Buat logo sambil minum todi agaknya...

Viral di media sosial logo Visit Malaysia 2020 yang didakwa kelihatan buruk dan nampak tidak profesional serta 'pereka' logo berkenaan seperti ketandusan idea. 

"Buat logo sambil hisap gam agaknya designer ni. Dengan orang utan, monyet belanda, dengan penyu-penyu sekali dia bagi spek. 

"Alang-alang nak buat funny tu, bagilah pokok kelapa dengan KLCC pakai spek sekali," tulis Hasrul Rizwan di Twitternya. 

"Ramai tak puas hati logo Visit Malaysia 2020 macam tahun 1901 zaman perang Jepun. Aku pun buatlah satu logo dalam masa 30 minit sebagai tanda protes. 

"Aku rasa Kementerian Pelancongan boleh upah ramai lagi graphic designer yang power. Diorang ambil mudah benda ini. Geram aku tengok," tulis Muhammad Hidayatullah. 

Selepas dikecam teruk di media sosial, Menteri Pelancongan dan Kebudayaan, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz tampil memberikan penjelasan mengenai logo tersebut. 

"Kritikan itu adalah perkara biasa. Saya lancarkan di Chiang Mai dan semua orang memuji logo itu. Ianya untuk pelancong asing, bukan untuk kegunaan dalam negara, saya tidak kisah. 

"Di Chiang Mai, kami menerima respon yang cukup baik kerana mereka tidak pernah melihat logo itu sebelum ini. Berbeza pula dengan rakyat Malaysia yang pernah melihatnya. 

"Saya tidak akan tukar. Saya telah lancar dan rasmikannya. Logo ini akan digunakan untuk dunia, hanya satu-satunya," katanya memetik dari laporan OhBulan!. 

Dalam kenyataan yang sama, Nazri menafikan pihaknya menggunakan perkhidmatan pihak luar untuk mereka logo berkenaan. Beliau berkata, logo itu direka sendiri oleh kakitangannya. 

"Kami tidak menggunakan khidmat pihak luar dan tidak habiskan sesen pun. Semuanya dibuat secara dalaman oleh staf kami. Saya percaya kepada staff saya sendiri dari menghabiskan ratusan ribu ringgit kepada orang luar.

"Ianya percuma kerana pereka grafik adalah salah seorang daripada staf kami," katanya.- the reporter

Dr M makes a monkey out of VMY 2020 logo

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Dr.M claims ousting Najib is on the cards...

Mahathir Mohamad insists there is a real possibility of a new government coming to power when Malaysia goes to the polls later this year.

Speaking to The Nikkei at his office on the outskirts of the Malaysian capital on Monday, Mahathir, who now leads a coalition of four opposition parties, said the mutual goal of unseating Prime Minister Najib Razak was of far greater importance than any differences they may have.

"This is what they called the mother of all elections," said the 92-year-old former prime minister. "It will be very big and the possibility of changing the government is there. For the first time, the opposition is very united."

The Pakatan Harapan, or "Alliance of Hope," is an unlikely collection of politicians. Some, such as Parti Keadilan Rakyat leader Anwar Ibrahim and Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party, were jailed during Mahathir's 22 years in power.

Anwar, once seen as Mahathir's chosen successor, is serving a five-year sentence on sodomy charges that many believe were fabricated -- his second incarceration for a similar offense. 

"This is more or less like the saying, 'your enemy's enemy is my friend,'" said Mahathir.

The veteran politician appears to have united a once fragmented opposition, a role once played by Anwar, even managing to gain broad consensus on seat allocation for the election, which must be called by June 24. 

The coalition has agreed for Mahathir to be appointed prime minister should the bloc win, but make way for Anwar when his prison term ends in June. Anwar, however, will still need a royal pardon in order to become leader. 

"Anwar will be the next prime minister after me," assured Mahathir, refuting allegations that his return was designed to pave the way for his son Mukriz to take over.

"I wanted to retire but things were not right," he said. Malaysia's image, he continued, had been tarnished by Najib's alleged links the multibillion dollar scandal surrounding state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad. - asia.nikkei.com

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Ibu dan bapa kena setuju untuk tukaq agama anak...

Mahkamah Persekutuan hari ini memutuskan bahawa takrif "ibu bapa" harus bersifat majmuk dalam keputusannya berhubung kes penukaran agama satu pihak membabitkan M Indira Gandhi dan bekas suaminya, Mohd Ridhuan Abdullah.

Oleh itu, panel lima hakim diketuai oleh Presiden Mahkamah Rayuan, Tan Sri Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin memutuskan bahawa penukaran agama tiga anak oleh bapa mualaf mereka, hampir 10 tahun lalu terbatal dan tidak sah di sisi undang-undang.

Mahkamah kali ini tidak lagi terikat dengan keputusan kes R Subashini lawan T Saravanan pada tahun 2007 yang menyaksikan isteri yang beragama Hindu itu diarahkan untuk mencari jalan penyelesaian di Mahkamah Rayuan Syariah untuk menghentikan suaminya yang beragama Islam daripada menukar agama anak mereka tanpa persetujuannya.

