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Mark Shabu and Socrates

2011-09-24T01:30:00.000+08:00

Socrates: siapa PEJUANG?
Mark Syabu: mereka yang menentang penjajah, menegak keadilan.....
Socrates: adilkah jika Ada nyawa yang melayang?
Mark Syabu: ya, itulah nilai sebuah Kemerdekaan.

Socrates: apa betul pada pandangan anda pengganas kominis itu PEJUANG Kemerdekaan?
Mark Syabu: memang tepat sekali.
Socrates: kenapa anda berkata begitu?
Mark Syabu: kerana mereka mahu mengusir penjajah.
Socrates: tetapi ideology kominis memang menolak agama..
Mark Syabu: itu memang saya tahu.
Socrates: setahu saya parti anda menolak ideologi kominis...
Mark syabu: memang Dari dulu lagi.
Socrates: jadi Bagaimana anda boleh anggap ahli kominis PEJUANG yg harus disanjung?
Socrates: adakah anda selesa dengan ideologi kominis?
Mark Syabu: mari kita minum dulu.....

Karpal, Anwar , Saiful dan Azlan.

2011-08-11T06:29:00.000+08:00

Azlan dah komplen dengan Suhakam, katanya kes mahkamah tertangguh banyak kali sangat, Saiful jadi makin teraniaya. Eh, Karpal melenting, katanya orang luar jangan kacau.

Buka Puasa di Gereja

2011-08-10T06:11:00.003+08:00

Dah Hadi kata macam tu,
nak tanya-tanya dulu,
nak ambik-ambik masa kejap.

Bukan senang nak tarik rambut dalam tepung... Waktu dia mengganas zaman muda, jerit orang tu kafir, orang ni kapiaq, dia belum jadi orang besar.

Sekarang, jangan kita marah sangat pada Hadi mahupun Hasan Ali. Rentak tari politik orang besar, mana sama dengan orang kecik. Mungkin Hadi tengah susun jadual sambut Aidil Fitri di gereja..., mana kita tau. Orang kecik-kecik mana tau. Mainan orang besar-besar lain. Lain sangat.

Najib dah ziarah Pope, Hadi mana tahan!!

Memandu di celah estate.

2011-07-01T21:06:00.000+08:00

Sering pandu kereta dengan estate sawit dan getah sebelah kiri dan kanan. Belum nampak lagi estate besar dengan signboard "Ladang Ahmad bin Ali", atau "Ladang Adam bin Dollah" atau "Ladang Hj Samad" atau "Ladang Lebai Ismail"...., Yang sering kelihatan ialah nama-nama yang asing dan jauh dari Melayu.

Yang dipenjuru dunia, ada la Felda itu dan Felda ini, itu pun jika dibahagi-bahagi Ali dapat 10 ekar, Kassim dapat 10 ekar, Borhan pun 10 ekar.

Tanah Melayu ternoda dah sangat lama..., itu pun ada yang masih rasa hebat, nak pakai selepang kuning, lilit kepala macam orang gila, nak jalan-jalan di Kuala Lumpur, nak gegar gate Istana, sedang yang nak hulur nota memorandum adalah orang gila kuasa, dan sejak bila orang gila kuasa peduli apa-apa.

Yang nak lilit kepala macam samseng, mungkin belum sedar kenapa Libya, Afghanistan, dan Iraq ditembak dan dibom. Masa diaorang berarak di KL nanti, mereka ditangan mereka ada sumbu dan minyak jadikan Malaysia macam Libya.

Biarkan saja Anwar duduk di sofa, tenguk video kemudian tenguk perut dia. Dia dah kaya. Yang lain ada apa? Kalau nak tahu, pergi ronda-ronda celah estate!!!!

Perihal Rasuah

2011-06-29T23:09:00.001+08:00

Ewah, bukan main hebat demonstrasi kata negara ni Rasuah. Pemimpin rasuah, polis rasuah.... segala macam!

Tapi siapa pemberi Rasuah terbesar dalam negara ini?.... yang sengkek? No, it's the richer caste, the richer factions, the richer people, the richer brokers, the richer races. Itu yang berlaku dimana-mana.

Kita macam jijik sangat dengan penerima rasuah, kemudian peluk cium pemberi rasuah, ikut juboq, pimpin tangan.

Ingat dah sampai masa kita humban pemberi rasuah, gari tangan, gantung, pijak dan bakar. Bolehkah macam tu? atau kita masih selesa sepak kaki penerima rasuah saja, tapi cium juboq pemberi rasuah? Serupa macam serbuan yang dibuat ke sarang pelacur, heret pelacur naik lori, sedang pengunjungnya menyorok belakang tiang, senyum sambil kesat batang hidung.

MELAYU Zaman Ini.

2011-06-28T22:41:00.009+08:00

Silap-silap haribulan orang Melayu boleh terlingkup dengan mainan politik masa kini. ANWAR konxxek rata, tapi tetap kata DAK dan gelak sakan, tunjuk perut dia kempis rapat. HADI ikut juboq Anwar, merengek minta gabung tenaga politik, terlupa atas kepala ada serban berjurai, kut-kut doa ANWAR lebih baik dari dia. UMNO rasa dah gagah memerintah... bangunkan orang Melayu dan semua bangsa.

Memang dalam tamadun manusia, ada orang menaja Peperangan dan Sengketa..... Kalau itu kehendak alam, biarkan saja Melayu berpecah. Cina dan India boleh ketawa berdekah-dekah.

Setiapkali orang UMNO, PAS dan ANWAR (mana ada PKR) berdoa minta kemenangan, yang dipinta sebenarnya adalah PERPECAHAN. Bila ketiga-tiga doa termakbul.... itulah dia, perpecahan, bola kerat tiga, kek potong tiga, kuasa kerat tiga, wibawa kerat tiga, melayu kerat tiga.

Malaysia, the next general election.

2011-05-30T22:41:00.003+08:00

Many agree that the next election will be toughest.

Umno is not crippled that bad, there is no real finger pointing at the present leadership as much as what Abdullah had to endure. There is no KJ factor to offset trust and loyalty from the ranks. The brilliance of Mahathir will shine through the run-up to general election. The present UMNO heavyweights will undoubtedly be able to close ranks and give their best shot. What's troubling some is the media game of the present BN. The economic reforms, admittedly very brilliant with Idris Jala pragmatic thinking and approach had not been conveyed well to the public. Solid punchline is very much lacking. Half of the population is left in the dark, not able to grasp what's the flow and game plan of economic reforms. 1Malaysia concept on the other hand had not been articulated well to a point of being meaningful. But it is alright, time is there. MIC and MCA, very much settled now should come in and go along united.

Opposition is hinging on Anwar's charismatic presence. There is great risk on his future with the outcome of sodomy courtcase and the current video exposure. By the standard of modern politics practiced all over the world, Anwar should be considered a GONER. But he wish to stay longer and play along with conspiracy game. In a way, DAP is benefiting most out of this. Karpal is defending Anwar in court, with full understanding that dragging the case beyond the General Election, Anwar's factor will be their winning formula. In a way it's best to have Anwar around, a less than perfect leader, so very vulnerable that they can practically handle him to their whimp and fancy. PAS is in deep trouble. They have to be very cautious about Anwar..... Blind support on Anwar may backfire, PAS may be seen as being very opportunistic, when moral values is the hitting issue. The indication is they are ready to deviate from the pack, and get back to their old make-up.

A crude analysis will point to Najib victory, a lot better than Abdullah's performance, and Anwar will quit. DAP will do no more cover-up, and get back to the old trademark, a party to the chinese. PAS will play along on their own.

Menunggu Anwar.

2011-05-25T22:44:00.000+08:00

Ramai menunggu Anwar untuk saman Eskay kerana tuduh beliau macam-macam. Eskay dah tunjuk kesanggupan, macam anak jantan. Anwar pula? Anwar masih main-main, tuduh UMNO..... tapi kenapa tak heret Eskay ke Mahkamah, saman dalam 155juta.... atau 155 billion ka..

Anwar dijerut tali

2011-05-20T22:23:00.004+08:00

Leher dah kena jerut dengan tali,
hujung tali di tangan Lim,
hujung satu lagi di tangan Karpal.

Lim dan Karpal hanya benarkan dia berkokok sahaja.
untuk cerahkan peluang DAP.
Memang PKR dah lama ranap.
dengan kes china doll, PAS dah rasa jijik

Lim Kit Siang Perdana Menteri Malaysia

2011-05-06T05:28:00.000+08:00

Dah kalau semua orang Melayu benci sangat dengan UMNO dan pemerintahan kerajaan BN, sokong sajalah DAP. Biar Lim Kit Siang jadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia. Tentu dia akan bela orang Melayu. DAP memang suka orang Melayu maju. DAP memang suka raja-raja Melayu. DAP akan pertahankan Islam.

Dah kalau semua pelajar Melayu di IPTA benci sangat dengan UMNO dan BN, ayuh daftar sebagai pengundi dan jangan lupa sokong dan undi DAP. DAP akan beri peluang orang Melayu belajar lebih dari sekarang. DAP akan bantu orang Melayu. DAP akan jaga hak keistimewaan orang Melayu. DAP akan sembah hormat kepada Raja Melayu. DAP akan tukar Malaysia jadi Tanah Melayu.

Bukan macam tu?

DAP perlukan Anwar Ibrahim

2011-05-05T06:12:00.000+08:00

DAP akan bantu Anwar, sedaya upaya untuk menang pilihanraya nanti. Lihat saja di Sarawak, yang berjaya ialah DAP, bukan PKR dan tentu sekali bukan PAS. Isu video Anwar, sedikit sebanyak buatkan PAS berfikir...., apa untungnya berpaut dengan Anwar. PAS tidak akan selesa untuk terang kata "itu bukan Anwar". DAP tiada hal, lihat saja macam mana Karpal belit tak benarkan Anwar serah DNA kepada polis dalam kes Saiful.

Karpal yang awal sekali jerit dalam Parlimen lewat 90'an kaitkan Anwar dengan liwat. Mat Sabu dengan celuparnya menyambut memanggil Anwar al-Juburi. Tenguk cara mereka bermain. Bagi mereka itu semuanya politik, dengan niat untuk berkuasa.

DAP akan bantu Anwar sampai Anwar mati. Anwar hanyalah patung bagi mereka. Bukan DAP dah dapat Penang dan Perak?... itu belum cukup. Anwar belum tentu sedar. Hampir semua rakan Anwar seorang demi seorang tinggalkan beliau. DAPlah yang terakhir setia kekal dengan Anwar. Mereka akan pancung Anwar, bila mereka berkuasa nanti. Waktu itu Anwar tak boleh berkokok lagi.

Anwar dan mirip Anwar

2011-05-01T04:31:00.000+08:00

Bertuah orang yang mirip Anwar dalam video. Lakonan beliau ditonton ramai. Siapa orang itu?

Karpal tahu, Lim Kit Siang tahu, Hadi pun tahu.

Anwar, in a different lane.

2011-04-30T14:56:00.000+08:00

Anwar loves to switch lanes. He was a student, rallying over a non existent BALING famine issue back in the early days. He switched to ABIM, painting pictures as if he started it, coaxing every branch leaders. He entered UMNO, rising fast kicking a few asses around him, Rahim, Mat Taib and sending home Ghafar in disgrace.

Then Mahathir kicked him, claiming low moral as the issue. I salute Mahathir for not going overboard. I have heard loads of tapes and evidence of Anwar's misbehavior. Countless sembahyang hajat had been performed to safeguard Anwar, including Hadi and Nik Aziz. If Anwar was actually bad and did all those things, god knows how many had been cheated.

Karpal knew all along, Anwar was bad. To me, while Anwar thought he was damn good at stirring issues and emotions, Karpal, Lim Kit Siang and Hadi see a hero in him, that they can cling on for political advancement. Yes, its to DAP advantage. Too bad its a disgrace to PAS.

The political game is clearly racial in nature. UMNO, MCA, MIC on one hand. DAP, PKR, PAS on the other. Believe it or not, PKR is becoming more like an Indian party now. PAS for the Malays and DAP for the Chinese. In the end, the political ties put DAP in a better position, PKR and PAS on a sharp downhill.

Its time to go for PAS, switching lanes. It's time for PKR to be shredded. Its for DAP to be on its own, playing shrewd city politics..., for the chinese, full stop.

There is one lane left for Anwar, to quit all and repent.

Like Eskay said "tunggulah petunjuk Allah, apabila satu kaum memelihara seorang yang sememangnya durjana" (lebih kurang)

Semua orang mesti hati-hati dengan Anwar.

Anwar, if someone ask you

2011-04-30T00:04:00.000+08:00

He laughed at the big belly of the china doll actor. That cannot be me, Anwar said. Nurul, Azizah and a few others joined in, in chorus saying the same thing.

Will he dare to say, hey, that guy got so big a penis, it can't be me. .... We all know, only Azizah can approve or disapprove, not anybody else, not even Nurul Izzah or Azmin. I heard the police had measured every point/part of Anwar's body for the 90's case.

I hope Anwar didn't put Botox or anything similar after the case..... just wondering. It's definitely massive. Salute....

Anwar: after the second video.

2011-04-28T23:33:00.004+08:00

The whole thing is becoming very tactical. Everyone seems to be taking a slow move. The second part of the naughty video was released to spice things a little bit. It's fun in a way. People can have a good laugh after a long political campaign in Sarawak. It's very much Anwar's turn now to be defensive. He cant hide his anger, not any more.... His questioning technique to the lady reporter, was so low, that one wonders how Anwar had lost his fair balance, his cunning political stature is showing every indication of collapse. He is behaving like a bad street boy.

Pity, Azizah and Nurul Izzah have to swallow the most bitter experience of their lives. Earlier they felt necessary to question the big belly, and now they had to say no to the big penis.

At one point, there is a need for Anwar not only to open the shirt to show his belly, but to pull down trousers and underwear to show his secret true size! That would be fun.

He had his fair share, when Rahim and Ghafar succumbed to his checkmate move. It is only fair to allow others do the same to him. He can't behave like a bad loser.

Anwar, be a sport!!

Anwar, please play by the game.

2011-04-14T22:09:00.000+08:00

Be melancholic about life, it's alright. Life isn't necessarily limited to counting deeds, dosa and pahala. Life is hinged on timeliness, where happenings require people, issues, and the exactness of time. Time as we know never inflate or deflate as Einstein amply put it. Another world maybe, not here, earth as we know it, or planet Xp20etq known to aliens (?)

He has been playing brutal politics..., making friends, pushing friends, creating enemies an so on. He kicks asses.., and rises fast. He is so cunning, and shameless.

He loves to shoot with imaginery bullets.

Lets play by the game of brutal politics..., dirty and shrewd. Politics has been dirty even before the word politics was made famous by philosophers of the old days. Politics as an avenue is as old as prostitution on profession.

Anwar,

Anwar, please allow eskay and rahim to cut you to pieces politically. On that point, you should play the rule of the game. Don't say Nala and RPK as a bunch of criminals. It's you Anwar, after all. Don't you remember what Mahathir had said in one of the many perhimpunan agong, "Oh its you Brutus..."

Mahu serah Sarawak sama Karpal atau Anwar?

2011-04-14T07:30:00.000+08:00

Apa orang Sarawak mahu serah sama Karpal?

Kita lupakan Anwar, sebab dia adalah kisah lalu, a gone case. Waktu dia marah-marah wartawan perempuan bila diaju hal Omega, dia dah silap langkah.

Kalau Anwar mengaku "YA! Saya mengaku kongkek pelacur itu!", tak ada siapa nak marah. Habis sangat orang cakap pelan-pelan....

eh, tak sangka
aku agak dah
ya ka?
betoi la macam depa kata
biasa la tu

Kalau betul orang Sarawak nak serah kepada Karpal, tak apa la. Karpal cekap bela orang, lagi banyak duit masuk lagi hebat dia bela, dia boleh tangguh kes selama-lamanya. Mungkin dia biasa guna ayat ini "What's in it for me?" Ada masa dia defend kes secara percuma, bila ada unsur sensasi. Publisiti adalah harganya.

Antara Rahim dan Anwar.

2011-04-13T10:54:00.001+08:00

Kedua-duanya hebat. Rahim lonjak Melaka ketahap yang tinggi, hingga negeri kecil boleh hidup selesa. Rahim dilihat anak manja Mahathir. Rahim memang handal seni leadership, dengan orang atas dan orang bawah. Malangnya dia sering dikait dengan perempuan. Sebab itu juga dia terhumban.

Dia terhumban, bukannya sebab prestasi kepimpinan, tetapi sebab saingan politik. Umum mengaitkan cita-cita tak bertepi Anwar. Anwar mahu sepak sorang-sorang mereka yang rapat dengan mahathir. Anwar mahu gergaji tiang-tiang kecil rumah Mahathir satu demi satu. Waktu kes Rahim keluar dia diperlaku sebagai banduan yang lari dari lokap. Muka dalam akhbar, sengaja dicari muka yang paling tak senonoh. TV3 cari setiap lubang.... Yang sudah dewasa waktu itu tentu ingat Anwar berada di China waktu kes Rahim meletup. Zahid balik segera sebagai wakil Anwar mencanang macam hulubalang.....

Selebihnya adalah bahan sejarah, walau pahit untuk Rahim, tapi macamtu lah hidup dan politik. Dia cuba bangun, tunjuk muka dimana perlu. Dia cuba menempel dalam politik, tetapi tak berjaya mana.

Anwar pun hebat zaman itu. Dia bukan naik tapi lompat anak tangga. Ada masa dia tersilap, memijak kaki orang yang sedang duduk disitu. Setengah orang kata dia sengaja , memijak. Waktu Anwar ganas dia sepak ramai orang.

Maka hilanglah watak-watak penting dalam Umno, Rahim dan Mat Taib. Cerita juga menarik, cerita orang jahat mengenakan dia, tukar beg yang dibawanya. Imigresen Australia tahan, buka beg dan jumpa wang yang banyak dalamnya. Sejak bila pula menteri bawa duit macam tu. Selalunya mereka bawak Hang Kasturi untuk settle issue itu. Saya cuma jangka Anwar buat perangai nak kenakan orang....

Cerita dia selinap kulit Arwah Ghafar adalah bahan sejarah yang ingin segera kita lupakan. Media bawah kawalan Anwar, buat Arwah Ghafar macam budak sekolah yang tak kenal huruf a, b, c. Lalu Arwah Ghafar pulang kampung dengan hati yang sangat hiba.

Climaxnya bila Anwar nak test Mahathir. Waktu itulah Anwar bukan main dengan isu nepotisma, kronisma. Anwar suka dengan perkataan yang memukau. Dia nak selinap Mahathir. Gagasan itu dimainkan dengan bersungguh-sungguh, bermula di Johor. Zahid jadi jurucakap, melalak apa jua yang Anwar nak.

Tetapi Anwar silap, dia lupa siapa itu Mahathir. Dia ingat Mahathir tak pandai. Dia ingat Mahathir mudah dibuai dengan ayat bermadah. Masalahnya Anwar banyak celanya. Umum dimaklumkan bahawa nafsunya tak terbatas. Wangnya berbillion. Tetapi rahsia atas katil Anwar, ada dalam simpanan banyak pihak. CIA pun ada simpan benda-benda tu. Singapore pun ada koleksi. Polis Malaysia tentu ada simpan lebih banyak lagi. Orang luar simpan benda tak senonoh sebab nak jerat Anwar bila dia naik esuk. Senang pulas tengkuk atau pulas teloq.

Jangan pulak kita pandang serong bila Nala dan Eskay cerita hal atas katil. Dia orang tahu lebih banyak. Kita yang lain tenguk dia berpidato saja.... bergegar tetapi sering kosong. Ingat tak dia claim buat buku "Asian renaissance"?

Jadi tak hairanlah pada saat hujung karier politik, Anwar dan Rahim berjumpa semula untuk bertegur sapa. Parut lama masih berdarah.

Brokers in the goverment

2011-04-12T07:30:00.001+08:00

Lets define what is this animal "broker". In the old days, brokers are considered great cheaters because, they get a certain percentage out of a transaction. You talk to a broker about lands available he will sweet talk you and bring you to a point, about land A is available this much, and land B is available too that much. The figure you hear is definitely higher than what he will talk to the landowners. The difference is his.

Present day, brokers are highly sought after. Their skills are tremendous. Some are decent and honourable. Some cheat along the way, selling fake land titles. Banting murders highlighted the dark side of land dealings.

There are brokers too in the government set-up. Haven't you heard names you got to know to secure contracts or jobs. Call it kaki or what, they invariably perform their job well, with skills they had mastered over the years.

For that reason, the government had imposed a ruling, a person should not stay on certain critical post for more than five years, especially in areas where budget, contract, procurement is the core activity.

Generally brokers are alright. They are honest, but sad, some go overboard!.... It is fair to push them to the sea. Let them cry for help. I know a guy who need such treatment!!

Eh, Anwar bukan main marah!

2011-04-11T06:00:00.002+08:00

Aku duduk atas sofa menyandar tenguk berita jam 8 semalam. Lama depa tunjuk Anwar menepis soalan tentang Omega. Dia marah-marah. Dia asyik kata "what's that got to do with this"... sekali terkeluar ayat "ni, kerja UMNO". Sekali pulak dia nak terjah dengan peluru Altantuya.

Kemudian Chandra Muzafar diminta ulas tentang jam Omega. Nah, dia siap banding dengan Clinton dan Chua. Depa tu mengaku katanya. Chua berhenti dan masuk balik bila terlantik. Cuma dia tak kata terang-terang "kalau hang buat hang mengaku saja la"

Kemudian dia ulas pula apa sebenarnya jam Omega. Hanya sebuah jam berharga pemberian dari orang tertentu katanya. Tapi jam itu sangat istimewa, tak boleh jumpa di kedai untuk ganti. One and only.....

Bila Anwar marah macam tu, dia dah hilang seni politik. Dia terlalu defensive hingga rasa terpanggil untuk meninggi suara dengan wartawan perempuan. Orang hebat tak buat macam tu.

Bukankah Anwar dulu pernah jadi orang hebat, waktu perbodoh orang, kata orang Baling mati kebulur, waktu angkat tinggi-tinggi buku "kebangkitan Asia" konon adalah karyanya, waktu mengayat Tun Mahathir dalam perhimpunan agong Umno dengan seloka " saya perpaut di dahan tuan", waktu menyuruh Zahid balik Malaysia untuk belasah Rahim, waktu menjaja sepanjang jalan, negara ini negara celaka dengan nepotisma dan kronisma, waktu menyepak Tun Ghafar keluar dari pejabatnya, waktu mengapak satu demi satu tiang kecil yang menyokong kepimpinan Tun Mahathir.

