26 December 2007

PLEASE UMNO, TELL ME THIS IS NOT TRUE.

Based on an article from Zorro Unmasked blog dated 25th Dec 2007. Click here for the entire article.

NGOs have also stopped cooperating with the UMNO run Bilik Gerakan after a very sad and disgusting incident. Staffers from different NGOs had accompanied some of the food and other flood aid from the Bilik Gerakan to some villages. At one particular badly hit area, people of all races, i.e. Chinese, Indians and Malays, lined up to get the food. However, the UMNO 'volunteers' informed the people very crudely that the food and other flood aid was only for the Malays. The Indians and Chinese did not get any. The staffers from the NGOs which included Indians, Chinese and Malays were shocked and left in disgust.

In another estate area with almost 600 Indian flood victims, the UMNO 'volunteers' delivered just one sack of rice to be shared by 600 Indian estate workers and their children. The sack of rice was left at a flood relief centre located in a Tamil primary school near the estate. Then the estate workers were asked to initial a list acknowledging that they had received a complete set of flood supplies (rice, oil, canned food, sugar, salt, bottled water and blankets). Obviously the remaining supplies had been hijacked by the UMNO 'volunteers' and sold off for cash elsewhere.

Many of the Indian estate women became hysterical and screamed how 600 people were going to share one bag of rice. The next day when other volunteers went to the same Tamil school, the Indian women screamed at them and said 'Melayu jangan mari tolong lagi'.

In other places the aid was given to UMNO members only. Other Malays, especially known Pas supporters, were denied aid. These stories are not being made up. They are first hand reports from Pahang that were told to us by flood relief workers themselves. (NST, STAR, not allowed to print these reports....you had no reporters on ground zero?)

In another area, about 250 Orang Asli were promised 50kg bags of rice. This was clearly a false promise because most of the rice was delivered in 5kg or 10kg bags. The rice destined for the 250 Orang Asli was despatched by the Bilik Gerakan but it never reached the Orang Asli. When the UMNO ADUN from the area visited the Orang Asli the next day and inquired if they had all 'sudah makan', they jeered him and said 'awak semua penipu'. Again the rice had been hijacked by the UMNO 'volunteers' and siphoned off elsewhere.

For the first seven days of the floods, the Member of Parliament for Temerloh, YB Mohd Sarit bin Haji Yusoh (Tel. No. 03 - 77266005  and 03- 7726 4468       , address: Pangkal Melati Sdn Bhd, No 18-1, Jalan Wan Kadir 4, Off Jalan Damansara Bypass, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur), Anwar Ibrahim's one-time political secretary who became a millionaire within a couple of years, was missing from Temerloh. He had not visited any of the flood affected areas. Flood victims put up a banner in the Temerloh area asking 'YB where are you?' This banner was later torn down by the Police. All this news was not reported by the mainstream media.

The Chinese MCA ADUN from Mentakab has been one of the few Wakil Rakyat doing the rounds diligently in the flood affected areas. The Malay UMNO ADUNs have made themselves scarce or helping themselves to the loot from the Bilik Gerakan.

Because of the dishonesty and outright stealing by the UMNO 'volunteers', flood victims are very angry and tensions have been high in the affected areas. The mainstream media have not reported that when Fu Ah Kiow, Deputy Internal Security Minister and MP for Kuantan, visited the affected areas, the flood victims screamed and threw stones at him. The Deputy Minister had to leave the scene in a hurry. (Just like Samy was booed off the stage in Penang.....MCA & MIC.....that's two down for a start .)

We have just gone thru two religious festivals Hari Raya Haji and Christmas and we are touted as a God fearing country who look askance at anything irreligious like necking, petting, holding hands in public, groping, close proximity, fornicating, incest, buggery, statutory rapes etc, etc, Now we have people in UMNO who rob the distressed of what is their due in such trying times.

YOU DACHING PARTY, WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS? WHERE DID YOU HIRE THOSE GOONS FROM? YOU GUYS CAN RIP (rest in peace)? ME I WILL HAVE TROUBLE SLEEPING PEACEFULLY. PROBABLY I AM ABNORMAL. POSSIBLY.


My Comments;

 Could this blogger provide us with all  the relevant facts and solid evidence in order to verify the blogging? At first, i was in shock after i read about it, but then the question of how true the story is all about, lingered onto my mind.  For example the issue of "NGOs stopped cooperating with the UMNO run Bilik Gerakan", which NGOs & UMNO run Bilik Gerakan is he refering too? He should point that info out  at first place since it was a racial implicated allegation where as he was accusing UMNO run Bilik Gerakan was being racist as for the treatment for the flood victims. 

 In the issue of "one sack of rice to be shared by 600 indian estate workers and their children", again it was lack of facts such as name of estate, time and date it was occured, images etc. If this was true, it was inhumane for UMNO to do this kinda stuff, but where is all the proof and evidence? telling lies about all of this, is also consider as a crime for humanity, social and political stability in our multi racial country. For me its more likely a racially motivated way of writing instead of telling us the real story.

 The story goes on and on where none of the accusation supported with valid and reliable source of news. Please lah people, don`t  play this kinda game, being a bottom feeder wont help those flood victims. In addition you are making it worst. 



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10 December 2007

UMNO musuh kami – Hindraf

Berdasarkan Artikel dari Utusan Malaysia bertarikh 9 Disember 2007.

BUTTERWORTH 9 Dis. – Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) hari ini mengisytiharkan secara terbuka bahawa musuhnya adalah UMNO, bukan orang Melayu.

Seorang peguam yang mendakwa mewakili Hindraf, P. Uthayakumar berkata, ini kerana parti itu didakwa mengetepikan masyarakat India dalam arus pembangunan negara.
‘‘Kami telah hidup dengan baik dan bekerjasama erat dengan orang Melayu bukan setakat 50 tahun lalu tetapi sejak 200 tahun dahulu.

‘‘Kami tidak bermusuh dengan orang Melayu kerana mereka banyak membantu. Hindraf hanya memusuhi UMNO,” katanya ketika berucap semasa menghadiri upacara keagamaan di Kuil Sri Mahamariamman di Jalan Jeti Lama di sini hari ini.

Kira-kira 2,000 orang India berhimpun secara aman di kuil itu bagi mengadakan upacara keagamaan untuk mendoakan pembebasan 31 penyokong Hindraf yang ditahan ekoran terlibat dalam perhimpunan haram di ibu negara 25 November lalu.

Perhimpunan yang bermula kira-kira pukul 11 pagi hingga 1 petang itu turut dihadiri oleh Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri kawasan Sungai Puyu, Phee Boon Poh dari DAP.

Uthayakumar berkata, masyarakat India tidak menghadapi masalah untuk terus hidup harmoni bersama masyarakat Melayu dan tidak sekali-kali berasa marah atau benci kepada orang Melayu.

Menurutnya, Malaysia tetap menjadi negara tumpah darah yang dipertahankan oleh masyarakat India negara ini, namun apa yang menjadi masalah ialah kerajaan pimpinan UMNO mengabaikan masyarakat India.

Beliau yang ditemui selepas itu juga berkata, kenyataan Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Musa Hassan yang mendedahkan tindakan Hindraf meminta sokongan dan bantuan pengganas antarabangsa iaitu Pemberontak Harimau Pembebasan Tamil Eelam (LTTE) dari Sri Lanka adalah satu pembohongan.

Menurut Uthayakumar, pembohongan itu bertujuan untuk mengalih isu yang ditimbulkan oleh Hindraf dengan mengaitkan mereka dengan kumpulan pengganas.

Menurutnya, langkah itu bertujuan memastikan badan bukan kerajaan antarabangsa dan kerajaan negara asing menjauhi dan tidak menyokong Hindraf.

Justeru, kata beliau, pihaknya membuat laporan polis berhubung tuduhan Musa terhadap Hindraf itu kira-kira pukul 3 petang semalam di Kuala Lumpur.

‘‘Kalau Ketua Polis Negara gagal buktikan kebenaran tuduhan itu dalam tempoh 24 jam, ternyata ia palsu,” katanya.

Mengenai penahanan 31 penyokong Hindraf, beliau berkata, Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Shah Alam yang mengadili kes mereka perlu ditukar kepada hakim baru

Komen Warong Kopi;

Berita ini juga telah dilaporkan oleh TV3 di Bulletin Utama 8.00 malam tadi ( 10 Disember 2007 ). Mereka cuba pula meraih simpati orang Melayu secara amnya. Kenapa begitu berani dan sungguh kurang ajar kenyataan mereka ini? Sedarkah mereka dengan memusuhi UMNO juga bererti mereka memusuhi orang Melayu sendiri, ini kerana UMNO itu adalah sebuah parti untuk orang Melayu khususnya? Paling kurang pun Hindraf telah menjadikan lebih 3 juta ahli UMNO sebagai musuh mereka yang nyata.

Hindraf hanya lah satu kumpulan manusia yang hanya menjaja isu perkauman sebagai publisiti murahan dalam "perjuangan" mereka. Mungkin juga ini adalah permainan politik parti pembangkang yang sememangnya cukup anti dengan UMNO.

