !

Ahhh...but there was the single very cunning as well as divergent pariah who was the step forward of the rest. He was of Indian origins with an"a/l"("anak lelaki"meaning"son of so-and-so"...) upon his temperament card as well as the Muslim as well as taking flight in power....voila...he became an instant Malay as well as happily went upon to be prime minister for twenty-two years whilst giving corruption as well as injustice the brand brand brand new meaning as well as the approach of life in Malaysia. Today even he would sit behind as well as watch these pariah fools quarrel it out to be tip ass-licker as well as clap when they literally kill each alternative off, while doing their master's (read UMNO) dirty work for bits !

Senator T. Ananthan aka" taukeleh-man"of MIC....where the fcuk have been we again !

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Mana cerita projek infra Selangor RM15 billion?

The Star pernah melaporkan pada Februari 16hb 2012 rancangan besar kerajaan Selangor, berikut:Selangor to launch RM15bil in infra projectsPETALING JAYA: Selangor is approaching to launch about RM15 billion in infrastructure development projects over a subsequent dual years, pronounced State Executive Councilor, Dr Xavier Jayakumar.He pronounced of this total, about RM7.4 billion is for 3 to 4 brand new highways to

TEOH BENG HOCK - Gone BUT not Forgotten - VOTE WISELY AT GE 13

Who is this young woman as well as little boy?

Her name is Soh Cher Wei, as well as her son's name is Teoh Er Jia. They have been a widow as well as son of DAP aide Teoh Beng Hock. sixteen Jul 2009 was supposed to be a joyous day for Cher Wei, when she as well as her fianc Beng Hock were to go to have their marriage registered. Instead, Beng Hock was murdered by a "Anwar Ibrahim"-instructed MACC in a early hours of sixteen July, having been called in for 'questioning' a day before usually to be tortured as well as murdered when he refused to corroborate MACC's false evidence in to 'corruption' by a Pakatan Selangor state govt.

courtesy Clifford Tan ( w.i.w.c )

Let us all REMEMBER a injustice that has happened as well as may we all VOTE FOR CHANGE so that finally we could bring a little JUSTICE to TBH's family as well as to ALL Malaysians this upcoming 13th General Elections! [Curi]

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The question of housing (Part 2): Towards a sustainable solution

by Zairil Khir Johari The Malaysian Insider Jul 17, 2012 JULY 17 I have previously created about the housing situation in Penang, in that there is the sheer mismatch between supply and demand. This mismatch takes the form of an oversupply of housing stock at both the lowest and highest operation of income earners, [...] ... Read More

Kerajaan prihatin akan kehidupan rakyat

Tak banyak barang naik bila dikawal selia.Lain pula module kedai rakyat, kedai ikan rakyat, tayar untuk teksi, kain rakyat, kelinik rakyat, dll untuk memastikan monopoli oleh kaum tertentu tidak menyusahkan dan mencengkam rakyat kaum terbanyak demi keuntungan melampau.

DPM launches mini RTC centre

), a main member party of a statute Barisan Nasional coalition. Muhyiddin grew up in a state of Johor and joined a state public service after graduating from university.

PAS Cheats To Take Over Settlers' Shares

Not enough with forcing the supporters to stick on the Orange Rally, PAS additionally did it by fibbing to settlers.They even sell off orange as well as immature short, as if to ask so which FGV share could be suspended, though even PAS themselves are chasing after FGV shares.This is proven when Kedah government, ruled by PAS, confirmed which 500,000 FGVH shares which is provided by Ministry of International Trade as well as Industry (MITI) which was offered to Bumiputera. This matter was confirmed by Chief Executive of Kedah ... Read More

Another missing person

Najib is spending as well most money upon self-promotion.Hishamuddin spending as well most time fucking his boy.IGP spending as well most time catching antithesis members.No-one is worry about tellurian trafficking.In a meantime we can only pray. ... Read More

Sasterawan Usman Awang dalam kenangan

July 16, 2012

Sasterawan Usman Awang dalam kenangan

oleh Uthaya Sankar SB@www.themalaysianinsider.com

Sasterawan Negara Dato' Usman Awang meninggal dunia pada twenty-nine November 2001. Hampir sebelas tahun kemudian, apakah segala sumbangan bakti Allahyarham dalam bidang bahasa, sastera, seni dan budaya Malaysia masih dikenang?

Demikian persoalan yang timbul dalam minda saya pada eleven Julai 2012 apabila berpeluang bertemu dan berbual panjang bersama-sama Haslina Usman (anak sulung Allahyarham) dan suaminya, Abdul Rahim Affandi.

Usman Awang yang antara lain menggunakan nama pena Tongkat Warrant, Adi Jaya, Amir, Atma Jiwa, Manis, Pengarang Muda, Rose Murni, Setiabudi, U.A. dan Zaini dilahirkan pada twelve Julai 1929 di Kampung Tanjung Lembu, Kuala Sedili, Kota Tinggi, Johor.

Bagaimanapun, pada tahun ini, tiada apa-apa majlis untuk mengenang tarikh lahir beliau memandangkan pelbagai masalah besar menyelubungi UA Enterprises Sdn Bhd selaku pemegang amanah dan hak cipta karya-karya Usman Awang.

Hasil penelitian saya, masalah itu muncul susulan pementasan "Muzikal Uda & Dara" (MUDD) di Istana Budaya pada Julai 2010. Selepas dua tahun, khabarnya UA Enterprises berdepan kemungkinan diisytiharkan bankrap dan hak cipta muzikal berkenaan pula diambil pihak bank.

Saya dimaklumkan bahawa UA Enterprises dipelawa mementaskan "Muzikal Uda & Dara" untuk mengisi "Slot Sasterawan Negara" yang diwujudkan oleh Kementerian Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan (KPKK).

"Kami hanya setuju mementaskan apabila ada pihak yang bersetuju menjadi penaja utama. Persetujuan itu dibuat secara lisan. Kerana percaya akan penajaan ini, kami teruskan kerja-kerja produksi untuk mement! askan MU DD.

"Malangnya, penaja tidak meneruskan hajat itu beberapa bulan sebelum tarikh pementasan. Sewaktu itu, kami telah menggadaikan rumah, mula bayar produksi dan separuh jalan dalam produksi. Maka, pementasan terpaksa diteruskan," kata Haslina yang merupakan Pengarah Eksekutif UA Enterprises.

Saya sedia maklum bahawa beliau memohon Pinjaman Dana Industri Kreatif iaitu satu gabungan pinjaman antara KPKK dan sebuah bank ke arah membantu produksi seni persembahan dan pelbagai kesenian. Syaratnya melalui dua proses kelulusan iaitu kelulusan KPKK dan kelulusan bank berkenaan.

Antologi 'Keranda 152' (1968) diterbitkan semula pada 2002."Kami mendapat kelulusan pinjaman RM1.5 juta, iaitu bajet minimum; cukup-cukup sahaja untuk mementaskan MUDD. Jumlahnya besar kerana kebanyakan kemudahan di Istana Budaya telah rosak dan kami terpaksa menyewa berbagai peralatan yang memang mahal dari luar untuk pementasan tersebut," kata Rahim yang menganggur sejak seminggu lalu.

