Disco 5k, Masjid 10k, Melayu niaga depan rumah 50k...

Apabila anak Kelantan di Penang diberikan motosikal percuma oleh YB dari PH, maka dikatakan anak Kelantan ditindas di Penang.

Berlainan dengan warga Kelantan di bumi sendiri. Lihatlah sendiri mereka ditatang bagaikan minyak yg penuh oleh kerajaan yg ada. "Sebenarnya ketika anggota polis tiba, saya sudah menutup kedai jam 10 malam dan sebahagian lampu juga sudah ditutup. Cuma bahagian dapur sahaja belum ditutup kerana saya dan isteri sedang mengemas ketika itu dan sudah tentu mengambil masa agak lama. Pada masa sama saya sedang menggoreng keropok untuk anak-anak memandangkan mereka belum tidur," katanya ketika ditemui di rumahnya. 

"Jangan kata RM50,000,jika dikurangkan RM10,000 pun saya tak mampu dan disebabkan tak mampu serta tiada pilihan lain,saya lebih memilih untuk masuk penjara" -  Mohd Azizi Mohd Nor,penjual burger.  Agaknya lebih baik jual agama dari jual burger!!!...

Belum reda kisah peniaga burger dan seorang peniaga colek dikenakan kompaun RM50,000, seorang peniaga kedai runcit di Kota Bharu pula dikesan dikenakan tindakan sama atas alasan melanggar standard operasi piawai (SOP) Covid-19.

Mansah Marjurin, 47, yang mengusahakan Kedai Runcit Zaki Jaya di Jalan Cempaka sejak sembilan tahun lalu berkata dia terkejut apabila didatangi empat anggota polis jam 11.30 malam Ahad lalu. Katanya, tanpa ada budi bicara dan siasatan lanjut, anggota polis berkenaan terus menulis kompaun dengan jumlah RM50,000 bagi kesalahan beroperasi melebihi had masa dan beredar. - mk

Dikir saman Covid RM50,000...

Toksah dok layan Profesor Karipap basi...

Bila pula pemberian bermotif... 

Pemberian sedekah atau derma tidak mudah diterima begitu sahaja sebagai satu kebajikan dan pertolongan sesama manusia. Ia mungkin jadi masalah apabila pemberian bermotif sesuatu kerana ia akan diprejudiskan oleh pihak lain.  Apa berlaku ke atas Ahli Parlimen Bukit Mertajam Steven Sim yang memberi motosikal kepada seorang penghantar makanan (Anas Hazmi Ahmad) telah disalah anggap menuduh pemberian itu mempunyai motif memperdaya.  Ia jadi isu.

Seorang ahli akademik meragui motif pemberian itu kerana Steven Sim menghebahkan pemberian itu. Ia berakhir dengan Steven Sim mengambil tindakan undang-undang terhadap akhli akademik berkenaan kerana memfitnahnya ekoran pemberian itu.

Apa yang boleh dipelajari dari keadaan ini, pertama jangan mudah bersangka buruk niat seseorang tanpa diselidiki. Kedua, kalau hendak melakukan kebajikan jangan heboh sehingga orang dapat mencium dan prejudis terhadap maksud kita sebenarnya. Sebab itu mengikut prinsip Islam kalau hendak berbuat baik tidak perlu dihebohkan melampau, lagipun perbuatan baik itu dihitung Tuhan bukan oleh manusia.

Kepada pengkritik yang cemburu dengan kebajikan Steven Sim itu sepatut bukan menyerangnya, tetapi berlawan secara sihat. Kalau Steven Sim bagi motorsikal berharga RM4,000 untuk kemudahan Anas cari makan, nak gandakan bantuan itu dengan beri kereta Kancil kepada Anas agar peluang dan kemudahan kepadanya bertambah. Lebih baik lagi bagi food truck.  Itu cara terbaik yang patut dilakukan kalau kita semua ikhlas. - mso

Terima Kasih YB Stevens atas sumbangan...moga Allah kurniakan Hidayah Nya...

Polis tak nak siasat kah sah or not...

The Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) will be abolished from this year onwards. This marks an end to the national Standard 6 examination after 33 years of its existence. Education Minister Mohd Radzi Md Jidin (above) also announced today that the Pentaksiran Tingkatan Tiga (PT3) examination for Form 3 students has been cancelled for this year.

“The ministry has decided that for 2021, the PT3 examination will be cancelled like it was last year,” he said this afternoon at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur that was live-streamed. Instead of PT3, secondary school students will be assessed based on their in-class performance, psychometry plus sports and co-curricular activities throughout this year.

Meanwhile, instead of UPSR, primary students will be assessed based on their performance in class. “From 2021 onwards, UPSR will be abolished completely. “Surely there will be those who ask how students will be assessed without the UPSR. We will strengthen classroom-based assessments beginning 2021,” he said.

In line with the abolishment of UPSR, the Pentaksiran Alternatif Sekolah Rendah (PASR) for Standard 6 special needs students has also been abolished from this year onwards. “Special needs students will be assessed based on classroom-based assessments,” the minister added.

Entry into boarding schools

With the retirement of UPSR and PASR, Radzi explained that students who apply to secondary boarding schools will be assessed on three criteria - intellectual ability, soft skills and writing articulation skills.

As for Form 3 students hoping to enter a boarding school for their upper secondary education, they will also be assessed on the same three criteria. The official term for this assessment is Pentaksiran Kemasukan Sekolah Khusus (PKSK).

Reasons for abolishment 

Elaborating, the minister said the decision to abolish UPSR was made after consultations with more than 1,000 stakeholders nationwide including students, teachers, school principals, parents, unions and associations. The consultations focused on comparing UPSR to how other countries assessed their primary school students.

