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- Inflation - The Real Picture
- Yes, minister, you are wrong!
- More than 200,000 at Bersih 2.0
- Bersih – my final thoughts
- Mr. Masing, do you really know what the PDRM did last Saturday?
- Cakap cakap....This is DSAI
- Forever Tarnished
- I declare you a disgrace, Mr. Mawan anak Ikom, to your people and to your race
- A Most Disconcerting Scenario
- Government in “time warp”
- Kota Kinabalu City Hall Blunders Big Time
- An inconvenient truth for Pakatan Rakyat!
| Posted: 13 Jul 2011 07:14 PM PDT Speaking to the reporters, Najib said, "We believe [the official interest rate] is at the right level. It's a balance between strong growth and at the same time keeping inflation in check and making sure we don't get an asset bubble economy in Malaysia.
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| Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:47 PM PDT Hospitals are sanctuaries that should be respected and avoided by all warring sides. One of the reasons is that the injured and wounded are unable to defend themselves, and any honourable being will never attack or fight with anyone who is disabled or ill. The patients are also unable to run or seek shelter elsewhere. There are many videos and photos showing that during the rally on 709, Tung Shin Hospital, or more specifically, the front compound of Tung Shin hospital, was hit by water cannons and tear gas . It is understandable that in the heat of flexing their muscles against unarmed civilians , some of the personnel might have forgotten that hospitals are sanctuaries to be avoided. I suspect some may not even have heard of the Geneva Convention, given the state of our education system. So it was actually understandable that some might have been so caught up that they fired their gas canisters and water cannons into the compound of the hospital. Afterall, humans are fallible, we are not God. But when a person has erred, he must be prepared to learn from his mistakes and apologise for his error, and accept any punishment for making the error if it is serious enough to warrant such punishment. The correct response from the powers that be, including the 'honourable' Home and Health Ministers, should be the acknowledgement of such attacks in the presence of irrefutable evidence and issuing a sincere apology to the patients, staff and management of the Hospital, and a promise that such nonsense would never happen again.
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| More than 200,000 at Bersih 2.0 Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:35 PM PDT Just received an email from Ruth aka Crankshaft asking about the methodology on crowd estimating and my thoughts on the turnout and so let's elaborate a bit here on, first of all you need to be observant and an "estimating" consciousness during the rally and after that inspecting the videos and photos of other areas that you could not access or did not visit on that day. These were some of my observation:
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| Posted: 13 Jul 2011 02:46 PM PDT At some point of time before the Bersih rally – in my opinion it was about the time Pak Samad Said was hauled to the police station – the Bersih movement had transcended its electoral reform objective into a full scale platform for the people to vent their frustrations, disappointments, angst and anger to the government. To put it crassly, from that point of time, Bersih became a platform for many people to show their middle finger to the government, for whatever personal reason(s) they may have. All the government had to do in the early days of Bersih 2.0 was to deal with Bersih and its demands. The demands were not about the escalating inflation and price of household items; not about Teoh Beng Hock or Sarbaini; not about corruption; not about electricity rate hike; not about Astro price hike; not about the police, MACC or whichever agency. The demands were just about a fair and just election or what was perceived by Bersih as such. That was it. It was politically related but not politically motivated. (For the uninitiated, there is a difference between the two). The fact that some opposition political parties were in solidarity with Bersih did not demote Bersih into a political party with the inevitable and attendant political baggage. The premise of Bersih was an idea, a thought. The idea was our election process is not fair. The resulting conclusion from that idea was that our electoral process needs reform or at least a change. That was all. Being an idea, or a thought, Bersih operates and infects the masses insidiously. It is in their head that the idea is planted. It is not in their behaviour. A Bersih sympathiser or supporter, with the said planted idea, would not act in a way an Al-Qaeda member would. He or she was not going to strap C4 around his or her body, go to the mall on a Sunday, and buy the proverbial ticket to heaven by blowing himself or herself up. Planted with that idea, a Bersih sympathiser or supporter would try to convince others that that idea was correct. That idea will infest and continue to infest. The wearing of yellow t-shirts with the word Bersih was just a way or means employed by carrier of such idea to make known that he or she subscribed to that idea to the open world. The yellow t-shirts were not even a manifestation of the idea which he or she carried. With or without the yellow t-shirts, the idea still infests their mind. Similarly, the colour of the t-shirts, did not matter. It could have been pink for all they cared but the idea stayed the same. The idea, as I said earlier, was that the election process is not fair and it needs reform. And so, this was what, allegorically, the government was facing about a month before the rally. There were some yellow mosquitoes flying around in some wet markets; shopping malls; seminar rooms and on the streets. That was it. Nothing more.
