tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14516926790513814412024-03-16T00:07:46.406-07:00The ChittarkottaianJihadisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479272123064805821noreply@blogger.comBlogger563125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451692679051381441.post-90479922714825830432017-04-12T01:30:00.000-07:002017-04-12T02:27:30.206-07:00Sowkiyama Nor Yakcop Sowkiyama/ Nor Yakcop the biggest culprit Named in New Leak <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nor Mohamed Yakcop the </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">biggest culprit by going overboard in the speculative foreign currency venture.he speculated and gambled recklessly and irresponsibly with no regard to the safety of Bank Negara’s assets.</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">that he wanted to beat George Soros, perhaps, to impress his bose</span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Dr Mahathir Mohamed</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">that he is the expert in forex dealings.</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">then Bank Negara advisor in charge of Investment Department, would use his computer and other staff computers to speculate and gamble in foreign exchange market.But truth is it was Nor Yakcop did it all Bank Negara Forex Scandal – When Government Becomes Speculator. Nor was forced to resign from Bank Negara on July 10, 1994, which Rosli described as a grossly insufficient punishment for such a big a crime he committed against the nation.</span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Anwar said the deal was that Nor shall never be involved with Bank Negara again.But, in 1997, Rosli said Nor was ‘rewarded’ when he returned to Bank Negara to handle the ringgit crisis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Nor Mohamad has never pointed the finger at Mahathir or implicated the older man. However, the fact that Mahathir has consistently refused to punish Nor has stirred suspicion. He even promoted Nor to Special Economic Adviser and gave him a key role to play in Malaysia’s controversial implementation of currency control measures during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.</span></span></div>
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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said today it had ordered the local branch of private bank Coutts & Co Ltd to pay a fine of HK$7 million (US$900,800) for breaching anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist rules.</div>
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HKMA said the move followed a probe that found Coutts had failed between April 2012 and June 2015 to set up and maintain procedures for determining if "its customers or the beneficial owners of its customers were politically exposed persons".<br />
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"Politically exposed persons" (PEPs) refers to people with a prominent public function, whom regulators view as presenting a higher risk for potential involvement in bribery and corruption due to their position and the influence they may hold.<br />
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The HKMA's probe also found Coutts's Hong Kong branch had failed to identify PEPs despite relevant information being publicly available, it said in its order.<br />
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Furthermore, the private bank failed to follow up promptly on "PEP alerts received from a commercially available database" to which Coutts subscribed, the order said, adding the firm had taken remedial measures to address the deficiencies identified.<br />
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Hong Kong authorities are under pressure from international bodies to clamp down on illegal money flows following a number of high profile cases that involved local firms, including a corruption scandal that engulfed soccer body FIFA in 2015.<br />
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The Panama Papers leak also drew attention to how wealthy individuals use offshore companies, many of them structured by intermediaries based in Hong Kong, to conceal assets.<br />
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The global anti-money laundering body, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), is due to inspect Hong Kong's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing rules next year.<br />
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) sold the majority of Coutts' international assets to Union Bancaire Privee (UBP) in March 2015 after splitting the bank, best known as banker to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, into a British and a Swiss-based arm.<br />
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"UBP acquired a portion of Coutts International's client base, but not the legal entity itself - it was an asset only deal. As such, UBP has not inherited any of Coutts' legal liabilities," a spokeswoman for Coutts said in a statement.<br />
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In February, Coutts was ordered to pay 6.5 million Swiss francs ($6.6 million) by Swiss watchdog FINMA for breaching money laundering regulations in its relationships with scandal-tainted Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.</div>
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Singapore's central bank in December imposed a penalty of 2.4 million Singapore dollars ($1.7 million) on Coutts due to money laundering breaches also related to 1MDB.</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Government officials and their families and associates in <a href="https://www.icij.org/offshore/leaked-records-reveal-offshore-holdings-chinas-elite" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">China</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/offshore/offshore-companies-provide-link-between-corporate-mogul-and-azerbaijans-president" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Azerbaijan</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/offshore/elites-undermine-putin-rail-against-tax-havens" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Russia</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/offshore/canadian-senators-husband-shifted-money-offshore-tax-havens" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Canada</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/offshore/son-leading-pakistani-politician-tied-secret-caribbean-company" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Pakistan</a>, the <a href="https://www.icij.org/offshore/ferdinand-marcos-daughter-tied-offshore-trust-caribbean" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Philippines</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/offshore/mugabe-crony-among-thai-names-secret-offshore-files" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Thailand</a>, <a href="https://www.icij.org/offshore/disclosure-secret-offshore-documents-may-force-top-mongolian-lawmaker-resign" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Mongolia</a> and other countries have embraced the use of covert companies and bank accounts.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The mega-rich use complex offshore structures to own mansions, yachts, art masterpieces and other assets, gaining tax advantages and anonymity not available to average people.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Many of the world’s top’s banks – including UBS, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank – have aggressively worked to provide their customers with secrecy-cloaked companies in the British Virgin Islands and other offshore hideaways.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;">A well-paid industry of accountants, middlemen and other operatives has helped offshore patrons shroud their identities and business interests, providing shelter in many cases to money laundering or other misconduct.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Ponzi schemers and other large-scale fraudsters routinely use offshore havens to pull off their shell games and move their ill-gotten gains.</li>
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<strong>A cache of leaked documents provides names of politicians and others linked to more than 175,000 Bahamian companies registered between 1990 and 2016</strong></div>
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For years, Neelie Kroes traveled Europe as one of the continent’s senior officials, warning big corporations that they couldn’t “run away” from the European Union’s rules. The Dutch politician sympathized with average citizens who worried they’d been left to pay the bills “as infringers cream off the extra profits.”</div>
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As the EU’s commissioner for competition policy from 2004 until 2010, she was Europe's top corporate enforcer and made <em>Forbes</em> magazine’s annual list of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” five times.</div>
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What Kroes never told audiences – and didn’t tell European Commission officials in mandatory disclosures – was that she had been listed as a director of an offshore company in the Bahamas, the Caribbean tax haven whose secrecy and tax structures have attracted multinational companies and criminals alike.</div>
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Kroes was listed as <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3110636-MINT-HOLDINGS-LTD.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">director of a Bahamian company</a> from 2000 to 2009, according to documents reviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. </div>
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Kroes, through a lawyer, told ICIJ and media partners that she did not declare her directorship of the company because it was never operational. Kroes’ lawyer blamed her appearance on company records as “a clerical oversight which was not corrected until 2009.” Her lawyer said the company, set up through a Jordanian businessman and friend of Kroes, had been created to investigate the possibility of raising money to purchase assets – worth more than $6 billion – from Enron Corp., the American energy giant. The deal never came off, and Enron later collapsed amid a massive accounting scandal. </div>
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Emily O’Reilly, the European Ombudsman with powers to investigate alleged breaches of EU rules and procedures, did not comment on the Kroes’ case but said: “When the rules are breached, whether accidentally or otherwise, the negative impression it leaves with the public tends to resonate more strongly than any positive counter steps subsequently undertaken.”</div>
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Details of Kroes’ link to the offshore company are among the revelations found in a new leak of documents, received by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared with ICIJ, that disclose details behind companies incorporated in the Bahamas. The cache of 1.3 million files from the island nation’s corporate registry provides names of directors and some owners of more than 175,000 Bahamian companies, trusts and foundations registered between 1990 and early 2016. </div>
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Today ICIJ, Süddeutsche Zeitung and other media partners are making this information <a href="https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">available to the public</a>. This creates, for the first time, a free, online and publicly-searchable database of offshore companies set up in the Bahamas. This information has been combined with data from the Panama Papers and other leaked offshore documents to add additional heft to one of the <a href="https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">largest public databases of offshore entities</a> in history.</div>
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<span class="image-caption-container image-caption-container-right" style="display: inline-block; float: right; margin: 5px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 334px;"><img alt="Neelie Kroes" class="caption caption-processed" src="https://static-00-www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/700-kroes-ap_120502014620.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 462px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 334px;" title="Former EU commissioner Neelie Kroes. Photo: AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert" /><span class="image-caption" style="background: rgba(51 , 51 , 51 , 0.701961); bottom: 0px; color: white; display: block; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; padding: 0.5em; position: absolute; width: 334px;">Former EU commissioner Neelie Kroes. Photo: AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert</span></span>The new information reveals previously unknown or little-reported connections to companies owned or run by current or former politicians from the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.</div>
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In the Bahamas’ capital, Nassau, company documents can be consulted in person. An online registry, in theory, serves the same purpose. Yet the information in the online registry maintained by the Bahamian government is often incomplete. In addition, retrieving one company’s documents will cost at least $10, in conflict with the recommendation of the international association of company registries, which discourages search fees.</div>
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The data released today involve the basic building blocks of offshore companies: a company’s name, its date of creation, the physical and mailing address in the Bahamas and, in some cases, the company’s directors. At a basic level, this information is crucial to day-to-day commerce. In other cases, police, detectives and fraud investigators use registries as starting points on the trail of wrongdoing.</div>
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“Corporate registries are incredibly important,” said Debra LaPrevotte, a former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent whose work included tracing billions of dollars in bribes and corruption proceeds hidden in tax havens for politicians from Ukraine, Nigeria and Bangladesh. “Offshore companies are often used as intermediaries to facilitate money laundering and, frequently, the companies are only used to open bank accounts, thus the corporate registry documents, which might identify the beneficial owners, are part of the evidence.”</div>
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Unlike the <a href="https://panamapapers.icij.org/" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Panama Papers</a>, 11.5 million often-detailed emails, contracts, audio recordings and other documents from one law firm, the information listed in the new Bahamian documents is plainer — if still fundamental — in content. The new data does not make it clear, for example, whether directors named in connection with a Bahamian firm truly control the company or act as nominees, employees-for-hire who serve as the face of the company but have no involvement in its operations.</div>
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When paired with the <a href="https://panamapapers.icij.org/" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Panama Papers</a>, the Bahamas data provide fresh insights into the offshore dealings of politicians, criminals and executives as well as the bankers and lawyers who help move money.</div>
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The new leaked documents include the names of 539 registered agents— corporate middlemen who serve as intermediaries between Bahamian authorities and customers who wish to create an offshore company. Among them is <a href="https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-mossack-fonseca-offshore-secrets.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Mossack Fonseca</a>, the law firm whose leaked files formed the basis of the Panama Papers. The firm set up 15,915 entities in the Bahamas, making it Mossack Fonseca’s third busiest jurisdiction. At one point, Bahamian companies were among Mossack Fonseca’s best-sellers.</div>
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<span class="image-caption-container image-caption-container-right" style="display: inline-block; float: right; margin: 5px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 364px;"><img alt="Mossack Fonseca offices." class="caption caption-processed" src="https://static-00-www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/600-mf2-ap_593911296358.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 290px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 364px;" title="A police officer outside Mossack Fonseca's Panama City office. Photo: AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco" /><span class="image-caption" style="background: rgba(51 , 51 , 51 , 0.701961); bottom: 0px; color: white; display: block; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; padding: 0.5em; position: absolute; width: 364px;">A police officer outside Mossack Fonseca's Panama City office. Photo: AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco</span></span>The Panama Papers show how Mossack Fonseca helped clients use Bahamian secrecy to keep their name out of public filings and how the law firm undermined the global push towards tax transparency.</div>
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Beyond Mossack Fonseca and the Panama Papers, the leaked Bahamian files reveal details of the offshore activities of prime ministers, cabinet ministers, princes and convicted felons. It is generally not illegal to own or direct an offshore company, and there are legitimate business reasons in many cases for setting up an offshore structure. But transparency experts say it’s important that public officials disclose their connections to offshore entities.</div>
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The political and government figures named in the leaked documents include Colombia’s minister of mines and energy between 1999 and 2001, Carlos Caballero Argáez. He was listed as president and secretary of a Bahamian company, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3110994-Bahamas-Online-Corporate-Registry-Pavc.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Pavc Properties Inc.</a>, between 1997 and 2008. Caballero Argáez also appeared as director of <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3110639-NORWAY-INC.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Norway Inc.</a>, a company registered in the Bahamas between 1990 and <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111039-Bahamas-Online-Corporate-Registry-Norway-Inc.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">2015</a>.</div>
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Argáez told ICIJ that Norway Inc. held a Miami bank account owned by his father. The account’s assets were distributed to his sons upon his death, Argáez said. Pavc Properties owned an apartment in Miami, Argáez said, and his relationship with the company ended in 2008, when he sold his shares. Argáez said he and others chose the Bahamas on lawyers’ advice. He denied any conflict of interest. He said the company was set in the Bahamas for “tax purposes.”</div>
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In the case of Kroes, the former senior EU official, the records show that she was <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3110636-MINT-HOLDINGS-LTD.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">director of Mint Holdings</a> Ltd from July 2000 to October 2009. The company <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3110930-Bahamas-Online-Registry-Mint-Holdings-Ltd.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">was registered</a> in the Bahamas in April 2000 and is currently active.</div>
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In response to questions from ICIJ, the Guardian and Dutch newspapers Trouw and Het Financieele Dagblad, Kroes acknowledged that she did not disclose her connection to this company in her declarations of personal financial interests when she first became competition commissioner in 2004 or in later declarations as she continued serving as a high-level EU official.</div>
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Kroes served as competition commissioner from November 2004 to February 2010 and as digital commissioner from February 2010 to November 2014. </div>
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EU rules require that European commissioners declare all their economic interests in the previous 10 years, including governing, supervisory and advisory positions in companies devoted to commercial and economic activities.</div>
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Mint Holdings’ <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3110636-MINT-HOLDINGS-LTD.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">other directors</a> included Jordanian businessman Amin Badr-El-Din. Badr-El-Din was still listed as holding that position in documents from July 2015. The Bahamas online corporate registry <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3110933-Bahamas-Online-Corporate-Registry-Mint-Holdings.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">does not list</a> the company’s directors.</div>
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When she was appointed EU competition commissioner, Kroes placed her money in a blind trust and promised to avoid adjudicating on companies with which she had a connection. While her opponents worried that she might be soft on the business world, Kroes earned the nickname “Steely Neelie” as she imposed record fines on companies that fixed prices and organized unfair monopolies.</div>
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Since stepping away from her EU positions, however, she has criticized her successor as competition minister for a ruling declaring that tech giant Apple owes Ireland €13 billion in unpaid taxes.</div>
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Kroes, 75, is currently a director or board member of several companies and serves as an advisor to Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Uber. She remains an influential member of the Netherlands’ ruling People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.</div>
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Kroes rejected any criticism of her business activities. Her lawyer said she denied that “she was ever conflicted by ties to the private sector.”</div>
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The declarations to the European Union that omitted mention of Mint Holdings were “made in good faith” and “to the best of her knowledge,” Kroes’ lawyer said. “The assumption was that she was no longer a director after the company was no longer needed.”</div>
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“Mrs. Kroes will inform the President of the European Commission of this oversight and will take full responsibility for it,” Kroes’ lawyer said.</div>
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Badr-El-Din said “Mint Holdings was established as a special purpose vehicle to manage the acquisition of international energy assets, principally from Enron. That deal fell through in late summer of 2000.”</div>
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If the deal had gone through, said an attorney for Badr-El-Din, the company was to become “the world’s premier gas company, leading industry away from oil and coal” and reduce Europe’s dependency on Russia’s energy monopoly.</div>
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Badr-El-Din’s role in the proposed purchase of Enron’s global assets had been previously disclosed by The New York Times, but Kroes’ involvement in the potential deal apparently had never been reported.</div>
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Kroes continued being listed as a director of Mint Holdings until 2009 because the “lawyers involved did not carry out all the instructions and terminate Mrs Kroes’ directorship with Mint Holding,” Badr-El-Din said. “Once these clerical oversights came to light in 2009, they were corrected.”</div>
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The Bahamas is a constellation of 700 islands, many smaller than a square mile. It is one of a handful of micro nations south of the United States whose confidentiality laws and reluctance to share information with foreign governments gave rise to the term “Caribbean curtain.”</div>
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For nearly a century, the Bahamas has been on the radar of tax officials around the world.</div>
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<span class="image-caption-container image-caption-container-right" style="display: inline-block; float: right; margin: 5px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 425px;"><img alt="Nassau, the Bahamas" class="caption caption-processed" src="https://static-00-www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/600-nassau3-shutterstock_404683891.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 463px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 425px;" title="The Bahamas' capital, Nassau, is home to cruise ships, resorts and offshore service providers. Photo: <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-404683891/stock-photo-cruise-ship-docked-in-nassau-bahamas.html?src=xBDafFmbsqYez6mUhoTSQA-1-11">Shutterstock</a>" /><span class="image-caption" style="background: rgba(51 , 51 , 51 , 0.701961); bottom: 0px; color: white; display: block; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; padding: 0.5em; position: absolute; width: 425px;">The Bahamas' capital, Nassau, is home to cruise ships, resorts and offshore service providers. Photo: <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-404683891/stock-photo-cruise-ship-docked-in-nassau-bahamas.html?src=xBDafFmbsqYez6mUhoTSQA-1-11" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Shutterstock</a></span></span>In the 1930s, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service investigated Americans who avoided taxes in Switzerland and the Bahamas, which once sold itself as the “Switzerland of the West.” The focus intensified in the 1960s when U.S. investigators noticed an uptick in the use of the Bahamas by organized crime bosses. U.S. bank assets in the Bahamas, meanwhile, ballooned eight times between 1973 and 1979. By the end of the 1970s, one study reported that the “flow of criminal and tax evasion money” into the Bahamas was $20 billion a year.</div>
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The Caribbean nation was not easy to penetrate.</div>
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To peek behind the curtain, a clandestine U.S. government project named “Operation Tradewinds” used IRS agents who paid an informant to enter the bedroom of a Bahamian banker visiting Miami and to remove his briefcase. At a nearby restaurant, another IRS informant provided the oblivious banker with “female entertainment.”</div>
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The briefcase held a goldmine of information from one Bahamian bank on 308 U.S. account holders, including mafia kingpins, celebrities and corporate moguls, who reportedly held as much as a quarter of a billion dollars.</div>
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Although the operation led to criminal prosecutions and $100 million in tax penalties, it was scrapped in 1975 after congressional outcry into the IRS’s use of informants. A U.S. court later declared the briefcase search “flagrantly illegal.”</div>
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In 2000, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the world’s leading tax policy forum, placed the Bahamas on a blacklist of countries that aid tax dodging. After the Bahamas hurriedly introduced nine new laws, the OECD removed it from the blacklist in 2001. In 2009, though, the OECD put the Bahamas on the organization’s “gray list,” a less severe categorization that nonetheless signified nonconformity with international standards.</div>
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The Bahamas is a staple of U.S. tax evasion investigations. Walter C. Anderson, a Washington, D.C., telecommunications executive who disguised his ownership of companies through shell entities in the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas, was sent to prison in 2007 for evading more than $200 million in income taxes. In 2007, billionaire real estate developer Igor Olenicoff pleaded guilty to a federal tax felony relating to misleading tax returns and the quiet transfer of $196 million into the Bahamas. Olenicoff, who chaired two Bahamian companies with bank accounts on the island, told <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2016/04/10/billionaire-tax-cheat-olenicoff-ive-moved-up-in-the-world-with-panama-papers/" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Forbes</em></a> earlier this year “that his offshore law firm of choice was in the Bahamas.”</div>
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Years later, the Bahamas emerged as a common thread in the U.S. Department of Justice’s crackdown on Swiss banking giant UBS. Between 2009 and 2014, the agency took criminal actions against U.S. citizens and residents with offshore dealings in the Bahamas, including a consultant from California, a steel executive from Illinois, a computer executive from Ohio, a Texan oil industry consultant, a Florida hotel developer and a New Mexico farmer.</div>
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In many cases, U.S. investigators struggled to know where to begin. Bahamian law requires the names of directors, who have complete power over offshore companies, to be filed with the national registrar. Yet the names are not always available online and directors’ names cannot be searched individually or without preexisting knowledge of the Bahamian company’s name. That makes it difficult to check whether a public official or a corporate executive is linked to companies chartered in the Bahamas.</div>
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In the new documents, for example, Exxon Azerbaijan Caspian Sea Limited, the energy giant’s company in the repressive yet oil-rich nation Azerbaijan <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111003-Bahamas-Online-Corporate-Registry-Exxon.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">lists no directors</a> in the Bahamas registry. Yet there are <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3110637-Exxon-Azerbaijan-Caspian-Sea-Limited.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">19 directors listed</a> in the documents seen by ICIJ. The Bahamian company Equatorial Guinea LNG Holdings Limited shows <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111013-Bahamas-Online-Corporate-Registry-Equatorial.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">no directors</a> in the Bahamas’ public registry but, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3110845-Equatorial-Guinea-LNG-Holdings-Limited.html" style="color: #1aa8cc; text-decoration-line: none;">in files</a> reviewed by ICIJ, six well-connected Equatorial Guineans appear, including the First Lady’s brother and four current and former ministers of energy.</div>
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Jason Sharman, who co-authored a survey of information from 40 corporate registers around the world, said the names of offshore company directors are basic information that should be easily accessible to the public.</div>
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These days, the Bahamas, a one-hour plane ride from Miami to the capital, Nassau, claims to be cleaner than ever. Yet doubts persist.</div>
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In 2014, the most recent review of the Bahamas’ anti-money laundering systems by the OECD faulted the country on half of the core measures used to judge countries’ compliance with international standards. This included no requirement for banks or financial institutions to know the real identity of a company or trust owner. Although the OECD now considers the Bahamas compliant, in June 2015, the European Union listed the Bahamas and 30 other countries as uncooperative tax havens.</div>
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Nicholas Shaxson, author of <em>Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World</em>, said the Bahamas is one of the handful of tax havens with a riskier and wilder reputation than bigger offshore jurisdictions such as Switzerland.</div>
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The Bahamas is “on a par with Panama in terms of its thirst for and tolerance of dirty money,” said Shaxson.</div>
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Recently, Shaxson said, as governments push tax havens to share banking and financial information with national tax agencies concerned about offshore evasion by citizens, the Bahamas has pushed back.</div>
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“They are saying ‘While everyone else is being transparent, your secrets are safe with us,’” said Shaxson. “Bahamas has also long taken an attitude of selective noncompliance with its own laws, and it is now pushing out this message with a nudge, nudge, wink, wink.”</div>
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Bahamian authorities told ICIJ that the country honors its international obligations and cooperates with international authorities. The Bahamas “does not tolerate dirty money,” authorities said, noting it “has in many areas been rated as ‘largely compliant’ with international standards.”</div>
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Authorities did not comment on specific cases and defended the Bahamian corporate registry. “Fees for online registry searches covers the cost and upgrading of the online system,” said authorities.</div>
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Regarding the sharing of tax information, authorities said: “The Bahamas negotiates in good faith with all appropriate partners of the Global Forum for transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes, subject to…international confidentiality and data security standards.”</div>
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<span class="image-caption-container image-caption-container-right" style="display: inline-block; float: right; margin: 5px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 303px;"><img alt="Marco Antonio and Augusto Pinochet" class="caption caption-processed" src="https://static-00-www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/600-pinochet-ap_061030013199.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 430px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 303px;" title="Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, right, with his son Marco Antonio. Photo: AP Photo / Martin Thomas" /><span class="image-caption" style="background: rgba(51 , 51 , 51 , 0.701961); bottom: 0px; color: white; display: block; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; padding: 0.5em; position: absolute; width: 303px;">Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, right, with his son Marco Antonio. Photo: AP Photo / Martin Thomas</span></span>Bahamian companies, trusts and bank accounts have appeared in numerous cases involving the seizure of dictators’ and politicians’ money. The son of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet used a Bahamian company, Meritor Investments Limited, to move $1.3 million to his father. Pinochet’s son, Marco Antonio, dismissed the allegations as “lies” and declared no wrongdoing through the Bahamas. Pinochet himself owned another Bahamian company, Ashburton Company Limited, set up in 1996. Abba Abacha, the son of former Nigerian president, Sani Abacha, had $350 million frozen in Luxembourg and the Bahamas as part of a global asset hunt into the estimated $3 billion stripped from Nigeria during his father’s five-year rule.</div>
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Bahamian companies and bank accounts have also played key roles in graft schemes involving former politicians from Greece, Ukraine, Kuwait and Trinidad and Tobago and in illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi government under the United Nations Oil-for-Food program.</div>
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The Bahamas was also linked to the dealings of five politicians and public officials revealed in the Panama Papers.</div>
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They include Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, Qatar’s former prime minister and foreign minister until 2013, who owned Trick One Limited, a Bahamas company. In January 2005, when foreign minister, Al Thani signed a loan agreement with a bank for $53 million. As collateral on the loan, Al Thani signed up the Al Marqab, a 133-meter, prize-winning yacht worth $300 million.</div>
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An attorney for Al Thani declined to comment.</div>
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Argentina’s president, Mauricio Macri, his father Francisco and brother Mariano, directed Fleg Trading Ltd, set up in the Bahamas in 1998 and dissolved 11 years later. Macri did not disclose his connection to Fleg Trading in asset declarations in 2007 and 2008 when he was mayor of Buenos Aires. Following the release of Panama Papers, an Argentine prosecutor sought information from authorities in Panama and the Bahamas as part of an investigation into whether Macri “maliciously” omitted his connections to the company.”</div>
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Macri's spokesman told ICIJ that the Argentine president didn't disclose Fleg Trading Ltd. because he held no financial interests or shares in the company.</div>
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The Bahamas was also where meetings and documents were held for Blairmore Holdings Inc., the investment fund directed by Ian Cameron, father of former British Prime Minister David Cameron. Ian Cameron died on Sept. 8, 2010. After the release of the Panama Papers, David Cameron was forced to admit that he financially benefited from the fund, which managed tens of millions of pounds on behalf of wealthy families. Through the offshore structure, incorporated in Panama but run from the Bahamas, the fund avoided paying tax in the United Kingdom.</div>
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Mossack Fonseca did not reply to ICIJ’s request for comment. The law firm previously told ICIJ: “As a registered agent we merely help incorporate companies, and before we agree to work with a client in any way, we conduct a thorough due-diligence process, one that in every case meets and quite often exceeds all relevant local rules, regulations and standards to which we and others are bound.” </div>
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Mossack Fonseca pushed the Bahamas’s confidentiality laws as a selling point and echoed the country’s own defense of the offshore industry in the face growing global calls for transparency.</div>
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In 2003, as the country recovered from its money-laundering blacklisting, a Mossack Fonseca employee met with a client to discuss the need for “an aggressive public relations campaign … to try to change the bad perception people have about the Bahamas when it comes to privacy.” Information was “not exchanged often or extensively,” the two reassured one another, according to internal notes from the Panama Papers.</div>
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In 2009, a Mossack Fonseca employee proposed transferring a U.S. customer’s assets to a trust in the Bahamas to ensure confidentiality during a bankruptcy. In 2014, Mossack Fonseca suggested to a New Zealand client that he use a Bahamas bank to obscure his ownership of a company. In 2015, a Spanish client used the Bahamas to bank half a million dollars she did not wish to declare back home. Another Spaniard used Mossack Fonseca’s in-house directors for a company to avoid listing his name in public registers.</div>
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Tax reform advocates have criticized tax havens, including the Bahamas, for trumpeting transparency while signing exchange agreements with other tax havens or with small countries unlikely to yield much information of use to poor, tax-starved governments. It signed one such agreement in 2010 with Greenland, which has a population of 57,000. A Mossack Fonseca employee and a Swiss client “joked” during a meeting in 2014 about a similar agreement between Greenland and another tax haven, Switzerland, according to internal meeting notes.</div>
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<span class="image-caption-container image-caption-container-right" style="display: inline-block; float: right; margin: 5px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 364px;"><img alt="Bahamas brochure" class="caption caption-processed" src="https://static-00-www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/800-bahamas-brochure.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 490px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 364px;" title="A brochure promoting the Bahamas financial services industry." /><span class="image-caption" style="background: rgba(51 , 51 , 51 , 0.701961); bottom: 0px; color: white; display: block; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; padding: 0.5em; position: absolute; width: 364px;">A brochure promoting the Bahamas financial services industry.</span></span>Today, in advertising material, the Bahamas promotes a “unique approach” that purports to respect international rules yet protect its offshore clients. The Bahamas reassures potential investors that it will share tax information later than most other countries and, even then, only with selected governments that meet stringent technical and confidentiality requirements.</div>
