You Misunderstood

Mohd Nazri the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department says that Deputy Premier Muhyiddin Yassin statement recently regarding BTN was 'misunderstood' when he said recently that BTN courses are not 'brainwashing' sessions and the programme should be continued. “I don't think he mentioned that. You probably misunderstood it. What he meant was BTN as a department is good, but we have to change the curriculum because now we have 1Malaysia concept.
"The curriculum cannot focus on one racial group,” said Nazri, disclosing that he had attended one such course previously yet he refused to elaborate when asked his personal opinion of that course. “To me the curriculum is not in line with what the PM wants, which is 1Malaysia. You have the BTN courses for students mostly from one racial group but now we want (an) inclusive curriculum,” he reiterated. “It is important for the courses to be inclusive of all races, as the government now stresses on racial integration. So you cannot have just one race attending these courses, although others were invited. Now we have to reflect the 1Malaysia concept.”
Now the cabinet has agreed to revamp the content of the controversial Biro Tata Negara (BTN, or National Civics Bureau) programmes to fall in line with the prime minister's 1Malaysia concept.
Funny though that all the UMNO Ministers were supporting BTN publicly; Muhyiddin, Mukriz,Ahmad Zahid, Sharizat and others but now it’s a U-turn by the government citing that BTN may need to be reviewed to reflect Najib’s 1 Malaysia. Aneh tapi benar,“ You mis-understood”, which means that all the reporters are stupid as not to understand the language that was spoken by the DPM Muhyiddin!

Prostitutes-pimps and patriot

Umno’s version of history teaches us that Chin Peng was an enemy of the nation and thus has been banished. The irony of the matter is here is a freedom fighter who gave the best years of his life to the country to expel colonisers and invaders only to find himself being judged and deemed unsuitable and unworthy of returning to his home and to the country for which he put his life on the line.
Instead, we have a cadre of and generation of self-absorbed, over-inflated egos who could never fathom the meaning of the word sacrifice, let alone put their foot forward to genuinely serve the needs of the people, being self-righteous about judging Chin Peng. A man who was in the trenches fighting for our nation is being judged and deprived of his birth-right by some who have acted like political prostitutes by having sold-out the rights of large segments of the citizenry.

These political prostitutes – and the political pimps they have served – have done immeasurable harm to our nation socially, economically, and politically. Nevertheless, they remain empowered to exert the kind of arrogant contempt for one who should rightly be regarded a freedom fighter and a living legend.
Many of these power-obsessed politicians of today, born with a silver kris in their hands and a golden spoon in their mouths, and who wrap themselves up in the garb of a vile and toxic nationalistic rhetoric, lack any comprehension of the meaning of sacrifice for the good of the nation and its people.

read more http://imagineequality.blogspot.com/2009/11/prostitutes-pimps-and-patriot.html

Ministers Supporting Twisted BTN

The courses conducted by the Biro Tatanegara (BTN) or National Civics Bureau do not contain any element of racism, Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi came to its defence today and he said he had attended many of these courses and had also been an instructor himself. He being a instructor wonder how the delivery would have been?"I do not see any element of racism there," Of course you can’t see any as you are blind as an owl! Ahmad Zahid also said the ban could be due to anxiety of the opposition leaders over the people's support in the state."They are apparently afraid of the people losing confidence in their leadership," Dai, Zahid, What does the ban of BTN got to do with people losing confidence? This kind of statement would only come half pass Ministers from UMNO. Let’s hear from another UMNO goon the so called Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Ahmad Maslan, he said the Selangor government's decision would deny the opportunity for the relevant civil servants and students to learn more about the country and its policies."BTN has never belittled any community.
If it does not belittle the other community then why are you afraid to review and revise BTN to reflect the truth and talking about the truth, he claims that the information disseminated at the courses were from historical facts and data garnered from relevant agencies and experts, and the syllabus involved training based on noble values aimed at making the participants citizens who could contribute to nation-building.
Is he talking about the twisted history being created by the UMNO run government where the Non-Malays history only existed from the 19th century and not before that?Does your history talk about pre Melaka era? Do you teach students of Vijayanagara Kingdom , or King Sialandra and his vast empire in South East Asia? Do you also talk about the contributions by the Non-Malays in building the nation to what it is today? Get real
The Shah Alam branch of Peninsula Malay Students (GPMS) said the Selangor government move was contrary to democratic principles and restricted the freedom of students. Now he wants to support democracy thus allowing students to listen to what BTN got to say ! He doesn’t want the state government to drag this into a political issue! Interesting, I guess these are same people who dragged the Selangor Menteri Besar suggested to include Non-Malays into UiTM as political some time ago! Change is only constant element and change will come to this nation and only then true Malaysians shall stand tall and proud.

