1. 1 Samraj Vejjaveda 23 July 2009 @ 7:37 pm

   Most eloquent my dear A.

   So nothing really changes.
   First there were the waves of indentured labor from the sub-con, then it was the nanyang from south China, later came the indons by the boat loads in the night
   and later by day via Air Asia which also brought in more from deltas of Bangla, the dusty alleyways of Lahore and the Sind, the banks of the Irrawady…and so the nation-building continues…on the backs of the poor, illiterate sods.

   Malaysia…truly (and wholly) Asia?

2. 2 tiu macc 23 July 2009 @ 8:55 pm

   damn funny, didn’t know there is a xeno side in you. Please don’t hurt the maid, bro.

   actually I don’t mind they bring over high-skilled workers from anywhere, but then the gomen should focus on attracting overseas Malaysians back first.

3. 3 Juslo 23 July 2009 @ 10:03 pm

   the language is rather strong for a ‘purely economic’ post… maybe should tune it down a little so there would be less likelihood of readers suspecting that u r racist.

   but i’m beginning to think that Najib has sold his soul to the chinese (local and China) tycoons (KJ/UMNO Youth should pick this up sooner or later).

   the use of foreign labours is going to help, in some ways, to increase the % of chinese population in this country. (they work here, get married, settle down…) so, i wont b surprised if some Malays r going to, somehow, ‘over-react’ bcos of this.

   for good reasons, though. we want immigrants who r going to ‘integrate well’… if we really want to accept those who cant speak BM, then at least make sure they r muslims… (like Bangladeshis, n that also explains why Malays seldom make noise about Sabah’s ‘Project M’ to hand out MyKad to illegal immigrants from Southern (read: Muslim) Phillippines.)

   BUT purely from an economic point of view – if we r going to accept foreign labours at all, they should at least be the SKILLED ones. these r more likely to be paid well, law-abiding, can speak english, so more likely to integrate better. with our superb standard of education in public schools, most of our graduates r UNSKILLED anyway – so these SKILLED labours will be unlikely to be taking away their jobs…

4. 4 loo ting ting 24 July 2009 @ 12:21 am

   Yaaaay..way to go, aisehman. What a laugh really. Dulu the gomen people tell the Chinese here…IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOU CAN ALL GO BACK HOME. Now they are coming in droves and you can bet will not leaveanytime soon….and hooray Petaling Street will once again be manned fully by Chinese. Wonder what UMNO Youth is gonna say & do about it. Nothing I guess cos their chief is a chief with only a feather in the headband and not a Chief’s Head dress i.e. style ada tapi kuasa tadak

5. 5 yum 24 July 2009 @ 8:34 am

   You fookin’ racist!

   In a nice sorta way.

6. 6 Neil 24 July 2009 @ 1:06 pm

   Fraulein, stop pecking at my ear for a minute. I’ve gotta write some shit-stirrin’ stuff.

   Danke.

   The reuters hearsay piece may be true about the unskilled workers part. Or, it may not. Until the fog clears, argue it out rationally and realistically instead. After all, reuters is british which is american which has China-containment policy.

   But, for argument’s sake, let’s assume it is true. That part about unskilled labour.

   The xenophobia is understandable. We are down. Our people need jobs. Investments have petered. Mida projections have been halved. Even Putrajaya is decanting people and assets to fill and bolster Iskandar…

   The question is can beggars be choosers? The Chinese don’t have to invest here. They have their own domestic economy to sustain, people to employ, visions to realize. Why bother with this coco-nut land? It’s a pain. They will have to explain to their own why they are here to give highly subsidized loans for us to build our second Penang bridge, to pave the new double-track, and so on. And there are millions over there out on their streets who need jobs that the money they’re bringing here can support instead. Why risk their domestic fallout to benefit us? Why even bother with us?

   It must be because Najib at his last visit to Beijing had asked. And the only reason why he would have asked is because we are in deeper shit here than what those Umno goebbels have been portraying to us dunggu’s.

