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Premesh Chandran Dissection Is No P T Barnum Circus

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:12 PM PDT

"The attacks against Malaysiakini signal that the government is getting desperate."

From what I see, you are the one looking like a desperado.

"For the past week, the mainstream media – TV3, Utusan Malaysia, New Straits Times and The Star – have launched an attack on Malaysiakini and civil society organisations for receiving grants from international foundations in what they claimed is a plot to destabilise the government."

Er what about the alternative media? Silly me. We are all UMNO, strange how it is always UMNO, cybertroopers.

"I understand the reason for the attacks. After all, elections are around the corner, and by all accounts, the results could go either way."

By whose, what or which account and where?

His dissection can easily dupe gullible Pakatan Rakyat supporters and his paying followers but unlike Anwar Ibrahim, who is only good at scripted events, Premesh'es prepared script is confounding, for want of an appropriate word.

So, here we go.

1. Same accusation 11 years ago

Premesh does not address, answer or deny Y L Chong's allegation that he was promised shareholding and whether Chong is a shareholder.

"Chong went to the media with the accusation that the deal was a grant". Whether the "grant" was remittance for the "contract to build a software application for the Centre for Advanced Media Prague (Camp), which is MDLF's technology division" is left to the reader.

It would sound bizarre wouldn't it, grant for a contract?

Malaysiakini to "build a software application for the Centre for Advanced Media Prague"? and which is "MDLF's technology division"?

You figure that one out.

2. Soros man on Malaysiakini board

"Malaysiakini received RM1.3 million for 29 percent of equity and MDLF agreed to sign an editorial non-intervention agreement."

That is a real howler.

If Premesh claims Malaysiakini is as independent as he says it is, there is no need for such an agreement. In other words there is a chance or there are occasions that MDLF have intervened.

By the way, what is the recourse to intervention by MDLF? Forfeiture of MDLF shares?

More likely a standard MDLF agreement to and for show MDLF does not have control over content in any medium it invests in.

"Soros, a Hungarian with a track record of supporting press freedom, was among the many major donors of MDLF."

Oh really? see #3. following.

"Not only does MDLF have a right to be on Malaysiakini's board given its stake in the company, it is hardly business sense for us to pass on the opportunity to have such distinguished individuals to serve on our board."

Come on lah Premesh, with Steven son of a Gan (couldn't help it) and yourself holding a combined 60% majority stake, Harlan or MDLF could not be on board with no rights unless both of you gave them rights and makes nonsense of an "editorial non-intervention agreement".

3. But why attack Soros?

Forbes' "How Soros Makes the World More Dangerous" -

"Does Soros care that his personal foreign policy is putting America at risk? Not likely. When asked whether he felt responsible for his role in the 1997 East Asian currency crash, he famously responded: "As a market participant, I don't need to be concerned with the consequences of my actions."
Self explanatory "The Hidden Soros Agenda: Drugs, Money, the Media, and Political Power"

4. Malaysiakini gets grants from foreign donors

See 1. above

Premesh, give any one year, in the last 7 years, a detailed income and expense financial statements, as proof, grants meant for non-profit projects has not been utilised in your for-profit organisation.

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Cocky Arrogant Tokong

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 01:31 PM PDT

Penang DCM I, Mansor Othman, thought he was safe within the confines, comradeship and confidentiality of a closed-door PKR special (to Chinese echelon leaders) meeting, when he let loose his opinion of CM Lim Guan Eng wakakaka.

And it sure as mafulat didn't help when his CM boss belongs to a different (and potentially rival) political party. Alamak, not brilliant ler for a PKR No 2 saying his DAP No 1 is cocky, arrogant and (considered by Penangites as a) tokong, wakakaka.

As FMT journalist Athi Shanker (who I suspect from his previous writings doesn't like DAP, wakakaka) cleverly put it:

Just when PKR thought the worst was over, the CAT has reared its ugly head again, much to the chagrin of the party's Penang chief and Deputy Chief Minister I Mansor Othman.

CAT here is not the "competency, accountability and transparency" tune routinely sung by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng about his Pakatan Rakyat state administration.

In this instance CAT means "cocky, arrogant, tokong", a refence Mansor allegedly made to Lim.

