Najib, Leave Amiga And Her Pakatan Bosses To Their Own Demise

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Amigo Sreenavasan has threatened the government with another sequel, she called "Bersih 3". A showdown at Padang Merdeka on 28th April if electoral reforms are not executed before the 13th GE she said.














This lady lawyer is doing the oppositions' bidding.Without Pakatan's leaders full backing she won't be able to get a bus-load of mules onto the streets of Kuala Lumpur?

This bunch of Pakatan's political eunuches using her, overestimated their popularity and boasted they would have won the last GE if there were no massive cheatings by BN.Sounds more like one big lie and a case of sour grapes.

If you are so sure of your popularity why do you need to stage mass demonstrations every now and then? If the people love you so much, no amount of money and cheating can change their minds.

We, Sabahans know this, if we really want a change we'll take the incumbent's money and vote the other side.We have done it a few times before.

Harris Salleh is a living testimony and a victim of the power of the people.The most powerful BN leader in Sabah at that time, he and his party was trashed by a new born party led by Joseph Pairin Kitingan, winning only 6 seats out of 48 they contested.Harris lost his seat in Tenom to an unknown giant killer.

With all the power, the money and the cheating how come Harris faltered so badly?

Amiga, I am afraid you are not a very bright lawyer because you lack the power of reasoning.

I am sure there have been isolated cases of cheating in the Malaysian polls.Even in the largest democracy where her forefathers came from there have been cases of cheating and worst, murders.Not that we should condone such appalling behaviour but to say there have always been wholesale cheating by the BN government is stretching one's imagination too far.

Anyone with the head properly screwed onto the shoulder can see how so bloody disorganised the BN have been when it comes to cheating at the polls. They are so amateurish in their cheating they almost lost the government in the 12th GE.

If not for Sabah and Sarawak they would have been a reversal of fortune, the BN would have become the opposition and Pakatan Rakyat the government.

It's obvious that the people are still not ready for a Malaysian Spring that Anwar Ibrahim so much wanted to happen.Anwar knew that's the only way he can be prime minister.

So! Amiga, where are the proofs of massive cheating other than you living in a state of denial and trying to cheat yourself and the people?

Lest you forget, over the many decades that the BN was in power they have also lost seats to independent candidates.Mind you! these small fries can win against the mighty BN.

Obviously, you prefer to serve your political masters rather than serve the truth.

More shameful, you use that poor old near senile national laureate Pak Samad to lead the procession.This old bugger did not realise he is being used by you and your puppetmasters to try lend credence to your monkey business.

My advice to that very blur Minister of Home Affairs, let it be, let them loose on the streets, let them have their say.

One hundred thousands stupid mules in KL do not represent the political sentiments of the people of this nation.

Najib, Don't Change Horses In Midstream

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Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak appealed to the people not to change horses in midstream and called the opposition Pakatan Rakyat as pied piper.

Remember the Pied Piper Of Hamelin, the rat-catcher, hired by the townsfolk to rid the town of rats but was not paid for his service and, subsequently, took revenge on the townsfolk, made all the children follow him and never to be seen again.

The moral of the story is, if you promise something, you better deliver, or else you are going to lose something or everything.

So, Najib better deliver all his promises, or Anwar Ibrahim is going to make all his dreams disappear.

What are metaphors of the pied piper? Basically, they are:

a) a charismatic person that attracts people.
b)a person who can delusively entice people to his side.
c)a leader making irresponsible promises.

Don't you think Anwar Ibrahim fits the picture very well? He promised Malaysians the "MOON". Maybe, we should call him the "Pied Piper Of Permatang Pauh"

Read what Najib says here.

I think BN would still rule, without two-thirds majority, saved by the East Malaysians.

As a token of appreciation Najib should move Putrajaya over here.

Suddenly,Malaysians Become Smarter Than The Rest Of The World

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I am not sure what to make of this. Malaysia stands at 14th in the world and 2nd in the Asean region for quality of education.How nice if true!

