Khalid Ibrahim:A Fool And His Money Are Soon Parted

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How can Khalid Ibrahim work with a State Secretary appointed by his enemy?

How pitiful when you think you are the big boss and suddenly you are not.He is in a completely confused heap, an imbroglio, to say.

Do you know the English idiom "A fool and his money are soon parted" ?

Khalid Ibrahim, the Menteri Besar of Selangor have done exactly that through his own cockiness and laziness.

This man live in an "ivory tower" and I deeply sympathise with him. Sadly, he also has blurred vision of his own state constitution.

It wouldn't be wrong to say when you first become menteri besar of a state it would be in your interest to familiarise yourself with the state constitution.To make matters worse he now have a retinue of legal advisers and listen to some political analysts and professor from certain university who are even more cock-up in their intrepretation of the state constitution and will complicate the issue further.Some of this half-baked legal experts should be thrown to the hyenas. The law does not deal with moral obligation, it deals with the rule of law.

There is no constitutional crisis, the Selangor State Constitution was very clear on the appointment of its top three office-bearers. The Menteri Besar and the Sultan have no role in the appointments other than the "Oath of Secrecy" to be sworn in front of the MB. The relevant article is Article 52.

Khalid should have anticipated the Federal government move but obviously he didn't and failed to get the right advice from his own state legal resources. Selangor government has no PSC giving it no autonomy in the appointment of its top officers.

Pakatan should have called for his resignation for this great blunder which will further weaken the state government, instead of pointing the accusing finger at the Federal government.

Khalid should read Sun Tze's Art of War on how to deal with a problem when one is standing on weaker ground instead of blindly going to war with the Federal government who is sitting comfortably behind a fortified wall.

His refusal to allow the State Secretary to take an "Oath of Secrecy" should be viewed in contempt.

Will going to court resolve the impasse?

Certainly not! he wil only be cutting his nose to spite his face.

The idea of going to court is not to win the case but to fool the people that our judges are corrupted and controlled by the executive.

Not all the people know the law.

The government may win the case but they will win in the court of public opinion.

Or they can call for a street demo......... 'Pakatan's Way'

Wong Choon Mei:Don't Try To Teach Your Grandma How To Suck Eggs

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Journalism...my foot! More like a frustrated reporter in a drunken stupor and a wannabe "fifth columnist".

It is alright for America to carry out mass murders around the world

Written by Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle.

In his first blog posting for 2011, former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad speaks of the futility of using force, that "overwhelming military power" is nothing in "this modern age". Sadly, he was advising U.S. President Barack Obama on Afghanistan and not himself or his off-on protege, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Are the twisting of the courts to secure advantageous outcomes, the imprisonment of dissidents without fair trial, the arbitrary banning of books and cartoons, the wrongful use of government machinery to coerce electoral victories any less oppressive than guns and bloodshed?

Is a slow death less painful than a quick one?

The phrase Charity begins at home is not without its special wisdom, neither is Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Perhaps Dr Mahathir should help right the wrongs at home before casting his eyes overseas.

The methods and philosophies he promulgates in his home country should echo his stand for the rest of the world.

Can I ask this lady how many people have been murdered by Mahathir or any of the BN leaders after him? Have there been any mass political persecution in this country and how many political prisoners are rotting away in prison?

How come the whole of Pakatan Rakyat leaders were not in prison, they are considered political dissidents?

How come Uncle Lim, the barking dog of Pakatan Rakyat who spewed daily dosage of political excrement on the Malaysian public hoping they get the mange and he gets to be the DPM when Lord Vader took over this kingdom is still shouting at the top of his accented voice insulting the regime in every possible way but is still as free as the bird.

How come the Tiger of Jelutong, the man who think he was godsend to save Malaysia from the evil regime is still wallowing in self abandonment appearing in our court regularly to defend Lord Vader from being branded a sodomite.

Should racist troublemaker like you who goes around writing lies about other people be allowed to roam free and spread your venom among the people and yet swear there is no freedom of expression in this country.

There certainly is much freedom of expression in the U.S. Ask Julian Assange and he will tell you how much he loves America.Ask the boys in Guantanamo, they, the prisoners of war branded as terrorists, how they enjoy and love American torturers tickling their dicks and arses to force information out of them. That seemed to be alright by you.As long as they are not of your kin and creed why care.

