Fix deposit UMNO Sabah dah pupus...

Tidak ada sedu sedan, lilihan air mata bagi para pemimpin UMNO Sabah memberi selamat tinggal pada UMNO yang hilang keramatnya dan kuasanya. Mungkin Orang Utan Sipilok pun tidak melelehkan airmata. Yang termenung mengenangkan nasib ialah Musa Aman yang tidak aman dan Bung Mokhtar yang kehilangan tempat berteduh meratapi nasib dikandung badan.

Nampaknya aura Tun Mahathir sebagai PM dan negarawan ulung memberi ilham kepada para pemimpin dan ahli UMNO Sabah menukar haluan politik. Kejayaan Warisan juga adalah hasil dari tiupan semangat perjuangan Tun Mahathir yg merobek perompak kelas cakrawala Najib Razak dengan kabilah koruptornya. 

Banyak orang berpendapat ahli-ahli Parlimen dan adun bekas UMNO Sabah wajar memilih Bersatu untuk memperkukuhkan perjuangan mereka. Bersatu boleh bekerjasama dengan Warisan memperkukuhkan akartunjang kuasa politik Bumiutra di Negeri Bawah Bayu.

Doa laknat pendek umur dah hinggap atas kepala UMNO...

Kalau Bersatu berjaya ditubuhkan di Sabah bermakna ia sudah menjadi parti politik nasional. Bersatu boleh diperkukuhkan lagi dengan penyertaan kaum Bumiputra dari berbagai suku kaum dan agama untuk sama-sama menentukan halatuju negara dan masyarakat Melayu/Bumiputra di masa akan datang. 

Buat masa ini mereka menjadi ahli Bebas dahulu. Bersatu memerlukan para pemimpin berjiwa dinamis, berilmu, banyak pengalaman, ada visi, punya keyakinan diri dari seorang yang berani membentuk sejarah, dan bukan dia menjadi lalang dibuai angin. Inilah cabaran yang mesti dihadapi oleh semua pemimpin politik. 

Rakyat yang celik politik, bijaksana, tidak akan memilih pemimpin kelas kaldai, lembu, kerbau balaq dan kambing sebagai jurubicara mereka di DUN dan juga Parlimen. Ingat apa yang kau tanam itulah yang kau dapat. Kalau kau tanam lalang masakan tumbuh padi. - Yahaya Ismail

Hari ini politik Umno Sabah bergolak besar apabila empat orang ahli parlimen, lapan Adun, dua senator mengumumkan keluar parti dan berikrar menyokong Dr Mahathir Mohamad dan kerajaan PH.

Serentak pengumuman itu juga 21 ketua Umno bahagian telah mengumumkan keluar dan meninggalkan Umno. Mereka yang keluar parti itu terdiri daripada 9 Adun, 4 ahli Parlimen, 2 senator dan 21 ketua bahagian Umno Sabah.

Turut sama mengambil tindakan “tungging punggung” kepada Umno bekas menteri Komunikasi dan Multi Media, Salleh Said Kruak dan bekas Speaker Pendikar Amin Mulia.

Sedih,saya melihat gambar ini, sidang akhbar oleh Presiden Umno Zahid Hamidi yang diadakan sebagai mengulas perkembangan politik di Sabah. 

Zahid membuat sidang akhbar dengan didampingi pemimpin kanan Umno, Naib-naib presiden Mahadzir Khalid, Ismail Sabri Yakob, Setiausaha Agung, Annuar Musa, dan dua ahli MT Tajuddin Rahman dan Ahmad Maslan, yang memangkuk. 

Mohamad Hassan hilang ke mana? Keluar juga ke? - MSO

Himpunan IC(uri) E(engkau) 

R(amai-ramai) D(efend)...

Kini sedang beredar di media sosial satu bahan lawak yang mengatakan bahawa Datuk Seri Najib Razak hadir pada himpunan Anti-ICERD pada Rabu kerana mahu menjadikannya himpunan itu sebagai himpunan IC(uri)E(engkau)R(amai-ramai)D(efend), iaitu suatu bentuk sokongan terhadap pemerintahan kleptokratik beliau dan skandal rasuah yang membelenggu 1MDB.

Tidak mungkin, kerana sukar untuk percaya bahawa ribuan yang berhimpunan di Dataran Merdeka pada Sabtu lalu menyokong Najib dan rekod kleptokratiknya, termasuk skandal kleptokratik 1MDB yang dikenali di seluruh dunia.

Kehadiran Najib pada perhimpunan Anti-ICERD baru-baru ini paling dipersoal, lebih-lebih apabila beliau disahkan, bersama-sama bekas Pengerusi 1MDB Arul Kanda Kandasamy, bakal didakwa esok atas dakwaan meminda laporan 1MDB yang dikeluarkan Ketua Audit Negara.

Sehari selepas himpunan Anti-ICERD, New York Times menerbitkan sebuah laporan panjang bertajuk “A Yacht, a Monet, a See-Through Piano: The U.S. Collects on a Fugitive’s Shopping Spree”, yang menceritakan mengenai skandal kleptokratik 1MDB.

