'Tis the season of faith, but 'tis also the season for realizing that faith is not based on evidence or logic, and wherein, truth is subjective, which is precisely why religion requires faith.
RPK tells us this in his guest column at Free Malaysia Today, in an article titled Standards of evidence.
RPK wrote: Beliefs, in particular religious beliefs, are called faiths — religious faith. The reason they are called religious faiths is because you need to believe based on faith, not based on evidence.
Faith, in a way, can be described as the word to explain lack of evidence. Hence, whenever you fail to prove your beliefs with supporting evidence you classify it under faith. And you can get away with whatever beliefs that lack evidence by calling it faith. It would be considered quite acceptable. [...]
... because faith does not need proof. And I will just have to take your word for it and believe that without question.
And they tell me that slavery has been abolished. Actually religion is slavery.
Joining him on the topic of 'faith' but in a separate article has been Adelyn Yeoh, an undergraduate student in Mount Holyoke College, USA, who also writes for CEKU at http://www.ceku.org. Her article poignantly titled Leaving god informed us:
Faith is the act of believing and religion is the institution through which faith sometimes operates through. Faith can operate without religion. [...]
There were numerous things that did not sit right with me; things that did not seem just or fair, despite what religion claimed. Teachers would often use God as their trump card to get students to do their bidding. [...]
... Religion is used as an additional divisive tool, not just by politicians but also by the average Joe. Overeager evangelical actions carried out by the average person working in the name of faith, despite having good intentions, often upset other parties. The reason for this is often because the evangelist has a presupposed notion of superiority.
... while the tricky Chinese (non Abrahamic) religionists have their even more trickier religions, tap-dancing around the issue of faith, wakakaka.
From the above discussions, I think we have four words to consider in religions (except those tricky Chinese religions), faith, evidence, logic, truth - or indeed, the absence of the latter three.
Whatever, if any blame needs to be apportioned, well, let's blame it on those ancient Egyptians. Note I stated 'ancient' Egyptians, not the current Egyptians who are Arabs. The ancient Egyptians were not Arabs.
An aside, once I had toyed around with a series of posts questioning mainstream biblical narrations, titled 'who was Abrahim?'. I went up to 21 posts but wearied of the amount of reading and cross referencing I had to do, decided to switch to and focus on socio-politics in this blog. But if you like to read them, provided you won't be offended by the liberal discussions of Old Testament biblical characters, you will find all 21 posts filed in Back to Abraham soon! (which I may, that is, return to finish/complete the series)
Anyway, why should we blame those ancient Egyptians for the issue of faith versus evidence (proof), logic or truth in religions?
That's because the Hebrews (supposedly the patriarch Abraham) started the Abrahamic religions, with the Hebrews-Israelites-Judeans-Jews inheriting from the ancient Egyptians four things (4 only since we're into stuff of 4 like the above-mentioned faith, evidence, logic, truth), which were:
(a) circumcision - yes, the royalty in ancient Egypt started this, not the Hebrews;
I don't like the look of what appears to be a pair of pliers (on right) |
(b) a matriarchal lineage - the Pharaoh's daughter inherits the throne of ancient Egypt which was why the royal brother incestuously married the royal sister in order to keep the kingdom under his rule, as did daddy Pharaoh. Whether they did you-know-what has never been specifically mentioned.
The Hebrews,-Israelites-Judeans-Jews followed/follow the ancient Egyptian system, thus orthodox Judaism practises matrilineal descent for more than 2000 years, where anyone with a Jewish mother has irrevocable Jewish status, regardless of whether mum has converted to another religion. Despite it being under orthodox Judaism, the lineage was obviously more of a racial rather than a religious consideration.
Some reforms occurred in the early 1980's to include patrilineal descent, but by 1986, the Conservative Movement's Rabbinical Assembly rejected patrilineal descent and even warned that any rabbi who does so would be expelled from the Rabbinical Assembly.
Maybe one of the 'lost 10 tribes of Israel' migrated to and took up residence in Negeri Sembilan (or perhaps Padang)? wakakaka.
