Isu Nurul: Ulamak PAS jadi ular dalam semak
Tak payahlah nak hantar Pemuda PAS buat bantahan di pejabat PKR lepas sebahyang Jumaat. Ini semua berlakun saja.
Mana dia kenyataan "ulamak-ulamak" PAS?
MIM menulis:
Setelah pelbagai pihak tampil memberikan pandangan dan ulasan mereka, dikira agak janggal dan pelik bilamana mereka yang digelar ulama
Selangor assembly now red light district
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What the reporters petition said
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SABAHS HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY FIESTA
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Bozos in blue: One jackass, 15 cops, one letter
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Peguam sundal kekasih lesbian Nurul?
Wanita ini ke yang tanya soalan maut pasal kebebasan beragama di kalangan orang Melayu kat Nurul Izzah dalam forum tu....? - Sumber chatter @sitikasim
Namanya Siti Kasim atau Siti Z Kasim atau Siti Zubedah Kasim iaitu seorang peguam dan AJK Human Right Committee, Bar Council.
Khabarnya dia seorang peguam keturunan Orang Asli, betul ke?
MALAYS must wake up like the Chinese: Don't allow Umno to PLAY HAVOC with your brain!
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Syed Mokhtar, an Umno cash register?
YOURSAY'The debility with Malay businessmen who made it large is which their commercial operation exchange have been constantly as well as intricately related with politicians.'
The media is after me, says Syed Mokhtar
Unspin:Tycoon Syed Mokhtar Albukhary's list of companies have been all based in Malaysia such as MMC, DRB-Hicom, Bernas, Tradewinds, Malakoff, Aliran Ihsan Resources, Bank Muamalat, Senai International Airport, Tanjung Pelepas Port, Gas Malaysia, Proton as well as Pos Malaysia.
None of his resources is generated outside of Malaysia. Let me ask the integrate of suppositious questions:
1. If Syed Mokhtar is forced to variegate his commercial operation outside of Malaysia similar to Robert Kuok, Ananda Krishnan or Quek Leng Chan, would he have made it?
2. If Syed Mokhta! r is not the single of the categorical beneficiaries of the New Economic Policy (NEP) which was bastardised by Mahathir to assistance his cronies, would he have come this far?
The simple answers to both questions have been 'no'.
Anonymous #63753867:"I consternation why you get bad press when others have evenly abused the complement for personal gain, though they have been not subject to many media scrutiny. Perhaps it is time to come out as well as urge myself," says Syed Mokhtar.
He has said many about Umno thieves.
FellowMalaysian: The debility with Malay businessmen who made it large is which their commercial operation exchange have been constantly as well as intricately related with politicians.
Their fortunes have been closely tied to the winds of the political arena. Syed Mokhtar do come across as the comfortable as well as friendly chairman as well as he does gift with an open heart.
Unlike tycoons Daim Zainuddin or Tajudin Ramli, Syed Mokhtar straightforwardly reveals his flocks of fortune as well as does not feel worried about his wealth.
Rahman:I consternation the peculiarity of hold up which this male seeks. He has so many under his stable, so how does he spend time in between his family as well as his business?
Many of his lieutenants in Yayasan Al-Bukhary have been ex-government servants who probably helped him to secure supervision approvals as well as projects.
It is engaging which notwithstanding his affinity with PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad, he additionally nurtures friendship with Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim. Until recently, Syed Mokhtar will yield the limousine as well as the chauffeur during your convenience Anwar visits Dubai.
Indeed, he is charitable as well as builds friendly network. As to his commercial operation empire, it looks to me being unreasonably huge.
I do not bonus he is the devoted Umno nominee. After failing with Fleet Group as well as the sect of nominees from Daim's Peremba stable, Syed Mokhtar stays Umno's cash register.
But the explanation of his biography upon the night before of GE13 as well as his media appearance sparks speculation upon the brand new captains during Putrajaya.
Anonymous #40538199:Whenever the chairman wants to do charity, the chairman should not have use of the income belongs to the public-listed companies controlled by him.
While he can encour! age his shareholders to join him in his gift works, he should only have use of the division these companies declared as well as he perceived to do charity, especially if he wants his name to be compared with the charity.
Otherwise, which is not gift though vanity. Let alternative shareholders to decide what they wish to do with their dividend. Maybe they additionally wish to do gift in their own name.
Pemerhati:Mahathir as well as the alternative Umno leaders, such as Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as well as Najib Razak, have been using devoted cronies similar to Syed Mokhtar, Vincent Tan as well as Patrick Lim to siphon off the people's money.