Korum berkenaan sebulat suara berpuas hati bahawa penukaran agama mereka perlu mendapat keizinan kedua-dua ibu bapa kanak-kanak tersebut sebelum Sijil Perakuan Memeluk Islam dikeluarkan oleh Pendaftar Mualaf.

Zulkefli, berkata keputusan hari ini mengambil maklum keputusan mahkamah boleh mencetuskan perdebatan tetapi dibuat tanpa pengaruh agama.

Hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan, Tan Sri Zainun Ali yang membaca keputusan 99 halaman itu memutuskan bahawa mahkamah sivil mempunyai bidang kuasa untuk menyemak tindakan Pendaftar Mualaf, yang adalah antara responden jika ada tindakan yang tidak sah.

Mohd Ridhuan menukar agama tiga anak mereka, Tevi Darsiny, Karan Dinish dan Prasana Diksa, sepuluh tahun lalu tanpa kebenaran dan pengetahuan isterinya, seorang guru tadika.

Kanak-kanak berkenaan ketika itu masing-masing berusia 12 tahun, 11 tahun dan 11 bulan.

Indira Gandi kemudiannya merayu selepas tidak berpuas hati dengan keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan pada 30 Disember 2015 yang tidak memihak kepadanya.

Panel tiga hakim ketika itu diketuai oleh Datuk Balia Yusof Wahi (kini hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan) dalam keputusan majoriti 2-1 berpuas hati bahawa Mahkamah Syariah mempunyai bidang kuasa eksklusif untuk menentukan perkara-perkara berkaitan agama Islam.

Mahkamah Rayuan membenarkan rayuan Pengarah Jabatan Agama Islam Perak (JAIP) dan Mohd Ridhuan serta empat yang lain untuk mengketepikan perintah Mahkamah Tinggi Sivil Ipoh, Perak yang membatalkan sijil penukaran agama tiga anak lelaki itu.

Selain Pengarah JAIP dan Mohd Ridhuan, perayu-perayu lain terdiri daripada Pendaftar Pertukaran Agama, kerajaan negeri Perak, Kementerian Pendidikan dan kerajaan Malaysia. - mk

Both parents’ consent needed to change a child’s religion

1MDB jatuhkan maruah negara,bukan jumpa EU

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Ahli2 PAS,Ahli2 UMNO 

ditipu pemimpin parti...

Kepada ahli biasa UMNO dan PAS, tuan-tuan semua hanya lembu dan kerbau. Jangan lah pandai-pandai nak memikir.  Ianya bukan tugas tuan-tuan untuk memikir atau bersuara. 

Pimpinan parti tuan-tuan telah mengadakan persefahaman dan persetujuan mengikut  warna dan saiz kertas yang dicetak dengan gambar hiasan kepala raja.

Kepala Balut Bawang akan diberi beberapa peti kertas berwarna itu. 

Juga Kelantan akan dikorbankan oleh UMNO untuk menjadi hak simpanan kekal PAS. 

Sebagai balasan Bawang akan letakkan calon 'tiga penjuru' untuk mengusik Pakatan Harapan.  Itulah strategi kononnya.  Maka pencuri kleptocrat akan hidup lagi. Bawang pula akan hidup senang lenang.

Ahli biasa PAS tidak akan rugi besar, cuma tak dapat peti kertas berwarna apa saiz pun. 

Yang akan rugi besar adalah ahli biasa UMNO, terutama di Kelantan. Mereka akan kena 'screw'  oleh pimpinan parti.  

Kali ini ahli UMNO lah bakal menjadi lembu dan kerbau yang terbodoh. - ostb

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PAS has ruled Kelantan 28 years and holds 32 seats in 45-seat state assembly. Study said PAS ould lose Kelantan in GE14 if multi-party fights. PAS probably would win 15 state seats 

Clearly respondents are dissatisfied with Kelantan govt.Poultry seller angry traders at Pasir Puteh market told to move.They said,we want to change because the current administration had no clearcut policies.We want to see Kelantan develop like development in other states.

I hope PAS will win Kelantan again and rule Kelantan for another 28 years. Maybe by that time the people who vote for PAS will be sleeping in the trees at nite. They can become tourist attractions. 

We can preserve Kelantan as a shining example of religious sickness. Tourists from all over the world can go to Kelantan to see what can happen to a people who do not use their brains.

All the PAS voters who have to cari makan in Port Dickson, Perak, Penang, Johor Bharu etc can wear special green PAS T shirts. They can become tourist attractions also.  National Geographic, CNN, Travel Channel etc can make videos about them. 

Instead of 'Palestinian refugees for 70 years' they can make a documentary about 'Kelantan refugees in the perantauan for 48 years', selling tomyam, working as cashiers at supermarket, car wash boys in the perantauan etc.

The PAS voters cannot understand that Tokong Tin Sadin has made a fool of them for 28 years. What a stupid people. Ok that was my merapu. 

Here is the real problem with Kelantan. As long as non Kelantanese cannot own land in Kelantan (cannot own landed property) then Kelantan will not develop.  

