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Guan Eng gesa Kristian bersuara pada ketidakadilan

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Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng berkata, penganut Kristian tidak harus berdiam diri walaupun merasakan mereka tidak bersalah, suci dan tidak terlibat dalam perbuatan salah.

Bercakap di hadapan 300 pemimpin gereja, Lim berkata, walaupun penganutnya bertanggungjawab di hadapan tuhan, penting untuk

Land grab, Malaysian-style


Land squeeze is non-discriminatory; Malaysians from all racial, eremite as well as amicable strata have been affected.
COMMENT
By Thomas Fann
This is not the brand brand brand new issue, in fact it is twenty-one years old.
It all began when the Barisan Nasional government, with the overwhelming majority in Parliament, passed by 99 to twenty-five votes the 1991 Land Acquisition Amendment Bill, or Act A804. The rephrasing of sections of the Land Acquisition Act 1960 essentially gave incontestable energy to state governments to seize in isolation land for growth by in isolation companies as well as individuals. Lands creatively acquired for open purposes can additionally be used for in isolation development.
Before Act A804, land could usually be acquired for open purposes or for open utilities similar to building of roads, schools, hospitals, pipelines, water or energy plants, etc. With the addition of "for any role which in the opinion of the State Authority is beneficial to the mercantile growth of Malaysia", no land is safe.
The term "beneficial to the mercantile growth of Malaysia" is as subjective as we can get. A square of land can be acquired to build the posh five-star hotel, an amusement park or the golf resort given in the opinion of the supervision it would move in the tourist dollar as well as emanate jobs for locals, not to mention enriching the in isolation companies which would, of course, be paying taxes.
To unequivocally have the Land Acquisition Act water-tight for the acquirer, Section 68A says which acquisitions cannot be invalidated by reason of any kind of ! successi ve disposal or have use of (etc) of the acquired land.
This brand brand brand new provision aims during preventing the acquirer or the supposed role from being challenged in court. You can usually challenge the quantum of the remuneration offered, the measurement of the land area, the chairman whom remuneration is upon credit to, as well as the dividend of the compensation.
The leader of the antithesis then, Lim Kit Siang, in opposing Act A804, gave this dire warning: "When it becomes law, it will destroy the constitutional right to skill enjoyed by Malaysians for 34 years given Merdeka, as well as turn the mother of all corruption, abuses of power, conflicts-of-interest as well as reprobate malpractices in Malaysia"
Was Kit Siang just over-reacting or scare-mongering when he pronounced which or is it the prophecy which was as well as is being over compartment today?
A brand brand brand new ball game
The procedure for the passing of Act A804 was for the merger of 33,000 acres of land in the Gelang Patah area for the building the whole of the second couple with Singapore as well as the building the whole of the brand brand brand new municipality by UEM, wiping out nineteen villages as well as displacing 10,000 people.
The Johor state supervision charity the influenced smallholders remuneration averaging RM26,000 per acre or 64 sen per sqe ft, far next the afterwards market worth of RM100,000 per acre for rural land.
In the successive civil suit by the single of the influenced landowners opposite the supervision of Johor in 1995, it was suggested which the auxiliary of Renong was charity the dictated growth for sale during RM17 per sq ft, the whopping 28 times some-more than what the original landowners got!
For the glance in to the little of the backroom wheeling as well as traffic which went upon with these deals, the single should read the justice papers of cases simi! lar to " Honan Plantations vs Govt of Johor'; as well as "Stamford Holdings vs Govt of Johor". Names of important personalities similar to Muhyiddin Yassin, Syed Mokhtar Albukhary as well as Yahya Talib in tip meetings were mentioned.
For the Second Link as well as the categorical road which linked it to the North-South Expressway to be built, the Land Acquisition Act was necessary. To be fair, remuneration had to not usually take in to comment the afterwards prevailing market worth though additionally the detriment of provision for the people who used to live off the land.
With Act A804, the supervision seized the lot some-more land than was mandatory for the law as well as immigration complex as well as the highway. We can safely contend it seized almost 24,000 acres some-more for the in isolation corporation, UEM, albeit it is the GLC (government-linked corporation).
Today, UEM Land, as the master developer of the 23,875-acre Nusajaya (as the acquired land is right divided called) boasts of the huge landbank as well as potential billions in profit from the development. We wish to ask this simple touching question: whose lands were these originally, as well as what about the 10,000 over influenced villagers? Shouldn't these people be beneficiaries of growth as well as not the victims? Perhaps the little of the villagers have been right divided working in Legoland, who knows?
While the little of the people behind the scenes went upon to grasp high bureau as well as the little done it to the top 10 billionaires list, thousands of alternative indistinguishable Malaysians have been without land as well as opportunities.
Land squeeze is non-discriminatory: Malaysians from all racial, eremite as well as amicable strata have been affected.
Gelang Patah was just the predecessor to the brand brand brand new ball game called Land Grab as well as the same modus operandi was used for Seremban 2, Bandar Aman Jaya in Sungai Petani, Pantai Kun! dor/Pant ai Tanah Merah as well as Paya Mengkuang in Melaka, Kerpan in Kedah, Sepang in Selangor, lands acquired for the MRT project, Jalan Sultan, local prevalent lands in the Peninsula, Sabah as well as Sarawak, as well as many, most more.
Of course, not all mandatory acquisitions have been unfair or not justifiable; though there should be the satisfactory as well as unskewed entrance for aggrieved landowners by the justice complement to question certain acquisitions.
The courts right divided have been somewhat constrained by Act A804, as well as in almost all cases such acquisitions have been not reversed.
The Pengerang grab
Twenty years on, the same script is being acted out in Johor again (a BN stronghold), this time to the east in Pengerang.
A sum of 22,500 acres of land have been being acquired for the growth of the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex (PIPC). The anchor plan in this proposal is Petronas' RAPID plan which requires the sizeable 6,424 acres.
Smallholders as well as plantations have been being charity between RM1.80 psf as well as RM8 psf for their land.
Can Pengerang be called Gelang Patah 2.0 where again, upon the pretext of development, the huge tract of land is being taken from their original landowners as well as placed in the hands of the single or the few rich individuals as well as corporations? Is the PIPC the categorical play or is skill speculation the categorical play?
Would the same budding minister who mooted the Third Link to Singapore in 2009 have the proclamation again after all the land has been acquired? Who have been the approach beneficiaries of such development?
All these have been so "legal" which the single supervision official after another is spewing out which it is done scrupulously under the terms of the Land Acquisition Act 1960. It competence be legal, though is it moral?
Prime Minister Najib T! un Razak done the statement during the launch of the sixth International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities Conference in Kuala Lumpur upon the Oct 4, 2012: "Is the unbridled as well as cruel pursuit of extraordinary profits the form of corruption? we hold which if we see crime as essentially the moral problem, therefore anything which promotes selfish interest during the expense of the contentment of others is implicitly wrong. It was empty [tasteless] self-interest as well as fervour which was indeed during the heart of corruption. "
Mr Prime Minister, we could not determine with we more.
How much is enough for the greedy? How most some-more poor as well as without protection villagers contingency be forcibly replaced as well as attacked of the fruits of growth to prove the insatiable appetites of the miserly who uses the Land Acquisition Act to enrich themselves? Who will verbalise up for the thousands who will be landless as well as most without the means of livelihood?
It is immorality when the law is crafted to take divided land from the poor without their consent, satisfactory remuneration or share in the benefits so which the few competence have it to Forbes' list of billionaires. We should all be foaming during the mouth with anger during this injustice though instead we just appreciate God daily which it is not the land they have come to take, during least not yet.
Thomas Fann blogs atwww.newmalaysia.org
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Najib's Google Hangout ends in disaster...


How renouned is prime apportion Najib Razak? According to the brand new consult by University of Malaya's Center for Democracy as well as Elections (UMCEDEL), his recognition rating stood during 58 per cent.

But judging by the series of dislikes received for the YouTube video of his initial live interactive event upon Google Hangout, the consult formula could lift doubts.


Weeks after opposition personality Anwar Ibrahim's own GoogleHangout session, it was Najib's turn to horde the live interactive event upon October 3 to take questions from netizens.

"Google hangout is the brand new medium. Tonight we done history, to me this is really encouraging. In usually the single hangout similar to this, millions of Malaysians can watch as well as attend in to my message," Najib had declared.

His hour-long event however saw him taking usually five questions.