They do this often by giving outrageous contracts to cronies but job for open tenders. The price is negotiated with the cronies so which they can have outrageous profits.
The cronies then give the stipulated proportion of the increase to the tip politicians who awarded them the contracts.
Anonymous_5fb:Put it this way, Syed Mokhtar has zero to lose. He is only an additional example of what Mahathir claimed, the success story of NEP.
Just see if he would be similar to Tajudin Ramli, Halim Saad, etc, which Mahathir additionally once claimed as success stories of NEP.
Time will tell, though you hope not, as if this happens, the ones who suffer have been the rakyat.
Akutuan:I met Syed Mokhtar the couple of years behind as well as you can contend he is down to earth. From what you can remember, many of the companies he took over have been already in bad shape as well as he turn those companies into profitability (not all).
As long as he does his partial for the country, you can live with it, compare to Halim Saad, Tajudin Ramli as well as the Shahrizat Abdul Jalil family, etc.
Who do not have use of their contact to enhance their business? Who do not ! wish to have some-more profit? Ask yourself, if you have been in his position, will you do the same?
I am 100 percent sure, all office worker will not let go an opportunity to reach the top. Talk is easy, doing it is an additional story.
iKn.t:Who do not know sugar prices went up the couple of times after Syed Mokhtar bought over Perlis Plantation?
He did not save the association from failure or mismanagement though the supervision helps him with price increases so which he can get improved profits.
Ferdtan:Many said Syed Mokhtar is the really nice male - who wouldn't be, with the type of contracts which he keeps upon removing from Umno?
Have you listened of Syed Mokhtar doing commercial operation overseas? Oh yes, you listened the single - the tiny Malaysian restaurant in London, officiated by Mahathir himself.
Result - believed it was close down. Guess there was no special bumiputera privileges in England.
Save Our Currency:Why the price over-run of RM3.6 billion for the electrified stand in track plan (EDTP)?
If it is unfamiliar company, they will be abashed to ask even the cent as well as would complete the job either gains or waste were made. That is called reputation.
The plan caused floods in many areas. The supervision had to pay remuneration to those affected. So many for success.
Odin:I would read the book had it been written by the likes of Barry Wain, as well as am rebuilt to get the copy even if it price RM199. This one? you wouldn't bother to take it even if you were since it free.
Ex-wfw:When you made billions but the sweat, you can afford to be generous. you can too. - Malaysiakini Read More @ Source
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FGVH shares drifting near record lows
Sambil Melayu dimurtad, sikit sikit ditanamkan ide Negara Kristian
Menurut Mufti Perak YB SS Tan Sri Dato Seri Dr. Hj. Harussani Zakaria mengatakan haram jika umat Islam mempercayai lagu tersebut dan dikhuatiri jatuh murtad.
Terdapat komen diruang komen yang mengutuk Tan Sri
No compulsion in religion, it is facts!
Then, a very subsequent day, an Umno-owned newspaper, Utusan Melayu fast twisted her matter by observant which Nurul has called upon a Malays to leave their religion. Did Nurul unequivocally pronounced that? Has she ever discuss in public job upon a Malays to leave their religion? What basement does Utusan has to allege or assume which her statements represents what has been claimed "Malays should leave their religion"?
So, who essentially terrorised a entire incident here? Yes, it was a Umno leaders, their own newspapers as well as their heavily saved NGOs who have been you do all those nasty work around in sequence to incite loathing as well as violence.
Actually, what has Nurul referred to was based upon a fact which she had indeed referred to theAl-Quran's Surah Al-Baqarah verse 2:56which obviously states,"Let there be no constraint in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects Evil as well as believes in God has grasped a most infallible handhold, which never breaks. And God heareth as well as knoweth all things".
In this case, what she had pronounced was based upon theQuranitself as well as not of her own. Then, what is a large fuss? Why is Umno as well as Utusan so disturbed which with her words or matter would in a future affect a conviction of a Malays in Islam? Umno as well as Utusan have been both observant which Malays would soon be carried divided from Islam. In such terms, which means both Umno as well as Utusan have been seeking down ! during a Malay community which they explain to represent. The Malays have been being insulted by Umno as well as Utusan who both view this community as weak in their faith.
Even an prepared ruler had in a future mistook a entire incident only since of Utusan as well as Umno leaders' provocation. What next? The military have been right away going after all those who had commented Nurul's matter in await for ! a later's innocence. The authorities had targeted Nurul, afterwards they have been going afterMalaysiakiniand right away they have been seeking for a headlines portal's writer who wrote an article in await of Nurul.