Mahathir, has every right to write about Obama, a cheat and a liar, who fooled the American nation and the whole world with his oratory skill and good voice but now turned out to be a phoney!..... and we got exactly one of the same at home.

Wong Choon Mei, since you love America so much and think that the U.S and Obama was right in killing hundred of thousands of innocent Iraqi and Afghan civilians and you don't care because they are not of your kin and creed, maybe, you should apply to join the U.S Military and help them kill more Iraqis and Afghans or make war with Malaysia so you can also kill Malaysians that you hate.

Wasn't she the one who wrote lies about Najib back in 2008 and has to resign from Malaysiakini?

Read the article below taken from a blog "Dandelions" published in 2008 after the "big lie" she made and this blog owner literally showered her praiseworthy saliva on her.

What are the core values of professional journalism?

Objectivity, Accuracy, Corroboration and Avoiding Conflicts of Interest, Transparency, Editorial Oversite…….being the main few among others……basically code of conduct drawn up to saveguard the integrity of this profession. And if one were to fail to uphold any of these values, it is usually up to the good conscience of the person to own up and take full responsibility, even if it means losing one’s job. (The other way would of course to be “goreng-sotong”ed)

Well today, Malaysiakini and its journalist Wong Choon Mei have proven that there is indeed integrity in them and for that, they’ve earned my respect.

Crap !!!

If she didn't resign Steven Gan would have sacked her or face the ugly choice of Malaysiakini being taken to the cleaners.

Objectivity, Accuracy, Corroboration and Avoiding Conflicts of Interest, Transparency.

Avoid conflicts of interest ?.......that must be a joke!

If you consistently write against the government and never against the oppositions....is that journalism?

The Serpent King

How a notorious Malaysian wildlife smuggler was brought to justice -- and what it tells us about stopping the world's most profitable black market.

BY BRYAN CHRISTY |

It began almost innocently. A broken lock on a suitcase moving through Kuala Lumpur International Airport this summer led to an odd discovery: nearly 100 baby boa constrictors, two vipers, and a South American turtle, all hidden inside. It was a fairly modest cache for a wildlife smuggler, but the man who claimed the suitcase was no ordinary criminal. He was Anson Wong Keng Liang, the world's most notorious wildlife trafficker. And instead of a slap on the wrist, which he might reasonably have expected, Wong was about to receive a surprising punishment.

From the tiny Malaysian island of Penang, in a storefront no larger than your average nail salon, Wong commanded one of the world's largest wildlife trafficking syndicates. Much of the work Wong's company, Sungai Rusa Wildlife, had done since he got into the business three decades ago was above-board: He legally wholesaled tens of thousands of wild reptiles annually, making him the likely source for many of the snakes, lizards, turtles, and frogs on sale in American pet stores. But using a private zoo as a cover, he also offered an astounding array of contraband, including snow leopard pelts, panda bear skins, rhino horns, rare birds, and Komodo dragons. He moved everything from chinchillas to elephants, smuggling critically endangered wildlife from Australia, China, Madagascar, New Zealand, South America, and elsewhere to markets largely in Europe, Japan, and the United States. For a man capable of brokering these kinds of deals, Wong's arrest over a suitcase of boa constrictors was the equivalent of a Mexican narcotraficante getting caught with a few marijuana cigarettes in his pocket.

Wong's long career beyond the reach of the law offers a window on the illegal wildlife trade and our broken system to combat it. Underfunded law enforcement, government corruption, controversy-shy NGOs, and a feeble international legal framework have yielded few inroads against wildlife syndicates or kingpins like Anson Wong. Wong's arrest and his sentencing in November 2010 provide a lesson on how to change that.

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The Things They Carried
Scenes from the illegal
wildlife trade.

The illegal wildlife trade is often described in the press as a $10 or even $20 billion-a-year industry, just behind illegal drugs and weapons trafficking in scale. But in truth, no one really knows how big the illegal wildlife trade is; the few serious efforts to quantify it have failed. Certainly the range of life forms on offer -- timber, fish, exotic pets, coral, ivory, skins, supplies for traditional Asian medicines, and on -- represents billions of dollars a year, legal and illegal. China alone consumes vast amounts of endangered species -- freshwater turtles, spiny anteaters, even tigers -- as delicacies or for medicinal purposes, while other countries in Asia and the rest of the world collect them as pets, or make watchbands, scarves, perfume, furniture, and wall ornaments out of them. What makes the illegal trade so lucrative is its minimal risk: Few traffickers are ever caught, fewer still are prosecuted, and those who are convicted generally end up paying fines the size of parking tickets. Almost no one goes to jail. As a result, the illegal wildlife trade may be the world's most profitable form of transnational crime.Read more.

