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- Is Lim Guan Eng running Penang Berhad or Penang State Government?
- PKR and its arrogant tokong
- Keep religions out of politics and civil laws
- Anwar to quit after GE13: A psychological ploy
| Is Lim Guan Eng running Penang Berhad or Penang State Government? Posted: 24 Aug 2012 09:09 PM PDT The Taman Manggis land, which Barisan claimed to have been earmarked for affordable housing by the previous state government, was instead proposed by the present administration for a private medical centre. Barisan had also contended that the land at the junction of Jalan Zainal Abidin-Lorong Selamat had been sold to the Kuala Lumpur International Dental Centre at RM232 per sq ft or RM11mil, far below the market price of RM450 per sq ft or RM21,562,200. In an immediate response, Lim said the land had been awarded via open tender to the bidder with the highest price. The main point is not whether the land is being sold to the bidder with the highest price. There are several other considerations: 1) Why would the state government sold a land earmarked for affordable housing to a private business group? 2) The present government affordable housing scheme is flawed. It is not about just providing low cost housing but the state must take cognizance not to push out the working class and lower middle class from the island. A few people remarked to me that Penang island is soon becoming a place for the rich locals and foreigners. Workers enclave must be created near to economic hubs/areas on the island and not only on the mainland. 3) Using the highest price to justify a sale of land earmarked for affordable housing makes Lim sounds like a CEO of a private company who is just interested to make the highest profit. Is Lim now being overly business friendly and neglecting the interests of 70% lower-middle class Penangites?
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| Posted: 23 Aug 2012 03:03 PM PDT Tape recordings macam the Korrect Korrect Korrect episode have emerged on the web to tell a tale of how Lim's political ally, PKR in Penang, views him and his leadership. 'Twas not so much their opinions per se that matter but more about the inevitable damage those opinions allowed in the public arena would wreck to Lim's and consequentially DAP's disadvantage.  Loose lips sink ships, or in this case, (the potential to sink) the Rocket spaceship. As they say, 'perception' matters in politics and whether there's any truth in PKR Mansor Othman's vocalised opinion of Lim GE, doesn't matter a bloody fig. Each and everyone of his enemies, from those in MCA to pro-UMNO & ultra anti-Lim GE bloggers (wakakaka), and even those in PKR, will have a field day dissecting, pseudo-analysing and writing ugly dissertations on Lim Guan Eng's political leadership.  With friends like PKR, DAP sure as hell doesn't need enemies. Now, much as it may sound strange, I personally opine the hand that has plunged the assassin stiletto into Lim's back (or side, wakakaka) is not that of Mansor Othman, though he naively lent his hand to the assassin for the backstabbing job.  Othman must have believed an internal PKR meeting to assure the Tian Chua's (Chinese) faction in PKR they won't be sold out would have been conducted in confidentiality, and that a wee informal bad-mouthing might placate those worried cult members of the Heavenly Snake* faction of PKR. I have personally witnessed such so-called confidential meetings where the chair would with reckless bravado or lack of discretion let loose on rumours - I suppose we Malaysians just love to gossip on whatever, regardless of the truth. We usually forget the consequences. * Tian Chua in Penang Hokkien sound like Heavenly Snake wakakaka
The truth is that PKR (if we leave out the PRM component) has been KeADILan has been UMNO. It undeniably possesses UMNO genes and characteristics but it claims to be multi-racial, a claim somewhat discredited by Anwar Ibrahim's poor treatment of many of its erstwhile Indian members who left in droves - now, if they hadn't, would Azmin Ali have a chance of becoming party deputy president and eventually party president? So while the ex-UMNO members represent the core of PKR and dominate party policies and decision making, and precisely because of all these, the nons want so desperately to demonstrate their relevance in the party. And, hey hey hey, there's the PKR Chinese faction, with its unspoken faction leadership reputed to have been assumed by Tian Chua. Tian Chua is of course not his birth/legal name, which is Chua Tian Chang. It's obvious he has clung on to his Aussie-given name. Western nations have this (culturally) bad habit of westernising Chinese names by relegating the Chinese surname to being the last name (where the western surname stands), thus Chua Tian Chang became Tian Chang Chua, and under the Western-Christian naming concept, which has First name (Personal or as Malaysians know it, Christian name), then Middle name, and finally Last name (or Surname), Tian was believed to be his 'First' name, thus Tian Chua, not unlike Elvis Presley from Elvis (1st name) Aaron (Middle name) Presley (last name) wakakaka. Hmmm, I wonder what his parents or siblings call him? Probably Chai or Chang. For more of Australian (western) mangling of Chinese names, please read my post What's in a name! wakakaka.
And I wonder what role/status former MCA man Chua Jui Meng has in PKR, and what threat he poses to the current leadership of Tian Chua? But sorry, this have to be another story. Anyway, long before the current 'Lim GE is an arrogant and cocky tokong' brouhaha, courtesy of PKR's Mansor Othman wakakaka, Tian Chua had been well aware that his Heavenly Snake faction in PKR might not have a role at all, or at best only a token one, if Anwar Ibrahim were to see DAP as the Pakatan component to be given responsibility for Chinese and Indian majority constituencies. Thus, prior to 2008, in order to prevent such a terrifying Pakatan status quo from setting in to the disadvantage of the Heavenly Snake faction, he and/or his cohorts had the treacherous habit of making pre-emptive strikes against DAP in seat allocations, by making unilateral media announcements of seat allocations for Pakatan (not PKR) which strangely, if you believe in coincidences wakakaka, usually favoured PKR. Of course those 'unilateral' announcements meant that DAP leaders would, after reading the morning news, invariably exclaim 'WTF!' wakakaka.
