Pak Samad dicekup polis pukul 12.30 pagi tadi...

A Samad Said jangan ingat dia besar sangat...

Menteri Pelancongan dan Kebudayaan, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz menggesa Sasterawan Negara, Datuk A Samad Said agar menyerah diri kepada polis susulan siasatan pengibaran bendera Sang Saka Malaya sewaktu beliau berucap pada malam ambang kemerdekaan.

Menurutnya, semua orang termasuklah menteri sekali pun perlu memberi kerjasama kepada siasatan polis.

"Semua orang sama. Kalau kita menteri sekali pun kita lakukan kesalahan polis panggil kita pergilah.

"Siapa besar sangat A Samad Said ini?.

"Kalau orang dah panggil pergilah, ingat dia besar sangatkah dia ini," katanya sewaktu mengulas perkara itu.

Bersopanlah sikit bila bercakap dgn.orang tua...jangan pula Menteri Budaya...tak tau budaya...

National laureate A Samad Said has been detained and taken to the Dang Wangi district police headquarters.

Samad told Malaysiakini that the police wanted to record his statement.

"I was just arrested and am on my way to the Dang Wangi police station," he had said when contacted late last night.

The national laureate was sought by the police in connection with the flying of the "Sang Saka Malaya" flag at a Merdeka event last week.-malaysiakini

Kenaikan harga minyak dorong inflasi berganda...

Pakar Ekonomi PAS Dr Rosli Yaakob berkata, kenaikan harga minyak sebanyak 20 sen dalam suasana nilai Ringgit Malaysia yang sedang lemah dalam pertukaran antarabangsa akan memberi kesan kepada inflasi berganda.

Katanya, inflasi tinggi akan mendorong harga barang naik keadaan ini akan memberi kesan kepada penurunan nilai ringgit, kesannya rakyat akan terus tertekan kerana menanggung kenaikan harga yang besar

"Harga barang akan berterusan naik, peniaga akan kekal dengan harga baru selepas kenaikan harga minyak tetapi harga barang tidak akan turun walaupun harga minyak diturunkan selepas itu," katanya kepada Harakahdaily.

Beliau yang juga bekas Pengarah Bank Negara Malaysia memberi jaminan harga barang akan naik selepas ini kerana minyak adalah input bahan mentah untuk perkhidmatan dan pengakutan seperti lori, bas dan teksi .

Malah katanya, dengan kenaikkan harga minyak ini kerajaan tidak boleh memberi alasan mudah kononya kerana harga minyak dunia telah naik.

"Alasan ini tidak boleh diterima pakai kerana harga minyak tidak naik sebesar itu. Tetapi kenapa minyak Malaysia tinggi, 20 sen itu tinggi lebih dari 10 peratus,"
soal beliau.

Justeru katanya, kerajaan telah menganiaya rakyat kerana mereka berbelanja boros untuk tampung kekurangan berlanjawan maka mereka menaikkan harga minyak.

"Kerajaan kita tidak bertanggungjawab kerana belanja boros!  Belanjawan semakin besar, untuk mencari punca mendapatkan wang menaikkan harga minyak ini kerana pelaksanaan GST tidak dapat dilaksanakan sepenuhnya kerana mendapat bantahan rakyat.

 

"Tidak ada jalan lain untuk mendapatkan hasil lebih tinggi bagi membolehkan kerajaan terus berbelanja lebih boros jadi mereka naikkan harga minyak yang merupakan cara paling mudah untuk mendapatkan pulangan," katanya.

Beliau turut menyifatkan kerajaan mungkir janji kerana dalam PRU 13 lalu mereka memberi jaminan tidak akan berlaku kenaikan harga minyak malangnya ia berlaku sebaliknya apabila rakyat terus memberi mandat kepada mereka.

Semalam Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak mengumumkan kenaikan harga minyak RON95 dan diesel sebanyak 20 sen seliter.

Menurut Najib, kenaikan harga minyak merupakan satu proses pengukuhan ekonomi bagi jangka pendek dan sederhana, yang akhirnya bertujuan memberi kesan positif kepada kesejahteraan rakyat.

Sehubungan itu, bermula hari ini RON95 akan berharga RM2.10 seliter manakala diesel pula RM2.00 seliter.-harakahdaily

Subsidy cuts mere cosmetic fix for economy, says Rafizi...

Petrol and diesel price hikes will really hurt most Malaysians but is only a cosmetic fix for the economy, PKR claimed.

PKR's Rafizi Ramli (right) called Najib's move to raise diesel and R0N 95 petrol price by as much as 20 sen a sham and seriously raises doubt as to the premier's ability to address Malaysia's economy woes.

"This will not solve Malaysia's economic woes and is not fair to the rakyat," said Rafizi, who is PKR's director of strategy.

Rafizi reiterated that despite debt rating analyst Fitch's recent warnings and Malaysia's economic downturn, Pakatan would have stood by its manifesto to cut fuel prices if it had come into power.

"We would have been able to roll out everything (including petrol price cuts) comprehensively not like what Najib does which is just to cut the subsidy for the poor," he said.

"We proposed a reallocation of subsidy from the corporate sector which would increase disposable income of the public, which actually will go back to the economy."

Rafizi also disputed the government’s claim of high fuel subsidy cost of RM24.8 billion for 2014 which was reported even after the petrol price hikes. Only about RM14 billion was actually for diesel and petrol subsidies.

This figure, Rafizi said, included subsidies for gas distributors and other fuel, and a large unaccounted portion of which went to subsidising independent power producers and industry users.

“You cannot hammer on the lower and smaller subsidies given to 28 million Malaysians when you allow more substantial subsidies to corporations to go untouched,” Rafizi said.

Rafizi went on to argue why Najib had no economic basis for the first petrol price hike in Malaysia since December 2010 by showing that world oil prices have mostly declined in the last two years.

He said the move was disappointing as many Malaysians were being punished for the BN government’s mismanagement of the economy, as the government budget has been in deficit for 15 years straight.

Rafizi refuted Kinabatangan MP Bung Moktar Radin’s comment that only the rich, who could afford big cars, would suffer. 

‘The poor are victimised first’

“Surveys show that at least three in four families have a car and so the poor are victimised first when petrol prices rise,” Rafizi said.

Citing a survey the by Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER), Rafizi said that the poorer the household, the bigger the petrol and diesel cost burden as a proportion to income. For those earning less than RM500, fuel costs could make up almost a third of their pay, he noted. It was in fact in the opposite as for those earning RM4,000 and above, the petrol burden could account for as little as 10 percent of their monthly income.

Rafizi was also not impressed with Najib’s measure to raise the 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) cash handout to compensate for the fuel price hike.

“This is a political attempt to create dependence among the poorest and sidetrack the focus away from the real economic issues, lack of work opportunities, quality education, low wages and other structural problems,” Rafizi said.

The bottom line is that Najib’s government has not tackled corruption and leakages in the economy as the people had demanded, Rafizi said.

“He doesn’t want to go through this difficult and onerous task of sitting down with the industry, twisting the arms of the independent power producers (IPPs) perhaps, looking at some other taxation measures that actually get some money back from the IPPs, he is not willing to do that... we would have done that,” Rafizi said.

“There has not been a single announcement on a concrete commitment to gas subsidies reform and monopolies have not been touched at all... the reform is not wholesome and therefore it is unfair to the public. If you want to penalise the public, then do the same or even more so with the corporate subsidies.” -malaysiakini

cheers.