Sunday 28 March 2010

Sultan has no right to appoint or fire his Regent?

According to the secretary of the Royal Succession Council.,Encik
Aseri, only the Royal Succession Council has the authority to appoint
the Regent, not even the Sultan, according to the constitution.
Is this true?


http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/3/27/nation/5943762&sec=nation

Saturday March 27, 2010

Another twist to royal rumble

KOTA BARU: The Kelantan royalty crisis took another twist yesterday
with acting Sultan Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra ordering the removal of
his uncle Tengku Abdul Aziz Tengku Hamzah as chairman of the Kelantan
Royal Succession Council.

Tengku Abdul Aziz, who is the elder brother of Gua Musang MP Tengku
Razaleigh Hamzah, was involved in a botched effort to oust the acting
Sultan on Thursday.

Tengku Muhammad Faris has appointed Tengku Laksamana Kelantan Tengku
Abdul Halim ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim as the new council chairman,
council secretary Datuk Aisery Alias said.

Aisery, who is also state secretary, told a press conference here
yesterday that Tengku Abdul Halim's appointment took effect from
Thursday.

Also present at the press conference were Kelantan Royal Palace
comptroller Datuk Abdul Halim Hamad and Deputy State Secretary Shafei
Ismail.

On Thursday, Tengku Abdul Aziz was declared the acting Sultan
replacing Tengku Muhammad Faris in an attempt to takeover the state's
sovereignty.

The move, which was purportedly ordered by the Sultan of Kelantan
Sultan Ismail Petra, was announced by Datuk Wan Hashim Wan Daud who
claimed to be the Sultan's private secretary.

Wan Hashim claimed that the Sultan had ordered that Tengku Muhammad
Faris be stripped of his powers as the Regent for rescinding his order
to cancel the Sultan's birthday celebrations and investiture ceremony.

Following his announcement, Wan Hashim was arrested by the police at
his house in Kubang Kerian at 9pm on Thursday for inciting unrest.

At the press conference, Aisery and Deputy Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad
Yaakob also announced that the removal of Tengku Muhammad Faris was
illegal as it was not sanctioned by the state Royal Succession
Council.

They said the announcement by Wan Hashim was constitutionally illegal
and that Tengku Muhammad Faris, who was appointed on May 29 last year,
was the legitimate acting Sultan.

Under the Kelantan Constitution, a removal of a duly appointed acting
Sultan can only be done with the consent of at least two-thirds of the
council's 17 members.

Tengku Abdul Aziz, they said, did not convene a meeting of the council
before the announcement was made.

Who has authority, the Sultan or the Regent?

It appears that it is the regent that has the authority, not the
Sultan.

It is like the acting Prime Minister who has authority over the Prime
Minister who is ill or sick or overseas.

It also happened in Sabah when Haris Salleh, as the unconfirmed Acting
Chief MInister of Sabah had signed away all Sabah's rights for
nothing, i.e. not more than 10% royalty, which means the royalty can
be zero, all by himself, witnessed by Pairin Kitingan.

I pity the Sultan's Secretary who had to carry out the Sultan's verbal
orders. He is now imprisoned even longer by now.

March 25, 2010 19:04 PM
Tengku Aziz's Appointment Unconstitutional, Tengku Faris Still Regent
KOTA BAHARU, March 25 (Bernama) -- The appointment of the chairman of
the State Council of Regency, Tengku Abdul Aziz Hamzah, 76, as the new
Regent of Kelantan was unconstitutional, Comptroller of the Kelantan
Royal Household Datuk Abdul Halim Hamad said Thursday.

With this, he said, the Kelantan Sultan's eldest son, Tengku Muhammad
Faris Petra Sultan Ismail Petra, the Crown Prince, was still the
Regent.

"The appointment (of Tengku Abdul Aziz) was not in accordance with the
State Constitution because any appointment or dismissal requires the
approval of two-thirds of the members of the State Council of Regency
and not from one person."

Abdul Halim was commenting on the report that the Sultan of Kelantan,
Sultan Ismail Petra Yahya Petra, had stripped the post of Regent from
Tengku Muhammad Faris with immediate effect.

