Three idiots and a scam that won’t die
The Barisan Nasional (BN) did not steal victory from the opposition in the 13th general election (GE13), said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
He said Malaysia practised a parliamentary democratic system as enshrined in the federal constitution whereby BN had won general elections based on winning more seats to form the government and not based on the popular votes system.
“The claim that we stole victory from the opposition is a falsehood because we did not cheat in the recent GE13.
Hypnotising people to the truth Now there is Flora.
Always watch out for ‘The Big Obsessive Scam’ the media goes after. It often covers up a great deal more than it reveals. It also draws away our immediate attention from issues where we were about to get close to a dangerous truth or two. Poirot famously described it as a red herring, a cunning device to draw people’s attention away from real issues to focus on a non sequitur MacGuffin.
Like the MacGuffin, which Hitchcock made cult, The Big Obsessive Scam vanishes or becomes irrelevant once its purpose is over. This is what the spot fixing scam could be: Too much outrage chasing what matters so little to most of us. The evidence in hand is flimsy, so flimsy that it’s unlikely to get past the smallest court but the noise around it is so much one would think World War III has broken out.
The day news channels were chasing Gurunath Meiyappan all the way from Kodaikanal to Madurai to Mumbai to the Crime Branch at midnight, millions were happily sitting in front of their TVs watching Mumbai Indians battling Rajasthan Royals at the Eden Gardens, proving yet again that there are two Indias with their own sets of concerns and priorities. I confess I was among those watching the game, rooting for Rahul Dravid whose team lost with a ball to spare.
But this column is not about two Indias. What bothers me is the carpet bombing scam coverage that ensured there were no goodbyes for the man who with evangelical zeal exposed the sleazy underbelly of Indian politics over the past 5 years, and did his best to set it right. Worse, there was no debate over who his successor ought to be. So the Government sneaked in its own nominee, clearly to undo some of the outstanding work Vinod Rai, India’s bravest Comptroller and Auditor General did in his own low key style.
That may not be so easy though. Rai made the 153-year-old office of CAG a powerful weapon in his fight against corruption by the mightiest in the land. Till Rai came, CAG saw its job as writing long winding reports, more often than not hugely delayed, on the inefficiencies in government systems. None of those reports had the kind of impact that Rai’s reports created, especially those on 2G (revealing $38.9 billion gifted away by the Government to its cronies), coal mining licences (involving another $34 billion loss of revenue) and the infamous Commonwealth Games that brought us so much shame. Courts intervened, including the highest court in the land; ministers landed up in jail or got shamed and sacked; investigations landed up at the Prime Minister’s door.
Amidst all this outrage over spot fixing, Rai quietly demitted office last week. He was even more quietly replaced by someone less likely to expose the Government’s lapses. Several other crucial issues that were being debated in the public space, like China’s incursions in Ladakh, the Vadera land deals, Muslim youth arrested and held for years on trumped up terrorist charges and now being released and, above all, the Supreme Court demanding the freeing of the CBI from the Government’s unholy clutches are now on the backburner. Even the Ranbaxy issue, where intrepid whistle blower Dinesh Thakur exposed the grave misdemeanours of one of India’s leading pharma companies and the dangers implicit in those for millions of us who buy its products, have been largely ignored. All we are left discussing are 3 idiots, a C-grade TV star, a lecherous umpire and a boastful son-in-law of the BCCI chairman, all of whom may well be crooks and fixers but must not be allowed to hijack the nation’s attention and agenda.
A father-in-law is the last person to know what his son-in-law is up to. Allowing him to stay in his holiday home in Kodaikanal is not the same as endorsing his petty vices or (as yet unsubstantiated) attempts to fix IPL matches. I may be a lone voice saying this. But I really think we are all playing into the hands of those who have much more to hide than these dolts. Srinivasan’s enemies (and heaven knows, he has far too many of them) are having a field day. But ask yourself, do you really care whether he heads the BCCI or Sharad Pawar. Or Rajiv Shukla. Frankly, my dear I don’t give a damn.
She smiles through adversity;
Businesswoman Flora Ong has denied being involved in any intimate relationship with embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak or being the recipient of 2 major government contracts worth billions of ringgit.This Flora Ong who hails from Kota Tinggi is not a simple remisier in Kenanga as you may think she is. She started as a partner in a restaurant by the name of “Xin” back in the heydays of late 80s in Wisma MPI of Jalan Raja Chulan. Her partner then was the younger broker of Kuek LC, the supremo at Hong Leong. Also the first to screwed her. Offering only sex, obviously the business won’t last long when the man get bored with the same “abalone” everyday. AfterThe issue is not with Flora. She can have intimate relationships with anyone she wants as long as with consent and not under-aged.
The issue is with Najib. He is a married man. Rossie’s tolerance, which is unlikely, does not mean it is acceptable to Malaysians. It is moral issue with Najib as a leader!
Please say something to us. Rosmah can also sing to us if she doesnt want to speak.
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It is clear Deepak has more details than he has revealed so far, and these are bound to be even more sizzling.
Britain has recorded its first ever Muslim lesbian couple to get married in a civil ceremony.
Two former students from Pakistan — Rehana Kausar, 34, and Sobia Kamar, 29, took their vows at a registry office in Leeds earlier this month.
They have now applied for political asylum sincehomosexual relations are illegal in Pakistan.
Relatives of the couple said to the Independent that the women, who studied in Birmingham, had received death threats both in the UK and from opponents in their native Pakistan.
During the ceremony the couple reportedly told the registrar that they had met three years ago while studying business and health care management at Birmingham, having travelled to the country onstudent visas, and had been living together in South Yorkshire for about a year.
