Malaysian Government Imports Food, true or false?

Cut & Paste- Beef? or BULL?

The Star reported on 28 December 2007 as follows:

Under the Headline: “Govt still needs to import food........."

“THE Government will continue to import food if local production and supply are still unable to meet the demand of the country.

Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Shariff Omar said beef, mutton, rice and vegetables were still being imported from neighbouring countries as the country was still short of being self-sufficient.

He said the country was 72% self-sufficient in rice production and targeted to be at 100% self-sufficient by the year 2010 following efforts to produce 10 metric tones of rice per hectare.

“We are also importing a lot of mutton and beef. Our local breeders are producing only 22% of beef for local consumption.

“We are importing about 23,000 metric tonnes of beef, mostly from India, monthly,” he said when met at his service centre, near Butterworth, yesterday.

Mohamad Shariff said the country was producing only 8% of mutton for local demand and hoped to increase it to 18% by the year 2010.

He said the Government was importing some 4,000 metric tonnes of mutton monthly."

Questions:

1. Does Mohamad Shariff really expect Malaysians to believe that the Government imports this food?

(I doubt it this is true, surely the food is imported by private companies, not directly by the Malaysian Government.

It is of course a fact that the Malaysian Government tries to interfere and control each and every aspect of life in Malaysia, but it seems that now even the food is, according to Shariff, being directly imported by the Barisan National collation Government.

2. Pray tell, where are the Government Run Shops which sell, or perhaps even give away, this imported food?

SAY 'NO' TO BULLSHIT!

Kampai!

Selangor = Singapore in 5 years time!!

IS THIS A JOKE or PIE-IN-THE-SKY BULLSHIT?

Pie in the sky:

[Meaning

‘A promise of heaven, while continuing to suffer in this life’]

Bullshit:

[Meaning

Nonsense, lies, exaggeration]

STAR on-line: 19 March 2008.

“Selangor aiming to compete with Singapore

By CHRISTINA TAN

SHAH ALAM: Selangor is aiming to compete with Singapore "apple to apple" * in five years.

Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo said Selangor was not much different from Singapore except that it lagged in public transportation and IT facilities, and urban services quality.

“Once we are more efficient in public transportation and improve our broadband services as well as the urban services quality, Selangor and Singapore can compete apple to apple.

“We are also improving our port and airport services,” he said after launching a seminar on generating and increasing knowledge among principals and headmasters in Selangor at Dewan Jublic Perak here Monday.”

*use link above or below

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/2/18/nation/20362220&sec=nation

What complete and utter bullshit, pie in the sky skulduggery, or perhaps a wicked joke?

In five years time, nothing much will have changed; in fact even in the past 50 years very little has really changed for the better in many parts of Selangor!

By the way, Selangor is touted as Malaysia's most developed state, may God help the rest of Malaysia then!

DREAM ON BABY!

Guid forder!

HOT AIR

Listening to all the hot air emanating from the PM, ministers and other assorted government politicians during this pre-election time, and after reading about the verbal diarrhoea, hollow promises and patronizing remarks, I thought that the light hearted fantasy poem, ‘If Pigs Could Fly’, by James Reeves, would be an really appropriate Sunday interlude.

If Pigs Could Fly

If pigs could fly, I'd fly a pig to foreign countries small and big,
to Italy and Spain,
to Austria where cow bells ring,
to Germany where people sing and then come home again

I'd see the Ganges and the Nile,
I'd visit Madagascar's isle
and Persia and Peru.
People would say they'd never seen
so odd, so strange an air machine
as that on which I flew

Yes everyone would raise a shout
to see his trotters and his snout come floating from the sky.
And I would be a famous star in all the countries near and far.
If only pigs could fly

--James Reeves

Disclaimers:

No pigs were flown or otherwise harmed during the writing of this blog or during the photo shoot.

Flying pigs may be dangerous to both the pig and the rider ( if any).

Flying pigs over populated areas should do avoided so as to obviated any risk of porcine rainfall and brown-outs.

Txin txin!