Calon raja troll menang di CH...

Walaupun aku mnyokong PH,tp kemenangan Bn di prk CH diterima dgn senang hati..Sekali fikir,kemenangan Bn itu bagus utk PH..Sebagai loceng penggera kpd PH spaya sedar yg rakyat sdang menilai perfomance kamu..kesilapan demi kesilapan sdang dilakukan..

Janji dlm pru 14 dulu byk dilanggar..Lantikan utk menduduki kerusi glc yg kononnya bkn di kalangan org politik tlh dicabuli..Melantik ahli kluarga yg rapat dgn menteri dan mereka di level hadapan dlm pentadbiran negara amat dikesali..

Yg sedih lantikan juga dipilih drp kalangan org2 kuat Umno yg kuat mnghentam ph dlm pru 14 lalu..Bantuan kpd rkyat pula disampaikan dlm yg serba pyh..i-suri dan rebat tnb rm40 disyaratkan berdaftar dgn e-kasih sedangkan proses utk kelulusan e-kasih pun mngambil masa 3-6 bln..

Moral story drp prk CH,jika kamu tak ubah maka kamu yg akan diubah..noted!! - f/bk

I don't actually think CH by-election shows CH voters' rejection of Pakatan. Instead, it highlights the future of UMNO-PAS cooperation.  If you compare the early result, the combined UMNO-PAS vote share is about the same between GE and for this by-election. - HNS

Sungai Koyan masih belum dapat ditembusi...

Sepanjang siri kempen PH di Dun Sungai Koyan, himpunan bersama Dr Mahathir Mohamad yang diadakan di pekan Felda Sungai Koyan tengah hari tadi, adalah majlis yang paling berjaya dari segi kehadiran.

Empat malam sebelumnya saya juga turun untuk meninjau kempen PH yang diadakan di lokasi sama. Ceramah malam itu membabitkan pemimpin tertinggi PH, Kit Siang, Guan Eng, Mujahid Yusuf, Salahuddin Ayub, Abd Aziz Bari dan lain-lain.

Kehadiran malam itu sekitar 300 orang. Melihat kepada wajah yang hadir hampir separuh orang luar.

Berbeza dengan himpunan tengah hari tadi. Jumlah kehadiran agak memuaskan. Dr Mahathir sendiri menyatakan kegembiraanya kerana ramai yang pakai baju merah. Khemah panjang disediakan penuh sesak. Tidak cukup itu orang ramai berdiri di kiri dan kanan diluar khemah. Saya menganggarkan yang hadir sekitar 3,000. Namun sebagai majlis melibatkan PM, ia masih belum berjaya.

Semua yang berada di bawah khemah memakai baju merah, tertulis Harapan. Mereka terdiri daripada masyarakat Orang Asli dari semua peringkat perempuan, tua dan kanak-kanak. Mereka mungkin diangkut, dihimpun untuk melihat Perdana Menteri dan mendengar mananatnya menjelang hari mengundi esok.

Kenapa saya kata diangkut, sebab ada yang sudah mengenderai motisikal walaupun Dr Mahathir masih belum selesai berucap.

Saya tidak tumpu kepada ucapan Dr Mahathir, sebaliknya berjalan mengelilingi di sepanjang khemah meninjau, melihat gelagat dan air muka yang berada di bawah khemah. Yang jelas, saya lihat kurang wajah-wajah Melayu, khasnya peneroka. Ini bermakna masyarakat Sungai Koyan tidak mempedulikan himpunan itu dan mereka tidak teruja dengan himpunan itu.

Hanya ada dua tiga kerat sahaja Melayu, yang dipercayai peneroka. Manakala selebihnya, khasnya yang berdiri di luar khemah, memenuhi beberapa buah kedai kopi berdekatan, terdiri daripada petugas pilihan raya,pengiringi menteri dan juga pelancong politik seperti saya.

Saya tidak menjenguk ke dalam kawasan masjid, yang terletak di sebelahan, apakah ada yang curi mendengarnya dari dalam masjid. Saat Dr Mahathir berucap, kira-kira sejam sahaja lagi akan masuk waktu Zohor. Mereka yang kaki masjid pasti sudah berada dalam masjid untuk menanti solat Jumaat. Dr Mahathir juga bersolat di masjid itu. Begitu juga mereka yang “semen” segan untuk tampil dikhayalak kerana sebab tertentu mencuri dengar dari dalam masjid.

Yang boleh dirumuskan dengan himpunan itu, PH belum berjaya untuk memecah kubu BN di Sungai Koyan. Kehadiran Dr Mahathir masih belum membuka hati dan langkah mereka untuk hadir ke majlis PM, walaupun sekadar meraikan kedatangan PM ke kawasan mereka.

Senario itu menjelaskan kedudukan BN di Dun Sungai Koyan masih kuat, tidak berubah, bahkan makin kuat dan yakin, mereka akan menguasai Dun ini apabila orang-orang Pas juga bersama mereka apa lagi setelah presidennya mewajibkan mereka mengundi BN. Dun Sungai Koyan kini bukan sahaja dipagar oleh BN tetapi oleh orang Pas sama. Ini menyulitkan buat PH.

Keketatan itu ditambah pula oleh perintah dikeluarkan oleh Abdul Hadi Awang hari ini seperti dilaporkan beliau mewajibkan orang Pas mengundi BN. Pas dan BN kini berganding tangan menuju ke syurga. Masya-Allah. - MSO

PRK Cameron Highland adalah utk menentukan sikap Pengundi samada mahu menghidupkan amalan Penyangak dan Penyamun serta Lebai yg "berpuashati" dgn kegiatan mereka atau mahu menghapuskan amalan tersebut. - f/bk

Goyang-Goyang Syarie...

Hadi tak komenkah dah tua kerepot terlompat2 macam kera kena belacan...

Apalasamy – DAP's noble 

highlands warrior...

In the decades-long struggle of the DAP to establish a foothold in Cameron Highlands, a BN bastion for umpteen years, one figure occupies a special place.

Apalasamy Simmathiri, 67, was the DAP candidate in five general elections since 1990 – thrice for the state seat of Tanah Rata and twice for the parliamentary one of Cameron Highlands.

In all five contests, Apalasamy (above, in red cap) lost in this BN stronghold but managed to save his deposit, a case of being beaten but unbowed.