Why didn't a authorities go after a actual culprits, Umno as well as Utusan Melayu for provoking as well as terrorising a entire incident into a hatred as well as revengeful event? Has a authorities or even a military open up theQuranand inspect a essence to endorse a effect of what Nurul had referred to earlier? Or have been they only going after someone for a sake of Umno as well as Utusan?
To a police, you urge them to stop personification governing body as well as wasting a taxpayers' income as well as concentration upon fighting crimes which is now upon a rise. And for Umno as well as Utusan,, if you have been rambling a facts, is which Islamic? Do you all courtesy yourselves as Islamic while you have been cordoning into carrying out bad deeds?
Think about it!
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Nurul's watershed idea for the nation
TheMalaysiakinireport upon Nurul Izzah Anwar'sstatementthat there should be no constraint in sacrament even for Malays is a watershed thought for a nation.
This touching law surpasses even a remarkable observation made by former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi upon a country's "first rate infrastructure as well as third universe mentality."
It shows which Malaysian leaders know what's wrong with their nation nonetheless do they have a moral bravery as well as domestic capability to right a wrongs?
I am certain Nurul Izzah as well as her domestic bloc will win most votes if she creates her suggestion a key process in their domestic manifesto.
It will move Malaysia in line with ? la mode values of tellurian rights since a Malays have been still a bonded people, tranquil by all sorts of manners as well as regulations which giveaway alternative Malaysians.
This one-nation two-system method of governance is opposing as well as reason since notwithstanding all a high-sounding domestic slogans about 1Malaysia, genuine togetherness stays elusive.
Control is a double-edged prolonged knife as well as a supervision has finished harm to a picture of Islam since to non-Muslims a double-standards it practises in propagating Islam whilst restricting alternative religions, shows Muslims as diseased in their ideology as well as need cocooning from a world.
The Malay thoughts thus becomes similar to a protected thoughts since a supervision as well as a eremite authorities confirm what they can as well as cannot believe as well as do.
For example they cannot wed a! non-Mus lim nonetheless having their commanded associate modify to Islam. Such a use is not seen in Indonesia, a largest Muslim country.
We have additionally seen Lina Joy, a Malay who had converted to Christianity, incompetent to have her conversion recognised. we know of others in similar resources who have faced harm as well as Operation Lalang in 1987 saw multiform Malays foul jailed as well as beaten whilst in custody.
The politicians have been not endangered about a welfare of a Malays or Islam nonetheless their domestic carry out over a Malays so which they can keep them as a fixed deposit.
With domestic carry out a hurtful politicians have been then means to plunder a nation as well as prove they have been a genuine enemies of Islam, as well as fortunately some-more Malays have been saying a truth.
You usually need to encounter a Singaporean Malay to observe how myopic Malaysian Malays appear in comparison.
It seems purposeless to send Malays upon supervision scholarships to obtain PHd's in assorted fields when a Malay thoughts is still similar to a self-evident frog's underneath atempurung (coconut shell).
Thus such a Malay thoughts is a closeted thoughts as well as this is mostly reflected in a sorts of stupid ideas we mostly listen to or review about in a media when those sorts of leaders open their mouths as well as give us a peek in to their minds.
Did not a single even ludicrously indicate to opinion for a DAP is a sin?
Sometime in a early 80's we wrote a letter with a similar perspective as Izzah's which was published in a New Straits Times.
I opined which a Malays have a right to be unprotected to assorted ideas together with opposite religions as well as we still believe which when a Malay thoughts is released from supervision control, then a nation might soon see a enlightenment which Anwar Ibrahim wrote about in his book 'The Asian Renaissance'.
Malays have been not defective to a Chinese or any a single nonetheless ! after 55 years of feudalistic carry out by their domestic overlords, a complement of domestic philanthropy has resulted in a government-sanctioned process of treating Malays as defective as well as wanting special diagnosis as well as a supervision continues to labour this perception.
States which practise eremite or ideological carry out over adults have been similar to a communists which commanded what a people should believe.
They unsuccessful miserably as well as their capitalism currently can usually attain when a tellurian suggestion is giveaway to soar.
We have been told Malay graduates transport feeble in a reserve for jobs in a in isolation zone as well as a finger can be pointed during a government's unsuccessful process of secular segregation as well as producing what a employers cruise an defective product.
Until meritocracy is practised a Malays will continue to suffer a bad image.
When we were in propagandize a Malays in a category were always between a tip stude! nts as well as o! urs was a tip propagandize in a country. But since of a government's subsequent process of secular discrimination, sadly a alma female parent has lost a former glory.
