SALAAM

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PERHATIAN

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Sekadar Nak dengar Najib buat lawak?

Buang masa den, kami CEO saja nak dengar lawak najib?

Najib shows his funny side to Forbes

By Lee Wei Lian

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 —Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak went on a humour offensive last night as he sought to win over potential investors from around the world who had gathered for the annual Forbes CEO Conference here.

Najib showed that apart from his political acumen, he was no slouch either when it came to comedy delivery as he bantered with Forbes magazine CEO and editor-in-chief Steve Forbes in an open dialogue.

Forbes had kicked off the conversation by asking what is the prime minister's stand on Malaysian English versus American English.

"We speak English but we also understand American," replied Najib to much laughter and clapping.

Encouraged, Najib further warmed the crowd by cracking a joke.

"Three Malaysians were sitting down having a fireside chat like we are doing now. And one them was complaining about his wife not being able to have children," Najib started.

"The first Malaysian said: Your wife is inconceivable." Soft laughter from the audience.

"The second Malaysian said: You're wrong. You should say that his wife is impregnable." More chuckles.

"Then the third man said: Both of you are wrong. Actually, my wife is unbearable!" The audience roars.

"No reference to my wife," Najib added after the laughter died down.

Najib did misjudge his audience towards the end of the night however when a political joke was met with a puzzled silence.

Asked by one conference delegate what Najib was going to do to support an upcoming conference on the environment, he replied:

"One of the first acts I did was create a Ministry of Green Technology. I've said before that technologically we must be green. Politically we must remain blue."

The dialogue's more serious moments was a chance for Najib to showcase his plans for Malaysia in a bid to put the country on the radar screen of investors.

He said the country needs to be more competitive and escape from the "middle-income trap" and that he wants to transform "a low-wage and somewhat low-productivity" economy into a developed and high-income one.

The night was a rare occasion where Najib did not mention "1 Malaysia" but he did say that he wanted to create a system that will motivate Malaysians to "produce at higher levels" and that will also "unleash the talents of all Malaysians so that all will feel they have a place under the Malaysian sun."

These are topics Malaysians will be taking seriously despite the lighthearted moments of the night, and they will be watching Najib closely to see if his economic delivery skills are as good as his comedic ones.

Retorik? Utusan?

Akhbar Utusan dibakar di DBP — Zainuddin Maidin

SEPT 27 — Utusan Melayu tidak selalunya mengikut arus sentimen bangsanya, adakala terpaksa menyekat atau melawan arus ini sehingga menimbulkan kemarahan dan tindakan di kalangan mereka yang kecewa dengan pendiriannya di dalam sesuatu isu besar kerana Utusan Melayu dilihat mempunyai kekuatan untuk mempengaruhi pemikiran rakyat dan dasar kerajaan.

Pada 2 Mac 1967, Utusan Melayu (jawi) telah dibakar di Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) Kuala Lumpur oleh pejuang-pejuang bahasa kerana membantah sikap Utusan Melayu menyokong keputusan kerajaan untuk mengekalkan kedudukan bahasa Inggeris sebagai bahasa kedua di negara ini di samping bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa rasmi.

Kerajaan Perikatan yang diketuai oleh Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al Haj memikirkan bahawa dasar ini perlu diadakan setelah 10 tahun merdeka supaya dengan itu dalam bidang tertentu bahasa Inggeris boleh terus digunapakai disamping kepentingan bahasa itu sebagai bahasa dunia.

Ini memerlukan rang undang undang bahasa dikemukakan ke dalam Parlimen. Pendirian Utusan Melayu menyokong dasar kerajaan itu mengejutkan orang Melayu terutama sekali pencinta-pencinta bahasa kerana Utusan Melayu diketahui sebagai akhbar yang berada di barisan depan dari sejak sebelum kemerdekaan dalam mendukung perjuangan untuk mendaulatkan bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa kebangsaan negara.

Sikap Utusan Melayu ini telah menyebabkan ia dianggap sebagai pengkhianat kepada bangsa dan pengampu UMNO. Ketua Pengarangnya Melan Abdullah (Tan Sri) mahu dibakar hidup-hidup dan berbagai-bagai lagi kecaman dilemparkan terhadapnya.

Kebangkitan semangat para pejuang bahasa telah disemarakkan lagi oleh sebuah sajak Sasterawan Negara Usman Awang yang bertajuk Keranda 152:

Anak Melayu

Panas dadamu membakar baju

Kita arak keranda 152

Ke tanah perkuburannya Parlimen.

Sepuluh tanah nafas ini terhenti

Hari ini jangan lagi menyanyi

Sebentar lagi malam akan tiba

Tiap pintu dan jendela sudah dijaga

Bayang bayang tidak bisa lewat jalan raya

Anak Melayu

namamu telah diseru

Jawablah

Sebelum lidahmu jadi bisu.

Kemuncak bantahan terhadap langkah kerajaan untuk meletakkan bahasa Inggeris sebagai bahasa kedua di negara ini ialah perhimpunan lebih 1,000 orang pejuang-pejuang bahasa mengadakan tunjuk perasaan membantah rang undang-undang bahasa dan juga pendirian Utusan Melayu. Mereka tidak sahaja membakar akhbar Utusan Melayu tetapi juga cuba membakar gambar Tuanku.

Jurugambar Utusan Melayu Hussein Nor (Allahyarham) telah cuba ditolak ke dalam api yang sedang marak menyala dalam pembakaran akhbar Utusan Melayu itu oleh seorang yang tidak dapat mengawal perasaannya tetapi telah disekat oleh pemberita Utusan Melayu Taib Ahmad.

