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- Supporting Wong Tack as the Green Candidate in Bentong
- Pakatan’s Manifesto: The future is here!
- The real story of Anwar’s Sodomy 2 ( Part 1)
- A Solution to the Blueprint-Manifesto ‘spat’
- How to choose our Leader using the C.A.P.I. method
- Pakatan Manifesto changes: Too little, too late
- Youth for Change Lancar Siri Video Kesedaran Politik
- GO BACK TO VOTE CAMPAIGN IN SHANGHAI
| Supporting Wong Tack as the Green Candidate in Bentong Posted: 11 Mar 2013 09:41 PM PDT Joint Statement We, the undersigned individuals, support Himpunan Hijau's proposal for its chairperson Wong Tack to stand as the green candidate under Pakatan Rakyat in Bentong, Pahang taking on Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai in the coming general elections. Wong Tack's candidacy signifies the frustrating scene of the green movement. Despite the unprecedented electoral setback in the March 8 political tsunami five years ago, the Government has demonstrated an arrogant and irresponsible attitude towards environmental protection. From the Lynas rare earth processing plant in Kuantan, cyanide gold mining in Raub, the proposed petrochemical plant in Pengerang, aluminum plant in Mukah, to the dams in Inland Sarawak and Cameron Highlands, environmentally harmful projects have been introduced or allowed operation in complete disregard of the well-being and health of the local residents and ecology. Wong Tack's candidacy is a milestone in green politics in Malaysia, which has so far been staying away from direct participation in electoral politics. Rallies and petitions in the past three years over the issues of Lynas, cyanide gold mining, Pengerang and other polluting projects have failed to bring any real policy changes. The angry roaring of communities and citizens has fallen on deaf ears of politicians and bureaucrats, who care more about the interests of foreign capital. It is therefore time to have more green-minded lawmakers in our Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies to scrunitise our laws and policies to keep environmental disasters at bay. Wong Tack, whose team has effectively put Lynas in the minds of the Malaysian public, is certainly one of the most relevant and representative faces. In this regard, taking on Liow Tiong Lai will also be apt since the Health Minister has repeatedly neglected public interests and misinformed the public with regards to the Lynas plant, cyanide gold mining and the firing of tear gas and water cannons at Tung Shin Hospital in July 2011. We call upon that the Malaysian public to throw unwavering support for the candidacies of Wong Tack and hopefully other green candidates. A strong support for the Green candidates may garner enough momentum to bring about a political sea change in this country and send a clear message to all polluting industries in the world: Malaysia is not the world's rubbish dump. Whatever is not safe for other humans is also not safe for Malaysians. Only with the green voters standing up and being counted, can we hope that the green agenda will be taken seriously and upheld by the next Government, whichever coalition may be.
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| Pakatan’s Manifesto: The future is here! Posted: 11 Mar 2013 01:01 PM PDT
This writer is not duty-bound to rationalise how Pakatan would pay for the many reforms that it vouches to undertake as opposed to presenting a budget. Nonetheless this small writing would attempt to allay the anxieties of those who seemed so concern that Pakatan would bankrupt the national coffer in the first year of being in office in Putrajaya. Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, Harakah Daily The task for the next Malaysian Government with regard to national transformation is of a different order of magnitude to that witnessed thus far, from the time of Merdeka. Doing more of the same things would not place us on a different trajectory of change and competitiveness.
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| The real story of Anwar’s Sodomy 2 ( Part 1) Posted: 10 Mar 2013 04:41 PM PDT
From Yuktes Vijay, via e-mail I read with anger the news that Saiful's dad has joined PKR. I knew from Day 1 that the party was devoid of any integrity but for it to stoop to this extent is just mind boggling. I was working with one of Anwar's long-time lawyers during the whole course of Sodomy 2 and was involved in A-Z of the trial itself. When I say A-Z, it means from meeting the forensic and DNA experts to reviewing of the documents to finding case laws for his submissions. I was involved in everything. I do not wish to mention the name of the lawyer here as I revere him as my mentor and I do not wish to drag him into this frustration and anger pouring of mine. Why Anwar never took the stand? Anwar claimed that he was never offered a fair trial. The truth is he was never brave enough to take the stand. He was never going to withstand the questions that were about to be put forward to his now ally Datuk Yusof. If you Pakatanians have doubts, why not ask him these questions and get valid, acceptable and not logically challenging answers for it.
