Tular video pensyarah universiti awam dipercayai memarahi pelajarnya kerana
tidak mampu memiliki komputer riba. Sifatkan golongan B40 tak pentingkan pelajaran...
Bayangkan kalu Professor tu dari PH atau DAP,
dah penuh Padang Merbok depa kutuk 40 hari 40 malam...
Menteri Besar Perak, Saarani Mohamad memohon maaf kepada Pulau Pinang selepas membuat keputusan untuk tidak menjual air mentah kepada negeri lain termasuk negeri itu. Beliau berkata, berdasarkan kajian yang dijalankan, Perak lebih memerlukan air untuk jangka masa panjang, iaitu sehingga 2050.
“Kita nak minta maaf kepada Pulau Pinang. Bukan kita tak simpati dengan dia. Cuma kami kena ‘secure’ untuk orang Perak sendiri. “Jadi saya sudah beri keputusan. Bukan kami tak memahami, cuma kami tak cukup air,” katanya kepada FMT di sini.
Kepada Menteri Besar Perak, lain kali bila hang mai ke Pulau Pinang pastikan hang bawa ayaq sendiri untuk mandi dan cuci juboq...
PKR - Can Rafizi Make A Difference?
Did he or did he not?...
Remember Psy? Yes, the South Korean rapper famous for his “Gangnam Style”. Some pro-BN people with big money managed to get him to perform live in Penang in 2013. Remember? It was a free open-air concert. Whether the South Korean knew it or not, it was a BN election campaign. After all, GE13 was around the corner then.
Among those present was Datuk Seri Najib Razak himself, at that time prime minister and chairman of Barisan Nasional. Najib took the microphone and asked the crowd (huge and predominantly Chinese) whether they were ready for Psy. They answered with a booming “YES”.
And Najib went on to ask if they were ready for BN. In fact, he asked thrice. And each time the crowd answered loud and clear “NO”. Surely we can recall that, right? If not, go to YouTube. It’s there for all to see. That roaring “NO” somehow told the story on how the people of Penang, the Chinese in particular, felt about BN then.
Then there was the big dinner in Port Klang. I can’t say for sure if it was held before or after the Penang embarrassment for Najib and BN. But it took place all the same. Anyway, I was told the dinner was attended by hundreds if not thousands from the Chinese community.
Najib was obviously pleased with the turnout. So pleased was he that after the dinner he called for a meeting at his residence with members of his many thinktanks although it was already late at night, to discuss the “latest development”, so to speak. One of the members who attended the meeting told me the then PM was “beaming”, smiling broadly telling his team that the Chinese were “back with us”.
Well, the BN won GE13 and remained government at federal level. But the results showed its performance was nothing to be proud of. No two-thirds majority. The Chinese who Najib thought had returned to support BN had not done so.
Fast forward to recent days when he was campaigning for BN earlier this month just days before the Johor state election. Najib was given rousing welcome in the many places he went. The people in Johor, including the Chinese, seemed excited to meet him, fist bumps and selfies aplenty.
And we know how the state election results went. Was the big BN win because of his campaigning? Was he the pull factor despite the guilty verdict (which he is currently appealing) by the courts for the SRC International charges? Whatever it was, Najib was clearly “encouraged” by what took place in Johor.
Off he went to Penang a few days ago to speak at an “international business summit”. And he claimed to have seen “Bossku” banners greeting him and a group of his Chinese supporters even turned up at the Penang airport to welcome him. And during his speech at the “summit”, he spoke on the “many things he did for the good of the Chinese” and how the Chinese “had experienced the economy drying up after GE14” which he lost.
One needs not be a political expert to know that boosted by his Johor experience Najib was now wooing Chinese support. Nothing wrong with that, I would say. But the thing is, he somehow felt it was right to deny he had back in 2013 (when he thought the Chinese were with him) said “Apa lagi Cina mau?”
To many Malaysians, those words implied that the Chinese were greedy and ungrateful for not supporting BN despite being accorded “good treatment, help and assistance” by the coalition which Najib led. Needless to say, “Apa lagi Cina mau” had hurt the feelings of the Chinese, to say the very least.
So Najib has denied ever saying those words. Strangely. I must agree with DAP’s Lim Lip Eng that Najib’s denial is a decade too late. Strangely, he had not distanced himself as soon as the report made the front page of Utusan Malaysia.
In fact, as soon as the “Apa lagi cina mau” headline appeared, opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim called Najib as Umno chief to take responsibility because Utusan was an Umno paper and “followed his instruction”.
Anyway, did Najib say “Apa lagi Cina mau?” Hard to tell. If he had said, it must have been at the Umno HQ when the results of GE13 had come in. As said earlier, BN registered an “unconvincing” performance despite winning GE13. One of the members called to the meeting told me Najib was “beaming”, smiling broadly telling his team the Chinese were “back with us”.
Could it be those words were uttered (I repeat, if indeed he had said it. I am putting it this way now that he has denied saying it) at the spur of the moment when he was overwhelmed by frustration, anger maybe, considering the dismay BN performance?