Perdana Menteri Tunku Abdul Rahman nyata tidak begitu senang terhadap Ketua Pengarah DBP, Syed Nasir Ismail (Tan Sri) kerana membiarkan DBP digunakan untuk tunjuk perasaan itu.

Dalam suatu perhimpunan di Ipoh sehari kemudian yang turut dihadiri oleh Syed Nasir, Tunku dalam ucapannya telah menyentuh tunjuk perasaan itu dengan berkata, “Kelmarin depa bakar gambar saya di Dewan Bahasa. Tak apalah, mereka nak bakar bakarlah, kalau tak cukup, boleh pergi ambil lagi di rumah saya, banyak lagi gambar saya yang lebih elok, yang warna pun ada.” Saya sendiri meliputi lawatan Tunku ke Perak.

Kejadian

Utusan Melayu keluaran 3 Mac 1967 melaporkan kejadian tunjuk perasaan di DBP itu sebagai berikut:

Lebih daripada 1,500 orang wakil-wakil badan-badan kebudayaan, persatuan persatuan bahasa, parti-parti parti politik Melayu, peguam peguam, pelajar pelajar maktab dan orang perseorangan dari seluruh tanah air telah berhimpun lebih dari tiga jam dalam suasana yang tegang di dewan itu sambil mengutuk kerajaan.

Kemuncak perhimpunan itu telah membakar bergulung-gulung akhbar Utusan Melayu oleh beberapa orang pemuda di luar bangunan DBP.

Sambil membakar naskhah Utusan, pemuda-pemuda yang marah menyerupai “Pengawal Merah Peking” (Red Guards) telah menjerit-jerit “Utusan Melayu pengampu”, “Lidah UMNO”, “Biarkan bankrap” dan “Bakar Melan Abdullah Pengarang Utusan Melayu.”

Pada mulanya mereka hendak membakar gambar Tunku yang hampir sedikit tercecah ke api, tetapi mereka tidak jadi berbuat demikian setelah beberapa orang ahli jawatankuasa yang baru dipilih melarang mereka berbuat demikian.

Pemuda-pemuda itu kemudian dengan tempik sorak telah mengambil bergulung-gulung naskhah Utusan Melayu lalu mencampakkannya ke dalam api yang sedang marak.

Sedang api marak menjulang, tiba tiba seorang pemuda yang kelihatan sudah di luar kawalan telah mengheret jurugambar Utusan Melayu Hussein Nor untuk dilontar ke dalam api.

Taib Ahmad yang menulis berita ini menceritakan “ Saya kebetulan berada hampir di situ segera meluru menghalang perbuatan pemuda itu. Hussein Nor kelihatan begitu cemas.”

Jika dalam mempertahankan kedudukan bahasa Inggeris, Utusan Melayu dilihat sebagai pengkhianat kepada bangsa tetapi empat tahun kemudian Utusan Melayu telah dihukum pula oleh mahkamah kerana dituduh menerbitkan berita yang bersifat menghasut ke arah penghapusan sekolah Tamil dan Cina di negara ini.

Ini adalah berpunca daripada berita ucapan Ahli Parlimen Musa Hitam (bekasTimbalan Perdana Menteri) dalam persidangan Parlimen pada 5 April 1971 yang meminta supaya sekolah aliran Cina dan Tamil di negara ini menggunakan bahasa Malaysia tetapi telah diberikan tajuk kecil oleh seorang penyunting kanan Utusan Melayu berbunyi “Hapuskan sekolah-sekolah beraliran Cina atau Tamil.”

Mahkamah mendapati tajuk kecil berita itu telah menyimpang daripada maksud sebenar keseluruhan isi berita.

Kesal

Ketua Pengarang Utusan Melayu Melan Abdullah sangat kesal dengan kesilapan mengenainya kerana kurang pengertian dari Penyunting Kanan A. Samad Ahmad

(Allahyarham) tetapi beliau tidak dapat melepaskan tanggungjawabnya sebagai Ketua Pengarang.

Perbicaraan kes ini telah menjadi satu peringatan kepada semua ketua pengarang akhbar apabila Hakim Mahkamah memutuskan bahawa mereka adalah bertanggungjawab di atas keseluruhan penyiaran akhbar dan tidak boleh meletakkan kesalahan kepada penyunting atau pemberita yang melakukannya.

Melan Abdullah dan Abdul Samad Ahmad telah dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Tengah Khas dan didapati bersalah oleh Yang Dipertua Kanan Ng Mann Sau pada 18 Jun 1971 atas tuduhan menerbitkan satu penerbitan menghasut.

Mereka dibela oleh peguam Senator Kamarul Ariffin yang dibantu oleh Raja Abdul Aziz dan Samuel Mathews. Peguam Kanan Persekutuan Gunn Chit Tuan telah menjalankan pendakwaan dengan dibantu oleh Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Abdullah Ngah.

Melan dan Abdul Samad dituduh di bawah Akta Menghasut 1948 yang telah dipinda semula pada tahun 1969 berikutan dengan Peristiwa 13 Mei. Melan telah dihukum denda RM500 dan Abdul Samad RM1,000.

Ng dalam membuat keputusan itu berkata tajuk kecil “Hapuskan Sekolah aliran Cina dan Tamil” menyeleweng dan melampaui daripada ucapan yang dibuat oleh Musa Hitam yang boleh menimbulkan rasa tidak puas hati dan permusuhan antara kaum.

Katanya, ‘‘Ada perbezaan antara mencadangkan supaya dihapuskan sekolah-sekolah Tamil dan Cina dengan cadangan supaya diubah sekolah-sekolah aliran Cina dan Tamil dengan menggunakan Bahasa Malaysia.

