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There is no Step 3 when you face the Twelfth

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Preamble:- The House of Saud, which prides itself as the Rolls of the Middle East, is keenly aware that there is no Step 3 when you face the Twelfth Imam in the public domain.  Debating the merits and demerits of the cabal's house-negro is as awkward as it is irrelevant, but it is not a waste of time, given that it provokes the Django debate.  It is not Washington that 'made the region tremble' but an elite group that holds the violin, that drew lines in the sand, that defined not only the plethora of caged psyches we call The Middle East but resurrected their doctrinal antithesis in the form of a refreshing tech-driven 4000-year-old flicker to flame, tasked with dragging minions, misogynists and dictators of all stripes out of their dark caves, into modernity . On the chessboard, the grandmaster's protected one is Israel. It is a 'prized flame' while the one who trembles in its jubbah is the House of Saud, the DHL of the triangle and the necessary hypocrit...

Lim Kit Siang, a tribute

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Transcript: I'm Caroline. The writer asked me to deliver this commentary in place of those voodoo characters he usually employs. The writer said, being female, I am better suited to provide this brief tribute about a beloved Malaysian, a transparent personality yet sometimes misunderstood even by friends. For the affable Malaysian, such issues have to be taken in stride, and it has become a learning experience for those who know him.  A comparison between a Hollywood star and a Malaysian. Denzel Washington transcends racial barriers. He cannot 'blacken' his script, no matter how hard he tries, resulting in his roles being swappable with every Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Chow Yuen Fatt, and Jackie Chan. Washington did not create the ethnically neutral genre through acting lessons. An inherent character 'flaw' enables him to turn into a subliminal teaching device. 
 Lim Kit Siang transcends racial barriers. He simply does because the longest-serving politician i...