Archive for October 13th, 2009
Major cover up of RM12.5 billion PKFZ scandal at work?
Posted by Kit in Parliament, PKFZ on Tuesday, 13 October 2009
I had posed a question on the “mother-of-all-scandals”, the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal to the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak on the first day of the budget meeting of Parliament beginning on Monday, 19th October 2009.
I have just been informed that this question had disappeared altogether from the list of oral questions for Monday’s meeting of Parliament.
Signs of major cover-up of the PKFZ scandal at work?
DAP MP for Segambut, Lim Lip Eng’s question on the PKFZ scandal has also disappeared from the forthcoming parliamentary list of questions.
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The demise of KD Seri Inderapura
Posted by Kit in Defence, Hussein Hamid on Tuesday, 13 October 2009
From Friend in Navy
Through Hussein Hamid
Surprised? Shocked?
No I am not surprised because a ship sustained fire damage. Fire on board is indeed a normal thing. What I am surprised at is that it took a time-consuming eight-hours before the fire was brought under control! Eight hours! Surprised because the ability to fight and control any fire on board a Navy Vessel is ingrained and drummed into sailors on a daily basis. And I am shocked that despite this the destruction of KD Inderapura is so severe that the ship is categorized as ‘beyond economical repair’ (BER).
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Landslide victory or political immorality?
Posted by Kit in Azly Rahman, Corruption, Election on Tuesday, 13 October 2009
By Azly Rahman
Isa Samad’s second coming – into Minangkabau politics – signifies the coming of a disturbing age of loosening morality. What does a landslide victory mean? Will we see a kingdom of peace on earth that the Minangkabau people inhabited? Will this “landslide victory” of an avalanche of postal votes establish another forty years of the reign of One Malaysia?
Let us look at the semiotics of Bagan Pinang – of the sign, signifier and the signified of this by-election that is telling Malaysians something about the shape of things to come.
The Negri Sembilan people have spoken. They have voted for corruption to reign. What does the victory say about hegemony and political immorality?
Thus spake the Minangkabaus
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