The recorded video for the #TanyaNajib event was posted upon YouTube, as well as immediately drew thousands of 'dislike' votes. Not long after, the video was barred from open perspective as well as went into 'private' mode.

A shade image showed the series of 'dislikes' stood during 1,409 as well as 'likes' during 605.

The video was later re-posted upon YouTube by others. A posting upon the YouTube channel ofAstro Awaniattracted 52,076 viewers during press time, with the whopping 13,037 viewers clicking 'dislike' compared to 332 who 'liked'.

Another YouTube channel 'CliffyTRGx3' recorded 1,653 viewers, entertainment 261 'dislikes' against the small sixteen 'likes'.

And naturally, the pages where the video appears have been flooded with criticisms as well as mean remarks ! about Najib, such as because he h! ad been refusing the open discuss with Anwar, as well as over his deficiency this week during the bill discuss in parliament.
-harakahdaily


TanyaNajib : Dikritik di Twitter & Youtube

Sebelum ini bagi komuniti di Internet contohnya, kita boleh perhatikan program #TanyaNajib telah dipromosikan cukup meluas, ada iklannya di mana sahaja termasuklah menggunakan saluran pengiklanan besar seperti Google Adsense dan pengiklanan di Youtube termasuklah promosi secara berterusan di media arus perdana. Akhirnya pada hari yang dinantikan.

TanyaNajib1 TanyaNajib : Dipuji & Dikritik di Twitter & Youtube. Apakah Pula Soalan Anda Kepada Datuk Najib? Dalam keadaan kami menonton yang disiarkan secara langsung melalui Google Hangout di YouTube.di Youtube, secara tiba-tiba video #TanyaNajibtelah diletakkan pada standing "private".

Kami tidak pasti, adakah yang datang menonton video tersebut semata-mata mahu menekan butang "dislikes" atau mahu menonton sebenarnya. Yang mana satu?


Rakaman Youtube sesi #TanyaNajib 2013 yang dimuat naik saluran NjoiawaniDISINI(saksikan sebelum diprivatekan semula)melalui Google Hangout malam tadi menyaksikan Najib tewas teruk kepada Anwar berdasarkan jumlah li! ke/desli ke.

Sementara Anwar yang merupakan pemimpin pertama di Malaysia dan Asia Tenggara memanfaatkan Google Hangout pada 17 Oktober lalu,setakat ini, menerima jumlah similar to sebanyak 1,394 manakala be vexed hanya 164.Rakaman dimuat naik di saluran 'Anwar IbrahimDISINI.


TanyaNajib : Reaksi Rakyat Malaysia di Twitter

Kami sempat memerhatikan satu persatu twitter yang dihantar. Kami sempat merakam beberapa tweet, ada soalan yang serius tetapi sebenarnya banyak juga yang terkeluar daripada topik asal mengenai Bajet 2013. Terlalu banyak twitter yang dihantar. Beribu jugalah..antaranya ialah :

TanyaNajib Twitter TanyaNajib : Dipuji & Dikritik di Twitter & Youtube. Apakah Pula Soalan Anda Kepada Datuk Najib?

TanyaNajib Bajet 2013 TanyaNajib : Dipuji & Dikritik di Twitter & Youtube. Apakah Pula Soalan Anda Kepada Datuk Najib?

Tanya najib TanyaNajib : Dipuji & Dikritik di Twitter & Youtube. Apakah Pula Soalan Anda Kepada Datuk Najib?
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UMNO/BN TO INTRODUCE GST

It seems which a current "Barisan Nasional"/BN will "without notice" introduce a GST. The Budget 2013 is an additional indicator.

UMNO/BN have never been LISTENING to a rakyat although they openly claim which they will listen to a final of a people.

Should we opinion for "Barisan Nasional"/BN if they go on NOT TO LISTEN to a people?

- MiLoSuaM
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EXPOSED!. Modus Operandi of UMNO to recapture Pakatan Rakyat States (Part 2)


READ as well as CIRCULATE!


Modus Operandi gerakerja UMNO adalah berpunca dari beberapa kelemahan:

Faktor2 kelemahan
Adakah Pakatan Rakyat turut mengalami masalah sama di bawah?
UMNO menyedari budaya feudalisme adalah faktor kelemahan utama. Pakatan Rakyat?
TO BE CONTINUED
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ANWAR LAUNCH BOOK ENTITLED "PENDDEDAHAN DI PARLIMEN" ON 9 OCTOBER 2012!!!!!



Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be launching the book entitled "Penddedahan di Parlimen" on 9 October 2012 that is the compilation by KPRU Executive Director Ooi Heng.

The eventuality will be hold during 16 Floor, Yayasan Selangor during 8pm.

You can squeeze the book for RM28 by emailing him during ooiheng@gmail.com or from some bookstores.
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Romneys sick joke, Go Forward with Obama

October 6 2012

Romney's ill joke, Go Forward with Obama

by Paul Krugman

"NO. 1," declared Mitt Romney in Wednesday's debate, "pre-existing conditions are lonesome underneath my plan." No, they aren't as Romney's own advisers have conceded in a past, as well as did again after a debate.

Was Romney lying? Well, either which or he was creation what amounts to a ill joke. Either way, his attempt to deceive electorate upon this emanate was a biggest of most dubious and/or dishonest claims he done over a course of which hour as well as a half.

Yes, President Barack Obama did a particularly bad pursuit of responding. But I'll leave a entertainment criticism to others as well as speak instead about a emanate which should be during a heart of this election.

So, about which ill joke: What Romney essentially proposes is which Americans with pre-existing conditions who already have illness coverage be allowed to keep which coverage even if they remove their pursuit as prolonged as they keep profitable a premiums.

As it happens, this is already a law of a land. But it's not what any one in genuine life means by having a illness devise which covers pre-existing conditions, because it relates usually to those who conduct to land a pursuit with illness word in a initial place (and are means to maintain their payments notwithstanding losing which job).

Did I mention which a series of jobs which come with illness word has been usually declining over a past decade?

What Romney did in a debate, in alternative words, was, during best, to fool around a word diversion with voters, pretending to suggest something concrete for a uninsured whilst essentially offering nothing. For all practical purposes, he simply lied about what his policy! proposa ls would do.

How most Americans would be left out in a cold underneath Romney's plan? One answer is 89 million.

According to a non-partisan Commonwealth Foundation, that's a series of Americans who lack a "continuous coverage" which would have them eligible for illness word underneath Romney's dull promises. By a way, that's some-more than a third of a US race underneath 65 years old.

Another answer is 45 million, a estimated series of people who would have illness word if Obama were re-elected, though would remove it if Romney were to win.

That estimate reflects dual factors.First, Romney proposes repealing a Affordable Care Act, which means we do divided with all a ways in which which law would help tens of millions of Americans who either have pre-existing conditions or can't afford illness word for alternative reasons.

Second, Romney is proposing extreme cuts in Medicaid basically to save income which he could have use of to cut taxes upon a rich which would deny necessary healthcare to millions some-more Americans. (And, no, notwithstanding what he has said, we can't get a care we need only by starting to a puncture room.)

Wait, it gets worse. The true series of victims from Romney's health proposals would be most larger than either of these numbers, for a integrate of reasons. One is which Medicaid doesn't only provide healthcare to Americans too young for Medicare; it additionally pays for nursing care as well as alternative necessities for most comparison Americans. Also, most Americans have illness word though live underneath a redundant hazard of losing it.

Obamac! are woul d eliminate this threat, though Romney would move it back as well as have it worse. Safety nets do not only help people who essentially fall, they have life some-more secure for everyone who competence fall.

But Romney would take which confidence away, not only upon healthcare though across a board.

What about a explain done by a Romney confidant after a discuss which states could step in to pledge coverage for pre-existing conditions?That's unsteadiness upon most levels. For one thing, Romney wants to eliminate restrictions upon widespread word sales, depriving states of regulatory power.

Furthermore, if all we do is need which word companies cover everyone, full of illness people will wait for until they're ill to sign up, heading to sky-high premiums.

So we need to integrate regulations upon insurers with a order which everyone have insurance. And, to have which feasible, we have to suggest word subsidies to lower-income Americans, which have to be paid for during a sovereign level.

And what we end up with is precisely a illness remodel Obama sealed into law.

One could instruct which Obama had done this indicate effectively in a debate. He had every right to jump up as well as say, "There we go again". Not usually was Romney's explain fundamentally dishonest, it has already been at length debunked, as well as a Romney campaign itself has admitted which it's false.