Tidak ada apa celanya kalau Anwar berhenti, letak titik nokhtah kepada politik. Mengheret Azizah serta anak-anak kekancah ini, waktu ini ketika ini, bukan gentleman namanya. Itu abuse namanya. Eskay dan Rahim minta Anwar berhenti. Chandra Muzafar pun cakap lebih kurang macam tu jugak semalam.

Tak ada siapa peringat Anwar ka, bahawa video boleh tunjuk macam-macam. Orang nak buat peta boleh pakai gambar yang diambil dari udara. Bukan peta lekeh-lekeh, peta yang tepat. Dari video yang jadi isu ni, memang boleh sukat jarak antara dua puting tetek Anwar, boleh tepat sampai ke milimeter. Boleh sukat semua anggota fizikal Anwar. Kalau semuanya tepat nanti boleh ke Anwar menjerit " Celaka UMNO, itu bukan saya la!!"

Tapi silap Azizah kata Omega ada dalam simpanan. Kalau tidak Anwar boleh kata Eskay curi!!!

Buat apa marah-marah, Anwar.......

Setpol menteri memang pemangsa dan sering jadi mangsa.

2011-04-10T08:47:00.006+08:00

Benarkah setpol Menteri sering jadi mangsa keadaan. Musuh politik suka menembak rambang, kalau kena, dada setpol dulu yang berlubang. Kalau apa-apa hal orang nak celah-celah rapat dengan menteri, setpol dulu dicari. Kalau nak bagi hadiah apa-apa kepada menteri, sopannya melalui setpol. Nak minta tandatangan apa-apa, hulur surat ke setpol untuk dia tenguk eluk ke, silap ke , perlu dibetulkan ejaan ke. Setpol orang penting, sebagai penghubung.

Kalau tak eluk pun, setpol juga jadi sasaran. Kalau eluk setpol, bukan orang hirau sangat. Setpol hidup bermewah, orang kenyit mata. Setpol hidup sederhana, orang tanya apa yang tak kena. Dalam dunia politik, ada seorang setpol, namanya khairi. Dia kecik saja, tapi kereta besar. Tapi biarlah. Kubur esuk memang kecik, ni zaman dunia nyata, apa salahnya semua perkara dibesar-besarkan lebih dari yang afdal.

Kita tinjau jauh kepada Abdullah Ahmad, suatu masa dulu orang kuat Arwah Tun Razak. Kita mungkin sudah lupa Siddiq Mohamed Ghouse, setpol Tun Mahathir. Mereka dibelasah teruk zaman dulu, kerana musuh politik percaya, tembak setpol dulu baru boleh tembak menteri.

Waktu Norza kena dulu (kini sudah bebas), orang pandang dengan ekor mata, lalu meneka-neka, ni apa hal pulak, peluru kecil dah lepas, peluru besar nak hala ke siapa. Kini giliran Hasbi Satar pulak. Dia ditahan , dan beritanya terpampang di dada media! Peluru besar untuk siapa?

Blog IkutSukaAku - Isa hari ini terhidu satu kes melibatkan seorang setpol menteri kanan dari Johor. Hah, siapa pulak ni. Dari Johor, ada Muhyiddin, ada Hishamuddin, dan ada Khaled Nordin. Itu sajalah menteri kanan yang ada. It can be anyone.

Just a reminder to that little Khairi, it's alright... dont worry, being small can be compensated by big cars, but unstoppable appetite will land you somewhere else, where sea is as far as eyes can see.... See, its all sea for you to see.

Peringatan untuk Menteri dan pegawainya.

2011-04-09T02:51:00.002+08:00

Salam semua dan bertemu kembali.
Menjelang pilihanraya.: 1. Kalaulah menteri turun dengan meletakkan kesediaan bekerja bersama rakyat, itulah sebaik-baiknya, tetapi menteri sering turun memaksa rakyat bekerja untuknya.; 2. Ada menteri mengusung pegawai-pegawainya apabila berpindah kementerian. Itu juga dipandang serong, apatah lagi jika pegawai agak keterlaluan dan rakusnya tidak berselindung.

3. Ada menteri dilihat tidak jujur, andainya rakyat nampak tindak tanduk mereka berkait rapat dengan paksaan polisi dan agenda yang selesa diterjemah dalam projek dan kontrak untuk dikaut licin. Rakyat tidak semestinya buta dan bodoh.

4. Seorang pemandu teksi pernah berkata, zaman Nazri dulu permit teksi individu tak ada keluar, hanya permit consortium sahaja, tapi zaman Noh, sekurang-kurang ada juga borang boleh diisi, walau untuk dapat belum pasti. Disitu rakyat bina persepsi mudah. Seorang menteri yang baik dan seorang yang tidak baik.

5. Ada menteri yang membuat keputusan tanpa mengambilkira pandangan rakyatnya, tanpa ambil peduli apa akan jadi dihujung jalan, kerana fokus mereka adalah immediate, demi projek dan kontrak. Tapi rakyat tahu musibah 5 tahun kedepan bila menteri sudah berhenti atau bertukar ganti. Tetapi berapa ramai rakyat sedia bertelagah dengan menteri dan pegawai-pegawainya.

6. Ada menteri yang membiarkan adik dan abang mereka berkeliaran mengetuk bilik, membawa cadangan, proposal dan permintaan, hinggakan rakyat rasa dipaksa menggadai integriti

7. Malang sekali jika setpol menteri pernah terlibat dengan penipuan pemilihan UMNO bahagian. Tambah-tambah jika penipuan itu terserlah dalam media. Orang politik faham dan boleh terima, tetapi rakyat tidak selesa bermuka dua, lalu rakyat tidak lagi percaya sampai bila-bila. Sukar salahkan rakyat jika mereka percaya, jika begitulah setpol, begitu jugalah menterinya.

8. Malang jika pejabat menteri membahagikan rakyat dalam dua kategori, satu orang kita dan satu musuh kita. Tambah malang jika yang dimaksudkan orang kita adalah orang yang memudahkan orang menteri mengaut wang. Lebih malang lagi jika "musuh kita" itu adalah orang yang masih mahu berpijak dibumi nyata dan mengibar panji integriti. Yang dianggap musuh mungkin penyokong setia Umno dan sering mengundi BN.

9. Yang suka dengan tindak tanduk menteri dan pegawai-pegawainya hanya segelintir peniaga yang beruntung. Peniaga yang malang lari mengerumuni menteri dan pegawai menteri yang lain. Rakyat umum hanya nampak kerakusan. Mereka benci dan lari dari BN, walaupun mereka tahu parti lain belum pasti nilai integriti dijunjung tinggi.

10. Walaupun saya merungkai pandangan yang agak negatif, itu hanyalah peringatan untuk menteri dan pegawai menteri memahami apa pandangan rakyat. Mereka boleh menidakkannya dan selamba berkata itu sekadar persepsi. Walhal persepsi yang terbina dalam minda rakyat, tanpa usaha menjernih kekeruhan dan masih rakus bermaharajalela, itulah yang dibawa rakyat ke peti undi pilihanraya.

11. Menteri dan pegawai menteri boleh berubah jika mahu, dan rakyat tiada masalah terus menerus mengundi BN sampai mati. Apa pun, dalam nada gembira masih ada menteri yang baik dan kental berwibawa, dikelilingi pegawai yang pandai dan teguh pendirian untuk bangsa, agama dan Negara.; Maaf dan Terima Kasih

(post lama diulang kembali)

Jumping off building. An issue.

2011-04-07T08:00:00.002+08:00

You jump, you will certainly die. On lucky days, you will land on something soft which lessen the impact, like a very soft landing. Then you may be able to walk, limping to be exact. Of course you can climb up and do another round until you die.

But why people jump off building. A slip, dead drunk, pushed over, or consciously jump off, either way people will invariable die or at least limp away with broken bones, not counting broken hearts.

Forget about accidents or plain murder. Lets focuss on the heartbreaking phenomena of committing suicide. Why people commit suicide, what's the threshold of suicidal emotional burden, what hits the the suicidal thermostat. These are question we can dissect a little bit. There are millions of suicide cases to check on.

A suicide attempt is a clear indication that something is gravely wrong in a person’s life. No matter the race or age of the person; how rich or poor they are, it is true that most people who commit suicide have a mental or emotional disorder.
The most common underlying disorder is depression, 30% to 70% of suicide victims suffer from major depression or bipolar (manicdepressive) disorder. (click here for more : Why Do People Commit suicide www.capefearhealthyminds.org/library.cgi?article)

What about a person being interrogated by police or macc. One has to be above emotion to handle pressures during interrogation. No physical contacts, just plain verbal methodical bombardment, causing emotional trauma and spasm. If one is not guilty why worry. What happen if one is guilty?

Not everyone has crazy heart like Anwar, dodging off every bullet. Most are simple people with clear conscience about right and wrong.... Just in case the pressure is too strong, too much to bear, ...... then in a splash of a second one decides to end it all........

Readers, please look for underlying cause why people commit suicide. Then possibly we can come in just in time to stop.

Video Anwar: antara Jasad dan Jiwa

2011-04-06T22:47:00.004+08:00

Mirip, tapi bukan Anwar, kata-kata Azizah seperti terpampang di akhbar.

Jasad: Mirip tapi bukan Anwar
Agaknya ada juga orang mirip Anwar di Malaysia atau Siam , dari tingginya, umur, rangka badan, bentuk dada, perut, bontot, kepala, gaya hidung, gaya sengeh, rambut, stail rambut, rupa ekur rambut, gaya berjalan, gaya duduk, stail pakai tuala, misai, nisbah antara kepala, leher, panjang lengan, jarak antara puting kiri ke puting kanan, patern kedut di leher, muka, dada dan perut, gaya lap kote dengan tuala, rupa dari pandangan depan belakang dan sisi . Kalau mahu detail kepada sifat fizikal, kita boleh bagi 1000 butiran dalam satu senarai panjang. kemudian kita boleh mula tick yang mana match. Itu cara pemikiran orang2 biasa. Lawyer fikir cara lain, ringkasnya cara nak menang. Anwar fikir macam lain jugak, iaitu cara nak melepas.

Jasad: Mirip, tapi bukan A,B,X,Y.
Juga terfikir-fikir, ada tak orang macam Mahathir, macam Najib, macam Nazri, macam Hadi, macam Karpal, macam Nik Aziz, macam Chua pergi ke SPA dan buat perangai jantan kongkek pelacur, sementara aksinya direkod. Agaknya kalau ada video macam itu, apa respon mereka. Mahathir dan Nik Aziz mungkin tak buat perangai jantan miang. Tapi yang lain, mana kita tau. Tapi pentingnya, video seperti itu tidak ada untuk orang lain, kecuali Chua dan yang terbaru kononnya Anwar. Cerita VJ dulu dah lama sangat, dah basi. itu tolak sebelah.

Jiwa: gentleman vs brutal
Chua gentleman, lalu mengaku. Anwar bukan setakat tak mengaku, malah menyalahkan orang lain. Susah dengan Anwar ni. Nak kata dia gentleman ka, brutal ka, jenis miang ka, jenis gatal kote ka, nak kata dia pandai buat tak pandai sorok ka, atau seronok buat tapi takut nak mengaku ka, atau dia memang jenis penipu ka, atau dia jenis suka hidup dua alam ka. Susah nak teka dalam perspektif chua dan anwar. Kes macam ni mana boleh teka-teka, mesti tepat-tepat, kena hormat the exactness of science.

Jiwa dan Raga
Kemudian saya ingin bawa kepada hal jasad dan jiwa. Body and Soul. Itulah manusia. DNA adalah ukuran kepada jasad. Cap jari pun macam tu. Jiwa pula?

Just in case the body is almost, not exactly, Anwar, (agreeing with Azizah) but the soul is completely ANWAR!!!!.... But how do you charge a soul, slap a soul, kick a soul, or hang a soul or cut the soul to pieces, or say pointblank to a soul "YOU BASTARD!!" Who knows, the body is alright, the soul is not well, suffering... Who knows. Who knows.

Sidang akhbar Wan Azizah menafikan dengan "mirip, tapi bukan Anwar" juga wajar dilihat dari dua aspek, yang jasad tertera dan nyata, dan yang terselindung dalam jiwa, menangis dan meruntun. Itulah ayat yang paling sesuai untuk diujar oleh Azizah. Dia bukan kata "sikit pun tak ada rupa dan gaya Anwar". Tak wajar dipersoal Azizah berulang kali. Bukan dia yang jahat. Yang jahat lelaki yang lap punai dengan tuala.... Bukankah dia isteri kepada Anwar, ibu kepada anak-anak Anwar, dan itulah ayat yang paling baik dan terdaya disebutnya. Jiwa Azizah, siapa yang tahu......

OMEGA.. Oh My God!!!!

Alfatihah, Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed

2011-04-06T19:58:00.005+08:00

Second death at Malaysian anti-corruption body
Posted: 06 April 2011 1809 hrs

KUALA LUMPUR : Anti-graft officials on Wednesday found the body of a 56-year-old man at their agency's office, the second such mysterious death of people involved in investigations.

The body of customs deputy director Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed was found at the bottom the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) building in the capital Kuala Lumpur.

His death has sparked widespread criticism against MACC, which said Ahmad was among 62 customs officials detained on April 1 and later released as part of a major campaign to battle corruption and money laundering.

The agency said Ahmad had come to its office to meet an anti-graft official, adding that an officer had led him to a waiting room on the third floor of the building.

The MACC said subsequently they found the body of Ahmad sprawled on the first floor.

Rumit untuk mengulas, sebab kita tak sepandai Dr Pornthip Rojanasunan. Lebih baik kita sedekah fatihah saja.. Jangan buat perangai nak teka-teka. Ini bab kematian. (Lawyer dan MP bukan Islam, depa peduli apa.....)

Video Anwar dan motif

2011-04-06T18:58:00.006+08:00

Pokok pangkalnya Anwar. Dia ada motif untuk kata itu semua karut dan konspirasi BN. Azizah pun ada motif. Pemimpin pembangkang pun ada motif untuk kata "video was doctored". Apa lagi kalau bukan sebab pilihanraya.

Kemudian semua orang tuding jari kata Eskay pun ada motif, kononnya geram sebab Anwar tak support dia dalam satu kes. Rahim juga disebut bermotifkan balas dendam.

Untuk Anwar duduk pakai songkok kain pelikat lengkap baju melayu, mengaku "YA ITU SAYA!!!" se gentleman Chua.... jangan mimpila. Chua mengaku sebab jaga hati girl friend. Dalam video bukannya girl friend, pelacur saja.... hari ni betina A esuk Betina B... no strings, no emotional attachment. So, tak payah mengaku se gentle Chua.

Kita kena maafkan orang yg naive tentang video dan photo, kenapa pada hujung2 gambar, semuanya nampak gemuk. Juga kena maafkan orang yang tak observant dan tak biasa duduk hotel bukak lampu hujung sana hujung sini, lalu bayang di dinding ada dua tiga. Motif untuk defend Anwar sampai ke lubang-lubang melampau2 bagi setengah orang. Semua ada motif!

Tapi dah ada orang bagi warning..., jawab dulu 5 soalan. Ada orang tambah lagi, esuk lusa ada eskay 2...... ada lagi video 2 dan 3. Joceline Tan dalam Malaysia Star, 24 Mar 2011 ingatkan kita tentang Eskay berasal dari Kedah keturunan Siam dan pernah jadi honorary consul to Thailand. Hal buat perangai di Siam, Anwar tak boleh temberang dengan Eskay.

Tapi Najib rilek saja bila dia kata "truth, not perception, matters......" dan bukankah mengikut Nala, Anwar pernah kata lebih kurang macam ni " yang buat tu, Anwar jahat, yang jumpa imam itu Anwar baik". Namun ada juga yang perli balik, ingat Najib tu baik sangat ka "prove your saintliness", kata mereka.

Yang seronoknya, orang dalam video tu puas kongkek pelacur. Mirip saja Anwar, bukan Anwar, bak kata Azizah. Cuma saya tertanya-tanya, orang dalam video tu berfikir macam Anwar tak, hati dia sebiji macam Anwar tak. Orang putih atau lawyer india suka cakap orang putih suka kata body and soul. Satunya badan dan satu lagi soul, macam hati, macam jiwa............

OMEGA... Oh My God!!!

Video Anwar: Jangan kata polis diam saja!

2011-04-06T17:43:00.009+08:00

Sex Video: Police Record Statements From Anwar, 34 Others

KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 (Bernama) -- Police have recorded statements from Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and 34 others to facilitate the probe into the sex video featuring a man resembling the opposition leader.

Besides Anwar, others who have been questioned include former Melaka chief minister Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik, businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Perkasa treasurer Datuk Shuib Lazim, or collectively known as "Datuk T", who have admitted that they were behind the screening of the video to the media on March 21.

Deputy CID chief Datuk Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said several staff of Carcosa Seri Negara where the video was shown had also been questioned.

He added that the statement taken from Anwar was sufficient.

"If there are parts of his statement which are incomplete, we will recall him," he told reporters after handing over the skeleton remains of a policeman who was killed in an air crash in an operation against Communist insurgents in 1950, to his family members at Bukit Aman Mosque, here.

Acryl Sani said police would record the statements of two or three more individuals.

The investigation, he said, was now about 95 per cent complete and that a report would be handed over to the Attorney-General's Chambers soon.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar confirmed recently that the video was genuine.

The investigation was launched following a report lodged by Anwar on March 22 denying that he was the man in the video.

-- BERNAMA

Gambar Hiasan

Tentang orang dalam video

Kalau link dibawah masih ada di youtube, dan kalau anda mahu tenguk untuk tujuan pengesahan sebab apa semua orang bising, apa sebab Azizah kata mirip tetapi bukan Anwar, apa sebab Zaid kata ya.. apa sebab Anwar kata konspirasi, kenapa ketua polis negara kata itu video tulin, dan yang penting apa sebab Eskay mengajukan 5 soalan, dan sebab apa Rahim warning macam mana nanti ada Eskay kedua, video kedua, (serta lokasi kedua dan betina kedua), dan yang terkini kenapa Nazri dijangka bawa usul di parlimen , tubuh suruhanjaya diraja untuk rungkai isu video,
klik saja!
Video Anwar Ibrahim :45,071 views

Anwar mengaku?

2011-04-06T13:13:00.004+08:00

foto disalin dari blog barking magpie
dengan tajuk "Brother Anwar Bin Ibrahim is not well
and his family must tell him so "
(click: Brother Anwar Bin Ibrahim is not well)

Saya tak pasti apa yang Anwar pernah mengaku. Konspirasi adalah perkataan yang kerap keluar dari mulut Anwar berbanding orang lain. Takat ini dia selesa berlindung sebalik perkataan itu.

Katakanlah Anwar kerap service di brothel atau spa atau mana-mana saja. Dia tentu bawak kawan rapat. Eskay kawan rapat dia. Dia tak akan bawak Karpal atau Nik Aziz atau Hadi, jauh sekali Azizah. Nak mampus bawak Azizah?

Eskay dan Nala boleh cerita lanjut siapa sebenarnya Anwar, sebab dia orang jaga benda-benda macam itu.... Anwar bukan baik mana pun...

Bukankah Eskay sudah ajukan 5 soalan untuk jawab?

soalan-soalan tersebut ialah “pertama, sejak dua tahun lalu berapa kali Anwar ke Thailand? Kedua, siapa yang menyambut Anwar di Thailand? Ketiga, di hotel mana Anwar menginap? Keempat, apa Anwar buat di bilik hotel tersebut? Dan kelima, siapa yang menyelesaikan semua bayaran tersebut?”

Zaid kata ya.... ramai lagi kata ya...

Zaid: It's Anwar alright

Free Malaysia Today - Stephanie Sta Maria - ‎Mar 24, 2011‎
PETALING JAYA: Zaid Ibrahim believes that it is Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim in the explosive sex video and has called for an international body to verify the authenticity of the clip. “Everyone is asking the wrong questions and making assumptions

Video. Sah memang Anwar!!

2011-04-05T23:31:00.004+08:00

Semua orang tenguk video yang sama. Azizah tetap kata bukan Anwar. Secara umum pemimpin pembangkang berdiri dibelakang Anwar (belakang?). Ramai yang kata sah itu Anwar!!, siap dengan bersumpah!

Untuk Eskay turun dengan gempar macam itu, tentu ada sebabnya. Tentu banyak lagi nak ditunjukkan. Tunggu timing sesuai kot.

Terpulanglah kalau Pas nak bermati-matian sokong Anwar.Memang pun, mana ada manusia perfect. Kalau dah Anwar macam tu, terima sajalah.

Omega, Oh My God.

- old photo of sultan , Malaya

2010-11-25T06:00:00.001+08:00

First Durbar (Conference of Rulers) held at Kuala Kangsar, Malaya in 1897; Seated (l-r):
Hugh Clifford (Resident of Pahang), JP Rodger (Resident of Selangor), Sir Frank Swettenham (Resident-General),
Sultan Ahmad (Pahang), Sultan Abdul Samad (Selangor), Sir Charles Mitchell (British High Commissioner),
Sultan Idris (Perak), Tuanku Muhammad (Yand di Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan) and
WH Treacher (Resident of Perak) (public domain/wikipedia)

Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Sir Donald MacGillivray, High Commissioner Federation of Malaya.

Sultan Abdullah (in uniform) with members of his family after their return from exile in the Seychelles, ?c.1894. (Source: Arkib Negara Malaysia)

Almarhum Sultan Yusuf Izzuddin Shah of Perak, seated second from left.

This picture is of Datuk Setia Raja of Batu Gajah (seated on the right of the empty chair) and his Mandailing clansmen. The `empty` seat is occupied by a rubber sheet, commemorating the fact that the Mandailings were amongst the first non-Europeans to cultivate rubber in the Kinta Valley, Perak.

Batang Kali massacre, revisited.

2010-11-20T06:05:00.000+08:00

The "Batang Kali massacre" occurred in a village in central Selangor state on Dec 12, 1948, when 14 members of the Scots Guards are alleged to have killed 24 unarmed ethnic Chinese and set fire to their village on a rubber plantation. Photo: LEICESTER NEWS SERVICE

The about face comes three months after the British Government turned down a request from Malaysian activists to investigate the killings, which took place during an anti-communist operation in the Malayan Emergency.

