Tweets 20/5/2018 II 一人一职位

Tweets  20/5/2018  II  一人一职位

     一个职员不被允许身兼多职。 请问一位首相，首长，部长或官员怎么可以身兼多职。这无形中就是剥夺别人的机会。 所以官爷们不能自做决定的，请交给民间帮你们做决定吧。  所以要竞选国会议员，就让出州/邦会议员。采取一人一职的方式。确定人人都有一定的收入。 可以减低失业率。

     如果Dr。M当首相也当教育部长，那么马智里无形中上位的权利就被Dr。 M剥夺了。所以公政党各个高官说没事的，其实他们没有参考和思考 这联邦国人民的意愿的和想法，就blablablabla….这新习惯肯定要多多练习才会习惯。不可以再一次迎合谁的口味。记得民意调查先。免得被人民批评臭骂。 大家都讲好[言论自由]。况且人民是以理据争，臭骂你们。记得民意要排第一。天下就在你手上和脚下。 务必好好珍惜人民和民意。

用心，认真，努力思考沙砂主权为何物？

Tweets   20/5/2018  

沙砂权益通通归还，内阁是否有砂沙人代表不碍事。 有关系到沙砂权益，咱们沙砂政府可出面，重大的问题，涉及咱们的权益，全民公投来表决。我们再也不能让首长一个不公开，不听取民意的一个人决定一切。 不随便签任何没有经过全砂沙人的认同就决定。 记得，沙砂是我们大家的，不属于任何政党的。所以 要维护沙砂的权益，就是需要砂沙人民，全心全意的拥护。

我们是伙伴国，有对等的地位。跟西马11州，不必集挤在11州一起。 应该改一改吧，设立另一阁，专门属于3国的代表。 这是我希望我们砂沙走向。 不走旧的模式。这才是正确的方式。

我相信Dr。M新首相经过这么多经验，尤其是实权领袖Answar和副首相Azizah。 要花点时间在这方面的联邦国大事。我们砂沙中选的希盟领袖们，都好像无头苍蝇乱转乱撞。还是在旧旧框框里打转。不懂得主权国的意义。大家都很病态的绕着[入阁转着转]，不知道再进这西马的11州的内阁，就是[自投罗网]。我真的希望这是双轨的胜利。不再是旧政府的2.0。

55年被马来亚政府殖民后，大家好像都失去那[主权的意识]。口喊着喊着喊着喊着。。。。却没有花点心思去想怎么真正走向掌握主权。这么被动的，像乞丐似焦虑的看和等待联邦政府是否施舍[内阁位子]给沙砂。Aduuh！

California becomes first U.S. state to require solar panels on new...

California becomes first U.S. state to require solar panels on new...

Sebastien Malo, Nichola Groom3 Min Read

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Thomson Reuters Foundation) –

Builders in California will be required to fit solar panels on most new homes from 2020 under new building standards adopted on Wednesday, a move that is the first in the United States and could provide a big boost to the solar industry.

The decision, adopted unanimously by the five-member California Energy Commission, is part of the state’s effort to fight global climate change.  It came despite estimates it would raise the up-front cost of a new home by nearly $10,000 in one of the most expensive parts of the country.

The Commission estimated the standards will add about $40 to monthly mortgage payments but will compensate for that by saving residents $80 a month on energy bills.

“We cannot let Californians be in homes that are essentially the residential equivalent of gas guzzlers,” Commissioner David Hochschild said ahead of the vote.

The new building codes include updates to building ventilation and lighting standards.  They are collectively expected to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by 700,000 metric tons over three years, a level equal to taking 115,000 cars off the road, according to state officials.

The vote was a major win for the solar installation industry, which already counts California as its biggest market.  Demand for solar equipment in California could rise by 10 percent to 15 percent because of the new standards, the Energy Commission forecast in a study earlier this year.

Solar companies cheered the move, saying they hoped such requirements would one day be adopted in other states, too.

“We think it’s another example of California policy preceding what will happen in other markets,” Tom Werner, chief executive of San Jose-based solar company SunPower, said in an interview ahead of the decision.