For whatever reason, a President didn't do that, upon healthcare or upon anything else. But, as I said, never thoughts a entertainment criticism. The actuality is which Romney attempted to mislead a public, as well as he shouldn't be allowed to get divided with it. New York Times-The New Straits Times


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A Budgets responsibility

October 6, 2012

A Budget's responsibility

Posted upon 4 Oct 2012 05:45pm
Last updated upon 5 Oct 2012 12:57am

by Tricia Yeoh@www.thesundaily.my

OVER a past two weeks, several papers were unveiled for open scrutiny. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak tabled Budget 2013 for discuss in Parliament a week ago, as well as PR Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim released a Pakatan Rakyat Shadow Budget 2013 two days earlier.

The bill discuss in Parliament has been reduction than substantive, especially given a fact which no cupboard ministers were in a chambers during Anwar's reply to a budget.

The bill is radically a pass monetary request which indicates how much of a national funds will be outlayed for a following year. Together with a Auditor-General's Report traditionally tabled at a same time as a bill though which has been delayed two weeks for a second time running as well as a Economic Report, these 3 papers form a magnitude against which a open evaluates supervision performance.

For 2013, a federal supervision will outlay RM251.6 billion, an increase of 2.3% from this year's bill of RM246 billion (including a extra bill amount).

Fiscal responsibility

One main plea of a bill is to find a right balance in between open spending as well as national savings. Although it is reported which you have accomplished a lower bill necessity of 4.7% of GDP in (the initial half of) 2012, a country is running a bill necessity for a 16th uninterrupted year. More alarmingly, a open debt has grown to RM502.4 billion, 53.7% of GDP, which is a highest in a history as well as just subsequent a orthodox debt limit of 55%.

To exercise mercantile! shortco ming is to ensure income is some-more than sufficient to finance expenditure. But this in itself presents a conundrum. Because oil as well as gas income contributes some-more than a single third of a Federal supervision revenue, as well as these have been non-renewable as well as unsustainable over a prolonged term, alternative income streams ought to be solicited.

The inexhaustible 100%, 10-year tax holidays given to Tun Razak Exchange (TRX)-status companies as well as competent companies in inorganic substance refinery activities, would positively not assistance to generate a single some-more revenue.

Although not without delay mentioned, Najib's bill debate alludes to a introduction of a GST, where "the passing from a single to another from income-based taxation system to a some-more comprehensive as well as satisfactory taxation system will in a future good a rakyat". It is unclear as to when or how this will be executed, as well as some-more report would be welcome. It might not, however, be a most appropriate time to deliver a steep taxation scale given an inconstant global mercantile outlook which will affect Malaysia.

On a note of transparency, a supervision has depressed into a use of tabling exorbitant extra budgets during a separate parliamentary sitting. This equates to actual spending is always higher than a volume tabled during a bill debate each year, an unhealthy use which should be stopped.

People-friendly

The tenure "people-friendly budget" has been used almost annually, as well as this year has been no exception. Given which this is Najib's last bill prior to a subsequent general election, there were something good to eat for comparison sectors. For instance, a 73.4! % increa se of growth output is allocated to "agriculture as well as farming development". This comes with a believe which Barisan Nasional 's traditional supporters distortion in a hinterland as well as smaller towns.

However, review this with a significant rebate in growth output upon "social services", a fall of 18.5% compared with a year before. Of this, a supervision will outlay RM6.49 billion value of growth output upon "education as well as training" in 2013, 24.1% reduction than in 2012. Since a supervision is about to launch fresh programmes stated inside of a Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025, a single would have imagined an even higher increase of growth output upon preparation in a entrance year.

Much happening has additionally been made about a Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia 2.0 (BR1M), a one-off RM250 cash handout to "single unmarried people aged 21 as well as on top of as well as earning not some-more than RM2,000 a month". The supervision will outlay RM3 billion to finance this populist gesture. (The initial instalment was double this amount, of RM500).

Although slated as assisting to increase disposable income, one-off payments have been frequency helpful in a prolonged term. It is additionally symptomatic of a failure of existent mechanisms inside of a manage to buy to increase now suppressed wages as well as purchasing power.

Structural reform

Although a bill indicates government's monetary spending, it is not a usually request which governs open services as well as a economy. The 10th Malaysia Plan (2011-2015), as well as a Third Industrial Master Plan (2006-2020) have been sometimes lost among a pour out of a budget. It has to additionally be deliberate in light of alternative skeleton such as a National Transformation Plan, a fourth Outline Perspective Plan (2011-2020), a Economic Transformation Programme as well as Government Transformation Programme.

Against this context, it is unfortunate to note which a bill deb! ate does little to address a complaint of constructional mercantile problems, which this column has previously referred to. Here, a Pakatan bill provides some solutions, proposing a formation of an Anti-Trust Act as well as Unfair Public Contracts Act to break up monopolies as well as oligopolies, as well as dismantle cartels. These businesses have stifled a growth of a in isolation sector.

It is usually through genuine competition which a manage to buy will begin to once again blossom, opportunities given without delay to honest, overworked companies instead of through middle rent-seeking channels.

It is hoped which a Federal supervision will urgently make a necessary changes to a economy's structure.

By addressing cronyism, corruption, wastage as well as leakage through a process of open tenders, pure open procurement, as well as a breaking up of unfair monopolies, this would allow for Malaysia's mercantile competitiveness to improve, in a future augmenting GDP, reducing supervision debt, as well as augmenting personal incomes all objectives of a bill which you look brazen to achieving each year.


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1Malaysia water tanks a rip-off


Government planners appeared to have abandoned a fact which Sabah experiences prolonged durations of dry weather as well as provision armoured column to villagers to collect sleet H2O was absurd.
KOTA KINABALU: Something is not right over a placement of 40,000 cosmetic 1Malaysia H2O armoured column to consumers in frugally grown Sabah as well as Sarawak.
Kota Kinabalu MP Hiew King Cheu, an engineer by training, pronounced Budget 2013 appeared to value a armoured column during 5 times a market price during RM2,500 per section when it was well well known which particular units price customarily RM500.
He pronounced a tall price for something as simple as a H2O tank to residents in semi-rural as well as farming areas in a state where piped H2O has yet to strech them is troubling.
Hiew pronounced which a random check conducted here revealed which a H2O tank similar to a 1Malaysia H2O tank price customarily RM500.
"This plus transport price as well as in accord with profit, it [government-supplied tank] should not be which expensive. Now this is 5 times a price as well as there should be an explanation," he said.
Budget 2013 showed which a total of RM100 million had been allocated to Sabah as well as Sarawak to supply 40,000 cosmetic H2O armoured column for a farming districts to store sleet water. This functions out to RM2,500 per tank.
Most of a farming districts as well as even a little semi-urban areas in Sabah lack piped H2O supply. The supply of cosmetic H2O armoured column is seen as a pre-election sugar base most like a placement of zinc sheets to those vital in dilapidated shacks in farming a! reas.
It is additionally seen as a short-term resolution to a problem confronting thousands in a resource-rich state which was rated in a 2010 World Bank report as having a top number of poverty-stricken people in a country.
Hiew pronounced a government's brand new budget does not appear to residence this fact.
"There is a need for treated H2O for a farming districts. Rain H2O picked up as well as stored in H2O tank is customarily not clean," he said, adding which a armoured column could turn tact grounds for mosquitoes.
He pronounced supervision planners appeared to have abandoned a fact which there were prolonged durations of dry weather in tools of a state as well as provision armoured column to villagers to collect sleet H2O was absurd.
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Usaha Anwar nak selamatkan Suaram yang terdesak

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Malaysiakini and the Public Domain

October 6, 2012

Malaysiakini as good as the Public Domain

by Josh Hong@www.malaysiakini.com

Kudos to the Kuala Lumpur High Court, which postulated the judicial examination of Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd to quash the Home Ministry's decision to reject the application for the assent to begin the newspaper.

It has been the long time entrance as good as the online headlines portal which you am honoured to be associated with is eventually vindicated.I still recollect the days when you had Malaysiakini as homepage upon my desktop.

Some colleagues were rsther than uneasy; others were shocked. One of them asked me in the feeble voice: "The supervision says it is subversive. Is it really?" you replied by inviting her to read, though she usually incited away.

