tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75544404622581326382024-03-18T21:14:12.778+08:00Sing Chye's Blog- No one can get rich in politics, unless he's a crook - Harry TrumanChoo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-45752556055436849742024-03-06T21:07:00.013+08:002024-03-09T23:31:52.076+08:00Politics in Malaysia - A simple philosophical take<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVm05oooR1mEeBjmkS_PVuejT3cXWEpcGc9q-cAr8p7A9FCsbjLaThN_auZFbeQW3HAowMtGHsqNFINxmTGT79sn_9xZezgQCPHSExTjmLkgtC9Dn5xM1n1Pd3_8QVg4L2DBZ2ETuoPMeGDUHA_VpAjjN4M9UnxNuft1FXyBKMfiBsCa-q15B3sOWp3Ec/s336/silly%20politics.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="336" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVm05oooR1mEeBjmkS_PVuejT3cXWEpcGc9q-cAr8p7A9FCsbjLaThN_auZFbeQW3HAowMtGHsqNFINxmTGT79sn_9xZezgQCPHSExTjmLkgtC9Dn5xM1n1Pd3_8QVg4L2DBZ2ETuoPMeGDUHA_VpAjjN4M9UnxNuft1FXyBKMfiBsCa-q15B3sOWp3Ec/w640-h446/silly%20politics.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">By: Choo Sing Chye</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">6-3-24</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The political discourse in Malaysia and also the West is high on racism, radical nationalism and low on substance and quality.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, this current trend runs parallel with the political drift to the Right in the world today, particularly, the US and Western Europe. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">It doesn't need any deep thought or intelligence from these politicians to whip up racist, radical nationalistic and anti-immigrants sentiments and made it their central theme to win elections.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In fact, the further one </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">tilt</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">s</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> to the Right, the faculty to think becomes straight jacketed and inevitably becomes constricted and inferior. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The proof is in the pudding - The Ukraine and the Gaza war. The solution would have been found years ago, if politicians there use their intelligence and will, but they didn’t.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is pretty obvious that the quality of some of our politicians and the speeches that, had nosedived to such a worrying stage that it leads one to believe that these wannabes had in the past, done very little or a lot of wrong schooling.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">One shouldn’t blame the people from taking a poor view of these politicians or this line, as it is not rare to find a PHD or a Degree holder saying silly, trivial and untrue things, particularly in the press and social media.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">At times, it is so mind boggling to hear nonsense coming out of these seemingly comical characters that it cannot stop one from wondering whether or not they had ever weaned off comics books from their childhood days.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now our politicians, especially from the opposition, the Perikatan Nasional, demand that they should be given a free pass to say whatever they like and whoever they wish to direct to.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Actually, what is missing in these opposition politicians’ speech is intelligence not freedom.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, to have a better understanding of this particular concept of free speech, we must turn back the clock to the era of ancient Greece where speech and intelligence came hand in hand. These two were inseparable parts of their political discourse.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">For a starter, Ancient Greek politicians were tutored by the best sophists of the day when they were young, because their parents knew that the “hearers“ (people or council members) of their sons’ speech were obsessed with intelligence rather than the freedom to make it. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thus, their parents would spare no expense to hire the best sophist to tutor their sons, so that they would not make a donkey of themselves in a debate or any public discourse.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Speech to the Ancient Greeks is different, they branched out their speech into three categories with different priorities. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to Aristotle, speech comes in three different categories, namely, a) Forensic, b) Ceremonial oratory of display, and c) Political oratory.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forensic speakers either attack or defend somebody. They stay neutral on the subject matter. They needed no research or to prove whether the statements they made were true or false. It didn’t matter.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ceremonial speakers either praise or censure somebody and it is in this category most of our politicians fall in. It is the tit for tat type of engagement which our politicians are so fond of using that it has seeped into every corner of our daily life in Malaysia, even the parliament is not spared. </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the press and the social media too, are full of this tit for tat politics. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">And lastly, Political Oratory, one would find that the ancient Greeks took this category of speech very seriously and primed it with a large dose of intelligence and substance.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">So to be qualified as a Political Orator, one must be an expert in a vast range of subject matters, namely, </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">1) Ways and Means, 2) War and Peace, 3) National Defence, 4) Imports and Exports, and 5) Legislation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ways and Means:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Speaker must know the number and extent of the country’s sources of revenue and also its expenditure. This is the work scope of a modern Finance Minister.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">War and Peace:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Speaker must know the actual and potential military strength of his country and of his enemy’s. From the knowledge of the history of war fought, he must have a contingency plan for further peace and war.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">National Defence:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Speaker ought to know the inner workings of the actual defensive strategy used, its actual strength and character of the defense force and also the positions of all the defensive forts.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Import and Export:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Speaker must know what his country’s food production and what is imported. Treaties must be made with foreign nations on the import of food or export.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Legislation:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Speaker ought to know different types of constitutions from different nations to be able to formulate a good set of legislation which would put the welfare of the nation at heart and also would leave very little for the judges to adjudicate upon. Here our MPs could learn a thing or two from these ancient politicians. They were also aware that if they pushed legislation too hard and extreme, the nation would become an oligarchy. Moreover, they were intelligent enough not to monopolize political power and turn the state into a dictatorship. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My simple wish is that our politicians should do more thinking and reading and opt for facts and truths, not fancy and falsehood.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anybody can give speech, but the content must hold a certain level of intelligence that should not involve trivial matters like “bak kut teh,” "ancestors," “short pants” and so forth; and worse, to debate these non-essential matters in Parliament or in the mainstream media. It is a waste of time.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please leave these trivial matters to where they belong, in the Pasar Malam (Night Market), Five-Foot way and Tik Tok.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">In sum, politicians should pool all their intellectual efforts together to make this nation a better place for all citizens.</span></span></p></div><div><br /></div>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-62813233626205008562024-01-30T15:17:00.017+08:002024-01-30T21:06:39.117+08:00 Mahathir - A Racist or A Hard Right Winger?<p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-A6Vu_3MsEtTXPekVm7ZHdXTTjczvAIHW3rEYZAVA1b3QB9YeG5fJSSmmbjHLpqX60JBqa8eADvAr4dGQdoZvLFHykjeVAd40hqfYCNLzSd72C32AOIlmI7XrQPBl8vYVtjerLW-_2jUxt2vv7hwksw1mpFpSQkrQyOE2bMRQVP6uZfgoIX9i-Bfql4/s408/Far%20Right%20Politics.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="408" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-A6Vu_3MsEtTXPekVm7ZHdXTTjczvAIHW3rEYZAVA1b3QB9YeG5fJSSmmbjHLpqX60JBqa8eADvAr4dGQdoZvLFHykjeVAd40hqfYCNLzSd72C32AOIlmI7XrQPBl8vYVtjerLW-_2jUxt2vv7hwksw1mpFpSQkrQyOE2bMRQVP6uZfgoIX9i-Bfql4/w640-h368/Far%20Right%20Politics.png" width="640" /><br /></span></a><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">By: Choo Sing Chye.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Actually, what’s the point in interviewing Mahathir and making police reports all over Malaysia after what had been said? </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why burden the police on these political matters?</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">To know Mahathir, just go and read his book, “The Malay Dilemma” and you will get all the parasitical Hard Right Wingers racial ranting of the highest order. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But calling him an outright racist is confusing, as the facts of the matter is that the core premise of his many arguments is squarely based on uplifting his own race, the Malays?</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thus, we must not ignore the fact that there are many politicians from all races, whether they are in the Opposition or in the Unity Government, who commonly use this premise as the main denomination for their argument in support of their own community.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As Mahathir started his political career as a Hard Right, he is not going to budge from this position anytime soon, even to the end. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We can’t expect him as a Malay Hard Right Winger to utter good things about the non-Malays. He certainly will not do that. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He is just doing what other race Hard Right Wingers usually do. He is not going to change, because it is an innate behaviour of the Hard Right Wingers to appraise one own race to a higher plane. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In fact, all these nasty behaviours come naturally to them without having to read Hitler’s </span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mein Kempf.</span></i></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But at times he does wander off blissfully into the orbit of the extreme Hard Right that if we happen to give him a tiny Lilliputian nudge, he will glide into the arms of fascism effortlessly. This means that he can blend in well with the likes of </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Geert Wilders</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of Netherlands and </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #141414; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Marine Le Pen</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #141414; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of France.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">But in the 2018 General Elections, he did an unbelievable thing, he did a Machiavellian somersault shift to the Centre. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mahathir, after 20 over odd years as Prime Minister, knows that the Centre is the sweet spot for the non-Malays votes. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Difficult as it might seem, he went ahead against everything he believed in, a little uncomfortable at that time, but it was a very small price to pay. The price of the second Prime Ministership is worth all the discomforts.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, Machiavelli's advice to the prince was well taken by him. About four centuries ago, Machiavelli advised his prince to be “brave as a lion and cunning or sly as a fox” as opposed to Plato's “Philosopher King”.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But, within months, he flipped back to his normal self, a Hard Right Winger.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In sum, labeling him as a Hard Right Winger or a Machiavellian will be a much better identifier to use in his case than a racist.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri;">But in the end, what bothers me most is that Mahathir lacks the decency to acknowledge the fact that many Indians, Chinese and other East Malaysians in the army had given their lives defending this nation of ours.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></div><p></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-68320349049816923732023-12-16T22:43:00.016+08:002023-12-18T05:27:58.663+08:00Do we need to change our Constitution?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1neaW9rSnPSSOIu5Me8QlGwiJHX3emNVIBH21yVlSgdp2VnHBgAQVSz54dP4OeXxI0apeEzXh8LzBWPnrymRweff7MJJPdMOCa5xHfN9dZxcq57ZvMJjzb19MRkfMbkkpt4-AZnXk_ucovVXQKnUkJYug0g5dTaI0ukNaGWcOKbIxgf_7Fw4SU_WqFY/s382/wan%20fayhsal1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;">By: Choo Sing Chye (16-12-23) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">It</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"> is</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"> very </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">perplexing</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"> to </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">hear politicians making silly demands that our constitution be amended to allow only a Malay to be the Prime Minister. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">Any political scientists or politicians worth his/her salt would easily understand why the framers of our constitution did not want to specify any race to be the PM of Malaya.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">It is technically difficult to encapsulate the term “Malay” correctly. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 114%;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Let us ponder a little bit further on this issue, if the framers decided that only a Malay could be PM and framed it into our constitution, we would then see former PM Mahathir whose paternal grandfather came from Kerala, India, could be called upon to prove that he is a Malay and not an Indian Muslim before assuming the PM post.</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">I could still remember the main campaign trajectory of Semangat 46 in the 1990 General Elections was that Mahathir was not a Malay, but an Indian Muslim. Photostat of alleged Mahathir’s ICs with the word “Anak Lelaki” (Son Of) instead “Bin” were disseminated throughout the campaign. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Also read: </i></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><a href="https://singchyeblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-malays-too-suffered.html" target="_blank"><i>Malays too, suffered.</i></a></span></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://singchyeblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-umno-leaders-fit-to-wear-badge-of.