Fearing that Anwar will not be able to withstand the onslaught by the Prosecution, the defence team then decided to ask him not to take stand uder the pretext that he was not offered a fair trial. Anwar excelled in conning, deceiving and cheating the public by assuming a Mandela like persona. He is no Mandela, merely a good con artist. Fund for the overseas experts The surprising factor here is why no one has ever questioned the fees that were involved in paying the forensic experts, Dr Brian Macdonald and Dr David Wells. Contrary to what the general public have been made to believe, they were paid hefty sums to defend him. When they were here, they stayed in Shang-ri La Hotel for a number of days. Where did the money to pay the hotels come from? Did Anwar pay from his own pocket? No, he does not even pay his lawyers. So, he had very rich Datuks funding him. I do know the name of the Datuk, but for the reasons known close to me I will not disclose the name. The problem is if PKR can throw questions as to the wedding expenditure of the Prime Minister, why not question where the money to pay these experts came from? If a former convict and a mere Opposition Leader can have Datuks funding his legal expences, what is wrong in having Datuks funding the wedding of the PM's daughter? Saiful I don't know much about Saiful. The only thing I can say is that the reason he was denied justice is that the Investigating Officer, Jude Perreira, ignored the protocols told to him by Jabatan Kimia and decided to do his things his own way. There were traces of Anwar's DNA in his rectum. The only thing that stopped the judge from convicting Anwar was the "break in the chain of evidence". I will write a full piece on this soon. This drama itself deserves a full piece write up. In a nutshell, there was evidence of Anwar's semen in Saiful's rectum. However, due to a break in chain of evidence and the question mark over the integrity of the samples, the evidence was not used. So the judge had no other way of corroborating Saiful's evidence. Conclusion for Part 1 Anwar is a consummate liar. He is using Saiful's dad to play up his victim role in order to garner votes. We all know for a fact that since he got acquitted he has lost that bit of "charm" about him as he has nothing to yell about anymore. I really hope he sues me so that I can prove in Court what I have just mentioned. Remember Anwar Ibrahim, I grew up adoring you. I know your modus operandi and I aspired to be you. Sue me please. Let the public watch Anwar vs Anwar clone (which is me) in action. And remember the e-mails, Astroboy? I have all of them saved. Come get me! The writer, a former Anwarista, worked in Anwar's Sodomy 2 trial for the defence
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| A Solution to the Blueprint-Manifesto ‘spat’ Posted: 10 Mar 2013 12:19 PM PDT
It is also very evident that pre-election promises are seldom kept by politicians from both sides of the political divide. As such HINDRAF feels that it is all the more important that a binding agreement is in place so that history does not repeat itself. Paraman Subramaniam There has been much heated debate going on in the reluctance of PR to have a binding endorsement with HINDRAF regarding its 5 year blueprint. The HINDRAF blueprint which is based on social justice as the foundation had proposed a specific, pointed and targeted program of rehabilitation measures, quite similar to existing Felda settlers program, to a specific group of community, Displaced Estate Workers (DEW). This covers proposal for intervention in 6 major problem areas that transcends racial and religious barriers: 1) 800,000 internally displaced estate workers. PR leaders had agreed in principle to the blueprint but fell short of giving a binding agreement citing certain wordings and languages need to be reviewed. HINDRAF had reciprocated by not only agreeing to go through with the PR team to review these issues but were even willing to debate allocations of the necessary budget to be allocated for the realization of the various programs in the blueprint proposal. Ironically PR till date has failed to come forward to iron out these details with HINDRAF. Recently Anwar Ibrahim had to do a damage limitation