It is right away hard to imagine Malaysians once lived in the pervasive climate of fear as such which stifled the happiness of celebration of the mass headlines which truly mattered at the time. Mahathir Mohamad's iron grip upon the media was so absolute which to defy it would roughly entail martyrdom!

But you will never dont think about it was Malaysiakini which initial exposed the try by Sin Chew Jit Poh (now Sin Chew Daily) to airbrush the face of Anwar Ibrahim mysteriously from the organisation picture of BN leaders, giving the conceited Chinese daily the initial ambience of genuine competition, as good as the bad blood never goes away.

Malaysiakini was also quick in stating BN's loss of Terengganu upon the night of the 1999 general choosing whilst the mainsteam media were gripping the nation in the dark. A year as good as the half after in April 2001, you learned roughly now of the outrageous headlines of Hishamuddin Rais (whom you usually hung out with two nights before) as good as Tian Chua being incarcerated along with several others underneath the scandalous ISA, pleasantness of Malaysiakini again.

In the days prior to the Facebook-mania as good as the popularisation of other amicable network tools, to debunk the myth which Malaysia could not afford cross-ethnic headlines stating was the tall order. The actuality which Malaysiakini managed to set the trend as good as give Barisan Nasional Mahathir in sold the run for their money is no small feat.

Every communication technology impacts governance as good as domestic processes, as good as the Malaysian landscape is being vastly altered right away which the amicable media has gained the firm foothold in Malaysia's body politic.

In the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, German reflective thinker Jrgen Habermas regards the multiplying of the coffeehouse culture in 18th century England as creating the open sphere which "mediates between multitude as good as state, in which the open organises itself as the bearer of open opinion".

In this open sphere, ordinary people would exchange report as good as opinions upon assorted issues, from the prospects of the system of administration shift down to the costs of the minister's private wedding. In short, it is the domain in the amicable life in which open opinions can be formed, as good as you in this generation have been truly advantageous to be able to witness the mushrooming of amicable media collection which presents the challenging plea to the omnipotent statute coalition.

For some-more than half the century, UMNO as good as the cohorts have been winning broadcast as good as imitation communications, whilst media ! tenure h as turn intensely concentrated, with the end outcome which usually the handful of people linked to the statute parties have been 'privileged' enough to cover the open perspective of the complete populace.

Breaking the monopoly

Too bad, which the emergence of the online media has damaged the corner usurped by the powers-that-be.

A Picture Doctored by BERNAMA

What is many heartening in the epoch-breaking phenomenon is which Netizens have been right away reception the proactive role in challenging as good as even opposed the mainstream media as good as politicians from both sides of the domestic divide with facts as good as argument. Just recently, Bernama was forced to admit the single of the cinema (above) depicting Najib Abdul Razak being swarmed by supporters in Pekan had been doctored.

And The Star, Chua Soi Lek's mouthpiece, was caught with the pants down when the single of the articles was plagiarised word for word from the foreign publication.

Three months ago, Sin Chew Daily was made to go through rounds of scorn as good as mockery after the reader found to his abhorrence which the editorials had been repeatedly plagiarized as good as reproduced from elsewhere.

Further behind in 2005, the little netizens rescued in the column by Tay Tian Yan, Sin Chew's arguably many 'celebrated' columnist as good as the emissary editor-in-c! hief, re markably identical paragraphs which could have been 'inspired' by Farish Noor upon Malaysiakini, though though acknowledgement.

The plagiarised contents regard how Indonesian protesters had exempted Siti Nurhaliza from their rage against Malaysia, as good as how the Malaysian songbird had managed to overpass the opening between the two countries with her picture as the "nice, proper, well-dressed as good as well-mannered" girl.

The anticipating went mostly unnoticed as FB was nonetheless to make significant encroachment in to Malaysian society. Things would have been very different right away though Tay's credentials as the 'senior' as good as 'experienced' publisher has come underneath the many heated scrutiny by the Chinese-reading open in Malaysia, upon FB, no less. Again, reception an endowment as 'the Best Chinese Journalist' from Najib last month is usually another profession to Tay's 'achievements'.

Stringent test upon journalistic ethics

To be fair, this unethical practice is not peculiar to the partly-free nation like Malaysia. Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek and Jahann Hari of the UK's Independent were both concerned in plagiarism.

All this usually goes to show that, whilst the advent of new media technologies has been the blessing so far, it has also imposed the far some-more difficult test upon journalistic ethics which any critical as good as earnest player must endeavor to live up to.

While you would similar to to congratulate Malaysiakini on the ultimate victory, though it is not the time to be c! onventio nal nonetheless because, as you all know, the single swallow does not the summer make. The stream system of administration may still fight back, as seen in the relentless office of Suaram, Bersih as good as other amicable movements.

Furthermore, judging from the painful experience of the Oriental Daily, in which the youngest Chinese daily's distribution channel is blocked, the initial be concerned of Malaysiakini may not necessarily be the malicious BN government, though the bullying as good as conceited Sin Chew Daily should there be the Chinese imitation edition.

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Crime: The Cutting Season, by Attica Locke, and More

The giddy complicated brides as well as grooms who exchange vows in magnificent antebellum mansions might fancy themselves Southern high society coming home to reclaim their mislaid birthright though there's the good possibility the small of the guest will feel similar to margin slaves trespassing upon forbidden ground. That's the scary sense of dislocation Attica Locke effortlessly captures in her second novel, THE CUTTING SEASON (Dennis Lehane/HarperCollins, $ 25.99), which is set in the benefaction day during Belle Vie, the restored camp upon the Mississippi River.

As she managed to do so well in her initial novel, "Black Water Rising," Locke draws upon the past to remind her characters how most it has made their identities as well as how most it continues to shape the choices they make. The de facto historian during Belle Vie is Caren Gray, who grew up there as the daughter of the camp cook as well as has been this tourist attraction's ubiquitous manager ever given she as well as her 9-year-old daughter left New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Although Caren is roughly frighteningly self-possessed, her sang-froid is jarred when she stumbles over the physique of the murdered migrant workman in use by the hulk sugarcane operation adjacent to Belle Vie. The military have been quick to think Donovan Isaacs, the part of of the troupe of actors who perform the scripted re-enactment of the plantation's role in the Civil War. In coming to Donovan's defense, Caren is dismayed to find which this immature burning piece of wood entrusted with such deathless dialogue as: "Dem Yankee whites can't make me leave dis here land. Dis here mah home. Freedom weren't meant zero though Belle Vie" recently quit propagandize to film his own visual version of internal history.

For the impression so smart as well as so appealing, Caren is astonishingly unenlightened about the lot of things which have been going upon during the back ! of her b ack. Even more astounding is her disgust to follow up upon the intolerable revelations which bring the poser to the close. But if the schematic tract as well as dangling fortitude verbalise really bad for Locke's construction values, the language of her storytelling is sturdy as well as absorbing. Who can resist the opening stage of the wedding in which the cottonmouth "measuring the length of the Cadillac" falls from the live ash into the path of the bride's destiny mother-in-law, afterwards is brushed divided with the regard which "it only quickly stopped the ceremony, this being Louisiana after all."

Scandinavian sadism, which took the nose dive after the black death of Stieg Larsson, perked up when the Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen muscled onto the stage with "The Keeper of Lost Causes," which devised the special cold-case multiplication called Department Q for the nonconformist homicide patrolman named Carl Morck. Although relegated to the groundwork as well as presented with the Syrian maintenance man as an assistant, Morck managed to find the womanlike politician who had been kept captive as well as starved for five years.

Morck as well as his colleague, Assad, have been still in the groundwork in THE ABSENT ONE (Dutton, $ 26.95), though they've been assimilated by Rose Knudsen, the means researcher who never made it out of the military academy though proves useful upon an review involving the organisation of Copenhagen millionaires who get amorous thrills from tracking as well as killing outlandish animals. Adler-Olsen might miss Larsson's domestic passion, though he brings good inventiveness to descriptions of the techniques of torture, which keeps the sadistic brutality from apropos repeated or even (God help us) dull.