The defeats were not surprising because of the ruggedness of the vast terrain, the mixed-race composition of the electorate and the enormous advantages incumbency conferred on BN.

These obstacles, once seen as insuperable and now viewed as challenges that can be overcome, have shed a warm afterglow on Apalasamy's efforts at upholding the party's colours in the face of daunting odds.

In the two-week campaign for tomorrow's vote, Apalasamy was a conspicuous if reticent presence at Pakatan Harapan gatherings and ceramah.

Party workers cheer whenever speakers doff their caps to Apalasamy in prefatory remarks as if to acknowledge that the party would not be where it is in Cameron Highlands today had their veteran standard bearer not blazed the once lonely trail.

Apalasamy's pioneering efforts on behalf of DAP would fructify if its candidate to wrest the long-held BN seat, S Manogaran, wins tomorrow.

Forty-one years after setting up the first DAP branch in the district of Kuala Terla, Apalasamy, a vegetable farmer for most of his 67 years, will feel a sense of deep satisfaction that his pioneering efforts have borne fruit.

“When we set up the DAP branch in 1978, Cameron Highlands was part of the Lipis parliamentary constituency and Ghazali Shafie was the member of Parliament,” he recalled.

Invited by Patto

Apalasamy was born in Sungei Siput in 1950 to a leftist father, an estate mandore, who imbued him with sympathy for the poor and a sense of social activism on their behalf.

Good results in the Lower Certificate of Education in 1965 and at Senior Cambridge in 1967 brought him to the notice of then MIC leader and minister VT Sambanthan, the MP for Sungei Siput, who employed him as a peon in his constituency office.

He did not stay long in Sungei Siput. He moved to Cameron Highlands when he was offered a job as an assistant manager of a tea estate there.

Apalasamy came under the influence of the legendary P Patto whom he met in Sungei Siput on one of the DAP stalwart's support-garnering campaign swings in northern Perak. Patto invited him to join the party.

In 1970, Apalasamy left his tea estate job and bought an acre of land on which to plant vegetables in Kampong Terla which was to become a DAP stronghold.

He became a fixture of the DAP in the highlands, leading to serial appearances as a candidate for the state assembly from Tanah Rata and for Parliament from Cameron Highlands which was hived off from the Lipis ward by 1990.

If Manogaran triumphs in Camerons tomorrow, he will have to touch his forelock in gratitude to the man who paved the way for him. - Terence Netto,mk

People should be ashamed to continue supporting UMNO

Ucapan Dr.M semasa berkempen di PRK CH...

PAS-UMNO sudah bersetubuh..

cheers.

Perompak memeluk ulaq dalam semak...

Kisah maharaja perompak ahlan wasahlan dengan lebai ular dalam semak bukan lagi fantasi tapi sudah jadi realiti. Lebai ular dalam semak tidak malu menjaja sokongannya terhadap maharaja penyamun. 

Dulu lebai ular dalam semak berpelukan mencium pipi Lim Kit Siang dan Lim Guan Eng. Kawin mut'ah politik tak lama bila lebai munafik terlondeh serban mengecam DAP yang kafir.

Lebai ular dalam semak ini mungkin mabuk budu dan terlekat keropok lekor berkulat. Fitnah dilontar sama banyak dengan kentut busuk mereka. Ahli-ahli berstatus kaldai, lembu pawah, kerbau balaq merhaban separuh gila menyokong lebai ular dlm semak menyebar fitnah dengan fatwa songsang. 

Sekarang lebai ajaran songsang ini merhaban dengan maharaja penyamun selepas tersedak makan dedak haram. Dulu UMNO dikafirkan. Keluarga hancur akibat konflik fahaman politik. 

Berlaku sembahyang dua imam. Inilah ajaran sesat, fatwa songsang hasil punahsihat iblis dan syaitan yang bergayut pada serban dan janggut sejemput.

Cermin diri dan tanya diri sendiri dengan penuh kejujuran, wahai Melayu. Jangan kamu menipu diri menjaja hak istimewa Melayu dan Islam yang terancam. Dengan kuasa Allah dan rakyat yg insaf maharaja penyamun dan kabilah super koruptornya ditendang dari Putrajaya. 

Inilah para pemimpin yg bangsatkan Melayu dan memperlecehkan Islam. Memang kita mahu Melayu/Bumiputra bersatu, tapi bukan dininabobo oleh para pemimpin Melayu yang super korup, gila kuasa, lupa daratan, zalim, tidak berpegang pada tali Allah.

Kalau kamu Melayu berpegang pada tali Allah, insaf, anti korupsi, berjihad di jalan Allah, anti rasuah dan penyalahgunaan kuasa maka jadikan Tun Mahathir Mohamad sebagai obor perjuangan untuk memperkasakan hak dan kepentingan Melayu/Bumiputra dan Islam tanpa menyalahkan bangsa-bangsa lain untuk menutup kelemahan bangsa kamu sendiri. - Yahaya Ismail

Anwar on Talk Asia...

Singapore seeks to extend truce 

with Malaysia over air and sea borders...

Singapore is pushing hard to keep its dispute with Malaysia “on an even keel”, political analysts say, after the city state proposed both sides extend temporary concessions in their row over air space and maritime boundaries.

Singapore’s offer – made after a scheduled meeting on Wednesday between the two countries’ transport ministers – was for both sides to extend the concessions on the air space row.

Announcing the proposal on Facebook, Singapore’s Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said his Malaysian counterpart Anthony Loke would “take my suggestion back to his cabinet colleagues”.

The dispute regards Malaysia’s objections to a Singaporean plan to broadcast a new radar system over the state of Johor which borders the Lion City. Malaysia says this will inconvenience residents and restrict industrial development in Johor.

As a temporary measure, the two countries’ foreign ministers had agreed to stay their hand in the dispute. Malaysia, which reacted to the Singapore plan by declaring the affected area a restricted military training zone, lifted that restriction for a month, while the city state has suspended the implementation of the radar system for the same time period.

Khaw’s proposal is for these temporary terms to continue “to give our officials more discussion time to reach a win-win solution”.

He said he would meet Loke again after Lunar New Year. There was no immediate comment from Loke’s office.

Singapore-based analysts said the Lion City’s gesture was a huge contrast from its angry reaction a week earlier. It had accused a state level Malaysian official of jeopardising an accord on the row it had struck with the federal government led by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

“I see Singapore’s offer as an attempt to keep things on an even keel,” Eugene Tan, a political observer and law professor at the Singapore Management University, told This Week in Asia.

