Malaysia’s Crooked Bridge rears its ugly head once more







Of all the harebrained schemes that have ever been dreamt up by egotistical political leaders, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad's plan for a "crooked bridge" linking peninsula Malaysia with Singapore surely ranks among the most bizarre (see artist's impression).



And, as the 83- year-old Mahathir has drifted back onto the political scene after his ally Najib Razak took the reins of power last month, so the vexed issue of the crooked bridge has reared up once more.



The existing main causeway linking northern Singapore with the city of Johor Bahru in Malaysia is far too narrow and is plagued by traffic jams and long delays, particularly at the weekend and on public holidays.



Mahathir, who showed a persistent fondness for massive infrastructure projects during his 22 years in office, wanted to build a much wider bridge over the straits of Johor but could not convince a Singaporean government that he had often purposefully antagonised to reach agreement with him.



His proposed solution was to unilaterally build a new bridge over the Malaysian half of the straits, which would connect to the old Singaporean causeway at the halfway point.
Because Mahathir also wanted to boost Malaysia's burgeoning ports by allowing ships to pass under the bridge instead of being forced to re-route all the way round Singapore, the bridge would have to be curved in shape to allow for the road to gain the necessary height in such a short distance.



About a week ago, reports started surfacing in the Malaysian newspapers, which are almost all controlled by members of the ruling coalition and their allies, of calls for the crooked bridge plan, which was jettisoned by Mahathir 's successor Abdullah Badawi, to be resurrected.
That got people talking and now Mahathir has fanned the flames himself in a rather cryptic post on his blog entitled "The Crooked Bridge", which is a response to the calls for the project to be revisited.



"Does the Government need to ask Singapore for permission to build the now desirable crooked bridge?" he writes. "Is Malaysia free to do things in its own territory? Are we really independent? I wonder."



As this article on Asia Sentinel (which I also write for) explains, Mahathir's return to the political fold has a number of implications, including the very real possibility that some of the cash from Malaysia's massive fiscal stimulus plan (9pc of GDP) is channeled into the sort of grandiose projects that he champions.



The major concern about such "visionary" plans in Malaysia has always been that the juicy government contracts that are generated end up in the hands of those closest to the politicians in power rather than those best placed to complete the project on time and on budget.


Hence, the old joke about the crooked bridge being designed to represent the true nature of Malaysia-Singapore relations: Singapore is straight and Malaysia is crooked.



Government vs Mafia



22 Apr 09 : 8.30PM

By Wong Chin Huat


editor@thenutgraph.com



WE are now told by the new Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak that by-elections are bad because they distract us from dealing with the economic crisis.



Tunku Abdul Rahman (Public
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This aversion towards elections is nothing new to Malaysia. In the spirit of learning our national history, let's revisit some past decisions made by Alliance/Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders.


The BN's track record


In March 1965, Tunku terminated local elections, which were mostly won by opposition parties, especially in the urban centres. Tunku promised to restore local elections once the Indonesian Confrontation was over. Of course, he never did. Neither did his five successors. Their reason? Elections are a waste of money.



Lee Kuan Yew (Public domain)
In August 1965, Tunku expelled Singapore from the federation of Malaysia because Singapore Premier Lee Kuan Yew — like Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim 43 years later — was actively courting East Malaysians to challenge Umno rule. To be fair to Tunku, his Umno colleagues actually wanted a more repressive solution — Internal Security Act (ISA) detention for Lee and his People's Action Party lieutenants.


In 1966, Sarawak Chief Minister Datuk Stephen Kalong Ningkan — from the Sarawak National Party (SNAP) — was ousted unconstitutionally following dubious defections, much like Perak's Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin 43 years later. When the Borneo High Court ruled to reinstate Ningkan, he wanted to let the people decide.


However, before Ningkan could dissolve the legislature, the Tunku administration proclaimed emergency rule in Sarawak. The Federal and Sarawak constitutions were amended so that a motion of no-confidence could be passed and a more compliant chief minister appointed.



Mustapha Harun (Public
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The late Tun Mustapha Harun was allied to Tunku and also avoided elections in Sabah. In 1969, when the Malaya Alliance struggled to hold onto power, Mustapha's Sabah Alliance bagged the state's 16 seats through "walkovers". In later years, he even contemplated making himself a sultan.


Tun Abdul Razak also had his moments in outmanoeuvring the electoral process. He expressed an aversion to "politicking" and preferred to focus on administration and development. After 1969, he gradually co-opted all but two parliamentary opposition parties, DAP and SNAP, first into coalition governments and later in 1974 into the BN.


His reward? A total of 47 walkovers or 31% of parliamentary seats in the 1974 elections.


In 1974, Razak also carved Chinese-Malaysian-majority Kuala Lumpur out of Selangor presumably to ensure that opposition parties like the DAP could never capture the state. The new Federal Territory was not to have its own state government, or any elected government for that matter.



Hussein Onn (Public domain)
Razak's successor, Tun Hussein Onn, took a slightly different tack when faced with political difficulties. For example, he declared an emergency and imposed direct rule in Kelantan in 1977 when PAS, then a member of BN, tried to oust their own menteri besar, Datuk Mohamad Nasir, who was much-liked by Umno. Hussein lifted the emergency and went to polls four months later when Umno had strengthened its base. Umno and Nasir's splinter party, Berjasa, eventually thrashed PAS in the election.


While elections under Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad were arguably never free or fair, he was particularly innovative in his own party's elections. In 1988, he effectively purged Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's supporters, by triggering the deregistration of Umno and the creation of Umno Baru. To protect the incumbents, Mahathir introduced the quota for nominations for the presidency and other senior positions, which Najib now proposes to remove.


In 1994, Anwar, then deputy prime minister and Umno deputy president, brought down the Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) state government through mass defections of lawmakers within a month after elections. Denying the use of financial inducement and coercive measures, Anwar recently reiterated that he merely "invited" those defectors. Of course, no fresh elections were called.



Musa Hitam (Source: vod.uum.
edu.my)
One BN leader who made markedly different decisions was former Deputy Prime Minister Tun Musa Hitam. As the acting prime minister in 1985, he prevented Tun Mustapha's plot to install himself as Sabah chief minister despite not having a legislative majority, through — yes, even then — a palace coup.


But Musa's decision can be seen to be the exception rather than the rule in the BN's elections track record.


In February 2009, Najib orchestrated the downfall of Perak's elected government and installed Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir as menteri besar.


While Anwar's Pakatan Rakyat (PR) has no legal or moral ground to protest the defections in Perak, why didn't the BN subsequently allow for a fresh poll?


Their answer is the usual — elections are disruptive and wasteful, and now bad for the economy.


Why are elections a must?


Why must we have elections to decide our governments?


Why can't we opt for horse-trading among lawmakers; palace coups; the rule of judges; military coups; mutinying police officers; mutinying bureaucracies; or mob rule à la Thailand's People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) as alternatives to topple and install governments?



PAD supporters armed with makeshift batons and golf clubs, 2008
(Pic by Mark Micallef, source: Wikipedia commons)


Provided the people do not protest, these methods may well be much smoother, more efficient, peaceful and attractive to certain types of investors.


So, why must the so-called liberal democrats and constitutional monarchists protest?


The answer, in a nutshell, is that elections distinguish a government from a mafia or triad.


A state is similar to the underworld in three senses: (a) they extract money; (b) they control territory; and (c) those living on their territories cannot opt out from being their subjects.



Tilly (Source: columbia.edu)
Why do governments fight against foreign countries (war-making), suppress domestic rebels and outlaws (state-making) and offer law and order for their subjects (protection)? So that they may have the power to extract their subjects' resources (extraction).