Today sacrament as well as ideology-repressed states have been unsuccessful states as well as even China, a superfluous vital bastion of communism, no longer practises thought carry out as well as freedom of faith is upheld notwithstanding eremite harm still happens within certain places.
Malaysians have seen which rapid Islamisation as well as eremite zeal by a authorities have not constructed a multitude which reflects a tall moral values which Islam as well as all religions advocate.
Instead in Malaysia we see Muslims action opposite a teachings of their sacrament as well as even so called eremite leaders have allowed themselves to be used as domestic collection in a domestic bulletin during a expense of Islam.
Is which not since corruption is rife as well as most Muslims have been culpab! le of al l sorts of crimes even a attempted murder of Altantuya Shaaribuu, linked to a incumbent domestic leadership?
The sacrament of force has not constructed loyal believers as well as no have a difference what a religion, it becomes diluted as well as delusional when a adherents become favoured as well as have to fool around deceiver to equivocate persecution.
Even a enigmatic Dr Mahathir Mohammed had to concede which his Muslim brothers as well as sisters heed some-more to form than piece nonetheless his half-truths disremember which it was due to his Islamisation as well as failure to right a wrongs after twenty dual prolonged years in a driver's seat, which is mostly to blame.
If anything is deficient in a Malay thoughts censure it upon a g! overnment! which has fed a disease, not heal it.
Not prolonged ago a Malay crony of cave died as well as was buried a Muslim nonetheless we know he had since stopped being a Muslim as well as was a clever follower of a bizarre unfamiliar cult as well as he had not been taciturn about his genuine ideology as well as even tried to modify me.
Is it so formidable for those who explain they believe in a loyal sacrament to accept a tough truth? Is form some-more critical than piece as well as face-saving some-more critical than honouring a truth?
Pseudo-believers can be found in any sacrament as well as which is since no sacrament which takes a own teachings severely advocates duress nonetheless all religions have spread by proselytisation.
When religionists confuse acquiescence with subscription they lose a plot. Forcing someone to contention to something is opposite from saying someone subscribe to something out of eagerness as well as conviction.
It formula in a sort of stupid actions by teachers who whip students for not obeying their enforced Islamic zeal in schools.
The forcing of non- Muslims to modify to Islam when they wed Muslims usually creates a category of favoured Muslims.
The same can be sa! id of fo rcing those who have been innate in to Muslim family groups to be Muslims. Malays therefore have been similar to 'religious slaves' if we might have use of a analogy.
They have been innate in to eremite as well as ideological bondage. They have been mostly fed lies about alternative religions. Reading what a little of their books inform of subjects which we know intimately is similar to celebration of a mass abhorrence fiction.
So when we listen to cordial Muslims similar to Nurul Izzah talk sense, we feel there is goal for a law to be vindicated.
Anyone who is not giveaway to consider for himself or herself as well as has a freedom to adopt a sacrament of personal demur as well as self-assurance is still a slave in reality. For this reason sacrament becomes a farce.
Can any a single afford to entrust his or her eternal future to any domestic party?
It is reason since those Muslims who go to mosque every Friday as well as pray five times a day as well as fast during Ramadan still consider it is fine to accept bribes in their jobs since it has been a use for so long.
They have been no opposite from a prostitute who has a tabernacle of Kuan Yin in her room whilst engaged in a sinful business.
The same pomposity can additionally be found between a practitioners of alternative religions since nominalism as well as pomposity go hand in hand as well as produce spiritual blindness as well as intellectual darkness.
Is which not since we find so most Muslims in tall office guilty of corruption as well as passionate misconduct, not distinct those who do not believe in God or cruise themselves religious?
At slightest a latter distinct a former have been acting out their ideology as well as can't be called hypocrites. Sometimes we apply oneself a atheist some-more than a eremite hypocrite. Nevertheless God tells us a fool believes there is no God.
The ransom of a Malay thoughts will not usually enhance a peculiarity of Muslim faith nonetheless add! itionall y heighten a Malay race as a people as well as community.
The supervision has been false in priesthood about farrago nonetheless practising a complement of secular as well as eremite discrimination.
Add to it a process of gripping a Malays in eremite subjugation as well as we have a ingredients for an agitator multitude which can be ignited by a domestic conspirators as we saw in May 13, 1969.
Only this time we have bright as well as cordial Malays who forestall history repeating itself.
I don't see a Chinese hung up about their eremite as well as domestic diversity. The actuality a Malay is defined as a follower of Islam defies logic, natural justice, as well as a actuality race is not synonymous with religion.
