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?