Masalah mereka ialah kerajaan pimpinan UMNO mengabaikan masyarakat India, tetapi hakikatnya masyarakat India di Malaysia adalah jauh lebih baik dari lebih dari 30% rakyat di negara India hidup di bawah paras kemiskinan. .

Seperti ulasan Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak, Hindraf sebagai sebuah organisasi yang tidak berdaftar dan tidak terurus, tidak mempunyai hak untuk mewakili kaum India di Malaysia.

Hindraf tidak akan rugi apa-apa jika Malaysia kacau-bilau. Oleh itu saya syorkan agar tindakan yang sewajarnya patut diambil ke atas Hindraf dan penyokong-penyokongnya supaya kestabilan dan keselamatan negara lebih terjamin.


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04 December 2007

Leader of Indian group can't rule out violence

Based on interview with Desmond Ng from New Paper Singapore a month ago but it was only appeared online today

He claims he stands for peaceful protests, but the same man inspires his followers with footage of violent protests in Myanmar.

A UK-trained lawyer, Mr P Uthayakumar called himself a patriot, but is now prepared to shame Malaysia internationally for what he sees as policies that are racially discriminatory.
Mr Uthayakumar, 46, even said some in the Indian community may turn to violence to push their agenda.

On charges that he's a traitor, Mr Uthayakumar claimed that during his university days in England, he was often wearing a lapel pin with a Malaysian flag on his coat.
'My friends used to poke fun at me because of that, but I didn't care because I was proud of being a Malaysian. I refused to associate myself with India because I thought I must show loyalty to my country.

'When I opened my legal firm in 1994, the first thing on my table was a flag of Malaysia. I still want to be a Malaysian but I think they don't want me.'

Comment - So now he is prepared to shame Malaysia internationally? This show that Uthayakumar has a very funny concept of patriotisme - by just wearing a label pin with Malaysia flags his coat during his Uni days in UK and by just putting a flag on his table.

Mr Uthayakumar dismissed the veteran politician as irrelevant to the Indian community.
He claimed the community is now turning to Hindraf instead, and Indians from all walks of life have been donating money to the group so they can advance their agenda.
Their public protest was inspired by events in Myanmar in September.

Mr Uthayakumar said: 'Some of the monks were prepared to die for their cause. I've shown slides of monks getting shot and killed during my road shows and I think it struck a chord with the people.'

Comment - Is this fella for real? Yes we could understand why the monks rallied in Myanmar, to go against oppression of their Junta’s force and with deep discontent and anger over the economic mismanagement and harsh rule of the junta.
In 45 years of military rule and 19 years under the current junta the country once known as Burma has become a ragged, suffering nation, one of the poorest and most repressed in Asia.


And how does that justify HINDRAF fights for Indian Rights in Malaysia? It’s baseless and illogical. More like a pursuit of personal driven cause instead of representing the Indian Community in Malaysia.

The New Paper met him in Malaysia last month before the street protests

Comment - He knows about the consequences for organizing this rally, he already predicted on the aggression & violance his people shall face, yet proceed with it .


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27 November 2007

HINDRAF fax memorandum to Gordon Brown - Please verifiy and take appropriate action

I urged to all Malaysian to check on the authenticity of this memorandum that has been fax to the British High Comission in Kuala Lumpur on the 25th November 2007, and if its true then HINDRAF and all the people behind it has commited the highest level of treason against our beloved country, Malaysia. To sum up the entire content, HINDRAF is actually asking external forces to come here and interfere with our national interest and domestic affairs.

If this memorandum was truthfully composed by them, among the exaggeration on the statement would be

We fear that this peace loving Indian community of Tamil origin having been pushed to the corner and the persecution getting worse by the day may be forced to into terrorism in a matter of time as what has happened to the Sri Lankan Tamils.

But in reality most top lawyers and doctors in Malaysia are Indians and many Indians have succeeded in other fields. Ananda Krishnan (worth $4.6 billion in Forbes' list of Malaysian billionaires) is the second richest tycoon in Malaysia. He owns Malaysian pay TV operator Astro All Asia Networks and telecom major Maxis, among other businesses.

Tony Fernandes, CEO of Air Asia, is one of Malaysia's most successful entrepreneurs. Born in Kuala Lumpur of Indian descent, Fernandes revolutionized budget air travel in Asia and has earned the nickname of the "Asian Branson."

In politics, Dr Samy Vellu, a Malaysian politician of Indian descent, champions the cause of Indians in Malaysia and is chairman of Malayan Indian Congress. Karpal Singh is a well-known human rights activist, lawyer and opposition member of parliament. V David, who died in 2005, was a popular politician and a leading trade unionist. The Indian community produced many leaders who led the cause of Indians, such as John A Thivy, Budh Singh, K Ramanathan, K L Devaser and V T Sambanthan.

At this moment, i could only pray that we could live peacefully alongside our multi cultural brother and sister. Sensitivity and toleration is the key to live in the multicultural society but definately HINDRAF was not one them if this memorandum was proven to be structured by them.

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Hindraf appeal to Gordon Brown to refer Malaysia to World Court (&) and International Criminal Court

HINDRAF Hindu Rights Action Force
No. 135-3-A, Jalan Toman 7,Kemayan Square,
70200 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan Malaysia.
Tel : 06-7672995/6 Fax: 06-7672997
Email waytha@hotmail.com

15.11.2007

The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown
Prime Minister of the United Kindom
10 Downing Street,
Fax: +442079250918
London, URGENTSW1A 2AA

Dear Sirs,

RE: 1. COMMONWEALTH ETHNIC INDIAN PEACE LOVING SUBJECTS IN MALAYSIA PERSECUTED BY GOVERNMENT BACKED ISLAMIC EXTREMIST VIOLENT ARMED TERRORIST WHO LAUNCHED A PRE DAWN VIOLENT ARMED ATTACK AND DESTROYED THE KG JAWA MARIAMAN HINDU TEMPLE AT 4.00 A.M THIS MORNING (15.11.2007).

2. APPEAL FOR U.K TO MOVE EMERGENCY U.N RESOLUTION CONDEMNING “ETHNIC CLEANSING” IN MALAYSIA.

3. APPEAL TO REFER MALAYSIA TO THE WORLD COURT AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT FOR CRIMES AGAINST IT’S OWN ETHNIC MINORITY INDIANS.

We refer to the above critical matters in Malaysia but which generally gets the least attention locally even by the Opposition parties, NGO’s, the Malaysian Human Rights Commission and the media for this community is generally regarded as politically insignificant, do not draw local or international funding and are deemed not pressworthy. To the contrary the Malaysian government has successfully projected itself to the world as a modern Islamic thinking country which is not true.

The ethnic minority Indians in Malaysia were brought in to Malaysia by the British some 200 over years ago. Since independence in 1957 the Malaysian Indians have been permanently colonialised by the Islamic fundamentalist and Malay chauvinists UMNO led Malaysian government.

Among the recent atrocities committed by this government are as follows:-

1.100 over Indians were slashed and killed by the UMNO controlled Malaysian government in the Kampung Medan mini genocide. Despite numerous appeals, the Malaysian Human Rights Commission has refused to hold a Public Inquiry. The UMNO controlled Malaysian courts struck off a victim’s public interest civil suit for a Public Inquiry to be held without even the said UMNO controlled government having to file in their defence. The UMNO controlled Attorney General and the Inspector General of Police refused to investigate and / or initiate an inquest into the death of at least six Indians in this tragedy despite.

2. Every week one person at average is killed in a shot to kill policy and in every 2 weeks one person is killed in police custody. About 60% of these victims are Indians though they form only 8% of the Malaysian population.

3. In every three weeks one Hindu temple is demolished in Malaysia.
The latest being the demolishment of the Mariaman temple in Padang Jawa, Shah Alam, Selangor early this morning (15.11.2007) and the next being the (Mutaiya) Hindu temple in Sungai Petani scheduled for the 29.11.2007.

A violent armed pre down attack at 4.00a.m this morning was launched by the UMNO controlled Malaysian government backed by about 600 police, riot police, Islamic extremist and armed terrorists which completely destroyed this temple.

In an attack two weeks ago, uniformed police, riot police and city Council officers hurled rocks and attacked unarmed Hindu devotees with knives, sticks and iron rods.

At least 20 Hindu devotees were seriously injured and 19 arrested including 4 of their United Kingdom trained lawyers in direct violation of Article 5 (Right to life) Article 8 (Equality) Article 11 (Freedom of Religion) Section 295 (defiling a place of worship), Section 296 (disturbing a religious assembly), 298A(causing racial disharmony) and Section 441(criminal trespass) of the Malaysian Penal Code.

These authorities are plagued by an above the law mindset and in fact liberally take the law into their own hands. These atrocities however does not happen to almost all Islamic places of worship. Please visit www.policewatchmalaysia.com for further and better particulars.

4. State sponsored direct discrimination against the Indians in Public University intakes, Indian (Tamil) Schools, skills training institutes, civil service and private sector job opportunities, business and license opportunities and in almost all other aspects of daily life.