Mahathir the Mr. Clean..no more

Malaysia has squandered an estimated RM100 billion on financial scandals under the 22-year rule of Dr Mahathir Mohamad, according to a new book about the former prime minister was the heading in Malaysiakini. Its strange to read about the man who is regarded as the Father of Modern Malaysia is implicated with squandering such a large sum of money!
According to Barry Wain, author of the soon-to-be launched 'Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times', direct financial losses amounted to about RM50 billion.This doubled once the invisible costs, such as unrecorded write-offs, were taken into account. The RM100 billion total loss was equivalent to US$40 billion at then prevailing exchange rates.Barry, who is a former editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal, says most of the scams, which included a government attempt to manipulate the international tin price and gambling by Bank Negara on global currency markets, occurred in the 1980s.
So Mr Clean is not clean after all,Aneh bin ajaib!
Politics have no relation to morals - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

Read more in Malaysiakini: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/118340

Why Islam still is a taboo for non-muslims

Malaysia is not a country that lacks controversies from the Mongolian affair, multiple corruption stained projects, missing PI, dying detainees under police custody to body snatching at the hospitals. One that seems to make the headlines frequently is of conversions of non-Muslims under dubious circumstances.
Today a mother of two claims that she was unwittingly converted to Islam by state religious authorities when she was a child at the age of 7 while residing in a welfare home in Kepala Batas,Penang.
S Banggarma, whose Muslim name is Siti Hasnah Vangarama Abdullah, said she discovered this when she went to register her marriage in 2000 when she was told that she converted to Islam in 1989!
She was born as a Hindu and her birth certificate stipulates that she was born on Aug 13, 1982 to plantation worker B Subramaniam and Latchumy Ramadu. She was apparently converted to Islam before a religious officer representing the state Islamic council in 1989. However, Banggarma could not recall the incident and claimed that she was always praying and living like a Hindu even while in the welfare home.
During the press conference, Banggarma also revealed that she was brought to the welfare home together with two of her elder brothers and a younger sister when they found them sleeping on the roadside in Kepala Batas by welfare officers.
I just could not understand how someone at the age of 7 years would understand about religion and why is that some overzealous religion officer could convert a child who is 7 years old? Is there a promise that if they do so, they are assured a place in heaven?
Until and unless the Muslim community does not stops such an act, the non-Muslim will forever be uncomfortable of Islam and the Muslim at large.

Our Country's Best

Recently I received a mail from a friend which depicts how our top SPM Malaysian student fared in their University examinations overseas! Nur Amalina Che Bakri sponsored by Bank Negara Malaysia to do A-levels at the Cheltenham Ladies College and study medicine in the United Kingdom failed her second year medical study at the University of Edinburgh. What went wrong?
While passing and failing examination is part and parcel of a student’s life, yet this case is particularly alarming, as this student is supposed to be top echelon. I am not sure if this is an isolated case as I hear many among the JPA's scholars have failed either in their first year or the second year or eventually unable to complete their studies and return home! What possibly could be the reason? Is it because of their command of the English language or is that our school system do not produce quality students?
If the students who scores a number of distinctions (A's in Malaysia) in a public exam shoud be able to cope with the tertiary education anywhere in the world considering that they are top notch students from Malaysia. If Malaysia continues to embark on projects of the tallest and the biggest or just focus on plain numeric superiority instead of to challenge the students to think, provoke them to create their own opinions, there can never be an international leader in any field or industry emanating from Malaysia. If the present system could not produce one in the last 20 years I am not sure if it ever in the next 100 years? I doubt the present Minister or the Government have the political will to bring this change! Waste of public funds and by the way we don’t hear of Singapore scholars failing in their studies overseas. Bikin malu sama nama Malaysia! Satu lagi project BN!

Satu lagi projek UMNO/BN II

The STAR quoted that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is now set to probe the RM6bil Ipoh-Rawang electrification and double track rail project, which has a cost overrun reaching RM1.14bil. PAC chairman Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid said the PAC was in the midst of determining the scope of the probe and shortlisting those who will be called up in the inquiry.He told The Star yesterday that the double track railway project, which was highlighted in the Auditor-General’s (A-G) 2008 report, was a handful of cases that the PAC would probe.
Asked why the committee planned to probe another project under the Transport Ministry, Azmi said it was not the ministry that was being targeted but big projects which incurred huge losses.“The public is asking questions on losses incurred and we have to do our job,’’ he stressed, adding that the A-G highlighted cases of mismanagement every year and cost overruns but there seemed to be no improvement.
Why is that only now he is doing his job, when he knew that every year it is the same story and by the what what was he doing all this while?

