''The Third Man' is a classic movie from the 40s. The story revolves around a mystery man that appears at a murder scene.'

'Mystery person travelled with Razak, Altantuya'

Singa Pura Pura: Quite apart from the senseless murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu by two seemingly disinterested individuals and the allegation of a kickback of almost half-a-billion-ringgit, does this country of ours need three submarines that would cost its 20 million ‘1Malaysia' citizens RM4.3 billion in net price and probably hundreds of recurring millions of ringgit to run and maintain.

This prodigal waste of our money and resources is exemplary in its obscenity.

Meranti Kepong: There are two aspects of this case which Malaysians need to know because as taxpayers they bear the cost of the purchase of the two submarines and associated services.

1. Who facilitated the murder of Altantuya and get her out of the way?

2. Who received the lion's share of the commission?

Realistic: The strategy is make sure the sex scandal about DSAI (Anwar Ibrahim) is always prominent in the papers so that people will forget about Altantuya.

Now they are distributing the sex video all over the country to convince people that the person in the video is indeed DSAI. The usual suspect is none other than those connected with Umno.

But one can feel that this move will backfire soon. People are feeling that this government headed by Umno is breaking all the laws to ensure they hold on to power in Putrajaya and that they are immune to any prosecution.

Ttloo: With the appearance of the 'mystery person' who travelled with Abdul Razak Baginda and Altantuya, this episode is now getting even more interesting.

Lim Chong Leong: What is so mysterious about this third person? Is he plump? Does he have a balding head with grey hair, eyebrows and moustache? Does he wear chrome spectacles, has sneaky eyes and pink lips?

Does he always try to scratch your back and asking you to scratch his? Does he have a fat and expensive wife with a big hairdo and a fat ego to match? Take a wild guess.

Malaysians Are Not Stupid: This submarines deal happens under the watch of Najib, who was the defence minister then. He must explain why so much commissions were paid.

Sentinel: It would be better if a bank account number be published to raise fund for Suaram so that more people can play their part in making contributions, no matter how small. This is something every Malaysian wants an answer.

Proarte: Well, let us brace ourselves for another case of ‘looks like me, sounds like me but is not me'. Let us hope that the French judicial system is more rigorous and not blatantly corrupt like the Malaysian judiciary.

We can never expect to have justice in Malaysia as the whole system of governance in this Umno-styled 'Islamic state' helmed by Malay Muslims is broken and immoral.

Najib will probably take a leaf out of Anwar's book and claim a 'conspiracy' with 'a hired actor' playing the role Najib if this 'mystery' person turns out to be him.

Anonymous: ‘The Third Man' is a classic movie from the 40s. The story revolves around a mystery man that appears at a murder scene. This man is evil personified and played by the magnificent Orson Welles.

I think PM Najib would love this movie.

Water debt: 'Putrajaya overpaying by 73%'

20121221Disaster: DAP MP Tony Pua's analysis clearly shows that the Umno government was using the national coffer lavishly to save its cronies until it is almost empty. Now, the Umno government is planning to cut the subsidies given to the rakyat to patch up the holes created by their mismanagement.

L Joy: Umno is going the same way as DMK in Tamil Nadu that got wiped out in the state elections last month. We can't seem understand why Umno decided to buy the debts of the Selangor water concession companies by using public's money while threatening to remove subsidies and increasing power tariffs.

Why are privatised companies, which raked in rich dividends in the last few years, allowed to be bailed out this way? Is this because if these companies go down, the truth would be out as to where the revenues went to so much so that they can't pay for the bonds themselves?

This is a collusion at the highest level to hide fraud - from the initial concession stage to the issuance of dividends. The dividends issued is a means for the company owners to walk away with their investments after having pilfered the company.

Remember Rozali Ishak, who set up a pipe manufacturing company in Indonesia and his water company in Selangor paid overpriced pipes from this Indonesian company, instead of getting local pipes.?

Opaque: Peter Chin should resign. As energy, water and green technology minister, he has failed to make any changes to the lopsided IPP contracts, the water restructuring is still in limbo and now this overpiced water bailout. Taxpayers are paying his fat salary for doing absolutely nothing for the rakyat.

Bluemountains: The BN government tells us that it has no money to subsidise the price of petrol, gas, sugar, flour, electricity, etc. But it has RM6.5 billion to bail out the private water companies. It looks like a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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