Isu Kota Damansara Sarang Maksiat - Satu Penjelasan

Artikel Raja Petra dan Penarik Beca yang terbaru bertajuk "Kota Damansara Berlendir Dosa" menarik hati Tulang Besi. Sebenarnya isu ini telah lama Tulang Besi naikkan kepada salah seorang Ahli Majlis MPSJ yang amat rapat dengan Tulang Besi.

Malahan, Tulang Besi kenal beliau sebagai seorang yang wara' dan kaya raya. Ertinya, beliau tidak perlu kepada rasuah kerana beliau telah pun kaya. Dan beliau tidak mungkin mahu berselindung dan menanggung dosa dari aktiviti2 maksiat.

Saya bertanya kepada beliau:

"Mengapa banyak sangat Pusat2 Urut dan "Cyber Cafe" dalam kawasan MPSJ sejak sekarang ini? Mengapakah tiada tindakan yang tegas dari penguatkuasa MPSJ"

Beliau menjawwab dalam beberapa butiran:

1.0 Pihak penguatkuasa sering mengadakan "rush" dan rampasan barangan dari premis2 berkenaan. Tidak benar penguatkuasa MPSJ tidak mengambil apa2 tindakan.

2.0 Masalaahnya adalah setiap kali dilakukan serbuan, pemilik2 Pusat Urut dan Cyber Cafe ini boleh datang ke MPSJ dan mengambil balik barangan yang dirampas itu.

3.0 Ini kerana undang2 negara tidak memberi kuasa kepada pihak penguasa tempatan untuk merampas barangan dan menyimpannya. Melainkan mereka ada perintah mahkamah.

4.0 Hasilnya, disebabkan kuasa Majlis Tempatan yang terbatas, pemilik2 premis berkenaan boleh terus menerus melakukan aktiviti mereka.

5.0 Tuduhan ahli2 Majlis makan duit dan menghalang penguatkuasa melakukan serbuan dan rampasan adalah bohong semata-mata.

6.0 Diperlukan akta dipinda di peringkat Parlimen untuk memberi kuasa kepada Majlis Tempatan supaya mereka boleh memberi lebih dari saman sahaja.

Itulah yang Tulang Besi dapat dari kawan baik Tulang Besi yang menjadi Ahli Majlis MPSJ.

Sekian

Tulang Besi .

Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

Was Merdeka taken or was it given?

The British wanted to deal only with the Alliance Party because most of its leaders were educated in England and had demonstrated not only pro-British tendencies but were also more English than the Englishman in their ways, lifestyle and mentality.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

History is always written by the victors, not by the vanquished. That is a very old line, which most already know by now. History is also an interpretation of facts. Of course, one can never change facts because facts are facts. But how you interpret them will depend on many things, your biasness and prejudices included.

Sometimes we are made the victim of propaganda and perception management. This is not a new phenomenon. The British, in fact, have been using this art from way back, including the art of divide and rule -- which has proven very effective, especially when they needed 10,000 Englishmen to lord over millions of natives. How else can 10,000 control 10 million if not through divide and rule?

The propaganda or perception is that Umno fought for independence or Merdeka. This is what the new breed of Malaysian history books tells us.

From way back I have always said that this is not true. Umno never fought for Merdeka. Umno never took Merdeka. Merdeka was handed to Umno on a silver platter because the British could no longer afford the financial cost and loss of lives and assets in their war (called The Emergency) against the Communist Terrorists (CTs) of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM).

In short, if was not taken. It was given. And there is a big difference in the two.

The British were fighting a war in Malaya. But they refused to call it a war. They called it an Emergency. If they called it a war then the insurance companies would not cover their losses in Malaya. And they were losing a lot to t! he CT sa boteurs. So it was called an Emergency to prevent the insurance companies from wangling out from paying the insurance claims.

Most of the security forces and police were Malays with British officers in command. 90% of the CTs were Chinese, with some Malays of course. Malayas population of six million was almost equally split 50:50, Malays versus non-Malays.

This posed a problem. The Chinese feared that the CTs would win the war and that the British would withdraw and Malaya would become a Communist State. When that happens then the CTs would seek revenge on all those who collaborated with the British a la The Killings Fields of Cambodia.

The Chinese, therefore, stayed neutral. In the daytime, when the security forces were around, they behaved. At night, when the CTs ruled the streets, they aided the CTs. That was the only way to not become victims of both the government as well as the CTs.

Wise decision.

But this posed a dilemma for the British. This means the war would never end and one day Malaya would fall to the CPM and the British assets in Malaya, which were very significant, would all be lost.

The only way to avoid this from happening and to avoid the huge financial cost and manpower loss to Britain would be to make Malayans fight their own war, with help from the British officers. And this would mean Malaya would need to be given self-rule or home-rule where the Malayans would run their own affairs.

To isolate the CTs from the Chinese population, first the British created new villages and imposed a curfew on these places. Next they introduced identity cards so that the underground could easily be detected. Finally, they told the Malayans that the British would not pull out until and unless all the races established a true partnership of community.

So Merdeka was offered. But the British would only deal with the Alliance Party that had won the municipal elections in 1955 -- 41 out of 42 seats contested. All the other non-Alliance Party politicians wh! o also s poke of Merdeka were rounded up and jailed. Only the Alliance Party was allowed to talk about Merdeka.

The British wanted to deal only with the Alliance Party because most of its leaders were educated in England and had demonstrated not only pro-British tendencies but were also more English than the Englishman in their ways, lifestyle and mentality. Better the British trust the brown-skinned Englishmen than those other socialist-minded Malayans who demonstrated anti-British tendencies.

The British made it very clear that Merdeka would be given, but not to one race. Merdeka has to be for all races and all those who were not Malayan citizens would be given citizenship once Malaya became an independent nation.

Merdeka fitted the British agenda. And the agenda was to get rid of a problem in a peaceful manner before they got kicked out by the MCP and lost everything. And the manner in achieving this would be to ensure that those who took over were those whom the British groomed and who would not stab the British in the back once they were in charge.

So Umno was encouraged to tour the country and seek support from Malayan citizens. To ensure that no competitors stole the thunder from Umno, those not from Umno who also campaigned for Merdeka were put behind bars.

Umno had a clear field with no opposing forces blocking their way to the goalposts.

But Umno was told in very clear terms that it has to bring MCA and MIC on board. Merdeka is not for Umno but for the Alliance Party. Unless MCA and MIC can come to terms with Umno then Merdeka would not be given.

The Alliance Party was a British idea. Merdeka was a British idea. Even those not educated in England who challenged Tunku Abdul Rahman for the Presidency of Umno received late-night visits from the Special Branch and were told to stay out or else face charges of being enemies of the state.

That is the real story of Merdeka as well as how the Alliance Party of Umno, MCA and MIC came into being. What the Malaysian ! history books say is not entirely true. There was no fight. There was no struggle. It was not Umno that spearheaded the so-called fight or struggle for Merdeka.

But what is most perplexing is why do those historians who know the truth continue to maintain their silence and not set the record straight?

Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

Who is important: Zaid, Azmin or PKR?

Zaid Ibrahim critics called him by many names. Among others these include being a coward, a non team player and someone who runs away from problems. Others say that this is his trademark. He ran away once in UMNO when he faces obstacles and now he is running away again. I remember reading it from somewhere that when ZI joined PKR, his critics said that he wouldnt last. History has shown to be true.

It is not easy being newcomer especially one that has a strong character and has high expectation in making a change. Having a strong principles and strong attitude can be regarded as arrogant by some especially people those opponent that wants to make an issue out of it. Fact remains that if the party cannot govern itself professionally then how can one expect it to govern the nation. Zaid resignation has greater impact on the party and the people than the cumulative impact of Zulkifli Noordin and Zahrain Hashim leaving the party months ago.

Mustaffa Kamil Ayub who was my classmate in UKM has also been sending mixed signals. He has also expressed his dissatisfaction over the election process. Like Azmin, Mustaffa also emigrated from UMNO when Anwar was kicked out from the party. If two deputy president contenders are raising the same issues surely there is some credibility to the argument that has been put forward.

Anwar initial reaction was disappointing. His indirect defense of Azmin Ali by saying that ZI left because of the poor results in election result in Sabah. He had also asked Zaid to give proof on his allegations that the election was rigged. Anwar must accept that officially he has no post in PKR. His wife does. A de-facto leader is not something that is recognized in any party constitution. He does not have the rights to question or demand answers from ZI. Right now the JPP Chair person, Molly Cheah and the party Sec Gen which has powers to demand such explanation has not done so.!

PKR formation at its onset was about Anwar. It grew beyond Anwar to a certain extent where people start saying the injustice towards Anwar is a symbolic gesture to the injustice that happens in this country. However PKR has not been able to shed its core struggle that it is about Anwar and that is bad for the party. Allah forbids but what will happen if Anwar drop dead tomorrow? Can the party leaders continue the struggle? Can Azmin who grew as a loyalist but without going through serious political challenge hold the party together? In my honest opinion this is something that is debatable.