"The [British Government has] decided to reconsider the decision ... that no inquiry would be established or other investigation undertaken into the incident at Batang Kali in 1948," said a letter from London that was sent to activists in Malaysia who have been campaigning for an inquiry.

An official at the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur confirmed the contents of the letter, but said there was no guarantee an inquiry would be ordered.

"We must not pre-empt the outcome of the reconsideration process which we expect will take several weeks," she told the AFP news agency, adding that she could not say why the decision was being reviewed.

A spokesman for the activists, who have been campaigning for an investigation since 1993, welcomed the decision and urged a speedy resolution to the issue.

"The British Government must act quickly instead of simply dragging their feet until the surviving witnesses, who are very old, are no more," said Quek Ngee Meng, adding that one of the witnesses died last week.

Mr Quek said that his group had traced nine former British soldiers and four Malaysians who were witnesses to the events but that this pool will dwindle if the legal process takes too long.

He said the shooting was explained away in 1948 with the then Malayan attorney general saying an inquiry had been held and the troops vindicated, although no trace of this investigation has been found.

The massacre remained largely forgotten until a British newspaper in 1970 ran an explosive account of the killings, publishing sworn affidavits by several soldiers involved who admitted the villagers were shot in cold blood.

The revelations provoked uproar in Britain but a promised investigation was later dropped after a change in government.

The guerrilla war left thousands dead and formally ended only in 1989 with the signing of a peace treaty with the Malayan Communist Party.

Malaya won independence in 1957, when it became Malaysia.

On Anwar Ibrahim, a less than perfect politician

2010-11-15T06:01:00.001+08:00

Something is terribly not right about him. A man hailed as student leader in his younger heydays, entered UMNO and rose through ranks and ladders so quick. He kicked many people out. No problem with Rahim Thamby, but with late Ghafar, everything seemed to be in bad taste. Too much! and not many jumped and shouted at his victorious maneuver. Greed is visible in his face, mind and actions.

Now he is fighting for his last breath in legal and political court. Not many will join him this time, no more yellow wave, no brace at the neck, no wheel chair, no swollen eyes, no trucks, no fire brigade, and no angry red shirts, as Saiful takes his hand down the memory lane. It was a painful lane.....

rujukan lain

A man and a politician

2010-11-10T06:01:00.002+08:00

Ever heard of a man asking money from a politician for cloths, books, fees as the school season about to open. Ever heard of a politician complaining of lot of money needed to service his constituency? So in the end where does the money go to? Also there is no need to ask where the money comes from. Still, gentlemen and decent men, seldom ask and beg.

He got a promotion at work via bribery

2010-11-07T06:01:00.001+08:00

His question is: I was employed in an association in 2000, in a position that does not suit my university degree. I applied many times for promotion competitions in order to run away from the pressure I was suffering from my manager. All my attempts to get promotion were in vain until 2002, I was offered by a friend to pay an amount of money in return for having a better job. There were 50 jobs available. I had to do this sheikh to get rid of that pressure. I did not take anyone’s place, also bear in mind that all who got these jobs are affluent people.
Is the wealth I get from this work haram? I repented to Allah sincerely and asked Him to bless my wealth. I pay sadaqah every month from my salary.

For answer check here: Islam Question and Answer - He got a promotion at work via bribery ...
www.islam-qa.com

Bila Menteri dah jadi mengada.

2010-11-06T06:05:00.001+08:00

Cerita mudah, apabila seorang ketua penjawat awam di satu jabatan memberi amaran kepada pegawai-pegawainya supaya tidak menjemput timbalan menteri ke mana-mana program. Hanya menteri sahaja wajar dijemput.

Ada yang geleng kepala sambil kata ini kerja gila. Tetapi semua orang tahu, siapa mereka.

The existence of a Minister

2010-11-05T06:01:00.001+08:00

They were saying about separation of power between the two entity. One roams around parliament and another greases the administrative machinery. The scientific term is osmosis when there is a phenomena of migration of denser portion to the lighter. A minister has a tendency to seep through and meddle with things. They ridicule people and search for monnaie. Tan Sri Musa just said a sentence of a long para. It is up to the others to read the rest.

HOW BRIBES WORK

2010-11-02T06:01:00.001+08:00

Bribes grease the wheels of the chop-stock business. How does bribery work? How commonplace is it? What follows are excerpts from an interview between BUSINESS WEEK Senior Writer Gary Weiss and a veteran of the chop-stock business, who has worked for five chop houses since 1993.

Q: When corporate officials are confronted with charges of market manipulation, they protest that they don't know anything about it. What's the real situation?

for answer refer here:
12/15/97 HOW BRIBES WORK

Is 5 right?

2010-10-30T06:01:00.002+08:00

An action is an action, deliberate, clear, brilliant, selfish or hasty. There was a time when we were given some kind of refund as the price of petrol soared beyond imagination. We get it when we renew roadtax, maximum of 5 vehicles. Then we walk down the street, and check casually how many cars and motorcycles per household. Not many in Sabak Bernam , Kota Tinggi, Rembau or Padang Rengas. Too bad, most of us are not very familiar with Bukit Tunku... over there 5 is about right.

- INFORMATION ON CASH REBATES FOR FUEL SUBSIDY

2010-10-30T06:00:00.001+08:00

Dear Customers,

As announced by the Government, Pos Malaysia Berhad (PMB) has been appointed as the source for disbursement of the Cash Rebates to eligible private vehicle owners.

The implementation will be done in two phases :

For Phase I of the implementation, eligible Malaysians whose road tax were purchased or renewed with effective date from 1 April 2008 until 31 May 2008 can start to claim the subsidy at 683 post offices countrywide from 14 June 2008 (Saturday) until 31 March 2009.

For Phase II of the implementation, vehicle owners who have purchased or renewed their road tax from 1 June 2008 until 31 March 2009, can commence their Cash Rebate claims at post offices from 1 July 2008 (Tuesday) onwards.

For Phase III of the implementation, vehicle owner who have purchased or renewed their road tax from 1 April 2008 until 31 March 2009 at any of the 683 Post Offices or JPJ counters or Myeg, can commence their Cash Rebate claims via PosOnline from 1 August 2008 (Friday) onwards.

For further information on the process and procedures, please click on the following :

Media Release
10 July 2008 - Disbursement Of Cash Rebates Reached A Total Of 2 Million Transactions Today

Rebates Claim Form
(For Rebate Claim Only)

Fact Sheet

Process & Procedures

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

List of Post Offices

Instruction To Fill Up Form

Political proxy: A guy faking his way up.

2010-10-28T06:01:00.000+08:00

There is a story about a guy faking his way up and putting mask all over to hide the guilt feeling and vengeance. He is as good and as bad as he has proven before. Everything has to be right and exciting to his definitions. As a team they are limiting themselves to anything less than decency. For all we know, not many were involved in bombing Hiroshima... Just a few. That's all it takes to bring down humanity, sanity and decency to ashes. So is Barisan Nasional.

- Iran acknowledges it has been funding Afghanistan for years, says money is for reconstruction

2010-10-28T06:00:00.006+08:00

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran acknowledged Tuesday it has been sending funds to neighbouring Afghanistan for years, but said the money was intended to aid reconstruction, not to buy influence in the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Karzai said Monday he receives millions of dollars in cash from Iran, adding that Washington gives him "bags of money" too because his office lacks funds. U.S. officials asserted the money flowing from Tehran was proof that Iran is playing a double game in Afghanistan — wooing the government while helping Taliban insurgents fighting U.S. and NATO forces. Iran denies that.

"Iran has provided the country with plenty of help," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday in his weekly news briefing in Tehran. "Iran has helped construction of Afghanistan and the preparation of its economic infrastructure and it will pursue it in the future, too."

Mehmanparast said Iran's help began years ago. He said peace and stability in Afghanistan is important for Iran.

The acknowledgment prompted a challenge from seven Iranian lawmakers who demanded that Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki appear before parliament to clarify the payments, according to the news website www.Khabaronline.ir.

The call indicated that lawmakers — who have the power to impeach ministers — were unaware of the payments. Under Iran's constitution, government funds sent abroad, including aid donations and loans, must get parliamentary approval.

In a letter, the lawmakers demanded to know the amount of money sent over the past five years, where it came from, the way it was transferred and the legal basis for the payments.

On Saturday, The New York Times reported that Iran was giving bags of cash to President Karzai's chief of staff, Umar Daudzai, to buy his loyalty and promote Iranian interests in Afghanistan. The Times quoted unidentified sources as saying the cash amounted to a slush fund that Karzai and Daudzai used to pay lawmakers, tribal elders — and even Taliban commanders — to secure their loyalty.

Karzai told reporters Monday that he had instructed Daudzai, a former ambassador to Iran, to accept the money from Tehran.

Before Karzai spoke, the Iranian Embassy in Afghanistan dismissed the allegations that the Iranian government was making cash payments to Daudzai, calling them "ridiculous and insulting."

Iran publicly opposed the U.S.-led offensive that toppled the Taliban after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, though its relations with the Taliban regime had been frosty.

Iran is believed to not want the Taliban to return to power. But it remains wary of a long-term U.S. military presence on its doorstep in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

- Galas nomination: Where is Ku Li?

2010-10-28T06:00:00.005+08:00

GALAS (Oct 26, 2010): As returning officer Wan Mustapa Abdul Hamid announced the face-off between Barisan Nasional's (BN) Ab Aziz Yusoff and PAS's Dr Zulkefli Mohamad, the question on everyone’s lips was "where’s Ku Li?"

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah who was appointed BN’s director for the Galas by-election, was nowhere to be seen at the district office-turned-nomination centre.

Tengku Razaleigh being greeted by fellow BN leaders and supporters outside
the District Office.

Instead, he was waiting 100 metres away at the bottom of the hill where the district office is located.

Even as Ab Aziz walked through the gates of the district office, he was not flanked by any Umno stalwart – only Wanita Chief Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil and MCA vice-president Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen. Trailing behind was Umno secretary-general Datuk Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.

As 10am approached – when nominations closed – Tengku Razaleigh was yet to make his appearance at the nomination centre.

He refused to proceed to the district office premises, reportedly saying: "It’s okay. Let them handle it."

Ku Li was coy with reporters and didn’t say much more, although it was later learnt that he may have been slighted by a statement by Ab Aziz on Monday that he did not need Tengku Razaleigh to carry votes for him.

It took Kelantan liason chief Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamad, Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin and several other Umno leaders to talk him into coming up to the nomination centre, where other BN leaders were seated.

He finally made a five-minute appearance at 10.30am and disappeared as quickly as he had arrived, back to his home in Bukit Chekati here.

"He doesn’t like the attention, that’s all," Mustapa told theSun. "I told him all his friends are waiting to see him, so he came."

Khairy meanwhile dismissed talks of "Ku Li merajuk". "No such thing! As all the other leaders were here, he left it to them to do their part," he said.

Ab Aziz played down the issue by saying the Gua Musang MP was spending time with supporters below the hill.

"I will definitely comply with Ku Li’s instructions and guidance because he is the election director. I am thankful for the help that the federal government and agencies have extended to me," he said.

BN's Ab Aziz (left) shakes hand with PAS's Zulkefli.

Ab Aziz said the benchmark of support from the public so far is the rousing turnout at the launch of the people’s housing project recently.

Zulkefli meanwhile said he will continue the legacy of PAS’s Chek Hashim Sulaima, whose death forced the country’s 13th by-election since 2008.

"We will continue to articulate the wishes of the people and speak on their behalf," said the camera-shy medical practitioner, preferring to let PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang do most of the talking.

Accompanying them were other Pakatan Rakyat leaders including Lim Kit Siang, Azmin Ali and Husam Musa.

Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat also made a brief appearance.

Meanwhile, an objection from PAS against Ab Aziz was rejected. The party had questioned if he had resigned as Kelantan South Development (Kesedar) operations manager.

The Elections Commission (EC) later confirmed receiving Ab Aziz resignation letter.

On his nomination form, Ab Aziz states his employment status as unemployed.

The EC’s decision to implement a 180-metre buffer between supporters seemed to work, as skirmishes were kept to a minimum. The only altercation was between PAS supporters and the police when the pathway to the nomination centre for Zulkefli became too crowded.

Galas state seat by-election

Candidates: Abdul Aziz Yusoff, 49, (BN), former Kesedar operations manager;
Dr Zulkefli Mohamad, 44, (PAS) medical practitioner

Total voters: 11,553 (including 127 postal voters)
7,125 Malay ( 61.7%)
2,317 Chinese (20.06%)
185 Indian
1,889 Orang Asli
10 Siamese

2008 general election: Che Hashim Sulaima, 46, (PAS) won the seat with a 646-vote margin by garnering 4,399 votes against BN's Saufi Deraman's 3,753.

- 3 in Batu Sapi, 2 in Galas submit nomination papers

2010-10-28T06:00:00.003+08:00

KUALA LUMPUR: The nominations for the Batu Sapi parliamentary by-election in Sabah and Galas state by-election in Kelantan closed at 10am today with three candidates having submitted their papers in Batu Sapi and two in Galas.

In SANDAKAN, those who submitted their papers are Barisan Nasional's (BN) Datin Linda Tsen Thau Lin, Sabah Progressive Party's Datuk Yong Teck Lee and Parti Keadilan Rakyat's Ansari Abdullah.

Ansari was the first to hand in his papers at the nomination centre at the Sandakan Community Centre at 9.02am, followed by Yong at 9.05am and a minute later by Tsen.

In GUA MUSANG, the candidates who submitted their papers were Abdul Aziz Yusoff of BN and Dr Zulkefli Mohamad of PAS.

There will be an hour of objection period after which the returning officers of both areas would announce the candidates at the close of the objection period at 11am.

- Malaysia can become third largest solar cells producer

2010-10-28T06:00:00.001+08:00

MALAYSIA could become the third largest producer of solar cells after China and Germany once related projects were completed next year.

The country’s aspiration is to increase its market share to 17% of world production and reach number two position behind China by 2020.

Under the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), Malaysia will use its its current capabilities in producing semiconductors advantage to go into the solar industry.

It indicated that similarities in the solar and semiconductor value chain can help the country latch onto the global solar growth.

Malaysia has a strong starting position in solar. The country already has companies across the entire value chain.

To reach this goal, Malaysia needs to increase its cell and solar wafer production capacity by 10 times and silicon production capacity by 23 times by 2020.

Despite astronomical costs compared to oil, coal and other renewable energy sources, the global solar market has grown by 50% between 2005 and 2010.

This year, the global solar market is expected to hit 10 gigawatts in yearly supply and rake in RM160bil in revenue.

While solar is currently expensive, average installed system prices have dropped to about RM16.40 per watt.

Prices are expected to fall further to RM6.70 per watt or lower in 2020.

The solar market is expected to grow at 30% per year until 2015 and drop to 25% until 2020.

If solar’s energy share among renewable energies reaches its forecast of 5% in 2020, this will translate into global cumulative installed capacity of 560 gigawatts.

By then, an annual demand of 113 gigawatts will bring RM918bil of revenue in 2020, where Asia will drive a significant portion of the demand and supply in 2020.

Tun Faizal kembali dengan ICT.

2010-10-26T06:01:00.001+08:00

Siapa tidak ingat dengan polisi PENGAJARAN DAN PEMBELAJARAN SAINS DAN MATEMATIK DALAM BAHASA INGGERIS, menapak sejak 2003 dan pada 8 julai 2009 lalu ditetapkan dasar itu tamat sepenuhnya pada tahun 2012.

Polisi ini menarik kerana gagasannya sangat besar, ingin menjadikan rakyat Malaysia lebih global dan Malaysia pula sebagai hub pendidikan, teknologi dan business. Ada jeritan kuat menamatkan polisi , datang dari pejuang bahasa. Kesemua pejuang bahasa berkenaan teramat mahir berbahasa Inggeris. Itu tidaklah dikisahkan sangat.

Di sebalik semua ini, dimaklumkan ada broker penting bernama Tun Faizal. Beliau mampu terjemahkan PPSMI dalam projek mega, laptop dan perisiannya. Berbillion..... Kini dia mahu menjengah semula dengan munculnya beberapa dasar baru. Tunggu saja!

- Afghan president confirms large cash payments by Iranian officials

2010-10-26T06:00:00.005+08:00

Hamid Karzai says, yes, he receives about $2 million annually from Iran, but the cash is a donation and covers governmental operating costs. The U.S. makes such payments, he says.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan —

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Monday acknowledged that his office regularly received large cash sums from Iranian officials but insisted there was nothing untoward about the payments.

The New York Times, in an article in Monday's editions, described the periodic transfer of bulging sacks of currency to a senior Karzai aide and strongly suggested that the money was meant to curry favor on behalf of the Tehran government in policy matters.

At a news conference in the capital, the Afghan leader acknowledged receiving semiregular cash payments totaling around $2 million annually from Iran but said the sums were meant to defray governmental operating costs. Other countries, including the United States, make such donations as well, he told reporters.

"The government of Iran assists [the presidential] office," Karzai said. "Nothing is hidden. … Cash payments are done by various friendly countries to help the presidential office — to help expenses in various ways."

Hours before Karzai's disclosure, Iranian authorities in Kabul dismissed the allegations with gusto.

"Such baseless rumors by certain Western media are raised to create anxiety in the public opinion and impair the expanding relations between the two friendly and neighboring countries," the embassy said in the statement released early Monday, according to the pro-government Fars news agency.

But the revelations also could serve Iran's interests, underscoring its continued influence in the region even as Washington attempts to isolate Tehran over its continued pursuit of sensitive nuclear technology.

The episode illustrated the complex regional politics at play in Afghanistan. Karzai, who has spoken publicly of the possibility of the West abandoning Afghanistan, has openly courted neighbors such as China and Iran, as an apparent counterweight to the influence of the United States and other allies.

The incident also comes at a time when Karzai and his administration are under intense pressure to clean up graft and corruption in public life. Although Karzai's Western backers have been struggling to establish transparency in financial transactions involving his government, it is not unusual in Afghanistan for large sums of money to be disbursed in a much more informal manner.

American military officers in the field, for example, are sometimes given a considerable cash stockpile to be distributed to local tribal elders for projects at what is more or less their on-the-spot discretion. Such spending, intended as a bulwark against the insurgency, is sometimes referred to as using cash as a weapon.

The flap over Iranian money also comes as Karzai is locked in confrontation with the Western diplomatic community over his plans to suspend use of private contractors to safeguard humanitarian and development projects before the end of the year.

Western governments have expressed agreement that such security firms should be phased out eventually but argue that the Afghan security forces are not yet ready to step into the role such companies fill.

Karzai spent much of the weekend in negotiations with senior U.S. and Western officials over the issue and fielded a phone call from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Afghan administration has indicated willingness to sign off on individual aid projects requiring private protection, but the West has balked at the effective granting of veto power to Karzai for development and humanitarian assistance.

Also at issue is whether the money that would have been paid to private security firms -- a multibillion-dollar business -- would be funneled instead to the Afghan security forces, by way of Afghanistan's Interior Ministry. Western officials have informed the Karzai administration there is no such plan in place.

- Inflation at highest level

2010-10-26T06:00:00.004+08:00

INFLATION in Singapore rose to its highest level in 20 months last month as housing, transport and food continued to become more expensive.

Last month's consumer price index (CPI) rose 3.7 per cent from the same month a year earlier. It follows a move earlier this month by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to tighten monetary conditions, owing to its concerns over rising costs.

The CPI came in slightly above a 3.6 per cent rise estimated by 13 economists in a survey by Bloomberg News. Inflation rose 0.2 per cent month-on-month from August, after adjusting for seasonal factors, according to the Department of Statistics on Monday.

DBS economist Irvin Seah said: 'With overall inflation grinding steadily northward, risks are certainly tilting towards inflation rather than growth.'

Transport and housing were the main factors as higher car prices contributed a 9.1 per cent rise in transportation costs from a year ago, while housing costs rose 4.7 per cent. There were signs that car prices are easing, as they fell 0.2 per cent from August.

Food is a growing concern with prices of vegetables, fresh seafood, rice and cereal and dairy products contributing to a 1.7 per cent rise from 12 months ago.

- ETP Different From Previous Development Plans, Says Najib

2010-10-26T06:00:00.003+08:00

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today stressed that the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP)is different from development plans previously implemented.

"What we are doing now has previously not been attempted. There are six distinguishing factors between the ETP and whatever previous plans," he said at the launch of the ETP Roadmap here Monday.

The first factor, he said, is that the ETP is a programme and not a plan.

Najib said the significant difference in the ETP is that it is a programme containing specific projects and specific action with a timeline, project owner and a measure of performance.

The programme has 131 Entry Point Projects (EPP), 12 reporting labs and 60 business opportunities, all aimed at creating 3.3 million additional workers.

Secondly, the ETP he added, is based on Gross National Income (GNI) and provides a clear direction.

He also explained that the aim of the government is to achieve a GNI per capita of US$15,000 in 2020.

In the 10 years to come, 131 EPPs and 60 business opportunities will respectively spur the additional GNI of US$138 billion and US$112 billion.

When combined with the organic growth from the National Key Economic Areas (NKEAs)and non-NKEA, the total GNI in 2020 is estimated to reach US$523 billion.

Thirdly, Najib said, the ETP is jointly formed with the private sector with an open and transparent approach, where it is also market friendly based on merit and needs.

He said to strengthen transparency and take into account the views of the people, the ETP Programme had been exhibited and discussed together with 13,000 people through Open Days, including publishing where government contracts have been given on the government website.

Fourthly, the ETP will change the role of the government from being the financier to facilitator to reduce the public sector spending, where 92 per cent of investments for the ETP is from the private sector and 72 per cent will be contributed by domestic direct investment.

Fifthly, the ETP has the quality of being inclusive where all Malaysians will get to feel, no matter how small, the positive impact from the implementation of projects under it.

"Finally, as a whole, all 133 entry point projects will cover the entire country. A total of 68 entry point projects will benefit Sarawak and 71 for Sabah, as well as 106 for those in the rural areas.

"Generally, this is in line with the ratio of the urban and rural population in the country," Najib explained.

He also said that specifically, for those in the rural areas, the EPP is expected to create 323,596 new jobs in 2020 and this will benefit owners of Native Customary Rights (NCR) land, especially in Sabah and Sarawak.