The Kelantanese can own all their land. But they remain poor because obviously they do not know or are just plain dumb ass malas to develop their land.

They must allow land ownership which will then attract capital and most importantly the physical presence of other people into the state which will then spur growth and development. 

Otherwise they will continue to remain poor. Only the stupid will vote for PAS. - ostb

Dr M sedia jadi 'pemandu Malaysia' sekali lagi

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Kit Siang di Gelang Patah...

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Guru taska rotan kanak 3 tahun sampai cedera...

Seorang kanak-kanak perempuan berumur tiga tahun mengalami kecederaan pada tangan kanan, dipercayai akibat dirotan oleh seorang guru di sebuah taska di Bercham di sini pada Rabu lalu.

Ketua Polis Daerah Ipoh ACP Mohd Ali Tamby berkata pihaknya menerima laporan daripada ibu mangsa yang berusia 45 tahun pagi semalam setelah disahkan oleh doktor bahawa kecederaan pada tangan anaknya itu berpunca daripada dirotan.

“Pada hari kejadian kira-kira 7.45 pagi, ibu mangsa menghantar anaknya ke taska di Taman Lindungan Bercham Indah dalam keadaan baik.

“Kira-kira 6.00 petang wanita berkenaan mendapati terdapat kesan luka pada tangan kanan anaknya sebelum diberitahu oleh 2 guru taska berkenaan bahawa mangsa menggaru tangannya,” katanya dalam kenyataan hari ini.

Mohd Ali berkata ibu mangsa bersama guru taska terbabit pergi ke sebuah poliklinik di Taman Ipoh Permai pada Jumaat dan diberitahu oleh doktor yang merawat bahawa tangan anaknya dijangkiti kuman akibat dirotan.

Sehubungan itu, Mohd Ali berkata ibu mangsa membuat laporan polis di Balai Polis Bercham kira-kira pukul 10.00 pagi semalam dan pemilik serta penyelia taska juga telah tampil memberi keterangan.

Katanya hasil siasatan awal mendapati suspek seorang guru taska berumur 32 tahun mengaku merotan mangsa di tangan kanan sehingga bengkak.

Suspek juga diberhentikan kerja serta-merta bagi mengelakkan kejadian sama daripada berulang.

“Pihak polis akan memanggil suspek untuk memberi keterangan berhubung insiden tersebut,” katanya. - fmt

Kalau tak bangga jadi 

rakyat Malaysia, keluar...

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak berkata penjawat awam di negara ini lebih patriotik daripada sesetengah pihak tertentu kerana sentiasa setia dan berdiri teguh di belakang kerajaan yang mampu menjaga kepentingan agama, bangsa dan negara.

Najib berkata tiada pihak lain yang mampu berbuat demikian sebagaimana yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan yang memerintah negara ketika ini.

"Jangan sampai tak bangga jadi rakyat Malaysia. Kalau tak bangga pi lah orang Kedah kata, pi jauh-jauhlah, tak payah (tinggal) di sini. Dia dah kaya, keluarga dah kaya, abang yang ada kereta mewah (dan) tersenarai antara orang yang terkaya di Malaysia.

"Apa lagi tuan-tuan? Nak marah apa lagi kepada Malaysia? Malaysia ini tempat rezeki kita sebenarnya. Tempat kita lahir, tempat kita dapat rezeki dan Insya-Allah tempat kita disemadikan bila sampai masanya. Inilah Malaysia yang kita bina melalui semangat patriotik," katanya ketika berucap pada majlis pertemuan bersama penjawat awam persekutuan dan negeri di perkarangan Wisma Persekutuan di Kota Bharu, hari ini. - mk

Negara ni bukan kerajaan yg punya. Bangga jadi rakyat Malaysia tak semestinya kena bersetuju dengan kerajaan yg korup. Tak suka BN bukan bermakna tak bangga jadi rakyat malaysia. Janganla dungu sangat buat statement - Lufias Kamal 

Rakyat Malaysia memang bangga jadi warganegara tapi tak bangga dgn pemimpin yg kebas wang rakyat dan tindas rakyat dgn GST. Dgn GST harga barang akan turun, kepala bapak kau kata najib. - Sayembara Sayonara

Mengata dulang paku yang serpih, mengata orang dia yang lebih. Cuba tengok track rekod keluarga Najib. Ada ke adik-beradik dia yang hidup susah.? Pikir2 mai? - Silver Sempoi 

To serve the country well without fear or favour is patriotism  but not necessarily vote for the corrupt Government. To vote without fear for better Governance is patriotism , civil servants have the right to choose just like anyone else. - Hearty Malaysian 

Mr.Prime Minister you got it all wrong if I'm not mistaken. This person is proud to be a Malaysian but he is angry and ashamed to see the country being administered wrongly by the ruling party. He feels that the "corrupted ones" are bringing shame to our beloved country. Just because he remarked like that, you can't expect him to go far away. He is a Malaysian by birth. We are all Malaysians and are loyal to our country. We love our country but sad to see it "going to the dogs" at present. We are suffering in silence Mr.Prime Minister. Every essential goods had gone up & our ringgit had depreciated. We can't face the financial constraints at present Mr. Prime Minister. Please do something but no empty promises just to make us happy. - VGV

Johore - Can UMNO/BN hold onto it...