Despite our hundreds of letters, appeals and pleas to the Malaysian King and Sultans, the Prime Minister, Attorney General, Inspector General of Police, Ministers, Chief Ministers and the latest being our letters to the Prime Minister dated 29.10.2007 and 30.10.2007 and to the Attorney General dated 1.11.2007 the Malaysian authorities are only proceeding with greater ferocity and with impunity with very little regard for the Federal Constitution and laws of Malaysia. So please help us.

CONCLUSION

We fear that this peace loving Indian community of Tamil origin having been pushed to the corner and the persecution getting worse by the day may be forced to into terrorism in a matter of time as what has happened to the Sri Lankan Tamils.

APPEAL

On our part we are committed to a peaceful and lawful struggle and pray and appeal that the Government of the United Kingdom:-

1. Moves an emergency United Nations resolution condemning these state sponsored atrocities and persecutions of Malaysian Indians in Malaysia.

2. Refers Malaysia to the World Court and the International Criminal Court for Crimes against it’s own ethnic minority Indians

Thank You,
Yours Faithfully

P.Uthayakumar
Legal Adviser
013-3504711


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26 November 2007

HINDRAF encounter with our security forces at Batu Caves

An illegal mass has been organized by a group of NGO known as HINDRAF (Hindu Rights Action Force) yesterday in the vicinity of Kuala Lumpur defying a court order against this particular rally. The protesters are not only has intentionally broken the law but due to their action which against the public interest by jeopardizing their security and not forgetting most of the business premises around the gathering were also closed has sending the wrong signal to the rest of the world that some Malaysian are now prone to streets demonstrations as a channel to voice out their dissatisfaction.

But the ugly scenes are not only taken part on the proposed rally date, which is on the 25th November 07 but also as early as 2am in the morning at Batu Caves. Here are some of the images taken.




These are some of the unsung heroes of our nation who will serve and protect us.




They are making their move out.




The tendencies for aggression is high especially in this particular illegal mass



Things get nasty



It is getting nastier


Some of the 136 people arrested. Another 105 taken in and released after their statements are taken


The disturbing scenario after the gathering.


Definitely I don’t want my kids to grew up in this kind of scenario


Why should we embrace such barbaric act by some people who do not cherish our peace and stability that we have achieved so far?


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23 November 2007

Paul Wolfowitz adalah rakan karib Anwar Ibrahim



Siapa sebenarnya Wolfowitz?

Paul Wolfowitz, 62 tahun, telah membantu Anwar mendapat pekerjaan di peringkat antarabangsa. Selepas pertemuan dengan Paul Wolfowitz pada 28 Februari 2005 di Pentagon, Amerika Syarikat, Anwar telah dilantik sebagai pensyarah jemputan di John Hopkins University dan satu jawatan tertinggi di Bank Dunia. Pada 24 Februari 2005, Anwar telah bertemu dengan Elliots Abrams (Penasihat Presiden Bush dan Pengarah National Security Council) di White House. Pada malam tersebut, Anwar telah makan malam bersama Sir William Cohen (bekas Setiausaha Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat) dan turut hadir Paul Wolfowitz (Presiden Bank Dunia). Anwar turut menghadiri Majlis Kebebasan Media selepas itu yang juga dihadiri oleh Paul Wolfowitz. Di mana sahaja ada Wolfowitz, di situ ada Anwar. Apakah sebenarnya yang diperbincangkan oleh antara Anwar dan Wolfowitz?

Pada 1989 hingga 1993, Paul Wolfowitz pernah bertugas sebagai Under-Secretary for Defence Policy kepada Dick Cheney semasa Perang Dingin. Bertanggungjawab merangka strategi pertahanan semasa Perang Teluk dan merangka bajet sejumlah 50 bilion dolar US untuk tentera bersekutu menyerang sebuah negara Islam (Iraq). Berkhidmat sebagai Profesor Strategi Rahsia Kebangsaan di National War College pada 1993. Selepas kejadian 11 September 2001, Wolfowitz dengan tegas menggesa pentadbiran Bush untuk menjatuhkan Saddam Hussien melalu peperangan di Iraq dan Afghanistan. Apa agenda Anwar intim dengan seorang Yahudi yang anti dan merancang serangan terhadap orang Islam? Wolfowitz pernah menjadi Duta ke Indonesia pada 1986-1989 dan Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs pada 1983-1986. Dengan jawatan ini, Wolfowitz telah berjaya merencana kejatuhan sektor perbankan Indonesia. Seterusnya telah meruntuhkan ekonomi Indonesia. Selepas Perang Vietnam, Robert McNamara (Setiausaha Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat) telah menjadi agen Amerika di Bank Dunia pada 1968 hingga 1981 dengan sokongan Lyndon Johnson (Presiden Amerika Syarikat ketika itu). Amerika Syarikat menguasai Bank Dunia bertujuan untuk meluaskan pengaruh dan menunjukan kuasa kepada dunia.

Wolfowitz adalah pengantara antara Anwar dengan pemimpin Amerika Syarikat yang lain seperti Elliots Abrams (Penasihat Presiden Bush & Pengarah National Security Council), Sir William Cohen (bekas Setiausaha Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat), Jeneral John Abizaid (Komander Pusat Amerika Syarikat), William Burns (Penolong Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat) dan Joseph E. Robert Jr (Pengerusi J.E. Robert Companies, pengurus dana terkenal Amerika Syarikat). Anwar bertemu dengan ramai strategis pertahanan Amerika Syarikat dan pengurus dana terkenal Amerika. Untuk tujuan apa Anwar bertemu dengan kelompok sasaran ini?


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21 November 2007

Anwar urges Malaysia opposition to unite in poll

Based on an article from Reuters, Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:44pm IST

By Nopporn Wong-Anan

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Malaysia's de facto opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, called on the country's disparate opposition on Tuesday to forge a loose electoral pact ahead of a snap election he predicted would take place next month.

Opposition parties with different racial support bases could find common ground on economic and democratic reforms, rallying cries for a big anti-government protest earlier this month, Anwar told reporters at a business forum in neighbouring Thailand.

"This is a challenging task because the relations between the PAS and the DAP are not too good," Anwar said, referring to Islamic party PAS and Chinese-based Democratic Action Party.
But Anwar said PAS, DAP and his Parti Keadilan had the shared goals of free elections, an independent judiciary and review of economic policy when they took part in the Nov. 10 rally, which ended in a police crackdown and at least a dozen arrested.

"If we can agree on this minimum programme -- political, economic -- then we can move on. I am sure we can get one opposition versus one UMNO-ordering Barisan Nasional," he said of the coalition government that has ruled Malaysia since 1957.

The coalition, made up of 14 parties including Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's UMNO, won a record number of seats in 2004 polls but analysts say it could be tough for the alliance to match that victory in the next election technically due in 2009.

On Monday Malaysia's electoral chief reignited speculation about an early election, saying the country would go to the polls before long. Abdullah is widely expected to dissolve parliament and call fresh polls by early next year.

Anwar said the most likely date for the elections would be December, but he did not expect a free and fair poll. "Just one week of campaign, I don't call it an election. I call it UMNO-controlled elections, no access to the media, not a general election," the former deputy prime minister said.

Comments;

The not so good relations between PAS & DAP were not a secret anymore, and by rallying them to unite just before the coming general election might not be a good public relation for them either. Even when they are not the ruling party of the nation, they just couldn’t work things out between them. I just can’t imagine how these groups of people will rule our beloved country if any one of us allowing them to win the next general elections.

When we talk about free and fair election, isn’t PAS won Kelantan and Terengganu during 1999 election? Even after 2004 election, PAS still able to retain their place in Kelantan. If the election were meant to be unfair, there won’t be any opposition parties ruling a state government at all cause.

If anyone of us realize, since the election is just around the corner, the opposition are trying to inflamed and played out the emotional & racial sentiment of the Malaysian by sequences of politically influential incidents such as the Batu Buruk, VK Lingam’s video clips, Bar Council March in Putrajaya, Bersih - Fair Election March to National Palace and the latest which might took place during this weekend is the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) mass in front of British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.


Isn’t all of this is to obvious for us too notice that all of these is just another election motivated issue brought up by the opposition? Do we really want to have number of illegal rallies and mass throughout our weekends instead of spending some quality peaceful time with our families? There are proper channels for us to voice out our dissatisfaction towards the ruling government, which is practice your rights to vote. And definitely I won’t be risking the future of my country for the uncooperative Oppositions.


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30 October 2007

Oil prices continue to rise

Sourced from Al Jazeera News Business Section 

Oil prices have risen to record highs, past $93 a barrel, as stormy weather disrupted supplies from Mexico and the values of the dollar neared record lows.

Pemex, Mexico's state oil company, shut a fifth of the nation's crude production on Monday and halted the majority of exports as storms kept ships in ports across the country.
However, Opec, the oil cartel, attributes the price rise to politics rather than a shortage of crude.

US crude rose 73 cents to $92.59 a barrel by 17:15 GMT, after peaking at a record $93.20. 