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| Mr. Masing, do you really know what the PDRM did last Saturday? Posted: 13 Jul 2011 12:15 PM PDT No sooner had Mr. William Mawan anak Ikom spewed his disgraceful and uninformed comments, another Dayak leader has joined the fray to gush more tired rhetoric. This is what was reported at the Borneo Post Online.
Read more at: http://beingvernon.blogspot.com/2011/07/mr-masing-is-at-it-again.html |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2011 12:13 PM PDT I live my life as I want to. I am my own best company and isolation from all things is my preferred option. There is nobody to talk to me of ethics, race or religion for I do not suffer these "disturbances" easily. And so I live my life here with just my family for comfort and solace. But I have had to make concessions when I started blogging two years ago. Once I started to write and what I write is in the public domain I opened myself to the sensibilities of the multitudes. The accolades that came from those who liked what I wrote did my ego much good. It is always chicken soup for the soul when what you write is agreed to by people that you have never met and probably never will. But too soon the barbs began to arrive. After a suitable period of being amazed at the ability of these people to continued to visit my site despite being totally repulsed by what I write I have now settled down to accepting the good with the bad.Nothing much fazes me anymore. For the past two years I have chosen to write consistently against UMNO, its associates and the people within UMNO.I said chosen because it was a conscious decision from the start to do this...and the "bahan bahan" or data/info that was with me on UMNO gave me ample fodder to fill my blog pages...and I enjoyed myself tremendously! But now the 13th general elections nears.By all reckoning this will be a decisive moment for our country. Will the people continue with the flow towards Pakatan Rakyat or has Pakatan Rakyat done enough to stem the flow their way? Please read that last line again. Will the people continue with the flow towards Pakatan Rakyat or has Pakatan Rakyat done enough to stem the flow their way? My question is "has Pakatan Rakyat done enough to stem the flow their way?" UMNO does not come into the equation at all. We all know UMNO for what it is -a corrupt, arrogant and self serving political party. The 13th general election is for Pakatan Rakyat to lose...and losing it seems to be the way it is now going. My last posting "An inconvenient truth for Pakatan Rakyat" is my two cents worth on this delicate issue. There is an elephant in PR's room - and everyone in PR chooses to ignore it. That elephant in the room is DSAI. The leadership within Pakatan Rakyat accepts DSAI - warts and all but I say that DSAI is too much of a distraction because of the baggage he carries with him from time immemorial. From his time in UMNO until today. It is better for DSAI to be King maker for he cannot be King. As I have said in my first paragraph of this posting - I chose to live my live as I want to. And because I do so living in KL is not a wise option - what more to hold public office -even if that was at Cawangan level of any political entity. To start with I do not suffer fools easily...so perish any thought of me doing any thing that requires interaction between other human beings...what more in politics! At 64 I cannot change....make that I do not want to change! DSAI wants to be Prime Minister of Malaysia. A noble calling indeed but one that would require a noble soul to do so. DSAI does not have a noble soul. What ever he has endured in the past, what ever injustice done to him by UMNO, whatever sacrifices he and his family has made in the name of the nation if not in DSAI's name - all these put together still does not give DSAI the right to consider the Prime Minister ship of Malaysia as his to claim. I am not talking about the right of Najib or any other UMNO's president to be Prime Minister - that is another issue altogether - I am talking about OUR Pakatan Rakayat and OUR Prime Minister designate. The one who will lead PR into the 13th GE and the one who will be Prime Minister if PR wins the 13th GE. I say that that man cannot be DSAI. Before you condemn me to Hell with Satan and Gabriel as my company please hear me out. |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:45 AM PDT Millions of dollars worth of expensive PR, positioned press and TV interviews have been swept aside by scenes that show exactly how BN have kept power in Malaysia for over 50 years, achieving their current status as one of the world's longest-lasting regimes. Genuine