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| Stand up for fairness, Mr Speaker |
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Posted by: superadmin - 07-26-2021, 09:15 PM - Forum: Politics
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A meeting of Parliament long awaited by the whole country is about to get under way. There’s much to be discussed after the last meeting which ended on Dec 29 last year.
Over the past seven months, we have had a state of emergency, numerous lockdowns of various kinds, a healthcare system on the verge of collapse and, as of yesterday, more than 17,000 infections in a day.
What’s worse, we now have amassed a cumulative total of a million Covid-19 cases. One out every 33 Malaysian has been infected.
That’s a million reasons why the people need to know what Parliament is about to discuss, what problems are examined and what solutions are put forward.
But Free Malaysia Today will not be there to tell Malaysians about it.
Despite the pressing need for information, Dewan Rakyat speaker Azhar Azizan Harun has seen fit to isolate millions of Malaysians, both inside and outside the country, from the action inside the House.
He has only invited a handful of media to cover the meeting, leaving out Free Malaysia Today – one of the top three news portals in Malaysia – and the Malay Mail, the online version of one of the oldest newspapers in the country.
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| Lifting of Emergency laws – did you know, Umno ministers asked |
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Posted by: superadmin - 07-26-2021, 06:15 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: Umno ministers have been urged to “come clean” on whether they knew that Putrajaya had revoked the Emergency ordinances from July 21.
“Did they know? If they knew, why did they remain quiet? Because if they knew and kept quiet, they are making Umno and their party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi look really silly,” said former law minister Zaid Ibrahim.
“If they knew, did they agree? If not, they should resign from the Cabinet because this will affect their party.”
Zaid said it becomes even more significant if the revocation did not follow due process, as it would mean Umno is a party to fraudem legis, or evasion of the law.
Earlier today, law minister Takiyuddin Hassan revealed that all ordinances were revoked as of July 21 because the government decided to cancel them under Article 153 of the Federal Constitution.
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| China has every right to reject WHO's embrace of lab-leak theory: U.S. journalist |
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Posted by: superadmin - 07-26-2021, 02:49 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic
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"The lab leak theory is a highly politicized framework for pursuing answers into the origins of COVID-19. That China would exercise caution in supporting an investigation that possesses far-from-impartial motives should come as no surprise," wrote Danny Haiphong, an independent U.S. journalist and researcher.
BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) -- China has every right to be suspicious of the undue focus the West placed on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a U.S. journalist has said, noting that biased investigations into and politization of COVID-19 origins would only lead to more questions than answers.
"The lab leak theory is a highly politicized framework for pursuing answers into the origins of COVID-19. That China would exercise caution in supporting an investigation that possesses far-from-impartial motives should come as no surprise," wrote Danny Haiphong, an independent U.S. journalist and researcher, in an opinion article published Friday in the China Global Television Network.
The article came after Vice Director of China's National Health Commission Zeng Yixin on Thursday rejected a second-phase plan proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) with a focus on the lab-leak theory.
Zeng reiterated that WHO experts agreed after visiting the Wuhan institution that it was "extremely unlikely" that the virus escaped from a lab.
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| China urges U.S. to change misguided mindset |
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Posted by: superadmin - 07-26-2021, 02:43 PM - Forum: Politics
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TIANJIN, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The China-U.S. relationship is in a stalemate, fundamentally because some Americans portray China as an "imagined enemy," said Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng, urging the United States to change its highly misguided mindset and dangerous policy.
Xie made the remarks on Monday during talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who is on a visit to north China's port city of Tianjin from July 25 to 26.
For quite some time, when talking about conflict with China and challenges facing the United States, the "Pearl Harbor moment" and the "Sputnik moment" have been brought up by some Americans, Xie said.
Some international scholars, including some U.S. academics, perceive this as comparing China to Japan in the Second World War and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. It seems as if by making China an "imagined enemy," a national sense of purpose would be reignited in the United States. The hope may be that by demonizing China, the United States could somehow shift domestic public discontent over political, economic and social issues and blame China for its own structural problems, he said.
It seems that a whole-of-government and whole-of-society campaign is being waged to bring China down. It is as if when China's development is contained, all U.S. domestic and external challenges would go away, and America would become great again and Pax Americana would continue to go on, Xie said.
In terms of United States' "competitive, collaborative and adversarial" rhetoric, Xie said this is a thinly veiled attempt to contain and suppress China.
The Chinese people feel that the real emphasis is on the adversarial aspect, the collaborative aspect is just an expediency, and the competitive aspect is a narrative trap, he said.
