Movie Review: Syriana

I watched this movie at home at HBO around 1 morning. I really want to watch it for long time but the showing time is not right. This movie full with a very strong political statement on which the addiction of oil by the western country causes for all the havoc and crisis we see in middle east now days. Please click here for the in depth detail and story plot.



It true that our world are actually control and govern not by those people who win the fair and democratic election but a group of people who own a company no matter what business they into in goal to get the maximum and guaranteed profits. Syriana show the audience on a fictional but almost true plot how the big cooperation conspire on others and corrupting one nation and government to fulfill and achieve its own agenda that is unlimited profits. The rich is going to be rich and the poor remains to be that so.

In Malaysia context, i remembered the post that I wrote about a big cooperate company was bidding to obtain a piece of land own by University of Malaya for their own development purposes. It is so true that now days, big cooperation is slipping on their influence tentacles on a fragile government for their own benefits and profits without considering the general needs in what we known as lobbying in government. A very critical issue I can see in Malaysia is the slow start to the privatization process of the medical health care infrastructure. No matter what the government says, the winners are always the business people.

I'm not against nor agree on what happened now days around the world. Nothing can be done to avoid it. As might as well if you can't beat it, join it but with a bit of goodness twist on it. We need to aware and know more about what happen at our surrounding and message those others trying to spread. Not saying to accept it fully but to investigate and give it a good deep logical thought. It only can happen if we have a wide understanding in general knowledge. You don't want to be directed like flocks of lamb don’t you?

Parti Keadilan Rakyat in Sabah Politics

I had written about how the Federal Government is breaking the agreement of Malaysia Federal Constitution when allow a non sabahan political party into its coalition state in my past post. Never the less, there are also opposition party who illegally practice their political agenda in here such as Democratic Action Party and Party Keadilan Rakyat. I find it so disturbing and sad that we sabahan at the point of turning to a non sabahan party to fight for our welfare and benefits of its state. Sabahan political platform now fill with people who not really know us at first, no nothing about the history of the state and want to apply its own agenda and fights that we never started many years ago.

I would like to point out a news article in which Umno Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein say that Parti Keadilan Rakyat are doomed to failure. Yes, it true. Not because of the party itself but merely that Parti Keadilan Rakyat doesn't seem to be relevant or understand and what the majority want for its state. The birth of Parti Keadilan Rakyat as most people knew is because of one man. Yes, the former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. He is the same architect who put UMNO to Sabah at first and by its own people kick out from the party.

Do we need someone who we all knew taken part of cutting away our privileges federation rights to defend us? He even cannot hold on to its own pants in his own party. How he going to do that? Even if Parti Keadilan Rakyat able to gain support and be the government in which I doubt that, we also ended up with non sabahan in power. What is the different then? I don't know why sabahan never learn from the lesson. Why do we often trust the rich and powerful rather than the one whom wise, charismatic and poor? I don't think we need someone who just knows how to plan to fatten its own pocket other than the development of the education, medical and economic system of its state.

We are always in the impression that only the federal government can develop the state. No, it’s not quite true. Most of the developments in Malaya are sources from Sabah's oil and timber industries. So, beside thinking that, I believe that the Malaya need Sabah natural resource to keep the money flowing to them to develop in which the power balance is switch unbalance to most of the small states in Malaya. Sarawak is in status quo and critical point of becoming the last state that have its own grip of its government. I hope that they learn it from us.

Never the less, there are nothing bad if Sabah lost all its privileges on its own state. We will not be so dependent to some ancient agreement that protect its own rights and learn to be more competitive with others. The chinese and indian live their lives in a hard way and earn a good decent living in it. Sabahan had about 30 plus years chances to run the country and they blew it. So, it’s time for others to run it and in a pick of luck and hope, we can live in prosper and happy without the ancient federal agreement rights haunted us.