London Brent traded up 88 cents to $89.57 a barrel after hitting an all-time high $90 a barrel.
Oil prices have soared by more than a third since August.

A stand-off between Turkey and Kurdish PKK fighters, the weakening US dollar, easing interest rates and winter supply fears have provoked a fresh wave of investment capital.

$100 dollar mark
 
The US Federal Reserve Federal Open Market Committee meets on October 30-31, and Wall Street is predicting another rate cut as the US housing downturn deepens.
 
Expectations of a cut have helped push the dollar to record lows against several currencies and boosted the price of dollar-denominated commodities.
 
Central banks also have poured billions of dollars into financial markets to help ease the credit crisis, and much of that money has been invested in energy, commodities and emerging markets.
 
Frances Hudson of Standard Life Investments said: "There's huge amount of speculation from hedge funds and others, they are all focused on the $100 barrel mark.
 
"If volatility decreases significantly, they'd stop playing."
 
Opec has ignored calls from importer nations to raise crude output.
 
Abdullah al-Attiyah, Qatar's oil minister, said: "I haven't any signal that there is any shortage of crude... I believe a big portion of the oil price today is related to geopolitics and fear factors, and we cannot solve it."


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29 October 2007

ACA doubts Anwar’s sincerity in video clip case

Taken from The Star Online Monday October 29, 2007

KOTA KINABALU: The Anti-Corruption Agency has questioned Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sincerity in wanting to help in investigations to verify the authenticity of a video clip purportedly showing a senior lawyer “brokering” the appointment of judges. 

Anwar had filed an application in the High Court to set aside the order issued by the ACA asking him to hand over the original video clip. 

ACA director-general Datuk Ahmad Said Hamdan said: “If he really wants to help, then why is he getting a court order to stop us from getting the full 14-minute clip?” 

Ahmad Said, who was here to present excellence awards to 21 ACA officers and staff in Sabah, said without the original and complete video clip, the investigations could not be completed. 

So far, the agency has recorded the statements of 12 people, including those mentioned in the seven-minute clip which was made public. 

Ahmad Said said those interviewed said the clip was “inaudible or not clear”. 

“Thus, it was difficult for the us to fault them as we don’t have the original copy. Without it we cannot verify the authenticity of the video clip,” he added


Warong Kopi`s Comments;

As i predicted, Anwar Ibrahim intention on this video issue was fishy even from the early beginning. Only he and his so called die hard followers will know exactly what kinda game he is playing. What ever it is, it looks like he is trying too hard to make a come back, sort of revival like those veteran artiste trying to be on the tv and radio airwave, unfortunately lots and lots of people are getting sick of his acting. I`m glad public are getting wiser and wiser each day and so forth.



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26 October 2007

Lulu's LOL! Kononnya UMNO Is Mature

Taken from an article of a blog owns by What A Lulu

“We’ve never made any such attempts. Never. Umno is mature. We’ll leave it to the delegates,” Umno secretary-general Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad. Malaysiakini - Nov 5-9 Umno AGM: No gag order on delegates

Then erh... Lulu guesses that it is the Malaysians who are not mature enought to stomach remarks like- Umno Youth chief Hishammuddin Hussein waving a keris two years ago

Warong Kopi would say -

What`s wrong with waving keris? Does he kill someone with it? If you are not aware you also can waive a keris, buy one and waive it, that’s it.

- one delegate last year warned that more was to come if Malay-Muslim interests were threatened.

Yalar, as we are living in a multi cultural society, we should respect at others rights not simply denying it and compromise with each others way of life and not by just objecting it.

- Hashim Subuh's “Hishammuddin has unsheathed the keris. He has waved it. He has kissed it. We ask now when he is going to use it,”

Again has someone here killed by the Hishammuddin with his keris? Couldn’t you just stop being paranoid and move on? Why so sensitive on this matter? Talk about sensitivity to all those illegal pig farmers in Melaka who made headlines a few back. Talk about sensitivity to all those employers who is asking their female employee not to wear head scarf during work time and male employee not to performed prayer including Friday prayer. Not forgetting those who criticize the sound of Azan on their neighborhood.

- Hasnoor Sidang Husin's “Umno is willing to risk lives and bathe in blood in defence of race and religion”.

Wouldn`t you just do the same for your race and religion? Or you just might run away since your guts was neve there at the first place?


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Batal jumpa Anwar, BPR salahguna akta pencegahan rasuah

Based on article from HarakahDaily

KUALA LUMPUR, 25 Okt (Hrkh) - Badan Pencegah Rasuah (BPR) yang sepatutnya bertemu dengan Penasihat Parti KeADILan Rakyat (KeADILan) bagi mendapatkan bukti 'pita lingam' hari ini telah membatalkan pertemuan itu dengan hanya menelefon Anwar pada jam 11.00 pagi tadi.
Demikian kata Anwar dalam satu sidang media sejurus selepas mendapat dua panggilan dari BPR di Pejabatnya di Petaling Jaya pagi tadi.
BPR bagaimanapun tidak memaklumkan punca sebenar pembatalan tersebut termasuk tidak memberi tarikh pertemuan selanjut yang bakal diadakan, kata Anwar.
"Ini bukti yang dimahukan BPR ada di tangan saya,"sambil menunjukkan 'thumb drive' yang dikatakan mengandungi salinan sahih rakaman pita Lingam itu.
Beliau mengecam dan memberi amaran kepada BPR supaya mengambil bukti itu dalam masa lima minit (sambil menunjukkan 'thumb drive' yang dikatakan mengandungi salinan sahih pita Lingam) dari jam 12.00 tengahari tadi.
"Jika dalam masa lima minit BPR tidak sampai, bukti di tangan saya akan hilang,"kata Anwar yang tidak mahu BPR mengganggunya di masa akan datang memandangkan hari ini adalah hari yang sebenarnya dijanjikan dalam notis BPR kepada Anwar untuk menyerahkan bukti.
Bagaimanapun sehingga berita ini ditulis, BPR tidak muncul bagi mendapatkan pita itu, dan seramai hampir 150 orang masih berada di pekarangan pejabat Anwar termasuk wartawan dan jurugambar dalam dan luar negara.
Anwar mengecam penggunaan Seksyen 22 Akta Pencegah Rasuah yang memperuntukkan pegawai penyiasat BPR bagi mendapatkan bukti daripada individu yang terlibat dalam rasuah, dan bukannya pelapor atau pemberi maklumat.
Dalam pada itu beliau juga telah dinasihatkan oleh peguamnya untuk mencabar tindakan BPR itu di mahkamah kerana katanya terbukti BPR menyalahgunakan akta tersebut.
Beliau menggesa BPR menyiasat VK Lingam dan Tun Ahmad Fairuz, selain mendesak dua individu itu menafikan dakwaan keterlibatan dalam konspirasi kehakiman jika tidak bersalah.
Terdahulu dalam laporan Harakahdaily pagi tadi, sumber menyatakan bahawa BPR akan mendapatkan pita itu dari Anwar hari ini.
Dalam notis terdahulu, jika Anwar enggan menyerahkan pita rakaman perbualan antara seorang peguam yang didakwa sebagai, VK Lingam dan seorang hakim kanan yang didakwa sebagai, Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, bekas Timbalan Perdana Menteri (TPM) itu boleh dikenakan tindakan di bawah seksyen 29 (c) Akta Pencegah Rasuah.
Di bawah akta itu, Anwar berkemungkinan akan dikenakan hukuman dengan denda tidak melebihi RM10,000 atau penjara tidak lebih dua tahun atau kedua-duanya.
Hukuman itu boleh dikenakan berdasarkan notis dari BPR pada 22 Oktober lalu berhubung 'Perintah Mengemukakan Dokumen (di bawah peruntukan Seksyen 22 (1) (b) yang diserahkan Ketua Penolong Pengarah Cawangan Tindakan Khas, BPR Putrajaya, Sazali Salbi dalam pertemuan dengan Anwar di pejabat bekas TPM itu Isnin lalu.
Dalam notis itu, Anwar diperintahkan agar menyerahkan rakaman pita selama 14 minit dan jika enggan beliau boleh dikenakan tindakan di bawah sekseyn 29 (c) Akta Pencegah Rasuah 1997 dan boleh dikenakan hukuman dengan denda tidak melebihi RM10,000 atau penjara tidak lebih dua tahun atau kedua-duanya.
Ketika menerima notis itu, Anwar bagaimanapun tidak memberi sebarang ulasan apabila ditanya sama ada beliau akan mematuhi arahan dalam notis itu.
Ini adalah kali kedua BPR menemui Anwar di pejabatnya berhubung klip video tersebut yang didedahkannya sebulan lalu.
Sebelum ini, Naib Presiden KeADILan, Sivarasa Rasiah dan Pegawai Penyelaras Politik Anwar, Sim Tze Tzin menerima notis yang sama. Mereka bagaimanapun enggan mematuhinya, kerana bimbangkan keselamatan sumber klip video itu.
Anwar turut menyifatkan tindakan yang dilakukan oleh BPR itu hanyalah satu tindakan yang diarah oleh pihak atasan untuk menutup isu sebenar dalam kes Pita Lingam iaitu konspirasi kehakiman dan rasuah yang berlaku.
Anwar memberitahu media pita asal rakaman perbualan itu tidak berada di tangannya, sebaliknya beliau memiliki salinan sahih yang boleh digunakan BPR untuk menentukan kesahihan pita itu.
Hingga kini katanya beliau tetap akan melindungi sumbernya yang memberi rakaman itu dan berjanji jika ada jaminan keselamatan dan kerahsiaan diberi kerajaan kepada pemberi maklumat, beliau akan mendedahkan baki enam minit rakaman perbualan.
Apa yang menyedihkan hingga kini kerajaan langsung tidak memberi keazaman untuk menyiasat kes rasuah dengan memberi jaminan kepada saksi, sebaliknya menggunakan BPR untuk menutup kes ini, katanya.
Dibimbangi siasatan yang dijalankan oleh BPR ini hanyalah satu sandiwara sahaja bagi melambat dan menutup terus kes ini, ujarnya.
Justeru Anwar masih konsisten dengan pendiriannya bahawa satu Suruhanjaya Diraja perlu dibentuk bagi menyiasat kes itu dengan semua jaminan keselamatan dan kerahsiaan terhadap sumber perlu diberi. - mks.