According to Radzi, some teachers felt they had to finish the school syllabus as soon as possible to allow for UPSR preparations to begin. Some also shared how they had to use the time allocated for non-examinable subjects to prepare students for the national examination. Some parents, however, opined that they sent their children to tuition classes from Standard 1 just to prepare for UPSR.

Meanwhile, Radzi explained that the ministry cancelled this year’s PT3 examinations because the Covid-19 pandemic had affected teaching and learning. Face-to-face learning had been cut short and this, he said, had jeopardised students’ ability to prepare for the examination. - mk

Joke about rape in misogyny...

"If you want to rape someone, rape only one above 18." That was what a male teacher told his class. Perhaps some might think it was just a joke. But ironically, the teacher was supposed to teach the students to avoid sexual harassment and enhance the students' knowledge in self protection in the event of a danger, but that particular teacher told his class that they could selectively harass or even assault other people's bodies!

Even if it was meant to be just a joke, it has relayed a wrong message that rape could be something fun. As a result, the male students in the class giggled. They were obviously amused. In that class, rape was made something funny and enjoyable.

Only Ain Husniza exposed this incident. Her counseling teacher advised her not to take it too seriously; teachers claimed she was suffering from autism; social media users rebuked her as being busy body and even a male classmate threatened to rape her!

After 17-year-old Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam exposed her male teacher for allegedly making lewd jokes in class, she has had to endure all sorts of backlash, including a rape threat from a schoolmate...

Ain cracked under tremendous pressure and at one point she even stopped going to school. The young brave girl might not realize that she was actually confronting the collective misogyny in her society, not just that male teacher or the classmate but countless of others, too.

The word misogyny is derived from the Ancient Greek word "misogunia" which means "hatred for women". Out of hatred for women, some men tend to look down on women, bully them and treat them as subhuman.

Such an anomaly exists in every nook and corner of our society, and often such people can be instantly identified the moment they open their mouths greeting people's mothers or uttering words that denote female sex organs -- a personality defect born out of sheer abhorrence for women.

Guru cakap kalu nak rogol, rogollah yang atas 18 tahun...

To prove they are men enough, some tend to belittle women verbally or in action to manifest their manhood. As a matter of fact, such aggression is typically triggered by their embedded inferiority complex.

Back to the male teacher and Ain's male classmate. Perhaps these people don't even have the slightest intention of raping anyone, but because of their tendency to dislike and deride women, they have made rape some kind of joke, and through verbal violence, they are eager to show that they have the power to control women, including breaching women's most precious defense line.This could easily sow the seed of evil in a student who is young, impulsive and lacks social experiences.

They are only defenders of their BANK ACCOUNTS...

A physical and health education teacher who openly encourages his students to physically assault women might win the applause of his male students, while the other teachers in his school might come to his defense. Even his school will attempt to play down this whole thing, as the education ministry chooses to keep mum.

Why is this society so indifferent to things like sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape? Our society is still drowned in misogyny that exists deep inside every community and culture here. The malady lives on in many different shapes and forms, and is being constantly reconstructed and reinforced, even as our society becomes growingly sophisticated.

We will only be able to overcome and defeat misogyny once we realize its problems, understand its build-up and realizing its violation of humanity and carnage on human rights. - Tay Tian Yan, Sin Chew Daily

cheers.

Dana KWAN pula ditebuk gomen backdoor...

 

Itulah pasai Parliamen kena bukak, kalau tak bukak parlimen macam nilah jadi nya.Walaupun Parlimen dah lulus berjuta2 ringgit untuk pembelian vaksin,tak cukup lagikah? Sekarang gomen suka2 dia nak guna duit simpanan KWAN(Kumpulan Wang Amanah Negara). Bila sudah tiada lagi check n balance,gomen buat ikut suka hati depa seolah2 duit KWAN tu bapak depa punya... - minah kerang

Kerajaan Selongkaq KWAN...

Beberapa peristiwa penting dalam bidang ekonomi dan kewangan dilaporkan berlaku minggu ini akan memberi kesan semasa dan jangka panjang kepada negara. Paling kontroversial dan dikecam hebat adalah tindakan kerajaan menggunakan darurat bagi menyeluk tabung Kumpulan Wang Amanah Negara (KWAN) kononnya untuk membiayai program vaksinasi Covid-19. Daripada pelbagai kenyataan yang dilaporkan oleh media massa arus perdana dan melalui sembang media sosial, inilah kali pertama duit tabung masa depan negara itu digunakan. 

KWAN diperbadankan pada tahun 1988 ketika pemerintahan pusingan pertama Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad sebagai Perdana Menteri. Sejak itu, duit tabung ini tidak pernah disentuh. Ia memperoleh dana daripada Kumpulan Wang Disatukan dan Petronas. Tujuannya adalah untuk digunakan apabila hasil daripada sumber alam, khususnya petroleum dan gas berkurang atau habis langsung.Tindakan menyelongkar KWAN amat membimbangkan kerana ia memberi gambaran seolah-olah kerajaan sudah kehabisan wang dan tidak ada cara lain lagi untuk membiayai keperluan negara. Ketidaktentuan seperti ini tentu tidak berlaku sekiranya darurat tidak diisytiharkan dan Parlimen tidak digantung. Urusan kewangan negara yang besar dan penting seperti ini tentulah dibangkit dan dibahaskan secara terbuka. 

