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916 possibly delayed: Pakatan

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It looks like the 16 Sept target has been officially delayed. This excerpt from a Pakatan statement in Kit Siang’s blog.

Kepimpinan Pakatan Rakyat yang bertemu hari ini yakin proses pembentukan kerajaan baru yang berlandasan Agenda Reformasi sedang berjalan secara lancar. Kami percaya kerajaan Barisan Nasional akan diganti dalam masa terdekat.

Pakatan Rakyat yakin mendapat bilangan ahli Parlimen yang mencukupi untuk mempunyai majoriti dalam Parlimen yang membolehkan penubuhan kerajaan baru. Bagaimanapun tarikh sebenar penubuhan kerajaan mungkin terpaksa dilewatkan dari 16 September sebagaimana rancangan awal akibat beberapa ahli Parlimen telah dipaksa ke Taiwan.

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Cabinet lifts ban on Malaysia Today

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The Cabinet has ordered the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) to reinstate access to all blocked websites including Malaysia Today, according to The Star online. It quoted Energy, Water and Communications Minister Shaziman Abu Mansor.

SKMM had instructed  ISPs to block Malaysia Today in August.

Remember how Khairy later came out openly to oppose the ban?

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Stop-work orders issued for two Tg Bunga projects

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Just heard on the grapevine that stop-work orders have been issued for two Tanjung Bunga projects highlighted in this blog.

It will be interesting to see what sort of conditions are imposed in those orders.

Meanwhile, watch out for these guys (reported in The Star):

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The diversity that is Malaysia

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Check out these links provided by Marina Mahathir. Something to think about:

I’ve been looking for a voice of reason somewhere in these awful turbulent times when people seem to spout off whatever they want off the top of their heads, and then defend it no matter how stupid.

Then a friend alerted me to this from a fellow blogger, Syed Imran. Another fellow blogger Walski wrote something similar here. So who says bloggers are unthinking people only up to no good?

And this lovely and wistful article makes you long for a different time when people were civilised.

Disturbing rape in Penang

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This is a close-up of what’s happening in “Miami Bay” (why can’t they be more original in their names?) (Photo credit: Y C Sin)

Anyone know who the developer is?

Yes, the rape of the hill-slopes continues along the northern coast of Penang Island…

A sad Clearwater mourns the loss of the Penang he once knew:

I worked in Penang and stayed at Tg Bungah from 1980-83. Those were care-free times, Penang was still a paradise on earth and over-development an unimaginable event in this idyllic island. Yes, good jobs were scarce then but life was laid back and cost of living decent. My friends and I used to wind-surf weekends at Batu Ferringhi, where tourists sunbathed and waded in the sea; no problems with water quality.

Flash forward to 2008. I don’t want to return to see what greed and uncontrolled development has done to the environment on Penang Island. Each time I return, I am more appalled at the destruction that short-term policies have wrought in the name of progress on the Pearl of the Orient. It is heart-breaking. It is a complete turn-off. It is time to say good-bye.

and look at the damage done…

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Umno suspends Ahmad Ismail for three years

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The Umno Supreme Council has suspended its Bukit Bendera chief Ahmad Ismail for three years over his alleged racist remarks, the Star Online has reported. The meeting chaired by Abdullah Badawi has also stripped him of all party posts.

I know a few people would have liked the ISA to be used against Ahmad. But if we are consistent about our position that the ISA is an immoral law, then to call for its use against Ahmad Ismail is not right.

Still, the party could have sacked Ahmad, but did not. (Remember Penang is Abdullah Badawi’s home-state.) Which raises the question: has the top Umno leadership lost control of its divisions – paving the way for, gulp, Mahathir and his allies to make their move? And you thought he would be contented passing his time with his carpentry hobby and looking after grandchildren, eh? He probably feels he has to save the country from Anwar!

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Penang, oh Penang, what have we done to thee?

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These are a few images of the northern coast of Penang Island sent to me by a worried Claire with the following message:

I really wish these photos could be added to your site to show all how beautiful Malaysia is and can be and that it is painful to see what it is becoming!

Deforestation near “The Reef”…

...and then you get this

More pictures inside

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Are you concerned about Tg Bunga hill-slope projects?

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Are you worried by what you see, each time you go past the hillslopes of Tanjung Bunga?

George, one of the flood victims in Chee Seng Gardens, says:

… in Chee Seng Gardens, Tanjong Bunga this is a hill slope. Floods do not happen on a hill slope unless something has gone wrong, seriously wrong. I have lived in this area for nearly 40 years and there has not been a flood due to water run-off from the hills in this manner until the recent hill-cutting exercise began.

… to allow hill cutting will only make worse many areas:

  • landslides and hill collapse
  • huge water run-off, flooding areas immediately surrounding the hill-cut area and all low lying areas below the hill
  • huge amounts of siltation, drain clogging,
  • (possible) loss of life, be it drowning or being buried in tons of mud slides or even hill movement as in the highland case
  • sea-life destruction due to huge amounts of mud being swept into the sea (pollution) – fishermen suffer too eventually. It is a cycle of destruction.

So do realise that this is a problem and we Malaysians as a country must address it.

Residents of Chee Seng have called a meeting with their Penang State Assembly representative Teh tonight  at his service centre to discuss the unending problems caused by uncontrolled hillslope development in Tg Bunga. Those of you affected by these problems and interested in participating in this meeting are thus invited to attend.

Details are as follows:

Date: Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Time: 9.00pm

Venue: 3 Jalan Chee Swee Ee, Tanjung Bunga (DAP Service Centre)

Likely attendees: Teh and @ 20 residents of Chee Seng Gardens

Say NO to racial politics

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Everyone seems to be worried about the way issues of race have shot to the forefront as 16 Sept nears.

Certain politicians are using the oldest trick in the book to whip up support: the manipulation of racial issues to appeal to base, primordial sentiments.

We must reject such bankrupt politicians – or better still, ignore them. When I was a kid, my mother told me if anyone calls you names or tries to rile you up, just ignore them. And you know what? It worked. Those who do that thrive on getting an angry response from you. But if you act like it doesn’t matter what they say – if you show them that it doesn’t affect you one bit – they walk away disappointed that their taunting didn’t work.

Similarly, if there is one thing a politician fears or hates more than losing public support, it is to be ignored completely by the public and by the media and to be rendered irrelevant.

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Abad Naluri to appeal MPPP’s rejection of PGCC

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Equine Capital has informed Bursa Malaysia of the following:

On 22 August, Equine’s associate company, Abad Naluri, the developer of the Penang Global City Centre, received a letter from the Penang Municipal Council (MPPP) dated 18 August 2008 advising the company that its proposed development plans for the Penang Global City Centre Project had been rejected.

Abad Naluri is currently in the process of appealing the MPPP’s decision, addressing the various points and concerns raised by the MPPP.

Gosh, they don’t give up, do they? Hello, it’s supposed to be dead and buried, remember?

Antares has this timely reminder for us:

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