Happy New Year.....and why you think UMNO is hated?

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I meant to write on this issue but was indisposed for the past one week.

Many of you read many things on the Internet so time can be a big constraint so I'll keep it short and simple, a lengthy article would just slum your interest.

I wasn't shocked when I read this.

People in the know and those that have had the bad experience of dealing with these overzealous and stupid aides of not only the Prime Minister but other Federal ministers as well would tell you the many horror stories of these toadying good for nothing balls carriers when they come to Sabah and Sarawak.

They treat Sabah and Sarawak as the inferior dominions.They forgot, ignorant, or maybe, just plain stupid to know that Sabah and Sarawak jointly have land mass almost four times bigger than theirs and have more than enough intelligent beings living on it and guess what we are also now the bigger contributor to the oil revenue which oiled a big portion of the Federal Budget.

If the impossible can be made possible they would want the ground their bosses walked on to be laid in gold instead of the red carpet.That's how much they depended on apple polishing to keep their jobs and most of the times their bosses were either unaware or a party to their ungodly demands.

None of this "I am superior than you" thing happened during Tengku,Razak and Hussein's time.There was so much modesty then.Very little of this happened during Mahathir's time because he takes no nonsense approach to such things.

A good and well-respected leader does not need his aide going around acting like thugs and goons demanding respect for the boss.Only in the underworld such thing exists.Respect is earned, not demanded. The worst, I was told, was during Pak Lah's time when his 4th Floor Oxford brown-nosing yahoos strutting all over the country excessively exhaling the Oxford's air.Pak Lah was so awed by the word 'Oxford' he simply let them run wild.

I am in Hanoi at the moment and yesterday I visited Ho Chi Minh's living history, his mausoleum and his modest living quarters.

What I saw changed my view of this Leninist and the selfless and modest life he led during his revolutionary years and after he became the great leader.Such leaders don't exist anymore.Good leaders are forever revered, bad leaders forever cursed.Everywhere you go the Vietnamese people are so in awed of this great man.

Najib's aide, whoever he is, must have tipped the scale for being the most stupid of the lot. He has done his boss the biggest disfavour by trying to curry favour with him.

It's beyond one's imagination to think that such educated and cultured person...ooops! did I say cultured? Well! some of them think they are, but refering to my 'cultural lexicon' it says bad breeding.

Money,education and your outlook does not make you cultured, it's your behaviour that constitutes whether your are cultured or not and whether you are worthy of respect.

What do the simple-minded Christians think of this? Naturally, they think Najib was the one who instructed his men to clear the way before he visits the place because some ulamaks already warned him not to visit other religious festivals.

Thinking the smartest thing to do to circumvent the unofficial 'fatwa' on the PM would be to knock down all the Christian crosses and stop them from singing their hymns would protect his boss from those religious bigots whom I think should be thrown in the dungeons of Kemunting where they can do less damage.All they did was to sabotage Najib's 1 Malaysia because they don't want 1 Malaysia, they want a fragmented Malaysia where they can wield the political power.

Just imagine if the Pope wish to visit and pray in our mosque and his aide came and demanded we chop off all the minarets and domes first before he can come to the mosque.What would you do? Wouldn't you tell him to fuck off or in extreme cases, say in Afghanistan, they chop off his head and send it back to the Pope and with a note 'come at your own risk'.

Anyway, minarets and domes are not symbols of Islam but are just Islamic architecture that have timelessly been incorporated in the design and construction of mosques in Islamic countries.Visit the 'Grand Mosque' of Xian in China and some typical ignorant Malaysian Muslims would probably think it's a temple.There were no domes and minarets, just Quranic inscriptions on its walls.

There are many of these apple polishers, sychophants, ass-lickers or whatever you wish to call them that walk the ghostly corridors of Putrajaya making ungodly demands on what they think the lesser beings.

The action taken by his aide was no mistake, it was done with a purpose and no amount of explanation should be entertained.If I were Najib I look at it as a sabotage rather than a mistake.

Najib should remove such officers from his retinue of aides or his popularity would continue to shrink.

..and why do you think UMNO is hated ?.....ask these 'tukang angkat kaki'