Tetapi sekarang urusan ini hanya berkisar antara Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Perdana Menteri dan Menteri Kewangan. Menteri Kewangan, Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz fikir macam mana hendak cari duit dan Perdana Menteri, Mahiaddin Md. Yasin mempersembahkan kepada Yang di-Pertuan Agong untuk diperkenankan. Yang menimbulkan persoalan dan bantahan adalah tindakan menyeluk tabung KWAN ini berlaku serentak dengan kerajaan mengumumkan kejayaan gemilang meminjam AS$1.3 bilion (RM5.33 bilion) daripada pasaran kewangan antarabangsa. Kalau sudah pinjam dari dalam dan luar negara, pasal apa selok tabung KWAN lagi? Untuk kefahaman lebih mendalam, mohon baca rencana akhbar Sinar Harian yang dipautkan. - a.kadir jasin

This is Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay,Ketua Polis Johor,orang Kulim. Mak bapak sampai sekarang duduk rumah 2 tingkat di Kulim.Mak bapaknya memang berniaga roti canai sejak dulu. Ketika muda dulu dia memang membantu mak bapaknya berniaga. Jadi tak hairanlah dia gitu pandai tebaq roti canai kalu tak malulah 'the mamak clan' nanti... - minah kerang

Covid-19 Vaccination – The cash cow 

business that Muhyiddin regime is milking...

Rich countries, including the U.S., U.K., EU, Japan, Norway, Canada, Australia and Switzerland, have been actively blocking a proposal to boost the global production of Covid-19 vaccines. The proposal, which was jointly submitted by India and South Africa in October 2020, would temporarily waive intellectual property (IP) and patent rights on Covid vaccines.

 

Even though the proposal to urgently save humankind has been backed by more than 100 developing countries, they are powerless against a handful of selfish and greedy powerful nations. Despite the WHO’s (World Health Organization) repetitive warnings of “serious imbalance” in the distribution of vaccines, the high-income countries are more interested to protect their pockets.

 

If the rich nations agree to waive – even temporarily – the IP and patent rights, it could help countries around the world overcome legal barriers preventing them from producing their own Covid vaccines. But by doing so, it also means the powerful Western world leaders and pharmaceutical companies would lose control over their IP, not to mention the maximum profits they could milk.

What does this have to do with the backdoor government of Muhyiddin? The short answer – everything. The long answer – the refusal of the rich countries to allow more countries to produce vaccines and save more people in the shortest time possible is the same reason why Muhyiddin regime is dragging its feet in allowing more parties to help vaccinate the people of Malaysia.

To date, an average of 1-in-4 people in high-income nations has received a Covid vaccine, compared to 1-in-over-500 for people in low-income countries. Likewise, in Malaysia, all ministers, their families, friends, friends of friends, VIPs and even the King have received a Covid vaccine, compared to only 1.4% ordinary people. That means 98-in-100 Malaysians are still waiting to be vaccinated.

According to Reuters’ data, Malaysia has administered 1,210,779 doses of Covid-19 vaccines so far. However, only about 462,000 people have been “fully” vaccinated out of its population of 33 million. Even if the plan is to vaccinate only 80% of its population, the percentage of people fully inoculated is merely 1.75%. But the statistics are just getting more interesting.

Malaysia’s vaccination program started on 24 Feb this year, when Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin became the first person in Malaysia to receive a Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. During the last week reported, the country averaged about 24,872 doses administered each day. At this incredible rate, it will need 257 days to administer enough doses for another 10% of the population.

But with 252 days left in the calendar year 2021, it means we would be lucky to cross the 11.4% milestone (24,872 doses over 257 days are enough to give full vaccination to 10% population based on 2 doses for each person) before we sing “Auld Lang Syne”. At the same rate also, it would take another 1,865 days – starting Jan 2022 – to cover 80% of the population.

The calculator says an additional 1,865 days is about 5 years. Therefore, Malaysia can only achieve herd immunisation of 80% (about 27 million people) in the year 2027. Exactly how could 80% of Malaysians receive their Covid-19 vaccinations by year’s end, as trumpeted by the genius Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin less than 2 weeks ago?

Even if the plan was to just give 1 jab for every person to cover 80% of the population, it still needs 1,085 days or 3 years (based on the rate of 24,872 doses each day). In order to vaccinate 27 million Malaysians with at least 1 shot in 12 months, the number of doses to be administered every day must be 73,972 doses – three times the current rate of vaccination.

Mr Khairy said that from June, vaccine supply will begin to outstrip the number of registrations for inoculation and by October, the country will have enough vaccines for 80% of the population. Malaysia received its first batch of 312,390 doses of Pfizer vaccine on 21 Feb, with the second delivery on 26 Feb and subsequent deliveries every 2 weeks until 32 million doses from Pfizer-BioNTech is completed.

On 28 Feb, the country received 200 litres of CoronaVac vaccine, which can be processed into 300,000 doses. Today, Pharmaniaga, the country’s biggest pharmaceutical company, has in its possession 1,800 litres of China’s Sinovac vaccine, which can produce up to 2.6 million doses. In fact, this month alone, Malaysia will be receiving 712,530 doses of Pfizer vaccine.

Clearly, the problem isn’t about supply but rather the efficiency and ability of the health ministry to administer at least 73,972 doses every day. It’s also not about low vaccine registrations, as complained by Minister Khairy and the clueless Ministry of Health. At least 9-million individuals have registered for vaccination on the MySejahtera application.

 

Khairy and PM Muhyiddin were obviously talking cock when they threatened to make Covid-19 inoculation mandatory when in reality, 9 million Malaysians are ready to receive the jab, but only 1.21 million doses were administered in the period of 2 months. Politically, it’s not hard to understand why the backdoor government is deliberately dragging its feet.

If Mahiaddin alias Muhyiddin, who has lost his majority support in the Parliament, can prolong the vaccination process, he can extend the duration of the current State of Emergency under the pretext of fighting the pandemic. The emergency rule, which is scheduled to expire on 1 August, can be extended to allow him to shamelessly and illegally cling to power.

