Wednesday, October 20, 2010

IBRAHIM ALI, YB | Is it true?

A screenshot of a poster's comments at Malaysia Chronicle

A poster at Malaysia Chronicle says Ibrahim Ali might not have been sick nor did he have heart surgery. Certainly Ampang Puteri is not renowned for heart surgery.

Ibrahim Ali whose Datuksip honor was recently withdrawn by the Kelantan Sultan is a Member of Parliament and should rightfully be accorded due medical services, regardless of the less creditable or honorable expletives showered on him for his extreme views against opinions not desireable for Ketuanan Melayu.

You could say, it is just as well, that Ibrahim is keeping quiet from his usual rants for UMNO is presently having their AGM at their grand building in KL, where great pains are endured to tone down what would be Ibrahim's usual ranting.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Nyanyuk, Matir shot himself in the foot

China is no easy place to manage. With 1.5 billion citizens, you'd think all they had to do is increase productivity by just an average of RM10 per capita and you make trillions including complementary products and services. Money is important in China. So is life. But they're prepared to shoot and hang people who steal, cheat, commit bribery and kill other citizens.

So did Matir take aim and shoot his own foot?

Dr Mahathir promotes China model as alternative to democracy

By Yow Hong Chieh

October 18, 2010

Dr Mahathir: If you find good people to run a country, even dictators can make a country develop and develop very well.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18 — Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today called democracy a “failed” ideology and held up China’s model of authoritarianism as an alternative “worth studying”.

He said China’s political model — which he termed the “Beijing Consensus” — showed that a nation could develop well even in the absence of freedom, liberty and equality — ideals fundamental to the rival “Washington Consensus”.

“The Beijing Consensus shows that having a non-democratic country can also give a good life for the people,” Dr Mahathir told delegates at the “Creation of the Global Citizen: Media Liberalisation and the New Political Realities” forum organised by Umno here.

“If you find good people to run a country, even dictators can make a country develop and develop very well.”

He pointed out that China’s “correct” application of the Beijing Consensus had allowed the nation of 1.3 billion “very poor” people to become the second richest country in the world.

The former premier also criticised the very premise of democracy, arguing that no issue could achieve total consensus, leading to an electoral split that will promote poor governance.

“Democracy... has failed in many countries,” he said.

“It is not the perfect thing it is touted to be. You find that some of these democracies really cannot work. People cannot make up their minds.

Dr Mahathir cited hung parliaments in Britain and Australia as proof that countries cannot progress when a majority of its voters cannot make up their minds, saying frequent changes in leadership were not good for a nation.

“We see a lot of democracies where leaders change every two years and the country cannot make any progress at all,” he said.

“Even the countries that have made progress find sometimes that democracies hinder the development of the country, make the country unstable and difficult to develop.”

He added that smaller parties roped into ad hoc coalitions to break hung parliaments in democracies will hold the majority hostage to minority demands that were not good for the country as a whole. - The Malaysian Insider

Master Kung's Quote of the Day

"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance."

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