WIth Najib as the driver and Mahathir as the navigator malaysia will remain a nation of losers
Frustrated by your failure to draw large crowds or overmore Pakatan Parliament members, you have decided to convert your UMNO as Corruption movement. This is madness. Please abandon the idea.
‘Ali-Baba’ partnerships are still rampant in Malaysia, says DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua, in spite of Prime Minisiter Najib Abdul Razak’s promise to eliminate rent-seeking and patronage behaviour. Ancestors of Ali was from southern India and Baba was from Southern China… good combination !
Sometimes the Ali is not actually an Ali, but some Mamak disguising as Ali.
have you ever checked your bank balance and noticed that it was getting perilously low… like, all you had left in the world was RM10 billion? How to make ends meet? Well, obviously not.. that Najib has no feeling of shame because he has the mentality of an animal from the bottom rung of the animal kingdom. Lying and making false promises are also as natural to him as breathing. He is preoccupied with fornication and lots of money, and is oblivious to all else. As to the Ali Baba business, it will never end for as long as the BN is in power simply because the BN elites get a cut from the Alis, if not from the Babas as well. It is good of Balfour Beatty to have spurned the offer to be a subcontractor. Let us hope that the other companies which have the technical expertise required will similarly refuse to play second fiddle. We will then see how a manufacturer of instruments used in the water industry will cope.It never ceases to amaze me how Najib could behave as if he is completely freed from the feeling of shame over the yawning gap between words and action practiced by him. Or has he mastered the art from Mentor Mahathir who has practiced it to perfection
Frustrated by your failure to draw large crowds or overmore Pakatan Parliament members, you have decided to convert your UMNO as Corruption movement. This is madness. Please abandon the idea.
‘Ali-Baba’ partnerships are still rampant in Malaysia, says DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua, in spite of Prime Minisiter Najib Abdul Razak’s promise to eliminate rent-seeking and patronage behaviour. Ancestors of Ali was from southern India and Baba was from Southern China… good combination !
Sometimes the Ali is not actually an Ali, but some Mamak disguising as Ali.
have you ever checked your bank balance and noticed that it was getting perilously low… like, all you had left in the world was RM10 billion? How to make ends meet? Well, obviously not.. that Najib has no feeling of shame because he has the mentality of an animal from the bottom rung of the animal kingdom. Lying and making false promises are also as natural to him as breathing. He is preoccupied with fornication and lots of money, and is oblivious to all else. As to the Ali Baba business, it will never end for as long as the BN is in power simply because the BN elites get a cut from the Alis, if not from the Babas as well. It is good of Balfour Beatty to have spurned the offer to be a subcontractor. Let us hope that the other companies which have the technical expertise required will similarly refuse to play second fiddle. We will then see how a manufacturer of instruments used in the water industry will cope.It never ceases to amaze me how Najib could behave as if he is completely freed from the feeling of shame over the yawning gap between words and action practiced by him. Or has he mastered the art from Mentor Mahathir who has practiced it to perfection
American author Rita Mae Brown once wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Going by that definition, the powers that be in Putra Jaya would do well to get themselves to a therapist’s couch pronto. With the BARISAN Coalition Supply Fund – they’ve kicked off the latest iteration of a routine that’s become as stale as last week’s bread. And it’s as unlikely to have a positive outcome now as it did all the previous time The traditional support the 100,000-strong police force gives the BN during elections is due to the fear among the officers that they will be seen as derhaka (traitors) and ungrateful if they vote for the opposition.he cure for the wrong perception of the Police is to vote in Pakatan this coming GE13!Political neautrality and professionalism are the hallmarks of the Civil Service. The moment you temper it with “politics” which is what had happened now, In the ongoing crisis in Syria, those soldiers who were loyal to Assad and who died fighting the rebels died not for the country but for a man. Died for nothing really.have been pre-sensitized to be dominated by fear. UMNO knows that and uses fear ( and it’s cousins hate, violence and religion) to control and manipulate. They also know that the Chinese are also easily manipulated by fea the CS will be no longer gain the confidence of the Rakyat1 As a civil servant you have to follow what the Government directed you to do. BUT NO WAY can anyone let alone the Government or Oppositio FORCE you to vote according to their wishes. You vote according to your conscience.Government servants should be neutral. Come what may, opposition and any party win, government servants still remain the same. Not like political – some ended become school-bus drivers.t’s not just the police. Most army officer and even ministers think that :rezeki datang dari BN. You vote them out, no more development, no more jobs, no more project, no more peace… People who thinks this way are those who only read utusan and watch rtm, tv3 for their information. TO MUSLIM REZEKI DATANG DARI ALLAH… but many Muslim doubt this. Fearing the government of the day? A job well done by BTN (Biro Takut Negara). This venom spewing BTN with racist and hatred agendas must be dissolve when PR takes over federal power for a more harmonious Malaysia.i The Malay peasantry will always be kept at that level, they know nothing else except to support UMNO perpetually. Feudalistic mentality and the fear of a smart Malay besides an UMNO Malay taking over envelopes them and they keep voting the same morons election after elections. The Malays here have not come to the tipping point like what the poor Tunisian fruit vendor came to. Mind moulding works best for the Malays.