“Given the pace of negotiation and the entrenched position of both parties, Singapore is mindful that such an extension can help keep tensions at bay and would be positively received by Malaysia,” he said.

The ministers – who had exchanged fierce words after the row broke out in December – appeared to be engaged in “confidence building”, the law professor said.

Other analysts predicted the move would bring an air of calm to talks after the sour episode involving the state level official – the Johor chief minister Osman Sapian.

A day after the foreign ministers’ meeting in January, Osman boarded a Malaysian vessel in waters claimed by both countries – the second of the two disputes the neighbours are embroiled in. That action ran contrary to the entente reached by the foreign ministers. The Malaysian foreign ministry later distanced itself from Osman’s actions.

Buying more time for talks “creates a climate of diplomatic positivity”, said Mustafa Izzuddin, a research fellow at Singapore’s ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute who studies ties between the Lion City and its closest neighbour.

With the Lunar Year a major festival in both countries, it was “prudent to hold discussions after the festivities,” Mustafa said.

The cross border row has dominated social media conversations in both countries. Observers have described the current state of affairs as the lowest point in the two countries’ relationship in two decades.

The diplomatic chill has coincided with the return of Mahathir, widely viewed as a Singapore hawk, as prime minister.

Ties between the neighbours have been testy at times in the decades since they acrimoniously split in 1965. - scmp

Syed Saddiq on Hard Talk...

How shameless are these goons pretending not 

to know about a scandal of this magnitude? 

cheers.

Antara joget Apandi dan twist Tommy...

Kisah video Peguam Negara Tommy Thomas dan Ketua Hakim Richard Malanjum menari twist di atas pentas mengikut lagu popular 'Let's Twist Again' di majlis makan malam peguam2 2019 di Sabah telah menimbulkan kontraversi yang hangat di kalangan media sosial dan masyarakat.     

UMNO, yang baru sahaja kalah dalam PRU14 sejak 8 bulan yang lalu selepas berkuasa selama 61 tahun, mengatakan bahawa kelakuan Thomas dan Malanjum itu telah melanggar kod etika dan menimbulkan konflik kepentingan. 

Namun demikan seperti skandal banglo di antara bekas Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng dan bekas Ketua Menteri Selangor Khir Toyo, terdapat perbezaan besar antara aksi menari yang ditunjukkan oleh Apandi Ali dan Tommy Thomas.

Pertamanya, AG. Thomas dan Ketua Hakim Malanjum tidaklah melanggar apa kod etika kerana mereka hanya berhibur dalam Majlis Makan Malam Pembukaan Tahun Undang-Undang 2019, anjuran Persatuan Undang-Undang Sabah di Magellan Sutera Resort di Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Majlis ini adalah untuk komuniti peguam, bukan ahli politik, apatah lagi ia dilakukan di belakang pintu tertutup.

Sudah tentu adanya seorang ahli politik,Liew Vui Keong yang hadir dalam kapasitinya sebagai Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri yang menjaga undang2. Aktivis Ambiga dan Siti Kasim turut berada bersama kerana mereka juga merupakan peguam. Pendek kata, acara itu dihadiri oleh komuniti peguam,.

Dalam kes tarian bekas AG Apandi Ali pada tahun 2016, dia menari dengan lima orang menteri - Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, Salleh Said Keruak, Maximus Ongkili, Azalina Othman Said dan Nancy Shukri - semuanya adalah ahli politik dan sebahagian daripada kerajaan Barisan Nasional . Acara itu adalah perarakan Hari Merdeka di Dataran Merdeka, jelas di udara terbuka dan tiada kaitan dengan peguam.

Kedua, apabila Tommy Thomas dan Richard Malanjum naik ke pentas untuk menari, Thomas memakai baju putih dan Ketua Hakim memakai sut guaman. Apa yang kena mengena dengan kod pakaian? Kod pakaian mereka bermakna mereka menghadiri majlis makan malam dengan formal dan ikhlas - bahkan secara profesional - untuk bersenang2 dengan niat memihak kepada parti politik tertentu.

Apandi Ali pula, sebaliknya didapati menyanyi dan menari memakai pakaian seragam yang sama dengan para Menteri 2 gomen di bawah pentadbiran Najib. Lazimnya bila memakai pakaian seragam bererti kita menggalakkan penjenamaan tertentu, bersetuju dengan sepenuh hati dengan produk serta menyokong institusi berkenaan.

Ketiga, bekas AG. Apandi Ali dengan gembira menari dengan sekumpulan Menteri yang terpalit dengan rasuah setelah AG Apandi Ali membersihkan nama PM Najib Razak dari sebarang kesalahan rasuah RM681 juta (RM2.6 bilion) dana 1MDB yang dimasukkan ke dalam akaun bank pribadi Najib.  Bukan sahaja Apandi berbohong bahawa wang yang dicuri itu adalah derma dari keluarga diraja Saudi,tetapi  buat2 bodoh dan enggan bekerjasama dengan kerajaan Switzerland dan pihak berkuasa AS dalam siasatan 1MDB.  

     

Keempat, tidak seperti acara Hari Kemerdekaan, yang lebih kerap digunakan kerajaan untuk menaburkan propaganda atau agenda2 tertentu, majlis makan malam Tahunan Undang-undang seperti yang dihadiri oleh AG Thomas dan Ketua Hakim Malanjum adalah perhimpunan sosial untuk mempromosikan tradisi kesepakatan,persaudaraan,tarian dan budaya.

Kelima, Tommy Thomas dan Richard Malanjum bukan anggota dari mana2 parti politik, oleh karena pendirian mereka yang berkecuali dan profesionalisme. Walau bagaimanapun, perkara yang sama tidak boleh dikatakan mengenai Apandi Ali, kerana dia mengakui keanggotaannya dalam UMNO dari tahun 1982 hingga 1991. Seperti yang diramalkan, selepas dia dipecat oleh PM Mahathir, Apandi dilantik sebagai ahli majlis tertinggi UMNO tahun lepas.