exercise of claiming that PR will include specific details of the Indian community's needs into the PR manifesto. This was in response to pressure from mainly HINDRAF leaders who slammed the manifesto for leaving out specific concerns of the Indian community while mentioning almost all other races. Anwar claims that PR will now include 5 points into the manifesto: 1) Resolving the 'long standing issue of stateless people' in Malaysia, without excluding Indians, in the first 100 days of Pakatan's administration. These points appear to have been taken in part from the HINDRAF blueprint but are not comprehensive in nature. It also does not explain how it will be implemented considering the huge 'BTN brain washed UMNO bureaucracy' hurdle that it will need to overcome to do so. On the other hand the HINDRAF blueprint spells out clearly how to overcome this. Both PR and HINDRAF are not willing to give in regarding the requirement of a binding agreement of the HINDRAF blueprint to bring about a political electoral pact in the coming General Elections. HINDRAF particularly are aggrieved that for the Tsunami that they created for PR in 2008, there has not been even a single attempt by PR in the past 5 years to engage with them into drawing up plans for the grouses of the 1.5million marginalized Indians that they represent. It is also very evident that pre-election promises are seldom kept by politicians from both sides of the political divide. As such HINDRAF feels that it is all the more important that a binding agreement is in place so that history does not repeat itself. A solution to this predicament lies within the PR's Buku Jingga itself which PR claims is their comprehensive and holistic policy document. It proposes a set of policies to lead the nation to a new and better future. A clause under the heading 'Prosperity, solidarity and social justice with PR' clearly states that PR will 'set up a council of experts to formulate and change existing national policies with regard to key economic, political and social challenges'. The HINDRAF blueprint falls well within this jurisdiction and as such PR must activate the clause within the Buku Jingga and accept it as after all PR leaders have already claimed to have accepted it in principle. Failure to do so may invite doubts of credibility on the very foundations of the Buku Jingga. PR will also be able to prove to the nation that it has raised the bar in its credibility to its election promises.
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| How to choose our Leader using the C.A.P.I. method Posted: 09 Mar 2013 12:22 PM PST
True achievement is about results; not efforts, not promises, not words.
Anas Zubedy
This GE 13 we the rakyat will be choosing our leaders; MPs and ADUNs. These Malaysians will eventually steer our nation the next 5 years. Our votes are crucial and enormously important. We must be guided with reason, knowhow and conscience.
I would like to share with you a method I designed for the corporate leaders in choosing Top Talents for their organization. This one is free, because Malaysia is worth it. We call it C.A.P.I., making it easy for recall. I hope it will help you choose the best for Malaysia.
Capacity A person's capacity is the basic foundation of his or her ability to deliver. No amount of training or exposure can bring out what is expected from a talent if he or she lacks the capacity. Like a car engine, capacity determines the ability to perform under different circumstances. The larger the capacity, the greater the propensity to deliver. We cannot ask a car with a 4 cylinder engine of 1500CC to perform like a 12 cylinder with 6000CC one no matter how much we try to modify it. That would be sending the person to failure. When the leader fails, our country suffers.
Achievement True achievement is about results; not efforts, not promises, not words. Top talents focus their energies on where the results are, they make things happen, they deliver. They spend more time doing and delivering. They don't talk as much as they do. When they talk, it is to engage people to perform. They want to get things done, make things right. They lead people to actions that are based on clear goals. We must choose leaders that deliver.
