Dissolve The Royal Commission

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Environmentalists all over the world including the UN, WWF and many others lauded the government decision to scrap the coal power plant in Sabah.The oppositions have their own stories.

Instead of lauding the State and Federal government they think the smart thing to do is to ridicule the decision, which actually make them looking more stupid.

DAP's MP for Kota Kinabalu Hiew King Cheu said it was an election ploy while another political donkey Jeffrey Kitingan said it could be temporary and likely to be reinstated after the general elections.

Across the South China Sea in Tanah Melayu the oppositions made a mockery of the Royal Commission by urging the Teoh's family to withdraw from the hearing.

PM Najib has gone out of his way to appease the family by appointing the Royal Commission and the opposition is using delaying tactic in the hope of using the controversial issue as a battle cry for the general elections expected anytime soon.

Than there is the sodomy case of Anwar Ibrahim using the same delaying tactic for political mileage.Delayed many times without probable cause. The judge should not be intimidated and should proceed with the case to its finality.

The PM should give the family of Teoh an ultimatum, participate or the government will dissolve the Royal Commission.

The opposition's ploys are wasting court's time and taxpayers money .

We have had enough of this unpalatable circus.

With oppositions like this who needs a new government.

Singapore Malay families seeking economic refuge in JB

I have been coming across several Malay families who are renting out their HDB flats or even selling their HDB flats and living in Johor Bahru and commuting to Singapore. Each family had the same reason to give. They are unable to afford the cost of living in Singapore.

PROFILE OF MALAY FAMILIES SHIFTING TO JB

A few days ago, a friend of mine who is a senior professional in logistics industry claimed that around 40% of the Malay despatch riders live in Johor Bahru. However I am unable to verify this. However when I asked others in logistics industry, they did agree that there are large number of families, where the breadwinner works as a despatch rider, have indeed relocated to JB due to cost pressures in Singapore. These despatch riders earn less than $1000 per month and they are unable to cope even when they have two children.

It does not seem to be the case that all the families that shifted are having a single income earner. There are indeed families in which both the couples are working and yet they are unable to afford to live in Singapore. The few families that I managed to talk to have a household income of less than $2000 a month. They shared with me that given the high costs they face which come along with work e.g. lunch meals,
transport, clothings etc etc they are left with little to afford the other family expenses such as grocery, electricity etc.

Another group of Malay families who make up this trend of Malay families shifting to JB include those who are unable to service their HDB loans. Apparently some of these families are having problems paying their HDB mortgages and out of desperation not to loose their HDB flats they rather rent it out and shift to JB.

The last group of Malay families that I came across are those who faced life shocks such as retrenchment, illness etc and they were unable to ride through the financial turblence that came along. Hence they shifted to JB to keep afloat.

CAN MALAY PAP MPS AND GOVERNMENT RELATED MALAY AGENCIES SOLVE THIS?

I am inviting, not challenging, all 12 Malay MPs who repeatedly claim they are leaders of Singapore Malays along with their associated Malay agencies to do an assessment of the situation and resolve it by facilitating the Malay families to return to Singapore.

These families are almost like economic refugees seeking refuge from astronomical costs in their homeland. LKY not too long ago asked if Malays will share their last grains of rice with non-Malays in Singapore. I am sure these Malay families may not be able to do that since they are not even located in Singapore and secondly they unlikely to have any last grains during such catastrophic moments. My question is if LKY will share his current godowns of rice supply with these Malay families in current normal circumstances?

Malays in Singapore are repeatedly questioned on their allegiance and fidelity to the nation. Stop asking what they will do for the nation. Lets ask what the nation did for these Malay families in desperate circumstances.

The PAP Malay MPs constantly claim the Malay community have progressed under their leadership. Well at no time in history before 1959 was there ever a moment during which significantly number of Singapore Malay families had to seek economic refuge in Johor.

No where in first world do you see the poor in one country running to the next to commute to work to save costs. US costs are much higher than in Canada and Mexico, yet the poor communities along US borders dont commute from Canada or Mexico to save costs.

This essentially is not really a Malay community problem. If not for the language issues, I am sure many other Indian and Chinese families who are stuck in similar circumstances will also be commuting from JB. This problem is essentially the failure of:

1) fiancial security mechanisms in Singapore
2) elected MPs
3) community agencies such as MUIS, WAREES, MENDAKI etc that sit on large amounts of community endowments but yet not expend for those stuck in rainy days
4) government agencies whose role is to help such families

Temasek

Who Is The Lair ?

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Who is the lair, Tun Dr Mahathir or the intolerable Mr Lim Kit Siang? Read what former IGP Tun Hanif Omar says here.

Mahathir wasn't lying when he says the police, on security reason, decided to arrest those troublemakers to save the nation from another tragedy.Anwar could have put the record right but for political expediency he wouldn't.

Do you want this kind of people to rule this country lying through their teeth just to score brownie point with voters.

Ragtag And Bobtail

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There must be jinx in Sabah PKR or just the idiosyncrasy of the leadership that most Sabahans could not stomach.

Thoughtless and unkind remarks seemingly peculiar with people from the other side can be very upsetting to the generally affable Sabahans. We have no chips on our shoulders!

PKR leaders, not even yet in power, were already worse than UMNO leaders when it comes to dealing with Sabahans.They just couldn't get their act together.They already have the who's master and who's servant mentality much to the agony of Sabahans.

Choosing the party chief in Sabah could just be a simple democratic process, let the divisions elect their chief without any interference from the Peninsula.Unfortunately, masters want none of this, they want someone they can control.

The case of Pajudin Nordin clearly showed that Anwar and now his wife have no principle whatsoever. Instead of defending their decision and the person they have appointed they submit to the rumbling on the ground and simply removed the person they appointed in the first place.

More trouble in Sabah PKR here.

Maybe, Zaid Ibrahim's Kita or Raja Petra's MCLM should come and fill the void in the Sabah opposition front.

Zaid hasn't got the stamina yet.MCLM, is a good idea of a third force, but there is a serious hitch, RPK is running his political oufit by remote control which will suffer broken radio wavelength from time to time and getting the right candidate might pose a problem.



So! Who is this Haris Ibrahim?

Other than being a blogger and a lawyer his background is misty.Not all lawyers make smart politician and not all lawyers are smart.

At present, the oppositions in Sabah and Sarawak are 'ragtag and bobtail'.

Only DAP has better chance to grap a few seats.

The oppositions, lots of talks but fragmented and discordant.

Looks like Putrajaya stays an elusive dream in the oppositions' camp.