And the newspaper which carried the remarks on its headline, as rightly pointed out by Anwar, was Umno-owed. Hence, it was Umno-friendly and Umno mouthpiece. The paper, I feel, was prompted to ask “Apa lagi Cina mau” probably when Najib attributed the “poor” BN performance to a “Chinese tsunami”. Yes. “Chinese tsunami”, Najib did say. This cannot be denied!
The “Apa lagi Cina mau” storyline was extensively used by Utusan in commentaries and write-ups in support of those very words. Strangely, Najib did not reprimand Utusan. Until now we have not heard of Utusan editors taken to task over the years (what more “punished” for anything which could have linked him, president of the party which owned Utusan and the prime minister of Malaysia to the controversial headline).
Would the paper dare to do anything like that in the first place? Najib met the media on election night. That would mean the TV cameras were there at Umno HQ. Everything he said was carried on national television live or delayed telecast for the many TV bulletins.
To settle this issue once and for all, it would be good to preview the visuals of Najib meeting the media session on election night 5 May 2013 or early morning of 6 May 2013. Someone needs to dig deep into the archives of RTM and TV3 to retrieve the visuals. National archives even. There lies the truth. What was said and what was not, assuming the “evidence” is still there.- Mohsin Abdullah,mySinchew
With effect from 1st April 2021 onwards Putrajaya must retrospectively pay MySJ Sdn Bhd for the MySejahtera app usage, until and unless Putrajaya decides to use a similar software from another vendor. The opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim wants the government to explain the sale of MySejahtera apps to a private company.
Khairy said he decided to regularise the MySejahtera application and the need for a contract to be signed jointly between the government and the company managing the platform.The government is negotiating with license holder MySJ Sdn Bhd on the subscription terms of the MySejahtera application.
Of all the personal databases compiled via apps in Malaysia encompassing a variety of purposes, like mobile phone access, etc, the MySejahtera database is arguably the most complete representation of the nation's demographics.
Imagine the treasure trove of private information contained therein which can be exploited and profited by a private company.
Khairy have meanwhile clarified that the database will still be in the hands of MOH, but can we trust him on this assurance when disclosure on MySJ Sdn Bhd only became evident after four months! - Sharifuddin Abdul Latiff
Man once locked up for MySejahtera
tweet enraged by latest news on app...
In June 2021, a man’s home was raided, he was arrested and spent a night in the lock-up for a tweet about MySejahtera funding.The arrest under the Emergency Ordinance, which was then in place, was for causing public unrest.
The tweet, which landed him in hot water, was one which stated that the RM70 million budget was not for MySejahtera but to pay for a contractor managing the vaccine rollout.
As MySejahtera funding and ownership issues relating to it hit headlines again, the man read the news enraged.
“I am angry because I spent a day in lockup last year and lost my handphone, modem and router (which were held) for months, because I questioned something which the news now shows is true,” he said in a Tweet yesterday.
The 37-year-old, who works in the IT industry, was never identified by police in its statement on his arrest or in any subsequent news reports. He was only identified by his Twitter handle at the time - Abah@ChairmanGLC.
Declining to be identified again, when speaking to Malaysiakini today, he said the recent news made him consider taking legal action against the authorities.
“I want to (take legal action). But I don’t have the time and energy to do it,” he said.
The news last weekend, however, did not touch on the developments for the vaccine rollout or what the contractor tasked to do so, as per the tweet that landed the man in trouble.
Instead, it was about how MySejahtera was developed without a proper contract in place, and how the government is only now negotiating to procure the application.
This was based on the Public Accounts Committee proceedings last week. Even so, the man believes it vindicates him.
“The weekend news was that RM70 million wasn’t used for the development of MySejahtera and its portal. Which was what I tweeted in the first place,” he said.
'If we don't speak up for us, who will?'
To date, the case has been classified as “no further action” by the Attorney-General’s Chambers, while the items seized have been returned. But he can no longer use the phone, he said, because the authorities had done something to the operating system in the course of their investigation, rendering it unusable.
His Twitter account was also suspended and the contents, which were largely critical of the government, have been wiped. Since his release, he has returned to Twitter, with a similar handle, and continues to tweet critically about government policies.
“At first, I was afraid (to go back to tweeting), but if we don’t speak up because we are scared, then who can do so on our behalf?
“When I was arrested under the Emergency Ordinance, there were others hauled up for the same matter but I was the only one who was locked up.
“I knew then that I had hit a nerve and there was some truth to what I said,” he said.
Among those who were investigated last June over comments about MySejahtera was Galen Centre for Health and Policy chief executive Azrul Mohd Khalib. The think tank’s chief was questioned by police over a November 2020 tweet expressing concern over the protection of data obtained and managed through MySejahtera.
The case is still pending and his seized handphone is still in police possession, Azrul shared in a Twitter exchange with the man yesterday. He also said he has not heard from the authorities over the matter since last year and is not keen to follow up.