People Skills Top talents deliver through working with and through people. They harness and focus the energy of others toward common goals. They are team leaders. Talent who prefers working alone are specialists and they are great support for top talents. Remember that we must choose talents that work with others in their effort to move up in an organization, not rise up by stepping on them. The latter will cause future disunity to the team. In the Malaysian context we must also choose leaders who are willing to listen and work with not just a particular race, but every ethnic group. Not just with those in the Peninsular but also Sabah and Sarawak and vice versa. Care for those in urban as well as the rural areas plus willing to engage not just the old, but the middle aged and the young. In short, we must choose a leader that is with the rakyat, one that will work with us and care much about our well-being.
Integrity Leadership must come with integrity - there is no compromise. Without integrity talent is a liability. No matter how brilliant, knowledgeable or successful, lack of integrity disqualifies any and all talent for any leadership position. We must check their track record like their propensity to lie, practice double standards, say one thing and do the other. In short in choosing our leaders, integrity is the final sift that must not be put aside no matter what.
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| Pakatan Manifesto changes: Too little, too late Posted: 09 Mar 2013 12:14 PM PST
Two changes to the manifesto even before the ink is dry? Knowing Pakatan's pet obsessions, they should perhaps have used indelible ink before they published their manifesto. That would have ensured that an important document as a manifesto cannot be tampered with for political exigencies. What guarantee is there that, after elections, it will not be amended again? Easow Verghese Anwar Ibrahim's promise today to amend the Pakatan Manifesto to include specific commitments to the Indian community is another knee-jerk reaction. It is another feeble attempt at damage control. His promise is a carrot that he dangled before Indian voters, hoping they would bite. But it is too little too late. This was Anwar's second flip-flop since Pakatan released its election manifesto less than two weeks ago. The first was when he agreed, three days later, to amend the manifesto to accommodate increased oil and gas royalty to Kelantan Malays. After that the manifesto went back to the drawing board again, this time ostensibly to placate Indians who were miffed that no mention was made of their plight in the manifesto while there were specific references to other races. Two changes to the manifesto even before the ink is dry? Knowing Pakatan's pet obsessions, they should perhaps have used indelible ink before they published their manifesto. That would have ensured that an important document as a manifesto cannot be tampered with for political exigencies. What guarantee is there that, after elections, it will not be amended again? At this rate, it is reasonable to expect the manifesto to undergo more changes when other groups also step up demands to have their pet projects also included in the document. Eventually, the manifesto will become a bulky document. But that won't please DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng who had expressed his aversion to a 'thick manifesto". But the more important question is this: If Pakatan is unable to produce a solid and comprehensive document at the party level, how can it be trusted to do it at the government level, if it gets its chance to rule? It is plain for everyone to see that not much serious thought went into the manifesto which was really only a rehash of past promises. Another weakness of the manifesto was laid bare by a DAP leader and MP Charles Santiago who made a damning admission today. A Malaysian Indian, he said that he was not consulted by the framers of the manifesto. Then who was consulted on Indian affairs? Were any of the other Indian MPs consulted? What about Sivarasa, Kulasegaran, Manickavasagam? Since todate none of them has owned up, is it safe to assume that all the Indian leaders in PKR, including its vice-president N. Surendran were kept totally in the dark? Or they were too afraid to speak up, fearing that if they did their candidacy in the upcoming election would be in question? And so, they left it all to the PKR supremo Anwar Ibrahim. In a swift about-turn yesterday, Anwar promised to amend the manifesto to include these promises -- to build affordable homes for estate workers, to resolve the issue of stateless Indians, and to provide technical and job opportunities for Indians. These are, at best, hollow promises. How can Anwar provide affordable homes when he could not even keep his promise to provide alternate housing for the displaced residents of Kampung Buah Pala in Penang despite having