The decision was said to have been conveyed by Tuanku Ismail Petra to
Tengku Abdul Aziz and the announcement read out by the Sultan's
private secretary, Datuk Wan Hashim Wan Daud, at Istana Mahkota.

According to Wan Hashim, the Sultan was said to have ordered that the
post of Regent be handed over to Tengku Abdul Aziz, the brother of Gua
Musang member of parliament Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.

On the Sultan's condition, he said the Sultan was able to speak and
still had a good memory.

He said Tengku Abdul Aziz was of the opinion that there was no need
for members of the State Council of Regency to meet over the dismissal
of Tengku Muhammad Faris as Regent because the Sultan was able to
speak and make a royal command while the action was also not wrong.

Wan Hashim said Tengku Muhammad Faris and the state government would
be informed of the said announcement.

Yesterday, Tengku Muhammad Faris said his father, the Kelantan Sultan,
was still unwell while he remained as Regent since his appointment on
May 29 last year following the Sultan's admission into Mount Elizabeth
Hospital in Singapore after falling ill.

Tengku Muhammad Faris said all reports on his father's state of health
other than that came from the appointed medical specialists, were
inaccurate.

Meanwhile, State Secretary Datuk Mohd Aiseri Alias confirmed at a
press conference later today that Tengku Muhammad Faris was still the
Regent, while the earlier announcement made by Wan Hashim on his
removal from the post was of no effect as it did not represent the
State Council of Regency.

Mohd Aiseri, who is also the secretary of the Council, said Tengku
Abdul Aziz had acted on his own without calling for a meeting of the
Council. Hence, his action was wrong and unconstitutional.

At the same press conference, Deputy Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakub
said the state government's stand on the matter was in accordance with
the State Constitution.

"Tengku Muhammad Faris is still the Regent although others have
announced that he has been dismissed.

"This matter needs no further discussion nor require a constitutional
amendment or an emergency sitting of the State Legislative Assembly,"
he said.

Ahmad said in a bid to end the palace crisis, Deputy State Secretary
Shafie Ismail had lodged a police report on today's incident.

He also advised the people in the state to respect the law and the
State Constitution.

-- BERNAMA

BN is now led by Sex maniacs

One is proven on video. The other has so many evidences that it is
surprising it didn't come out. NOt surprising because anyone caught
uttering a few words will end up disappearing for ever.

We should not blame politicians. Only those who vote for them.
Malaysians may be sex maniacs themselves or at least most of them.

Thursday 25 March 2010

Najib intend to pullute Sabah completely

http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/innovations/data/000162


Najib already promised to cut pullution in Malaysian by 20% but still
build coal power plant using imported coal, while Sabah huge gas
reserves, so huge that it is economical to build a more than 200km RM
2billion pipeline to Bintulu to be exported to West Malaysia.

So West Malaysia will be clean why Sabah will be absolutely dirty.


Borneo Can Say "No" to Coal Power
By Jeremy Hance

Mongabay.com, March 22, 2010

CREDIT: Jeremy Hance © 2010.
Plans for a coal power plant in the Malaysian state of Sabah in
northern Borneo have run into stiff opposition. Environmentalists say
the coal plant could damage extensive coral reef systems, pollute
water supplies, open rain forests to mining, and contribute to global
climate change, undercutting Sabah's image as a "green" destination.
The federal government contends that the coal plant is necessary to
fix Sabah's energy problems, yet a recent energy audit by the
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) at the University
of California, Berkeley shows that pollution-intensive coal doesn't
have to be in Sabah's future.

"We found that energy efficiency, biofuels, hydropower, and geothermal
provide immediate advantages for the region over fossil fuels, and
that in time both solar and ocean energy could provide even more
energy than coal, while building jobs and a clean environment,"
Professor Daniel Kammen, director of RAEL, told mongabay.com.

Commissioned by Green SURF (Sabah Unite to Re-Power the Future), a
coalition of NGOs that oppose the planned 300 MW coal plant, Kammen
examined Sabah's energy options, including traditional fossil fuels,
biomass waste, hydropower, solar, wind, and geothermal. The analysis
also looked at the cost of each of these options to consumers, taking
into consideration that an independent energy producer would require a
certain return on their investment.