Lets see how the Malaysian government manages multi billion dollar projects;

1)The contract between DRB-Hicom and the Government was signed on April 2, 2001
2)The project however suffered problems which caused numerous delays, resulting in the government terminating the contract with DRB-Hicom and appointing UEM Construction Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of UEM (M) Bhd, to take over the project from 1 June 2005.
3) In May 2006 he government paid DRB-Hicom a sum of RM425mil as compensation for their termination.
4) Another sub-contractor Mitsui had also submitted a claim for compensation for being unable to carry out part of the project because of the delays to civil works with the government settling on an undisclosed sum in December 2006.

So, this is how the government runs "satu lagi project oleh kerajaan BN", I guess may be since the great Mahathir's period, the so called Bapa Permodenan Malaysia?

It is not an oil royalty

Did you all read or hear Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's claim that Kelantan is not entitled to oil royalty for the petroleum and liquefied gas extracted beyond the state's shores as state's waters was defined as waters located within three nautical miles from the low watermark or offshore. So there you go Kelantan and Terengganu, the payment that you receive is considered "Wang Ehsan" or 'compassionate payments' and not royalty.
If Kelantan and Terengganu are not worthy of receiving royalty then how about Sabah and sarawak as the oil production in Sarawak especially, is being conducted beyond the three nautical mile line? So will the government need to change it as ‘compassionate payments’ as the PM has reclassified the terminology!
The possible implication, could be that while oil royalty payments had to go directly to the Sabah and Sarawak state governments, ‘compassionate payments’ could instead be taken over and disbursed by federal government agencies which means that they will be at the mercy of the federal government.
According to the Petroleum Development Act 1974, 50 percent of the oil revenue from an oil-producing state is to be given to that state. I do hope that the leaders in Sabah and Sarawak do something about this or else it means that they are merely rubber stamps of the federal government. May be Sabah but sarawak with its CMS, not sureloh!

Another bright spot in parliament

Flyovers, including those built along the Middle Ring Road 2 (MRR2) were designed to last between 100 and 110 years said Works Minister Shaziman Abu Mansor."I might not be around to see it last but based on the ultimate design, the main structure can last for such a period."However, there are things beyond anybody's control like a natural disaster. In Mississippi, USA for example, a very strong bridge collapsed. But as far as the MRR2 in our country, there were only cracks," said Shaziman when answering a question by Tan Seng Giaw (DAP-Kepong) in the Dewan Rakyat today.
Another idiot Minister in Parliament goving excuses for their incompetencies!

Shaziman added that the government can take action against contractors of the project and it was up to the contractor to take similar action against the consultant.Now you see how the TaiChi the problem! Dai all you fellas are connected on thislah, if one of you fall the rest will fall as well like Domino! Cover up..cover up..just like your PM sounding supriced over the PKFZ scam!

The Mamak Speaks Again

Former premier Dr Mahathir today backed the proposal to introduce a single-stream school system in Malaysia, but lamented that the topic was still a taboo. “You cannot even talk about it (merging the three school systems) in this country,” said the 84-year-old former premier, adding that the Chinese educationists were “vehemently” against the idea. He cited
“They must be Chinese first, not Malaysian,”. Mahathir said that only Malaysia has the unique system of having different streams of education as other countries have only one stream despite having large migrant population. He cited United States, Canada and Australia as examples. He also pointed out that even Switzerland, which has three official languages, has an education system which provides for students to learn all three languages in the same school. He went on to say that is the reason why Malaysians cannot achieve unity!
Interesting that Mahathir is taking a swipe at MCA, wonder why? Anyway let’s ask ourselves whether the non-existence of one school system is the cause of disunity among the races or is it due to other reason such as government policies only meant for certain race? If only the government and its leader could wake up and see what they are doing to this beloved country in enhancing disunity! The 1 Malaysia concept will forever be a distant dream as long as this race based politics and partial affirmative policies are not eradicated.

