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PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim mixed skillful staccato attack with lessons in the economics of oil pricing and prudent financial management when welcoming former MCA Wanita deputy leader Dr Tan Yee Kew and 1,700 others to the PKR fold in Klang today.

Speaking to a staunchly middle-class audience that packed the convention hall of the Klang Executive Club in Jalan Bukit Raja, the PKR chief wove a theory of oil price fixing gleaned from petroleum pricing expert Daniel Yergin into his standard set of rhetorical darts aimed at Barisan Nasional.

“Daniel Yergin, a renowned expert in the economics of petroleum price fixing, said that US$135 per barrel is the break point in the international market,” explained Anwar to an overflow crowd that at that point could be forgiven for thinking that the PKR supremo was referring to a game of tennis.

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Pagi tadi Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berada di Klang Executive Club bagi menjayakan Program Kemasukan 2097 penyokong Barisan Nasional yang dipimpin oleh Datin Paduka Dr Tan Yee Kew ( bekas Setiausaha Parlimen Kementerian Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri ) ke dalam Parti Keadilan Rakyat.Beliau mengingatkan penyokong PKR agar sentiasa bersiap sedia bagi menghadapi perancangan licik serta muslihat kotor dari aparatus Barisan Nasional. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim memberi amaran bahawa kita penyokong Keadilan jangan mengambil ringan bahaya serta muslihat rasuah yang akan digunakan. Pengalaman di pilihanraya kecil Ijok harus sentiasa dijadikan iktibar.

Amaran juga ditujukan kepada UMNO agar berhati-hati dengan metod berkempen mereka kerana perhatian dunia serta tempatan sekarang tertumpu kepada pilihanraya kecil yang bakal diadakan ini.

Pejabat Anwar Ibrahim

By Khalid Jaafar

AUG 2 — “If you ask me what kind of image I want”, he once told me at my office in Jalan Telawi, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, “I want an image of a liberal.”

He does not want to be a true liberal as the notions of spontaneous order, the virtue of the market and limited government are too strange for him. He just wanted a public perception that he wasn’t an Islamic fundamentalist or a Malay ultra.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was still languishing in prison when I had this conversation with Ezam Mohd Nor and our party was dogged with an identity problem. I had yet to know then that he was already a mole, a Reformasi Lai Teck.

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