The Prime Minister hoped the ETP will bring benefits to the women's work force.

At present, only 3.95 million women aged between 15 to 64 are working.

"It is clear that the ETP will embrace all layers of the community. The impact of eventual development will be experienced by all Malaysians, with no one being let out of the mainstream of economic success," he said.

-- BERNAMA

Manikavasagam asked " Dead or alive?"

2010-10-24T06:01:00.001+08:00

I thought this issue is interesting enough for a little snippet. When Manikavasagam asked, I wonder how would we answer...

Manikavasagam also called on the police to issue an official statement on Muthuraja's status.

"They say he's dead but they have shown no evidence nor have they officially informed Usharani of this," he said. “The Inspector-General of Police (Ismail Omar) should at least release a statement on whether Muthuraja is dead or alive. Usharani can take it from there.”

A simple kopitiam talk will go like this, if alive, where is he?.. if dead, where is body or bones or skull or whatever. God knows..... Banting case is now in court's hand, and the most naive lawyer knows this.

MANIKAVASAGAM: Police should furnish some proof to Usharani on her husband's 'death' (Malay mail)

reference:
'Murdered' tycoon's wife wants probe speeded up‎
Free Malaysia Today

Suhaimi Jahanghir a broker.

2010-10-23T06:01:00.002+08:00

How can people live up to propagate the common drive in spearheading government transformational agenda. The necessity to strengthen the base to withstand economic pressure is really felt in the wake of deficit. But people never learn when a phone call to top the perk up to 200K is the standard communication prior to approval. We never know if conversation is recorded. We never know whats the perk for. We never know the money could be in perfect serial for simple evidence and arrest.

Who cares for termly votes, when house is big, cars are many and coffer full of penny. The yardstick is what the little guy owns. The rest will not be happy just looking. In the end we are in fact building up the momentum pushing the whole weight of trust and integrity down the hill of doom, displaying a blatant disregard for decency all the way. The name is fictitious, so No sweat, No regret.

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- Soldiers, police, protesters battle for President's anniversary

2010-10-23T06:00:00.002+08:00

Plainclothes police threaten to use their side arms against protesters in Jakarta yesterday. The demonstrations throughout Indonesia coincided with the first anniversary of the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono-Boediono administration’s five-year term

From News Reports
Jakarta, October 21: Soldiers and police – some of the about 19,000 deployed around the capital - fired into the air and used teargas and water canon against protesters – most of them students – outside the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, yesterday.
Similar rallies were held elsewhere in the city and in the wealthy Menteng neighbourhood, students barricaded road with timber and burning tyres and fought police who tried to remove the obstacles.
The city administration’s website BeritaJakarta says thousands of people joined the rallies at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout, Central Jakarta; outside the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry; the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court as well as the Japanese and South Korean embassies.
Rallies were also held in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Bandung and Bogor, West Java, Denpasar, Bali, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Lampung, southern Sumatra, Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Palu, Central Sulawesi, Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Padang, West Sumatra, and Surabaya, Pamekasan and Gresik, East Java, reports the Antara news agency.
On Monday, students fought with police in Makassar, South Sulewasi, during a presidential visit to the city.
The protests coincided with the first anniversary of the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono-Boediono administration’s five-year term.
The administration’s continued application of neo-liberal economic policies was a major reason for the protests.
The president, a retired general, 61, is a technocrat.
He studied management at Webster University at St Louis, Missouri, and holds a PhD in agricultural economics from Bogor Agricultural University.
The popularity of both he and his deputy – former central bank deputy governor Boediono who was educated at the University of Western Australia, Monash University, Melbourne, and worked at the Australian National University as a research assistant as well as the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, - has waned since they were elected in the first-round ballot one year ago.
The Southeast Asian Times

Two Vietnamese fishing boats arrested off Natuna Islands
From News Reports:
Surabaya, October 21: Two Vietnamese-flagged fishing boats and their crews have been arrested for allegedly poaching off the Natuna Islands, northwest Borneo, reports the Antara news agency.
Both vessels were in Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone of the South China Sea without permits from the Indonesian government, the news agency quotes navy spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Yayan Sugiana as saying.
The vessels - identified as the BV-99678 with 23 aboard and the KG-15381 – were at the Ranai naval base, the Riau Islands, he said.

Three Vietnamese vessels and their crew were arrested allegedly poaching off the Riau Islands earlier this month.
Three Thai fishermen were reported to have been killed when the Indonesian navy, police and fisheries officials arrested 13 boats from Viet Nam, Malaysia and Thailand allegedly poaching in the waters off the Natuna Islands in November last year.
Fisheries Ministry surveillance director general Aji Sularso said the arrests raised to 180 alleged poachers who had then been arrested in Indonesian waters for the year, mostly off the Natuna Islands.

Most of the poachers were from Thailand, Viet Nam, Malaysia and China.
In October last year, the House of Representatives passed a fishery law that allows the crews of Indonesia’s patrol boats to shoot and sink foreign poachers after surveillance director Aji Sularso said the harsh law was needed to deter the poachers.
The director, who chaired the government's working committee that helped write the new law, said: “We will immediately draw up standard operation procedures to enforce the measure.”
But Indonesian vessels would fire only at the vessels and not their crews.
“Implementation of the ruling should not breach human rights or international laws.”
The measure was necessary to the protection of Indonesian sovereignty and sinking the poachers was more feasible than towing the vessels ashore, he said.
Poaching, especially in the waters of North Sulawesi, Maluku and West Papua, are estimated to cost Indonesia rupiah 30 trillion, about US$3.26 billion, each year.
Indonesian marine patrols have seized more than 700 vessels, most of them from Viet Nam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and China during the past five years.
The fisheries ministry had long sought legal endorsement for the “shoot and sink’ policy, arguing that poachers disdain Indonesia's outnumbered and poorly equipped marine patrol boats.
The Southeast Asian Times

When a KSU prays for extension..

2010-10-22T06:01:00.000+08:00

This is the most critical point in a career. A minister understands this too well. Those few months are most important for a minister to push through things. The poor guy will gulp everything to the last drip even his own saliva. It is not difficult to guess who and why. A KSU with a doctorate will swallow his own pills to ease the tense feeling. It is worth every minute and every penny. He will bring in a flight of friends (even the most dubious) to continue the legacy at every corner. Friendship is funny because the glue used is telco and ict, that will bind them for million of years and dollars. He just lost his right hand-man, and that must have left a lot of pain which requires deep soul searching. The recent story about Rais Yatim has nothing to do with this. A broken bracelet, a plate of greed, a bowl to be cleaned, a heartless heart. I know, he will seek no extension because he got it all......

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- Wylfa gets two year extension

2010-10-20T06:00:00.006+08:00

WYLFA will keep generating power for another two years after getting the green light from nuclear regulators.

The Anglesey nuclear power station was due to start decommissioning this December but staff have been working to make the case that it was safe to keep generating.

Yesterday they received the go ahead from the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) to run until 2012.

Extension will secure 650 jobs for another two years.

Nick Gore, Wylfa Site Director, said: “I’m absolutely delighted with the news. This is all down to the quality of our staff on site and with our plant and equipment in excellent condition; we can look forward to the future in confidence.”

The site is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and operated by Magnox North. Fuel levels mean Reactor 2 could run to the end of 2012. Reactor 1 has the potential to run on to 2013 but the plant is also restricted by a requirement to have spent fuel sent to Sellafield by 2015.

Once generation does come to an end de-fuelling work would keep a significant number of the 650 staff at the site for a further three years, with jobs in decommissioning after that date.

This could keep trained staff on the island until work starts on the proposed Wylfa B, which could be operational as early as 2020.

Anglesey MP Albert Owen said it was good news for the island.

He added: “I have led on this campaign and the news is good for Anglesey and good for the whole country.”

Charles Hendry, Minister for Energy, said: “The additional income it generates will make a significant contribution to meeting the costs of decommissioning other legacy sites, reducing the bill for the taxpayer.”

Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan added: "This is good news for Anglesey and North Wales. Wylfa plays a vital role in the local economy and today's announcement will be a great boost for its workforce.”

The additional revenue from the power station is expected to be in excess of £100m.

- After 13 die in Philippines, typhoon aims at China

2010-10-20T06:00:00.005+08:00

CAUAYAN, Philippines — A super typhoon that killed 13 people and flattened forests and crops in the northern Philippines dumped heavy rains on the capital Tuesday as it headed across the sea toward southern China.

BULLIT MARQUEZ / AP

A family saves their belongings Tuesday Oct. 19, 2010 at Tumauini township, a day after Typhoon Megi (local name "Juan") leveled their home as it barreled through Isabela province in northeastern Philippines. The super typhoon dumped heavy rains over the Philippine capital Tuesday after killing at least 10 people, creating a wasteland of fallen trees in the north and sending thousands scrambling to safety in near-zero visibility. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Typhoon Megi struck the Philippines on Monday with ferocious winds of 140 miles (225 kilometers) per hour, but initial assessments showed relatively light damage and casualties, partly because the storm struck sparsely populated areas. Philippine officials also cited their massive emergency preparations days ahead of the storm.

Food vendor Nesie Callaotit, her husband and two children were hurriedly packing clothes to flee to safety when the wind yanked off half of their tin roof, exposing their house in northeastern Isabela province to pounding rain and the horrifying wind.

They held on to a wooden post for three hours, weeping and praying together, until the torrents eased.

"All of us were in tears," the 40-year-old Callaotit said. "We thought it was our last day together."

After it exited into the South China Sea on Tuesday, Megi was almost stationary packing winds of 108 mph (175 kph) but was forecast to regain strength before its expected landfall in southern China on Thursday. Chinese authorities evacuated 140,000 people from a coastal province.

Isabela province in the northeast Philippines, Megi's entry point, bore the brunt of the Typhoon Megi's destruction while more than 8,000 people rode out the typhoon in sturdy school buildings, town halls, churches and relatives' homes.

Roads in and out of the coastal province were deserted and blocked by collapsed trees, power lines and debris.

Iron-sheet roofs on many of the houses were blown away. In Tamauini town, Ariel Marzan said he escaped just minutes before his house tumbled amid winds so strong his roof was swept into a nearby rice field 30 yards (meters) away.

"I didn't expect it to be so strong," he said as he surveyed the damage and picked up the strewn pieces of his household.

Nearby coconut and banana groves were flattened.

At least 13 deaths in Cagayan, Isabela and Pangasinan provinces were blamed on the typhoon, including at least six drownings. In Pangasinan province, a mother, her daughter and son were pinned to death when a tree collapsed on their house, disaster official Eugene Cabrera said.

Even as the typhoon moved away, its massive outer bands still stretched over much of western Luzon and drenched the capital, Manila, and surrounding areas, snarling traffic and sending about 1,000 people out of their homes into temporary shelters.

President Benigno Aquino III said Tuesday that although the typhoon caused significant damage, the loss of life was minimal and "could have been much greater had we not prepared for the storm."

"The work of bringing life back to normal in the soonest possible time is already under way," he said.

Assistant Agriculture Secretary Salvador Salacup said an initial estimate of $36 million losses to rice and corn crops showed the damage was minimal. Cagayan Valley and Ilocos regions lost around 12 percent of their rice production for the season. Cagayan Valley alone accounts for 30 percent of the national rice output.

Typhoon Megi is likely to spare Vietnam, which was in early forecast paths and has been suffering severe flooding in the past week. At least 41 flood-related deaths have been reported, and 19 other people are presumed dead after a bus was swept off a road by raging currents.

Up to 31.5 inches (800 millimeters) of rain pounded areas of Vietnam in just a few days, forcing 126,000 people to flee their homes. Earlier flooding this month left more than 80 people dead or missing.

The death toll from recent flooding in Thailand rose to five on Tuesday. Downpours that started over the weekend have affected nearly 55,000 people in 17 central and northeastern provinces, according to the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department.

- Huge marijuana seizure in Mexico

2010-10-20T06:00:00.004+08:00

The marijuana was found wrapped in 10,000 different coloured packages

Mexican soldiers have seized 105 tonnes of marijuana near the border with the United States, the largest such drugs haul for many years.

Eleven people were arrested during the operation in the city of Tijuana and at least one person was injured in exchanges of gunfire with the army.

The Mexican military says the drugs are worth about $340 million dollars, but could fetch up to three times that sum in the US.

Samuel Gonzalez is a former head of the Mexican organised crime unit and is now professor of Law at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City.

Kesediaan BN untuk kekal bersama Kudakepang

2010-10-19T06:06:00.003+08:00

Isu intra dan inter-party dalam BN adalah sangat menarik. 1Malaysia sediakan platform untuk lembutkan permainan bangsa dan agama. Namun, gagasan sebesar itu bukanlah senang untuk diterjemahkan dan dijiwai. Samalah rumitnya untuk teruskan konsep Islam Hadhari tempuh hari.

Tidak banyak kejayaan kecil-kecil di sebalik gagasan tersebut untuk dicanang kepada rakyat. Oleh yang demikian, isu perjuangan dan kepentingan bangsa/suku kaum akan terus bermain. Tidak ada celanya permainan itu. Masalahnya adalah dari sudut taktikal, iaitu kesungguhan pemimpin untuk menunjuk nilai adil, toleransi, tanpa dilihat lemah.

Kemampuan membina BN yang sihat dan aman, mungkin terganggu dengan amalan demokrasi dalam parti itu sendiri. Keghairahan mencari pengaruh, membina rangkaian, dan melemahkan lawan dalam parti bukanlah ingredient untuk mempertahankan keunggulan parti. Demokrasi tidak terpimpin dalam parti akhirnya meninggalkan sebuah organisasi yang luka dan berparut dengan pemimpin-pemimpin yang terlalu waspada dan berdendam.

Kita sangat-sangat berharap ada sekelompok pemimpin yang mampu merentasi segala macam kepelbagaian supaya BN kekal aman selamat dan relevan.

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- Reactions to Budget 2011

2010-10-19T06:00:00.003+08:00

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 16, 2010): The Independent MPs Consensus yesterday welcomed the government's consideration towards the youths in this year's budget.

In a press statement, the consensus, made up of all the independent MPs, said budget announcement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak yesterday included many benefits for the rakyat at large.

Among the benefits are:
> For first time house buyers, the government will provide a guarantee of 10% down payment for houses below RM220,000 through Cagamas Sdn Bhd, allowing them to take a 100% housing loan.

> Youths will also benefit from the formation of Talent Corp, 1Malaysia Training Programme and The Academic Medical Centre.

> The consensus also welcomes the exemption of import duty and sales tax on broadband equipments and mobile phones until 2012, to increase broadband penetration.

The RM119 million allocation for Multimedia Development Corridor programmes to create an innovative digital economy is also lauded. The consensus hopes that the funds will be used wisely, supported by homegrown knowledge workers who are also local graduates.

Other positive elements include RM5 billion for development in Sabah and Sarawak and the freeze on toll hikes for PLUS expressways for the next five years. It is hoped that this move will also be extended to other expressway concessionaires.

However, the consensus urged the government to take necessary actions on the following matters:
>> Allocations to upgrade rural schools in terms of human capital development to support the ETP was not clarified extensively

>> There is no justification on the proposed building of a 100-storey skyscraper. The Klang Valley area currently have a surplus of office space and the problem is expected to continue, resulting in a property bubble bust by mid-2011.

>> The government or EPF should provide justification on why public funds are being used to develop land belonging to the Malaysian Rubber Board in Sungai Buloh, through RM10 billion investments by EPF in the next 15 years.

>> The EPF plans to increase its foreign investments from 7% to 20% and the consensus views it as a risk that involves public funds to develop foreign economies, when focus should be placed on the local economy.

On 'private-public partnership' projects, it said the government should take heed from its past mistakes when dealing with major transportation infrastructure projects such as the LRT, monorail and ERL which has not helped to reduce congestion in Kuala Lumpur, when giving out project approvals.

The consensus also calls for all major projects such as the MRT to be awarded through an open tender system, to companies that focused on the interests and safety of the people.

>> Kelly International praises initiatives in 2011 Budget
Efforts in the 2011 Budget to further fund the development of human capital have been praised by workforce solutions company Kelly Services (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd.

In a press release issued yesterday, Kelly Services (Malaysia) MD Melissa Norman said that Kelly Malaysia was "encouraged" by the government's plans; the Economic Transformation Plan, the Talent Corporation and National Talent Blueprint initiatives "to create a dynamic Malaysian workforce".

"Along with theoretical knowledge, today's working world requires its workforce to embrace practical skills and soft skills for it as well. We believe that the Malaysian workforce, locally and overseas possesses such skills," said Norman.

The statement added that Kelly Malaysia "hopes for greater collaboration and share of voice" with the government.

"More such creative and innovative venues for addressing and managing the country's most vital asset, its people, are needed," she said.

>> Not enough for green technology
WHILE the extensions of the tax exemption application periods will encourage companies to use renewable energy sources, Ensearch honourable secretary general Geetha P.Kumaran had higher expectations of the Budget 2011, which was tabled on Oct 15.

Ensearch is an environmental resource management NGO, which promotes better resource management in companies and organisations.

"We had hoped that the budget would be the impetus for growth in green technology, through financial incentives of corporate tax reductions for companies who have significantly reduced their water and energy usage," she said. "Every industry needs financial incentive for growth and green technology is no different."

What the Budget needed to address was the management of natural resources in addition to encouraging renewable energy, she added. It also needed to find ways to reduce all forms of wastage, said Geetha. - theSun

A minister doing his rounds.

2010-10-18T06:01:00.002+08:00

There is this minister, so organised that schedules are punctuated in minutes and run through the wee hours of the morning. He does his rounds every weekends, being first to reach the most remote surau. He will talk to people giving them support and hope. He never steal a single cent we were told. He seldom throw political punches, but when he does, the mood is jovial and pure fun. But he feels so lonely with not many friends to share his principles and dreams. Maybe more friends will join after the next election. Til then, his brilliance will keep shining.

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BN tak gentar siapapun calon lawan –Tok Pa agendadaily

- Thai 'red shirts' rally to demand leaders be freed

2010-10-18T06:00:00.012+08:00

Thousands of anti-government "red shirts" demonstrated in the old Thai capital of Ayutthaya on Sunday to demand the release of their leaders and scores of comrades detained since bloody protests in April and May.

"We don't have leaders today. We are here on our own, the CRES can't arrest us," one speaker said from a makeshift stage, referring to the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation set up to coordinate the authorities' handling of the Bangkok protests. Hundreds of police were deployed near a football stadium where the main rally was taking place. (Reuters)

- Education officer in race for Galas BN candidacy

2010-10-18T06:00:00.011+08:00

GUA MUSANG (Oct 17, 2010): A government servant is among those shortlisted as potential Barisan Nasional (BN) candidates for the Nov 4 Galas by-election.

Gua Musang district education officer Muhammad Zahari Othman is among three names expected to be handed to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak for the decision on who will be fielded against a PAS candidate.

If he accepts the nomination, the 51-year-old would have to relinquish his post to contest the seat which became vacant following the death of PAS’s Chek Hashim Sulaima on Sept 27.

The other names being considered are Gua Musang Umno secretary Abdul Aziz Yusof, 49, and Gua Musang Umno Youth vice-chief Zamzani Harun, 39.

According to sources, these names were mentioned by Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah at a meeting with BN leaders here on Thursday.

Razaleigh, who is heading the BN campaign in Galas, had told BN leaders here that, ultimately, it is Najib as the Umno president and BN chairman, who will decide the candidate.

"But it is incumbent on local leaders to decide on the shortlist of the preferred choices," said a source.

Razaleigh, himself, was expected to be fielded as a candidate but it is learnt that the 73-year-old former finance minister did not put his name on the list.

"Ku Li told us that he is not keen to contest but he will be at the forefront of the campaign and we think that could be enough to win back Galas," said another party source.

In the 2008 general election, Chek Hashim beat Saufi Deraman of Umno by a 646-vote majority. There are 11,553 registered voters in Galas.

PAS is chosing its candidate through a vote by the state leadership. Both the BN and PAS candidates are expected to be announced by their parties on Sunday -- two days before nomination day. --

Professionals behind formulation of nation's economic growth figures

2010-10-18T06:00:00.008+08:00

KUALA LUMPUR: The government's figures on the nation's economic growth are formulated by professionals including statisticians.

Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah said ideas of profesional groups were also tapped before government policies were formulated.

He said the government of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak needed views from interested parties as they were also advisers to the government.

"The wrong figures will result in wrong decisions. We received good support from statisticians but will have to educate the public on statistics," he said after launching World Statistics Day at Universiti Malaya here today.

Saifuddin said the advice from experts and professionals was proven with setting up of laboratories and formulation of the Economic Tranformation Plan (ETP).

He urged the people to nurture interest in statistics as it would help them command various fields including mathematics.

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Anwar puts his foot down

2010-10-18T06:00:00.007+08:00

ANALYSIS By JOCELINE TAN

The de facto PKR leader’s hand in the party polls has been evident in the last few days as he turned on his charm as well as used a heavy fist to fine-tune the list of candidates.

PKR politician Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has always had this polished and casual chic kind of look. But the past few days have found him looking harassed and rather out of sorts, as though the world is slowly crumbling around his ears.

He cannot be blamed because he was almost “played out” by three ladies in a private home in Taman Tun Dr Ismail on Thursday.

During the meeting, the three ladies managed to elicit three promises from him: one, he would not contest the PKR No. 1 post; two, he would pull out from the No. 2 post; three, he would instead go for a vice-president post.

The three ladies were none other than PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, her daughter Nurul Izzah Anwar and political secretary to the Selangor Mentri Besar, Faekah Husin, whose petite frame belies her political cables in the party.

Zaid agreed to the proposals because he was told that Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim would also quit the race and that Wan Azizah would persuade the other candidate Mustaffa Kamil Ayob to withdraw.

The idea was to pave the way for a face-off between Nurul Izzah and Azmin Ali. Both mother and daughter have very personal feelings about Azmin and they evidently felt that this would be the moment to take him on.

On Friday, Zaid and Nurul Izzah met again to discuss a joint press conference on Saturday where he would withdraw and she would confirm her candidacy. His only condition was that she should not quit midway.

But the press conference never took place, the three women went incommunicado, calls were not returned and SMSes went unanswered.

Zaid must have felt as if he was in one of those weird twilight zone movies – did the meeting actually take place or had he imagined all of it?

Well, it was definitely for real and when things went all silent on the other side, he dashed off e-mails to all those who had attended, confirming the discussion. Only Nurul Izzah acknowledged the e-mail.