‘‘Pada pendapat saya anjuran supaya dihapuskan sekolah Tamil dan Cina akan menyentuh pengajaran dan pengajian lain- lain bahasa seperti yang telah dilindungi oleh Fasal 152 Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

‘‘Tajuk ini lebih daripada mempersoalkan pelaksanaan dasar kerajaan dan membawa kesan mencabar hak untuk mempelajari lain lain bahasa yang dijamin oleh Perlembagaan menurut Ceraian 3(1) ( f ) Akta Menghasut,’’ katanya.

Perhatian

Menurut Ng lagi ‘‘Tajuk kecil itu bukan sahaja sekadar hendak menarik perhatian pembaca untuk membaca keseluruhan berita itu sahaja malah ia mengandungi unsur menghasut yang menimbulkan kesan menaikan semangat pembaca”.

Beliau seterusnya menyatakan hakikat bahawa Melan tidak tahu mengenai tajuk itu sebelum ia tersiar dalam akhbar tidak cukup untuk membolehkan beliau melepaskan diri atau berlepas tangan.

“Ada bukti bukti jelas bahawa sebagai Ketua Pengarang Melan adalah bertanggungjawab kepada kesemua penerbitan Utusan Melayu,’’ kata Ng.

Demikianlah Utusan Melayu tenggelam dan timbul dalam arus kebangkitan bangsanya. Baik buruknya, salah atau benarnya dihukum oleh rakyat berasaskan di mana mereka berdiri.

Sekiranya Utusan Melayu tidak mempertahankan kedudukan bahasa Inggeris sebagai bahasa kedua lebih 40 tahun lalu dan tidak melawan arus sentiment para fanatik bahasa, maka orang Melayu hari ini benar berada dalam keranda. — Mingguan Malaysia

Balik Kampong

Komen di Blog Anwar

Anak NelayanSep 25th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

Richard Haas tak bagitau ke, kalau Pakatan Rakyat nak kekal lama jangan bergaduh secara terbuka lebih-lebih lagi dihadapan media-massa utama negara…

Pergaduhan antara anggota Pakatan Rakyat merupakan Vitamin utama yang diperlukan oleh media-media haprak ini untuk sedikit bernafas…

Tak perasan lagi ke selama ini, kalau ada isu anggota Pakatan Rakyat bergaduh sesama sendiri, media jenis ini sebelum subuh lagi dah tunggu kat depan tangga…

Kalau nak gaduh sampai tunggang langgang pun gaduhlah dalam mesyuarat tertutup…

Semoga Dato’ Seri memainkan peranan utk mengubah perangai yg tidak enak ini…

Orang UMNO hina Mahathir lebih sensitif dari Orang MIC hina Mahathir, Nik Aziz cakap orang Islam hina Islam lebih teruk dari Bukan Islam hina Islam.

Orang UMNO hina Mahathir lebih sensitif dari Orang MIC hina Mahathir, Nik Aziz cakap orang Islam hina Islam lebih teruk dari Bukan Islam hina Islam.

Dr Mahathir shrugs off slipper garland insult

2009/09/18

Only insults from Umno hurt me, he says.

PUTRAJAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is neither sad nor angry by the “slipper” insult hurled at him by an MIC member.

The former prime minister said he was not affected by it. “Nothing would have happened to me.”

Instead, he said, he would have felt angry and saddened if such an insult had been made by Umno members.


“This is not the first time I have been insulted. People might have forgotten how Umno leaders had insulted me. Nazri (Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz) and the previous menteri besar of Kedah wanted me expelled from Umno.

“However, then, no one gave any reaction. No one dared to say anything,” he said.

On Sunday, during the MIC’s annual general assembly, the deputy chief of MIC’s Paya Besar division in Pahang, M. Sukumaran, had made a suggestion that “a garland of slippers” be hung around a portrait of Dr Mahathir at Umno’s headquarters to show MIC’s dissatisfaction over alleged interference by the former prime minister in MIC affairs.

The action drew flak from all around, including from political leaders, non-governmental organisations and the general public.

"Suddenly, I have become popular. Everyone is defending me. As I said, previously when I was insulted, and asked to be expelled from Umno, no one showed any reaction. Why the reaction now?

"Then no one defended me. At least, not openly. Some did on the quiet, but the big names dared not," Dr Mahathir said, adding that he was saddened that people from his own partyand who sat with him in his cabinet had resorted to such an action.

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It was insults from Umno people that hurt him but this one from an MIC member was like "pouring water on a duck's back", he said.

"I have been with Umno since its formation (except for short spells when he was expelled and when he resigned as a member). The people who talked bad about me weren't even born yet."

Dr Mahathir added that if he were back in power now, he would drop these people from the cabinet.


On Sukumaran's wish to apologise to him, Dr Mahathir said: "Apologise also okay, don't want to apologise also, doesn't matter. It's only when my own people hurl insults at me that I feel slighted."

He said Sukumaran had now become a victim of his own actions.

On Tuesday, MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu announced that Sukumaran had been suspended pending a full inquiry on the outburst.

Meanwhile, Samy Vellu said he will personally apologise to Dr Mahathir over the "slipper garland" insult.

He said he would seek an appointment with the former prime minister to tender his apology over the incident.

"I will meet him personally to explain the whole episode and extend my apology."

The MIC chief said he and the MIC regretted that the incident had happened.

"I have always had the highest respect for Dr Mahathir. He is a great leader and a statesman."

He said Dr Mahathir had brought tremendous development to the country and had united the people.

