Zahid puts his own & Najib's neck on the line -why?
After being caught by surprise with the exposure of the letter he wrote to Deputy Director of the FBI Mr. Mark F. Giuliano, Dato’ Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has not been able to give a credible explanation to those who have been asking him about the letter and its content.
The best he could do was to explain to the cabinet and we all know that most of the ministers are ‘Cap Ayam” (the ubiquitous Hen brand)! Zahid could have told them any “cock and bull” story and they will simply nod their heads in agreement without understanding what has been going on!
Zahid boasted that he has the authority to write such letter. But of course he can write any letter as he wishes as the Home Minister, but everybody is asking about its content! Zahid did not make a mistake; he made a huge blunder in admitting that Phua who is a known gambling kingpin has helped the government, yes, the Government of Malaysia not in a one off incident but on numerous occasions!
National security or illegal activity
What kind of help could that be? It must be something illegal! If not the Umno/BN government would simply entrust PDRM to undertake all the assignments! That is why PDRM is not happy with Zahid. Zahid is allowing it to happen under PDRM’s nose!
It has got nothing to do with our national security because PDRM is able to undertake the responsibility if there is no interference! By the way, is PDRM to be blamed for the lax in our national security? But that is another story.
Let us make some guesses on what kind of illegal thing it could be. Well it could be simple enough because it has got to do with money, because everybody loves money and Phua is involved in money too.
Could it be hot money, black money, kickback money, usher money, stolen money, illegal gambling money, election money, blackmail money, drug money, laundered money or our money? We may never know.
Even in Umno, what Zahid did is not acceptable to many
What Zahid has done is also not acceptable to many Umno people and at the grassroots level, just like the RM250 million NFC cow-condo debacle! It is more so when Datuk Seri Najib Razak is so vulnerable at this period of time and instead of helping to improve the situation, Zahid has created another issue to worsen the situation!
The attacks on Najib are not going to slow down, it is gaining momentum. Yet Zahid has not done anything substantial in defending Najib; the one who has been helping him to get to this position now! Zahid is more concerned in saving his own butt, but maybe he does not care about Najib anymore because as Home Minister he knows something is cooking up. Let us wait and see.
Anyhow, if Zahid is of high stature and not just a big bully with a loud mouth, he should own up, be a man. He is only being timid by hiding behind the power and apparatus at his disposal.
Another thing to note is that Zahid has been willing to defend Phua in front of the cabinet and sidelined Najib. It sure speaks volume on the relationship between him and Phua.
Maybe Zahid is stuck with Phua and is willing to do anything for him, such that he is willing to embrace Phua and even kiss his shoes when Phua returns home to Malaysia. Phua, Zahid must really love you so much!
.To become a visionary leader PM Najib has to outgrow It is as plain as daylight that Budget 2015 must be revised in the wake of plunging world oil prices, given that some 30% of government revenue comes from petroleum. In addition, it has been noted, the unprecedented ferocity of the year-end floods which will require a multi-billion ringgit reconstruction effort means that development expenditure must be reallocated to rehabilitate damaged infrastructure and restore normalcy to the victims’ lives and the economies of the affected regions.Last week, Prime Minister and Finance Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak indicated, not a day too soon, that an announcement about a possible restructuring of the budget to address these challenges would be made this week.
Analysts have noted that a confluence of external and internal factors in recent months – including the oil price shock, capital outflow, flood devastation and 1MDB’s performance, besides corrosive political developments – have heightened concerns about the prospects for the Malaysian economy, both in the immediate future and the longer term.
Nevertheless, the current adversities present an invaluable opportunity to set right the ship of state, which is showing alarming signs that it is heading for the rocks.
Although it is evident that the budget revision exercise would encompass the rationalisation of government expenditure through a raft of measures including cost-cutting and the de-prioritisation of non-urgent projects and programmes, it is essential to acknowledge that these steps do not address fundamental issues of governance that are at the heart of Malaysia’s development dilemma.
Chief among these is the current paradigm of political financing that nullifies the entire infrastructure of checks and balances that are central to democratic rule, from the principle of separation of powers to parliamentary oversight of national affairs to the practice of transparency and accountability.
In fact, attempting to instil fiscal discipline in the public administration without addressing the underlying decay in governance is essentially an exercise in futility. In a word, we must be serious about cleaning out the Augean stables of public office built on rent-seeking and patronage if we truly care to ensure a bright future for the country.
To put the government budget back on a sustainable track, wind back its ballooning operating expenditure and address the structural problems that are weighing down the economy, it is necessary first of all to commit ourselves to a functioning system of public accountability that enables the key democratic institutions to scrutinise public policies and performance and prevent the whole range of aberrations that are giving rise to grave concerns even about the viability of the country.
A common step taken by debt counsellors to help an individual debtor overcome the addiction to easy credit is to literally cut up the debtor’s credit cards before him or her. An equivalent action is necessary to cut the attachment of the political parties and their leaders to friendly business interests to finance their war chests and oil their political machinery.
