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- Youtube: The New Political Arena for the Young
- Patronising and presumptuous BN
- The Malaysian Trojan Horse
- Najib's Han Chiang Counteroffensive?
| Youtube: The New Political Arena for the Young Posted: 28 Apr 2013 01:30 PM PDT Table 1: A Pool Sample of Chosen Video Clips involving Political Parties and Political Leaders
Table 2: Top Ten Most Popular Political Parties and Political Leaders Clips
Table 3: Top Ten Clips According to Likes and Dislikes
Table 1 displays a small pool sample of videos relating to the election and also videos regarding political leaders of KEADILAN and BN. It can be seen that the videos featuring Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will either gain a high volume of views (clip regarding Najib humiliated by Psy audiences in Pulau Pinang) with high volume of 'dislikes' or a video clip with low volume of viewers (video GE13: Must vote for Barisan Nasional this GE) and high volume of 'dislikes' (video of 2013 Budget: Ask Najib [Live]). Meanwhile, it can be seen that the video clips featuring Pakatan Rakyat (PAKATAN) leader, particularly KEADILAN de facto leader Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the videos will receive a high volume of viewers and also a high volume of 'likes' (the clip Malaysian opposition leader speaks to Al Jazeera). Najib's Google Hangout saw as much as 129,336 views as well as much as 15,153 'dislikes'. Meanwhile, the video clip featuring Vice Presiden of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) and Secretary General of Democractic Action Party (DAP) Lim Guan Eng garnered as much as 125,826 views with 1,687 'likes' and '77' dislikes. The two video clips featuring Anwar Ibrahim's Google Hangout that was uploaded by Anwar Ibrahim himself saw as much as 53,603 views, 307 'likes' and 82 'dislikes'. As for Table 2 and 3, the two tables displays the two top ten separate list based on views and 'likes' and 'dislikes' clicks. The pattern emerging from the two lists is that the video featuring Najib produced a lot of negative feedback from Youtube users as opposed to the positive feedbacks gained from the videos featuring Lim Guan Eng and Anwar Ibrahim. Considering the fact that this is just a small pool of samples and does not include the plethora of political and election video clips on Youtube, the lists are opened to be debated. However, the pattern emerging from the lists cannot be ignored. Youtube has over 1 billion viewers each month. As for Malaysia, 80 percent of internet users watch videos on Youtube and there are more than 51 percent of active Youtube users. One of the most popular video clips relating to politics from Januari to April 2013 is the video clip of Bawani's Listen that was uploaded by the user, Penguincute33 saw as much as 1,290,835 views, 4,002 'likes' and 1,053 'dislikes'. It also generated as much as 8,594 comments from Youtube users. Read more at: http://kpru2010.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/youtube-the-new-political-arena-for-the-young/
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| Posted: 28 Apr 2013 12:19 PM PDT In Virgil's epic poem Aeneid, he told the tale of how the Greeks overcame the fortress city of Troy after laying siege to it for ten years. The Greeks built a giant wooden horse and hid a select team of warriors in it to deceive the Trojans that they have abandoned their battle and presented the city of Troy with a gift – the wooden horse. Elated with the gift, the Trojans brought the wooden horse into the city to celebrate their victory. That night itself, while the city slept, the Greek warriors came out of the horse, opened the city gate for the Greek army who had returned and they overran the city of Troy. What they failed to achieve through military might in 10 years, they did it in one night through trickery. The campaign for the hearts and minds of the Malaysian public has officially started in this General Election with the incumbent coalition of Barisan Nasional (BN) throwing everything they have to hold on to power against a formidable coalition called Pakatan Rakyat (PR). Of all the arsenal they have at their disposal to win this war, perhaps, the most potent one is none other than the caretaker Prime Minister himself, Najib Razak. Riding on Najib's personal popularity with the public, said to be around 61 percent by independent pollster Merdeka Centre in February 2013, the Barisan Nasional whose own rating is at 45 percent, decided to make Najib the mascot of their election campaign. It is a no-brainer. Throughout the country, on the numerous BN's billboards, printed materials and TV commercials and news, it is Najib's sweet and gentle smiling face that you see. Never before in the history of general elections in our country has so much been hinged on the persona of a man instead of on the ideals or vision of the party for the country. Visitors to our country could have mistaken us for a US presidential-style democracy