Rahim sebelum ini bekerja secara kontrak di sebuah stesen televisyen dengan gaji sekitar RM1,000 sebulan, manakala Haslina membuat kek untuk menyara keluarga. Anak-anak mereka pula terpaksa berhenti belajar dan bekerja akibat kesempitan kewangan yang sedang dialami.

Amat sukar untuk saya membayangkan bahawa waris yang sedang berusaha bersungguh-sungguh memelihara pusaka peninggalan seorang Sasterawan Negara berhadapan segala masalah seperti ini! Namun, berat mata memandang, pasti berat lagi bahu yang memikul.

Saya ada menulis mengenai legasi karya Usman Awang di akhbar Sinar Harian pada twenty-nine June 2009. Saya turut menyampaikan kertas kerja bertajuk "Antara KeMelayuan dan Kemanusiaan Sejagat: Sorotan Karya Usman Awang" sempena Simposium Lim Lian Geok dan Usman Awang: Nasionalis Malaysia yang Tulen anju! ran LLG Cultural Development Centre pada 19 June 2010 di Dewan Perhimpunan Cina Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor.

Usman Awang mula berkhidmat sebagai sidang pengarang majalah Dewan Bahasa di Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) pada 1962 sebelum dilantik menjadi pengarang majalah Dewan Masyarakat, Dewan Sastera dan Dewan Budaya.

Harus dinyatakan juga bahawa Allahyarham adalah individu pertama yang menerajui kepimpinan Persatuan Penulis Nasional Malaysia (PENA) iaitu pada 1962-65. Saya tidak pasti jika mana-mana persatuan penulis masih mengadakan majlis bagi mengenang tarikh kelahiran/pemergian Usman Awang.

"Pada tahun 1991-2001, ayah dilantik sebagai Ahli Jemaah Kolej Selatan; suatu pelantikan yang disifatkan oleh arwah sebagai pemangkin ke arah meningkatkan hubungan antara kaum dalam proses pembentukan Bangsa Malaysia," Haslina pernah menceritakan kepada saya sambil menambah bahawa Usman Awang juga dilantik sebagai Penasihat Sastera Maybank dari 1991 hingga 2001.

Pada tahun 1991, Usman Awang dianugerahkan Darjah Kebesaran Dato' Paduka oleh Sultan Perak, yang membawa gelaran Datuk.

Terdahulu, pada twenty-nine Mei 1976, Usman Awang dianugerahkan gelaran "Pejuang Sastera"; SEA Write Award pada tahun 1982; Ijazah Doktor Kehormat (Persuratan) oleh Universiti Malaya pada eleven Ogos 1983; Anugerah Sastera Negara yang membawa gelaran "Sasterawan Negara" pada tahun 1983; dan "Zamalah Sastera" daripada akhbar Berita Harian pada tahun 1985.

Usman Awang juga terlibat dalam penerbitan antologi sajak "Keranda 152" (1968) yang merakamkan penentangan kaum Melayu terhadap Akta Bahasa Kebangsaan 1967. Antologi berkenaan diterbitkan semula ("cetakan kedua") pada 2002 sebagai merakamkan penentangan kaum Melayu terhadap Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Ingge! ris (PPS MI).

Namun, apalah gunanya segala sumbangan Usman Awang terhadap bahasa pada saat kita dikejutkan dengan berita bahawa UA Enterprises mungkin terpaksa "dibungkus" dan hak cipta "Muzikal Uda & Dara" bakal tergadai!

Hasil risikan, saya mendapat maklumat bahawa walaupun pinjaman bank yang diluluskan adalah RM1.5 juta, namun pada twenty Julai 2010 tarikh akhir pementasan MUDD di Istana Budaya bank terbabit hanya memberi RM900 ribu.

"Bayangkan, betapa peritnya kami terpaksa meminjam sana sini untuk menampung kos produksi dan membayar segala macam kos," kata Haslina sambil menahan air mata apabila saya ajukan soalan berkaitan perkara itu kepada beliau.

UA Enterprises sebenarnya mahu mementaskan muzikal tersebut sekali lagi supaya mampu membayar balik pinjaman bank.

"Bank minta tunjuk pelan cadangan untuk pementasan kedua itu. Setelah kami tunjuk cadangan kami, mereka membuat keputusan menarik balik pinjaman RM900 ribu kerana pihak Istana Budaya belum memberi tarikh untuk pementasan," kata Rahim pula yang ternyata agak emosional mengenangkan segala apa yang berlaku.

Khabarnya Haslina juga mengirim surat kepada Ketua Setiausaha KPKK untuk meminta bantuan. Adakah surat rayuan itu menerima apa-apa balasan atau reaksi? Pasangan suami-isteri itu tidak mahu memberi komen apabila saya ajukan pertanyaan itu.

"Apabila semua jalan buntu, saya menulis kepada Menteri KPKK, Datuk Seri Utama Rais Yatim pada 2 Februari 2012. Saya mendapat jawapan segera! Beliau sangat prihatin tentang nasib karya tersebut dan memberitahu bahawa tindakan selanjutnya akan diambil oleh pihak KPKK," Haslina memberikan jawapan alternatif.

KPKK khabarnya memanggil beliau untuk bermesyuarat dan Haslina diberi jaminan bahawa MUDD akan dipent! askan se mula di Istana Budaya dengan kerjasama KPKK.

Saya masih tidak mampu menarik nafas lega kerana pada realiti, hasil maklumat dari sumber dalaman, belum ada sebarang tarikh ditetapkan oleh Istana Budaya bagi pementasan semula yang dimaksudkan.

Pada masa sama, pihak bank sebenarnya sudah memberi notis twenty-one hari untuk UA Enterprises menjelaskan hutang RM900 ribu. Hak cipta karya "Muzikal Uda & Dara" yang dicagarkan itu kini berdepan dengan kemungkinan besar diambil alih oleh pihak bank.

Sementara itu, tidaklah menghairankan jika pelbagai pihak (individu, persatuan, agensi) yang kononnya berjuang demi maruah, hak, karya, bahasa, sastera, seni, kaum dan sebagainya, terus berdiam diri dan memberikan alasan "tidak tahu" mengenai perkara ini. Saya teringat akan kata-kata Usman Awang: "Musuh orang-orang Melayu bukanlah orang-orang Cina, dan musuh orang-orang Cina bukanlah orang-orang Melayu, tetapi musuh kita bersama ialah kemiskinan, ketidakadilan "

* Uthaya Sankar SB adalah pemilik tunggal Perunding Media, Motivasi dan Penerbitan Uthaya serta presiden Kumpulan Sasterawan Kavyan (Kavyan).

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July 16, 2012 www.nst.com.my Inequality inhibiting Growth? by

July 16, 2012

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Inequality inhibiting Growth?

by Raghuram Rajan

TO assimilate how to achieve a sustained liberation from a Great Recession, we need to assimilate a causes.

First, overall direct for goods as well as services is most weaker, both in Europe as well as a United States, than it was in a go-go years before a recession.

Second, most of a mercantile gains in a US in brand new years have gone to a rich, whilst a center category has depressed during a back of in relations terms. In Europe, concerns about made during home income lack of harmony are compounded by angst about lack of harmony in between countries, as Germany roars ahead whilst a southern periphery stalls.

