wonder that Penang-borned Chinese wonder boy is in Los Angeles when Rosmah was busy doing her christmas shopping for 5 days. This Chinese wonder boy is a good friend of Paris Hilton
Malaysia is very creative country. The government will come up with all sorts of smokescreens, thinking that the people can be easily fooled. What a way to make a fool of himself. Even his ardent Umno supporters will know that Najib went to Bangkok to try to take the blame away from apparently his wife's use of the 9M-NAA government jet.
It was reported that the government jet was not with the PM, who is one of the few persons who have the right to use it, while he cut short his holidays flying back on an Air Force plane instead, leaving the government jet behind travelling to many unknown destinations and presumably ferrying mystery passengers at the expense of Malaysian taxpayers’ money.
Then the script take a very creative turn with the government jet reportedly landing in Thailand, and then conveniently our much loved and caring PM was suddenly discussing with the Thai PM on nothing but of course also conveniently on the issue of the current flooding disaster.
No matter how stupid that the Malaysian government may think about us, it could not simply fool all the Malaysian people.
A lie for a lie, and a truth for a truth, on the political poker table, is still acceptable, if it comes at the end of unending Ask them to clarify the route that Rosmah took from Hawaii to Bangkok.
now we want to hear from you, a true story. Please elaborate what kind of technical issue that you need government jet 9M-NAA to fly all the way to IND to get it fixed and why not do it in LAX or HNL? Can you show the proof from third parties which involved in handling your technical issue?
It is better to argue over our stupidities, than to end them with gunpowder.
Gov't jet didn't stay in US for Najib's family'
Najib to officially declare that the passengers - and the Christmas shopping goods - in the government jet, 9M-NAA, to be under the Official Secrets Act very soon. This will put an end to the controversy. All said and done. our concern here is why is the PM not coming out to clarify or tell the rakyat about the use of the plane and who was/were on it during his absence. Just an honest answer will suffice.
There are two key questions here involving the use of the government jet, as we understand, the jet is exclusive to top government officials, not civilians.
1. PM Najib Razak rushed back from Hawaii to Kelantan. Why did he have to leave his exclusive mode of transport behind and incur additional expense with an alternative? Was the plane incapacitated? No, it went jetsetting all over the globe, which means it is in good condition.
2. Since Najib has ordered all his ministers home, no one is available to take the exclusive jet around the world in eight days. So who is doing it? The pilot? He better have a good reason. If not the pilot, who? Who is more VIP than Najib?
Now, doing the math, Najib told the whole world he had to rush back “from his holiday without his family”. So it was a holiday, said the PM.
But he made the excuse earlier he was in Hawaii to meet US President Barack Obama for “golf diplomacy”. So was it work or holiday?
Another important question for the PM - are VIPs’ families allowed to fly on a government jet on their private business? I understand one trip a year is allowed, but to what extent? What about the rest of the family?
Umno lackeys claim the PM is concerned about wife’s safety. So be it, in this case, shouldn’t they pay the government market rates for the flight, and not get a free ride?
That's proper accountability and transparency. I have no issue with the PM's family tagging along, as long as they pay the same as they would charge a normal Joe to do so.
I worked with Hong Kong government before, and even if the PM can bring his wife on an official holiday, there has to be a cap to the expense in line with his position. It can’t be a blank check.
Hong Kong outlined strict guidelines for maximum claims for all allowances. For example, the government would pay the holiday up to a certain amount, the excess of which the officer has to foot himself.
I believe it's standard practice worldwide, but I don’t think that’s the case with our VIPs, it’s like our money is their money to splurge.
1. PM Najib Razak rushed back from Hawaii to Kelantan. Why did he have to leave his exclusive mode of transport behind and incur additional expense with an alternative? Was the plane incapacitated? No, it went jetsetting all over the globe, which means it is in good condition.
2. Since Najib has ordered all his ministers home, no one is available to take the exclusive jet around the world in eight days. So who is doing it? The pilot? He better have a good reason. If not the pilot, who? Who is more VIP than Najib?
Now, doing the math, Najib told the whole world he had to rush back “from his holiday without his family”. So it was a holiday, said the PM.
But he made the excuse earlier he was in Hawaii to meet US President Barack Obama for “golf diplomacy”. So was it work or holiday?
Another important question for the PM - are VIPs’ families allowed to fly on a government jet on their private business? I understand one trip a year is allowed, but to what extent? What about the rest of the family?
Umno lackeys claim the PM is concerned about wife’s safety. So be it, in this case, shouldn’t they pay the government market rates for the flight, and not get a free ride?
That's proper accountability and transparency. I have no issue with the PM's family tagging along, as long as they pay the same as they would charge a normal Joe to do so.
