By Khairy Jamaluddin

The Opposition announced yesterday in Parliament the formation of  their ‘Shadow Parliamentary Committees’ in an effort to divert the attention of the public from the serious cracks emerging in Pakatan Rakyat, on the same day that it cancelled the leadership meeting reportedly meant to discuss Kedah DAP’s decision to leave the coalition.

What is truly a game-changer is the formation of a shadow front bench. Yesterday, Pakatan announced that it had assigned MPs from each of its component parties to shadow all of the 25 ministries in the Cabinet. For once, someone in the opposition will be responsible for delving into the particulars of policymaking.

By John Lee, The Malaysian Insider

(The Star) - Sarawak National Party (SNAP) has predicted that the state assembly would be dissolved three months from now to pave way for an early state election.

By Putt For Change

SINCE INDEPENDENCE, our nation’s history has been strewn with countless instances of our politicians making racist remarks or even practicing unbridled racism to incite hatreds among the various races for their (politicians) own selfish and corrupted agenda.

Pendaftaran pengundi cetuskan perbalahan, 3 orang cendera termasuk dua orang ADUN

By Lee Wee Tak

Laporan di akhbar Sin Chew Jit Poh yang berkenaan

Dasar ekonomi terbuka dan terkangkang ini akan menjemput kapitalis antarabangsa – dengan alasan untuk melabor dan membawa modal. Ini betul-betul hujah dari kertas kerja John Perkins. Inilah cara yang digunakan oleh Perkins untuk memastikan sesebuah negara itu akhirnya akan dapat dijajah kembali.

DARI JELEBU

Hishamuddin Rais

By Farish A. Noor, The Nut Graph

MASS hypocrisy season comes and goes in Malaysia with the regularity of the monsoon or the haze.

Farish A. Noor

THE historian’s lament is that he or she is often witness to mistakes of the past, and yet is unable to prevent them from recurring. In the end, the historian is cursed with the Cassandra complex and accused of being a tiresome doom sayer.

Farish A. Noor

Studying Malaysian politics is a chore in itself, but rewarding for the simple reason that it is one of the most plural, complex and complicated countries in the world.

Malaysia Today continues with the exposes on the many scandals involving Malaysia’s national airlines, Malaysian Airlines. Today is a report by Dr David Stone with regards to the fuel scandal involving the airlines. There is more to come in the next episodes in these series of articles where we shall talk about the cargo handling and cartel scandals.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

by Dr David Stone
http://www.insidetraveller.co.uk

By Deborah Loh, The Nut Graph

ON 25 Nov 2007, the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) burst into public consciousness through a mammoth street rally. Few doubt that Hindraf was pivotal in swinging Indian Malaysian votes away from the Barisan Nasional (BN) three months later in the March 2008 general election.

(The Star) - The father-and-son team of Lim Kit Siang and Guan Eng has not walked the talk in their criticisms of MCA, said MCA Special Task Force Bureau chief Simon Lim.

(The Star) - PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang has come under fire for objecting to the Government’s latest move to ease investment requirements in Malaysia.

(The Star) - The invitation from PAS Youth to Umno Youth for an intellectual discourse must not be seen as mere discussion but rather a platform for debate.

The DAP-led government in Penang is mired in the controversial Kampung Buah Pala issue where residents are facing eviction after the Federal Court ruled in favour of the landowner and developer on June 24.

The Star

(The Star) - Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) legal adviser P. Uthayakumar will form a political party or a non-governmental organisation soon.

Riding to power on the momentum created by the Hindu Rights Action Force, the DAP has suddenly found itself on the receiving end of the group’s wrath.

COMMENT BY BARADAN KUPPUSAMY, THE STAR

(The Star) - The DAP has told off Hindraf for accusing the Penang government of not doing anything to help the Indians in Kampung Buah Pala.

(The Star) - The High Court here had to delay hearing Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s application to be provided all documents pertaining to his sodomy case because his lawyer was feeling unwell.

Azim was awarded RM1 million in libel damages by the Kuala Lumpur High Court after Raja Petra failed to appear in the civil proceedings to file a statement of defence. He has also been named in the ongoing Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal as the chairman of Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd, the main developer of the transshipment project.

By Lee Wei Lian, The Malaysian Insider

By Why LIE-dis n LIE-dat?

The swine or in BolehLand's national language 'babi' is again causing problems in BolehLand.

Already the present scare over the rising cases of A(H1N1) or Minister Rais' preferred term 'selsema babi' is creating concern and anxiety among the people.

By Pak Bui

Prime Minister Najib blogged about his recent visit to the Bidayuh village of Kampung Pichin in his posting “1Malaysia is Alive in Sarawak”.

Najib praised Sarawak’s multiculturalism to the rafters. He hailed Sarawakians as a ready-made model for his 1Malaysia sales pitch. But most Sarawakians consider this laughable.

By Zubaidah Abu Bakar, NST

Has the opposition coalition lost its lustre? Or has political fatigue set in because there's just too much politicking and squabbling among Pakatan components? It might seem so.

(The Malaysian Insider) - KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has been rebuffed twice by the Petronas board over his plan to get a key aide appointed as a director — a rejection that his close aides see as an act of insubordination.

By Neville Spykerman, The Malaysian Insider

JELEBU: Datuk Zaid Ibrahim made his debut on the PKR ceramah trail at a small village here in Negri Sembilan last night and sparked enough excitement and concern to prompt his Umno rival to throw a dinner for villagers in an attempt to draw attention from the maverick politician.

By Lester Clement Lee

We know of cases where persons were disqualified by their convictions but after expiry of the disqualification went on to become members of parliament, ministers and chief ministers. Are there different standards of qualification to be applied for elected and appointed representatives and judges?

Written by Chan Kok Leong & Sharon Tan, The Edge 

It was a fiery finale as a war of words, an ejection, a walkout and fines brought an end to the second session of Parliament 2009 today.

Umno’s “magnificent four” paid RM4,000 in fines tonight to Parliament and also asked for forgiveness from the Dewan Rakyat and the Speaker.

By Deborah Loh, The Nut Graph

While other Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders today glossed over Kedah DAP's pullout of the state government, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng had a different view.

The PKR Kulim Bandar Baru MP today defended the Kedah state government’s decision to demolish a pig abattoir in Kampung Berjaya, the oldest and the only such facility in the state capital.