The peculiar Zen of race car driving The racetrack i’m driving is a five-kilometre, eighteen-turn road course. Looked at another way, it’s just a strip of pavement that covers some arbitrary geography before ending up… Continue reading this article at http://www.walrusmagazine.com
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Meditation at 7,500 RPM by Timothy Taylor
Is our national anthem worthy of true patriot love? When the Conservative government proposed changing a single line of our national anthem this past spring, the outrage was ferocious enough that the idea was shelved in less than forty-eight hours…. Continue reading this article at http://www.walrusmagazine.com
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(N)O Canada! by Stephen Marche
Malaysian Insider By Clara Chooi June 08, 2010 KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today moved to quell fears raised by a minister that Malaysia would one day go the way of Greece and Iceland and become a bankrupt nation. In a written response to a question by Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timor) in
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PM dispels fears of possible bankruptcy
SOALAN: Lim Kit Siang (Ipoh Timur) minta PERDANA MENTERI menyatakan apakah tindakan yang telah diambil untuk memastikan bahawa Malaysia tidak akan mengikut jejak langkah Iceland dan Greece dan menjadi sebuah negara bankrap yang memerlukan penyelamatan dan masyarakat serantau atau antarabangsa. JAWAPAN: Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Untuk makluman Yang Berhormat, hutang negara adalah hutang luar negara yang terdiri daripada hutang luar
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Malaysia’s foreign debt – Parliament Question
Malaysians are now at the crossroads and must choose to take the road towards an advanced high-income country in 2020 or a bankrupt nation in 2019. The New Economic Model (NEM) launched by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak on March 30 promised a new development path encompassing economic, social and government transformation to catapult
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Malaysians are now at the crossroads – an advanced high-income country in 2020 or a bankrupt nation in 2019
SAN FRANCISCO, CA/ATLANTA, GA, June 1, 2010 – Shionogi Pharma, Inc., a U.S.-based group company of Shionogi & Co., Ltd., today presented data summarizing the results of two pivotal studies…
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The American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Task Force on Relationships between Radiology Groups and Hospitals and Other Healthcare Organizations has proposed several steps that can help improve…
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ACR task force makes recommendations for improving relationships between radiologists and hospitals
By M. Bakri Musa Idris Jala, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and PEMANDU CEO, has yet to convince his cabinet colleagues, in particular the Prime Minister, of the need to reduce subsidies specifically and government spending generally. He has to do that first before taking his Subsidy Rationalization Lab road show to the rest
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Tackling Subsidies And Their Myriad Manifestations
(Media Statement in Kota Kinabalu on Monday, 31st May 2010) DAP calls for the convening of an all-party conference to condemn the Israeli attacks on Freedom Flotilla, killing at least 15, on a humanitarian aid-and-medicine mission to Gaza. There can be no conceivable excuse for the use of lethal force by the Israelis against against the mercy
Letters by Sara Wak Dear YB Idris Jala and Koh Tsu Koon, For the last many years, the BN Govt has been handing big ang pows to the rich Malays who are given APs, and it has been said by the BN Govt that this practice will go on until 2013 0r even 2014! Why can’t the Govt control
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Re: Idris Jala: M’sia must cut subsidies, debt by 2019 or risk bankruptcy
The meek and timid response of the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak to the ferocious and incendiary rejection of the New Economic Model by the Perkasa-led Malay Consultative Council raises the question whether Najib is backing off from the NEM to become an even bigger Flip-Flop PM than his predecessor Tun Abdullah. Najib’s statement that
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Is Najib backing off from support for NEM to become an even bigger Flip-Flop PM than Abdullah?
Malaysiakini commentator Terence Netto hit the nail on the head when he wrote a commentary entitled “S’wak BN shell-shocked by Sibu defeat“. This explained the “Barbarians at the Gate” speech of SUPP Chairman, Datuk Dr.
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Sibu by-election – the “Incredible Hulk” warning after the “Barbarians at the gate” speech
Oleh G. Manimaran | The Malaysian Insider KOTA BARU, 29 Mei — Pakatan Rakyat (PR), yang mencipta sejarah dengan menguasai lima kerajaan negeri dan menafikan Barisan Nasional (BN) majoriti dua pertiga di Parlimen dua tahun lalu, perlu mengadakan kajian separuh penggal prestasi mereka. Justeru, idea agar diadakan kajian separuh penggal itu membabitkan prestasinya sejak Mac 2008 akan
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DAP: Pakatan perlu adakan kajian prestasi separuh penggal
By Tunku Abdul Aziz The very idea that the headman of the MACC be accorded a status equivalent to that of the Inspector-General of Police was so hilarious that I, a grown man, was driven to sobbing uncontrollably before I doubled up, laughing my head off. I have, in my lifetime, been through many strange and
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Inspector-General of MACC: Have we gone mad?
Malaysian Insider By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani May 29, 2010 KOTA BARU, May 29 — Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders used dire forecasts of a gloomy future if there are no subsidy cuts to warn that voting for Barisan Nasional (BN) in the next general election would lead the country to bankruptcy. A government minister this week had predicted Malaysia
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Vote BN for bankruptcy, warns Pakatan
Penang Wesak Day Message By Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng In Komtar, George Town On 28.5.2010 Penang State Government Directs The Two Local Councils MPPP & MPSP To Exercise Section 101(v) Of The Local Government Act To Bar Sports Betting In Penang Given By BN To Ascot Sports Sdn Bhd. In the spirit of peace and
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Barring Sports Betting In Penang
Four things stand out in yesterday’s Subsidy Rationalisation Lab Open Day of the 1Malaysia Government Transformation Programme (GTP) where the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and CEO of Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu), Datuk Seri Idris Jala made his presentation on the country’s proposed five-year subsidy rationalization roadmap. Firstly, the absence
Malaysian Insider By Debra Chong May 28, 2010 KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 — DAP’s surprise win in the recent Sibu by-election was the latest message being sent to the Najib administration that it needs to buckle down and deal with the “Allah” issue sooner rather than later. The party made a special appeal to the Christian voters, citing the
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Sibu result reflects growing Christian vote
Malaysiakini Terence Netto | May 27, 10 1:31pm COMMENT It’s now the turn of Sarawak’s BN leaders to display symptoms of election shell-shock. Following DAP’s victory in the Sibu by-election, the trauma suffered by Sarawak’s BN chapter, hitherto so confident as the numerically superior component of federal BN’s safe electoral deposit in Borneo, displayed itself in
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S’wak BN shell-shocked by Sibu defeat
Malaysian Insider By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal May 27, 2010 KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 — DAP’s Tony Pua grudgingly admitted today that cutting subsidies could lower Malaysia’s debts, but he said the cuts will only be successful if leakages from graft and help for big corporations are plugged first. “I feel that in general, the points raised were
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DAP says cuts cannot be limited to subsidies