Najib telah pilih Apandi Ali sebagai AG untuk membersihkan namanya dalam kes 1MDB. Jadi nak menyamakan tarian joget Apandi dan tarian twist Thomas menunjukkan bagaimana bekas rejim Najib dan macai2 UMNO  menggunakan sistem kehakiman secara terang-terangan untuk menutup amalan korupsi mereka. (Rencana ini adalah diadaptasi dan diterjemah dari artikal bertajuk "Attorney General Dinner Twist – Here’s Top-5 Difference Between Tommy Thomas and Apandi Ali Dance Drama" - FT) - T/Sekole

Hadi ada hati juga nak jadi PM...

Selama ini orang Melayu menerima argument Pas kenapa mereka menolak dan membenci DAP kerana parti itu kononnya anti Islam.

Kenyataan-kenyataan pemimpin Pas menuduh DAP menganggu urusan agama Islam, sebagai api membakar kemarahan orang Pas. Walhal kalau ikut logik tuduhan itu diada-adakan dan tidak munasabah, ia juga seolah-olah melupai yang perlembagaan negara mengawal kedudukan dan keistimewaan agama Islam.

Betapa pun DAP ingin memusnahkan Islam (?) atau anti Islam, mereka tertakluk kepada sekatan dan larangan undang-undang. Hujah dan tuduhan itu ditolak oleh mereka yang memahami kuasa yang ada dalam perlembagaan.

Tetapi bagi yang tidak reti atau sengaja buat-buat tidak reti tentang bidang kuasa perlembagaan menerima hujah Pas itu secara bulat-bulat. Mereka pun turut bersubahat dengan Pas membenci DAP.

Maka bagi kita yang cerdik tercari-cari kenapa sebab Pas marah kepada DAP. Sebelum ini dapat berkerabat dan berpelukan dengan DAP, tiba-tiba dilihat DAP sebagai anjing dan babi oleh Pas.

Pendedahan dibuat Kit Siang bahawa parti itu pernah mengeceknya agar menerima Hadi Awang jadi PM, membuka maklumat baru kepada umum. Bahawa kenapa Pas marah kepada DAP ialah kerana Kit Siang enggan terima Hadi sebagai PM.

Kata Kit Siang, Pas cerdik ia tidak langsung menunjuk Hadi sebagai PM, tetapi menunjukkan Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, sebagai ganti Anwar. Saya ingin mengesahkan apa didedahkan Kit Siang itu benar. Bahawa dalam PRU ke 13 Pas mahukan Tengku Razaleigh jadi PM bukannya Anwar. Kenapa?

Ertinya kemarahan Pas kepada DAP kerana parti Cina itu tidak mahu menerima Hadi dicalonkan sebagai PM. Oh rupa-rupa Abdul Hadi pelahap juga untuk jadi PM? - MSO

Dancing with lawyers: Richard 

and Tommy do the twist...

Some groups and individuals have gone into a song and dance about the gala dinner held in conjunction with what is known as the Opening of the Legal Year 2019 in Kota Kinabalu last Friday.

They are particularly unhappy that Chief Justice (CJ) Richard Malanjum and Attorney-General (AG) Tommy Thomas took to the stage to, as they say, join the party. Some party poopers are objecting to the two dancers dancing on stage, and some, a friend tells me, are objecting to their dance moves.

Reminds me of the old saw about some men objecting to fan dancers and others objecting to the fan. If you haven’t heard of a fan dancer, I’m afraid you may be too young.

Thomas and Malanjum are seen dancing to popular 60s rock ‘n roll tune “Let’s Twist Again” by Chubby Checker in a video clip of the event that has gone viral. Although they did not burn up the dance floor, their rendition of the twist has led to a burning debate.

The duo, together with, Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak David Wong Dak Wah and de facto law minister VK Liew, are seen dancing with lawyers such as Siti Kasim and Ambiga Sreenevasan at the function co-hosted by the Sabah Law Society and the Advocates Association of Sarawak.

The naysayers argue that by letting their hair down at the event together with a federal minister and some activist lawyers, Malanjum and Thomas had stepped out of line; that dancing with fellow members of the legal fraternity could give rise to a “negative perception” of the judicial and legal systems.

Umno Youth chief Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki described it as an embarrassment to the judicial and legal institutions and a violation of ethics.

Umno vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaacob, noting the two men had the right to dance if they so wished, quickly added that they were no mere individuals: they were also the CJ and AG. Therefore, people viewing the video clip of their dance on the stage would have a “negative perception” about them and this might give rise to a negative outlook of the judiciary.

Ismail, a minister under the previous Barisan Nasional regime, suggested that Malanjum and Thomas resign for this sacrilegious and dastardly act of dancing.

I suppose Malanjum and Thomas should be grateful that someone is asking for their resignation for actually dancing. Last March, Muhammad Ali Najafi, the mayor of Tehran, Iran, was forced to resign after Islamic hardliners went for his jugular for attending a ceremony at which primary school girls danced. Sometimes I think we are heading in that direction.

Not to be outdone, the Muslim Lawyers Association of Malaysia, I read, has called for the setting up of a tribunal to act against members of the judiciary if ethics had been breached by this deadly dance.

Its president Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar said there was nothing wrong with the trademark dancing at the event, only that Malanjum, Thomas, Wong, and Liew should have turned down the invitation to go up on stage.

I wonder: Would it have been all right if they had danced on the floor instead of on the stage? How so? A dance is a dance no matter where you dance.

While some naysayers simply want to lead us on a merry dance, others such as Ismail and Zainul Rijal have a point when they say those holding certain positions, such as that of chief justice, need to be more circumspect about what they do and when they do it. They, and we, don’t want a situation where the CJ or AG will dance to someone’s tune.

Nobody, for instance, complained when PKR president Anwar Ibrahim danced on stage with a Malaysian performer mimicking legendary Indian actor MG Ramachandran, better known as MGR, in September 2018. Anwar was campaigning for Halimey Abu Bakar who was then contesting in a by-election for the Seri Setia state seat.

Then again, the legal fraternity’s do is a once-a-year event, and the dance is part of the gala dinner tradition. So what’s the damage really? Isn’t this annual event aimed at fostering better relations between lawyers, judges and some in government in a, shall we say, controlled environment?

It is certainly better than the CJ or AG holding a clandestine meeting with, say, some lawyer overseas to fix cases or even judicial appointments. I think we all need to dance now and then. Give it a whirl. To get into the groove, I suggest you watch Shakira dance – you’ll find that her hips don’t lie. 