The ground has been rather too quiet for comfort. People are less keen to voice their political views as opposed to four or five years ago. Back then, people would share their political opinion without being asked and even force it on you. The mood is no longer like a volcano about to erupt and political fatigue has been blamed for it.

“It is like something under the water. It is there but it is not clear,” said MCA’s Bakri deputy chairman Datuk Chris Lee. But quiet is not always a good sign and no one can say for sure whether the subdued ground favours this or that side of the political divide.

That is the situation along the western belt of Johor, covering some seven parliamentary seats and 17 state seats. It stretches from Segamat and Sikijang at the northernmost part, down through Ledang, Pagoh, Bakri and Muar to Batu Pahat. This stretch is what Johor Barisan Nasional politicians privately call the “danger zone” and which Pakatan has labelled as the Achilles Heel of the ruling coalition.

The west coast belt is like a necklace of small and medium-sized satellite towns where a string of seats with a sizeable Chinese population fell to DAP in 2013. PAS also made inroads in the area thanks to the Chinese tsunami.

DAP’s Johor chief and Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong has been vocal and confident that Pakatan will capture Johor. He is the sort of politician who wants to give a more Malaysian flavour to DAP. With Lim Kit Siang suffering from cancer, Liew will emerge as DAP’s key leader in the south and he will be calling the shots. Liew is also the prolific author of articles arguing why Johor will fall.

The trouble is that his arguments tend to be based on “ifs” – Johor will fall if there is a 15% vote swing. It is like Barisan claiming that it can win Penang if Pakatan loses another 11 state seats. It is not an analytical prediction but a wish list premised on “ifs”. Analysts and also surveys done have reached a different conclusion from Liew. They say that Johor will not fall to Pakatan Harapan.

The state Barisan has also conducted its own independent survey and it is confident of holding on to Johor but things are far from perfect. It is not 100% sure that more seats will not slip to the opposition. Their concern is not about the Chinese vote because they believe that DAP has maxed out on Chinese support in the state. Barisan’s worry is the Malay vote because of Parti Pribumi, the new Umno splinter party.

There has been so much hype over the party headed by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. But it is still very much a new unknown that has not been tested in an election. The party is going through the honeymoon period that Amanah experienced after it was formed three years ago until it was tested and failed in the two by-elections.

“Mahathir’s party is an alignment of strong personalities, you can’t take it lightly. It will be a Malay fight this time. You can see it among the young Malays, they want a change,” said Lee who runs the biggest law firm in Muar.

Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is Pakatan’s anchor figure along this belt. There was speculation that he would contest in neighbouring Muar where he has an extensive family network but party sources confirm that the former Deputy Prime Minister will be staying put in Pagoh.

Gelang Patah was the headline news in 2013 but the spotlight has swung to Pagoh which will occupy centrestage in Johor this general election. Parti Pribumi will be riding on the Chinese vote but the big question is to what extent it can cannibalise the Umno vote. It may not get enough Malay votes to win in a Malay seat but it can be the spoiler that delivers the seat to PAS.

As such, seats like Segamat, Muar and Ledang which were won with a majority of less than 2,000 votes may be in danger. All it takes is a shift of some 1,000 votes or so for the seats to fall. That is the role Pakatan wants Parti Pribumi to play in Johor –bringing in that additional handful of votes to tilt the balance.

Labis, which Barisan won by only 353 votes, looks even more dicey. DAP is contesting the seat and it wants to bring down Labis MP and MCA vice-president Chua Tee Yong before he can rise further and become a threat.

DAP had initially wanted to contest in Ayer Hitam where MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong is the MP. The DAP strategy is that to kill off the party, you need to chop off the heads of the generals. But Ayer Hitam is a Malay-majority seat and DAP has been pressured to give the seat to Amanah to contest.

Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS Wan Saiful Wan Jan, in a survey paper on Parti Pribumi’s impact in Johor, pointed out that the party has succeeded in drawing support from the below-35 age group, a cohort that is somewhat disenchanted with Umno.

But the survey also found that Parti Pribumi is struggling with support among Johor Malay voters, especially the womenfolk. According to the survey, Umno commands 67% of Malay support, followed by PAS with 48%. Only 21% of Malays favour Parti Pribumi, 13% are all right with Amanah and a mere 5% favour DAP.

It is quite shocking that 85% of Malays in the state are suspicious of DAP. DAP has become the stumbling block for Pakatan in Johor where Malays are concerned. Up to 62% of Malays believe that Pakatan is controlled by DAP and 71% regard DAP as anti-Malay and anti-Islam.

Johor Malays have often been seen as modern and progressive but some things remain constant. For instance. Wan Saiful’s study found that 90% of his Malay respondents are for greater religiosity, 84% favour more Malays in the Government and 81% think that the religion of a candidate is important. And there you have it – identity politics still rules in Johor.

There is also one of those supreme ironies at play here. For years, DAP has demonised Umno as racist and corrupt among its Chinese base while Umno and, of late, PAS has painted DAP as anti-Malay and anti-Islam. All that slandering has come home to roost in this southern state.

