The scheme by Umno to boost its fortunes by using the ‘Allah’ controversy has backfired, and destabilised religious harmony in a multi-religious society.
In truth, corruption in the country has worsened since the formation of MACC. The RM12.5 billion loss through the Port Klang Free Zone scandal is another shocking case of corruption.....
Light refreshment will be served. Seat limited. Booking is essential.
Gerhard Schmidt, Senior Scientist and the author of the report will do a power point presentation of the findings and conclusion from the report. He will be available for a questions and answers session after the presentation.
Opening the eyes of the Malaysian public to the country’s impressive Hindu and Buddhist historical past would do wonders in helping to expand those Malaysian minds currently confined within a religious straightjacket.
PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli will be a panellist in a discussion this evening (Nov 20) on how to ‘Say No to Corruption’. Other speakers are Robert Lazar, managing partner of the law firm Shearn Delamore & Co and Bernard Khoo, a retired teacher who blogs at ‘Zorro Unmasked’.
The discussion is held in conjunction with the launch of a novel on titled Tiger Isle – A Government of Thieves.
Tiger Isle or Pulipore, where the story of the novel is set, is a mysterious country in South East Asia beset by endemic corruption.
Its hundreds of billions of dollars expenditure on inflated defense and other government procurement and infrastructure development contracts have left Tiger Isle on the verge of bankruptcy.
President Kapalin, Tiger Isle’s evil and despotic leader plays every card – from race to Tigerist religion to hounding his political nemesis, Maitreya, with trumped-up rape and sodomy charges – to cling on to power.
Failure is not an option, as Kapalin and his ambitious and self-promoting wife, Natasha, are also implicated in the cover-up of the gruesome murder of Tiger Isle’s Oscar-winning actress, dynamited to bits in a secluded forest.
With the island’s bitter ex-President Bhairav stirring extremist and right-wing Tigerist sentiments to undermine Kapalin and replace him with his own son as president,
Tiger Isle is confronted with a looming menace that threatens destruction to its 30 million inhabitants.
The fictional novel is published by the Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD).
Author E.S. Shankar will be present at the book launch to sign copies of his work which retails at RM30 and can be bought on the spot.
Members of the public are invited to attend the panel discussion and the book launch to be held at the Royal Selangor Club in Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur.
The event begins at 7pm in the upstairs ballroom where light snacks and refreshments will be served.
Entrance is free and the dress code is casual smart (jeans, round neck T-shirt, slippers/flip-flops and sandals are notallowed for men).
More details on the event can be obtained from Facebook.