Alternatives

The study found that using biomass waste from Sabah's extensive oil-
palm plantations could provide a significant boost in energy to the
state while being cost-competitive with coal. This solution would also
deal with a waste-disposal problem for the oil-palm plantations.

"The large scale of palm oil, and other biomasses means that this
'waste' is a huge resource," says Kammen, though he also stresses that
oil-palm plantations are not without their own environmental problems.
"The challenge is not the technology, but in managing a wider issue,
the growth in palm oil estates that have their own significant
negative impacts on the region, despite their economic benefits."

Using 2008 data from the palm oil industry, Kammen's report found that
by 2020 oil-palm waste could provide a staggering 700 MW. 400 MW (one
hundred more than the planned coal plant) would be achievable under a
proposed 4-year program.

Hydropower was also found to be cost-competitive with coal and more
environmentally friendly, while geothermal was found to be only
slightly more expensive than coal. A location has already been
identified on the east coast of Sabah for a 67 MW geothermal power
plant.

Kammen adds that Sabah shouldn't rule out solar energy. "Solar energy
is a far better but a bit longer-term resource than is widely
appreciated today," he says.

The cheapest way forward overall is to pursue reduction in energy
demand, according to the analysis.

Coal Fears

Despite the many environmental problems known to accompany coal power,
the coal plant is being pushed by both the federal Tenaga Nasional
Berhad and the state energy company, Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd.

Opposition from locals has forced the coal plant to move its location—
twice. Now the plan is to build it on Sabah's east coast, within the
Coral Triangle, an area known for astounding marine biodiversity. In
addition, conservationists fear the coal plant's transmissions will
cut through some of the region's last intact rain forest in Tabin
Wildlife Reserve, home to a number of endangered species including the
Bornean orangutan and the Sumatran rhino.

Environmentalists also warn that sulfur dioxide emissions from burning
the coal could trigger acid rain that would impact nearby rain forests
and agriculture. In addition, discharge of chlorine sulfates into the
ocean would boost the likelihood of regional eutrophication and algal
blooms, resulting in massive marine die-off. Currently, the area is
home to many fishermen who depend on the oceans for their livelihood.

Locals have said that they fear the coal plant will turn the east
coast of Sabah into America's coal states, where water pollution, air
pollution, coal ash dumps, deforestation, and destructive mining have
devastated the local environment and wildlife. They point to the coal
ash spill in Tennessee in 2008 as an example of what they don't want
to become.

"The environmental problems of [the planned coal project] are only the
beginning," says Kammen. "The renewable energy resources in Sabah
could lead to a path that invests in the people and sustaining the
land, and not in expanding the dependence of the region on imported,
dirty, coal."

Moving Forward

At Copenhagen last December, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk
Seri Najib Razak, pledged a 40 percent cut in carbon dioxide intensity
by 2020. By moving forward on coal energy, Malaysia would make meeting
this goal even more difficult, since coal is the most carbon intensive
of the fossil fuels.

Kammen says that the choice between coal and renewable energy doesn't
have to be an either-or choice: either cheap or expensive, either job
creation or job loss.

"The people of Sabah are keenly aware of the need for jobs, and of
their incredible natural resource base. Renewable energy supports that
positive development, and a coal project in the region fights that
positive, clean, growth," he says.

Sabah, its people, and its policymakers are facing a decision similar
to many places of the world: How do we move ahead on energy? Kammen
says that if Sabah chooses renewable energy over traditional fossil
fuels it could help spark a clean-energy revolution.

"Economies in all parts of the world can look carefully at their
resources, develop partnerships, and build a clean-energy, job-
creating path that protects the natural legacy of each state and
province, and our shared global legacy to leave the world a better
place for our children," said Kammen. "So far, our society, globally,
has not lived up to that charge," he explains, adding that "Sabah can
take a stand, profit from the choice, and chart a new path."

© 2010 Mongabay.com. Republished with kind permission.