There's zero shameful about love, so no reader should feel embarrassed about mourning the detriment of the beloved sleuth similar to Marshal Guarnaccia, the pleasantly investigator who figured in the Florentine mysteries of Magdalen Nab! b, who d ied in 2007. But Florence is still in good hands, entrusted to the private investigator named Sandro Cellini, who keeps the heedful eye upon the ancient city in the string of mysteries by Christobel Kent. It took me the whilst to locate up with the "impatient, irascible, impetuous" Cellini, who is more temperamentally akin to Aurelio Zen, the investigator in Michael Dibdin's politically charged mysteries. THE DEAD SEASON (Pegasus, $ 25.95) isn't the initial book in this series, though it's the terrific introduction to the intractable problems of the modern-day city plagued by illegal immigrants, an tired economy as well as the damaged complement of government.

Call them what she will, Laura Lippman's out-of-series "mysteries" tend to be lengthened impression studies of engaging women held up in unusual resources which can get the small dicey though posing the convincing threat to life, prong or personal happiness. AND WHEN SHE WAS GOOD (Morrow/HarperCollins, $ 26.99) runs loyal to form, though as usual, the resources have been so unusual which the absence of tragedy tends to be lost if not forgiven. Heloise Lewis, the brave woman of Lippman's ultimate not-a-mystery, is the single mom with an 11-year-old son who keeps an extremely low form in her suburban Maryland community. She calls herself the "socially progressive libertarian," lobbies upon interest of underemployed women as well as belongs to an unorthodox, as well as highly entertaining, church. But during the back of the scenes, Heloise is actually the dame of the cost call girl operation which requires an authorial struggle to turn into something able of attracting the serious rapist element. Without receiving divided from the nice impression profiling, Lippman's bid falls flatter than Heloise's attempt to fool around during being the soccer mom.

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Laura Lamonts Life in Pictures, by Emma Straub

If Emma Straub were pitching her book to Hollywood, she'd have a ready-made, if optimistic, log line: " 'The Last Tycoon' meets 'A Star Is Born.' " Both Fitzgerald's unprepared novel about Hollywood's Golden Age as well as a movie with Judy Garland as an ingnue remade for a shade cast overwhelming shadows over "Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures," Straub's delicately celebrated initial novel about fame, family drama as well as personal identity.

Sarah Shatz

Emma Straub

LAURA LAMONT'S LIFE IN PICTURES

By Emma Straub

306 pp. Riverhead Books. $ 26.95.

Ambitious in scope, a story ranges over five decades of an actress's life, beginning in 1929 when small Elsa Emerson of Wisconsin is preoccupied by a summer theater her relatives run in their barn. But complacency is disrupted by a family tragedy. A teenage Elsa flees to Hollywood as well as only like in a cinema becomes Laura Lamont, an Oscar-winning star of a late '30s as well as '40s. Elsa/Laura has dual marriages initial a troubled a singular to a small-timeactor, afterwards a swooningly halcyon a singular to a brilliant college of music executive as well as three children, but eventually her career tumbles so low she's marked down to you do a television diversion show.

The novel's enchanting concept plays to a informative yearning to counterpart at a back of a movie screen, as well as Straub keeps her account moving, filling it with vivid details. Counterintuitively, a college of music dyes Laura's blond hair dark;! which b ecomes a heading she can never afford to lose. At a tallness of her fame, if she sets foot in a grocery store, "the total place would proceed to pierce in slow motion, . . . whispers swelling around a store like brush fire."

Yet whilst drive-in theatre conclude Laura as well as this book, a most credible scenes deal with her second marriage. Pregnant as well as miserably artificial with her self-absorbed husband, Elsa goes to a party as well as meets her soon-to-be-next husband, Irving Green. He's a powerful executive of a college of music which has a spirit of MGM about it but closely resembles Warner Brothers run by Louis Gardner, it's called Gardner Brothers right down to a iconic H2O building on a lot. Irving sees a star potential underneath Elsa's diffidence as well as her awkward married name, Pitts. "Laura Lamont," he says. "You wish it? It's yours," becoming different her hold up with a few words. Beneath a stock Hollywood scene, a malleable Elsa is falling in love.

Elsa is partly an hommage to Esther Blodgett of "A Star Is Born," but a novel is even more in debt to Fitzgerald. The short, physically thin Hollywood genius Irving Green mirrors a real-life Irving Thalberg, who inspired Fitzgerald's Monroe Stahr. Straub's epigraph from "The Last Tycoon" cuts away from a passage so which it ends by saying Hollywood can be understood "only dimly as well as in flashes," sensitively saving a subsequent sentence for her novel. One of Fitzgerald's most fast lines, "Not half a dozen group have ever been able to keep a total equation of cinema in their heads," becomes Straub's bland observation about Hollywood success: "It all fully cooked down to an equation, a singular as well complex for Elsa to imagine."

And there, with all a echoes as well as clunky allusions, lies a novel's nagging flaw. Despite a writerly strengths, "Laura Lamont" feels rote, with a ardour of a smart, responsible student's homework. It says nothing substantial or new about a dim underside of luminary! we're a lot reduction astounded than a brave woman which luminary fades or about split identities. Elsa as well as Laura combine until she realizes, as well as Straub states as well bluntly, "It seemed impossible to fit all a people she'd ever been into a singular body."

Straub's strong recent story collection, "Other People We Married," includes surprisingly irritated characters as well as astonishing twists. As it struggles to escape a weight of a sources, "Laura Lamont" reminds us which there is an alchemical component to any Hollywood equation: a trace of sorcery which makes investigate come to life.

Caryn James writes a James on Screens movie as well as television blog for Indiewire as well as is a author of a novels "Glorie" as well as "What Caroline Knew."

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Johor poised to emerge the richest state


It may overtake Selangor if a inflow of investments into a state continues, says a investigate head.
JOHOR BARU: Johor is to arise as a richest state in Malaysia by 2025, overtaking Selangor, if a current direction of growth gait as well as investment inflows continues, an researcher with an investment bank pronounced today.
Nazri Khan, Affin Investment Bank vice-president as well as retail investigate head, pronounced a projection was not something impossible to grasp with Iskandar Malaysia, a single of a 5 mercantile corridors in Malaysia, carrying attracted some-more than one-fourth of a RM383 billion sum investment aim by 2025.
He pronounced a mercantile expansion brought to Johor by Khazanah Nasional Bhd, a government's investment arm, is seen as among accordant initiatives by a supervision to establish an mercantile heart in Johor outside a Klang Valley.
"We will see Johor transform into an Orlando in Florida as well as turn Asia's Theme Park Hub with a participation of during least four thesis parks in a state.
"They include Legoland Malaysia which non-stop recently, as well as Puteri Harbour Family Entertainment Centre as well as Austin Heights Water Theme Park [due to open their doors soon]. All these parks will yield ample jobs to a youths," he said.
The 2012/2013 Economic Report released by a Finance Ministry on Sept 28 pronounced pursuit opportunities in Johor have been expected to stand in when some projects come onstream in a next 5 years such as Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios, MSC Cyberport City as well as Urban as well as Resort Wellness.
At a same time, Nazri pronounced efforts to at! tract ca sh-rich Middle Eastern investors, who have a capital to invest, must be pursued to say a growth momentum in Johor.
He pronounced a massive oil as well as gas plan in Pengerang is being instituted during a timely juncture when a universe demand for oil as well as gas was spiralling.
"Moreover, Pengerang's demographic place in a middle of a general shipping track to Indonesia as well as Singapore supposing an combined advantage to us than to a neighbours," he added.
Job opportunities
Meanwhile, a restaurateur in Skudai, Mohd Kassim Ali, 52, straightforwardly concurred which he could feel a spinoffs emanating from Iskandar Malaysia development.
"When we initial started this grill commercial operation 10 years ago, there were not many business then, though right away we can sense a shift over a final a single year as a result of developments brought about by a government.
"My income has also increasing by about 30% now, some-more so after Legoland Malaysia was opened. we consider a growth gait in this city will accelerate further when some-more growth projects planned by a supervision get off a ground such as a Puteri Harbour," he said.
He pronounced a series of Singaporean business has also increasing since Legoland Malaysia, a country's initial thesis play ground of its kind, was non-stop to a people on Sept 1.
The feverish gait of growth in this state will yield some-more pursuit opportunities for Johoreans, he added.
A Johorean, Mohd Salleh Ali, 46, pronounced during a single time, a youths, together with from Johor, have to pierce to Kuala Lumpur to find jobs though right away which direction is solemnly as well as surely changing.
With a oil as well as gas plan in Pengerang as well as with various other growth projects in a sketch board under a Iskandar Malaysia mercantile corridor, Johor has turn a ultimate traffic concentration in Ma! laysia, he said.
"Johor has turn a focal point right away as people from via a nation have been flocking to a state in poke of high-paying jobs," he said.
Development projects implemented by a state supervision with a support of a sovereign supervision have since an "assurance" to Johor-born propagandize leavers of ample pursuit prospects as well as a decent income, he added.
-Bernama
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PMO officers visit Bkt Jalil estate