Charles Tilly, the American sociologist, called a spade a spade: war-making and state-making are but organised crimes. Four centuries before him, Tang Zhen, a Chinese thinker in Imperial China, called emperors thieves who fed on their subjects.


It is clear that in political theory, there is only a thin line between a government and a mafia or triad. While a government collects "taxes", a mafia or triad collects "protection fees". Sometimes, the mafia or triad is the government and carries out most governmental functions. For example, Kapitan Yap Ah Loy was both in 19th-century Kuala Lumpur.



Yap Ah Loy (Public domain)
So, what is the real thin line between a government and a mafia or triad? That mafias or triads do not know how to employ a public relations company for legitimacy branding?


No. It is elections. It is the principle of "no taxation without representation", which ignited the American Revolution.


No mafia or triad will allow their subjects to elect their Godfather or Patriarch. You only have a duty to pay protection fees, but no right to elect your protector.


In a civilised world, a state must not be like a mafia or triad. That's why electoral processes and elected governments must not be subverted.


This month, when you pay your income tax, remember to cherish elections. Without elections, what you pay is only protection money.



The Godfather (© Paramount Pictures)





A political scientist by training and a journalism lecturer by trade, Wong Chin Huat is based in Monash University Sunway Campus. He hopes his home state will soon cease to be a kleptocracy propped up by unelected institutions. If democracy can only be restored with two more by-elections in Perak, he would appreciate any act of God.

ISA : Lima Tahanan warga Indonesia, GMI serah memorandum kepada Kedutaan Indonesia

ISA : Lima Tahanan warga Indonesia, GMI serah memorandum kepada Kedutaan Indonesia

Tuesday, 21 April 2009 • Kategori: Berita Semasa, Hak Asasi

Amir Adzim

KUALA LUMPUR, 21 April (SK) : Gerakan Mansuhkan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (GMI) berkumpul di Kedutaan Indonesia bagi menghantar memorandum kepada Duta Indonesia berhubung penahanan lima rakyat Indonesia, di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA).

Salah seorang tahanan iaitu, Agus Salim dari Medan Indonesia, ditahan pada 5 Mac lalu di sebuah restoran di Larkin Johor ketika sedang bekerja tanpa sebarang alasan yang munasabah.

Memorandum ini adalah bertujuan memohon kerjasama daripada Kerajaan Indonesia supaya menuntut agar Kerajaan Malaysia membebaskan kesemua warganegara Indonesia yang sedang ditahan dibawah ISA di Malaysia.

GMI diwakili oleh Pengerusinya, Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh sementara Duta Indonesia mewakilkan setiausaha pertamanya, Slamet Nuegroho dan setiausaha keduanya Susapto Anggoro Broto.

Keluarga Agus diugut Polis

Menurut Syad Ibrahim, dua ahli keluarga Agus Salim juga diancam dan diugut supaya tidak bekerjasama dengan mana-mana pihak termasuk GMI.

“Selepas mereka bertemu dengan Agus Salim di Bukit Aman semalam, lebih kurang beberapa jam mereka sebenarnya telah di gertak bertubi-tubi oleh pihak polis dan seterusnya mengakibatkan mereka tidak mahu bersama dengan kami bertemu di Kedutaan Indonesia pagi ini,” tambah Syed Ibrahim lagi.

Beliau berkata, tindakan menggertak keluarga mangsa adalah satu tindakan yang bertentangan dengan hak asasi dan ini juga menunjukan seolah-olah kerajaan begitu takut untuk berhadapan dengan perkara ini.

“Jadi ini adalah satu pencabulan hak asasi manusia awal-awal lagi, bukan ditahan tapi seolah-olah macam ditahan dibawah ISA,” jelas Syed Ibrahim lagi.

Menurut seorang Ahli Jawatankuasa (AJK) GMI, Nashitah yang turut serta dalam perjumpaan keluarga Agus di Bukit Aman, kelakuan keluarga Agus jelas berubah selepas keluar dari melawat Agus.

“Ketika menghantar mak dan adik Agus di Bukit Aman, saya hanya tunggu diluar kerana tidak dibenarkan masuk. Lebih kurang satu jam lebih, adik lelaki Agus, Junaidi Salim keluar dengan ditemani seorang pegawai dari Unit Khas menju ke van saya. Saya memang nampak muka dia berubah seperti ketakutan,” kata Nashitah.

“Kemudian dia suruh saya bawa dia pulang kerumah sewanya untuk membawa baju kerana diarahkan pulang ke Johor Bharu oleh pihak polis. Tetapi saya pelik kerana maknya masih lagi ada di Bukit Aman,” tambah Nashitah.

Menurut Nashitah, dia kemudian cuba menghubungi beberapa peguam dan rakan-rakan untuk memberi tekanan kepada pihak polis bagi membebaskan mak Agus kerana ia jelas satu bentuk pencabulan hak asasi manusia menahan seseorang tanpa sebab.

Setelah memberi tekanan kepada pihak polis, akhirnya ibu Agus dilepaskan dan disuruh pulang ke Johor Bharu dengan segera.

Kejadian itu jelas tidak boleh diterima lebih-lebih lagi di Malaysia ini yang mengamalkan sistem demokrasi. Pihak polis secara terang-terangan mencabul hak asasi seseorang yang juga dari negara lain.

GMI walau bagaimanapun tidak akan mengaku kalah dan akan terus memberi tekanan kepada pihak kerajaan untuk membebaskan Agus dan juga empat tahanan yang lain.

Keempat-empat tahanan tersebut, Zainun Rasyid, Mahfudl Saifuddin dan Mulyadi juga dituduh terlibat dengan gerakan Jemaah Islamiyaah serta Ahmad Ghafar Shahril yang dituduh menganggotai Darul Islam.

Mengikut perancangan asal, GMI akan ditemani oleh keluarga Agus iaitu ibunya, Katem dan adik lelakinya, Junaidi namun mereka berdua tidak kelihatan kerana dikhabarkan sudah pulang ke Johor Bharu dengan tergesa-gesa keran bimbang diancam lagi.

Kini Baju PKR Tapi Jiwa Masih UMNO-azizi abdullah

Kalau bukan disebabkan kes Mohd Fairuz ADUN Penanti yang letak jawatan baru-baru ini pun, kita sudah nampak di dalam PKR sebenarnya cukup banyak peleset dan polong UMNO berkeliaran. Mohd. Fairus letak jawatan bukan pasal kes rasuah sangat tetapi kerana angkara kawan tikam dari belakang dan yang tikam itu ahli PKR yang masih ada jiwa UMNO.

Tidak boleh dinafikan, sebahagian besar ahli PKR, terutama yang berjawatan semuanya bekas ahli Umno. Mereka masuk PKR sama seperti Datuk Sri Anwar Ibrahim yang menubuhkan PKR: kerana tidak mahu lagi bersama Umno/BN dan ada pula yang masuk PKR kerana wawasan yang cukup jauh, duduk dalam Umno pun tak ada apa yang dapat kerana nama mereka dibalck list pasal sokong Anwar.

Anwar patut memikirkan soal ini Gambar pada 4.4.2009


Datuk Sri Anwar meletakkan inti pati perjuangan menentang ketidak adilan, rasuah, reformasi tetapi yang lain kebanyakannya tidak terjerap pun tuntutan perjuangan ini. Di dalam Umno dulu kebanyakan bergantung kepada Datuk Sri Anwar, maka apabila tertubuhnya PKR, mereka mengharap apa yang dimiliki oleh Datuk Sri Anwar dalam Umno akan ada di dalam PKR.

Apa yang silapnya?