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Wednesday 10 March 2010

Malaysia has the most expensive Airport Car Park in the World

Read this comment. I realise this when I try to find out if my
daughter can leave her car at the airport reasonably cheaply.

It is affordable compared to the airport taxi fares especially if it
is only for one night but at RM36 for an open space car park at the
LCCT, it is just too exhorbitant.
This is the price for allowing ABSOLUTE POWER TO THE BN GOVERNMENT.

ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.

Malaysia already has the highest poverty in the world in Sabah, worst
slavery record in the world, worst gap in income in the whole world,
what more miseries are we facing now?


LCCT car park

IF you were to park your car at Malaysia Airport Berhad's open car
park in front of the LCCT, you will have to fork out RM36 per day. If
you use Touch & Go, it will be about RM40.

Compared with other airports in expensive areas like Singapore's
Changi, where 24-hour parking costs only S$17.66 (about RM42) for a
covered car park next to the airport, and Standsted Airport in London
at £8.70 (RM46) which includes the complimentary shuttle, our open car
park at LCCT is really expensive.

Or if we park at the new Bangkok Suvarnabhumi aiport, it costs only
250 Bhat a day which is only RM25. Manila international airport only
charges 50 peso a day which is RM3.80. We can go on giving examples
such as Clark airport in the Philippines and the Jakarta airport, and
it would still show that parking charges at LCCT are exorbitant.

Imagine, for a three-day trip to Kota Kinabalu we would need to pay
RM108 just for parking at the LCCT when our air ticket costs only RM92
return on AirAsia. Tune Hotel in Kota Kinabalu only charges RM95 for
two nights and car rental for a day is only RM90.

The airport authorities must bring the cost down to make the LCCT a
success.

DAVID TAN,

Puchong, Selangor.

Tuesday 9 March 2010

Excellent Analysis of Insurance Reforms

This is an excellennt analysis and I support it completely.

I also support the no credit rating for abandoning Public competition
option which is opposed by Republicans.

For all people, the master of free market, the Republicans, are afraid
of competition.

This is an admission that private enterprise is completely inefficient
and uncompetitive and rely completely on monopolistic practices in
order to survive.

Although full nationalisation, as practised by communist nations are
dangerous and destructive, public companies, run on commercial rules
are good options for competition.

It is clearly evidenced by Singapore and even Malaysia especially
Sabah had experienced this. Supermarkets were viewed as non-profitable
by Sabahan businessmen until the state governments opened up super
markets.

Local businessmen may be still too slow to involve themselves in large
supermarkets, multinationals are taking over. Some supermarkets, such
as Sunny Supermarket, managed to survive by offering cheap prices.
Government backed companies are not growing as fast but are prominent
in some places that the private sector refused to get involved, such
as in Kudat.

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By DAVID M. CUTLER

Many people are worried that the health-care reform proposed by
President Obama and congressional Democrats will fail to bend the
"cost curve." A number of commentators are urging no votes because of
this, and Republicans have asked the president to start health reform
over, focusing squarely on the issue of cost reduction.

These calls overlook the actual legislation. Over the past year of
debate, 10 broad ideas have been offered for bending the health-care
cost curve. The Democrats' proposed legislation incorporates virtually
every one of them. Here they are:

• Form insurance exchanges. These would help curb underwriting and
inefficient marketing practices that raise costs in the small-group
and individual insurance markets. This is addressed in all the House
and Senate bills, and the president's proposal. Grade: Full credit.

• Reduce excessive prices, including those of supplemental plans
enrolling Medicare beneficiaries. The president's proposal reduces
these Medicare Advantage overpayments and others to different
providers, even in the face of Republican claims that reducing such
overpayments is tantamount to rationing care for seniors. Grade: Full
credit.

• Moving to value-based payment in Medicare. Both Democrats and
Republicans have called for moving from a system where volume drives
reimbursement to one where value drives reimbursement. The president's
proposal includes virtually every idea offered for doing this. Grade:
Full credit.