PKR is not about Anwar anymore. It has become the aspiration of the people to bring changes. Right now it has failed to show that it can hold his house together in a professional manner. It has failed to perform in many areas. I say ZI withdrew because he felt that is the best for him. The question is whether AA will do the same for the best interest of the party. Who is important, the party or the individuals who has craving for a deputy premiership?

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Cara-Cara Pemimpin2 PAS Membantu UMNO

Semua orang tahu bahawa UMNO sudah bankrap. Mereka sudah tiada daya penarik untuk menarik sokongan baik dari orang Melayu mahupun bukan Melayu.
Dalam segala hal mereka gagal: pentadbiran, harga barang, korupsi, penjagaan hak Melayu, pentadbiran agama Islam, pentadbiran ekonomi Negara.

Satu-satunya modal yang mereka ada hanyalah : Menakutkan Orang Melayu Kononnya Hak Orang Melayu Semakin Terhakis Kerana DAP Semakin Berkuasa.
Mereka hanya bergantung kepada modal menakutkan orang Melayu kononnya hak mereka telah terhakis di bawah pentadbiran Pakatan Rakyat.

Mereka menjadikan DAP sebagai BAHAN TAKUT mereka. Mereka pergi ke seluruh ceruk kampung menakutkan orang Melayu kepada DAP.

Pada waktu yang sama, mereka menyebar fitnah kononnya PAS dan PKR dipergunakan oleh DAP. Inilah sahaja modal UMNO yang ada bagi memastikan UMNO terus releven dan boleh terus hidup. Dalam segala isu yang lain, UMNO telah bangkrap

PEMIMPIN PAS PUN TOLONG SAMA SEBARKAN MODAL UMNO KEPADA DALAMAN PAS

Dalam pendedahan saya berkaitan ucapan Dr Harun Din di rumah Hasan Ali beberapa minggu sebelum Pilihanraya Galas, jelas dan terang dari mulut Dr Harun Din sendiri, beliau turut sama menyebarkan propaganda serta fitnah UMNO ini, kononnya DAP akan menghakis serta memusnahkan hak Melayu.

Jelas hujjah Dr Harun Din dangkal kerana beliau hanya mengulangi isu Karpal menolak hokum hudud. Apa yang beliau lupa, MCA, MIC, Gerakan, PPP serta UMNO juga menolak hokum hudud dan hokum syariah Islam.

Dan, tidak hairan orang Islam menolak hokum Islam kerana mereka bukan Islam. Ertinya bukan setakat hokum hudud mereka tolak, malahan keseluruhan Islam termasuk rukun Islam mereka tolak.

Namun, mengapa Dr Harun Din menjadikan isu besar terhadap perkara yang telah lama maklum. Bukan DAP sahaja menolak hokum hudud, UMNO juga menolak hokum hudud. Adakah Dr Harun Din sudah lupa dengan surat Dr Mahathir Mohammad Iskandar Kutty kepada MB Kelantan tempohari?

HASILNYA PROPAGANDA UMNO BERJAYA

Oleh! kerana PAS dikawal oleh puak2 Pro UMNO dalam pemilihan yang lepas, maka tiada usaha yang serius dari PAS untuk memerangi fitnah dan mehnah UMNO ini secara serius.
Mana mungkin boleh berlaku usaha yang serius, kerana pemimpin2 PAS sendiri turut menyebarkan fitnah yang ditaja UMNO? Hasilnya, UMNO bermaharajalela menyebarkan fitnah mereka menakutkan orang Melayu dengan perkara yang tidak ada.

Dan PAS hanya duduk dan melihat semata-mata kerana di dalam PAS fitnah yang sama turut disebarkan oleh kepimpinan PAS.

Kita jangan lupa Dr Harun Din sendiri secara terbuka menyokong pendirian UMNO dalam isu penggunaan Kalimah Allah. Dan beliau MELANGGAR KEPUTUSAN PARTI secara terbuka. Tak hairanlah Dr Harun Din membantu menyebarkan fitnah UMNO kepada dalaman PAS.

Hakikatnya, PAS tidak akan mampu mengalahkan UMNO sekiranya mereka turut menyebarkan fitnah yang ditaja UMNO kepada ahli2 dalaman PAS.

Wallahualam

Tulang Besi

Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

A New Party for Zaid Ibrahim?

November 8, 2010

A New Party for Zaid Ibrahim?

by Terence Netto

COMMENT Now that Zaid Ibrahim has withdrawn from the race for PKR deputy president and quit all posts in the party, expect a new opposition party to be formed.

This party will canvas the support of the discontented from among the Dayaks of Sarawak, the Kadazan-Dusun-Murut of Sabah, the Orang Asli in the peninsula, and from Hindrafs more malleable elements, together with those within PKR who feel that the party is in the grip of a cartel.

In short, this new party will try to enlist to its cause all those of the broad middle of Malaysian politics who do not believe that PKR, as it is presently led, is the party of the Malaysian future.

Wither PKR?

Within months of his joining PKR in the middle of last year, Zaid showed signs that he was going to be refractory. Normally, a new entrant to a political party, however renowned, would bide his time, take the rear seats, find and work a groove until such time his or her industry combines with availing opportunity to rise.

But Zaid was not keen on the slow train to the upper echelons of PKR. Despite disavowing any intention to scale up the partys hierarchy, he was borne along on a path of dissidence, as much by his refraction as by the restiveness of members with clout who were frustrated with the perceived failure of supremo Anwar Ibrahim to consolidate PKR.

In other words, the situation was rife for schism. When it seemed increasingly evident that PKR deputy president Dr Syed Husin Ali wasnt interested to defend his position, the die was cast on a contest for the vacant post between long-time aspirant ! Azmin Al i and party newcomer Zaid Ibrahim.

Internecine feuding in the Sabah chapter of PKR in October last year was the earliest signal that a contest for the post of deputy president would cleave the party into factions that would eventuate in a schism.This schism is now on the threshold of becoming reality.

Zaid and Co on the way out

The only way it could have been averted was to prevent a contest for the deputy presidency. But no influential voice in PKR was disposed to anticipate and forestall that possibility.

Factions are inevitable in a democratic party. Prudent leadership tends towards co-opting rather than repressing them. Factions must be given just enough aeration to exist but not enough to flout party discipline with impunity. Clear-eyed, flexible and unsanctimonious leadership would navigate this tenuous territory with panache.

Now that Zaid and his cohort are, in all likelihood, on the way out of PKR, the party leadership should take a leaf out of the late PAS President Fadzil Mohd Noors book.

When Parti Keadilan Nasional, PKRs forerunner, was formed in April 1999, Fadzil, a pivotal leader in the history of the Malaysian opposition, welcomed the development as positive for the flourishing of Malaysian democracy.

Now it would help if PKRs present hierarchy emulates Fadzils attitude at PKNs inception should a new party be formed.Its not on to lament something they could have been foreseen and forestalled but didnt.-www.malaysiakini.com

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'Make English Penang's second official language'

GEORGE TOWN: A backbencher currently referred to which a Penang DAP supervision consider creation English a second central denunciation of a state in perspective of a enterprise to make George Town an general city.

Jagdeep Singh Deo (DAP-Datuk Keramat) pronounced English was additionally critical since it was a lingua franca in most countries of a world.

"I am not dismissing Bahasa Malaysia as a inhabitant denunciation as well as central denunciation of a country, though English is additionally important, as well as I ask a state supervision to consider creation it a second central denunciation in Penang," he pronounced during a discuss upon a Supply Bill 2011 in a State Legislative Assembly.

Jagdeep additionally referred to which a state supervision name multiform roads in a state after maestro leaders from a Pakatan Rakyat bloc in approval of their contribution to politics.

"The prior state supervision had taken a beginning to name multiform roads after political leaders, a single case being Jalan Yap Chor Ee. We can perhaps name a road in Butterworth after a maestro leader from Pakatan," he said.

Meanwhile, Tsim Tze Tzin (PKR-Pantai Jerejak) referred to which a state supervision formulate a policy to inspire a construction of affordable houses to enable a people in Penang own gentle homes.

"The problem is which a gap in between oppulance as well as low-cost houses is so wide; a cost of oppulance houses is so tall as well as a condition of low-cost houses is so pathetic. We should concentration upon office building houses which a Penang people need," he said.

He referred to which an affordable residence should be of 1,000 sq ft as well as sell for in between RM100,000 as well as RM200,000.

Tsim additionally referred to which a Penang Development Corporation concentration more upon office building affordable houses with gentle surroundings.

He pronounced a housing elect to be set up should monitor price speculation.