However, Umno politicians like Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed have been working closely with Chinese guilds, associations and temples. “Among all the Umno leaders, he is closest to us. He always starts his speeches speaking some Chinese, he likes to say his grandmother is Teochew and he also looks Chinese when he wears a red Batik shirt,” said Datuk Seri Tey Kim Chai, the Tiong Hua Federation of Johor Baru president.

Nur Jazlan, whose mother is Chinese, makes it a point to attend any event of Teochew groups and if he cannot attend the endless rounds of Chinese association dinners, he sends his assistant. “The Chinese realise now that they cannot change the Government without significant Malay support. The young people in Batu Pahat are still not with BN but I can also see that their intensity for Pakatan is not the same as before,” said former minister Tan Sri Dr Chua Soi Lek whose political career began in Batu Pahat.

Dr Chua said the opposition will still do well but predicted that DAP would not be able to hold on to all their seats in Johor. However, he was unable to name the seats of danger for DAP. Some of the Chinese politicians in the state have noticed that even the Chinese associations are rather quiet compared to the run-up to the 2013 polls.

A number of these senior community leaders apparently think it is a mistake for Pakatan to work with Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. But is that going to affect their vote?

“Politics is difficult to predict. All I can say is that Chinese voters are more mature now and the candidate will be an important factor,” said Tey.

The last two general elections have been crushing for the Chinese parties in Barisan. This time around, it is as though they are starting from scratch, trying to rise from the ashes so to speak. Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin is making his second round of constituency visits and will be visiting constituencies in the “danger zone”.

Johor is not an easy state to govern. The state has a Sultan with a big personality and strong views on how he wants to see the state develop. Khaled has managed to work with the palace and he has guided his party through the political rumbles caused by the sacking of Muhyiddin.

A few months ago, there was talk that the Sultan was considering Datuk Seri Daing A. Malek Daing A. Rahman, the Kota Tinggi Umno chief, for the Mentri Besar post. But it turned out to be mere rumours and Daing had personally met Khaled to deny it.

Khaled’s problem is not about warding off potential challenges to his office. He not only needs to hold on to Johor, he needs to do better than in 2013. To accomplish that, he needs to neutralise the “danger zone”.

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Betoilah PAS nak bentuk kerajaang perpaduang...

Makin dekat tarikh pilihanraya, wajah sebenar Pas kian terserlah dengan nyata.

Daripada mahu menubuhkan kerajaan sendiri bersama Gagasan Sejahtera, menjadi kuasa penentu atau "king maker", Pas kini dengan nyata memperlihatkan wajah dirinya yang sebenar.

Tanpa berselindung lagi mereka menyatakan pilihan selepas PRU 14 akan datang hanya ada dua - bekerjasama dengan BN atau kekal sebagai pembangkang.

Tetapi, beberapa hari sebelum ini, Presiden Pas, Hadi Awang sendiri menyatakan Pas tidak mahu lagi menjadi pembangkang yang lemah selepas pilihanraya akan datang.

Maknanya, menjadi sebahagian daripada kerajaan memang  pilihan Pas dan untuk tujuan itu, Najib, UMNO dan BN adalah idaman kalbu parti Islam tersebut.

Sebaliknya, kekal sebagai pembangkang bukan lagi pilihan bagi Pas. Lagi pula, Pas sejak kebelakangan ini semakin merasai nikmat berdekat-dekat dengan kerajaan atau parti pemerintah.

Jika berdekat dengan kerajaan saja pun macam-macam nikmat dan syurga dunia dapat mereka nikmati, tentunya dalam hati pimpinan Pas ketika ini menggelegak perasaan tidak sabar-sabar untuk menjadi sebahagian daripada kerajaan.

Barangkali wajar diucapkan tahniah kepada Pas kerana awal-awal lagi telah menunjukkan kecenderungan kepada BN yang didalamnya ada MCA serta Gerakan yang bukan saja menentang hukum hudud, malah paling lantang menolak pindaan Akta 355 yang bertujuan memperkasa kedudukan mahkamah syariah.

Akhirnya, Pas sendiri menyerlahkan sandiwara mereka berkaitan Akta 355 itu. Dengan pengakuan Pas mahu bekerjasama dengan BN ini juga memberi maksud mengundi Pas adalah sama seperti mengundi BN.

Meskipun ketika pilihanraya,  Pas dan BN berlainan parti, berbeza logo dan mungkin saling mengata antara satu sama lain, tetapi selepas pilihanraya berakhir, mereka akan saling bersama serta berdakapan untuk tujuan yang satu - mengekalkan lagi kerajaan kleptokrasi menghakis kekayaan dan memiskinkan negara ini. Syabas kepada kepada Pas!! - shahabudin husin

Bukit Aman Sinks Down 

To The Tong Sampah...

Two very brave Policemen (for some reason both are Indians) have been sent to interrogate Tun Siti Hasmah about her appearance at some public gathering. When I saw this picture, it reminded me that sadly we live among the quite uncivilised. 