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In line with this approach, the Bahamas has not signed the global treaty that helps countries share tax information. The OECD, the treaty’s governing body, calls it the “most powerful instrument against offshore tax evasion and avoidance.” In August, the number of participants hit 103, which includes tax havens and some of the world’s poorest countries.</div>
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The Bahamas argues that the cost and administrative burden of automatically exchanging tax details is too high and that client privacy could be jeopardized. The Bahamas claims it will instead uphold international rules through bilateral, or one-to-one, agreements.</div>
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“I am very doubtful that jurisdictions that seek to maintain bilateralism on this issue are serious about meeting their commitments even under bilateral agreements,” said Reuven Avi-Yonah, professor of tax law at the University of Michigan and former consultant for the United States and the OECD.</div>
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The multilateral convention “is the new global standard,” said Professor Avi-Yonah, “and jurisdictions that are serious about exchange of information sign on to it. I worry that money will flow to the bilateral jurisdictions and no information will be forthcoming.”</div>
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The Bahamas, however, has reason to be happy with the status quo. In 2016, the Bahamas expects to earn $17.7 million from offshore company fees.</div>
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Recently, when countries met to forge an agreement on swapping tax information between nations, organizers declared that soon tax cheats would have “nowhere left to hide.” The Bahamas’ minister of financial services struck another note with reporters, concluding: “We got everything we wanted.”</div>
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A DAP leader has hit out at MCA, claiming the latter had likely been aware that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's private member's bill to amend syariah punishment limits would be tabled.</div>
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DAP national vice chairperson Teresa Kok was responding to MCA's constant attacks at DAP over the tabling of the bill in Parliament, which would allow PAS Kelantan to implement its hudud laws passed at state level.</div>
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“After MCA's failure to prevent Hadi Awang from tabling the private member's bill to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction ) Act 1965 (or Act 355), MCA deputy president Wee Ka Siong has made various attacks on the DAP in an obvious attempt to divert public attention.</div>
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“However his attacks are irresponsible and mere baseless allegations,” said Kok in a statement today.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Prime Minister Najib’s recent U-turn on RUU355, the legislative amendment to “strengthen” the Syariah. That circus, which is far from over, exposes Najib’s mischief and vulnerability. Lauding him for withdrawing the government’s sponsorship of that bill is akin to praising a pyromaniac who had tried to start a fire but failed. Najib should be condemned, not praised, for his dangerous game of stirring religious discord.</span></div>
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Whenever Islam enters the discourse in Malaysia, all rational discussions evaporate. Leaders and followers, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, descent with gusto into the gutter of religious and underlying racial bigotry. I would have thought that such a realization would have cautioned leaders to be more circumspect when treading on matters religious. On the contrary, as revealed by Najib’s latest and very crude mischief, they are only too eager to fan the fire.</div>
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With over 60 years of a corrupt and incompetent UMNO-led administration, Malaysia is littered with debris and garbage, literal as well as figurative. Any idiot with a matchstick could start a conflagration with ease. Imagine a mischievous one, if Malaysians let it be. It is time to grab the matchstick away from Najib’s reach.</div>
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RUU355 began as PAS Hadi Awang’s private member’s bill. Clueless on matters of statecraft, PAS leaders, well exemplified by Hadi, resort to simplistic and gimmicky maneuvers, as with introducing “Islamic laws” and making Malaysia an “Islamic state.”</div>
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For his part, Najib was desperate to be seen as a latter-day Malay hero championing syariah. He also sensed an opportunity to create mischief by driving a wedge in the opposition coalition; hence his over eagerness to take over the bill’s sponsorship. Later, caught and surprised by the unanticipated strong opposition from the now emboldened non-UMNO Barisan partners, specifically from Sarawak, Najib was forced to backtrack.</div>
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Clever only by half, Najib now finds himself on the unfamiliar terrain of having to make difficult choices. He opted for throwing PAS under the bus, hoping that his support among conservative Malays would not be too adversely affected. The risk of losing his crucial Sarawak partners, and with that the fall of his government, was much greater and more immediate. Earlier, Najib had hoped to endear himself to PAS followers and entice their party away from the opposition in time for the next election.</div>
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With Najib’s vulnerability now exposed, expect more challenges and shifts in the wind, and for him to be jerked around like a yoyo. It would be quite a sight! As for PAS, it is but the flighty woman jilted by her hitherto ardent suitor and now not welcomed by her previous partner. Not a pretty sight for a far-from-pretty old maid.</div>
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For Malaysians, the choice is simple. Deny Najib the privilege of leading Malaysia. Snatch the matchstick away from him.</div>
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If I were a non-Malay, I would support RUU355 with unrestrained enthusiasm. I would do likewise for all Islam-centric legislations, including the introduction of hudud. My assertion here is not meant to shock or raise eyebrows, nor is it a clumsy attempt at sarcasm or literary spoof, rather a matter of pragmatism if not blatant opportunism.</div>
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As a Malay, however, I am terrified at this crude fascistic attempt to make Islam an instrument for repression. It pains me to see my faith debased as a political and social tool to control the ummah. Greatness can never emerge from a controlled and repressed society. Islam thrives only when there is freedom and justice. Oppression promotes neither.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;">Our ulamas and scholars have failed us here. They they have subverted what should be a political debate into a test of our faith. Oppose RUU355 and you are destined for Hell! How infantile!</span></div>
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There are many reasons (most are selfish and self-serving) why non-Malays should support the expansion of Islamic institutions. One benign rationale would be not to interfere with the wishes of the majority (Malays), as long as those do not impact you adversely. The constitution protects and spares non-Muslims from hudud. You could say that they do not “deserve” such divinely-derived laws!</div>
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Non-Muslims should for example, push for public executions and whippings, following Afghanistan’s example. Turn those into revenue-producing events, with “premium” front-row seats commanding hefty prices, and market them as showcasing the “beauty” and “superiority” of Islamic laws.</div>
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Sell ads to whip and sword manufacturers, much like oil companies advertise at Formula One races. Such public executions and whippings could rival major spectator events like boxing to draw foreign tourists.</div>
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It is also in the self-interest of non-Muslims to encourage Malays to be obsessed and consumed with matters religious and the pursuit of the Hereafter. With more young Malays preoccupied with studying revealed knowledge and prophetic traditions, there would be that much fewer to pursue STEM. Meaning, less competition for non-Malays wishing to become doctors, scientists and engineers.</div>
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With young Malays opting for Al Azhar and Pakistani madrasahs, there would be less competition among Malaysians aspiring for Oxford and Harvard. Not that our community is a formidable competitor on that front.</div>
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For non-Muslim politicians, embracing pro-Islam postures would be a sure way into the hearts of Malays and capturing their votes. Those politicians would become instant darlings of the Malay community, fast eclipsing the likes of that mualaf Ridhaun Tee, and without having to change your name or religion. You don’t have to suck up to UMNO or PAS politicians either! All you have to do is don white kopiah (or hijab, for a woman) at Muslim functions, and of course support RUU355 and similar legislations.</div>
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Non-Malays should be heartened that the Padang Merbok pro-RUU355 rally drew thousands; overwhelmingly Malays. It went well past midnight. Not even the early evening rain dampened the mood. They came from as far north as Perlis and Kelantan, giddy with the excitement of doing God’s work, as they had been led to believe.</div>
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Imagine the acres of paddy fields not tilled that day and the next, the thousands of rubber trees not tapped, and hundreds of fishing boats idle in port. You do not need to be an economist to see the impact; all negative. Or perhaps it was minimal as they were marginal participants in the modern Malaysian economy, consumed as they were with the Hereafter.</div>
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As one of the few non-Malays present at that rally noted, the only non-Muslims affected by RUU355 would be casino operators. Few, Muslims or non-Muslims, have sympathy for them.</div>
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I compliment that the non-Malay for his deep understanding of Malay culture and values. It is a sad commentary that individuals like him are a rarity today. Not so a few generations ago.</div>
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Following the failed Malayan Union, a coalition of populist Malay organizations under PUTERA, together with the primarily non-Malay trade union group AMCJA, put forth a proposal for self-rule.</div>
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A central feature of that proposal would have liberalized conditions for citizenship. The leftist Malay leaders in PUTERA enthusiastically embraced that simply because those new citizens would be called Melayu, not Malayans. Non-Malays, being pragmatic, too accepted that. They could not care less about the label as long as they were granted citizenship.</div>
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Malays were easily seduced into relaxing the citizenship requirements in return for the Melayu label. Never mind that those would-be culup Melayus were not Muslims and could not speak Malay or give a hoot about Malay mores and customs!</div>
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Thank God the British rejected the PUTERA/AMCJA idea and instead imposed the Federation Agreement.</div>
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To Malays, the label is all important. Do what you want with the content, in line with our culture’s premium on peragga (appearance). It was true then and it is even more true today. Label something as Islamic or hudud, and Malays would swallow it without question. Likewise, anything from the land of the Prophet is holy. Even the flies in Mecca are hallal! It is not a surprise that Najib’s receiving millions from a Saudi sheik be viewed as borkat (divine bounty) by Malays and not, as the rest of the world sees it, blatant corruption.</div>
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Two centuries ago the British nearly succeeded in destroying the Chinese civilization by giving the masses what they craved for–opium. In the process the Brits made tons of money and controlled China. The Chinese elite, from the emperor down to the mandarins, were aware of the dangers opium posed but they could not prevail against the mighty British.</div>
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With Malays on the other hand, our leaders are the biggest pushers of the metaphorical opium. Non-Malays should let that be and let Malays be narcotized. Then like the British in China of yore, non-Malays could control the economy and country even more. If Malays were to complain or be resentful, flatter them that a much bigger and better reward awaits them in the Hereafter.</div>
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That however is a distracting issue. The key conclusion from Najib’s latest U-turn on RUU355 is that he and the party he leads are now vulnerable. Najib is floundering. As any boxer will tell you, that is the best time to knock your opponent out.<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.308em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The chorus for building a Ram temple is growing within the BJP as more and more outrageous public utterances by party workers suggest.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The MLA has made similar comments before. In December 2015, he threatened a lynching similar to that of </span><a class="key_underline" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mohammad-Akhlaq" pg="AS1_InlineMedia#AS1_Link#AS1_http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/we-will-behead-those-who-oppose-the-construction-of-ram-temple-says-bjp-hyderabad-mla-raja-singh/articleshow/58092624.cms" style="background-color: white; color: #3ca2c8; cursor: pointer; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.1; opacity: 0.8; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;">Mohammad Akhlaq</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">'s in Dadri near Noida in September 2015. He said he and his like-minded colleagues were ready to kill to protect cows. Akhlaq was killed by a ghoulish mob that suspected he had stored beef in his house. He hadn't.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">"We warn them against a Dadri-like incident in Telangana. We can both give our lives and take life for the sake of protecting the cow", he said back then.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Just yesterday, Singh's party colleague </span><a class="key_underline" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Uma-Bharti" pg="AS1_InlineMedia#AS1_Link#AS1_http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/we-will-behead-those-who-oppose-the-construction-of-ram-temple-says-bjp-hyderabad-mla-raja-singh/articleshow/58092624.cms" style="background-color: white; color: #3ca2c8; cursor: pointer; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.1; opacity: 0.8; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;">Uma Bharti</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> also strongly expressed her support for the construction of a Ram temple. The Union water resources minister said that a temple in Ayodhya was a matter of belief for her and she was ready to go to jail for it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">"Ram temple is a matter of belief for me and I have immense pride in it... if I have to go to jail for it I will go, if I have to hang myself for it I will do it," said Bharti after a meeting with Uttar Pradesh chief minister </span><a class="key_underline" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Adityanath" pg="AS1_InlineMedia#AS1_Link#AS1_http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/we-will-behead-those-who-oppose-the-construction-of-ram-temple-says-bjp-hyderabad-mla-raja-singh/articleshow/58092624.cms" style="background-color: white; color: #3ca2c8; cursor: pointer; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.1; opacity: 0.8; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;">Adityanath</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">, another self-professed lover and protector of cows, who's also in favour of a Ram temple being built on the disputed Ayodhya site.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">In February, before his party, the BJP, swept Uttar Pradesh in the Assembly elections, Adityanath said that hurdles on the path of the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya will be gradually removed and its construction will start soon.</span><br />
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He also said 'Ram Bhakts' (Ram devotees) will play a key role in the construction of a Ram Temple at Ayodhya. "<a class="key_underline" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ram-Bhakts" pg="AS1_InlineMedia#AS1_Link#AS1_http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/we-will-behead-those-who-oppose-the-construction-of-ram-temple-says-bjp-hyderabad-mla-raja-singh/articleshow/58092624.cms" style="color: #3ca2c8; cursor: pointer; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.1; opacity: 0.8; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Ram Bhakts</a> did whatever happened in Ayodhya and in future whatever will be done, it will be done by them," he said.<br />
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"Whatever happened in Ayodhya" was a clear reference to the destruction of the 16th century mausoleum of Mughal emperor Babar.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="font-family: lato; font-size: 16px;">Nationalism as an ideology is inevitable, even necessary, in a world that began to be organised into nation-states a little over three centuries ago. It is a primary adhesive sentiment in an age in which nations have become the dominant global vehicle of group identity.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.972px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">there seem to be two distinct nationalisms: inclusionary and exclusionary. One symbolises loyalty to a nation that is tolerant, accommodative and open to evolving cultures and mores. The other advocates a nation which must resist diversity and construct an exclusive ethno-religious identity that must be defended against any dilution the Other might bring into society.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.972px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua has taken aim at Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani for claiming that Malaysia cannot </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;">press charges over 1MDB </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;">without a full picture, pointing out that there were no efforts by the government to do so.</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Wrong Perception</span></span></span><br style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">One can drive a very large truck of suspect cargo through the door marked ‘patriotism’. Once the integrity of the nation is invoked and the spectre of social and communal unrest is seen as being at stake, the state buys for itself a lot of room for actions that might have otherwise seemed unpalatable. In that sense, the decision to impose some kind of regulation on social media in the aftermath of the Assam violence and the events that followed, might have passed muster on the whole, despite its problematic nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In an earlier era, when the transmission of information was centrally regulated, it was easier to think of it as a resource that needs to be shared more widely and made more accessible. More information was almost always better, and the battle to extract more was often a heroic one. The reason why journalism was seen through a lens of romance was because it represented the act of extricating the truth from the jaws of the powerful and the corrupt. The RTI act in India for instance has been a key instrument in enabling greater transparency and accountability of powerful and hitherto opaque institutions. But with the greater penetration of the market into media and the dramatic democratisation of information, not just in terms of being able to access but also in being able to broadcast it, the default belief in its inherent and limitless legitimacy needs to be rethought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As media gets seen as having an axe to grind, its coverage of issues gets to be consumed with a filter in place. This creates many parallel narratives of truth, each claiming that it represents reality better. We don’t really know what happened in Assam for the news comes to us contaminated and our 0doubts about it taint it even further. And social media, which bypasses traditional channels of information, is in the name of freedom of expression, able to re-circulate rumours that speak to the deepest anxieties of those vulnerable. The valorisation of the freedom of expression is a product of its context; as information becomes less scarce, more motivated and less inhibited in its expression of human frailties, it might be time to evaluate whether we need more robust mechanisms for creating some sense of order. The value of free expression was derived in part from its scarce availability; today’s problem is the one that comes with its chaotic plenty. Not regulating this in any way may not be as a romantic an idea as it once was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-weight: normal;">Opinion polls suggest that DAP and PAS the two national parties are the ones that face the greatest challenges in the 2017 elections. It is admittedly too early for the polls to mean much, and campaigning in earnest has not even begun</span><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;">.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-weight: normal;">Opinion polls suggest that DAP and PAS the two national parties are the ones that face the greatest challenges in the 2017 elections. It is admittedly too early for the polls to mean much, and campaigning in earnest has not even begun. The PAS and DAP looks doomed for certain, and that is hardly a surprise, but the real revelation has been Mahathir</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-weight: 500;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">is unlikely to gain much as a result. The most likely scenario, as of now, seems to be of a highly fractured mandate Under the circumstances, the most plausible outcome is that of a diverse coalition being stitched together.The long term outlook for the PAS in particular should be a cause for worry for the party. It derives its strength from two sources- the first being the undeniable cohesion that it is able to contrive because it has put the leadership question out of bounds for aspiration or discussion. This cohesion does fall apart from time to time as influential local leaders find the party stifling WITH umno The second reason for its success as a party has been in the fact it represents a loose idea of the ‘national’, an idea that gets reinforced when set against the more obviously ‘regional’ nature of most other parties. The PAS is the name we gave to an absence- of any fixed ideological or regional impulse. The DAP is the shadowy other of anything palpable- it is the default ‘safe’ choice for those not inclined to make choices that are too definite.</span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can an election ever throw up the right candidate? Or to put it more moderately, is an election the mechanism best suited to throw up representatives that will strive to work for their constituents and attempt to better their life? Are there in-built into the electoral process, a set of imperatives that help pre-determine one kind of outcome, irrespective of the quality of the candidates? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Increasingly, it would seem that what it takes to win an election is not only very different from what it takes to govern, but might well be at odds with the idea of providing governance. The privileging of representativeness in our democracy, with an emphasis on caste and religion, has meant that electable candidates are chosen with a view to who has the biggest electoral draw in terms representing the interests of a community rather than select those that have a view on issues of policy or administration. At one level, democracy does not require its practitioners to come equipped with a track record, and representativeness is perhaps the most vital element in the idea of democracy, but over a period of time, what representativeness has come to mean identity rather than action; the leader resembles his or her constituents, speaks for them and on the occasion that he or she acts on their behalf, it is often through the same narrow lens of community. Under these circumstances, the election abets the process of weeding out those that see their role in more secular terms, and focuses its attention narrowly on those with more sectarian agendas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winning elections requires a peculiar kind of caste and community arithmetic, multiplied by financial resources and propped up by on-ground muscle. The reason why the incidence of criminality in politics has been such a visible presence is partly due to the fact there are great similarities between the two skill sets. It is easier for a local tough to become a politician than it is for a local schoolteacher, to use a crude stereotype, not only because it easier for the former to mobilise resources and numbers far more easily but also because the electorate sees more advantages in being represented by someone who can thump the table on their behalf rather than someone who is not seen to have a realistic chance of winning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The prospect of winnability makes unsuitable choices rational, for it is seen to be smarter to align with those that could win rather than root for those that might act on one’s behalf much more usefully if elected, but are seen with little real chance of doing so. Money is the other reason why only those that already have the ability or are able to generate it, are found suitable to be offered as candidates. The political system wards off change at the point of entry itself, by making the entry level conditions unsuitable for anyone but those that toe the existing line and play by the rules already laid down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The election requires that a large number of people exercise their preference for one candidate over the others on the basis of some knowledge and familiarity with the individual’s previous track record, the party that he or she represents, the promises made, and the overall feeling of empathy and trust generated by the individual. Given the sizes of constituencies and the scale of the geographies involved, it is difficult for someone who is already not a visible presence in at least part of the constituency to mobilise adequate support. Chances are that the choices will veer towards those that already enjoy a measure of prominence and power in the area- superannuated student leaders, local toughs, successful lawyers, families of politicians, wealthy landlords, caste and community leaders and the like. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The underlying assumption of elections is that every individual takes a personal decision, on the basis of the inputs received, to choose the person deemed suitable to represent his or her interests. The truth is in the Indian social construct, the individual does not necessarily act as a singular entity and is often inclined to act as part of a larger collective. This is true not only of elections, but of many other walks of life. The election is in some ways almost asking for people to find their own appropriate collective and to cobble together enough numbers so as to increase the bargaining power at their disposal. It is rational to do so, for otherwise every individual feels virtually no ability to influence the outcome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The middle class distrust of politicians is in part a sense of frustration with the electoral process. Part of the reason why visible outrage does not automatically translate into higher voting percentages is because the idea is laced with a sense of presumptive futility. It is also the reason why movements like the one led by Anna Hazare get traction; the apolitical nature of the struggle is found valuable. The disenchantment with the movement is in part due to its involvement in electoral politics; the paradox being that the impetus for change cannot succeed unless it becomes a variable in the elections but the very act of getting involved with anything to do with elections is seen as an act of contamination. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Electoral reforms will help. But too much has to change before reforms by themselves can be effective. As a structure, elections cannot create intent; that must exist in the system. Without intent, the structure merely re-inforces and perhaps amplifies all that is already wrong. Even when elections are not rigged, in some ways they always are. If not by design, then by definition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span><span style="color: #444444;"></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">Satire is the thin wedge that separates fear from panic. businessmen are not yet panic-stricken, but thanks to Pua a</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;"> sudden flurry of stories appeared in Malaysiakini </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">foreign correspondents seemed particularly gullible</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;"> they are edging towards the zone of fear. As haemorrhaging international confidence in Malaysia weakens fund inflows, </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">When a nation’s confidence is undermined, adversaries abroad pounce to take advantage, and uncertainty within encourages social tensions.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">there is only so much harm that an indecisive DAP can inflict upon a nation’s ability </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;">restoring the economy to health and vigour. A nation is only as strong as its economy. There is no magic wand as we enter election year. There was no wand in 2013 either. We recovered because we needed the shock to come to our senses. It is time for a radical reboot once again.</span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Sabotaging Malaysia's economy by frightening off foreign investors is an act of treason, not patriotism, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak.criticising the prime minister and are running down the country out of patriotism."Most historians agree that Adolf Hitler was also a patriot and that Naziism was the product of this patriotism. And 100 million people died because of this," Salleh said in a blog post last night...</span><br style="color: #444444;" /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;"></span></span><div style="color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333;">a trauma turns into a struggle between anger and amnesia. It is a no-contest. Amnesia wins every time.explains the callous indifference to the perpetrators of crime evasion was prelude to escape local wrath. Over time, even the noise has become a passing perfunctory</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333;">Hey, corner office frog DAP lawmaker Tony Pua, keep that sticky tongue to yourselfIn a corner office with a view sits a loathsome frog, his tongue intermittently darting at all the little file-toting flies. This frog is not interested in turning into a prince — he already believes he is one — and stares bug-eyed at the flies, his toys or his employees whatever moniker fits them best in his mind.Politics has seldom walked the path of predictability. Opinions oscillate like an autumn in mood. Promises sun and cloud like the English weather. The phrase political commitment is the greatest example of an oxymoron. Once friends, turn foes overnight. We all know the language of politics.Johari is no‘caged parrot’, has the freedom to investigate his boss but but he is not Tony Pua's errand boy.. .A tale of two MPs DAP lawmaker Tony Pua you a narcissistic ?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333;">The ebb from outrage to rage, its decline to umbrage, and then a drift to amnesia is the narrative of the 12 months Our unstated reason has been that action against Najib, new </span><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333;">has done some moving reportage of in the last few days. It would be interesting to find out, possibly through market research, whether the readers of the nation’s most powerful newspaper have been moved at all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever since ideology committed suicide in the early 1990s, those in DAP have sought to fill the vacuum with </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">eager eggheads </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">ideas. Most ideas were perceptive and prescriptive; some were even brilliant. The flexibility was exhilarating after too many decades of doctrine born in an open mind but killed by a closed one.Pragmatism became politically correct. But a serious problem was soon evident: it was difficult to make ideas work without a framework. The patterns of democracy encouraged spasmodic birth but hindered growth. Politics eroded the time necessary for nurture. </span><br />It is entirely within the logic of turbulent democracies that a dream run should be interrupted by a wake-up call. It might be pertinent to note, in this context, that dreams are best shaped into reality with the help of daylight. Among the dangers of darkness is that it obscures the bumps on that twisting road to economic regeneration. Those who know are aware that, as master of the long game, he is not going to be deflected by the short pass; he will absorb the stumble and restore the stride towards that horizon. </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">DAP obnoxious behaviour the system of entrenched habits</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">When it comes to elections politicians, psephologists, punters and pundits all begin to think gambling This may not occupy them when discussing venture capitalists, or sports or financial crises. But come elections and the air is abuzz with race calculations, race chemistry, or pure racialism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In Islam, woman returning to earlier faith can end marriage if she likes: Delhi high court NONE The Home Ministry’s ban on the book by controversial Canadian author Irshad Manji titled ‘Allah, Liberty and Love’ has been removed. This follows Kuala Lumpur High Court Judge Justice Zaleha Yusof’s decision to allow ZI Publications Sdn Bhd’s application for judicial review today.ZI Publications, the publisher of the Malay translation of the book, had sought to quash the Home Ministry’s ban against the book as sales of the English version had been in the market over a year prior to the translated version Interpreting a 75-year-old law, Delhi high court has held that a non-Muslim woman who embraces Islam after marriage but reconverts to her original faith can dissolve the union due to apostasy. Granting divorce under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939 to Sultana (name changed), a division bench of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Najmi Waziri also clarified there is no requirement in such circumstances for a woman who leaves the pale of Islam to prove her act in a trial. The mere act of apostasy dissolves the marriage if she so desires. "Were a woman married under Muslim personal law to apostatize, the marriage stands dissolved. In such circumstances, the woman is entitled to seek a decree of declaration that the marriage stands dissolved from the date of her apostatizing," Justice Waziri explained. The bench went into the circumstances under which the pre-Independence act was passed in 1939 to emphasize, if people come or are brought into Islam from a different religion, they should be permitted to go back for which there should be no bar. The HC was hearing an appeal filed by the husband Asif (name changed) challenging the grant of divorce by a Saket family court to Sultana on her petition. Asif contested Sultana's reconversion back to Hinduism and alleged she did it under pressure from her parents. Asif also cited Section 4 of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act to contend that it prohibits dissolution of marriage only on the ground of apostasy. Several Malay women and a man wearing an MCA T-shirt proclaiming “Defend the Constitution”. One makcik remarked that MCA translates hudud as “law of amputation.” We exited the lift in the MCA building and went to our cars. We had just listened to Hanipa Maidin, Sepang MP, and Dr Zulkefly Ahmad, former MP for Kuala Selangor, both from PAS explain why they are pushing for mandatory extreme punishments (hudud) in Malaysia.They made it clear that for them hudud is much more than punishment. Hanipa and Dzul came across as men driven by the conviction that “Islam” means subjection to a system of penal laws. For them, these laws determine who may be judges; the rules of evidence; mandatory punishments.They made it clear that for them hudud is much more than punishment. Hanipa and Dzul came across as men driven by the conviction that “Islam” means subjection to a system of penal laws. For them, these laws determine who may be judges; the rules of evidence; mandatory punishments. For them, these laws have been dictated to men by God, and established by the actions of the Prophet of Islam. Hanipa and Dzul came across as sincere men who believe there are destructive elements in society, and that they have been called and equipped by God to disable these elements. For them, God is shouting in our ears the names of these destructive elements through the megaphone of diabolical punishments: lashes, amputation, stoning. Yet, they carefully avoided using those three words. Hanipa and Dzul came across as carefully avoiding use of the words “lashing,” “amputation” and “stoning” because the images attached to those punishments will limit the number of people who will accept them as rational beings. For them, it is important to come across as respecters of “democracy” and “the Federal Constitution” – words which they used repeatedly. On her part, the estranged wife argued that for her reconversion to Hinduism no evidence is required to be led, as her mere statement 'ipso facto' amounts to abjuration of Islam and its tenets. She also filed an affidavit admitting to her apostasy along with two fatwas from two mufti. The wife also informed the court she had withdrawn complaint filed under Domestic Violence Act and another petition seeking maintenance. Now that she had apostatized, neither the marriage nor any right to claim maintenance subsisted. The HC agreed with the trial court verdict and ruled that Section 4 has not altered the rule of Muslim personal law that apostasy dissolves a marriage. "In the opinion of this court, all that Section 4 has done is to introduce an intervening mechanism, but to reach the same conclusion, i.e., that apostasy would not by itself dissolve the marriage and some further substantive act would be required to be done in this regard; the substantive act being the filing of a suit seeking declaration as to dissolution," it observed. However, it rejected Asif's argument that Sultana would have to prove her apostasy. Hanipa has been called a “human rights lawyer”. Dzul earned a PhD in toxicology from Imperial College, London. These men display the extent to which professional success and academic awards do not predict what men believe God desires. Kudos to Hanipa and Dzul for being on a panel chaired by a woman (Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir) and including Dr Farouk Mousa of the Islamic Renaissance Front and Zainah Anwar of Sisters in Islam. Farouk and Zainah have a far different understanding of how politicians should read the scriptures and set priorities. Yet they are as convicted as Hanipa and Dzul about the urgent need to act against social ills. The similarities and differences between Hanipa and Dzul (Group A), on the one hand, and Farouk (Group B1) and Zainah (Group B2) on the other hand were easy to discern. Note: I did not see any evidence of collaboration between Farouk and Zainah. I am calling them “Group B” merely as a means of analysis. The similarity between Groups A and B is that they are Muslims, work under the constraints set by the Federal Constitution and support active governance through a system of law and enforcement. I’ll limit myself to six differences between Groups A and B. Homogeneity of Islam Group A portrays Islam as capable of being homogenous, despite clear evidence to the contrary over the past 63 years in the peninsula (PAS was founded in 1951) and over the past 14 centuries worldwide (Islam was “revealed” from 570-632 AD). They say Islamic homogeneity will eventually be achieved in Malaysia. Group B says Islamic homogeneity is an unrealistic goal. They say the reality is that Shia and other Muslim groups are persecuted now in Malaysia, and that the Shafi’i school alone is accepted in Malaysia, despite other schools such as the Hanafi, also having an ancient lineage. Men’s role in establishing the seriousness of crimes Group A portrays the Quran and the Hadith as crystal clear with respect to punishment – though it, at the same time, says the initial implementation will be imperfect. Group B points out glaring difficulties. For instance, the Prophet ordered amputation of a hand of a thief who stole upwards of a quarter of a dinar. They ask how PAS determined that equals RM2,000 today and how disagreements among scholars were resolved. The results of hudud implementation in other lands Group A says Malaysians should not discuss the success or failure of implementation in other lands. Group B says we should exhaust every avenue of learning and use that learning to read with fresh eyes what was handed down 1,400 years ago. They point to nations such as Pakistan and Tunisia where hudud implementation has “failed”. They add that implementation of hudud is not a priority in other Muslim-majority nations. The priority of focusing on hudud Group A says hudud has been in the manifesto of PAS from long ago and those who voted for PAS voted for hudud. They say this compels them to proceed, at least in Kelantan. Group B says the priority should be eradicating corruption and social inequality. They recall that during a famine, Caliph Omar (the second Caliph) set aside hudud punishment for theft. They say since there is widespread poverty in Malaysia, poverty eradication and reducing the gap between rich and poor must come first. Sharia Courts in Malaysia today Group A laments the 3, 5, 6 limit on Sharia courts: up to three years of imprisonment; up to RM5,000 in fines; up to six strokes of the cane. They say these limits are unacceptable, since civil courts are permitted higher limits, and since Islamic law sets higher limits. Group B says the Sharia courts are already ineffective in imposing punishments, the most glaring of which is the poor record of fulfilment of awards to wives and children of men who gain divorces. They say “fix that first!” The principle of equality Group A are politicians. They quietly agree Islamic law demands all Muslims be treated as equal under the law; yet they say the Malay rulers will remain above the law, including Islamic law – as this is “a constraint imposed by the Federal Constitution”. Group B are activists. They point to the global shame brought upon Islam by the implementation of Islamic law in Brunei which exempts the Sultan of Brunei from even the capability of doing wrong. They say hudud implementation should start with the elites. Ustaz Dr Fathul Bari, an exco member of Umno Youth was also a panellist. He came across as a polished speaker (in Malay) with broad knowledge both of Islam and the political history of hudud in Malaysia. Sadly, he clearly believes one cannot discourse with him if one’s command of Arabic does not match his. So I’ll not discuss what he said. Twelve hours after exiting the lift, I’m still wondering if the makcik was right to be </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The law is positively biased towards women, and rightly so “Soul has no Gender”, yet overtime our cultural heritage has been diluted. Malaysia has been called the rape capital of the world is been deemed as an anti-woman nation, a country that is not safe for women. Feminism rose in the West many years ago and globally feminism may be at the fourth wave, yet the tide of the second wave of feminism hasn’t washed over the entire </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The law is positively biased towards women, and rightly so “Soul has no Gender”, yet overtime our cultural heritage has been diluted. Malaysia has been called the rape capital of the world is been deemed as an anti-woman nation, a country that is not safe for women.