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The 'Malaysian Malaysia' man will be in Malaysia starting tomorrow on an eight-day visit which the press dubbed as going down memory lane. Lee is not a man who dabbles in the past, he may look back at history as a lesson for the future, what the future holds is what he is interested in.Politically unstable Malaysia is not good for Singapore.
Lee Kuan Yew's visit to Malaysia is, without any doubt, not reminiscing the past, but a fact-finding mission to assess the political situation here.The array of dignitaries he is going to meet is a tell tale sign of his mission. The results of the last general elections and subsequent by-elections could have sounded alarm bells in Singapore that led Lee to make this visit. He is here to make an assessment whether Pakatan Rakyat has a chance to take over the central government in the next general elections.Lee is not comfortable with unknown factor hence his presence here to feel and gauge for himself where the country is heading for.
A completely new political regime may not augurs well for Singapore. A change in the status quo would have a daunting effect on Singapore.New government would mean new policies and new policies usually attract new problems.
Singapore biggest worry is, in the event Pakatan wins the next GE, is the uncertainty, which among the two, PKR or PAS would become the dominant party.If PAS gained the majority support of the Malays and came out the strongest than the likelihood of Malaysia leaning toward Islamic administration and principles is very possible.Not that there is anything wrong with Islamic laws if they are pragmatically used but the tendency for some regime to sway to the left is not a rarity in many Islamic countries.
If PAS came out as strong as UMNO, which is very likely, if there was a popular shift of the Malay votes from UMNO to PAS, than PAS would be the dominant party and would be calling the shots and there is nothing much PKR and DAP could do but accept their fate and play second fiddle, the same as MCA,MIC, Gerakan and other component parties in the BN or they could stay out of the coalition if such occasion arises and join UMNO if there is anything left of UMNO by then.
The recently concluded PAS elections, transposition of head of a municipal council in Penang that was boycotted by PKR and statements made by some of PAS and PKR leaders shows an uneasy and shaky alliance. Anwar's hold over the alliance is on the wane.While Anwar is busy promoting himself and discrediting the government overseas the volley of discontent in Pakatan is growing. Husam Musa wasn't far off the mark when he said the premiership should be given to PAS if Pakatan wins.
Given time, the marriage of convenience of these political misfits would eventually land on the rock.
Lee Kuan Yew is here to gather first hand information and make his own analysis of the political situation now and in the near future to enable Singapore to prepare for any eventualities.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Valentine Willie Fine Art Gallery
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What the heck ! It's only an art piece. I see nothing, I hear nothing, I say nothing.
A piece of real art work exhibited by a respectable art gallery?
When a friend showed me a picture of a huge piece of "art" work by Fahmi Reza depicting "Prime Minister Dato' Sri Najib Razak at a scene of a crime", complete with a yellow police lines, I said to myself I better go and check it out. I thought it was crude for the owner to allow it!
True enough when I went over to Valentine Willie art gallery in Bangsar and I was agape and stunned. There in front of me in a room against the wall was a picture of Najib with his body drawn or fixed to the floor where you stepped on and was told the piece had nothing to do with the PM but rather the piece is about vandalism, so the sketchy explanation went on by one of the gallery's staff. Read more.....
What the heck ! It's only an art piece. I see nothing, I hear nothing, I say nothing.
Valentine Willie's art gallery has seriously breached the norms!
A piece of real art work exhibited by a respectable art gallery?When a friend showed me a picture of a huge piece of "art" work by Fahmi Reza depicting "Prime Minister Dato' Sri Najib Razak at a scene of a crime", complete with a yellow police lines, I said to myself I better go and check it out. I thought it was crude for the owner to allow it!
True enough when I went over to Valentine Willie art gallery in Bangsar and I was agape and stunned. There in front of me in a room against the wall was a picture of Najib with his body drawn or fixed to the floor where you stepped on and was told the piece had nothing to do with the PM but rather the piece is about vandalism, so the sketchy explanation went on by one of the gallery's staff. Read more.....
Remembering D-Day
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ON 6TH JUNE 1944 the Allied Forces landed on the Normandy coast and that day was known as D-Day.Over 5000 ships and 160,000 troops took part in the invasion which turn the tide of the Second World War and the eventual defeat of Hitler's Nazi Germany.
German footage:
Allied footage:
ON 6TH JUNE 1944 the Allied Forces landed on the Normandy coast and that day was known as D-Day.Over 5000 ships and 160,000 troops took part in the invasion which turn the tide of the Second World War and the eventual defeat of Hitler's Nazi Germany.
German footage:
Allied footage:
Husam Musa For PM: What Say You Anwar?
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What say you Anwar Ibrahim now that PAS wants the PM (prime minister) post if Pakatan wins the next general elections.Husam Musa said the post should be given to PAS.
That's Husam Musa master's stroke to win the deputy president post of the party and he certainly has the right quality to be prime minister.
You promised to abolish the NEP and PAS knew you are just playing to the gallery of the non-Malays to get their support.Now, PAS wants the NEP to be retained because they hope to be the leading party( in the same mould as UMNO) in the next GE and the premiership for Husam Musa.
PAS, next to UMNO, is the party that will truly safeguard Malays interests.
What say you Anwar Ibrahim now that PAS wants the PM (prime minister) post if Pakatan wins the next general elections.Husam Musa said the post should be given to PAS.
That's Husam Musa master's stroke to win the deputy president post of the party and he certainly has the right quality to be prime minister.
You promised to abolish the NEP and PAS knew you are just playing to the gallery of the non-Malays to get their support.Now, PAS wants the NEP to be retained because they hope to be the leading party( in the same mould as UMNO) in the next GE and the premiership for Husam Musa.
PAS, next to UMNO, is the party that will truly safeguard Malays interests.
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