• Tax generous insurance plans. Health-insurance benefits are excluded
from income taxation, providing incentives for excessively generous
insurance. Many economists have proposed capping the tax exclusion to
reduce these incentives. The president's proposal taxes some of the
most generous policies, though it has deferred the date by which these
taxes take effect. Grade: Partial credit.

• Empower an independent Medicare advisory board. Interest-group
politics intrudes too deeply within the mechanics of Medicare policy,
raising program costs and hindering efforts to improve care. Despite
powerful opposition, the president proposes this independent board and
a process for fast-tracking such recommendations through Congress.
Grade: Full credit.

• Combat Medicare fraud and abuse. The administration has started an
active task force to combat these problems. Other ideas to reduce
fraud and abuse were presented at the recent health-care summit, and
were incorporated in the president's proposal. Grade: Full credit.

• Malpractice reform. Defensive medicine is a small but important
driver of medical spending. The reform proposal makes some headway,
encouraging states to experiment with alternative mechanisms to reduce
malpractice burdens. More could be done—for example, specialized
malpractice courts and a safe harbor for physicians practicing
evidence-based medicine—but the president's proposal makes a start.
Grade: Partial credit.

• Invest in information technology. Many studies suggest savings in
the tens of billions of dollars from IT investment. The stimulus bill
passed a year ago contains funds to wire the medical system over the
next few years, and the administration is supplementing this with
significant funds to analyze the comparative effectiveness of
different treatments—even in the face of "death panel" claims. Grade:
Full credit.

• Prevention. The president's proposal includes significant public-
health investments, provides new incentives for physicians to focus on
preventive and chronic care, and opens Medicare to finding new ways of
supporting prevention. The only area of weakness is the lack of a junk
food tax or tax on sugar sweetened beverages. Grade: Partial credit.

• Create a public option. A public insurance option would provide
competition for insurers in areas that are nearly a monopoly and
provide a path for reforms in Medicare to expand readily in the
under-65 population. The public option was eliminated because of
Republican opposition, however. Grade: No credit.

So reform gets full credit on six of the 10 ideas, partial credit on
three others, and no credit on one. The area of no credit (a public
option) is because Republicans opposed the idea. One area receives
only partial credit because of Democratic opposition (malpractice
reform) and two other areas reflect general hesitancy to increase
taxes (taxing Cadillac plans and taxing drivers of obesity).

Why is reform viewed so negatively? In part, it may reflect the
perfect being the enemy of the good. If the only passing grade is 10
out of 10, then reform clearly fails. But given where the Republican
Party is on a public option, no reform will get a passing grade. If
both parties were willing to raise taxes and Republicans negotiated
malpractice reform for their overall support, we could probably get a
nine out of 10.

Reform is also viewed negatively because official scorekeepers do not
believe anything on this list other than reducing prices will save
much money. The Congressional Budget Office has consistently estimated
that policies built around changing incentives and thus encouraging
more efficient care will not have any effect on cost trends. My own
calculations, mirrored by other observers and a host of business and
provider groups, suggest that the reforms will save nearly $600
billion over the next decade and even more in the subsequent one.

Of course, no one knows precisely how much medical spending increases
will moderate. But one cannot doubt the commitment to try. What is on
the table is the most significant action on medical spending ever
proposed in the United States. Should we really walk away from that?

Mr. Cutler is a professor of economics at Harvard University.

Sunday 7 March 2010

Sabah no longer attracts cheap Labour

This is proof that SAbah is the poorest in the world. It cannot even
attract cheap labour.
Even its locals had to become beggers outside Sabah simply beggars
cannot even survive in Sabah.

Many jobs may be on offer, but if the income is much less than what
beggars get, there is no point in doing these jobs.
Worst, you will become slaves for these companies because it is
legalised in Malaysia to enslave workers. It is verified by
the worst Human Trafficking label for Malaysia given by the US
government.

Al these so called proposed industries are useless in a poverty
stricken state such as Sabah. You cannot develop people who have no
money.
Scholarships given are not even enough to cover basic needs and always
late. You must pay thousands upfront first before you can get any
help,
and that is not guaranteed.

This is further proof that SAbah does not get any of its oil revenue.
With only RM150 million for the last 30 years, no wonder. It is not
even enough to cover pollution cause by oil activities in Sabah.