Progressive economists argue that a weakening of unions in a US, together with taxation policies favouring a rich, slowed middle-class income growth, whilst traditional transfer programmes were cut back. With incomes stagnant, households were encouraged to borrow, generally opposite home equity, to maintain consumption.

Rising residence prices gave people a apparition that augmenting wealth corroborated their borrowing. But, now that residence prices have collapsed as well as credit is taken to underwater households, direct has plummeted.

The key to liberation is to taxation a rich, enlarge transfers as well as revive worker incomes by enhancing union negotiate energy as well as raising smallest wages.

But countries similar to Germany that reformed work laws to emanate some-more flexibility for employers, as well as did not raise salary rapidly, appear to be in improved mercantile shape than countries similar to France as well as Spain, where work was improved protected.

S o consider an pick explanation: starting in a early 1970s, modernized economies found it increasingly formidable to grow. Countries similar to a US as well as a United Kingdom in a future responded by deregulating their economies.

Greater foe as well as a adoption of brand new technologies increasing a direct for, as well as incomes of, highly skilled, talented, as well as prepared workers doing non-routine jobs similar to consulting. More routine, once well-paying, jobs done by a inexperienced or a moderately prepared were automated or outsourced.

The short-sighted political reply to a anxieties of those falling during a back of was to palliate their entrance to credit. Faced with small regulatory restraint, banks overdosed upon unsure loans.

While differing upon a base causes of lack of harmony (at least in a US), a progressive as well as pick narratives agree about a consequences.

The pick narrative has some-more to say. Continental Europe did not deregulate as much, as well as elite to seek expansion in greater mercantile integration. But a cost for protecting workers as well as firms was slower expansion as well as aloft unemployment.

While lack of harmony did not enlarge as most as in a US, pursuit prospects were terrible for a young as well as unemployed, who were left out of a stable system.

The appearance of a euro was a seeming boon, because it marked down borrowing costs as well as authorised countries to emanate jobs through debt-financed spending. The crisis ended that spending, withdrawal a heavy spenders indebted as well as uncompetitive.

The critical difference is Germany, accustomed to low borrowing costs even before it entered a Eurozone. Germany had to contend with historically high unemployment, stemming from reunification with a sick East Germany.

In a euro's initial years, Germany had no choice though to reduce worker protections, extent wage increases as well as reduce pensions as it attem! pted to enlarge employment. Germany's work costs fell relations to a rest of a Eurozone, as well as a exports as well as gross made during home product expansion exploded.

The pick view suggests opposite remedies. The US should concentration upon assisting to tailor a preparation as well as skills of a people being left during a back of to a available jobs.

Rather than profitable for any required spending by raising taxation rates upon a rich, that would hurt entrepreneurship, some-more thoughtful across-the-board taxation reform is needed.

For a uncompetitive parts of a Eurozone, constructional reforms can no longer be postponed. But it is not politically possibly to do everything, including unpleasant mercantile tightening, immediately.

In a nutshell, a elemental Eurozone quandary is: a periphery needs financing as it adjusts, whilst Germany, indicating to a post-euro experience, says that it cannot trust countries to reform once they get a money.

The Germans have been insisting upon institutional change, some-more centralised Eurozone control over periphery banks as well as supervision budgets in sell for expanded entrance to financing for a periphery. Yet, institutional shift will take time, for it requires clever structuring as well as broader open support.

Europe might be improved off with stop-gap measures. If confidence in Italy or Spain deteriorates again, a Eurozone might have to resort to a traditional overpass in between weak credibility as well as low-cost financing: a proxy International Monetary Fund-style monitored reform programme.

Such programmes cannot dispense with a need for supervision resolve, as Greece's travails demonstrate. And governments hate a implied detriment of government as well as face.

As a reformed Europe starts growing, parts of it might knowledge US-style inequality. But expansion can provide a resources to address that. Far worse for Europe would be to equivocate serious reform as well as relapse in to egalitar! ian as w ell as genteel decline. Japan, not a US, is a e.g. to avoid. Project Syndicate

Raghuram Rajan is a former chief economist of a international Monetary Fund as well as is highbrow of finance during a University Of Chicago

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Indias Jeev Milka Singh wins the Scottish Open 2012

July 16, 2012

Jeev Milha Singh wins 2012 Scottish Open Championship

"I consider God has been kind, as well as we consider a margin came behind as well as we put myself in a to go in for a playoff I'm really fortunate."-Jeev Milkha Singh

(CNN) India's Jeev Milkha Singh claimed his fourth European Tour career title upon Sunday after winning a playoff opposite Italy's Francesco Molinari during a Scottish Open.

The 40-year-old snatched feat with a birdie during a initial additional hole to renovate Molinari who had proposed a last turn during a Castle Stuart Golf Links with a one-stroke lead.

The win additionally equates to Singh has booked a place during a Open Championship which starts upon Thursday.

"I consider God has been kind, as well as we consider a margin came behind as well as we put myself in a to go in for a playoff I'm really fortunate," Singh said.

The Indian golfer has struggled with behind problems in recent years which have left him feeling frustrated, he says.

"You feel similar to your game is coming behind as well as an additional damage creeps up, though we only stuck myself in there as well as said which we need to work upon a physical side, as well as we worked tough upon that. Everything has paid off, as well as we only wish to consider about a great things as well as not what's past as well as we wish to demeanour towards a future now."

Singh proposed a day five shots off a lead though clawed! his way behind into row with a five-under standard turn of 67 to finish a tournament upon 17-under par. Molinari shot a last turn 72, only securing a playoff with a birdie during a 72nd hole.

But a Italian couldn't repeat a feat upon a same immature a few mins later, withdrawal his birdie putt reduced before Singh holed out from fifteen feet to claim a 518,046 (US$ 635,000) initial prize.

Molinari, who additionally accomplished runner-up during last weekend's French Open, will be anticipating he can go a single improved during Royal Lytham & St Annes subsequent week.

Earlier, Scotland's Marc Warren had hold a two-stroke lead with 3 holes to play, though a three-putt contributed to a stand in bogey during a 16th which he followed with a bogey during a 17th.He would eventually finish joint-third with Sweden's Alexander Noren (70) upon 16-under par.

England's Matthew Baldwin accomplished a shot serve behind upon 15-under standard scored equally with Soren Kjeldsen from Denmark as well as France's Thomas Levet. Phil Mickelson (US) had a disappointing last turn of 74 dropping behind to tie for 16th.The four-time vital champion was in great company though.

England's Luke Donald (73) accomplished a tournament upon a same total, as did Ireland's Padraig Harrington (71) who will be seeking to win a third Open Championship after his back-to-back successes in 2007 as well as 2008.

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Prime Minister Najib Razak plays the Islamic Card

July 16, 2012

Prime Minister Najib Razak plays a Islamic Card

by Ivy Sam as well as Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times (13-07-12)

Prime Minister Najib takes a Big Gamble with Malay Muslims

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia First came a banning of a happy arts legal holiday as well as a book "Islamic Sex." Then a cancellation of U.S. singer Erykah Badu's unison after a broadside photo showed her with an "Allah" tattoo.

