Najib’s ‘state of the union’ address. Although not touted as such, the so-called ‘presidential style’ of the Najib Abdul Razak administration is said to be a winning factor for the BN ahead of the 13th general election.
There is no need to go over old ground as to whether a presidential style is a winning formula. We will soon find out when Malaysians go to the polls.
But what is more troubling will be the rising temperature as competition for every vote becomes more intense, and for some quarters, more desperatelike NajibUmno president Najib said Muhyiddin Yassin weakness is not only due to Umno but to Najib
Key personalities have already sounded the alarm. Former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad Najib is history
A section of the second Penang bridge which is under construction at Batu Maung here collapsed at around 6.50pm.
The section of about 30m in length had collapsed . READ MORE Section of Second Penang Bridge collapses
A Kadir Jasin says this is because all sorts of rumours and false news can be spread on the devices.
A veteran media practitioner believes that the common smartphone, and its more than common capabilities, may cause trouble in the 13th general election (GE13), if authorities are not prepared for it.
But our biggest ambiguities are moral. If -power missuse. is fine, why are bribes bad? If bribes are bad, why is it perfectly legit to have brokers and middlemen? If you hire a broker to find a flat, why is it wrong to hire a broker to buy a why is it wrong to pay speed money to quicken the pace of a file or a permit? If fake encounters are legit and the State can kill bad guys without a trial, why are honour crimes wrong? Isn’t the Panchayat an extension of the State? If the State can give grace marks to pass undeserving students, what’s wrong in an examiner doing it? The dividing line between right and wrong, already thin, begins to blur.
At the heart of a good story is good design. Consider this classic English kettle. Some will go ‘Ooh’, some will go ‘Aah’, some will call it bland. Nobody will mistake it for a shoerack: the functional aspect, what it’s meant to do, is clear as crystal. It boils water. Similarly, your online story needs to have an objective, a point, a call to action. Don’t put an extra faucet on the kettle in the interests of fashion or wit or worse, technology – you will divert your audience somewhere else. I will give you an example. A few days back, I put up a (Facebook) story about college kids applying for a NGO fellowship where they had to work with village school headmasters. Nice story potentially, nationbuillding. However, I put in a sub-story where a candidate quoted Jim Morrison. Now that completely hijacked the main story, people were more interested in the quote than the potential nationbuilders. Without realising, I had put an extra faucet on the kettle. It was no longer a simple kettle that boiled water. So keep it simple, keep it clean. Use whatever layers you want to, to give it uniqueness; but don’t let it kill your story. Design your story well, don’t just tell it.
the project commenced in 2007 and was completed in 2009, following which it was handed over to PLUS and Malaysia Highway Authority.
“It was financed by four developers and coordinated by the State Economic Planning Unit (UPEN),” he said.
The four developers are PKNS, Unduh Aspirasi, Taraf Unggul and Semai Ria.
The flyover was opened for use in 2009 but has been closed since December 2012 after the management detected that the pillars had shown some “movements”.
“There is some works carried by PLUS under the flyover,” said Othman, who added that he does not wish to blame anyone for the incident.
Blame Game
He said PKNS will set up a technical committee to identify the root cause of the incident.
“A third party consultant will also be appointed to find the cause and monitor the situation,” he said, while expressing PKNS’s commitment to resolve the problem.
According to China Press, the bridge was built near the river banks where the soil is loose. The authorities had upgraded its foundation few months ago.
A flyover undergoing repair works collapsed today at Interchange between the Putrajaya Toll Plaza and Putrajaya/Cyberjaya on the Lingkaran Putrajaya stretch here.
However, no one was injured in the incident, said Selangor Fire & Rescue Department assistant director of operations Mohd Sani Harul.It is learnt that the mishap did not affect traffic flow.
The news about the collapse broke out after twitter users started circulating photos of the flyover, which appeared to have broken into two. Twitter users said that the incident happened at about 1pm today.
Ruins of the flyover fell on parts of a Plus-owned highway that has been closed since December last year.
The authorities have yet to confirm the main cause of the incident.
When contacted Plus and PKNS have said they will issue a statement tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the police issued a statement via their Facebook page stating the bridge collapsed at 2.45pm and that it was not open for traffic.
Flyover closed on Dec 7, 2012
Meanwhile Works Minister Shaziman Abu Mansor said that he had ordered for the closure of the flyover on Dec 7, 2012 on safety ground after being informed of its structural defects.
“I signed a gazette to shut down this flyover on Dec 7, 2012, effective until Dec 31, 2013, depending on the completion of the repair works,” he said in a statement today.
Ha also said that an alternate route was created for motorists while inspections could be done by the relevant authorities on this flyover.
Najib :self-inflicted Sex, lies and abuse
In a worrying sign for internal security in Malaysia, investigating agencies believe the recent Lahad Datu Stand Off:is najib’s power game
PKR communications director Nik Nazmi has demanded that Prime Minister Najib Razak come clean on news reports that the Malaysian government had paid George W. Bush’s speechwriter to promote his administration while attacking Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.
“This has now become an international scandal involving most of the top international press. It is extremely embarrassing for Malaysia’s image to be associated in such a scandal,” Nik Nazmi, who is also the state assemblyman for Kelana Jaya, told a press conference on Wednesday.
“With the election around the corner it is time Najib comes clean on the matter. It is significant that while Najib continues to spend millions of the taxpayers’ money for spin and propaganda, he continues to evade Anwar’s call for a policy debate for the benefit of the Malaysian voters.”