This is a dangerous situation.  This is a community which has a number of people who have little or no good values - which I have written about earlier.

This is a recurrence. This type of behaviour keeps popping up, in this way or that way. It is a malaise that does not seem to go away. 

Years ago, the late Professor Syed Hussein Alatas wrote a column in the newspaper about  apathy in the country.  Apathy simply means "I dont give a shit about you or what happened to you. I just dont care'. That is what apathy means. 

The event that triggered the Professor's ire was the death of an Indian Muslim man who fell to his death at the famous Malaya Mansion in Jalan Masjid India (the exact same building where my wife and I ran our business for a long time).  The lift doors opened but there was no lift. The mamak man stepped into the lift and fell to the bottom of the lift shaft.  It was reported in the news but after a day, no one ever talked about the unnecessary death or about paying some compensation or about  checking lifts in our residential buildings.  Or until the next person falls to their death.

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Then we had the religious persecution cases. The trend began to accelerate about 30 years ago.  Those of you who can now see and agree with what I am saying about religion and the ostard wal retards well please understand that my friends and I have been hounded and some of us have suffered arrest, prosecution and persecution for just highlighting the truth. Why does it take 30 years?  Its that damned apathy again. The "I dont care" attitude. The people did not care. 

Now it has gotten worse and it has come to sit on everyone's head. Does everyone care?  I dont think so. (But dont worry. Not everyone is apathetic. I am here. Still here. And we never tire.)

But here in the picture above, we are talking about a myriad of issues - beginning from simple human rights, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, corrupt abuse of power, corruption of due process, corruption of morality, if there is such a thing in an apathetic (adjective form of apathy) society, just corruption of everything. 

What is the purpose of even investigating this matter? The Police investigate based on someone's Police report. But the Police also dismiss tens of thousands of Police reports. The Police know better than anyone else when a police report is frivolous or is of no real benefit to investigate.

That Khairuddin fellow has made so many Police Reports. Have the Police investigated all his reports?  No they have not.  But the Police do things by the book. Meaning they have some procedure to determine if a Police report is worth investigating or not.

Among the questions, “how old are you?”

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If a 91 year old woman, the wife of a former Prime Minister, a medical doctor by training and a symbol of all that is good in a Malay woman stood in the back of a vehicle and said a few words to encourage people to stand up for that which is good (amar makruf)  that is most definitely NOT something that warrants any type of  investigation by the Police.  Dont the Police have anything better to do? 

Police take orders. So who gave the Police the orders to investigate Tun Siti Hasmah?
  
I think this interrogation of a 91 year old woman (yes it was an interrogation -  Cambridge English Dictionary : interrogate meaning, definition, what is interrogate: to ask someone a lot of questions for a long time in order to get information) and that photograph just cost the Kleptocratic Thieves a few more tens of thousands of votes.

I believe there are saboteurs in their outfit who wish to do them in from the inside.  

Which is mighty? The sword or the keypad? - ostb

The belt of Pahang VIPs 

- will a domino effect burn BN?

In the coming 14th general election (GE14), a VIP belt of marginal seats which lies in the western part of Pahang will decide the fate of several top guns from both sides of the divide - seats that are widely expected to be the most hotly contested battlefields in the peninsula.

This “Pahang VIP (very important persons) belt” covers five parliamentary seats - Cameron Highlands, Raub, Temerloh, Bentong and Bera - an area that includes the Titiwangsa mountain range and spans over 300km. These seats could switch hands with only five percent swing in votes. Indeed, a few of them were won with just hundreds of votes in the last general election in 2013. From Cameron Highlands to Bera, this VIP belt sees big names from both political divides, be they defenders or challengers. 

They include MCA president Liow Tiong Lai, party vice-president Chew Mei Fun, Pahang DAP chief Leong Ngah Ngah, PAS information chief Nasrudin Hassan Tantawi and Umno supreme council member Ismail Sabri Yaakob. Liow and Ismail hold posts in the cabinet as transport minister and rural and regional development minister respectively.

Geographically, these areas are about one to three hours of driving distance from the nation's capital, with the East Coast Highway connecting Kuala Lumpur to the state’s capital, Kuantan. Many voters from these regions of Pahang are working in cities in the Klang Valley.

Should the opposition gain momentum in GE14, it could create a domino effect against the BN in this VIP belt in Pahang, a state that has been solidly behind the ruling coalition since the first general election and the birthplace of two prime ministers – Abdul Razak Hussein and his son, Najib.

Pahang, the largest state in the peninsula, has a vast expanse of forest and mountains. When the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) went underground, Pahang was one of its major bases. CPM established the 10th Malay Regiment in Temerloh as a wing of the predominantly-Chinese Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), and this in a way planted the seeds of dissent. 

Still, it will not be an easy task for the opposition to create the domino effect. Pahang has 14 parliamentary seats. In GE13, Umno won eight, while MCA and MIC garnered only one each. As for the opposition, PKR bagged two seats, while DAP and PAS have one each.