Next on a criminialized list was British writer Peter Mayle's sex-education book "Where Did we Come From?" and, in May, "Allah, Liberty & Love" by liberal Muslim romantic Irshad Manji, which calls for remodel as well as greater toleration inside of Islam.Although state religious officials in Malaysia say preventing citizens' bearing to "un-Islamic" books, authors as well as entertainers is a moral necessity, antithesis leaders offer a different view: It's largely about domestic power.

With polls suggesting a recent erosion in await for Prime Minister Najib Razak as well as a statute party, quite between younger, tech-savvy voters, a supervi! sion has been working overtime to solidify the await between a country's Muslim Malay majority. And a single way it has done that, analysts said, is by fanning fright of secularism as well as a widespread of religions alternative than Islam.

"That is because we see a strong attempt to win them over by being ultra-religious," pronounced Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa, authority as well as executive of a Islamic Renaissance Front think tank, who believes Malaysia's differences should be celebrated, not condemned. "We can't handle or think similar to a 7th century Muslim. We have been already in a 21st century."

Critics charge which stepped-up appeals to "Islamic values" by a statute United Malays National Organization celebration might expect a incomparable cost, dividing society, eroding Malaysia's significant accomplishments as well as undercutting a certainty it enjoys between foreign investors.

"Malaysia's repute has been dented for most years by these shortsighted attempts to win local votes," pronounced Ooi Kee Beng, emissary executive of a Singaporean-based Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. "It's never what's great for society, rsther than what's great for a party."

Those tighten to a statute party, together with former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, counter which messy morality as well as a diseased palm at a circle could hint ethnic assault as well as social disorder.

"When we open up things, we become liberal," Mahathir told a Agence France-Presse headlines make use of in a Jun interview. "We need a supervision which is firm."

In late April, scarcely 250,000 people marched through Kuala Lumpur, a capital, calling for giveaway as well as satisfactory elections, rattling a statute party.

State religious scholars condemned a dem! onstrati ons as well as issued an edict, or fatwa, against Muslims participating in travel protests.

Muslims make up 60% of Malaysia's 28 million people, whilst Christians comment for about 9%. Several churches were firebombed in Jan 2010 after a country's tall court allowed a Catholic Church to make use of a term "Allah" in Malay translations of a Bible.

The country also has large ethnic Chinese as well as ethnic Indian communities which chafe underneath rules guaranteeing Muslim Malays preferences in politics, commercial operation as well as education.

New York-based writer Manji pronounced she knew trouble was brewing when her scheduled mid-May book talks in Kuala Lumpur were canceled at a final notation for "security reasons," which she attributes to supervision vigour as well as "extremist groups which infrequently pass themselves off as mainstream."

After a last-minute scramble, she as well as her publisher found a single community center peaceful to host her, defying a Home Ministry pledge to retard her public appearances.

Days later, as word widespread which she had pulled an finish run, a book was banned, copies seized as well as her Malaysian publisher, Ezra Zaid, was briefly arrested by State Islamic Affairs officials after he threatened to challenge a anathema in court.

"This emanate here is some-more than only banning a book," Zaid said. "It exposes a fact which these religious agencies believe they can action in a lawless conform in a name of Islam."

For her part, Manji pronounced she's not quite astounded which Malaysia criminialized her book, only which it did it so soon.

"Malaysia is really most fighting for the soul," she said. "Governments, for a sake of order as well as stability, have been equating governing body with faith." "The great headli! nes is w hich most immature Malays have been not descending for this," she added. "There's zero true about it."

mark.magnier@latimes.com

Special correspondent Sam reported from Kuala Lumpur as well as Times staff writer Magnier from New Delhi.

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On Faith and Reason:Personal Reflections

July 16, 2012

On Faith as well as Reason:Personal Reflections

by Ahmad Fuad Rahmat (07-13-12)

Religion is not just a set of rules; it is a source of definition as well as purpose, a foundation for integrity as well as virtues. It is a area of prophets, heroes, myths, angels as well as miracles featured in absolute narratives of delight as well as redemption.

For many, religion's low reaching personal inflection has finished it a available compass for "justice", however defined. In a most appropriate of times it can inspire us to adore a world, to see a happiness of others as unequivocally most a part of a boundless plan. In a misfortune of times, you boomerang as well as hold upon to sacrament identical to a shield, you do all you can to find each verse, line, hate as well as memory in a convention to have us harder, stronger if not colder as well as some-more resistant to shift or influence.

Religion additionally stays a constrained option to most for a guarantee of transcendence. For some, this transcendence takes a form of an omnipotent God. For others it is a aloft star or approach of being than a a single gifted each day. It is towards which transcendence which conviction is felt as well as directed.

I use a word "faith" in this case, in a most general clarity to meant a acceptance of truths though any need of evidence: which is to say, receiving for postulated as "true", claims which you cannot determine by a senses. By that, a single would be right to contend thatall tellurian beings, in any box of belief, live a single approach or another, with a small degree of faith. But matters have been offer complicated when it comes to religion. For it renders conviction not just an perspective though additionally a measure of char! acter. I slam is a good example of this: Muslims have been not usually to have conviction in God's existence, though which unequivocally conviction is additionally to guide us towards a dignified hold up though which you would supposedly be erratic aimlessly.

That has been a theme of most disbelief newly with most suspecting, with good examples, which Islam is an unfair faith: they indicate to a actuality of a slow welcome of gender equality, leisure of conscience as well as alternative ways of hold up as justification of Islam's fundamental inability to evolve as well as residence formidable questions in a fast changing world. This observation can get rather simplistic as well as crude during times though frequency is it completely fake or insignificant. One need not look offer than Malaysia to find examples: you competence be complicated in a range of things you can buy as well as places to shop, though a sheer support, overpower as well as indifference, expressed not long ago towards a deportation of a small Tweeter to his possible death suggests a good understanding of work which needs to be done. We exaggerate of farrago though a word Allah cannot be used by non-Muslims. All this says small of a fury which surfaces when a theme of conversion is raised.

The Limits of Progressive Islam

Progressive Muslims, in embracing democracy as well as tellurian rights have finished a good understanding to distance themselves from a misfortune injustices committed by Muslims: We disagree which it is not a place to decider where as well as who God's mercy or rage will fall. We protest crimes committed in a name of Islam to emphasize a faith's egalitarian as well as compassionate essence. We disagree which even a Qur'an, God's words, must be accepted contextually. The indicate emphasized time as well as time again is which a complaint is not a sacrament Islam though Muslims themselves.

Our work nonetheless is still fundamentally limited: First, you areonly wit h a capacity, as well as in factonly with a interest, to shift a approach a source is interpreted though not a source itself. This competence be a trivial thing to contend though a import is distant reaching. Try as you competence to show which Islam regards both genders as of equal worth as well as dignity, you still have to live with a passages which suggest otherwise.

Try as you competence to disagree which Islam is during heart egalitarian, you must as a Muslim still nonetheless accept, as well as to a sure border appreciate, a hymn which verbalise of crucifixion. We can present sophisticated ways to downplay a stress of sure cryptic verses though you cannot surgically remove a intensity which those verses competence still be review to clear a most unfair laws.