Warong Kopi`s Comments;

This same fella are on the news again, its gonna be a never ending stories, as he is going on and on and on looking for some reason to be on the headlines. Funny thing is, if he really sincere going for justice as he may say, he might just pass it over to BPR himself the bloody clips that he claimed to be in his tumbdrive. Anyway he got nothing to loose if he do that. What kind of game he is playing now?

Furthermore, I didn’t get the point when he said

"Jika dalam masa lima minit BPR tidak sampai, bukti di tangan saya akan hilang,"

Which means “If ACA (Anti Corruption Agency) couldn’t make it in another 5 minutes, the evidence (the video clips) that currently in my hand will be gone”

A bit too childish I guess.

Last but not least, as far as I remember this fella have tons of supporters during the reformation years 1997-1998 but what happened to his so called die hard fans? During this particulars press conference, only 150 people turn up and that is including the number of local and foreign press and photographers. Here are the invitation for the mass gathering at Anuar`s office for this event. http://anwaribrahimblog.com/2007/10/24/himpunan-solidariti-dengan-dsaipejabat-dsai/

Seems like less people are buying the word from this horse and who knows one day the horsy only talk to himself.


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24 October 2007

A tongue in cheek solution

Based on articles originated from Anti-Jihad and then published by Raja Petra on Malaysia Today 


Ladies and gentleman, Malaysia is facing a cash crunch.

The oil, lifeblood of the Government's treasury, is running out. Hugely expensive programmes such as NEP and subsidies are politically untouchable, so hence must run in perpetuity. And of course Malaysia will in the future need more massive Merdeka parades, more shiny new Russian jets to overfly said parades, and more spaceflight participants to consume teh tarik and commit khalwat in orbit. So many expenses and dwindling income. What to do?

Simply put, Malaysia seriously needs a lot of cash...and the little cash-loaded red dot to our south (which need not yet be named) needs real estate and resources. So my friends, with my tongue placed firmly in cheek, I would like to offer this simple answer for Malaysia's impending financial woes.

Let's sell Johor to Singapore!

That's right, not just the troublesome metropolis of Johor Bahru...the whole state of Johor-- lock, stock and barrel.

Quite obviously, it's a mutually beneficial deal. UMNO/BN gets billions in hard currency that they could not obtain otherwise, and hence get the grease that lubricates the wheels of their, ahem, 'unique' brand of government. Singapore gets desperately needed living space, and also acquires vital resources that it no longer has to buy from its surly neighbours (like sand and drinking water). Not to mention that those annoying issues like the causeway and the crooked bridge are rendered moot, because Singapore will own both sides of the strait. Both sides win!

Oh sure, the Sultan in JB may have a small objection to the aforementioned deal. Enough cash in his pocket and the usual UMNO-style kickback should settle the matter in the usual way. OK, let's not call it a kickback. We can call it a small gratuity, with another estate or two in Switzerland thrown in to sweeten the transaction. Besides, I am quite sure that the Sultan can work out a deal with the pragmatic folks south of the (current) border to look as if he's still in charge whilst the practical bureaucrats of the PAP take care of the less glamourous aspects of running an efficient government. Moreover, once the relatively non-corrupt Singaporean police show up in Johor Bahru and clean up the place in short order, the folks in JB should quickly grow positively fond of their new landlords. After all the BN-sanctioned corruption and violence that's plagued the place for decades, who wouldn't be grateful?

Of course, after a half century of watching UMNO governments run Johor into the ground, I wouldn't blame the Singaporeans a whit if they didn't want any part of this proposed transaction. Compared to their immaculately-kept island, Johor can best be described as a handyman's special, or a 'fixer-upper'. It would take a ton of work to spruce up the place. But the Singaporeans don't seem too averse to a dint of hard work. After all, the miracle that is today's Singapore certainly didn't build itself, did it?

Alright, it doesn't have to be an outright sale. Perhaps the parties could opt for a long-term lease with an option to buy. Let the potential new owners test-drive their new property, kick the tires, and see how they like it.

After all, the Singaporeans wouldn't want any buyer's remorse, would they?

 

Warong Kopi Comment,

 First of all, I guess Raja Petra was trying to be funny by posting this article from someone who actually pronounced that he is no longer a muslim or murtads. You guys may read all his writings and ideas at http://www.pedestrianinfidel.blogspot.com/ then you all know what kind of person this fellow is.

 But Raja Petra you are trying too hard since all the sarcasm he tried to lump into was kind of too much especially when he said

"Oh sure, the Sultan in JB may have a small objection to the aforementioned deal. Enough cash in his pocket and the usual UMNO-style kickback should settle the matter in the usual way."

Isn` It a hell lots of kurang ajar? 

Maybe one day we will have a similar case of Blogger Praya Pichai from Thailand which his offending post to the Thais monarchy and now is charged under section 14 of Computer Crime Act, which provides for a sentence of up to ten years in prison.

I think we should!!!

 

 

 

 


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23 October 2007

Malaysia’s worst-ever ranking in RSF worldwide press freedom index - could be even worse!

Taken from Lim Kit Siang`s article on his blog.

In the latest worldwide press freedom index released by Paris-based watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Malaysia scored two “worsts” – the sharpest plunge of 32 spots from 92 to 124 placing, which is also Malaysia’s worst ranking in the RSF annual worldwide press freedom ranking since it was started in 2002.
In the past six years, Malaysia had been ranked poorly in RSF’s annual worldwide press freedom index –

RSF Worldwide Press Freedom Index (Malaysia)

2002 - 110 (out of 139 countries)
2003 - 104 (166)
2004 - 122 (167)
2005 - 113 (167)
2006 - 92 (168)
2007 - 124 (169)

Last year, when Malaysia jumped 21 spots to 92nd ranking from the previous year’s 113rd position, the New Straits Times crowed:

“This is the best ranking that the country has achieved since the global media watchdog first introduced the Index in 2002, when we came in 110th. In fact, this is the first time the country has scored higher than all the other Asean countries. Last year, we were fourth, and the year before were fifth.”

The New Straits Times today did not report the 2007 RSF worldwide press freedom index released yesterday and Malaysia’s worst ever ranking and plunge.
This year, Malaysia cannot make the same claim of scoring higher than all the other Asean countries, as we are behind Cambodia (85) and Indonesia (100) while in the Asia-Pacific region, we are behind Taiwan (32), Japan (37), South Korea (39), Hong Kong (61), Timor-Leste (94), Bhutan (116) and India (120).

Malaysia is one of five of the 169 countries which had suffered the worst plunge as compared to last year’s RSF worldwide press freedom index, dropping by 32 places.
Malaysia’s drop and placing for this year’s RSF 2007 worldwide press freedom index would have been worse if the shocking development that the Prime Minister does not want to hear the truth from the media and the public had been taken fully into account.
Can Malaysians expect a response from the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi himself to the shocking plunge and placing of Malaysia in the RSF 2007 worldwide press freedom index in view of his earlier pledge to show greater respect for press freedom as compared to the previous administration?

Malaysia’s worst placing in the RSF 2007 worldwide press freedom index joins a lost list of indicators that all is not right with Malaysia on the occasion of our 50th Merdeka anniversary – that while we should be proud of our national achievements, we have greater reason to be concerned about our many national failings

Warong Kopi Comment;

Welll Mr Lim Kit Siang, If you really want to talk about the press freedom in Malaysia by referring to this press freedom index done by Reportes Without Borders (RSF), at least with due respect and truthfulness please do write about Singapore too since you and your DAP comrade are really into everything about them including an article by Ronnie Liu, who talks about a statement done by “who else other than Singaporean top honcho Lee Kuan Yew”.