Vote majorities in GE13 below 500

BN secured both Cameron Highlands and Bentong in 2013 with not more than 500 votes, making them the most marginal seats in Pahang. For Cameron Highlands, thanks to a five-cornered fight, former MIC president G Palanivel edged out DAP candidate M Manogaran with a sliver of 462 votes.

It is widely expected that this parliamentary constituency will see a multi-cornered fight in GE14 as well, with the ruling coalition and several opposition parties having voiced their intention to contest the seat.

The MIC is likely to field its Youth wing chief Sivarraajh Chandran to defend the seat as Palanivel has been dropped as he no longer holds any post in the party. Another BN member party, the People’s Progressive Party (MyPPP) led by M Kayveas is also eyeing the seat.

As for the opposition, DAP is expected to field Manogaran again, while Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) has stated that its Orang Asli affairs bureau coordinator and local branch chief B Suresh Kumar would contest there.

Cameron Highlands has 12 percent of Indian voters and 20 percent Orang Asli, with the remaining made up equally of Malays and Chinese. In the event of a multi-cornered fight, it will be a big question mark as to who will emerge the victor.

Who will be Raub's 'Musang King'?

South of Cameron Highlands is Raub, once an MCA stronghold. On the eve of GE13, former MCA women’s wing chief Ng Yen Yen, a three-term Raub parliamentarian, was dropped and the seat was defended by senior Pahang state executive councillor Hoh Khai Mun.

Eventually, with the opposition riding on a “Chinese tsunami”, Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz of DAP, nicknamed Sakmongkol AK47, captured Raub with a 2,814-vote majority. This was also the first time that the BN lost this seat to the opposition.

However, Ariff (photo) is not likely to re-contest in Raub after suffering a stroke last year. Since then, Pahang DAP chief Leong Ngah Ngah has been active in Raub.

Leong is Tanah Rata assemblyperson, a seat under Cameron Highlands. He is expected to defend Raub for DAP and is likely to battle against MCA’s Chew Mei Fun, a former deputy women, family and community development minister.

In 2010, Chew made the pledge to resign from her posts in the party and government if Chua Soi Lek became MCA president. She therefore did not contest in GE13. Chew returned to politics after Liow took over from Chua. She has been working in Raub in recent years and vowed to recapture the seat for MCA.

Bentong: A 'do or die' battle for MCA

Next to Raub is Bentong, where the GE14 election battle could well be a "do or die" battle for MCA. 

MCA president Liow has been Bentong MP for almost 20 years - since 1999 - but at the last general election, the party boss held on to the seat with a razor-thin majority of 379 votes against environmental group Himpunan Hijau president Wong Tack. Wong Tack, following his narrow defeat in the intense battle, is expected to return for a rematch, contesting under the DAP, of which he is a member.

Bentong has 45 percent Malay voters, 44 percent Chinese and nine percent Indians. The key for Liow to remain Bentong parliamentarian for his fifth consecutive term will not only depend on a shift in preference among Chinese voters but also whether Pahang Menteri Besar Adnan Yaakob will contest in the upcoming election.

Of the four state seats under Bentong, BN only won Pelangi in GE13, which was held by Adnan. It has been speculated that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak intends to remove him, and Adnan himself has not ruled out the possibility of quitting politics ahead of GE14. Should Adnan step down, Liow may lose some crucial Malay votes as he no longer has a menteri besar candidate to campaign for him.

Can PAS defend Temerloh?

Compared to west Pahang, Temerloh and Bera are both located in the middle of the peninsula, and have a different political landscape. Temerloh, the first parliamentary seat PAS won in the state in over a decade, has 64 percent Malay voters, 24 percent Chinese and nine percent Indian voters.

In GE13, Nasrudin Hassan Tantawi of PAS wrested the seat from then deputy higher education minister Saifuddin Abdullah by a thin margin of just 1,070 votes or a 1.8 percent majority.

Now that PAS has broken ties with PKR and DAP, it is unlikely to be able to retain the sizeable number of non-Malay voters who backed Nasrudin in the last election.

Since then, Nasrudin (photo) has been widely speculated to be planning to jettison Temerloh for a safer seat in Kelantan or Terengganu. Nevertheless, Nasrudin said it would be up to the party to decide whether he stays or leaves the seat.

Malaysiakini understands that the frontrunner replacement will likely be Temerloh PAS division chief Yusof Darus, whereas the likely challenger from Pakatan Harapan could be Syed Hamid Syed Mohamed of Amanah, whose party has been given the role to field a candidate there. But now that Temerloh will be a three-cornered fight, BN is favoured to win in this round.

Felda, the kingmaker of Bera

For the Bera constituency, Umno’s Ismail has never tasted defeat since this seat was created in 1999, and he retained it with a 2,143-vote majority in the last GE. All seems well for Ismail, but a closer check indicates the contrary.

In the last GE, he garnered just 50.6 percent of the total votes cast, slightly ahead of his PKR opponent Zakaria Abdul Hamid, who obtained 45.5 percent of the votes in a three-cornered fight. The kingmakers in this constituency are the Felda settlers. Bera has 14 Felda settlements, the home of about 45 percent of the voters. In the last GE, Ismail won almost 70 percent of the Felda votes.