Evening with Zaid Ibrahim

Sembang- Sembang is a NGO based in Penang organized a talk and book launch by Zaid Ibrahim the ex-law minister on the 2nd Nov 09 at Wisma Penyayang. I bought Zaid's book and got it autographed while cracking a conversation.YB Sim Tze was the chairman and introduced Dr.Mansor , the Deputy Chief Minister of Penang and Zaid Ibrahim to the audience. It was a packed room and they need to open more space room to accommodate the people who were coming in.
The program started with the firing of confetti which went going wrong for both the Pakatan YB’s; Sim and Dr. mansor as they needed a second try to fire it, I guess it depicts akin Anwar Pakatan’s ambition to march to Putrajaya!
Dr.Mansor talked about the Malaysia’s constitutional democracy which was hailed as one the best during the 1960’s in this region but faded away after UMNO and BN was formed and hold on to power. The formation of two party system during the 1999 election was further enhanced in 2008 which brought about a political tsunami. Thus it laid the ground work for a two party system is ongoing which he believes that shall eradicate poverty, corruption and mis-management of public funds in the future.
Zaid spoke after Dr.Mansor and he mentioned that the two political party is a dream and a dream worth having by Malaysians. We never been short of opposition even in the past and crossover of MPs as the first case happened when the Supreme Court allowed party hopping law under the provision of freedom of association during the great Mahathir period for obvious reasons only know to Mahathir. We need to change this law but it can only be achieved if Pakatan runs the country without which UMNO and BN has no political will to bring about such changes.
PAS,DAP,PKR knew that each party on their own can’t make to Putrajaya so they need to collaborate and work together to make it happen. That reminds of a Beatle songs” We can make work it out” Zaid said and to make it work we need to be friends first. He reiterated that the op leaders wanted to make it work. He went on to say that PAS has no plans to work together with UMNO as their main goal is to kick UMNO/BN from the government yet some PAS leaders do have their own political agenda which is causing some discomfort among the coalition.
Policy formulation would be a test of their commitment as we come from different political parties with differences in ideologies so to work it out it’ll take time and that is what he has been working on now. The first step is to register a political party is under way now yet there are some issues like party symbols i.e Rocket, Moon and Pakatan Eye still being debated by the leaders and it’ll take some time to iron that out. He went on to say that he is good Malay and not a liberal Malay taking jibe at his former UMNO fellas and added that during Pak Lah’s time there was decency in governance but now it is highly questionable!
The Pakatan coalition needs to work on issues and policies and not to champion race or religion if they want to move forward! There is still political fear prejudice amongst the Rakyat and which is real such as the Malays rights, freedom of religion and other issues and all this fears need to be addressed soon thus enable the people to trust each other. It got to start with the parties coming together to trust each other and to work things out first. The panel took various questions from the floor from the Orang Asli Rights, Primary Health Care to land Conversion Law in Penang. There was some hostile audience with one being shouted to sit down when he raise his voice to repeat the question on land scams in Penang, poor chap! I conclude that the message said was to ask the Rakyat to continue supporting Pakatan Rakyat as it is the only hope for a two party system at this moment. There could be many differences both within and among the various parties but it is being sorted out to be strong and furthermore it is newly formed coalition and to have differences is a norm.
Thus it gives us hope that there is a possibility to have a strong two party system which is gets away from the current race based governance! There is still hope for Malaysians!

Gerakan history in the making

(The Star) - Gerakan Youth chief Lim Si Pin has lashed out at his central committee members for failing to turn up in full force for its national delegates conference.

Only 406 youth delegates, or 38.5%, were present and this was the worst turnout in the 22 years since the wing was formed.“This is an alarming and difficult question for us. Why is our turnout so bad this year?” He said many youth delegates gave the excuse that they could not wake up in time for the meeting because this year’s conference had been changed to Saturday mornings instead of Friday evenings previously.

Sudah jadi irrelevant apa nak cakap lagi!Bubar parti dan join a party which beleives in One Malaysia where everyone is created equal and treated as equal!

PM says ignore some UMNO racist remark

It was quoted in The Star - Racist comments from “one or two Umno leaders” should be ignored because the majority of members in the party are not racists, said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. The Umno president stressed that the party’s policies had always been fair, inclusive, democratic and open.“Umno is not a racist party. From the beginning, we wanted a multiracial society. Don’t listen to one or two leaders talk; that’s different. Any party has leaders like them.
So it is okay for some MCA,MIC,Gerakan and whatever BN components parties to have few racist leaders! Not forgetting the oppositions, start making racist statements as you can get away with Najib's excuse. If it works for Najib, it must work for others as well.
Only in Bolehland, can a PM will get away with making such a comment.