- Bernama

Proposal to make English second official language of Penang

(Bernama) -- A backbencher today suggested that the DAP government of Penang consider making English the second official language of the state in view of the desire to make George Town an international city.

Jagdeep Singh Deo (DAP-Datuk Keramat) said English was also important because it was the lingua franca in most countries of the world.

"I am not dismissing Bahasa Malaysia as the national language and official language of the country, but English is also important, and I ask the state government to consider making it the second official language in Penang," he said during the debate on the Supply Bill 2011 in the state assembly.

Jagdeep Singh also suggested that the state government name several roads in the state after veteran leaders from the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pact in recognition of their contribution to politics.

"The previous state government had taken the initiative to name several roads after political leaders, one case being Jalan Yap Chor Ee. We can perhaps name a road in Butterworth after a veteran leader from PR," he said.

Tsim Tze Tzin (PKR-Pantai Jerejak) suggested that the state government formulate a policy to encourage the construction of affordable houses to enable the people in Penang own comfortable homes.

"The problem is that the gap between luxury and low-cost houses is so wide; the cost of luxury houses is so high and the condition of low-cost houses is so pathetic. We should focus on building houses which the Penang people need," he said.

He suggested that an affordable house should be of 1,000 sq ft and sell for between RM100,000 and RM200,000.

Tsim also suggested that the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) focus more on building affordable houses with comfortable surroundings.

He said the housing commission to be set up should monitor price speculation.

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Withdrawal from Deputy President contest

I wish to announce my withdrawal as a candidate from the contest of Deputy President of Parti Keadilan Rakyat and my resignation from all posts held in the party.

I was offered to join this party under the belief that I could promote enlightened and progressive politics; nurture and develop principled political values and culture that I consider indispensable to the development of democracy and good governance in this country. I was mistaken.

Over the course of the party elections, events have shown that the leadership actively condones malpractices and electoral fraud to achieve its designed objectives. I am certain that any political party with such hypocritical and false values will not be able to offer meaningful reforms to the people of this country.

I have made this decision because there is no attempt on the part of the party leadership to address the various issues of manipulation and unfair electoral practices, although these issues were raised repeatedly.

I wish to thank all the members who have supported me and placed their faith in the cause of reform. It is of utmost disappointment that I am unable to continue in this flawed election process. I remain committed to the Oppositions cause and will continue to speak about the issues of the common people. Together, we will continue our unabated struggle towards a better government for the people.

Finally, I hope those adoring fans of Anwar Ibrahim will no longer regard me as a spoiler standing in the way of their march to Putrajaya. I wish them well.

ZAID IBRAHIM

MONDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 2010

courtesy of Zaid untuk Rakyat

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Jenapala smells foul play in Sabah

By Stephanie Sta Maria

KUALA LUMPUR: P Jenapala is a latest to cry tainted over a PKR choosing process when he purported which two blatant cases of outright rascal took place in Sabah last weekend.

In a press conference today, he accused a current celebration care of resorting to deceit in sequence to secure a victory for its chosen candidate Azmin Ali in a divisions of Libaran as well as Sandakan.

According to Jenapala, Libaran as well as Sandakan saw a 60% as well as 43% voter audience respectively.

In a former, Azmin garnered 881 votes to Zaid Ibrahim's six. In a latter, 417 votes were in Azmin's foster whilst 25 went to Zaid.

What's troubling here is which a average voter audience for these elections has never passed a 10% mark, he said. But a audience in these two divisions was staggeringly high.

Does this not smell of tainted play? These numbers have been questionable as well as after all a past incidences of fraud, do a celebration leaders honestly expect us to take a numbers during face value?

The former PKR deputy secretary-general additionally purported which list boxes during Libaran were whisked away as well as manipulated, whilst those from Sandakan were taken to a opposite location for counting.

Jenapala pronounced his suspicions were further fuelled by a fact which Libaran division leader Thamrin Jaini is a clever believer of PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim.

He added which even a results in Tawau, which is headed by Kong Hong Ming, a clever Azmin ally, additionally registered a surprisingly large audience as well as an absurd 533 votes in Azmin's favour.

This pattern of ridiculous percentages in voter audience as well as margins of victory additionally occurred in countless other divisions in a peninsula such as Ketereh, Kuala Lipis as well as Bruas, he said. You can be rest assured which wherever Anwar has an all! y, a vot er audience is cranked up.

Pressure from a top

Jenapala additionally referred to a recent claim by prominent social activist Haris Ibrahim which list writings were done available even before a weekend elections in sequence to progress a votes of certain possibilities in a event of a low voter turnout.

PKR secretary-general Safuddin Nasution has already rubbished those claims as well as insisted which all list writings contained a tall turn of confidence which guaranteed transparency in a choosing process.

An unconvinced Jenapala, however, lashed out during a celebration over this issue.

Is this not a blatant act of fraud? he asked. Are not list writings supposed to be underneath close as well as pass when they have been not in use? Just what brand new brand of democracy is a PKR care propagating?

Jenapala didn't hesitate to indicate a finger during Anwar himself whom he purported was creation last-minute calls to countless divisions in Sabah to pressure them to vote for Azmin.

He is creation these last-ditch efforts in addition to a acts of rascal which have been already being committed to make doubly certain which his 'golden child' comes out tops, he said.

The Kota Marudu division head, Anthony Mandiau, sensitive celebration members before they voted which Anwar had personally called him to safeguard which a votes didn't go to Zaid or his own child Nurul Izzah. Many members can attest to this.

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Ex-PKR central pours ridicule upon Anwar, Syed Husin

Penolong Pengarah BTN WP digantung tugas

KUALA LUMPUR: Penolong Pengarah Biro Tatanegara Wilayah Persekutuan Hamim Husin telah digantung tugas berkuatkuasa 6 Okt lepas selain diberikan amaran kerana didakwa mengeluarkan kenyataan berbaur perkauman dalam satu majlis anjuran Puteri Umno pada twenty-seven Sept lepas.

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz berkata selain Hamim, dua lagi penjawat awam turut dikenakan tindakan iaitu pengetua Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, Kulai, Johor dan pengetua Sekolah Menengah Bukit Selambau, Sungai Petani, Kedah berkaitan tindakan mengeluarkan kenyataan berbaur perkauman.

"Kedua-dua pegawai telah digantung daripada menjalankan tugas, dan masing-masing ditempatkan di Jabatan Pelajaran Johor dan Pejabat Pelajaran Daerah Kuala Muda Kedah berkuatkuasa 23 Ogos lepas," katanya pada persidangan Dewan Rakyat di sini hari ini.

Mohamed Nazri bagaimanapun tidak menyatakan tempoh penggantungan daripada menjalankan tugas ketiga-tiga penjawat awam itu semasa menjawab pertanyaan Wee Jeck Seng (BN-Tanjong Piai) yang ingin tahu jumlah pegawai kerajaan yang diambil tindakan tatatertib kerana menyentuh isu perkauman di Malaysia.

Menyentuh kes pengetua di Johor, katanya prosiding tatatertib telah diambil berdasarkan peraturan-peraturan pegawai awam (kelakuan dan tatatertib) 1993 dengan surat pertuduhan telah dikemukakan kepada pengetua itu untuk membuat representasi membela diri dalam tempoh twenty-one hari.

"Setelah pegawai mengemukakan representasi bertulis, Lembaga Tatatertib Perkhidmatan Pendidikan Kumpulan Pengurusan Satu akan bersidang dan memutuskan hukuman tatatertib terhadap pegawai jika didapati bersalah," katanya.

Mohamed Nazri berkata kerajaan amat komited untuk membendung perbuatan itu dan memberi jaminan akan mengenakan siasatan dan mengambil tindakan kepada pegawai-pegawai terlibat berasaskan peruntukan undang-undang! dan per aturan yang berkuatkuasa.

Dalam pada itu, beliau berkata penjawat awam yang terlepas cakap atau celupar tidak boleh diambil tindakan mengikut Seksyen 504 Kanun Keseksaan atau Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) kerana tidak mempunyai niat untuk menghasut.

"Tapi dalam keadaan yang berlaku hari ini mereka tiada niat untuk menghasut, tapi mereka telah celupar bercakap sesuatu yang tidak sepatutnya mereka kata," katanya.

Menjawab soalan tambahan Wee sama ada kerajaan berhasrat mengenakan tindakan lebih tegas termasuk menggunakan Akta ISA kepada penjawat awam yang melakukan kesalahan sedemikian.

Mohamed Nazri juga berkata kerajaan hanya boleh mengambil tindakan berdasarkan peraturan yang dibenarkan untuk menghukum penjawat awam.

"Ini bukan bermakna bahawa kerajaan tidak mahu ambil tindakan lebih. Cuma peraturan itu tidak membenarkan kita mengambil tindakan lebih daripada apa yang telah kita ambil," kata beliau.

