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22/10 9:00 am | Some thoughts about our education system. Sontoloyo series no 41 1\. It didn't need somethings untoward to happen for the minister of education to come up with the idea that students wear the jalur gemilang badges. 2. Perhaps someone proposed that to the education minister. She got an 8 million budget for that hare brained idea. 3. I thought it's a better idea to make students wear badges depicting a full monty Rose Chan. 4. Male students would adulate , |
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19/10 9:00 am | A potpourri of political faux pas. Sontoloyo series no 40. 1\. This time I am writing about incidences which I regard as a potpourri of political faux pas. 2. In the sense of a series of tactless acts. 3. Which actually reflect the incompetence of their authors 4. Whose moronic idea was it to lock down kl city center for the forthcoming ASEAN summit? 5. The idea must have come from a person accustomed to controlling others. 6. The usual suspects for |
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16/10 9:00 am | The measure of a political party. Part 1. Sontoloyo series no 39 1\. Some people still float the idea that UMNO must regain it's dominance for the sake of stability 2. Behind this idea that UMNO must regain dominance, an idea to which people cling on precariously and precipitously I might add is this erroneous belief:- 3. That UMNO is the spring from which all that is good for society flows from . 4. Like I say,it's and erroneous idea. Disputed.5. People know |
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15/10 9:00 am | Malay economics and the sharing of a perceived Zero sum pie. Part 1. .. 1\. The law as it were, meant to uplift the Malays as a whole, is the set of affirmative laws. 2. Any of the laws giving any preferential treatment and handicaps to malays. 3. I mentioned the word handicap because the word is associated with the great tun Razak. Hailed by many as the chief architect of the NEP. 4. Ethic differences in general socio economic attainments-he likened to a game of golf |
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14/10 9:00 am | The PM and corruption. Sontoloyo series no 37 1\. I am not going to place unreasonable demands on pm Anwar. 2. 60 to 70 years of bad rule and misrule cannot be erased overnight. 3. So I will refrain from calling a chamelion protecting some corrupt people. I will refrain accusing him of selective persecution of Corruptors . 4. The PM must have discovered the going is rougher than he has imagined. 5. Shrieking about combating corruption at |
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12/10 9:00 am | DAP sebagai wadah perjuangan. Sontoloyo series no 36 1\. Tidak lama dahulu ada seorang kawan saya, seorang peneroka felda bercakap kepada rakan2 nya, juga peneroka 2. Sedari lah semua mereka ini terpelajar. Ada SPM dan STPM. Tapi telah di brainwashed oleh UMNO serta PAS 3. Mereka ada sijil peneroka Malaysia dan sijil tinggi peneroka Malaysia. 4. Kawan saya memberitahu, si A dah masuk DAP. 5. Bila dengar saja DAP macam dengar hantu mak limah. 6. |
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Reformasi, perasuah dan pasung. Sontoloyo series no 35 - 10/10 9:00 am 1\. Nyata, persekitaran yang baru tidak semestinya memunculkan watak2 berminda baru. 2. Orang2 yang kita sangka berfikiran baru, rupa2nya musang berbulu ayam. 3. In a celebrated battle cry said by James carville, it's not change but more of the same . 4. Ambil contoh issue korapsi misalnya. 5. Walaupun ada tindkan dan iltizam dari PM sendiri, korapsi dan abuse of power berlaku sana sini. 6. Yang |
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To invite or not to invite Trump.that is the question. Sontoloyo series no .. - 9/10 9:00 am 1\. The question is to invite or not to invite trump. 2. Trump's presence will be discomfiting to many . 3. Trump's presence is reaffirming the notion of one power or bloc dictating the destiny of the global south. 4. It's a notion that the global south benefits the mothership country . 5. Helping trump affirm this notion will only make him more cocky and insensitive to the aspirations of the |
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Reformasi and korapsi. The war against corruption. Part 2. Sontoloyo .. - 8/10 9:00 am 1\. The legendary Indonesian poet,WS Rendra; 2. in a few verses of his multiple quatrains, Pantun Korupsi, said:- 3. I read it this way. If you want to eradicate corruption , fight it there and here and everywhere. 4. Corruption is corruption is corruption. Big or small. No distinction, needed. 5. Some people mocked when said, corruption will be eradicated. 6. First the big fish , then the ikan |