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The government had and must now reassure those seeking fairness and justice especially for non-Muslims, whose lives have been affected by unilateral conversions of their children,” Baljit said in a statement“The longstanding issues that have been hurting the society due to overlapping jurisdiction between civil and syariah courts must be addressed promptly and effectively to enable social recovery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feminism rose in the West many years ago and globally feminism may be at the fourth wave, yet the tide of the second wave of feminism hasn’t washed over the entire subcontinent where many women are not allowed an opportunity to employment due to patriarchal norms. For these reasons and many more, the laws of have been amended over time to favor women, and although there is a heated debate over the right or wrong of the bias towards women, it is undeniable that crimes against women are still on the rise. So if the law is positively biased towards women, then it is rightly so.The party’s law and human rights central burchief Baljit Singh said the bill was tabled last year and had been listed in the order paper for second reading at the just concluded Dewan Rakyat sitting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The fate of the spouses and children affected in cases of unilateral conversion and interfaith custody disputes remains uncertain following the bill being pushed back.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">subcontinent where many women are not allowed an opportunity to employment due to patriarchal norms. For these reasons and many more, the laws of India have been amended over time to favor women, and although there is a heated debate over the right or wrong of the bias towards women, it is undeniable that crimes against women are still on the rise. So if the law is positively biased towards women, then it is rightly so.</span></span><br />
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MCA claimed that two of its lawmakers were vocal against Act 355 when PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan gave his speech in support of the motion, while none of the DAP lawmakers stood up to oppose.</div>
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"Although MCA has only three backbenchers, two MCA parliamentarians - Tebrau MP Khoo Soo Siang and Alor Gajah MP Koh Nai Kwong stood their ground and challenged PAS' motion by throwing questions at him.</div>
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"DAP has 36 MPs but were silent or nowhere to be seen. Where were they?" said MCA in the social media yesterday.</div>
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Takiyuddin delivered his seconder speech after Hadi tabled the motion on amendments which seek to raise the punishment cap for syariah offences to 30 years' jail, RM100,000 fine and 100 strokes of the cane.</div>
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"Both Lim Kit Siang and Lim Guan Eng were not even in the House," said Chong in his Facebook account.</div>
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Netizens, however rebutted MCA, claiming that Kit Siang and his colleague Gobind Singh Deo, had tried to <a href="http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/378220" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0077dd; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">block Hadi</span></span></a><span style="font-weight: 700;"> </span>from tabling the motion even before the Marang MP read it out.</div>
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Meanwhile, DAP's Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching has accused the MCA deputy president of lying for stating that MCA was in the dark on whether Hadi's motion would be debated, as reported by Chinese daily <em style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif !important;">Kwong Wah Yit Poh</em>.</div>
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"Wee Ka Siong, (you) need to think of how to cover your lies when you have lied. Incompetency is more despicable," she said in the social media.</div>
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"There was still 12 government bills listed (in the parliamentary's order paper) as of April 4, the second last day of current Parliament session. Hadi's motion was listed item 13 on the order paper. Logically thinking, it was not possible to be brought up for debate," she elaborated.</div>
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But the House sat from 10am on April 6 to 5am on April 7, and had passed six bills and the government deferred another six bills, Teo added.</div>
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"On April 7, Hadi's motion became the first item listed on the order paper."</div>
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"Not conspiracy? Why retract the six bills? [...] Could it be the Parliament planned to adjourn the sitting by 12pm after the question-and-answer session between 10am and 12pm (on April 7)?" she asked.</div>
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Teo said MIC president Dr S Subramaniam, who admitted the bill would be tabled but not debated, was more "honest" by admitting that BN parties knew that Hadi's motion would be tabled in Dewan Rakyat, but the House would not debate it.</div>
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"He said it was a decision made during the BN supreme council meeting recently," she added.</div>
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"Is Wee trying to tell us that both Subramaniam and Joseph were lying, while he was the only honest government officer?" she asked.</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This seems to tie in with the beatific halo of commercialism that seems to hang over the serene countenance of religion these days. Television channels are full of products claiming to be divine ‘yantras’ that offer a variety of precise interventions in our lives, and come with the hallowed testimony of several has-been film and television stars. And the commercial angle does not stop at hawking products that matter-of-factly drain out the milk of human blindness. Over the last couple of years, some Hindi news channel have brought to us several exposes involving many religious gurus, the latest one being the reports on Nirmal Baba. In most of these, the picture painted of the leaders in question is deeply unspiritual, with allegations ranging from fraudulently exploiting religious sentiment for personal material gain, enabling money laundering to sexual misconduct. The themes of material exploitation, sexually predatory behaviour and narrow minded chauvinism resulting in hate crimes of all hues, ranging from selective violence to acts of mass murder and terrorism recur across geography and different religions. Of course, this is hardly the whole picture when it comes to religion, but it is a sufficiently prominent aspect of it for us to take notice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What has changed is the nature of religious practice rather than belief in religion for it continues to enjoy a pre-eminent position in the life of most people in the world. In India, the coming of economic reform and relative affluence has strengthened religion rather than weaken it, and the evidence is all around us. Television channels devoted to building the brands of individual gurus, religious festivals have become the site of legitimised consumption, and even the Janlok Pal movement needed their support to mobilise numbers. In a more everyday sense too, religious rituals continue to be an integral part of our lives, with temples being full, particularly at exam time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is not as if personal prayer that seeks divine blessings for one’s well being is a product of today alone, for have grown up on stories of various devotees who perform impossible feats of penance in order to win vardaans which they then use to wreak havoc on the humankind. In a more everyday sense, prayer has been an instrument of improbable hope, as human beings try to reverse the unequal relationship they have with arbitrary circumstance with a concentration of hope and a spectacle of surrender. Prayer is simultaneously a peremptory demand and a submissive entreaty, full of narcissistic magnification as well as servile diminution. Traditionally, the two parts of prayer were kept apart, at least on the surface. One was expected to surrender unquestioningly and become part of a larger collective before the right to ask for anything in return was granted. Increasingly, now the submission is put into the background by the demand; the prayer itself is contingent on results. Prayer is now a transcated vector, pointing unambiguously in the direction of desire, undeterred by its scale and improbability. One interesting site in which this shift can be seen is in the frequency and tenor of the Hindi film bhajan. The lyrics of the devotional songs have strikingly moved from being selfless paeans to a larger nameless God (Allah Tero Naam, Tu Pyaar Ka Saagar Hai, Ham ko man ki shakti dena, Tora Man Darpan kehlaye and many others) that had larger collective goals in to highly specific demands being made of individual deities in the later films. If in earlier times, the emphasis was on self-improvement and unconditional surrender, we see a more demanding relationship in evidence today. Of course, the larger reality is that the filmi bhajan is rarely seen on screens nowadays; it is not that easy to shoot it on a beach against the backdrop of slithering thighs. Even in everyday life, particularly in the north, the filmi bhajan one hears at the local jagran is likely to be set to the tune of Munni Badnaam Hui rather than a more traditional melody. The idea that the religious intent expressed loosely makes its content irrelevant seems to be the dominant one on display. The gap between professed religiosity and practised humanity seems to be growing wider.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a result, the social utility of religion has diminished significantly. Religion is seen instead as a personal technology of progress that has all the trappings of a good deal, a remote control that can be pointed anywhere at any time. The power of religion to unite diverse groups under its umbrella and to make human beings rise above themselves has been an important aspect of religious practice. Today, we rarely see concerted efforts to mobilise groups around larger social causes without the effort descending into some sort of commercial enterprise. The business of religion is lucrative in part because what is being sought from religion is changing. We want our gods in our pocket, ready to be brandished whenever opportunity strikes.</span></div>
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A bench of Justices B S Chauhan and J Chelameswar on Monday issued the clarification on a petition filed by advocate Uday Gupta, who had questioned certain sweeping observations made by the Madras high court while dealing with the issue of live-in relationships. Importantly, the SC said children born out of prolonged live-in relationships could not be termed illegitimate.</div>
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Someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s wife and someone’s mother is no longer the desired identity. Women want to explore their potential, establish themselves and rise to great heights professionally; they enjoy their economic independence and the fact that their lives are a masterpiece coloured by their own choices. As a result, marriages are a “later in life” agenda for most. Instead of being married off in their teens, women are waiting till as late as 40 and consequently premarital sex and live-in relationships seem the obvious options to keep life and hormones in balance.</div>
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I’m not going to moralise or sermonise the obvious merits and demerits of such options, to each his or her own, but there’s a certain ruthlessness I see in the fervour for self-gratification which is honestly quite off putting. Random sex, one-night stands and flings with multiple strangers (sometimes in 100’s), just because you can, or just for the fun of it, seems actually purposeless, rather than purposeful. Fact is, it’s a very personal space you’re sharing, and there are bound to be major emotional and physical repercussions to such indiscriminate actions. I can understand enjoying and exploring sex with no strings attached as an experience and not wanting to jump into commitment, but I just can’t understand the desire to be a public toilet. It’s not just about the numbers; it’s also the mechanical ruthlessness of it.</div>
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Gupta had challenged the HC’s observation that “a valid marriage does not necessarily mean that all the customary rights pertaining to the married couple are to be followed and subsequently solemnized”.</div>
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His counsel, M R Calla, sought deletion of the HC’s observations terming them as untenable in law. He apprehended that these remarks could demolish the very institution of marriage.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">he Supreme Court has said that if a man and woman “lived like husband and wife” for a long period and had children, the judiciary would presume that the two were married. It’s OK to want a better life an a life patner Giving an important clarification on live-in relationships, the Supreme Court has said…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Budget airline Malindo Air found itself in a public relations mess after news broke that they perform body checks on interview candidates that their.woman must have a certain allure to them, a sultry exotic sex appeal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This strange measure, described as <a href="http://malaysiakini.com/news/378096" style="border: 0px; color: #117bb8; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“grooming checks”</a>, was necessary to identify “visible marks” which may appear when one dons the company’s uniforms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Competitors AirAsia and Firefly swiftly reacted with witty ads at Malindo Air’s expense, but some <a href="http://malaysiakini.com/news/378129" style="border: 0px; color: #117bb8; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">female lawmakers</a> said that this was no laughing matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malindo Air has denied a news report earlier today that it requested interviewees to strip down their tops during a walk-in interview.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“In perspective of an article on Malindo Air’s recruitment process of cabin crew in <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Malay Mail </em>newspaper dated April 5, 2017, the airline denies the allegations upon internal investigations done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Grooming checks for visible marks are conducted privately by female supervisors in a professional manner and is part of the interviewing process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Herein candidates are briefed ahead and consent from each candidate is required prior proceeding to ensure there is no prominent marks will be visible while wearing the uniform,” the airline said in a statement today, without mentioning how the checks are conducted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malindo Air has been mired in controversy after it reportedly made the request in a walk-in interview on March 11.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its public relations and communications director Raja Sa’adi Raja Amrin, however defended the move, saying it was the right of the employer to request potential flight attendants to expose their chests to interviewers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He, however clarified that the interviewees were required to remove their tops, but not bras as claimed by the complainants who went for the interviews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The airline wanted to see if applicants had visible marks due to the material of Malindo’s uniform, as their uniforms were “partially see-through”, he was quoted as saying by <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Malay Mail</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“It is not an issue. We have the right to conduct such body checks on them. I think most airlines do the same,” he said, adding that this was a norm for most airlines as the cabin crew needed to be presentable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“We need to see if they (applicants) have scars, pimples or tattoos that could be seen through the uniform. Our flight attendants wear a corset inside and if it is covered by the corset, it is okay,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malindo Air’s stewardesses are clad in either a high-collared white blouse or a white kebaya top paired with a sarong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“We need to know if there are scars or any marks as you can see their legs when they walk,” he said, responding to question that the interviewees claimed they had to bare their legs thigh-high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The slit is also tailored in such a manner where it will enable flight attendants to move around easily, especially during an emergency,” he elaborated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Ridiculous and disgusting’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Malay Mail</em> also quoted several stewardesses who served in other airlines, who complained that they had never encountered such screening procedure, and described it as “ridiculous and disgusting”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to the daily, Malindo Air’s interviewees were told to expose their chests, lift their skirts, fold up their pants or remove their pantyhose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malaysia Airlines cabin crew staff Sherifah Muhazlisa Syed Mohd Bakar reportedly recalled that her employer only asked those with long sleeves to roll up to check for tattoos and scars but never required them to remove their clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The official from the airline should know better,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another flight attendant with AirAsia said it was unacceptable to ask female interviewees to remove their clothes to check their skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“My current employer asked if I had any tattoos or scars but I was never asked to take my clothes off,” he said on the condition of anonymity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The airline (AirAsia) will not have a problem with stewards or stewardess having tattoos or scars as long as they were covered by the uniform. This is the 21st century. No organisation should be asking their employees to remove their clothes. It is extremely derogatory,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“That is crazy! I do not understand why they would have to do that. Those girls are not there to show off their bodies,” said a flight attendant from Singapore Airlines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malindo Air posted the cabin crew walk-in interview on its Facebook page on March 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Budget airline Malindo Air found itself in a public relations mess after news broke that they perform body checks on interview candidates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This strange measure, described as <a href="http://malaysiakini.com/news/378096" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0077dd; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">“grooming checks”</a>, was necessary to identify “visible marks” which may appear when one dons the company’s uniforms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> this Competitors AirAsia and Firefly swiftly reacted with witty ads at Malindo Air’s expense, but some <a href="http://malaysiakini.com/news/378129" style="background-position: 0px 0px; color: #0077dd; cursor: pointer;">female lawmakers</a> said that this was no laughing matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malindo Air has denied a news report earlier today that it requested interviewees to strip down their tops during a walk-in interview.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“In perspective of an article on Malindo Air’s recruitment process of cabin crew in <em style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif !important;">The Malay Mail </em>newspaper dated April 5, 2017, the airline denies the allegations upon internal investigations done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Grooming checks for visible marks are conducted privately by female supervisors in a professional manner and is part of the interviewing process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Herein candidates are briefed ahead and consent from each candidate is required prior proceeding to ensure there is no prominent marks will be visible while wearing the uniform,” the airline said in a statement today, without mentioning how the checks are conducted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malindo Air has been mired in controversy after it reportedly made the request in a walk-in interview on March 11.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its public relations and communications director Raja Sa’adi Raja Amrin, however defended the move, saying it was the right of the employer to request potential flight attendants to expose their chests to interviewers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He, however clarified that the interviewees were required to remove their tops, but not bras as claimed by the complainants who went for the interviews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The airline wanted to see if applicants had visible marks due to the material of Malindo’s uniform, as their uniforms were "partially see-through", he was quoted as saying by <em style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif !important;">The Malay Mail</em>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It is not an issue. We have the right to conduct such body checks on them. I think most airlines do the same," he said, adding that this was a norm for most airlines as the cabin crew needed to be presentable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“We need to see if they (applicants) have scars, pimples or tattoos that could be seen through the uniform. Our flight attendants wear a corset inside and if it is covered by the corset, it is okay," he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malindo Air's stewardesses are clad in either a high-collared white blouse or a white kebaya top paired with a sarong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“We need to know if there are scars or any marks as you can see their legs when they walk,” he said, responding to question that the interviewees claimed they had to bare their legs thigh-high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The slit is also tailored in such a manner where it will enable flight attendants to move around easily, especially during an emergency," he elaborated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">'Ridiculous and disgusting'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif !important;">The Malay Mail</em> also quoted several stewardesses who served in other airlines, who complained that they had never encountered such screening procedure, and described it as "ridiculous and disgusting".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to the daily, Malindo Air’s interviewees were told to expose their chests, lift their skirts, fold up their pants or remove their pantyhose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malaysia Airlines cabin crew staff Sherifah Muhazlisa Syed Mohd Bakar reportedly recalled that her employer only asked those with long sleeves to roll up to check for tattoos and scars but never required them to remove their clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The official from the airline should know better," she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another flight attendant with AirAsia said it was unacceptable to ask female interviewees to remove their clothes to check their skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"My current employer asked if I had any tattoos or scars but I was never asked to take my clothes off," he said on the condition of anonymity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The airline (AirAsia) will not have a problem with stewards or stewardess having tattoos or scars as long as they were covered by the uniform. This is the 21st century. No organisation should be asking their employees to remove their clothes. It is extremely derogatory," he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"That is crazy! I do not understand why they would have to do that. Those girls are not there to show off their bodies,” said a flight attendant from Singapore Airlines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malindo Air posted the cabin crew walk-in interview on its Facebook page on March 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;"> women have a certain allure to them, a sultry exotic sex appeal. You just know that once you get them in private, they let loose. Hot, sexy </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">A 26-year-old Australian woman who accused a Malaysia Airlines (MAS) chief steward of sexual assault earlier this month shared details of the incident on television last night, including snippets of a video recording she had taken during the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Paris. - </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">Seduction is not just a mind game, your eyes play as important a role. We help you perfect your moves..</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">For many couples an argument is </span><a href="http://www.redbookmag.com/love-sex/foreplay-tips" style="color: #1980e0; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px;">verbal foreplay</a><span style="line-height: 18px;">; they're sexually aroused by debate. This isn't surprising. The adrenaline rush accompanying mild anger creates a response in the brain that is similar to sexual arousal. To use that rush to your advantage, avoid uttering the harsh words and accusations that turn a little fight into a big standoff. Don't be cruel to each other. Instead, feel the erotic possibilities in the energy pulsing through your angry body. </span><strong style="color: #2c2c2c; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 18.2px;">How to do it: </strong><span style="color: #2c2c2c; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 18.2px;">Once your man becomes aroused, don't move on to intercourse. Your goal is to reach the peak using his unit as your personal sex toy. A few ways to do this: Get in the woman-on-top position, but instead of letting him enter you, slide up and down along his shaft. Or, lie side by side, take his penis in your hand, and stimulate your clitoris with the head. Then, when you're on the brink of a big O, let him know...Your motions will have revved him up so much, he'll be able to let go at the same time you do.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Three hours into the flight turbulence hit, scaring Ms Bushney. Moments later she claims that Mr Karim allegedly sat next to her to “comfort her”, blocking her exit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Concerned, she secretly hit the record button on her phone. She says she was uncomfortable when he grabbed her hand so asked him to get her a drink so that he’d leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“He’s massaging my legs,” she can be heard saying in the recording. “I’m so scared, I just want to get off this plane.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“He then started pushing his hand down, moving his hand down towards my belly button and I pushed his hand away and he was massaging my legs and I thought by pushing it away that I was telling him I didn’t want that to happen but I didn’t want to say it, I was just scared.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When asked why she didn’t scream for help, Ms Bushney said she froze: “I keep saying ‘why didn’t I scream, why didn’t I shout, why didn’t I stop it?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I’m a strong person because I can, I can do that, I know I can, but when I was in the moment I couldn’t. I felt so scared, so petrified.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When he’d left to get her a drink Ms Bushney told a woman seated in front of her what had happened. That woman was Canadian traveller Sophie Lachance, who encouraged her to report what had happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Somebody touched my arm … and I remember I woke up and I saw her face full of tears and she was sobbing really, really strong,” Ms Lachance said. “She told me that this man put his hand in her pants.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><img height="384" src="http://mk-cdn.mkini.net/1050/357e29db8a9c13913211fee0e9cfd894.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="640" /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Looks like <span style="color: #212121;">Paandi Kutty not to table the bill</span> has been caught by the very same trap that he had laid! When the Opposition wanted to discuss the DoJ suit on the 1MDB assets, the learned Speaker quickly disallowed it on the grounds that any discussion would be sub judice. So now he has to follow the precedent that he himself set for Parliament. On the other hand, everything could be part of a huge scam. Being the son of a former prime minister or deputy hardly ensures that the son cannot be a con artist. We have at least 2 such characters walking around right now.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">History has its own serendipities. On 6th December 1948, exactly 44 years before the demolition of the Babri Masjid, the Constituent Assembly, which drafted our Constitution, was in the throes of a heated discussion on the question of secularism and the new Republic. While there was unanimity that India would not be a theocratic state, and that secularism did not imply contempt or marginalisation of religion, Loknath Mishra, a member of the Constituent Assembly from Orissa (who later, in the 1990s, became Governor of Assam) warned that a “secular state is a slippery phrase, a device to bypass the ancient culture of the land … justice demands that the ancient faith and culture of the land should be given a fair deal if not restored to its legitimate place after a thousand years of suppression”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In their infinite wisdom, the founding fathers of our Constitution allayed Mishra’s fears, and resolved that India would be a country where all faiths would be respected, while the state itself would be secular. This ideological clarity was based on pragmatic grounds. Hindus and Muslims, and other minorities, don’t live in separately demarcated geographical areas. Nor are the minorities, especially Muslims, in insignificant numbers. They constitute over 14% of the population and live cheek by jowl with other religious communities across the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Even the much smaller Christian community, not more than 2% of the population, is cumulatively more than the entire population of Hungary and Greece put together. Co-existence, and respect for each other’s faith, is therefore an imperative and not an option for India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">But this ideology-based pragmatism is being tested today, not because the ideology or the pragmatism has become irrelevant, but because electoral calculations have created cynical expediencies on all sides of the political spectrum. Some political parties that reflexively genuflect before the altar of secularism have blatantly used Muslims as a vote bank in order to win elections, but done very little to address the real needs of the community. And parties like BJP have assiduously worked to consolidate a Hindu vote in opposition to the Muslims, while privileging divisiveness over governance.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">read the fullstoiry </span><a href="https://nambikaionline.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/pas-president-abdul-hadi-awang-pas-unleashed-a-vicious-cycle-of-extremism/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; color: #117bb8; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">president Abdul Hadi Awang PAS unleashed a vicious cycle of extremism</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Let us get this out of the way. What Tasek Gelugor MP Shabudin Yahaya said amounts to endorsing paedophilia. Furthermore, he is a rape apologist as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When this MP says “girls who reached puberty as young as nine-years-old were physically and spiritually ready for marriage”, what he is really saying is that in his view, young girls as young as nine are ready for sex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When this MP claims that older male perpetrators “fall in love” with their underage victims and should be allowed to marry them, what he is really saying is that older men who groom their victims and then rape them should be allowed the legal and societal endorsement of “marriage” to cover up their crimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When he says that “maybe the husband had raped her (his wife, prior to marriage), we (can't) say that the husband will be a useless and evil person forever”, he is really saying that men who rape women should be forgiven for their crimes when they “atone” for them by marrying their victims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He also squarely places the blame on the “wild lifestyle” of women and girls which absolves men from their crimes and reinforces the victim-blaming and shaming that constitutes the foundations of a rape culture that is based on a paternalistic agenda of men like Shabudin Yahaya.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If you ever need an example of a Muslim who gives Islam a bad name, it is someone like this Umno parliamentarian. I consider what he says of women and children as akin to an act that gives the religion and its adherents the reputation of unsavouriness and bolsters the idea that Islam is the motherlode of bad ideas as propagated by atheists like Sam Harris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Amanah MP Siti Mariah Mahmud said, “I don't blame him totally because the law allows it. I'm not saying he is right, but that is the mindset of Malaysians today, of Muslims today."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">First of all, this is not the mindset of “Malaysians” today. I can confidently say that the majority of Malaysians - Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus or however they self-identify themselves - believe that child marriage and rape are anathema to any kind of moral thinking. It is only certain Muslim men who control the discourse and control the levers of government and set policy, who think this way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">They think this way because for years they have been allowed to say and do the most morally reprehensible things and do this in the name of religion, while those of us who attempted to resist and point out such immoral behaviour were told not to interfere with Islam and threatened with sanctions from the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In an article about <a href="https://www.malaysiakini.com/columns/375740" style="background: 0px 0px; color: #4d469c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">child abuse</span></a>, I highlighted what an activist from Sisters in Islam said - “Child marriage is actually exacerbating the abuse of the children by making it legal." Shareena (Sheriff) also highlighted the fact that politicians and religious personalities make statements advocating child marriages, which in turn makes it conducive for those ‘who want to go down that road will feel that it's perfectly all right to do so.’”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What does it say when religious men tell pre-teen girls to “cover up”, claim that they are ready for marriage (sex) at the age of nine and consider the marriage of a rape victim as “the power of God”? Whose is being seditious here - the person who questions such abhorrent behaviour in the name of religion or the person who uses religion to justify his...