Zaid was totally cheesed off and has since confirmed he is in the race against Azmin and Mustaffa. Khalid is staying out whereas Nurul is going for the vice-president post.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim apparently blew his top and put his foot down on the deal, despite the fact that his wife is his party president and his daughter is an MP in her own right.

Anwar, weighed down as he is by the sodomy trial, has been working behind the scenes to prevent the party elections from getting out of hand.

He is convinced an early general election is in store after Friday’s Budget and he cannot afford any big splits. The party adviser turned on his legendary charm for some, and used a heavy fist on others to avert all-out fights.

Khalid evidently bowed to Anwar’s determination that Azmin should be the next deputy president.

At a private meeting last week, Anwar asked Khalid to concentrate on his duties as Selangor Mentri Besar.

He told Khalid that going for No. 2 did not make sense given that he has to focus on defending Selangor in the next election. He reminded Khalid that it was why he was replaced by Azmin as Selangor PKR chief a few months ago.

The contest for the PKR No. 2 post has had more twists and turns than the East-West Highway. There has also been collateral damage and a PKR-aligned news portal had to publish a long editorial insisting that, “We are nobody’s poodle,” following accusations that its coverage of the PKR polls was one-sided.

The real power lies with Anwar. He let things take its course earlier on but began pressing the control buttons in the days leading to the confirmation of candidates.

He would probably step up his role again when the divisions convene to vote for the supreme council between Oct 29 and Nov 21.

Those who had pressured him to go for No. 1 must be slapping themselves. Why should he, when he has such unlimited and undefined power as the de facto leader?

At the same time, his word is not what it used to be with the new one-man-one-vote system of election.

For instance, Zaid, who defied Anwar so openly, still managed to secure some 40 nominations for the No. 2 post and more than qualified for the No. 1 post.

Rafizi Ramli, Anwar’s calon wahyu for the leadership of Angkatan Muda Keadilan or AMK, did poorly in the nominations race and has pulled out, reportedly on Anwar’s advice.

The AMK fight is now between two street-fighter style politicians – Badrul Hisham Shaharin and incumbent Shamsul Iskander Akin. Although Shamsul has been unremarkable as AMK chief, Anwar is said to prefer him over Badrul who has an independent spirit.

Anwar’s alignment to personalities in the party seems to suggest that this election has more to do with his sodomy trial than the future of the party.

His all-time favourite Azmin is primed to look after Anwar’s personal interest as keenly as he does that of the party. Even Anwar’s approval of Shamsul and Tian Chua is related to their ability to whip up demonstrations which will be useful in his trial.

As for Wan Azizah, who was returned unopposed as president, her loyalty to the party is second only to her loyalty to her husband.

Those contesting the party polls have to realise that they are there not only to take on the Barisan Nasional but also to rise to Anwar’s defence in the sodomy trial.

Israeli envoy says only peace can halt settlements

2010-10-18T06:00:00.006+08:00

By Tim Witcher (AFP)

UNITED NATIONS — Israel will only stop its disputed settlement building when the Palestinians make a peace agreement, its UN ambassador said ahead of new Security Council talks Monday on the Middle East conflict.

But Israel would be concerned if Arab nations pressed ahead with a campaign to get United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state before any accord, the envoy, Meron Reuben, told AFP in an interview.

Reuben will face new international pressure when he appears before a UN Security Council meeting on Israeli-Palestinian hostilities. The United States and most world powers have backed Palestinian demands that Israel renew a freeze on settlement building in the occupied territories.

"People understand," Reuben declared. "I don't think they agree with the way we are going, but they definitely understand the fact that settlements are not a burden on the peace process and not something that will stop the peace process."

Palestinian negotiators withdrew from new US-brokered talks with Israel two weeks ago when Israel's 10-month moratorium on settlement construction ended. The Israeli government faced new protests on Friday when it approved 238 new homes in East Jerusalem.

"The other side is only looking for pretexts to put obstacles in the road, because they were never an obstacle in the road" in the past, Reuben said.

The ambassador said Israeli settlements in the Sinai desert did not prevent the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt -- "and they were dismantled" -- nor Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.

"They were not an obstacle when we dealt with the Palestinians year-in and year-out since 1993" when the Oslo accords were made.

He highlighted that the moratorium launched at the end of 2009 was unilateral and that the Palestinians and Arab leaders did not accept it at the time.

"They thought it would not help one iota," said Reuben. "And here we are 10 months later and it is the only game in town. Wow! The settlements are the most important thing and they have become a pre-condition."

He added: "The only way may to stop settlements is to come to an agreement. That would be ... if the Palestinians set up a Palestinian state in a demarcated area, then I presume the settlements in that area would definitely stop."

According to Reuben, the settlements, like the borders of any new Palestinian state and refugees from the conflict, must be settled in talks. And the ambassador highlighted that it was barely six weeks into the one year that the United States has sought to relaunch peace efforts.

Some Arab nations have indicated they will ask the United Nations to recognise a Palestinian state if these negotiations remain deadlocked.

In an intervew with Palestinian newspaper, Al-Ayyam, published last week, French Foreign Minister Bernard also did not rule out possible UN Security Council discussion of a Palestinian state, if the deadlock is prolonged.

"It is still talk at the moment," said Reuben. "One would hope that we would not get to that."

"These are heresays at the moment. I am not so sure that it is not something that is being used to pressure different places, but if you look at the Palestinian Authority, it is already recognised by so many tens of nations around the world.

"Officially there would be a very great difference. It will be interesting to see how the world body deals with that because that would be totally different to anything we have seen before on the world stage."

When asked how Israel would react, he said: "I will be frank with you. At this moment I don't know."

Israel "would prefer a Palestinian state to be set up under mutual agreement and not under unilateral declaration. But if it is set up as a unilateral declaration we will have to deal with it.

"We would prefer to see agreement reached between the two sides and not imposed," he said.

Typhoon Megi storms towards Philippines

2010-10-18T06:00:00.004+08:00

Typhoon Megi gathered strength as it barrelled towards the northern Philippines on Sunday, with authorities warning of possible forced evacuations.

With maximum winds of 160km/h near the centre and gusts of up to 195km/h, Megi was approaching the northeastern side of the country's main island of Luzon.

It is expected to make landfall over the northern province of Cagayan by Monday, and as of Sunday morning it was 630 kilometres east of the province, the state weather bureau said.

Norma Talosig, regional chief of the Office of Civil Defence, said the weather was deceptively calm over Cagayan, although they expect it to change drastically within the day.

She said residents in low-lying areas in Cagayan as well as those in coastal communities were being advised to move to safer areas and if they refused they would be forcibly evacuated.

"If we have to conduct forced evacuation, we'll do it for their (residents') safety," Talosig said over national radio. "Our main objective is the safety of the community, the safety of the responders."

In Manila, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said food packs, medicine and rescue equipment, including rubber boats, are ready in areas expected to be lashed by the typhoon.

The Philippines is battered by an estimated 20 typhoons a year, some of them deadly.

Tropical Storm Ketsana and Typhoon Parma struck Luzon within a week of each other in late September and early October last year, triggering the worst flooding in recent history.

The twin storms killed more than a thousand people, affected nearly 10 million and caused damage worth $US4.3 billion ($A4.34 billion) according to the World Bank and international humanitarian agencies.

Rais Yatim being clowned

2010-10-17T06:01:00.003+08:00

An interesting turn of event as the year is about to end. A billion worth of contract is the starting point. To whom the contract is awarded is the real issue. Of course, contract of this volume will send waves down the business world. Many will be more than ready to grab and snatch. So the story goes about someone sons getting sizable chunks.

Easy money, easy contract attracts many seasoned quicky businessmen. The easiest is to get someone close to decision makers to lobby. I don't think those who raise this issue care too much about integrity and transparency. I suspect Greed and "why not me" is the driving factor.

And over the years with Malaysian politics, there were instances where "pukul anak sindir menantu" is the approach taken. The bullet is not meant for Rais's heart, for someone else... But when Rais choose to bite the bait by making a police report, the trap is set to snatch hard!

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U.S. Had Warnings on Plotter of Mumbai Attack

2010-10-17T06:00:00.002+08:00

This article is by Jane Perlez, Eric Schmitt and Ginger Thompson.

Less than a year before terrorists killed at least 163 people in Mumbai, India, a young Moroccan woman went to American authorities in Pakistan to warn them that she believed her husband, David Headley, was plotting just such an attack.

It was not the first time American law enforcement authorities were warned about Mr. Headley, a longtime informer in Pakistan for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration whose roots in Pakistan and the United States allowed him to move easily in both worlds.

Two years earlier, in 2005, an American woman who was also married to the 50-year-old Mr. Headley told federal investigators in New York that she believed that he was a member of the militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, created and sponsored by Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agency.

Despite those warnings by two of his three wives Mr. Headley roamed far and wide on Lashkar’s behalf between 2002 and 2009, receiving small arms and countersurveillance training, scouting targets for attack, and building a network of connections that extended from Chicago to Pakistan’s lawless frontier.

Then in 2008, it was his handiwork as chief reconnaissance scout that set the stage for Lashkar’s strike against Mumbai, an assault intended to provoke a conflict between nuclear-armed adversaries, Pakistan and India.

It is unclear what United States officials did with the warnings they had gotten about Mr. Headley — who has pleaded guilty to the crimes and is cooperating with authorities — or whether they saw them as complaints from wives whose motives might be colored by their strained relations with their husband.

A senior administration official said Saturday, “We took the information, passed it around to the relevant agencies, and what came back was that the F.B.I. had a file on Headley, but it didn’t link him to terrorism.”

Mr. Headley’s ability to hide for years in plain sight has rekindled concerns that the Mumbai bombings are another instance of a communications breakdown among the agencies involved in combating terrorism, much like the enormous intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

It also raises the question of whether United States officials were reluctant to dig deeper into Mr. Headley’s movements because he had been an informant for the D.E.A. More significantly, it may provide another instance of American reluctance to pursue evidence that some officials in Pakistan, its major ally in the war against Al Qaeda, were involved in planning an attack that killed six Americans.

The Pakistani government has insisted that its spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, a close partner of the C.I.A., did not know of the attack. The United States says it has no evidence to counter this, though officials acknowledge that some current or retired ISI officers probably played some role.

State Department officials and the F.B.I. said that they investigated the warnings they received about Mr. Headley, but that they could not confirm any connections between him and Lashkar-e-Taiba. And D.E.A. officials said they ended their association with him at the end of 2001, at least two months before Mr. Headley reportedly attended his first terrorist training.

The investigative news organization ProPublica reported the 2005 warning from Mr. Headley’s American ex-wife on its Web site and in the Saturday issue of The Washington Post. By ProPublica’s account, she told authorities that Mr. Headley boasted about working as an American informant while he trained with Lashkar. According to that report, she gave authorities audio cassettes and ideological material, and described e-mails she believed he exchanged with extremists.

But she was not the only one to come forward. An examination of Mr. Headley’s movements shows that United States authorities also heard from his Moroccan wife that he was involved in a terrorist group that was actively plotting against targets in India. Beyond these warnings, interviews illustrate his longstanding connections to American law enforcement and the ISI.

Among the findings:

¶ An officer of the Pakistani spy agency handed Mr. Headley $25,000 in early 2006 to open an office and set up a house in Mumbai to be used as a front during his scouting trips, according to Mr. Headley’s testimony to Indian investigators in Chicago in June.

¶ The ISI officer who gave Mr. Headley the cash, known as Maj. Iqbal, served as the supervisor of Lashkar’s planning, helping to arrange a communications system for the attack, and overseeing a model of the Taj Mahal Hotel, so that gunmen could find their way around, according to Mr. Headley’s testimony to the Indians.

¶ While working for Lashkar, which has close ties to the ISI, Mr. Headley was also enlisted by the Pakistani spy agency to recruit Indian agents to monitor Indian troop levels and movements, an American official said.

Mr. Headley was well known both to Pakistani and American security officials long before his arrest as a terrorist. He went to an elite military high school in Pakistan, whose graduates went on to become high-ranking military officers and intelligence operatives. After arrests in 1988 and 1997 on drug-trafficking charges, Mr. Headley became such a valued D.E.A. informant that the drug agency sent him back and forth between Pakistan and the United States.

Besides Mr. Headley’s guilty plea in a United States court, seven Pakistani suspects have been charged there. American investigators say a critical player who has not been charged is Sajid Mir, a Lashkar operative who became close to Mr. Headley as the plans for the Mumbai operation unfolded. The investigators fear he is still working on other plots.

Mr. Headley was known both to Pakistani and American security officials long before his arrest as a terrorist. He went to an elite military high school in Pakistan, whose graduates went on to become high-ranking military officers and intelligence operatives. After arrests in 1988 and 1997 on drug-trafficking charges, Mr. Headley became such a valued D.E.A. informant that the drug agency sent him back and forth between Pakistan and the United States. In several interviews in her home, Mr. Headley’s Moroccan wife, Faiza Outalha, described the warnings she gave to American officials less than a year before gunmen attacked several popular tourist attractions in Mumbai. She claims she even showed the embassy officials a photo of Mr. Headley and herself in the Taj Mahal Hotel where they stayed twice in April and May 2007. Hotel records confirm their stay.

Ms. Outalha, 27, said that in two meetings with American officials at the United States Embassy in Islamabad, she told the authorities that her husband had many friends who were known members of Lashkar-e-Taiba. She said she told them that he was passionately anti-Indian, but that he traveled to India all the time for business deals that never seemed to amount to much.

And she said she told them Mr. Headley assumed different identities: as a devout Muslim who went by the name Daood when he was in Pakistan, and as an American playboy named David, when he was in India.

“I told them, he’s either a terrorist, or he’s working for you,” she recalled saying to American officials at the United States Embassy in Islamabad. “Indirectly, they told me, to get lost.”

Though there are lots of gaping holes left in Mr. Headley’s public profile, the one thing that is clear is he assumed multiple personas.

He was born in the United States, the son of a Pakistani diplomat and a socialite from Philadelphia’s Main Line. When he was about a year old, his parents took him to Pakistan, where he attended the Hasan Abdal Cadet College, the country’s oldest military boarding school, just outside of Islamabad.

Mr. Headley’s parents divorced. And before he finished high school, he moved to Philadelphia to help his American mother run a bar, called the Khyber Pass. Later he opened a couple of video rental stores.

But at the same time he was involved in a life of crime. Each time he was arrested on drug trafficking charges, he used his roots in the United States and Pakistan to make himself as valuable an asset to law enforcement as he was to the traffickers; one with the looks and passports to move easily across borders, and the charisma to penetrate secretive organizations.

He was married at least three times. For one period he was married to all three wives — Ms. Outalha, who is a medical student half his age, a New York makeup artist, and a conservative Pakistani Muslim — at the same time.

Those relationships, however, caused him trouble. In 2005, his American wife filed domestic abuse charges against Mr. Headley, according to federal investigators in New York, and reported his ties to Lashkar-e-Taiba. The investigators said the tip was passed on to the F.B.I.’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Then in December 2007, Ms. Outalha talked her way into the heavily guarded American Embassy in Islamabad. She went back a month later with more information. A senior administration official acknowledged that Ms. Outalha met twice with an assistant regional security officer and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer at the embassy. However, the administration official said Ms. Outalha offered almost no details to give credibility to her warnings.

“The texture of the meeting was that her husband involved with bad people, and they were planning jihad,” the official said. “But she gave no details about who was involved, or what they planned to target.”

Given that she had been jilted, Ms. Outalha acknowledged she may not have been composed. “I wanted him in Guantánamo,” she said.

More than that, however, Ms. Outalha says, she went to American authorities looking for answers to questions about Mr. Headley’s real identity. In public he criticized the United States for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. But at night he loved watching “Seinfeld” and Jay Leno.

Sipping tea in a cafe overlooking a plaza in Moroccoo, Ms. Outalha said that in hindsight, she is convinced that he is both men. She claims to be puzzled that American officials did not heed her warning.

“I told them anything I could to get their attention,” she said of the American authorities at the embassy in Islamabad. “It was as if I was shouting, ‘This guy was a terrorist! You have to do something.’ ”

Oh, Mr Minister.

2010-10-15T17:18:00.004+08:00

Whenever a minister came in the picture he will come in with boys. Some are so young that their courtesy is so much to be desired. Some go for killing spree, either in dealing with people or with projects. Now that money is so limited, they even meander their way towards little streams and start pushing and elbowing with common folks and little partisans. They are ruthless.

When their ruthlessness become unbearable, people are shying away. This phenomena is affecting the effective votes that go to BN the ruling party. If only they can scrounge in big rivers, leaving little streams to ordinary folks to fish, bath and wash.

gelagat menteri bersama kudakepang.

2010-10-13T14:59:00.005+08:00

[Merujuk kepada kudakepang: Kerajaan BN Dan Keselamatan Rejim: Siri Lima ]

Salam semua dan bertemu kembali.

1. Kalaulah menteri turun dengan meletakkan kesediaan bekerja bersama rakyat, itulah sebaik-baiknya, tetapi menteri sering turun memaksa rakyat bekerja untuknya.

2. Ada menteri mengusung pegawai-pegawainya apabila berpindah kementerian. Itu juga dipandang serong, apatah lagi jika pegawai agak keterlaluan dan rakusnya tidak berselindung.

3. Ada menteri dilihat tidak jujur, andainya rakyat nampak tindak tanduk mereka berkait rapat dengan paksaan polisi dan agenda yang selesa diterjemah dalam projek dan kontrak untuk dikaut licin. Rakyat tidak semestinya buta dan bodoh.

4. Seorang pemandu teksi pernah berkata, zaman Nazri dulu permit teksi individu tak ada keluar, hanya permit consortium sahaja, tapi zaman Noh, sekurang-kurang ada juga borang boleh diisi, walau untuk dapat belum pasti. Disitu rakyat bina persepsi mudah. Seorang menteri yang baik dan seorang yang tidak baik.

5. Ada menteri yang membuat keputusan tanpa mengambilkira pandangan rakyatnya, tanpa ambil peduli apa akan jadi dihujung jalan, kerana fokus mereka adalah immediate, demi projek dan kontrak. Tapi rakyat tahu musibah 5 tahun kedepan bila menteri sudah berhenti atau bertukar ganti. Tetapi berapa ramai rakyat sedia bertelagah dengan menteri dan pegawai-pegawainya.

6. Ada menteri yang membiarkan adik dan abang mereka berkeliaran mengetuk bilik, membawa cadangan, proposal dan permintaan, hinggakan rakyat rasa dipaksa menggadai integriti

7. Malang sekali jika setpol menteri pernah terlibat dengan penipuan pemilihan UMNO bahagian. Tambah-tambah jika penipuan itu terserlah dalam media. Orang politik faham dan boleh terima, tetapi rakyat tidak selesa bermuka dua, lalu rakyat tidak lagi percaya sampai bila-bila. Sukar salahkan rakyat jika mereka percaya, jika begitulah setpol, begitu jugalah menterinya.

8. Malang jika pejabat menteri membahagikan rakyat dalam dua kategori, satu orang kita dan satu musuh kita. Tambah malang jika yang dimaksudkan orang kita adalah orang yang memudahkan orang menteri mengaut wang. Lebih malang lagi jika "musuh kita" itu adalah orang yang masih mahu berpijak dibumi nyata dan mengibar panji integriti. Yang dianggap musuh adalah penyokong setia Umno.

9. Yang suka dengan tindak tanduk menteri dan pegawai-pegawainya hanya segelintir peniaga yang beruntung. Peniaga yang malang lari mengerumuni menteri dan pegawai menteri yang lain. Rakyat umum hanya nampak kerakusan. Mereka benci dan lari dari BN, walaupun mereka tahu parti lain belum pasti nilai integriti dijunjung tinggi.

10. Walaupun saya merungkai pandangan yang agak negatif, itu hanyalah peringatan untuk menteri dan pegawai menteri memahami apa pandangan rakyat. Mereka boleh menidakkannya dan selamba berkata itu sekadar persepsi. Walhal persepsi yang terbina dalam minda rakyat, tanpa usaha menjernih kekeruhan dan masih rakus bermaharajalela, itulah yang dibawa rakyat ke peti undi pilihanraya.

11. Menteri dan pegawai menteri boleh berubah jika mahu, dan rakyat tiada masalah terus menerus mengundi BN sampai mati. Apa pun, dalam nada gembira masih ada menteri yang baik dan kental berwibawa, dikelilingi pegawai yang pandai dan teguh pendirian untuk bangsa, agama dan Negara.

Maaf dan Terima Kasih

RECENT SOSIOPOLITICO POSTS

Khaled Nordin versus Saifuddin Abdullah, a perception?

2010-10-12T18:00:00.002+08:00

There is a basic problem with the minister not in MT Umno like his deputy. He has cabinet as a forum while his deputy has MT to offer opinions and seeks decision. That goes to Khaled and Saifuddin. It is public knowledge, that the minister is ever eager to correct statements made by his deputy. It is so frequent, that people are laughing about it, and start questioning about his ability to be a team player and his willingness to train junior members of UMNO and acts with decency. Why are they in the cabinet in the first place?

Nobody comes forward to tell, therefore perceptions run true. Even a tight hug in media wont change the perception.

Apa yang tak kena, Khaled, Saifuddin bertelagah?
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12 maut tragedi lebuh raya

2010-10-11T19:00:00.000+08:00

SEREMBAN 10 Okt. – Seramai 12 orang maut, manakala lebih 40 lagi cedera termasuk parah apabila dua buah bas, dua buah kereta dan sebuah van terbabit dalam kemalangan di Kilometer 223, Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan, berdekatan Plaza Tol Simpang Ampat dekat Rembau, petang ini.

Nahas berlaku apabila sebuah bas ekspres Delima yang dipercayai dipandu laju dari arah selatan gagal dikawal lalu terbabas dan melanggar pembahagi lebuh raya sebelum melambung ke laluan bertentangan.

Bas ekspres itu yang dalam perjalanan dari Melaka ke Kuala Lumpur kemudian melanggar sebuah van dan kereta sebelum menghempap dua buah kereta lain dalam kejadian pada 6.50 petang itu.

Pada masa yang sama, sebuah bas Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat (JKM) yang dinaiki ahli Persatuan Bekas Tentera Malaysia (PBTM) turut gagal mengelak dan melanggar bas ekspres itu.