(c) monotheism - again yes, it was the heretic Pharaoh, Akhenaten (formerly Amenhotep IV) who was the first person to worship only one creator god, way way before the Hebrews knew about YVWH.
Pharaoh Akhenaten was called 'heretic' because in polytheistic ancient Egypt, one was considered a heretic for crazily worshipping only one god, wakakaka;
Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti and daughters praying to their One G-D, Aten |
(d) while the general scholarly position thus far has been that the Hebrew script came from the Phoenicians, some have asserted that it was from the ancient Egyptians, who possessed three types of scripts, namely hieroglyphs, hieratic and demotic. Whichever, the ancient Egyptian script doesn't have vowels which the Hebrew Torah (bible) seems to follow, where a striking example would be the Tetragrammaton YVWH.
hieroglyphs |
The story has it that when Moses was instructed by his god to see the Pharaoh, he asked who should he say sent him? His god then revealed his name as Yahweh. But the Jews didn't want to take the name of their god in vain, so they refused to say aloud Yahweh, but instead Adonai (Lord). Subsequently
when the Jews introduced vowels into their script, they used those from the Adonai word, a, o and again a, in YVWH, giving them Yahowah (Jehovah). The Torah remains vowel-less.
Thus the Hebraic vowel-less script for god sometimes is seen in English as G-D, probably the work of Hebrew wannabes.
demotic script |
... which brings us to my post title of B-D.
Okay lah, I am t'ng k'oui (chong hei), meandering like a lazy willow & bamboo-lined Karnafuli* river across the Plains of Chitchat-tagong (no, not the one in Bangladesh), wakakaka.
* polite mispronunciation, wakakaka
Now, what does B-D stand for or tell us?
Firstly, we may assume that the vowel-less letters has god-like qualities because of their resemblance to the Hebraical G-D. Please have a bit of faith here lah, wakakaka;
faith as taught by the church |
Secondly, remember that having faith obviates the need for evidence, proof, logic etc, including the truth, wakakaka;
Thirdly, B-D has assumed a disproportionate significance in the politics of Malaysia right at this moment and we should pay heed to it;
Fourthly (the final of our four thingy's), sceptical kaytee as usual wishes to examine the political evangelism that's promoting the new 'god' B-D, wakakaka.
Okay, let's start off with the D of B-D where D, placed second, is more recent that B.
D = Deepak or Deepak Jaikishan, the carpet
Deepak Jaikishan |
Today he is the very epitome of credibility, integrity and reliability and various other '-bilities'.
No, don't blame him, unlike someone wakakaka he didn't reinvent himself. Others have done that for him where Mr Deepak Jaikishan now possesses a fresh sweet smelling persona like a newly washed, rinsed, starched, blued and expertly ironed gleaming white shirt.
He has become the very fount of truth, and if you by any remote chance don't see this, please have a bit of faith lah, wakakaka.
We now come to none other than Mr "Neutral", our dear Mr Americk Singh Sidhu, who has written an article for Malaysiakini titled Only one man stands to gain from Bala's second SD where he means the sole beneficiary of the 2nd SD would be Najib Tun Razak.
(l) Americk Singh Sidhu, (r) Sivarasa Rasiah (PKR VP & MP Subang) |
Kaytee being an avid admirer of Mr Americk Singh Sidhu, chiefly for his "neutrality" and civic-consciousness, have written a
I believe Mr Americk Singh Sidhu hasn't written for Malaysiakini before though he most certainly had been interviewed by them in 2009, as per Malaysiakini's article titled Lawyer: Najib 'linked' to Bala's disappearance - and that's why I admire him more than ever, for taking the trouble to write for Malaysiakini on his assessment of who benefits from the 2nd SD, namely Najib Razak, a person he had already suspected in 2009 of been "... somehow linked to the disappearance of P Balasubramaniam."
P Balasubramaniam |
But naughty naughty Bala just had to spoil that chilling and mysterious picture of strange disappearance by telling us via Malaysiakini that he had since his 'disappearance' been back to Malaysia a couple of times.