Yang silap ialah kerana mereka terus membawa bungkusan, galasan, fail-fail malah perlembagaan Umno masuk ke pejabat PKR. Mereka membawa akta dan peraturan bisnes, penswastaan, lesen kontraktor dan slogan korporat Umno; esok mau makan siapa?

Mereka melaung ‘Reformasi’ dan ‘Keadilan’.

Tetapi pernahkah anda terfikir dan mendapat tahu, selepas mereka (terutama yang berjawatan) memasuki PKR, mereka telah bersedia duduk bersila, berhimpit sesak dalam saf mendengar tuan guru membaca kitab-kitab tentang hubbuddunya, hablumminannas. Pernahkah anda dengar setiap minggu ada usrah dari naqib-naqib?

Dalam ertikata yang lain, mereka tidak ada kitab untuk dijadikan pegangan perjuangan, iaitu kitab seperti yang ditulis oleh Fathi Yakan “Kenapa Aku Memilih Islam” dan lain-lain. Ertinya dalam perjuangan PKR, tidak ada satu kitab rujukan “Kenapa Saya Masuk PKR?”

Saya menulis begini hanya sebagai satu tamsil dan ibarat sahaja. Dalam ertikata yang lain, seseorang yang ingin menyertai sesebuah parti politik, ia perlu ditanam pancang yang kuat.

Pas (bukan nak puji tak tentu hala) yang partinya berdasarkan kepada perjuangan Islam, menegak Islam, meletak Qur`an di atas, maka ahli-ahlinya terlebih dahulu mengenali Islam serta cabangnya sedikit sebanyak. Selepas itu barulah mereka masuk Pas.

Maka atas alasan ini kita jarang mendengar, walaupun badai taufan kebendaan, kemewahan yang ditawarkan kepada ahli-ahli Pas, jarang berlaku tunggang terbalik. Jarang malah hampir tidak ada Adun Pas yang boleh dibeli, letak jawatan atau lompat parti. Kelantan pernah berkuasa hanya dengan satu suara majoriti, tetapi orang lain tidak mampu memelompatklan seorang Adun tersebut.

Orang-orang PKR kenalah tanya, kenapa boleh jadi begitu? Ketika bersumpah hendak menjadi calon bertanding, wakil Pas dimestikan membuat perjanjian dengan sumpah, selain memberi bai`ah, taat kepada pemimpin, mereka diingatkan bahawa sepanjang mereka menjadi wakil mereka dilihat oleh Tuhan dan mereka adalah orang yang diberi amanah.

Apalah sangat dengan janji taat setia begitu? Sedangkan dalam mana-mana parti pun, perjanjian dan pengakuan seperti ini dibuat.

Bagaimana pun, perjanjian, pengakuan kedua-dua ini sangat berlainan. Pas ada roh janji setia berlandaskan Tuhan, keikhlasan, telus, amanah dan ini bukan menefesto, perlembagaan parti tetapi ia berasaskan taqwa. Orang yang tidak ada pancang taqwa ini tidak akan dapat menerima hakikat ini.

Maka kerana itu, saya memandang PKR, apa yang berlaku akhir-akhir ini, sama ada melompat, keluar dan letak jawatan, ia bukan berakhir dengan memilih orang lain bertanding. Ini masalah dalaman, masalah roh, masalah ketaqwaan.

DUN Penanti, bagi saya, letaklah siapa pun hal yang sama akan berulang. Datuk Zaharin bukan penyelesaian atau YB Malik bukan penyelesaian. Mereka sama seperti tokoh-tokoh yang lain, berakar umbi dari Umno dan apa yang berlaku kepada Fairus, bukan mustahil berlaku kepada juak-juak PKR yang lain.


Ustaz Idris ini sepatutnya melenting bantah. Sepatutnya dialah yang jadi calon, bukan Nizar, tapi tak pula dia melawan.


Oleh kerana itu, Datuk Sri Anuar mestilah bertindak cepat. Beliau mestilah menubuhkan satu Jawatankuasa atau Majlis Ulama PKR. Wajibkan setiap pemimpin, YB-YB dan Jawatankuasa parti mengikuti kuliah, usrah dari Majlis Ulama. Tanamkan kepada mereka kewajipan berjuang, keikhlasan, kejujuran, ketelusan dan minta mereka belajar mengikis sekeping demi sekeping daki danur Umno yang ada di dalam diri mereka.

Cepat-cepatlah belajar dari Pas. Setiap AJK, pemimpin parti, Adun atau YB dimestikan mengikuti usrah bulanan. Di sana mereka akan ditarbiah secukupnya.

Kita bukan menuduh hal ini buta tuli. Kejadian di Bukit Selambau, di mana Manikumar di pilih menjadi calon, maka muncul bantahan-bantahan, kemudian sampai keluar parti.

Apa jadahnya hal seperti ini, kalau bukan kerana perjuangan hanya mahu pangkat dan kedudukan? Bukankah ini tidak ada tarbiah yang sepatutnya?

Adakah Pas jadi begitu. Minta dijauhkan Allah dari takbur. Di Kuala Terengganu atau di Bukit Gantang sepatutnya ada ahli Pas bangun berontak sebab yang terpilih mereka yang sudah jadi YB, tapi Alhamdulillah dengan kefahaman yang mereka miliki, dengan erti jihad, erti telus, erti jujur dan berjuang kerana Allah, tidak ada pun yang muncul berontak apa lagi yang keluar parti. Malah boikot jentera pun tidak.

Apa yang berlaku dalam PKR menggambarkan perjuangan mereka bukanlah satu perjuangan yang memiliki kelainan, malah mereka masih berjiwa Umno walaupun sudah lama berbaju PKR.

Sokongan rakyat sekarang Alhamdulillah. Tetapi ia bukan seratus peratus kepada PKR sebaliknya rakyat mahukan satu perubahan, satu alternatif dan perubahan atau alternatif itu ada pada PR. Mood rakyat sekarang bukan kepada BN maka apa saja yang ada untuk mereka memilihnya, mereka akan memilih bukan Umno/BN.

PKR perlu muhasabah tentang ini. Yang jujur dalam PKR hanya seorang saja, iaitu Datin Sri Wan Azizah yang sanggup melepas kawasan kepada Datuk Sri Anwar. Tapi itupun kerana Datuk Sri Anwar. Mungkinkah akan dilepas jika bukan Datuk Sri Anwar?

Apapun cara penyelesaian yang dibuat kepada bekas Adun Penanti itu tidak akan dapat menjamin PKR dari tidak berlaku lagi. Yang mesti dikutuk ialah kepada orang yang menikam Fairuz dari belakang dan orang-orang seperti inilah yang mesti ditarbiah secukupnya kerana orang seperti inilah berbaju PKR tetapi jiwa tetap Umno; Umno dalam konteks ini ialah sikap dan karenah, feel keUmnoan apabila berada di dalam PKR.
Di Pulau Pinang, maaf cakaplah kerana saya tidak belajar politik tinggi. Tetapi dalam telaah dan firasat, tak seorang pun dari kalangan pemimpin PKR boleh menjamin ia tidak akan berulang seperti apa yang berlaku kepada Fairuz. Ia akan berulang. Ia pasti berulang selagi jiwa mereka jiwa Umno.

Atas alasan apa telaah dan firasat ini?

Bacalah dan lihatlah lenggok lenggang, langkah-langkah, dongak dan senyum, gaya dan stail. Mereka masih 80% Umno hanya 20% sahaja PKR. Yang boleh bertahan pun kerana Lim Guang Eng duduk di atas.

Mahukah kita menerima kenyataan ini?