"He will always be respected by us and by all Malaysians." -- Bernama


Sementara itu Blog Ibnu Hasyim mendapat beberapa ulasan daripada pembaca mengenai tajuk DAP Tolak Islam, Orang Islam Tolak Lebih Hina -Nik Aziz... (Berita BERNAMA), antaranya mengkritik PAS seolah-olah tidak mampu menjelaskan kepada DAP rakan gabungannya yang hina Islam.

Jawab pihak kami (Blog Ibnu Hasyim)...

Sengaja saya jawab lambat isu ini, kerana:

1..Nak dengar pandangan tuan-tuan dulu.


2..Nak tunggu berita asli dari Tok Guru atau PAS, kerana dalam memperjelas sesuatu tak boleh dengar dari musuhnya sahaja, apa lagi Bernama yang ada rekod menyelewengkan berita PAS.


3..Baru saya jawab fasal hina Islam...


Memang musuh hina Islam wajib dipertahan atau dihukum kalau ada kuasa, tak kira dalam atau luar negara. Hatta bantah melalui demontrasi pun. Tapi BN tak bantah sngguh-sungguh, banyak buktinya.
Soalnya sekarang benarkah DAP itu hina Islam? Tidak boleh dihukum hanya dengan bukti melalui berita dari musuhnya. PAS tidak ada kuasa menghukum, yang ada kuasa ialah kerajaan BN.

Bukti yang ada di hadapan kita, DAP berbaik-baik dengan PAS & PKR. DAP tidak pernah apa-apakan orang PAS. Tapi BN penjarakan & bunuh ramai orang PAS termasuk ulama. Tolak hudud, rampas royalti minyak & tak bertegas dengan rasuah sehingga hak rakyat, orang Islam-Melayu tergadai.


Memang bunyinya DAP macam hina Islam. Itu masih di peringkat forum, bincang, kadang-kadang keras kerana mereka masih belum faham. Itu yang PAS sedang lakukan menerangkan kepada mereka.DAP baru cakap tak mahu hudud, tapi BN dah tolak permintaan PAS nak buat hudud. Tapi kadang-kadang UMNO lebih teruk hina Islam. Contohnya tuduh Hj Hadi sebagai nabi, pernah disaman & bayar gantirugi pun. Tuduh PAS lebih bahaya dari komunis, roboh masjid.

Banyak bukti perbuatan UMNO yang mengaku Islam tetapi menentang Islam.
Patutlah dalam Islam kesalahan murtad (keluar Islam) hukumnya lebih teruk dari yang bukan Islam.

Cukup setakat ini dulu.. Kita sambung lagi coming soon. Terima kasih kerana diajak berbincang supaya terbuka fikiran. Allahu aklam.

Vrroooom….vrrooom



By Hussein Hamid

It would seem that Malaysia is once again, in the words of our Prime Minister Najib, raising its “profile on the world stage” by having it’s own team in Formula One next year. The first thought that hit me was this – if BMW has decided to wind down its Formula One Team after just four seasons in order to focus the resources that had been expended on the company’s F1 program to the “development of new drive technologies and projects in the field of sustainability” why oh why must this fool rush in where angels fear to tread?

Here are the other headlines news that is relevant to this issue – relevant because it only serves to complicate matters and again confirm that the usual suspects are involved – Politics, ‘big business’ well known personalities and taking money from the Rakyat:

“This is where the cars will be designed, manufactured and tested. It will be ‘Made-in-Malaysia, by Malaysians’ and of course, the pit-stops will be run by Malaysians,” he said. Najib. The company behind the team is a partnership between the Malaysian Government and a consortium of Malaysian entrepreneurs.

The FIA has announced that a 13th slot has been awarded to the Malaysian-backed Lotus F1 Team. The BMW entry remains undecided, which means that Lotus will have to build its cars in England.

The team will almost certainly be buying the Sauber operation in Hinwil and it is anticipated that the engines will be Ferraris.

It will be announced later today that the Malaysian government will be funding a Formula 1 team in 2010 and that the entry has been granted.

It is believed that the team will be funded by the automobile company Proton and will probably be called Team Lotus and be backed by Petronas money.

“Our F1 team will also have technical experts from outside Malaysia to ensure that we are ready to compete on the world’s most prestigious racing stage.”

Nicolas Todt, the son of FIA Presidential candidate Jean Todt, who is a partner in ART Grand Prix, the GP2 team that won the title last weekend with Nico Hulkenberg. Todt has the ambition to run an F1 but only in the right circumstances. His father in well connected in Malaysia thanks to his partner Michelle Yeoh.

The company behind the team is a partnership between the Malaysian Government and a consortium of Malaysian entrepreneurs. The team will initially be based at the RTN facility in Norfolk. RTN was built by Toyota for its initial Formula One programme and then used by Bentley for its successful Le Mans programme.

The team’s future design, R&D, manufacturing and technical centre will be purpose built at Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit.

The team’s technical director will be Mike Gascoyne. The team has agreed an engine supply deal with Cosworth and a wide variety of technical partnerships.

The usual suspects were paraded. Funded by Proton and backed by Petronas money. Funded by the Government!

Is this going to be another MV Augusta situation? Has not Proton learned a lesson from its disastrous Euro 70 million ‘investment’ in MV Agusta then under administration which was explained to us layman as being Protons mother of all business coup to enable Proton to “tap into MV Agusta group’s styling ability; technical expertise and well-developed distribution network” as Proton then CEO Tengku Mahleel was quoted as saying in June 2004.