This conundrum has constrained Asma Barlas to ask a brave question: "edged upon [by doubtful critics], you wondered either a Qur'an itself is obliged for it's misreading. After all, since should a text bear no responsibility for how it is read, as well as since should it not expect a probability of a misreading, as a result abuse?" She was of march to answer her subject with a no, advocating a need for assimilate to regularly be guided by justice. But a net outcome of her worry is worth noting: a most which can be aimed for is not a eradication of blind conviction though a small taming.

Rational intervention

Atheists, doubtful of even a on-going Muslim project, explain which a complaint is not blind conviction though a inlet of conviction itself. Like it or not, even a most on-going as well as in accord with Muslim will have to concur which a good understanding of Islam's basic claims (about a end of a world, an afterlife, a life of angels, heaven as well as hell, as well as so forth) can usually be accepted upon faith. Moreover, a Qur'an which a majority of Muslims additionally regard as a miracle address, unscientifically, questions which have been some-more credibly ex! plored b y science, such as a circuit of a sun, a start of a star as well as a cause of natural disasters.

Atheists fix up a complaint not in a unfair use of Qur'anic verses though a unequivocally need of conviction itself, in a impulse to find a transcendent or boundless law which cannot conform to complicated final of rational inquiry: This, a non-believer or dubious would claim, is where a injustice unequivocally begins.

This is additionally since rationality stays a standard bearer for complicated legal institutions: Empirical justification over a in accord with doubt, instead of what you cruise God competence have conspicuous by a frequency formidable text has rightly spin a elite method of last a person's shame or innocence. Furthermore, since which all religions pretence their own standards of right as well as wrong which dispute with a single another, it makes sense, in a name of justice, for a judiciary to assume, insofar as it is able, a rational standpoint.

Secularism

History has shown which this rational, non-religious, worldview tends towards a investiture of a physical state, whereby a excesses of eremite domestic ambitions have been controlled if not out altogether. This is unequivocally most amodern development, pioneered in "the West", whereby a delight of scholarship as well as reason over sacrament as well as damned is viewed as a era of Enlightenment, as justification of man's march towards leisure as well as fulfillment.

But a story has not been so simple. As Rached Ghannouchi conspicuous recently, a plea starts with a being which secularism as well can be oppressive. The abominable examples of Syria as well as North Korea as unfair physical states have been viewable enough. But for a some-more concrete case, cruise a hijab anathema in France, which set a direction for a subsequent anathema in most a! lternati ve European countries. This, as you know was undertaken for most explicit as well as implicit reasons, a single of which being a ostensible invulnerability of women's rights. But even a most physical feminists were during pains to assimilate which if which was unequivocally a case, since identical conflict was not destined towards pornography, which has clearer imprints of misogyny.

The contingent anathema of minarets in Switzerland additionally demonstrated a border to which physical laws could arise out of undiscerning fears. Too most examples compel a subject if a physical supervision unequivocally means a just government.

In this, you should stop which for all a bona fide claims of rationality's advantage over faith, there has nonetheless to be any experimental justification for tellurian rights, generally if you take them to be "natural" as well as "inalienable". Let us additionally stop which a Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted with a ruins of a Second World War unequivocally most in a foreground, when a total star witnessed how a European Enlightenment's ostensible delight of reason as well as record led to global imperialism, Auschwitz as well as Dresden.

I am of a idea which a state should be as a divorced as possible from eremite control, which in a name of justice, law creation should sojourn neutral as well as not privilege any sold religion. But you additionally cannot, in good conscience, ignore a being which physical pride has proven to be as dangerous as eremite conceit.

Reason should be appreciated for what it can clarify, though it should not be overrated for what it can promise. Reason trumps faith, though usually by a small as well as gossamer margin. Faith, in turn, should be traversed for a amazing hope as well as impulse it can reap, though whatever heated passion therein should not be so simply insincere as truth.

Reason is to be prized not since it is perfect though because, as Muhammad Asad reminded us many, most times, a c! onvictio n would not be finish though it: it would not have clarity though it. Faith as well as reason have been absolute experiences though they have been not separate, graphic worlds in themselves.

The rapacious of this preferred of march stays a distant out destination for Muslims since a domestic realities which have been moulding a mindset. Indeed, it is a most painful irony of a stream era of Islam which a good understanding of conflicts which have seen a significant retrogression has zero to do with sacrament during all. The Israeli occupation of Palestine is not about Jews opposite Muslims though land. The American fight upon Afghanistan as well as Iraq is not a latter day updating of a Crusades though an exercise in imperial omnipotence towards a carry out of natural resources.

We should additionally stop which it was in a trauma as well as turmoil of a American as well as Soviet scramble for Afghanistan which a Taliban's misogynist code of Islam took shape. In such examples, you find which a misinterpretation of Islam, some-more mostly than not, is a effect, not a cause. The conflicts competence bear vivid evidences of eremite racism a call to virginity as well as an uncompromising lapse to convention as it was initial revealed though frequency is which not additionally constrained by broader domestic insecurities: war, a detriment of land, fright of a alternative as well as so forth.

An result can be drawn to shed light to a Malaysian context: a actuality which Muslim temperament in Malaysia has spin so married to, in actuality inseparable from, a bulletin to protect Malay privileges says a good understanding of a ethnic insecurities which color a appreciation of theDeen.

Beyond Faith as well as Reason

Indeed, a misfortune manifestations of injustices inside of a eremite or physical horizon can offer as an in effect reminder of a emanate during stake, as well as which is a being of a imperfections.

"The fanatic" competence cruise which their steadfast convictions in their self-imposed separation from alternative cultures as well as influences, or their ready as well as available threats of force have been a demonstration of their power. But this in being is zero though an even some-more conspicuous dissimulation of their weakness for since review to force or separation if they unequivocally have been in carry out of a situation?

The need for conviction is a unequivocally delicate, as well as for some, an all-consuming experience. For a believer, to be faithless is to be empty, to feel thrown in to hold up with no clarity or purpose. That hundreds of millions of tellurian beings around a star have been in need of conviction as a crutch to go upon vital says a good understanding about a tellurian condition, namely of a defect in character with which you exist. We find transcendence since possibility as well as nothingness have been as well most for us to bear. We need a God or a aloft energy since you have accepted a serious stipulations as mortals.

Limitations have been not in themselves bad: a fulfilment of what you cannot do upon a own, propel us to need as well as conclude others. It strengthens family groups as well as enables communities to flourish. This is a actuality of a amicable existence: God is self-sufficient in faith of zero or no a single else. We have been not God. It thus follows, which a vulnerability, a genuine as well as dire need for a single an additional is usually human.

Strength as well as power, since this reality, is not totalled in alienating others, though in a border to which you can work together towards building a just society. It is a fulfilment which there have been truths as well as possibilities over a confines of a own culture, convention as well as egos as well as a capability to try those possibilities with no fright or threat. We have been ! usually truly in energy you can usually denote a carry out of a incident if this can occur peacefully.