democratic governments do not attack peaceful marchers with acid-laced water cannon and tear gas. They do not unleash police charges; firing rubber bullets and lashing out with whips and truncheons. Their forces do not push peaceful women and hurl insults at them or arrest people for wearing yellow T-shirts. Najib was determined to show his people that he is boss and that he does not appreciate complaints about rigged elections. However, in the process he also showed the rest of the world that he is just another nasty dictator like the Middle Eastern fellows, who are currently being shown the door by their own people and like Marcos and Suharto, who have already been chucked out by Malaysia's neighbouring powers of Indonesia and the Philippines. Embarrassing guest It has made Najib an embarrassing guest for the British PM and Queen this week. Their briefing teams will have made them well aware of the issues – that BN have been in power for a very suspiciously long time and that people who have been criticising them have ended up beaten in the street and locked in jail without charge and without access to their lawyers under so-called Emergency Orders. Morever, that in Malaysia people are being hauled into detention for wearing the colour yellow and people making polite requests to end electoral corruption are being treated as enemies of the state. It was bad enough having Rupert Murdoch turn up in the middle of the biggest scandal in years over media corruption, but entertaining Najib must have been even more uncomfortable. Flash demos And, as our pictures above show, Malaysian sympathisers have been making sure throughout the week that Najib's British hosts are constantly reminded of the real nature of their guest with 'flash demos' outside his various key engagements. Today they were outside Downing Street, where Najib was due to have lunch with the UK PM, giving the crowds of tourists and passers by a thought-provoking insight into the real Malaysia away from the holiday advertisements. UK police not so cooperative for BN These hard-core demonstrators say they are not going away easily and infuriatingly for BN, the UK police have refused to do anything to budge them (see our photographs of a nice little chat they had with them outside Downing Street). |
| I declare you a disgrace, Mr. Mawan anak Ikom, to your people and to your race Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:19 AM PDT Dear Reader, Meanwhile, in Miri William Mawan Ikom, president of Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), blamed the organisers of Bersih rally for "muddling" the prevailing peace and political stability in the country. Humour me for the next several minutes as I go to town and teach this man a quick history lesson. Of course, I will ignore his hollow ramblings on the ideals of multiracial harmony, peace and political stability; inconsequential and insincere rants of a political dinosaur out of touch with reality and the 21st century. Nobody really takes such advice seriously these days, and yet these decrepit geriatrics actually believe people listen to them. But never mind this. Back to the history lesson. He said street demonstrations should not be allowed as they indirectly reminded the people to go back to the "headhunting days" where there was no peace.
Read more at: http://beingvernon.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-declare-you-disgrace-mr-mawan-anak.html |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:28 PM PDT According to this report HERE, : MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek came out in defence of the police firing tear gas into the compound of Tung Shin Hospital by saying pictures can be deceiving and it is difficult to determine what exactly transpired at the hospital on Saturday. On January 1, 2008, Chua admitted that he was the person featured in a sensational sex DVD that was widely being circulated in Johor. The two DVDs were distributed anonymously in Muar and other towns in Johor show Dr Chua having sex with a young woman, described by him as a "personal friend." The DVDs are believed to be wireless hidden camera recordings in a hotel suite. He claimed no involvement in the filming or production of the DVD in question.[4] On January 2, 2008, he formally announced his resignation from all posts including Member of Parliament for Labis, vice presidency of MCA, and Minister of Health at a press conference.
Yet, when the sex videos surfaced, a certain MP was accused of being the man in the video recording. Looks like some people will accept or reject the authenticity of a video recording based on their personal slants in the issue.
