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- Malaysia Will Buy 18 Su-30MKM
- It’s A Cow … It’s A Condo … It’s Criminal Breach Of …
- Top 10 International political scandals
- The Mistakes of Najib: The Omen and the Opportunity
- BN will never win GE-13 if Muhyiddin becomes PM
- Did Najib Miscalculate When To Hold the Next GE?
| Posted: 14 Nov 2011 11:21 PM PST The Malaysian defense ministry plans to buy 18 Russian Su-30MKM fighters fit to carry Russian-Indian BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, the Izvestia daily said on Tuesday.
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| It’s A Cow … It’s A Condo … It’s Criminal Breach Of … Posted: 14 Nov 2011 05:20 PM PST The National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) scandal couldn't come at a better time when PM Najib Razak was getting ready to call a snap election. Shahrizat was supposed to be Najib's "Iron Lady Minister", the same way Rafidah was during Mahathir's premiership. Unfortunately unlike Rafidah who didn't lose her seat to become a minister, Shahrizat lost hers and has to be made a Senator to become a back-door Minister. Also, unlike Rafidah who wisely invested most of her "wealth" overseas, particularly in United Kingdom, Shahrizat thought it was a magnificent idea to invest in a RM10 million luxury condo in upmarket Bangsar.
National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) was suposed to be a High Impact Project under Ninth Malaysia Plan with the objective of attaining 40% self sufficiency for beef production by 2010. But going by the scandal revelations, it seems someone has hijacked the RM250 million (soft-loan) project to become the person's own self sufficiency agenda. It was revealed that the original plan from Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Ministry was to spend RM6.37 million to breed 9,000 cattles with about 28% returns annually. But that plan took three years instead and with an explosive spending – RM141 million to rear only 8,000 cattles.
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| Top 10 International political scandals Posted: 14 Nov 2011 06:31 AM PST Ibrahim became a strong critic of Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad after close ties with the leader early on in Ibrahim's political career. Ibrahim was arrested and sentenced to six years in prison in 1999 for corruption, and the following year he was sentenced to nine years for sodomy. Though the second conviction was overturned in 2004 and Ibrahim was released from prison, he was arrested again in 2008 in connection to the sodomy of a 25-year-old male aide, the Guardian reported. Sodomy, even among consenting adults, is illegal in Malaysia.
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| The Mistakes of Najib: The Omen and the Opportunity Posted: 14 Nov 2011 05:34 AM PST Fast forward to 2011 and a similar book has appeared but unlike the Anwar smear campaign book, this one is released whilst the target is already prime minister of Malaysia. The newly published book 'Kesilapan-kesilapan Najib' ( 'The mistakes of Najib' ) by a former UMNO division leader Shahbudin Husin lists out Prime Minister Najib Razak's numerous failures, and calls for his withdrawal from the party presidency and Prime Minister's post before the 13th general election. As with the 1998 book, few doubted that the ultimate inspiration for the book was Mahathir, who was then the prime minister albeit fast losing his popularity to Anwar. Now, in 2011, there is the same expectation that the ultimate inspiration for the anti-Najib book may be his ambitious deputy, Muhyiddin Yassin. Indeed Shahbudin's book could well be the start of a tsunami of internal attacks, carefully coordinated to coincide with the coming UMNO General Assembly slated for December 3rd for the purpose of diminishing Najib's standing among the party grass-roots. No doubt, to an observer it clearly shows a fragmented UMNO, and this could in turn contribute greatly towards what many see as greater losses for the BN come GE 13. The emergence of this book would clearly add ammunition for Najib's enemies who seek to paint a picture of a leader who has not been able to hold the reins within his own party. Cracks within the Najib administration are showing following the tabling of the Auditor General's Report. From the massive mismanagement of public funded projects to the over-bloated 2012 Budget, things just aren't going Najib's way. No wonder, it seems like Malaysia is in turmoil. He and his Umno groups have begun the campaigning for GE-13 and already, a host of issues are being played to pit the Malays against the non-Malays and to turn them off from the Pakatan Rakyat's reform agenda. The sudden rush to divert the public's attention by demonizing homosexuals, lesbians and transgenders have not return the desired result. The attention given to the Sexualiti Merdeka movement has instead raise the bigger question, is Malaysia truly a moderate Muslim country as claimed by Najib when visiting the Vatican several months back?