Less then a year later Proton sold their 59% stake in MV Agusta for One Euro and yet a year later Harley Davidson Inc bought MV Agusta for US109million.

Logic tells me that if BMW lasted four years in Formula One – how long will we last? I say WE because if Proton and Petronas money are involved then it is OUR money –and we should have a say in whether we should go into Formula One or not. The other “investor” has all made their money off the Rakyat in those few short years that they have been in “business”.

It is no great secret that Formula 1 is a sport for the rich and money is the only master of the game. Dollars are counted in the hundreds of millions. Do we need the distraction of Formula One seeing the state our country is in? Why not use whatever money Proton has now to give us a better and cheaper car that more Malaysians can afford to buy? Why not use Petronas money for Malaysian. The people of Kelantan could use some money now. There are enough poor in Malaysia that would have need of the money that Petronas will spend on Formula One. But as usual our Government will not allow the loss of hundreds of our millions of Ringgit to get in the way of raising THEIR profile on the world stage.

PKR kacau daun lagi....

AJK PKR lawan PAS di Bagan Pinang
Jimadie Shah Othman
Sep 14, 09
4:59pm

kemaskini 5.41pm Seorang ahli jawatankuasa PKR Kota Lukut, Shahrudin Abdul Hamid hari ini tampil menawarkan diri sebagai calon bebas dalam pilihan raya kecil DUN Bagan Pinang 3 Oktober ini.

Kehadirannya ini, jika menjadi kenyataan, akan menyaksikan pertembungan sekurang-kurangnya tiga penjuru dengan PAS dan BN.

Bekas kakitangan di pejabat ahli parlimen Teluk Kemang, Datuk Kamarul Baharin Abbas berkata beliau mahu bertanding bagi "memajukan industri pelancongan" di Port Dickson.

"Di sini, pelancongan penting. Saya mahu mainkan peranan naik taraf kemudahan di sini. Sekarang tidak nampak (usaha itu)," katanya kepada Malaysiakini hari ini.

Bekas pengerusi tetap Umno Kota Lukut itu, sehingga 2004, kini berniaga dalam bidang pengurusan acara.

Shahrudin, 52, pernah bertugas sebagai kakitangan Kamarul, yang juga pengerusi Majlis Pimpinan Negeri PKR Negeri Sembilan, hampir setahun selepas pilihan raya umum lalu.

Shahrudin berkata hasratnya untuk bertanding itu mendapat sokongan penduduk setempat.

"Ada yang bantah. Ada yang sokong. Tetapi banyak yang sokong," katanya, sambil menyifatkan penglibatannya itu nanti sebagai "pertandingan sihat" dan tidak seharusnya menimbulkan sebarang masalah.

Shahrudin juga berkata beliau pernah bertemu dengan Kamarul bagi menyatakan niatnya bertanding bagi pihak PKR tetapi hasratnya ditolak.

"Dulu saya pernah jumpa dia (Kamarul), hendak minta bertanding pakai lambang PKR. Tetapi dia kata tidak boleh," katanya.

Yakin mampu membuat kejutan dalam pilihan raya kecil itu pada 11 Oktober ini, Shahrudin berkata beliau merancang menggunakan strategi berkempen dari rumah ke rumah bagi menjimatkan wang.

Sementara itu, seorang pembantu Kamarul yang tidak senang dengan keputusan Shahrudin itu memberitahu Malaysiakini, tindakan itu dibuat mungkin disebabkan kecewa dengan keputusan PKR memberikan laluan kepada PAS di DUN tersebut.

Selama bekerja dengan Kamarul juga, kata pembantu itu lagi, anak tempatan Teluk Kemang itu juga didakwa mempunyai "rekod yang tidak baik".

Pembantu itu, yang enggan dikenali, mendakwa Shahrudin mempunyai hubungan kekeluargaan dengan bekas menteri besar dan juga ketua bahagian Umno Teluk Kemang, Tan Sri Isa samad – satu-satunya nama yang dicalonkan bagi mewakili BN.

PAS negeri menyenarai pendek tiga nama untuk diputuskan di peringkat pusat - pesuruhjayanya Zulkefly Mohamad Omar, yang dipertua Ramli Ismail dan bekas ketua Dewan Ulama PAS negeri Kassim Tahir.

UMNO parti Islam Cap Ayam?

Kawan kawan aku selalu cakap, pasal Cap Ayam ni, aku pun heran satu hari aku tanya lah...Cap Ayam tu aper? Ha Ha Ha diaorang ketawa...ni kira Cap paling koman lah...



Entah kali keberapa Umno diisytihar sebagai parti Islam, kurang dapat dipastikan. Mahathir pernah mengisytihar Malaysia sebagai negara Islam, maknanya Umno yang perintah Malaysia adalah parti Islam.



Abdullah pernah popular dengan slogan ‘Islam Hadhari’, maknanya Umno ketika itu parti Islam Hadhari. Suatu masa dulu Umno pernah digahkan sebagai parti Islam ketiga terbesar di dunia dan terbesar di Malaysia.

Kini Najib pula kata Umno adalah parti Islam. Buktinya, ayahnya pernah buat Felda, tolong orang miskin dan macam-macam lagi. Oklah tu.

BN tetap tidak akan berubah...

MIC mengekalkan presidennya. MCA masih tidak ketentuan, pendek kata BN masih tidak berubah bila mengambil keputusan mengekalkan Semi Velu sebagai Presidennya.

Mengikut Semi Velu, orang India tidak marah kepadanya tetapi kepada BN. Ya kalu begitu jangan undi BN, kalau boleh keluar dari BN, tetapi tidak masuk kedalam PR pun tidak mengapa menyusahkan juga kalau sudah macam ini.

