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These residents worked really hard to ensure that they didn’t get stuck with an incinerator that would’ve really screwed up their environment, their homes and their lives. Yeay citizen activism! Busy few days, but will try to squeak out now and again :) I think only theSun carried this piece about Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Mohamed Shafie Apdal saying that they’re looking into bringing in Metro AG and (gasp!) Wal-Mart! I heard so much bad stuff about Wal-Mart when I was in the States. Lazy bum that I am, behold Wikipedia! Highlights: With close to two million employees [...] DS Nazri: “As I’ve said, there is no need to revamp the Elections Commission. In the past 50 years we have not revamped any ministry. So why must the EC be singled out (to be revamped)?” Why is it the government always believes that everything is perfect and that nothing ever needs changing? Just how perfect do [...] A lawyer friend of mine is tabling a motion to abolish whipping as a form of punishment – focusing especially on the abuse of migrants. Do have a look at the reasoning used in the motion (reproduced below), and the gory descriptions of inhumane cruelty used as examples. MOTION FOR THE ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT OF WHIPPING Whereas:- 1. [...] My dad’s kinda in the news yesterday! But not for the best of reasons. He and his friends were terrorised by the APMM (Maritime Enforcement Agency – the people recently made responsible for security beyond 12 nautical miles of Malaysian shores) on the high seas. Do you know just how deep the abuses of our electoral system go? I didn’t. Got a better idea after attending a roundtable organised by BERSIH (but driven mostly by Pas, it looks like) about elections and democracy. BERSIH consists of NGOs and political parties and was formed to highlight abuses as well campaign for better [...] Re: Tun Mahathir – see the Police Watch statement questioning his credibility to lead a War Crimes Commission. They quoted an IHT article which young fellas like me found new and disturbing. * The Star carries MIC Youth chief SA Vigneswaran’s plea to the police to stop using the Emergency Ordinance to send Indian’s to Simpang Renggam. [...] Pretty good – YB’s M Kulasegaran, Dtk Kamaruddin Jaafar, Dtk Shahrir Samad spoke, as did Tian Chua. YB Kula, Tian and Dtk Kamaruddin spoke with pretty good amounts of passion, vision and eloquence respectively. Of note: Tian pointed out how the NEP is technically not one of the Malay special priviliges mentioned in the Constitution while [...] It’s 10am, and I guess Tian Chua, Ronnie Liu, Dr. Hatta Ramli and TS Khalid Ibrahim should be at Bukit Aman now, getting ready to answer questions. A lot has been said on how blatantly ridiculous and morally wrong it is to use the OSA to hide corruption that is so clearly screwing the rakyat over [...] Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad says the UNHCR is getting in the way of immigration doing its duties. I’m not one to blindly defend UN agencies, but if it weren’t for the UNHCR and other NGOs, I wouldn’t be surprised if we ended up exploiting and torturing migrants and assylum seekers. The guy also [...] |
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