Muhyiddin Yassin - Legitimacy Lost - Emergency Declaration

Would it not be nice for Dictator Muhyiddin to drag the vaccination program until the next 15th General Election, which is scheduled to be held on or before 16 September 2023? Based on the current rate of vaccination, it’s absolutely possible that the backdoor premier can rule until the Parliament is automatically dissolved on 16 July 2023, if a snap election is not called earlier.

There’s another reason to slow down the vaccination exercise, but create smokescreen by blaming the people. Almost every single minister in the super bloated Cabinet of 72 ministers and deputy ministers wanted to milk the cash cow. All the ministers, including the prime minister, are very “experienced” politicians who had graduated from the extremely corrupt Barisan Nasional coalition.

The Covid-19 vaccination program is being treated like any mega infrastructure projects, where the project cost would typically be inflated to at least 300% for kickbacks. To make it look and feel like a mega project, however, it must be seen and dressed like a sophisticated construction project that would take years to finish, with unexpected cost overruns.

As expected, the vaccination project has already incurred two cost overruns in less than 2 months after it was officially kicked off by the prime minister himself. On Wednesday (Apr 21), the regime, armed with unlimited power, enacted a new emergency law allowing it to use a national trust fund, which is flush with RM17.4 billion, mainly contributed by Petronas, the national oil company, to purchase vaccines.

In early December 2020, Mr. Khairy rubbished veteran lawmaker Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah’s claim that Malaysia’s vaccine deal with Pfizer cost the government RM3 billion, including RM1 billion for transportation and storage. The same Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation had also rejected Razaleigh’s estimate that the cost per dose of the vaccine is RM234.

The claim that the government had used up the entire allocation of RM3 billion to cover just 20% of the population was fiercely denied by Khairy. Instead, he said – “Based on our current negotiations to acquire a portfolio of vaccines, we are still within our estimate of RM3 billion to acquire enough doses to cover 70% of our population”. In fact, Khairy confirmed in Nov 2020 that Pfizer vaccine will be priced at less than RM100 per dose.

Under the COVAX facility, Malaysia was offered a maximum price set for the Covid-19 vaccine at “US$21 (RM87.50) each”. Interestingly, in mid-March this year, PM Muhyiddin announced that the allocation for the Covid-19 immunisation programme would be increased from RM3 billion to RM5 billion to reach herd immunity status faster by December, instead of February 2022.

Does it make sense to splash additional RM2 billion (or 67% more than the initial cost of RM3 billion) just to speed up the vaccination exercise by a mere two months? Fine, let’s assume Khairy failed his Math and made some mistakes in his calculations in Nov 2020, but in order not to lose face he made the correction and quietly asked for RM5 billion some five months later.

Stunningly, in just a month, the regime unilaterally passed a new emergency law to raid and rapes the national trust fund of RM17.4 billion. Including the RM5 billion, the dictatorship of Muhyiddin could wipe out RM22.4 billion for the “procurement of vaccines and any expenditure incurred in relation to the vaccines”. Thanks to the State of Emergency, nobody knows how the trust fund would be used. - FT

Mati barulah boleh jumpa...

Tak lama lagi, kita akan menyambut 1 Syawal yang indah setelah sebulan berpuasa.Namun, nampaknya tahun ini kita terpaksa sekali lagi merasai sambutan Hari Raya Aildilfitri di kota raya tanpa pulang ke kampung halaman.

Ini berikutan Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) mengatakan pihaknya hanya akan meluluskan pergerakan rentas negeri pada Isnin hingga Khamis sahaja dengan enam alasan yang dipertimbangkan.

“Hanya enam alasan dipertimbangkan untuk diberi kelulusan dan pemohon hanya boleh merentas negeri pada Isnin hingga Khamis sahaja.

“Permohonan pergerakan rentas negeri bagi tujuan sosial seperti menghadiri kenduri perkahwinan dan apa-apa jenis majlis atau jamuan dilarang,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan.

Permohonan untuk pergerakan pada hujung minggu tidak akan diluluskan selain hal kecemasan, kematian dan pasangan jarak jauh (PJJ). - sinarplus.sinarharian.com

cheers.

The mentally sick bigots,it's molestation...

Girls in multiple schools in Malaysia have to undergo “period spot checks” where they are told to physically prove they are on their period through means which violate privacy, according to current students and those who left school up to 20 years ago.

Over a dozen individuals reached out to Malaysiakini in less than 24 hours after a call for stories was made. They recalled how the behaviour towards menstruation at boarding schools was “shameful” but was accepted as “normal practice”.

Many of the girls were from boarding schools but this was also said to be a practice at day schools and Islamic private schools, Malaysiakini was told. They narrated how their years of growing up from young girls to teenagers, marked by the start of menstruation, became a source of trauma and shame that still haunts them to this day.

 Raba bontot, unhook bras, raba private parts 

stories from the sekolah asrama penuh. 

A key trigger was the practice of teachers or seniors demanding “proof of menstruation” from girls who did not join daily congregational prayers which are commonly held in residential or religious-based schools. In Islam, women or girls who are menstruating do not perform ritual prayers.

We thank Allah swt that this is not a Malaysian problem. This is another uniquely Malay problem. Meaning it can be easier contained and solved. We never hear any such things happening in Chinese schools, Tamil schools or to boys and girls of other races. (With the exception of another religion based school - a non-Islamic religion where young boys have been abused, covered up and not reported.) 