   Think about it. We have 85 billion dollars of reserves. Time to be happy? Nah, we are going to be net oil importer soon, say 2012. In the next few weeks, TNB is going to raise rates because Petronas can’t continue subsidizing gas prices. Soon this country is going to be hit with a national fuel bill and that’s going to crimp growth of our manufacturing sector. You think Umno really gave in on that NEP thing? It didn’t. It just powdered its face to attract the foreign capital that this country needs to kickstart the economy so that future debts can be paid which would otherwise sink 1Malaysia. That 85 billion reserves coined in US dollars will decline in usability as the dollar depreciates in value because the US treasury has been printing dollars to bail out its economy. Meanwhile the White House of China containment policy had sent Clinton and Geithner to beg the Chinese to buy more US bonds knowing full well that the Chinese will also know the US printing of dollars will depreciate the value of the dollar when the time comes to collect on maturity of those bonds. Which also means us getting paid for our exports will also be of diminished buying value. Even racists can count, can’t they?

   So, what’s the problem with their sending over some of their unskilled unemployed Chinese workers to work in factories set up here using their money and equipment and our raw materials to raise our export figures?

   Because our unemployed should be given work? Do we even know at this moment they won’t? Based on a reuters hearsay blip? Don’t we even know that the last gomen allowance for our unemployed to go for training in some rural institutes were not even taken up?

   Let’s move next from economics to sociologics.

   Which one amongst us is not a foreigner? You, from Java, land of Toyo? You, from Mumbai or Sri Lanka? You, from Yunnan or Mindanao? Or that screwed-up iban woman in a story that’s running in the email circuit? Where were her ancestors from?

   Folks, what’s patriotism and xenophobia, really? This piece of holy land? It was formed by Him during a big bang. Us? we’re all immigrants. That iban woman? she must have come from somewhere too. If Hang Tuah was a kungfu chinese and that indian relic in Johor was covered up so as not to show the root of this place, what’s with race?

   So it’s not race. No difference between indons and the chinese? But the indons come here to get jobs; it wasn’t G2G. Their gomen didn’t deliver any money to invest or start factories or build bridges for us at subsidized rates. Where’s the comparison, then?

   So it’s really race. Now, if all of us are immigrants, what the fuck are we xenophobic about now?

   …Because us malays cannot wean ourselves from thinking of the chinese like how it is in indonesia, few owning much? They worked for it, they sacrificed their identity by assimilating into the masses..and yet on per capita basis they contribute more to that country than all those bunches of so-called xenophobic nationalists could ever in ten generations. Isn’t it likewise in Malaysia, too?

   …Because us chinese now that we have made it can look down on the same who are just starting their nanyang journey in life?

   …Because us indians have the champion splittist Iskandar Kutty himself to remind us how easy it is to play double-root in this land of political gamemanship?

   ..So it’s not race and it’s also not not race. Take the japs and their overseas assistance program. They’re now funding that water pipe from Pahang. Bringing in their money. But we have to use those loans to buy their experts and their equipment. Otherwise no deal. Why you no komplain that since it’s a loan we should decide for ourselves where to get the equipment?

   You know the Chinese like to test waters. They always look long-term. They always want to see if people mean what they say. They know our politics. They have seen what has been done to the chinese malaysians here by our politicians, some of whom are also cringing right now reading this. So they test us. They could very well close their palm oil procurement market tomorrow or ask their students and tourists here to go elsewhere. See what that will do to us. Ask the US and Japan and Europe to come back again?

   And China will have this century’s biggest market for our goods:

   http://is.gd/1JQWP

   That’s how our unemployed skilled and unskilled workers can be saved….by us making to market there. If we don’t shoot ourselves in the second foot next; the first one’s already gone.

   Now, fraulein, sorry to keep you waiting…let me make up for lost time.

7. 7 Aisehman 24 July 2009 @ 1:21 pm

   Nah,Neil.

   Your arguments this time aren’t of your usual water-tight standards.

   Yes, the Chinese don’t have to invest here but why this insistence in bringing their workers along?

   Cheap labour is my guess and I think it’s the closest to the truth too.

   Never in a million years will I think this “China commercial/industrial enclave in Malaysia” idea is a fair deal for us.

   If they want everything for themselves, we might as well cede some territory to them.

8. 8 Neil 24 July 2009 @ 1:52 pm

   Flamebaiting isn’t your forte, aisehman.

   Do we even know whether those factories to be set up with their money aren’t to make things for their markets?

   If the products are intended for the China market, then using Malaysian labor will probably price them out.

   Would you as a canny investor put your money into a production whose output cannot compete in the one market it is logical today to enter?

   I thought so.