- Bernama

Scholar hails Zaid as hero of democracy

GEORGE TOWN: A domestic scientist today hailed Zaid Ibrahim as the gutsy man of principles for withdrawing from PKRs emissary presidential contest.

Zaid has set an e.g. to others inside of the celebration as good as outward to defend domestic virtues as good as not to concede approved principles for greedy gains, pronounced Sivamurugan Pandian of Universiti Sains Malaysia.

He pronounced the PKR election had so far been unfair, soiled as good as un-free as good as which the eventual winner would be the smashed hero with the painful ego whose reputation would be blemished by allegations of electoral rigging, cheating, manipulation as good as conspiracy.

The race is right away in between Azmin Ali as good as Mustapha Kamil Ayub, with Azmin far outdistancing Mustapha.

Sivamurugan pronounced Zaid, by withdrawing from the contest, had demonstrated his sincerity in upholding good governance, firmness as good as democracy.

He purported which PKR had unsuccessful to move brazen to achieve the goals of good governance as good as domestic firmness as good as pronounced Zaid was substantially artificial after being in the celebration for two years.

He has realised which the celebration which had always sung the democracy strain was essentially undemocratic.

Zaid voiced his withdrawal in an essay which he posted on his blog in the diminutive hours today.

He also voiced his resignation from all posts in PKR. He was the partys chief for the Federal Territories as good as the part of of the autarchic legislature as good as the domestic bureau. He was also the man who drafted Pakatan Rakyats Common Policy Framework.

Sivamurugan pronounced Zaids withdrawal was an election protest which exposed an heated energy onslaught inside PKR as good as the bad conviction of desirous leaders who wanted to win at all costs.

He pronounced the celebration should h! ave inve stigated as good as accurate all the allegations of electoral malpractices instead of unconditional them under the carpet.

Given right away which the brand new No 2 will reason an deceptive position, it will start PKR in all aspects, pronounced the academician.

He pronounced Zaids quit notice had exposed the domestic being which the chairman can fall from grace inside of the short period.

He recalled which Zaid was once hailed as the potential inheritor to PKR de facto personality Anwar Ibrahim.

Zaid was hailed the hero when he assimilated PKR in 2008, he said. But right away he is the zero. He has been portrayed as the villain by a little as good as an opportunist by others.

He pronounced the withdrawal might spin out to fitting to Umno as good as Barisan Nasional as good as might even trigger the rain of PKR as good as Pakatan Rakyat.

Also read:

Broken Zaid withdraws from PKR's No 2 race

Syariah court used for political agenda, claims Anwar

By Melissa Chi

November 08, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim accused the Syariah court today of being politically manipulated and for blundering in rejecting his application to prosecute his former aide for making a false accusation of sodomy against him.

The opposition leader is appealing against a decision to dismiss his application for qazaf, or false accusation, in the Syariah court.

The PKR de facto leader filed an amendment today to his notice of appeal over his qazaf appeal to compel the prosecution to charge Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

“The Syariah prosecutor failed to fulfil their duty because of political instructions and did not prosecute based on my report,” he said.

The amendment was over the word “keseluruhan” which means overall, which was omitted in the appeal notice.

“The technical issues to me are not important because it’s the core issue, why did the prosecutor refuse to prosecute in such a clear-cut case?

“I am disappointed because the judiciary system, the Syariah court itself, has been used for political agenda,” Anwar (picture) said.

He added that to his knowledge, the prosecution team had prepared a case to charge Saiful, and yet the process had been interrupted.

“So when you come to a stage like in this country where the Syariah court can be used and manipulated by the political forces, then it’s a sad stage for this country because not only are the courts in question, but the Syariah court is deemed to be ineffective, a stooge of the political masters,” he said.

Accompanying him were his wife, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, and his lead counsel for qazaf, Kamar Ainiah Kamaruzaman.

Anwar, 63, had on April 23 filed the appeal after the Syariah High Court dismissed his application to initiate qazaf proceedings against Saiful.

On May 14, Federal Territory chief Syariah prosecutor Shamsuddin Hussain, FT Religious Department director Datuk Che Mat Che Ali and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom, as the applicants, had applied to strike out Anwar’s appeal on the grounds that his notice of appeal was defective.

On January 7, Anwar had applied to the Syariah High Court to compel the trio, who he had named as the respondents, to initiate prosecution proceedings against Mohd Saiful, citing that the latter had made false sodomy accusations about Anwar.

On February 9, the respondents had filed a preliminary objection against Anwar’s qazaf application, citing that the the Syariah High Court did not have jurisdiction to hear an alleged sodomy case as this came under the purview of the civil criminal court.

Anwar is currently facing sodomy charges for the second time in his life.

The former deputy prime minister is charged with sodomising Saiful at Unit 11-5-1 of the Desa Damansara Condominium in Jalan Setiakasih, Bukit Damansara here between 3.01pm and 4.30pm on June 26, 2008.

Anwar has denied the charge, describing it as “evil, frivolous lies by those in power” when the charge was read out to him. He is charged under section 377B of the Penal Code and can be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years’ jail and whipping upon conviction. The trial is taking place 18 months after Anwar was charged in court in August 2008.

He was charged with sodomy and corruption in 1998 after he was sacked from the Cabinet and was later convicted and jailed for both offences. He was freed in September 2004 and later resurrected his political career by winning back his Permatang Pauh parliamentary seat in a by-election in 2008, which had been held in the interim by his wife.

He had two years ago led the opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat to a historic sweep of five states and 82 parliamentary seats in Election 2008.

Nurul Izzah leads PKR veep race

UPDATED @ 02:45:44 PM 08-11-2010

By Adib Zalkapli

November 08, 2010

Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar.

PETALING JAYA, Nov 8 — Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar is now leading the PKR vice-presidential race with 4,845 votes from 78 divisions, according to official figures issued by the party headquarters today.

The daughter of PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is now ahead of Batu MP and party strategist Chua Tian Chang (3,933) who obtained the highest number of votes last week.

Two other candidates who are in the top four are Penang Deputy Chief Minister Mansor Othman (3,552) and PKR election director Fuziah Salleh (3,370).

A total of 17 candidates are running for the four vice-president positions.

In the deputy presidential race, Azmin Ali has obtained a total of 4,378 votes against his closest rival Datuk Zaid Ibrahim who has garnered 3,410.

Zaid announced today he has quit the race over election irregularities.

Another contender for the No. 2 post, Mustaffa Kamil Ayub, has polled 1,181 votes.

Meanwhile, incumbent Youth chief Shamsul Iskandar Akin is ahead of his rival Badrul Hisham Shaharin for the first time since polling started last month.

Shamsul Iskandar has obtained 1,455 votes while Badrul Hisham has polled 1,428 votes.

Shamsul Iskandar’s running mate Khairul Anuar Zainudin however continues to comfortably lead the race for the deputy Youth chief’s post with 1,668 votes, while his rival Chang Lih Kang has obtained 1,039 votes.

PKR deputy secretary-general Sharifah Shahidah Syed Kamarulzaman said a total of 87 divisions voted as of yesterday, but only votes from 78 divisions were counted for today’s official figures.

“We are still waiting for the tally sheets from the nine divisions,” she told a press conference here.

Najib's naivety about America's image

Recently, our prime minister Najib Razak was reported by CNN as saying that America's image among Muslims had been hurt following the controversy over building an Islamic cultural centre near Ground Zero in New York.

Najib Razak said that Muslim nations have been put off by what they view as bellicose rhetoric and growing hatred toward Muslims in the United States because of controversy over the centre.

This is either naivety on the part of Najib. Surely, America's image among Muslims did not start to plunge due to this mosque controversy. In fact, Muslims are even split over the mosque plan. One article in this website not long ago had even questioned whether there was a need to waste millions of dollars on a mosque project in the country when there are hundreds of real and honest Islamic centres desperately in need of financial help.

America's image, among both Muslims and non-Muslims, began to plunge from time immemorial, from the moment they embarked on the annihilation of native Indians, the mistreatment of the African slaves, the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to the time when they killed millions in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, notwithstanding their help to their friends in undertaking killings such as in Palestine.

It is time that our leaders wisen up before they embarass Muslims at home, especially when issuing statements in the West, where the bulk of the world media's attention is focussed. While one does not need to be "anti-West", at least one should not be too careless when explaining something which is commonsense.

See What Barisan Nasional Gotta Say?

Say sorry or I will sue, Ansari tells Rosnah

By FMT Staff

KOTA KINABALU: Defeated Batu Sapi claimant Ansari Abdullah, who harmed himself during the campaign trail, has demanded which Deputy Health Minister Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin apologize for accusing him of fibbing about the bad services during the Duchess of Kent Hospital in Sandakan.