So were a pre-Muslim Hindu Malays not genuine Malays?
The doctrine of Ketuanan Melayu is unequivocally a misled thought of nationalism, a overthrow opposite nationhood, a domestic ploy as well as an thought bound to destroy since it has no moral management in ? la mode society.
You cannot believe which European colonialism is implicitly unfriendly when we replace it with your own local variety.
Fifty five years of domestic feudalism as we have seen in Malaysia is enough for Malaysians to realise until they drop a status quo, they will never see radical shift as well as remarkable swell as we see in Singapore, South Korea, as well as Taiwan.
Even Indonesia is outpacing Malaysia in a democratisation as well as mercantile progress.
The sooner a domestic co! coon is d! iscarded a quicker we will see a Malay arise as a beautiful butterfly instead of superfluous in a suspended stranglehold of domestic ugliness.
There have been most emancipated Malay minds as well as a goal of a Malays lies in their intellectual leadership, not those who exploit race as well as sacrament to allege their own perverted, miserly as well as miserly interests as well as still verbalise a language of deceit.
It is time Malaysians reject a ! thought which a supervision is a chartering house for intellectual freedom.
The Malays have to save themselves as well as it is young leaders similar to Nurul Izzah who suggest goal for them.
The primitive ideas as well as ways of a aged domestic ensure which has tranquil a nation for so long, is out of sync with a times as well as aspirations of ? la mode Malaysians.
It is a corrupting ways of a aged ensure which is since Malaysia is incompetent to have genuine swell as well as descending further behind Singapore, since whilst Malaysia protects a hurtful military as well as politicians, Singapore prosecutes them, as well as they don't even have to factor in sacrament to action righteously.
We usually need to demeanour opposite a causeway to realise which an honest as well as sincere apply oneself for others is a approach to set up a successful nation.
It gave me good happiness to listen to a public proclamation in Tamil as we alighted from a train in Singapore's MRT station.
Singapore has no hang-ups about a colonial past or which compelling Malay, Tamil, English as well as even Japanese is reduction patriotic between a majorit! y Chinese! leaders..
What is wrong with Malaysia starts in a Malay mindset since they carry out a supervision as well as a machinery.
It has influenced even non-Malay minds of certain MCA as well as MIC leaders who have sole out their own people for a same reasons a Malay leaders have sole out theirs.
Watching them shade box with their Umno comrades whilst their constituencies continue to suffer critical injustices gives faith to a notion of a Ugly Chinaman as well as a Ugly Indiaman.
They need to prove to a majority race which they can be relied upon to put their own people in their place as prolonged as they have been recipients of domestic largesse.
Nurul Izzah offers goal for a nation since she thinks similar to a Malaysian as well as a Muslim entrance to conditions with a being which God is not usuall! y a God of a Malays nonetheless everyone as well as which faith is not about clobbering others as well as cocooning oneself in ignorance as well as prejudice nonetheless engaging those who differ from us.
I have usually spent some-more than dual weeks in Taiwan as well as nonetheless this nation has been colonised by assorted nations, it has no chip upon a shoulder as well as is not zenophobic.
Its tourism aphorism is 'Taiwan a Heart of Asia' as well as we soon found out why, since a people have been generous.
Malaysia claims it is Truly Middle East nonetheless is it really?
How is it indeed Asia? Or is it usually an additional slick slogan? How Asian have been we when we compel others to verbalise similar to you, skirt similar to we as well as believe lik! e you?
Fortunately it is a people themselves, a ordinary Malaysians who reflect a virtues of a nation as well as a interest to foreigners as a friendly as well as hospitable place.
The victims of this ugly domestic prejudice have been a Malays themselves who in my purview have been between a nicest people anywhere.
The same can't be said of a little of their lying as well as conniving domestic leaders as well as which is since Nurul Izzah is a personality of a times as well as a future notwithstanding her youth.
Pak Lah hit a nail upon a conduct with his 'first universe infrastructure, third universe mentality' comment as well as it is my goal which younger politicians similar to Nurul Izzah will be means to liberate a Malay mindset from a subjugation to a domestic as well as eremite status quo.
What Pak Lah could usually diagnose, maybe Nurul Izzah, her mom as well as dad in politics, as well as others who adore their nation will be means to cure.
The goal of Malaysians is in a goal which a brand brand new supervision will heal a sickness which sees a nation bedevilled by a devils they know as well as wish no some-more of.