Scrumptious! Suddenly, with the blink of an eye, Malaysians were smarter than the rest of the world.

Here, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng rubbished the Minister of Education Muhyiddin Yassin for his mumbo-jumbo.

Here, the nerdish Oxbridge fella and Mr Know-It-All also ridiculed the minister.

I am not sure if Muhyiddin actually read the report himself or was spoon-fed by his staffs, who, probably, has little understanding of the reports.I, myself, find it quite difficult to translate some of the report to layman's terms.

It is about global competitiveness and performance.Malaysia came at No.21 on the list, which is not bad for a small country that get rubbished all the times by the opposition Pakatan Rakyat.Read the report here.

Not all reports get the right feedback to arrive at a sensible assumption.I don't believe our education system is of better quality than U.S,U.K,Germany, Australia and Singapore.If that was the case, why are we still sending our students to these places? Read world education ranking here.

Malaysia was not even in the top 30.Where the magic number 14 came from I have no idea. Maybe, Muhyiddin should publish his source to salvage his reputation.

For the honorable minister I suggest he checks his fact first before he says something that could embarrass himself.

Malaysia, where are you on the global pay scale?

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Following my post "Are Malaysians Too Lazy To Deserve Minimum Wage", I came across this rather interesting article, which, paradoxical, it may seem, actually makes sensible deduction of what would be the average income of every employed human being on the face of this earth, the hypothesis of which is as good as "laughter is the best medicine" cure for the sick.

It's just a meaningless academic figure.How nice if it can be a reality, we would not have poor souls on this earth.

The world's average salary is US$1,480 per month. Malaysia sits at No.48 out of 72 countries.Not so good standing compared to South Korea at No.10 and Singapore at No.14.

Carry on reading:

If there were no rich and poor, and everyone had an equal share of the world's total pay packet, how much would they earn?

The total value of world income is closing in on $70 trillion (£43.9tn) per year, and there are seven billion people in the world, so the average income is heading towards $10,000 (£6,273) per person per year. Easy.

But not everyone has a job and some of those seven billion are children. So another question you could ask is: "What is the world's average wage?"

That is more tricky to answer, but a group of economists at the United Nations' International Labour Organization (ILO) has had a go, though they have never gone public with this information. Until now.

Let's consider the scale of the Herculean task the number crunchers at the ILO set themselves.

First, they work out the total wage bill for every country in the world. To do that they get the average salary from each office for national statistics, and multiply that amount by the number of earners in each country.

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Data limitations

• The data (for 2009) covers 72 countries, and misses out some big ones, Nigeria for example
• Only wage earners are counted - not the self-employed or people on benefits
• In some countries the data is incomplete - in South Africa, for example, it leaves out public sector workers and agricultural workers, while in Uganda it covers only the manufacturing sector

In this way, they are able to give more weight to countries which have more workers in them. The average salary in China has more influence on the world average than the average salary in New Zealand, where many fewer people live.

Once they have the total wage bill for each country, they add them all together and divide by the total number of earners in the world.

That gives you the answer - the world's average salary is $1,480 (£928) a month, which is just less than $18,000 (£11,291) a year.

But these dollars are not normal US dollars. The economists use specially adjusted exchange rates - the average salary is calculated in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) dollars. One PPP dollar is equal to $1 spent in the US.

Essentially, the PPP dollar takes into account the fact that it is cheaper to live in some countries than others. The idea is that we don't care how many actual dollars somebody is paid in, say, China, but we care about what sort of stuff those dollars can buy.Read more.

Do you earn more or less than the world's average wage? Type in your monthly salary and we'll give you the answer.

Go to the page here.

The average wage, calculated by the International Labour Organization, is published here for the first time. It's a rough figure based on data from 72 countries, omitting some of the world's poorest nations. All figures are adjusted to reflect variations in the cost of living from one country to another, and as Ruth Alexander of BBC radio's More or Less programme underlines, it's all about wage earners, not the self-employed or people on benefits.Read more.