PENANTI:JANGAN PANDANG MUDAH UNTUK PAKATAN RAKYAT

PERMATANG PAUH -Pilihanraya penanti adalah medan peperangan sebenar untuk Umno melihat sejauh mana kekuatan yang bakal mereka tempuhi.Memang kemenangan lalu oleh Fairus Khairuddin kerana kemuncak segala kekuatan yang dikerahkan oleh pekatan melalui sokongan tanpa wang melainkan kekutan semangat untuk membenamkan Barisan Nasional di di ketika itu sehingga tersungkurnya Barisan Nasional di Pulau Pinang.Kemelut PKR menjadi lebih nyata apabila wujudnya ahli yang menggunakan kuasa tanpa budi bicara menilai pimpinan.Kini ada beberapa kumpulan atau puak yang masing-masing menyalahkan beberaa pihak yang lain pula.Sementara kekuatan jentera pilihanraya terletak juga di tangan para penyokong PAS setempat.
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Harga yang perlu dibayar oleh Umno dan Pakatan terlalu tinggi untuk Penanti kali ini.Memang pada mulanya tanggapan Datuk Seri Najib ialah agar pakatan usah bertanding di Penanti.Mungkin dalam mencongak alasan tersebutlah maka beliau tidak mahu bertanding.Namun harus diingat dengan kuasa mengundi di tangan rakyat Penanti segalanya berkemungkinan jika dilihat kepada status dan statistik yang dipamerkan.Maka kerana itu Umno akan meletakkan calonnya di Penanti.Dengan desakan bayang-bayang Mahathir di sebalik tabir, sudah tentu Umno akan meletakkan calon nya.


Kenapa ianya dikatakan demikian.Jika dilihat kepada corak dan sokongan pengundi dikawasan ini ialah mereka mahukan anak tempatan dan berpendidikan.Soal jalanraya,air elektrik sudah tidak menjadi isu lagi.Ini Penanti hanya 30 minit untuk ke Georgetown dan bukan di Sabah atau Sarawak .Ramai yang terdidik dikawasan ini dan dapat menilainya.Maka calon yang perlu di ketengahkan oleh Pakatan ialah melingkungi kretiria seperti ini. Oleh yang demikian jika tiadanya ciri ini kemungkinan Pakatan Perlu bekerja lebih kuat harus di laksanakan.Bagaimana pula dengan Umno? jika muka yang itu-itu juga di letakkan maka ianya akan mengalami nasib sama yang lebih awal untuk dinilai keputusannya.

Satu lagi jika di bawa Mahathir berkempen di kawasan ini, maka hayat Umno juga akan diketahui juga akhirnya.Dato Najib harus hadir dan bukannya Mahathir. Mahathir hadir hanya mempercepatkan kekalahan yang bakal di alami Umno.


Maka kerana itulah semua harus menghayati PIAGAM RAKYAT dan DEKLARASI PERMATANG PAUH yang di lancar sejak septembar 1998 lalu.

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The People’s Voice (PDF version )

The People’s Declaration (PDF version)

Piaggam Rakyat (PDF version)

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Dato Seri Aanwar Ibrahim and Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail at Masjid Negara 1998

Bahasa Malaysia Translation: Deklarasi Permatang Pauh

Menyedari gesaan al-Quran yang bermaksud “tidaklah kami mahu melainkan untuk melakukan islah sekuat daya kami”;

Dan berilhamkan tradisi budaya-budaya Asia yang keseluruhannya menganjurkan pembaharuan diri dan masyarakat;

Dan menginsafi bahawa Malaysia kini dicengkam kemelut yang dahsyat dan memerlukan kekuatan dalaman untuk bangun semula;

Maka kami rakyat Malaysia yang berbilang bangsa dan agama bertekat untuk melancarkan gerakan reformasi yang menyeluruh:

* Gerakan reformasi yang terpancar perjuangan hati nurani, dari kesedaran bahawa sesungguhnya diri manusia itu mulia dan merdeka, mempunyai hak dan tanggungjawab, diri manusia haram dizalimi dan diaibkan, haram di belenggu dan disekat tanpa mengikut proses dan undang-undang yang adil;

* Gerakan reformasi untuk menegakkan keadilan untuk semua, yang kuat dan yang lemah, yang kaya dan yang miskin; membersihkan institusi dan proses undang-undang dari dicemari oleh penyalahgunaan kuasa dan rasuah;

* Gerakan reformasi untuk mendaulatkan kuasa rakyat melalui proses demokrasi. Democrasi itu satu kemestian, kerana semangat keadilan yang ada dalam diri manusia membolehkan demokrasi dilaksana, tetapi kecenderungan manusia untuk berlaku zalim menjadikan demokrasi satu kewajipan;

* Gerakan reformasi untuk memperjuangkan keadilan ekonomi, menjana pertumbuhan dan pengagihan yang saksama, jangan yang kaya bertambah kaya yang miskin papa kedana. Dunia ini mencukupi untuk keperluan semua, tetapi tidak mencukupi untuk memenuhi kerakusan individu;

* Gerakan reformasi untuk membanteras rasuah dan penyalahgunaan kuasa, mengikis manipulasi pasaran oleh segelintir golongan rakus dan mahakaya;

* Gerakan reformasi untuk memperkukuhkan jayadiri budaya yang dinamis, setia kepada warisan bangsa yang murni dan terbuka kepada segala yang baik dari semua budaya;

* Gerakan reformasi untuk membawa bangsa Malaysia ke zaman maklumat dan dunia tanpa sempadan, menjana kebijaksanaan, keyakinan dan keterbukaan untuk menjalin persahabatan sejagat berdasarkan prinsip kebenaran dan keadilan.

Kami akan menggerakkan reformasi ini dengan aman, mengikut semangat perlembagaan dan bernafaskan prinsip pemerintahan undang-undang.

Masanya telah tiba. Bersatulah untuk reformasi......reformasi.......reformasi...

KEKEJAMAN SEORANG PEMBANTU RUMAH

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VIDEO INI MUNGKIN RAMAI YANG TERLEPAS PANDANG.DIAMBIL DARI LAMAN MARHAEN UNTUK TONTONAN SEMUA MASYARAKAT.IANYA SEKADAR MENGINGATKAN BAHAWA DALAM KITA BERBAIK-BAIK INILAH YANG KITA AKAN DAPAT.JANGAN MUDAH PERCAYA PEMBANTU INI.


TAK SEDAR DEK UNTUNG PEMBANTU RUMAH INI.DIHARAPKAN PIHAK BERWAJIB MENYIASAT TINDAKAN PEMBANTU RUMAH INI.

Malaysian ex-leader decries media coverage of PM



KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad accused the international media Tuesday of trying to demonize Malaysia's new leader, who is battling opposition accusations of links to corruption and murder.

Mahathir's defense of Prime Minister Najib Razak reflects concerns within the ruling party that the leader's reputation has been tarnished because of unproven allegations by political adversaries.



Mahathir said many articles published in the Western media when Najib took power earlier this month were "anti-Najib stories" that highlighted the accusations against him.
"From France to Britain to Australia, the articles are identical and carried the same message," Mahathir wrote on his blog. "I cannot believe that this demonization by so many at the same time is a coincidence."




Mahathir — a strident critic of the Western media during his 22 years as prime minister before stepping down in 2003 — said Najib should brace himself for more foreign criticism, but added that it was ultimately with Malaysians "that Najib has to clear his name."



Mahathir holds no government post, but still commands wide respect and his views often receive attention from leaders and members of the ruling party.
The prime minister recently said he has been a victim of personal attacks in the media, referring to allegations by opposition leaders and bloggers that he was involved in a shady government contract to buy submarines from France.



He has also been accused of links to the murder of a Mongolian woman, who was the estranged lover of Najib's friend. He has denied the allegations.