Tragedi Oktober itu mengakibatkan puluhan ribu kenderaan terperangkap dalam kesesakan lalu lintas sehingga lewat malam ini apabila pihak berkuasa terpaksa menutup laluan di kedua-dua arah untuk kerja-kerja menyelamat.

Sehingga pukul 11 malam ini, pasukan penyelamat sedang berusaha mengeluarkan mayat mangsa termasuk penumpang bas dan kenderaan yang dihempap oleh bas itu.

Difahamkan, mangsa yang maut adalah pemandu bas dan penumpang serta penumpang dua buah kereta yang terhimpit dihempap bas tersebut.

Pengarah Hospital Tuanku Ja’afar (HTJ) di sini, Dr. Jaafar Che Mat pada sidang akhbar lewat malam ini memaklumkan, pihaknya menerima 24 orang mangsa yang cedera terdiri daripada lapan lelaki dan 16 wanita, kesemuanya dewasa.

Katanya, seorang daripada mangsa telah dihantar ke Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) setelah dilaporkan dalam keadaan kritikal.

Menurut beliau, kesemua mayat dihantar ke Hospital Melaka untuk bedah siasat, manakala mereka yang cedera menerima rawatan di HTJ.

Antara yang dilihat menerima rawatan termasuk seorang pelancong warga Jepun.

Berikutan kemalangan itu, pihak polis telah menutup laluan masuk ke lebuh raya arah selatan di Plaza Tol Pedas, Linggi di Rembau.

Kebanyakan kenderaan yang memasuki lebuh raya dinasihatkan oleh Plus Expressways Berhad (PLUS) untuk menggunakan laluan alternatif.

Sementara itu, Pegawai Turus Trafik negeri, Asisten Supritendan Abd. Halil Hamzah ketika dihubungi malam ini mengesahkan kejadian tersebut dan menurutnya, ketika ini, identiti mangsa yang cedera dan meninggal dunia masih belum diketahui.

Operasi menyelamat masih dijalankan oleh pasukan bomba dan penyelamat, polis, Jabatan Pertahanan Awam Malaysia (JPAM) serta bantuan pihak paramedik dari hospital yang berdekatan.

Dalam pada itu, salah seorang penumpang bas Ekspres Delima yang terselamat, Nur Najlaa Aqilah Mohd. Ghazali, 19, berkata, dia tiba-tiba terasa bas yang dinaikinya berpusing lalu menghempap sebuah kereta selepas melambung ke laluan bertentangan.

“Ketika kejadian, saya sedang tidur. Saya tersedar apabila bas itu berpusing dan menghempap kenderaan di laluan bertentangan. Tidak lama kemudian, bas yang kami naiki dirempuh beberapa kenderaan lain termasuk sebuah bas (membawa ahli PBTM),” kata pelajar Universiti Malaya itu yang kini dirawat di HTJ setelah mengalami kecederaan di tangan dan muka.

Difahamkan, bas JKM membawa peserta yang menghadiri Perhimpunan Raksasa PBTM, turut dinaiki Exco Kerajaan Melaka, Datuk Karim Sulaiman. Bagaimanapun, kesemua penumpang bas itu dilaporkan selamat.

Road Accident Kills 12, Injures over 45 in Malaysia

2010-10-11T18:00:00.003+08:00

A road accident that happened on the North-South Expressway connecting the northern and southern parts of Peninsula Malaysia killed at least 12 people, while injuring more than 45 others on Sunday.

According to several members of the rescue team, the tragedy took place at about 6:45 p.m. local time, causing massive jam on the road.

The actual scene was located near the Rembau district in Negeri Sembilan, a state in the central part of west coast of Peninsula Malaysia.

The Malaysian police, confirming the accident, told reporters here that an express bus, a bus belonging to the Malaysian Welfare Department, three cars and a van were involved in the accident.

The police also said that the identities of the victims were not immediately known.

When met at the hospital, some rescue team members told reporters that the bumper-to-bumper congestion had obstructed the way of several ambulances rushing to the scene.

They said that by looking at the vehicles' conditions involved in the accident, it was believed that the bus ferrying tens of passengers had lost control on the highway and rammed into the divider.

The strong collision forced the bus into the opposite lanes, causing it to plough with four other vehicles.

However, the police were investigating if the accident was due to the reckless driving by the bus driver, or the technical and engine faults of the vehicle, said the rescuers.

A spokesman from the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department said that the bus collided with a car and overturned after hitting another bus.

The driver of the car trapped under the bus that turned turtle died on the spot, while another van, trying to avoid the express bus, crashed into a car, killing also the van driver immediately.

Baby killed by monkey

2010-10-11T06:00:00.000+08:00

A NEWBORN baby died after being snatched by a monkey from her family's living room in central Malaysia, official said yesterday.

The body of the four-day-old girl was found on the ground outside the family's home in Negri Sembilan state on Wednesday, said a Wildlife Department official.

The monkey clambered to the roof of the single-storey house carrying the child and then dropped her after possibly mistaking her for food, the official said.

The girl, who had been left alone in the room, had bite marks on her neck and face.

A wildlife official shot the monkey later.

The animal had been earlier sighted loitering in the vicinity of the house, and might have been attracted by a female pet monkey the family kept in a cage, a spokesman said.

Malaysian authorities have battled a booming macaque population in cities where they sometimes attack people and raid food supplies.

However, plans to catch them and export them for food and scientific research were scrapped in 2008 after officials discovered most were riddled with disease.

A flight, Ambrin_a

2010-10-10T14:00:00.001+08:00

He has that solid commitment to toe the line, since his early days. He will make sure politician's project or contract will run without much obstacles. There were days, when politicians are in trouble with contractual performance. He came or asked his boys to iron things out. The business people were very happy but the end users will be left alone to mend injured integrity. But that is the price one will have to pay, in toeing the line or to uphold integrity. So Ambrin_a being the chief auditor, is a laughable matter. He never had any problem in joining a full flight, flexing his muscles with friends who are interested for a contract more or a tender more. Flight members have names...., On the green, no game and no proposal will be thrown out or ( buang )

Khairi the little guy

2010-10-10T11:00:00.001+08:00

He looks awfully similar to Norzan. While Norzan is vanishing to the darkness of political background, Khairi with his broken bracelet is hanging on to the last muscle of his own master/minister. Now, who is going to push him off like Norzan. I guess it wont be too long, because the signs are there.

Dr Heazar , a novice

2010-10-06T06:00:00.002+08:00

Everybody has friends to lean on, to talk things over. Friends can help when time is tough. Even if time is not tough, friends can still help to facilitate things for future to be brighter. A bright future is very open ended, no single answer is right. In fact answers are infinite.

There was a time when a TYT came over for State's Raya Celebration. How many rakyat dare to say no to TYT request. Malay (which Umno declares to represent) in its core essence, holds to the principle, tidak derhaka. The Ketua Menteri was scheduled to accompany. God knows for what reason, but that seemed to be enough for the officer to be banished. Everyone were pointing at Heazar. His messages and phone calls were real. Service provider has record for every single word. For a while rakyat excuse Heazar for being hasty and naive. But the blame went to someone else, a dato. He absorbed all blame for not doing much to protect his guys. And for that, Umno definitely not Heazar lose trust and votes. Who can tolerate injustice?

Then there were yellow letters flying around as if those were god sent. Some were out of the ordinary which require out of ordinary treatment. And there were dirty tricks behind yellow letters. For those old enough, no trick is a trick. A friend of the minister submitted a proposal. Genuine and decent proposal. It was pushed down for perusal. A good proposal normally received good evaluation. He secretly allowed another proposal which come in later after he leaked out to his friends. The good proposal was thrown out through the window. Then someone else received the blame for not doing much to ministers friend. His true color is showing every minute. And it is becoming uglier.

Everybody is wondering if these boys, Heazar included, are doing things for themselves or the minister or Umno. Business community is so used to one or 2 thou as little perks to keep the boys happy. But greed is haunting so it escalates. Then they become very daring to throw in people or to banish people. There is a hint of Banting murders in their maneuver.

If he ever thinks that politics is going to be his bread and butter , Kedah has no room for him. Enough words has gone around about the deceit. We have too many of those at the moment. We cant win Kedah through this character, definitely not against PAS.

Business people are so used to elbowing and uppercuts and God knows if these people dutifully vote for Umno or Barisan. But poor ordinary people suffer and felt cheated. For Heazar's doing, they think twice when they vote later, because they see with their own eyes about inconsistencies and outright robbery.

Malaysians were surprised by a bunch of level 4 boys a few years back, for their greed and rudeness, but now the level changes to 7.

We don't want Umno to lose votes, and therefore sacrifice has to be made. This article is not meant to be completely real but if it hurts anyone, I am sorry. Someone has to go before things get out of hand. I thought everybody loves UMNO, and ready to do the necessary things.. But as Roger Moore flexed his fingers in 1971, diamond glittered and money rang ..... Diamond is forever

Dr Amin a politico business bouncer

2010-10-02T18:00:00.001+08:00

All names are fictitious and this is not news item

He rises up slow in his career and life, taking cue from the old saying "biar lambat asal selamat" Now he is the other half of Mr Kamarruddin, also a man that comes up slow. That's more reason for the two to be rushing before the light gets too dim they cant see a thing and differentiate between modules and modular, morning and money, wisdom and plain stupidity. Life can be so real when we are suddenly made responsible for millions.

We heard stories about a banker cheating his own bank. He robbed millions. Before robbery make the run, bribery will grease first.

It is not difficult to guess how to go about things.

Hypocrisy in everyone of us.

2010-10-01T06:00:00.002+08:00

Hypocrisy

Zaid admitted that he had missed some party meetings but said he had valid excuses.

“Sometimes there were other important things to attend to, including being with the rakyat,” he said.

“I am not the only one to have missed party meetings. Others, including Azmin, too have missed meetings.”

He accused some party leaders of hypocrisy, saying they were using the same political tactics they had accused Umno of practising.

Referring to his failed bid in the Hulu Selangor by-election, he said these leaders had complained that Umno used underhanded tactics and personal attacks in the campaign. “Yet, they are doing the same now.”

“They complain that the sodomy charges against Anwar Ibrahim are all slander, but they have no qualms dishing out slander against me,” he added.

a shrewd 9million maneuver

2010-09-30T18:00:00.005+08:00

All names are fictitious and this is not a news item.

There was once upon a time, a damn rich malay politico businessman by the name Dato Malee. He has kaki at certain strategic point to deliver the damn thing. Poor little guys piously work through the proposal and endorse a big NO GO. The same proposal came down again to be handled by another section, still a NO GO. The price is simply bloody expensive! It came down for the third time, and this time it became a YES GO. Mr Eric son of Aron laughs out loud, looking at all the stupidity. Even Mr Gor and Mr Dol managed to put up sheepish smiles. But Badrul and Khairul went about their usual exchange, a bag at the back of the beautiful car. But Dato Malee attended Hari Raya celebration and deserve a sit beside the VVIP. If we care to scrutinize the bigger transaction, the scale of hyporicy double or triple.

In the end, a 9m deal is considered better than a 2m offer. But who cares...

How do we hide robbery.

2010-09-29T19:32:00.005+08:00

All names are fictitious and this is not a news item.

Bribery induces Robbery. Bribery itself is as old as vice. It is about getting what we want, no matter what. Ask Dr Amin, because he knows everything. Honest guys will dutifully bid. Most guys will submit and ask someone to help. Readiness to help is a virtue preached by pious people, but to the layman helps has a price-tag. Money can come in envelopes, tucked in between newspaper. or money can come in big bags as Badrul and Khairul had demonstrated more than once. Money can exchange hands while playing and cruising in Bandung, or Wellington. Some people prefer cash, but some like to wash the dirty money clean, by placing it in secret accounts. That's how thing goes.

If they are real robin hood, people can tolerate.

the burden of ruling party, just a view.

2010-09-28T06:30:00.000+08:00

names are fictitious and this is not a news item.

It is not limited to Umno, or BN or Malaysia. It applies to any ruling party. At birth, rock solid is the best description of spirit and enthusiasm, but through time the zest dies off and replaced by something else. The new drive is the fighting spirit to keep ruling. It affects everyone involved, more so for the individuals who aspire to go higher. As soon as wisdom diminishes, greed comes in hungry and with such brutal force. How else would individuals retain power?
A minister will take guys with suitable loyalty to look after him. Then funny guys of Khair and Hiz character come in to help. As if that's not enough, they keep enough pressure to make sure officers toe the line and even break the rules. A few has to be sidelined and blacklisted, invariably those are the straight, strict and honest guys. The whole ministerial globe turns into an Umno Greedy Division. Names has to be scrutinized. The definition of good officers changes Whoever that can affect maneuver to swing projects, requests and demands to their sides are excellent and fits the quorum of my guys. Guys has to be imported and planted to do the maneuver. Mr. Kamarruddin and Dr Amin hop like greedy Rambo. Even Khairul and Badrul hide behind their handsome faces when heavy bag changed hands. And they are bringing more in, with similar green belly.
They are now playing dirty right in front of others. And these people are voters who may swing support and push anger into ballot boxes all over the country. Anybody cares about creating wealth? No, but there is a fine line separating Umno's cause and personal greed in pursuit of political glamor and personal wealth. They disrupt traditions and structure. They create dissent and push the widening gap further. The individuals will go home and talk to their family. Over weekends they talk among friends. After a while the whole family and friends will be sharing anger and dissent. This is the silent vote swing which nobody can stop.
How would we know they care about Umno, the malays and the nation. We are heading towards a damning vanishing point, where all things will collide with a big bang... poor Umno in dirty hands. Poor voters are blinded by smiles. But there must be a way. It is slow but brutal, waking up the old sleepy tiger, the ruling party.

Mungkin Muhyiddin betul.

2010-09-27T18:00:00.004+08:00

Jawapan yang paling selamat pernah di keluarkan oleh seorang menteri, apatah lagi seorang Timbalan Perdana Menteri.
Kenyataan Muhyiddin bahawa beliau tidak mempunyai kuasa eksekutif untuk mengambil sebarang tindakan terhadap seorang pengetua dan seorang guru yang didakwa mengeluarkan kenyataan berbaur politik baru-baru ini.

Katanya berdasarkan peruntukan undang-undang dan perlembagaan, kuasa berkenaan terletak di bawah kuasa Ketua Setiausaha Negara (KSN) kerana kedudukan individu terbabit adalah pegawai kerajaan berjawatan tetap gred DG48.

Muhyiddin mengulas dakwaan Lim bahawa Menteri Pelajaran enggan menggunakan kuasanya sebagai menteri untuk mengambil tindakan tegas ke atas seorang pengetua di Kulai Jaya, Johor dan seorang guru di Bukit Selambau, Kedah yang didakwa mengeluarkan kenyataan berbaur perkauman baru-baru ini
Dalam suasana lain, Hishamuddin dilihat sebagai menteri yang sering memberi amaran dan pada waktu-waktunya terlajak mengganggu pentadbiran. Berita akhir-akhir ini memaparkan hakikat itu. Rungutan Tan Sri Musa Hassan menjelang persaraan beliau mededahkan betapa seriusnya isu tersebut. Suasana ini sedikit sebanyak melebarkan jurang antara menteri dan kakitangan kerajaan, dan setiap tindak tanduk akan dilihat dengan penuh curiga dan sangsi.
Ada juga menteri yang suka dengan kaedah senyap. Namun hajat mereka sering tercapai, terutamanya yang berkisar dengan publisiti, wang dan projek. Ada menteri yang menapis semua kenaikan pangkat dan perpindahan pegawai. Dalam usaha untuk mencapai hasrat, ada pegawai perlu diangkat dan ada pula yang perlu diketepikan. Dalam kerangka itulah peranan business people amat ketara sekali, sebagai power broker kepada rakan-rakan yang telah dan terus membantu. Terdapat menteri yang yang cenderung kearah itu. Media tidak menipu bila memperlihat menteri dan power broker duduk semeja waktu jamuan raya.
Umno koyak sebab orang korporat, dan lambat laun jentera kakitangan kerajaan juga rabak sebab itu. Hasrat jahat sering memerlukan akal dan tangan orang yang jahat juga. Bukan itu lumrah alam? dan berapa ramai tidak mahu jadi kaya?

Harga Gelang yang patah.

2010-09-27T06:00:00.007+08:00

Ini tiada kaitan dengan Khairi Malek atau Umno Gelang Patah, kerana post ini adalah catatan ringkas sebuah perjalanan waktu melangkah dari dasar sungai di Banting bersama polis yang telah menjumpai sebuah gelang dipercayai milik Sosilawati, bergerak ke ibu kota dan singgah minum di pinggir Klang. Ada Dr Amin, Kamarruddin, dan Datuk Malee di meja hujung sana.
Mereka gembira akhir-akhir ini, kerana projek 49,990 sudah bertimbun dengan total mencecah puluh juta. Mereka juga berjaya menjadikan projek 9juta, lebih viable dari projek 2juta. Mereka berjaya dengan kerjasama Dennis, son of Eric. Sama riang agaknya dengan suspek Banting, ketika mereka itu masih bermaharajalela.
Orang lain belum cukup kreatif kata mereka, untuk membina suasana dan kerangka political business. Pada yang naive, itu adalah robbery. Kena rakusnya, mereka juga akan terlingkup dan tertangkap. Ada juga yang berkata, kalau diam maknanya sekongkol. Malaysia tidak pernah berjaya melahirkan usahawan cara ini. Tetapi bila mana lorong umum dibolos juga, orang biasa hanya duduk memandang, kehairanan kenapa penglibatan bumiputera masih di takuk lama. Kerana mereka tahu selama ini lorong VIP adalah lorong durjana.
Oh, di sinilah mulanya carik pada bendera Umno dan siapakah yang sanggup menahan dari terus koyak dan terus bercerai di tangan yang rakus. Namun orang biasa tidak akan berdiam diri, kerana ruang mereka sudah dirampas, dan juga kerana gelang adalah milik ibunda.

Names are fictitious, as a friend keeps saying, what's in a name?

Umno, A broken Bracelet

2010-09-26T06:00:00.004+08:00

Lets not talk about gelang patah in its literal sense and spend valuable time scrutinizing it.
A broken bracelet.
A pride shattered.
A broken hope.

Gelang patah had a story about going for broke two years ago. Another brick in the wall did a run through of the whole fiasco (Tembelang KJ dan Reezal pecah di Gelang Patah; Akarumbi Tidak Terima KJ).

I thought item 17 worth a repeat.

17. Seorang saksi di luar dewan memberitahu beliau melihat Mohammad Khairi dan Haji Abdullah berbincang secara sulit, tergesa-gesa dan kelihatan cemas.

In case we have forgotten, a news clip will help to rekindle what has flared two years ago.

NST Online 2008/10/12 Delegates claim nomination was rigged

JOHOR BARU: Tempers flared at the Gelang Patah Umno Youth meeting at a hotel here yesterday following the nomination of Deputy Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin for the national Youth wing chief's post.

Most of the 146 delegates at the meeting, who were rooting for Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, voiced their dissatisfaction over the outcome, claiming that there was foul play during the vote-counting process.

They claimed that 70 per cent of the delegates had nominated Dr Khir and it was baffling to see Khairy's name cropping up at the end of the meeting at 5.30pm.

But who is Khairi Malek?

Probably there is a need to go slow as we move along this political scrutiny to pick up pieces, and recognise faces. Lets ride on a serial , fixing political bracelet down south.

Views in Blogospheres:
1The Antics of Husin Lempoyang: Petua kejayaan politik Khaled Nordin
a commenter tried to link KP Pulai and KP Gelang Patah on Khairy Jamaludin political misadventure.
2Pulau Merambong Gelang Patah Perlu Perhatian Khusus. - MykmuJohor
a commenter tried to equate musa hitam, shahrir samad, khaled nordin, khairi malek and khairy jamaludin in the same mould and character.

This is their registered office
UMNO Bahagian Gelang Patah
No. 10 Jalan 4
Taman Perumahan Rakyat 5 Kedai
81120 Gelang Patah
JOHOR DARUL TAKZIM

Lewis Hamilton condemns 'dangerous' Singapore grand prix circuit

2010-09-25T23:00:00.002+08:00

• Slow driving, uneven surface creates problems for the drivers
• 'It's just ridiculous' McLaren driver Hamilton complains

Adrian Sutil goes airborne in his Force India as he hits a curb during practice for the Singapore grand prix. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images

Lewis Hamilton tonight described the Marina Bay street track as "dangerous" after a combination of the slow driving surface and its unevenness created problems for the drivers.

Race organisers have modified the course by ironing out some of the bumps but Hamilton, who came a disappointing fifth in tonight's second practice session, said: "I think they've made it worse. The chicane is the worst corner I have ever driven in Formula One. It's just ridiculous. Last year it was small but now it's even more dangerous. We saw one other car take off [Adrian Sutil's Force India, which suffered damage to its front suspension].

"You approach that corner at 160-170mph and then you brake down. If something goes wrong, somebody's brakes fail and you hit one of those kerbs then you are going to see a nasty accident."

Jenson Button, who trailed only the Red Bulls of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel in the second session, said: "It doesn't dry here very quickly and there's a lot of water coming up through the circuit. It's pretty tricky out there. Hopefully we won't have any more rain this weekend because those conditions aren't the nicest to drive in."

Webber had been fastest in the earlier session, edging out Michael Schumacher. In the later session it was the turn of Vettel to dominate.

Button, who trails the championship leader, Webber, by 22 points, said he prefers it when he is not leading the field, as he was last year. The world champion said: "There's pressure on the guys at the front. Most of the pressure is on Mark. I think he's pretty good at handling it. For us guys further back ... I've been in both positions now and for me being in this position is more exciting. Obviously you have less of a chance of winning the title. You have to be more aggressive."

But Button says he cannot afford another failure to finish, which he suffered in Spa two races ago after a mistake by Vettel. Button added: "If you have a DNF ["Did not finish" in the classification] it's very difficult to fight for the title. But if you're not aggressive you're never going to fight for the title. I've got to take a chance and go for it, and if you're more aggressive it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to have a DNF. I'm 22 points behind. It's got to be controlled aggression."

After building up a good lead Button almost squandered his advantage last season. "We [Button's then Brawn team] were too conservative, which was our biggest problem. We knew we didn't have the quickest car but we knew we had to get points. I didn't have to beat the other guys but I had to finish close to them. You have to be very careful changing your views and the way you go racing."

Christian Klien will compete in his first grand prix for four years this weekend after stepping in for Hispania Racing's Sakon Yamamoto. The Japanese driver has food poisoning.