According to residents' movement committee member, a officers visited a area to find out a genuine situation of a ex-workers.
BUKIT JALIL: Two officers from a Prime Minister's Office visited a Bukit Jalil estate where former workers have been demanding which a sovereign supervision allocate 4 acres out of a remaining 26-acre land to set up low-cost houses for them.
The Indian officers additionally refused to introduce themselves as well as requested a media not to take photographs of them.
Bukit Jalil Estate Residents' Action Committee part of K Balakrishnan said which he was told a officers visited a estate to find out a genuine situation of a residents.
"They additionally visited Bandar Kinrara Section 1, which is an ex-estate turned into low-cost patio houses for a camp workers," he added.
Also present was Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) secretary-general S Arutchelvan as well as Hindraf coordinators.
It was reported which in 1973, a Ministry of Labour as well as Manpower had discussed about a housing project for a camp workers in both a Kinrara as well as Bukit Jalil estates.
While Kinrara estate perceived a houses, Bukit Jalil residents were overlooked.
Meanwhile, Balakrishnan insisted which a residents would submit a memorandum to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak as planned.
"When a supervision is peaceful to spend RM20 million to buy land in Penang, what is a large understanding for them to set up houses in Bukit Jalil?" he asked.
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64,000 nabbed by cameras in 8 days


64,000 'nabbed' by cameras in 8 days
KUALA LUMPUR: Almost 64,000 images of trade offenders prisoner regulating a Automated Enforcement System (AES) have been being studied by a Road Transport Department (RTD), said Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri yesterday.
He told a Dewan Rakyat which 63,558 images were taken between Sept twenty-three as well as 30 at fourteen locations regulating 10 fixed as well as 4 mobile cameras.
"The most usual offences were speeding as well as violence a red light.
"Summonses will be issued usually after RTD has finished checking a images as well as videos."
He said this when replying to a query from PKR member of council Dr Lee Boon Chye upon AES statistics.
Rahim defended a outsourcing of a AES camera installation to ATES Road Safety as well as Beta Tegap, which perceived critique from a opposition.
"By outsourcing it, a supervision did not have to come up with a primary investment as well as paid usually a fees to a companies.
"The dual companies were picked out of nine companies in in an open tender, after a strict vetting which enclosed live demonstrations."
He said RTD placed large notice signs up to 3km prior to a cameras.
International studies had shown which such a complement could reduce highway fatalities as well as accidents.
AES is installed at 560 accident-prone areas as well as 265 trade light junctions. After images of trade offenders have been captured, RTD will send out notices within five days to car owners as well as they have dual months to settle a RM300 fine.
- New Straits Time! s
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Karpal submissions on sedition case subpoena set for Oct 12

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 The High Court here currently set October 12 to listen to lawyer Karpal Singhs acquiescence regarding to an duplicate by Attorney-General Chambers Appellate and Trial Division head Datuk Kamaluddin Md Said to set in reserve a subpoena released opposite him. Justice Datuk Azman Abdullah set a date after a acquiescence by senior federal ... Read More

LGE accused of ignoring gangsterism in DAP

Alleged victims say they were beaten up in a party chiefs presence. K Pragalath, FMT Two group who explain they were physically assaulted in a participation of DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng have indicted him of being unexcited to a issue of gangsterism in a party. A Thirumalvalavan (photo, left) and R Selvan (in white shirt), who have been both branch-level officials in DAP, have lodged a police report about a attack, but they told reporters currently that they were unhappy by Lims si ... Read More

Pairin denies BN failed to develop Sabah


KIULU, October 5 Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan contested antithesis claims which Barisan Nasional (BN) has not brought "any development" to a state as well as a people for a past 49 years as a large lie.
Describing a opposition's allegations as a tactic to garner votes for a upcoming general election, he combined which Sabahans could see a evidence for themselves with a sustenance of basic facilities, infrastructure, education, physical phenomenon as well as water supply.
"Conditions have come a prolonged way since we entered governing body in 1975 or 1976. Sabah was not in in most areas though now there're roads, physical phenomenon as well as water supply, schools, institutions of higher learning (Universiti Malaysia Sabah), even in Kiulu," Pairin (picture) said.
The Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) boss was vocalization during a opening of a Kiulu multiplication PBS annual general meeting, at a Kiulu Multipurpose Hall here today.
He combined which Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was in a surrounded by of actively transforming a republic towards a grown republic with a high income population by 2020 by a Government Transformation Programme.
Calling Najib a "political doctor", Pairin pronounced a prime apportion was a people's leader who always went down to a weed roots to provide as well as finalise their problems, especially in rural as well as isolated areas.
"Najib genuinely listens to a needs as well as woes of a people. That's why he's willing to go down to a weed roots, together with in my subdivision of Tambunan," he said, adding which Najib was a first prime apportion to set foot in Tambunan.
He suggested Sabahans to fully await BN as well as not be easily swayed by a opposition's tactics of earnest anything just t! o gain p ower. Bernama
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Politics in Malaysia is the most profitable business

Steve Oh

najib-ringgitI am sure most Malaysians will determine with Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in a recent debate which there is some-more to crime than supervision abuses. What some-more is not surmise as most of it is in a open domain.

Surely it contingency be evident from a assorted writings in Malaysiakini, CPI as well as other weblogs unless someone is so out of hold with a benefaction being as well as fails to recognise a angst as well as annoy of most civic-minded Malaysians who see their country shifting down a sleazy slope.

It is true what Najib pronounced which "What is mostly neglected, however, is a fact which crime as well as hurtful behaviour is caught deep with a dignified fabric of all societies."

He went upon to say, "It is critical, therefore, people in positions of energy as well as management to reflect a values they instruct their voters would follow".

But does Najib hold what he says?

And some-more importantly where is a travel upon tip of a talk?

All you have seen seems to be in a contrary. We have been wouldnt to ask, "Where is a e.g. from a people in positions of energy as well as authority?"

Instead most blame unbroken BN administrations for a hoary dignified state of their country given of crime as well as abuses of power, which Najib admits implicitly. And Najib has yet to shake off a ghost of Altantuya Shaaribuu whose attempted murder still leaves a open with a question: "Who systematic a killing?"

The obligatory supervision has most to answer for a failure to inspire a rest of a republic to aloft dignified control when it fails to apply a rule of law objectively opposite a board as well as involves a politicians as well as pro! xies in uncivilised acts such as a edition of 'dirty videos' as well as other acts of domestic subterfuge.

If moving is too most to ask, Najib will sound some-more convincing if he can stop his supervision from picking upon Malaysians whose only crime is they want to see a fervour he describes as well as a mania with distinction diminished.

Excuses, excuses

Najib's idea which "in a little countries where serious low mark was meted out for corruption, it has not proven wholly effective" might insist why his administration department department is coy about allegations of crime by a little of his cupboard colleagues as well as a Sarawak Chief Minister Mahmud Taib.

However you am not aware of a failure of clever measures to curb crime which has not succeeded anywhere. Since Najib did not discuss a countries, it is tough to justify a statement. However there is incontrovertible as well as clever justification you know which proves serious low mark works.

Singapore is one success story worth noting. Singapore did not spin what it is currently among a tip nations upon a tellurian crime index for squeaky clean governance by creation groundless excuses similar to a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission for not carrying a energy to take hurtful politicians to court.

The Singapore no-nonsense proceed has proven crime does not pay, as well as where it is found it is dealt with harshly by a authorities as well as you have even seen a comparison politician charged commit suicide.

Surely a MACC's forgive of carrying no energy in a light of most tellurian justification in a allegations of crime by a domestic bigwig contingency send each anti-corruption agency around a globe scratching their heads.

The truth is countries ensure there have been laws to plug authorised loopholes as well as each ploy by anyone to evade prosecution. Those governments ensure no one is above a law or out of a reach. There is even Interpol to help countries catch their c! riminals opposite borders.

Let us not dont consider about Dr Mahahtir Mohammed went to impassioned lengths to change a country's constitution to get what he longed for as well as members of a stately family came underneath a range of a law when he made it probable for them to be taken to justice over civil as well as criminal matters where once they enjoyed authorised impunity from prosecution.