‘Sue them!’
About 24 hours since the man tweeted about his anger, his post has been retweeted more than 2,000 times and liked more than 5,000 times. It is gaining similar traction as the post which landed him in the police lock-up.
Largely, netizens responding to him urged him to take the authorities to court while others asked if he needed funds to take legal action.
Clamouring for “justice”, one person said: “Sue them! Sue them for defamation, to make this case an example, and because of your distress and disrupting your work and daily life.”
News that MySejahtera was developed by a private party without a proper contract with the government has raised concern over data protection.
Yesterday, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin assured that only the Health Ministry has access to the data obtained through MySejahtera.
As part of Covid-19 control measures, Malaysians must check in at premises visited using the MySejahtera app.
However, many have questioned the need for this since the data has not been used for contact tracing in individual cases. - Aidila Razak,mk
How fearful are Najib and Rosmah, of having to spend time behind bars? Do you not think that they have thought over and over again, what their life in jail would be like? Do you not think that at night, they have sleepless nights, and are awakened from sleep by nightmares of cell doors being slammed shut behind them as they finally begin to serve their sentences?
They are now past being embarrassed or ashamed that Najib is already a convicted felon, and Rosmah is in court facing jail time if she is found guilty as charged. For both of them, what now matters is staying out of jail.
The day of judgement for other corrupt politicians and those who take bribes while in public office, is nigh. If Najib and Rosmah cannot escape punishment, what more, lesser mortals?
But we are far from having political corruption and bribery under control! The check and balances in place are far from being adequate. While the Judiciary are now independent of political interference and seems to be untainted, questions are still being asked about the independence and commitment of other law enforcement agencies to combat corruption - especially PDRM and MACC.
The stench of corruption is still overpowering and still threatens our present and our future. There are still rats in the sewer. Some of those involved in corruption are still in power and have influence. We must not stop the anti corruption fight. We must continue with more vim and vigor. The Convicted Felon, the Mother of all corrupted Politicians, will soon start his sentence and that tells us that in the fight against corruption, the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.
We have got the Judiciary we deserved. Independent, virtuous and committed to their task of bringing those who are corrupt to justice, but surely the wheels of Justice should turn with more speed?
We, the rakyat, are ready to dump the thieves, the robbers and those treasonous corrupted leaders who abuse their term in public office, but the Opposition parties must show their sincerity to deliver for the rakyat and the rakyat only. Unfortunately, they are giving the impression that they too are greedy for power and are susceptible to being corrupted too. There need to be more house cleaning within the political parties first before GE 15.
But we are moving in the right direction. FORWARD! The difficult decisions have been made by the Pakatan Harapan government after they took government at PRU14. The former prime minister of Malaysia have had to answer for the things he did while holding the highest public office in the land, and he has been found guilty. His wife is now being tried for her Kleptocratic greed. And the Umno Court Clusters are already in the dock answering for their abuse of political and public office. Judgement day awaits all of them dalam masa terdekat!
There is hope for Malaysia. There is hope that our nation and the future will be ours again. For Malaysians like me who choose to live abroad and now wants to come home, we know that we may need to wait a bit more before we can do so, but we are more than hopeful that we can and will be back in our beloved Tanah Air sooner, rather than later. Take heart, my friends, and let us all work towards a shared purpose - to make our nation the one we want and deserved. A nation for every Malaysians that wants to call it home. - Hussein Abdul Hamid
Malaysians have matured,
but not its political parties...
We often look to the US and its two-party system as some sort of a model for democracy. There is the Democrat party and the Republican party. One party acts as government and the other as opposition, depending on the flavour of the day, for the check and balance to happen.
In Malaysia, as we see how the recent Sarawak, Melaka and Johor state elections have been, BN has been making almost clean sweeps in winning both states, resulting in many people criticising the opposition for not being united.
It’s not just disunity within the Pakatan Harapan coalition, but there is now a third coalition in the form of Perikatan Nasional.
Since 2008, the opposition has tried their best to come together to become a force to challenge BN. It started as Pakatan Rakyat and evolved into Harapan.
Many times, it would seem like parties with totally opposite ideals are just coming together, such as the DAP and PAS. But that was seen as something necessary.
In my opinion, this type of two coalition politics can definitely work if, like in the case of our beloved country, there is a common enemy that one side would like to defeat.
BN seen as the enemy
Obviously, we are looking at how BN has always been seen as the enemy that everyone else needs to destroy. This was put in motion in 2008 and 2013, with it becoming a success in 2018. Also proven, a model like this works in the short term but not necessarily for the long term. I mean, come on. Twenty-two months is pretty short for a government to stay in power.
So when the recent three state elections came about, why was it that this same model was seen as the strategy to go with? Obviously, it isn't something feasible anymore. And with the next general election just around the corner, there are concerns.
As many people are seeing how Malaysian politics is falling into a slump, I would express my disagreement. Instead, I would say that the country is maturing. We are progressively moving towards politics where people no longer feel the need to fight a so-called ‘enemy’ anymore.