But back to the issue - this is indeed yet another problem in this country that is unique to the Malays - and once again because of religious enforcement by "village mentality" ustazahs who are given positions in the many sekolah asrama that we have in the country. Here are more comments from victims of sexual offences by the religious teachers and they must be prosecuted under the sexual offences act.

Bila Ustazah raba bontot student...

Well Malays are human beings too and it is time that we all raised the alarm and put a stop to these sexual crimes that are being carried out by the ustazahs on unsuspecting Malay girls in the sekolah asrama system and maybe in other schools as well.

These are sexual crimes. Make no mistake. The victims must go and make police reports,it is not enough to make one or two police reports. These sexual crimes against our young girls in the name of agama has to be stopped now. - Syed Akbar Ali 

Quote...

"There is no compulsion in..". Pretty much same as Apandi holding the flow chart and arguing Najib isn't guilty.Its amazing how they perfected this art of self delusion... - Bibut

Atok punya game strategi...

"Berita itu terbocor dan kami cemas," kata Liew. Selepas itu, kata Liew, pemimpin-pemimpin PH berjumpa Mahathir di pejabatnya. Tambah anggota Dewan Negara itu lagi, dia kemudian mendapatkan maklumat mengenai apa yang berlaku daripada menteri kewangan ketika itu, Lim Guan Eng.

"Saya tinggalkan bangunan (pejabat perdana menteri) ketika pemimpin-pemimpin (PH) masuk ke bilik perdana menteri, (saya) dapat tahu daripada Guan Eng ketika kami berjumpa dengan Kit Siang kemudiannya, bahawa Mahathir mahu menyingkirkan Yeo kerana ketegasannya berhubung isu Lynas dan isu-isu lain berkaitan alam sekitar.

"Pemimpin-pemimpin (PH) berjaya memujuk Mahathir daripada meneruskan rancangannya itu. Yeo kekal (sebagai menteri)," katanya. Liew juga tidak menjelaskan secara khusus apa yang membuat Mahathir kecewa dengan tindakan Yeo. - mk

Yes, it is true that Dr M 

wanted to sack Yeo Bee Yin...

Malaysiakini today focussed on Liew Chin Tong’s book which revealed that in 2019, then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad wanted to sack Yeo Bee Yin as energy, science, technology, environment and climate change minister over the Lynas issue although eventually, this did not take place.

I was never involved in this but I learnt about it. This incident indicates the complexities of the Pakatan Harapan government under Mahathir. I have said that Harapan has to learn the lessons of their 22-month governance and its toppling by the Sheraton Move conspiracy which ushered in a backdoor, undemocratic, illegitimate and kakistocracy government.

One of these lessons is to be serious about our election pledges. We have a 'Buku Harapan' which contained Harapan’s election promises in the 14th general election. Early on in the Harapan government, it was the prime minister, Mahathir, who said the manifesto was not a bible. As a result, even if 80 or 90 percent of the election pledges had been implemented in the five-year mandate, the damage had been done.

It was worse when the five-year mandate of the Harapan government was cut short after 22 months by the Sheraton Move conspiracy. The Harapan Government was not a DAP government but comprised four political parties – DAP, PKR, Amanah and Bersatu.

As Chin Tong recounted in his book, I met Mahathir as prime minister twice in his office where I discussed the importance of restoring public confidence and having a coherent explanation about Harapan’s manifesto and policies.

After our second meeting, Harapan formed a manifesto review committee with Chin Tong as chairperson to address the public perception about undelivered election promises.  But the Harapan government was toppled by the Sheraton Move conspiracy before its manifesto review committee could finalise its report.

This is why I cannot understand those who refuse to listen to explanations of why a particular election pledge had not been fulfilled, for instance, the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) recognition issue.

The 'Buku Harapan' promise on the UEC in the 14th general election said: “Pakatan Harapan will undertake to recognise UEC certificates to enter public institutions of higher learning (IPTA) provided that applicants have a credit in Bahasa Malaysia at the SPM level. For this purpose, the UEC certificate will be assessed to be equivalent to the existing general qualification for entry into IPTA.”

At the DAP retreat in 2019, Mahathir said the Harapan government was committed to the pledge to recognise the UEC certificate to enter public institutions of learning after an assessment. Anwar Ibrahim also made a similar commitment.

But the toppling of the Harapan government after 22 months by the Sheraton Move conspiracy made it impossible to fulfil the election manifesto which was to be fulfilled within the five-year term. But there were critics who refuse to listen to explanations, shutting their eyes and closing their ears. There are advocates who want DAP to return to the past and be an opposition.

I have been in the federal opposition for 52 years and I have no fears about being in the opposition again. But we must aim to return to form a government for it is when in power that things can get done.

One, however, must be realistic in that we must work with like-minded political leaders from other political parties who believe in the 'Malaysian Dream' for Malaysia to be a world-class great nation as the DAP cannot on its own form a federal government in Malaysia.

However, DAP leaders must not be corrupted by power, whether in government or in the opposition, and throughout the 55 years of DAP history, the DAP leadership has not compromised on this important principle. - Lim Kit Siang,mk

cheers.

Katak nak lompat dari Seberang Jaya ke Shah Alam...

 Kemana saja pengkianat pergi 

perangai pengkianat tetap takkan berubah...

Din punyalah terdesak sampai Mesjid pun disaman...

Sehari dua ini, saya berasa teramat sedih...

Dulu mereka kecam Dato' Lee Chong Wei kerana menderma laptop kepada anak-anak orang susah melalui program anjuran pejabat saya, sekarang ada yang nak heret isu kaum dan agama dalam soal kebajikan. Mengapa mereka bersungguh-sungguh nak pecah-belahkan rakyat Malaysia? Mengapa perlu api-apikan sentimen kaum dan agama? Rakyat sudah cukup susah, cukup merana kerana Covid. Ramai yang hilang kerja, gaji kena potong, bisnes gulung tikar. Orang politik yang sudah ada kuasa, mengapa masih mahu membakar negara dengan isu kaum dan agama? 