“Dana yang sedang menjadi tumpuan siasatan, dipanggil sebagai dana 1Malaysia Development Berhad atau 1MDB, sepatutnya memberi manfaat kepada rakyat Malaysia biasa. Ia meminjam berbilion dolar wang daripada bank dan meminjam daripada pelabur, kononnya untuk membiayai projek seperti usaha sama dengan sebuah syarikat minyak Arab Saudi serta pengambilalihan loji kuasa.

“Bagaimanapun pihak pendakwa raya berkata 1MDB telah menjadi sebuah skim pengubahan wang haram yang bersifat “mega, tidak tahu malu dan terang-terangan”, di mana berbilion wang dilencongkan ke dalam akaun bank pegawai kanan, termasuk bekas perdana menteri Najib Razak, keluarganya dan rakan subahatnya serta Encik Low.”

Mungkinkah akan ada himpunan Anti-Kleptokrasi selepas ini, dan adakah dua penceramah utama himpunan Anti-ICERD iaitu Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi dan Datuk Seri Hadi Awang sudi untuk berucap pada himpunan seumpama itu bagi mengutuk skandal 1MDB. Sudah tentu tidak.

Sepanjang 20 hari pembukaan sidang Parlimen ke-14 pada Julai/Ogos dan 30 hari sidang belanjawan pada Oktober, November, Disember, tidak ada seorang pun Ahli Parlimen Pembangkang dari UMNO dan PAS menyatakan pendirian mereka berhubung sama ada skandal 1MDB merupakan malapetaka kepada negara dan sama ada Najib harus dipertanggungjawabkan kerana menjadikan Malaysia sebuah kleptokrasi global.  

Untuk beberapa tahun lalu, Malaysia dihantui dan dibayangi oleh skandal RM50 billion 1MDB, menjadikan hutang negara meningkat sehingga RM1 trilion ringgit. Adakah ini pembohongan dan fitnah?

Jika Malaysia mahu menjadi negara bertaraf dunia, rakyat Malaysia harus meninggalkan politik toksik pembohongan, kebencian, ketakutan, perkauman dan agama, apatah lagi pembohongan bahawa kononnya skandal 1MDB adalah konspirasi dunia terhadap Malaysia atau pembohongan bahawa kononnya ICERD anti-Melayu, anti-Islam, anti-Raja-raja Melayu dan kononnya sebuah “agenda Freemason” untuk memusnahkan Malaysia dan Islam. – Roketkini.com

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Major exodus cripples Sabah Umno. Sabah Umno chief Hajiji Md Noor, Masidi Manjun,  MP Ronald Kiandee . Sabah Umno chief, elected representatives, senators, senior division leaders exit becoming independents, effectively crippling Umno Sabah

Those leaving four MPs, nine assemblymen, two senators, 21 division heads. Tey are Musbah Jamli (Tempasuk), Japlin Akin (Usukan), Ghulam Haidar Khan Bahada (Kawang), Mohd Arifin Mohd Arif (Membakut), Isnin Aliasnih (Klias), Matbali Musbah (Lumadan), Masidi Manjun (Karanaan), Nizam Abu Bakar Titingan (Apas). 

MPs are Abdul Rahim Bakri (Kudat), Azizah Mohd Dun (Beaufort), Ronald Kiandee (Beluran) and Zakaria Mohd Edris (Libaran).  

Also present were two senators, Penampang chief John Ambrose, Pensiangan chief Ghani Yassin,Musa’s son, Sipitang MP Hafez Yamani Musa,Pandikar Amin and Salleh Said Keruak.

The Barisan Nasional is dead.  This is a complete rout. Most of the big name UMNO leaders in Sabah have quit Umno. This is the end of Umno in Sabah.

When is the MCA going to quit the BN?  So far they have shown extreme chicken shit cowardice.  The MCA just cannot leave BN. 

There is no more UMNO.  Other than Sabah,  thirty other UMNO MPs are said to be ready to leave UMNO.  So now UMNO is down to something like fourteen MPs or less. 

And MCA still wants to be partners with Umno? Gerakan has left. Sarawak has effectively left the BN.

MCA is a member of BN but how come BN got no more Open House for Hari Raya, Chinese New Year, Deepavali, Christmas ?  Dont party all alone by yourself. - ostb

Singapore dan Malaysia ada isu sempadan lagi so kenalah kupas sikit 

untuk peminat2 tegar kita yang terlalu ramai dari negara ke selatan.

‘We have a kiasu neighbour’: 

Malaysia v Singapore continues...

Malaysia’s intensifying tiff with Singapore over air and sea borders has entered a very modern battleground – a duelling campaign of videos, with government departments from both sides releasing content in a bid to shore up their positions with their domestic constituencies.

Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport yesterday released a 95-second video on its Facebook page, which at the time of writing has more than 300,000 views, detailing its grievances with the new Instrument Landing System (ILS) at Seletar Airport.