Najib succeeded former Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who was pressured to retire after the ruling coalition retained power with its weakest parliamentary majority ever in March 2008 general elections.





SIAPA PERDANA MENTERI SEKARANG???


1. Tun Mahatir mula bangga dengan proton hasil idea beliau.Sebelum ini proton dah nak bergabung dengan syarikat pembuat kereta lain.
2. Tun Mahathir kata perlu bertanding di Permatang Pauh walau Najib kata tak perlu bertanding.
3. Tun Mahathir kata perlu lawan walau jemaah menteri belum putuskan.
4.Tun Mahathir kata perlu teruskan jabatan bengkok yang sebelum ini telah di hentikan.
5.Tun Mahathir betanding di Permatang Pauh.....Oh ...oh tidak rasanya.

Review Federal Court’s decision immediately




Chief Justice of Malaya Tan Sr Zaki Azmi must do the nation a favour by ordering the Federal Court to review its decision concerning the suspension of BN Menteri Besar Zambry Abdul Kadir and his six executive councillors. This act of the CJ would be perceived by thinking Malaysians as doing national service. It is imperative that he heeds this earnest and urgent call and orders an immediate review.





The decision of the Federal Court was termed as “a perverse judgment” by none other than the much respected and highly regarded N H Chan, a former Court of Appeal judge. To the ordinary Malaysians it was a scandalous judgment that discredited the five judges and tarnished the judiciary beyond repair.







It is beyond anybody’s imagination how these five learned judges could have ignored and discarded the provisions of the Federal Constitution. N H Chan has referred to Article 72 which touches on the Privileges of Legislative Assembly. This is a very significant Article which had direct bearing to the case before the Federal Court and yet this was completely dismissed as inconsequential to the case.





These provisions confer certain rights and immunity to safeguard the sanctity of the Legislative Assembly which are spelt out very clearly. There is no ambiguity in what has been stated. Even laypersons have no difficulty in understanding these provisions:





72.Privileges of Legislative Assembly.





(1) The validity of any proceedings in the State Assembly of any State shall not be questioned in any court.





(2) No person shall be liable to any proceedings in any court in respect of anything said or any vote given by him when taking part in proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of any State or of any committee thereof.





(3) No person shall be liable to any proceedings in any court in respect of anything published by or under the authority of the Legislative Assembly of any State.







It is amazing that these five learned judges could have overlooked these very important provisions. And we have to ask, “Why?” If they are expected to dispense justice in a fair and impartial manner, shouldn’t they have paid attention to the supreme law of the country? We have every right to expect them to be thorough before delivering their judgment.
These five judges are responsible if Malaysians continue to be cynical and sceptical about our judiciary. And we have to wonder how many brave and honest judges are left in the judiciary who will respect the Federal Constitution and remain true to their conscience in delivering justice.







The CJ cannot remain unconcerned and unperturbed over what has taken place. He has to play his role as the guardian of the judiciary and salvage its reputation and restore people’s confidence in the rule of law.







P Ramakrishnan


President


18 April 2009











KHIDMAT MASYARAKAT-MENCARI ANAK YANG HILANG







Dua siaran khidmat sosial di bawah dilihat bahawa negara dalam keadaan yang kritikal dengan kehilangan kanak-kanak .Kasihanilah ibu bapa dan keluarga mereka .bayangkan jika ini terjadi kepada anda.maka kerana itu kepada semua pengunjung yang singgah di laman ini sila baca dan lihat gambar-gambar di bawah.Ianya adalah tanggungjawab kita semua. Kasihanilah kanak-kanak ini.







Assalamualaikum
Mohon bantuan kepada sesiapa yang ada terjumpa anak
saudara saya Nurhidayah Binti Surip
(umur 11 tahun)
yang telah hilang dari Asrama Anak Yatim Darul Kifayah, Tmn Koop Polis, Gombak sejak hari Isnin 6 April
2009 .





Jika ada maklumat sila hubungi :

Abdul Razak Bin Salim
HEP Politeknik Johor Bahru
0177011038 / 0169326003


atau


Sjn.Dalila IPK Kuala Lumpur.



.. juga saya mohon bantuan sebarkan maklumat kepada
rakan-rakan terutamanya di sekitar
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KHIDMAT MASYARAKAT-MENCARI ANAK YANG HILANG




SALAM SEJAHTERA DAN PENUH KETABAHAN..

HANYA ALLAH SAJER YANG DAPAT MEMBALAS SEGALA KEBAIKAN.

Kepada kawan-kawan yang lain..sekiranya ada apa2 pendapat atau cara atau sesiapa yang dikenali yang boleh membantu mencari FERIS...tolong lah saya...

Untuk pengetahuan semua, FERIS dah pandai cakap Melayu...

dah selalu ke surau ikut abang2 sepupunya...abang apan, ancik n zidane...

suka makan nasi lemak...suka cakap ..PHEDASSS la umie...

sebenarnya FERIS sedang belajar melaungkan azan dengan abg2 sepupunya..

dan lebih saya terkilan...feris baru 5 hari melangkahkan kaki ke alam

persekolahan pada usia 5 tahun 3 bulan..DAN SEKARANG FERIS dah tak ke sekolah lagi....

KESIAN FERIS...Saya rindukan feris..kami sekeluarga sangat rindukan feris...

Apatah lagi Umienya...Feris lah kawan karib elis ketika dalam apa pun keadaan..

Dan sekarang..bestfriend umie dah dibawa lari....

Kami tidak ada NAMA, TIDAK ADA KUASA DAN PANGKAT...yang membolehkan kami mengerah dan mengarah pihak tertentu mencarikan FERIS untuk kami...

Kami bukan artis atau selebriti glamor untuk mendapatkan ruang yang besar di dada2 surat khabar yang berpengaruh...

Kami tidak ada ORANG DALAM yang boleh bawa kami terus ke dalam TV3, RTM,
ASTRO, atau apa-apa lagi bahagian penyiaran yang lain..supaya dapat siarkan gambar2 FERIS kami...

Kami tidak ada abang2 atau saudara mara yang banyak paku pada baju..yang membolehkan kami mencari FERIS di pelusok tanah tumpah kami sendiri...

Dan yang paling sedih...kami tidak mampu MEMBELI undang2 supaya banyak pihak sama2 kami mencari FERIS...


Saya hanya ada KAWAN-KAWAN..
KAWAN-KAWAN yang sama2 rasakan deritanya KEHILANGAN ini..

TOLONGLAH CARIKAN FERIS UNTUK KAMI...TOLONG LAH...

KAMI MOHON ATAS NAMA AQIDAH DAN AGAMANYA.

terima kasih.

SALAM SEMANIS SENYUMAN FERIS.

ibu sayang FERIS.
mami sayang FERIS,
UMIE SANGAT SAYANG FERIS!!!


MOHON JUGA SEBARKAN KEPADA KAWAN-KAWAN YANG LAIN..
TERIMA KASIH.

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ALIRAN MEDIA STATEMENT

Aliran media statement

http://www.aliran.com


Ruling on Perak suspensions has far-reaching consequences


Aliran is terribly disappointed with the Federal Court’s ruling that the Speaker of the Perak State Assembly does not have the authority to suspend Zambry and his fellow exco members.
The ruling has far-reaching consequences for the democratic principle which respects the separation of powers of the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary.
The ruling has destroyed the notion that the separation of powers will be protected and preserved according to the rule of law by the Judiciary.
The Judiciary has once again failed the nation in upholding the rule of law in the interest of justice.