Life, if you really look at it, is the dance of the cosmos. And anytime you are angry with someone, try dancing; anytime you are sad; try dancing; anytime you feel lethargic; try dancing. Dancing, in case you don’t know, isn’t just for fun; it can also be therapeutic. It is good for both body and mind.

Innumerable studies show that dancing is especially beneficial for older people as it wards off signs of ageing. One study, for instance, that was published in the Public Library of Science’s genetic journal in 2006, says our ability to dance is connected to our ability to survive.

Dancing, it suggests, gave our prehistoric ancestors an evolutionary advantage as they were able to bond and communicate through dance, especially during tough times.

Some studies suggest that early humans might have danced to attract mates and … I better stop here or else someone may claim the gala dinner and dance was nothing but a gathering of people looking for mates. I already notice some eyebrows going up in Kelantan.

Now, we don’t want to waltz into another round of debates do we? - A Kathirasen,fmt

Pengundi2 Cameron Highland nak undi 

penyokong Israel kah? Pak Lebai "berpuashati"...

10 years challenge...

cheers.

Orang Asli tak perlu geran...

Kumpulan masyarakat Orang Asli tidak perlu mengemukakan geran untuk membuktikan hak milik ke atas tanah pusaka, kata bekas hakim Gopal Sri Ram.

Beliau berkata demikian bagi mengulas saman dikemukakan kerajaan persekutuan ke atas kerajaan negeri Kelantan berhubung pencerobohan ke atas tanah Orang Asli, lapor Free Malaysia Today.

Menurutnya, Orang Asli boleh mendapat hak milik tanah adat dengan hanya mengusahakan tanah atau memburu dan tinggal di kawasan sekitar, lapor portal itu.

“Menduduki tanah secara turun temurun adalah anggapan yang kuat dan tidak disangkal bahawa mereka memegang hak ke atas tanah itu,” katanya seperti dipetik dalam laporan itu.

Saman berkenaan menamakan kerajaan Kelantan, pengarah tanah dan galian, pengarah jabata perhutanan negeri, sebuah koperasi dan empat syarikat persendirian sebagai defendan.

Saman berkenaan dikemukakan bagi pihak Orang Asli Temiar di Pos Simpor, dekat Gua Musang. 

Menurut Peguam Negara Tommy Thomas, kerajaan negeri melanggar tanggungjawab mengikut perlembagaan untuk melindungi masyarakat terbabit.

Dalam kenyataan balas, Timbalan Menteri Besar Kelantan Mohd Amar Abdullah mendakwa Orang Asli hanya memiliki tanah yang dilupuskan hak kepada masyarakat terbabit.

Mengulas kenyataan itu, Gopal Sri Ram (pix,bawah) berkata Kelantan membuat tafsiran salah ke atas Kanun Tanah 1965 kerana mempercayai semua tanah dimiliki kerajaan negeri.

“Kerajaan negeri secara tidak mengikut undang-undang menyekat Orang Asli daripada tanah adat, dan tiba masanya hak ini dikembalikan,” katanya.

Sri Ram salah seorang daripada dua hakim dalam panel tiga hakim Mahkamah Rayuan yang memihak kepada Orang Asli dalam kes penting pada 1997 dan 2005.

Menurutnya, Perlembagaan Persekutuan, Kanun Tanah Negara, Akta Pengambilalihan Tanah 1960 dan Akta Orang Asli 1954 juga memihak kepada Orang Asli.

Menurutnya, pihak berkuasa boleh mengambil alih tanah tersebut tetapi masyarakat berkenaan perlu menerima pampasan setimpal.

“Jika tidak, ia melanggar hak ke atas harta mereka mengikut Perkara 13 (2),” katanya.

Dalam kes Selangor lawan Sagong Tasi pada 2005, Sri Ram yang menyampaikan keputusan itu berkata masyarakat Orang Asli Temuah berhak ke atas tanah adat. - f/bk

Kes pecah amanah dan salahguna 
kuasa Najib mudah dibuktikan...

A Kadir Jasin mendakwa bahawa bekas perdana menteri Najib Razak sudah mula menggunakan pelbagai tipu helah untuk melengah-lengahkan perbicaraan kes rasuahnya, seperti juga beberapa ahli politik lain.

Walau bagaimanapun, katanya, beberapa kesnya itu, khususnya yang membabitkan kes pecah amanah, salah guna kuasa dan penggubahan wang haram, boleh dibuktikan dengan mudah berbanding kes pembunuhan atau liwat.

“Tipu helah mereka ini samalah dengan yang digunakan oleh ahli politik dan pembesar lain yang diseret ke mahkamah sebelum ini.

“Najib sudah pun memulakannya dengan ‘enggan’ masuk kandang orang kena tuduh dan pasukan pembelaan beliau membantah kehadiran pegawai tertentu di pihak pendakwa.

“Yang nampaknya belum digunakan oleh Najib adalah berpura-pura sakit dan minta dimasukkan ke hospital. Sebaliknya kita lihat beliau segar-bugar dan cergas berpolitik, membuat tampalan media sosial dan berkempen pilihan raya kecil,” katanya.

Justeru, kata Kadir, orang ramai jangan berharap sangat untuk melihat Najib dan tertuduh lain disumbatkan ke penjara dalam masa yang singkat.

“Melainkan kes yang mudah, macam pengubahan wang haram, dibicarakan dahulu.

“Kita boleh mengambil perbicaraan pembesar politik sebelum ini sebagai contoh. Kes pecah amanah dan salah guna kuasa boleh dibuktikan dengan mudah berbanding pembunuhan atau liwat.

“Ada orang kata, kes pengubahan wang haram (money laundering) juga boleh dibuktikan dengan mudah,” katanya.

Pasukan peguambela bekas perdana menteri itu sedang berusaha untuk menangguhkan perbicaraan pecah amanah dan pengubahan wang haram Najib yang membabitkan RM42 juta daripada SRC International Sdn Bhd, bekas anak syarikat 1MDB.

Dalam perkembangan yang sama, Kadir berkata bahawa Najib telah menyatakan secara terbuka bahawa skandal 1MDB bukan kesilapannya seorang diri tetapi "kegagalan sistem".

Najib mendakwa bahawa 1MDB adalah kerana kegagalan perniagaan dan bukannya penipuan tetapi bagi Kadir, 1MDB adalah sebuah persepakatan atau konspirasi penipuan yang melibatkan banyak orang dan pihak di dalam dan luar negara.