Sure, we want to weed out the dirty and corrupt politicians and all, but, if a political party can be sure that they are worthy contenders, they will get the votes.
Nothing new
BN has proven that most recently in the Johor state election. It had nothing to do with the opposition being disunited. Instead, it had everything to do with the opposition parties having nothing new to offer the voters. It was mainly the same old strategy of saying that BN is dirty and if you don’t want things to get worse, then don’t vote for them. That is so 2018 (and 2013 as well as 2008!)!
The opposition needs to start realising that they cannot model themselves after BN whereby you get a whole bunch of component parties to form a super coalition anymore. The only reason BN is still winning is that the opposition is still playing that same game.
It’s obvious that Malaysia is now moving towards a multi-party system and the best way for the opposition to make an impact is to embrace that. The opposition consists of many parties that have many different agendas and manifestos. It is almost impossible for all of them to come together before an election and agree to a common manifesto.
Internal bickering
It will just result in a lot of internal bickering. We know this because we've seen how this doesn’t work already. The best bet is for all of them to just head into elections with their own different manifestos.
But it is important that these manifestos and agendas are clear and issue-driven instead of just harping on anger, revenge and fear. They need to show the people that they have solutions for improving the country and making life better for everyone. That’s what the people want now.
They aren’t interested in the old narrative of bringing down the old blood who have dominated. Just show the people good and efficient governance that benefits them.
It’s time we move towards the way of New Zealand and many other European countries where governments are decided upon negotiations of winning parties after an election.
Minority government
Basically, a minority government could be the way forward where a group of political parties who have won seats come together and decide on a mutual agreement to form a workable government after the election has happened.
This is something that I have written about numerous times before after seeing how it has been proven to work more often than not. For example, the state assembly in Perak decided on a Confidence and Supply Agreement (CSA) in 2020 when the state government was shaky.
It was a mature decision and for the most part, the agreement has been observed. It was probably the first CSA of its kind in Malaysia.Back then, I wrote that what Perak did could be a model for how the Federal could work too. In a way, it probably did work when Umno’s Ismail Sabri became prime minister.
He met with opposition leaders and they agreed on maintaining a stable government during the Covid-19 crisis. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed and we have been going on based on that agreement so far. The important thing is that everyone must keep to their word for this to be successful.
So back to what I was trying to say regarding a minority government coming to the next general election. Heck, even political commentator Wong Chin Huat recently wrote about it.
Form an alliance
The opposition needs to realise that they are not a unit, but they can be. They can’t be a unit going into an election but they can be after an election. They can come together and form an alliance by compromising on their manifestos.
They need to discuss and negotiate like mature adults and always keep the interest of the people in mind. I know there will be many critics who will say that our politicians are far from mature. But just hold on now. It has been proven that minority governments and CSAs can work in Malaysia.
It worked for Perak. In a sense, it worked on a federal level too when the MOU was signed between Ismail’s government and the opposition. Of course, there will be glitches along the way, but that can be figured out as we go along.
I think this will work very well because it would mean no one side has too much power. But it would only work if the current opposition parties move towards accepting this instead of moving like they have been in all of the elections before this.
Malaysians have spoken during these recent past state elections. Whether it’s by not turning up to vote (seeing how low the voter turnout has been), or even by voting for Barisan Nasional. So it’s time to move with the times. The Malaysian people have matured and it’s time for the politicians to do so as well. - Zan Azlee
Menurut Schwartz, Rosmah telah meminta berlian 18 karat, namun dia hanya mempunyai berlian merah jambu 22 karat dan urus niaga akhirnya dicapai untuk pembelian batu permata bersaiz lebih besar. Tahun seterusnya, 2014, Rosmah dilaporkan turut membeli barang kemas tambahan bernilai AS$1.3 juta (RM5.5 juta).
Hangpa ingat dak dulu macam mana Najib dan Rosmah kelentong pasai berlian pink bernilai RM97.2 juta ni?... 👇👇👇
Najib lied again? The evidence provided by Schwartz contradicted former PM Najib Abdul Razak's claim in 2018 that the diamond was a gift from United Arab Emirates’ Sheikh Mansour Zayed...
Kaki kelentong No 1...
Jury shown invoice of US$23 million
diamond necklace created for Rosmah...
The jury in the trial of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc banker Roger Ng finally got a look at hard proof of the treasures bought with money allegedly looted in the multibillion-dollar 1MDB corruption scandal.
But the jurors did not get to see the actual US$23 million necklace with a pink diamond big enough to be a paperweight that was created by prestigious New York jeweller Lorraine Schwartz for Rosmah Mansor, the wife of the former prime minister Najib Razak. They were not even shown a photo of the necklace. They saw an invoice.
And so it went on Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court, where prosecutors were winding down their case and showing jurors how billions of dollars diverted from three US$6.5 billion 1MDB bond transactions by fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, were used to buy luxury items.