Saya seorang wakil rakyat, tugas saya untuk membantu rakyat susah di kawasan saya tanpa mengira kaum dan agama. Kadang kala, orang susah luar kawasan datang, saya tak sampai hati nak tolak, saya bantu juga sedaya upaya setakat yang mampu. Saya bantu bukan kerana saya hebat atau kaya - ramai lagi yang jauh lebih hebat dan pandai daripada saya. Jauh sekali keluarga saya boleh dianggap sebagai kaya. Tapi semua ini saya buat demi menunaikan amanah berat yang telah diberi. 

Ada yang kata saya hanya bantu Cina, ada pula yang kata saya hanya bantu Melayu. Sungguh sedih mengapa masih ada pandangan begini. Orang yang saya bantu, ada Cina, Melayu, India, bahkan kawan-kawan di Sabah Sarawak sana. Saya tak dapat post semua aktiviti bantuan di sini, tapi saya tak pernah tanya orang yang dibantu itu kaum apa, agama apa, parti politik apa. 

Ada yang kata saya ada agenda agama. Mengapa perlu libatkan agama saya? Bagiku agamaku, bagimu, agamamu. Harapan saya ialah, yang Islam jadi Muslim yang lebih baik, yang Kristian jadi Kristian yang lebih baik, yang Buddha jadi Buddha yang lebih baik, yang Hindu jadi Hindu yang lebih baik, kita semua jadi manusia yang lebih baik, nescaya Malaysiaku aman sentosa. 

Walaupun saya amat terkesan dengan fitnah dan cemuhan yang dilontarkan, saya tidak akan berhenti berkhidmat. Saya tetap akan bantu semua tak kira kaum dan agama. Ini ikrar saya dulu semasa dipilih sebagai wakil rakyat. Kalau saya gagal, saya tidak berani berdepan rakyat nanti. Lagi menggerunkan, kalau saya gagal, saya akan terkelu di depan Tuhan yang akan menyoal segala perilaku atas amanah yang dipertanggungjawabkan. 

Memanah bintang di malam gelita,

Sebutir terjatuh menjadi batu,

Amanah ku tatang dengan air mata,

Khuatir membela diri di Hari Itu. - Steven Sim Chee Keong,MP DAP Bukit Mertajam

Sim saddened his welfare work 

turned into racial and religious issue...

Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim expressed sadness that his welfare work had been turned into a racial and religious issue.

This was after Universiti Utara Malaysia senior lecturer Kamarul Zaman Yusoff listed Sim's (above) various charitable work and warned Muslims to be cautious about accepting help from "Christian evangelists".

"As an MP, my duty is to help people in my constituency who need assistance, regardless of race and religion. Sometimes, if people from outside my constituency seek help, I also do my best to help as I do not have the heart to turn them away.

"I have never asked what is their race, religion or political party. Some people say I have a religious agenda. Why involve my religion? For me, my religion is mine, your religion is yours.

"My hope is that a Muslim will be a good Muslim, a Christian will be a good Christian, a Buddhist will be a good Buddhist, a Hindu will be a good Hindu. Malaysia will be a peaceful country if we all strive to be good human beings," Sim said on Facebook.

Sim questioned why some were out to split Malaysians by fanning racial and religious sentiments. He said the people were already suffering enough due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

"Why burn the country by playing up race and religion?" he asked, adding that he was deeply affected by the accusations against him.

"But I will not stop serving. I will continue to help everyone regardless of race and religion. This was my pledge when I was elected as an MP," he said.

Kamarul had previously targeted other DAP leaders for their faith.

In 2017, he lodged a police report against Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh, accusing her of proselytisation, for talking about her religion in her biography. - mk

Why doesn't Kamarul Zaman Yusoff help the people instead of giving criticism. Most people in unfortunate circumstances would appreciate help from any generous party instead of being told to be partial to any one group or religion. - Anon 2

When Ebit Lew helps non-Muslim, he is a hero... when Sim helps Malays, he is an evangelist.... apa lah punya logic..The truth may be the other way round.., Ebit is known to have converted an entire village in Sabah.. - WhiteDove9449

Ebit liew okay je tolong kaum melayu cina india tak kira agama, takde pulak org christian or budha ckp suruh jaga-jaga takut nk sebarkan agama. pelik la melayu camni - PinkGuppy8000

Where are you went this poor rakyats need help n support now you are jealous of what other people did. - Simon Tsen K F

If your enemy find faults on you or criticize you meaning that you are in the right path. Just follow what Quran and Hadith says. ignore the critics. - Tan Sri Dato Dr. Hj Mujeebudeen

Just a few days ago, a secondary school headmaster segregated sports by race. Today this senior lecturer of a public university calls out helping a desperate family thrown out on the streets with their belongings as christian evangelism. Is this what their religion taught them to be true Muslims. These are educationists supposedly teaching virtues to young minds. How many more of such educators are out there. Unfortunately we do not see much protest, if any, from their own people. Using this logic, then the government should segregate taxes paid according to muslims and non-muslims and only use it for helping people of that faith. This is what Kamarul is saying in essence. - Dr.Raman Letchumanan

Sim, just continue your good deeds...ignore this SICKMAN , he is trying to get our beloved country torn apart. Wonder , how can he still lecture in his University??? - Makchik Kiar

3-time election loser as deputy minister? 

An insult to voters...

