CM Taib's Great "leap into"

CM Taib at a meeting of a small gathering of Peers of the House of Lords

The European Union, is deeply concerned about policies that affect the global community and in meeting the challenges in new concepts of food supply. In particular that of the emergence of bio-fuels that CM Taib took to London to sell this July, 2010. These are so expressed by Baroness Ludford. The outcome of that is that the EU shares Sarawak's aspiration of that great "leap into" basic innovation. Apparently, they're emphatically concerned more so on how we meet challenges, namely in designing policies that involve responsible attention to deforestation, illegal logging and land for food security.

Several other issues surround CM Taib's UK ploy.

Among them, the purported stand of the Sarawak Government and it's concern that national policies have not addressed the core problems. The biggest are poverty, education, ethnic profiling and equitable distribution of wealth.

The video speeches, of CM Taib, suggest how after five decades of 10 Economic Plans, the Barisan National Government is only now aware of the great "leap into" or "1Malaysia" which is supposed to meet local challenges against a backdrop of increasing convolutions in world finances and the delicate balance in political uncertainties.

House of Lords member Baroness Ludford (Member of EU Parliament) does not mince her words - Sarawak's problems of food supply and food security are the EU's shared problem and the impact of the "greap leap into" that Sarawak and Malaysia that CM Taib recommends, is a global concern. CM Taib presents himself as oblivious to the growing dissent and loud clamour of Sarawak natives of the realities on the ground.

Considering the EU Parliament's concerns, it isn't clear that when the US and EU demand for bio fuels is slow, what CM Taib's great "leap into" is all about. Not into some bottomless abyss surely.

PROTEST at Oxford's Said Business School

Protests against Sarawak CM, Abdul Taib Mahmud at Oxford's Said Business School

Live Coverage at Hornbill Unleashed

Live updates: Protest in Oxford U gets under way

The protesters come from various groups; they are mostly individuals concerned about various issues. Says one British protester: “We want to make people in the UK and around the world aware and to let them know that there are people who care about the Penan. It is completely unacceptable that under Taib’s administration, much of the forest has been given to plantations and dams. The Penan have the right to their land.”

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Some pix in from London

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anilnetto.com alerts that MP Martin Horwood has protested to Chief Minister Abdul Mahmud urging him to cease activities encroaching on the Penans' rights as citizens. You can read the letter from the UK's All Party Group for Tribal Peoples below:

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Malaysian economy | botched, broken or band-aidable?

What's with our economy?

It's architect Prime Minister Najib Razak said, if we grew at a constant of 6% GDP, we'll be home and dry in 2020. He did qualify his statement though, that if those figures are not there, we'll be kaput.

With growth stifled and the bureaucracy software riddled with UMNO and BN spams, we sure have "spam-a-lot". United Nations report for 2009 fingered Malaysia with a FDI reduction at 81%. Why are foreign investors treating us like we got leprosy? Najib's kid brother Nazir, who for want of something to do and who manages CIMB, the Government's bank, says it's not necessarily a bad idea. He pointed out that we grow other countries, like Indonesia who is already doing quite well, vis-a-vis FDI figures.

PAS' Dr Dzulkifly says, you can't treat our not-so-well economy with band-aid. He didn't in minute details prescribe how we might shed the "corrupt" and the "kurap" image, but you get the idea, the economy has got to go under the knife. The cancer within has got to be cut out. It's not enough for Najib, the PM to pretend, he can stick plasters over the rot.

He botched the whole thing. No matter how much you spin on it, it's a botched job and BN has to go!

Maybe Sarawak can bail out Malaysia? Sarawak with it's narrow rivers (Sayang Sarawak Sungainya Sempit) might not, although Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud, will try and convince the world with Halal ideas. He should be speaking at Oxford's Said Business School today Monday 26 July, 2010, to try and sell Sarawak.

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Price rise | Overblown budget and PM Najib

Many say the 5-in-1 price increases saving the BN government RM750.0mil annually, originally thought to be unwarranted because PM Najib's own PM Office Dept budget was RM3.965 bil could have been scraped off to celebrate People First and Performance Now credo, .... is now - what ah...? I have no words.

Liew Chin Tong writing in his blog says Najib lied because the PM Dept's Total Budget includes RM8.238 billion development item blowing the previous figure out the window into the sky for a blazing RM12.1 bil !

What to say ... ah?

Perhaps M Bakri Musa might put it more aptly of our PM in the lyrics of a Malay song :

Sudah lah sayang, I don’t believe you

I’ve always known that your words were never true

Why am I with you? I pun tak tahu

No wonder lah my friends pun tak suka you!

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