Dengar kata pula calon Naib Presiden macam merajok sebab kalah, Subra katanya sedang memikirkan hala tuju politiknya yang baru...kalau Subra nampak boleh pakai lagi orang orangnya. Yang ini kita tawarkan masuk dalam PR. Atau tidak kuatkan Kelab Penyokong PAS.

Kebanyakkan mengikut laporan mereka cuma takut peluang perniagaan mereka tergugat, apa susah, kalau sudah tawan Malaysia peluang akan disamaratakan semua akan dapat melalui amalan tender terbuka. Fair and Square.

Apa pun..politik India ini kekadang diluar jangkaan, kejap kesini kejap kesana, perlu penelitian yang mendalam bagi mengenal pasti kelemahan kaum India ini. Tidak dinafikan jika mereka diberi peluang samarata mereka akan lebih menyerlah. Yang tinggal Melayu masih ditakuk lama. Sedih memikirkan.

Bila nak ubah ni?...UMNO oooii.

Idea Tok Guru -

Ramadhan Karim… Kelantan Membina Generasi Al Quran


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Dinsman telah menulis….

” Ramadhan juga adalah bulan al-Quran, kerana al-Quran mula diturunkan kepada Nabi Muhammad saw dalam bulan Ramadhan. Mengambil sempena itu Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan pimpinan TG Nik Aziz mengeluarkan kain-kain banner yang menunjukkan orang membaca Quran, dan memasangnya di merata-rata tempat yang strategik. Tujuannya sebagai kempen supaya orang membaca Quran dengan lebih rajin di bulan Ramadhan. Alhamdulillah, kata Tok Guru, “kita tengok pun senang rasa hati.”

Tetapi hatinya yang senang itu pula mengusik mindanya menjadi kritis dan kreatif. Maka dilihatnya dalam imaginasinya ada gambaran lain yang lebih wajar, bagi menampilkan mesejnya. “Tolong buat banner lain,” kata Tok Guru yang kreatif ini, “orang baca Quran itu, kalau boleh, ada anak atas ribanya. Menandakan kita di Kelantan mendidik generasi Quran. Aku baca Quran, anak aku dengar. Walaupun anak baru berumur sebulan atau setahun, tapi Islam menetapkan apabila anak dilahirkan, kita diminta azan di telinganya, biar nama Allah dan Nabi Muhammad dalam azan itu masuk ke dalam telinga anak kita. Dia fahamkah tak fahamkah, tak mengapa, kita hanya turut Nabi Muhammad saw.”

Sangat menarik! Rupa-rupanya sampai kepada rekabentuk banner pun turut difikirkan oleh pemimpin ini. Lihatlah gambaran terperinci yang diberikannya: “Waktu dia baca Quran dan anak di atas riba itu, isterinya juga ada dalam gambar, membawa anak-anak pergi ke masjid. Dan anak-anak itu, waktu pergi ke masjid, dipimpin oleh emaknya, dia melompat dan menjerit suka tengok orang ramai di masjid, dan di masjid pula nampak ramai orang sedang mengambil wudhuk dan sebagainya.” - Dinsman

Saranan dan hasrat tok guru itu telah diterjemahkan oleh PMBK (Perbadanan Menteri Besar Kelantan) melalui billboard dan banner yang telah dipasang dijalan-jalan utama di seluruh Kelantan…

Billboard yang dipasang  oleh PMBK hasil daripada idea dan saranan TGNA

Billboard yang dipasang oleh PMBK hasil daripada idea dan saranan TGNA

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PKINK juga turut sama menjayakan hasrat murni ini..

PKINK juga turut sama menjayakan hasrat murni ini..

Okay le tu...Islam Mahathir.

Mirzan says San Miguel stake is just business

By Leslie Lau
Consultant Editor

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – Mirzan Mahathir has defended his investment group’s stake in Philippines conglomerate San Miguel Corp (SMC), saying the company was well on the way to diversifying substantially from its brewery business.

In a letter to The Malaysian Insider yesterday, Mirzan said San Miguel Corp had decided to shift its attention to the infrastructure, public utility and energy requirements of the Philippines, from its core brewery business.

“Since Kirin Holdings of Japan acquired a significant direct ownership stake in the brewery division, this will result in a dramatic change in SMC’s revenue mix, with beverages expected to contribute less than 15% of total sales by next year,” he said in the letter.

The Malaysian Insider had reported this week that Mirzan, the eldest son of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, was recently appointed to the board of San Miguel Corp, the biggest food and beverage conglomerate in the Philippines and the owner of San Miguel Brewery Inc.

San Miguel Corp told the Philippines stock exchange last week about Mirzan’s appointment which is to represent the interests of Q-Tech Alliance Holdings Inc on the board.

Q-Tech, a Manila-based investment company in which Mirzan has a stake in, recently acquired a 19.9 per cent share in San Miguel Corp for 39.61 billion pesos (RM2.9 billion).

It bought the stake from Japan’s Kirin Holdings, which used the funds to help finance the acquisition of a 43 per cent stake in San Miguel Brewery Inc.

With this latest corporate exercise, San Miguel Corp still maintains a 51 per cent stake in San Miguel Brewery Inc.

San Miguel Brewery controls 95 per cent of the Philippine beer market. The company has made San Miguel Beer for more than a century. The beer is brewed in the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, and is sold in 60 markets worldwide, according to the company’s Web site.

Mirzan’s involvement in the deal, while a sound investment decision, has raised some eyebrows among Malaysia’s conservative Muslim community.

