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April 06, 2009

I think I am a reasonable man, with reasonable expectations. As an old salt, I have always been uncomfortable with loose ends*, i.e., when there is no simple closure or simple answers to simple questions, such as:

Who ordered the ‘neutralisation’ of Mongolian beauty Altan whatshername?

Where is private investigator Bala whatshisname? etc., etc.

I simply cannot accept pulling of rank by swearing to a higher authority in His house that one is innocent and had nothing to do with all these mysterious happenings and disappearances. I would if I was born yesterday.

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March 28th, 2009

So now the bomohs (witch doctors) rule the roost it would seem. The news that a magic charm or spell was found hidden surreptitiously under the desk of none other than the Prime Minister of Malaysia does not bode well for the future of this country of ours. It may make the headlines under the ‘Strange but True’ column of foreign papers, but this historian has grown somewhat jaded by now by such ridiculousness dressed in the garment of wonderment and fantasy. No, this was no laughing matter (and if we did laugh, it was a pitiable laugh at best).

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http://cyusof.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-of-infamy.html

A Day of Infamy

April 3, 2009

I didn’t buy the rumours via SMS going around town that the swearing in ceremony of the new PM at the palace was being postponed from 10 a.m. today to a later date. Despite some cock ups about protocol (read about it, here) and a petition by 81 MPs asking the King to postpone appointing Najib as PM until he was cleared of allegations against him, etc., I believe the ceremony would go on as scheduled.

The petition noted that “Lately the DPM has been implicated in many scandals such as the commission for the purchase of French submarines. The most shocking is the murder of the Mongolian woman in which his name has been implicated. This has been published by newspapers around the world.

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http://harismibrahim.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/notice-of-the-no-confidence-in-najib-petition-sent-out-to-141-mps/

March 25, 2009

Remember the petition that was launched on 4th January, 2009?

No?

You can read it HERE.

As at this morning, 3,946 had signed, directing 141 MPs to do the right thing if and when Najib should run to the palace to get his PMship sealed.

Those MPS were given notice this morning. I reduce the same below.

Next post, I will list the MPs notified and suggest what you can still do to try and stop the worst nightmare happening in this country.

Dear Yang Berkhidmat,

My name is Haris Ibrahim and I moderate a blog known as “The People’s Parliament???. You may access the same at http://harismibrahim.wordpress.com.

On 4th January, 2009, I initiated an online petition entitled “Kami tidak berkeyakinan terhadap Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Abd Razak sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia???.

You can access the petition online at .http://www.petitiononline.com/pmbersih/petition.html

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http://cyusof.blogspot.com/2009/03/umno-beyond-redemption.html

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Quite frankly, if the ground would open up during an earthquake and swallow the entire PWTC building this week while the UMNO general assembly is in progress, I would be the last person to shed any tears.

In the first place, the UMNO that we have now isnt really the original UMNO of Onn Jaafar, which started the fight for the country’s independence. After its deregistration during the 1988 constitutional crisis, former prime ministers Tunku Abdul Rahman and Hussein Onn didn’t even bother to ‘rejoin’ the new ‘UMNO Baru’ of Mahathir Mohamed, clearly expressing their disgust at what took place. About a year ago, Mahathir himself quit the party, also in disgust, expecting many others to follow suit but nobody of any consequence did.

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http://sarawakheadhunter.blogspot.com/2009/03/timber-how-do-they-cheat.html

March 18, 2009

There are a few basic ways to do it, all involving under-declarations or false declarations, with the connivance of the state authorities of course. In Sarawak the state authorities means Taib.

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http://www.tianchua.net/en/2009/03/18/more-defence-scandals-2/

18 March 2009

It is wrong to think that Defence scandals confine only to submarine, Eurocopter, Sukhoi, and big-time weapons.

Today I held a press conference in the lobby of the Parliament to expose more scandals in awarding Defence contracts. Last week, I received a written answer from the Ministry of Defence revealing that in 2008 54% of the RM8 Billion worth contracts had been awarded through direct negotiation.

The justification for direct negotiation was due to secrecy and sensitivity of national security. However here is a case that required high level secrecy:

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http://anotherbrickinwall.blogspot.com/2009/03/limbang-one-flop-for-road.html

Thursday, March 19, 2009

My blog comrades, Bigdogdotcom, the blogger who first called Abdullah as PM Flip Flop, showered Abdullah with praises for settling the long dispute with Brunei over Limbang territory.

He said Abdullah finally did someting right for getting Brunei to drop claims on Limbang, after berating over many issues, in particular with the Johor-Singapore issues.

Subject to no sudden twist of event, Abdullah is expected to resign as Prime Minister to transfer power to Dato Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak after the UMNO GA. The date is still subject to be official as the speculated dates range from month end 30th March, to 3rd or 5th April and an outlier predicting another four months.

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March 18th, 2009

Despite being a person who is generally skeptical to the idea of economic stimulus, I did hold high hope for the second stimulus package or the mini-budget as it is called. I thought this would be the time when we would finally do things differently. Like a crystal glass thrown into the air only to meet the harsh earth, that hope of mine was crudely shattered into millions of pieces.

As it turned out, it was business as usual. Same old same old.

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