There is a brave brand brand new universe waiting for Mala! ysians n onetheless it is not in unresolved upon to a past as well as a benefaction domestic leaders whose performance notwithstanding a fresh slogans, have been banal during best, as well as who have nonetheless to sense which slogans, turn as well as lies do not have a nation, slightest of all a good one.
If Malaysians wish shift they have to work tough for shift as well as if a inform which some-more than twenty percent of Malaysians have been still not registered to vote, it is nonetheless an additional challe! nge a O! pposition face to animate them to action since every opinion counts when a complement is opposite you.
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Dominant Party de-alignment in Malaysia and Singapore
November 8, 2012
East Asia Forum orgBridget Welsh
Dominant Party de-alignment in Malaysia as well as Singapore
by Dr. Bridget Welsh, Sinagpore Management University
Singapore as well as Malaysia have long been touted as success stories. There is most to admit taking flight incomes, solid economic growth, improvements in infrastructure, stability as well as considerate racial family rught away come to mind.
These changes have been accompanied by a prevalence of a single celebration politically: a People's Action Party (PAP) in Singapore as well as United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in Malaysia. Since 2008, however, these regimes have faced increasing pressures.
In 2008 a UMNO-dominated National Front mislaid a two-thirds infancy in council as well as in three of a many developed state governments.Similarly, final year in Singapore, whilst holding 93 per cent of a elected seats in a legislature, a PAP gifted a pointy decrease in a popular vote, losing 39.9 per cent.
Are there usual factors which can help insist this widespread celebration de-alignment as well as a erosion of domestic support? Will these parties which now have been between a longest lasting one-party widespread parties in energy globally be means to stave off their falling domestic support?
Part of bargain a changes in Malaysia as well as Singapore requires examining a widespread parties themselves. While not a complete story as transformations in society, routine debates, taking flight inequality, use access as well as stronger antithesis parties have been additionally at fool around seeking! inside a parties is an important place to start.
First is a pierce of these parties away from party-based clientele for domestic await toward a use of supervision funds as well as routine to seaside up support. This transition is usual with taking flight populations as well as urbanisation, as a pierce is usually toward broader routine platforms. Yet, in dominant-party systems a limited discuss as well as open tenure of policies constrains this domestic transformation. As such, a PAP as well as UMNO have developed into providing selective await for those they deem as necessary for a state or for a party. In Singapore, this involves close alliances with business, together with multinationals which receive favourable conditions for investment as well as labour.
In Malaysia, whilst a similar pro-market sourroundings is fostered, UMNO is seen to allot many of a privileges to itself or those constant to them. On a ground, a impact has been a disjunction of a personal ties of typical adults with a party, as well as a party's position as a direct vehicle to assist a open has waned.
The parties' detachment from multitude has contributed to a weakening of a parties' brands. Neither a PAP nor UMNO have a same pull cause as they once did. This varies by generation, though perceiving a parties as a weaker brand is some-more usual between immature people. Expanding internet use is a contributing factor, as alternative sources of report have replaced a prevalence of a state-linked media. In brand new polls for example, UMNO only received a 42 per cent popularity rating. Surveys in Singapore additionally show a decrease between younger voters, nonetheless a PAP's favourability is upon top of 50 per cent.
This weakening brand is creation it formidable for a parties to renovate as well as reconnect with their changing societies. Family connections as well as a use of personal networks in candidate selections contribute to a prevalence of choosing members formed upon loyalty as well as familiarity! as agai nst to calibre as well as diversity.
The stipulations of attracting dynamic, immature leaders have been enhanced by a rigid celebration hierarchy, as well as bottlenecks which exist for immature leaders to climb inside of a system. In Malaysia, for example, talented Malays have been put off by a actuality which racial provocation is a mode for advancement, coupled with a widespread use of money politics. While there have been a little exceptions, these parties have been no longer attracting a 'best as well as a brightest' in large numbers.
The limited injection of brand new ideas serve insulates these widespread parties from a societies they govern. Malaysia as well as Singapore have been experiencing widening inequality both countries have between a highest inequality rates after Thailand in Southeast Asia with a infancy earning incomes well below a national average.
In both countries celebration leaders increasingly come from a economic elite, most some-more so than in a past. This has reinforced a enmity of celebration elites from a reality of typical adults as well as a weakening in a representativeness of these parties.
Insulation additionally coexists with infighting. PAP has kept a differences out of a open eye, nonetheless in 2011 there were some-more open acknowledgement of dissent inside of a party. The PAP's differences have been unlikely to arise until there is a some-more fundamental shift in a landscape, as Lee Kuan Yew continues to shape metal solidarity inside of his party. In Malaysia, post Dr Mahathir, a infighting in UMNO has turn prevalent with a ongoing struggle for power. This factionalism as well as internal contestation makes a celebration formidable for any personality to manage as well as has contributed to a electoral losses.