promised to do so? Resolve the issue of stateless Indians? Anwar promised to do this in 100 days. Pakatan had always claimed that there are 300,000 stateless Indians in the country. If Pakatan wants to play the role of honest broker, it will have to clear 3,000 cases every day, or 350 cases every hour. This means completing the whole process of filling out the forms, verification of data and completing all other formalities before the applications are signed, sealed, stamped and delivered. Any primary school children who has studied maths in ether English or Bahasa Malaysia will tell you that this is impossible. The figures simple don't compute. Pakatan must think Indians are gullible enough to believe in the impossible. Anwar also makes vague references to funding for Tamil schools and providing vocational training and job opportunities. These promises pale in the light of what the BN Government has been doing these past months and years, and continues to do, for the Indian community. Pakatan has pledged RM17 million for Tamil schools, but the BN Government has already made grants totalling RM350 million for this purpose from 2009 till 2011. More grants are in the pipeline, increasing the total to RM500 million. And that's only for the upkeep of schools. There's more for new schools and for upgrading of facilities. This has never before been done in the history of Malaysia. As against the pittance promised by Pakatan, let's see what else the BN government has offered the Indian community( See publication Janji Ditepati). Free education, more matriculation places, more scholarships, RM 50 million for training 3,200 school leavers, and RM150 in loans for Indian SMEs. And then there is TEKUN, TUKAR, SEED, ATOM, 1MISM,DHRRA,KAR1SMA, SARA and USD1. These are all acronyms that stand for the various initiatives that the Najib regime has already rolled out for Malaysian Indians in all sectors, for all age groups, and in rural and urban centres. In short, wherever there is an Indian in need, there is promise of help, usually only a phone call away. Stateless Indians? Long before Pakatan made a gross miscalculation in the number of stateless Indians, the Federal Government had already introduced MyDaftar programme to resolve this issue swiftly and humanely. Many have been helped. The door has not been closed. The exercise is ongoing. This episode of the Pakatan manifesto has revealed many weaknesses in the Pakatan fabric. Clearly, within the ranks of Pakatan, the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. Rather some underhand handiwork is suspected. For instance: • Lim Guan Eng was quoted to have said that the manifesto only sets out the common policies of political parties but not the specifics. But now Anwar has contradicted him by including specifics-- about the Indian community. • Anwar Ibrahim had said when the manifesto was first launched, that it transcends racial groups. But now Anwar has contradicted himself. • Pakatan's director of strategy, Rafizi Ramli had said it was not a mistake to not have mentioned Indians in the manifesto. But now Anwar has made him eat his words. After all the hullabaloo made by segments of the marginalised Indian community who felt they were being again marginalised in the manifesto, Pakatan is trying hard to regain lost ground. But it is too little too late.
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| Youth for Change Lancar Siri Video Kesedaran Politik Posted: 08 Mar 2013 11:27 AM PST c3TKUHC5Eew Empat video klips yang akan dilancar pada pagi ini termasuk isu hangat seperti isu rasuah, pelan transformasi, hak rakyat dan isu penyalahgunaan kuasa. Walaupun video-video tersebut mungkin dilabel sebagai video yang "pro-pembangkang", tetapi pada hakikatnya video tersebut juga menggambarkan realiti hidup yang dihadapi oleh semua rakyat.
5 tahun yang lalu, Rakyat Malaysia telah mencipta tsunami politik serta mengubah lanskap politik negara kita. Dengan kebangkitan rakyat dan kuasa yang ada pada perpaduan rakyat, masa depan negara kita lebih cerah lagi.
Hari ini, kami ingin melancarkan video-video yang penuh dengan ejekan, kiritkan serta sendaan terhadap hipokrisi ahli politik. Semua contoh kehidupan seharian juga dimasukkan dalam video yang telah dibuat oleh Youth For Change.
Episode pertama "Kontrak Tupai" telah dimuat naik ke Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3TKUHC5Eew
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| GO BACK TO VOTE CAMPAIGN IN SHANGHAI Posted: 08 Mar 2013 10:31 AM PST
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Although many wouldn't doubt that Malaysia is at a cross road, many others would also not doubt that the UMNO-BN's formula of socio-economic development has failed us to achieve the socially just development that all the rakyat cherished and dreamt of. The long deferred reform agenda must be now addressed.
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