"I wish the open apology... Rosnah has 24 hours to apologize to me publicly. She additionally has the preference of facing me in the debate... name the place as well as time; we will come or we will sue her, the sanatorium as well as the government, " he told reporters here.

Ansari, who had in two separate incidents fallen in to the sea after the boat landing as well as the overpass he was standing upon collapsed whilst he was campaigning in the Batu Sapi by-election, pronounced if Rosnah did not apologize he would sue.

"I have educated my counsel Razak Jamil to send the letter of direct telling her which we will take authorised action, he said, adding which if Rosnah as well as group supposed the truth about the bad services in the sanatorium as well as apologised, he would have lost about the total thing.

But since she (Rosnah) is trying to brawl my integrity we will sue. we am the senior lawyer, she is just the youth lawyer. This is unethical for the youth counsel to insult the senior counsel similar to me.

If Rosnah is telling the truth, we plea her to move my box records as well as X-ray to be examined by eccentric doctors so which the universe will know who is fibbing Ansari or Rosnah. Nobody has called me the liar before, he said.

Shocked during Rosnah's allegations which his claims were baseless, Ansari pronounced the "issue was not himself though the standard of healing services" as well as facilities during the Duchess of Kent Hospital.

Recalling his visit, Ansari said: "Why was there no physical examination finished upon me... no X-ray fin! ished up on my shoulder? Why did the healing officer fail to detect the fractures upon my last two ribs?

"And because is the Sandakan Duchess of Kent Hospital, which is upon top of the hill, flooded after half an hour of light rain? he asked.

On Oct 29, Ansari crashed in to the sea when the 10-ft tall wooden overpass in Kampung Gas Hujung in Sandakan collapsed. He was rught away taken to the Duchess of Kent Hospital as well as was told he was fine. He after went to the in isolation sanatorium for an X-ray as well as was told which he had the fracture.

Two days before, Ansari fell in to the sea after the boat landing during Pulau Api-Api collapsed. He was however unhurt.

Taibs family Cheated Japanese Shareholders!

By Sarawak Report

Petition to the High Court by Datuk Ting against Tufail Mahmud and Noda Corporation of Japan

According to further allegations in the current court case between Dato Ting Check Sii and Tufail Mahmud in Sibu, Japaneseinvestors in the Noda Corporation,a major public companywhich is quoted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, have been cheated out of millions of ringgitby members of theChiefMinistersfamily.

Thishighly serious claim forms part of a string ofaccusationslodgedby one of Sarawaks mostrespected businessmen, Dato Ting Check Sii,against the Chief Ministers brother Tufail Mahmud,sister Hanifa Taib,niece Anita Tufailand nephewMohammad Tufail.

[See previous article]

Dato Ting is themanbehind the SanyanTower, Sarawaks tallest building in Sibu and the multi-million dollarSanyan Group of companies.His allegations also implicatethe Japanese Directors ofa Sarawak subsidiary of theNoda Corporation, the Ishinomaki Plywood Manufacturing Company, whom hesaysknew about the fraudbut failed to prevent it.

In his evidence, originally submitted in 2008, Dato Ting states:

Your Petitioner [Ting] has just discovered that Datuk Tufail has made secret profits at the expense of the Company through Hamidah Trading, a company owned and controlled by Datuk Tufail

The Company referred to is Sanyan Wood Industries, which was a joint venture between Noda and the Sanyan Group. Tinggoes on to accuse Tufail and the Japanese Directors of the joint venture of being in breach of their fiduciary duties by thusunlawfully and unjustly enriching Datuk Tufail.

Damaging evidence

Dato Ting, who was a close business partner of Tufail Mahmud for 25 years and wasa BN member of the State Assembly,used to beregarded asan ultimate insiderwithin the Taib family circle until he fell out with them in 2003. For this reason his testimony is regarded as being particularly dangerous to the Taibs.

Theinformation from this casecould therefore have far reaching consequences fortheruling family, who are already facing a series of embarrassing disclosures about theirextraordinary wealth and lack of socialpropriety.It is doutless for this reason thatTufailhas both astonished and amused onlookers by bringing groups of black magicbomohs into the court proceedings to chant and prayon hisbehalf.This may not be enough when it comes to the impact of the case onpublic opinion.

But even more serious are the potential consequences in Japan. For while the elderly Chief Minister will strive toprevent anyjudgementagainst his brother, whatever the strength of the evidence,for as long has heremains in power, matters will be handled very differently in Tokyo.

In Japan corporate corruptionis treated with utmost severity and theauthorities thereare likely to scrutinise the available evidence very closely with a view to taking appropriate action againstany entities within their jurisdiction. Previously, in 2007, the Taibfamily faced similar problems duringthe timber kick-back scandal, whena separate group ofJapanese business associates fell foul of Tokyos tax authorities after it was discovered that millions! were bei ng paid by ashipping cartel to a company in Hong Kong associated with Onn Mahmud,another of the Chief Ministers brothers.

The result was a severe fine for the Japanese shippingcompanies and one of Taibs most damaging political embarrassments an episodewhich haunts him to this day. While Taib can protect his familys companies from prosecution in Sarawak, in Tokyo he is powerless.

Hamidah Trading a company set up to perpetrate a fraud?

The substance of the accusation concerns the company Hamidah Trading. Hamidah Trading was set up by Tufail Mahmud in April 2003 with his own daughter Anita Hamidah Tufailand the Chief Ministersdaughter Hanifah Taib as fellow shareholdersat aboutthe timeTufailsucceeded inoustingTingas Managing Director ofUS$ 400 millionSanyan Group.

In order to also remove Ting from thesubsidiaryjoint venture with Noda Corporation (whichis 49% owned by the Noda Corporation and 51% controlled by Ting and Tufail as part of the Sanyan Group) Tufail allegedly put pressureon the three Japanese Directors on the Board, who were the representatives of theNoda Corporation subsidiary Ishinomaki Plywood Manufacturing Company Ltd.In his testimony, which is denied by the defendants, he says that the Japanese Directorsvisited him in July 2003 andexplainedthat Tufail wantedto replace him asManaging Director and that they would have to comply:

I was informed by the Japanese Shareholders that they intended to support Datuk Tufail to protect their foreign investment in Sarawak as Datuk Tufail is an influential man in Sarawak.

Indeed throughout his evidence Tingmakes clearthat Tufail has habituallyexploited his position as the brother of the Chief Minister in order to extract money and favours from his business partners and this case! is just one example. His ability to exploit his position in this wayhas relied on the

fact thateveryone knowsthat the Chief Ministerabuses his power and authority to favour his familyand will remove licences andpermits from anyone who does not comply with their demands.

Fraud?

Ting states that once he was removed from managing the joint venturecompanys affairs the Tufails organised a deal withHamidah Trading in order to be able to cream profits straight into their own pockets.

The purpose of Hamidah Trading is officially expressed as being for the provision of log handling services and the sales of books. Ting says thatonce in control of the joint ventureTufail hadorderedthat Sanyan Wood Industriesshould in future onlybuyits wood supplies through Hamidah Trading. This despite the fact that Hamidahwas not only owned but also directed by himself, his owndaughter and his niece, the Chief Ministers daughter.

Purchasing woodis a job thatprofessionals at Sanyan Wood Industries had previously manageddirectly and it is interesting to considerhow it can be argued that college graduateAnita Tufail, socialite Hanifah Taib and indeed Tufail himself(who had not held an executiverole inthe SanyanGroupuntil this point) could do a better job!

There is also the obvious question as to how agroup ofDir! ectors o f Sanyan Wood Industries could justifysettingup anew company in order to pay themselves to perform a task they hadalready beencarrying out in their existing capacities?

The Defendents in the case have argued thatHamidah Trading was doing a legitimate job for Sanyan Wood Industries, howeverTing alleges that,to the contrary,the only point of Hamidah Trading was to offer Tufail and his family a chance to divert the profitsofSanyan Wood Industries into their own pockets when they should have been paid as dividends toits shareholders in Japan and elsewhere. If this is the case the Tufails haveused their positions as Directors of thejoint venture to defraud shareholders, which is a serious offence.

In support of his claims Ting showsthat in 2007 he managed to have the companys accounts inspected by anapproved auditor who:

reported that a huge amount of the Companys profits had been diverted by Tufail to Hamidah Trading Sdn. Bhd.,a company fully controlled by himself and owned by himself and his family members. One of the shareholders includes the daughter of the Chief Minister of Sarawak.

Ting provides figures listing the revenue of Hamidah Trading for 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 showing anincome of overRM43 million and RM86 million for the first two years, before sharply diminishing. The figures show that the Directors paid themselves handsome renumerations and dividends amounting to RM 4. Heclaims:

I am advised by my solicitors and verily believe, that Hamidah Trading is a related intermediary company incorporated by Tufail to recieve profits from the Company [Sanyan Wood Industries].

