The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday January 4th, 2022 – World Braille Day
#Malaysia: PBM’s ‘Great Reset’ narrative needs deeper scrutiny by Murray Hunter
The newly created Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM), or Malaysian National Party launched its policy platform on 21st December. The launch didn’t get too much publicity at the time due to the flood crisis and the platform escaped any deep analysis.
The policy platform launched by Nor Hizwan, a former political secretary for the plantation industries and commodities minister, Zuraida Kamaruddin titled “The Great Reset 2030” is strikingly similar to the “The Great Reset” initiatives espoused last year at the World Economic Forum (WEF), held at the elite skiing resort village of Davos, Switzerland.
Nor Hizwan espoused that “The Great Reset 2030” should be embraced by ordinary Malaysians. He used the emotive arguments that Malaysia is now far behind its neighbour Singapore because of “systemic” socio-political, economic, technological, and education issues. In addition, Nor Hizwan condemned racial and religious based politics that has divided the nation.
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Michelangelo’s David On Alpha Centaurus IV #poem by Jan Sand
“Discovered several hundred thousand years
After life was found to be extinct
On the third planet from a nearby star,
The strange rock elicited curiosity, some fears.”
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What happened? How they broke my career by Joseph Gatt
I was a student in France in 2002. Went through my Bachelor’s degree, albeit with some difficulty. But around 2004, the South Koreans noticed that I was a brilliant kid who was pretty much going unnoticed by the rest of the world. Speaks 7 languages, skilled, articulate, well-thought, and yet neither the Algerians nor the French were interested in hiring me.
In 2004, South Korea hired who they thought was their winning lottery ticket. The South Koreans wanted to offer me training, including language training, which would result in an important job. The Algerians disagreed with the move and offered to send me over to South Korea with my foster parents as diplomats. Problem is: the South Koreans did not know that I was an Israeli adoptee. They thought I was an Algerian biological child.
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Screws & Chips #21 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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