Lewis Hamilton condemns 'dangerous' Singapore grand prix circuit

The Guardian

Bad taste publicity stunt from Shamsul Iskandar PKR

2010-09-25T18:00:00.000+08:00

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Youth chief, Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin today spoke out against the threat made to him by Selangor police.

The 36-year-old Syariah lawyer said his previous statement on the murder case of cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya, was merely questions, not allegations to the police.

"Firstly, I was only questioning whether there were any abuse of power within Banting police as they had failed to act on the missing person reports involving the lawyer suspects.

"None of the cases were taken seriously until Sosilawati's case were brought to public attention by the media," he said. ( PKR Youth chief hits back at police) malay mail 23 sep 2010

XXX - poor political publicity stunt in BAD TASTE.

Speed as Khaled Nordin sees it.

2010-09-25T06:00:00.001+08:00

Speed is relative. It is nothing, just the pace of moving forward, or even backward or sidetracking. The recent fear about PTPTN and political popularity hints a dragging pace.

Salary Deduction for PTPTN borrowers to start in 2013, not 2011
The compulsory salary deduction to recover the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) loans from defaulters is expected to start from 2013 and not from June next year.

Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said this was because studies and consultations had to be carried out first in the interests of all quarters before the scheme could be implemented.- bernama 23 September 2010

and this a different pace that should be adopted as viewed by K T Maran Seremban in the Star

Excuses can't propel us forward
The world is not going to listen to our minister’s excuses or his denial. The world is still going to look at the ranking to select the university they want to attend to pursue their studies while employers are going to look out for graduates from these top universities in their recruitment. So our minister should objectively study how we can reach the top 200 the next time around.

and this the typical political reality, most of the time a false indication of the true picture.

Khaled's Open House
About 5,000 people crowded the Hari Raya open house hosted by Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin at the Taman Johor Jaya hall.

Five UM students freed of arson attempt charge

2010-09-24T23:00:00.000+08:00

KUALA LUMPUR: Five Universiti Malaya (UM) students, who were accused of trying to start a fire at the Islamic Studies Academy faculty hall, were acquitted and discharged by a Sessions Court here Friday.

The students were also freed of two other charges - committing criminal trespass at the same place and committing mischief by splashing petrol on the carpet and scribbling on the wall of the same main hall.

Mohamad Aizat Roslan, 21, Mohd Shazni Munir Mohd Ithnin, 22, Muhamad Saufi Jelani, 21, Mohamad Izzuddin Hilmi, 21, and Muhammad Syahrul Deen Ahmad Rosli, 21, were all smiles when the verdict was delivered at the court complex here.

Sessions Court judge Rozana Ali Yusoff acquitted the five accused as the prosecution failed to prove crucial elements in the case at the end of the prosecution stage.

For the criminal trespass charge, Rozana said the prosecution failed to prove that the five accused had a common intention to commit the offence.

"Nobody gave evidence that the five accused were at the scene," she said, before a packed court room.

The judge added that the prosecution also could not identify the flammable materials used during the alleged attempt to start a fire and had relied on circumstantial evidence.

When met by reporters, Mohd Shazni Munir, who is the chairman of Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia (SMM), said he was thankful to Allah and the court for delivering a fair ruling.

On Dec 8 last year, Mohamad Aizat, Mohd Shazni Munir and Muhamad Saufi were charged with trying to commit mischief by fire, knowing it could cause destruction to the main hall of the faculty, at 4am on June 24.

The trio faced a second charge of committing criminal trespass at the same place and time. They were also accused of committing mischief by splashing petrol on the carpet and scribbling on the wall of the same main hall that day.

Mohamad Izzuddin and Muhammad Syahrul Deen claimed trial to the same charges on June 30 last year.

Tangan Muhyiddin terikat

2010-09-24T06:00:00.001+08:00

Dalam hal dua pengetua yang mencemuh pelajar bukan melayu, Muhyiddin berkata hanya JPA sahaja boleh mengambil tindakan.

Antara perkataan yang telah digunakan oleh pengetua berkenaan ialah orang cina hanya penumpang, dan tali yang sering digunakan oleh orang India sebagai tali anjing. Seorang pengetua yang lain pula telah memarahi pelajar cina yang makan di tempat umum dalam bulan puasa.

Titanic sunk by steering mistake, author says

2010-09-23T18:00:00.000+08:00

The Titanic hit an iceberg in 1912 because of a basic steering error, and only sank as fast as it did because an official persuaded the captain to continue sailing, an author said in an interview published on Wednesday.

Louise Patten, a writer and granddaughter of Titanic second officer Charles Lightoller, said the truth about what happened nearly 100 years ago had been hidden for fear of tarnishing the reputation of her grandfather, who later became a war hero.

Lightoller, the most senior officer to have survived the disaster, covered up the error in two inquiries on both sides of the Atlantic because he was worried it would bankrupt the ill-fated liner's owners and put his colleagues out of a job.

"They could easily have avoided the iceberg if it wasn't for the blunder," Patten told the Daily Telegraph.

AP/Premier Exhibitions, Inc.-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution "Instead of steering Titanic safely round to the left of the iceberg, once it had been spotted dead ahead, the steersman, Robert Hitchins, had panicked and turned it the wrong way."

Patten, who made the revelations to coincide with the publication of her new novel "Good as Gold" into which her account of events are woven, said that the conversion from sail ships to steam meant there were two different steering systems.

Crucially, one system meant turning the wheel one way and the other in completely the opposite direction.

Once the mistake had been made, Patten added, "they only had four minutes to change course and by the time (first officer William) Murdoch spotted Hitchins' mistake and then tried to rectify it, it was too late."

Patten's grandfather was not on watch at the time of the collision, but he was present at a final meeting of the ship's officers before the Titanic went down.

There he heard not only about the fatal mistake but also the fact that J. Bruce Ismay, chairman of Titanic's owner the White Star Line persuaded the captain to continue sailing, sinking the ship hours faster than would otherwise have happened.

"If Titanic had stood still, she would have survived at least until the rescue ship came and no one need have died," Patten said.

The RMS Titanic was the world's biggest passenger liner when it left Southampton, England, for New York on its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. Four days into the trip, the ship hit an iceberg and sank, taking more than 1,500 passengers with it.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)

refer: Titanic relative reveals 'truth' about sinking

Umno jangan lihat Perkasa saperti ‘hantu jembalang’

2010-09-23T06:00:00.001+08:00

12 Sept - Mingguan Malaysia, akhbar milik Umno, menasihatkan parti dominan Barisan Nasional (BN) itu agar “jangan melihat Perkasa sebagai hantu jembalang” sebagaimana dilihat oleh parti-parti bukan Melayu.

Akhbar terbitan Kumpulan Utusan itu berkata, langkah menolak bulat-bulat Perkasa dalam membela kepentingan Melayu akan membawa Umno ke ambang risiko besar.

Dalam ruangan mingguannya Awang Selamat berkata akhbar itu mengemukakan persoalan apakah wajar kesemua parti komponen termasuk Umno mengambil pendirian menolak Perkasa pimpinan Ahli Parlimen Bebas Pasir Mas Datuk Ibrahim Ali.

Ruangan Awang Selamat berkata, persoalan itu dilontarkan kerana sudah menjadi bahan bualan terutama di kalangan orang Melayu.

Mesyuarat BN yang dipengerusikan oleh Setiausaha Agung Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor Rabu lalu mencapai persetujuan untuk menjauhi Perkasa atas alasan kerana ia dikhuatiri boleh menjejaskan keupayaan BN meraih sokongan pengundi pelbagai kaum selain menjejaskan konsep 1 Malaysia.

“Pada Awang, Perkasa hanyalah NGO biasa sebagaimana NGO bukan Melayu lain, yang sekadar membela kepentingan kaum masing-masing.

“Persekitaran politik yang dilihat tidak menentu dan berbahaya kepada kepentingan Melayu menyebabkan ramai menyokong Perkasa. Suka atau tidak, Perkasa menjadi sandaran baru kepada orang Melayu dan umat Islam,” kata Awang Selamat.

Semalam buat kali ketiga, Ibrahim mempersoalkan pendirian BN itu.

Awang Selamat menambah, dalam banyak isu melibatkan kepentingan bangsa dan agama, Perkasa lebih diyakini berbanding parti politik.

Awang Selamat menambah, langkah menolak bulat-bulat Perkasa dalam membela kepentingan Melayu akan membawa Umno ke ambang risiko besar.

“Pada Awang, Perkasa bukanlah ultra rasis berbanding banyak NGO yang bertaut rapat dengan parti-parti Cina seperti DAP, MCA dan Gerakan.

“Ketika parti-parti Cina saling lengkap melengkapi dengan NGO mereka, ada pemimpin Umno yang mahu menolak Perkasa tanpa melihat daripada perspektif lebih besar,” kata Awang Selamat.

Awang Selamat menambah, akhirnya tidak setuju sama sekali dengan pandangan bahawa Perkasa akan menggugat BN kerana dituduh rasis.

“Lakukanlah kajian menyeluruh. Hampir kesemua isu yang disuarakan oleh Perkasa adalah sebagai menyanggah tuntutan keterlaluan oleh pelbagai pihak tanpa menjaga sensitiviti orang Melayu dan prinsip dalam perlembagaan negara.

“Perkasa tidak pernah meminta lebih untuk orang Melayu walaupun ekonomi negara dikuasai oleh kaum Cina. NGO itu hanya mahu mempertahankan apa yang ada pada Melayu pada waktu ini kerana Melayu masih jauh ketinggalan,” katanya.

Awang Selamat juga melahirkan pendapat mirip dengan Perkasa dalam keghairana Umno dan BN mahu mendapat sokongan bukan Melayu.

“… janganlah mudah terjebak dengan percaturan yang silap. Awang khuatir, yang dikejar tidak dapat, yang dikendong keciciran.

“Sokongan bukan Melayu adalah penting kepada BN namun pasak yang perlu dijaga adalah Melayu.

“Itu juga adalah asas kenegaraan yang bermula dengan kemurahan hati dan pengorbanan Melayu kepada kaum lain sejak sebelum merdeka lagi,” katanya.

Malah Awang Selamat berkata, jika Perkasa dimusuhi, NGO itu dan Ibrahim tidak akan rugi apa-apa tetapi yang rugi adalah kuasa politik Melayu.

Semalam Ibrahim mencabar Tengku Adnan sama ada kenyataan beliau mengenai Perkasa baru-baru ini pandangan peribadinya atau pendirian rasmi Majlis Tertinggi (MT) Umno.

Presiden Perkasa itu berkata lazimnya isu yang dibincang dan diputuskan oleh MT Umno akan diumumkan oleh Presiden Umno dan oleh itu, kini timbul keraguan sama ada Setiausaha Agung Umno itu seiring dengan pendirian parti ataupun sebaliknya.

“Jika ia kenyataan peribadi, adakah ia bermakna Tengku Adnan mengatasi kedudukan Majlis Tertinggi Umno,” kata Ibrahim Ali.

RUJUK: perkasa Umno jangan lihat Perkasa saperti ‘hantu jembalang’

Tuntutan Siqiu suatu masa dulu

2010-09-22T06:00:00.003+08:00

Pilihanraya yang akan datang akan memilih kerajaan dan wakil rakyat yang akan memimpin negara ini ke alaf baru. Empat puluh dua tahun selepas mencapai kemerdekaan, negara kita telah berkembang maju dalam semua sektor hasil daripada usaha dan sumbangan rakyat semua kaum, dengan sepenuhnya menunjukkan dinamika sebuah negara yang berbilang kaum.

Walau bagaimana pun beberapa dasar kerajaan yang tertentu, terutamanya yang berkaitan dengan
kesamaan bangsa, demokrasi, hak asasi manusia, autonomi kehakiman dan sebagainya perlu
diperbaiki.

Krisis ekonomi pada dua tahun yang lepas dan wabak virus Nipah merupakan dua bencana terbaharu yang telah menyebabkan persatuan-persatuan Cina menimbang semula sama hadapan negara kita secara serius.

Kerajaan seharusnya mengadakan satu rancangan pembangunan yang sepadu untuk industri kecil dan sederhana dan Perkampungan Baru Cina yang telah ditubuhkan lebih daripada lima puluh tahun dahulu. Apabila kerajaan sedang giat menjalankan pelbagai projek mega, kita masih menghadapi kekurangan dna, bilik darjah dan guru di sekolah-sekolah. Kami juga perlu menaruh perhatian pada sektor-sektor yang mundur yang terdapat di kalangan Orang-Orang Asli, pekerja estet, penduduk bandar dan petani miskin.

Di samping itu, kami amat mengambil berat tentang isu amalan rasuah, penyimpangan kerajaan dalam pentadbiran awam, kebertanggungjawaban dan kelutsinaran kerajaan yang telah menimbulkan banyak perbincangan di kalangan orang awam. Demi cinta kami terhadap negara, serta perhatian kami terhadap masa hadapan bangsa kita, kami meminta semua calon dan parti politik yang akan mengambil bahagian dalam pilihan raya yang akan datang menyokong dan melaksanakan rayuan kami. Kami juga menggesa semua pengundi negara kita berusaha merealisasikan rayuan ini.

1. Menggalakkan Perpaduan Negara

Perpaduan negara mestilah berasaskan kepentingan semua rakyat negara kita dan bukan berdasarkan perkauman. Hanya dengan berasaskan keadilan dan non-diskriminasi, dapat mewujudkan satu lingkungan yang sesuai untuk mencapai perpaduan dan keharmonian di antara kaum.

Gubalkan Akta Perhubungan Kaum untuk mencegah diskriminasi perkauman, rasialisme dan rasisme;
Tindakan Afirmatif (Affirmative Action) harus bertujuan untuk memberi perlindungan dan peningkatan kepada golongan masyarakat yang lemah, tanpa mengira kepercayaan agama, latar belakang sosial dan kaum.
Mengambil langkah untuk memansuhkan perbezaan antara ¡®bumiputra¡¯bukan bumiputera¡¯ dalam semua bidang.

2. Mempertingkatkan Demokrasi

Demokrasi bukan sahaja bermakna amalan pengundian setiap lima tahun ¨C kerajaan harus dipilih oleh rakyat pada semua peringkat, supaya mencapai demokrasi parlimentari yang sebenarnya dan memastikan keadilan pilihan raya.

Garisan sempadan pilihanraya mestilah berasaskan prinsip ¡®satu orang satu undi¡¯ . Perbezaan bilangan pengundi antara kawasan-kawasan pilihan raya yang berlainan sepatutnya tidak melebihi 15%, SEPERTI MANA YANG DIAMALKAN PADA PERINGKAT AWAL SELEPAS KEMERDEKAAN NEGARA ini supaya mengelakkan jurang besar yang sedang wujud di antara bilangan pengundi di kawasan pilihanraya yang berlainan dalam sistem pengundian kini.
Memulihkan pilihan kerajaan tempatan
Senator haruslah dipilih oleh rakyat

3. Mempertahankan Hak Asasi Manusia dan Menegakkan Keadilan

Memperteguhkan hak asasi manusia, keadilan, keamanan dan kebebasan negara kita, agar
melindungi hak-hak politik, sosial, kebudayaan dan ekonomi seluruh rakyat Malaysia:

Ratifikasikan dan menandatangani semua konvensyen bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu dan
kovenan-kovenan antarabangsa
Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia yang baru ditubuhkan perlu diperluaskan struktur anggotanya dan pastikan bahawa badan tersebut berepresentatif dan bebas
Pastikan kebebasan Peguam Negara dan badan kehakiman
Mansuhkan Akta Kesatuan Keselamatan Dalam Negeri selaras dengan perkembangan zaman
Gubalkan Akta Kebebasan Informasi
Meminda Akta Kesatuan Sekerja, Akta hasutan, Akta Penerbitan dan Mesin Cetak, Akta
Polis dan Akta Universiti dan Kolej supaya selaras dengan piawaian hak asasi manusia.
Mempertahankan kebebasan bercakap, perhimpunan dan persatuan.

4. Membasmi Amalan Rasuah

Amalan rasuah merupakan salah satu halangan besar dalam pembangunan negara, Ia bukan saja merampas kepentingan rakyat jelata, malah menjejaskan fungsi pentadbiran kerajaan dan merosakkan kebrtanggunjawaban kerajaan. Amalan rasuah, mesti dihapuskan pada semua
peringkat perkhidmatan awam dan kerajaan:

Susun semula Agensi Pencegah Rasuah supaya ianya menjadi satu badan bebas dan
bertanggungjawab secara langsung kepada Parlimen.
Gubalkan satu akta di mana semua kakitangan tinggi kerajaan dan wakil rakyat yang
dipilih wajib mengisytiharkan asset mereka secara terbuka kepada orang awam.

5. Laksanakan Dasar Ekonomi yang Adil

Kerajaan harus mengkaji semula dasar ekonomi negara secara menyeluruh untuk mengatasi
kelemahan yang terdedah semasa krisis kewangan berlaku baru-baru ini. Semua kaum mesti diberi peluang yang sama untuk bersain. Amalan rasuah, kronisme dan nepotisme harus dielakkan dalam perihalpemberian saham atau kontrak. Dalam tiga puluh tahun yang lampau, sewaktu kerajaan menitikberatkan pembangunan industri dan komersial bagi kaum bumiputra, perkembangan dan modenisasi bagi indtusri kecil dan sederahana telah diabaikan. Kerajaan juga telah mengabaikan masalah yang dihadapi oleh penternak babi, kerajaan tidak mengambil tindakan dengan segera untuk menolong mangsa-mangsa wabak dan keluarga mereka.

Menggalakkan modenisasi dan pembangunan industri kecil dan sederhana dalam negeri
ini.
Merumuskan dan melaksanakan dasar pertanian yang kekal.
membahagikan tanah secara adil kepada petani-petani yang memerlukannya tanpa mengira
kaum.
Hapuskan sistem kuota yang berasaskan ¡®kaum¡¯ dan gantikannya dengan sistem
pengagihan yang berasaskan ¡®kebolehan¡¯ (means tested sliing scale)
Pastikan bawah dana KWSP serta dana-dana awam yang lain kepunyaan pekerja negara kita
diberikan tempat perwakilan yang memuaskan kepada organisasi pekerja untuk menjamin
pengurusan dana yang betul.

6. Kaji Semula Dasar Penswastaan

Tujuan mengswastakan kemudahan awam ialah untuk meningkatkan kecekapan dan mengurangkan beban ekonomi negara. Walaupun sesetengah kemudahan awam yang diswastakan memberi banyak kemudahan kepada rakyat dan juga menggalakkan pertumbuhan ekonomi negara, namun disebabkan ketidaklutsinaran operasinya, ianya telah menimbulkan monopoli dalam bidang perniagaan, memberatkan beban rakyat dan menyebabkan kronisme serta menghalang pertumbuhan ekonomi negara:

Semua projek penswastaan harus berasaskan kepentingan orang awam
Projek-projek penswastaan harus dittander secara terbuka
Dirikan Suruhanjaya Urusan Awam untuk menyelia dan menilai projek-projek yang diswastakan untuk melindungi kepentingan rakyat.
Batalkan rancangan pengkorporatan perkhidmatan kesihatan supaya membolehkan rakyat
negara kita, terutamanya mereka yang berpendapatan rendah, menikmati perkhidmatan
kesihatan awak yang murah dan cekap.
Gubalkan akta anti monopoli untuk mengelakkan amalan monopoli dalam bidang penswastaan.
Kaji semula perkhidmatan pembetungan supaya mengurangkan beban para pengguna.
Hentikan pengenaan tol dan penswastaan pada jalan raya di dalam bandar raya dan jalan
raya yang sedia ada yang telah dipertingkatkan menjadi lebuh raya.

7. Laksanakan Dasar Pendidikan yang Progresif dan Liberal

Demi menghadapi cabaran abad baru, kita perlu mengkaji semula keseluruhan sistem pendidikan negara kita dengan menumpukan perhatian pada pengembangan potensi manusia, memenuhi keperluan sumber manusia dan memupuk daya kreativiti, daya inisiatif serta teknik pembelajaran para pelajar kita. Komuniti Cina memandang berat terhadap Akta Pendidikan 1966 yang tidak berlaku adil terhadap pendidikan bahasa ibunda bagi kaum cina, India dan kaum-kaum minoriti lainnya di negara kita. Disebabkan kekurangan dana, bilik darjah, dan guru, perkembangan sekolah-sekolah rendah Tamil dan Cina telah terlambat:

Membina Akta Pendidikan 1996 untuk mencerminkan dasar pendidikan kebangsaan
sebagaimana yang dinyatakan di dalam Ordinan Pendidikan 1957 yang memastikan
penggunaan, pengajaran dan perkembangan bahasa ibunda semua komuniti etnik di
negara kita.
Tambahkan bilangan sekolah rendah Tamil dan Cina di kawasan yang padat dengan penduduk
kaum India dan Cina, agar hak untuk menerima pendidikan bahasa ibunda bagi pelajar-pelajar kaum tersebut tidak dirampas.
Selesaikan masalah kekurangan guru yang lama berterusan di sekolah-sekolah rendah
Tamil dan Cina.
Batalkan rancangan Sekolah wawasan dan hentikan perlantikan guru-guru yang tidak berkelayakan bahasa Cina untuk memegang jawatan-jawatan tinggi di sekolah rendah cina
untuk memastikan sifat dan cara pendidikan di sekolah rendah Cina tidak diubah.
Pastikan bahawa pengagihan peruntukan pendidikan, latihan guru, perancangan kurikulum, bahan pengajaran, kemudahan dan perkakasan yang asas adalah adil dan mencukupi bagi sekolah-sekolah semua aliran bahasa, termasuk cadangan sekolah-sekolah bistari.
Realisasikan pendidikan bahasa ibunda dengan menggabungkannya ke dalam rancangan
pendidikan negara kita dan sediakan latihan untuk guru-guru, perancangan kurikulum dan bahan-bahan pengajaran baginya.
Sediakan kelas bahasa ibunda pelajar (Pupils¡¯ Own Language - POL) dalam kurikulum formal sekolah seandainya terdapat sekurang-kurangnya lima (5) pelajar dari mana-mana kumpulan etnik di mana-mana sekolah.
Tambahkan peruntukan untuk perbelanjaan pendidikan
Kaji semula dan naikkan gaji guru
Kenaikan sistem pinjaman dan bantuan kewangan pelajar dengan pengagihannya mengikut
kemampuan keluarga pelajar (means-tested sliding scale) tanpa mengira kaum.
Iktirafkan Sijil Peperiksaan Bersama Sekolah Menengah Persendirian cina.
Izinkan penubuhan Sekolah-Sekolah Menengah Persendirian Cina baru dan berikan subsidi untuk perkembangannya.
Tambahkan bilangan sekolah rendah, menengah, kolej dan universiti selaras dengan pertumbuhan penduduk negara kita.
Iktirafkan ijazah yang dianugerahkan oleh institusi yang bertaraf antarabangsa, termasuk Universiti dan yang lampau serta universiti-universiti yang bukan aliran bahasa Inggeris di negara-negara seperti China, Taiwan dan sebagainya.
Hapuskan sistem kuota untuk kemasukan universiti.