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| BN will never win GE-13 if Muhyiddin becomes PM Posted: 14 Nov 2011 05:31 AM PST Simply put the Non Malays do not trust or like their Deputy Prime Minister (DPM), and the Malay votes are divided. Therefore just by calculating half the Malay voters(non Umno supporter) and the 70% of the non Malay votes, jointly this group of disgruntled voters will cause a substantial change in Parliament. Even the vote rigging, the sudden jump in postal votes in opposition seats together with the recent registration of immigrants as Malaysians will not be enough if the non Malays, join forces to vote out UMNO. Our DPM has for too long portrayed himself as an ultra Muslim, in order to win support from right wing factions in Unmo and the rural Muslim. His claim that the Malays outnumber the non-Malays has been his prime justification for this ultra policy. 30 years of brainwashing , that only UMNO can save the Malays from the claws of the opposition who are waiting to destroy the Malay race, and that only UMNO can save them form becoming second class citizen in their own land, has today become an antiquated story line. Race championing that spawned racism Muhyiddin, who saw the effects of May 13, and whose early years were fashioned around this belief, has been prompting this view for the last 20 over years, to help build his career in UNMO. This fear-mongering mentality, which worked so well for Tun Razak and Tun Dr Mahathir, was assisted by the fact that the indigenous parties in Borneo together with Indian and Chinese component parties within the Barisan National government, were too preoccupied or scared to give up their comfort zone within the coalition to do anything to protect the majority that they represent. And this in turn created a false belief that has hardened this ultra Malay leader into actually thinking that he is of a superior race. In his rise to power as the DPM, it does seem that he has again failed to realize that in 2008, it was the indigenous parties who had kept the Barisan National and its Umno leaders in power especially when its traditional allies, the Indian and Chinese parties were wiped out. The general non-Malay public are certainly very uncomfortable with the possibility that the most racist UMNO leader to-date is being groomed to be the prime minister in waiting. Compared with other DPMs Previous prime ministers like Mahathir built his early career on being an ultra Malay youth leader, his nemesis, Anwar Ibrahim, also followed similar steps. Both Mahathir and Anwar were initially seen as racist but when both became DPMs, they both quickly altered this ultra-image in order to garner the non Malay support Muhyiddin, on the other hand, has decided to become even more of an ultra Malay, after taking over the DPM's role, and has therefore smacked the hypothesis that our BN leaders are not racist but pretend to be only to climb up the political ladder. Also in the past, the opposition was weak and the Barisan National was seen as an elder brother who had built this country. Thus an ultra-Malay leader, before would have been acceptable, but today this is no longer the case! Our present DPM continues to maintain his racist outlook to keep his grassroots supporters happy at the expense of losing all support and credibility from the non-Malays. Insult to the Indians Every Indian Malaysian certainly know that the Muhyiddin did not support any Indian sportsperson or student with government scholarships, when he was Mentri Besar in the state of Johor, nor has he as the DPM and the Education minister ever supported an increase of scholarships for Indians or non Bumiputeras. The high-handed manner in which he forced the Interlok book back into the schools without keeping his promise to amend the offending passages in the book, has angered the Indians. His single-handed dismissal of the learned panel of educationists, who recommended changes in the book, has further proven to the Indians that he cannot be trusted, nor that he is willing to listen to their views. His actions seems to indicate that he may not considered them on the same level as the Malay race and himself. His arrogance in not dealing with the Interlok book because it puts the Chinese and Indians in bad light in the school syllabus, is a clear indication of his ultra-Malay mind set. Today, every Malaysian knows that when you meet the DPM 'Interlok' is a haram word like 'Bersih' His flag bearing boy – P Kamalanathan the Hulu Selangor MP – has done very little to help the Indians despite his impressive promises in the by-election. The people have realized that Muhyiddin is no better that the other UMNO leaders with their empty promises. At the next GE, Kamalanathan cannot stand again at the same Selangor seat, because he has not kept any of the BN promises in the by election. Those who voted him the first time will almost certainly reject him!
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| Did Najib Miscalculate When To Hold the Next GE? Posted: 14 Nov 2011 01:10 AM PST For the past six months or so, most of us had been bracing ourselves for the announcement of the 13th General Elections which many expected on 11th November (11.11.11). In fact, some speculated that the Parliament would be dissolved on 11th November (after the PM's return from the haj) and then for the GE to be held some time in December, speculated to be 10th Dec.
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