YOU, Esteemed Readers, decide...
I just draw your attention, and share a li'l of my past media experience, jest worth 3sen, methinks, can get a few drops of the Black Gold if the nationaloil corpoartion has some feelings for the nation's Rakyat...
Nu'es 1:
Anwar tells of Manila meeting
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/6/9/nation/21497494&sec=nation
By The Star
Monday, June 9, 2008
PETALING JAYA: PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim admitted that he met some Barisan Nasional leaders in Manila recently and claimed that he was confident of meeting the Sept 16 deadline for the coalition’s MPs to cross over to Pakatan Rakyat.
“I was invited to Manila to give a talk and some of them met me there,” he said but declined to reveal how many Barisan MPs were involved “for the sake of their security”.
“Now it is more attractive after the fuel price hike.”
Anwar said that “under normal circumstances we do not agree with crossovers” but because the Barisan was in a constant state of denial and the economy was mismanaged, Pakatan Rakyat had no choice but to lead the country.
Anwar said he could contest in a by-election anytime as he had received the green light from the Registrar of Societies.
“I am still gauging the support of the different constituencies and have not decided where to contest.
“Some MPs told me they were willing to surrender their seats to let me contest,” he told reporters yesterday after PKR’s supreme council meeting at the party’s new headquarters in Tropicana here.
On the price of fuel, he said Pakatan Rakyat would reduce the price of oil when it formed the Government.
“In the light of increasing oil price and economic mismanagement there has been an increasing interest in PKR.”
Yesterday, eight leaders from MIC, MCA and Umno joined PKR.
Anwar said PKR had about 300,000 members and that 50,000 new members joined last month.
He said the Government had given incentives to richer organisations and withdrawn subsidies for the lower-income people.
“It is mind-boggling to increase the fuel price and burden the people and force them into poverty-stricken conditions.”
He added that Malaysia was an oil exporting country and Petronas was not transparent in declaring its accounts.
“Billions of ringgit have come in the form of oil revenue and we still do not know how this money is spent.
“Petronas must be accountable and transparent in Parliament as the oil is a national reserve and its revenue must be shared by the rakyat. Increasing the price of oil is not the proper thing to do,” said Anwar.
At a meeting later last night, he suggested the five Pakatan Rakyat-led states – Penang, Kedah, Perak, Selangor and Kelantan – begin an austerity drive to help alleviate the people’s suffering due to the latest hike in fuel price.
Anwar said the states concerned should strive to reduce administrative costs to ensure that allocations for development and the people’s benefit would not be affected.
DESIDERATA: AT least there was some mention of Petronas here.
BUT not a single word of DSAI's offer to RESIGN should he not deliver on his promise to lower fuel price should he lead an alternative PR Governemnt.
Nu'es2:
Anwar's return plan
By : Azura Abas
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KUALA LUMPUR: Parti Keadilan Rakyat de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim promised a by-election this year to enable him to return to Parliament.
He also said he was continuing talks with potential Barisan Nasional defectors to form the government in which he would become prime minister.
He said he met several BN members of parliament during a visit to the Philippines recently but declined to reveal their names.
At least 30 MPs would need to cross over to allow the Pakatan Rakyat coalition to form the Federal Government.
"People who talk to us have to fly very quietly to neighbouring capitals just to convey their message and positions. We have to protect our friends and the other MPs," Anwar said after meeting PKR supreme council members yesterday at the party's new headquarters in Merchant Square, Tropicana, here.
BN component parties, particularly in Sabah and Sarawak, have consistently denied the former deputy prime minister's frequent claims of impending crossovers.
Rumours of multi-million ringgit offers to buy over BN MPs have, in turn, been denied by the PKR.
Anwar described speculation that defectors would not be welcomed by some in the Pakatan Rakyat as "irrelevant".
"Anyone who subscribes to the policies and agenda of Pakatan Rakyat will be considered part of the team," he said.
Anwar claimed the PKR had more than 300,000 members and had received 50,000 applications, including from the BN.
There was no "moral basis" for Umno and BN MPs to stay with the present government, he said.
"It is a heavy price on the nation to keep harping on the racist agenda and sentiments. I will not create political instability."
He also vowed to resign if he failed to reduce fuel prices should he come to power.
NOTE: The emphasis (thus BOLDED) in both reports is done by Desi.
DESIDERATA: Any newsman, especially an Editor, worth his two sen would have taken up the LAST PRAGRAPH as the LEAD in the story above, that is, in newspeak, the MAIN paragraph, as that is the news of the event in the current OIL PRICE HIKE scenario plus the possibility of DSAI leading a new Government soon.
But the following "He also vowed to resign if he failed to reduce fuel prices should he come to power. " is buried at the end...The NST does not wish to have its Readers reach this last paragraph -- PR shit...Ooops, Sheet...Or is it BN Propaganda-ganda Wang Anda? Some Editors never learn from the GE2008.
Ah, never mind. As a certain Tun Dr Mahathir observed of many things Malaysia: half-past six!
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