In a stream usage probity refers to fairness, in alternative words, a extenuation of what's due or deserved. The complaint starts of march in a most ways which integrity can be defined: integrity yes, though according to whom as well as with regards to what, exactly? In a complex, globalized star as a a single you live in today, no a single group, chairman or enlightenment should monopolize a answer to which question.

Faith afterwards can be a positive force when it addresses a being which a probity you merit as members of a usual humanity is not a single of punishment or retribution though a building as well as repairing of tellurian trust. Given a being of a condition, as people of faith, you must overcome a insecurities towards finding a horizon whereby you can eventually verbalise as well as see a star though fear.

In this, it could unequivocally well be a box which a plea towards a Muslim conviction is not rationality or secularism so most as love, in a need for us to transcend a strenuous need for virginity as well as authenticity, as well as to conclude others in all a ambiguities as well as uncertainties which could produce as most a part of a star a God created.

(This essay was additionally published byHarakah Daily and a Malaysian Insider.)

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The Sun respects its Readers

July 16, 2012

The Sun respects a Readers

R. Nadeswaran

"THE only thing truthful in newspapers these days have been a obituaries since publishers direct to see a death certificate as well as keep records of a advertiser.

There're dual some-more that have been also truthful a 4 digit lottery results as well as a request times."

THESE were a remarks done by professionals we met in Penang last week upon choice to provide a extensive report upon bank development upon a island. They no longer hold a newspapers as well as rely upon news portals for what they termed as "accurate information".

There was small to counter what they pronounced though we steadfastly confirmed that this journal lives by a tenet revelation it as it is. For a good measure, it was definitely pronounced that we have been a single of a couple of newspapers that rehearse a policy of right of reply.

I have reiterated in this column that we do not design everyone to determine with what we have to say. The right to remonstrate is unquestionable. There have been a accumulation of reasons why individuals have their own perceptions. Some have their own principles or conscience; there have been those who have a disdain for a writer, publisher or owner; there have been those whose provision as well as incomes have been affected; a little find it unsuitable when difficult questions have been put brazen as well as there have been a horde of alternative reasons.

There have been most in a fraternity who see it as their calling to educate, surprise as well as entertain a public upon counts inspiring them. Sticking to their beliefs, a little have ! walked o ut when they have been forced to do something to a contrary. There have been distant too most examples to illustrate this point.

Journalists as well as their contention have come under serious conflict in a recent past. And it could be pardonable depending upon who is saying it as well as a evidence that can be produced to behind such claims.

With documents in a receive display reporters being paid for writing "positive" reports as well as having seen editors as well as reporters in action, sometimes, we have to determine with a critics.

In a 70s, we met George Devan at KL Hilton's Tin Mine. He snapped a design of me as well as delivered it to a office. He was an word agent though never done any sales pitch as well as prior to festivals, he published advertisements with his photograph that said: If we consider of George Devan, do not consider about insurance, though if we consider of word consider of George Devan."

I have not seen him for years as we am told that he shuttles in between his homes in California as well as Bangsar though when Parliament had a initial sitting in 2008, memories of George Devan (left) came back.

An editor turned up in Parliament House with dual photographers in tow as well as they were snapping cinema of their boss posing with MPs as well as ministers. we do not thoughts if it was for his in isolation collection or if he had wanted to do a "George Devan" or they were to be used if any MP, in a future, climbed up a ladder. That's since in a past, there have been cinema of editors as well as reporters with VIPs upon in isolation yachts as well as dinners a way of revelation readers that he or she is upon first-name basement with a high as well as mighty.

Under these circumstances, when we put your name to an article that is viewed as propaganda, a! conclus ion that readers come to have been inevitable. And when editors roll in glee at a set-back of their counterparts as well as use it to elevate themselves, a reading public passes a own judgment.

Journalists similar to alternative human beings have been not infallible. We have a strengths as well as weaknesses; we have a ups as well as downs; we have good days as well as bad days. Not all of us go out to spin or doctor stories to suit a paymasters. But when we put coop to paper, a thoughts have been regularly upon a readers.

We provide a readers as intelligent, associating as well as well-informed people who can make educated decisions based upon a information prior to them. The rain comes when reporters (and editors) consider they can shape opinions by stuff oneself unconstrained fluff as well as receiving their readers to be having less than normal intelligence.

The generalisation of a contention in that all have been painted with a same brush is astray to most practicing reporters who manipulate their traffic in an honest, fair as well as acceptable manner. There have been most between us who mount up to partisan editors who have their own agendas as well as ambitions.

And finally, reporters have been merely conveying a message. Columnists similar to me want to convey a summary as well as infrequently take a personal mount upon issues. You have a right to remonstrate as well as no a single can take that right away from you.

R. Nadeswaran is editor (special as well as inquisitive reporting) at theSun as well as can be reached at: citizen-nades@thesundaily.com

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Bersih witness: Cops barred Muslim detainees from praying

Police arrest Bersih demonstrators during the convene for giveaway as well as fair elections, in Kuala Lumpur Apr 28, 2012.File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 The military denied Muslims detainees their right to pray after impediment them during Bersih 3.0, the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) exploration upon the Apr twenty-eight convene was told today.

Suhaimi Suratman, the second declare in today's hearing, pronounced he as well as other fellow Muslims were denied accede to pray while being held by the military during the Royal Selangor Club.

According to him, the military officer shouted during the detainees to say, "If we want to pray, go to the mosque. This is not the mosque."

Suhaimi additionally related an additional situation during the apprehension area where the PAS Unit Amal member in the movement's signature maroon was beaten by dual trade policemen.

He added which the womanlike healing officer was additionally prevented from regulating the toilet while she had been detained.

Suhaimi additionally asserted which military had verbally abused as well as annoyed the detainees.

"A law enforcemetn officer dared me to quarrel back as well as used profanities upon me as well as the others detained," Suhaimi said.

He sustained the broken nose during the chaos though was denied any healing assistance while in detention, he told the panel.

Suhakam currently additionally recalled the declare from the July 5 hearing, who presented multiform photographs as justification to support his progressing testimony.

Malaysian Red Crescent Society of Malaysia volunteer Khairul Anwar Pawanchik, 60, from Kuala Lumpur had formerly testified which he saw the Chinese male being injured by the concertina hoop barricades which had been erected around Data! ran Merd eka.

"The hoop was the most dangerous kind which exists. This is from my experience as the former armed forces officer," he pronounced in his previous testimonial.

He additionally described the organisation of about twenty policemen upon motorcycles trying to stop the throng from entering the historic square.

"One of the policemen was station while roving with one hand upon the hoop while an additional hand was land the pistol," he added.

"The policemen were ostensible to stop the throng from moving in to Merdeka Square as well as not try as well as terrorise the crowd," he said.

"The cinema are foolproof justification of my sworn statement which the law enforcemetn officer brandished the pistol while roving his motorcycle. we additionally submitted the design of the spiny hoop the military had used as the barricade during the Bersih 3.0 rally," pronounced Khairul.

The exploration is directed during last either any violations of tellurian rights were committed opposite any person or party during as well as after the scattered convene for giveaway as well as fair elections upon Apr 28.