Anyway, Mr Americk Singh Sidhu tells us in his article that 7 paragraphs (No's 8, 25, 28, 49, 50, 51 and 52) of the second SD were intentionally extracted from the first SD and retracted by denial.
'Intentionally'?
Anyway, he stated:
It may be an unfortunate coincidence
that each and every paragraph so traversed in the second SD specifically bore
reference to Najib. Nothing of all the other personalities mentioned in the
first SD was referred to. Only the details relating to Najib were set out in
the second SD and retracted.
This, by a very rudimentary analysis,
would lead any reasonably minded person to surmise that the personality
standing to benefit from this partial second SD retraction must have been the
one whose name had been mentioned in the paragraphs referred to above. There is
no logical reason why anyone else would have been interested.
This, by a simple process of deduction,
indicates that Najib or someone close enough to him, entrusted or vested with
an interest to maintain and preserve a favourable public perception of him,
must have been instrumental in the organisation of a very rapid attempt to
stifle what must have been perceived as a formidable threat to his pending
ascension to the position of prime minister.
"It may be an unfortunate coincidence that each and every paragraph so traversed in the second SD specifically bore reference to Najib."
Well, if you go over my post Will 'neutrality' of Mr 'Neutral' be neutralised? you'd find lots and lots and lots of "coincidences", wakakaka. Poor Mr Americk Singh Sidhu, plagued by coincidences.
But alas, kaytee being kaytee, always inquisitive and trying my best to think outside the box, and known for my silly efforts as a kuai-lan knia (wakakaka), had previously posted in Who killed Altantuyaa Shaariibuu? the following queries, in particular with focus on the event of the second SD:
Then,
... in stepped Balasubramaniam.
Incidentally, if Bala were to die tomorrow, whether by assassination or
‘accident’ or even sickness, who will be the principal suspect?
... in stepped Deepak Jaikisian.
Incidentally, if Deepak were to die tomorrow, whether by assassination or
‘accident’ or sickness, who will be the principal suspect?
If Bala submitted a statutory
declaration damning a person, and then, within 24 hours withdrew the
accusations via a 2nd SD, purported out of fear though he prepared the original
SD for 2 months with resolution and courage, who will be the principal suspect?
Would the twin packed SD's be known as
the 'deadly double whammy'?
More importantly, will both Bala and
Deepak then be safe?
Hmmm, perhaps from the principal
suspect, but not necessarily from others who want the principal suspect to
emerge as the principal suspect, wakakaka!
Good Lord (no pun intended), bloody kaytee has the unmitigated effrontery to suggest a different take to that by much admired Mr Americk Singh Sidhu, in suggesting the main beneficiary of the 2nd SD might not be Najib, au contraire, because (borrowing Mr Americk Singh Sidhu's erudite words) it would lead any reasonably minded person to surmise that Najib Razak must be the person who had ordered the 2nd SD, ...
... regardless of the fact that B (= Balasubramaniam) had waxed and waned and then waned and waxed in his courageous resolution to tell the so-called truth ...
... as in his confessed (and understandable) fears when making alleged omissions in the original police report ..... then gathering up (and admired) courage and steeled resolution in the 4 months of drafting the 1st SD ..... then collapsing 24 hours in his courage after the release of the 1st SD (what the ...?) which gifted us with his 2nd SD ..... then working his courage up again to pester the MACC into reopening his case (dei aneh, pordah!) ..... then ..... you fill up the blanks from here, okay? ........
When you punch someone kau kau, the most effective killer strike would be a one-two double punch lah! Pow!
Thus one SD attacking a bloke, then followed immediately by another indirectly attacking same bloke, POW! and POW again! and Najib would have trouble weaselling out of that.
Thus one SD attacking a bloke, then followed immediately by another indirectly attacking same bloke, POW! and POW again! and Najib would have trouble weaselling out of that.
Okay next, in Mr Americk Singh Sidhu's article, he cleared lawyer Arunampalam from drafting the second SD based on Deepak Jaikishan's revelation that "Arunampalam was there basically as a stooge for the person(s) behind these shenanigans."