</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">rape is a crime and no matter what one says, the full course of justice needs to be served. So why not let the rapist face the full brunt of the law first and when his sentence is completed, nobody will care two hoots if the victim decides whether to marry the scum or not.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">To allow even the hint of such suggestion is an insult to women. Allowing it sets the precedent that men don't need ever to woo and pursue the woman of his dreams - just rape and that woman will be yours forever. Absurd, isn't it?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">And don't bring religion into this absurdity. No religion will condone this "rape and marry" practice. Let's see what he will say if a "haprak" rapes his daughter or niece and offer to marry that unfortunate girl after the incident.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Any woman (whatever her religion) has the right to give or withhold consent to sexual intercourse. Her guardian has no right, of course, to give consent to a man to have sexual intercourse with her!</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Furthermore, a Muslim woman's guardian's consent alone is not sufficient for a man to marry her, a point which should carry more emphasis than it actually does. Additionally, the woman's consent to the marriage too is required for it to be valid. Consent must be given by a woman of her own free will so as to be valid.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Is a rape victim to be "advised" or "persuaded" to marry the man who had defiled her? Who in his or her right mind would think that her consent, if given in such a situation, has been freely given and is valid?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A woman who marries her attacker can get divorced by him the next day, and there will be enough all-knowing types who will advise her that it is his right to do so. This MP with a twisted mind has not addressed the real issue of getting men to respect women.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Shabudin, you’re totally devoid of any feeling for the rape victim. What you say is abhorrent and disgusting. There is no justification for rape under any circumstances.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Can one imagine the poor rape victim having to marry the monster who violated her and continue to be raped in a forced marriage? Please don’t defend yourself by saying it is all okay that the marriage requires the permission of the Syariah Court.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> This sort if outrageous thinking has no place in any society and someone who thinks this way should not be allowed to hold any leadership position.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">This is the kind of thinking that allows other perverts to exist. This so-called 'lawmaker' as he is described, should immediately be told to resign and be banned from public office of any sort.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Grauco: What Shabudin said is true and I agree with him. All the comments here are from people who are narrow minded and don't respect other people's religion.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Rape as defined in the West includes underage children having intercourse willingly. In some Western countries, nine out of 10 of those under the age of 18 are no longer virgins. So, why are they not jailed for rape? If you lose your virginity before the age of 18, it either you are raped or you rape someone. Does that make sense to you?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Don’t talk about syariah law if you don't know about it. Respect other people's religion as we respect yours.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tony Soprano: Grauco, you don't understand Western law. First of all, the age of consent in Western European countries is between 14 and 16. The American age of consent is 16 to 18, depending on the state.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">It is not rape if a boy 17 or younger has consensual sex with a girl of 16 or older. It's only statutory rape if the male is an adult (18 or over) and the girl is under 18.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Vijay47: Shabudin's revelations on sexuality and marital bliss is enlightening to say the least and this is the first time I have heard that the rape of a child followed by the rapist marrying her somehow reforms him and makes him a better person.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Another gem from this inspired politician is that a nine-year-old child who has attained puberty is physically and spiritually ready for marriage. Shabudin's argument seems to be that a child whose body has developed into that of an 18-year-old woman is ready to be a wife.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What if the rapist, alas, does not reform as Shabudin expects him to and instead rapes another child-woman or even three more? No problem, since he has kindly given the comfort of matrimony to four children? And what if, pardon my crude analogy, if the child is raped by, say, five men?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Just one final question, Shabudin. Would your views be just as generous if the rape victim were your daughter?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Inevitably, we will soon see the enlightened side rising to the defence of Shabudin. First, that Malaysiakini be shut down for publishing such lurid details and all commentators on this topic be charged for insulting Islam, including a former syariah court judge.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Next, would be the demand that people who do not understand the teachings of the religion should keep their ignorant opinions to themselves. These people are willing tools of neo-imperialists and their comments clearly reflect their Western-Christian liberalisation and pro-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) inclinations.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Next, far from being a villain, Shabudin was only expressing his concern for rape victims and was merely suggesting a wise solution to this widespread social scourge.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">If he had delved with great relish into the physical attributes of nine- and 18-year-old bodies to the salivating arousal of his Umno and PAS parliamentary colleagues, it was only to emphasise the fact that children could yet be women and rape need not always be rape.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Imagine a nine-year-old girl, still so innocent and a virgin, is raped and forced to marry the rapist? What kind of a father would allow this to happen?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">By agreeing to that, Shabudin is encouraging rapes. I thought the Parliament was debating on the Sexual Offences Against Children Bill, and here you are suggesting that the kids can marry their rapists.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> save your victims, O rapists. Marry them, O merry men of honour, in order to return them their dignity. For otherwise they would be shelved and thus doomed.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> better be wed now to thy sexual offenders than to remain single and dignified. And after having done so, do not forget to kiss the feet of the brilliant Shabudin, the Problem Solver of Violated Desperate Women.</span></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">‘Rape and marry’ choice - a solution for whose social problem?</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Shabudin Yahaya and our rape cultur</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="Text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On Feb. 23, 2016, an Indian woman, within hours of giving birth by C-section, was <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/02/24/new-mother-raped-in-india-hospital.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #4d469c; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 150ms ease;">raped in a hospital</a> near New Delhi. Some in India took consolation in the fact that at least she was not, like Nirbhaya—the 23-year-old female physiotherapy intern—beaten up after being raped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For those who don’t remember, in December 2012, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/witw/articles/2013/12/19/one-year-on-from-delhi-bus-gang-rape-what-has-changed-for-india-s-women.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #4d469c; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 150ms ease;">Nirbhaya</a> was beaten with iron rods, gang-raped, and tortured in a private bus while she was travelling with her boyfriend. As a result of an international outrage over her assault and subsequent death, new laws and new fast-track courts were promised. More women are now willing to report rape cases. But even two years after Nirbhaya, her father claims that the promises of reform were unmet, and that justice in India has failed his daughter and women like her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2011 24,206 (reported rapes per year in India)</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2012 24,923</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2013 33,707</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2014 37,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">One explanation for the ongoing rape problem is the skewed sex ratio. Like China, India has a massive imbalance in its sex ratio. According to the Indian census, the sex ratio in the 6 and below age group has risen from 102.4 males per 100 females in 1961 (the Liberal Nehru days) to 108.9 in 2011 (the Fiery Hindutva Ideology days). In Gujarat, Indian PM Modi’s home state, the sex ratio is 112 to 100.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And yet, the surplus of males in China doesn’t appear to be leading to a rape crisis there. In fact, research has found that while China has seen an uptick in general violence due to the Bare Branches, they actually tend to behave gently around women. No such correlation was found in India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A simple answer points to the Indian caste system. There is an expression in India that “bringing up a daughter is like watering a neighbor’s plant.” India places women lower than men. There is a total and complete disrespect for women in Indian religious scriptures. The Mahabharata, Book 13 Section 40 (13.40), states, “There is no creature more sinful, than woman. She is poison, she is snake.” Other texts say that “Women are living lies.”</span></div>
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There are two types of flirting, healthy flirting and flirting with intent. Healthy flirting is fun, frivolous, entertaining and makes everyone laugh and feel good. It makes people feel focussed on, important, attractive and in general it has a strong positive and playful vibe to it. It wakes people up from emotional inertia and reminds them that life, relationships and even parties can be far from monotonous if they ignite those aspects of themselves.</div>
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It doesn’t matter if you’re single or married, because healthy flirting is innocent, spirited and fun. I see so many people wary of flirtation. I see so many couples raise eyebrows if one was to healthily flirt or be flirted with. That’s also because with being a couple comes a sense of ownership and the jealousy of your partner being “poached” by others.</div>
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Firstly, it’s important to realise that jealousy only means you don’t trust your partner. If your partner were to cheat it wouldn’t be in public over laughing and banter. Body language, tonality and words used are what differentiate healthy flirting and flirting with intent. “Intent”, is when the objective is to carry the vibe forward from the party to the bedroom. That’s what singles thrive on (and rightfully so), and what married people should really be doing only with their spouses. I can tell you from experience that there is a huge difference in the two types of flirting. Intent based flirting is almost always clear from the very beginning. You can see it in their eyes, sense it in their touch and also in how they say whatever they say.</div>
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If you’re single you can choose to soak in the charm and vibration of it and simply enjoy it or walk away from it if it makes you uncomfortable. Both kinds of flirtation are acceptable and even necessary in their appropriate spaces, but I can also tell you, that flirting with “intent” is hugely disrespectful to your partner and also the person you are flirting with if you are in a relationship or married. It shows you don’t value your vows, and also that you see the other person as someone who will not only compromise their value systems but also be willing to settle for being an “illicit good time”. So put on your choice of flirting hat, but just know it takes more than a wink, more than a drink and more than you think, to be a good flirt.</div>
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There are two types of flirting, healthy flirting and flirting with intent. Healthy flirting is fun, frivolous, entertaining and makes everyone laugh and feel good. It makes people feel focussed on, important, attractive and in general it has a strong positive and playful vibe to it. It wakes people up from emotional inertia and reminds them that life, relationships and even parties can be far from monotonous if they ignite those aspects of themselves.</div>
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It doesn’t matter if you’re single or married, because healthy flirting is innocent, spirited and fun. I see so many people wary of flirtation. I see so many couples raise eyebrows if one was to healthily flirt or be flirted with. That’s also because with being a couple comes a sense of ownership and the jealousy of your partner being “poached” by others.</div>
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Firstly, it’s important to realise that jealousy only means you don’t trust your partner. If your partner were to cheat it wouldn’t be in public over laughing and banter. Body language, tonality and words used are what differentiate healthy flirting and flirting with intent. “Intent”, is when the objective is to carry the vibe forward from the party to the bedroom. That’s what singles thrive on (and rightfully so), and what married people should really be doing only with their spouses. I can tell you from experience that there is a huge difference in the two types of flirting. Intent based flirting is almost always clear from the very beginning. You can see it in their eyes, sense it in their touch and also in how they say whatever they say.</div>
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If you’re single you can choose to soak in the charm and vibration of it and simply enjoy it or walk away from it if it makes you uncomfortable. Both kinds of flirtation are acceptable and even necessary in their appropriate spaces, but I can also tell you, that flirting with “intent” is hugely disrespectful to your partner and also the person you are flirting with if you are in a relationship or married. It shows you don’t value your vows, and also that you see the other person as someone who will not only compromise their value systems but also be willing to settle for being an “illicit good time”. So put on your choice of flirting hat, but just know it takes more than a wink, more than a drink and more than you think, to be a good flirt.</div>
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don’t need someone who will blackmail, pressure or arm twist you into a life-long commitment. Simply become boring, irritating, and whiny. He will automatically start moving away.</div>
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This is possibly the worst way to find out that your boyfriend is cheating on you.</div>
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Twitter user Msixelaa was doing a shift when she picked a woman from the airport. But soon, she found out that it was her boyfriend’s mistress.</div>
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Msixelaa wrote that her boyfriend was going away to visit his mother in hospital. “He had luggage packed and everything, and I stayed with him the night before,” she wrote.</div>
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Pay attention, because the things are going to get real.</div>
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My man told me he was going to ny to see his mom she's in the hospital he had luggage packed an everything I stayed with him the night befor</div>
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We parted ways earlier this morning from his apartment he got in his car I got in mine he drove off like he was going to the airport</div>
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This nigga packed air in his luggage I'm heated shut was sitting by the door like</div>
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<span aria-hidden="true" class="TweetAction-stat" data-scribe="element:retweet_count" style="display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: text-bottom;">891</span><span class="u-hiddenVisually" style="border: 0px !important; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px) !important; height: 1px !important; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; width: 1px !important;">891 Retweets</span></a></li>
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Jihadisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479272123064805821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451692679051381441.post-12273105087422438122017-04-04T14:27:00.002-07:002017-04-04T14:27:55.320-07:00The Malaysiakini menu of a last supper to get ride of Najib and Johari<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">We are living in interesting times.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">there has been a flurry of activity in </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Malaysiakini menu for DAP .</span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Every day new posts pop up, arguing that</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">Second Finance Minister Johari Abdul Ghani</span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;"> IS wrong and </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua.is right also read this </span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2016/05/malaysian-lawmakers-lack-of-maturity.html&source=gmail&ust=1485655381680000&usg=AFQjCNGmePjcU2eN5OMhwruWK8DAVcYtig" href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2016/05/malaysian-lawmakers-lack-of-maturity.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Malaysian lawmakers lack of maturity and self-awareness</span></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> Malaysiakini Journalists, self-proclaimed neutral political watchers and average social media commentators have all been rattling a litany of praises for</span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">Tony Pua.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> who, unfortunately, has had a steady record of making incendiary remarks, has a slew of criminal </span><span style="color: #6a6a6a; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2px;">Criminal Intent</span><span style="color: #545454; line-height: 18.2px;">:</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> cases against him, and is a known rabble-rouser.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">But the most common refrain of the backers is this: give </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">Johari Abdul Ghani</span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">a chance, as he will be controlled by Najib. Only time will tell if the commentators are right or if theirs is a delusional hope springing from a misplaced faith in dog-whistle politics.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani extraordinary act upon his ideas. They are not afraid of losing; the only thing that matters to them is realising his dreams. not afraid of being wrong either, or of accepting mistakes and stepping back. You cannot hope to be more than ordinary if you do not believe in yourself and your own strengths.An extraordinary person lives his life fully. The trick to leading an extraordinary life is to lead your simple, ordinary life and be open to experiencing the extraordinary you find within it. Striving too hard to be different is not the way to stand out; rather it is the way to becoming an object of ridicule. Just live your life fully and by your rules; do not make compromises you do not believe in. Stand up for what is right and work with focus and sincerity.</span></span></span><img alt="Image result for tony pua lim Eng Guan" height="362" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQj2KA6-D3-91objOVt5qmezdA8MpsuScpNdG-SMUpLLh5UYyMA" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 8px;" width="640" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> is one who has a strong sense of what is right or wrong, and who chooses to stand by the right, no matter what the compulsions not to do so. The moment people compromise with morality, they become very, very ordinary for me. Ordinary people will witness an accident or a victim of violence and carry on, allowing themselves a myriad excuses about why they cannot get involved. It is the extraordinary person who will step up and offer help or call up the cops or a helpline and ensure help reaches</span><br style="line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">An important objective of financial sector reforms is to move Malaysia towards a more rules-based system. In particular, it means that financial sector regulators have to be made more accountable and their actions should not be arbitrary.memoirs of a turbulent stint confirms something that quickly becomes apparent to journalists who cover the beat. Regardless of the party in power, neither finance ministers nor senior bureaucrats in the ministry believe in a rules-based system. There have been exceptions, but generally arbitrariness marks their <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://decisions.to/&source=gmail&ust=1487846924318000&usg=AFQjCNEy5NASiUKjbtJwb5OvkBDZs9DWxA" href="http://decisions.to/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">decisions.to</a> report on their monitoring activities which handicapped their functioning.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there are some striking similarities between this expression of hope and the faith reposed by the liberal West in the intentions of Nazi Germany in the early 1930s. Of course, I don’t mean to make apocalyptic comparisons between the two eras and regimes; I am only trying to find similarities in the approaches taken by the western press then and Malaysiakini now.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">In today’s India, socialism is a taboo word; and if you criticise the government of the day or the party in power, or Najib himself, then you are branded a “Leftist” and traitor, and therefore a “traitor” and “anti-national”. But as history has shown, it were the same derided socialists who had realised what Hitler or Malaysikini was even before the rest of the world took note.</span><span style="color: #222222;">Malaysiakini haves been particularly nasty in the last few years against UMNO and Najib</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">journalists and still biased against Najib,The difference between stenography and journalism is that journalists have the right to twist a fact, bring in alternative facts, make a fact check and question the very premise of presentation. they are supposed to report honestly about, so that their readers,Malaysian who are mostly ignorant, get enlightened? should be to report truthfully and create some empathy amongst its readers or viewers for a country that is unique and endearing and whose Malay civilization, that viewed the world as One family, has survived centuries of savage onslaught, including by the British, who are still trying to lecture Najib AND UNMO also read this <a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/02/malaysiakini-unconscious-sense-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none;">Malaysiakini an unconscious sense of superiority Separating facts from alternative facts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Newspapers are owned and published by rich men. Rich men all belong to the same club. Sure, there’s competition — hard, tough competition for circulation, for newsbeats, for exclusive stories. Just so long as it doesn’t damage the prestige and privilege and position of the owners. If it does, down comes the lid.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This is not from any book of quotations. But it does suggest that truth finds a better home in fiction than anthology. The author is Raymond Chandler, an authentic master of modern fiction who created the shabby and sharp private detective Philip Marlowe. Marlowe — and Chandler — lived amid the shadows that enveloped wealth and crime in mid-20th century Los Angeles; they knew that the difference was marginal and the price was high if you talked too much. Marlowe talked too much. He did something even more risky. He spoke the truth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Newspapers in his time made the rich richer with their explosive mix of political influence and advertising monopoly. A British Prime Minister of the 1930s famously charged newspapers with enjoying the privilege of a harlot, exercising power without responsibility. But this was a self-serving taunt. Media barons can give Prime Ministers advice from a pillow, but it is Prime Ministers who let them into the bedroom. Be that as it may, money has always chased power through media, and every democracy has provided this incestuous opportunity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Transition destabilises any industry, and this is happening with newspapers. At least some of the rich are becoming poorer, thanks to newspapers they own. The most dramatic illustration has been the sale of the <i>Washington Post</i> by the Graham family to Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon. This transfer does not suggest, as many have moaned, that news is going out of business; at worst, it could suggest that paper is going out of business. Bezos bought the <i>Post</i> with spare change in a forgotten trouser pocket, but he rose from denim to riches through the information trade. Newspapers will be reshaped, as they should be from time to time, but this does not change the fundamental need for an information carrier.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is a car with two drivers. Owners step into journalist space through a conundrum called “publisher”. Editors comfort themselves with the romance of independence, and perhaps there is the occasional powerful personality who dominates a newsroom at the expense of the shareholder. But that is the exception. Editorial decisions are a shared enterprise. The <i>Washington Post</i> became an indelible chapter in media history when its series of reports, familiar to us as the Watergate exposé, brought down Richard Nixon just after he had won a landslide endorsement from the people. But the decision to run the investigation was made as much by Katherine Graham, the owner, as by Ben Bradlee, the editor.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Bezos is a wise chap. He has appointed Bob Woodward, one of the stars of Watergate, as managing editor. The key to media does not lie in ownership, but in credibility. Without credibility, a newspaper is just wrapping for fish and chips if not a rag for rubbish. Credibility makes journalists indispensable to publishers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Are publishers indispensable to journalists? Yes. Journalists may be know-alls, but the one thing they do not know is how to run a business. The newspaper industry is also an industry. It is not an accident that owners of an old Indian media conglomerate like <i>Times of India</i> and a new one like Zee have a very healthy respect for profits. They understand what journalists should acknowledge, that a newspaper or television channel cannot stand up against any government without a healthy bottom line. They do not have to look over their shoulder if they want to break stories at the cost of a ruling family’s displeasure.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A media house fails when it forgets that both credibility and cash flow are important. The list of Indian media companies who have forgotten this basic rule is long and growing. Behind very thin curtains, big names are crumbling. The cost of plaster being applied to disguise this collapse is the transfer of shares and control. We will not find out the full truth till the end arrives, suddenly, and not without a residual whiff of bitterness, as in the case of the <i>Washington Post</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But media will survive, whether in America or India, even if owners do not. Information is not an aggregate of everything on the highway. It is a cull of that which is relevant. Of course, there are interests, as the cynic Raymond Chandler noted, with his usual caustic flourish. But even the super rich cannot hold on to these laser scalpels called newspapers if they do not understand that while their personal interests may occasionally dent the integrity of a product, they should never damage it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> his surgical strike against the burgeoning</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> DAP GOONS Cadreism in DAP is as pernicious as Racialism in society. A vast number of people, especially private sector or have been fed on doctrinaire notions of work culture and entitlement that encourage sloth.</span></span><br style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Johari must be commended for his attempt at explaining the mismanagement of 1MDB.</span><span style="line-height: 20px;">Johari said that there is no clear-cut evidence of crime, and asked Pua what the government can do now.yes his </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">25 years of corporate experience. It means nothing to .</span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua because he</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> branded a “Leftist” and traitor, and therefore a “traitor” and “anti-national”. But as history has shown,that DAP is that class..</span></span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Arguments over what precisely is to blame </span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;">Johari</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> apotheosis — inequality, callous globalized elites, corruptible local legislators, zealous ideologues, Malaysia a news media either toxic or complaisant — will only intensify in the coming months.</span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;">One hopes </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Finance Minister II Johari</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> will not just wring his hands like ministers, but grasp the nettle and show, in the words of Andrew Jackson, “One man of courage makes a majority.”</span></span><br style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">ALSO READ THIS </span><a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/03/finance-minister-ii-johari-abdul-ghani.html" style="color: #4d469c; font-stretch: normal; text-decoration: none;">Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani intellectually stimulating analytical and strategic.</a></span><br style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Under </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua</span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">leadership f</span><span style="line-height: 20px;">orm a bipartisan parliamentary select committee with full authority to look into all MACC relevant investigation papers, reports and recommendations, including those submitted to the AG, and to summon MACC and AG’s Chambers officials to answer questions.</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua</span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> has threatened as never before when he has to reconfigure himself to serve the “utopian experiment of </span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2px;">self</span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2px;">centered</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">.politician.</span></span><br style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> T</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">he legal scholar David Kennedy has argued, the administration of a professional global class of hidden persuaders and status-seekers.<span style="line-height: 20px;">Pua is not doing exactly what he has been elected to do </span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;">-</span></span><br style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani extraordinary act upon his ideas. They are not afraid of losing; the only thing that matters to them is realising his dreams. not afraid of being wrong either, or of accepting mistakes and stepping back. You cannot hope to be more than ordinary if you do not believe in yourself and your own strengths.An extraordinary person lives his life fully. The trick to leading an extraordinary life is to lead your simple, ordinary life and be open to experiencing the extraordinary you find within it. Striving too hard to be different is not the way to stand out; rather it is the way to becoming an object of ridicule. Just live your life fully and by your rules; do not make compromises you do not believe in. Stand up for what is right and work with focus and sincerity.</span></span><img alt="Image result for tony pua lim Eng Guan" height="362" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQj2KA6-D3-91objOVt5qmezdA8MpsuScpNdG-SMUpLLh5UYyMA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; line-height: 18.2px; padding: 8px;" width="640" /></span><br style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Interesting! What </span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;">Johari</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> thought was his limit, turned out not to be the limit after all. he could still go beyond. That encouraged him to wonder what other limits are we capable of crossing – the good and the bad. What is the worse that we are capable of doing if pushed to the edge? Also, what is the best we can do </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">to win plaudits with a surgical strike against</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">and under what conditions?</span><span style="line-height: 24px;">obnoxious behaviour towards Najib and Johari, eliciting urban popular outrage, is no isolated incident. “We the people” are supposed to be equal, but many are increasingly enabled to be more equal than others.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Public servants – both elected representatives and babus – are afflicted by anti Malay syndrome and cannot comprehend people’s trials and travails. Let DAP MPs now set an example across the country.</span><span style="line-height: 24px;">Hence the ruckus created DAP representative. </span></span><br style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">.</span></span><img height="597" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVDNz7ZReI7fee2ng_t67x6q_zhjasfeO4xAQ3rnkd11AajseYlWxpdsgVFgolIR2qG7MTvDPI7iBOTpT87kF5lp1HO427b-esA_2zAOFCX8977zOdIggvvEXrcQTY-OliRXJrkbMzmU/s640/liers.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding: 8px;" width="640" /><br style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">To build a new Malaysia DAP and Malaysiakini must rid the system of entrenched habits</span></span><br style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"></span><br style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; height: auto !important; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strategic and financial scenario analysis has a long, venerable history at energy companies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shell Oil popularised the technique in the 1970s, and almost all othem have adopted it as a vital part of their decision-making processes. But as executives know well, scenario planning has its pitfalls; 40 per cent of the leaders we surveyed in 2013 said that it didn’t meet their expectations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Often, companies fall prey to one of several tendencies, such as availability or stability bias, that hinder the exercise and produce unusable results. Energy companies are finding that in today’s volatile world, one flaw of scenario planning is particularly acute: when business leaders consider a range of scenarios, they tend to “chop the tails off the distribution” and zero in on those that most resemble their current experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster had far-reaching effects on the oil companies involved, and many others. The 2011Fukushima earthquake and tsunami upended nuclear policy in Japan and elsewhere, changing the industry’s structure. Geopolitical shocks have upset the plans of energy companies in too many countries to name. Most recently, the rise of anti-globalisation sentiment has thrown a new wrench into energy planning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The great Hindu revolution of Narendra Modi </i><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; max-width: 100%;">All these clever journalists got it wrong: true UP voted for Narendra Modi – but more than anything, they voted for a man who works 17 hours a day, who puts the country before himself, who is bold enough to take a huge gamble- demonetisation- because he believes it is necessary for India. A man who fights against corruption without fear and is the Prime Minister of all Indians, though once more, it is the Hindu vote which elected his party the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).</em></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This election may also have signalled the beginning of the end of caste politics, another cancer that gnaws at India’s entrails – and Mrs Mayawati had become a champion at it, taking a leaf from the Indian National Congress, who for 70 years, mostly got elected on the Dalit & Muslim vote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Many newspapers and television channels blazed across the headline: “Saffron wave in Uttar Pradesh”. This is another ill-advised coin word, that wants to sensationalize and demean, but which falls flat. What does ‘saffron’ mean? First saffron is mainly cultivated in Kashmir – and that by Muslims – so it’s a wrong comparison. Secondly, in Hinduism, saffron is the color of renunciation, a beautiful and noble tradition, that has been followed all over the world, by Buddhists, Jews, or Sufi saints. Mr. Modi and many of his ministers, such as Manohar Parrikar, have renounced many of the worldly pleasures to work for their party and their country. When will Indian journalism stop being small, petty, untruthful, without any depth or vision? The mastery of English does not make an Indian better than a simple country folk of UP or Tamil Nadu, who lives more in his or her heart than these arrogant journalist and intellectuals. I was most of the day, when the election results came, on the WION TV studio, with different panels of journalists. Most of them were of the old Nehruvian-Marxist mold, dinosaurs, who do not realize that they are out of sync with reality and are clinging to an obscure and anti-evolutionary path. One of them, from the Hindu newspaper, even said that demonetization was ‘communal’! Can you imagine how biased the guy can be?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All right, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got four out of five states. Nothing wrong with that: Chanakya would have approved and the Indian National Congress, who cries foul about Goa and Manipur, did much worse than that. One doesn’t need a deep political insight to predict that the BJP is soon going to rule the whole of India – both at the Centre and in the states – exactly the way Congress had done during the Nehru-Indira Gandhi era. And that the writing for Congress has been on the wall ever since. Will the sycophancy of the Indian National Congress ever stop? It’s a remnant of colonialism, a legacy of Macaulay, who wanted to have brown sahibs as tools. On top of that, Rahul Gandhi has no dignity: he should immediately have taken responsibility for his party’s thrashing and resigned. There are plenty of talented people in the Congress ranks who can take his place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the big tasks of Mr Modi, now that he has secured more of a majority in the Rajya Sabha, is to reform education. Many have said that his choice of Yogi Adityanath as the UP Chief Minister, shows that he is moving towards a Hindu India, away from secularism. However, as I have explained in a series of articles in this blog, Hindu power will always be compassionate: Hindu men and women are still today the only people in the world who recognise that God may manifest Himself or Herself at different times, using different names, and different scriptures. This is why a Hindu is still capable of worshipping not only in his own temple, but also to enter in a Christian church or a Muslim mosque, and that with respect and devotion. The reverse is not true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">But for that it is important that Hindu children, know their own history, their poets, such as the great Kalidasa, who is on par with Shakespeare or Homer; their warriors, such as Maharana Pratap, Shivaji Maharaj and many others, who are as good, if not more visionary and more spiritual than Napoleon; their heroines, like the Rani of Jhansi, or Ahilyabai of Indore, or Chennama, who easily compare with Joan of Arc; their philosophers, such as Sri Aurobindo, whose depth, height and knowledge is as wide and much greater than Nietzsche or Kant; their artists, whose sculptures, such as the dancing Nataraj, or architects, who built the Meenakshi temple or the Rajasthan palaces, are so beautiful that they even survived the holocaust of repeated savage and bloody Muslim invasions – see the Hampi/Vijaynagar statues, every one of which the noses and ears have been chopped, but which still retain their ethereal beauty…?In this way, they will grow up proud to be Hindus, wile retaining Hinduism’s broad outlook and tolerance, which actually is the knowledge that God is One but manifests Himself or Herself in multiple avatars, men and women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead, what happens? Most of Hindu kids are brought up in schools and universities that mostly teach them western subjects and concepts and even Indian history is viewed through the negative western prism. As a result, not only do not they grow-up as Hindus, which would be a boon both to India and the world, but they become clones, good only for export – indeed Hindus are the biggest brain drain of the world, from India to the West.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Narendra Modi can succeed in his task only if a new generation of Hindu youth grows up with that knowledge and help him and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to introduce the essential reforms – not only educational, but also, economic, constitutional, judicial, cultural, sports wise, that are needed for India to become a real superpower and spread this great Knowledge that will save the world.</span></div>