The exploration panel led by Suhakam vice-chairman Datuk Dr Khaw Lake Tee as well as aided by commissioners Professor Datuk Dr Mahmood Zuhdi Abdul Majid as well as Detta Samen will be interviewing some twenty-two witnesses over the duration of twenty-two days.

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PM Najib solicits public proposals for Budget

A shade constraint shows partial of Najib's personal website, 1malaysia.com.my.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 16 Datuk Seri Najib Razak has invited Malaysians to experience in a Budget 2013 discussions by contributing ideas as well as sharing their suggestions as well as views online from today to Jul 29.

The budding apportion pronounced a height was an opportunity for everyone to contention their ideas as well as input for a consideration of a Finance Ministry.

The open may contention their opinions by clicking upon a appropriate place upon a ultimate posting upon Najib's blog, 1malaysia.com.my, underneath a topic "Budget 2013: you Want Your Views".

"On a 28th of September, you will list a National Budget for 2013 upon behalf of a federal government in my genius as finance minister. you hold it is critical that a rakyat (citizens) be given an entrance to voice their ideas upon how you can most appropriate move this nation brazen upon a world stage, socially as well as economically.

"As with previous years, you am seeking brazen to finding uninformed ideas as well as intensity solutions from my associate Malaysians," Najib pronounced in his blog.

The budding apportion pronounced a discussions would concentration upon several topics, such as cost of living, open security, skill prices, a role of girl in economic development, food production, a entertainment as well as beautiful industry, as well as alternative prominent issues that affect a people.

"Currently, reduction than 10 per cent of Malaysians compensate tax. So a pass challenge you have is to enlarge as well as renovate a revenue base to ensure that a bill deficit is kept to a manageable level as well as that you do not spend beyond a means," he said.

To achieve this, he said, it is necessary to concentration both upon sens! itive ma de at home investment as well as attracting unfamiliar investment through a Economic Transformation Programme (ETP).

"We have already made a strong begin a IRB (Inland Revenue Board) collected RM110 billion of revenue last year that has enabled us to account pass services to help people, such as a BR1M (1 Malaysia People's Aid) as well as book vouchers.

"To keep this momentum up, you need everyone to contribute their ideas. So, you entice you to experience in a Budget 2013 discussions," he said. Bernama

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Mall security to get police training, says Hisham

Shopping malls which declined to experience in a confidence precision will be named as well as shamed, pronounced a minister. File pic

PUTRAJAYA, July 16 More than 25,000 confidence guards operative during selling centres throughout a nation will be given precision by a Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) during military precision camps in efforts to tackle rapist cases during such premises as reported by a media lately.

Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein pronounced a precision module would be developed as shortly as possible based upon a module used by a military as well as a Ikatan Relawan Rakyat (Rela) so which it could be implemented in a nearby future.

"The categorical thing is to change a mindset as well as a willingness to work together since a confidence crew is already there as well as they have been being paid by a owners of a malls, so by upgrading it, it will usually be better," he told reporters after a assembly with military force's top leadership, a ministry's National Key Result Area (NKRA) unit, owners of selling centres as well as other stakeholders to overcome rapist cases, during his office, here today.

Hishammuddin pronounced that, during a moment, three large selling centres have already stated their joining to join in a programme.

He pronounced which whilst participation in a precision programme would not be compulsory, he would display a names of selling centres which wished to join a programme as well as those which did not.

"Let a open decide since it is a single thing asking a military to do this as well as that, though what is their shortcoming as well as here you have been not asking them to occupy some-more people, you have been only asking them to come for training," he said.

Hishammuddin additionally refuted which a measures were taken since! of a ta ll crime rate, though some-more towards credible a people which a ministry was critical in rebellious rapist cases which occurred in a country.

"It is not a issue of a crime rate being tall or low. The subject is a open must feel safe. The index of crime is there for anybody to see, though if a people do not understand it to be protected enough, you might have to revoke a index even further.

"The beauty of our proceed underneath a transformation programme is removing all a stakeholders upon house as well as this time you have been removing a private sector," he said.

Asked upon a matter by former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan upon a crime rate, Hishammuddin he pronounced he accepted it with an open mind as well as welcomed his views as well as ideas upon rebellious rapist cases in a country. Bernama

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The Age of Romanticism, Enlightenment and Reason

So, as you said, it is not only about electoral reforms as well as about choosing by casting votes in a new government. It is not only about choosing by casting votes in a corrupt-free (or obtuse corrupt) government. It contingency additionally be about domestic reforms. And Malaysian ruling body sucks. We shall only be exchanging a single control-freak supervision for an additional control-freak government, despite a less depraved one.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Dear RPK,

You have make use of of a term 'political reform' as well as assume which everyone understands what it means. Well, I, honest to goodness, don't assimilate what you mean by a word 'political reform'. Maybe a definition is viewable to you, though as an engineer, a word 'political reform' is not partial of my daily vocabulary. you suspect awaiting a layperson to assimilate a definition of 'political reform' is similar to awaiting a non-engineer to know what a definition of, say, a 'pressure relieving device'.

you did read throughThe People's VoiceandThe People's Declarationyou attached, though nowhere in those documents does it insist what is meant by 'political reform'. So may be you should insist a definition of a word so that, you know, we'll assimilate what a hell you're trying to say.(A comment by 'Petman')

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The Age of Romanticism

Romanticism is an international inventive as well as philosophical transformation which redefined a elemental ways in which people in Western cultures suspicion about themselves as well as about their world.

The Romantic Movement was distinguished in Eng! land as well as Germany. The early Romantic duration to illustrate coincides with what is often called 'The Age of Revolutions'-- including a American (1776) as well as a French (1789) revolutions -- an age of upheavals in political, economic, as well as amicable traditions, a age which witnessed a initial transformations of a Industrial Revolution.

The Romantic Movement influenced not only literature, though all of a arts -- from song to painting as well as from cut with a chisel to architecture. (1)

The Enlightenment as well as The Age of Reason in Philosophy

Western Europe's ceremony of reason, reflected only vaguely in art as well as literature, was precisely voiced in a set of pensive ideas well known collectively as a Enlightenment. It was not creatively a renouned movement. Catching upon initial among scientists, philosophers, as well as a little theologians, it was then taken up by literary figures who widespread a message among a center classes. Ultimately, it reached a common people in simplified terms associated with renouned grievances.

The many elemental concept of a Enlightenment were conviction in nature as well as belief in tellurian progress. Nature was seen as a complex of interacting laws ruling a universe. The individual tellurian being, as partial of which system, was written to action rationally. If giveaway to exercise their reason, people were naturally good as well as would action to serve a complacency of others.

Accordingly, both tellurian goodness as well as complacency required freedom from needless restraints, such as many of those imposed by a state or a church. The Enlightenment's formidable hostility towards organised sacrament as well as dynamic kingdom reflected a disdain for a past as well as an desire to foster utopian remodel schemes. Most of a thinkers believed sexually in tellurian swell by education. They suspicion society would turn undiluted if people were giveaway to hav! e make u se of of their reason.

Voltaire personified a questioning toward traditional sacrament as well as a injustices of a Old Regimes. His caustic pen brought him dual imprisonments in a Bastille as well as even banishment to England for 3 years. On returning to France, Voltaire a single after an additional to hold up toleration as well as actively crusaded opposite a church. He turned out hundreds of histories, plays, pamphlets, essays, as well as novels as well as an estimated association of 10,000 letters.

