http://rockybru.com.my/2009/01/midnight-regulations.html

"Midnight regulations"
at 7:24 PM Saturday, January 03, 2009

update, 2am 4/1/2009: Support from an MP. YB Wee's weekly question this time
is: Should Sime Darby be allowed to ...

Do let him know what you think, here.
http://weechookeong.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/your-mps-question-of
-the-week-41/#comments

original posting:
Have a Heart. If you are interested in saving IJN from Sime Darby, please
place this heart on your blog. Thank you. _ Rocky's Bru

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Az7aX_dORNk/SV9Fs6puKkI/AAAAAAAADTs/45gnruIi8rw/s1600-\
h/BLOODY+SLIMY.jpg

update: mummy rokiah's versio, here, bears a different stroke. So does
Shamsul's logo, here.
http://www.mummyrokiah.blogspot.com/
http://marahku.blogspot.com/

EPU calls for meeting.

Despite public uproar and stakeholders' objection, the outgoing Abdullah
Administration seems bent on forcing through a proposal by a desperate Sime
Darby to take over IJN, the National Heart Institute set up in 1992.

Just a week after the Cabinet announced that it was deferring a decision on
the matter, the Economic Planning Unit in the PM's Department has called for
a meeting between Sime Darby and IJN. The meeting is scheduled for 2.30 pm
on Monday.

The media have not been formally informed of the meeting but anti-takeover
blogs are saying that it's an attempt to push the deal through before March
when Abdullah is due to hand over the premiership to Najib Razak.

Pak Lah's "midnight regulations".

I was looking for a term to describe a takeover attempt done in such haste
and in the middle of a leadership change, too. Someone suggested that I look
up under "midnight regulations".

[In the context of American politics, midnight regulations are the executive
branch agency regulations passed in the lame duck period of an outgoing
President's administration. More from Wiki, h e r e].
http://www.answers.com/midnight%20regulation

Outgoing President Bush, for example, is trying to push 90 midnight
regulations to ensure his legacy, according to one source.

Abdullah is already rushing several legislation, including the Judicial
Apppointments Commission, in Parliament to secure his legacy. The IJN
takeover can be seen in the same vein. The RM1.7 billion LCCT airport in
Labu was never part of the country's airport masterplan but was approved by
the Cabinet for Air Asia and, yes, Sime Darby to develop. Watch closely now,
there'll be more midnight approvals and midnight projects before someone
calls it a day.

I am encouraged to know that there are more bloggers now out to try and stop
these midnight nonsense. They include

Sime Darby Watch
http://simedarbywatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/epu-to-meet-ijn-sime-darby.html

Sakmongkol
http://sakmongkol.blogspot.com/2009/01/now-its-paraphiliacs-at-ijns-gates.html

Apanama
http://apanama2020.blogspot.com/2009/01/dont-kill-ijn.html

A Voice
http://anotherbrickinwall.blogspot.com/2009/01/ijn-probe-part-2.html

AM Ubaidah and
http://thoughtsintangents.blogspot.com/2008/12/dendam-musa-hitam-rakusan-kj-mero\
bek.html

Dr M.
http://test.chedet.com/che_det/2008/12/ijn-privatisation.html

The other blogging doctor, Doctor 2008, even calls the takeover attempt "The
Healthcare Blooper of the Year - Malaysian Edition" and tells us what
exactly is wrong with the deal [click h e r e].
http://doctor2008.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/healthcare-blooper-of-the-year-malays\
ian-edition/

The cartoon below is taken from the good doc's blog.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Az7aX_dORNk/SV9Mu0IYPyI/AAAAAAAADT0/SENmihprVo0/s1600-\
h/privatisationcartoon.jpg
____

Privatisation or piratisation?
http://www.malaysiakini.com/columns/95582

The slippery slope of corporatised healthcare
http://www.malaysiakini.com/opinions/95454
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