Friday, February 8, 2013

Shaming The Shameless Doesn't Work Here

Hantu Laut

Anti-Sabahans and Sarawakians Facebook


Don't lose sleep over it. It's a political ploy, probably, set up by a Sabahan or Sarawakian working in tendam with local political party to rile up Sabahans and Sarawakians to vote against Malayan based parties.

If I have a choice I would prefer local party, but we live in unfortunate times, there is no credible one around. Those around are led by leaders, beyond any doubt, as crooked and as dangerous as the slithering snake. 

The last one we had screwed up the state good and proper selling states assets like no tomorrow. The assets stripping went through the entire spectrum from sponge iron plant, methanol, pulp and paper mill to 5 star hotel and many more, not forgetting vast stretch of agricultural land. 

This most unfortunate episode in Sabah history had deprived ordinary Sabahans of land ownership, the initiative of former Chief Minister Harris Salleh, who had the dream and ambition of giving land to every rural Sabahan. It went out the window when PBS took over the administration.

They threw out a capable man for someone who could hardly run a junkyard, hence the assets stripping, as the business was too complicated for them to understand and manage.

Will Sabahans make the same mistake again, ruled by the heart, not the head and let history repeat itself.

In the old days one can drive from Kota Kinablu to Tawau, on terribly bad roads, but still enjoy endless stretch of Mother Nature, virgin jungles on both sides of the road that exude innate and everlasting freshness of unsullied forests. 

Today, the whole stretch from Telupid to Tawau are sullied with oil palm and 70% of the land are owned by Peninsula based companies. Some of the lands were still under NT titles, leased for 99 years from the owners, a felony legislated by the then PBS government, which were later repelled by the BN government and limited to a maximum of 30 years.

Not that I am against progress, but there must be a balance between Mother Nature and economic development.

There is nothing wrong in giving land to foreign companies for economic development if it is done properly and with maximum benefit going to the state, not to politicians, who got it dirt cheap through corrupt means and sold them for quick profit.

Today, these same leaders who have sold NCR lands to outsiders are stirring up trouble on the NCR land issue, again to serve their own selfish agenda.

See who is joining Anwar's PKR, the same corrupt leaders, some of whom had been through USNO, Berjaya, PBS and UMNO and now seeking new pasture under Pakatan Rakyat. These leaders do not know how to make money other than through politics.

How could Anwar claims his fight is against a corrupt regime when he goes round collecting the same garbage that have, either been discarded, or found that their tickets to ride the gravy train of the current regime had expired.

The same "dogs of war" who suddenly found the high moral ground as if they have not been patrons, sponsors and recipients of corruptions in their previous undertakings. They forgot that the rakyat knew of their past. Fitful memory had given them selective amnesia.

Pecuniary reward had become so anabolic to them, the vicious circle will continue its round.

Adios!

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Mr Anwar Ibrahim And Mr Arsonist

Hantu Laut


This man wants to torch the Lynas plant to suit the Pakatan Rakyat agenda. A would be arsonist.




Did Anwar Ibrahim condemn him? If he has, I must have missed it.

Malaysia has the most disgusting political oppositions on the face of this planet having multitude of standards to suit their political agenda, including breaking the law of the country, trashing the Constitution and pseudo moral and liberal platitudes to cheat the people. 

They wag the dog to hide the bigger picture of their incompatibility, which is slowly rising out of their receptacle of lies, they perjure the truth and fabricate hellish lies against leaders of the government.

When Ibrahim Ali threatened to burn the Malay language Bible, which I have always look upon as his political grandstanding and eventually proven to be true, they wanted his blood, his head, his dick and possibly his balls, but when this man openly threatened to burn down the Lynas plant, a huge foreign investment that could trigger off world wide repercussion on the country's foreign investment,  they make no condemnation of him, instead, cajoling him to carry out his anti-Lynas campaign. Read more here.

He says he supports Pakatan Rakyat because Anwar Ibrahim had promised to close down the plant if Pakatan takes over Putrajaya.

Like Anwar he is another bullshitter, full of tripe. 

Many Malaysians fall prey to this kind of cheap talk as they are too gullible to comprehend the nitty-gritty world of business and commerce and understanding the law.

Anwar makes it sounds so easy to shut down such huge foreign investment without the government having to pay billion of ringgits in compensation. Does he care if the country gets a huge bill for compensation, rated an investment hazard and given a wide berth by foreign investors. 

No man is an island and this country can't stand alone in this borderless world. 

Like pack of hungry wolves the next decade will see countries in this region jockeying to ride the economic wave for survival against China's political and economic manipulations in the region. In the next decade, China will play a dominant role in the region and the environs.

Anwar, if elected into office, will be the straw that finally broke the camel's back. With all the promises he made to the people this country can belly up in no time. 

He promises 20% oil royalty to Sabah and other oil producing states, abolish road tolls, increase fuel and other subsidies, provide free education up to tertiary level and God knows what other multitude of promises that will eventually bankrupt this country and impoverish the people. 

Where is he going to get the money to finance the huge budget  and series of legal suits and compensations against the government should he proceeds with his threat of abolishing road tolls and shutting down Lynas and other foreign investments deemed dirty?