Here you are; RSF Worldwide Press Freedom Index (Singapore) and how they
generate the index from

2002 – Not included
2003 - 144 (166)
2004 - 147 (167)
2005 - 140 (167)
2006 - 146 (168)
2007 - 124 (169)

Press freedom or freedom of speech will mean nothing to the public or rather than a potential threat to the stability of society, politics and even economy if there are no mediums of control or kind of censorships board plays their parts. Especially during our time of internet technology just at our fingertips whereas anyone even a small kid able to write anything and publish it on their web blogs.

Last but not least, the index is just a mere presentation of reports done by an NGO in France, talk about validity and reliability; I would leave it to our maturity to judge it since the index should in no way be taken as an indication of the quality of the press in the countries concerned as claimed by themselves .


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10 October 2007

Hackers tajaan Umno mula godam laman web PAS

Di petik dari laman web harakahdaily.net 10 October 2007 Berita Penuh

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 Okt (Hrkh) - Hackers atau pengodam internet pagi ini menyerang laman-laman web yang berada di bawah domain pas.org.my menyebabkan ke semua laman web PAS termasuk webtv PAS tidak dapat dicapai.

Hackers yang dipercayai didalangi Umno menyerang server yang menempatkan laman-laman di bawah domain dan sub-domain pas.org.my. Dalam kenyataannya kepada Harakahdaily, Pihak Bantuan IT PAS memaklumkan, mereka sedang berusaha untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut.

Dalam masa yang sama pihak IT PAS, juga akan menilai kadar kerosakan dan sebarang isu-isu keselamatan lain yang mungkin timbul. Pihak IT PAS juga akan mengambil tindakan untuk melaporkan kejadian ini kepada pihak berkuasa yang berkaitan untuk tindakan.Ini bukanlah kejadian kali pertama - malah laman2 pas.org.my sering menjadi sasaran pihak2 yang cemburukan kemampuan Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) dlm memanfaatkan teknologi IT dan khususnya internet.

Untuk para pengguna webmail, capaian ke https://mail.pas.org.my akan turut mengalami masalah dan sehubungan dengan itu, kaedah alternatif ialah untuk mencapai menggunakan https://mail.parti-pas.orgBagaimanapun, pihak IT PAS memberitahu, terdapat kemungkinan semua data-data laman adalah terjejas disebabkan oleh aktiviti hackers ini dan sebarang masalah yang timbul adalah amat-amat dikesali.

Ini adalah kerana prasarana yang ada tidak mempunyai sebarang kemampuan untuk back-up dan perkara ini masih belum diselesaikan walaupun telah dimajukan dan dimaklumkan kemungkinan masalah dan risiko yang dihadapi. Sehingga masalah ini diatasi, kerjasama dan kesabaran pelayar internet semua amatlah diharapkan.

Komen Warong Kopi;

Cepat sahaja menuding jari walaupun belum tentu lagi sahih atau tidak tuduhan itu. Dah hujung-hujung bulan ramadhan ni masih lagi dengan tabiat lama. Kalau beginilah caranya, bagaimana nanti jika orang orang ini dapat memerintah negara. Harapan kepada pihak berkuasa dapat menjernihkan keadaan dengan hasil siasatan yang lebih tulus dan berdasarkan bukti yang kukuh.


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09 October 2007

Parti baru bukti PKR alami krisis dalaman

Berdasarkan Artikel Agenda Daily 7 October 2007. Berita Penuh

Timbalan Presiden UMNO, Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak menyifatkan penubuhan Parti Bersatu India Malaysia (MIUP) membuktikan wujudnya masalah dalaman dan kepimpinan yang serius di dalam Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).

Ini kerana parti itu diasaskan oleh bekas Ketua Bahagian PKR Kepong, Datuk S. Nallakaruppan yang juga merupakan sahabat karib penasihat PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim suatu ketika dahulu.

Menurut Najib, perpecahan yang berlaku yang membawa kepada penubuhan parti baru itu memberi gambaran PKR kini berhadapan dengan masalah dalaman yang mampu menggugat keutuhan parti tersebut.

‘‘Mungkin ada masalah dalaman yang besar dalam Parti Keadilan, sebab itulah Datuk Nalla tidak bersama lagi dalam Keadilan dan mengambil keputusan untuk menubuhkan partinya sendiri.

‘‘Saya tunggu komen setelah Datuk Nalla mengeluarkan kenyataan rasmi tentang pendiriannya itu,” kata Najib kepada pemberita selepas menghadiri Majlis Penyampaian Sumbangan Zakat di Pekan, Pahang, hari Ahad.

Semalam, Nallakaruppan yang juga seorang ahli perniagaan mengumumkan penubuhan parti politik baru MIUP yang mewakili kaum India dengan beliau sendiri akan menjadi Presiden parti itu.

Nallakaruppan merupakan salah seorang yang ‘penting’ semasa pemecatan Anwar dibuat pada tahun 1998.

Nallakaruppan dinilai oleh para pengikut setia Anwar ketika itu sebagai sahabat sejati kerana sanggup berhadapan dengan tindakan undang-undang semata-mata mempertahankan semangat setiakawannya terhadap Anwar.

Malah sepanjang tempoh Anwar dipenjara, Nallakaruppan adalah salah seorang yang banyak menghulurkan bantuan kepada pergerakan politik Parti Keadilan Nasional ketika itu.

Namun, segala-galanya berubah apabila Anwar bebas dan Nallakaruppan merasakan dirinya dipermainkan kerana kepentingan politik Anwar.

Menurut Najib, dalam sistem demokrasi berparlimen, mana-mana pihak boleh menubuhkan parti politik.

Katanya, terpulang kepada rakyat sama ada hendak memberikan sokongan atau tidak kerana ia bergantung kepada dasar-dasar yang diperjuangkan oleh parti berkenaan.

‘‘Terpulang kepada rakyat untuk menentukan siapa yang mereka sokong. Dasar yang diperjuangkan juga ditentukan oleh parti yang ditubuhkan oleh Datuk Nalla itu,” ujarnya


Komen Warong Kopi;

Ezam pun ada masalah dengan pengerusi Keadilan dan kini pula joint venture dengan Nalla. Memang sah ini cukup membuktikan PKR ada masalah dalaman. Sedangkan Nalla dan Ezam yang merupakan orang kuat DSAI pun sudah muak dengan perjuangan yang sia-sia dan akhirnya mengambil tindakan keluar parti. Dua watak yang cukup dominan dalam PKR bukan sahaja keluar tetapi sekarang menentang PKR secara rasmi. Lebih baik duduk dalam jel sebab pengikut lebih ramai daripada zaman keluar jel. Apa kata DSAI masuk jel semula.


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05 October 2007

Bila Lawyer di jalanan

Berdasarkan Artikel Abd Zaharin Mohd Yasin - Sang Kelembai pada 28 Sept 2007. Berita Penuh

Agaknya kepala-kepala di tingkat 4 Jabatan Perdana Menteri atau kumpulan sewaktu dengannya yang cuba untuk mempertahankan kuasa Abdullah Hj Ahmad sedang bertungkus lumus hendak menggunakan taktikal apa yang di panggil “Psychological War and “strategically plan” atau dalam Bahasa Melayu lebih kurang dipanggil “perancangan strategik perang saraf” bagi mengalihkan pandangan rakyat Agaknya kepala-kepala di tingkat 4 Jabatan Perdana Menteri atau kumpulan sewaktu dengannya yang cuba untuk mempertahankan kuasa Abdullah Hj Ahmad sedang bertungkus lumus hendak menggunakan taktikal apa yang di panggil “Psychological War and “strategically plan” atau dalam Bahasa Melayu lebih kurang dipanggil “perancangan strategik perang saraf” bagi mengalihkan pandangan rakyat terhadap isu-isu yang menjejaskan Abdullah Hj Ahmad yang terkena sindrom sakit gila “koridor”.

Walau pun segala usaha sudah dibuat, bagi menarik perhatian rakyat beralih kepada isu-isu yang melupakan akan perihal Abdullah Hj Ahmad yang di Indonesia dipanggil “Maling menyebut Maling” atau visi Malaysia dipanggil Pencuri menjerit pencuri, rakyat masih tidak mahu menerima pelarian isu itu, mereka balik ke isu asal bahawa Abdullah Hj Ahmad sudah tidak layak lagi menjadi Perdana Menteri dan desakan untuk meletakan jawatan walau tidak dibuat secara terbuka tetapi akan dibuat di dalam PRU- Pilihan Raya Umum yang akan datang, yang mana rakyat akan mengetepikan kepentingan bangsa, kaum dan agama bagi menumbangkan kekuasaan UMNO yang bertopengkan Barisan Nasional.

Perpaduan kaum sudah lama ada di Malaysia, hanya UMNO menggunakan isu perkauman bagi menakutkan rakyat dan khasnya orang-orang Melayu. Ayat yang kononnya terbiasa “Pemimpin Itu Maruah Bangsa” dan mesti dipertahankan sudah tidak boleh diterima pakai di zaman Abdullah Hj Ahmad, seperti Maling menyebut maling begitu Abdullah Hj Ahmad, berkata rasuah tetapi beliaulah bapak segala penerima rasuah dan nepotisme.