Ms Kausar, originally from Lahore, also holds a master’s degree in economics from Punjab University.
“This country allows us rights and it’s a very personal decision that we have taken. It’s no one’s business as to what we do with our personal lives,” she originally told the Birmingham-based Sunday Mercury newspaper.
“The problem with Pakistan is that everyone believes he is in charge of other people lives and can best decide about the morals of others but that’s not the right approach. We are in this state because of our clergy, who have hijacked our society, which was once tolerant and respected individuals’ freedoms.”
Homosexual sex is illegal under Pakistani law, said the Independent. There are also no laws prohibiting discrimination or harassment on the basis of sexual orientation.
In recent years in Britain, some Muslim gay and lesbian couples have opted for a nikah, an Islamic matrimonial contract, which is officially the reserve of heterosexuals.
These services, conducted in Arabic with additional duas – prayers – are not recognised in the UK unless accompanied by a civil ceremony. Homosexuality is strictly forbidden in the Islamic faith and the notion of same-sex marriage is abhorrent to many Muslims, Independent said.
A relative of one of the women told the Sunday Mercury: “The couple did not have an Islamic marriage ceremony, known as a nikah, as they could not find an imam to conduct what would have been a controversial ceremony. They have been very brave throughout as our religion does not condone homosexuality. The couple have had their lives threatened both here and in Pakistan and there is no way they could ever return there.”
Ruth Hunt, deputy chief executive for Stonewall, said: “There is a very cautious step towards social visibility for some gay men in Pakistan but lesbians are completely invisible. Pakistan is not necessarily a safe place for couples to be open about their love.”
An audacious lesbian love story featuring hardcore sex, “Blue is the Warmest Colour” by French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche, won the top prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival in a watershed year for gay rights.
An all-star jury at cinema’s top showcase led this year by Hollywood director Steven Spielberg crowned the graphically erotic coming-of-age story set in France and clocking in at an epic three hours.
In an unusual step, Spielberg awarded the prize to Kechiche as well as the film’s two stars, Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux, who joined him on stage to cheers and calls of “bravo” from the ceremony’s audience.
“I should like to dedicate this film to the wonderful youth of France whom I met during the long period while making this film,” said Kechiche.
“Those young people taught me a lot about the spirit of freedom and living together.”
The Tunis-born Kechiche, 52, also hailed the spirit of the Arab Spring as he claimed his gong in what critics called a strong year at the festival.
“I would also like to dedicate this film to other youth, something which happened not so very long ago, the revolution in Tunisia,” he said.
“They also have this aspiration to live free, to express themselves freely and to love in full freedom.”
Spielberg said choice of the international jury including fellow Oscar winners Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman and Christoph Waltz had been unanimous.
“For me, the film is a great love story and the fact that it is a great love story made all of us feel like we were privileged, not embarrassed, to be flies on the wall but privileged to have been invited to see this story of deep love and deep heartbreak evolve from the beginning, in a wonderful way where time stood still,” he told reporters.
“We were absolutely spellbound by the brilliance of the performances of those amazing young actresses and all the cast, and especially by the way the director observed his players, the way he just let the characters breathe. We just all found it was a profound love story,” he added.
“We were just happy that someone had the courage to tell the story the way they told it,” he said.
The runner-up award, the Grand Prix, went to Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Inside Llewyn Davis” starring Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake and newcomer Oscar Isaac in the title role, which delighted audiences with a mix of soulful 1960s folk singing and absurdist humour.
The Coens’ film “Barton Fink” won Cannes in 1991 and the brothers last entered the running in 2007 with “No Country for Old Men”.
Mexico’s Amat Escalante claimed best director for the ultra-violent “Heli” about his country’s blood-drenched drug wars.
The 34-year-old filmmaker showed a family trapped in a vicious circle of crime and revenge, with torture scenes that left some queasy viewers running for the exits.
French actress Berenice Bejo clinched best actress honours as a harried Parisian mother in Iranian Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi’s patchwork family drama “The Past”.
Bejo, 36, made her name in the hit French silent movie “The Artist”.
One of the stars of Hollywood’s 1970s golden age, 76-year-old Bruce Dern, took the best actor prize for his performance as an alcoholic father in Alexander Payne’s recession-era road movie “Nebraska”.
China’s Jia Zhangke won the best screenplay award for “A Touch of Sin”, which offered a shocking look at rampant corruption in his country and exploitation of downtrodden citizens, who can only respond with violent rage.
And an emotional Japanese family drama about young boys switched at birth, Hirokazu Koreeda’s “Like Father, Like Son”, bagged the third-place jury prize.
Adapted from a graphic novel of the same name, “Blue” emerged as a favourite for the Golden Palm immediately after its premiere.
It traces lead character Adele’s infatuation with a beautiful blue-haired art student played by Seydoux, while also exploring themes such as class in France and women’s careers.
“Sure to raise eyebrows with its show-stopping scenes of non-simulated female copulation, the film is actually much more than that: it’s a passionate, poignantly handled love story,” a Hollywood Reporter critic said.
“You realise the film has won your heart without ever really asking for it, and you leave the cinema utterly lovesick,” said London’s Daily Telegraph critic Robbie Collin.
The award came on the day of a major demonstration in Paris against a new law making France the 14th country worldwide to legalise same-sex marriage.
In a year in which gay themes resonated on and off screen, Steven Soderbergh’s made-for-TV biopic of celebrity pianist Liberace and his long-time lover, “Behind the Candelabra”, also drew praise at Cannes for its stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon readmore.BUMBLING WIFE, ROSMAH MANSOR and the price for R
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