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><i>Are UMNO leaders fit to wear the </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large;"><i>badge of ketuanan?</i></span></a> </li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><a href="https://singchyeblog.blogspot.com/2022/11/malaysia-does-not-belong-to-us-we.html" target="_blank">Malaysia does not belong to us, we belong to Malaysia</a></span></i></span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large;">Thus, if the Constitution had this non-Malay restriction, Mahathir could be barred from becoming PM if he was proven that he was not a Malay</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-large;">.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">So the final arbitrator is the court, and not the Malays or Agong to decide whether he is to be PM or not, just to satisfy the condition set by the our Constitution. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large;">Therefore,</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"> this was the main reason why the framers did not want the Constitution to decide who would be PM based on his race. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">They wanted the Malays who form the majority in the country and the Agong with his Royal Prerogative to decide who would be PM. They wanted the person who would be PM be elected through the ballot box by the Malays themselves.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">The recent opinion on this Malay only PM by </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">Muhyiddin Yassin</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">is a very dishonest one. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 114%;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">He knows that there will never come a day that Malay MPs even though they are from different parties could be forced by non-Malays into choosing a non-Malay PM. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">Don’t forget, the Agong with his Royal Prerogative has the final say in this whole episode, period. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;">So the rakyat is not so naive to fall for Muhyiddin Yassin’s bluff, perhaps members from Bersatu and PAS could.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">Another silly comment made by </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"> who</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">said that this amendment </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">should be carried out to ensure the country’s “stability and harmony”.</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"> </span><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/national/pas-backs-call-for-malay-only-pm-for-sake-of-stability/ar-AA1lvfrF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ASTS&cvid=b6f9c14d4a7f499c87fb256640535abd&ei=28"><u><span class="15" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: blue; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">(Free Malaysia Today</span></u></a><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">)</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 114%;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Surely Tuan Ibrahim should have known </span><span>that the people have <span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">been relatively living in peace and harmony all these years without the Malay-only PM </span></span></span></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">etched</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"> into our constitution. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">Perhaps Perikatan Nasional politicians should tone down their racial rhetoric. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">Now look at Lebanon which had a somewhat straight-jacketed convention where the appointment of its president and the whole cabinet is based on religion and race. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">In Lebanon, conventionally the President is a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister is a Sunni Muslim and the Speaker a Shia Muslim. (1)</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">A total of 99 deputies were elected to a unicameral legislature in 1960 with Maronite Christian securing 30 seats, Sunni Muslims 20, Shia Muslims 19, Greek Orthodox 11, Uniate Greek 6, Druses 6, Armenian Orthodox 4, Uniate Armenian 1 others 2. (2)</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">Based on Tuan Ibrahim logic, Lebanon must be a very stable and harmonious country, but the fact is that the people of Lebanon had been fighting and killing each other to this very day.</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">Reference:</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt;">1) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"> Florence Elliott, Micheal Summerskill, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-large;">A</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma;">Dictionary of Politics, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Penguin Books, 1966</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt;">2) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">I</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">bid. </span></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-85927518472407517892023-12-10T12:18:00.012+08:002023-12-10T13:43:47.708+08:00I sincerely hoped that all the hypes in Chemor is not rare earth mining - Video.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Vk2TuUDdWJne_mwIRrkqNds5PNSHe6lQKJqus2FFFb7OJvKDoSttB6l8a4DNUc0-AQ_yFWSPEdyPoH5swJbn1yYCvavT6sXnTcVtG_PO8U-g9lV1BYNL6K8-gGRq_AWu78jPr13CoRC00YmXf-IR_-7kGmK6DPcDzakBInnGTMKooVolu3JgPeLmTWs/s913/rare%20earth.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="913" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Vk2TuUDdWJne_mwIRrkqNds5PNSHe6lQKJqus2FFFb7OJvKDoSttB6l8a4DNUc0-AQ_yFWSPEdyPoH5swJbn1yYCvavT6sXnTcVtG_PO8U-g9lV1BYNL6K8-gGRq_AWu78jPr13CoRC00YmXf-IR_-7kGmK6DPcDzakBInnGTMKooVolu3JgPeLmTWs/w640-h460/rare%20earth.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I hoped all the hypes happening in Chemor is not rare earth mining! If it is so, we should not go through once again on this issue.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='390' height='324' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz3e1YwNSOix9D9PBkG6lLJBweCweCw4DrVHG9mC_PLjZgWJjntFNDoCsEvWIpE2a4FwiuokB7Vvej_FDPzEA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div><span style="font-size: 26px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Repost</span><span style="font-size: 26px;"> from a 2010 article:</span></u></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 26px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 26px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By: Choo Sing Chye<br />24 - 5 - 2010<br /><br />Tun Dr. Mahathir had at last admitted, but not all, what the foreign experts (engaged by the residents 27 years ago) had been saying all along i.e., the danger posed by the radioactive waste from the Asian Rare Earth (ARE) company near Bukit Merah and the waste dumps near Papan was indeed genuine and serious.</span></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 26px;"></span></div><br /><div></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476238664547764610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC69IEgwZ0qamJ_tkk1yNY1FixQeenRCqZoDmsuTFGexishFBLq0RmB4StCbyD6NdXQn98gjw5HIVdd4W2Fipe6Xf4fDkznHsjRe2g2YIjEwfhWLHycHyc-hBqPcRBN905RmhEObNakZI/s320/spilled+bags+of+radioactive+thorium+waste.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 208px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><br /><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 26px;"></span></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476186809505858098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV3VNMEKrrt829c21oug5pKEinwOWOiD2l5qiR9Ncl_UW6hw63VVUhwC0JwhJy0bE6YYu9E8pLbgx4BlU-wLxqGCDC7CdUnyFHKIhLYSYpIZx019_zmWf40fZ_I6zdXZjVzGv0P8iyJsc/s320/Exposed+Drums.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 198px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476178841082552402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5l29jJNoad457fUEPm-aez8ld086B-yxRiV_8xh2W0SaoOPR0Eo3LP2cY1EoHgGMYoOtX3S8rWxIx6ghfI1LW_xDEmBsBw4oNpkS71iwLyGcRug4OPh3HQ0soWfpyEtvoznJ5F7C5xos/s320/foreign+students2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 222px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><br /><div></div><div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 26px;"><span style="color: #000099;"><em>What Mahathir said a few weeks ago in the Star Online (15-5-2010): "In Malaysia, we do have nuclear waste which perhaps the public is not aware of."</em></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 26px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #000099;"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 26px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The answer is that the public is well aware and informed of this nuclear waste and the danger it posed. This was the reason why they took ARE to court. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 26px;">On the 11th of July 1992, more than 3,000 residents from Menglembu, Bukit Merah, Papan and other affected areas were present at the Ipoh High Court where the judge, Mr. Peh Swee Chin granted eight plaintiffs an injunction to restrain ARE from operating and storing toxic and radioactive waste. ARE was given 14 days to comply with the order.<br /><br />Subsequently ARE appealed to the Supreme Court. Barely a month on the 5th of August 1992, the Supreme Court allowed the application by ARE to suspend the Ipoh Court's order to cease operations pending an appeal by the company.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 26px;"><br />The parent company in Japan, Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation immediately wrote a letter to the residents expressing regrets over the application by ARE.<br /><br />The letter reads, "…since the court ordered the plant to be closed down, we believe that the plant should not continue its operation without the harmonization with the local people, whether this ruling is right or wrong."<br /><br />"Consequently, we believe that ARE should not apply for stay of execution of the injunction to stop operation, etc."</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 26px;"><br />On the 23th December 1993, ARE finally won its appeal in the Supreme Court. Lord President Tun Abdul Hamid Omar order that the Ipoh High Court decision on the 11th of July 1992 be set aside with costs.<br /><br />Then on the 19th January 1994, to everyone surprise, ARE announced that it was closing its plant in Bukit Merah. And according to them, the closing of its plant was inevitable because of the unavailability of raw material.<br /><br /><em><span style="color: #000099;">Mahathir: "We have to bury the Amang, a by-product from tin mining."</span></em><br /><br />The Truth is, Amang (a tin trailing which is found in an abundance in Kinta Valley) is not buried but is used as a raw material from which Monazite (high value mineral) is extracted. Monazite is a rare earth Othophosphate, containing significant amounts (up to 10%) of the radioactive element Thorium Hydroxide which is the end product. Thus, radioactive waste Thorium Hydroxide is buried not Amang.<br /><br /><em><span style="color: #000099;">Mahathir: "It is not radioactive but it is not good to handle. We had to bury it in Perak, deep in the ground.</span></em></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 26px;"><span style="color: #000099;"><i><br /></i></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 26px;">Thorium Hydroxide waste derived from Amang is radioactive! The radioactivity present in the waste is from the naturally occurring Thorium and Uranium series which will take millions of years to decay.<br /><br /><em><span style="color: #000099;">Mahathir: "But the place is still not safe, and we have almost one square mile that is dangerous."</span></em><br /><br />The public already knew that! Twenty seven years ago, Dr. Sadao Ichikawa, a professor from Saitama University in Japan found highly dangerous level of radiation. On the surface of on the drums at the dumpsite produced a reading of 9,000 urad/hr and on the nearby farm the reading was 140 urad/hr.<br /><br />The mandatory level agreed between the Perak State government and ARE was only 200 milli-urad/hr.<br /><br /><span style="color: #000099;"><em>Mahathir: (He) did not know exactly where in Perak the Amang was buried. "Maybe it is a national secret but I know for a fact that we buried this activated material," he said in a press conference yesterday at the Al-Bukhary Foundation.</em></span><br /><br />In sum. after a grueling decade long battle against the Barisan Nasional government led by Mahathir himself, the people of Perak should be told of the whereabouts of these alleged illegal dumps.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 26px;">For Mahathir to claim that he had no knowledge of the new dumpsites is fetched, because the State Government had already informed the Federal Government about the site earlier on. <br /><br />The act of keeping these radioactive waste dumps a secret is downright immoral.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 26px;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIhOywKAgrfFB3bk5E1Wl1zIEYY5nyjsdqASQDzxnCSkkDYHrt23xjAU4X8jXH6lffRwzCqjQyCB0cvIfx-wbFQRj-ITYhQ-4cnXxfzDxZxW27CcOF_R3pFXXKGN0HKRT1ay58JBsFkAw/s1600/dumpsfinal.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474879184088323250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIhOywKAgrfFB3bk5E1Wl1zIEYY5nyjsdqASQDzxnCSkkDYHrt23xjAU4X8jXH6lffRwzCqjQyCB0cvIfx-wbFQRj-ITYhQ-4cnXxfzDxZxW27CcOF_R3pFXXKGN0HKRT1ay58JBsFkAw/s320/dumpsfinal.png" style="cursor: pointer; 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display: block; height: 211px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /></div> <p></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-52392087776902312023-11-23T16:23:00.015+08:002023-11-27T11:30:02.807+08:00Is there a problem with Anwar holding two posts - Prime Minister and Finance?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-7OGXpFz9CPJpmTMZzCeJHBXA8X-x672gf7ymdd6NSAuv2ffNI53fkSv8s58ut9pWJEm_VGLu1w5zo3k4-2QSlBiMoNq7YdW4A6FL32z1Ftb0tepRTC_jaVtTUQar_1V3Tx7sZjmmEQEwkriwzgKkOgFL01cIgoO5_lCU1tTUJsv97G0V_u9RZy3KpkQ/s640/who%20get%20what.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-7OGXpFz9CPJpmTMZzCeJHBXA8X-x672gf7ymdd6NSAuv2ffNI53fkSv8s58ut9pWJEm_VGLu1w5zo3k4-2QSlBiMoNq7YdW4A6FL32z1Ftb0tepRTC_jaVtTUQar_1V3Tx7sZjmmEQEwkriwzgKkOgFL01cIgoO5_lCU1tTUJsv97G0V_u9RZy3KpkQ/w640-h360/who%20get%20what.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">By: Choo Sing Chye (23-11-23)</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">One should not have any qualms with Anwar Ibrahim holding two posts - the Prime Minister and the Finance posts </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The British do not.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The British Prime Minister is the head honcho of the Treasury office of the Lord High Treasurer in which he is officially known as the First Lord of the Treasury in the United Kingdom. And apart from these two roles, he is also the Minister for the Union.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The Second Lord of the Treasury is the Chancellor of the Exchequer and in Malaysia, he is known as the Finance Minister. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Harold Wilson once said whichever party is in power, the Treasury is in power”. (1)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Given the fact that the Malaysian political system is a Westminster’s hybrid, it is possible that some British political conventions may sometimes overlap with our political conventions. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Thus without doubt, for us and in Britain, the most important ministry in the government is the Treasury and in Malaysia, the Finance Ministry. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://singchyeblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/khairi-it-is-not-irresponsible-to-vote.html">Also read: Khairy, it is not irresponsible to vote down the Budget.</a></i></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://singchyeblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/no-man-can-get-rich-in-politics-unless.html">No man can get rich in politics unless he's a crook! - President Harry Truman </a></i></span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">I do not want to see Anwar to perpetuate his role as the Finance Minister. But I believe that he is doing this to get rid of corruption in Malaysia which has become so rampant that it would have destroyed every fabric of our society if it is not stopped. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Malaysia needs a very strong hand to eradicate this prevailing problem of corruption. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">In conclusion, I would like to acquaint Malaysians to Harold Lasswell’s book, “Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (1936)”. The title itself served as the standard lay definition of politics. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">In Anwar’s case, the “WHO” represents the poor fishermen, the poor padi farmers, the poor road side hawkers, the poor rubber tappers, the poor factory workers, the poor FELDA settlers and those living below the poverty line, and definitely not the political elites, millionaires or billionaires. These group of people had been heavily represented by the previous administration.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">1) J. Denis Derbyshire, The Business of Government, W & R Chambers Ltd., Edinburgh, 1987</span></div><div></div>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-40358019921454951612023-11-15T10:13:00.014+08:002023-11-27T11:31:24.527+08:00The Ancestors of mine - Mark Twain<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwUYEys_fLgUizJYMOsyTiryEt368sC4GYNvmCT8NLqCenXUp4XHZ6d9WQtBfjnxJDVJvCTd-6yzstsGaAvgCuNREL1j8_w9lrbPPg5l7Wc7KvdbGFw57tYTNefEzI4GSaF8Yo3GOfBlP9u5HN2z_OTcvQDZtKfEe02dU1sUHoOFwLuKUce4Y9LKZXmq4/s474/twain%20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="474" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwUYEys_fLgUizJYMOsyTiryEt368sC4GYNvmCT8NLqCenXUp4XHZ6d9WQtBfjnxJDVJvCTd-6yzstsGaAvgCuNREL1j8_w9lrbPPg5l7Wc7KvdbGFw57tYTNefEzI4GSaF8Yo3GOfBlP9u5HN2z_OTcvQDZtKfEe02dU1sUHoOFwLuKUce4Y9LKZXmq4/w640-h450/twain%20.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Compiled and paraphrased by Choo Sing Chye</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> (15-11-23). </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;">Siti Mastura Muhammad's thing about Kit Siang's ancestors, the net is bustling with all thing's ancestors. I hope my tiny contribution by paraphrasing Mark Twan's satire speech on his ancestorial roots would help Siti Mastura in her quest to find new surnames for DAP leaders.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><i style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ADDRESS AT THE FIRST ANNUAL DINNER, N. E. SOCIETY, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 22, 1881 BY MARK TWAIN.</span></i></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><u>PLYMOUTH ROCK AND THE PILGRIMS</u></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span>Pilgrims were a hard lot. They took good care of themselves, but they </span><span>abolished everybody else's ancestors. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span>I am a border-ruffian from the </span><span>State of Missouri. I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption. In me, you </span><span>have Missouri morals, Connecticut culture; this, gentlemen, is the </span><span>combination which makes the perfect man. But where are my ancestors?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Whom shall I celebrate? Where shall I find the raw material?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian—an early Indian.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span>Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. Not one drop of </span><span>my blood flows in that Indian's veins today. I stand here, lone and </span><span>forlorn, without an ancestor. They skinned him (alive)! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span>Later ancestors of mine were the Quakers William Robinson, Marmaduke </span><span>Stevenson, et al. Your tribe chased them out of the country for their </span><span>religion's sake; promised them death if they came back; for our </span><span>ancestors had forsaken the homes they loved. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span>The Quaker woman Elizabeth Hooton was an ancestress of mine. Your people </span><span>were pretty severe with her you will confess that. But, poor thing! I </span><span>believe they changed her opinions before she died, and took her into </span><span>their fold; and so we have every reason to presume that when she died </span><span>she went to the same place which your ancestors went to. It is a great </span><span>pity, for she was a good woman. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span>Roger Williams was an ancestor of mine. </span><span>I don't really remember what your people did with him. But they banished </span><span>him to Rhode Island, anyway. And then, I believe, recognizing that this </span><span>was really carrying harshness to an unjustifiable extreme, they took </span><span>pity on him and burned him. They were a hard lot! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span>All those Salem </span><span>witches were ancestors of mine! Your people made it tropical for them. </span><span>Yes, they did; by pressure and the gallows they made such a clean deal </span><span>with them that there hasn't been a witch and hardly a halter in our </span><span>family from that day to this, and that is one hundred and eighty-nine </span><span>years. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span>The first slave brought into New England out of Africa by your </span><span>progenitors was an ancestor of mine—for I am of a mixed breed, an </span><span>infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel. I'm not one of your sham </span><span>meerschaums that you can color in a week. No, my complexion is the </span><span>patient art of eight generations. Well, in my own time, </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span>I had acquired </span><span>a lot of my kin—by purchase, and swapping around, and one way and </span><span>another—and was getting along very well. Then, with the inborn </span><span>perversity of your lineage, you got up a war, and took them all away </span><span>from me. And so, again am I bereft, again am I forlorn; no drop of my </span><span>blood flows in the veins of any living being who is marketable.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">O my friends, hear me and reform! I seek your good, not mine. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span>However, chaff and nonsense aside, I think I honor and appreciate your </span><span>Pilgrim stock as much as you do yourselves, perhaps; and I endorse and </span><span>adopt a sentiment uttered by a grandfather of mine once—a man of sturdy </span><span>opinions, of sincere make of mind, and not given to flattery. He said:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span>"People may talk as they like about that Pilgrim stock, but, after all's </span>said and done, it would be pretty hard to improve on those people; and, <span>as for me, I don't mind coming out flatfooted and saying there ain't any </span><span>way to improve on them—except having them born in, Missouri!"</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-20770979299364513492023-03-12T12:35:00.049+08:002023-11-15T13:59:10.530+08:00A satirical look at Chin Peng’s and Lee Kuan Yew’s close relative in Malaysia.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZw9QBGpHRyN85FinG-1wW5al0gCErt9Jyn5e9btsFSq2b8BGB8qYZb9BU944cm3Y_-QuZmO4eZQXQZS_NqsqXaR3IeNS_QHqh8hvIpOkdT_GyaujB67m74Z8BsXKY8Cu6K0s2_gJqeLPWsmiGSmaRU91Kahp_AFfjX9vBuBI8VPPibYH385TilMgJ84/s242/NEW%20POST.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="242" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZw9QBGpHRyN85FinG-1wW5al0gCErt9Jyn5e9btsFSq2b8BGB8qYZb9BU944cm3Y_-QuZmO4eZQXQZS_NqsqXaR3IeNS_QHqh8hvIpOkdT_GyaujB67m74Z8BsXKY8Cu6K0s2_gJqeLPWsmiGSmaRU91Kahp_AFfjX9vBuBI8VPPibYH385TilMgJ84/w640-h550/NEW%20POST.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">By: Choo Sing Chye</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">13-11-23</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It would be a momentous surprise to Lim Kit Siang to wake up one morning to find out that he is a close relative to the famous Lee Kuan Yew and the infamous Chin Peng. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">All these revelations had me baffled big time, because all this while I never once thought that Chin Peng’s full name is Lim Chin Peng or Lee Kuan Yew as Lim Kuan Yew. </span></div><div></div><div><blockquote><a href="https://singchyeblog.blogspot.com/p/of-spy-squads-and-beggars-political.html" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"><i></i></a></blockquote></div><p><br /></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://singchyeblog.blogspot.com/p/of-spy-squads-and-beggars-political.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Also Read - Of Spy Squads and Beggars - A political satire</span></i></a></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://singchyeblog.blogspot.com/2023/03/blog-post.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>Is DAP a communist party? </i></span></a></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://singchyeblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/is-riduan-tee-safe-to-be-stupid.html"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>I<span style="color: #2b00fe;">s Riduan Tee safe to be stupid? </span></i></span></a></li></ul><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p></p><blockquote><div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Had it not for the young PHD holder and MP from the North, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">who goes by the name of Siti Mastura Muhammad, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lim Kit Siang would have gone away without knowing this. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Just think of the years that Lim Kit Siang had lost without paying homage to his lost ancestors or the many missed reunion dinners, it is utterly very sad indeed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Okay, let’s put jokes aside. Either the history books had me taught wrong or the PHD holder and MP Siti Mastura Muhammad </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">had pulled a fast one on the Lim’s family and us. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Obviously, it is a commonly held belief that Malaysian history often changes every now and then without facts whatsoever, but lots of fancies. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But the biggest change would manifest itself every five years during the heat of the election campaign where politicians tend to beat their chests and show their prowess in historical matters which I suspect they know very little about.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Seemingly in the case of our honourable PHD and MP Siti Mastura Muhammad, the speed of the historical change was blistering fast. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In just one night’s ceramah (public rally) she had managed to conjoin three families into one, if this is not lightning fast, furious and fake, I don’t know what is?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I do not know whether she is faking the facts about Kit Siang’s family link to Chin Peng and Lee Kuan Yew or she really believes in it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">If she really believes in the link, she is ignorant, and she urgently need to go back to her university or better still go to another university, to take a refresher course. If she is faking it, then she is a dubious politician. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Which is which? I do not know.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But anyway, Perikatan Nasional politicians are plenty smart fellows, they know the fastest way and the easiest way to demonized DAP is to spread false and fact free narratives to the public that DAP is a communist party, anti-royalty, anti-Malays and anti-Islam. No deep thinking needed, just as simple as that.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Actually, these communist party, anti-royalty, anti-Malays and anti-Islam accusations are the trademark of the Barisan Nasional and is a must use construct for every General Elections. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Anyway, I would like to see the day in the near future, I hope, that the Barisan Nasional would take Perikatan Nasional to court and sue them for this blatant patent infringement.</span></div><div><br /></div><p></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-4331199449621153992023-03-08T20:54:00.019+08:002023-03-09T01:09:13.945+08:00Is Anwar Ibrahim waging a Class War or an Anti-Corruption War?<p></p><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGjDKvvPYJ6wSxCfrd3N4I3tbm8ZJRqOH0BiPrezeyT2_A8HwiM_G-f-FwNkiRDv8thGyzhxA3Dg22UZ0MJcnRy1r5jjd25iao8_dH1DIrjHMTP-ZFzQSilsgLJLFjeLg8O2n4MT08TyvSG5F-93NsDy8GDffp7_gZkx8VZsXy8IIHY2PwnzlbbA_X/s474/class%20war.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="474" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGjDKvvPYJ6wSxCfrd3N4I3tbm8ZJRqOH0BiPrezeyT2_A8HwiM_G-f-FwNkiRDv8thGyzhxA3Dg22UZ0MJcnRy1r5jjd25iao8_dH1DIrjHMTP-ZFzQSilsgLJLFjeLg8O2n4MT08TyvSG5F-93NsDy8GDffp7_gZkx8VZsXy8IIHY2PwnzlbbA_X/w640-h442/class%20war.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">By: Choo Sing Chye</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">8-3-23</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i>Seeing</i></b> the unabated corruption happening among the Perikatan political elites during the last two governments; and the existence of a real danger from it spilling over into the new administration, hesitancy to give support to Anwar Ibrahim is not an option.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">By doing so, the victory over corruption will always remain an illusion.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">As a starter the rakyat should be vary of the smear that Anwar’s effort in fighting corruption rhymes with the communist slogan of the “Class War”. His fight against corruption has nothing in common with the “Class War”. </span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">It does not make sense when Wan Saiful postulated in parliament that Anwar’s 2023 budget had a sniff of the classic communist "Class War", within its folio. As clear as daylight he is trying his very best to spin the 2023 Budget in such a way that it looks like a “communist purge”.</span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">If Wan Saiful wants us to believe in his “Class War” dichotomy, at least he should provide us with some knowledge about this subject and proof that Anwar is waging a “Class War”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span> </span>He gave zero facts on how Anwar is conducting a “Class War”, and this exposes him to the fact that he does not know what he is talking about, the whole time in parliament.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">But it is certain that the whole affair of the “Class War” he brought into the August House was a thinly veiled innuendo to discredit Anwar. This, he probably hoped could cast aspersion on Anwar’s Islamic credentials.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">It is political suicide in Malaysia to be a communist. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">His silly revelation of the “Class War” is not meant to be debated intelligently because it offered no substance, but a crude smear.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">One cannot debate on smear or falsehood which the Perikatan politicians are so fond of. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Thus, if we take Wan Saiful’s revelation not with a pinch of salt, but a large handful, shouldn’t Anwar’s 2023 “Class War” Budget be laced with these communist economic ideals. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">1) Shouldn't there a hint for all banks to be nationalised and amalgamated into one huge single bank just as it is done in a Communist State? And this one single bank will not act as a normal commercial bank, but act as a book keeper for the nation. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">So, no more Public Bank, May Bank, Hong Leong Bank, CIMB, RHB, Bank Rakyat, Affin Bank and so forth. In place is one huge bank doing the “work of book-keeping, control, registration, accounting and counting...(for the)…proletarian existence.” (1)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">2) Shouldn’t there in the 2023 Budget to create a state ownership of the means of production and exchange? “Machinery, loco-motives, steamships, factory buildings, warehouses, grain elevators, mines, telegraphs and telephones, the land, sheep. horses and cattle, must all be at the disposal of society.” (2) This mean that all these means of production must be under the control of the State.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">3) Shouldn’t there in the 2023 Budget to restrict the printing of the Ringgit and create a time frame for its elimination from the Malaysian economy.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">These are a few features that must happen if we see victory in a “Class War.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Before I end this article, my advice to all Malaysian politicians is that they should read more because a little knowledge would eventually lead to falsehood. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Just for the starter, do read this President Harry Truman’s book, “<i>Give ‘em Hell Harry</i>,” and are some excerpts from the book:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">1) <i>You know, a fella could get rich in this (president) job, if he really wanted to.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">2) <i>But I found out something a long time ago: that when you play ball with the money boys, you pay! </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">3) <i>Oh, I've done some favors for friends down through the years, just like any other influence peddler in Washington, but I never got anything for myself out of</i> it. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">4) <i>And I'll tell you something else: No man can get rich in politics unless he's a crook! It can't be done.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">References:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">1) Socialist Economics, Alec Nove and D.M. Nuti, Penguin Books, 1971.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">2) Ibid.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.com0Malaysia4.210484 101.975766-52.411279322163892 31.663265999999993 60.832247322163894 172.288266tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-73995240665452199532023-02-20T21:42:00.011+08:002023-02-24T08:09:03.347+08:00Is PAS Dr Azman Ibrahim expounding kindergarten history?<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLYZfRk9JrckW8QV0HiBCccw5-F_1z4HLE2fvIOenanXDn6vrdyepUShyoxH8MyNVs6S6_qFFvo5jmVMV_UL6NAcw3RG2IE66kg-oXp9L2NzUe6yhV2KDYytZnezLyp31Ko0rFAfcMqkWdzlznR1OQtOJJa1O_aiDfz9AU1lP8a7emQPH7Og-CUnPn/s720/frank.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="720" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLYZfRk9JrckW8QV0HiBCccw5-F_1z4HLE2fvIOenanXDn6vrdyepUShyoxH8MyNVs6S6_qFFvo5jmVMV_UL6NAcw3RG2IE66kg-oXp9L2NzUe6yhV2KDYytZnezLyp31Ko0rFAfcMqkWdzlznR1OQtOJJa1O_aiDfz9AU1lP8a7emQPH7Og-CUnPn/w640-h374/frank.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By: Choo Sing Chye.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> 20-2-23</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I can't believe myself that the PAS Terengganu State Exco Dr Azman Ibrahim, a man of his stature, could</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> lower himself to</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> make up stories from an old photograph which he published in Twitter. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Anything that is expropriated from the old photo of a rich Malay and the Chinese rickshaw puller without any historical facts to explain its content, is just </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">opinion, not truth</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What is most disappointing is that his opinion is laced with racial </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">innuendos.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Thus, he certainly needs guts to call a spade, a spade, when it is not a spade.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Here is some real history which is based on primary source of information about the terrible suffering of the Malays.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Below is a ‘1875 Report on Debt Slavery’, by F.A.Swettenham, addressed to the Colonel Secretary in Singapore:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">Few subjects in a Malay country are well off. Thus, when a ra'ayat is in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">want of money, he goes to his Raja or Chief to lend it to him, because he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">alone can do so.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"></span></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Either money or goods are then lent, and a certain time stipulated for payment. If at the expiry of that time the money is not paid, it is usual to await some time longer, say two or three or even six months.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"></p></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Should payment not then be made, the debtor, if a single man, is taken to the creditor's house; he becomes one of his followers and is bound to execute any order or do any work the Raja as creditor may demand, until the debt is paid, however long a time that may be.</span></p></blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"></span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">During this time the Raja usually provides the debtor with food and clothing, but if the creditor gives him money, that money is added to the debt.</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"></span></span></span></i></p></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"></p></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Often, however, the Raja gives </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">nothing,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> and the debtor has to find food and clothing as he can.</span></span></span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Should the debtor marry—and the Raja in all probability will find him a wife—then the debtor's wife, his children, his grand-children, all become equally bound with himself to the payment of this debt.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Should the debtor be originally married, then not only he, but his wife and children, are taken into the Raja's house, and are his to order until the debt is paid.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Should the debtor be a woman, unmarried, or a widow, the same course is taken and whoever marries her becomes jointly responsible for the debt; and this goes on through generations—the children and the grand-children of the debtor being held in the same bondage by the children and grand-children of the creditor.</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Should at any time the debtor succeeds in raising the amount of the debt and proffer it to the creditor, then it would be customary to accept it. If, however, a large family were in bondage for the debt, one whose numbers seemed to the Raja to add to his dignity, then he would probably refuse to accept payment, not absolutely, but would say 'wait' and the waiting may last for years. (1)</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: left;">If we really dwell into the real history of our country, we could see countless of sufferings that the poor Malays, Indians and Chinese had to go through.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">As for Dr Azman’s, his tweet can be best answered by the wise old Sultan Abu Samad of Selangor 130 years ago. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">During one conversation between Frank Swettenham and Sultan Abu </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Samad regarding the</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> regular meetings between him and his Rajas. He enquired:</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"></span></p><blockquote><o:p></o:p><blockquote><o:p> </o:p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“I took the liberty of asking his Highness what it meant. He promptly pointed out that each of these Rajas in turn came to him, state his case, and asked the Sultan if that is not correct. His Highness always replied, ‘Quite correct,’ but he explained to me, ‘<b>benar kapada dia, bukan kapada kami</b>’, which means,…’correct in their view, not in mine.’ “ (2)</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"></span></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p> <u><b>From my brother Choo Ah Chye talks about NJ Ryan the author of Malaya through four centuries.</b></u></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial;"><o:p><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">NJ Ryan was the last British Headmaster of Malay College KK. He was a teacher at Anderson School before being posted to MCKK as headmaster. He made </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">MCKK powerful</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> at rugby. He was the president of Perak Rugby Union in the early 60s. I was in the game when he was the President.</span></i></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">References:</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">1) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">N.J.Ryan. </span><i><u><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Malaya through four centuries</span></u></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Oxford University Press, 1959. With cooperation from the Malay College, Kuala Kangsar.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">2) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ibid,.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10pt; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10pt; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-82048965001416176832023-02-16T10:31:00.012+08:002023-02-16T14:16:46.893+08:00Unity Government - a Royal Prerogative? <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYqiKzg12X_j3tlmqWjwIl2Q1-WmQLoMo10O32Ve-XwjXu5qXRGujzjE0lmBHz1OIn6Sk9HNbF0u0O5pOs0XtyorNLZflJoULFTZ7zb2qCr71Bd5GnfjAzpV1XCVOeRCfuGrgykKszjRmrt7E9nT7Ypr7NEi9mq0iGf4pBvGvkRJGbeWOE2WF58QUg/s1200/Royal%20final.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1200" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYqiKzg12X_j3tlmqWjwIl2Q1-WmQLoMo10O32Ve-XwjXu5qXRGujzjE0lmBHz1OIn6Sk9HNbF0u0O5pOs0XtyorNLZflJoULFTZ7zb2qCr71Bd5GnfjAzpV1XCVOeRCfuGrgykKszjRmrt7E9nT7Ypr7NEi9mq0iGf4pBvGvkRJGbeWOE2WF58QUg/w640-h386/Royal%20final.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">By: Choo Sing Chye</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">16-2-2023</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The opening speech by HM the Agong in the Second Session of the Malaysian Parliament laid down the fact that the Royal Institution is apolitical. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Last year, the nation was in turmoil again because the 15th General Elections resulted in a hung parliament, with no coalition having the absolute majority to form a government.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">And on this very backdrop, HM the Agong decided to use the Royal Prerogative to call on the amalgamation of all coalition parties to what to be known as a Unity Government working towards the betterment of Malaysia. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Now let’s flip back a few pages to the time when Muhyiddin rudely opted out from the idea of a Unity Government by signing off on the piece of document which was presented to him by HM the Agong.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">He had insisted all along that HM the Agong should declare him as the 10th prime minister by virtue of the fact that he had the number.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But little did he know he was doing a “Harold Macmillan” on HM the Agong and if he had succeeded, he would have removed HM’s Royal Prerogative unknowingly. (1)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">During the late 50’s and early 60’s, Harold Macmillan the then prime minister of Britain, started the conversation and ball rolling on whether there was a need for the Queen prerogative to choose a prime minister. He believed that the prerogative should be in the hands of the victorious parliamentary party.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the 1964 General Elections, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Harold Macmillan (1957-63) lost his premiership to Harold Wilson. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">By then, the prerogative had already eroded so far to a point that when Harold Wilson resigned in 1976, “the prerogative was effectively terminated by the Labour Party’s choice” - Jim Callaghan- its new leader.” (1) </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thus, bypassing the Royal Prerogative which would mean that the Queen would not be involved in the traditional consensus in choosing a prime minister. </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So, from that day onwards the Queen had lost her prerogative powers and now “she was obliged to accept as Prime Minister whoever had been chosen by the majority party as its leader.” (2)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This means that no sovereign will be involved in any way in the choice of the prime minister, it is party business from that day onwards.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But luckily, the Royal Prerogative in Malaysia is still intact, and it gave the rakyat a stable Unity Government which effectively ended the era of the back-door quarrelsome Perikatan Nasional government.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Reference:-</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">1)Weidenfeld and Nicolson, The Tory Leaders-Their Struggle for power, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Weidenfeld and Nicolson London, 1977.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">2)Ibid.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><p></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-39019460123836699722023-02-02T22:38:00.009+08:002023-12-05T20:08:58.769+08:00Western Philosophy and “Malaysia Madani”, are they the same? <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYUiyvE0dNmDup5A0VGaSz8T5IxcCAWeMdH7GHkK8mpR5416BJkYHI_FnJe1QRMcclnRnyAvA4GrzNuacY5HBLtGNFk3uRTGdPk63AlmgCTsYu2QRwlpTgvU0SHCYzHdvdWa_0_lzENyW-uaTu52lbeK-sM39FNB9HT4Uf9vAGpIGtYX7fFs_wq2Cd/s403/Is%20Civil%20Society%20_Dead_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="403" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYUiyvE0dNmDup5A0VGaSz8T5IxcCAWeMdH7GHkK8mpR5416BJkYHI_FnJe1QRMcclnRnyAvA4GrzNuacY5HBLtGNFk3uRTGdPk63AlmgCTsYu2QRwlpTgvU0SHCYzHdvdWa_0_lzENyW-uaTu52lbeK-sM39FNB9HT4Uf9vAGpIGtYX7fFs_wq2Cd/w640-h372/Is%20Civil%20Society%20_Dead_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">By: Choo Sing Chye</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">3-2-23</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">To Hadi Awang, any concept which he suspects had any link to Western philosophy is unacceptable even though the term Madani is an Islamic term and many of its core values come from Islam.