P Ramakrishnan
President
16 April 2009

PERJUMPAAN DSAI DENGAN MASYARAKAT PENANTI BERHUBUNG DENGAN PILIHANRAYA KECIL JAM 8.30 MALAM NANTI





REAKSI DAN KONTRA PERLETAKAN JAWATAN YB FAIRUS


updates 7.00 pagi 17/4/2009

Permatang Pauh- Reaksi dan kontra berhubung perletakkan jawatan Yb Mohd Fairus Khairuddin sebagai ADUN Penanti dan Juga semua jawatan dalam kerajaan negeri Pualau Pinang.Ramai yang tahu akan kelemhan dan juga seolah-olah beliau langsung tidak melakukan sebarang tugas sebagai Timbalan Ketua Menteri Pualau Pinang.

Pihak Kami mengemukakan beberapa sms yang beredar di kalangan ahli dan masyarakat Permatang Pauh yang menunjukkan seolah-olah satu protes akan dilakukan secara senyap terhadap parti tersebut.

Saah satu sms yang di terima pihak kami berbunyi begini.

Perjuangan 98" ..Kita diajar lawan korupsi,kronisma,Nipotisme, dan satu lagi konspirator.Kami tak lupa Mahzab ini....Keadilan Untuk FAIRUS"


Siapa yang menjadi dalang dan menulis dalam Alahai Fairus TKM1 sehingga kini belum pasti .Cuma ada beberapa pihak mendakwa DSAI telah mengetahui dalangnya kerana telah diberikan satu laporan lengkap dan menurut sumber lagi ianya melibatkan beberapa individu dalam parti.
Walau bagaimana pun,ianya adalah masalaah PKR dan kita menganggap bahawa ianya satu kelemahan dan masih gagal dibendung.Kita tahu DAP ada masalaah dalaman, PAS sedang dan akan juga bergolak dalam sedikit masa lagi , namun agak berbeza kerana PAS mengamalkan Syura iaitu dengan berunding dan DAP seolah-olah semacam PAS kerana parti ini telah lama menjadi pembangkang sejak azali walau PAS pernah tidur sebantal dengan Umno dan mimpi berlainan.

Oleh kerana menjadi pembangkang oposisi yang lama dalam negara, kedua-dua parri tersebut hampir berjaya menyelesaikan masalah dalaman yang dianggap boleh menjejaskan parti mereka dan tidak di londeh dikhalayak umum.Berlainan dngan apa yang sedang berlaku.Masyarakat seolah-olah menyalahkan orang lama dalam PKR kerana gagal membendung gejala ini walau telah lama mengetahui akan perkara ini.Ada yang menyatakan bahawa "tiada kuasa","masalah Fairus", malah ada pula yang "lepas tangan".


Kini ADUN Penanti akan menjadi medan sebenar bagi PKR menguji kesetiaan penyokongnya.Malah di dilihat dari rekodnya Penanti amat sensitif dengan kawasan mereka.Jatuh bangun UMNO dan oposisi dilihat sebagai trend bagi masyarakatnya.DSAI sendiri mungkin akan berkampung lama di kawasan ini bagi menangkis persoalan yang akan dibawa Umno.

Ramai yang kini mula merasa kecewa kerana dengan mengganggap Fairus hanya menghadapi situasi ini berseorangan dan pihak parti tidak mengindahkannya.Ramai pula yang menyatakan bahawa beliau tidak dengar cakap dan keras kepala.Namun alahai Fairus TKM1 berjaya menjatuhkan beliau dan ini kejayaan yang diluar jangka.Namun dalam masa yang sama, kini ramai pula yang mula bersimpati.Wanita Bahagian mula bertindak,pihak AMK sebahagiannya pula mula bertindak dengan persetujuan beberapa pemimpin peringkat penguruan PKR negeri.

Melihatkan kepada kegagalan perlantikan pengganti Yb Mohd Fairus, jelas DSAI sudah tahu secara mendalam akan situasi yang berlaku , dan khabarnya menunggu masa yang sesuai untuk bertindak melalui saluran parti.Jika Fairus menjadi mangsa ,pihak yang lain juga mungkin akan menjadi mangsa pula.Mungkin lebih mudah jika melantik 2 ahli berbangsa Melayu dalam PKR menjadi pengganti seperti YB Abdul Malek Kassim dan Yb Maktar dari Sungai Bakap.Namun dalam PKR apabila di tanya akan soalan ini ada yang menyatakan bahawa jika ingin melantik YB Abdul Malek, ianya telah lama dibuat oleh penasihat parti tersebut , dan YB ustz Maktar pula dilihat sebagai bukan pilihan dan mungkin sesuai untuk dilantik sebagai Exco.Namun peruntukan kerusi hanya 2 untuk Exco Melayu.Pertama sebagai Timbalan ketua Menteri dan Exco Agama dan beberapa potfolio lagi dalam kerajaan negeri dan juga peruntukan untuk Exco yang lain sebagaimana yang sedang di pikul YB Abdul Malek.


Namun, oleh kerana mungkin penasihat PKR mahukan calon yang sama di bawah Parlimen Permatan Pauh, maka kerana itulah ramai pula yang beranggapan bahawa Fairus "harus" dikorbankan demi melantik seorang calon TKM1 di Pulau Pinang.Maka kerana itu ada sms yang diterima lagi berhubung perkara ini ianya berbunyi

"Yb Fairus disuruh letak jawatan sertamerta.Bersiap untuk PRK di DUN Penanti.Clon PKR yang disebut menggantikan Fairus adalah Dr Mansor.Itulah KEADILAN".

Apa pun keadaan sudah menjadi bubur.Orang ramai di kampung-kampung mula menunding jari menyalahkan pihak yang menjatuhkan Fairus.Namun jika dikaji semula adakah benar laporan dalam Alahai fairus menjadi tekanan kepada beliau jika dilihat dari sudut yang lain.kenapa Fairus tidak menjadi sekental -kental seorang pahlawan yang punya semangat waja dalam jiwa beliau.Seharusnya lah pihak PKR mengambil tindakan awal dengan membendung dan berbincang.Ramai cerdik pandai dan juga ilmuan dalam parti dan tidak terbawa-bawa dengan semangat dalam parti yang kebanyakkan ahlinya meninggalkan parti nenek moyang mereka.Bagi kaum reformis yang tidak mendapat sebarang jawatan dan imbuhan melihat ini sebagai permulaan yang tidak begitu selesa untuk DUN Penanti.

Mengenai calon Dr mansor memang di kenali di Pulau Pinang,pernah berkhidmat di USM dan antara yang menformulakan TEKUN pada waktu itu dimana berjaya membantu kaum Melayu memulakan perniagaan.Namun Dr Mansor dilihat sebagai calon "Bad Luck" kerana sering tewas di tempat dimana beliau bertanding.mungkin Penanti ini akan menjadi medan bagi beliau menghapuskan kesan "tidak untung" yang di tanggung beliau.Ahli PKR harus menerima apa yang telah berlaku.Tidak meninggalkan parti walau dilihat ianya sukar buat permulaan.DSAI juga perlu bekerja keras memastikan orang DUN Penanti menyokong calon PKR.Ada lagi sms yang diterima dari ahli berbunyi seperti berikut

"Aku tak minat politik.Lain kali jangan sms pada aku lagi.Orang politik penipu.penat aku pangkah PKR.Ahli pelingkup parti"

Semua ni menunjukkan reaksi amarah.namun kita percaya DSAI ada penawarnya. Kita percaya penjelasan malam ini di Yayasan Aman akan menghilangkan semua teka teki yang bakal berlaku dihadapan kelak.Pihak kami akan cuba membawa live melalui COVER IT LIVE.Ruang berchating disamping menerima maklumat.Sila jenguk laman ini jam 9 malam nanti.