Since news of Q-Tech’s acquisition of San Miguel Corp shares began circulating here, a number of news blogs have used it to attack Dr Mahathir’s Muslim credentials.

“Unfortunately, certain parties are keen to turn this exciting positive change in a well?managed Philippines corporation into an assault on the reputation of my father, even though he has nothing whatsoever to do with my business interests.

“I can only provide a rational explanation for my actions and it would be a pity if facts are twisted to gain dubious points from a straightforward business decision,” said Mirzan.

He said San Miguel Corp’s major diversification move was a major reason for his participation and starts a new era for the conglomerate.

Mirzan went on to list down some of San Miguel’s diversification acquisitions in recent years.

These include an option to acquire a controlling interest in Petron Corp., the largest Philippine oil refiner which owns 1,400 retail stations, and a substantial equity stake in Manila Electric Co., the largest distribution utility in the Philippines that has a base of over 4.5 million customers.

SMC has also announced its intention to venture into the telecommunications industry through their stake in Liberty Telecom Holdings Inc. with Qatar Telecommunications Co. to initially build a Wi?Max network and potentially a full?scale national cellular operation.

The company also recently won in a public auction, two major power plants with a combined generation capacity of 1,600 MW.

“Your article covered the beverage aspects of San Miguel but ignored the company’s recent purchases and strategy moving forward.

“As a Malaysian, I am looking forward to assisting San Miguel chart this new course and hopefully, its success will reflect well on our country and people,” said Mirzan of the report in The Malaysian Insider.

Mirzan’s corporate forays have not been without controversy.

He once controlled Konsortium Perkapalan Bhd when Dr Mahathir was prime minister, but was forced to sell its shipping assets to Malaysia International Shipping Corporation (MISC), in what critics said then was a bailout.

Passport Indonesia RM18, Malaysia?

The government will introduce a Malaysian international passport which cost RM100 and valid for two years as an affordable means for one-off or occasional travellers.

Kalau sebelum ini RM300 untuk lima tahun. Lagi mahal je tak? Hmmm....

Why are Malaysian passports expensive?

2009/08/03

WHY is it that our passports have become so expensive? It costs RM300 for a five-year passport. I recently renewed my maid's passport at the Indonesian embassy and it only cost me RM18 for three years.

I was so stunned that I had to ask the counter staff how much it was again and whether I needed to pay for anything else.

If a country like Indonesia can charge such a small amount, why can't we do the same? Are we paying for the microchip that is embedded in the passport?

I'm sure most Malaysians would agree that they do not want the chip if it's going to cost so much. After all, the chip only lightens the load of the Malaysian Immigration officers as they do not have to check the passports.


Furthermore, if the argument is that we do not have to wait in queue for too long at Kuala Lumpur International Airport as the chip ensures quicker access, most of the time, there are hardly any queues so the passports can be checked quickly anyway.

This chip is only useful in Malaysia and nowhere else.



Why does the ordinary citizen get taxed even when he wants to go on a holiday? For an average family of four, the cost of passports alone is RM1,200 and we have not even stepped out of the country. Besides, some countries require us to have entry visas which cost money, too.

Again, people may say that we should "Cuti-Cuti Malay-sia" and support domestic tourism. I don't think our tourism industry is suffering. Aren't the hotels registering full occupancy during holiday seasons? Don't we even have a choice of where we want to travel some of the time?

If the government wants to charge RM300 for each passport as a way to discourage people from travelling overseas, it is a strategy that is clearly not working. The number of people travelling overseas has increased, not decreased.



At the end of the day, the people being penalised are not from the middle and high-income groups who still travel regardless, but the low-income group. The latter might want to travel once in a lifetime for a pilgrimage or to visit relatives.

J. SINGHSubang Jaya

Aku harap satu hari pimpinan DAP mengumumkan memeluk Islam.


Baru gempakkan? Ini menunjukkan satu momentum baru dalam langkang memahami intipati Islam yang sebenar, banyak salah faham Islam selama ini dan langkah kearah Islamisasi dianggap langkah kebelakang, sebenarnya ia adalah untuk kebaikkan semua.

Islam promote keadilan, keamanan, kesefahaman dan sesuai dengan semua kaum.


Dasar Pandang KeTimur Mahathir akan jadi kenyataan

BN UMNO kena ikut dasar pandang ketimur yang diketengahkan oleh Mahathir bapak kemodenan malaysia, yang paling utama adalah negara matahari terbit telah menukar kerajaannya LDP kepada kerajaan baru.

Jadi BN UMNO perlu ditukar dalam 2 tahun lagi. Maka berjayalah harapan mahathir untuk pandang ke timur.

Yakinlah...BN sedang mengetatkan akses kepada Internet

Paling tidak mereka sedang mengurangkan aksesbiliti rakyat kepada laman web dan blog pro PR. Melihat kepada senario kebelakangan ini.

Tekanan kepada Malaysiakini, Malaysiatoday, Blog Blog Pro PR, TKO juga sering terganggu.

Adakah wujudnya IMPACT satu unit bagi keselamatan Siber di Cyberjaya antara salah satu dari program ini.

Jika diIndonesia terlalu ramai kumpulan hacker boleh dimanafaatkan untuk tujuan meng"godam" laman laman web. Termasuk wujudnya satu virus yang dinamakan "brontok" pada satu ketika dulu. Brontok membawa mesej yang jelas akan masalah sosial sekarang ini akibat internet.

Jika ini terus dibiarkan kita akan mundur kebelakang. Selamatkan Media Baru Rakyat

Insider website hacked tonight

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — The Malaysian Insider website was hacked by unknown persons tonight.