“Adakah beliau telah menganiaya (incriminate) diri sendiri dengan mengaku bahawa beliau terlibat dengan kes kegagalan sistemik 1MDB?

“Soalnya adakah pengakuan beliau itu juga boleh dijadikan bukti sahih (admissible evidence) dalam perbicaraan beliau dan konco-konconya?

“Kesimpulannya, dalam bahasa yang mudah Najib berkata memang berlaku kegagalan sistemik dalam 1MDB dan beliau terbabit. Tetapi bukan beliau seorang sebaliknya banyak orang lain turut terlibat,” kata Kadir. - f/bk

Occupying ancestral land proof 

enough of Orang Asli rights...

A retired judge says the Orang Asli community in the peninsula need not produce a title to prove their right to their ancestral land, in the wake of a landmark move by the federal government to sue Kelantan over encroachments on native land rights.

Gopal Sri Ram said the Orang Asli would have acquired a customary title to the land merely by cultivating, hunting and living in the areas.

“Occupying the land for generations is a strong and almost irrefutable presumption that they hold the title,” he told FMT.

In the suit filed at the Kota Bharu High Court last weekend, the federal government named the Kelantan government, the state director of land and mines, the state director of the forestry department, a cooperative and four private entities.

Attorney-General Tommy Thomas said the government was instituting legal proceedings on behalf of the Temiar Orang Asli in Pos Simpor, near Gua Musang, as the state had breached its legal and constitutional duty to protect them.

However, Kelantan Deputy Menteri Besar Mohd Amar Abdullah said the Orang Asli in the state only owned land that had been alienated by the state government.

“The Orang Asli do not own any land except for the land awarded by the state government,” he said in an immediate reaction to the suit.

But Sri Ram, who returned to practice after retiring as a judge, said the state had misunderstood the law by believing that it owned all the land under the National Land Code 1965.

“In my respectful view, the state has unlawfully deprived the Orang Asli of their ancestral land, and it is time for this right to be restored,” he said.

Sri Ram had been on the two three-member Court of Appeal panels which decided on the land rights of the Orang Asli in the landmark cases of 1997 and 2005.

He said the Federal Constitution, National Land Code, Land Acquisition Act 1960 and Aboriginal Peoples Act 1954 were also in favour of the Orang Asli.

He acknowledged that the authorities could acquire their land, but stressed that they must receive adequate compensation.

“Otherwise, this would be a violation of their right to their property under Article 13 (2),” he said.

In the 2005 case of Selangor v Sagong Tasi and others, Sri Ram, who delivered the judgment, said the Temuan tribe had native title rights over their customary lands.

He said although the radical title to land was vested in the state authorities, this did not bar the Orang Asli from acquiring a customary community title of a permanent nature.

“The precise nature of such a customary title depends on the practice and usage of land by each individual community, to be decided by the trial judge,” he said.

He added that the Aboriginal Peoples Act, a human rights statute, was enacted to protect and uplift the indigenous people in the country.

“It acquires a quasi-constitutional status, giving it pre-eminence over ordinary legislation,” he said. “It must therefore receive a broad and liberal interpretation.”

Meanwhile, lawyer Syed Iskandar Syed Jaafar Al Mahdzar said the legal battle between Putrajaya and the Kelantan government could end up in the Federal Court as the parties would ask the judges to interpret the constitution and all related federal laws.

“Such an outcome would help demarcate clearly the rights and liabilities of state governments towards the aborigines,” he said. - fmt

Satu dah diangkat naik di jambatan pertama...

Satu lagi pi terjun pulak di jambatan kedua...

Dengaq kata bergaduh dgn isteri,isteri mintak cerai 

dia pun terjun jambatan kedua...

cheers.

BN guna psikologi sonsang...

Jika pada empat pilihan raya kecil sebelum ini Pakatan Harapan mampu mengekalkan kerusi mereka dengan selesa, tetapi bagi PRK Cameron Highlands kali ini, PH perlu melalui jalan yang berliku untuk merampas kerusi yang secara tradisinya disandang oleh MIC itu.

Pada minggu pertama kempen, PH sudah membawa turun nama-nama besar dan menteri mereka seperti Menteri Kewangan Lim Guan Eng dan Presiden PKR Anwar Ibrahim di salah satu dari dua Dewan Undangan Negeri di bawah parlimen Cameron Hihglands iaitu Jelai.

Namun, amat mengejutkan ceramah perdana pada 17 Januari itu tidak mendapat sambutan hangat seperti ceramah-ceramah anjuran PH sebelum ini di tempat lain.

Malah, forum perdana hal ehwal Islam dari pendakwah bebas Ustaz Kazim Elias yang turut diadakan pada masa yang sama di masjid berdekatan di Felda Sungai Koyan lebih mendapat sambutan daripada ceramah menteri-menteri.

Antaranya merupakan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Mujahid Yusof Rawa, Timbalannya Fuziah Salleh, Menteri Komunikasi Gobind Singh Deo dan Menteri Industri dan Asas Tani Salahuddin Ayub.

Persepsi negatif pada DAP

Pengarah Eksekutif Ilham Centre Mohd Azlan Zainal pula berkata setakat ini, PH tidak menampakkan usaha yang setimpal untuk meraih undi dari kaum Melayu dan Orang Asli di Cameron Highlands.

“Faktor calon PH, M Manogaran seorang India menyukarkan PH untuk masuk dan menerobos ke kawasan ini terutama di Jelai.

“Tambahan pula, serangan terhadap kerajaan PH bertali arus membentuk persepsi negatif orang Melayu terhadap DAP.

“Walaupun BN pada hakikatnya tidak mempunyai sebarang tawaran dalam PRK kali ini, tetapi gabungan itu mengambil tindakan menyerang terhadap isu agama dan kaum.

“Atas kelemahan menangani isu-isu Melayu dan Islam serta ketiadaan sumbangan atau insentif kepada masyarakat Orang Asli, semua ini dimanipulasi sebaiknya oleh BN untuk melonjakkan sentimen penolakan kepada PH dalam PRK kali ini,” katanya.

Azlan juga berkata, slogan “Tiada Janji Lihat Bukti” dari BN merupakan satu psikologi songsang (teknik menarik perhatian dengan rangsangan berlawanan) bagi meraih simpati untuk mengekalkan undi orang Melayu dan Orang Asli.