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Jihadisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479272123064805821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451692679051381441.post-54917404152795785372017-04-04T14:21:00.001-07:002017-04-04T14:22:09.586-07:00Mother f--ker! Pua get it that the Second Finance Minister is not your errand boy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "lato"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Can lawmakers and lawbreakers be one and the same? </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "lato"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">but many of our lawmakers – a large number of whom have criminal records – have little or no compunction placing themselves above the law by virtue of the fact that, as legislators, they are ones who make the law in the first place.</span></div>
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The creator is always greater than the created. By this logic the maker of the law – any-law – is greater than the law created. Something which is legal today can by our lawmakers be turned illegal tomorrow,like </div>
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Laws are made and unmade at the whims and fancies of those responsible for designing and maintaining our society’s legal framework, the scaffolding which supports our polity.As the architects of this legal edifice not a few of our legislators have shown themselves to be above it.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">so Pua you asking Johari to break the law</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">If that is so, now that he is the second finance minister, with all the necessary access to all the documents and transactions within the Finance Ministry subsidiaries - has he figured out why and how 1MDB and its sister company, SRC International lost tens of billions of ringgit?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">Pua </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;"> even tried </span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 18.2px;">Johari as</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;"> scapegoat for his failure as </span><br style="color: #444444; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 18.2px;">Johari’s deeds and actions only goes to show the hypocrisy of his moral high ground and his claims of “doing the best for this country”. In fact, in his attempt to cover up the stolen funds without answering for their crimes, whose crime are you saying that Johari is a criminal who is betraying the country and sacrificing the interest of our future generations.? Pua, this editor is not wrong calling you the real mother f--ker!<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">Analogy comes easily in conversation.but </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;">hard, tough competition for circulation, for newsbeats, for exclusive stories. Just so long as it doesn’t damage the prestige and privilege and position of the owners. If it does, down comes the lid.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is not from any book of quotations. But it does suggest that truth finds a better home in fiction than anthology. The author is Raymond Chandler, an authentic master of modern fiction who created the shabby and sharp private detective Philip Marlowe. Marlowe — and Chandler — lived amid the shadows that enveloped wealth and crime in mid-20th century Los Angeles; they knew that the difference was marginal and the price was high if you talked too much. Marlowe talked too much. He did something even more risky. He spoke the truth.like Johari.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the architects of this legal edifice not a few of our legislators have shown themselves to be above it.What’s to be done about it? As the assaulted Air India manager put it, “God save our country if this is the culture and behavior of our MPs.Everyone who drives or rides a motor vehicle in India is a cheat, in the sense of being a rule-breaker.Indeed, it is a commonplace saying that if you were to follow road rules as laid down in the book you’d be more likely to cause an accident than if you flouted the rules, as everyone else is doing and which everyone expects you to do as well.DAP has been described as a functioning anarchy, and with good reason. DAP break rules, all rules, all the time. And if breaking the rules is cheating, all DAP are cheats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Asking Johari cheat even in calling a spade a spade. Pua said we don’t call what we do cheating. We’ve invented another word for it. We call it jugaad.As the architects of this legal edifice not a few of our legislators have shown themselves to be above it.What’s to be done about it? As the assaulted Second Finance Minister put it, “God save our country if this is the culture and behavior of our DAP MPs.”But DAP lawmaker <span style="color: #444444; line-height: 18.2px;">Tony Pua</span> of this world seem to be beyond the jurisdiction of divine intervention. And as such, not even God can save us from them and their actions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.1px;">Satire is the thin wedge that separates fear from panic. businessmen are not yet panic-stricken, but thanks to Pua a</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.1px;"> sudden flurry of stories appeared in Malaysiakini </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.1px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.1px;">foreign correspondents seemed particularly gullible</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.1px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.1px;"> they are edging towards the zone of fear. As haemorrhaging international confidence in Malaysia weakens fund inflows, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.1px;">When a nation’s confidence is undermined, adversaries abroad pounce to take advantage, and uncertainty within encourages social tensions.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.1px;">there is only so much harm that an indecisive DAP can inflict upon a nation’s ability </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.1px;">restoring the economy to health and vigour. A nation is only as strong as its economy. There is no magic wand as we enter election year. There was no wand in 2013 either. We recovered because we needed the shock to come to our senses. It is time for a radical reboot once again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.1px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.1px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.1px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.1px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.1px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.1px;">Pua </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.1px;"> even tried </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Johari as</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.1px;"> scapegoat for his failure as </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Johari’s deeds and actions only goes to show the hypocrisy of his moral high ground and his claims of “doing the best for this country”. In fact, in his attempt to cover up the stolen funds without answering for their crimes, whose crime are you saying that Johari is a criminal who is betraying the country and sacrificing the interest of our future generations.? Pua, this editor is not wrong calling you the real mother f--ker!<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">Analogy comes easily in conversation.but </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;">hard, tough competition for circulation, for newsbeats, for exclusive stories. Just so long as it doesn’t damage the prestige and privilege and position of the owners. If it does, down comes the lid.”</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is not from any book of quotations. But it does suggest that truth finds a better home in fiction than anthology. The author is Raymond Chandler, an authentic master of modern fiction who created the shabby and sharp private detective Philip Marlowe. Marlowe — and Chandler — lived amid the shadows that enveloped wealth and crime in mid-20th century Los Angeles; they knew that the difference was marginal and the price was high if you talked too much. Marlowe talked too much. He did something even more risky. He spoke the truth.like Johari.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dark side of today’s political satire is the evil of corruption. There is a school within the ruling establishment selling the theory that corruption as an election issue has been deflected. This is delusion. The voter is not going to be finessed by the argument that all politicians are corrupt, and so theft of the present lot should be condoned. A jury can punish only the person in the dock, and the present government is on trial in the next electoral court.Jokes are the evidence and the argument in this trial; the voter is both lawyer and judge in the court of the people. But there is some good news for those on trial. The maximum sentence is just five years in wilderness. The next five years will pass as quickly as the last five</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> Malaysiakini and DAP enjoying the privilege of a harlot, exercising power without responsibility. But this a </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> self-serving taunt.</span>uncovering multi-billion ringgit hanky-panky within his ministry part of his minister’s scope of work? Is it because Johari not dare to ask because he already knows the answer, but doesn’t want to rock the boat <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;">Be that as it may, money has always chased power through media, and every democracy has provided this incestuous opportunity.</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">The key to media does not lie in ownership, but in credibility. Without credibility, a newspaper is just wrapping for fish and chips if not a rag for rubbish. Credibility makes journalists indispensable to publishers.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">Are publishers indispensable to politicians?</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">We will not find out the full truth till the end arrives,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Johari taking the position that what has happened in the past, even if it involved billions of ringgit of stolen funds, who stole it?Did Johari stole? should be left alone, and who blinkered ?role is just focus on how to cover up the massive hole which has been created?unlike in <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;">the Watergate exposé,</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;">brought down Richard Nixon just after he had won a landslide endorsement from the people.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> because Nixon lied </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;">Discourse, therefore, is about accusation, not comprehension. This is perfect for the latest version of television dialogue, which bridges brevity with hysteria. Anyone who seeks any more is dumped into the dustbin of boredom. Do not blame journalists alone. This is what the viewer wants; this is what the viewer gets.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;">Obviously there should be a lifetime achievement award </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"> to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"> self-serving taunt.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"> as well, for shortest sentence with maximum impact. It would be inappropriate to hand out a statue for this. A tweezer could be a good substitute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Tony Pua</span><span style="color: #444444;"> an irritating nuisance, a mirror before our guilty conscience? Who wants to be measured by the yardstick of a saint who was so disconcertingly honest ,</span><span style="color: #444444;"> mere handful of professions are honoured with an honorific that survives beyond the office. Priests, judges, armed services officers, professors and doctors, of both the medical and academic disciplines: that’s about it. Journalists, even editors, and politicians, even cabinet ministers, would invite ridicule if they handed out visiting cards marked ‘Editor X’ or ‘Cabinet Minister Y’. Malaysians are, at best, ambivalent about media and politics. They respect our guardians of law, knowledge and security. There is a new tendency among former envoys to add ‘Ambassador’ before their name, a practice borrowed from America, but this is a title snatched from vanity rather than bestowed by popular acclaim.</span></span></div>
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Jihadisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479272123064805821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451692679051381441.post-18414870402892387592017-04-04T14:11:00.003-07:002017-04-04T14:11:58.669-07:00Could the fortunes of Najib and Rosmah change, thanks to their trip to India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 20px;">Meeting actor Rajinikanth is not in Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor's itinerary during their trip to India later this week. Rosmah's aide Rizal Mansor said this in a Facebook post, denying there was a request by the couple to meet the Indian superstar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Najib and Rosmah is scheduled for an official <a href="http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/377342" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0077dd; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">visit</a> to India from this Friday until next Tuesday. The visit, at the invitation of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be Najib's third to India since assuming office as prime minister in 2009.<span style="line-height: 1.6;">The fortunes of Najib and Rosmah change, thanks to their trip to India to consult upon astrologers </span><span style="line-height: 1.6;">Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak gave the strongest hint yet of the election date. Like the US presidential election, he pointed to a November polls.</span><span style="line-height: 1.6;">Speaking in Sabah, Najib brought his favourite number 11 into prominence, saying that the double digits were “significant” this year because 2012 is the 66th year of Umno, with Malaysia marking the 55th year of Merdeka and Sabah Umno notching 22 years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“All these numbers could be multiplied by 11,” he said. “Six times 11 equals 66, five times 11 equals 55 and 2 times 11 equals 22. The factor of 11 appears in all. It is unique and good.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though I pay little or no attention to astrology and feng shui, it’s interesting to read what one astrologer has to say about Najib’s electoral hint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">According to astrologer Master Yuvaraj Sowma of Tamil Nadu in India, the “auspicious” election dates for Najib, based on Vedic astrology, are Nov 5, 14 and 23.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“The dates were regarded suitable when read with the Prime Minister’s date of birth – July 23, 1953,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Yuvaraj was quoted in a national daily as saying that the plus point for Najib was that he shared the same moon of Virchika (Scorpio) with Barisan Nasional, formed on July 1, 1974.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Yuvaraj said November and December appeared to be the most favourable period for Najib to call for the general election because the planet Jupiter would have a strong positive influence on his zodiac sign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“The good period continues until May 2013 and the Prime Minister should take advantage of the favourable planetary position,” said Yuvaraj.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He said that although Barisan was expected to face a tough challenge because the planet Saturn would also have some similar influence in November, the ruling coalition would emerge better than in the last general election.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“This is simply because the ruling stars governing Najib’s horoscope are strong and favourable,” he said. Yuvaraj said the 11th month symbolises “gain and divinity” and would also be the best period to woo voters because they would be in a more cheerful mood. Whatever hint, whatever astrology may predict, one thing is certain – the 13th general election must be held before June next year.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #282828; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Do politicians abroad believe in superstition? </span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Astrology, religion and politics have been closely linked in Hindu-majority India. Hinduism traditionally combines faith with a strong belief that cosmic events have effects on earthly life.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently, the Godman predicted that Thatcher would go on to become PM and that she might remain PM for 9, 11 or 13 years. The circumstances in which this forecast was made are interesting. At the first meeting that Singh set up between the two of them in London, the godman floored Thatcher with his extra-sensory powers:</span></span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Bob Dylan almost sang, the heavens they’re a-changin’. And with it, the political landscape in India could also change.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">The planet Pluto, which 10 years ago was demoted by astronomers from planetary status to that of a mere heavenly body, has now regained planetary stature.</span></span><br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; height: auto !important; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The reason that Pluto was stripped of it planetary title was because of its relatively small size, which is comparable to many other non-planet bodies found in the zone known as the Kuiper Belt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So has Pluto put on weight in the past 10 years to attain full planetary dimensions? No, Pluto’s size remains the same as it always has been.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What has changed is the official scientific definition of what can be called a planet. A young American scientist, Kirby Runyon, has proposed that any naturally formed object in space which is of sub-stellar (smaller than a star) mass, has never undergone nuclear fusion, and has enough gravitational spin to make itself into a sphere, should be called a planet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If this proposition is accepted by the scientific community at large, many other heavenly bodies – including our very own moon – could be redesignated as planets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This could lead to a lot of debate and conjecture not only in scientific circles, but also in the realm of politics, particularly politics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps in no other country do politicians set so much store by various forms of fortune-telling as they do in India. And arguably one of the most widely used systems of predicting the future is astrology, the occult branch of the science of astronomy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Indian politicians, across the board, rely upon astrologers to formulate their strategies, particularly when elections are in the offing: whom to ally with and whom not to ally with, what’s a good mahurat for launching their electoral campaign, what pujas or penance should be done to offset the baneful effects of adverse planetary conjunctions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, however, if the skies above start teeming with a whole host new planets – thanks to the definitional change in terminology – all astrological predictions could be thrown into utter confusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Even skeptics who don’t believe in astrology will admit that such predictions can have a psychological effect on those who do believe in them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For instance, a positive prediction could have the positive effective of inspiring self-confidence, which could prove to be the winning advantage over one’s opponent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, a negative prediction could also have a positive effect by motivating the person concerned to put in extra effort, which could result in victory. So will the new astrology created by the sudden proliferation of planets effect political fortunes in India?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Will the repeatedly faltering Grand Alliance against the BJP finally be formed, thanks to changing planetary configurations?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever else may or may not be safely predicted, one thing is certain. Planetary change or no, followers of the duo will remain starry-eyed about the partnership company of Modi and Shah Private Limited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b> </b>Misguided analysts an idiot likeTony Pua, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing.”The concerns of Tony Pua MP for Petaling Jaya Utara and DAP national publicity secretary.'s legion of critics have all been proven plain wrong Given the disputes about the measure’s wisdom and success, however, it is time to take stock of what was said in the aftermath of 1MDB and what has actually transpired since then. “It is a tale/ Told by Pua.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">The government constantly lacks funds for badly needed infrastructure.</span></span></span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">Finance Minister II Johari</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> ’s solution is for government undertakings to routinely sell existing assets, and use the sale proceeds to finance fresh investment.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">So, the government can sell old roads to finance new ones; sell old ports to build new ports; and sell old power stations to build modern ones. Public sector entities can sell entire subsidiary companies, or projects, or vacant land to finance fresh projects.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">From a market-friendly viewpoint, the government’s role is to facilitate private enterprise.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">a strong case for raising the government’s share in investment, but the government lacks cash.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">A truly counter-cyclical approach requires bigger fiscal deficits to kickstart growth. Should the government abandon its fiscal targets to step up investment?</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">The same may be said of much of the commentary on</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">With no compelling precedent for such a move in a growing and stable economy, not one suffering hyperinflation – it was no surprise that most commentators failed to grasp its implications and many got it plain wrong.</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">was a goal in itself, this may perhaps have been the ideal approach, but surely this was not the case in Malaysia where corruption, tax evasion and the accumulation of black wealth were instead the primary targets. Rogoff’s concern that the system lacked the logistical capability to implement</span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Tony Pua MP for Petaling Jaya Utara </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 1.1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">had asked PM and finance minister to justify the award of the RM55 billion East Coast Rail Link project to China Communications and Construction Company (CCCC) and why Malaysian companies were not given the opportunity to tender for the project.</span></span>In the Finance Ministry’s reply, it said “to qualify for this financing offered by China Exim Bank, the project had to be executed by CCCC”.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The minister said that the Export Import Bank of China (China Exim Bank) offered a soft loan to Malaysia for the project at low interest rates. He added that the loan, for a period of 20 years, also allows for a grace period of seven years where the government does not need to repay the principal.In addition, “the government has, in principle, agreed at least 30 percent of the infrastructure work will involve local companies and contractors”.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />If studied carefully, the reply carried very sinister undertones.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Malaysia now appears so desperate for foreign financing for its so-called national interest projects that it is willing to subject itself to terms and conditions of foreign powers.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Just because somebody is willing to lend you the money at seemingly favourable terms does not mean that you should accept the condition to select the product that will cost nearly double the estimated price.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />This is no different from unscrupulous retailers duping Malaysian shoppers into ‘zero-interest’ financing schemes on products costing significantly higher than if you have paid for it in cash. Any financial consultant will educate you that the real cost of financing is already built into the jacked-up price of the product.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Worse, the real cost of funds for the project is now opaque because we do not know the real cost of the project as it was awarded without any open and competitive tender. We do know however, that the government’s own appointed consultants, HSS Integrated, has estimated that the cost of the 600km railway project will be less than RM30 billion.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Therefore, to pay for the project at RM55 billion just because China Exim Bank offered an “attractive financing package” is absolutely scandalous.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Worse, only 30 percent of the project will involve local companies and contractors, despite an abundance of experience and expertise which are already widely available in Malaysia. We now have many companies who have built double-tracking railway projects, dug award-winning tunnels systems and constructed the MRT. And yet, the government is awarding a standard rail link project at substantially higher cost to a foreign company with minimal local participation.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The irony is that the Finance Ministry has advised or even instructed our government-linked companies to halt their investments abroad and repatriate its foreign funds from overseas to check the drastic decline of the ringgit. Bank Negara even put in harsh measures to force private companies to convert their foreign currency receipts into ringgit.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />‘Doesn’t practice what it preaches?’</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />However, the government clearly doesn’t practice what it preaches because the overwhelming bulk of the inflated RM55 billion cost will be paid to China despite available local options.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />There can be no better example of the English saying, “penny wise but pound foolish”. What boggles the mind is, the Finance Ministry doesn’t comprise of idiots - they should know that we are paying well above what is a fair price for the project. What is the ‘real’ reason why the project has been awarded to CCCC - is the real ‘quid pro quo’ the fact that CCCC will help launder part of the astronomical profits to pay off 1MDB debts as widely speculated?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">“Johari good judgement for my own preservation” the secret he revealed is – acute powers of observation and the good judgement and strategy of cloaking his information and using it judiciously! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“The hardest part wasn’t returning his serve, but not letting him know I knew this… because I didn’t want him to keep that tongue in his mouth…!” And so he forced himself not to meet Johari’s serve for majority of the match so that he could use his information at the critical juncture that would allow him to break the match!</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">When Najib confessed his secret to Johari , complained to Jqhari that it seemed Pua could read his mind, Johari said, “Little did he know Pua was just reading his tongue!”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Indeed there is tremendous power in observing the world around — the things that are connected with or surround you daily. Intelligence is the function of keen observation, learning, assimilating and applying ideas. The difference between merely seeing something and observing is to experience it not just with your eyes, but also with the rest of your senses.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">johari didn’t stop at the exciting discovery he made of Pua’s tongue tell. Johari strategized and patiently executed his strategy to manage win after win without giving in to the temptation of letting out his secret. And that is what made the difference.</span></span><br /><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Under </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua</span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">leadership f</span><span style="line-height: 20px;">orm a bipartisan parliamentary select committee with full authority to look into all MACC relevant investigation papers, reports and recommendations, including those submitted to the AG, and to summon MACC and AG’s Chambers officials to answer questions.</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua</span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> has threatened as never before when he has to reconfigure himself to serve the “utopian experiment of </span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2px;">self</span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2px;">centered</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">.politician.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">T</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">he legal scholar David Kennedy has argued, the administration of a professional global class of hidden persuaders and status-seekers.<span style="line-height: 20px;">Pua is not doing exactly what he has been elected to do </span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;">-</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“Johari good judgement for my own preservation” the secret he revealed is – acute powers of observation and the good judgement and strategy of cloaking his information and using it judiciously! troubles, problems, stress, issues, all come in various shapes and sizes, but we often fail to recognise that we don’t really need to solve them to be a happy person. We simply have to see the other side of things, or the other side of the coin.We can either wait till we “feel like” getting out of our troubles, or when we have solved our issues out. Or we can recognise that eventually the issues will get settled, or will never get settled, and hence it is pointless to ponder over either framework.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"> why Johari need to escape he has done no crime like </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Penang Chief Minister </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Lim Guan Eng yes </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">the moral high ground.Johari has taken wants “to do his job as a minister” and he “would do the best for the country”not like DAP traitors</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">The second finance minister, with all the necessary access to all the documents and transactions within the Finance Ministry subsidiaries - he has figured out why and how 1MDB and its sister company, SRC International lost tens of billions of ringgit?he is fordden due his solemn oath to the Agong.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Johari taking the position that what has happened in the past, even if it involved billions of ringgit of stolen funds, who stole it?Did Johari stole? should be left alone, and who blinkered ?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Johari not bothered asking the Finance Minister, who also happens to be the Prime Minister, Najib Abdul Razak, whether he did indeed receive US$731 million in his personal bank account which originated from 1MDB? and you and the DAP criminals want Johari to be the traitor.</span><br style="line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Why must Johari question Najib? Pua you had done that </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">role is just focus on how to cover up the massive hole which has been created?unlike in <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;">the Watergate exposé,</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;">brought down Richard Nixon just after he had won a landslide endorsement from the people.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> because Nixon lied </span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;">Discourse, therefore, is about accusation, not comprehension. This is perfect for the latest version of television dialogue, which bridges brevity with hysteria. Anyone who seeks any more is dumped into the dustbin of boredom. Do not blame journalists alone. This is what the viewer wants; this is what the viewer gets.</span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;">Obviously there should be a lifetime achievement award </span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> to </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">DAP </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">MP Tony Pua</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> self-serving taunt.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.79px;"> as well, for shortest sentence with maximum impact. It would be inappropriate to hand out a statue for this. 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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you begin by trusting everyone and taking a chance? Or, do you start with distrust, allowing experience and time to cajole you into trusting another? As life takes newer forms with advancing invasive technology, it becomes difficult to answer these questions honestly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">To be vulnerable, open and trusting were always attractive qualities that left you open to hurt. Today the stakes are higher and so, fraught with danger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And yet, trust is the basis of all human dealings. We are so dependent on human interactions that life would be impossible without trust. We trust our loved ones, friends, colleagues, and beyond. What would it be like if you didn’t trust the public transport you boarded, your own driver or your cook? What if the security guard at your gate didn’t have your trust?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What if you didn’t trust the bank where you deposit your money? Or the companies you invest in? Life would get chaotic and impossible, and you would become a paranoid basket case. So a certain amount of trust is inherent in our everyday transactions, and certainly in our closest relationships.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A lack of trust is responsible for breaking up many relationships. But you cannot demand trust; it needs to be earned over time and with experience. Some of us trust more easily than others. What makes it easier for you to trust someone? I usually trust people who make direct eye contact, are open with their gestures, are respectful and self-confident, those who speak the truth no matter what, people who maintain boundaries and do not ladle on fake compliments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In most of Europe, when you board a tram you are trusted to buy and validate your ticket. Checks are few and far between, but when these do happen, offenders are heavily fined. However what totally inspired me was my first experience of the much-publicized ‘London telephone booth library’, which interestingly I saw in Germany! A booth next to the Bonn skating rink had small shelves full of books. You can pick a book to read, but you have to replace it with another! The system works on trust and nobody monitors it. Yet the racks remain full of books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I am soon starting one in office because a gesture like this (apart from inculcating the habit of reading) encourages people to believe in themselves. Trust begets trust. You trust someone and it encourages the person not just to trust you back, but also to live up to your trust!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">However it would be foolish to say that all these systems haven’t been built keeping in mind the losses they could incur. The wise amongst us always create strong, well-defined boundaries before investing trust in anyone or anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It is best to start with an open mind and heart, and believe. Allow your instincts to guide you. Get to know a person while keeping within your defined boundaries. Let your guard down once reasonably sure. Else, step away with a new experience learnt…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I came across some very meaningful advice, “Measure twice and cut once; that’s what a good carpenter does!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How absurd can absurd become? Useless allegations against <a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/03/finance-minister-ii-johari-dont-cry-for.html" style="color: #3778cd; font-stretch: normal; text-decoration: none;">Finance Minister II Johari </a></span></h1>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Politics has seldom walked the path of predictability. Opinions oscillate like an autumn in mood. Promises sun and cloud like the English weather. The phrase political commitment is the greatest example of an oxymoron. Once friends, turn foes overnight. We all know the language of politics.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 20px;">Johari</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 1.1;"> is no‘caged parrot’, has the freedom to investigate his boss but but he is not </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Tony Pua</span><a href="http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.my/2017/03/mother-f-ker-pua-get-it-that-second.html" style="color: #3778cd; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.1; text-decoration: none;">'s errand boy</a><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 1.1;">..