In response to these allegations the Japanese Directors and Tufail alldeny that Hamidah Trading has made fraudulent profits from the company. Theyinsist that the margin between the declared purchase price of the logs and the sale price on to Sanyan Wood isrelatively small and, given the connections of the defendents, it is perhaps no surprise thatthecourthas so far found in theirfavour.

However, Ting has appealed against that judgement and whatever the outcome,onlookers willcontinue to be baffledby the need for Hamidah Trading, whose only activities have beenregistered asthe log handling services performed for Sanyan Wood Industries and the purchase of books for another related party Wisma Printing Sdn. Bhd.

Money motive

Ting says that his removal from the company that he built up was drivenpurelyby greed and an abuse of power on the part of Tufail Mahmud. However, these issues will not be part of any investigation by the Tokyo authorities, who will be looking only at whether Japanese shareholders have been deprived of their rightful dividends because company profits have been milked byunscrupulousDirectors.

It will not help the mood of those shareholders that from 2005 through to 2008 Noda Corporation announced a series of profit shortfalls and extraordinary losses. At the end of 2008 the company lowered its divendend forecast from JPY3.00 per share to JPY0.00 per share! Investigators may be wondering to what extent those losses were the result of the transfer of company profits into the bank accounts of Tufail Mahmud, his daughter and niece (the daughter of Sarawaks Chief Minister)?

Filed under: corruption, Human rights Tagged: Anak Sarawak Bangsa Malaysia, corruption, Sarawak politics, Save Sarawak, Taib Mahmud
Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

'Betray my people? Never!' says Chiew

By Joseph Tawie

KUCHING: 'Polite' DAP Kidurong representative Chiew Chin Sing has received an 'indecent proposal' from his peers upon a otherside of a political order in Sarawak.

Aghast during a call in to switch camps, Chiew said: "Dont have this kind of faulty proposal, propelling me to sell my soul as well as misuse a wishes of a people, who inaugurated me. This is bad.

Chiew was commenting upon calls by dual Barisan Nasional assemblymen Abdul Rahman Junaidi (BN-Pantai Damai) as well as Liwan Lagang (BN-Belaga) - for him to stick upon BN as they considered him very polite as well as unlike his alternative colleagues from DAP.

Both group done a call during a discuss upon a Supply (2011) Bill during last Friday's sitting of a state assembly, hardly hours after a coalition's twin victories in Galas as well as Batu Sapi.

I cannot misuse a interests of a people. The electorate of Kidurong constituency did not opinion for BN, they voted for DAP to represent them in a state assembly.

Now they want me to stick upon BN. It goes against a wishes of a people. Being a person of principle, we cannot be with a single group a single day as well as an additional day with an additional group.

That is bad, as well as when we do that, it is not starting to harm yourself only, but also it will harm a people who have voted for you, pronounced Chiew, who has been with DAP for 23 years.

'It's a trick'

Visibly dissapoint by a invitation, Chiew added that all "politicians contingency observe political etiquette."

"You cannot do it for your own self-interest or for your name; we contingency do things for a great of a people as well as a country.

"Why should we want to stick upon a State BN where corruption, abuse of energy as well as secular governing body are rampant? he asked, indicating out that these ! are a ca uses of a peoples hardship.

Under a BN government, there have been unhealthy mercantile trends as well as practices that have a abounding richer as well as a poor poorer.

After March 2008, people want change. The BN vessel is falling as well as some-more people will be jumping from BN, he said, adding that BN used to be clever before, winning all parliamentary seats.

After 2008, we see a some-more balanced political complement functioning in a country. The people want it (balanced system), as well as we hope in a coming state election, some-more people will opinion for a Pakatan Rakyat."

Chew described a call in as a plan to order a DAP as well as to cast doubts upon a celebration as well as wear down peoples certainty in a opposition.

I hope a people see as well as realize that this is an old trick, he said.

Zaid Ibrahim withdraws from the race for PKR No.2 Post

November 8, 2010

Zaid Ibrahim withdraws from the race for the PKR No. 2 Post

Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has dropped out of the PKR deputy presidential race and resigned from all posts in the party, saying the party leadership actively condones malpractices and electoral fraud to achieve its designed objectives.

The maverick politician was seen as giving a stiff fight in the ongoing party polls to vice-president Azmin Ali, who is said to enjoy the backing of party de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Zaid and fellow deputy presidential hopeful Mustafa Kamil Ayub had asked for a halt in the partys first direct elections, citing irregularities including the latest claims that ballot papers were available outside the polling process for possible manipulation of results.

Party secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has denied the claims, citing five security features. He however did not explain how the ballot papers were made available to outsiders.

The partys denial did not placate Zaids teams concerns, leading to the shock announcement early this morning.I wish to announce my withdrawal as a candidate from the contest of deputy president of Parti Keadilan Rakyat and my resignation from all posts held in the party.

I was offered to join this party under the belief that I could promote enlightened and progressive politics; nurture and develop principled political values and culture that I consider indispensable to the development of democracy and good governance in this country. I was mistaken, Zaid said in a terse six-paragraph statement released to all media.

The former de facto law minister had quit the Abdullah Administration in late 2008 over the detention of DAP leader Teresa Kok, blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin and journalist Tan Hoon Cheng under the ! Internal Security Act. The one-time Kota Baru MP was later kicked out of UMNO.

He was PKRs candidate in the Hulu Selangor by-election last April but failed to defend the federal seat. Over the course of the party elections, events have shown that the leadership actively condones malpractices and electoral fraud to achieve its designed objectives. I am certain that any political party with such hypocritical and false values will not be able to offer meaningful reforms to the people of this country.

I have made this decision because there is no attempt on the part of the party leadership to address the various issues of manipulation and unfair electoral practices, although these issues were raised repeatedly,added the party political bureau member and Federal Territory PKR chief.

Zaid, who oversaw PKR and its allies DAP and PASs efforts to formalise its Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pact, thanked all the members who had supported him.

It is of utmost disappointment that I am unable to continue in this flawed election process. I remain committed to the Oppositions cause and will continue to speak about the issues of the common people.

Together, we will continue our unabated struggle towards a better government for the people, he said.Zaid also took a dig at Anwar supporters who were against his candidacy for the deputy presidency which is not being defended by incumbent Senator Dr Syed Husin Ali.

Finally, I hope those adoring fans of Anwar Ibrahim will no longer regard me as a spoiler standing in the way of their march to Putrajaya. I wish them well, he said.

CAPITAL DECISION ZAID

by Zorrounmasked

In my Saturday post ARE ALL THE PKR BIG GUNS IN AZMIN'S POUCH?, I wrote:

If it is true that the veteran start-up PKR team is in cahoots with Azmin and thus in his pouch, Zaid should call it a day in this campaign, give the dirty crown to Azmin who wants it so badly for reasons known only to himself, and come lead the Malaysian chapter of the CIVIL LIBERTIES initiative.

SYABAS, Sir.....let's march on as there is still a lot of work ahead. Let's hustle! Regroup, rethink.

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Zaid free to make own decision, says Wan Azizah

from Free Malaysia Today - Free and Independent by FMT Team

By Jamilah Kamarudin

KUALA LUMPUR: While expressing disappointment over PKR leader Zaid Ibrahim's decision to pull out from the deputy president's race and quit all party posts, party president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said the former minister was free to decide his political future.

Reacting to the sudden decision announced overnight by Zaid, Wan Azizah said although she was disappointed, the decision had to be accepted.

Zaid, the former minister in the prime minister's department, announced through his blog that he was pulling out from contesting for the deputy president's post and at the same time resigning from all party posts, citing several reasons including discrepancies in the PKR elections.

Zaid was contesting for the post alongside vice-presidents Azmin Ali and Mustaffa Kamil Ayub. He was trailing Azmin, who was backed by PKR de-facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, by some 2,500 votes.

The PKR elections had been marred by several allegations of manipulation but all grouses were rubbished by the party headquarters.

"I just read Zaid's statement in his blog and I did not think that he would pull out. Prior to this, he did not voice out any of his grouses to me or the party leadership. But nevermind...it is his right either to contest or otherwise," she told FMT.

Commenting on Zaid's criticism against the party leadership - that it had actively allowed wrongdoings and discrepencies in the party polls, Azizah defended the role of the party's independent election committee.

"We have to hear his allegations and we, through the election committee, have already heard his complaints along with the complaints of the others.

“The committee has investigated all the problems that has cropped-up and have answered all the issues raised yesterday," she added.

Apart from being PKR's Federal Territories head, Zaid is also a member of the powerful political bureau committee and the supreme council.

Anor one bites the PKR dust...

by Ti Lian Ker

Withdrawal from Deputy President contest

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Nov 8, 2010

Category: Press Release

I wish to announce my withdrawal as a candidate from the contest of Deputy President of Parti Keadilan Rakyat and my resignation from all posts held in the party.