“Hi Singapore, Seletar Airport is yours, but Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia is ours. So please hear us out. To Malaysians, please watch and share this – there are reasons why Malaysia has to oppose the ILS of the Seletar Airport which Singapore wants to implement from January 3, 2019,” said Transport Minister Anthony Loke in the video.

Malaysia is against Singapore’s plan to use a radar system that would require planes landing in its secondary civilian airport, Seletar, to make their landing approach over Malaysia’s southernmost tip in the state of Johor. It says the plan was only recently conveyed to Loke and will inconvenience businesses and residents in Johor as well as limit its industrial development.

Singapore Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan later told reporters Malaysia was using a “technical excuse” to change the airspace agreement which was brokered in 1973 and there were “a few inaccuracies” in the video’s depiction of ILS.

But Khaw acknowledged Malaysia had taken steps to descalate tensions over the maritime border issue by withdrawing several state vessels from the disputed area although one ship remained. This vessel’s presence created “unnecessary risks” and could lead to “accidental escalation on the ground”, he warned, according to a report in The Straits Times.

Last week on December 6, the Singapore government released footage by its Ministry of Defence purportedly showing Malaysian government vessels encroaching into Singapore waters. It insisted on the immediate withdrawal of these vessels.

Subsequently, Singaporean parliamentary speaker Tan Chuan-jin posted a video on his personal page, along with a post exhorting Singaporeans to stand united.

“This may go on for some time,” he wrote, adding that attempts had been made to review and talk matters over with Malaysia. The video has been viewed almost 600,000 times.

Malaysia-Singapore relations expert Mustafa Izzuddin of Singaporean think tank ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute said the newly minted Malaysian government was “still in campaign mode to sway local public opinion when they interact with or respond to Singapore. We can expect this to continue playing out on social media platforms in the current political tug of war between Malaysia and Singapore.”

However, top foreign policy analyst Shahriman Lockman of Malaysia’s Institute of Strategic  and International Studies said the current Malaysian government was “simply more forthright in pursuing the national interest” whereas the previous government was more amenable to compromise. 

“Malaysia needed to respond to the Singapore Transport Minister’s assertion that the flight path to Seletar has existed for decades, suggesting that Malaysia’s protest is new. It is obvious that the ILS is far from new,” he said. 

“If Singapore insists on sticking to the legalities and saying that it is technically entitled to determine the ILS, then it will just validate what Malaysia has always thought of Singapore diplomacy: that if you accidentally spill your coins on the floor, they’ll fight you for it.”

The ILS is safer for planes to use in low-visibility conditions because of its precise approach. When the disagreement over the system became public last week, Singapore released correspondence proving bilateral discussions regarding the plan stretched back to December 2017, including communications after the Pakatan Harapan coalition toppled former incumbents Barisan Nasional in May.

In the video, Lok pointed out that if the ILS were to come into use, Johor’s Pasir Gudang Port would be unable to erect high buildings or even use cranes as the system institutes mandatory height restrictions in the airport’s surrounding areas.

“We can’t even build tall buildings in Pasir Gudang if we allow that flight path,” Loke said in a post accompanying the video. He added that pilots on their way to Singapore previously manoeuvred around obstacles in their way.

In a separate statement later, he said the “unnecessary” tensions could be avoided if the ILS procedures were implemented for the southern-side Runway 3, instead of Runway 21 which is on the contentious northern side.

This, he said, would not have any additional impact on other airspace users, residents or businesses in Singapore.

Netizens from both sides of the Causeway commenting on the Malaysian Transport Ministry’s video slung barbs at each other on Facebook.

“Bravo Anthony Loke that should be the way. Firm and stern when [we] have a kiasu neighbour,” read one comment, using a Hokkien phrase meaning “scared to lose”. Meanwhile, a Singaporean Facebooker asked Loke: “Did you check your mailbox only one year later? Or the video to explain your inaccurate assessment took one year to produce?”

A Malaysian commenter quickly pointed out that Loke had not been a minister the previous year, as he only took office after the May general elections.

Another Singaporean commenter urged his countrymen to “cool it”. “Make YB Loke angry for what? He can also determine whether we can pump petrol in [border Malaysian state Johor Baru] and how much. What happens if he imposes fuel surcharge on us? What do Singaporeans gain from ILS in Seletar? Don’t get, don’t get lor,” he wrote.

Some Malaysians taunted Singaporeans by asking them to cross the border and “learn to eat chewing gum”, a sweet treat famously banned in the island republic to limit public littering.

Although Singapore previously enjoyed unprecedented friendly ties with Malaysia during now-disgraced former premier Najib Razak’s reign, the return of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to office has seen the relationship turn decidedly more hawkish.

The opposition is maintaining a similar tone, as former transport and defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein took a hard line on the dispute.

“This is no longer a verbal war with Singapore,” he said. “This is about standing ground for Malaysia as the government … stop the rhetoric and just do it.”

Mahathir’s first stint as leader, from 1981 to 2003, was punctuated with squabbles over air, land and sea with the nation’s southern neighbour, which was expelled from the Malaysian Federation in 1965. - Tashny Sukumaran scmp

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