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">To propose that Malaysian Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim’s Madani concept is not Islamic enough to be palatable to Malaysian Muslims, because of the linkage to Western philosophy, ancient or modern, is a silly proposition.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Nearly 20 percent of the Ancient Greek philosophers’ works that fueled the Renaissance in the West came from the Islamic World which had survived the ravages of Western religious extremism at that time.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Thus, Hadi Awang apparent effort to cage all these “Western philosophers such as Thomas Paine, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx” (1) in such a trivialized simplicity had pauperized the value of his argument and blurring it to a point that the real issue is being misinterpreted.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Hadi Awang is not wrong when he said that “the modern civilisation … is burning itself now” (2) in the West as seen in the vivid example of the Ukraine War, LGBT and the immigration issue; but all these issues are not sparked by the teachings of these philosophers nor the Civil societies.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The teachings of these philosophers are the building blocks of Western Civil Societies. But what is happening now is that Civil Societies in the West are decaying, and they are collapsing under the weight of corruption, violence, hatred, extremism and intolerance. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">It is people like Rasmus Paludan, a Swedish-Danish malicious right-winger who is fast tracking its decay - turning the Swedish Civil Society into a Rogue Society and the malicious burning of the Quran is the proof of this trend. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thus, when </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">corruption, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">violence, hatred, extremism and intolerance seeped into Civil Societies, they stopped being civil, they become rogues.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Without doubt, these were the same factors that felled mighty “civilisations” in the past. And in this similar manner, our modern civilization is following suit, “burning itself” (3) out with the same fuel of </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">corruption, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">violence, hatred, extremism and intolerance.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> “Malaysia Madani” broadly speaking is an idea to bring together all races to live in harmony, peace and prosperity where humility and compassion is aplenty. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">We, Malaysians, had gone through 4 tumultuous years of Perikatan Nasional rule, now let us give Pakatan Harapan a chance to govern the nation in harmony, peace and prosperity. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Reference:-</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">1) <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/hadi-claims-madani-concept-based-on-western-philosophers-doomed-to-fail/ar-AA16KvOB?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e17b02ceaaf848338de4bf165a9d8e59">Hadi claims ‘madani’ concept based on Western philosophers doomed to fail</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">2) Ibid.,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">3) Ibid.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> Index:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Aristotle (384-322 BCE) :- Cataloged over 150 constitutions and found that most of them had some form of restrictions placed on the rulers. He was critical of Plato's concept of Philosopher King, which he thought would lead to dictatorship. Aristotle proposed a sharing of power and believed that the diffusion of power would safeguard freedom.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Thomas Paine 1737-1809:- An Englishman migrate to America at the age of 37 in 1791 and stayed there for some time. He later came back to England where he wrote “The Rights of Man” which sold over 200,000 copies in just a few months. He calls for the reformation of the parliament. His ideas were instrumental to the changes on how English parliament were to operate in the Reform Bill of 1832.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">John Locke (1632-1704) :- His celebrated “Letter on Toleration” spurred the idea liberty of expression, and this idea was included in Britain's Bill of Rights of 1689. One hundred years later, it was codified in the American Bill of Right, (The First Amendment) after independence.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778):- He expounded the idea that the lust for private property was the root of all injustices and inequality. Powerful individuals had enslaved others and stolen land. He was referring to feudal lords.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Adam Smith (1723-1790):- Father of Capitalism. It brought England to the height of Economic power in 18th to 19th Century. Today the two biggest economies, the US and China benefited from his idea of a free market economy.</span></div><div><br /></div><p></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-74445161510830830292023-01-20T23:33:00.014+08:002023-01-22T00:23:56.599+08:00Is DAP a communist party?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRYbjLlqmDVZy3WIdoanrHppR_gD-z7IM63s6GtKQq8-9E0XPO0LXU9UhLMicKsKtI_ja6qpwsCRmk0vlRHN7ycMk2G66I0DEjE_QI_bmC5VvmX4eDHczgxr6E2oOCIB81TczoVgWOfNjZA_rkOO4z-eGTDjrCaY5B6FZ0a_xNHI5hPo-mQr2zP3v/s383/DAP%20is%20not%20a%20_Communist%20party1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="383" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRYbjLlqmDVZy3WIdoanrHppR_gD-z7IM63s6GtKQq8-9E0XPO0LXU9UhLMicKsKtI_ja6qpwsCRmk0vlRHN7ycMk2G66I0DEjE_QI_bmC5VvmX4eDHczgxr6E2oOCIB81TczoVgWOfNjZA_rkOO4z-eGTDjrCaY5B6FZ0a_xNHI5hPo-mQr2zP3v/w478-h314/DAP%20is%20not%20a%20_Communist%20party1.jpg" width="478" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">By: Choo Sing Chye</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">20-1-23</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">In Malaysia, it is unfortunate that DAP is always being label as a communist </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">or a pro communist party </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">from time immemorial. </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">But what is most disappointing is that the present leaders in the DAP are unable to counter this false Hadi Awang’s label. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">From what I gathered so far is that Hadi Awang does not have a narrative on why he affixed the communist label on</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> some of DAP leaders and the party</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">, and if Hadi Awang has one, then he should have some rudimentary knowledge on communism.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">But I suspect he has none</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> or any clue of what being postulated by him</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">, because all that I can procure from hi</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">s</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> press release is the five-letter word “proof” and the “see you in court” challenge and nothing else.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Anyway, by the time we see Hadi Awang in court, it will be a few years down the road, and everything will be iced-cold, and nobody cares about this issue anymore.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">DAP is definitely not a communist party nor has anything to do with the Three Stars (Bintang Tiga) party.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> (1)</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Anyway, for the sake of argument, let’s take Hadi Awang’s proof for a spin.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt;">For Hadi Awang’s proof to be plausible, it must contain fundamental precepts of communism that are part of the core ideology of DAP. Thus, I wish to explain communism in a very plain and simple barebone </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt;">man</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ner.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Firstly, in communism, all banks will be amalgamated and merged into one single bank. And this one single bank will not act as a normal commercial bank but act as a </span>book keeper<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> for the nation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Paper currency as we normally use will be downgraded to a point that it ceases to exist. Everyone will have in his possession a notebook to record down all the purchases she or he makes, and the bank will book keep all these transactions.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">All monopolistic capitalist entities such as sugar, coal, oil, iron and steel industries will be nationalized.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Secondly, in the case of Malaysia, all “wan tan mein, nga choy kai, roti canai, nasi lemak</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">, mee rebus</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> ” business including big industries will be state own</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">ed</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Everybody will work for the state. There will be no private ownership i.e., my house, my car, my bank savings, all will be owned by the state.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Finally, when the state reaches its utopian target, the state will wither away. There will no longer be a country, no police force, no army and no government, everybody will live happily together.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">All the above are not DAP orientations or policies</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">but are part and parcel of a communist government. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">When Lim Guan Eng was finance minister, he did none of the above.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">So finally, the way Hadi Awang could skillfully pick out of thin air, issue that does not exist, like having proof that DAP is a communist party could make him a better magician than a politician.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></p><div style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">1) Malayan Communist Party</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-74964079667535367502022-12-31T22:25:00.019+08:002023-01-01T02:55:00.746+08:00Is there any truth in Mahathir’s claim that IMF help would bankrupt Malaysia in the Asian Financial crisis of 1997?<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7lrgnzko0aM-yKpKJSKaFp6PrRDYvkacIKEDQRrrZIJjpwMsn90eQWyq8Eha8aEEeGBL0KKSvUUj2_0cfJj8pNTfdTLnVlsrltYkYaAlpgPLlN_1ewqF6aYqXDZ5kX_Ff9p4K9Wb6jxD1jyl-nUhhd42VyIU0MbnhQaN04Ab6SeRCmTuLKmiFMcB/s379/IMF2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="379" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7lrgnzko0aM-yKpKJSKaFp6PrRDYvkacIKEDQRrrZIJjpwMsn90eQWyq8Eha8aEEeGBL0KKSvUUj2_0cfJj8pNTfdTLnVlsrltYkYaAlpgPLlN_1ewqF6aYqXDZ5kX_Ff9p4K9Wb6jxD1jyl-nUhhd42VyIU0MbnhQaN04Ab6SeRCmTuLKmiFMcB/w640-h395/IMF2.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Mahathir, <span style="text-align: left;">James Callaghan, Anwar</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">By: Choo Sing Chye </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">1-1-23</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Needless to </span><span>say,</span><span> that the IMF story is never ending. It was </span><span>callously brought</span><span> out again by Dr Mahathir in a recent interview with a news portal.</span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Anyway,</span><span> </span><span>it is</span><span> not difficult to believe that this story was a skillfully crafted product of Mahathir and the political cronies of the day.</span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><span> </span></i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>It was a good story to tell when they were scheming to remove </span><span>Anwar from</span><span> his DPM post then.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>Their intention not to have an IMF’s plan to </span><span>rehabilitate the</span><span> Malaysian economy was clear as daylight - it would expose into the open that they were indirectly the cause of it all. They had been cannibalizing the Malaysian </span><span>economy all</span><span> this while to a point that it cannot withstand the Asian Financial crisis that came our way in 1997.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>Thus, Mahathir and the political cronies were steadfastly </span><span>against taking</span><span> an IMF loan </span><span>because they</span><span> knew very well that the IMF loan package always comes with a bitter prescription which would mean </span><span>that their</span><span> corrupted ways would be exposed in no time. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>They knew </span><span>that if</span><span> nothing was done at that time, they would end up filing for </span><span>bankruptcy,</span><span> so they hatched the IMF bankruptcy story to discredit Anwar Ibrahim.</span></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>So, Mahathir took control </span><span>and Malaysia</span><span> weathered the Asian Financial crisis. Eventually, Mahathir came out smelling like a rose and all the main political cronies were saved. But one thing for sure was that Malaysia did not fully recover from this crisis until today </span><span>because it</span><span> is still riddled with corruption.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>So,</span><span> </span><span>it is</span><span> foolish to </span><span>accuse Anwar</span><span> </span><span>of committing</span><span> economic suicide by </span><span>opting for</span><span> the IMF loan to weather the crisis. </span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>If taking</span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> an IMF loan would bankrupt Malaysia, it would be a different story to tell for Britain in 1976.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>What Britain had done in 1976 dispels Mahathir </span><span>IMF story</span><span>. </span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>In 1976, Britain was hit with a </span><span>similar calamity</span><span>, the British Pound was in a free fall because the International Finance Institutions felt that the British Pound </span><span>was overvalued</span><span> due to </span><span>its shrinking</span><span> economy. Just like what happened to Malaysia, they started selling the British Pound.</span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>James Callaghan the prime minister at that time </span><span>decided not</span><span> to use up all of Britain’s gold to prep up the Pound, instead he chose to take the most humbling decision in his life-he decided to take a loan from the IMF. (1)</span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>He followed diligently through all the IMF’s </span><span>guidelines and</span><span> within two </span><span>years, all</span><span> the IMF loan had been repaid and the British economic health was restored with a surplus in the balance of payment. (2)</span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is important to note that Callaghan did it without the benefit of the North Sea oil resource which came online during Margaret Thatcher’s time.