The most appropriate well known of all a philosophers was Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Although believing in a general objectives of a Enlightenment, Rousseau distrusted reason as well as science. He gloried in tellurian impulse as well as intuition, trusting emotions rsther than than thought, a heart rsther than than a mind. He additionally avowed indebtedness for 'noble savages', who lived completely giveaway of law, courts, priests, as well as officials. In his numerous writings, he spoke as a rebel opposite all dynamic institutions. The many famous of these works,The Social Contract(1762), was Rousseau's complaint of absolute monarchy. It began with a stirring manifesto: "Man is innate free, though today he is everywhere in chains."

Immanuel Kant, a contemplative professor of truth during a German University of Konigsberg, was thoroughly aroused by a distrustful as well as materialistic extremes of a Enlightenment. While appreciating scholarship as well as dedicated to reason, he dynamic to shift truth behind to a more sensible in front of but giving up most of a newly discovered 'rational' basis. His ideas, contained primarily in theCritique of Pure Reason(1781), ushered in a new age of pensive idealism. (2)

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Well, 'Petman', Mr Engineer, you certitude a excerpts above helps you, to a sure extent, assimilate what is required when y! ou talk about domestic reforms. If you need to read more then greatfully go to a links below.

you suspect you have been starting to contend which my 'explanation' has created even more confusion to your engineering mind. That would probably be utterly true since a subject of domestic reforms is a difficult subject as well as not simply addressed in 4 or five pages. Nevertheless, concede me to attempt to summarise a emanate in a briefest possible manner.

Different thinkers as well as philosophers see a emanate of domestic reforms by opposite lenses. you have mentioned only a few names above nonetheless it is not confined to only these few. Basically, you have been talking about a revolution of a mind. We need to mangle out of what you would cruise 'the dynamic norms'. We need to 'think out of a box', so to speak. We need to mangle from tradition. We cannot keep you do a same thing as well as expect a opposite result.

The supervision needs to only govern. Laws have been passed by Parliament, a lawmakers. Then a supervision machine implements as well as enforces these laws. And which is where a role of supervision ends. The supervision contingency not dictate how you think. We contingency be giveaway to cruise a way you wish to cruise as well as lead a hold up you wish to live. The supervision contingency not decide how you live a lives.

As what Voltaire pronounced in 'The Social Contract', "Man is innate free, though today he is everywhere in chains." Basically, male creates his own prison. We incarcerate ourselves.

Government, in sold a Malaysian government, is about control. Religion is additionally about control. Thus, in Malaysia, you have dual groups which have been trying to carry out us -- a supervision as well as religion. And this is what Malaysian ruling body is all about, carry out by a supervision as well as religious control, in sold in counts concerning Islam.

Hence, sacrament is heavily embedded in Malaysian politics! , as it used to be in a west 200-300 years ago. And Malaysia is 'one up' upon a west. We have competition as a third component in Malaysian politics. Thus you have a supervision which tells us it knows most appropriate what is good for us as well as everything which you contend as well as do contingency take sacrament as well as competition into consideration.

A fourth component in Malaysian ruling body is a Monarchy, as it was in a west 200-300 years ago. We still have laws which have it a crime to verbalise out opposite a Monarchy, or what a Malaysia supervision would cruise as 'inciting hatred opposite a Monarchy'.

So you finish up with a control-freak complement of supervision with race, sacrament as well as a Monarchy as factors which establish what you can as well as cannot contend as well as do. And if you conflict any a single of these you will finish up in jail. (Remember a 3 Rs, race, sacrament as well as Raja-raja, a stuff which Perkasa is done of?)

The supervision decides what you can as well as cannot read. Books have been banned. School textbooks have been rewritten as well as only a central supervision chronicle is allowed. We cannot read books upon Atheism or Communism. We have been not authorised to turn a Communist or Atheist. We will get arrested, especially Muslims.

We cannot have a 'civil partnership', especially Muslims. We cannot have a happy marriage. We cannot contend which sacrament is a myth. We cannot generate a finish of a Monarchy as well as a creation of a Republic of Malaysia. We cannot insist which a competition of a children be entered as 'Malaysian' upon their bieing born certificates. The 'race' contingency be noted.

So there have been only so many things which you cannot say, do, read, believe in, etc. The supervision decides everything. We need a supervision which will get out of a lives as well as leave us alone. Run a country. Enforce a laws. Maintain a assent as well as fortitude of a country. Then leav! e a rest to us.

Many contend you need to kick Umno out, definition additionally Barisan Nasional. Hence, to do that, you need to opinion in Pakatan Rakyat. But is Pakatan Rakyat starting to be any opposite from Barisan Nasional?

Sure, you contend which Barisan Nasional is highly corrupted. Pakatan Rakyat is not so bad. The turn of crime in Pakatan Rakyat is very low. But which is seeking during things from only a single angle, corruption. Is which all there is to using a country, a corrupt-free government?

Would you be happy with a corrupt-free supervision if nothing else changes? Politics is still competition as well as religion-based. You have been still not giveaway to select a lifestyle which you want. You have been still not giveaway to believe what you want, whether it is religious doctrine (like apropos an Atheist) or domestic doctrine (like apropos a Communist). The supervision still decides, whether Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Rakyat.

Hence you need to know, before you vote, what type of supervision you have been starting to get. Okay, you will be getting a corrupt-free supervision (or obtuse hurtful government) if you opinion in Pakatan Rakyat. But is which enough? Is which all you want?

What is Pakatan Rakyat's in front of upon all a alternative issues? Once you opinion in Pakatan Rakyat as well as a rampant as well as blatant crime ends, what then? Will gays be giveaway to get married? Can Muslims modify to Christianity? Can you revitalise a Communist Party of Malaysia? Can you write articles in await of a Republic of Malaysia? Can you write books debunking religion? Can a functions of Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, etc., be partial of a propagandize syllabus? Will Malaysia uphold a Secular complement of government? Can Islam be removed as a sacrament of a Federation as well as can a Constitution sojourn wordless upon a make a difference of religion? Will it still be imperative for a CEOs of a Federation as well as a States to be Malays-Mu! slims?

So, as you said, it is not only about electoral reforms as well as about choosing by casting votes in a new government. It is not only about choosing by casting votes in a corrupt-free (or obtuse corrupt) government. It contingency additionally be about domestic reforms. And Malaysian ruling body sucks. We shall only be exchanging a single control-freak supervision for an additional control-freak government, despite a less depraved one.

We need to be free. Currently you have been not giveaway even if you shift a domestic party in power. And Pakatan Rakyat has not promised us any changes alternative than obtuse corruption. Reducing or expelling crime is only a initial step. It is only a beginning. But currently you have been treating which as if this is a finish game.

That should not be a finish game. So Pakatan Rakyat needs to discuss it us what a finish diversion is starting to be. At a moment which is not transparent as well as even Anwar Ibrahim, a 'Prime Minister-in-waiting', does not brave discuss it us.

FOOTNOTES

1.http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html

2.http://history-world.org/age_of_enlightenment.htm

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