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Thanks, Chris, for your constructive comments.
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2009-02-13T09:31:00.000+08:00

Thanks, Chris, for your constructive comments.

I agree completely with you and will continue to present ideas.

Unfortunately though, these ideas will remain just ideas while BN continues to control the federal government. One of Tun Mahathir's worst legacies was concentrating power at federal government level. The states are too a large extent, powerless.

Both parties are focusing on politics. With the by...

2009-02-12T19:48:00.000+08:00

Both parties are focusing on politics. With the by election coming in Kedah and Perak, I foresee that the focus will be there. This is a very worrying trend, and that’s the last thing this country needs.
We should be having debates and highlights of the economy in our mainstream media. Politicians should be debating on what’s the best way in bringing the economy up again. With your experience, I hope you can share your views and DAP’s views on how we can survive this crisis. Or better still make Malaysia stronger by finding our own niche. We really need to go up the value chain and find something that can differentiate ourselves from the low cost countries.

Once again, we have to rewind a bit to the Mahathi...

2009-02-09T01:34:00.000+08:00

Once again, we have to rewind a bit to the Mahathir era when the laws were amended so that MPs resigning from their posts are disallowed for 5 years from recontesting their seats under a different banner. In effect, the only way a parliamentarian could express unhappiness with his or her present political affiliation would be to crossover, not quit - unless they were prepared to take a 5-year break from their careers. Nobody likes the idea of defection, any more than most folks would applaud divorce - but ideals are to aspire to while realpolitik plays by different rules. It's easy to bitch from the political sidelines but I doubt you and I would last a week in the rough-&-tumble game of politics! :-)

To Cyril: which analyst is claiming 4.5% growth? D...

2009-02-08T20:28:00.000+08:00

To Cyril: which analyst is claiming 4.5% growth? Do send me the report. I would like to know which areas specifically he expects growth in.

To Anonymous citing Myanmar: Scary thoughts indeed, but I agree, It is something, unfortunately, that no longer seems implausible.

Najib is Malaysia's own Dick Cheney - schemer behi...

2009-02-08T11:49:00.000+08:00

Najib is Malaysia's own Dick Cheney - schemer behind everyone's back.

And such irony when Malaysians protest about the rights of Palestinians in Gaza when our own Perak rakyat have been robbed. This could have been averted if the DUN was dissolved or by elections held for the assemblymen who resigned.

I am so pissed off.

Notwithstanding this, an analyst told me today tha...

2009-02-06T23:04:00.000+08:00

Notwithstanding this, an analyst told me today that Malaysia's economy will still grown by 4.5%. What's your take on it?

Cyril

I could see Myanmar's shadow in Umno's rule. I hop...

2009-02-06T18:32:00.000+08:00

I could see Myanmar's shadow in Umno's rule. I hope i'm wrong..

This whole thing stinks to high heaven. BN's ener...

2009-02-05T15:02:00.000+08:00

This whole thing stinks to high heaven. BN's energy should have been better expanded on ways to tackle the economic crisis but NOOO they have to go and create political uncertainties. We, the people, are going to suffer. I for one will know who to vote in the next election. I will not forget.

- Collateral Damage -

There is difference between defection and abductio...

2009-02-05T13:26:00.000+08:00

There is difference between defection and abduction. WE can't blame DSAI for this. Did he abduct Bota assemblyman like Najib abducted PKR men? Obviously not. Furthermore, Anwar doesn't have federal power to threaten anyone let alone use money to induce. If money was give the Bota man, would have defected to Umno again? Here we have Excos who were abducted, blackmailed and apart from money were promised corruption clearance. Nothing of the sort was carried out by the PR leadership. The DAP lady deceived her party since she always said that she was a DAP woman. But she was waiting for the completion for the programme and within minutes decided to switch sides. PKR forced Bota man to go to his voters and explain and he did. He was reabducted and we know what happened. There should be a difference here.

"The Barisan Nasional (BN) is quite clearly still ...

2009-02-05T13:10:00.000+08:00

"The Barisan Nasional (BN) is quite clearly still focused on politicking and seeking to wrest, by hook or by crook, what the people don't want it to have – the right to govern in 5 states in Malaysia. Rather than using its vast majority in Parliament – just 8 seats short of 2/3rds! - and all the resources it controls as Federal government to help Malaysia navigate this global economic storm, it is still politicking, nearly one year after the general elections."

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced in 2006 that the new LRT lines linking Kota Damansara and Cheras would be operational in 2010.

Unfortunately, the LRT extension is expected to be ready only in 2013.

Did the government really taking care of the people?