</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 1.1;"> .</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 1.1;">A tale of two MPs </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">DAP lawmaker </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Tony Pua </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 1.1;">you a narcissistic ?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Can lawmakers and lawbreakers be one and the same? </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">but many of our lawmakers – a large number of whom have criminal records – have little or no compunction placing themselves above the law by virtue of the fact that, as legislators, they are ones who make the law in the first place.</span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">The creator is always greater than the created. By this logic the maker of the law – any-law – is greater than the law created. Something which is legal today can by our lawmakers be turned illegal tomorrow,like l</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">aws are made and unmade at the whims and fancies of those responsible for designing and maintaining our society’s legal framework, the scaffolding which supports our polity.As the architects of this legal edifice not a few of our legislators have shown themselves to be above it.<span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;">so Pua you asking Johari to break the law </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">as a thought,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">a future in a new perspective that is something far more than a distorted reflection of fear.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> it is possible to fructify as reality. After all, everything big started with a thought</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px; max-width: 100%;">Think big and it will come true! If that held true for</em><i>Tony Pua</i><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px; max-width: 100%;">, why wouldn’t it for the rest of us as well? </em><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><i>Do you trust easily?</i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;">The political games that secular parties have played with the Muslim community have not only ensured social conservatism in the latter but have also created fertile grounds for extremism. This explains why some Muslim men thought it was their religious duty to murder a professed atheist. At the same time, by empowering conservative mullahs and allowing them to speak for the Muslim community, secular parties like Congress helped set in Hindu counter-polarisation. There’s no denying the fact that the rise of the Hindu right-wing in Indian politics and its political dominance today are a direct result of distortion of secularism by so-called secular parties. The right-wing has managed to successfully portray these parties as pseudo-secular and favouring only one community. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><i>DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang says there are people trying to ‘engineer’ his retirement from politics to weaken Pakatan Harapan and DAP.On the RUU 355 issue, DAP doesn’t seem to have any solution besides pushing the blame to MCA and demanding MCA ministers to resign. DAP has not apologised for its co-operation with PAS. DAP’s strength in the parliament is five times more than MCA which means it carries heavier responsibility for the non-Muslims.</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><i>As politics buzzes towards another general election; as conversation and opinion polls chase each other along an entertaining circumferenceBut hurry is dangerous in politics. You can trip up if you have not planned how to negotiate the various traps that always lie on a plotted route. You hold one end of a map up, beaming at cameras, and the other end collapses. Instead of leading an offensive, the DAP might be forced to clean up its own mess.This is definitely going to be the main plank of the DAP re-election campaign. Remarkably, however, the most vociferous opposition to this decision has come from speaking for Chinese, </i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><i><br /></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><i> As reasons advance and propositions retreat; as issues climb on the graph of voter-impact, and reasons get dissected with a surgeon’s scalpel, one gut cause for popular anger seems to have eluded the attention of pundits and their hangers on: justice.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"><i>Corruption is another synonym for injustice, for it is robbery of people’s resources. Corruption is not exchange of wealth between the rich; it is the people’s money accumulating in limited pockets. The teachers in Bihar were not paying for meals from their salaries; they were siphoning off money collected from taxes. Those mobile companies who bought spectrum at deflated prices were also stealing from the national purse.Justice is neither expected nor offered in a dictatorship, which is why it becomes such an intense demand when a dictator falls. But justice is intrinsic to democracy. An ordinary crime is punished through law; political culpability meets its fate in elections. When justice is denied, it lingers in the mind; you can dull its edges, as in the Anwar Ibrahim's case, but it will haunt you from some corner of the national conscience. Every election is a judgement on justice. The verdict may not be perfect, but it works.</i></span><span style="line-height: 24px;">If secular parties like DAP are to have a future they must stop appeasement policies and speak for the people across communities. They must stop pandering to religious leaders – be they from any community – for the sake of vote bank politics. Real secularism is neutral to all religions and focusses on combating discrimination among communities. It speaks for the weak for the sake of justice, not politics. DAP and other secular parties must reappraise their approach towards secularism to evolve and survive. That’s the only way they can counter right-wing forces.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><i>Why does it just depend on MCA? If DAP wants MCA ministers to resign, should the 36 DAP MPs (except for Sim Tong Him) also resign together? DAP has grown and is in command of so much manpower and resources.</i></span></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;">Don’t you think it should shoulder greater responsibility? I am not attacking DAP but I sincerely hope that the party would do some self-examination and don’t disappoint its supporters. Have some pride!</i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px; max-width: 100%;"></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px; max-width: 100%;">Why take chances?</em><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">As technology advances and we become more confident in our abilities to transform thoughts to reality, the gap between the idea and implementation keeps shrinking. Today one of the biggest thrills of living is watching impossible-seeming thoughts turn to reality within one’s lifetime!</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;">If with the power of his “big thought” Donald Trump became the President of the USA, what then is impossible? As he says in his book </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; max-width: 100%;">Think Like a Billionair</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;">e, “I like thinking big. To me it is very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”The power of thought is a form of energy that is impervious to time, space or present reality. It is important to hone and direct your thoughts towards bigger and better, impossible-to-imagine things. What you believe about yourself and what you believe about possibilities is crucial to not just what you become, but also critical to the world as we all experience it – now and in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">For some time now America has been ratcheting up an international offensive against China's invasion of cyberspace. This was high on the agenda of the summit between Barack Obama and Xi Jinping in California earlier this month. China's President kept an admirable straight face while his shadow-security infrastructure timed this double-whammy to a nicety, producing Snowden just when American protests hit a crescendo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">While spy fact imitates spy fiction, the world must come to terms with a difficult truth. Privacy, a cornerstone of individual liberty in a free society, now belongs to the past tense. America, the world's largest people-friendly democracy, and China, the world's largest people-friendly dictatorship, have used war as the excuse and technology as the means to monitor the language, and through that the thought process, of any individual they want to target. If other nations, including Russia or India, have not succeeded as spectacularly, it is not for want of trying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jihadisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479272123064805821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451692679051381441.post-63559423458002788972017-04-04T14:00:00.003-07:002017-04-04T14:00:24.899-07:00 Now PKR Youth vice-chief Tan Kar Hing. says ‘his one is bigger than Tony Pua's<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani will absorb stumble, and regain his stride <span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">He did not indulge in the luxury of diagnosis without the difficult demands of a prescription. The road to equitable prosperity lay through jobs. Enhancement of skills that could increase the earnings of unemployed, or under-employed, became a top priority of government </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">The difficult journey towards an Malaysia revival has just begun; but the ship is being steered by safe hands.</span></span><br /><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Now PKR Youth vice-chief Tan Kar Hing. says ‘his one is bigger than Tony Pua's </span></span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">With loads of self-congratulation. Then eager eggheads sat down to set policy into language that could buy advocacy from media and support from the legislature. But if the process entered the third, or worse fourth, it was overtaken by uncertainty, spluttered and shuffled before the withdrawal symptoms arrived.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever since ideology committed suicide in the early 1990s, those in DAP have sought to fill the vacuum with </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">eager eggheads </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">ideas. Most ideas were perceptive and prescriptive; some were even brilliant. The flexibility was exhilarating after too many decades of doctrine born in an open mind but killed by a closed one.Pragmatism became politically correct. But a serious problem was soon evident: it was difficult to make ideas work without a framework. The patterns of democracy encouraged spasmodic birth but hindered growth. Politics eroded the time necessary for nurture. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It is entirely within the logic of turbulent democracies that a dream run should be interrupted by a wake-up call. It might be pertinent to note, in this context, that dreams are best shaped into reality with the help of daylight. Among the dangers of darkness is that it obscures the bumps on that twisting road to economic regeneration. Those who know are aware that, as master of the long game, he is not going to be deflected by the short pass; he will absorb the stumble and restore the stride towards that horizon.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Johari Abdul Ghani defined his vision for office at the start of his very interview with Tv3 This is why Johari argues for government agencies like Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) and the Federal Territories Ministry to focus on rebuilding old government flats in prime areas solely for the low-income earners.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He said old government flats such as the Pekeliling Flats and Sri Pahang Flats in Bangsar were good examples of government housing meant for the urban poor and should be developed for the poor.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“I personally do not have any issue with the joint ventures between DBKL and private developers when it comes to developing strategic land in Kuala Lumpur belonging to DBKL.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“They need to maximise the value of such land and develop it according to the Draft KL City Plan 2020,’’ he said.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“Notwithstanding my support for the above, when such joint ventures are for the purposes of re-developing existing Kawasan Perumahan Awam (public housing area), I would want to see such re-development not causing DBKL to neglect its social obligation in providing housing for the poor of the city,’’ Johari said.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He cited several examples of ageing government housing units in Bandar Tun Razak, Wangsa Maju, Bukit Bintang and Titiwangsa which had the potential to be re-developed with higher plot ratio and density and with bigger space.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“This will allow the city’s real poor to continue to reside within the city centre and provide essential services as part of the city’s workforce,’’ added Johari.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;">
<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">For the people PKR Youth vice-chief Tan Kar Hing , sleaze has become a blur, with politicians visible in every crime, from coal to cricket. There is no ideology yet which cleanses the stables, and there will be none until the dregs of current thought have become irrelevant. Nevertheless, another 1990 moment has arrived. Things cannot continue with just a bit of tinkering along the way.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">The next government needs a radical and rational platform of ideas that recognizes how dysfunctional this system has become, and finds the courage to sweep below the carpet. The nerve points of the nation have shifted to the young. They do not want merely a different government; they want a new course that will take India out of this jungle of greed in which governance has become synonymous with greed, and the street a playground for lechery. If nothing is done, their patience will turn into rage.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">It is usual practice to highlight achievement in any obituary. What is memorable about UPA2 is not positive; the little that is positive is not memorable. The average of scams was at least two a season. All we recall is a repeated sequence of exposure, denial, street anger and authoritarian response until some minister promises legislation that will cure every malaise.</span></span></div>
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Jihadisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479272123064805821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451692679051381441.post-55405232160776249552017-04-04T13:58:00.002-07:002017-04-04T13:58:33.981-07:00Johari says it is a conspiracy KiniTV and Malaysiakini collaborating with chauvinist DAP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>DAP cafted loophole through which Tony Pua could escape responsibility consciously subverted official account,This is a political crime, all the more heinous for having been committed by KiniTV and Malaysiakini.A short video was broadcasted by KiniTV on March 30, 2017 which captured part of a public dialog session at the Finance Ministry hosted by me and Khairy Jamaluddin on the economic aspect of the TN50 initiative of the prime minister.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>I was wrongly portrayed by KiniTV as urging Malaysians not to purchase houses for their accommodation but encouraging Malaysians to continue to rent instead.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>For clarification, I was merely throwing up the idea of renting houses or accommodation to fellow Malaysians until such a time that they are in a position in their life or career where they are actually ready to commit to such a big financial responsibility.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>It is the culture amongst Malaysians, upon entering the workforce to commit themselves to two big financial burdens: 1) purchase of automobiles, and 2) purchase of accommodations.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>Whilst the financial commitment for an automobile may last up to nine years, the financial commitment for accommodation can last up to 30 years.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>Thus, Malaysians tie themselves up to such a financial burden at such an early stage in their life when they should actually and ideally concentrate in developing their careers instead.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>By freeing themselves from having such burdensome financial commitments, they could instead enhance their job mobility by exploring opportunities at other work places, seek or change to different careers or develop their entrepreneurship by starting their own business or enterprises.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>No stigma in renting</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>In more advanced economies such as European countries, the percentage of house ownership is much lower than it is in Malaysia as the cultural mindset is different.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>There is no stigma to renting family accommodation throughout their lives instead of being burdened with financial-repayment responsibilities of home ownership.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>In Germany, for instance, the percentage of the population who are house owners is at 41 percent whereas in Switzerland is lower at 38 percent.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>If we were to look at Greece, where the population are currently facing economic hardships, the home ownership is very high at 73 percent. Burdensome financial commitments are cited as part of their economic woes.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>If we were to proceed to live up to the aspirations of TN50, we need, as part of the process, to change our outlook of life and the way we do things in the country.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>The concept of long-term rental of accommodation is only one of the many ideas that Malaysians should consider. At the end of the day, Malaysians themselves should evaluate their own living situation to see what will work best to be part of the progress of the nation.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>Those who can afford to buy house at early age, by all means, no one can stop you from doing that. As for the government, we will continue encourage developers to develop more affordable houses and embark on rent to own concept.</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><img height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4EK8_xyKpIXJoTd2TMnhBakukM5YPP2eD-KOuB_ufBtIqqMn53gkJbSlA7-NG8FpOKB2LoTl78ETKyrIa5QkgQiNbfgM_lCmeNLd9O1Covd0e5ElSNnmx139AYEEDaIESXuBrAJ8eSss/s640/LIONY+KOK.JPG" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 8px;" width="640" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Now PKR Youth vice-chief Tan Kar Hing. says ‘his one is bigger than Tony Pua's </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">With loads of self-congratulation. Then eager eggheads sat down to set policy into language that could buy advocacy from media and support from the legislature. But if the process entered the third, or worse fourth, it was overtaken by uncertainty, spluttered and shuffled before the withdrawal symptoms arrived.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever since ideology committed suicide in the early 1990s, those in DAP have sought to fill the vacuum with </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;">eager eggheads </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;">ideas. Most ideas were perceptive and prescriptive; some were even brilliant. The flexibility was exhilarating after too many decades of doctrine born in an open mind but killed by a closed one.Pragmatism became politically correct. But a serious problem was soon evident: it was difficult to make ideas work without a framework. The patterns of democracy encouraged spasmodic birth but hindered growth. Politics eroded the time necessary for nurture. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">It is entirely within the logic of turbulent democracies that a dream run should be interrupted by a wake-up call. It might be pertinent to note, in this context, that dreams are best shaped into reality with the help of daylight. Among the dangers of darkness is that it obscures the bumps on that twisting road to economic regeneration. Those who know are aware that, as master of the long game, he is not going to be deflected by the short pass; he will absorb the stumble and restore the stride towards that horizon.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Johari Abdul Ghani defined his vision for office at the start of his very interview with Tv3 This is why Johari argues for government agencies like Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) and the Federal Territories Ministry to focus on rebuilding old government flats in prime areas solely for the low-income earners.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">He said old government flats such as the Pekeliling Flats and Sri Pahang Flats in Bangsar were good examples of government housing meant for the urban poor and should be developed for the poor.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">“I personally do not have any issue with the joint ventures between DBKL and private developers when it comes to developing strategic land in Kuala Lumpur belonging to DBKL.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">“They need to maximise the value of such land and develop it according to the Draft KL City Plan 2020,’’ he said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">“Notwithstanding my support for the above, when such joint ventures are for the purposes of re-developing existing Kawasan Perumahan Awam (public housing area), I would want to see such re-development not causing DBKL to neglect its social obligation in providing housing for the poor of the city,’’ Johari said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">He cited several examples of ageing government housing units in Bandar Tun Razak, Wangsa Maju, Bukit Bintang and Titiwangsa which had the potential to be re-developed with higher plot ratio and density and with bigger space.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">“This will allow the city’s real poor to continue to reside within the city centre and provide essential services as part of the city’s workforce,’’ added Johari.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
Jihadisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479272123064805821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451692679051381441.post-47567528833128563192017-04-04T02:51:00.001-07:002017-04-04T02:51:24.760-07:00The credibility of DAP lawmakers insist on judgment without trial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">The centre of gravity in any democracy is best measured by the credibility of</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> lawmakers of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Parliament, an institution that fuses</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">here is position, represented by government. There is opposition. The space in between is occupied by debate. Socrates, famously, established democracy’s philosophical principles when he replaced competition with dialogue.but </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">DAP lawmaker Tony Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">insists on discussion over</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">1MDB.only nothing else DAP </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">under the elbow-jerk leadership of </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">DAP lawmaker Tony Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">If you insist on judgment without trial what is left to discuss? The mordant joke doing the rounds is that </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "lato";"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> will do anything to avoid speaking in court </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Perhaps the truth is simple:</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "lato";"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> shout instead of talking only when you have nothing to say.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">The plainer fact is that no one in DAP was innocent.including Lim Guan Eng </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">did not resign because of mere allegations.Hewill go only when proof appeared in the public domain through a competent process..</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a fund-raising dinner, a closed-door affair,why an UMNO Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani to a DAP fund-raising dinner, Has DAP lawmaker Tony Pua become so has invited Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani to a fund-raising dinner, at which Johari can put forth his arguments on 1MDB.a fund-raising dinner, A fund-raising dinner a closed-door affair, reported and interpreted by a select few from print like Malaysiakini UMNO Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani like to have democratised debate to a spectacular degree. Members speak in front of the largest jury in history, in the court of public opinion. By sabotaging debate, DAP is denying the Malaysian people the opportunity to hear evidence from all sides, and then make up their minds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span>Finance Minister II <span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> said Governments today have to respond fast, and transparently, not because any opposition party wants this to happen, but because Malaysian public opinion will not tolerate any cover-up. Our citizens constitute the most stringent judiciary in history. If Malaysian democracy is safe, it is because of the vigilance of citizens, not the outbursts of politicians.like </span>DAP lawmaker Tony Pua</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Other speakers attending the May 6 dinner will be DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang, former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) president Mohamad Sabu and PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli, they have no </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;">locus standi</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"> so no way to </span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>debate</b></span><span style="background-color: white;">;</span><span style="background-color: white;">thrash out, </span><span style="background-color: white;">hash out,with </span> Johari </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani has turned down DAP lawmaker Tony Pua's invitation to attend a fund-raising dinner to put forth his arguments on 1MDB.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Thanks for inviting me, but I have said enough in my <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/376351" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0077dd; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">open letter</a></span> to him. I hear him and I take note of his opinion. I respect him as (an) opposition (lawmaker)," Johari said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Science journal Nature published an investigation conducted by researchers of the University of Wroc³aw, Poland, that found 48 academic journals offering their editorship to a non-existing individual cooked up by the sting operators (</span><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-journals-recruit-fake-editor-1.21662" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">‘Predatory journals recruit fake editor’</a><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">).</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Gross scientific misconduct, fake data, plagiarism, retractions and faulty experimental designs have become an inseparable part of research publication.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Suddenly, the hallowed portals of scientific magazines look suspect. There are thousands of ‘scientific’ journals that do not care much about quality research. They merely exist to extract fees from ‘unsuspecting’ authors. Why these authors choose to publish in these ‘predatory’ journals is another question. The journals use the worst possible marketing schemes to publish research, often without scientific rigor or transparency.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The scientific community knew this for years. In 1978-79, professors at Yale and Harvard were at the centre of research fraud that rocked the very ethos of scientific inquiry. In 1989, the US came up with regulations that defined scientific misconduct and laid out a legal procedure to address such allegations. In their research, they found peer review was ineffective against misconduct. But now it looks that even those regulations were not enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In his 1942 essay, The Normative Structure of Science, sociologist Robert K Merton analysed the ethos of science. “Four sets of institutional imperatives — universalism, communism, disinterestedness, organised scepticism — are taken together as the ethos of modern science,” wrote Merton. While describing ‘disinterestedness’, he wrote “passion for knowledge, idle curiosity, altruistic concern with the benefit to humanity, and a host of other special motives have been attributed to the scientist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The quest for distinctive motives appears to have been misdirected.” So, ascientist demonstrates the “willingness to work to extend knowledge, apart from personal benefit”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Merton defined ‘communism’ as the free sharing of one’s discoveries with others. What makes such ‘altruism possible’ is the “reward system of science”. This ‘reward’ comprises a host of things: “honour, position, power and money go to those who make discoveries first — and who claim priority by promptly publishing their findings.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It seems with the growth of aggressive consumerism and the opening up of digital frontiers, only parts of Metron’s ‘reward system for science’ has been the prime focus for many scientists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this mad rush to publish for ‘honour, power, position and money’, ‘disinterestedness’ has been given a quiet burial. In fact, predatory journals extend a helping hand to those who care to get on rooftops to shout about a discovery often backed by an invisible industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Commercialisation of scientific research has its own issues, as is reflected by ‘code of conduct and best practices guidelines for journal editors’ of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Under the guidelines for ‘commercial considerations’, COPE states, “Journals should have policies and systems in place to ensure that commercial considerations do not affect editorial decisions (e.g. advertising departments should operate independently from editorial departments).”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While it is not easy to identify fake data or plagiarism, over the years, organisations such as COPE have developed mechanisms to weed out suspicious submissions. The latest revelations unveiled how deep the malaise is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the early 2000s, when the ‘no peer review’ journals saw a mushrooming growth, the number of reported cases of scientific misconduct began to grow. Most of these journals only have an electronic avatar, their reach and appeal are deep. Visibility, reach and speed of publication make them an attractive proposition to researchers looking for a place in the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were watchdogs who kept an eye on them. In January, one of them, a blog that listed “potential, possible, or probable predatory” publishers and journals disappeared. Started in 2010 by University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall, at its prime, the blog evoked fear and controversy in the science publishing community. Its disappearance has dealt a body blow to science misconduct-watchers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The belief within the community is that science will get rid of these bugs. Let’s hope it’s right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The PAC was created in May of last year when it was spun off from the American Bridge SuperPAC, which is run by longtime Hillary and Bill Clinton supporter David Brock. Brock also founded the left-wing media watchdog website Media Matters for America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week, the Prime Minister of UK, Theresa May, pulled the trigger of Article 50, starting the process of leaving the European Union in two years from now. Let´s get down to the nitty-gritty of the deal, which will require an enormous effort from apolitical bureaucrats, who will have to incorporate approximately 80,000 European laws into the British judicial system.<span style="font-family: "lato"; font-size: 16px;">After every PAS outrage Malaysian asks a question that repeatedly withers on the dry sand of evasive clichés. How long will the apartheid of two laws for one countryone continue?</span><span style="font-family: "lato"; font-size: 16px;">This is also a conflict between theocracy and democracy; between practitioners of faith-supremacy and believers in faith-equality as the basis of civilised behaviour. This war has to be fought at both military and ideological levels.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The answer to regression is not complicated: modernity. Modernity has four basic, non-negotiable principles. A modern nation must be democratic; it must believe in secularism; it must promote gender equality; and it must eliminate the curse of inequity and poverty. This is the charter for regions in chaos, which can save the future from ravages of the present.</span></div>
<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">WHO DO WE BELIEVE? MODI BUTCHER OF GUJARAT PUTS EVEN BUTCHER TO SHAME</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">(Sanjiv Bhatt)</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">I have principle and no power</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You have power and no principle</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You being you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">And I being I</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Compromise is out of the question</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">So let the battle begin…</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I have truth and no force</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You have force and no truth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You being you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">And I being I</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Compromise is out of the question</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">So let the battle begin…</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You may club my skull</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You may crush my bones</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">You may bury me alive</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">With truth running through me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">With every ounce of my strength</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">With my last dying breath</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight…</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will fight till the</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Castle that you built with your lies</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Comes tumbling down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Till the devil you worshipped with your lies</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Kneels down before my angel of truth.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">May the kind God give you the requisite strength to be equitable and benevolent towards one and all!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Satyamev Jayate!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">With best wishes.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Yours sincerely,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;"></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;">Imagine the Parliament was already gearing itself to table the amendments to the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965, but Najib chose to stay away from Parliament to visit India.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;"> Only Hadi and his team of people believed that the Umno president was serious about Act 355.</span><span style="font-family: "lato"; font-size: 16px;">The centre of gravity in any democracy is best measured by the credibility of its Parliament, an institution that fuses a core Puritan simplicity with a Catholic electoral horizon. but in Malaysia There is position, represented by government. There is opposition. The space in between is occupied by debate. Socrates, famously, established democracy’s philosophical principles when he replaced competition with dialogue.read the fullstory</span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a href="https://nambikaionline.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/who-do-we-believe-modi-butcher-of-gujarat-puts-even-butcher-to-shame/" style="border: 0px; color: #117bb8; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who do we believe? Modi Butcher of Gujarat puts even butcher to shame</a><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the debate continues to swirl around secularism, albeit with ebbing intensity, but still provoking a loose nerve or two, an intriguing question demands an answer. Is India secular because Gandhi was secular, or was Gandhi secular because India is secular? What precisely do we mean by secularism?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The western definition has two origins: the French Revolution, which separated church from state; and communism, which erased religion from political and social life. Between Voltaire and Karl Marx, religion was marginalized into the grey space of “unreason” from Europe to China, with ramifications that extended far beyond the extent of state power.Indian secularism is a very different story. It neither ignores nor excludes religion. It insists on equality of all faiths, irrespective of its following. The religion of those in power at any point of that rolling dice called time does not matter, for Indian secularism is far more than the law. It is a fundamental social right.India, therefore, is a country with “audible secularism”. You can be a Muslim in Washington and London, and go to a mosque of your choice, but you will not be able to hear the call to prayer. In India, dawn is welcomed with the wafting lilt of the azaan, followed by the music of temple bells, the harmony of the Granth Sahib being recited in a gurdwara, and the peal from the church.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">This week, the Prime Minister of UK, Theresa May, pulled the trigger of Article 50, starting the process of leaving the European Union in two years from now. Let´s get down to the nitty-gritty of the deal, which will require an enormous effort from apolitical bureaucrats, who will have to incorporate approximately 80,000 European laws into the British judicial system.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After PAS piracy, an UMNO conspiracy <span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;">Hadi and PAS had been taken for a ride over what is otherwise known as Hadi’s private member’s bill. He was too foolhardy to accept Najib’s hand when Umno and PAS, as we all know, are politically a world apart...</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;">there was no mastermind behind it all. There were sceptics and there were people objecting to the amendments, but no one was masterminding the entire plot.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;">Most of us who read between the lines could tell what was happening, but not Hadi or any of the PAS leaders. I had kept my fingers crossed, and asked myself, “Could this be part of Hadi and Najib’s bigger plot? Or, maybe Hadi was already well aware of the U-turn, but he is playing along with the game because he is part of the script. If that were the case, it is all part of a bigger plot, isn’t it?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There will be many twists and turns of negotiations before the United Kingdom will be allowed to divorce the European Union after 44 years of marriage. The triggering of Article 50 is irrevocable and historic in the sense that UK has decided to leave a political and economic project, which has facilitated one of the steadiest periods of unprecedented economic growth, benefitting all the 28 countries which have become members since the signing of the Rome Treaty 60 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">A decisive battle between modernity and regression was fought between PAS and UMNO after 1957. </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">PAS used, often and provocatively, the rhetoric of superiority in its pursuit of separation Muslim governance. </span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Another barbaric chapter of an epic conflict between the presence and promise of modernity, and the bitter, toxic romance of regression was written on </span><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">Abdul Hadi Awang face </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">a confrontation between the lethal adrenalin of faith supremacy and belief that faith equality is the basis of civilised political and social stability.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Their rulers no longer believed in the supremacy of Islam, chosen by God as the final testament for this world. UMNO no longer displayed the courage to grow a religious beard, proclaim the faith, or pick up the sword — in defence of Islam.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">this revisionism went against innumerable tenets of the Quran, which advocate acceptance of other faiths, particularly “people of the Book”, and explain why Christian communities like the Yazidis continued to live in Muslim Iraq for 1,400 years until the supremacists of ISIS began their rape, pillage and murder of the “infidel”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But as a sense of loss, and fear of the future, intensified, the ideas of exclusivity, separation and dream of dominance began to gather momentum in the 20th century.<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">PAS has cheated the rakyat before - we will not let it happen again.</span>Muslims had slipped into decadence, compromising purity of practice in prayer and trust in the sharia; their behaviour and dress had been corrupted by other cultures, whether it was Hinduism in India or the growing influence of Europe among Ottoman elites.<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;"> The rakyat will much rather Pakatan lose GE14 without PAS, than to win with them, and give them more power to force syariah on all Malaysians.</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 24.65px;">PAS has cheated the rakyat before - we will not let it happen again. The rakyat will much rather Pakatan lose GE14 without PAS, than to win with them, and give them more power to force syariah on all Malaysians.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24.65px;">r</span><span style="color: red; line-height: 24.65px;">eadmore </span></span><a href="http://suarakeadilanmalaysia.blogspot.my/2017/04/malaysia-unpluggeddid-najib-or-hadi.html" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;">Malaysia unplugged:Did Najib or Hadi pulled the trigger on Article Act 355</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Play cards or challenge each other for a board game. The rules remain the same, barring one small anomaly — the winner's wish is the loser's command. The adrenaline levels will soar as the game approaches its nail-biting finish. But the real fun will only be after the game is over </span><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy3hs2dZCH6PE9NZy0fLnlK6MhnrKuRVhko9TBBXaxpLzCegQAebRtcRXScyB2o7mW8JHpRW8ZZLMLWm-NQNjIPaIHtrh6u31UOUeH1bFqOOJvO26c7Mb6-ZhasVmUud4B76lEWADD-TAl/s640/Another+Korean+Chick+With+Big+Boobs+Get+Naked+And+Take+A+Bath+www.GutterUncensored.com+024.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Do 'nothing' together</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Cuddle on a comfortable sofa with an endless supply of starters and chilled drinks. The endless chats about anything and everything will help you appreciate each other's company. When both partners feel valued and loved, the connect goes deeper, and more meaningful. It is only out of such pleasant moments that true physical intimacy develops.</span><br /><div>
