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Wednesday, May 15, 2024
MORE THAN 300 MSIANS LISTED AS DUBAI PROPERTY OWNERS. SO WHAT?
OUTSYED THE BOX TAKING TIME OFF
Just sometime back I did say that since lately I have not been writing as much in my blog. What this also means is that I have not been writing my own analyses or generating too much of my own content.
I still update the blog but not the same as before.
This trend will continue. Something else has come up. I have to finish a new project that I have begun just recently. This will possibly take about six months at least. I will be tied up with the project.
But I think I will have more time for the Friday Notes from The Quran piece on Fridays. I believe some readers, mostly Muslims, may be interested in this topic.
Lets keep on squatchin'.
SYUKUR ALHAMDULILLAH HALF THE NUMBER WERE NOT KILLED IN GAZA. THEY ARE STILL ALIVE.
This is taken from here (click here).
Latest Developments
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revised its child fatality figure from the Gaza war sharply downward, reporting more than 14,500 deaths on May 6 but 7,797 on May 8.
OCHA also revised downward its figure for women fatalities from more than 9,500 deaths to 4,959 deaths.
The UN attributed its original, higher figures to the Hamas-controlled Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza, whose figures OCHA has cited continually for the past two months. The UN gave no source for the lower figures in its May 8 update, but the figures precisely match those in a May 2 report from a different Hamas-controlled organization, the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Expert Analysis
“This change may signal that the UN has finally recognized the lack of evidence behind Hamas’s original claims that more than 14,000 children and 9,000 women have been killed in Gaza.
Gaza Health Ministry Admits Flaws in Casualty Data
In early April, the Gaza Ministry of Health admitted it had “incomplete data” to document more than 10,000 of the deaths it had previously reported. Subsequently, the ministry indicated that it did not have names for more than 10,000 of the individuals it claimed to be deceased.
As of April 1, the ministry also stopped repeating the claim it made since the first weeks of the war that 70 percent of the dead were women and children, even suggesting the media invented this number.
BERSATU AND TS MUHYIDDIN TAKE NOTE : PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS ??
My Comments below.
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By Mohammad Natsir
SHAH ALAM, Malaysia: Former prime minister Muhyddin Yassin undoubtedly a charismatic & popular Malay Leader got toppled from the Apex, thanks to his bossom buddies from the State of Johor. Muhyiddin the scion of a religious leader, educated in English and groomed by Tun Dr Mahathir himself, held many crucial cabinet posts.
Intelligent, hardworking and humble, Muhyiddin is loved by many. All Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia) and Malaysian Islamic Party (Parti Islam Se-Malaysia) members should be upset. Both parties form the National Alliance (Perikatan Nasional).
Muhyddin made the strategic blunder of entrusting cerebral matters to his inner circle. An inner sanctum consisting of a privileged few including the Alma matter poster boy - S-----n M---oob. Tragically, S-----n was to dispense crappy advice.
While steering the National Recovery Council (NRC), S------n imputed dodgy indices into their strategy formulation. The Enterprise performance Index had a meagre 300-plus respondents in their mailing list while the Consumption indicator Index had approximately three times more. Aside from not doing rigorous mathematical modelling and not producing any reports. It is not clearly known what the NRC did, aside from the fact that both Muhyddin and S------n enjoyed generous remuneration packages.
the outfit which supplied the NRC key metrics had a Researcher from the People's Republic of China (PRC) as their key researcher.
More recently, one particular sausage seller that used to operate a pizza and spaghetti parlour in Bangsar became associated with a policy initiative outfit.
The outfit also have persons who maybe persona non grata in Johor in its ranks.
S------n’s partner also from Johor also comes into the picture. She is reportedly a public health expert.
Poor Muhyiddin ought to be careful of his inner circle. What is required is constant vigilance and robust security measures.
I feel sorry for Muhyiddin as his bosom buddies have abandoned him,
today they are busy trying to jump in the Malaysia Madani Bandwagon!
Not having any clear insight, while constantly shifting alliances, Muhyiddin’s friends have left him high and dry. Marooned and having to face the music alone, this is how unfortunate Muhyiddin is today.
*Mohammad Natsir is an observer of Southeast Asian affairs and political commentator.*
My comments :
Of course I have removed so many references to individuals and other comments by the author.
But there is an overiding theme to all this - EVERYTHING IS THE SAME.
The tricks are the same, the tricksters are the same, the scheming is the same, the switching allegiances, stabbing in the back are all the same. Nothing has changed.
WHY IS THAT SO? Because the policies have not changed. Nothing has changed.
EVERY SINGLE POLICY THAT GOT UMNO / BN KICKED OUT OF POWER IS STILL IN PLACE.
Lets take education. I have mentioned the Razak Report (1956 by Tun Abdul Razak) and the Rahman Talib Report (1960). Both are solid, 100% UMNO party documents, designed more to preserve Umno' political power than to develop the country's education (which by the way was in perfect condition in the 1960s).
The Razak Report (1956) and the Rahman Talib Report (1960) have basically guided the failure of our education policy until today. Remember it takes decades to destroy a country's administrative systems (education, health, security, etc etc)
But UMNO is no more in power. UMNO/BN lost in 2018. And there have been FOUR other governments put in place since then. Yet NOT ONE of these four "new" governments made any changes to all the failures of the UMNO/BN government of 61 years. THEY ALL KEPT THE SAME POLICIES.
Hence this opinion by the writer above.
The orang putih will say 'same wine different bottle'.
In our local context it is 'same sambal belacan different packaging'.
We need change. If Bersatu wants to be a force in the country they must change their thinking. So far there is nothing new.
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