Seperti mana yang disebutkan, ada satu majlis di Seri Perdana dalam saat rakyat meraikan Hari Kebangsaan, majlis yang merupakan persembahan kumpulan Jazz yang terkenal hanya untuk mereka yang di undang sahaja dibuat. Ini memberi pengertian bahawa rakyat hanya layak untuk hiburan jalanan sahaja tetapi Perdana Menteri atas kehendak isterinya mengadakan satu “entertainment” khusus yang dibayar oleh Berjaya, Naza Motor dan YTL atau Francis Yeoh yang menelan belanja RM 2juta. Apakah itu bukan rasuah? Kemungkinan dari segi kaca mata BPR-Badan Pencegah Rasuah mungkin sama dengan Amerika Syarikat bahawa bila rakyat menentang kerajaan itu dipanggil “pengganas” tetapi bila kerajaan melalui agensi seperti Polis, menembak dan memukul rakyat itu “mengamankan” keadaan. Dari segi BPR, Perdana Menteri mengatasi tuhan tidak boleh disentuh, kalau BPR benar-benar hebat dan ada telor (pinjam ayat Rosli Ismail pemilik Agenda Daily - alat propaganda UMNO kepada Raja Petra Kamarudddin Malaysia Today) sewajarnya BPR membuat penyiasatan tanpa aduan.

Tidak termasuk lagi kes nepotisme yang dilakukan oleh Abdullah Hj Ahmad yang menggunakan duit minyak yang dinaikkan tahun lepas atas alasan hendak meningkatkan pengangkutan awam seperti Bas. Sebaliknya dengan duit itu, yang dia yang bertanggung jawab dengan SPNB - Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad membutakan mata untuk melarang SPNB dari memberikan kontrak membekal Bas kepada anaknya melalui syarikat Scommi kepada Rapid di K. Lumpur dan Pulau Pinang. Dan masalahnya semuanya Bas diimport secara langsung dari China, malah tender membaharui perhentian “Bas Stop” yang sedang dibuat di K. Lumpur sekarang khabarnya ada kepentingan Scommi dan anehnya Bas Stop itu tertulis Parisign, kalau di sponsor mungkin boleh diterima akal tetapi sudahlah SPNB membayar, syarikat itu boleh mempamerkan iklannya.

Belum lagi skandal terbesar di Pulau Pinang, Jambatan Kedua khabarnya dibina oleh UEM tetapi dibiayai oleh sebuah syarikat gergasi China . Dari harga RM1.6Billion sudah menjadi RM4 Bilion dan khabarnya syarikat China sudah menyebarkan cerita kepada rakan-rakan niaga di mana-mana kononnya ada permintaan komisen dari pemimpin paling tertinggi di Malaysia yang berjumlah bilion juga (yang paling tinggi di Malaysia hanya Perdana Menteri sahaja). Begitu juga dalam keadaan orang Melayu menuntut kehidupan yang lebih baik di Pulau Pinang, anaknya Kamalludin Abdullah secara senyap mempunyai kepentingan tidak kurang 70% dalam PGCC walau pun di hadapan bernama Patrick Badawi.

Sekarang peguam sudah berarak di jalanan, Ini memberi pengertian bahawa orang yang berstatus tinggi seperti Peguam sudah bersedia berarak dalam keadaan panas dan berhujan bagi menuntut satu keadilan yang bebas dan jujur, bagaimana kumpulan-kumpulan lain yang lebih rendah martabatnya dari peguam yang menuntut keadilan seperti berlaku di Terengganu, bila mereka hanya sekadar Imam kampung, nelayan dan pelajar menunjukkan perasaan kerana hak mereka dinafikan. Adakah mereka (peguam) diperalatkan?

Kenapa Wan Farid Wan Salleh berada di Pejabat Perdana Menteri bagi menerima memorandum dari Majlis Peguam Malaysia adalah satu persoalan yang menarik. Kerana Wan Farid Wan Salleh adalah Setiausaha Politik Kementerian Keselamatan Dalam Negeri, kenapa Set pol yang lain tidak boleh mengambil memorandum itu seperti Dr Vincent Lim yang juga Setiausaha Politik terus kepada Perdana Menteri orang yang dianggap paling bijak di Pejabat Perdana Menteri dan proksi Ethos Consultant Sdn Berhad yang menantu Perdana Menteri ada kepentingan di situ. Kerana nak harapkan Othman Desa untuk menghadapi Peguam itu tak mungkin sesuai kerana dia hanya diharapkan kepada songkoknya sahaja.

Kemungkinan keberadaan Wan Farid Wan Salleh di Pejabat Perdana Menteri bagi menjadi Pengarah lakon Layar Episod Drama Batu Burok cuba menggunakan taktikal seperti Batu Burok untuk mengharu hara perarakan itu. Tetapi setelah dia sedar bahawa tidak banyak anggota Parti Pembangkang hadir sebaliknya kesemuanya Peguam yang saling kenal mengenal antara mereka, maka formula untuk perancangan strategi perang saraf bagi memburukkan suasana tidak boleh dilakukan. Dan Polis terpaksa akur dengan arahan hanya bersedia menghadapi sebarang kemungkinan dan memerhati sahaja.

Bagaimana pun telah tiba masanya, rakyat Malaysia beri kata dua kepada Abdullah Hj Ahmad sama ada dia meletakan jawatan secara terhormat atau rakyat menolak UMNO atau Barisan Nasional, sebuah Parti yang berjasa besar kepada negara ini. Rakyat sudah melihat bahawa sempadan bangsa, kaum dan agama tidak akan menghalang rakyat bersatu bagi menunjukkan kemarahan kepada Kerajaan Tiga Beranak yang diketuai oleh Abdullah Hj Ahmad atau Abdullah Al Koridori seperti yang ditunjukkan oleh para peguam yang terdiri dari berbagai etnik kaum dan agama tetapi satu Bangsa Malaysia, dengan niat hendak menyelamatkan Malaysia dari kerakusan seorang menggelar dirinya Imam Besar Islam Hadhari (ada had ada hari)

Sang Kelembai: Khabar yang di war - war dalam bulan Ramadhan ini Abdullah Hj Ahmad membaca Al-Quran, itu sebab maafkan dia kerana tak masuk pejabat dan tidur. Malangnya dia hanya sekadar membaca tetapi tidak mengerti apa-apa yang dia baca. Kalau dia baca betul dan sampai ke surat Al Anfal ayat 27, dia akan berjumpa ayat ini “Hai orang-orang yang beriman, jangan kamu berkhianat kepada Allah dan Rasul, dan kamu berkhianat pula dalam menunaikan amanah mu, pada hal kamu yang mengetahui’ Berdasarkan fakta-fakta rasuah yang dilakukannya sesuailah Abdullah Hj Ahmad boleh dipanggil seorang pengkhianat itu sebab Khalifah Umar Abd Aziz berkata “Jika kamu hendak tahu akan pandangan di sisi Allah kepada seorang pemimpin, kamu lihat pandangan rakyat kepadanya”

Komen Warong Kopi:

Di bulan Ramadhan ni cubalah berkata yang elok-elok skit. Tulisan saudara di bulan yang diberkati ini mahupun di bulan-bulan yang lain, sama sahaja gayanya, penuh dengan bahasa yang kesat dan nista.


Rasulullah SAW bersabda:

(Barangsiapa yang tidak meninggalkan perbuatan menggunakan kata-kata yang buruk/tidak baik dan masih mengamalkannya, maka tiada keperluan pula bagi Allah untuk menerima makan dan minumnya).
Sahih Bukhari, Hadis Riwayatkan Abu Hurairah


Apakah hasil tulisan saudara hanya berbentuk tomahan semata kerana tidak pula dikemukakan dengan bukti yang sahih? Jika benar saudara ingin menegakan keadilan, bawalah ia ke muka keadilan, janganlah hanya bercakap kosong. Sesungguhnya maksiat maknawi atau mengumpat dan menipu merupakan maksiat yang besar, sepatutnya dijauhi lebih-lebih lagi di bulan yang mulia ini.

Rasulullah SAW bersabda:

Apabila tiba bulan Ramadan pintu langit dibuka, pintu neraka ditutup dan syaitan dibelenggu
Sahih Bukhari, Hadis Riwayatkan Abu Hurairah


Mengenai tomahan saudara tentang Pak Lah kita, yang sekadar membaca Al-Quran tanpa mengerti maksudnya, andaikata saudara boleh memahami maksud setiap ayat dari 114 surah yang terkandung di dalamnya, alhamdulillah, tetapi kefahaman saudara perlu diperhalusi dengan penghayatan dan cuba dipraktikan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Kenal benarkah saudara dengan Ulumul Quran Pak Lah kita sehingga tergamak mengeluarkan kenyataan sebegitu rupa?

Mungkin petikan surah Luqman dibawah boleh mengingatkan saudara tentang pentingnya akhlaq terpuji sebagai seorang muslim dan adilnya Allah SWT.