Guan Yu (Kwan Kong) worshipped for integrity, honour, righteousness & brotherhood

Now, we have two types of C.A.T in Penang wakakaka. But really man, I should be pissed as I'm a dog lover and consider cats only good as door stoppers (sorry darling, wakakaka), but jokes aside, as I had written in my post  PKR and its arrogant tokong one month ago:

Loose lips sink ships, or in this case, (the potential to sink) the Rocket spaceship. As they say, 'perception' matters in politics and whether there's any truth in PKR Mansor Othman's vocalized opinion of Lim GE, doesn't matter a bloody fig.

Each and everyone of his enemies, from those in MCA to pro-UMNO and ultra anti-Lim GE bloggers (wakakaka), and even those in PKR, will have a field day dissecting, pseudo-analyzing and writing ugly dissertations on Lim Guan Eng's political leadership.

The significant political damage would be to the reputation of Lim Guan Eng among his nascent and growing Malay supporters, while Mansor Othman merely suffers the embarrassment of being exposed for badmouthing an ally and boss, though in a worst case scenario he may have (post the next Penang State election) a frigidly courteous, cold and contentious boss.

But in visualizing the worst case scenario, maybe we're falling prey to Athi Shanker's projection in FMT that:

Whether or not Mansor's alleged description of Lim was spot on, the Penanti assemblyman has surely fueled Lim's wrath.

Mansor now faces a tough political future in Penang so long as Lim, from Malacca, hangs around in the island-state.

A PKR source said Mansor, who is a party vice-president, must now move out of Penang to safeguard his political interests, alleging that Lim could be "vindictive and vengeful."

The source said PKR feared that Lim would order DAP leaders and members not to help Mansor's campaign in the coming general election.

As I mentioned, Athi Shanker might possibly be not well disposed to the DAP and could be imagining the worst of Lim Guan Eng.

Lim GE is not so small-minded as Shanker has penned, based on his sources. We should remember Lim has been a man who was willing to be jailed for the justice of an (then) under-age Malacca Malay girl. We may say he possesses very high quality values, and would not be a person to be vindictive, much as BN wants us to believe.

And if you believe in God, as Lim GE does, wakakaka (sorry for the wakakaka, just ignore me, kaytee the blooming atheist), then we could say the Almighty has rewarded him for his courageous and Guan Yu-like righteous deed for a Malacca Malay girl and her grandmother.

Now, back to topic, much as it may sound strange for me who's not well disposed towards PKR wakakaka, I personally didn't and still won't place much blame on Mansor for his indiscretion in badmouthing Lim GE behind the latter's back. The brouhaha has been nothing more than just a storm in a Pakatan teacup.

Hey, badmouthing someone behind his back, while in itself is bad, means it's suppose to be a private opinion or an opinion expressed among confidantes, wakakaka, and not intended as a biadap-ish disrespect. Surely most of us at one time or another have mafulat-ishly mumbled & muttered imprecations at someone, even those close to us, privately of course or only in thoughts. There is only one rule when doing so, don't get caught and be publicly exposed, wakakaka.

Mansor Othman's sin had been in naively believing he was secure within the confines, comradeship and confidentiality of a closed-door PKR meeting, but alas, PKR is not unlike a vipers' nest. The hand that has plunged the assassin stiletto into Lim's political back is not that of Mansor Othman, though I have to say he (Mansor) had naively lent his hand to the assassin for the backstabbing job.

Tian Chua? wakakaka

It didn't help when the PKR Chinese faction (supposedly headed by Big Boss Tian Chua wakakaka) was worried about Mansor ceding some state constituencies held or lost (in March 2008) by PKR to DAP, perhaps as a quid pro quo for DAP not to compete with PKR for the State's Malay dominated seats(?).

That adverse scenario for the anxious PKR Chinese members was further aggravated when the x number of Chinese members wanting to present themselves as PKR state candidates realized there were only x-1 available constituencies for them, the Chinese elements of PKR.

Now, when you become aware you're a loser, or it's made known you'd be one vis-à-vis the list of candidates for the next election, your sour-grapes vengeful exposé of a covertly taped conversation with Mansor committing his faux pas, though totally unethical, would not surprise me in the least, given the generally PKR's viperous environment and culture.

