brendan pereira – of spades and moments of truth

My earlier bit: Rocky’s Bru and Jeff Ooi makes an extremely sharp catch. The NST Group Editor a plagiarist? A copy-cat? I’ve read through the evidence, and my view is that it is conclusive, and it is damning.

These links from Jeff: Mr. Pereira’s article (pdf), Mitch Albom’s article (pdf), Jeff’s comparison (pdf).

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Definitions of plagiarism: Wikipedia [...]

suresh kunasekaran – chasing cloth instead of culprits

I only came across two articles covering this sad and mysterious K. Suresh incident that indicates negligence on the part of the police, no matter what happened.

The first article is from Bernama, and has the depressing title: “Police find no element of crime in Suresh’s death” :| Again, let’s not forget the concept of criminal [...]

fta protest, participation in local councils, mat rempit brutalise lone driver

I strongly believe there hasn’t been sufficient discussion regarding the FTA being negotiated between us and the USA. It seems like the government is trying hard to push it through with the minimum amount of scrutiny.

There are groups concerned, thankfully, and a whole bunch of them protested as the negotiations re-opened at the Sheraton Imperial. [...]

may 13 overtures made at datuk zakaria’s mansion protests, vasthu sastra

Dtk Z, Dtk Z…

I’ll try to be relatively short on this eventful day.

The “grassroots” appear to still be quite supportive of Dtk. Reporting on the two protests at the infamous mansion over the weekend, Malaysiakini has some imagery on just how supportive they can be.

DAP Selangor vice-chief S Selvadurai in his police report claimed that [...]

civil service power tripping, misguided solutions and polite smiles

Chief Minister of Sabah Datuk Musa Aman thinks the state Forestry officials did right in burning down 28 squatter houses in the Paitan Forest Reserve.

Protecting our forests is all good and well, but you’re telling me that there was no better, less malicious way of handling this situation than burning everything to the ground before [...]

flash – brendan pereira

(Correction: According to time stamps, Rocky’s Bru was actually the first to catch this. Sorry!)

FLASH: Jeff Ooi makes an extremely sharp catch. The NST Group Editor a plagarist? A copy-cat? I’ve read through the evidence, and my view is that it is conclusive, and it is damning.

Will write more on this later, but for now, [...]

death in detention: suresh kunasekaran

Yet another death in detention under extremely mysterious circumstances. Not sure, but I think the NST first broke the story, and there were follow-ups today there and in the Star as well about how the IGP is demanding a detailed report. Hopefully, we’ll all get one and hopefully, this isn’t just bluster and filler from [...]

attracting outsiders: khalwat, spin, incompetence, quality

Just wanted to quickly post on two articles that came out in today’s NST. The first highlights an ‘awwww’ type story of some elderly foreign retiring in Malaysia, making out their life to be all dandy and idyllic.

I dunno though, sure seems like a thinly veiled attempt at damage control after the khalwat incident with [...]

zakaria md deros: how many roads?

Looks like the knives are out for Dtk Zakaria Md Deros, and that all the papers are now prominently covering the battle began by theSun to expose and bring him down.

Reprimanded by Sultan, told by MB to resign (by Nov 8), protests outside the mansion, satay stall closed.. the wall’s barely big enough for the [...]

on mahathir: anwar ibrahim’s generosity, zainuddin maidin’s obfuscation, khaled’s lee kuan yew

A twist of some interest: DS Anwar Ibrahim agrees with Mahathir’s ‘police state’ description, and seems to be more forgiving (than say, me) of TDM’s right to make that criticism. From Malaysiakini’s full transcript of Anwar’s Raya open house press conference:

The issue of the police state, I think it’s quite correct. The same laws are [...]

flash: zakaria ‘advised’ to resign

The Sultan of Selangor says that if the allegations are true, Datuk Zakaria Md Deros should resign. The Star and Malaysiakini have the story.

debit: rela, forestry dept, security firm. credit: police, BN

Rela brilliance yet again. Having merrily exceeded their target of arresting 20,000 migrants,

Rela director-general Datuk Zaidon Asmuni said all the centres were overflowing, especially at Semenyih, Selangor, and Lengging, Negri Sembilan.

“We have no problem arresting illegal immigrants. However, where do we find the extra space to house them?” he said.

He said despite the problem, [...]

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