   If they want everything for themselves, why choose us? Why not Indonesia or the Philippines or even Thailand if what you say is about cheap labour? Those rates would be lower than ours and closer to theirs, innit? ;P

   Now the sweatshop bit. We should have seen things coming the way they are long ago. We didn’t. Our gomen continued its bluffology and puffology. Now people like aisehman and the rest are spending time talking about our situation, our people, our this and that. Our manufacturers are caught in between. Cannot go upmarket because we ain’t got the brains. Cannot stay downmarket because we ain’t got the cost.

   You got solution?

   I await your next water-tight reply.

9. 9 Aisehman 24 July 2009 @ 2:19 pm

   Okay, Neil.

   “Do we even know whether those factories to be set up with their money aren’t to make things for their markets?”

   Who cares? I don’t want more cheap foreign workers here.

   “Would you as a canny investor put your money into a production whose output cannot compete in the one market it is logical today to enter?”

   Again, who cares? Go set up Chinese-labour powered Chinese factories in Vietnam, or Laos, or Cambodia, or whatever, instead. Like I said, I don’t want more cheap foreign workers here.

   “You got solution?”

   Ya, RM2,000 minimum wage, better tax incentives for use of automation, ICT and shit, and send the foreign workers home.

   Cheap labour-dependent factories that cannot compete because of rising labour costs and those that refuse or are unable to invest in modern technology will of course not survive.

   Too bad.

10. 10 Neil 24 July 2009 @ 2:35 pm

    You’re shooting blanks, man. What’s the matter with you?

    So we now want the cake and eat it, don’t we?

    How, i ask you?

    Which factory is going to pay 2k minimum to the lowest local worker around? As an example, after selling your family heirloom to raise funds to invest in a factory making strawberry-flavoured condoms, would you pay 2k minimum as monthly wage to the malay kids who lepak behind KL sentral at 2am instead of sleeping to prepare for school so that your product will come out priced just right for the world market? Honestly?

    Tax incentives for automation, ICT and shit. You expect the gomen to pay you and me for using the computer to write shit about them after neil had coaxed anwar to take off all import duties on ICT way back then (those who know this will finally know who i am; so what, i now say). If the manufacturers haven’t by now automated on their own, they are the ones who shouldn’t survive – as you propose. But of course, you will start a dole fund for those who are local workers who spill out onto the streets angry at why they have lost their jobs because their employers didn’t have the guts and gumption to automate so that they will not be employed to lose their jobs. See the hilarity of it?

    Who doesn’t want to egress all foreign workers? Who doesn’t want to have only hightech teutonic edge businesses around where we can sit back and siesta while robots do the job without complaints?

    So why isn’t it all done by now?

    Because our gomen and our xenophobes and nationalists took the siesta before the planning and the working.

    That’s why, aisehman. And that’s also why you’re saying what you want without saying how it’s gonna be possibly done with what we have as it where is.

    Try again, she’s in the washroom for the next few minutes.

11. 11 kent 24 July 2009 @ 2:51 pm

    Well said!

    Lotsa Malaysian cant get their birth right to a citizenship. They need politician to highlight their plight, while those spouse and parents of malaysian cant even get their PR status, and they too need politician to lobby for them.

    At the same time, they are allowing all and sundry to come and stay in malaysia.

    what are they thinking?

12. 12 Aisehman 24 July 2009 @ 3:07 pm

    You win, Neil.

    But I still don’t want those workers here.

13. 13 Gan 24 July 2009 @ 3:09 pm

    I think it will definitely give rise to a whole host of social problems !

    These potpouri of different indentured cheap labour struggling to earn some money in a shrinking economy whilst the local moans the sad times by the sidelines with the employers laughing their way to the banks.

14. 14 Neil 24 July 2009 @ 3:15 pm

    Hehe! we should joist more, aisehman. It, you know, perks me up in certain places.

    According to my usually reliable sources, Ms Zhang will be making a courtesy call to officiate the cleavage, i mean enclave. Maybe i can call upon her to ask you out, that is if your missus won’t mind. Zhang will of course be acquainting me with the latest on tigers and dragons. I’ll be the one doing the climbing.

    Meanwhile, i must move from Dresden. I came, i did more than see and for sure i completely conquered. The panzer division moves on.

    Where next, juslo?