Low is also accused of diverting funds from 1MDB to Najib’s stepson, Riza Aziz, who was a friend of the financier, to help produce “The Wolf of Wall Street”. Continue reading...
Roll out the red carpet for Rosmah...
In Malaysia, you do or die. You do not procrastinate. Our judiciary had a chance to jail the convicted felon, Najib Abdul Razak, but didn't. With every passing day since his SRC International trial, Najib has sapped our energy and sanity. His supporters believe that he is innocent and demand that his slate be wiped clean.
Law-abiding citizens are losing faith and trust in the institutions which should be protecting them, and that includes the judiciary.
Meanwhile, Najib struts around like a prime-minister-in-waiting. He engaged an American PR firm to spruce up his dented image. Despite the damaging testimonies during the trial of the Goldman Sachs banker, Roger Ng, Najib has sailed from strength to strength. The cherry on the cake being the Umno win in Johor.
When he is finally installed once more as PM, Najib will say, "I told you so! Cash is king."
How many times have we been reminded that we follow the Westminster system of justice and that Najib's crime was a bailable offence? We are also told that it was left to the judges' discretion to jail Najib. So what prompted the reluctance to jail him? He could just as easily have lodged his appeal from prison.
So, why did the judiciary fail us with Najib? No lessons will be learnt by other corrupt and potentially corrupt politicians. They see a lax system. In the shadows of the corridors of power, they whisper, "It's the Deep State at work."
You may think that Najib's return as PM is bad, but picture this: The red carpet will soon be rolled out for the former, self-styled First lady of Malaysia (FLOM), Rosmah Mansor, to take her rightful place beside Najib.
Yet again, Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been proven right. To paraphrase him, Malaysians are forgetful. Najib's supporters, MCA and MIC, have forgotten that Najib is a convict. He stole their money, too.
Did anyone notice Rosmah at any of the Umno by-election campaigns and victory speeches? No! All throughout, she has been safely hidden away from public view. She only surfaces at her own corruption trials.
Rosmah is kept out of sight because she sets our pulses racing and increases our blood pressure. She reminds us of Najib's criminal past. His simple strategy to make us forget his crimes was effective. "Out of sight, out of mind." Fortunately for most Malaysians, yesterday’s trial in America, brought it all flooding back.
We recall Najib's soundbite, "Cash is king', and that Rosmah saved since her teenage years to purchase her expensive jewellery. Members of Najib's former cabinet lied about the Arab prince. The investigative bodies, like the MACC, the police, and the former attorney-general all found Najib as innocent as a newborn babe.
Lorraine Schwartz and Rosmah
The pink diamond
On March 24, the jury in Ng's trial was told that there was no Arab prince who would donate RM2.6 billion. There was no teenage piggy bank, even for someone as 'frugal' as Rosmah. The shockwaves during the trial were felt from America to Malaysia. Parallels have been drawn between the American and Malaysian investigations. The focus centred on the quality, depth, and thoroughness of the investigations.
First. Who is lying? Is it New York jeweller Lorraine Schwartz, who was commissioned to design Rosmah's necklace? Or Najib? Schwartz said that she sold a 22-carat diamond necklace worth US$23 million (RM97 million) to Rosmah. In 2018, Najib claimed that the pink diamond was a gift from Sheikh Mansour Zayed of the UAE.
Najib has not denied Schwarz's testimony. Does this mean he lied?
Second. Where is the pink diamond? No photo of the diamond or necklace has emerged. Why not? Was the pink diamond amongst the items seized by the Malaysian police when they raided Najib's residence in 2018?
Jurors were told that the pink diamond was like a paperweight. Something as huge as this would have been singled out in the haul of several items seized from Najib's residences. So, where is the diamond/necklace?
Third. Tim Leissner's sweetener for his Malay mistress, Rohana Rozhan, was a townhouse in London, worth US$10 million. The money allegedly came from 1MDB. The MACC acted with speed. Within days of Leissner's testimony, they twice interviewed Rohana and subsequently froze her assets. When will Rosmah and Najib visit the MACC headquarters?
Fourth. How does one convince the gullible Malaysian public that Najib is guilty? His theft of taxpayers' money has plunged Malaysia into debt and it is our children and grandchildren who are burdened with debt payments.
If any kind of reform is to become a reality, Pakatan Harapan is the only viable show in town. Time and again, Umno and its various clones, like Bersatu, Pejuang and PAS, have failed the rakyat.
Harapan is not perfect and it has a lot of soul searching to do before it can become palatable and trusted again by the Malaysian public.Will PKR president Anwar Ibrahim's ego allow him to stand down for younger creative leaders to manage Harapan?
The alternative, which is a return to a government led by Najib, is too horrible to contemplate. His newly revitalised Umno will be merciless and remove all obstacles to their rule.
If Najib returns as PM, the kleptocratic days of his previous tenure will be nothing compared to the new plans which he has lined up for you.Do nothing at your peril.- Mariam Mokhtar
Usul bagi melanjutkan penguatkuasaan subseksyen 4(5) Akta Kesalahan Keselamatan (Langkah-langkah Khas) 2012 (Sosma) gagal mendapat sokongan mencukupi Dewan Rakyat petang ini.