When a person loses his deposit in three state and parliamentary elections but ends up being appointed as a deputy minister, we can safely assume that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark” so to speak. I hope readers will not construe this as a personal attack: the whole process of Guan Dee Koh Hoi’s appointment has nothing to do with him or his character, but shows how low government leaders continue to stoop so that they stay in power.

Guan Dee, who is secretary-general of Sabah’s Party Solidariti Tanah Airku (STAR), was appointed as deputy minister for tourism, arts and culture on April 16 after being appointed a senator. He stood for election to the Sabah state assembly in 2004 and 2008, and for a parliamentary seat in 2013. Each time, he contested under a different party ticket. Each time he fared miserably. His last outing in 2013 was the most pathetic: he obtained a mere 409 votes or 1.6% of the total votes cast in the parliamentary constituency of Beaufort in Sabah.

One can’t be wrong to assume that such candidates have been totally rejected by the people, whose votes are a strong signal that they don’t want this kind of politician to make laws that run our lives. By bringing politicians into the government through the “backdoor” via the senate, the politicians of the ruling Perikatan Nasional don’t seem to care how desperate they appear to be.

Guan Dee’s party STAR, led by Jeffrey Kitingan, holds six key seats in the Sabah assembly – if the party pulls out of the PN-led Gabungan Rakyat Sabah coalition, the Sabah government could collapse.

Muhyiddin Yassin’s coalition is in such a fragile position at the federal and state levels that it seemingly accepts without question anyone nominated by component parties to hold office, just not to rock the boat. Such desperation is damaging and probably that is why we have such a weak government, and lack of talent.

It is ironic that the PN-led government has been described by some critics, including Umno leaders, as a failed government when it appears that it is Umno that is keeping the coalition in power. - K. Parkaran,fmt

cheers.

UMNO disodomi sekali lagi...

Pasai apa kes meningkat...

Asal Cek Mau Pi Sekolah...

200 buah laptop sudah sampai.Hati terasa amat gembira. Pesanan ini sebenarnya dah buat awal tapi tersekat kerana isu kekurangan komponen global. Ada kawan-kawan yang nasihat saya stop projek ini memandangkan sekolah sudah buka. Sebab nak kutip dana beli laptop bukan mudah, perbelanjaan ofis sendiri pun sudah nak habis. 

Tapi terkenang nasib anak-anak yang tak mampu untuk beli laptop nak belajar, saya buat keputusan teruskan projek Asal Cek Mau Pi Sekolah. Laptop yang kerajaan janjikan pun tak sampai-sampai, kini sudah masuk bulan April. Syukur sekurang-kurangnya di Bukit Mertajam, kita agihkan 500 buah laptop dan tablet setakat ini. Susah sikit takpa, letih sikit takpa. Asal Cek Mau Pi Sekolah, saya akan kerja keras untuk cari dana. 

Selagi ada PAS semua sumbangan MP DAP akan dikaitkan 

dengan agenda Kristianasi. Gitulah otak jumud geng lebai ni...

Kriteria nak pohon?

Anak-anak Bukit Mertajam (Tingkatan 5-Universiti/Kolej) yang bersungguh-sungguh nak belajar dari keluarga kurang berkemampuan (B40 & M40, bergantung kepada bilangan anak).

Saya tak akan tanya kamu kaum apa.

Saya tak akan tanya kamu agama apa.

Saya tak akan tanya kamu undi parti apa. 

Asal Cek Mau Pi Sekolah saya akan bantu.

Orang yang derma ada Cina, Melayu, India. Anak-anak yang dapat ada Cina, Melayu, India. Kita semua orang Malaysia. ❤️ - Steven Sim Chee Keong,MP DAP Bukit Mertajam

Prices of fresh food increased 

KPDNHEP tidoqkah...

The government has admitted that the prices of fresh food in markets have increased due to inflation and other factors, including transport and animal feed costs.As such, the agriculture and food industries ministry is working with the domestic trade and consumer affairs ministry to manage the recent increase in prices for food items such as chicken, eggs and vegetables.

Deputy agriculture and food industries minister Che Abdullah Mat Nawi said they acknowledged that the people were facing price hikes in food items.He warned businessmen against profiteering or manipulating prices during this festive season. 

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) has urged authorities to intervene to resolve the drastic increase in chicken prices that coincided with the beginning of Ramadan.

CAP education officer NV Subbarow said the price hike had burdened everyone and that stern action must be taken against chicken suppliers.

“Previously, chicken was sold at RM7.50 a kg but now it’s sold between RM9 to RM10 per kg with the excuse that feed costs and other expenses have increased,” he said in a statement.

“Some suppliers said the price hike was due to breeders having to sustain increases in imported feed prices of up to 40%. This has happened not only here but everywhere,” he said. - fmt

Now We Know Why 

Putrajaya Is Broke...

Two Ministers and their aides took separate jollies to Saudi Arabia, ostensibly to arrange Haj quotas.

1.What is the real reason behind Muhyiddin Yassin and his entourage’s visit to Saudi Arabia, in early March? We were told to negotiate haj quotas. Really?

2. He claimed that Putrajaya is pokai (broke). Is Zoom inaccessible in Putrajaya?

3. Is the real reason for the trip so that Muhyiddin can beg for another ‘princely donation’, just as the convicted criminal, Najib Abdul Razak, did prior to GE-13?

4. Now, isn’t it loverly for Muhyiddin and Mrs to be given a royal guided tour of the historical religious sites in Saudi Arabia? How many of our political elite wander off to the back streets of any Saudi city and observe the poor Saudis especially their women, living wretched lives, or the migrant workers who live equally wretched lives. All Malaysians see is the glitter and the towering hotels and palaces of the uber Saudi rich.