The CM talks about enterprises but when there is no money involved, it
is just useless.

What is required is just money to be spent in Sabah. Let the people
decide. Even corruption money is better than nothing which Sabah gets
at the moment.
With corruption, at least some money will flow freely in Sabah and
thus stimulate the economy. It is better than no money at all.

With so little money retained in the state, the corrupt gets more
corrupt.

Wellness and Care?? What a laugh?

There is not a single private hospital now in Sabah.
Sabah used to have the best wellness and care facility in the best
location in the world. It was thrown into the rubbish bin. It is
turned into ill equipped and crowded government hospitals
without any qualified doctor.

I know it very well because I and my family were treated there but
Sabahans just don't appreciate their facilities. After all, the
richest go to Singapore. In fact Sabahans are the largest group of
Malaysians in Singapore hospitals.

The poor just don't bother with private hospitals without realising
that it is the poor that get the most treatment in these private
hospitals. The government has no excuse to deny medical facility when
it is available in Sabah itself so had to send poor patients to these
private hospitals.

A second private hospital was built with much less ideal location
because it is no longer on a hill top with a sunset sea view. Even
this hospital was turned into rubbish bin. Now we have no where to go
if you are sick. Medical cards are useless in Sabah.

With the apparent opulence of Sabahs, such as having treatment in
Singapore, you will want to consider Sabahans as rich, but SAbah has
the highest income gap in the whole world. And statistics don't lie.
Worst, nothing is done about it. What is being done is to the "abject
poverty" which is completely different from "poverty" which is the
main concern of UN Human Development Program.

This is the price of being bought for RM50 for 5 years.


Sabah's days of reliance on cheap labour over
Published on: Friday, March 05, 2010
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Kota Kinabalu: Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said Sabah can no
longer rely on cheap labour to attract investment to its shores but to
shift towards an innovation driven and service-based economy powered
by the creativity and talents of its human capital.

He said failure to shift towards the new economic model would bar the
State from making headway to national income growth, thus impeding its
real potential.

And as a result, the nation may eventually lose its growth momentum
and start sliding. "So, as the nation embarks on preparing for the
Tenth Malaysia Plan, it is timely for us to take stock of past
development performance and identify measures needed to enable us to
shift towards a high income, innovation driven service-based economy,"
he said.

His speech at the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC) "Seminar on
Investment Opportunities in Knowledge-Intensive Industries and Product
Innovation Driven by Technology Convergence" at Le Meridien was read
by Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan.

Sabah, he said, was aware of the need to shift gears to a high income,
innovation driven service-based economy. Hence, the State Government
has introduced various programmes to lay the foundation to participate
in knowledge-intensive sub-sectors.

As an example, he said the Government recognises the potential of
biotechnology and acknowledged it is a catalyst for new growth areas
in the state's economy as well as source of new wealth and income for
the people.

"Biotechnology could assist in enhancing the competitiveness of the
agriculture, manufacturing and services sectors," he said.

Sabah has a fertile environment for the development of new sources of
growth such as agro-biopharmacy, bio-medicine, wellness and
healthcare, renewable energy and eco-friendly products.

But to add value to Sabah's rich biodiversity, Musa said it needs a
systematic programme that covers research, development and
commercialisation. And this is achieved through the Sabah
Biotechnology Action Blueprint that provide a road map and policy
framework for the sector, he said.

"In support of this, the SDC Blueprint has also laid out the necessary
ingredients to catalyse the emergence of knowledge-based bio-industry
in Sabah," he said.

He said the measures outlined under the SDC include the creation of an
Agrobio Innovation Zone, the Sandakan and Interior Education Hubs,
Palm Oil Industrial Clusters, Sabah Agro-Industrial Precinct and
others.

On forest eco-system conservation, he said the Danum Valley Field
Centre (DVFC) has been recognised as one of the top three field
centres in the world for tropical rainforest research.

However, he said Sabah can also leverage other conservation areas such
as the Maliau Basin, Imbak Canyon and the islands off the coastline
within the Coral Triangle to attract leading scientists and top
talents to Sabah.