But if a supervision lacks a dignified as well as domestic will, afterwards it will give prejudiced as well as sore excuses. And sadly which is a problem with a Najib administration department department which seems focussed upon punishing those who want to see improvements in a dignified twine of their politicians, as well as even a constructive group similar to Aliran is not spared from harassment.

It starts with govt as well as a actions

The supervision can't shirk a role in carrying created a domestic enlightenment as well as society which has seen inhabitant integrity decline given of a corruption. Abuses of energy filter outside of Putrajaya in to a corridors of energy as well as in to a streets where cops have been seen pciking up bribes from bootleg migrants as well as errant motorists.

The people in their daily lives have been confronted with crime everywhere.

With such dignified discernment which Najib exhibits in his speech, he ought to make use of his bureau as well as inspire his cupboard colleagues to lead Malaysia onto aloft dignified ground. After all, he espouses a virtues which Malaysians want to see badly after watching their republic bastardized by unbroken BN administrations. Even one which was relatively decent underneath Pak Lah was darned by Dr Mahathir Mohammed as "rotten".

What is worse than a self-confessed reprobate someone without dignified beliefs is a hypocrite. The deceiver says a right things but does a opposite. And a tragedy is they can't see their dignified failings, only similar to a Emperor without garments can! 't see h is nakedness.

The distinction motive is amoral. It is an mercantile concept which oils a wheels of attention as well as tellurian presence given people schooled to trade. But profiteering is immoral as well as cynically people consider politics, especially in Malaysia, is a most profitable business.

Even God asks, "What does it distinction a male to win a world as well as mislay his soul?" The resolution to fervour is for politicians not to profiteer by being hurtful as well as abusing their powers.

Public servants should offer a open as well as politicians have been supposed to lead them in delivering a services to a people, not be spooky about staying in energy so which they can get abounding as well as greedy.

Even as you write you review of a supervision giving a accede to of RM10,000 to a Selangor Youth to help a supervision retain power. If which is not a obvious abuse of energy which would get a supervision in difficulty abroad for using open funds for domestic party purposes, afterwards you do not know what abuse of energy is. We can't overlook supervision abuses of energy given everywhere you spin you see it, you smell it as well as you meet it.

Religion might be a soporific of a people as well as a hurtful supervision their odium.

There have been most of us who hold which 'honesty is a most appropriate policy' even yet our leaders have unsuccessful to inspire us by e.g. as well as despite a Islamization of a country. We have to determine with Dr Mahathir Mohammed who once criticised it all as 'form without substance'.

When Najib denounces greed, he has to lead by e.g. as well as gather his flock to all take a tough look during themselves in a mirror. And so do all those who point a finger during others together with myself. Until you mislay a plank in our own eyes, you will not be able to see clearly to mislay a pinch from a eyes of others.

But you am glad some-more Malaysians can see a supervision for what it is as well as with Na! jib's di scernment as well as evidence talents it might not be lingering for concerned citizens to contend to him, "Physician heal thyself" given he might not similar to a sour medicine a voters have prescribed.

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Probe JMM allegations, urges Cuepacs


(Bernama) -- The Congress of Unions of Employees in a Public as well as Civil Services (Cuepacs) has asked a authorities to investigate allegations which Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) had bribed polite servants to cover up report upon a unfamiliar funding as well as to accumulate report associated to inhabitant confidence as well as supervision secrets.
Its president, Datuk Omar Osman, said any polite menial found to have been involved should be since a appropriate punishment.
"It is up to a authorities (to take action). Civil servants should not be usurpation bribes. We have ethics which you must belong to," he told Bernama.
Omar was commenting upon a statement by Azwanddin Hamzah, boss of a non-governmental organization Jaringan Melayu Malaysia (JMM), yesterday which Suaram had perceived some-more than US$ 100 million (about RM305.35 million) to organise travel protests as well as which it had additionally bribed supervision officers.
Suaram has definitely denied a allegations which it had bribed supervision officers to cover up report upon a unfamiliar funding as well as to accumulate report associated to inhabitant confidence as well as supervision secrets.
It additionally challenged JMM to justify a allegations as well as demanded an immediate apology as well as nullification of a allegations should JMM destroy to do so.
Omar said he was not certain why JMM had hurled a allegations during polite servants.
"Nevertheless, you suggest polite servants to stretch themselves from bribery to maintain a integrity of a polite service as well as secure their own future," he said.
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Islam is a brotherhood, not a nation

October 5, 2012

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Islam is the brotherhood, not the nation,says Mobashar Jawed Akbar

COMMENT by Terence Netto: The theme of eminent Indian publisher Mobashar Jawed Akbar's speak during the Royal Lake Club last Tuesday was Pakistan not the domain of Rudyard Kipling's affectionate gawk in the novel 'Kim', though the violent present-day nicely connected with that Akbar had multiform coruscating observations to make.

NONENot least among these concerned the thought of an Islamic state as well as what that bodes for multi-confessional nations with Muslim majorities, an emanate of no tiny import to Malaysians, poised as we have been upon the hinge of fate, to borrow from the title of the single of Winston Churchill's books upon the Second World War.

The fact that the speak came in the context of the launch of Akbar's ultimate book, 'Tinderbox, The Past as well as Future of Pakistan', by Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, lent the occasion some-more than fortuitous stress because the nation-founding issues he would have to understanding with in the event he becomes Prime Minister, would not be unconnected to what Akbar pronounced during the speak as well as mulls over in the book.

But some-more engaging than what ostensibly was Akbar's theme matter was its subtext: ideas have consequences as well as the perplexed thought could very well proceed in grotesque realities.

'More Muslims have been murdering Muslims'

Akbar stopped reduced of job Pakistan the grotesquery yet he remarkable that "more Muslims have been murdering Muslims" there regularly over the last dual decades than in any ! alternat ive partial of the Islamic crescent.

He employed the lapidary plan to indicate the reason for this reality that's so mortifying to Islamists: "The thought of Pakistan is weaker than the Pakistani" since "The thought of India is stronger than the Indian."

NONETo what would Akbar (left) charge this phenomenon?

To the coterie of intellectually challenging leaders, especially Hindu yet there were considerable numbers of Muslims, who led the transformation for autonomy from British order from the later decades of the 19th century until the country's assign in to eccentric India as well as Pakistan in 1947.

Though the internationally some-more eminent members of this group of leisure fighters were English-educated, multiform others did not have good of the western liberal education that made their eventual acceptance of the Westminister indication of parliamentary democracy remarkable.

Apart from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison as well as Benjamin Franklin (an insufficiently representative list, no doubt, of the American pantheon of national liberation), few colonial nations have been some-more privileged than India by its possession of an illustrious set of autonomy fighters in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mualana Abul Kalam Azad, Jawaharlal Nehru as well as Mohamed Ali Jinnah.

Akbar cited this quartet as his starting point for an learned disquisition upon the single of the last century's pivotal ideas: the thought that multi-confessional countries could not usually be liberated from carry out by the single of history's some-more puissant powers, the British Empire, but, also, that they could afterwards emerge as viable democracies.

No doubt, an engaging comment could be written upon the predestine of the nation-forging id! eas espo used by each of the four horsemen of the Indo-Pakistani apocalypse.

But Akbar, with the journalist's penchant for the revelation as well as mostly charming item that can have contribution sit up as well as breathe, joined to an intellectual's feel for the history of ideas as well as the ironies in their dialectical play, goes in for the kind of condensation that can begin the glow in your head.

Akbar's Muslim/Indian temperament

On the evidence of his speak last Tuesday, without as nonetheless the good of celebration of the mass his book, it could be pronounced that Akbar has pulled his egghead chestnuts out of the glow with considerable verve.

The tones in that Akbar direct that "I am the Muslim yet the single who does not necessarily pray 5 times the day" as well as "I am during the same time an Indian" to the crowd of the little hundred, customarily Muslim, PKR luminaries as well as supporters were aromatic of Gandhi's anguished cry, "Vivisect me, do not vivisect India" after the last Viceroy of the British Raj, Lord Louis Mountbatten, had decided upon assign in 1947, as the solution to the subcontinent's community furies.

Akbar's non-self paradoxical source of his Muslim/Indian temperament throws in to educational relief Mualana Azad's subject to the delegation of his co-religionists who visited to inform him of their preference to have the hejira (Arabic for migration) from their Indian homeland to what was going to be newly forged out Pakistan: "Where would we go should we find that Pakistan is not your home?"