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| Are you a govt lapdog, Ramkarpal asks Speaker |
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Posted by: superadmin - 07-26-2021, 12:37 PM - Forum: Politics
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KUALA LUMPUR: Ramkarpal Singh (PH-Bukit Gelugor) caused an uproar in the Dewan Rakyat this morning by asking Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun if he was “a government lapdog”, over his decision not to table the Emergency Ordinance in the Dewan Rakyat.
“You were also a lawyer. You understand that the ordinance and proclamation of emergency must be brought to Parliament.
“The Speaker must understand rules that regulate the House, and that it cannot supersede the Constitution.
“Are you a government lapdog,” Ramkarpal then asked, causing a stir among government MPs.
“You have disgraced this Dewan. You are not fit to chair,” he said, before asking Azhar to resign.
In response, Azhar said the special sitting was held under Standing Order 11(3).
“Under this order, it is the prime minister who notifies me of the need to have a sitting. It is also the prime minister who determines the agenda of the sitting. The provision is very specific,” he said.
However, Ramkarpal persisted, asking if Standing Order 11(3) superseded the constitution.
Salahuddin Ayub (PH-Pulai) then weighed in, telling the Speaker that he was misleading the House.
“The King decreed that the emergency ordinance should be put up for debate in the Dewan Rakyat,” he said.
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| ‘You are the worst human being’: man confronts Fox News host Tucker Carlson |
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Posted by: superadmin - 07-26-2021, 11:42 AM - Forum: Politics
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In a confrontation that swiftly went viral, a Montana man told Fox News host Tucker Carlson: “You are the worst human being known to mankind.”
The man, identified on Instagram as Dan Bailey, posted the video of the encounter in a sporting goods store on 23 July.
He wrote: “It’s not every day you get to tell someone they are the worst person in the world and really mean it! What an asshole!”
Carlson’s response is difficult to hear in the 22-second video but he appears to be trying, politely, to stop the man talking. At one point he smiles at the camera. He also attempts to continue browsing goods.
Fox News’s most-watched host, a key influence on rightwing politics and invective, has recently come under fire for questioning vaccines against Covid-19 while refusing to say if he has had one, and for stoking racial division.
He has also been the subject of a widely read New York Times column (“Tucker Carlson Calls Journalists ‘Animals.’ He’s Also Their Best Source”) and a Washington Post profile (“How Tucker Carlson became the voice of white grievance”).
The profile detailed how Carlson ridiculed his first-grade teacher in a book – and reported her shock on finding out.
Comments on Bailey’s Instagram post were mostly appreciative, including clapping hand and beer emojis and sentiments including “American hero!!” and “Thank you!!”
His earlier posts included photos of a dog, hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities.
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| US-China relations: Washington blamed for rising tensions in Sherman meeting |
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Posted by: superadmin - 07-26-2021, 11:13 AM - Forum: Politics
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- Chinese foreign vice-minister Xie Feng tells his US counterpart that the two countries are in ‘stalemate’
- Both sides have been wrangling for the upper hand ahead of today’s first face-to-face discussion in months
China blamed Washington for treating it as an enemy, and hawkish voices in the US for escalating tensions between the two powers, in the first face-to-face meeting between their senior officials in months.
Chinese foreign vice-minister Xie Feng told US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman on Monday morning that US-China relations had reached a “stalemate” and faced “serious consequences”, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement.
“The foundational reason is that some people in the US are treating China as an ‘imagined enemy,’” it quoted Xie as saying.
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| ‘Disturbing’ actions by China signal early stages of a cold war |
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Posted by: superadmin - 07-26-2021, 11:06 AM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment
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‘Disturbing’ actions by China signal early stages of a cold war, economist Stephen Roach warns
Economist Stephen Roach warns Beijing’s crackdown against U.S.-listed China stocks will have widespread market implications.
Roach, who is considered one of the world’s leading experts on Asia, believes the actions are signaling the early stages of a cold war.
“I am a congenital optimist when it comes to China. But I find these actions really quite disturbing,” the former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Friday. “China is going after the core of its new entrepreneurial driven economy, and it’s going after their business models.”
According to Roach, the tensions between the world’s two largest economies could get to levels not seen since the early 1970s.
“Even if U.S. companies don’t trade directly with China, virtually everything they touch goes through global supply chains,” said Roach. “So, a chill in the U.S.-China relationship has significant implications for U.S. companies and for investors investing in U.S. companies. You can’t get away from the China connection.”
CNBC’s Jim Cramer is delivering a similar warning investors. He believes it’s too risky to invest in China stocks that trade on U.S. exchanges due to the regulation threat.
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