Surendren: Najib, Mubarak ada persamaan ketara

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Pemerintahan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak yang sering menindas dan bersikap kuku besi dilihat persis corak pemerintahan bekas diktator Mesir Hosni Mubarak dakwa kepimpinan PKR.

A Former PM Rewrites History

Yesterday Tun Dr M launched his 800-page  magna corpus 'A Doctor in the House'.  In it he tries to portray his  22 years in office in the most positive light.  There is actually a precedent to this: In 1998 and 2000 Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew had launched his own 1468-page two-volume memoir The Singapore Story in which the latter wrote the history of Singapore according to his own interpretation of events up to 1965 and from 1965 to year 2000, respectively.  While the chauvinistic LKY merely interprets events according to his world-view, Mahathir tempers with events, however well-known the facts are to many - to satisfy his own fantasy.

Malaysian Gambles with the Environment

Malaysia Makes a Big Bet on Crucial Metals
By KEITH BRADSHER [The New York Times]

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KUANTAN, Malaysia — A colossal construction project here could help determine whether the world can break China’s chokehold on the strategic metals crucial to products as diverse as Apple’s iPhone, Toyota’s Prius and Boeing’s smart bombs.

As many as 2,500 construction workers will soon be racing to finish the world’s largest refinery for so-called rare earthmetals — the first rare earth ore processing plant to be built outside China in nearly three decades.

For Malaysia and the world’s most advanced technology companies, the plant is a gamble that the processing can be done safely enough to make the local environmental risks worth the promised global rewards.

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Despite deadline extension, only 4% of outstanding summonses settled

By DHARMENDER SINGH [The Star]
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PUTRAJAYA: Only 4% of the 17.3 million traffic summonses still outstanding at the end of last month have been settled, despite the second extension to the 50% discount offer to clear fines, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop said.

Abu Seman said despite all the repeated calls from motorists for an further extension to the Feb 28 deadline to settle summonses at a discount, only 700,000 had been settled until Monday.

"If the offenders are genuine (in their intention to settle their summonses), then they should come forward and pay the fines.

"We urge motorists who still have 16.6 million outstanding summonses to settle their fines quickly," e told a press conference here Monday.

He was commenting on the progress of payments on the fines that had been made after the Home Minister announced last week the extension to the discount period to March 10.

The extension was granted after considering grouses by offenders that their attempts to pay were hampered by extremely long queues, not enough counters and the system being down.

During the initial discount period, which began on Aug 12 last year, a total of 5.5 million summonses were paid.

Comments
1. Is this a sign of civil disobedience by Malaysians?
2. Most of the summonses are believed to be 'saman ekor' (SE).
3. SE is a baby sister of the infamous ISA: Once you are alleged to have committed an offence you are deemed guilty without recourse to trial. Therefore SE is unconstitutional.
4. Furthermore, the spirit of the ummonses as punishment, hence a deterrent, is obviously missing, for the alleged offender may be unaware of the offence he has committed and may therefore repeat the same offence many times before the summonses are served.
5. An inadvertent alleged offender is therefore unnecessarily slapped with numerous summonses which are avoidable if he were stopped and personally served the summonse at the place and time of the first incident.
6. In conclusion, SE is a wanton idea hatched by the power-that-be, already consumed by the craziness of the ISA.
7. The motive of the idea is obviously to generate money - big and fast.  That is why SE is so immoral.
8.  Bravo Malaysians!

'My People' by Yusuf Islam aka Cats Stevens