8. Galakkan Perkembangan Pelbagai Kebudayaan

Negara kita ialah negara yang berbilang kaum. Akan tetapi, Dasar kebudayaan Kebangsaan yang sedia ada adalah didasarkan pada budaya tunggal, ianya merupakan halangan bagi perkembangan kebudayaan masyarakat majmuk. Demi memperbetulkan kesalahan ini, perumusan kebudayaan nasional haruslah diasaskan pada pluralistik masyarakat kita:

Kenaikan dasar kebudayaan dan seni yang lebih liberal dan pluralistik.
Sediakan bantuan kewangan dan biasiswa seni dan galakkan aktiviti kebudayaan berbilang
kaum negara kita.
Wajibkan kerajaan pada semua peringkat untuk menggalakkan budaya pluralistik.
Pemberian ganjaran atau hadiah kesusasteraan dan seni negara haruslah terbuka
kepada semua rakyat, tanpa mengira kaum atau bahasa.
Kebudayaan semua kaum dan agama haruslah dilayani secara saksama oleh media dan
badan-badan kebudayaan rasmi.
Galakkan pertukaran kebudayaan antarabangsa.
Mendidik dan menggalakkan rakyat negara kita saling menghormati agama-agama yang berlainan di dalam negara ini serta perkuatkan perhubungan dan pertukaran fikiran antara
badan-badan agama berlainan.
Berikan layanan yang adil bagi badan-badan agama yang berlainan dalam hal penyebaran,
perkembangan, mendapat kemudahan rasmi kerajaan serta dilayani dengan saksama oleh media
rasmi.

9. Lindungi Alam Sekitar

Semua projek pembangunan yang meninggalkan kesan buruk ke atas alam sekitar seperti kawasan tanah tinggi, hutan dan kawasan berpaya atau yang akan merosakkan peninggalan, sejarah serta kawasan perkuburan, mesti dikawal dengan ketat. Piawaian dan undang-undang perlindungan alam sekitar perlu dikuatkuasakan secara serius:

Pastikan projek empangan tidak merosakkan ekologi persekitaran.
Kenakan langkah pemeliharaan air dan tenaga yang ketat.
Kuatkuasakan Akta Perhutanan dan Alam Sekitar yang sedia ada untuk menghalang aktiviti
pembalakan yang sembarangan.
Kenakan cukai ke atas penggunaan tenaga serta pengeluaran gas karbon atau gas buangan
lain yang berbahaya.
Indahkan kawasan-kawasan perkuburan dan pastikan kawasan tersebut tidak dipindah untuk
tujuan pembangunan.
Tawarkan insentif bagi industri yang menggunakan tenaga yang boleh diperbaharui dan tenaga solar.

10. Modenisasikan dan bangunkan Perkampungan Baru

Perkampungan baru mempunyai sejarah lebih daripada lima puluh tahun. Seramai 1.5 juta kaum cina yang berselerak di 452 buah Perkampungan baru masih dikecualikan daripada arus pembangunan ekonomi negara. Infrastruktur di Perkampungan Baru tersebut perlu diperbaiki. Ramai penghuni masih belum mendapat hak milik tanah atau mendapat pembaharuan hak milik tanah.

Pastikan bahawa semua penduduk Perkampungan Baru diberi hak milik tanah dengan segera.
Selesaikan rancangan pembangunan Perkampungan Baru dengan secepat mungkin.
Sediakan peruntukan pembangunan untuk Perkampungan Baru mengikut perkadaran bilangan
penduduk.
Memperuntukkan tanah yang mencukupi untuk petani-petani Perkampungan Baru dan luar
bandar.

11. Realisasikan Dasar Perumahan Untuk Semua

Kerajaan harus merealisasikan wawasan perumahan untuk semua rakyat dengan lebih giat. Tindakan ini diperlukan untuk menyelesaikan masalah perumahan yang ketara bagi kumpulan yang berpendapatan sederhana dan rendah.

Pastikan bahawa kerajaan negeri memperuntukkan tanah yang lebih banyak secara percuma
untuk pembinaan perumahan awam kos sederhana dan rendah.
Pastikan pengagihan perumahan kos rendah adalah adil untuk mengelakkan daripada
memberikannya kepada mereka yang tidak layak.
Laksanakan sistem ¡°sewa dahulu beli kemudian¡± agar membolehkan mereka yang tidak
mampu memiliki rumah sendiri.

12. Lindungi Hak Asasi Wanita

Hak asasi wanita mesti diutamakan di sektor swasta dan awam:

Beri sokongan kepada ¡®Agenda Wanita 1999¡¯ yang diutarakan oleh organisasi bukan kerajaan wanita negara kita.
Pertingkatkan fungsi autoriti kerajaan yang berurusan dengan hal-hal wanita.
Hapuskan segala jenis diskriminasi terhadap wanita dalam masyarakat negara kita.
Kenakan hukuman yang berat kepada mereka yang melakukan keganasan terhadap kanak-kanak dan wanita.
Menggesa sektor awam dan swasta supaya menyediakan kemudahan penjagaan kanak-kanak
bagi pekerja-pekerja wanita.

13. MEDIA YANG ADIL

Media harus dioperasi secara adil dan bebas tanpa campur tangan kerajaan:

Tubuhkan badan penyiaran yang bebas dan adil.
Hapuskan peraturan mengenakan pembaruan tahunan permit menerbit (KDN)
Galakan penubuhan media penyiaran swasta.
Tambahkan peruntukan masa untuk penyiaran berita dalam bahasa Mandarin.

14. Memulihkan Kelayakan Rakyat Terhadap Pasukan Polis

Pada akhir-akhir ini, cara pengendalian pihak polis dalam penyiksaan adalah amat membimbangkan dan hal ini mungkin menggugatkan keyakinan orang awam terhadap pasukan polis.

Tubuhkan satu suruhanjaya penyiasatan statutori yang bebas untuk menyiasat kes
penyalahgunaan kuasa an kekerasan polis. Laporan siasatan suruhanjaya tersebut mesti
diumumkan kepada orang awam manakala mereka yang didapati bersalah patut dihukum.
Mempertingkatkan kualiti pasukan polis menerusi pelarasan gaji dan prosedur pengambilan polis baru yang lebih ketat dan sempurna supaya membentuk satu pasukan polis yang adil, berperikemanusiaan dan lebih bertanggungjawab.

15.Memperbaiki Kebajikan

Setiap manusia berhak untuk hidup dan mari secara bermaruah dan juga berhak menerima perlindungan sosial daripada pengangguran, sakit, umur tua, kematian atau lain-lain kejadian di luar kawalan mereka:

Berikan perhatian khas kepada mereka yang kurang bertuah, kurang upaya, warga tua, kanak-kanak dan wanita.
Sediakan kemudahan rekreasi untuk belia supaya memimpin mereka kepada satu cara hidup
yang sihat.
Tambahkan peruntukan dana bagi sektor kesihatan dan perubatan, terutamanya dalam hal
pencegahan penyakit.
Tingkatkan pengetahuan rakyat terhadap kehidupan sihat dan penjagaan kesihatan yang asas.

16. Hormat Hak Pekerja

Pekerja berhak mendapatkan syarat-syarat kerja yang saksama dan lingkungan kerja yang demokratik, berperikemanusiaan sera selamat, selaras dengan piawaian buruh antarabangsa:

Iktirafkan hak pekerja elektronik untuk mendirikan kesatuan pekerja
Gubalkan akta untuk memastikan semua pekerja termasuk pekerja estet mendapat gaji yang
munasabah.

17. Menyara Orang Asli

Sahkan tanah rezab Orang Asli agar mereka dapat mengawal sumber dan tanah mereka sendiri dan dapat memilih cara hidup mereka sendiri.

Rayuan ini dianjurkan oleh 11 pertubuhan nasional cina Malaysia (Jiao Zong) Persekutuan Persatuan-Persatuan Alumno Sekolah cina Malaysia
Nanyang Universiti Alumni Associations of Malaysia
Taiwan Graduate alumni Associations of Malaysia
Dewan Perhimpunan cina Selangor
Federation of Guangdong Associations of Malaysia
Federation of Guangzi Associations of Malaysia
Federation of Fuzhou Associations of Malaysia
Federation of Sanjiang Associations of Malaysia
Huazi Research Centre

sumber: Utusan Melayu bertarikh 20 Disember, 2000

Nazri Aziz dan Perkasa

2010-09-21T06:00:00.005+08:00

Ini adalah ulasan ringan mengenai isu Perkasa dan reaksi Nazri Aziz. Bisik-bisik mingguan dalam Mingguan Malaysia mengeluh tentang kerenah Nazri apabila memilih tajuk "alahai nazri".

Mungkin ada perbezaan antara pemahaman rakyat biasa yang ada tanggungjawab mengundi setiap kali pilihanraya diadakan, berbanding dengan seorang menteri yang berhempas pulas memastikan beliau dipilih lagi.

Suatu masa dulu 11 persatuan Cina telah mengemukakan 17 tuntutan pilihanraya. Yang tertekan adalah UMNO sendiri, sebagai tonggak Barisan Nasional. Orang-orang Melayu sudah lama tidak berkumpul dan bersatu untuk perjuangan tertentu. Mungkin usaha Onn Jaafar ketika menyatukan orang Melayu membantah malayan union adalah usaha kearah itu yang terakhir.

Orang-orang Melayu perlukan pentas sedemikian juga, sepertimana Onn Jaafar lakukan, dan sepertimana orang Cina bergabung tenaga dalam mempertahankan hak dan menuntut lebih dari itu. Orang Melayu berkerat tiga, sepuak dengan Umno, sepuak dengan PAS dan sepuak dengan PKR. Tiap-tiap puak ini berkait dengan gabungan politik, iaitu BN dan Pakatan Rakyat, yang tidak membolehkan mereka terlalu vokal dalam menjaga harmoni dan kelansungan pakatan atau barisan mereka.

Perkasa adalah peluang terakhir bagi orang Melayu menyuarakan pandangan dan tuntutan diluar kerangka politik. Tidak ada celanya. Kalaupun Nazri tidak gemar dengan Dr Mahathir itu adalah silap beliau sendiri, sedangkan berapa ramai sangat orang yang suka sama Nazri. Belum tentu beliau akan menang lagi di utara Perak dengan stail dan pemahaman seperti ini. Ketika beliau duduk dalam satu penerbangan MAS business class, ramai orang nampak beliau duduk dengan kaki diangkat pada dinding dihadapannya. Ramai orang kata, itu contoh sombong dan tak hormat pada orang lain.

Perkasa bukan isu watak atau individu. Perkasa adalah peluang terakhir orang Melayu mempertahankan hak dan menuntut lebih dari itu. Kita menjadi hamba dan mangsa kepada kecenderungan politik dan kuasa. Tidak ada apa-apa keistimewaan dan pujian akan diberikan kepada ahli politik Melayu jika mereka mengejar bayang Mahathir dan Ibrahim Ali dan menikam bumi. Kita lupa kita siapa, dan bertanggungjawab kepada siapa. Kita ingat kita tahu semua.

refer: utusan Alahai Nazri...

Tan Sri Musa Hassan: Macam ada tekanan.

2010-09-20T06:00:00.008+08:00

Menjelang persaraan, Tan Sri Musa Hassan berkata, kebelakangan ini "semacam ada tekanan kepada pasukan polis, sama ada dari pihak politik atau orang-orang tertentu". Kenyataan seperti ini memberi makna yang sangat sangat dalam. Jika yang dimaksudkan ialah menteri KDN sendiri, seolah trend ini semakin menjadi-jadi. Tan Sri Musa sangat blunt dalam hal ini, manakala yang lain pula memilih berdiam diri.

Setengah menteri tidak segan silu mengganggu pentadbiran kementerian. Gangguan yang dimaksudkan ialah campurtangan menteri dalam perjalanan pentadbiran. Tidaklah salah jika kita katakan, gangguan itu berkait dengan manusia, wang dan projek. Bukan cerita baru, tetapi lebih ketara kini. Mungkin ada kaitan dengan konsep kpi yang menuntut prestasi menteri. Mungkin juga sebab wang yang kurang, oleh yang demikian menteri terpaksa juga masuk lorong rakyat biasa bukan sekadar lorong vip.

Bagaimana kita terjemahkan episod ini kepada undi dan pilihanraya? Saya cuma jangka rakyat tidak selesa dan tidak suka. Oleh itu wajar menteri lebih hati-hati, lebih-lebih lagi jika berkait dengan pegawai besar yang akan bersara, kerana mereka masih boleh mengundi dan mereka juga ada pengikut dan penyokong.

BANTING MURDER: Friend of cosmetics queen found dead

2010-09-19T23:00:00.003+08:00

Just an update on the 2010 gruesome Banting murder:

GEORGE TOWN: A close friend of cosmetics queen Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya, who is suspected to have been murdered along with three others recently, was found dead in her bedroom in Taman Pauh Jaya, Bukit Mertajam, yesterday.

Sarina Jaafar, 45, the founder of Aveer cosmetics, was found about 8.30am by a relative, who had rushed to her house after receiving a call from her. At the time of the incident, Sarina was alone at home.

It was learnt that prior to the incident, Sarina, who was believed to be under stress, had called her relative to tell her that she was going to hang herself.

As soon as her relative arrived at her home with one of her children, she found Sarina already dead, hanging from the ceiling. She immediately took the body down.

Seberang Prai Tengah district deputy police chief Superintendent Mohan Singh said they received a call from a woman informing them about the incident.

When police arrived at her house, Sarina's body had already been taken down. Her remains were sent to Seberang Jaya Hospital for post-mortem.

Sarina, who has four children, aged between 16 and 24 from her first marriage, was a successful entrepreneur. She married a second time five years ago.

Meanwhile, Sarina's son Mohd Azrul Affendi Zakaria, 24, who rushed home from Kuala Lumpur, said he was informed of his mother's death by his younger sister.

Azrul, who believed his mother could have been under stress, said she told him recently that she had been hearing voices calling out to her from her father's grave.

"My mother was a loving person and never failed to look after our well-being. I last met her on Friday and advised her to be careful with her business after the recent murders.

"The murder of (Datuk) Sosilawati affected my mother as both were close friends and had known each another for a long time as they were in the same business line."

Azrul, who will be getting married in January, said instead of his wedding dinner, he now has to hold a kenduri for his mother.

Sarina was buried at the Bukit Minyak Muslim cemetery yesterday.

Refer: BANTING MURDERS: Friend of cosmetics queen found dead‎ - New Straits Times

politics and students

2010-09-19T06:00:00.006+08:00

Oh the minister had spoken. Let students concentrate on their studies and excel. Politics may just disturb the route to success. He may not know the real truth, even at the present moment, students are highly political, so must so that there is a real big shift in voting preferences among the young voters.

The Star has reported this on the 10th of September 2010 “The world has so many problems. We want the universities to provide the right role for studies, We do not want political parties to come in,” Khaled said when asked if the AUKU Act would be amended to allow university students to participate in politics.

Oh well, we are too busy to be looking extremely good, that voting trend is never our concern. After all the effort, of hefty study loans, and off the cuff announcement of repayment exemption for first class, we are too indifferent to read in between lines and colours. The truth may linger around this; Political awareness among students is not all about bringing political parties to the campus. There is a real need to develop political awareness, the ability to observe and weigh situation.

On the hindsight, a little conclusion can be made, that we don't have the meat to face the real challenge. All the looking good propaganda stunt left us so helpless, that a little hot spot is too much for a sweet sun bathing at a sandy beach down south. A friend is observing a different tone taking place, first by being critical to perkasa, and now by showing indifferent attitude towards freedom in campus. I am sure, there will be more to come.

Sosilawati, Banting Murder.

2010-09-18T23:00:00.001+08:00

Just an update on the gruesome Banting murder:

Two more nabbed over missing Indian businessman

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 18, 2010) : Police have made further progress in multiple murder probe involving two lawyers, with the arrest of two more suspects.

The suspects who are allegedly linked to the two lawyers arrested over the killing of the cosmetic company millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and her three associates on Aug 3, were picked up to assist in the probe of another case involving missing Indian businessman A.Muthuraja.

Selangor police chief DCP Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said police arrested a 34-year-old man in Taman Wilayah, Selayang late yesterday evening.

In a follow up operation just after midnight today, a second suspect, aged 21, was arrested at Kampung Laksamana, Batu Caves.

He said investigators believe both men can shed light into the case of the missing Indian businessman.

Muthuraja who had come to Malaysia to meet the lawyers in January, had never been seen again.
His wife, S Usharani lodged a police report on Sept 8 after months of trying to locate her husband.
The latest arrests brings the total number of those detained to 10 suspects.

It is learnt that more arrests are expected to follow in the coming days.

The disappearance of Sosilawati, her lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, and driver Kamaruddin Shamsuddin, 44 on Aug 30 uncovered probably the country's most gruesome case of mass homicide last week.

A 41-year-old lawyer who claimed to be a Datuk, and is believed to be the mastermind behind the killings, and his brother who is also a lawyer, are the main suspects.

Police discovered the four victims were lured to the lawyer's farm near Taman Gadong, Morib and clubbed to death before their bodies were burnt and the ashes later thrown into a nearby river.

Police believe they have built a strong case against the suspects and expect to charge them for the murders next week.

Kuala Lumpur CID chief SAC Datuk Ku Chin Wah said remand orders for eight suspects arrested last week, have been extended a further week until Sept 25

refer: Sun dailyTwo more nabbed over missing Indian businessman

The Story of Dol and Gor

2010-09-18T06:00:00.005+08:00

There is another damning story about true friendship of Dol and Gor and others within the circle. Forget it, we are not going to expose the episode of 50K changing hands while playing ski (not ski?) over in Bandung and while hiking up the mighty mountain over the other part of the country. Those are little things that will warm anybody's blanket and set the dream far and high. Come to a point, the whole thing is so addicting. Yes, we may be right about them not robbing anybody's purse. The are not hinting about declining the tactful offer either. We then pity the little guys in blue taking RM20 over traffic offense and duly exposed like dirty culprits.

Dol is a true character, so charming and clever. Gor is a lazy bump. As long as their addictions go on, Gor will never fall because Dol is always there for a hand. The other day, Gor is about to fall in disgrace, Dol came in to help and put him even higher.

Kok had been helping so far, but with Gor around, the whole team is complete to grab and bulldoze anything.

Little guys will shy away, and so are the votes. But the minister keep talking to local folks holding his colar, like a real humble, honest and shy person. He got so much to hide, not only within his batik shirt but the whole dirty politic that distract people from getting closer. He can never depend on Man Burger, Pin Cendul, and Tan Kayu, because these people are just naive and crazy. The real fear is within the hands of the general public that has been putting up watchful eyes. Badrul and Khairul were not even aware that their cunning transactions was recorded.

They don't care about these people, the masses. For Umno to live with the right spirit and vision better and sincere leaders will soon come forward and replace.

Oh, Mr Minister.

Dasar Sungai Panchau di Banting.

2010-09-17T23:00:00.001+08:00

Saya sekadar salin liputan berita untuk terus mengikuti jenayah ngeri bersiri di Banting.

KUALA LANGAT: The Sungai Panchau riverbed in Banting – where ash and remains of murdered cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others were dumped – could well turn out to be a gruesome watery grave after police found more than 300 human bone fragments.

According to an expert who has been handling cremations for 20 years, that amount of bone fragments could easily be the remains of some 20 people.

This ghastly discovery has sparked a fresh round of speculation that more people could have been killed, burnt and dumped into the river, located about 5km from the farm where the quadruple murder took place.

Other developments are:

> THE prime suspect is believed to be linked to the brutal murder of a mechanic’s wife who was slashed to death in front of her house in Banting last year;

> THE lawyer has also been linked to seven controversial land deals involving a total of RM7.1mil;

> POLICE have been hailed for their efficiency in solving the murders; and

> THE wife of missing Indian millionaire A. Muthuraja claims that only Rs1,000 (RM67) is left in Muthuraja’s accounts after he came to Banting to meet the two lawyer brothers.

refer: the star Cops find remains believed to be of 20 people

Mr Badrul and Mr Khairul

2010-09-17T06:00:00.006+08:00

Remember the day when the sun was still shining? That was the day when we play games and stick with the rule to the end. But remember the day, when Mr Badrul and Mr Khairul were at the back of the car with hood opened and a bag of 200K changed hand. There was a memory lapse on both party about right and wrong.

Lets not probe further who Badrul and Khairul are, because names are just tags like those hanging on the neck of a dog.

Oh, Mr Minister.

2010-09-16T06:00:00.005+08:00

There was a day when a top officer of a ministry had to caution the group to toe the line (or to obey the directives?). He said " you know our minister...." The rest just kept quiet. But then how do we translate that little remark into the bigger political landscape?

That was not the first time it seems. There were series of such instances, even in the previous ministry that the said minister had been holding office. Good camouflage in form of excellent publicity stunt managed to hide ill-advised agenda. Of course, as anyone would expect, business people from his state paraded around like vultures. Coffer is cleaned and structure in disarray.

Those who are keen on this monetary maneuver for a few dollars more, are smiling like dogs. Those who wish to hold on to the last thread of integrity eyed with suspicion and shun away. That would probably be the reason why more voters are shying away from BN and UMNO. Some leaders are too greedy and dirty, and just to make them look clean, they pay millions on publicity stunt to paint rosy pictures.

Lets not give names. There is no need. Tok Pa from Jeli defines a standard beyond reach by most. Clean UMNO politician is a dying breed. And if voters vote for oppositions, they themselves (the politicians) are to be blamed, those damned ill-advised and greedy ministers.

Oh, Mr Minister. You really have to change.