This will require a radical shift in the political culture in order for political parties to introduce a transparent system of political financing, where private funding is open to scrutiny, public funding of political activity is given a bigger role and spending limits for political campaigns effectively enforced. There is no shortage of time-tested models of political financing in mature democracies that can be adapted to the local situation, if the political will for it can be summoned.
However, the tools of transparency must be fairly applied and not used by incumbents in office as a means of ferreting out the financial backers of political opponents in order to penalise them. It will not work if it is used to produce a zero sum game.
Is such a level playing field even conceivable in the current political climate? Although the issue is fraught with difficulties, there is perhaps no other choice for Malaysia but to start on a fresh slate, given that the template for political financing that is currently being used threatens to drain the lifeblood from the nation.
Admittedly, this matter can only be given serious attention if the key stakeholders in the situation recognise that the political equation that was set in place at the time of the nation’s independence is in an extremely fragile state after close to six decades and therefore, that a powerful new inclusive formula must be introduced to give the diverse Malaysian people a fighting chance to pull together to build a vibrant future.
Enough unease has been generated by the polarising influences of racial and religious politics to show that for Malaysia to become a successful nation, it must quash the idea of organising society along communal lines and start afresh. In its place, a multi-cultural approach is essential, albeit in tune with constitutional safeguards for Malay rights, to attune the people and economy towards an era of globalisation.
To turn the country away from the insular, antagonistic thinking that is being given disproportionate attention today, national institutions and leaders must project an open, forward-looking outlook that encourages Malaysians to see themselves in the global context, both as consumers and producers in a progressive and productive future.
That will require the political establishment to discard the race-tinted glasses through which the nation’s affairs, including its economy, people and culture are viewed, although that ensures them a permanent spot in the news. To make the change happen, they will only need to abandon self-interest in favour of the national interest.
Because laughter is the subversive substitution of the mirror of narcissistic self-esteem in which the megalomaniac views himself with the distorting mirror of the fun fair in which the megalomaniac is shown not as the way he sees himself but as the way others see him.
Laughter in the time of intolerance can be a deadly dangerous business precisely because it is so, it becomes all the more necessary in the face of those who would silence laughter, perhaps the single-most significant attribute to distinguish the human animal from all other species.The enemies of laughter, now and forever, are the enemies of humanity itself: the tyrannies and dictatorships that call themselves by different names but all of which seek to make us submit to the rule of fear.Different names for the same genetic code that has undergone a monstrous mutation. The emperor walks about proudly arrayed in the regal finery the court tailor has specially designed for him. The crowd, mesmerised by monarchy, gapes in awe and wonder. Then a little boy pipes up, “Why, he doesn’t have any clothes on at all!”
And the admiring crowd erupts into raucous laughter. Mortified at having been made to see himself as he is seen by others, stripped of the mystique of majesty, the emperor banishes himself into exile and takes up a McDonald’s franchise under an assumed name. One of folklore’s many victims of the WMD — Weapon of Megalomaniacal Deflation — of laughter.
One of the biggest tyrants of all time, amass murderer who dreamt of establishing a thousand-year Reich, was targeted by the WMD of laughter by a Little Tramp in The Great Dictator. No amount of Panzer divisions could repel an offensive that succeeded in its mission of caricaturising Hitler, as Leslie Charteris put it, “a magnetic madman with a Charlie Chaplin moustache”. The all-conquering Führer reduced to farce through the power of laughter.
Once have I laughed at the power of love, And twice at the grip of the grave.
And thrice have I patted my god on the head,
That men might call me brave.
The emperor walks about proudly arrayed in the regal finery the court tailor has specially designed for him. The crowd, mesmerised by monarchy, gapes in awe and wonder. Then a little boy pipes up, “Why, he doesn’t have any clothes on at all!”
And the admiring crowd erupts into raucous laughter. Mortified at having been made to see himself as he is seen by others, stripped of the mystique of majesty, the emperor banishes himself into exile and takes up a McDonald’s franchise under an assumed name. One of folklore’s many victims of the WMD — Weapon of Megalomaniacal Deflation — of laughter.
One of the biggest tyrants of all time, amass murderer who dreamt of establishing a thousand-year Reich, was targeted by the WMD of laughter by a Little Tramp in The Great Dictator. No amount of Panzer divisions could repel an offensive that succeeded in its mission of caricaturising Hitler, as Leslie Charteris put it, “a magnetic madman with a Charlie Chaplin moustache”. The all-conquering Führer reduced to farce through the power of laughter.
in full public view is an entirely different kettle of piss, as some might say. that if you happen to see Ahmad Maslan ‘committing nuisance’ – which is officialese for doing pee-pee in inappropriate placesDeputy Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan should apologise for misleading the public with his "false claim" on the amount Putrajaya has spent on flood victims, you should take a snapshot of him which then will be circulated on social media like FB. Social media have helped overthrow regressive governments. However, getting rid of dictators is one thing,The PM’s come with ideas and the party has tried to project them as grand visions — but no one has explained
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