Los Angeles, California July 22, 2011 www.malaysiakini.com Royal Commission’s Shocker: Teoh Beng Hock committed suicide S Pathmawathy & Wong Teck Chi Jul 21, 11 2:45pm Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Dato Seri Nazri Aziz has disclosed that the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the death of Teoh Beng Hock found the political aide had [...]
Archive for July 2011
Royal Commission’s Shocker
July 22, 2011Applying Prospect Theory to end Affirmative Action
July 21, 2011Los Angeles, California July 21, 2011 (10pm) Applying Prospect Theory* To End Affirmative Action by Dr. M.Bakri Musa Morgan-Hill,Caliornia An insight of cognitive psychology (that sub-discipline dealing with mental processes like thinking and decision making) is that humans are far removed from the ideal of a rational self-interested Homo economicus (Economic man) when making decisions, [...]
To Westwood Memorial Park, Hollywood
July 21, 2011Los Angeles, California July 20, 2011 Planned Visit to Westwood Memorial Park–Time Permitting Dr. Kamsiah and I plan time permitting and with the help of our buddy Ibrahim Karim (aka Semper Fi) to visit the Westwood Memorial Park, Hollywood to pay respects to some of our favorite actors and entertainers. They include Mel Tome, Dean [...]
Farah’s Open Letter to our Prime Minister
July 21, 2011Los Angeles, California July 20, 2011 www.themalaysiainsider.com FARAH FAHMY’s Open Letter to Malaysian Prime Minister (dated July 19, 2011) July 19, 2011 Dear Datuk Seri Najib Razak, After your mishandling of the BERSIH demonstration, I thought it only right that I offer you some advice. Of course, I am nothing more than just a citizen [...]
Overzealous Censorship of BERSIH2.0 made Bad Press
July 21, 2011Los Angeles, California July 20, 2011 (9am) Overzealous Censorship of The Economist Report on BERSIH2.0 made Bad Press www.malaysiakini.com A senior MCA leader today reprimanded the Home Ministry for censoring sections of an article on the recent BERSIH2.0 rally carried in the print version of The Economist, saying it will simply make bad press for [...]
Notes from Detention
July 20, 2011Los Angeles, California July 19, 2011 (9.40 pm) http://www.parti-sosialis.org/en/node/1766 Dr Jeyakumar says: “I will remain a Socialist” and Why “Hey Kumar! Still tilting at windmills are you?” a doctor friend greeted me at an MMA function 4 years ago. There had been some news regarding the Parti Sosialis Malaysia in the media that previous week. [...]
The Passing of James Wong
July 19, 2011Los Angeles, California July 19, 2011 (at 5.15 am) The Passing of James Wong Kim Meng and the Future of Politics-Business Nexus in Sarawak by Terence Netto @www.malaysiakini.com Just three months after the party whose ideal of multi-racialism he strove to uphold was blanked out in the Sarawak polls, James Wong Kim Meng, one-time parliamentary [...]
The Economist Report: Political Affray in Malaysia (Original Version)
July 19, 2011Los Angeles, California July 18, 2011 Political Affray in Malaysia Taken to the cleaners An Overzealous Government Response to an Opposition Rally July 14, 2011 | SINGAPORE | from the print edition MALAYSIA is one of South-East Asia’s stabler nations; but a rally in Kuala Lumpur on July 9th in demand of electoral reform turned [...]
Marina Mahathir thinks the Malaysian Government feels threatened
July 19, 2011Los Angeles, California July 18, 2011 www.malaysiakini.com Does the Malaysian Government feel threatened? Marina Mahathir thinks so by Marina Mahathir The Malaysian government feels threatened and is in a total state of panic and cannot think clearly, former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s eldest daughter Marina Mahathir said. “They do feel threatened because they underestimated [...]
The Economist Report on BERSIH2.0 defaced
July 19, 2011Los Angeles, California July 18, 2011 (10.20pm) The Economist Report on BERSIH2.O defaced by Hazlan Zakaria & Wong Teck Chi@www.malaysiakini.com Opposition parliamentarians have claimed that the July 16 edition of The Economist has been defaced by the Home Ministry in an apparent attempt to censor a report on the Bersih 2.0 rally for electoral reform. [...]
Begin the Process of National Reconciliation, Mr. Prime Minister
July 18, 2011July 18, 2011 End Detention of Dr. Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj and His Associates and Begin the Process of National Reconciliation Dear Mr. Prime Minister, When you return from your trip abroad, you should, if I may humbly suggest, release Dr. Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj and his associates from EO detention. Set them free to get on [...]
Democracy 101 not understood
July 17, 2011July 17, 2011 Democracy 101 not understood, says John Malott July 16, 2011 When he was in London, Prime Minister Najib met with the international press corps and showed that he really doesn’t understand what democracy means. Here is what he said, as reported in the New York Times: Malaysian Prime Minister Defends Muzzling of [...]
Release Jeyakumar and his associates
July 17, 2011July 17, 2011 Release Jeyakumar and his associates and begin the process of national healing soonest by James V Jesudason COMMENT I write with great concern over the incarceration of Sungai Siput parliamentarian Dr Michael D Jeyakumar, or Kumar, under the Emergency Ordinance. It is mystifying to me how the authorities can construe Kumar’s commitments [...]
On America’s Foremost Public Intellectual Noam Chomsky
July 17, 2011July 17, 2011 “Don’t take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can’t. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself. There is plenty of information. You have got to learn [...]
Najib’s Shuttle Diplomacy: Vatican City to meet The Pope Next
July 16, 2011July 16, 2011 Najib’s Shuttle Diplomacy: Vatican City to meet The Pope Next by Terence Netto @www.malaysiakini.com COMMENT Not since John Foster Dulles refused to be photographed with Zhou Enlai at the Geneva peace conference in the mid-1950s has a snubbed photo opportunity by the Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur at Castel Gondolfo on Monday – [...]
Unanswered Questions from the CNN interview with Najib
July 16, 2011July 16, 2011 Unanswered Questions from The CNN Interview with Prime Minister Najib by Din Merican CNN has demonstrated its unwillingness to pursue real standards of journalistic conduct and instead allows politicians and businessmen to use its global platform to essentially spot propaganda and unsubstantiated commentary on their policies and actions. CNN International, with a few notable [...]
Wisma Putra denies the reality of BERSIH2.0
July 16, 2011July 16, 2011 Wisma Putra’s disgraceful response to the AWSJ article on BERSIH2.0 KUALA LUMPUR,15 JULY, 2011: The Foreign Ministry has rebuked a Wall Street Journal editorial titled “Crackdown 2.0 in Malaysia”, which states that protesters suffered “intimidation and repression” at the hands of the government in recent weeks. In a letter to the New [...]