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Trump,the new world order and it's impact on local politics. Part 2. .. - 7/10 9:00 am 1\. Let me try to frame the issue more simply . 2. The old world system is where one power dictates the destiny of other countries.3. The central power decides how other countries should developed. How the economic system- what to produce, how much to produce, how the produce is to be shared . 4. How the terms of trade and tariffs are to be set and so forth . 5. The one power dominates the client |
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Invitation to Trump and a new world order. Part 1. Sontoloyo series no 31. - 6/10 9:00 am 1\. Call it however you want. Face-to-face, eyeball to eyeball, toe to toe, head to head, Mano a Mano etc. 2. There are more cons than pros asking here trump to attend the ASEAN summit in KL. 3. We all know the PM is a brave fellow. His bravery is not disputed. He has history of being defiant . He is willing to endure physical hardships. 4. His haters may beg to differ. They say he is chicken |
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Reformasi dan korapsi bah 1. Sontoloyo series no 30. - 4/10 9:00 am 1\. Korapsi membawa mudarat kepada negara. Ia mencederakan golongan miskin terutama sekali. 2. Ia nenaikkan kos2 perkhidmatan atau services seperti kesihatan serta pendidikan. 3. Ia menyekat pelaburan yang mengurangkan peluang kerja. 4. Ia membantut pertumbuhan ekonomi. 5. Korapsi melebarkan jurang antara kaya dan miskin. 6. Sebagai contoh, tidak kah kita hairan melihat bekas2 penjawat awam |
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Anwar dan cyber troopers MADANI. Sontoloyo series no 29 - 3/10 6:44 pm 1\. Saya membaca perihal beberapa pihak yang mempertikai bahkan mengejek ejek Anwar Ibrahim ujudkan pasukan tentera cyber nya. 2. Kata mereka untuk embellish dan shore up reputasi Anwar. 3. Pengamatan mereka mungkin benar atau separuh benar tapi kenalah bantah serta dispute Dari beberapa sudut . 4. Kita heran , pihak yang menjuarai kebebasan memberi pendapat, tidak mahu memberi pasukan cyber Anwar |
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An ode to courageous judges. Sontoloyo series no 28. - 2/10 9:00 am 1\. Today, my article is about an ode to the courage of judges.2. An ode in the sense of a poem in the form of a song, hailing and celebrating the courage of judges . 3 . Courage to insist doing acts that bring the scales of justice to balance as level as possible. 4. To rule without fear or favour so that the scales of justice which in reality is tilted, be equally balanced as best of possible . |
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Justice is not blind. She has eyes and arms. She has got vagina. She can .. - 30/09 9:00 am 1\. Many parties are doing it to Ms. Justice. Legislators, judges, lawyers, weathy dudes, special interest groups like UMNO, pas and bersatu . 2. It's a gangbang on Ms Justice. 3. Sorry folks. I am a rough and tumble type. I am a politician. My write ups must have political nuance as well as bawdy descriptions. 4 . If you want the 'propuh' write ups and ever so genteel articles, you can read |
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Empty promises of justice. Bah 3 of 3 Sontoloyo series no 26 - 28/09 9:00 am 1\. I am writing part 3 of this article in the English language. 2. The myth about justice being blind,one law applies to all and the scales of justice will eventually come to equilibrium is false. 3. It's a means to control the people, keeps them in check, a moral lullaby to the people. It comforts them and keeps them subservient.4. It's the perpetuation of the just world fallacy all over. 5. |
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Empty promises of justice. Bah 2 of 3 Sontoloyo series no 25 - 27/09 9:00 am 1\. Masyarakat diperlukan percaya justice is blind and fair. Once we believe that myth, society boleh terkawal. 2. Sebaik saja kita meyakini metos tersebut, kita berhenti menyoal. 3. Whose justice does it serve, who enforces it, whose interests does justice really serve? 4. Kan kita diberitahu justice is blind? Undang2 serupa terpakai keatas semua orang. Neraca justice akan seimbang . Yang jahat |
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Empty promises of justice. Sontoloyo series no 24 - 25/09 9:00 am 1\. Saya terbaca satu lapuran mengenai seorang ibu dipenjarakan . Sebab mencuri bebera paket Milo. Anak2 dia lapar 2. Tak adapun portal2 penyokong UMNO menjuarai perempuan ni. 3. Sebaliknya sorang mamat yang thabit kesalahan curi duit 43juta di juarai bukan nak rak lagi. 4. Kepentingan siapa yang dikhidmati oleh keadilan (justice)? 5. Keatas orang miskin dan voiceless, keadilan nampaknya keras, |
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