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Sex gets Naughty a quick refresher course to enjoy sex better and boost your love life<br />Putrajaya amendments to the Penal Code to expand the definition of sexual offences<br /><br />Gov't expands definition of sexual offences<br /><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G7WHxPkG2P4/UHv9fm8WnEI/AAAAAAAAEIY/g0E9mob2NCk/s640/Alvin+And+Vivian+Sumptuous+Erotica+Malaysian+Sex+Blog+Exposed+With+Nude+Photos+And+Sex+Videos+www.GutterUncensored.com+070.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><br />Putrajaya has sought amendments to the Penal Code to expand the definition of sexual offences, which was currently limited to penile penetration.<br /><br />Under the proposed amendments to Section 377CA, the use of any other body parts by a perpetraitor of a sexual assault can now face prosecution.<br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCRzgoNReO-2-e4MjxUq_KpfJEj-9Zri3rRl3EC8OTQG59fNMG9HUjHkakcL89GlNXojkpQ4jIFahXUNnDAfz-ychXRf2r1RtYhGvMS4TmZhYqyw0CCTQ-vb4rQu4KD5XJfl13PpAJiJJv/s400/Naughty+Redhead+With+Smirnoff+Product+Placement+Deal+www.GutterUncensored.com+014.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><br /><br />"If there is a case for any offence involving sexual connection by object under Section 377CA, involving any part of the body, such as finger and tongue, prosecution can be instituted under the same section of Penal Code," read the explanatory notes for the bill.<br /><img height="223" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sNsPNH-3rxo/VH36pdK7xAI/AAAAAAAAJWQ/E1A4Em9tDL8/s400/Chinese_Girlfriend_Likes_3P_With_Sex_Toys_08.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">National interest demands a fuller debate on the legalisation of prostitution. Germany’s number of women in prostitution has doubled since legalisation, yet 90% plus are still illegal, mostly trafficked from less prosperous countries. Now known as the ‘bordello of Europe’ with a sex tourism business built on the backs of mostly migrant women supposedly exercising choice, Germany has luxurious multi-storeyed mega brothels in several cities, making pimps and procurers res-pectable businessmen. Political forces want to backtrack but are helpless before enormous vested interests.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Netherlands, which preceded Germany with the ‘individual choice, human rights’ paradigm, has its deputy prime minister calling it ‘a national mistake’. The Dutch justice minister and police concede lack of improvement in the condition of prostituted women, still poorer health, and increased numbers in ‘not voluntary’ drug addiction. Significant links with organised crime have led to many brothel closures.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;">
The European Parliament passed this year by overwhelming majority a detailed resolution to tackle sexual exploitation and prostitution, and their impact on gender equality. It noted two models in Europe – the German/Netherlands ‘individual choice, legalised sex work’ model vs the ‘Nordic model’ positioning prostitution within the spectrum of violence against women as sexual exploitation and marker of gender inequality. Sweden decriminalises the exploited seller, offers support and exit programmes but criminalises the purchasers and procurers.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Solitude is no longer sexy. It’s scary. The stolen kiss is no more a promise of something exciting about to happen. It’s predatory. Pursuing a woman in the hope she will turn around and change the entire course of your life sounds awfully stupid in a world where stalking is now a dodgy crime. And much as our films may still romanticize the sexual hunt, most women don’t see it that way anymore.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">or every dollar invested in the decadent, old fashioned industries of romance, there are ten invested in the business of fear. Wherever you look, the politics of fear is playing out far more tantalisingly than the playbook of love. Martial art classes for women. Sales of pepper spray cans. Scary laws intended to prevent scarier crimes. On the flip side, you have bestsellers like 50 Shades of Gray that celebrate the deepest sexual fantasies of domination and sexual slavery. The zipless fuck Erica Jong fantasized about in Fear of Flying (brilliantly captured by Bertolucci in Last Tango in Paris) has now been replaced by the crude gang rape.</span></div>
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<br />Sex gets Naughty a quick refresher course to enjoy sex better and boost your love life<br />Putrajaya amendments to the Penal Code to expand the definition of sexual offences<br /><br />Gov't expands definition of sexual offences<br /><br />"If there is a case for any offence involving sexual connection by object under Section 377CA, involving any part of the body, such as finger and tongue, prosecution can be instituted under the same section of Penal Code," read the explanatory notes for the bill.<br /><br /><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dEMRI86wy7U/UHv1szDf2sI/AAAAAAAAECQ/pBnWQlKNII8/s640/Alvin+And+Vivian+Sumptuous+Erotica+Malaysian+Sex+Blog+Exposed+With+Nude+Photos+And+Sex+Videos+www.GutterUncensored.com+025.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
Putrajaya has been urged to set an age limit for marriage following the tabling of the Sexual Offences Against Children Bill 2017 which defines children as those below 18.</div>
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Teo Nie Chieng (DAP-Kulai) urged the government to "reconcile or coordinate" present laws which have set the minimum age for marriage at 16.</div>
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However, the law currently also allows a person below 16 to marry with the permission of the chief minister or menteri besar, while a Muslim child below the same age can marry with the consent of the Syariah Court..</div>
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Experimental sex<br />Couples in long-term relationship often opt for this kind of act as they miss the excitement and lust filled initial-days of their relationship. With time, a couple’s love life loses its zing and to get it back one needs to try new things. “Try pushing the regular comfort zones. It may mean trying a new position or a new room in the house; you can even go for thrilling experiences like making love on the terrace or in the balcony or at some public place.” explains Meera Wahi, married for last nine years.<br /><img alt="Desi Indian Boobs Nude Pics and Indian Sex Pics Collection" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6geC6qBu-dtz0LzvqGUjcQftdxa0eOQ0-uIF7ZR_akFs1y5S1ndLa1nvjfCRqmig63IPpbwYiK7TrCfACZB_pIEmMxSiYxMduMFy2LonJDRelQSbC7mEp6b4HE7guN5QCmgX09WBPE0/s640/Desi+Indian+Boobs+Nude+Pics+and+Indian+Sex+Pics+Collection+(6).jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="494" /></div>
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Necessary sex<br />Necessary sex can be explained as ‘just-for-the-heck-of-it sex’, which is vital for a long-term relationship to retain its sexual spark. These are your very special, intimate ‘me-time’ moments which relieve stress, burns calories and lift spirits. Supports Mihika, a 31-year-old, new mom, “As a new mom, I am tired most of the times. However, I make special effort to get going in the bed and this makes me feel closer to him. Even if the sex isn’t that good, it feels like the relationship has become stronger.”<br />Why to try : Necessary sex is all about decreasing sexual anxiety, accomplishing the Big O, and feeling good about your sexual prowess. Experts say that regular physical contact actually tunes the brain into the need to feel emotionally close. By making sex a regular habit, you can open new avenues of bonding as a couple. Moreover, doing it sometimes when you are not in the perfect mood can gear you up for something much hotter the next time around. And most importantly, don’t forget how much a hit-the-roof orgasm does to keep your sex spark bright.<br /><img alt="Indian Beautiful Topless Collage Girl Dipu Showing Pussy Licking Nude" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOTqoB-iJD6uLc_37fxVO_xzGUYl15QJxU-rPNK8A0wokRnbhSeyF-kY5K2s77wnCUWbVirIOBIEo2LEMe5Dy8-m4UvzF3hhnXzKJgB5vRErn_djWvgPjM3x8yCXxuPlFuF94fiONxyg/s1600/www.sexynudegirlsxx.tk+(3).jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></div>
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Bummer sex<br />Admit it, for it’s something that’s bound to happen. An awkward grunt, a stupid expression, somebody walking in unexpectedly or may be slipping down the bed, all of us can have these embarrassing moments that we would like to ideally forget. Akhil, a 27-year-old choreographer, recollects, “We’d been together since last one year. The last time we were having sex, her roommate just walked in. We didn’t know what to say. Finally I said, ‘Whoops!’ and we laughed our heart out. The voyeurism added to the fire, needless to say.”<br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRHvu3f6tZtfn-Ga47t-qOH5dUn1yNMxXBOR9dRNq4S-rinH3m_BsoLieC7nXYjwY9QvP-Vk-vh9IidioDgPSF9gzpyQKN39scrz1cFlHApXSyYYdAkU7nZ_Y0fQC-puZyPS4aa5Fwug/s1600/www.sexynudegirlsxx.tk+(5).jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></div>
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Why to try : Don’t fret about imperfect moments in your sex life; just rejoice and hold your lover tight. Your ability to deal with embarrassing situations reflects the strength of your relationship, say experts. Real understanding is about being able to feel at ease with each other in awkward circumstances as well. Emotional presence and trust is the biggest aphrodisiac of all and often provides the sexual thrill which can last a lifetime. React positively to embarrassing sexual mishaps and she will add funny, cute and smart to her mental list of reasons as to why she chooses to be intimate with you.<br /><img height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbIa90PmYtbFQHmF_bSSY8LSzxyTq5ii93a6OLDBQRHnkbzqw35VfJ8pmj6tpt70GxDlu7BQpgVGFLIH8xemExxQlmwG77khRpMrdjZ1QANOmXhS3P0-bKuWJ_dOfZojYpvg9mnrL0_g/s640/Naughty+Taiwan+Amateur+With+Sexy+Lingerie+Photos+www.GutterUncensored.com+055.JPG" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="480" /></div>
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Vacation sex<br />A new, romantic locale often allows lovers to rediscover each another in a new light. Amidst trying different platters, adventure sports or checking out a variety of nightlife activities, every evening feels like a special date night. Vacation sexcapades act as a catalyst to reignite the passion in a relationship and make a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/couple" style="color: black; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none;">couple</a> feel more connected. “When on a vacation, you’re at your most carefree best, which means you can try out new things you won’t have to be accountable for at home. We went to Kerala on a friend’s recommendation, and needless to say we had the best sex ever,” shares Sidhartha, a 39-year-old business man.</div>
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Why to try : Something about leaving the laptop behind, turning the cell phone off and relaxing makes the sex better. Experts say that being in a totally alien environment sparks a sense of adventure and boldness in couples. All of this adds up to stimulating sex, which is more gratifying and more memorable than what couples have at home. Moreover, a vacation is the best place to get ‘sexperimental’. When people encounter new experiences, dopamine spikes in the brain, eliciting a feeling of all encompassing lust. This is one of the reasons a vast majority of relationship counsellors recommend regular getaways as one of the things that can help strengthen your bond.<br /></div>
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<img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XpBhTlBhbHU/U7sPnfRWu9I/AAAAAAAAHBY/hh5vkhJb7KI/s640/Korean_Horny_Couple_Sex_Clip_Leaked_II_04.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><br /><br />Make-up sex<br />There is nothing like engaging in a sexual reconciliation after a long, gut-wrenching argument. The quality of such sex is directly proportional to the amount of time spent apart; courtesy – the phenomenal release of emotions. “After all the screaming and blaming is over and we proceed towards reconciling, I fall in love with him all over again. This after-fight sex gives me the same kick as that ‘beginning sex’ when we first meet. All of that anger is released into passion and it’s like we just want to tear down the place,” admits Mehul, who’s been married for seven years.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Until you have transcended your own ego-driven sexuality – until you have risen above your social conditioning – you are, quite literally, fucked. You may continue to masturbate, fuelled by the most erotic mental fantasies, for as long as you wish – there is no judgement in this – but do not expect to experience enlightenment any time soon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">For as long as you imagine yourself to be your mind (in which your body is contained), you remain a slave to it. The mind-body is not real. The mind-body is not who you are. Why do you allow yourself to perpetuate the myth that the experience of ejaculation is the ultimate thrill that Life has to offer? I will tell you why: because you were taught to believe it. And you bought into the lie. You were betrayed by those around you. You were betrayed because you betrayed <em>yourself</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Since you’ve found your way to this blog, I’m taking that as a sign you’re ready to stop betraying yourself and to start honouring yourself. But before I go any further with this exploration of sex and masturbation, I must first say something important. If you take only one thing from this post, let it be this:</span></div>
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<em style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is an excerpt from frank Schaeffer's new book. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/jane-smiley-reviews-frank-schaeffers-sex-mom-and-god/2011/05/12/gIQAUdq23H_story.html" style="color: #771c85; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">Writing in the Washington Post, Jane Smiley</a>called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Mom-God-Strange-Politics/dp/0306819287/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1" style="color: #771c85; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">Sex, Mom and God </a>"laugh out loud funny" and her review concluded like this: "Frank has been straightforward and entertaining in his campaign to right the political wrongs he regrets committing in the 1970s and '80s. As the author of 10 books since 2000, and plenty of articles and blogs, he has been more than industrious. As someone who has made redemption his work, he has, in fact, shown amazing grace."</em></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">A lot has been said about what men think <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Women" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">women</a>want and vice versa. A recent survey done in the<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/United-Kingdom" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">United Kingdom</a> asked men what fits their benchmark of an ideal girlfriend and found out that a high <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/sex" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">sex</a> drive, thin figure, pert bottom, and high earner tops the priority list. So, We spoke to a few guys and gals to find if it holds true or not and found that in most cases their ideal one was - Kate Winslet!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">It's the perfect survey</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">Ankit Tayal, 23, professional, says, "Well, I think the survey summed it up pretty well. I would love a girl who earns more than me, and has a higher sex drive than I do, and well,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/looks" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">looks</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">better than me - ideal package!" His ideal girl?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Megan-Fox" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">Megan Fox</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">. Anupam Roy, 25, professional, agrees, "Oh, I would love it if my girl earns more than I do, then I can gradually leave my job, as I feel that I'm too lazy and generally guys are lazy people. My ideal girl should be unbearably beautiful, bearably stupid, and should be good in bed." His ideal girl? Kate Winslet.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">It's more about the funny bone than the sexy butt</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">While the survey says that men desire looks more than humour, some</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">Delhi</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">guys would like to differ. Says Viraj Gupta (23), "Who wouldn't want the whole package of looks,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/money" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">money</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">and sex? My ideal girl should be decently educated, have a simple lifestyle, a sense of humour would be good, and should look okay, looks are not that important." His ideal girl? Kate Winslet, for her grace.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">Says Prateek Kapil, student, "My ideal girl should have a funny bone, she should be fiercely independent and should look good." His ideal girl: Cristina Scabbia, lead vocalist of the metal band Lacuna Coil. Agrees student Arun Khanna (24), "My ideal girl should be pretty, should have a sense of humour, not ruthlessly career driven or excessively competitive.The survey speaks for most guys, however the earning a higher salary part could be a point of contention between the couple." And his ideal girl?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kate-Winslet" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">Kate Winslet</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kat-Dennings" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">Kat Dennings</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Men can handle a more successful counterpart</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">Disagrees Sonali Sapra (23), MBA student, "I disagree with the survey that men want high salary earning women. I haven't met any man who thinks like that and I completely agree that women should earn more and if the man has a problem he should strive to earn better and live up to a woman's expectations. I would associate Catherine Zeta Jones and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Michael-Douglas" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">Michael Douglas</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">with this survey because while she is so successful, he doesn't even get offered with 'papa' roles."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">Shallu Sharma believes that, "A man will have ego hassles if a woman earns more than them. I have met men who want you to eat and stay slim at the same time, and they have problems if you earn more, but if you are not career-minded they have a major problem. A very good case in point would be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Arbaaz-Khan" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">Arbaaz Khan</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">and Malaika Arora Khan, probably Arbaaz has no ego hassles."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The desire for a thin girl</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">While the survey states that men would like their perfect mate to dig into a meal without any qualms and contradictorily be slim at the same time, Shraddha Bhateja (23), commercial pilot, disagrees, "I don't think guys like skinny girls, that is totally untrue and most of my male friends would agree with me. Both partners should take care of the family (including kids) and both should be career-minded for a successful relationship."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">In stark contrast Lisa Boye (22), airlines security agent, says, "I completely agree with the survey. Eat and stay fit, how hard is that? Who would like a person who makes a fuss at a restaurant and is on diets all the time? Half the fun is gone right there."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Men want girls who are family oriented and will have babies</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">The salary package of the perfect woman is a debate amongst men and women alike. Some feel men have ego hassles while others disagree. The survey states that women should be career-minded, earn more than her man as well as stay at home and take care of the kids.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">Prateek Kapil, 23, student, says, "I think that guys will agree with the very high salary part. If she earns more than the guys, then the guy is not going to like it, though I personally don't agree with that."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">Agrees Mehak Saluja, a quality analyst, "Men want women to stay at home but I don't think they want one who earns more than them, it brings in ego hassles. Not everyone is like an Abhishek Bachchan who can walk along with his very successful wife, while he still has to make a mark." Arun seems to sum it up, "The survey is all correct, except the part which says guys want their partner to earn more than them. This is not true for most guys as they have huge egos. The part where the survey goes contradictory and says that though high earning, the girl should be family oriented is true for guys; they want someone to be family oriented and have babies."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Let's talk sex, baby</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">Talk about sex drive and we surprisingly had two views! While some felt that sex drive is important, but intimacy was rated higher, all men agreed that sex drives relationships. Says Anupam, "She should be good in bed and that should be more important than her having a brilliant sex drive. I mean what's the point of her wanting to do it, if she is not good in bed, right?"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">Some like Prateek feel that having a huge appetite for sex could be cumbersome in a closed society like India. "Having a sex drive is good, but wanting to do it everywhere and all the time would be too much, especially in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/India" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">India</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">, where you don't find much space, so it could get embarrassing," says Prateek. Adds Viraj, "As for sex drive, even the guys should have a good sex drive, if the guy doesn't do anything, what will the poor girl do?"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Will men ever come to a consensus on the ideal GF?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;">While the never-ending debate between men and women continues, what we conclude is that not only women, but men too have high demands. Most of the demands are well, contradictory, but that does not stop men from fantasising about the perfect woman who cooks, cleans, earns, eats, is slim and beautiful all at the same time. We'd say it's time you took a reality check, guys!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;">
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Mom was sitting on my bed next to the eight-year-old version of me, reading the story of King David's Sin to me (again), when she looked up from her Bible and cheerfully declared, "Your father demands sexual intercourse every single night and has since the day we married because he doesn't want to end up like King David!"</div>
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I got that sinking feeling. I knew Mom was about to launch onto her favorite topic (besides Sex): how examples of Sin in the Bible help us all "better understand Fran's Many Weaknesses."</div>
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"Uh," I said noncommittally, while trying not to sound too interested.</div>
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"You see, Dear, King David and Fran share a Very Strong Drive in That Area. At least Fran recognizes his Need." Mom paused, smiled sweetly, then added in a brisk upbeat tone, "But I don't want you to get the wrong impression; it's not that I don't enjoy being with Fran in That Way. Within a Christ-centered marriage the union of a married man and his wife is a wonderful gift. It's just that because Fran has a Daily Need, I have to go with him on every single speaking trip. I hate leaving you alone so often, even in a good cause."</div>
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To an outsider, Mom's constant citing of Bible passages like King David's Sin to "explain" Dad's failings might have seemed like a snide rebuke. Actually, it was Mom's way of defending Dad. She was placing his Sins on a high pedestal right up there with the failings of the biblical heroes. Mom was excusing Dad by saying in effect, "Even King David, that the Bible says God loved most of all, sinned terribly. He was forgiven and I forgive Fran, too. Moreover, if even King David was awful sometimes, how can Fran be perfect?"</div>
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I don't know if the good cause Mom referred to was traveling to teach Bible studies (from Holland to Italy to England and France), enjoying the "union of a married man and his wife," or keeping Dad from straying by meeting his "Daily Need." Since the Bible is full of Sex, and since Mom wanted (had?) to talk about Sex, Dad, and God--a lot--my mother could use our Bible studies as the excuse to "share" the Facts Of Life and exonerate Dad in the context of putting him in the company of biblical heroes who had "sinned too, Dear."</div>
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One thing I do know is that every time Mom left home, she'd leave a note and small gift for each bedtime she'd be away. My parents' speaking trips sometimes lasted up to a month. I remember the sense of being enveloped in her love as Debby or Susan would read the daily note to me as I'd unwrap that day's gift. (I collected a whole shelf full of excellent model car Dinky Toys in this way.) I also look back on my mother's tremendous warmth and kindness as her love spilled into the lives of the next generation.</div>
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My mother showed unbounded love to my daughter, Jessica, and son Francis when [my wife] Genie and I were living in "Noni's" home (as her grandchildren call Mom). From birth until Jessica was ten and Francis seven, Noni played an outsized role in their lives. We lived with my parents in their chalet's basement apartment for the first five years of our marriage, then we moved into our own place across the street. (When Jessica was ten and Francis was seven, Genie and I moved to the States and our children's daily encounters with Noni ended.)</div>
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When Mom was home, she always had handy a Bible story that, with just the slightest nudge, could illustrate my father's Sins-- from his Strong Drive In That Area (King David) to his sometimes violent Moods (King Saul). And the cross she had to bear because of his "unfortunate working-class background" (reminiscent of Esau and the Bible's other "rough-mannered men") was handily illustrated by the Apostle Peter, along with the other confused and uneducated working-class fishermen Jesus called to follow Him and to whom He had to explain everything, just like Mom constantly had to instruct Dad.</div>
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Mom often said, "Shall we consider King David?"</div>
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"Yes, Mom," I'd answer, knowing full well that we were going to consider King David with or without my permission.</div>
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"The story is in the book of Second Samuel," Mom said, flipping open her well-worn and heavily underlined Bible. She started to read in her impeccably clear, lilting, Bible-reading voice, enunciating each word c-r-i-s-p-l-y and pronouncing the biblical names perfectly: "Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem." Mom paused to comment, switching from her Bible-reading voice to a more intimate, conspiratorial, tone: "You see, Dear, David wasn't where he belonged. If David had been out on the battlefield killing the enemies of God where the King was supposed to be in the springtime, instead of turning his palace into a peep show, this never would have happened."</div>
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"What's a peep show?"</div>
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"We'll get to that later. The point now is that David was battling a midlife crisis, too. He wasn't in Paris, where Fran dragged me that time. But like your father, David wasn't where God wanted him either, which is always that first tragic step of backsliding, as Fran knows. Do you understand?"</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">How to kick-start your <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/libido" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">libido</a> when you have fallen out of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/sex" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">sex</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/habit" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">habit</a> </span><br /><br />It's a kind of hell - being stuck between longing for another body's warmth and cold feet when there's an opportunity to finally get some. For those who've fallen out of habit, sex can become a bit like rocket science. While you know the theory, you may get the jitters before the 'practical' because sex is learned with experience and practise counts.<br /><br />Watching those sanitised love scenes in films and reading about the art of lovemaking can make the anxiety worse. On the other hand, presuming that it will be spontaneous and will just come to you is not the solution either. While having sex is like riding a bike or swimming and you never really forget how to do it, getting back on the bike or into the pool may take some preparation. Sexologists Dr Mahinder Watsa and Prakash Kothari share some ways that help you get over those inhibitions. They recommend you start by stimulating all five senses.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keep it on your mind </span><br />Start with the mental homework because everything starts inside your head. Let your mind get dirty. Remember, no one's watching it. Let those fantasies flow freely because thinking about sex makes you want it. Fantasise about a celebrity, actor or science professor. Read something erotic. Do it without your clothes. Better still, read aloud or listen to erotic audio. Or simply roam around naked in your house and watch yourself in the mirror. Sexy lingerie and a hot scented bath are sure to stoke those embers.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tune up </span><br />Research shows that the effect of music lingers on in your mind long after you've stopped listening to it. So get the right playlist, one which leads your mind in a direction your body can follow. A higher tempo will put you in a confident and alert state of mind (put it later on your playlist, perhaps), a slow one will make you calm and meditative and a sensuous number will leave you asking for more. Here are a few suggestions- Je t'aime... moi non plus by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, Deep by Blackstreet, Pony by Ginuwine, Peaches and Cream by 112 and Silk's Freak Me.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Body work </span><br />Remember your body is the instrument of pleasure. Pamper it to feel more sexual. Go for a massage. The strokes and pressure stoke libido and increase blood circulation to tissues. A good session at a spa can leave you feeling sexually charged. Go for a full body wax - don't leave out the trapdoors. Your skin will feel soft and refreshed. Men can also try waxing their backs and chest, if not the whole body. An epilated skin feels more sensual and responds to caresses. Then feel and admire your body in the mirror.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sweat it </span><br /><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Exercise" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">Exercise</a> is critical because it does three things - improves your body image, makes you fit for physical action and also releases those happy chemicals that make you feel good about yourself. In short, it's a great tool to not only up your libido but also satisfy it. Exercise not only makes you more potent but also brings you to arousal quicker. Exercising for even 12 minutes five days a week can help. Remind yourself that sex is not just about those final few minutes. It's everything you do before as well.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Let the rhythm get you </span><br />You may feel clumsy and clunky when you're just beginning to get physically intimate. To get up to speed quickly, get some practice in movement. Dancing fosters openness and curiosity. Roll exercise and seduction into one pastime - enroll in pole-dancing or belly dancing classes. If these are too overt, enroll for salsa with your partner. This will also give you opportunity to flirt. Back in the bedroom, it will help you move without inhibition. You will feel sexy and it will also project you in a new light to your partner.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Eat it up </span><br />Food high on testosterone, whether you're a man or a woman, can raise your desire for sex. The hormone does wonders for your libido. It's difficult to detect testosterone levels and hence it's safer to just eat the right foods. Have kaali daal (Urad) twice a week. Leafy green vegetables are apparently good for more than just vitamins.<br /><br />Eating off your partner's body is also good for sexual health. So plan some bedroom activity around food. This planning will save you the trouble of wondering what to do next while you're in the act. Get creative with chocolate sauce, whipped cream, honey or fruit pulp. Paint a chocolate path that leads to your hot zones and have your partner lick it off. Chilled champagne, wine or beer will help you loosen up. Thoroughly washed cucumbers, carrots and bananas can double up as sex toys.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Practise </span><br />What you do in the rehearsals shapes your performance in the final show. So learn to have fun with yourself first. Check the Kamasutra, which has details on pleasuring yourself. Touch and stimulate the parts of your body that arouse you. Use toys and foods mentioned above when you're practising.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stress it down </span><br />If the problem goes deeper, figure out what's making you feel out of it. Stress is the number one killer of all appetite. So identify the factors that cause you stress. The human mind goes into the alert mode when stressed and this interferes with your sexual system, not allowing it to activate itself. You need to think about when you last took a holiday. Don't bring work home and plan weekends outside the city.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Position yourself </span><br />Once you get started, think of ways to keep going. Try innovative positions - there is more to it than missionary, woman-on-top, and doggie. Get the mobile version of Kamasutra on your phone. A change of location can help - try the dining table or kitchen platform. Change your sex schedule. Jump your partner before you head out for a party or movie. Even a quickie will help kickstart the libido scooter.</span><b>Try making out at these places with your lover</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><div class="Normal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<br />Are you bored of having <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/sex" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">sex</a> in the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/bedroom" style="color: #336797; text-decoration: none;">bedroom</a>? And you have already tried the couch and the bathtub, umpteen times? Then explore these unconventional places to enjoy lovemaking to the fullest.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the balcony: </span>If you're lucky and have a private one, then it's a great point to have sex. Otherwise act in advance and make proper arrangements to cover the view. And make sure it's private enough so that you won't worry about 'someone watching all the while.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the car: </span>May be you have tried this when you were out with your girlfriend or boyfriend. But now post marriage try going back to the carefree life and make out in the car at a spot that is away from the disturbance of the cops that is.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Go for night camping: </span>If you are the adventurous type, then pick up your tent and go for night camping. Under the sky, amidst nature, you will surely enjoy a different kind of sex.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the kitchen: </span>Surprise her! Caress her while she is busy with her chores in the kitchen. Woo her and it will surely add excitement to the relationship. What you could also try is incorporating food in your play. Get naughty guys!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the elevator: </span>Try a super quickie here. Use lifts you know there couldn't be a lot of crowd. And make sure your finger is on the close door button.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the pool: </span>Aqua sex is fun. If you have a private pool, take the plunge.</div>