Hey man, to reiterate, Mr Deepak is the very epitome of credibility, integrity and reliability and various other '-bilities' where he now possesses a fresh sweet smelling persona like a newly washed, rinsed, starched, blued and expertly ironed gleaming white shirt.
B-D, the new G-D of "truth".
Oh, did I mention who drafted the second SD, a person that Robert Phang had fingered as Cecil Abraham?B-D, the new G-D of "truth".
But Mr Americk Singh Sidhu dismissed the idea that Mr Cecil Abraham was the mysterious lawyer who drafted it, and urged the Bar Council to move their collective behind and get on with finding that mysterious lawyer?
Once I read somewhere, yes I did chance upon, Mr Americk Singh Sidhu's most eloquent praise of a fellow lawyer (I wonder whether it was Mr Manjeet Singh Dillion?) which was in the most elegant erudite effusive English prose, wow! I had then deemed the words in his praise as so beautiful that I wish I have a friend who would praise me in similar fashion. Sob, well, never mind!
Of course Mr Americk Singh Sidhu would never ever have used such vulgar words as 'behind' - it's just peasant kaytee taking liberties with his blogger's license.
Indeed, as Terence Netto (who himself has a way with words, wakakaka) penned in Malaysiakini's Deepakgate - musings on the law and the lawyerly:
Americk Singh Sidhu, laid it on
copiously when he
praised fellow legal practitioner Cecil Abraham's integrity which he said
was a byword among lawyers in the latter's 40 years of service to the Malaysian
Bar.
Americk said he could not conceive that
someone of Abraham's vaunted stature would countenance the drawing up of a
false statutory declaration such as carpet trader Deepak Jaikishan had
indicated was the case with Balasubramaniam's second SD that reversed the sensational
avowals contained in his first.
Given the gravity of the contents of his
first SD, elements of which shed light on the 2006 murder of the Mongolian
woman Altantuya Shaariibuu, there was no taking the matter lightly.
Days have passed since Americk
unequivocally vouched for Abraham's probity, but Abraham himself is seemingly
unperturbed by the brouhaha, holding his counsel in the face of a hail of
imprecations. […]
This silence [by Mr Cecil Abraham] is
possibly the choice of one who seems intent on tiptoeing through a frightful
thicket, mindful or not of what the poet Dante said about the hottest places in
hell being reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their
neutrality (read: silence).
I wonder whether it has been due to Mr Americk Singh Sidhu's
admiration of Mr Cecil Abraham's 'vaunted stature' or just an oversight that he didn't opine
about Mr Abraham’s elegant silence as he did so about, among others, Najib Razak’s reticent silence in his Malaysiakini article Only one man stands to gain from Bala's second SD as follows:
… the circumstances surrounding this
whole issue which I believe necessitates an explanation, especially in light of
the recent revelations made by Deepak, all of which have yet to be disputed by
the individuals named or implicated.
This reticence, unfortunately, only
lends credence to these aspersions.
I suppose I can presume he has more ... er ... faith in Mr Cecil Abraham than in Najib Razak.
As I had penned in my concluding paragraph of my post Faith & salvation:
Faith!
As my matey John used to tell me when my faith in his promise
falters, “kaytee, have
faith in me, trust me, after all I’m a lawyer.”
Hah, faith and hallelujah to B-D the new G-D of "truth".
And BTW if you don't like a vowel-less B-D, I'm afraid I can't help you. You have to choose a vowel yourself to insert into the name of the G-D of "truth".
You can do it lah, have faith in yourself, wakakaka.
You can do it lah, have faith in yourself, wakakaka.
B-D,I insert the vowel A.Read my lips!
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Dee-do-pucks [aka Mr D] as opposed to Mr Dont-play-pucks
has been busy servicing the funanis of important
vvips in the ruling politico machine.
And to think that our pious braders from Pas
have been giving Dee-do-pucks good airtime as if
he is a new found celebrity when Islamic teachings
should keep them away from the peple who broke
laws of Allah willy nilly.
This is where the standard of proof in Islamic Laws
comes in. In dealing with those who transgresses Islamic
laws one need to bring 4 witnesses with 8 good eyesight
and the withness must of impeccable character. Men who
who are known to piss whilst standing are routinely
challenged on suitablity as witnesses and rejected.