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| Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:08 PM PDT This is why there is considerable merit in the advice by the University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) social anthropologist Professor Datuk Shamsul Amri Baharuddin that the Najib administration should discard its "Cold War" mindset and to modernize its concepts to address internal security and national issues. Shamsul reminded the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition that the "enemy" was no longer armed communists battling a jungle war but a civilian movement consisting of politically awakened middle class that is wired to the global community and moved by fully legitimate issues based on the Malaysian Constitution such as free and fair elections; human rights of freedom of assembly and association; integrity, good, clean and incorruptible governance! If Najib and Hishammuddin had acted on Shamsul's advice, the country would have been spared the farce, idiocy and agony of a "Cold War" response to the Bersih 2.0 call for free and fair elections – with the police and the national security apparatus fully mobilized nationally against the citizenry to fight ghosts and imaginary non-existing enemies of "revived communism", "war against the Agong", "Christian Malaysia", "foreign-power interference" and "another May 13" It is truly sad and pathetic that despite the gross mishandling of the 709 Bersih 2 rally which has plunged the Najib administration into a new nadir point of public trust and confidence, the Prime Minister and his Cabinet do not seem to be ready at any time to get out of the "time warp" and reconnect with Berseh 1Malaysia generation who came of age last Saturday on July 9 despite massive police threats, mass arrests, tear gas and water cannons, and these negative signs are aplenty. Former Prime Minister, Tun Abdullah today admitted that Najib administration's image could be affected by the Bersih rally, but said he was confident the government would be able to repair it in no time. Abdullah is no authority on governments regaining lost public confidence and I do not think Najib would be asking for any advice for general election strategy from Abdullah, who slumped from biggest electoral mandate to worst election debacle for the ruling coalition in a matter one term of five years, putting paid to his premiership as well. If the Najib administration is seeking to come out of the "time warp" to re-connect with the Bersih 1Malaysia generation, it would not have exhibited very advanced stages of denial syndrome after July 9 – with the Home Minister and Inspector-General of Police competing as to who could win the competition to hide their head in the sand! What is worse, the craziness of the double phobia of xanthophobia (fear of yellow) and Bersih-phobia are still in full swing – with first arrest in Sabah for wearing yellow Bersih T-shirt yesterday. There is in fact no sign of awareness or remorse whatsoever that the Barisan Nasional had grossly miscalculated and mishandled the 709 Bersih 2.0 rally, creating the worst crisis of confidence for the Najib premiership in 27 months! How else could one explain the obstinate refusal to admit responsibility for the instances of police excesses, violence and brutality during the Bersih 2.0 rally, as in causing the death of Baharuddin Ahmad, the criminal police landrover ramming of PAS Deputy President Mat Sabu on motor-bike or the wanton and reckless firing of tear gas and water cannons into Tung Shin Hospital and directly at Bersih and Pakatan Rakyat leaders at KL Sentral tunnel? If the Barisan Nasional Government does not get out of the "time warp" it has locked itself into and reconnect with the new Bersih 1Malaysia generation operating in a vibrant social media, then the days of both the Najib premiership and Barisan Nasional ruling coalition are numbered. They will be left behind by the Bersih 1Malaysia generation as utterly irrelevant belonging to the outdated "Cold War" past that is not prepared to keep abreast of changing times. READ MORE HERE. |
| Kota Kinabalu City Hall Blunders Big Time Posted: 11 Jul 2011 01:52 PM PDT Head of the Licensing Unit of DBKK, Sairullizam Bin Sukor, was in his element displaying arrogance, normally displayed by a person with instructions from "Higher Up's".  If the present UMNO/BN Government were "Bersih" in their administration,"Berani" in fighting for the people and "Benar" in their promises and not only during election time,then UMNO/BN should not be fearing those sacred words.  DBKK had apparently issued a notice to SAPP at 2.30pm(11th.July.2011),demanding them to remove the signage board with immediate effect(DBKK No/BPL:1100-23/0/1 Kit.30(23) for violating-UUK 3(1) & 13(1)(2)(3) Undang-Undang Kecil (IKLAN) 1983,which was sign by the Director General,Datuk Yeo Boon Hai and copied to the Mayor,Datuk Abidin Madingkir,City Police Chief ACP Sofi and DBKK's Enforcement Director.    