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| Keep religions out of politics and civil laws Posted: 20 Aug 2012 07:29 PM PDT Today, on reading The Malaysian Insider I was intrigued by an article The adulteress, the accusers, politics and Afizal, written by Rama Ramanathan. It's about the inexplicable unprecedented Appeals Court judgement in the case of rapist Noor Afizal Azizan, where the word 'consensual sex' was even raised and shockingly, accepted in a charge of statutory rape. Perhaps Ramanathan was teasing the readers into drawing a parallel between the court releasing the rapist on a bond of RM25,000 (thus compassionately forgiving him for his crime) instead of jailing him for raping a minor, with the biblical story of Jesus saving a female adulterer from being stoned. While some bibles do not include the verses of this tale, some do, like the King James version (KJV), which tells us (no worries, this is not a biblical lesson for I'm an atheist wakakaka, but merely an essential component of my post): And early in the morning He came again into the Temple, and all the people came unto Him; and He sat down, and taught them.And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto Him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the Law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest Thou? This they said, tempting Him, that they might have to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down, and with His finger wrote on the ground, as though He heard them not. So when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself, and said unto them, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." And again He stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up Himself, and saw none but the woman, He said unto her, "Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?" She said, "No man, Lord." And Jesus said unto her, "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more." (John 8:2-11 KJV)
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| Anwar to quit after GE13: A psychological ploy Posted: 19 Aug 2012 03:19 PM PDT A few weeks ago, he aired for the first time his intention to retreat to academia should Pakatan not win GE13. The other day, he again voiced his intention to quit if Pakatan fails to gain Putrajaya at the elections. Implausible the first time he gave vent to it, the repetition of intention to quit, upon failure to oust BN, has not rendered it less so. In fact, after the second instance of its airing, it is easier to visualise how this quit charade of Anwar's would pan out. Should Pakatan not win the general election, a wearied Anwar would follow through on his quit intention, probably offering the rationale that his withdrawal would provide second string leaders in his party, PKR, especially, a chance to step up to the plate. Anwar would then go off to recharge his batteries at some fairly prestigious university where he would teach a course on Third World development strategies besides making a stab at writing his memoirs. A few years down the road, the second stringers, after doing a fairly good job of manning the opposition fort, would clamour for Anwar's return to the arena in preparation for the 14th general election on the grounds that the man is indispensable to the opposition's cause. In deference to the 'people's will', Anwar would return to attempt another sortie for the top prize – that of being prime minister of Malaysia, something he has had his mind focused on from the time he was in his teens. Spurious stratagem The 65-year-old Anwar's reiteration that he would quit should Pakatan not win the next GE is a psychological ploy to jolt voters to back the coalition he leads to victory or risk losing him to academic life. It is a spurious stratagem that Anwar should not want to deploy because it trivialises the reformasi agenda by unduly personalising it and renders the serious business of credibly supplanting Umno-BN at the helm of government dependent on individual volition and temperament rather than collective will and struggle. No doubt, Anwar is bone-weary and mentally fatigued from the brutal demands of an intensive five-year campaign to unseat Umno-BN. In the last six months, he has aged more rapidly than in the previous four years. It was always going to be a Herculean task to weld an opposition coalition of ideologically disparate partners together and get them to wage a battle of attrition against Umno-BN. In the process, he has had to weather relentless threats and attacks to his personal liberty and probity by the Umno apparatus of state power. Those attacks have not stopped; indeed they are intensifying. That the Pakatan coalition is intact and that Anwar is still free and fighting are by themselves stupendous achievements. Now, all that stands between Pakatan and Putrajaya are Malaysian society's vast inertia and a general but definitely receding disinclination to want change as radical as the substitution of a 55-year-old government with a newfangled coalition that has shown in Kelantan, Penang, Selangor, and, if only briefly, in Perak, that it can compose itself frugally, rule benignly, allocate equitably and govern rationally. Tactical maneuvering Pakatan are just one crossed marking on a ballot paper away from owning residency rights to Putrajaya, given that the public's inertia and distaste for radical change are now less deep seated than it was. If Pakatan's residency rights to Putrajaya aren't conferred on them at the GE13, would it be difficult to envision that the electorate would not then have allowed Pakatan to run BN so close that the consequent fallout on a narrowly returned ruling coalition would be so fissiparous that it would disintegrate? In these straits, it's not hard to visualise a scenario where crossovers would occur from BN to Pakatan, not a good way to make a government but then nobody seriously disputes the pragmatic truth that political goals are only achievable upon the acquisition of power. Hence Anwar's repetition of his intention to quit should Pakatan not make it to Putrajaya after GE13 is a decision that smacks more of tactical maneuvering than it is a reflection of considered judgment. Except for PAS spiritual leader Nik Aiz Nik Mat – who has publicly aired his demurral over it – nobody among the Pakatan leadership cohort has seen it fit to remark substantively on the announcement. Perhaps they are adept at recognising a psychological ploy when they see one, particularly when deployed by one from their side of the political divide. http://bigdogdotcom.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/psychological-ploy-from-a-psycho/
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