Standard of Evidence is something jazzy cooked up
by our blogger and is nonsense. The beauty of Bahasa
malaysia is the subtleness it hides devilsih adulterers
under the guise of 'adek angkat' when men like dee-do-pucks
are clearly toyboy/bf/a-bit-on-the-side-thingy/mf.
So Pas members have no problem mingling with serial
adulterer- men like dee-doo-pucks when he can throw mud
at the ruling politico's women and men....
Ironic. It must be the standard-of-evidence -thingy
that allows special exceptions to an otherwise strict
Islamic law
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khong khek khuat
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I think the principal beneficiary of the 2nd SD is none other than Anwar El-Ibrahim. The main beneficiary is also logically the most likely instigator/originator, don't you think ?
ReplyDeleteWrong! Anwar cannot guarantee Deepak's safety.
ReplyDeleteDPM is the man!!
Who say Anwar want his men in his party
ReplyDeleteTake a look at this, kaytee. So, there is something rotten in DAP. More than PKR.....Hahahaha
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/dap-admits-counting-error-left-zairil-out-of-cec/
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/01/04/is-dap-bowing-to-malay-interests/
Kaytee,
ReplyDeleteYour assessment on sarawak politics half right. I agree with you on PKR being the big bully but SNAP is indeed rotten. Enjoy reading
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/01/04/snaps-sec-gen-quits-over-bn-leanings/
Clean, Accountable & Transparent, don't you think. DAP readily and openly admits its polling error after an independent audit, where it's not a crime to make an error provided that error is disclosed openly, and indeed it has - unlike PKR which up to today hasn't yet answered the questions about alleged dodgyness (raised by people like Mustaffa Kamil., Zaid Ibrahim, Haris Ibrahim, Chegubard, Jonson Chong, etc), one brilliant example being the sum of the votes for two deputy presidential candidates exceeded the total number of voters at that location, wakakaka - the EC would have been envious.
ReplyDeleteKT, there's a lot of helen-ang-ers here who were somehow or other have gotten spurned/burned/jilted by DAP....that's why you will get plenty of whinning and bitching about the party here. The huge 'log' in PKR they won't be able to see at all, but will be able to spot even the very minute bits of 'splinters' in DAP. But admittedly, none could challenge the 'queen of bitchness'.
DeleteAs for those of the malay race who also don't see an iota of good in DAP, they are easily spotted too when they vomit out their spiel about DAP being Communist Racists who are in conspiration with LKY of Singapore to take over the country and turn this country into a republic. Although it is not an excuse, we could at least rightfully blame UMNO for its 3 decades of relentless demonising of DAP for these malays to be so anathematic towards DAP. Btw, I am not chinese and am not a DAP memnber. Just an objective observer.
Comrade (wakakaka, now UMNO can call us communists), the struggle continues, and a CAT DAP has been, is and will be making headway.
Delete'queen of bitchness'... with her attendant puppies lapping up her bile in each instalment...
DeleteUrgh....sorry, typo error. Conspiracy, not Conspiration
DeleteAnon of 9.10 PM
that kt sweetie disguise under the claim of aku cina and do a bondage with the rightist to insult her own declaration, an apparent revelation that even the hypocritical hannah yeoh have more integrity and dignity than her. but she never assert she is an objective observer like some here did, when all he mumble is excuse, excuse n excuse.
DeleteShe condones blasphemous comments in her blog:
Deletehttp://helenang.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/wajib-baca-lagi-penipuan-kristian-atas-isu-kalimah-allah/#comment-20343
which is on par with that of Gopinath Jayaratnam.
I don't think we should trivialise the matter of DAP polls into another DAP vs. PKR food fight.
DeletePersonally, I don't think there is anything more sinister happenening than just a tallying error, but frankly, I'm not impressed.
DAP has been conducting party elections since the 1960's. There are no external logistics involved - its a ballot conducted within one day, inside one hall, voted only by people attending in the hall.
It should have been a simple open and shut case, so the error, while it may have been unintentional is quite inexcusable.