The faithful and the committed fell hook, line and sinker forn’s fulsome praise form Mahathir’s moderation, as is evident from the adulatory res-ponse of his mesmerised audience. But the tension that marked the Mahathir relationship in the aftermath of the Besih 3 is too well documented for this belated appreciation to be anything more than a hollow ploy to widen his constituency.
Politicians are entitled to reinvent themselves. And because we live in an era of instant coffee, they believe, perhaps, that masks can be worn and shed at will and images changed with the wave of Rosmah’s hand. Najib has clearly decided to cast himself in the Anwar mould for his march to PUTRA JAYA again. But can he abandon the muscular brand of politics that has served him so well inMalaysia and made him a runaway success with theUMNO rank and file, for the conciliatory approach that made effective coalition leader? Can he shrink his 56-inch chest and soften his machismo to deal with the likes of Taib Mohd, Musa Aman Mahathir i and Sharizat?
The True Najib
Malaysians long yearning for a change applauded him. There were skeptics, of course.
Alas that was last week. This week the hopes of those citizens were cruelly crushed when they saw the real Najib with the announcement of his new cabinet. Far from being a team that would wow Malaysians, Najib’s cabinet was, as Tunku Aziz put it, “a team of recycled political expendables.” And a bloated one at that!
The skeptics were right; Najib’s earlier act was nothing but a big and cruel tease.
“a political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, or harmful, or, alternatively, as opposing authority or hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations. Proponents of anarchism, known as “anarchists,” advocate stateless societies based on non-hierarchical voluntary associations.”
It is no secret that Muhyiddin Yassin harbours the ambition to replace Najib Tun Razak as Umno president and prime minister, according to DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang.
He said that Muhyiddin hoped to achieve this by appearing to be more Malay than Najib.
“Many within Umno are waiting to see Najib do worse than Pak Lah [Abdullah Ahmad Badawi] in the next general election so that they could boot him out and replace him with a ‘Malay first’ Umno prime minister,” he added in a statement.
It was under Abdullah’s watch that Umno and Barisan Nasional suffered its worst ever electoral outing in 2008 just four years after Abdullah secured the ruling coalition’s biggest ever mandate.
In the aftermath of the polls, daggers were drawn and Abdullah was forced to relinquish his post to Najib in 2009. And now history could repeat itself.
Meanwhile, Lim also recalled how Muhyiddin did not give Najib any support for his 1Malaysia slogan as exemplified by his statement in Parliament that he was Malay first and Malaysian second.
Speculation of a rift between Najib and Muhyiddin had been rife for months despite the two leaders claiming otherwise.
It was often said that Najib’s numerous initiatives to attract non-Malay voters had ruffled the feathers of the ultras in Umno, who viewed it as a concession in terms of Malay supremacy and this group had gravitated towards Muhyiddin.
When opening Perkasa’s inaugural annual general meeting in 2010, former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad had said that the sudden mushrooming of Malay non-governmental organisations reflected Umno’s weakness in defending the rights of the Malays.
He added that NGOs like Perkasa would cease to exist when Umno regained its strength to defend the rights of the Malays.
Over the months, there had been no shortage of conspiracy theories, linking the numerous scandals such as the National Feedlot Centre fiasco to Muhyiddin, who apparently had the backing of Mahathir.
Observers also find it difficult to dismiss talk that Muhyiddin was also behind the latest revelations involving former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan and carpet dealer Deepak Jaikishan.
The world of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor appears in increasing danger of coming apart because of sensational revelations by Rosmah’s former personal friend hinting at complicity in the six-year-old murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibu. Najib’s brother Nazim has now been enmeshed in the scandal.
The 28-year-old Altantuya was shot in the head twice and her body was blown up with C4 plastic explosives, possibly to hide an unborn child, in October 2006 by two bodyguards from Najib’s personal unit. One of the two confessed that they were to be paid RM100,000 to get rid of the woman, who had been jilted by Najib’s best friend, former security analyst Abdul Razak Baginda.
The two have been on death row for three years. The confession, despite the fact that it was a cautioned statement, was never introduced in court and the individual who offered to pay to have Altantuya killed has never been named.
The big question being asked all over Kuala Lumpur is who, if anybody, put the businessman Deepak Jaikishan, who once said he was as close to Rosmah as if she were his sister, up to the revelations, which began just before the three-day United Malays National Organization’s Annual General Assembly which started Nov. 28.
Najib should be thankful to the Malays for delivering the electoral victory. Zainuddin Maidin echoed Mahathir and other figures in asserting that the Chinese had shown disloyalty by deserting the Barisan. an UMNO source told Asia Sentinel. “He should go if you ask me. I’d much rather have Muhyiddin. UMNO is particularly upset as we told … Read more
“There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.”- Joseph Pulitzer
In the theatrical convention of Malaysian politics, a prime minister is scripted to straddle the national stage. He’s the sceptered protagonist, soliloquising on national perils and remedial programmes. Everyone else – partymen or ministers – must play the chorus. They must have one refrain: Yes, Prime Minister.
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Musa Hitam lashed out Tun Mahathir who have been mounting a psychological campaign against the PKR-DAP-PAS partnership For the last few months one would be forgiven for believing that the lunatics have been running the asylum called the UMNO-BARISAN, so inconsistent and muddled their actions have been. But after yesterday, it is worth asking if even the lunatics are in charge. Enough has been said about the incomprehensible strangeness of the government’s actions, and in any case this level of mismanagement is so self-evident that additional comment is unnecessary. What is interesting however is to ask what would make a group of reasonably savvy, seasoned politicians used to exercising and staying in power act in such a self-defeating manner.eventually ANWAR lost patience with UMNO.