15. 15 Neil 24 July 2009 @ 3:31 pm

    i mean crotching, no, that’s crouching.

    aisehman, what you and i want has got nothing and absolutely nothing to do with what is reality and out there on the ground that we all face today.

    i want to walk on walls but instead Megan Fox winks at me. We can’t have all that we want in life.

    my concern is that those kids at two a.m should either be putting things in their head or in their pockets; not wasting their youth.

    and the reason is that they have no value-adding jobs; for that matter for all of us.

    and the reason for that is because we started screwing up our education system just after the NOC was formed in ‘69; that’s forty years of screwing around; it takes off a lot, you know.

    and now it’s payback time; the face’s wrinkled, the bones and joints aching, the rest you know.

    someone should ask that dg of education who started the malaynification of the malaysian education system something – if he’s still alive, he would still be the chairman of some private college in town; and the thing to ask him is now that you’ve seen the real world, what say you what you had started then.

    exactly the same question should be directed to M’s brother-in-law on what he had done outside Harun Idris’ home that day.

    A lot of the xenophobic crap that had run amok in this country still lives on, apparently.

16. 16 Samraj Vejjaveda 24 July 2009 @ 6:39 pm

    You nailed it Neil. The screw-up that took place 40 years ago when a well-oiled education system we inherited was deliberately and systematically dismantled and then tinkered with by successive misguided, under-educated ministers of ‘education’ has brought us to where we are today.

    As I have always said, a nation that loses its ability to detect and respond to decline will wake up only when disaster strikes.

    With all this talk about ” human capital” and “innovation” recently, I think the retards are stirring out of their self induced slumber. But to demand “Performance Now! after 40 wasted years …methinks tis a tad too late.

    So buckle up, head between the legs and hold on to dear life as we take the plunge.

17. 17 tiu macc 24 July 2009 @ 7:47 pm

    Neil,

    I guess what Aisehman wanted to say is we don’t need more foreign workers here in the M’sia. We all know the foreign workers in M’sia are mainly the unskilled ones. When we say we don’t want more foreign workers, the negative sentiments extend to those who have already been here, so I don’t necessary see that it’s targeting just the Chinese workers.

    You are right by saying the Chinese government doesn’t have to invest in M’sia. Although remains to be confirmed, the fact that M’sia gomen would agree to the factories + workers deal shows that we are desperate. When one is desperate in dealing, the person ended up giving up a lot. In fact, if it is just factories + workers that would be the least of our worries. I am just worry that they are just prerequisites of our deals. Just look at what the Chinese are doing in Africa, they lend the money so that their firms can take the money to develop the infrastructure, not to mention getting the future rights on the on natural resources. You may say that both sides come out ahead in these deals, but by bundling the services to the African countries, the Chinese clearly have their interests taken care off.

    In a way, screaming at those deals is like saying our economy should not continue to rely on those low tech exports and also we don’t want the stupid BN gomen to be duped in selling out our national interests.

18. 18 Neil 25 July 2009 @ 9:32 am

    Samraj,

    Thanks. We see the same shadows and share the same angst. With access to every scholarly and professionla database in the world, i have over the last ten years been trying to find ideas for how we can dig our way out of this quicksand. But as we can agree, it may be too little too late.

    You can see we have governance problems. The mental quality of the leadership for the past umpteen years leaves much to be desired. During the heydays when our bourse was the darling of institutional punters from all over the world, the alarm bell should have been rung. Instead, the powerholders only applauded themselves that we were so awash in money the treasury didn’t know what to do. They never even thought of peak oil.

    Similarly when waves of investment came in to set up plants, we never had a blueprint on what’s next to scale up. It was just foreign labour to plug spreadsheets. And the education system was just twisted to satisfy the racial cravings of a few mad men so much so today we are lockset into a quagmire where the inputs, lecturers, teachers and instructors, are unequal to the growth of real knowledge out there, which therefore means the output, graduates and students, will not be equal to the demands and dictates of the real world employment market. So how to increase creative productivity to add value to raise price to achieve high income growth?

    Now we also have the situation where our SMEs as backbone have to somehow crawl up in their technological and management capability after having been left fallow by benign neglect by a government whose seat holders could only see them as contrarian to their socioeconomc reengineering objectives, not as what they should be, namely an integral key driver for national advancement. And since those SME leaders are molded in vernacular schools, ergo the neglect of the same.