And assuming erstwhile PKR MP for Nibong Tebal Tan Tee Beng has been truthful (wakakaka) in stating that, when he was in PKR, Anwar approved attacks against Guan Eng because he (The Great One) considered Lim GE as kurang ajar and desired to "... reproach Lim for his wrongdoings and mismanagement in Penang", it's yet another salutary lesson in being careful of what you say when you are in nest of vipers.

Much as I personally dislike Anwar, and yes, he (The Great One) might have said something uncomplimentary about Lim GE, I doubt he would go to the extent of saying those stuff like what Tan would have us believe.

Okay, say maybe he did, that would then make Anwar's unflattering remarks about Lim a trillion quadrillion quintillion times worse that that of Mansor Othman because of the words kurang ajar and the green light to publicly attack an ally. But as I said, I don't believe Tan 100%.

Tan is the son of Tan Ghim Hwa, a Penang Gerakan Party big-shot at one time. I mentioned the father in an earlier post  Analysing Tan Tee Beng's resignation from PKR where I penned:

But this post is not about Tan becoming a frog. If he does that, it won't surprise me. After all, his family roots are in Gerakan-BN. His father Tan Ghim Hwa was the former Gerakan State Chairman, and known as the sworn enemy of the DAP.

Lim Kit Siang had in 1991 described Tan Ghim Hwa as a political vulture in a matter where phone threats were made against Lim, allegedly by some Gerakan Party members.

This post is more about Tan Junior's attack against CM Lim GE in particular and the DAP in general.

We can of course speculate that his background could have been a possible factor in his latent hostility towards the DAP and the son of Lim Kit Siang, and eventually brought to the boil after some disagreement with CM Lim.

But let us not forget that he came from the Chinese section of PKR, led by (its de facto section leader wakakaka) Tian Chua.

Uncle Lim described his father as a 'political vulture', and for his unethical kiss-and-tell-like revelation about an alleged Anwar's unfriendly but behind closed door indiscretion towards Lim GE, truthful or otherwise, I have to describe him as 'politically vulgar', wakakaka.

Okay, be that it may, obviously with elections around the corner, the BN is in full swing with its char koay teow-ing of the PKR faux pas, aimed to damage and hopefully discredit Lim GE. WTF, after all, it has no policy and nothing else to do, wakakaka.

It would appear that Gerakan Penang has been tasked with the dubious honour of playing the role of the fried noodles hawker - huan cheo chay-chay (minta chili lebih - lat cheow tor tee).

Okay, so Lim GE is C.A.T though the C.A (cocky and arrogant) is tautological. But sometimes I believe in some circumstances, when one has it, why not flaunt it, as some sweeties have done, much to my immense delight.

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Marks of a good Malaysian leader

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 03:49 PM PDT

And yet, he was the Malay leader that Chinese Malaysian leaders of his day trusted. In fact, even Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore has often reiterated that Tun Dr Ismail was the only Malaysian leader he had faith in.

As a reflection of the Malaysian culture prevalent during his time perhaps, many of his best friends throughout his life were non-Malays. When Tun Dr Ismail was growing up in Johor Bahru, among his family's closest friends were the Cheahs, the Kuoks and the Puthuchearys.

Dr Cheah Tiang Eam was a medical doctor who was very close to Ismail's father, Abdul Rahman Yassin. Ismail's elder brother, Suleiman, later a member of Malaya's first Cabinet, was sent to the Cheah home to learn English manners from Mrs Cheah, who was an English lady. Ismail was especially fond of the youngest Cheah daughters, who later married the Kuok brothers, Philip and Robert. The Kuoks would be among Ismail's closest friends in adult life.

The painful process of securing independence and negotiating a workable path of nation building in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s seared the ever-present issue of race onto the political foreground, where it has stayed until today. Racial issues submerged consciousness of the inter-ethnic exchanges and cultural hybridisation, which continued nevertheless. Understandably, in many Malaysians, strong ethnocentric emotions were stimulated for a time, something that the ensuing politicking would not allow to dissipate.

What went wrong, of course, when we look back over the last few decades, was that they allowed themselves to be manipulated into seeing themselves exhaustively in racial terms and not in citizenship terms. The political establishment grew to depend on this discourse, and turned it into a chronic pathological state.