Is he going to nationalise without compensation?

His populist policy, which many level headed Malaysians knew is hard to implement is stringing the carrot to hoodwink Malaysians for their votes. 

A former finance minister who likes to blow his whistle of his past achievements that were non existence, a man who almost sold out the country to IMF and the World Bank, which have been known to enslave poorer nations with costly debts. Indebtedness some countries found hard to service due to stringent conditions and high costs of funding imposed on countries considered high sovereign risk.

This debt trap have made poorer countries even poorer because they have to allocate enormous portions of their national incomes toward paying interest. This sick logic of capitalism contrive the flow of money from poor nations to rich nations in the West. 

How is Anwar going to finance all his promises that will give birth to a huge national budget, which I expect to ballon to one and a half times the current budget?

Can the man that many Malaysians wanted so much to lead this country because of overt sympathy for him, his wife, his daughter and his family be trusted to administer the nation. All were elected riding on the wave of sympathy.

Taken in by false pretenses and false promises, can Malaysians see the possible pitfall the country is threatened with when the coffers are empty and foreign investors scurrying away like rats from a sinking ship? 

Anwar, by then will be in is usual antics, instead of finding solutions, will find excuses blaming the previous administration for all his woes.

If Anwar were to tell those pathetic Malaysians, who believe what they hear, what they read, what they can't see without apprehension, that tomorrow the sun will not rise because of realignment of the planets, they would believe his lie, as he has the ability to metachrosis to suit the situation and the surrounding.



Monday, February 4, 2013

The Promise Of The Arab Spring


By Sheri Berman
Foreign Affairs
Two years after the outbreak of what has come to be known as the Arab Spring, the bloom is off the rose. Fledgling democracies in North Africa are struggling to move forward or even maintain control, government crackdowns in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere have kept liberalization at bay, and Syria is slipping ever deeper into a vicious civil war that threatens to ignite the Middle East. Instead of widespread elation about democracy finally coming to the region, one now hears pessimism about the many obstacles in the way, fear about what will happen next, and even open nostalgia for the old authoritarian order. Last June, when the Egyptian military dismissed parliament and tried to turn back the clock by gutting the civilian presidency, The Wall Street Journal's chief foreign policy columnist cracked, "Let's hope it works." (It didn't.) And Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's attempted power grab in November made such nostalgia commonplace.
The skepticism is as predictable as it is misguided. Every surge of democratization over the last century -- after World War I, after World War II, during the so called third wave in recent decades -- has been followed by an undertow, accompanied by widespread questioning of the viability and even desirability of democratic governance in the areas in question. As soon as political progress stalls, a conservative reaction sets in as critics lament the turbulence of the new era and look back wistfully to the supposed stability and security of its authoritarian predecessor. One would have hoped that by now people would know better -- that they would understand that this is what political development actually looks like, what it has always looked like, in the West just as much as in the Middle East, and that the only way ahead is to plunge forward rather than turn back.
The first error critics make is treating new democracies as blank slates, ignoring how much of their dynamics and fate are inherited rather than chosen. Turmoil, violence, and corruption are taken as evidence of the inherent dysfunctionality of democracy itself, or of the immaturity or irrationality of a particular population, rather than as a sign of the previous dictatorship's pathologies. Because authoritarian regimes lack popular legitimacy, they often manipulate and deepen communal cleavages in order to divide potential opponents and generate support among favored groups. So when democratization occurs, the pent-up distrust and animosity often explode. And because authoritarian regimes rule by command rather than consensus, they suppress dissent and block the creation of political and social institutions that allow for the regular, peaceful articulation and organization of popular demands. So citizens in new democracies often express their grievances in a volatile and disorganized way, through a dizzying array of parties, extremist rhetoric and behavior, and street protests and even battles. Read more.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Malam Ku Bermimpi

Hantu Laut

Here come SakmongkolAK47 again. This time counting his chickens before they hatch.

He wrote:

"My own feeling is there will be reversal of positions. In this coming elections, PR will get what BN got in 2008- 140 seats or thereabouts and the balance going to BN. when that happens, more will abandon the BN ship especially from the UMNO camp.As for now, what these shadows tell me are as follows:-

Table 1: The possible outcome in GE13.
no
STATE
PR
BN
1
PERLIS
1
2
2
KEDAH
13
2
3
KELANTAN
13
1
4
TERENGGANU
4
4
5
PENANG
12
1
6
PERAK
18
6
7
PAHANG
5
9
8
SELANGOR
20
2
9
WILAYAH PERSEKUTUAN
10
1
10
PUTRAJAYA
0
1
11
NEGRI SEMBILAN
6
2
12
MELAKA
2
4
13
JOHOR
12
14
14
LABUAN
1
0
15
SABAH
12
13
16
SARAWAK
16
15


145
77

The table above is even more bullish than the analyses which I have made on several occasions. Having examined  the data given to me, here is my take.
In Perlis, the seat that is most likely to fall is Arau. In 2008, PR obtained almost 49% of the votes casted. A swing of 5% of the votes this time to PR, will result in BN losing the seat." Read more. http://sakmongkol.blogspot.com/2013/02/shocking-news-from-ground-zero1.html.

Reversing it would be the right order.