I was offered to join this party under the belief that I could promote enlightened and progressive politics; nurture and develop principled political values and culture that I consider indispensable to the development of democracy and good governance in this country. I was mistaken.

Over the course of the party elections, events have shown that the leadership actively condones malpractices and electoral fraud to achieve its designed objectives. I am certain that any political party with such hypocritical and false values will not be able to offer meaningful reforms to the people of this country.

I have made this decision because there is no attempt on the part of the party leadership to address the various issues of manipulation and unfair electoral practices, although these issues were raised repeatedly.

I wish to thank all the members who have supported me and placed their faith in the cause of reform. It is of utmost disappointment that I am unable to continue in this flawed election process. I remain committed to the Opposition’s cause and will continue to speak about the issues of the common people. Together, we will continue our unabated struggle towards a better government for the people.

Finally, I hope those adoring fans of Anwar Ibrahim will no longer regard me as a “spoiler” standing in the way of their march to Putrajaya. I wish them well.



ZAID IBRAHIM

MONDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 2010

Another big melodrama - Zaid quits.

Zaid quits race for PKR No 2, all party posts

PETALING JAYA: Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has quit the PKR deputy presidential race saying the party "leadership actively condone malpractices and electoral fraud to achieve its designed objectives."
"I wish to announce my withdrawal as a candidate from the contest of deputy president of Parti Keadilan Rakyat and my resignation from all posts held in the party," said Zaid in a statement Monday.
Zaid also resigned as the party's political bureau member, Federal Territory chief and Wangsa Maju chief.
He said he decided to pull out of the No 2 due to blatant vote manipulation.
He said "there is no attempt on the part of the party leadership to address the various issues of manipulation and unfair electoral practices, although these issues were raised repeatedly.
"It is of utmost disappointment that I am unable to continue in this flawed election process," he said.
Earlier, PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail had denied claims of vote manipulation despite numerous complaints of irregularities during divisions as well as central party polls.

Below is the full text of Zaid's statement.

" I wish to announce my withdrawal as a candidate from the contest of Deputy President of Parti Keadilan Rakyat and my resignation from all posts held in the party.
"I was offered to join this party under the belief that I could promote enlightened and progressive politics; nurture and develop principled political values and culture that I consider indispensable to the development of democracy and good governance in this country. I was mistaken.
"Over the course of the party elections, events have shown that the leadership actively condones malpractices and electoral fraud to achieve its designed objectives.
"I am certain that any political party with such hypocritical and false values will not be able to offer meaningful reforms to the people of this country.
"I have made this decision because there is no attempt on the part of the party leadership to address the various issues of manipulation and unfair electoral practices, although these issues were raised repeatedly.
"I wish to thank all the members who have supported me and placed their faith in the cause of reform.
"It is of utmost disappointment that I am unable to continue in this flawed election process.
"I remain committed to the Opposition’s cause and will continue to speak about the issues of the common people.
"Together, we will continue our unabated struggle towards a better government for the people.
"Finally, I hope those adoring fans of Anwar Ibrahim will no longer regard me as a “spoiler” standing in the way of their march to Putrajaya. I wish them well."

Zaid quits No. 2 race, all PKR posts...

from tumpang sekole...? by ali allah ditta

Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has dropped out of the PKR deputy presidential race and resigned from all posts in the party, saying the party “leadership actively condones malpractices and electoral fraud to achieve its designed objectives”. The maverick politician was seen as giving a stiff fight in the ongoing party polls to vice-president Azmin Ali, who is said to enjoy the backing of party de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Zaid and fellow deputy presidential hopeful Mustafa Kamil Ayub had asked for a halt in the party’s first direct elections, citing irregularities including the latest claims that ballot papers were available outside the polling process for possible manipulation of results. Party secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has denied the claims, citing five security features. He however did not explain how the ballot papers were made available to outsiders.

The party’s denial did not placate Zaid’s team’s concerns, leading to the shock announcement early this morning.

“I wish to announce my withdrawal as a candidate from the contest of deputy president of Parti Keadilan Rakyat and my resignation from all posts held in the party.

“I was offered to join this party under the belief that I could promote enlightened and progressive politics; nurture and develop principled political values and culture that I consider indispensable to the development of democracy and good governance in this country. I was mistaken,” Zaid said in a terse six-paragraph statement released to all media.

The former de facto law minister had quit the Abdullah administration in late 2008 over the detention of DAP leader Teresa Kok, blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin and journalist Tan Hoon Cheng under the Internal Security Act. The one-time Kota Baru MP was later kicked out of Umno. He was PKR’s candidate in the Hulu Selangor by-election last April but failed to defend the federal seat.

“Over the course of the party elections, events have shown that the leadership actively condones malpractices and electoral fraud to achieve its designed objectives. I am certain that any political party with such hypocritical and false values will not be able to offer meaningful reforms to the people of this country.

“I have made this decision because there is no attempt on the part of the party leadership to address the various issues of manipulation and unfair electoral practices, although these issues were raised repeatedly,” added the party political bureau member and Federal Territory PKR chief.

Zaid, who oversaw PKR and its allies DAP and PAS’s efforts to formalise its Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pact, thanked all the members who had supported him.

“It is of utmost disappointment that I am unable to continue in this flawed election process. I remain committed to the Opposition’s cause and will continue to speak about the issues of the common people.

“Together, we will continue our unabated struggle towards a better government for the people,” he said.

Zaid also took a dig at Anwar supporters who were against his candidacy for the deputy presidency which is not being defended by incumbent Senator Dr Syed Husin Ali.

“Finally, I hope those adoring fans of Anwar Ibrahim will no longer regard me as a ‘spoiler’ standing in the way of their march to Putrajaya. I wish them well,” he said.

source:malaysia insider

Wish him the best......

cheers.

On Paradigms of Learning and Policy Implications: Constructivism in an age of being digital

From the age of the Sophists to chaos theorists, educational philosophy has come to be packaged in many names: perennialism, essentialism, social reconstructionism, romanticism, progressivism, technologism, and variants and hybrids of these. Within these the will to be human and the desire to master techniques are embodied.

A REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE

Dr. Azly Rahman

As we continue our journey in this anxietal, prophetic and somewhat mystical epoch called the Milleneum, educators are forced to consider to preview the prospects of “being human in an increasingly digital world”. Conflicts theorists, among which Critical Theorists and neo- or post-Marxists come into the paradigm of looking at this critical juncture in our development as “conscious beings in the world of technological determinism, have and continue to ask the question of the role of philosophy of education as our guide in this journey. If philosophy means the “love for wisdom” and “education” means the enterprise for “drawing out” our potentials within, what must philosophy of education mean in this yet another Kuhnian shift in learning and teaching?.

Must technological determinism be made to engineer uncritically our forward march towards becoming “one dimensional” as Herbert Marcuse would say, adding the final victory of the march of advanced post-industrial capitalism which is taking its character as virtual capitalism? In what ways must a humanistic dimension of learning be made to continue to be relevant in our age wherein education is forced to coexist in a technological mode of operation? In this section on the previews and the prospects of such an ontological blend, we look at constructivism as an often-talked-about paradigm of teaching and learning which would mediate the “Freirian and Deweyian push” on the one hand, and the “(Nicholas) Negropontian and the (Norbert) Weinerian pull” on the other; both to illustrate the dialectical dimension of the debate or how we can continue to be and become human in a digitized and networked world.

Philosopher Charles Taylor suggested that we need not be neither “boosters of knockers” of technology in this age of technological hypism but rather journey through this age of change, complexity and chaos, as Alvin Toffler would term it, in search of our horizons of significance to reach a destination called “authenticity”. If we are to take seriously Robert Bellah et.al.’s suggestion that the professionalism and technologization of our lives have fragmented the meaning of authentic and progressive individualism, we ought to conceive the coming century as one in which this authenticity and progressivism must be reclaimed. This task entails a new conception; that being digital and being human may not be a contradiction but a juxtaposition of the condition of “being and becoming” in the (Jean-Paul) Sartrean sense (Hans) Gadamarian in nature and (Paulo) Freirian in its view.

Boosters of technologism, reflective and illustrative in perhaps the writings of MIT Media Lab’s “techno-gurus” like Nicholas Negroponte and Seymour Pappert, have hailed this century and beyond as one in which technology will “liberate us from the mundaneness of everyday lives” and one in which digital technology will dominate and dictate the way we live, work, play and perhaps too, how we make our own history. These boosters are situating our condition of being and learning within a postmodern scenario in which the fantasy is to launch the self into the virtual realm – a life to be lived primarily “on the screen”.