5. What will Malaysia have to give up in these dodgy deals? Will more wahabi schools be set up in Malaysia? Will the more extremist brand of Islam be sown? More wahabi indoctrination? We should not be dealing with an evil regime, which murders its journalist.

6. In early April, weeks after Muhyiddin returned from Saudi Arabia, the Minister for Religious Affairs and his entourage went on a jolly to Saudi Araiba. Did minister Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri and his entourage, think that he would save Malaysian taxpayers’ money by accepting the freebie offered by the Saudi NGO, which is funded by the Saudi government. Silly man!!

If DAP had accepted a free trip sponsored by an American NGO to visit an armaments factory in America, Zulkifli and his mates would be screaming, “Down with the Capitalist imperialists”….or if the DAP had accepted a fully sponsored visit to another armaments factory in the People’s Republic of China, he and his mates would be screaming, “Komunis. Komumis.”

7. Don’t these ministers have advisers?

8. The reason for rejecting expensive gifts is simple. Anyone who receives a gift is beholden to the giver. What will Malaysia have to trade in exchange for an increased haj quota?

9. Why is the cost of going on the haj so high? At RM23,000 per person, it is a hefty sum. Normally Malays, a husband and wife, visit Saudi as a couple and they will be paying a small fortune to perorm their pilgrimage. Zulfikli could tell us the breakdown of cost. How much of the RM23,000 goes to the Saudis? How much to any crony or politician helming Tabung Haji? Under its former chairman, Tabung Haji’s finances were not healthy.

10. Successive Malay ministers screw their own kind. Why? Because few Malays dare scrutinise the actions of their ministers and politicians. No wonder many Malay politicians aided and abetted by corrupt cronies, have got away with their crimes.

Many Malays are very naive. They think that a religious man, or someone in an institution that protects the Malay man’s right to observe one of the pillars of Islam, ie the pilgrimage, can do no wrong. The gullible Malay is under the impression, that these Tabung Haji employees will not steal. Silly dolts!! 

Look what the former chairman, the Baling MP, Abdul Azeez Abdul Raheem, did to Tabung Haji. So, I ask you. How many ministers does it take to change a light bulb in Saudi Arabia. The answer is none. They are too busy “Enjoy”!! - Mariam Mokhtar

Asia Sentinel makes some 

blistering comments about Malaysia...

Malaysia, which early on in the fight against the Covid-19 coronavirus was one of Asia’s leaders, has begun to slip back, with at least some vaccine procurement seemingly diffused among competing parties thought to be aligned with top politicians, ostensibly illegal shots for royalty, low signup rates due to fears of blood clots, and sharply rising new cases.

Malaysia isn’t alone. Cases are surging across much of Southeast Asia, for instance in Brunei, Cambodia, Thailand, and other countries although all are far behind Indonesia and Philippines. With nearly more than 9,000 cases in the past week, Malaysia’s weekly rise has hit 35 percent during that period, according to statistics compiled by the website Worldometer.

The Ministry of Health has been seeking to identify reasons behind low take-up rates and considering steps to boost vaccine registration, plagued by the fact that vaccine doses have been trickling in slowly. Continue reading Here and Here...      

It is obvious to everyone by now that things are not right. The fact is things are very wrong with our corona virus vaccine program. Firstly talk has been floating around for some time about dubious wheeling and dealing over the procurement of the vaccines. Exactly who are the parties involved in procuring the vaccines again? Is it the same bunch of orang kaya and orang ternama? We need transparency.

Do not gamble with peoples' lives over monetary profit. And more importantly it is taxpayers money. Our money. Our money that should have bought the corona virus vaccines by the planeloads and should have been administered to the public months ago. Duit bapak kita. Yet that is not happening. This idea of registration, prioritising people etc is not working. Granted the frontliners seriously need to be vaccinated first, including the school teachers. 

But other than that there is absolutely no need to register. Just do what other countries are doing. Set up vaccination booths by the roadsides, in the basement carparks of empty buildings, in the football stadiums, at open areas with easy drive in access and just vacinate everyone. No need to check orang tua, orang muda, lelaki, wanita, Malaysian citizens, non citizens etc.

(In Malaysia we are having this online registration and now we discover that the online registration numbers are low.   Can we have a racial breakdown on the registrations? I can assure you that there is a disproportionate racial 'slant' to the number of registered people so far. I can assure you the rural areas are the least registered. That is where the majority of voters are also located as well.) 

The corona virus infects living human beings. The virus does not care whether you are an old person, young person, Malaysian citizen or not a Malaysian citizen. As long as you are a human being and you are alive the virus can infect you and all living human beings can become potential virus carriers.

So you do not vaccinate people according to age groups, voters, non voters, other groups, citizens or non citizens, by racial groupings etc. As long as they are human beings, they are still alive and they live among us then those human beings must be vaccinated. That simply means ALL living human beings who live in this country.

I find it really unthinking that non citizens, especially foreign factory workers who have now been confirmed to be "high risk" are not being vaccinated.  What is the point of vaccinating the rest of us citizens when the 'high risk' factory workers are not being vaccinated? They will still be carrying the virus around. 

Yes I am certain the Malaysian taxpayer will not object to paying for the vaccination of foreign workers. They contribute to our economy tremendously and certainly we have a duty to ensure their protection against the virus. This is a pandemic. Please bring out your humanity for a short while. Dr Noor Hisham I really hope this was not your idea. Such thinking makes a fool of your medical school teachers. 

All the other countries in the world are doing the vaccination in an almost identical fashion - people just drive up or walk into a vaccination area, show some type of identification (like our MyKad) for tracking purposes and they get vaccinated. There is no need for any registration.  - Syed Akbar Ali 

cheers.