Shortly later at about 3.15pm,City Police Chief ACP Mohd Sofi arrived with his personals. SAPP President,Datuk Yong Teck Lee was seen discussing with the Police Chief and Sairullizam Sukor,on the existing laws available and whither DBKK had the legal right to continue their illegal demolition exercise. Where is the natural justice that's found in our Constitution,isn't the law clear enough that we must be given 14 days notice?The City Police Chief who acted more as a mediator,looked rather mind boggled that DBKK was unaware of the existing laws.Doesn't DBKK have a Legal Department with "Qualified Lawyers",or are they also ignorant of the law themselves? Kota Kinabalu residents must now take serious view of the incompetency of DBKK,we may have been hoodwinked or perhaps even "conned"by them in the past,because of our ignorance.The Business Community should also now re-examine their payments made for licenses,fees and compounds in the past,and not be intimidated by them again. |
| An inconvenient truth for Pakatan Rakyat! Posted: 11 Jul 2011 12:48 PM PDT Pakatan Rakyat has a fight on its hand.The 13th general election nears and as each day passes the fortunes of Pakatan Rakyat ebbs and flows like the tide that washes up on to our shores. At times in spurts it erratically seizes upon a momentary lapse in Barisan Nasional concentration and then claims a victory of sorts for the day. Then inevitably the tide turns as its more powerful and wealthy adversary once again steam rolls itself over any force that dares to even contemplate standings in its way towards another term in office.We are all interested on lookers to this oft repeated spectacles of Malaysian politicians fighting for political survival where winning is the only way to go. Against Barisan Nasional the only ally Pakatan Rakyat has is the people - for it has no large armies and no deep pockets from which it can scoop up endless richess to fund its way to victory. Against Barisan Nasional the people, in the main, will demand for Pakatan Rakyat to have leaders who are without blemish in their public and private lives. Leaders who would stand up to any inquisition demanded of it by the people from whom the are seeking a mandate to govern....almost an impossible task given the Malaysia we live in. So why is Pakatan Rakyat not addressing the issue of DSAI credibility? The inconvenient truth is that Pakatan Rakyat first tier leadership would prefer the issue of DSAI credibility to be addressed AFTER the 13th general election. But as Shakespeare puts it: "Truth is truth To the end of reckoning" And what is the truth about DSAI? That he is a politician par excellence can be borne out in the manner that he has survived Mahathir's political execution of him at the height of his political nadir when he was DPM. Not only has he survived that but he has come back as leader of the opposition to torment the party that once held him to be the heir presumptive to its Presidency. He has done so at great personal sacrifice - physically and mentally - he has emerged strong and resolute to win the 13th general election as leader of Pakatan Rakyat - heir presumptive to BN's after the 13th general election. These are stuff of which dreams are made of...but dreams have a habit of disapperings when the dreamer is awakened! DSAI is an enigma- different things to different people...but what he is to different people is immaterial. What matters is what he is to Pakatan Rakyat. He is leader of Pakatan Rakyat by default. There is simply nobody around that can hold Pakatan Rakyat together and give it that sense of purpose as it goes into the 13th general election. Truly an unenviable position for DSAI to be in but for Pakatan Rakyat somewhat a precarious situation given that Barisan Nasional is also in the same frame of mind - but for different reasons. To BN if they take DSAI out, Pakatan Rakyat will self destruct. And so we have the situation today. BN attacks DSAI on all fronts and Pakatan Rakyat desperately fighting a rear guard action to keep DSAI head above water to live and fight another day. But with each salvo thrown at DSAI's by BN the ability of DSAI to be effective as a leader in Pakatan Rakyat diminishes. Apart from the practical issues of having to front up in court to defend himself there are the niggling and cumbersome issues that keeps flying in formation around DSAI like flies around a road kill- Zaid, the PKR's party elections, PKR defections and of course the recent Carcosa Tapes etc etc. To date despite spirited defence from Azizah and declarations of continued support from Pakatan Rakyat's UMNO is still bent on pursuing this line of attack on DSAI. And we can expect more of the same as UMNO steps up its attempts to wreck havoc and mayhem if not on DSAI then on Pakatan Rakyat's leadership for not being able to resolve the issue of DSAI credibility once and for all. Read more at: http://steadyaku-steadyaku-husseinhamid.blogspot.com/2011/07/inconvenient-truth-for-pakatan-rakyat.html
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