MURMURS FROM MERCHANT SQ.

or ‘The 4 Musketeers & All For One And One For All!’

By ES Shankar aka donplaypuks

October 8, 2008

or ‘Oh, Ye Of Little Faith!’

by surya nades 15 beers, donplaypuks® intrepid correspondent for barisan rakyat affairs

Malkit Siang Gill Sr – The natives are getting restless! Whoa, I hantam sky-change lah, sea-change 916 lah, toll highway interchange lah, everywhere in my speeches lah. But still no toppling, no frogs leaping above or below the wind, bludder!!

Kapak Singh Gill – We can’t rely on defections alone you know, your honour, Sir Abim Obasama.

SAO – Should we then rely on ex-National Central Bang plants masquerading as your Deputy Chairman?

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The Blogging Evolution

By Syed Akbar Ali

October 5, 2008

Well folks, this is my Blog. Have I arrived? I guess I am a writer too. Those of you who have read The Sun newspaper when it first appeared many years ago may recall a column called ‘Human Rites’ by an Akbar Ali. Well that was me. I wrote that column in The Sun from 1996 until 2002.

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916 Not A Failure

By Dr M. Bakri Musa

September 28th, 2008

First posted on SEEING IT MY WAY, www.Malaysiakini.com, September 24, 2008

When (it appears less of an “if??? now) Anwar Ibrahim takes over the government, he will face the monumental twin problems of undoing the damage wrecked upon our institutions as well as containing the inevitable implosion of UMNO.

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Ode to September

Ode to September (2)

By Desiderata-YL Chong

Monday, September 29, 2008

Dear Raja Petra Kamarudin (and Marina and family)
It’s the eve of Hari Raya Aidilfitri
A fellow blogger humbly writeth with warm wishes
And prayers for your wellbeing and safety
That you’d be secure in His abode divine
And to thy family: peace and serenity
I know thou art God-fearing and His Angels will watch o’er thee

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The new MoF’s first big test

By Ahirudin Attan aka rockybru

September 29, 2008

update, 6pm: Daim involved? Read the poser in The Edge’s Financial Daily here.

Original Posting:
First, read this story.

Please note that the PT Bank Internasional Indonesia deal is not the first time Temasek is at the heart of a corporate deal that has cost us a fortune and left Malaysia’s corporate boys and authorities red-faced. Why did the MoF agree then to let Maybank pay Temasek so much for their stake in BII?

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The Qur’an guarantees Freedom of Expression

The Qur’an guarantees Freedom of Expression, so Free Raja Petra and all ISA detainees

By Din Merican
September 27, 2008

We read the statement issued by the Home Minister concerning the detention of Raja Petra Kamaruddin under the dreaded and inhumane Internal Security Act (ISA) with skepticism. According to the Home Minister, Raja Petra was detained because his articles ridiculed Islam. One is now left to wonder whether Islam itself allows such detention without trial in order to protect its sanctity from being ridiculed by people, the likes of Raja Petra.

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Keynote address on US financial turmoil and the future prospects for Asean economies

Written by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, MP for Permatang Pauh

Posted by Din Merican

September 26, 2008

Speech by Anwar Ibrahim delivered at the CLSA Investor Forum in Hong Kong on Friday 26th September, 2008

What do you do when a financial behemoth implodes?

What can you say about free market capitalism when the world’s leading liberal democracy dumps nearly a trillion dollars in private debt onto taxpayers? Are Freddie Mac and Fannie May along with Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG totally unforeseen victims of systemic once in a lifetime financial meltdowns or are they not really victims of their own greed? When you allow the “mushrooming of weapons of financial mass destruction,??? to borrow a phrase from Warren Buffet then isn’t it written that you shall reap what you sow?

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