Hanya 84 ahli parlimen bersetuju berbanding 86 yang tidak bersetuju dalam proses undi belah bahagi tersebut. Seramai 50 orang lagi ahli parlimen tidak hadir. Keputusan itu dimaklumkan Yang Dipertua Dewan Rakyat Azhar Harun.
Ini bermakna, subseksyen berkenaan - yang membenarkan seseorang suspek ditahan sehingga 28 hari tanpa perlu dihadapkan di hadapan majistret - tidak akan lagi berkuat kuasa selepas ia luput pada 31 Julai 2022. - mk
T/Kasih kpd 84 MP yang setuju,50 MP yg ponteng,shame on you...
This is the first time ever Government bill defeated by the Opposition in parliamentary history. A motion to extend the enforced period for a key provision under the Security Offences (Special Measures) 2012 Act (SOSMA) was taken down by the Opposition.
Kompaun sudah dikeluarkan kepada Lim Kit Siang. KKM juga harap Najib Razak bayar satu kompaun yang dikeluarkan semasa PRN Johor yang masih belum settle. KKM juga harap Najib Razak menerima 4 lagi kompaun yang dihantar melalui pos daftar yang pegawai DS enggan terima sebelum ini.- KJ
Melayu bila buat business tak pandai nak sustain,mulalah mintak bantuan gomen.Padahal bos Sapura,Shahril Shamsuddin punya gaji dan perks bukan
What is wrong with Pakatan Harapan is that it does not know what kind of coalition it is. I have said this many times. Umno/BN and PAS know exactly what they are.
How long the fracturing in the Malay establishment benefits Harapan remains to be seen - but this does not take away from the fact that Umno/BN and PAS know what they are and what they are selling to their bases.
For instance, Umno poohbah Ismail Sabri Yaakob announces that the government, because it cares for the “people”, paid RM1.5 million ringgit to the family of firefighter Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim.
When Harapan formed the federal government, de facto Law Minister Liew Vui Keong said this of the kidnapping of Indira Gandhi’s children: "This case, cannot really ask for the government to interfere because this is a litigation matter taken up by the mother against the ex-husband.”
Nobody in Harapan said anything when the Suhakam revealed that pastor Raymond Koh and social activist Amri Che Mat were kidnapped by the state security apparatus and when then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad declared the findings hearsay.
So it's no point lauding the money given to Adib's family and then throwing in Teoh Beng Hock's name when, while in government, you did absolutely nothing for Teoh's family and never did anything for the families Harapan used as propaganda before it got into Putrajaya.
Harapan has no idea what it stands for, but it gaslights people into thinking that they are something they are not. Dethroning Najib Abdul Razak was a once in a lifetime thing.
Elements in the Malay establishment wanted to get rid of Najib and they hooked up with Harapan to ensure this. This was not something that Harapan meticulously planned and executed and as such, this idea, that Harapan won some sort of major victory, is self-deluding. Keep in mind that a majority of Malaysians did not reject the system, only that Umno, for a while, was crippled.
What does Harapan stand for?
What does Harapan stand for? I have asked many political operatives this and almost all of them acknowledge that the best Harapan can be is a less corrupt version of Umno/BN - and some sort of guard rails against an emerging theocratic state.
And even in this, they fail, with Mujahid Yusof Rawa, the religious czar of Harapan, attempting to out Islamise PAS and Harapan controlled states attempting to inject religion into the economic sectors and attempting to control free speech.
Now of course in public and in the service of the base, Harapan political operatives will blurt out all sorts of political bromides to ensure that their supporters have something to hang onto.
Why did Harapan fall? The answer is simple, Mahathir. Why didn’t Harapan carry out reforms? The answer is simple, Mahathir. Why have some Malays become more racist after GE14? Well according to Kim Quek, the answer is simple, Mahathir.
No doubt, Mahathir was a prime mover in the collapse of Harapan but the reality is that he was one man. For heaven's sake, he dared the Harapan council to sack him and sarcastically thanked Anwar Ibrahim when he said that there would not be a vote of no confidence against him.
As someone who endorsed him, I wrote a piece on why any sort of unity government, post-Sheraton Move, was well complete madness and we should be apologising for even giving Mahathir a second chance:
“Worried about Najib coming back? Why? We have voted in kleptocrats for decades and when we had the chance for something new, the elected prime minister said that the manifesto was not worth the paper it was printed on and his erstwhile allies just buried their heads in the sand.”
Malay vote
Harapan could have formulated policies and funded entitlement programmes which actually would have helped the dominant Malay polity - but it instead attempted to take over existing Umno programmes to maintain political hegemony and the result is that Umno still managed to make a comeback, with convicted political operatives leading the charge while embroiled in internal party feuds.
Not to mention cutting off vital subsidy programmes for disenfranchised Malay groups while claiming that these were cost-cutting measures.