Given a on! going de -alignment, it is not a surprise which both a PAP as well as UMNO use nostalgia to win votes, focusing upon earlier successes. Reminiscing about 'old Singapore' or about UMNO statesmen have turn usual narratives to strengthen celebration support. These parties have been seeking to their past, though a leaders have nonetheless to clearly articulate brand new visions for their parties' future.
Both national leaders, Lee Hsien Loong as well as Najib Tun Razak, have started to look to a future, though a place for their parties in Singapore as well as Malaysia's future is not clear. There is substantial belligerent to recover, as well as partial of a recovery routine involves a look inside to consider how a parties themselves have been contributing to their own fortunes.
Bridget Welsh is Associate Professor in Political Science at Singapore Management University. Professor Welsh presented her research at this Year'sMalaysia as well as Singapore Updateat a Australian National University.
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Obama's victory of hope over hate
It was not utterly a nail-biter a media hyped it up to be, though there positively were moments of uncertainty as well as stress upon both sides.
In terms of a popular vote, Obama's domain was extremely slim, although a electoral college system gave him a comfortable domain as he picked up a pass swing states, including Florida (where I voted).
The choosing had a jot down audience as Americans took their right to opinion severely (with a little queuing for hours) as well as a routine delicately monitored by observers.
The US 2012 choosing offers a little elementary lessons upon understanding electoral poise as well as what can broach political feat in tighten contests.
Women, minorities as well as a youth
Obama's feat shows which in sequence to win we have to be clever not to divide powerful constituencies. Among a groups which were critical to Obama's victory, women were one of those during a tip of a list.
The gender opening was vast - 55 percent of women upheld Obama with usually 44 percent choosing by casting votes for Romney. The reason was elementary - members of Romney's party repeatedly as well as disgracefully referred to which rape was legitimate as well as went further! to argue for a rejection of a women's right to carry out her own body after she was raped.
Abortion, bieing born carry out as well as equal compensate - issues during a core of women's right in a United States - were prominent in what became a 'gender war' in a campaign. Ultimately, a Republicans alienated a infancy of women.
It did not assistance counts which Republicans additionally went upon a descent opposite women candidates, crossing a line of acceptability. Previous studies uncover which attacks upon women politicians can backfire, generally if they have been seen as astray or unsubstantiated.
The women which were unfairly attacked - such as senators Elizabeth Warren as well as Tammy Baldwin - won in tighten races as well as were done stronger by a attacks.
It is not a fluke which this choosing saw an rare number of women using for Congress, as well as vast numbers were elected, particularly for a Senate. Women additionally make up a infancy of voters in most electorates.
They have been constant as well as they came out to vote. In this US election, they showed they have power!
Racial undertones
It was a historic impulse when an African American was inaugurated US boss in 2008. This choosing might not have been a separator breaker, though it is maybe even some-more meaningful.
To re-elect an African American - a minority candidate who was vilified disgracefully by a birther movement which challenged his citizenship in a meridian where racism was a not-so-subtle undertone in a debate as well as a manage to buy is still recovering - illustrates which Americans have been moving toward larger tolerance.
An critical facet of this debate is larger acceptance of minorities in political care as well as an embrace of racial diversity.
Much has been written about a end of a American mental condition amidst a broader economic decline. This choosing suggests which this perspective is beforehand - which minor! ities ca n rise, as well as be upheld in their advancement. Obama's debate this time might not have had most of a rhetoric of goal as well as change, though a last result illustrates which goal as well as change have been very most alive.
This is not to contend which racial identity was not critical in this campaign. Racial choosing by casting votes played a role. African Americans came out in vast numbers to support Obama, as well as these numbers in partial contain a record-breaking turnout.
Latinos who right away contain 16.7 percent of a race contributed to a incumbent's victory, generally after a Dream Act which gave citizenship to immature kids of immigrants. Whites, upon their part, disproportionately done up a Romney base.
The design of supporters in a halls when a choosing was voiced shows however which there were two Americas - one embracing farrago as well as a other land on! to a pa! st of a white-majority America. Diversity won out.
To think which we can win without minority support in a tighten foe is foolhardy.
Money alone is not enough
The third group which played a critical purpose was immature people. Many girl were undecided. But when it came time to hold a screen, they voted for inclusion as well as Obama.
His debate continued to enthuse immature people to a larger degree than his opponent. Youth disproportionately did a belligerent work in a debate as well as energised a debate by making sure a machinery stayed well-oiled.