Knockers of technologism, reflective and illustrative in perhaps the writing of Neil Postman, Max Horkheimer, and those from schools of thought such as The Frankfurt School of Social Research have cautioned us on the alienating potentials of technologism and the political-economic context of technological determinism and how the ideology embedded in it can shake our axiological desire to not become dehumanized. These knockers of technology, perhaps having their historical inspiration in the Luddites of the Industrial Revolution will continue to caution on of the digital tools we are given that will determine (or devastate) the way we live, work, play and make our own history. If we or educators are to journey together with those who are entrusted to educate, develop and liberate, how then must we make such a choice? Must we download information onto the minds of the children of Anatole France of ought we, as a guide on the side let them make neural connections on their own – like patterns in a Mandelbrott set? In a world wherein the physical and virtual is increasingly becoming borderless, such as Kuhnian shift in the way we view “philos”, “sofia” and “educare” must uncompromisingly be conceived. Herein lies the prospects of constructivism.

From the age of the Sophists to chaos theorists, educational philosophy has come to be packaged in many names: perennialism, essentialism, social reconstructionism, romanticism, progressivism, technologism, and variants and hybrids of these. Within these the will to be human and the desire to master techniques are embodied. The essential tension lies in the trading offs of the concepts of Grand and Subaltern narratives; the degree and amount of information to be passed down by teachers for cultural continuity and the freedom given to learners to construct knowledge and manipulate information based upon their “lived“ experience. Inherent in the idea of constructivism is the greater (if not the greatest) degree of freedom in making neural connections in their three-pound universe so that they can invert realities, become makers of their own history and not be coerced into living by the dominant idea of the epoch and participate in the ideological production of those possessing the political, economic, cultural and informational capital.

Drawn from advances in research from cognitive science (brain laterality, question mechanics, artificial intelligence), humanistic psychology, and reflective sociology theme, constructivism is promising to be praxical (theory and practice embedded) in character and sustainable in its promise to deal with teaching and learning in the Information Age. It can be conceived to be superstructurally Socratic, Piagetian, Freirian, and Deweyian in pedagogy and one in which may promise to “check and balance” the superstructuralism of technological hypism.

If one is to draw a metaphor for constructivism, it could one be in which the dialogue between Socrates and Meno in a cybercave in cyberspace! If one is to draw a metaphor for a model of teaching, it could be one if and inverted triangle of which the Platonic and Confucian model is replaced with the Einsteinian model. Perhaps too, if one is to build a scenario of the shape of societies to come with Constructivism as a guiding paradigm, we ought to conceive the emergence not only of personalistic, post-industrial selfs engaging in information processing, manipulating and creating activities in a world entirely borderless but perhaps interestingly too the emergence of post-industrial tribes existing in cyber principalities loosely controlled by cybernation-states (withered by digital technologies they allowed themselves to be structured by!).

What then would be the implications and policy recommendation related to such a conception of change in the manner we perceive philosophy of education?

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Lim Kit Siang The King Blogger ?

Out of curiosity, I simply picked one of the bloggers from the sidebar of Bonology.com, I got Sakmongkol47 to check iy out at Cubestat.com as referred proudly by the King ... The results are pretty shocking to me. See for yourself

Name: Sakmongkol AK47

Website Address: sakmongkol.blogspot.com

Website Worth: $273,750,000.00

Daily Pageviews: 125,000,000

Daily Ads Revenue: $375,000.00

vs.

(self-proclaimed King Blogger)

No. 1

Name: Lim Kit Siang

Website Address: limkitsiang.com

Site age: 4 years

Website Worth: $44,472.33

Daily Pageviews: 20,307

Daily Ads Revenue: $60.92

If the figures from Cubestat.com can be taken seriously, then I think it's only fair to say the Tomoi obsessed SakmongkolAK47 is the TRUE No. 1 ... and I believe there are thousands more kings out there.

Is 'King' now a frivolous title just like 'Datuk' ?

Lim Kit Siang’s blog tops in number of hits, Dr M at No. 2

from Malaysia Chronicle by admin@ malaysiachronicle

Kit Siang - king blogger!

Lim Kit Siang

Out of curiosity, one evening, I reckoned the number of hits for the blogs of our country’s more vocal politicians selected at random. Here are the results in descending order of pageviews:


No. 1
Name: Lim Kit Siang
Website Address: limkitsiang.com
Site age: 4 years
Website Worth: $44,472.33
Daily Pageviews: 20,307
Daily Ads Revenue: $60.92

No. 2
Name: Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
Website Address: cedet.co.cc
Site Age: N/A
Website Worth: $26,028.15
Daily Pageviews: 11,885
Daily Ads Revenue: $35.66

No. 3
Name: Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahin
Website Address anwaribrahimblog.com
Site Age: 4 years
Website Worth: $25,699.65
Daily Pageviews: 11,735
Daily Ads Revenue: $35.21

No. 4
Name: Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak
Website Address: www.1malaysia.com.my
Site Age: N/A
Website Worth: $13,210.08
Daily Pageviews: 6,032
Daily Ads Revenue: $18.10

No. 5
Name: Tuan Guru Datuk Seri Haji Abdul Hadi Awang
Website Address: presiden.pas.org.my
Site Age: N/A
Website Worth: $5,337.03
Daily Pageviews: 2,437
Daily Ads Revenue: $7.31

No. 6
Name: Nurul Izzah
Website Address: nurulizzah.com
Website Worth: $3,120.75
Site Age: 4 years
Daily Pageviews: 1,425
Daily Ads Revenue: $4.28

No. 7
Name: Teresa Kok
Website Address: teresakok.com
Website Worth: $2,122.11
Site Age: 4 years
Daily Pageviews: 969
Daily Ads Revenue: $2.91

No. 8
Name: Tony Pua
Website address: tonypua.blogspot.com
Website Worth: $1,559.28
Site Age: N/A
Daily Pageviews: 712
Daily Ads Revenue: $2.14

No. 9
Name: Tuan Dato’ Haji Nik Abdul Aziz bin Nik Mat
Website Address: blogtokguru.com
Site Age: 8 months
Website Worth: $1,465.11
Daily Pageviews: 669
Daily Ads Revenue: $2.01

No. 10
Name: Lim Guan Eng
Website Address: limguaneng.com
Site Age: 3 years
Website Worth: $1,373.13
Daily Pageviews: 627
Daily Ads Revenue: $1.88

No. 11
Name: Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar
Website Address: http://www.rembau.net.my/
Site age: N/A
Website Worth: $1,314.00
Daily Pageviews: 600
Daily Ads Revenue: $1.80

No. 12
Name: Hannah Yeoh
Website Address: hannahyeoh.blogspot.com
Website Worth: $1,053.39
Site Age: N/A
Daily Pageviews: 481
Daily Ads Revenue: $1.44

No. 13
Name: Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek
Website Address: drchua9.blogspot.com
Site Age: N/A
Website Worth: $1,029.30
Daily Pageviews: 470
Daily Ads Revenue: $1.41

No. 14
Name: Elizabeth Wong
Website Address: elizabethwong.wordpress.com
Website Worth: $558.45
Site Age: N/A
Daily Pageviews: 255
Daily Ads Revenue: $0.77

No. 15
Name: Fong Poh Kuan
Website Address: pokuan.blogsome.com/
Site Age: N/A
Website Worth: $363.54
Daily Pageviews: 166
Daily Ads Revenue: $0.50

No. 16
Name: Dato’ Sri Dr Ng Yen Yen
Website Address: www.drngyenyen.com/blog
Site Age: 3 years
Website Worth: $361.35
Daily Pageviews: 165
Daily Ads Revenue: $0.50

No. 17
Name: Ustaz Nasrudin Hasan
Website address: ustaznasrudin-tantawi.blogspot.com
Website Worth: $291.27
Site Age: N/A
Daily Pageviews: 133
Daily Ads Revenue: $0.40

No. 18
Name: Karpal Singh
Website Address: www.karpalsingh.net
Site Age: 3 years
Website Worth: $278.13
Daily Pageviews: 127
Daily Ads Revenue: $0.38

No. 19
Name: Datuk Dr. Wee Ka Siong
Website Address: kasiong.blogspot.com
Website Worth: $232.14
Site Age: N/A
Daily Pageviews: 106
Daily Ads Revenue: $0.32

N.B. I was unable to trace Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s blog except for his official website. At the time of writing this posting, calculations for the blogs of Datuk Seri Wan Azizah, Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, Datuk G. Palanivel, M. Kulasegaran and Gobind Deo Singh were unable to be performed by cubestat.com.

“Cubestat [cubestat.com] is a free and perfect tool for website value calculation, estimations and information. How does it work? You simply enter the domain url [in the box], our unique algorithm will calculate and estimate the website worth, daily pageviews and daily ads revenue of the present domain.” .

(Lim Kit Siang is the DAP adviser and MP for Ipoh Timur)