instead of a parliamentary-based democracy where the ideals and policies of the contesting parties are more important than the personalities that represent it. But Najib Razak is a trojan horse, constructed by professional public relations firm like APCO with the help of a very compliant broadcast and printing mass media industry. He has had an extreme makeover which transformed him from an ultra Malay rights politician to one that espouse the inclusive and tolerant values of 1Malaysia. What is behind this veneer of civility and moderation? Or more importantly, what and who is hiding within this Malaysian trojan horse that is now standing at the gate of Putrajaya, waiting to be ushered in on 5th of May 2013 for the 13th time? Read more at: http://thomasfann.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/the-malaysian-trojan-horse/
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| Najib's Han Chiang Counteroffensive? Posted: 28 Apr 2013 02:36 AM PDT Wikipedia states: Germany's goal for these operations was to split the British and American Allied line in half, capturing Antwerp (port in Belgium) and then proceed to encircle and destroy four Allied armies, forcing the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis Powers' favour. Once accomplished, Hitler could fully concentrate on the eastern theatre of war. The Malaysian Insider reported: Najib, who is also BN chairman, is expected to grace the April 30 dinner event and to make two announcements to provide a fillip to the slow-starting Penang BN campaign. "Najib will make two important announcements on Tuesday — restore Penang's free port status and the approval of HCC as a university college," Han Chiang's honorary principal Datuk Dr Cheah See Kian was quoted as saying by theMalaysiakini news portal yesterday. The PM had in February said Han Chiang's application for the university college status will be considered, during the BN's Chinese New Year bash on the grounds. But Tan said today he was unable to confirm that Najib would be presenting Han Chiang with the promised university-college status. "So far, we've not received any confirmation from the federal government, I only heard people talking about it," he said. If true, then the expected announcements will be very attractive. But the first issue that we should consider is whether the caretaker government under Najib can make these two announcements, namely, restoring Penang's free port status and approving Han Chiang College as a university college? I am not a lawyer but I checked up on the practice of a couple of Commonwealth countries like Australia and India, besides what Rocketkini publishes. There's not much difference as we may expect from our common Westminster democracy, but I choose to highlight the Australian code for caretaker government as it seems to be the clearest laid out, as follows: Major policy decisions. The Government will cease taking major policy decisions except on urgent matters and then only after formal consultation with the Opposition. The conventions apply to the making of decisions, not to their announcement. Accordingly, the conventions are not infringed where decisions made before dissolution are announced during the caretaker period. However, where possible, decisions would normally be announced ahead of dissolution. Significant appointments. The Government will cease making major appointments of public officials, but may make acting or short-term appointments. Major contracts or undertakings. The Government will avoid entering major contracts or undertakings during the caretaker period. If it is not possible to defer the commitment until after the caretaker period, for legal, commercial or other reasons, a minister could consult the Opposition, or agencies could deal with the contractor and ensure that contracts include clauses providing for termination in the event of an incoming government not wishing to proceed. Similar provisions cover tendering. International negotiations and visits. The Government ordinarily seeks to defer such major international negotiations, or adopts observer status, until the end of the caretaker period. Avoiding APS involvement in election activities. (APS or Australian Public Service is equivalent of our Malaysian Civil Service but not politically partisan like the Malaysian version, wakakaka) The Australian Public Service adopts a neutral stance while continuing to advise the Government. There are several cases, notably the pricing of Opposition election promises, in which the APS conducts an investigation and report for the benefit of the electorate at large. Incidentally, read the part on '... in which the APS conducts an investigation and report for the benefit of the electorate at large'. That's what public (or civil) servant means. Here in Malaysia it's likely to be '... in which the MCS conducts an investigation and report for the benefit of UMNO', wakakaka and eat your hearts out Malaysians.
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