I worked with Hong Kong government before, and even if the PM can bring his wife on an official holiday, there has to be a cap to the expense in line with his position. It can’t be a blank check.
Hong Kong outlined strict guidelines for maximum claims for all allowances. For example, the government would pay the holiday up to a certain amount, the excess of which the officer has to foot himself.
I believe it's standard practice worldwide, but I don’t think that’s the case with our VIPs, it’s like our money is their money to splurge.
So, it took PM office more than 8 days to replied for the "missing" of 9M-NAA. As expected a lame excuse is given but why on earth is it flying across the globe with so many stops in US, UK, Middle East and Bangkok. Will PM office be issuing another statement that it was to test flight the plane after its repair?
If the plane 9M-NAA was not used by Najib’s family, it is even more irresponsible to fly an empty plane from Hawaii, L.A. to Indianapolis (to and fro), then New York, London, Dubai and Bangkok (grounded in Bangkok for 3 days) and then back to Klia. Did the plane run on water? The empty plane should fly direct back to klia using the shortest route i.e. via Hong Kong. Why no one in Prime Minister Office dared to make an official statement?The PMO must be using Pony Express and not email to reply to Kadir's story about the PM's missing jet.
Day to day truth lies shall still be significant hurdles. How is so personal a whisper as, “Not tonight Josephine…” by the shrewd Napoleon gain so much of popularity? Was it some sort of restriction on his generals?
Caesar’s wife should be above suspicion, actually means that Caesar’s wife anyway is suspicion!
But some specific questions aren’t going to be easy to answer. “Who was that next to you at the New Year Eve dance
She was adamant that I look no further after seeing her,
But it was my passion to keep greeting everyone)
If one was to say that it does not exist at all, that would be the biggest lie. On the other hand, if one was to say, that it is “truth” that there are lies, ample lies, that does not define truth in its full expanse. Poles apart in meaning, one (lie) has liberties to change its content, whereas the more preferable ‘truth’ may have to pass through multiple mandatory tests. Accusations have the liberty to be aimed without a question asked.She was adamant that I look no further after seeing her,
But it was my passion to keep greeting everyone)
It is better to argue over our stupidities, than to end them with gunpowder.
Gov't jet didn't stay in US for Najib's family' So, it took PM office more than 8 days to replied for the "missing" of 9M-NAA. As expected a lame excuse is given but why on earth is it flying across the globe with so many stops in US, UK, Middle East and Bangkok. Will PM office be issuing another statement that it was to test flight the plane after its repair?
If the plane 9M-NAA was not used by Najib’s family, it is even more irresponsible to fly an empty plane from Hawaii, L.A. to Indianapolis (to and fro), then New York, London, Dubai and Bangkok (grounded in Bangkok for 3 days) and then back to Klia. Did the plane run on water? The empty plane should fly direct back to klia using the shortest route i.e. via Hong Kong. Why no one in Prime Minister Office dared to make an official statement?The PMO must be using Pony Express and not email to reply to Kadir's story about the PM's missing jet.
A new year begins, but the arena of human strife and strike has the same, in-fact newer tactics in its multi-sequenced combat repertoire. There are more “meets”, “conclaves”, agreements” today than ever before, but the foregone conclusion has been “to take up the core agenda in the next “meet”. “Summits” more or less sum it up, venues as Camp David, Davos, Doha, or Copenhagen the result is the same. Matters between two countries often are postponed due to third party interference, and equally because a third party actually did not approach. Wars in the background have been no less, but there is some sign of closure with the US calling it a day in Afghanistan. Political meets have somehow changed to negations of nullity, with a lie for a truth, a lie for a lie, and further cross combinations. Even with lavish hospitality, pre-summit negations, the political faces come out smiling, waving and unabashedly claiming, “the talks were successful, we really did not abuse each other out, no sledging, no parliamentary language or behavior. This is a step forward, and we shall fix an appropriate venue later after getting back to our people”. Surely expletives as “sob”, “.itch”, another “.itch” are uttered and at times embarrassingly caught on the mikes.
To solve a diplomatic hurdle would be to dissolve your political identity, even vacate your political agenda. Besides wars generate a lot of aid and money. Peace and lives are dispensable.
The lie-truth sequence that involve human interaction from the street corner to diplomatic closets, perhaps came about after the first transgression in cardinal rules in the garden of Eden. But though humanity was condemned, there was light, water, land as ordered. The earth is still a sort of paradise regained.