I'm know people outside the DAP who have openly called the revised CEC results a "piece of Sandiwara", and its not easy to defend against such accusations, given the circumstances and context.
The DAP election returning officer Pooi Weng Keong has (voluntarily) resigned on 02 Jan 2013 for his mistake in the tallying. On 03 Jan he admitted his mistake at a press conference.
DeleteTony Pua said: “He voluntarily resigned on January 2 to take responsibility for his blunder.”
“No warning letters (were) issued ... he has been a long-time faithful member. He’s very pained at having caused this to the party.”
This was in the finest tradition of accountability.
I think the accountability needs to go rather higher than the lowly returning officer.
DeleteDefinitely more senior people in the DAP than the Returning officer were responsible for ensuring the system be in place for the polls to be conducted transparently and accurately.
Getting a low-level foot soldier to resign is too BN/UMNO-ish.
Maybe DAP, too, is learning the wrong things rather fast.
party polls are the responsibility of the party returning officer. In PKR no one is responsible, not even the person in charge of party polls, wakakaka. But I suppose you won't be satisfied until Lim GE is hung wakakaka
Delete"But I suppose you won't be satisfied until Lim GE is hung wakakaka"
DeleteTouche, KT........and such people like this who soooo righteously go on their high high horse where DAP is concerned will mysteriously lose their tongues and eyesight when PKR outdone UMNO/BN's feats of blatant cheating and sleight of hand.
I used to enamoured of the DAP as well, until my encounter with some Unclean, Unaccountable and Non-Transparent DAP operatives, who happen to be pulling strings in the Penang state government.
ReplyDeleteI should have known - after years of ranting against the corruption with the Dacing gang - (some of) these Rocketeers are just as rottenly human as well.
In every barrel, there are the inevitable percentage of rotten apples. But we all know that UMNO and its lapdog partners have more than the normal share of rotten-ness. Shall we say 90% rosak ? DAP....the reverse, 10% rosak.
DeleteThe rot in BN rule is on rare occasions, substantiated in reports, like this one :
Delete"... He (Penang Class F Contractors Association president Tahir Jalaluddin Hussain) claimed contractors need to go through Umno division heads when Barisan ruled Penang, alleging that sometimes they need to contribute RM5,000 or RM6,000 to get the projects..."
http://www.mca.org.my/en/tan-sorry-no-apology/
On the "Allah" issue, I am impressed with Ktemoc for his depth of understanding as well as level-headed judgement.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I must say, the DAP that Ktemoc admires so much is way out of line on this issue, as evidenced by Lim Guan Eng's recent opportunistic Christmas message.
For all the talk about inclusiveness, DAP just proves that it continues to be trapped in its Chinese-Christian bubble.
Pak Yeh, can't publish your last comment due to possible suit against me, wakakaka.
ReplyDeleteKT, you should read this article by one of Helen's disciple:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2013/01/05/dap-talibans-without-turbans/
Calvin Sankaran is well known (or if you like, notorious) for his pro BN reporting. Alas, his words "Like their Kimchi-loving Korean comrades, ..." betrayed him as a person still unable to shed off his innate bigotry.
DeleteYes, the North Korean theme (varied occasionally with the 'mullah' theme) to describe Lim GE is indeed a Helen Ang original.
But as my matey Ong Kian Ming (a DAP member/strategist) advised me, we should welcome different views, even those as pungent to the DAP as Helen Ang's.
Incidentally, at FMT there'll always be a blogger's article or letter critical of DAP, some left in place for long stretches of period, which I suspect, is to keep (especially) Sarawakians "informed" of the evil in DAP - I have been observing this for quite a while. If there is any blame to be apportioned, no it's not to BN but rather someone closer, wakakaka.
Deletethe prob with garbage writer like calvin and helen is they want to lump both race (chinese) and christian into one that make their whole thesis a childish rant. they should have pick either one.