Fairus vows to expose dirt on PKR if it does not clear his name



See Hoh

Mohammad FairusKhairuddinPENANG (April 16, 2009) : Former Penang deputy chief minister Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin who has fallen from grace vows to dig up dirt on Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and the Pakatan Rakyat state government if PKR does not clear his name in two weeks.

Fairus, who went into hiding after resigning the state's No. 2 post last month for allegedly being linked to illegal sand quarry activities, contacted Nanyang Siang Pau on Tuesday to convey this message and to clarify accusations made against him.

Speaking to a Nanyang reporter from Penang whom he trusted, the 33-year-old Penanti state assemblyman who claimed he was victimised by "his own people" said if PKR does not help him regain his reputation soon, he would not discount the possibility of calling for a media conference to tell all on PKR and the state government.

He said the expose concerns the inner workings of the PR and will have "far-reaching consequences".
He claimed it was because of his knowledge of PR's inner workings that they are hesitant to take action against him.
Fairus declined to reveal more and urged the reporter to be patient.

"I am innocent. They know what I can do. They must not force me (to do it)," he said, referring to those who victimised him.

He lamented that Selangor exco member Elizabeth Wong, former Kedah exco member V. Arumugam and himself are targets of victimisation, but unlike Wong and Arumugam, the party did not speak out for him or help clear his name.

"They are only exco members, while I am not only an exco member I am also the deputy chief minister, but they (the party) did not help me, because those who victimised me are 'my own people' from the party."

He said those who suggested that he go into hiding are also people from within the party, and their aim is to spare the party and de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim unnecessary attacks from detractors.

Fairus said he has yet to hear from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission on (MACC) that it is charging him over allegations of corruption.

This is probably because it does not have enough evidence against him, he said, adding that he is ready to cooperate with MCAC in its investigation so that his name can be cleared.
Fairus said claims that he was under-performing and absent from government functions were part of a "well-planned scheme to victimise him".

He said outside talk of his lack of service to voters were played up by the media.

Truth is, he said, he has served them well and he is liked by all communities.

He said the lack of publicity, which he blamed on his aides, on what he has done for his constituency gave rise to the misconception that he was not doing his job.

TERKINI DARI PERMATANG PAUH-PILIHANRAYA KECIL PENANTI



updates 11 pagi....16/4/2009


PERMATANG PAUH-Setelah hampir 2 bulan bermain teka teki kini khabar angin yang sahih dikatakan bertiup kencang akan adanya pilihanraya kecil DUN Penanti di Permatang Pauh ekoran p[erletakan jawatan Mohd Fairus Khairuddin.

Beliau yang sebelum ini melepaskan jawatan sebagai Exco dan Timbalan Ketua menteri 1 Pulau Pinang akhirnnya melepaskan jawatan sebagai ADUN Penanti.Cuma satu beliau masih punya prinsip untuk tidak mengistiharkan calon bebas atau pun melompatke mana-mana parti.

Beliau yang dikritik hebat dan melalui blog Aalahai Fairus TKM1 hari ini dikatakan akan menandatangani surat perletakan jawatan sebagai ADUN Penanti.Ianya di jangka akan melakukan demikian pada petang ini.

Sebelum ini menjadi tanda tanya mengenai adakah ADUN Batu Maung YB Abdul malik Kassim bakal menjadi TKM1, namun ramai yang meramalkan akan diadakan pilihanraya kecil di DUN Penanti sebagai satu keputusan di mana Adun di kawasan tersebut juga bakal menjadi Timbalan Ketua Menteri.Semua ini menjadi tandatanya dan penggumuman bakal di lakukan petang ini.

YB HAMDAN MENZIARAHI ADIK MOHD RAZALI




Permatang Pauh- YB Hamdan ADUN Permatang Pasir telah hadir untk menziarahi adik Mohd Razali yang koma dalam kemalangan yang berlaku sendirian dimana beliau menumpang menaiki motosikal bersama rakannnya 3 bulan lalu.


Kes kemalangan ini boleh dijadikan contoh teladan kepada golongan muda kerana ianya bukan sahaja akan menyusahkan dan membebankan ibubapa , malahan ianya akan memusnahkan masa depan anda sendiri.Kini adik Mohd Razali yang sepatutnya menduduki peperiksaan SPM, telah tidak mengenali sesiapa pun walau pun ibu bapa sendiri.


Kepada remaja di luar sana, menunggang motosikal haruslah punya kesedaran dan rasa tanggungjawab yang tinggi dan jangan ambil mudah sesuatu yang boleh mendatangkan bahaya kepada anda dan juga orang lain.


Dalam lawatan tersebut YB Hamdan berusaha mendapatkan bantuan melalui PUZ kerana belanja membeli susu khas amat tinggi kosnya disamping pampers.Ibu bapa masih setia menjaga anak yang malang ini walau tidak begitu mampu untuk memenuhi keperluan.Keluarga ini pula bukan dari keluarga yang senang.kepada anak remaja,hati-hati dalam membuat sesuatu kerana ianya melaibatkan orang tersayang di sekeliling anda.


April 1515/04/2009


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Today is Wednesday, April 15, the 105th day of 2009. There are 260 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:


1689 - France's King Louis XIV declares war on Spain.


1715 - Prussia, Saxony, Poland, Hanover and Denmark form alliance against Sweden, and war is declared.


1789 - President-elect George Washington leaves Mount Vernon, Virginia, for his inauguration in New York.

1817 - The first American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut.


1856 - Britain, France and Austria guarantee integrity and independence of Turkey.


1861 - Three days after the attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, President Abraham Lincoln declares a state of insurrection and calls out Union troops.

1862 - A bill ending slavery in the US District of Columbia becomes law.

1865 - Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th US president after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.


1888 - Peasant uprising begins in Romania.


1891 - Katanga Company is formed under Leopold of Belgium's direction to exploit copper deposits in what is today the southernmost province in Congo.

1912 - The passenger luxury liner SS Titanic sinks and more than 1 500 lives are lost; Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

1923 - Insulin, discovered by Canadian Dr Frederick Banting, is made available for general use by diabetics.

1927 - Chiang Kai-Shek organizes government at Nanking in China.

1941 - Yugoslav royal family flees to Great Britain. The post-war Communist regime later passes a law preventing them from returning.

1942 - Japanese artillery blasts US positions on Corregidor Island in Philippines in World War II.
1945 - British and Canadian troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen.

1947 - Financier and presidential confidant Bernard M Baruch says in a speech at the South Carolina statehouse: "Let us not be deceived. We are today in the midst of a cold war."

1959 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrives in Washington, DC, to begin a goodwill tour of the United States.


1968 - Two unmanned Soviet satellites link up while in orbit around Earth.


1974 - Military coup in West African country of Niger overthrows government of President Hamani Diori.


1977 - Protest marches in Pakistan become violent and at least eight people are reported killed.


1982 - Five militant Muslim fundamentalists are executed in Egypt for assassination of President Anwar Sadat.

1986 - US President Ronald Reagan orders air strike on Tripoli and Benghazi in Libya 10 days after bombing of German disco kills two US servicemen. Libya says the raids killed 41 people.


1987 - Philippines-flagged vessel sailing to Kuwait with load of Australian sheep is attacked and set ablaze by Iranian gunboat in central sector of gulf.


1988 - State of emergency is extended two additional months in Lima, Peru, to fight rising violence by leftist guerrillas.


1989 - Students in Beijing launch a series of pro democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang; the protests culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre.


1992 - Sanctions go into effect against Libya for refusing to surrender two suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.


1993 - A car bomb explodes at a shopping mall in Bogota, Colombia, killing at least five people, injuring about 100 and demolishing two dozen vehicles.