California has one of the most ambitious renewable energy mandates in the country, with a goal of sourcing half of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2030. At the end of 2017, it had reached about 30 percent, according to the CEC.

Because of such policies, the most populous U.S. state has frequently been at odds with President Donald Trump’s aggressive rollback of policies to combat climate change.  Governor Jerry Brown is planning a global climate summit this September.

Just 9 percent of single-family detached homes in the state of 39.5 million people currently have solar panels, according to a 2017 U.S. Department of Energy report the Energy Commission cited.

Buildings that are shaded or have a roof that is too small to accommodate panels will be among those exempt, California Energy Commission spokeswoman Amber Pasricha Beck said. 

My comments:

We have plenty of sunlight in the federation of Malaysia.  When is the government going to follow suite so that we can improve the carbon footprint and save the environment.  Only a healthy environment can ensure us of healthy people and happy life.

Entering a sustainable future

nst.com.my

Entering a sustainable future     By MAGED SROUR

IN the early 1970’s the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was an impoverished desert, with little access to food, water and well-paying jobs. Today, this country looks nothing like it was 50 years ago.

Thanks to oil, the UAE has completely transformed and is one of the most developed economies in the Middle East, if not the world: its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) is equal to those of highly developed European nations (US$68,000 (RM270,000) — 2017 estimates).

        Wealth in the UAE, as in other Gulf countries, is derived mainly from oil, but the black gold will run out someday soon.  For this reason, the UAE, similar to other petro-rich countries in the region, is activating a list of local and national strategies and initiatives to build a new framework for the future.

This framework aims to be run only on renewable energies but keeping the same level of wealth, if not improving it.  Therefore rich, but without depending on oil.

Indeed, the UAE has embarked on a new path of investments, to end oil dependence and turn around most of its infrastructures run by renewable energies.   Launched in 2017, the UAE Energy Strategy 2050 aims “to increase the contribution of clean energy in the total energy mix from 25 per cent to 50 per cent by 2050 and reduce carbon footprint of power generation by 70 per cent, thus saving AED700 billion (RM756 billion) by 2050”.

This strategy seeks to increase consumption efficiency of individuals and companies by 40 per cent and it targets an energy mix that aims to combine renewable, nuclear and clean sources as follows: 44 per cent clean energy, 38 per cent gas, 12 per cent clean coal and six per cent nuclear.

For example, the city of Masdar is the first city in the world to have a zero-carbon footprint and zero waste, and it is a car-free city. The city is not fully developed, but it aims to be home to 40 to 50 thousand people in an area of 6km.

Energy is not the only field in which the UAE is at the forefront for development and innovation. Transportation, health, education, tackling climate change, architecture, tourism, cyber security and so forth: these and others are sectors in which the UAE is showing the world its willingness to improve and possibly become the leader, shocking the planet in terms of innovation.

Today, the UAE is a country of where buildings are skyscrapers, streets are clean, electric and hybrid cars are becoming more common than those that run on fuel and the crime rate is low. According to Numbeo, which surveyed 50,175 people in 4,574 cities, Abu Dhabi is one of the safest cities in the world, ranking 16th, with a very low crime index (11.85) and a high safety index (88.15).

The UAE is planning to build a high-speed train, named Hyperloop, which will be able to reach 1,200 kph and connect Dubai and Abu Dhabi (120km) in 12 minutes by 2021. In addition, in 2016, the world applauded the first journey to be ever completed by a solar airplane, which, not surprisingly, was an UAE product.

Solar Impulse 2 is a solar-powered aircraft equipped with more than 17,000 solar cells.  The airplane landed in Abu Dhabi after a journey of 505 days and 41,600km at an average speed of about 70 kph. The UAE government is even planning to establish the first human settlements in Mars by 2117.

However, this is just a small portion of the wider picture that describes the UAE’s way to the future. In December 2016, Gulf News had launched The Amazing Nation, a book to celebrate UAE’s 45th anniversary that aimed to tell the story of the innovative and modern UAE while also exploring its deep cultural roots.