We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused as we attempt to reconstruct the site for your reading pleasure.

We are also currently investigating who are the perpetrators, and we would like to ask our readers to avoid any unnecessary or irresponsible speculation.


BROADBAND SLOWER THAN A PIGEON IN SOME COUNTRIE


BROADBAND SLOWER THAN A PIGEON IN SOME COUNTRIES


I heard on BBC World Service radio an hour ago of this very interesting story. A pigeon was used to compare with the data transfer using a broadband connection in South Africa. A 4GB memory stick was attached to the pigeon called Winston as the data carrier. The data destination was somewhere 60 miles away. Winston took two hours to finish off the job, whereas the poor Telkom ADSL only did 4% of the data.

The story gives an interesting perspective commonly known in the IT circle. Sometimes mixing old and new methods can be the best method of achieving something. A same analogy is to copy the huge amount of data into a hard disk, ask an office boy to carry it in a bus, to the remote office for offloading the data. Not only is it faster, but it is more cost effective.

But I think the issue here is that many broadband service providers are not true to what they claim to be offering. And I believe Malaysia is no exception, as I have heard many many complaints from Streamyx users of pathetic performance over their broadband lines. Worse, outages in Malaysia seem common and usually the service providers do not own up to the problem, not even a notice of any problem in their infrastructure. Such endemic problem is a reflection of a monopolistic environment in the telco industry in Malaysia.

I am floating this up just to solicit feedback and discussion from broadband users. I count myself fortunate as the home broadband here in Singapore has been pretty reliable of and high performance.

Lepas ni akan ada orang HILANG lagi?

Mystery ‘police’ after Sivanesan?

Sivanesan Tanggavelu attending the Teoh Beng Hock inquest yesterday. – Picture by Choo Choy May

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 – After being told to report to Jenjarom police station near Banting tonight, T. Sivanesan, who claimed anti-graft officers had assaulted him last year, went along with lawyer Gobind Singh Deo, only to find that no one there knew what was going on.

Sivanesan’s testimony at the Teoh Beng Hock inquest yesterday suggested Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers torture people during questioning.

Tonight, several persons came to his home in Jenjarom but he was not home at the time. It is unclear if these persons were policemen.

The DAP’s Lim Kit Siang had sent out tweet messages earlier saying persons he was told were policemen had gone to Sivanesan’s house to arrest him. Since he was out, they apparently left a message for him to report to the Jenjarom police station.

But when he arrived at the station with his lawyer Gobind, policemen there were unaware of any such request.

Earlier today, the MACC failed in its bid at the High Court in Petaling Jaya to remove Sivanesan’s damaging evidence that its men torture people during questioning.

The national anti-graft body had objected strongly to letting Sivanesan testify as a witness in the coroner’s court tasked to find out the cause of Teoh’s death.

Sivanesan told the coroner’s court yesterday that he had been badly beaten up by Selangor graft busters during interrogation at their office in Plaza Masalam, Shah Alam last year. He had to be hospitalised for four days.

Photographs detailing his injuries and a police report filed in September last year complaining about MACC brutality were admitted as evidence.

MACC’s legal director Datuk Abdul Razak Musa, who is holding a watching brief at Teoh’s inquest, insists that any evidence from Sivanesan, who is a suspect in a separate and ongoing investigation by the Selangor MACC, is “not relevant” to efforts to establish how Teoh died.

He maintained the same position in the High Court today but Judge Yeoh Wee Siam dismissed the MACC’s application to review and revise the ruling made by the coroner’s court. She also denied the national anti-graft body’s bid to postpone the inquest from continuing tomorrow, pending their appeal at the Court of Appeal in Putrajaya.

Beer beer beer

Macamlah dah tak ada biz lain?

Mirzan Mahathir appointed director on San Miguel Corp board


Fireworks are seen beside a giant San Miguel beer bottle. Mirzan Mahathir has just been appointed a director of San Miguel Corp. — Reuters pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 — Mirzan Mahathir, the eldest son of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was recently appointed to the board of San Miguel Corp, the biggest food and beverage conglomerate in the Philippines and the owner of San Miguel Brewery Inc.

San Miguel Corp told the Philippines stock exchange last week about Mirzan’s appointment which is to represent the interests of Q-Tech Alliance Holdings Inc on the board.

Q-Tech, a Manila-based investment company in which Mirzan has a stake in, recently acquired a 19.9 per cent share in San Miguel Corp for 39.61 billion pesos (RM2.9 billion).

It bought the stake from Japan’s Kirin Holdings, which used the funds to help finance the acquisition of a 43 per cent stake in San Miguel Brewery Inc.

With this latest corporate exercise, San Miguel Corp still maintains a 51 per cent stake in San Miguel Brewery Inc.

San Miguel Brewery controls 95 per cent of the Philippine beer market. The company has made San Miguel Beer for more than a century. The beer is brewed in the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, and is sold in 60 markets worldwide, according to the company’s Web site.

San Miguel Corp has been selling its food and beverage assets since 2007 to expand into the mining, infrastructure and property industries.

Mirzan’s involvement in the deal, while a sound investment decision, has raised some eyebrows among Malaysia’s conservative Muslim community.

Since news of Q-Tech’s acquisition of San Miguel Corp shares began circulating here, a number of news blogs have used it to attack Dr Mahathir’s Muslim credentials.

Mirzan’s corporate forays have not been without controversy.

He once controlled Konsortium Perkapalan Bhd when Dr Mahathir was prime minister, but was forced to sell its shipping assets to Malaysia International Shipping Corporation (MISC), in what critics said then was a bailout.