Take the issue of race. Lim Guan Eng says that DAP never abandoned its principles to woo or appease the Malays. First of all, I have no idea what principles he is talking about. Like many DAP political operatives, Guan Eng likes to blather on about Bangsa Malaysia, but then he outsources getting the Malay vote to PKR and Amanah.
Of course, there was also Mahathir who was supposed to get the rural Malay vote, while DAP was sure that they had the Chinese vote in the bag. Now the only people that this plays out with are DAP supporters, the rest of the country see this as hypocrisy it is.
Of course, very few political operatives in PKR and Amanah dispense this kool-aid because they understand on the ground reality of dealing with communities who do not understand this Bangsa Malaysia kool-aid or view it as an existential threat to their economic survival. Remember when Lim Kit Siang said GE14 was probably the last battle for him, Mahathir and Anwar? Well, I guess nobody got the memo.
Anwar’s desperation to be prime minister has taken Harapan down roads that it should never have travelled in the first place. With Kit Siang's retirement, the Malay establishment has lost one of its whipping boys. They should be denied all of them.
After the disastrous outing with Mahathir, one would have thought that any kind of partnership with Umno would have been avoided like the plague, but Anwar continued to avail himself to anyone who would take his hand in the hopes of securing the throne. How does this look to the demographic you are wooing? Weak, insecure political operatives hoping anyone will be their friend in their quest for power.
This also furthered the narrative that the DAP was willing to work with anyone, including those they demonised as racist and extremist to get political power. Now of course we have this big tent nonsense which just makes the situation even more bizarre.
Harapan did not need Mahathir to break Umno’s two-thirds majority and to capture economically viable states. They are sure as hell that they do not need the ketuanan establishment to hang on to power in those states.
Meanwhile, the states Umno/BN or PAS manage are mired in the kind of corruption that makes the lesser of two evils argument more viable. PKR, DAP and Amanah do not need anyone else to attain federal power and the propaganda that it does merely sustains the system.
Now some folks would say it is too late for Harapan to figure out what it is. That they should have done this a long time ago. I do not share that view. It is never too late to reform, reorganise and return to the fray. The problem is that Harapan needs to take a hard look at itself and admit to mistakes and propaganda that did nothing to reform the system. In fact, it caused more problems.
They need a younger leadership that does not buy into this bangsa kool-aid nonsense but understands that racial and religious politics should be dealt with realistically and strategically, instead of attempting to gaslight Harapan supporters.
These young leaders should not be proxies to the old guard. And these young leaders need to have an agenda that the leadership in Harapan subscribes to.
What did Sun Tzu say? “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” - S.Thayaparan
Kit Siang retires from politics...
Tributes poured in as DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang retires from politics after a 56-year stint.Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (Muda) vice president Lim Wei Jiet described the DAP veteran as a ‘giant’ in Malaysia’s political arena.
Despite Kit Siang being detained and oppressed while serving in the opposition block, Wei Jiet said the DAP stalwart has never backed down from voicing out. “If we read through the (parliament) Hansard, we can see that his speech makes most sense.
Tributes poured in as DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang retires from politics after a 56-year stint.
Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (Muda) vice president Lim Wei Jiet described the DAP veteran as a ‘giant’ in Malaysia’s political arena.
Despite Kit Siang being detained and oppressed while serving in the opposition block, Wei Jiet said the DAP stalwart has never backed down from voicing out.
“If we read through the (parliament) Hansard, we can see that his speech makes most sense.“The battle for the Malaysian Dream must go on until it is achieved but this is in your hands,” he said.
The recent Johor state general election, added Lim, was a salutary reminder that the party’s Malaysian Dream for a united, democratic, just world-class great Malaysia is a long-term political struggle.
“There are many ups and downs, gains and losses, but we must remain constant in our objectives and never compromise our principles and ideals,” he said.
In the DAP congress earlier, Kit Siang’s son and the party’s outgoing secretary-general Lim Guan Eng delivered a speech that paid tribute to his father’s contributions to the party when it was established in 1966 by 11 men.
“Eleven young men, many in their 30s, stood up to make a commitment with a confident vision of a young nation that is a free and democratic Malaysia based on the principles of racial equality, and social and economic justice, and founded on the institutions of parliamentary democracy.
“DAP was young then. Saudara Dr Chen Man Hin our first national chairman, was probably the oldest, in his 40s.
“In 1967, a 26-year-old young man Saudara Lim Kit Siang, was co-opted into the CEC.
“Little did they know then, that Lim Kit Siang would become a giant amongst Malaysian politicians for his brilliance, courage, indomitable spirit and loyalty to ideals and principles,” said Guan Eng.
The younger Lim hailed his father as the longest-serving Opposition leader in Parliament and that many ministers considered Kit Siang their only worthy opponent.
Guan Eng went as far to say that many international correspondents regarded Kit Siang as “the best prime minister that Malaysia will never have because of his ethnicity”.