Great mythological lies go back to Penelope who kept suitors at bay for twenty years, till the return of Ullysses. The Trojan horse was a battalion of lies. The D-day, was actually an uncertain, and highly skeptical campaign. One million allied soldiers were to be shifted across to the French Coast, with estimated mortality for the first batch around 90%. All along the build –up, the Germans were keeping a close watch, and had moved ample forces to the coast. Churchill confessed he wasn’t sure, Gen Patton had grave doubts, Roosevelt held his head in his hands when the brave 101stairborne took off. He had penciled a note already, that in case of a reverse, he would hold himself solely responsible.
There was just one factor in favor. The Germans were not sure of the place of landings. Normandy was on their list. One of the most the most consistent, effective concoctions were created by a Spaniard Juan Pujol Garcia (code named Garbo), who pretended to be a fanatic follower of Nazism, but was actually an Allies’s spy. He could convince the attack would be at Pas de Calais. Germany retained two armored divisions and 19 infantry divisions at Calais, even two months after the Normandy attack. Gen Rommel was denied his elite Panzer commandos. That became the beginning of the end of the war.
Diplomatic truth and lies, of more recent times have much to do with the subcontinent. The imminent split on religious grounds was sparked in the round table conference, and the Mahatma was concerned about it. Someone must have been working overtime, for the amount of bloodshed seen can never be explained on the pre-independence milieu. Division of land and people entirely on religious grounds, with death to the non-believer was the new demon created. A demon created by an imperial power that was at ease ruling almost every other religion, including tribal and aborigines.
A reclusive China, was converted into a US trading partner by a clandestine overnight visit by Henry Kissinger, one of the most decorated world diplomats of our times. US-China trade, the growth of Chinese economy, finally led to political-economic weakening of USSR, and the break-up the Republic, and the Berlin war.
Kissinger, for that matter was radically against Indian involvement of Bangladesh, and toned down the wordings of the Shimla Agreement. He is on record for have used some base slang and abuse for Indra Gandhi. Today, of course, his opinions are different, but a great diplomat as diplomacy goes. Also, at any given time he sorts out equations as identified by his country.
Truth and lies behind the J&K history are many. The status at partition, Sheikh Abdullah’s understanding with Nehru, the treaties from Tashkent to Agra lined up, MJ Akbar’s various analysis and writings appear rather astute and scholarly. Religious divides, political opinions have their place and means to resolve. Human dignity, safety, constitutional guarantees have to be uncoupled from the previously mentioned issues.
Coming to “Truth”, the sheet-anchor of our existence, it is respect for each other, uniform distribution of means of life for each. Economic growth, education, and health are the ways to wipe out short sighted divisive trickery, which somehow has become an addiction to the masses.
So says the Prime Minister's Office in a statement to veteran newsman A Kadir Jasin.
The government's VIP jet, which stayed behind in the United States for several days after Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak returned to Malaysia, was not meant for the use of Najib's family, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has explained.
A lie for a lie, and a truth for a truth, on the political poker table, is still acceptable, if it comes at the end of unending Ask them to clarify the route that Rosmah took from Hawaii to Bangkok.
now we want to hear from you, a true story. Please elaborate what kind of technical issue that you need government jet 9M-NAA to fly all the way to IND to get it fixed and why not do it in LAX or HNL? Can you show the proof from third parties which involved in handling your technical issue?
It is better to argue over our stupidities, than to end them with gunpowder.
Gov't jet didn't stay in US for Najib's family'
So, it took PM office more than 8 days to replied for the "missing" of 9M-NAA. As expected a lame excuse is given but why on earth is it flying across the globe with so many stops in US, UK, Middle East and Bangkok. Will PM office be issuing another statement that it was to test flight the plane after its repair?
If the plane 9M-NAA was not used by Najib’s family, it is even more irresponsible to fly an empty plane from Hawaii, L.A. to Indianapolis (to and fro), then New York, London, Dubai and Bangkok (grounded in Bangkok for 3 days) and then back to Klia. Did the plane run on water? The empty plane should fly direct back to klia using the shortest route i.e. via Hong Kong. Why no one in Prime Minister Office dared to make an official statement?The PMO must be using Pony Express and not email to reply to Kadir's story about the PM's missing jet.
If “Allies”, someway were “all lies”(more controversies and casualties post war cold war, mid-east crises, Vietnam, Indo-Pak than casualties during war, and “Axis”, is what an “Axe is”,) hopefully the aftermath is ebbing out.
2015, onwards confrontations are going to be more on the lines of “lie-truths”. Acceptable, as there shall be less bloodshed!
Day to day truth lies shall still be significant hurdles. How is so personal a whisper as, “Not tonight Josephine…” by the shrewd Napoleon gain so much of popularity? Was it some sort of restriction on his generals?
Caesar’s wife should be above suspicion, actually means that Caesar’s wife anyway is suspicion!
But some specific questions aren’t going to be easy to answer. “Who was that next to you at the New Year Eve dance?
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