    The present situation of a global market recession will continue to prevail on all manufacturers to offer the highest value at the lowest price. If people have less money but the same wants, the producing country which can bridge their dilemma will be the first to be favoured. Especially if the buyer, a broker at the waterfront of the buying country, will be the one who will continue to cream the highest commission in the entire pricing chain.

    tiu macc,

    i know aisehman’s anxiety; it’s like the pasar malam, same anywhere in the world – if you have already secured a spot, and someone new comes along, the new kid on the block will usually be given short shrift by the incumbents. It’s still a competition mindset when in today’s world looking for the next opportunity, it should be a coopetition mindset that demolishes the zero-sum game this country has really been playing since day one.

    As on Africa, perhaps we should leave it to the Africans themselves to say whether there’s exploitation. Except for insurgencies in some places, all appears to have hunky dory on that continent which for two centuries past have only seen the enslavement of its peoples at the hands of rapacious colonialists. If anything the Chinese would have been diplomatically suave enough to realize the Africans realize that and therefore not make the same mistake that the white men of europe and america had committed to an obscene degree. Besides, if we are them, and out foraging for raw materials for our plants, would we do different? The important thing is walking the talk in treating others as we would want our own to be treated, a phrase first coined in China, i believe. And i think the africans have concluded the chinese have done that – cut the crap and build the road.

    everyone,

    Look, folks. You and i know we are in a quandary. Continue the same and we will extract the same. If you are happy with how it has been, why are we here in this blog? If you are not happy with how it has been, let’s put our own thoughts on what can be done next and articulate them to the highest pitch. We have no choice, the seat warmers are clueless. They have slumbered and self-served this land until it has become a camel-trading bazaar.

    Our motivating force must be the future of the young. Your children and charges. I am directing this particularly on PAS. It’s filled with dreamers, and that’s because the malays are saddled either at one pole, negativity, or at the other, otherworldliness. Get to the centre and get real. If PAS screws up the coalition diminished to pact by that man, then the only opposition that Putrajaya has will crumble in which case who here now can say they won’t roll back those ‘reforms’ that they have recently been portraying to so many millions fed too long on spin? They have had half a century to scheme and spin. What makes anyone think they won’t continue to do so – because it is so nice to have a bungalow, a limousine, a fat account and holidays and overseas education over and above what the rest of the dumb herd can possibly imagine?

    You can see for yourselves signs of this. The accountability issues remain. The independence and integrity of almost all the executive arms are called to question. The judiciary reeks of dubious performance. Transparency is an exercise which tired office workers like you have to do because you can’t very well expect the guilty to pre-admit to their crimes. Especially when plausible deniability has become the catchword of the day.

    With all those things going around, we are worried about the unskilled but disciplined worker from place? If they are that fearsome, why are the whole world’s multinationals there milking their sweat and discipline?

    We must think out of the box on everything from now on, people. Your children depend on that.

    If only i still can, i should also be doing that to lasso my own commitment to that exercise.

    (;P)

19. 19 c53k 25 July 2009 @ 1:14 pm

    Sam V,

    ‘The screw-up that took place 40 years ago when a well-oiled education system we inherited was deliberately and systematically dismantled and then tinkered with by successive misguided, under-educated ministers of ‘education’ has brought us to where we are today.’

    U r dead right about the part on the screwed-up of a well-oiled education system. Deliberately? Yes. Systematically? Definitely No!

    Why?

    Simply put – the end result NOW certainly proved that Whats have had been done were not systematic. Rather is more of ad hoc impulsive dicision coupled with purely shiok-dirism to the nth power!

    Prove?

    Takes the teaching of science/maths using English as an example. When that well-oiled educational system was changed to be nationalistic, ie using BM, was THAT thought well thought out systematically? Its certainly deliberately by Iskandar Kutty!

    Then, when that same IK decided to revert science/maths to English, the decision was decisively one-man show. It’s once again deliberately done. But certainly not systematically!

    c53k

20. 20 bnaipal 25 July 2009 @ 6:07 pm

    Maybe the ‘Great Leader’ is sick of Mongolian models. He is now onto ‘Made and Born in China’. And with you publishing the photo of the pretty Chinese model, hey presto, Jib is on board as sure as hell!!!

21. 21 StevenO 25 July 2009 @ 6:32 pm

    Malaysia export highly skilled worker and import cheap labour, Malaysia gain!!!