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Therefore,</span><span> </span><span>it</span><span> will not be </span><span>a speculation</span><span> of the fact that Malaysia would be in a different place today, </span><span>if Anwar</span><span> had been successful in taking the IMF loan. We would definitely have a clean and prosperous Malaysia. </span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Also read:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://singchyeblog.blogspot.com/p/by-choo-sing-chye-ipoh-has-changed-so.html"><i>1) From a Billion Ringgit Tin Mining Industry to Nga- Choy-Kai Industry </i></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://singchyeblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mahathir-did-not-reveal-all-about_24.html">2) Mahathir did not reveal all about the Radioactive Waste issue.</a></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">1) J. Denis Derbyshire, The Business of Government, W & R Chambers Ltd., Edinburgh, 1987</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">2) Ibid.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-46954090302223435222022-12-22T22:15:00.005+08:002023-01-01T00:16:45.518+08:00Agenzia Nova’s article - not again - another sodomy story?<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Z0zAGpZ2hQcBqNoPUEFzbk9QlcoOMGHOa9FtDjkxCR2IvkVVWo4P8_i8lgAEa-B82Ul6qnMfUep8fVpGxE7fsBYM7_XeIlF3VZ8HFRiylB02qu35XTh_Z1u3jP-_iV7mO8KdG9-yy5J2hk4PCKrJSv_C-7Q2QJ9NseRXsdLBs9Qy0EVvbdQJ8LtA/s354/agenzia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="354" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Z0zAGpZ2hQcBqNoPUEFzbk9QlcoOMGHOa9FtDjkxCR2IvkVVWo4P8_i8lgAEa-B82Ul6qnMfUep8fVpGxE7fsBYM7_XeIlF3VZ8HFRiylB02qu35XTh_Z1u3jP-_iV7mO8KdG9-yy5J2hk4PCKrJSv_C-7Q2QJ9NseRXsdLBs9Qy0EVvbdQJ8LtA/w480-h343/agenzia.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">By: Choo Sing Chye</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">22-12-22</span></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 9.0000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: SimSun; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was curious about Agenzia Nova</span><span style="font-family: SimSun;">’</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">s article titled, </span></span><i><span style="color: #585858; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s “first full-blown homosexual elected prime minister in an Islamic country</span></i><span style="color: #585858; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i>”, which</i></span><span style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> was brought out by the opposition leader, </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hamzah Zainudin. </span><b><span style="font-family: SimSun;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">I started to surf to the said site just to find out how much more mileage can </span>they squeeze<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> out of this weary issue which seems to have an infinite lifespan. </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Because this “</span><i><span style="color: #585858; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">first full-blown </span></i><span style="color: #585858; font-family: Calibri;"><i>homosexual” thingy</i></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> is new to me, I started reading it. </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">First thing first, they claimed that they are a professional setup but what I found was the opposite and the article </span>was not<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> professionally done. </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">But what bothers me most is that the title itself is disjointed and separated from the main trajectory of the story. This means that the title says one thing and the main story says another- a </span>mischievous conjecture<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">. </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">The title proposes a statement of actuality that Anwar a “full blown homosexual</span>,” but<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in the body, it just laid out a narrative of the sodomy case. So now we must be very careful </span>here; to<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> be a “full blown homosexual</span>,” Anwar<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> must admit that he is one and not being accused as one. </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Furthermore, the paragraphs and its contents do not flow like in a news report which I found to be amateurish - a telltale sign of a cut and paste job. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">To be frank, I could not come out with any conclusion other than this article was written with bits and pieces taken from a myriad of news sources which </span>is freely<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> available on the Internet. </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Therefore,</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> it is difficult for me to state that this Agenzia Nova’s article is not a plagiarized piece, as a huge part of its facts and arguments are unnamed and unquoted, giving no recognition to the original source authors. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In sum, I do not have the right whatsoever to suggest Hamzah Zainudin not to look or sound silly in bringing up this issue or even more sillier by insisting Anwar to take legal action against Agenzia Nova. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 9.0000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I will guarantee Hamzah Zainudin that no one in Europe, Britain, US and in fact, the whole world will come to a conclusion that Anwar is a “full Blown </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">homosexual” after</span><span style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> reading this </span></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Agenzia Nova’s article. </span><b><span style="font-family: SimSun;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">So, Hamzah Zainudin please put to rest this issue and focus on the economy.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-25775858905298938562022-12-01T17:24:00.003+08:002022-12-01T18:16:56.431+08:00Cabinet Minister - How many should Anwar choose?<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">By: Choo Sing Chye</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">1-12-2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It’s time to give Anwar the confidence and space needed to run the country. The wellbeing of the rakyat and the economy are the two most paramount issues that he has to tackle right now. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">To do this, the leaders in the Harapan coalition should not demand but instead render him the fullest support and political leeway to achieve these two goals. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Stop the bickering over ministerial positions which in the end will make his efforts to solve the country’s woe much more difficult and, in the end, result in failure.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Do not let selfish greed to hamper the aspiration of the rakyat.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Don’t do it, the rakyat will hate and spite you. Remember this, MPs are elected to serve the rakyat and not self.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now, Harapan should bear in mind the population of Malaysia is only 33 million and the most optimal cabinet </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">size should</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> be capped at 24 to 30 cabinet ministers. Truss’s government had 23 cabinet ministers and Rishi Sunak has 30 in a population of 68 million.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Supposing we have 30 cabinet ministers, it will not be the final count, if we use the British convention to calculate the number of ministers, these 30 ministers </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">could balloon</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> to over a hundred ministers. In Malaysia these junior ministers are called by </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">different names,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> and they are not call minister as in Britain.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here’s why?</span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">In Britain “T</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">he legal maximum number of paid ministers is 109, including the prime minister, as set out in the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975. However, the government can appoint more ministers if they remain unpaid. The House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 caps the number of ministers that can sit in the House of Commons at one time at 95.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">” (1)</span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“1) The most senior ministers are called secretaries of state (Cabinet Ministers). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> (2)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0.0000gd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“2) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Beneath secretaries of state are two ranks of </span><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/becoming-junior-minister"><span class="15" style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">junior ministers</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">: ministers of state and parliamentary under secretaries. While ministers of state are politically senior to parliamentary under secretaries, they are constitutionally similar and the responsibilities of both are delegated from the secretary of state.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> (3)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0.0000gd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“3) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most junior ministers are given a title to signal both their policy responsibility in a department and the government’s policy priorities – such as the minister of state for crime and policing in the Home Office and the parliamentary under secretary of state for science, research and innovation in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> (4)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0.0000gd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“4) </span><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/whipping-system-and-free-votes"><span class="15" style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Whips</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> are also ministerial positions but serve different functions to senior and junior ministers. </span><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/parliamentary-private-secretaries"><span class="15" style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Parliamentary private secretaries</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> are unpaid and act as departmental assistants to ministers, being the eyes and ears of the minister in parliament and communicating with the backbenches. They are required to </span><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/payroll-vote"><span class="15" style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">vote with the government</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> but are not ministers.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">” (5)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0pt;">Former prime minister </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0pt;">Truss’s had</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0pt;"> 23 Cabinet ministers (most senior MPs), 8 Attend ministers and 90 ministers. In total, Truss had 121 ministers in his </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0pt;">government,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0pt;"> but 12 ministers must remain unpaid to satisfy the legal limit of 109.</span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In Malaysia all these junior secretaries, parliament secretaries and so forth are not called ministers and they are not included into the total of number of ministers. But in fact, they play a very important role in whatever ministries they are in. So, if Anwar picks 30, there will be more than 30 if we follow British convention. Similarly, Truss’s present only 23 cabinet ministers not 121 ministers to the public.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Finally, Muhyiddin cabinet of 70 members is not a functioning cabinet but a patronage cabinet where ministers are chosen based on friendship and connections and not for their skill. This is what we safely call a parasitic cabinet. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This, Anwar should and must avoid at all cost - choose only the best.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/"><u><span class="15" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">The Institute for Government </span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Ibid.,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Ibid.,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Ibid.,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Ibid.,</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-82678356699613256452022-11-24T09:35:00.002+08:002022-12-01T18:23:41.304+08:00Perikatan National did not fulfill the condition of a fair election<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">By: Choo Sing Chye</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">24-11-22</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">In the recently concluded General Elections, t</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">he </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">Perikatan National had won an </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">unexpected 7</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">3</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">seats and</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> conspicuously, many of these seats won were </span><span style="font-size: 24px;">not done</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> in the spirit of democracy.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">For the spirit of democracy to flourish, the machination that goes into the process of choosing a government must be free, fair, open and most importantly, speeches must be devoid </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24px;">of hate</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">, dishonesty and threats of violence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">The speeches by politicians </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">touching on policies </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">must be based on intellectual honest discourses not falsehoods so that the voters can make appropriate decisions based on these discourses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">I</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">n a democracy</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">, g</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">overnments </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">are chosen </span><span style="font-size: 24px;">through General</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Elections which is akin to a big marketplace for the aspiring parties to pawn their manifestos to the voters </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">so that </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">to entice them to vote for them without inducing fear, hate or lies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">Unfortunately, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">many </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">Perikatan Nasional politicians did not come out to campaign fairly, they heavily </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">pawn their political </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">wares on</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">social media, especially Tit Tok as their main platform to spread and generate fear and </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">racial </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">hatred. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">As a </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">matter of fact</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> many </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">Perikatan Nasional politicians have become practitioners of divisive</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">, shallow</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> and hate politics</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">There were no substantial policy matters spoken in their rallies that were of interest to the rakyat, not even a tiny bit. The only answer to Rafizi’s (Harapan) policies onslaught was that he has “crooked teeth” not handsome enough to govern. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">As a result of this </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">disinformation that they </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">had generated and spread through Tik Tok created an atmosphere of hate and fear which </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">attracted many frightened and angry voters </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">to </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">All these </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">negate the spirit of democracy</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> as such that these Perikatan Nasional’s politicians have not earn the complete trust of the rakyat.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">Finally, Perikatan National is not qualified to govern a multi-racial Malaysia.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-37935770126334142852022-11-23T09:42:00.006+08:002022-11-23T10:35:29.533+08:00Malaysia is in the sick bed. <p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">By: Choo Sing Chye</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">23-11-22</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Malaysia has caught an economic-virus and her ringgit is weak, heading south.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">At present, Malaysia is in the sick bed and all the specialist doctors will not cooperate to heal her. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">Two previous specialist doctors could not heal her and the medicine they gave had no effect. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">One of the two doctors wants to continue treating Malaysia even though he had failed the first time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">Another doctor who is willing to work together and to do his best to cure Malaysia, but he was shunned by others.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">Today, for the love for Malaysia, HM the Agong, suggests that all the specialists come together and put their combined skills to treat and heal Malaysia.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">HM the Agong's wisdom is simple, if all the specialist doctors come together to treat Malaysia and do the best together, Malaysia could be saved.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">Malaysia is still in the sick bed waiting for all the specialist doctors to come together to save her.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">All MPs should put their egos aside and save Malaysia.</span></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-62856853969788569672022-11-21T11:11:00.012+08:002023-01-23T16:48:47.766+08:00Barisan Nasional and Harapan should cooperate to save the depreciating Ringgit.<p><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">By: Choo Sing Chye 21-11-22</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Today Harapan has come to the final lap and whether it will form the government with Barisan Nasional or not, it is difficult to say. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The hurdle is DAP and UMNO. DAP has been fighting with UMNO for nearly 60 years, even kitchen sinks had been thrown at each other. The only thing that is left is cooperation. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">They did briefly cooperate in Perak for the first time in history bringing about the change in Mentri Besar (chief minister). As a result </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Saarani bin Mohama</span><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt;">d</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> from UMNO became the Mentri Besar.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span>I would definitely praise Nga Kor Ming, Deputy Secretary General of DAP and </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">DAP Perak chairman, for his foresight to agree on this unprecedented change. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">DAP is not a communist party it emulates the Labour Party of Britain where the welfare of the workers and common people is paramount. The Malaysian free health care system is largely based on the British health care system which was introduced by the Labour Party in 1946 when it became the post-war government.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">DAP is a social soft-left of </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">center</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> party and its working core ideal is social commonality. In short, we in the DAP are Social Democrats.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">DAP economic signature is Keynes</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. Keynesian is the backbone economic policy of the Democratic Party of the US. It pulled US out of the Great Depression in the early 20’s and the 30’s with the introduction of welfare which acted as a safety net. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">All being said, now it is time for UMNO and Harapan to cooperate and form the next government in Malaysia for the sake of the welfare of our nation. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The Malaysian economy will never survive another round of Perikatan government.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I will expand this article from time to time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Calibri;">Any questions pls email me at singchye@gmail.com </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">Pls no shallow and stupid questions.....</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-80039523327678254362022-11-19T00:12:00.003+08:002023-01-22T11:41:28.247+08:00Open note to Khairy Jamaluddin.<p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Open </span></u><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">note</span></u><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> to </span></u><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Khairy</span></u><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Jamaluddin</span></u><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">By: Choo Sing Chye 18-11-22</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When the late Ma</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">r</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">g</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">r</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">e</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">t Thatcher resigned as prime minister, she </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">felt so letdown by the lack of support from her </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Conservative colleagues that she angrily told them that she would like to go into business of teaching them how to grow a backbone.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">is </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">definitely a</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> good </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">business proposal </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">and also profitable </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">then </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">and even now </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">because there</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> are so </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">many spineless politicians around</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> that we have lost count of them</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For being spineless</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Khairy </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jamaluddin</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> takes the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">cake.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Four years ago:</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri;">Khairy told Channel News Asia four years old: ” This must not happen again (1MDB), we must not ever allow our leaders in Umno to be detached from reality and not ask tough questions. If we continue with our feudal mindset of protecting the leader from the truth, Umno will go extinct.” </span><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri;">“He added that Umno’s loss at the polls should prompt it to recognise that perhaps the days of race-based political parties were over.</span><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri;">“We didn’t want to bell the cat"</span><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;">And now</span></u></b><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;">:</span><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;">Has Khairy belled the cat? </span><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;">No, in UMNO even to bell a kitten is impossible let alone belling the cat. No warlord in UMNO will part with their BMWs, Mercedes Benzs, swimming pools and their palatial homes just to reform UMNO- no way! I strongly believe Khairy will not do it when he said this:</span><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;">"Ismail Sabri should lead Umno as president and Hisham (Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein) and myself must also look at how and where we can help to take Umno to in the future.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;">”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;">To think Ismail Sabri </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;"> and Hishammuddin are </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;">reformers, Khairy is dreaming, they are both unadulterated Machiavellian</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;"> feudal politicians, period. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The best reply to Khairy came from Lim Kit Siang. In the same subject four years ago: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“</span><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri;">It is as clear as day that Khairy is studiously avoiding the issue of 1MDB scandal and Malaysia being tarred with the epithet of a global kleptocracy,” Lim continue: “it appeared as though the former youth and sports minister(Khairy) was still not prepared to “bell the cat”. </span><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I believe no.</span></span><span style="color: #0c0c0c; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-92112766685095403972022-11-17T15:05:00.007+08:002022-11-17T17:22:13.281+08:00Does Anwar Ibrahim qualify to be Prime Minister? - Here’s what Khairy Jamaluddin said in the 2019 Regional Outlook Forum held in Singapore. <p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">By: Choo Sing Chye 17-11-22</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">Now Khairy Jamaluddin is contesting in the red-hot seat in S</span><span style="color: #333333;">un</span><span style="color: #333333;">g</span><span style="color: #333333;">ai</span><span style="color: #333333;"> Buloh</span><span style="color: #333333;"> and I bet you that he has forgotten what he has said in 2019 and anyway I hope that it all ends well for him there.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">Here’s what Khairy Jamaluddin said in the 2019 Regional Outlook Forum held in Singapore which was reported in the New Straits Times:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span><i><span>KUALA LUMPUR: </span></i><i><span>By </span></i><i><span>Veena Babulal</span></i><i><span> </span></i><i><span>- January 10, 2019.</span></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><span> </span></i><i><span>Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim found himself an unlikely 'supporter' in his bid to become the country's next prime minister.</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><span> </span></i><i><span>“Khairy remarked how Anwar had the potential to unite Malaysia that was becoming increasingly divided by communal politics, as reported by the South China Morning Post.”</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><span> </span></i><i><span>“He said that this was due to Anwar’s ability to appeal to Malaysians of all races amid a rising tide of identity politics in the Muslim-majority country, which was an ‘advantage … that nobody else has’.”</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><span> </span></i><i><span>“Anwar speaks the language of modernity and he speaks the language of tradition, especially when it comes to Islam, and also the Malay identity.</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><span> </span></i><i><span>“As long as identity politics remains an important marker in Malaysian politics … I think possibly Anwar in Pakatan Harapan (PH) is the only person who can manage to navigate around identity politics and prevent it from becoming something that is uglier than it potentially could be.”</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></i></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-27653489266636457822022-11-15T21:48:00.007+08:002022-11-26T13:52:11.379+08:00What has become of our politicians and politics?<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>By Choo Sing Chye</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>15-11-22</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div><br /></div>Tunku Abdul Raham Italianized (light-version) politics in Malaysia by partnering UMNO with MCA and MIC to form the Alliance coalition government. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tun Abdul Razak expanded it and relabeling it to Barisan Nasional. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tun Hussein Onn contracted it by sacking PAS.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Tun Mahathir injected it with a large dose of Machiavellian politics and made backstabbing a norm.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tun Abdullah Badawi is too much of a gentleman who, in the end succumbed to the Machiavellian politics in UMNO and caused Barisan Nasional to lose two thirds majority in parliament in 2008. This hastened his departure.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Then came Najib Tun Razak, who made the nation his ATM machine and bite the dust.