يَا بُنَيَّ إِنَّهَا إِن تَكُ مِثْقَالَ حَبَّةٍ مِّنْ خَرْدَلٍ فَتَكُن فِي صَخْرَةٍ أَوْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ أَوْ فِي الْأَرْضِ يَأْتِ بِهَا اللَّهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَطِيفٌ خَبِيرٌ


Luqman menasihati anaknya dengan berkata): "Wahai anak kesayanganku, sesungguhnya jika ada sesuatu perkara (yang baik atau yang buruk) sekalipun seberat bijih sawi, serta ia tersembunyi di dalam batu besar atau di langit atau pun di bumi, sudah tetap akan dibawa oleh Allah (untuk dihakimi dan dibalasNya); kerana sesungguhnya Allah Maha Halus pengetahuanNya; lagi Amat Meliputi akan segala yang tersembunyi.
Surah Luqman Ayat 16


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04 October 2007

Naib Canselor UKM tawar kenalan jadi Prof bergaji RM168,000 sebulan

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BANGI, 4 Okt (Hrkh) - Belum reda kontroversi pelantikan Timbalan Naib Canselor Hal-Ehwal Jaringan Industri dan Masyarakat, Prof Dr Saran Kaur a/p Delio Singh, dari Pusat Bahasa dan Linguistik, mulai 1 September lalu, yang tidak dibuat secara telus dan terbuka mengikut tatacara dan prosedur Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi, kini Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia gempar lagi.

Dalam perkembangan terbaru, Naib Canselor UKM, Prof Dato' Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin, telah menawarkan jawatan Distinguished Profesor kepada Prof Dr Tan Hock Lim, seorang rakyat Malaysia, Profesor Paediatric Surgery, Universiti Adelaide, Australia dengan bayaran perkhidmatan RM8,064,000 selama 48 bulan, iaitu sebanyak RM168,000 sebulan.

Dr Tan juga akan diberikan dua permit import (AP) kereta bagi kegunaan peribadinya nanti. Ramai bertanya, "mengapa perlu sehingga dua AP?" Dr Tan kini menjadi profesor pelawat UKM dengan elaun RM4,000 sebulan, manakala kontraknya dengan Universiti Adelaide telahpun berakhir.

2 permit AP tersebut boleh digunakan untuk 2 kenderaan; 1 kenderaan rasmi dan satu lagi untuk kegunaan keluarga. Tambahan pula Profesor Pelawat & Distinguished Professor mempunyai perbezaan yang amat ketara terutama dari aspek tanggungjawab.

Difahamkan kebanyakan warga UKM, khususnya para pensyarah kanan, terutama di Fakulti Perubatan meragui kemampuan Dr Tan untuk memenuhi tanggungjawab menubuhkan Advanced Surgical Skills Center di Hospital UKM sehingga beliau diberi ganjaran yang begitu besar.

Mereka beranggapan, risiko kegagalan untuk mencapai target melalui kemasukan Dr Tan ke UKM cukup tinggi sedangkan RM8 wang rakyat telah dibelanjakan.

Peliknya, Dr Tan tidak pernah memohon jawatan berkenaan, sebaliknya Dr Sharifah Hapsah sendiri yang menawarkan kepada beliau, dan ini bercanggah dengan prosedur. Ia juga tidak dibawa ke dalam mesyuarat pengurusan universiti, badan yang mesti dirujuk sebelum keputusan-keputusan penting seperti berkaitan perlantikan jawatan strategik dan dasar universiti diputuskan.

Distinguished Professor bukan lah calang-calang jawatan. Kebanyakan Universiti di dunia hanya menganugerahkan (bukan melalui permohonan jawatan ) jawatan ini kepada mereka yang telah terbukti sumbanganya dan diiktiraf di dalam bidang masing-masing

"Kami bukan mahu memperkecilkan Dr Tan tetapi selama ini tidak pula kita dengar kehebatannya yang luar biasa sehingga perlu dibayar sebanyak itu," ujar seorang kakitangan senior UKM. "Dengan RM8 juta kita boleh lahirkan sehingga sembilan orang pakar bedah. Lagi pun beliau kini sedia berkhidmat dengan gaji RM4,000 sebulan, jadi apa perlu ditawar sesuatu yang tidak berbaloi dengan wang yang akan dibelanjakan?"

Buat pengetahuan saudara jumlah gaji yang diterima seorang doktor biasa kerajaan adalah sebanyak RM 4118.00. Prof Dr Tan Hock Lim pula diberi tanggungjawab untuk menubuhkan Advanced Surgical Skills Center yang bakal menjana pendapatan yang berlipat kali ganda sebagai promosi Health Tourism.

Sila ambil contoh seperti laporan oleh Birmingham College with Gujarat Samachar & Asian Voice ketika menganjurkan Medical Tourism Expo 2007 di Olympia Exhibition Centre, Hammersmith Road, West Kensington, London. Dianggarkan 100,000 rakyat Malaysia telah menjadi pelancong perubatan ke India dan dianggarkan nilai industri ini adalah USD140 Juta.

Medical Tourism Report

Malah Dekan Fakulti Perubatan, Prof. Dato' Dr. Lokman Saim hanya dimaklumkan mengenai kes Dr Tan ini oleh Naib Canselor melalui SMS sahaja. Justeru, dalam satu mesyuarat fakulti berkenaan, ahli-ahli mesyuarat merakamkan rasa tidak puas hati mereka dengan tindakan Dr Sharifah Hapsah yang mengetepikan segala ketetapan asas yang wajib dipatuhi. Pakar-pakar bedah tempatan turut terasa demoralise.

Kini Dr Tan sedang menunggu kelulusan daripada Kementerian Kewangan sebelum berkhidmat walaupun mengikut perjanjian beliau sepatutnya bertugas bermula dari 1 September 2007 sehingga 31 Ogos 2011. Khabarnya pihak Perbendaharaan sendiri mencurigai keupayaan Dr Tan untuk merealisasikan objektif UKM itu.

Rungutan terhadap stail pentadbiran Dr Sharifah Hapsah, yang dilihat hanya ghairah dengan perkara remeh-temeh dan bersifat luaran khususnya aspek keceriaan universiti, selain kecenderungannya untuk melantik staf wanita ke jawatan kanan walaupun tanpa memenuhi kriteria, hangat dibincangkan kakitangan UKM.

Apakah wanita tidak layak untuk jawatan kanan di Universiti atau dimana sahaja? Kenapa tidak pula dijadikan isu jika majikan lebih suka melantik lelaki untuk memenuhi jawatan kanan di organisasi tertentu.

Menurut sumber, kes Dr Tan hanya satu daripada banyak kes lain. Dr Sharifah Hapsah dikatakan begitu teruja untuk meningkatkan ranking UKM sehingga sanggup membelanjakan ratusan ringgit membeli iklan dalam sebuah akhbar di London, 31 Ogos lalu. Kini tumpuannya ialah meletakkan UKM di tangga lebih tinggi dalam Times Higher Education Supplement, walaupun melalui publisiti murahan.

UKM menduduki tangga 175 dalam THES World University Ranking tahun 2006 dan tangga 56 dalam THES Ranking 2006 dalam bidang Perubatan dan Kesihatan, di samping menduduki tangga 62 dalam THES Ranking 2006 dalam bidang Sains.

"Saya perhatikan satu bentuk pentadbiran cara feudal sedang berlaku di UKM. Apa yang Naib Canselor mahukan mesti dapat walaupun ia bercanggah dengan prosedur," luahan hati seorang bekas pensyarah. "Jika ini berterusan, hasrat UKM untuk menjadi sebuah universiti penyelidikan tersohor dan universiti Apex bukan saja tidak kesampaian, malah tinggal mimpi."

Menurut satu laporan, ASSC yang akan ditubuhkan oleh Dr Tan nanti merupakan satu strategi untuk meningkatkan Hospital UKM sebagai pusat kecemerlangan penyelidikan perubatan, latihan dan perkhidmatan pembedahan bertaraf dunia yang akan menerima pelatih dan pesakit dari luar negara. ASSC diharap bukan sahaja meningkatkan nama baik UKM bahkan membawa faedah ekonomi kepada negara melalui health tourisme.

Didalam satu laporan bertajuk “Sector Overview, The Health Industry, In Thailand” oleh Kedutaan Diraja Denmark di Bangkok jelas menunjukkan bahawa health tourism adalah suatu industri yang amat besar untuk menjana pendapatan negara. Kerajaan Thailand telah mengunjurkan pertambahan dari angaran RM 1.9 bilion pendapatan dari perkhidmatan kesihatan sahaja pada tahun 2003 kepada RM 8.6 bilion pendapatan pada tahun 2010. Laporan ini ada juga menyebut mengenai peluang-peluang perniagaan yang amat cerah untuk pelabur-pelabur Denmark untuk melabur dalam sektor ini.

Sector Overview, The Health Industry, In Thailand

Bayangkan, bukan sahaja aliran tunai keluar dapat dikurangkan malah Negara akan mendapat pulangan yang berlipat kali ganda hasil daril penjanaan pendapatan yang lumayan dalam sektor ini.


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