Part of a reason which Obama's debate was so successful was which it relied upon this network of immature people, scored equally together by social media as well as intelligent phones.
This was a most expensive debate in history of a US, as well as a Republican debate had millions of dollars in advantage. But in a end, a income was not enough.
Obama's feat debate highlighted a executive principle of his debate proceed - a choosing was not about what a supervision could do for citizens, rather it was about what adults could do for others. This belief in a energy of people brought people together as well as assured which debate offices performed. Indeed, empowerment inspires people.
Inspiration was additionally partial of Obama's last debate approach. He finished his debate with certain transparent as well as dichotomous messages: Hope not hate. Unity not division. People not governing body first. Needless to say, he was aided by Hurricane Sandy which allowed these certain messages to strech a wider audience.
Graciousness in defeat
Mitt Romney showed graciousness in his benefaction debate as well as highlighted which elections have been a equates to toward governing. Power is not only about acquiring it or land onto it, though suggestive how to make use of it as well as when to let it go.
An choosing is judged by a actions of all sides, as well as a respect f! or a routine as a whole is necessary - generally in defeat.
Obama will face a formidable second term, as well as he is bound to defect most in a contested polarised political being of US governing body as well as upon a increasingly complex general stage.
He does have a mandate, however, to bring people together as well as concentration upon bringing sustainable as well as suggestive benefits to typical citizens.
Y! esterday 's choosing shows which a foe for energy - even a extreme one - does not have to be a zero-sum winner-take-all game. Such a foe can open a approach to concede as well as empowerment, as well as a routine itself holds promise.
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MyCC: Flowers, Chickens, and Eggs??
The MyCC is proof to be usually an additional toothless physique who doesnt brave to examine the "big fishes".anti-monopoly
Read More @ Sourcewe was dumbfounded to review which MyCC (Malaysian Competition Commission) has motionless to probe the poultry farmers this time, for presumably "posibble uncompetitve practices", due to culling of sterile chickens.What is the role of the MyCC?"The Competition Act 2010 prohibits enterprises operating at the same level in the prolongation sequence to collectively agree to extent or control prolongation of products as well as services, because this could significantly distort competition"MYCC, how upon earth could possibly edition monthly engine sales total "distort competition"?It actually helps us consumers to make the better sensitive decision, upon which automobile indication or brand to purchase, by checking which indication is prohibited or slow selling.The big subject is, because is MyCC branch the blind eye to those big monopolies?Think ASTRO, which ruled the pay-TV market, who keeps augmenting the prices each year, or Proton as well as Perodua, which most twisted foe by dividing the tiny as well as middle liter CC automobile models in between themselves, not to discuss the large excise duties upon foreign automobile brands by the government.How about the IPP industry, with their exorbitant rates as well as unfair conditions as well as conditions which weight TNB as well as the rakyat?Or the fee companies with the right to increase the fee charges each couple of years?And, talking about tolls, it reminds us of the controversial AES.Why was the contract awarded to usually two companies, which controlled two regions in between themselves, North as well as South?We could go upon as well as on...The MyCC is proof to be usually an additional toothless physique who doesnt brave to examine the "big fishes".Instead of notice the engine attention which edition or sharing their monthly sales total could contravene the Act, it should examine because APs are since to usually the couple of players which distort genuine world prices, as well as because Proton as well as Perodua are dividing the engine cc marketplace in between themselves.Perhaps the task should be since to the new or alternative agenciesto give MyCC "real competition".What have they done or completed so far?Not much really, alternative than giving the couple of press statements.According to press reports, the MyCC has investigated the concrete industry, steel industry, the MAS-Airasia share swap, florists in Cameron Highlands, as well as now, the duck industry.Not to discuss the ridiculous notice to automobile manufacturers which "publishing" their MONTHLY SALES total could contravene the Act!That's because we don't see ANY monthly engine sales inform in automobile magazines today anymore.The Act gave MyCC the energy to excellent the parent association of any foreign commercial operation doing commercial operation here in Malaysia, even yet the law-breaker is the subsidiary!Under the Act, if any association is found to have infringed the law, they might be imposed the chastisement of not some-more than 10% of their worldwide turnover besides being imposed alternative calming orders.Imagine the multinational par! ent asso ciation with RM8 billion in annual sales, fined 10%, which come up to RM800 million, usually for the action of it's auxiliary here in Malaysia.Ouch!!
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Ahmad Jalil didakwa dibawa Akta Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia dan bukan Akta Hasutan...
Is freedom a folly of faith?
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