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No longer any sense of decency

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 01:37 PM PDT


SEPT 25 – I don't know about you but I am disgusted with Umno and its sycophants, MCA and Gerakan, and I believe that we have to reject them wholesale for:

1) The culture of idiocy they nurture. There is a difference between BN and Pakatan Rakyat.

Whenever Lim Guan Eng or Khalid Ibrahim is accused of wrongdoing they don't hide. They come out with proof, sue to clear their name and even engage international audit firms. In contrast, till today no one knows how Altantuya Shaariibuu's immigration records were erased or why the RM250 million sweet deal was given to Shahrizat Abdul Jalil's family or how Cabinet ministers are able to live a life of luxury on RM18,000 a month.


Till today, there has been no rebuttal of the fact that millions of ringgit were paid in kickbacks to the highest offices in Putrajaya from a submarine deal.

Is that Zahid Hamidi?

2) The dumbing down of Malaysia. Umno newsletter, the New Straits Times, reported that local NGOs had received RM20 million to destabilise the government. These journalists must be as dense as their political masters.


And now we have Gerakan politicians going after possibly the cleanest politician in Penang.

See, this is the new strategy of the desperate. if you feel threatened by any individual or organisation just keep on flinging mud at them and hope that some of it sticks.

What Teng Chang Yeow and gang must understand is this: people are aware of the hypocrisy. For nearly two decades, Koh Tsu Koon and Gerakan did nothing and played dead when the state was being ravaged by Umno thieves.

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Shock! “Anwar private jet” used by govt TV station and Islamists! Shock! No Jews anywhere!

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 12:16 PM PDT

Shalom. Today is Yom Kippur.

Here is the latest news on the Jewish conspiracy.

Shock! Bevy of beautiful girls flown from Subang to Alor Star!
Shock! Minister in the Prime Minister's Department involved!
Shock! No Jews, CIA spies or agents seen!
How's that for sensationalism? I doubt Utusan Malaysia, Khairy Jamaluddin, Abdul Rahman Dahlan or Jamaluddin Jarjis will be amused, but never mind.

Okay, here's the deal:

In Denver 2005. Maybe Jews or CIA agents were on board?

• Second political favour by Datuk T
• "Anwar private jet" used to help minister in the PM's Dept
• Luxury Falcon 900 used in govt Islamic TV show
• After one year, has everyone in Umno forgotten? Why?

This week's feeding frenzy in the Umno media began after Khairy Jamaluddin and Abdul Rahman Dahlan tweeted about the photos by Tian Chua and Anwar's trip a week ago.

That conversation happened on Sunday, Sept 23.

Coincidentally, exactly one year ago, on 23 Sept 2011, the goverment's Islamic TV station Al Hijrah began broadcasting a three-month-long season of a women's reality show called Solehah.

Al Hijrah is the baby of the minister of Islamic affairs, retired army general Jamil Khir Baharom, who works at the Prime Minister's Department. Jamil Khir launched the show that night.

One year ago: Jamil Khir Baharom launches the reality show Solehah

Four organisations received production credit, among them:

  • JAWI, the Islamic Affairs Department of the Federal Territory, and
  • T Jets Sdn Bhd, the aircraft charter company owned by Dato Mohd Taufik Haji Omar

T Jets Sdn Bhd was acknowledged for providing transport

T Jets provided its high class executive transport (the Dassault Falcon N990BB, the so-called "Anwar luxury private jet") for the girls taking part in the show. In Episode 5, the girls are filmed being briefed at Subang Skypark before boarding the plane and taking a ride to Alor Star. There, they joined others at a Hari Raya celebration, where Jamil was the guest-of-honour.

Luxury private jet ride to a Hari Raya party in Alor Star. Jamil Khir, minister of Islamic affairs, was the guest of honour.

So Dato Mohd Taufik Haji Omar has already done a political favour before, and for an Umno politician. Was there any hue and cry about plane rides being used as political favours? Or complaints about Jews, the Wells Fargo Bank, foreign funding, and American conspiracies? My God! Maybe George Soros paid for the trip!

Read more at: http://uppercaise.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/anwar-jet-anin-islamic-reality-show/

 

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