However, an analysis by Malaysiakini indicated that if 10 percent of the Felda voters and five percent of the non-Felda voters switch sides, BN will lose 10 parliamentary seats, and Bera is one of these. It also explains Harapan's dogged efforts in penetrating the Felda settlements, with Bersatu chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad visiting Bera and held a ceramah that pulled a 6,000-strong crowd.

Another challenge for Ismail may well come from his own party. There are three state seats under Bera - Teriang (held by DAP), Guai (Umno) and Kemayan (Umno). It is known that Ismail has been at loggerheads with the two Umno assemblypersons, and this may affect him in the coming election. 

Being a top leader in Umno, Ismail (photo) is widely seen as one of the potential vice-presidents of the party. However, as Felda has been embroiled in scandals after scandals in recent years, and the fact that Harapan has prioritised campaigning in Felda settlements, it will deliver a heavy blow for Umno should Ismail meet his Waterloo in the next GE.

On the other hand, the coming election will see an increase of 1,234 army voters in Bera, which has been criticised by the opposition as a move to secure Ismail the seat.

Will BN's vote bank go on fire?

Being Najib's home state and the ruling coalition's long-time vote bank, BN’s morale would take a beating should several ministers fall in the state in GE14. The loss of these top guns may further cripple the position of their respective parties in BN, even kicking off power struggles within their own parties.

Moreover, it would definitely be an embarrassment for Najib if there is a fire in his own backyard, for this would give those within Umno who wish to challenge him the opportunity to pile pressure on him. However, the PAS factor may help BN in this blue state.

In the last GE, PAS contested six parliamentary seats and 21 state seats in Pahang - the largest number of seats contested by an opposition party in the state. Although PAS eventually won one parliamentary seat and three state seats, it does have well-organised grassroots, with party number two Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man leading the fight in this state.

As three-cornered fights will be unavoidable in the coming polls, the fate of BN and Harapan in Pahang may well be decided by PAS. - mk

5 Parlimen 'VIP' di Pahang - apakah kesan domino akan melanda BN? 

MARA must be protected from the corrupt

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This is exactly the same 1MDB model.

Step 1 (ONE) :  First they get some crook to be chairman etc of the gomen fund which has the money.

Step 2 (TWO) : The crooky chairman, CEO will get the fund to agree to buy some property overseas at some inflated price - say Market Price PLUS an extra AUS$18m.  The official seller will be some shady British Virgin Islands or Cayman Islands company with weird names like Brazen Sky, Earth Moving Under Feet etc.

Step 3 (THREE) : Prior to Step 2, the same crooks would have set up those offshore companies to buy the property from a genuine Mat Salleh etc seller at Market Price.  Possibly in a country that has loose property transparency laws like Australia.

Step 4 (FOUR) : Then simultaneously, the British Virgin Island, Cayman Island etc  offshore company will RESELL  the property at INFLATED PRICES to the gomen fund.  In this way the gomen fund does not legally come into contact with the genuine Mat Salleh seller. The gomen fund deals only with the offshore company - both of which are run by the same crooks.  

Simultaneously because the payment is made just once - by the gomen fund. 

Once the inflated money payment flies out the window to the offshore company, the offshore company will split the payment in two. One portion goes to pay the genuine Mat Salleh seller. The remaining portion goes to the crooks in their numbered accounts in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands etc. 

Our kampong boys have just learnt about offshore companies, tax havens, proxy companies, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Isle of Man and other such shady places, offshore trusts, trust certificates and other legal instruments  which can be eminently used for shady dealings. These are the tools of drug runners, gun runners, money launderers, hot money flows, online gamblers, international prostitution rackets and such.  

In this country, this stealing is happening now in epidemic proportions. In pandemic proportions. You can take these boys out of the kampong but they cant seem to take the pencuri ayam out of these boys. It was not this bad before. 

What these kampong boys do not understand is that once the gomen is kicked out, then the whole lot of them will go to jail. Why? Because the whole thing is carefully documented lah bodoh bangangs. There is a clean and easy way to retrace document trail. The bread crumbs trail here is bigger than Hansel and Gretel. The kampong boys can Google 'Hansel and Gretel'.

Most damaging of all there is an easy electronic trail of the fund flows.  For example, every electronic movement of the US Dollar via SWIFT keys is tracked by the Americans. Its their currency. Every email sent via American service providers is routed through computers in Los Angeles. They can read and time match each and every email at will.

The kampong boys just dont understand all this. All that is needed is for this kleptocratic gomen to be kicked out. Once the kleptocratic gomen falls, all of you are going to jail.

If you really DONT WANT YOUR MONEY to be traced, you have to use the mamak money network. They are the best in the world. The Americans call it the hawala system. Can deliver cash in US Dollars, Sterling, Euro, Yen etc. Anywhere in the world. Can even deliver in gold bars.  No documents. 

I am not involved in any such network ok. Jangan salah faham. I only blog. But I am still a mamak. Yennadey. - ostb

GE13 there were 11 parliamentary seats which could have gone another way 

if the spoilt votes went to the other party. Let's see who are the beneficiaries.

cheers.