Najib adalah hero di Jelai 

Menurut penganalisis politik Ibrahim Suffian, keadaan sekarang menyaksikan pertandingan yang sama rata di antara Barisan Nasional dan PH.

“BN sedang cuba meraih sokongan daripada penyokongnya dan juga dari PAS.

“Mereka juga perlu mempertahankan sokongan daripada sejumlah besar pengundi Orang Asli di sana,” katanya kepada Malaysiakini.

Berdasarkan pemerhatian Malaysiakini, rata-rata pengundi di Jelai yang majoritinya pengundi Melayu masih sangsi dengan pentadbiran baru PH. Di Jelai penduduk Melayu terdiri daripada 64 peratus daripada 12,543 jumlah pengundi di situ. Sayang mereka terhadap bekas perdana menteri Najib Razak tiada tolok bandingnya, malah kehadirannya juga beberapa hari lalu disambut dengan meriah.

Bagi penduduk peneroka Felda di situ, Najib adalah hero yang membela kebajikan mereka. Menurut mereka, ketika zaman pentadbiran Najib, pendapatan bulanan peneroka tidak kurang daripada RM2,000. Tetapi hari ini selepas kerajaan persekutuan diambil alih oleh PH, mereka menyaksikan bayaran yang lewat, hasil pendapatan yang kurang.

Penjelasan mengenai harga kelapa sawit rendah juga tidak diterima mereka. Di Jelai terdapat 851 peneroka Felda iaitu dari Felda Sungai Koyan 1,2 dan 3. Mereka lupa dengan semua pertuduhan Najib berkaitan syarikat pelaburan negara 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

Bagi mereka, isu tersebut terlampau rumit untuk dihadam. Apa yang lebih penting adalah insentif dan bantuan sara hidup mereka yang diperolehi ketika zaman pentadbiran Najib. Dari mana atau bagaimana peruntukan wang tersebut diperolehi bukan satu yang perlu dititikberatkan.

Untuk rekod, Najib kini berhadapan 38 pertuduhan berkaitan dengan 1MDB, termasuk dakwaan pengubahan wang haram, penyalahgunaan kuasa dan juga jenayah pecah amanah.

Faktor kaum penting 

Azlan juga berkata isu perkauman berikutan insiden rusuhan di kuil Sri Maha Mariamman di Seafield sheingga menyebabkan seorang anggota bomba bertugas, Adib Mohd Kassim cedera parah dan meninggal dunia menambahkan rasa tidak selesa orang Melayu terhadap calon PH.

Malam tadi, Presiden PAS Abdul Hadi Awang hadir sepentas di Jelai bersama Timbalan Presiden Umno Mohamad Hasan yang menjalankan tugas-tugas presiden parti itu. Bagaimanapun, Azlan percaya penyokong PAS akan pecah kepada tiga kumpulan pada hari pengundian nanti.

“Pertama, mereka akan mengundi calon bebas yang dilihat Melayu dan termasuk pengundi yang mempunyai hubungan kekeluargaan dengan calon terutama di Sungai Koyan (Sallehudin Ab Talib).

“Kedua, mengundi untuk calon BN atas arahan parti dan kelompok ketiga tidak keluar mengundi sebagai tanda protes terhadap kerjasama Umno-PAS,” katanya.

Modal BN yang menggunakan kegagalan PH dalam menunaikan semua janji manifestonya nampaknya berkesan apabila perkara sama turut dibangkitkan oleh penduduk di Jelai. Bagi sesetengah penduduk di Jelai yang ditemui, mereka berpendapat persoalan siapa calon menjadi lebih penting daripada apa yang boleh ditawarkan kepada mereka.

Terdapat penduduk yang diwawancara memberitahu mereka tidak kisah siapa yang diletakkan sebagai calon, janji calon tersebut mempunyai ‘bin’ pada namanya. Entah apa ada pada nama sehingga penyokong PAS di situ turut menitik-beratkan perkara yang sama bagi PRK kali ini. Lebih-lebih lagi apabila pemimpin dari parti Islam itu mula berkempen bagi calon BN di situ bagi menggesa pengundi PAS di kawasan tersebut mengundi calon BN.

BN melanggar tradisi dengan tidak meletakkan calon MIC dan buat pertama kalinya meletakkan calon kaum Orang Asli dari suku kaum Semai, Ramli Mohd Nor yang bukannya anggota mana-mana parti dalam BN. PH meletakkan calon dari DAP, Manogaran yang merupakan percubaan kali ketiganya di situ. Penduduk Melayu di kawasan itu dijangka memainkan faktor penting dalam PRK tersebut pada 26 Januari ini.

Tanah Rata 

Manogaran diterima baik oleh kebanyakan penduduk di Tanah Rata. Ini boleh dilihat pada sambutan yang memberangsangkan apabila beliau mengadakan aktiviti berkempen dalam majlis kutipan dana makan malam pada Sabtu lalu (19 Januari) yang menyaksikan kehadiran kira-kira 500 orang.

Bagaimanapun, Ibrahim mengingatkan bahawa hari mengundi sangat hampir dengan Tahun Baru Cina, di mana peluang bakal tidak memihak kepada PH.

“Peluang mereka tipis kerana peratusan keluar mengundi rendah di kalangan pengundi Cina di sana.

“Jika ramai kaum Cina yang pulang mengundi, keputusan akan memihak kepada PH, tetapi dengan perayaan Tahun Baru Cina yang semakin hampir, kemungkinan mereka tidak akan pulang untuk mengundi dalam pilihan raya yang tidak mengubah corak politik negara,” kata Ibrahim.

DUN Tanah Rata terdiri daripada 48 peratus pengundi Cina, 14 peratus Melayu, 24 peratus india dan 14 peratus lain-lain. - MC

Lepas jabat tangan dengan orang India. Najib pakai sanitiser. 

Pakai sanitiser tak boleh cuci tangan yang kotor kerana mencuri duit rakyat!

Najib’s Grand Plan To Avoid Jail Time And Makes A Return As Prime Minister Again...

Najib Razak appears to be a happier man nowadays. As the dust settles, the former prime minister realises that he might not need to spend time in prison after all, despite his 1MDB corruption and money laundering as well as the discovery of RM117 million cash together with RM1 billion worth of 12,000 pieces of jewellery in his children’s luxury Pavilion Residences condominiums.