According to this book, homes of the future will be incredibly smart and capable of growing their own food in a sustainable way. 3D and 4D printing in construction will allow unique innovations in terms of sustainable architecture and homes will be folded up and transported by drones to any location.

The country is planning to build below the waterline and make underwater living possible. If there is one country that is projecting itself into the future, it is certainly the UAE.

The UAE, like some other Gulf countries, is clearly projecting itself into the future. These countries want to diversify the portfolio of their investments and provide an alternative source of revenues away from those related to oil.

The unprecedented modernisation occurring in the Gulf region is inspired by a new and young leadership that is gradually replacing the elders.  These leaders are showing a remarkable enthusiasm for innovation but, at the same time, are the protagonists of a foreign policy, who ultimately contribute to fuel tensions and conflict across the Middle East.

Indeed,  unless this region does not find political compromises, which allows enduring peace and a reliable stability, those same people who would enjoy the remarkable technological innovations, will constantly be concerned because of the lack of security in their countries.

Economic and social development need to be accompanied by a wise and peaceful foreign policy, particularly in the Gulf and in the broader Middle East. — IPS

My comments:  

We should look up to the leadership and aspiration of this country to develop our place. 

 

theborneopost.com

Federal govt must recognise opposition states — Professor

Abdul Hakim Bujang, reporters@theborneopost.com

Prof Woo Wing Thye

       SUBANG JAYA: The federal government has to recognise that some states will be controlled by the opposition, as well as to introduce a revenue system that would stimulate the economy and also overcome the deficit brought by the abolishment of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
       This was stated by Jeffrey Cheah Institute on South East Asia president Prof Woo Wing Thye, when speaking as a panellist at ‘Keeping the Promise Reform’ forum at Sunway University on Monday.
  “What it means is, we need to have a revenue system that recognises that each of the states could be held by a different party; and an efficient solution to that is fiscal and administrative decentralisation,” he stressed.
       The biggest harm of centralisation, he pointed out, is that all money are now collected by the central government, which decides which state to give and which not to give – that normally discriminates against the opposition states.
     “Federal government should not collect so much money, but the states should be collecting some of the money,” he said, stressing that local problems are best solved by the local people.
        He explained that Malaysia was born during the Emergency – a time when the government needed to focus attention on fighting the enemy.  As such, every decision-making was centralised, but this is no longer relevant to the current scenario.
        Woo believed that the deficit faced by the government after abolishing GST is likely to be a short-term problem, if the new ruling party introduces a pro-growth tax system – a systemic reform based on bold new approaches proven successful in other countries.
     “It is important that the centre of policy initiatives is spread all over the country, in each of the state capitals, rather than just the EPU (Economic Planning Unit) in Putrajaya.”
       He said in China and the US, the governors of the provinces and states are competing to be the best to climb their party hierarchy or win election based on merits.
       He said Malaysia too could task the local state universities to develop local economy by giving them due funds to harness the varsities toward technological advancements that would be suitable for local conditions – as what is being widely practised in the US.
       This, he said, did not happen in Malaysia, whereas the chief ministers of the states had to depend on funds and resources from the federal government.
      “Basically, our chief ministers do not have financial resources to realise whatever good initiative that they may have – this has to change.”
        Woo stressed that the change of government involving a long-established party like Barisan Nasional (BN), which had been in power for over 60 years, to Pakatan Harapan (PH) – should not be an excuse to delay reform in Malaysia.
Malaysian leaders, be they from PH or BN, could learn from other countries as it had happened before in Mexico and Taiwan, he pointed out.
      “It had happened elsewhere before.   I think there are many things that can be done immediately and easily because we know how to do them.”
         Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won every presidential election from 1929 to 1994; the Kuomintang (KMT) Party dominated Taiwan for decades but lost the presidency in 2016 and, for the first time, its control of parliament.
     “PRI in Mexico and KMT in Taiwan reformed themselves and got re-elected,” he said, stressing that BN too could make a comeback by offering good governance and better economic policy.
       The forum was a platform for PH members and analysts to deliberate on the key reforms that the new administration must undertake within its first 100 days in power.

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• Please do it.  Decentralise the power for the good of everybody and the government.