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Always digging deeper into what women over 50 are really thinking (and not just depending on the academic reports and studies, many of which are frightfully discouraging), I asked women on Facebook and Twitter to reveal that one thing that keeps them awake at night, that single nagging worry that haunts their sleep and has the potential to overshadow their generally positive outlook on life.</div>
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Conventional wisdom might say that women over 50 are most concerned about how they look, how many wrinkles they have and how young they appear. In fact, there's big business in convincing us that these should be our focal points. As I've written before, women often feel invisible and unimportant once they are over 50, but that isn't a gut-wrenching fear; it's an observation, and one that most women I know shrug off with a knowing smile.</div>
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When I asked them to share their worst fear, none of these issues came up. A few mentioned health as a priority, or maintaining the ability and strength to keep doing everything they are doing. But, based on the many responses, it's clear that these women who are out there working, taking care of their families and contributing to their communities in meaningful ways have something much bigger than crows feet on their minds.</div>
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Jihadisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479272123064805821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451692679051381441.post-1961548902914609982017-03-27T04:19:00.002-07:002017-03-27T04:19:36.324-07:00Who the f..ck this Pua to offer Johari a chance?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">The centre of gravity in any democracy is best measured by the credibility of</span><span style="font-family: 'proxima nova', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> lawmakers of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Parliament, an institution that fuses</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">here is position, represented by government. There is opposition. The space in between is occupied by debate. Socrates, famously, established democracy’s philosophical principles when he replaced competition with dialogue.but </span><span style="font-family: 'proxima nova', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">DAP lawmaker Tony Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">insists on discussion over</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'proxima nova', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">1MDB.only nothing else DAP </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">under the elbow-jerk leadership of </span><span style="font-family: 'proxima nova', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">DAP lawmaker Tony Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">If you insist on judgment without trial what is left to discuss? The mordant joke doing the rounds is that </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> will do anything to avoid speaking in court </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Perhaps the truth is simple:</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Pua </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> shout instead of talking only when you have nothing to say.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">The plainer fact is that no one in DAP was innocent.including Lim Guan Eng </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">did not resign because of mere allegations.Hewill go only when proof appeared in the public domain through a competent process..</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a fund-raising dinner, a closed-door affair,why an UMNO Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani to a DAP fund-raising dinner, Has DAP lawmaker Tony Pua become so has invited Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani to a fund-raising dinner, at which Johari can put forth his arguments on 1MDB.a fund-raising dinner, A fund-raising dinner a closed-door affair, reported and interpreted by a select few from print like Malaysiakini UMNO Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani like to have democratised debate to a spectacular degree. Members speak in front of the largest jury in history, in the court of public opinion. By sabotaging debate, DAP is denying the Malaysian people the opportunity to hear evidence from all sides, and then make up their minds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> </span>Finance Minister II <span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;"> said Governments today have to respond fast, and transparently, not because any opposition party wants this to happen, but because Malaysian public opinion will not tolerate any cover-up. Our citizens constitute the most stringent judiciary in history. If Malaysian democracy is safe, it is because of the vigilance of citizens, not the outbursts of politicians.like </span>DAP lawmaker Tony Pua</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Other speakers attending the May 6 dinner will be DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang, former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) president Mohamad Sabu and PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli, they have no </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;">locus standi</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"> so no way to </span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>debate</b></span><span style="background-color: white;">;</span><span style="background-color: white;">thrash out, </span><span style="background-color: white;">hash out,with </span> Johari </span><br /><div style="line-height: 20px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani has turned down DAP lawmaker Tony Pua's invitation to attend a fund-raising dinner to put forth his arguments on 1MDB.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Thanks for inviting me, but I have said enough in my <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/376351" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0077dd; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">open letter</a></span> to him. I hear him and I take note of his opinion. I respect him as (an) opposition (lawmaker)," Johari said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Science journal Nature published an investigation conducted by researchers of the University of Wroc³aw, Poland, that found 48 academic journals offering their editorship to a non-existing individual cooked up by the sting operators (</span><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-journals-recruit-fake-editor-1.21662" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">‘Predatory journals recruit fake editor’</a><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">).</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Gross scientific misconduct, fake data, plagiarism, retractions and faulty experimental designs have become an inseparable part of research publication.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; line-height: 24px;">Suddenly, the hallowed portals of scientific magazines look suspect. There are thousands of ‘scientific’ journals that do not care much about quality research. They merely exist to extract fees from ‘unsuspecting’ authors. Why these authors choose to publish in these ‘predatory’ journals is another question. The journals use the worst possible marketing schemes to publish research, often without scientific rigor or transparency.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The scientific community knew this for years. In 1978-79, professors at Yale and Harvard were at the centre of research fraud that rocked the very ethos of scientific inquiry. In 1989, the US came up with regulations that defined scientific misconduct and laid out a legal procedure to address such allegations. In their research, they found peer review was ineffective against misconduct. But now it looks that even those regulations were not enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his 1942 essay, The Normative Structure of Science, sociologist Robert K Merton analysed the ethos of science. “Four sets of institutional imperatives — universalism, communism, disinterestedness, organised scepticism — are taken together as the ethos of modern science,” wrote Merton. While describing ‘disinterestedness’, he wrote “passion for knowledge, idle curiosity, altruistic concern with the benefit to humanity, and a host of other special motives have been attributed to the scientist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The quest for distinctive motives appears to have been misdirected.” So, ascientist demonstrates the “willingness to work to extend knowledge, apart from personal benefit”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Merton defined ‘communism’ as the free sharing of one’s discoveries with others. What makes such ‘altruism possible’ is the “reward system of science”. This ‘reward’ comprises a host of things: “honour, position, power and money go to those who make discoveries first — and who claim priority by promptly publishing their findings.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems with the growth of aggressive consumerism and the opening up of digital frontiers, only parts of Metron’s ‘reward system for science’ has been the prime focus for many scientists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this mad rush to publish for ‘honour, power, position and money’, ‘disinterestedness’ has been given a quiet burial. In fact, predatory journals extend a helping hand to those who care to get on rooftops to shout about a discovery often backed by an invisible industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Commercialisation of scientific research has its own issues, as is reflected by ‘code of conduct and best practices guidelines for journal editors’ of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Under the guidelines for ‘commercial considerations’, COPE states, “Journals should have policies and systems in place to ensure that commercial considerations do not affect editorial decisions (e.g. advertising departments should operate independently from editorial departments).”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While it is not easy to identify fake data or plagiarism, over the years, organisations such as COPE have developed mechanisms to weed out suspicious submissions. The latest revelations unveiled how deep the malaise is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the early 2000s, when the ‘no peer review’ journals saw a mushrooming growth, the number of reported cases of scientific misconduct began to grow. Most of these journals only have an electronic avatar, their reach and appeal are deep. Visibility, reach and speed of publication make them an attractive proposition to researchers looking for a place in the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were watchdogs who kept an eye on them. In January, one of them, a blog that listed “potential, possible, or probable predatory” publishers and journals disappeared. Started in 2010 by University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall, at its prime, the blog evoked fear and controversy in the science publishing community. Its disappearance has dealt a body blow to science misconduct-watchers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The belief within the community is that science will get rid of these bugs. Let’s hope it’s right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #02141f; line-height: 29.5px;">Citing “lessons learned from online engagement with ‘Bernie Bros,’” a pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC is pledging to spend $1 million to “push back against” users on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram.</span><span style="color: #02141f; line-height: 29.5px;">Correct the Record’s “Barrier Breakers” project boasts in a press release that it has already “addressed more than 5,000 people that have personally attacked Hillary Clinton on Twitter.” The PAC released this on Thursday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PAC was created in May of last year when it was spun off from the American Bridge SuperPAC, which is run by longtime Hillary and Bill Clinton supporter David Brock. Brock also founded the left-wing media watchdog website Media Matters for America.</span></div>
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Jihadisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479272123064805821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451692679051381441.post-30201705324790705562017-03-21T04:24:00.000-07:002017-03-21T04:24:08.183-07:00 When Gobind Singh Deo ‘encounter specialists’ shoot first<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">My one encounter,</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">When Gobind Singh Deo ‘encounter specialists’ shoot first and whistle later shocked Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani </span></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> if that is the appropriate word, with a </span>lawmaker<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> who had washed his hands in cold blood, </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The worry is that public opinion often condones “Dirty Harry” methods, in which a bullet takes precedence over due process.</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Only one thing is clear in this dust storm of fierce argument. We are not interested in truth. A complex reality has been distilled into campaign fodder in election season. Politics is the petrol that can turn such a fire into conflagration.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">when Gobind Singh Deo (DAP-Puchong) posed the question to Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghaniwhether Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak was a suspect in the probes related to 1MDB led to an heated argument between a minister and lawmaker.At first, Johari said he did not have an answer to that question, but when pressed, told Gobind to meet him outside.This angered the DAP legal bureau chief, who said that he wanted an answer in the House.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life’s most traumatic cemetery is surely the memory of pain, for it is buried but not dead. Neither amnesia nor vengeance is a solution, although the timid find solace in the first and the violent seek options in the second. Individuals, communities, nations have to find the spirit that can liberate them from the bonds of past anguish, to discover a future in a new perspective that is something far more than a distorted reflection of fear.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 16.1px;">When a nation’s confidence is undermined, adversaries abroad pounce to take advantage, </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">The fulcrum of a tipping point in public life is that mortal enemy of a politician: humour. A joke might not destroy reputation quite as effectively as a corruption scandal, but it deflates credibility. Through his long career</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">enough never to get tempted by a wisecrack; wit is not his forte. He might therefore be a little bewildered by the artillery fire of jokes after his disastrous mismanagement of DAP</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">If it is any consolation to </span>Gobind <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"> jokes about Prime Minister i are far more harsh. As we leap-frog our way towards another general election, DAP might discover that its biggest problem is ridicule.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">We are in the last chapter of a drama that </span>1MDB <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">has gone on too long.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"> </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">dreaming of resurrection on DAP a deathbed is a waste of time. For most of this term, policy was lost in a swamp. Now, decisions are made to serve as slogans.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">An announcement now is mercenary: to milk the environment for what votes it can bring, and postpone ensuing problems. The timing is determined not by advantage to the people but by thoughts of benefit to the party.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">The dark side of today’s political satire is the evil of corruption. There is a school within the ruling establishment selling the theory that corruption as an election issue has been deflected. This is delusion. The voter is not going to be finessed by the argument that all politicians are corrupt, and so theft of the present lot should be condoned. A jury can punish only the person in the dock, and the present government is on trial in the next electoral court.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;">Jokes are the evidence and the argument in this trial; the voter is both lawyer and judge in the court of the people. But there is some good news for those on trial. The maximum sentence is just five years in wilderness. The next five years will pass as quickly as the last five.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8667px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><div style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14.7pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shakespeare, being a genius, got most things right. But, being human, he also got a few things wrong. A rose by any other name does often smell like a weed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One dangerous misnomer is this entity called an intelligence agency. These organisations, a consistent growth industry in every nation whether times are lean or prosperous, are information accummulators. Intelligence may or may not be a by-product of their endeavours. Look no further than the case of the latest American whistleblower, Edward Snowden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">America's spymasters lost this plot long before Snowden broke cover and revealed massive incursions by US and British agencies into private lives. Their rage reflects the fury of impotence, or perhaps incompetence. Snowden did not hit and run. His sting took much preparation: he copied data, and then established contact with Julian Assange's Wikileaks and China, at the very least. Directly or indirectly, China, Russia and Ecuador knew what he was going to do before he moved. CIA, NSA and FBI were blindsided. America's intelligence was shipwrecked in an ocean of information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One would assume, after the Wikileaks fiasco, that there would be alert mechanisms to track any unauthorized transfer of secret data by an insider. Wrong. Neither was there any security firewall between Snowden and either a pest like Wikileaks or a foreign power like China, although both must be equally high on CIA's watch list. If you imagine Snowden landed in Hong Kong by flipping a coin, you must be in kindergarten, still reading fairy tales. Conversely, if you believe China ignored the US demand for extradition because of a typing error in the application, your sense of humour is almost as nuanced as the Chinese official who thought up that whopper. The Chinese ran this operation for precisely as long as they wanted to, or Snowden would never have left Hong Kong, even if he had managed to enter this semi-liberal enclave of an authoritarian state. Snowden's story got top play in local media; and he was accompanied by a Wikileaks executive on his ride to Russia, both impossible without a silent nod from Beijing. Snowden went to Hong Kong because he was certain of a Chinese umbrella. And in Moscow, of a Russian shield. Try boarding a flight a Moscow without a valid visa on your passport. You won't get beyond check-in. Absolutely do not consider making Moscow airport a temporary residence, unless you are certain local police won't put you on the next flight to anywhere. Nor will Ecuador's friendly diplomats drop by to say hello without Kremlin's permission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the moment of writing, Snowden is discovering a few facts of life. Heroes have limited uses when playing cloak and dagger; the dagger can change direction in the switch of a blade. China, Russia and Ecuador were happy to use Snowden in the secret wars that continue below the surface of good relations, but reluctant to damage bilateral business with Washington beyond a point. Big boys like America carry aces up their sleeve when they sit at any table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For some time now America has been ratcheting up an international offensive against China's invasion of cyberspace. This was high on the agenda of the summit between Barack Obama and Xi Jinping in California earlier this month. China's President kept an admirable straight face while his shadow-security infrastructure timed this double-whammy to a nicety, producing Snowden just when American protests hit a crescendo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While spy fact imitates spy fiction, the world must come to terms with a difficult truth. Privacy, a cornerstone of individual liberty in a free society, now belongs to the past tense. America, the world's largest people-friendly democracy, and China, the world's largest people-friendly dictatorship, have used war as the excuse and technology as the means to monitor the language, and through that the thought process, of any individual they want to target. If other nations, including Russia or India, have not succeeded as spectacularly, it is not for want of trying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Governments know something that idealists are loath to admit: the argument for liberty does not travel very far with the populace when it is positioned against terrorism. The progress towards a free society has been led by a liberal elite that flourishes in the calm of peace, and bends before the hurricane of conflict. Barack Obama turns into George Bush. Obama knows that total information is the dream of every totalitarian, but will not intervene. He is in politics. Politics is about survival first and consequences later. For every Snowden briefly on the front page, and in limbo for the rest of his life, there are dozens defeated by helplessness. That is how a state defines victory over the individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obama invited Xi Jiang for their summit in California to a place called Rancho Mirage. What an excellent title for a sequel to George Orwell's 1984.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato;">Tony Pua</span><span style="font-family: Lato;"> an irritating nuisance, a mirror before our guilty conscience? Who wants to be measured by the yardstick of a saint who was so disconcertingly honest ,</span><span style="font-family: Lato;"> mere handful of professions are honoured with an honorific that survives beyond the office. Priests, judges, armed services officers, professors and doctors, of both the medical and academic disciplines: that’s about it. Journalists, even editors, and politicians, even cabinet ministers, would invite ridicule if they handed out visiting cards marked ‘Editor X’ or ‘Cabinet Minister Y’. Malaysians are, at best, ambivalent about media and politics. They respect our guardians of law, knowledge and security. There is a new tendency among former envoys to add ‘Ambassador’ before their name, a practice borrowed from America, but this is a title snatched from vanity rather than bestowed by popular acclaim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lato;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">The most captivating within our current political theatre is surely </span></span><span style="font-family: lato;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Malaysiakini </span>being naïve to promote </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ezam Mohd Noor the</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> new opposition party is in the works with the single objective of fighting corruption.</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"We only have two demands from Pakatan Harapan. Ezam wants to fight Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in Pekan in the next general election..By himself Ezam Mohd Noor cannot win a seat . But add him to a larger formation and it has a multiplier effect. If one right partner generates arithmetical </span><span style="font-family: lato;">Use of outmoded tactics </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">by former PKR Youth chief Ezam Mohd Noor</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">made no effort to remove moral stains on him said </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Johari </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">his</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> inability to comprehend that the canvas of electoral politics will not alter dramatically </span><span style="font-family: lato;">will consequently fail .</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> will be </span><span style="font-family: lato;">dismissed as deceptive by voters </span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">on multiple fronts.Mahathir and Ezam humiliation will bigger than PAS and DAP indignity in 2013</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">could be shown piloting a ship called the Titanic and saying things like “We have just hit a little iceberg but everything else is fine”.</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">will just come across as a bunch of sore losers.</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">progression then two can fashion a geometric leap..says t</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">here are people struggling to sort out their inner world for a meaningful life, while others are trying to hold together a damaged relationship, or are trying to raise consciousness in society, change the political system, save our planet and create universal brotherhood. The journey is daunting and often people give up.The argument that’s given usually is that one is too small to bring a change. But no one is too small and no problem is beyond them.</span><br /><div style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px;">
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Every good drama needs a few sub-plots whirling through the mainframe </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lim Guan Eng’s house is also very old, 40 years old to be exact. So it has very little value. Buckingham Palace is even older, 152 years old to be exact. And that is why it has even less value than Lim Guan Eng’s ‘palace’. No one would want Buckingham Palace even if the Queen gave it away free-of-charge </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Corruption is corruption. It does not matter whether it comes with a swimming pool or not. Did Khir Toyo go to jail because his house happened to come with a swimming pool?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Evidently no low is too low for Tony Puah, no theory too farfetched as long as it fulfils the twin goals of battering the current object of his hatred and keeping him on Malaysiakini. the media out poison the minds of malaysians</span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px;">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">in front of the largest jury in history, in the court of public opinion. sabotaging debate, DAP is denying the Malaysians the opportunity to hear evidence from all sides, and then make up their minds. If Tony Pua is dissatisfied with Irwan Serigar’s explanation,for reasons, unfathomable Tony Pua refusesto engage but criticise.If DAP feels that it has not got satisfaction from this democracy process, it can consider other options. Malaysian democracy has come to a curious pass. A government insists on discussion over an opposition demand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lato;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Tony Pua his </span></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Dap’s home is said to be his castle. No one – not even the monarchy – can invade its privacy.</span><span style="font-family: lato;">However,when </span><span style="font-family: lato;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lim Guan Eng’</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> ’s home could have not just its privacy but also its privy invaded and be turned into a loo open to any member of the public willing to shell out the established fee for the purpose.</span><span style="font-family: lato;">Even more important is the fact that Malaysiakini and the other pro-opposition portals and Blogs are already playing the Lim Guan Eng apologist role.</span><br /><span style="font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Why is Rafizi Ramli not planning a road show to travel the whole country to inform the rakyat of this matter?</span><br /><span style="font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Why is Tony Pua not asking the PAC to investigate this matter and for a Royal Commission of Inquiry to be set up so that the truth can be revealed?</span><br /><span style="font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Why is Teresa Kok not doing a satire on YouTube so that everyone can be entrained by her clownish antics?</span><br /><span style="font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Why is Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad not launching a Save Penang Campaign and signing a Penang Peoples’ Declaration?</span><br /><span style="font-family: lato;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Why are Sarawak Report and the Wall Street Journal plus the many opposition portals and Blogs not fighting for the truth and justice?</span><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"We only have two demands from Pakatan Harapan. Ezam wants to fight Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in Pekan in the next general election..By himself Ezam Mohd Noor cannot win a seat . But add him to a larger formation and it has a multiplier effect. If one right partner generates arithmetical </span><span style="font-family: lato;">Use of outmoded tactics </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">by former PKR Youth chief Ezam Mohd Noor</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">made no effort to remove moral stains on him said </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Johari </span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">his</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> inability to comprehend that the canvas of electoral politics will not alter dramatically </span><span style="font-family: lato;">will consequently fail .</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> will be </span><span style="font-family: lato;">dismissed as deceptive by voters </span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">on multiple fronts.Mahathir and Ezam humiliation will bigger than PAS and DAP indignity in 2013</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">could be shown piloting a ship called the Titanic and saying things like “We have just hit a little iceberg but everything else is fine”.</span><span style="font-family: lato;"> </span><span style="font-family: lato;">will just come across as a bunch of sore losers.</span><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">progression then two can fashion a geometric leap..says</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There are people struggling to sort out their inner world for a meaningful life, while others are trying to hold together a damaged relationship, or are trying to raise consciousness in society, change the political system, save our planet and create universal brotherhood. The journey is daunting and often people give up.The argument that’s given usually is that one is too small to bring a change. But no one is too small and no problem is beyond them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: lato;">Political commentators agreed that it was too close to call, although UMNO was in pole position. If there was one certainty it was that there was no wave. There were a few notable voices, particularly towards the end that gave the election to UMNO</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lato;">It is likelier that the bias was implicit in the way a significant section of media frames reality and this shades what it is able to see. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a deeper problem, for here the desire to report objectively does not necessarily translate into objective reportage. Election coverage, in particular, comes with its own grammar and vocabulary.like Malaysiakini<span style="color: #2b2b2b;"> Datuk Johari Umno supreme council member is absolutely right in pin-pointing that we need to dig deep into our consciousness and decipher from where this inferiority complex has crept into the veins of our society.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">There are people struggling to sort out their inner world for a meaningful life, while others are trying to hold together a damaged relationship, or are trying to raise consciousness in society, change the political system, save our planet and create universal brotherhood. The journey is daunting and often people give up.The argument that’s given usually is that one is too small to bring a change. But no one is too small and no problem is beyond them. The thing is that our attention is rarely focused as we wish to multitask owing to our greed, restlessness and sensory needs.Those who understand the temperamental nature of any electoral season know that predictions are risky. It is far safer to keep your eyes open and mouth shut. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lato;">, but very few, including those sympathetic to the party, had a sense of the magnitude of the victory. And without question, this is an absolutely stunning victory. To repeat the performance of 2014 two and a half years on, in the wake of what many saw as the failed demonetization gambit, without announcing a CM candidate, is a staggering feat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> it has become clear that it is not possible for anyone to offer a meaningful prediction of the eventual outcome. The electorate is too large and diffuse, and the interplay of local and national factors too complex to be amenable to accurate forecasting. Neither the personal and direct experience of seasoned election watchers nor the scientific surveys, of which there is no shortage, seem to be able to produce results that can be relied upon. Pre-poll surveys are now entertainment rather than science, and should be viewed as such.</span></h1>
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style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "proxima nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">JOHARI ABDUL GHANI is Second Finance Minister.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"> perhaps the world’s most articulate politician in the first decade of the 21st century.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">COMMENT I refer to a press statement issued today by YB Tony Pua.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">YB Tony Pua is well-versed in the facts concerning 1MDB, given he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Thus, it is disappointing to note that he has chosen to misrepresents the facts and has accused me of lying, in his desperate attempts to mislead the rakyat.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">The matter at hand is clear, simple and has been publicly explained, as evidenced in page 81 of the PAC Report on 1MDB.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">The facts are as follows:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">1. The TRX and Bandar Malaysia lands were originally owned directly by the government. The government made a decision to sell the lands in 2010 and 2013 respectively, to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a holding company 100 percent owned by MOF Inc. 1MDB in turn owned the lands via its 100 percent equity shareholding in two subsidiary companies, ie TRX City Sdn. Bhd. (TRXC) and Bandar Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (BMSB).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">2. It is clear that from the above transactions, the government ownership of the lands shifted from direct to indirect ownership, via MOF Inc ultimate ownership of 1MDB and its subsidiary companies.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">3. Although the Bandar Malaysia land was sold at a nominal sum to BMSB, there was a responsibility to construct/upgrade six bases for the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) and two bases for the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM), for a total development cost of RM 2.7 billion, of which 1MDB had to contribute RM1.6 billion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">4. Although the TRX land was sold at a nominal sum to TRXC, there was a responsibility to construct infrastructure not only in TRX but also in the surrounding areas, including a vehicular tunnel under Jalan Tun Razak, for a total sum of approximately RM 3 billion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">5. TRXC and BMSB undertook debts of RM 800 million and RM2.4 billion respectively, to undertake the construction of infrastructure and the six air force/two police bases referred to above. These debts were always attached to the said land when these two companies raised their financing and thus form part of the security for the said debts. In other words, it is an operating debt of these two companies.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">6. With the infrastructure development and planning approvals obtained by TRXC and BMSB from 2010/2013 to the present day, the value of the TRX and Bandar Malaysia lands have increased in value significantly.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">6. The PAC recommended in April 2016 that MOF Inc take over direct ownership of Bandar Malaysia and TRX lands from 1MDB. The most efficient and cost-effective way to achieve this is via a transfer of TRXC and BMSB shares to MOF Inc. So, instead of owning those companies via 1MDB, MOF Inc will directly own BMSB and TRXC, along with all the assets and the operating debts of the respective companies.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">7. The TRXC and BMSB debts will be repaid by future cashflows of these companies as described in page 81 of the PAC Report. Further, whilst TRXC will continue to be 100 percent owned by MOF Inc, it is pertinent to note that a sale and purchase agreement has been executed with a consortium for the sale of 60 percent equity shareholding in BMSB.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">8. More importantly, page 81 of the PAC Report also makes clear that the debts that will remain on the balance sheet of 1MDB are the RM 5 billion sukuk, the US$3.0 billion bond and the 2x US$1.75 billion bonds. These 1MDB debts will be serviced from matching cashflows, as described in the PAC Report. Whilst MOF Inc will not be taking over these 1MDB debts, the substance of the letter of support and guarantee from the government, remains intact, as described in the PAC Report.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: lato; font-size: 13px;">There is therefore a clear distinction between 1MDB debts, which will not be taken over by MOF Inc, and the BMSB/TRXC project company operating debt, which are part of the assets and liabilities of the company and which will be serviced from the project cash-flows.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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