“Perhaps this is the reason he has also been demonised and falsely maligned as being responsible for the 1969 May 13 riots in Kuala Lumpur when he was in Kota Kinabalu, being anti-Malay, anti-Chinese and anti-Indian. Kit embodied the DAP’s lonely struggle in opposition and ultimate success in winning power,” said Guan Eng.
Guan Eng also spoke of the countless death threats and detentions faced by his father before the Internal Security Act was abolished.
In a brief glimpse of their familial ties, Guan Eng said: “Our family is jealous of the time that DAP has taken away from him and that we have to share his love with the DAP.”
However, he added that their family fully respects and supports Kit Siang’s life-long determination to make Malaysian lives better.
“For many of us who know that without Kit Siang leading our veteran leaders, there would be no DAP today as well as many of us who remained in DAP during the painful days in Opposition due to his example or the young leaders here who joined DAP because they were inspired by Kit Siang, we want to thank you for all you have done.
“On behalf of DAP and the DAP family, let us thank you deeply and gratefully from the bottom of our hearts,” said Guan Eng. - thetruenet
Hadi should go, before he is pushed...
A week before the Johor state elections, PAS president Hadi Awang urged voters not to support Umno, a party he associated with misconduct, malpractice and corruption. Isn’t this a case of the pot calling the kettle black? PAS politicians broke many rules during the lockdowns, with one menteri besar engaging with members of another community in a northern state, and threatening to divert a river flowing into another state.
Moreover, didn’t PAS have to pay the investigative reporter, Clare Rewcastle Brown, a substantial amount of damages in an out-of-court settlement aftar Hadi sued her over an article alleging that PAS had received RM90 million to guarantee its support for Umno and Barisan Nasional?
PAS is also seen as a party which does not tolerate criticism. One of its MPs, Khairuddin Aman Razali, was critical of PAS and got into the bad books of the party hierarchy. Hadi had said that Umno and BN suffered from numerous failings and weaknesses. “The parties are old and weak and with that comes many failings, corruption, misconduct and malpractice,” he was reported to have said.
“We hope the people of Johor will vote for Perikatan Nasional instead, and elect representatives who do not simply make promises but do the work.”
Both Hadi and Najib Razak were instrumental in causing the break-up of Pakatan Rakyat soon after GE13 and midway through Najib’s tenure as prime minister from 2013 to 2018. At the time, Najib openly supported Hadi’s call for hudud in Kelantan. Soon after the 61st PAS muktamar in 2015, the progressives in the party were wiped out, when 22 of the 23 seats in the central committee were won by the ulama.
Mat Sabu (Mohamad Satu) and Husam Musa formed Amanah, but the “bromance” between Najib and Hadi appears to be over. Remember when veteran Umno politician Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah described PAS as untrustworthy, and was like “a prostitute, going back and forth between DAP and Semangat 46”?
Hadi should have realised that just like in real-life romances, any political union which does not have a solid foundation of trust, mutual understanding, respect and common interests formed over a lengthy period, can only spell disaster for that union.
A few months ago, in November 2021, when a victorious Umno triumphed in the Melaka state elections, the rift between PAS and Umno grew wider. PAS was treated like a jilted lover. Both Najib and Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi are anxious men. The charges they face hang like millstones around their necks.
They would naturally prefer GE15 to be held as soon as possible, so that they can capitalise on the opposition supporters’ election fatigue and the fact that the opposition coalition is weak and in disarray. If both Najib and Zahid can pull off another election victory – this time in GE15 – who knows what the future might hold?
Nevertheless, Hadi is desperate to remain in power. He has tasted what it feels like to be in Putrajaya, and he is also aware that he, and his party, may not be able to secure many Malay votes in the future. This is ironic considering that both PAS and Umno have warned Malays in the past that only these two parties can protect Islam and defend the Malays.
In 2022, the Malays are more divided than ever, no thanks to both PAS and Umno. The politicians in PAS have been a total disappointment. Some are good at stoking racist and religious fires up north in Kedah. In Putrajaya, their ministers have shown dismal performances. Environment and water minister Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, for instance, has been ridiculed for his lack of knowledge about environmental issues, and deputy minister for women, family and community development Siti Zailah Mohd Yusof for advocating forms of gentle beating by husbands to control their wives.
Hadi is aware that he has a limited shelf life. His loyalty towards Muhyiddin Yassin and Ismail Sabri Yaakob meant that he was rewarded with a post as special envoy to the Middle East, but he is aware that he is on borrowed time.
He has done little to improve Middle Eastern relations. He only teamed up with Najib because it was politically expedient, but Hadi is also a political opportunist. After the Sheraton Move, he promptly dropped Najib in favour of Muhyiddin. Najib faced incarceration, and teaming up with Muhyiddin seemed a better bet.
Hadi is able to hang onto power because PAS supporters are often warned that they should listen to their leaders and not question them.
If PAS continues along the same path, the party’s future success in elections will be humiliating. Only a new leader, with better and more youthful ideas, can salvage the party and claw back some of its former reputation. - Mariam Mokhtar