1994 - More than 100 nations adopt a 26 000-page agreement reforming international trade.
1995 - An express train ploughs into a crowded bus in the Nile Delta north of Cairo, killing 42 people and injuring 45 others.


1996 - More than 100 rebels ambush a six-vehicle military convoy near the border with Ecuador, killing 31 Colombian soldiers and wounding 16.


1997 - A fire sweeps across a pilgrims' encampment outside Mecca as two million Muslims gather for one of Islam's most sacred rituals, killing at least 343 people.


1998 - Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge, dies at 73, evading prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians in the 1970s.


1999 - Nato takes responsibility for the bombing of a refugee convoy in Kosovo the day before that Yugoslavs say killed 75 civilians.


2000 - Defying tear gas and police beatings, hundreds of supporters of jailed Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim mark the anniversary of his conviction with a protest that results in 46 arrests.
2002 - An Air China passenger jet crashes, killing at least 122 people. The jet flew into a hillside amid heavy rain and fog.


2003 - US President George W Bush declares an end to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime, less than a week after US forces seized Baghdad and US and Kurdish forces entered Kirkuk and Mosul in northern Iraq.


2004 - Two factions of the rebel National Liberation Front of Tripura in northeastern India agree to halt their two-decade separatist campaign and hold peace talks with New Delhi. A third NLFT faction continues to reject peace talks.


2005 - Flames and smoke send people jumping from windows of a budget hotel in Paris housing many African immigrants in an overnight fire that leaves 20 dead - half of them children.


2006 - China announces tariff cuts on imports of fruit and fish from Taiwan, offering the self-ruled island new trade concessions in an effort to boost sentiment for uniting with the communist mainland.


2007 - The remains of a World War II navigator, Air Force 1st Lieutenant Archibald Kelly, listed as missing in action for almost 63 years are identified two years after they were found in Croatia. His B-24 bomber crashed on July 22 1944.


2008 - Nepal's former rebels, now known as the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), win more than half of the directly elected seats that will shape the Himalayan nation's political future.



Today's Birthdays:Nanak, guru and founder of Sikhism (1469-1539); Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (1707-1783); Henry James, US author (1843-1916); A Philip Randolph, US civil rights leader/trade unionist (1889-1979); Bessie Smith, US blues singer (1898-1937); Kim Il-Sung, North Korean dictator (1912-1994); Emma Thompson, British actress (1959--); Seth Rogen, Canadian actor/writer (1982--); Emma Watson, British actress (1990--).
Thought For Today:Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it - George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born playwright (1856-1950).


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From Armed Struggle to PeaceRashid Maidin Publisher: SIRD ISBN: 9789834372727 121 pagesRM25.00 “Since the 1930s, I was involved in the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) in the struggle against the British colonizers to free our homeland. Many have asked me why I chose to take this path and not another, they have also asked me about my experiences, my joys and pain and my memories. I’ve had all kinds of questions thrown at me. It is also true that I myself have wished to write down some episodes from my struggle within the CPM….I endured the extreme bitterness of living under both the British and Japanese. I fought against the Japanese during their occupation (1941-45) with all my might, just as I did when the British returned to rule Malaya in 1945. Between 1945-48, when I agitated peacefully against the British, I was one of the CPM’s public representatives, openly organizing the masses for independence. Soon after the declaration of the Emergency. I was caught and imprisoned in British detention camps until 1952. It was a good thing that I managed to escape and join the 10th Regiment [of the Malayan National Liberation Army] with my close friend, Abdullah C.D. In December 1955, I participated in the Baling Talks with Chin Peng and Chen Tien. In 1989, I was one of the CPM’s representatives in the Phuket negotiations which resulted in the Haadyai Peace Accord of 2 December that same year. I hope this memoir will give some idea of the struggle which I plunged myself into for decades.”






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A crowning achievement for Means, and a must-read for anyone inter ested in the political and policy implications of Islam in Southeast Asia.”-DWIGHT W. KIN G, Northern Illinois University How Rich Countries Got Rich… and Why Poor Countries Stay PoorErik S. Reinert Publisher: Anthem Press India and Third World Network ISBN: 9781843313335 365 pagesRM50.00 (Sale of this edition of the book is restricted to South East Asia) Winner of prestigious Myrdal Prize 2008An illuminating history of economic development in the Modern world Erik S. Reinert is a key figure in the growing worldwide movement against neo-classical economic theory. He argues that rich countries have developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism and strategic investment yet, when it comes to today’s poorer nations, the orthodoxy insists on unqualified and absolute standards of free trade.Reinert’s strongly revisionist history reveals how economic theory has long been torn between the continental Renaissance tradition and the free market ideas of English and later American economics. Our economics were founded on protectionism and state activism and could only later afford the luxury of free trade, so when our leaders come to lecture poor countries on the right road to riches they do so in almost perfect ignorance of the real history of mass affluence. This book mounts a strong challenge and opens up the debate on why free trade is not the best answer for our hopes of worldwide prosperity.





Living on the Periphery :Development and Islamization among the Orang Asli in Malaysia Nobuta Toshihiro Publisher: Center For Orang Asli ConcernsISBN: 9789834324841 398 pagesRM40.00 What set out as a study on the survival strategies of the Orang Asli in the wake of state-led development found the author being confronted by another element-Islamizationinfluencing both their social relations and their access to development.The book gives an exceptional peak into the contemporary social and economic situation of the Orang Asli in their village setting, providing insight not only into the familiar dichotomy of haves and have-nots, but also into the villagers' close relations with both Chinese and Malays, including intermarriage, over many generations.Living on the Periphery exposes the attitudes of the nonOrang Asli, their different world views, and especially their control of local resources. Even for people familiar with Malaysia, Nobuta's ethnographic account puts a spotlight on the jarring inequalities experienced by Orang Asli that otherwise are so easily overlooked."Living on the Periphery shows that there is no shortage of problems arising from development projects and Islamization in the history of the small indigenous Temuan community studied.... The book is exceptional in that it provides by far the most detailed description to date of development and Islamic pressure on the Orang Asli." A Baer, Asian Anthropology (Vol.7) 2008












Integriti dan Islam: Aplikasi Berkesan Membangun Ummah Disusun oleh Haji Mustafar Haji Ali & Dr. Adanan Mat Junoh Publisher: Institut Integriti MalaysiaISBN: 9789675091131234pagesRM70.00 Bersempena Sambutan Bulan Dakwah tahun 2009, IIM telah mengambil inisiatif menerbitkan sebuah buku atas tajuk Integriti Dan Islam : Aplikasi Berkesan Membangun Ummah sebagai satu daripada usaha mendidik masyarakat tentang peri mustahaknya integriti dalam kehidupan. Buku ini membincangkan integriti dari perspektif Islam serta mengupas bagaimana integriti berperanan membangunkan ummah. Semoga buku ini digunakan di pelbagai institusi seperti sekolah, institusi pengajian tinggi, perkhidmatan awam dan sektor swasta dan sebagai panduan untuk memantapkan integriti masyarakat. Antara penulis - penulis buku ini adalah Dr. Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri, Prof Dato' Dr. Mohd Yusof Haji Othman, Haji Mustafar Haji Ali, Mohd Shauki Abd Majid, Dato' Haji Wan Mohamad Dato' Sheikh Abd Aziz, Dato' As-Sheikh Haji Nooh Gadut, Tan Sri Ismail Adam, Datuk Dr. Halim Shafie, Mejar Jeneral Dato' Jamil Khir Hj Baharom, Dato' Haji Zakaria Haji Jaafar, Datuk Prof. Madya Dr. Abu Bakar Mohamad Diah dan Dr. Adanan Mat Junoh.










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