There are still truckloads of corrupt officers in every single institution in the country who wish and pray for the return of the Crook-in-Chief Najib. From the Royal Malaysia Police, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Judges, Civil Service and whatnot, his supporters miss the good old time where they could earn extra incomes through corruption.

Heck, even the coming Cameron Highlands could see the once corrupted UMNO party score its first victory. Voters, especially the poverty-stricken “Orang Asli” community which makes up 23% of the registered voters, have made it known that they really miss the part when the previous Barisan Nasional government would give them free cash during the election, obviously to buy their votes.

Mr. Najib’s strategy to avoid a jail sentence is pretty simple – to outlive the Mahathir administration. Najib’s No. 1 enemy is Mahathir. The 93-year-old prime minister is expected to hand over the throne to PM-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim in about 1 year. And Najib is confident he can easily outsmart and outplay the easy meat Anwar, the same guy he had imprisoned for sodomy.

Mike Tyson was once the fearsome heavyweight boxer who would knock out his opponents in seconds, not rounds. He used ferocious and intimidating boxing style to win. In 1990, Tyson, known as the “Baddest Man on the Planet”, stunningly lost the undisputed world heavyweight championship to underdog James “Buster” Douglas, who knocked him out in the tenth round.

Yes, the 42-1 “Iron Mike” Tyson was unexpectedly defeated not only due to his arrogance, but because Douglas had a better game plan. He lured the thuggish Tyson to play rounds of tiring games. The impatient Tyson was caught with his pants down as Douglas patiently kept his hard-hitting opponent at bay with a series of well-timed jabs. It was the first time Tyson had ever been knocked down.

Najib Razak, already facing 32 charges of CBT (criminal breach of trust), money laundering and abuse of power, wanted to play the same game like James “Buster” Douglas – dragging his trials for as long as possible until the old “Iron Mahathir” serves his half a term (2 years) and hands over power to Anwar Ibrahim, the undisputed “Jack of all trades, master of none”.

The Lady Luck is smiling at Najib when the Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan abdicated the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) throne recently due to mysterious reasons. There’s a very high possibility that the newly installed Sultan Abdullah of Pahang will be voted as the new King. Speculations have it that Najib will try to influence the sultan to pardon him – by hook or by crook – if convicted and sent to prison.

Najib’s influence within the Pahang royal house cannot be underestimated. The Pekan Member of Parliament holds the title of “Orang Kaya Indera Shahbandar” and is one of the “Orang Besar Berempat”, as well as members of the Pahang royal household. There’s a reason why Pahang becomes UMNO’s last bastion, not Johor, after it lost horribly in the May 2018 general election.

At the peak of 1MDB scandal in 2015, then Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang dropped a surprise bombshell – urging the people to support Najib Razak. Using the monarch to hoodwink the people, Najib then happily announced that he had secured the backing of the Sultan of Pahang to remain as prime minister, as he sought to drum up support to offset the Mahathir’s demand that he resign.

Although getting the new King to pardon Najib is not as easy as a walk in the park, the chances are higher with Anwar as the prime minister than Mahathir. While Mahathir would definitely fight the monarchy at the slightest whisper of pardoning the crooked Najib, the same cannot be said about Anwar. Mr. Anwar would most likely kiss the hand of the monarch and obey silently.

On Friday (Jan 18), Najib shamelessly claimed he cannot and should not be blamed for the 1MDB scandal as it was due to a systemic failure and Goldman Sachs’s failure in its task. Going by his logic, drug lords can also claim that they cannot and should not be blamed for drug trafficking as it was due to the education system’s failure in educating society about illicit drug use.

In the same breath, rapists can claim that they cannot be blamed for raping underage girls as it was due to the Internet failure in filtering pornographic materials. In the same context, a bank robber can claim innocence because he was retrenched during a recession, hence the system’s failure to guarantee his employment should be blamed instead.

This is not the first time Najib has blamed everyone and everything under the sun – but himself – for the 1MDB scandal. Previously, he profusely blamed the 1MDB board of directors for the company’s scandal. Of course, he blamed his mentor-turned-nemesis Mahathir too. Heck, he had even blamed Jho Low, his partner-in-crime for the notorious scandal.

Make no mistake. All the blame games were meant to divert attention and to delay his trial, not to mention to create a false impression to the gullible and ignorant folks that the son of Razak wasn’t a crook. A Pardons Board typically consist of the King, the Minister responsible for Federal Territories, three other members appointed by the King as well as the Attorney-General.

Now, assuming Najib and Anwar could agree to some sort of backroom deals, the biggest obstacle in the Pardons Board representatives will be the Attorney General Tommy Thomas. Neither Anwar nor the King can control the incorruptible A.G. Thomas. Now, do you understand why the pro-Najib cybertroopers, propagandists and bloggers badly wanted the A.G. to be removed?

While a royal pardon is Plan-B, Najib hopes his hotshot lawyer, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, could drag his case for years – until the next general election. With Pakatan’s dozens of policy U-turns and failure to implement promises in its election manifesto, Najib and his supporters – both within UMNO and PAS Islamist party – were convinced they could wrestle back the federal government.

In a scenario where the current Pakatan Harapan becomes a 1-term government, Najib hopes to return as the next premier, provided he hasn’t been convicted by then. The last 8 months have shown how he looks, talks, walks, whines and behaves like a de-facto opposition leader. He will immediately reverse everything that Mahathir had implemented upon winning the 15th general election, which must be held latest by 2023.

The fact how the defiant crooked Najib bravely – and deliberately – refused to enter the “dock” during the case management over his 25 charges of graft and money laundering relating to transactions amounting to RM2.3 billion linked to 1MDB about 2 months ago go to show how little respect he has on the judiciary, authorities and even Mahathir administration.

More importantly, Najib’s insult on the judges and police officers means the 60-year-old corrupted systems still believe there’s a remote chance that the disgraced former leader could make a comeback, therefore, the refusal by certain authority personnels to play the rule of law to the fullest but instead “gives face” to the world’s biggest crook.

Indeed, Cameron Highlands’ by-election, the first in a Barisan-controlled state, will be the litmus test if UMNO could rise again from ashes. Even the 93-year-old Mahathir has to be roped in to join the campaign in the highlands. Like Mahathir, who made the history as the only leader who becomes the premier for the second time, Najib also fantasizes about making a return. - FT

Kat Penang Pak Lebai buat kalut...

Ini rupanya Pak Arab yang derma RM2.6B tu...

cheers.