In India Most political parties and media have passionately supported the Supreme Court ruling in the 2G spectrum case, that the government should auction natural resources and not allot them or allow unregulated extraction (as in iron ore mining). The Comptroller and Auditor General has fuelled this public passion by estimating huge losses to the exchequer through failure to auction natural resources like spectrum and coal.Yet you do not hear political parties or the media condemning losses through non-auction of the biggest natural resource of all — water. Political competition between parties has driven down the price of canal water and rural electricity (used to pump groundwater) to zero or negligible levels. Free power actually subsidises farmers to extract a natural resource, something like a negative auction price! The huge loss is pushing many state governments toward bankruptcy.
State Electricity Boards were given a rescue package of Rs 41,000 crore in 2002, after which they were to behave responsibly. Alas, their combined losses now exceed Rs 100,000 crore, mainly because of free or highly subsidized rural power.
The worst example is Punjab, which cannot even pay staff salaries. Agricultural guru SS Johl estimates that free power costs Punjab Rs 4,500 crore a year, and accounts for 90% of Punjab’s Rs 78,000 crore debt.Now, governments have aims other than maximizing revenues through auctions. Subsidies for basic education and health and safety nets are desirable and common in all democracies. Politicians say free electricity is a good subsidy helping poor farmers.
Really? Johl says 83% of Punjab farmers have small or marginal holdings, and no tubewell at all. Free power benefits the 17% richest farmers, some of whom have 150 tubewells. Free power has caused water tables to plummet, so 107 of Punjab’s 127 blocks are now “dark zones” facing extinction of sweet groundwater.
A falling water table immediately dries up drinking water wells (which serve the poor). As the water table keeps falling, centrifugal pumps (costing Rs 30,000 and working up to 30 feet depth) cease functioning, hitting small farmers who cannot afford deep submersible pumps costing Rs 1.5 lakh. Ultimately, the only beneficiaries are farmers with the deepest pockets and tubewells. Free power induces them to grow water-guzzling crops like rice, which destroy acquifers in a low-rainfall area like Punjab.
So, “free” power is not free at all. It imposes huge costs on acquifers, small farmers and the thirsty poor. By bankrupting the exchequer, “free” power imposes huge costs on state services like education, health, nutrition and safety nets.
The political problem is, free power provides immediate benefits to influential farmers. Since elections are won and lost on small shifts of one or two per cent of the vote, no political party wants to risk alienating the rural elite by charging for power.
The problem has spread from Punjab to most other states. YS Rajashekhar Reddy claimed credit for boosting farming in Andhra Pradesh by providing free power, and won re-election in a landslide. But 15 years down the line, the state will go the Punjab way, with over-pumping and exhaustion of sweet groundwater. This is myopic destruction of acquifers, disguised as agricultural dynamism in the short run.
Okay, say some critics, maybe all water should not be free. But it should not be auctioned either. They say water should be viewed as a basic need, so we must provide some free water to all. But “basic need” refers to drinking water, not irrigation, which consumes huge amounts of water, and is limited to relatively prosperous areas.
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