    Imagine if you import iron ore and export Rolls Royce!!! Come on, be positive…Haha…..

    Wages will stay stagnant forever. Rakyat will be forever be grateful to the government for dishing out subsidies. UMno will forever stay in power!!

22. 22 daud kilau 26 July 2009 @ 5:18 pm

    aiyaa..
    why complain maaa..
    the chinese come here, can become citizen later on. Can demand new political party, and join PR maa.. sure good for PR maaa.. become bigger maa..

    i thot this is wat PR want, right?

23. 23 Samraj Vejjaveda 26 July 2009 @ 9:01 pm

    Neil, you wrote:

    “If you are not happy with how it has been, let’s put our own thoughts on what can be done next and articulate them to the highest pitch. ”

    In the still of the night, I’ve often haboured optimistic thoughts…how we may serve to influence change for the better, believing (somewhat naively) in that old saw “it is darkest just before dawn”.

    But invariably when the day starts off with the jackhammer-like news clatter of a Kugan beaten to death, the lifeless body of witness TBH “discovered” by a cleaner, the ‘eloquent silence’ of the 41 advisors, the unadulterated poison spewed by our erstwhile Supreme Leader who ruled our lives for 22 years and of course the daily dose of absurdities we are subjected to by our many failed institutions, the nascent optimism of the previous night quickly vaporizes into nothingness.

    The task is Sisyphian … rolling back
    (uphill) this 40 year old boulder of collossal incompetence
    requires more than good intentions..

    At my age (and with the meagre strength that I can scarce muster), I can, I’m afraid only watch as this man-made tragedy continues to unfold to reach its inevitable conclusion.

    I am thankful to Aisehman for all the obvious reasons and to thought leaders like you who offer hope. Who knows …someone, somewhere with more energy and hope, may just pick up the signals …

24. 24 Neil 27 July 2009 @ 12:38 am

    Thanks, Samraj.

    I started commenting in blogs way back end 03. Been at it almost everyday. Started the first reverberations with those phrases..wake up Malaysia, enough is enough, zero-sum game, more brains please..and some of them has been used not just by the alternative but also by the main media. So when i was in a small Beijing hotel room and they announced on prime time tv there that BN had lost five states, i pulled out that remaining stick of alitea and made a thumping hot drink. It wasn’t that i was political or what. Just that i felt there was a tremendous need for change to the way this country is run and the people have suffered enough and need to fire a broadside jolt right at the heart of arrogance. Otherwise the country would have been run into the ground. Yet today after a year of GE12, we see the tide rolling forward on top but still backward underneath..as though the question remains whether this country can ever make really solid headway in governance and progress…

    Only recently people have been doing some calculations to show that at the rate we are going, over ninety percent of epf account holders will finish off their savings within three years after retirement. So assuming these millions will still be alive after that, how will they live if they cannot get post-retirement jobs? The easiest answer is to say get dependence allowance from their children. But we all know the cost of living is going up so that there is less bang for the ringgit while maintenance costs are also going up, and the young ones are not paid well. The saddest thing is that they don’t even know they are not paid well. Only the energy of youth and the starting enthusiasm for life have been the sole things that keep them going. And it’s hard for them to learn on their own because too many remain weak in the language which carries the knowledge that they need to acquire into order to develop the real world-views and skills that have long been called for. Private education? If they are not paid well, how to afford? Besides, no one today can deny even the standards and quality of instruction in private institutions are poor. Like private hospitals, all has been sacrificed to crass commercialization and weak supervision.

    The cartilage in this right arm is about to go; nothing can stop the bill of old age. But i am happy so many of the young ones have emerged to blow the bugle and stir the horses. It’s time for all of them to ride their own cavalry charges. I can only stay at the sidelines and dream my own dream in vanishing colours and eyesight… that all of you will have a better tomorrow and be able to achieve the highest potential that is yours within. Stop the shit, demand outstanding governance and propel yourselves to excel without compromise. You have no choice. Mine is determined by nature.

25. 25 Samraj Vejjaveda 27 July 2009 @ 6:46 pm

    Sagely put Neil.

    We know that even in arid deserts, there are chances for life-giving cacti to miraculously appear.
    Similarly, is is possible that despite the doom and gloom in today’s socio-political landscape, some young ones will see the need to actively lead the change desired by many

    Amen.

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