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Finally, Pakatan Harapan with its victory in the 14</span><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> General Elections ushered in a full-blown Italianization of the Malaysian politics i.e., no party or coalition hold the absolute majority to form the government. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But in less than two years, Azmin Ali and his gang plotted and managed to undemocratically put an end to Pakatan Harapan rule and the six decades old </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Italianized</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> politics of the Barisan Nasional.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">From the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel, Azmin Ali ushered in a new era in Malaysia, he single-handily Africanized Malaysian politics.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No thanks to him, the country had plunged into chaos, like the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">tribalistic</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> nature of the African politics where everybody fights everybody, we have now in Malaysia, prime minister pitching against ministers, ministers against ministers, PAS against UMNO, UMNO against Bersatu, Barisan Nasional against Perikatan Nasional and Perikatan Nasional against GPS and it is all done inside the big tribal family (keluarga) tent of the ruling parties.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span>A</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">pparently Azmin Ali’s tribalistic-politics had created deep divisions and mistrust in Malaysia and in the ruling coalitions. And in a span of less than two years, they managed to change two prime ministers -this </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">is akin</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> to the casual act of changing slippers.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">First it was Muhyiddin Yassin (Bersatu) who was at best a lame duck and followed by Ismail Sabri Yaakob (UMNO) who was either here or there. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These two are mediocre prime ministers and their depositions can be best summed </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">up in the words of German President Marshal Hindenburg’s</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> describing his low opinion of Hitler: “That man for Chancellor? I’ll make him a postmaster and he can lick stamps with my head on them.” (1)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Well, if we have Marshal Hindenburg in Malaysia, we would have two postmasters. Luckily for them, we don’t.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now, in this 15</span><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> General Elections, we are entrusted with the power to choose the next prime minister. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">We are now left with Zahid Hamidi of Barisan Nasional and Anwar Ibrahim of Harapan.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span>Zahid Hamidi is a freedom fighter. He is busy fighting for his life to get himself free from his corruption charges and perhaps after saving himself, hands over to Najib the key to freedom.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">last,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> we come to Anwar Ibrahim, he is without doubt the best choice for the post of prime minister, period. Why? </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Because:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; text-indent: -21pt;">v </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -21pt;">he is a highly intelligent person - no more stupid talks and stupid policies.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: -21pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">v </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">he is able to articulate well in English and understands Arabic- a important requirement to position Malaysia in a positive light in international world of geo-political changes.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: -21pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">v </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">he is the former Finance Minister and help to weather the 1979 financial crisis and stopped the slide of the ringgit. As a prime minister, he would without any doubt makes Malaysia a financial tiger again.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: -21pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">v </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">he is a charismatic leader and able to bring all races together to make Malaysia a peaceful and prosperous place for us all Malaysians.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He won’t be here forever, now it is the last opportunity for us to vote Harapan to make Malaysia prosperous again.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span> <b><span style="color: red;">1</span></b></span></span><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24px;">)</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24px;">Winston S. Churchill. The Gathering Storm. Penguin Books LTD 1948. P72.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-2757524580701437682022-11-09T23:12:00.009+08:002023-12-17T21:01:05.920+08:00Malaysia does not belong to us, we belong to Malaysia.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQxy4RF7ttBriplwUEp4d-KQ_47Rb7wMmtMe8BiN8SWg-YV2QyCNgdIx9wtzkcNf5bnU9gj4hU9klFgU94pBk80aUC5MWJ5ksWZG5DQpOWNPtzbvgOdHagEp6x0gK7P3gK5BSHf9xZhFjmxRi3jtqQyyV0WIupcHy0uMK5HrcJmION2kk5ZRYNjLfhkfI/s640/Flag.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQxy4RF7ttBriplwUEp4d-KQ_47Rb7wMmtMe8BiN8SWg-YV2QyCNgdIx9wtzkcNf5bnU9gj4hU9klFgU94pBk80aUC5MWJ5ksWZG5DQpOWNPtzbvgOdHagEp6x0gK7P3gK5BSHf9xZhFjmxRi3jtqQyyV0WIupcHy0uMK5HrcJmION2kk5ZRYNjLfhkfI/w640-h360/Flag.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">By: Choo Sing Chye (9-11-22) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;">he Malaysian </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;">Constitution</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;"> is a </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;">cosmopolitan</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;"> document and not a nationalistic one. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;">As it was authored by the top legal minds from the British Commonwealth countries, it adheres to the hallmark of a typical British Mosaic social scheme. (Opposed to the American Melting-pot) </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;">The general idea is that all races are each represented by a mosaic tile and they are collectively put together side by side to form a nation living closely together in peace and harmony.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;">The Malaysian </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;">Constitution gives us a sense of belonging, peace, pride and patriotism and as such that we can adjudicate from it, a consciousness that Malaysia does not belong to us, but we, the Malays, Orang Asli, Chinese, Indians and East Malaysians belong to Malaysia.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;">But sadly, it is not the scheme of things that the Constitution intended, for we have many Malay, Chinese and Indian racists running about freely vehemently spewing out spiteful statements denigrating the race that they do not like. And it is utterly shameful to find amongst them ministers, academics, government parliamentarians and top party members of the ruling parties.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;">Now it is time in this 15</span><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;"> Malaysian Elections for the rakyat to audit the deeds and behaviour of the Perikatan Nasional and Barisan Nasional ministers, parliamentarians and high-ranking party members. For it is well known that they do not put much premium on sincerity and honesty, letting corrupt practices to run wild in and out of the government apparatus.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;">We must drain the obnoxious political cress swamp of Perikatan Nasional and Barisan Nasional by denying our votes.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-47755349118717042402020-02-29T10:55:00.002+08:002022-11-10T11:33:45.987+08:00Reject Exclusionist Democracy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By: Choo Sing Chye</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><u><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">It will be the victory of the Exclusionist Politics in Malaysia if Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s coalition succeed</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in grapping power. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The collaborative politics of Tengku Abdul Raman, Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Hussein Onn and Tun Mahathir’s PH is dead and so is Collaborative Democracy. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">This is all because of one man with a huge selfish ambition, he is none other than Mohamed Azmin Ali. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">His huge selfish ambition gushes filth out into the open one Saturday night leaving a huge stench of exclusionist politics throwing the country into turmoil.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Thirty years ago on the first day of the Perak State Assembly, His Majesty Sultan Nazrin Shah (his father Sultan Azlan Shah was the Agong then) casually spoke to us all 13 DAP Assemblymen/woman in the lobby, His Majesty’s message was clear as daylight- be bipartisan in our debates in the assembly so as to move Perak forward. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> HM’s message can be perfectly understood in this sense: </span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“For democracy to work, people have to talk. For it to work well, we need to talk well. Or, in other words, a basic principle of democracy is that the ability of the general public to make appropriate decisions depends to a large degree on </span></i><i><u><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the quality of public discourse</span></u></i><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by elected representatives)”. This is called “deliberative/collaborative democracy,” (by political theorists.)</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I sincerely hope and pray that GPS in Sarawak would choose Collaborative democracy to save us all in Malaysia and reject once and for all the exclusionist politics practised by UMNO, PAS and Tan Sri Muhyiddin.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I appeal to Tun Dr Mahathir, Datuk A. Kadir Jasin, Rais Hussin, Syed Saddiq and others in the PBBM that PH ship is worth saving and it just need a few fine tuning by removing some of the sailors and officers.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Don’t turn your backs on the raykat.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-57409393552061853452020-02-27T13:22:00.003+08:002022-11-12T23:58:46.785+08:00Perak Government is not a Caretaker Government.<br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
Abdul Aziz Bari is wrong, the Perak Government is not a
Caretaker Government as the present Menteri Besar still commands the
majority<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the Perak State Assembly.<br />
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The Caretaker Government only comes into play when the State
Assembly is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dissolved.<br />
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The present Perak Government comes under the political label
of Pakatan Harapan, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a coalition of four parties, DAP, PKR, Amanah and PPBM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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PPBM had pulled out of Pakatan Harapan, but the PPBM Menteri
Besar had not pulled out or resigned from the MB post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He still enjoys the support of DAP, PKR, Amanah
and PPBM SAs. <br />
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The government is still intact until such time when the
number changes, the Menteri Besar is still the Menteri Besar and not a
caretaker one.<br />
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Pakatan Harapan is just a political label and nothing more.<br />
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By: Choo Sing Chye</span>Choo Sing Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473233380991256890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554440462258132638.post-74007585787276798532019-12-03T20:06:00.002+08:002022-11-10T11:46:21.976+08:00Nazism has no place in the Palestinians’ Struggle for their homeland <br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By: Choo Sing Chye 3-12-2019</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">It is difficult for me to fathom the act of a local university graduate, Ibn Ruru (1) to “thank” Hitler for the “Holocaust.” </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Apparently, his action had desecrated the noble struggle of the Palestinians by associating it with the murderous acts of Adolf Hitler.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">He should be mindful of what he said because the Palestinians’ struggle for a homeland should not be devoid of any moral values.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">His action certainly lacks intelligence and decent moral value and we do not expect this to come from anybody what’s more from a university graduate.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Fifteen years of learning has come to a nought and it failed to mould this character into a fine and intelligent person. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">All he could manage to come out with was a Nazi salute and a thank you note to the perpetrator of the worst genocide in the 20</span><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Century.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Obviously by doing so he has become a useful idiot for the extreme right wing Jews, the Zionists, to promote their prophesy of a Holocaust 2 if Israel collapses.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Palestinians issue is complicated and it needs intellectual inputs and support from all countries to solve this problem.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I do not know what these characters, like Ibn Ruru, Mufti of Perlis and Bung Moktar see in Hitler.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Can’t these characters see that Hitler is the personification of Satan and the Swastika, the Crooked Cross a symbol of evil.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Thus idolising Hitler means celebrating Satan.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Meanwhile many in the German High Command including Marshal Hindenburg had a very low opinion of him.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In 1932 German President Marshal Hindenburg summoned Hitler to Berlin and the outcome did not impress him. He told his aides after the meeting, ”That man for Chancellor? I’ll make him a postmaster and he can lick stamps with my head on them.” (2)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 60.55pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">1)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7554440462258132638/7400758578727679853"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/11/26/ums-distances-itself-from- pro-nazi- graduate-says-action-personal-view/1813534</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 60.55pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">2)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Winston S. Churchill. The Gathering Storm. Penguin Books LTD 1948. P72.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p>
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