Sabah is actively involved in the Heart of Borneo project that seeks
to manage and conserve the second largest contiguous forest landscape
in the world by leveraging on trans-boundary collaboration of
governments, engaging local interests in short and long-term planning
and securing sustainable and long-term finance.

In short, the State is gaining global recognition as a leading
location for conservation and tropical biodiversity research in the
world.

"We are confident that these initiatives will contribute towards
sustainable development via judicious usage of natural resources,
conservation of biological resources and environmental protection," he
said.

He said conservation and research have also been a strong driving
force for eco-tourism, and thus conservation and rehabilitation of the
natural environment will enhance the value of the state's natural
capital and its push for sustainable development.

Also present was Chairman of Sabah Institute Development Studies
(IDS), Datuk Seri Clarence Bongkos Malakun.

PKR no longer stands for justice

When PKR agree and supports such stupid corruption of the Malay
language such as translating God into Allah, instead of the correct
Tuhan, and sacking anyone who voice reasons, PKR no longer supports
justice.

Anyone who loves Justice should not support PKR.

More PKR exodus, warns Zulkifli

2010/03/06

Firdaus Abdullah & Shuhada Elis

KUALA LUMPUR: Maverick Kulim Bandar Baru member of parliament Zulkifli
Noordin said tonight that Parti Keadilan Rakyat's decision to sack him
has rendered him an independent MP. He also warned of an exodus of PKR
leaders and ordinary members arising from his sacking. The defiant
Zulkifli further said that he will not be "wasting time" appealing
against the party's decision.
"The thing about allowing me to appeal is just a show put up by the
little pharaohs to show that they're being fair. All this had been
prearranged. But I never expected to be sacked for defending the
sanctity of my religion Islam.

"What they did today is the beginning of the end for PKR. This would
mark the fall and total destruction of PKR. It is clearly a self-
destructive decision," he he told a press conference held at his
office in Wisma Yakin soon after PKR announced its decision.

The PKR supreme council met hours earlier and unanimously endorsed the
disciplinary board's recommendation to sack him.

The council also gave Zulkifli 14 days to appeal against the decision,
PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail told a press
conference at the party's headquarters in Damansara after the marathon
four-hour meeting.

Zulkifli was sacked for lodging a police report against Pas Shah Alam
MP Khalid Samad.
Another reason for him to be axed, as per the party's disciplinary
board recommendations, was for attacking PKR and Pakatan Rakyat in a
TV3 Soal-Jawab talk show recently.

Saifuddin clarified that the action against Zulkifli had nothing to do
with his open attacks on DAP secretary-general and Penang Chief
Minister Lim Guan Eng.

The meeting, chaired by president Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail,
with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim present, had also asked him to vacate
the Kulim Bandar Baru parliamentary seat with immediate effect.

To this, Zulkifli said that the party should demand for Anwar's
resignation as the leader of the opposition pack in Parliament first.

"I was elected by the people in my constituency and I believe I
command good grassroots support in Kulim Bandar Baru. I have a close
relationship with my constituents who have been following the recent
developments in PKR very closely. I'm sure the people cannot be easily
hoodwinked," he remarked.

The Syariah lawyer-turned-politician was confident that his sacking
would trigger an exodus of leaders, eelcted representatives and
ordinary members who had placed great trust in PKR and Anwar, its de
facto leader.

"The decision to sack me today is a clear indication that the party
has been hijacked by the little pharaohs. (Datuk Seri) Anwar called me
and said it (the sacking) was beyond him. So it just confirms my view
that Anwar has lost control of the party.

"Anwar is preoccupied with the ongoing trial (sodomy trial) and
engrossed with (capturing) Putrajaya, and the little pharaohs have
hijacked the party," he added.

With Zulkifli's sacking, PKR is now left with only 26 members of
parliament, falling behind DAP (28) but still ahead of Pas (23).


In total Pakatan's strength in the 222-seat Parliament has been
reduced to 77 from 81 previously. Barisan Nasional has 137 seats,
Independent – five, SAPP- 2 and PSM-1.

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