Ku Nan  drinking toddy in Sentul Naked vs nude on poverty Advice  is likely to ignore

Change is a mist which floats through events, often obscured by the daily cloudburst of facts. It is noticed least by those it affects most. Tengku Adnan Tengku Manso have a sharper eye than they are given credit for, but they can miss the obvious. A tectonic shift is taking place in the structure of party politics. After a long and dominant reign, the high command is dead. It has become a dinosaur, a museum piece whose skeletal jaw hints at the massive bite it once possessed. he last inheritors of a concept that has exhausted its moment in history. After them, there will be command, but it will not be very high. Beware the mistake you think you haven’t made, particularly if it seems innocuous. The unconscious slip reveals far more than vigorously polished truth, or indeed a lie carelessly exposed. Decipher the cipher and you could well discover a lump of golden illumination. This is as true of social gaffe as of political combat.A rising federal impulse has also changed the character of parties. minister now  Muslim bring in the votes, they will also take the decisions.

Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor says prejudice against Muslims has become so ingrained in  Kuala Lumpur life, the most vitriolic anti-Islamic sentiments can be expressed in polite drawing rooms without an eyebrow being raised. May be everyone knows this part.All that apart, it is not easy , that 23 Hindu temples must be  be demolished by the Kuala Lumpur City Council (DBKL). Changing the rules might be easier than changing behaviour in a land with such a stern pecking order. Distinctions thrive in politics, bureaucracy, determined by tradition, or power or wealth. The chief guest at any function, preferably a minister, always gets a few more flowers in his bouquet than others on the dais, who are kept in their place by the deficient cluster in their lap. The flowers might be from the nearest cemetery, but the chief will get more. The higher you go, the more rigid the hierarchy.

Not so long ago, UMNO seemed invincible. The voters do not love   and were in awe of his impressive CV.

One reason many people advance for supporting UMNO is their opposition to  PAS’ this, they claim, ends up creating a vested interest in preserving rather than combating poverty.contrast, in ’s championship of growth, they see the possibility of eliminating poverty. Stripped bare of sophistry, this pro-poor versus anti-poverty distinction, altogether less substantial than naked versus nude, turns out to be nothing more than the proverbial fig leaf.

Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Mansor (centre) is of the opinion that City Hall is doing property owners in the city a favour by revaluing their properties and putting a higher assessment  the middleclass for its inability to understand the source of  Kuala Lumpur’s problems. Its failure to engage with the system and taking recourse in slacktivism comes in for sharp criticism s indomitable will has been hailed by its politicians and socialites with such regularity it has become obvious that they’ve used this resilience as an excuse to absolve themselves of the need to take the difficult decisions necessary to actually make the city more liveable. The incessant invocation of  Kuala Lumpu  ’s spirit is just an attempt to ignore the numbing of another little bit of its soul.”The Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said there are many more temples in Kuala Lumpur which were squatting on land illegally.He said the Ministry was checking the statuses of these temples and will act against them.”Yes, I am checking and I am firm… I will tell them to move. I will give them a new place and I will gazette the new place as a temple,” he said commenting on a claim by a non-governmental organisation, which had called itself Jakun Malaysia, that 23 Hindu temples were due to be demolished by the Kuala Lumpur City Council (DBKLthere are many more temples in Kuala Lumpur which were squatting on land illegally.He said the Ministry was checking the statuses of these temples and will act against them.”Yes, I am checking and I am firm… I will tell them to move. I will give them a new place and I will gazette the new place as a temple,” he said commenting on a claim by a non-governmental organisation, which had called itself Jakun Malaysia, that 23 Hindu temples were due to be demolished by the Kuala Lumpur City Council (DBKL What are you trying to do if not to take it out on the KLites? And we object to the arrogant manner this was done and the sneakiness of having our representatives sign the Official Secrets Act (OSA) pledge before you had a meeting with them.

To quote you, “the federal government is giving us sufficient funds, but we’d rather raise most of our own funds.”Excuse me, don’t use us, KL residents, to raise funds for you – and if that’s to be the case, let us at least vote for our own mayor and FT minister to represent us.The arrogance you have to say you can legally increase the tax to the maximum rate of 35 percent rate, but will not do it – don’t expect us to kowtow to you for that, we will fight you instead.

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.If an apology could change the past, it might mean something. If it could rescue the future, even more so. But no apology arrives until the mind has already changed, making it a historical tautology.

A Pakatan Rakyat-controlled Kuala Lumpur City Hall would have offered the city’s property owners a 10% revision in property valuation over the next five years, says Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, adding that this would have brought about a reasonable assessment charges for everyone.

Khalid, who is Bandar Tun Abdul Razak MP, said he and several other Kuala Lumpur MPs would be meeting Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor to show the minister “how things are done the Selangor way”.

“I will be asking him to consider my suggestion for current property owners during my meeting with him after December 17,” he said today after attending a residents gathering in Cheras where residents handed over their objections against the assessment rate hike which will be implemented in January.

Kuala Lumpur City Hall has set December 17 as the deadline for property owners to submit their objections.

Khalid, who is also the Selangor Menteri Besar, said that City Hall should also explain the mechanism used to calculate the increment in property valuation which results in a hike in the assessment fees.

The assessment rates are based on a certain percentage of the property valuation by City Hall. Currently, the rates for commercial properties is 12%, residential units 6% and vacant property or land 10%.

“This is why people keep having doubts over the matter as they do not understand how it is done,” he told reporters.

On Tengku Adnan’s statement that the move is to help owners revalue their property, Khalid said: “Don’t talk too much. Just find a solution to reduce the rates.

“The government should also not tie property prices with inflation rate as property prices grow at a faster pace.”

Khalid said that it was not necessary for City Hall to increase the assessment rates by up to 300 per cent.

“It must be in accordance with the services rendered by City Hall. So keep writing your complaints to them and tell them that their services are lacking and hence, the assessment charges must be reduced. They have yet to deliver their promises on many things,” he said.

Khalid said City Hall had made two grave mistakes in revising the property valuation which resulted in an exorbitant hike in assessment charges.

“Firstly, the authorities should have held briefing sessions to help people understand the issue better and the reasoning for it but this was not done.

“Secondly, City Hall ceased to consider the burden Kuala Lumpur folk will face due to the increment and it is not fair to say that this is being done now because City Hall did not increase the rate or revaluate the properties in the last 21 years,” he added.

Khalid said he had requested his officers to note down the provisions under the law to support his suggestion that property valuation be pegged at 10% over the next five years.

Asked if he forsees a surge in migration by people from Kuala Lumpur into Selangor and if this will cause property prices to boom in the state, Khalid said that Selangor is already facing a dilemma with high property prices.

“There is no problem for them to move here though,” he added.