Deletebtw calvin, the diff of myres with many other writers is he get most of his sources from korea and not rely on western material, unlike some stupid aku cina that cant even read simple chinese but try to portray herself as one who know the chinese thought process. i think myres actually cherry pick his evidence as support of his racial central view, forgeting other communist state like albania n romania that share almost the same attribute...cultist.
btw2, you seem to appreciate this cherry picking skill very much, in fact both u n helen are equally good at this, of course this is my compliments.
The fact that Helen allows commentators to spew anti-Chinese insults in her blog against her Aku Cina declaration, reeks of masochism.
DeleteBut in her latest response to one commentator, she is getting a taste of her own medicine.
http://helenang.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/graf-pola-perkauman-undi-cec-oleh-perwakilan-dap/#comment-20441
FMT has (very) frequently carried articles highly critical of Anwar Ibrahim and PKR. A good recent one concerning possible Anwar Ib.'s links to Deepak and Musang.
Deletehttp://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2012/12/24/anwar-beware-of-the-desperate-men/
If FMT also occasionally publishes critiques of the DAP I think it is quite fair and balanced.
Oh, I think you may say the article lambasting Anwar is fair comment, and the criticism of DAP is unwarranted, but maybe that's just your partisan mental bias at work ?
What I started has been that "at FMT there'll always be a blogger's article or letter critical of DAP, some left in place for long stretches of period, which I suspect, is to keep (especially) Sarawakians "informed" of the evil in DAP"
DeleteThe key phrase is "some left in place for long stretches of period" which would be considered as unusual
"article lambasting Anwar is fair comment" is your comment, not mine
What F*ng transparency and accountability (sorry to be rude, by I'm angry at people praising contemptible behaviour) are you talking about when they chose to reveal the "corrections" to the results three weeks after the event ?
ReplyDeleteThe outcome smells of either
a) Cooked Results. No need to elaborate.
b) Somebody spotted the mistake earlier, but it took three weeks of Political Calculations, What-if gaming, multiple rounds of meetings before DAP finally decided the likely cost-benefit was preferable towards admitting the error.
Accountability and Transparency my foot. If this had been MCA or Gerakan , DAP especially the Lim Dynasty would have been screaming at the top of its voice.
external independent auditor had to be called in - that required time
DeleteCalvin Sankaran started off making highly debatable but at least literate critiques of DAP/Pakatan economic and industrial policy in Penang.
ReplyDeleteHe passed himself off as a technocrat from the industrial MNC sector. He has since abandoned all pretence at making apolitical judgements, and morphed into full blown political attacks on DAP/Pakatan.
Sounds very much like his cheerleader Helen who have also degenerated into anti-DAP/Christian/Star vindictiveness. They are made for each other.
DeleteEveryone is screaming for blood, dancing to the composer's tune.
ReplyDelete"Today he is the very epitome of credibility, integrity.." Ktemoc on Deepak.
ReplyDeleteI remember Ktemoc has done the same for some individuals who have flipped from being Anwar supporters to Anwar critics.
Overnight, their every word becomes very believable...
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/218193
ReplyDeletePenang DCM Mansor aide arrested for Corruption.
Why are all these PKR types so easily corrupted ? It was the same entrapment which ultimately led to the downfall of the Pakatan Perak state government. Never learn, yah...
Did UMNO ever learn ? Unbridled limitless power for more than 3 decades....even a saint will go berserk, what more the melayus. So who are the 'Papas' and 'Mamas' of PKR ? From where the roots of PKR sprung from ? Are not the top malay leadership of PKR cut from the same cloth as those from UMNO ? Can leopards change their spots ?
DeleteSo cease and desist, even rhetorically, asking ..."Why are all these PKR types so easily corrupted ? "
Rumours...rumours...Najib to meet Altantuya soon....and Rosmah will not be able to interfere at all...
ReplyDeleteIt seems that Najib has not been seen in public for the last 3 days.
ReplyDeleteIt may be nothing...it may be something big going on......The rumour mill among chatterers in KL is running red hot...
The composer is looking for another job.
ReplyDeleteFailed at probational period.
Matthias Chang's views on DAP:
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Matthias was just a mahathir lapdog.....doing his bidding for Mahathir.....you can throw some bones to him if you want too
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