{"id":19308,"date":"2014-08-08T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=19308"},"modified":"2014-08-08T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T01:22:17","slug":"the-cost-of-power-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=19308","title":{"rendered":"The cost of power plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SELANGOR cannot but be in the doldrums. The saga of who is menteri besar (MB) has yet to be resolved. Suddenly it is obvious that PKR is made up, for the most part, of amateur politicians being manipulated by an ego way too large for the range of competence possessed. Its de facto head, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim \u201d appointed into the position by his wife, the partys elected president \u201d is using the party as a personal vehicle for his private agenda. This has become too apparent to ignore, especially, post the so-called \u0153Kajang Move\u009d intended to make way for the machinations of PKRs first family. It triggered the current crisis which is leaving Selangor residents in the lurch.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1kMGSTS\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SELANGOR cannot but be in the doldrums. The saga of who is menteri besar (MB) has yet to be resolved. Suddenly it is obvious that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19309,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308\/revisions\/19309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}