What Akbar, author of an acclaimed biography of Nehru as well as other notable functions as well as currently paper executive of the prestigious weekly India Today, is boldly asserting is that Islam is not the enough basement upon that! to shap e metal national identity.

Otherwise, he argued, there would not be "32 Arab nations" in the world as well as "Malaysia as well as Singapore would be the single instead of dual countries."

"Islam is the brotherhood, not the nation," asserted the writer, who was once the part of of the Indian Parliament.

Akbar described events as manifold as the Taliban's rise in Afghanistan, 9/11, the American invasion of Iraq and, even, such functions as the film, 'The Innocence of Muslims', as "attempts to fall short the possibility of co-existence between peoples of varying religious beliefs."

"The faith of Muslims cannot be destroyed," asserted Akbar. "It could not be broken even when there was once usually the single man, Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), who believed in it."

Akbar's book deserves to be widely review not just for what he pronounced in his speak about such enduringly engaging things as the unintended consequences grand ideas generate, though additionally for what he intimated about leaders of destiny who affect to be certain about where they have been taking their people, though who in reality transport in the fog upon the journey without maps.


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Anwar Ibrahim Tidak Diperkenan Sebagai PM


Requirements For Taking Office:-

"BETA TIDAK PERKENAN PERLANTIKAN INI.."

According to theconstitution a Prime Minister contingency be a part of of a House of Representatives as well as authority a certainty of a infancy members of Dewan Rakyat; adult of Malaysia though not by naturalization.The Prime Minister as well as his cabinet ministers shall take as well as allow in a participation of Yang di-Pertuan Agong a promise of bureau as well as devotion as well as a promise of secrecy prior to practice a functions of a office. The Prime Minister as well as his cabinet ministers shall not be a part of of legislative assembly of any state. The Cabinet shall be collectively obliged to Parliament.
Although statutory states that a Yang di-Pertuan Agong has his option in a appointment of a prime minister,the appointment is invariably given to a arch of a widespread party that autocratic a most seats in lower residence of parliament.
If a Prime Minister ceases to authority a certainty of a infancy of a members of a House of Representatives, then, unless at his ask a Yang di-Pertuan Agong dissolves Parliament, a Prime Minister shall tender a abdication of a Cabinet.

Melihat perkembangan semasa dan arus politik terkini, penulis berpendapat isu Anwar menjadi Perdana Menteri semakin menjadi tanda tanya.Keyakinan Anwar Ibrahim menjadi PM amat jelas apabila beliau berhujah dalam Bajet 2013.


Anwar Yakin Sebagai Perdana Menteri Tetapi kita rakyat juga tidak harus lupa kepada nasib yang menimpa beberapa pemimpin yang begitu pasti menjadi Menteri Besar tetapi tersungkur kemahuan dan keinginan mereka apabila Sultan memilih untuk tidak perkenan dna melantik calon yang diperkenan oleh Sultan.

Mungkin komen ini diangap remeh atau bakal mengundang kemarahan penyokong parti. Tetapi kita harus melihat isu ini sebagai satu situasi yang mungkin bakal kita hadapi apabila selesai PRU thirteen jika ditakdirkan Pakatan Rakyat menang dalam Pilihanraya PRU 13.

Tetapi ramai juga yang boleh melihat krisis perlantikan Perdana Menteri (PM) mungkin akan berlaku jika Pakatan Rakyat berjaya dalam PRU 13. Menjadi seorang Ahli Parlimen (MP) adalah atas pilihan rakyat dan ianya tidak melibatkan perkenan DYMM tetapi harus kita ingat perlantikan PM adalah hak mutlak Duli Yang Maha Mulia Yang Dipertuan Agong kerana beliau mesti memperkenankan bakal Perdana Menteri yang hendak dilantik bagi mengetuai kerajaan.

Jika kita baca ringkasan Perlembagaan diatas,dengan jelas menunjukkan perkenan DYMM adalah syarat perlantikandan DYMM berhak memilih PM yang diperkenankan oleh baginda.

Sejarah Pahit Pertama, Kuasa Sultan Melantik MB


Beberapa kisah perlu kita ingat semual dan ada kemungkinan unfolding ini juga bakal berlaku selepas PRU 13.
Masih kita ingat bagaimana isu perlantikan beberapa Menteri Besar menjadi krisis atas pilihan Sultan Negeri dan begitu juga pemilihan PM akan tertakluk kepada budi bicara DYMM. Peristiwa isu perlantikan MB Perlis adalah satu pengajaran bagaimana kuasa Sultan masih mampu mengubah perlantikan MB walaupun hakikatnya Shahidan KAssim merupakan peneraju BN ketika PRU 2008 yang memberikan kemenangan besar kepada Barisan Nasional.
Kesudahannya, Shahidan KAssim tinggal sejarah dan hilang kerusi empuk idamannya walaupun membawa BN kemenangan besar di negeri Perlis. Ini juga harus dilihat bahawa PM ketika itu sendiri telah memberi restu kepada Shahidan Kassim sebagai MB tetapi kerana gagal mendapatkan perkenan Sultna maka pilihan Sultan menjadi keputusan muktamad.



Sejarah Pahit Kedua-Kuasa Sultan Melantik MB

Siapa tidak kenal Idris Jusoh yang mengembalikan Terengganu dari kuasa politik PAS kepada Barisan Nasional. Beliau begitu kukuh mendapat sokongan akar umbi dan pemimpin UMNO namun akhirnya tersungkur juga dari kerusi idamanya sebagai MB Terengganu.Beliau juga mendapat sokongan Perdana Menteri namun akhirnya terpaksa akur hilang kerusi idamannya sebagai MB





Perlembagaan memberi kuasa mutlak kepada DYMM dalam pemilihan PM dan ini akan menyebabkan kuasa mutlak itu diguna pakai jika perlu. Anwar Ibrahim dilihat sebagai satu ancaman bagi kerajaan sedia dan ini adalah hakikat.Kita tahu beliau juga dikaitkan dengan pelbagai isu seperti menjadikan Malaysia sebuah Republik dan dilihat sebagai pemimpin yang bermasalah moralnya walaupun pihak mahkamah telah membebaskan beliau dari pelbagai tuduhan yang direka cipta atau juga benar.


Kisah kisah dan gosip terhadap Anwar tidak habis dan pelbagai gosip terus dikaitkan dan ada masanya gosip tersebut telah mengaibkan dirinya di pandangan masyarakat. Bagaimana pula pandangan Majlis Raja Raja terhadap Anwar Ibrahim? Adakah mereka melihat beliau dari aspek gosip dan pelbagai tuduhan dan dikatakan agen kuasa asing memberi kesan dalam menilai kewibawaan Anwar Ibrahim untuk dilantik sebagai PM?



Mampukah Anwar Ibrahim menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia? Mampukah beliau mendapat perkenan DYMM? Tanpa perkenan DYMM pastinya jawatan PM tidak mungkin menjadi idamannya.

Adakah mungkin Anwar Ibrahim tidak akan menjadi PM sekiranya tidak diperkenan oleh DYMM dan ini juga akan menyebabkan krisis antara rakyat & istana. Mampukah kuasa rakyat (andai PKR menang lebih kerusi parlimen dari PAS & DAP) memberi ruang kepada Anwar Ibrahim dalam mencapai impianya atau akan tersekat kerana tiada perkenan DYMM?

Bagaimana pula jika PAS memenangi lebih kerusi parlimen berbanding PKR & DAP? Kita sedia maklum kekuatan PAS pada masa ini pada tahap terbaik berbanding PKR & DAP dan sudikah PAS memberi ruang kepada Anwar Ibrahim menjadi PM? Atau ahli PAS akan terus mahukan Presiden PAS menjadi PM. Sudah pastinya DAP tidak akan memberikan ruang kepada Anwar andai mereka menjadi kuasa dominan dalam pegangan kerusi parlimen.

Penulis berpendapat, krisis ini bakal berlaku andai PRU thirteen memberi kemenangan kepada Pakatan Rakyat.Mungkinkah Anwar Ibrahim akan melalui pengalaman seperti Shahidan Kassim atau Idris Jusoh atau akan terus dinobatkan sebagai PM Malaysia.

Tidak sabar menanti PRU 13...Anwar PM? atau Darurat? atau Perubahan Perlembagaan?

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