The race is not over yet

Finally, after 10 years, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim rejoins Parliament as Permatang Pauh MP, the same seat he had prior to being sacked and incarcerated for 5 years for sodomy and corruption charges. He was released in 2004 after the Court overturned the Sodomy charges.

In Malaysia, politics is like the Decathlon event between Pakatan Rakyat and BN (ameno), where the winner is decided after 8 or 10 different sports or events. Thats right boys and girls, its not over yet.

Event No 1: BN rushed the amendment of Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2007, where the government intends to make the mandatory retirement age of the Election Commission members 66 years old instead of the present 65. Just in time before GE12, and in particular to accomodate SPR Chairman, Tan Sri Rashid Abdul Rahman.

BN 1 : PR 0

Event No 2: Pak Lah announced early dissolution of Parliament in February 2008, and General Election set for March 8, 2008. This is just 1 months shy of Anwar's eligibility to contest, due to his 4-year ban from politics.

BN 2 : PR 0

Event No. 3: SD from Raja Petra accusing Najib and Rosmah's involvement, along with several others in the Altantuya murder. This was followed by Balasubramaniam's SD, again implicating Najib.

BN 2 : PR 1

Event No. 4: Counter attack from Umno against Anwar Ibrahim allegedly sodomizing Saiful Bukhari Azlan. Probably to neutralize Event No. 4. Anwar was charged in early August 2008. However, the swearing by Saiful was countered by Ramlang Porigi, who said the oath is not valid.
Shame on Umno and Saiful!

BN 2 : PR 2

Event No. 5: PKR President, Datin Seri Wan Azizah Ismail vacating her Permatang Pauh Seat to make way for Anwar to contest. This came as a suprise to many, especially Umno who thought Anwar would contest in Kulim or Bandar Tun Razak instead.

BN 2 : PR 3

Event No. 6: BN/ameno rushing the DNA Bill to be debated in Parliament. Once the bill has been debated 3 times (just finished the 2nd debate on 26 August 2008), it will become and Act. They will use this to force Anwar to give up his blood sample (to be planted on Saiful's underwear?..)

BN 4 : PR 3

Event No. 7: Anwar wins big in Permatang Pauh by-election. Probably be sworn-in by Thursday at the earliest. Although I doubt this since Pak Lah will present Budget 2008 on Friday. They wouldn't want Pak Lah to be embarassed by Anwar on Friday.

BN 4 : PR 4

And these events hopefully would occur soon-

Event No. 9: The so-called 30 BN MPs jump ship to Pakatan Rakyat as soon as Anwar is sworn-in as MP. This occurs earlier then 10 September. Pakatan Rakyat forms new government with Datuk Seri Anwar as the 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

BN 4 : PR 5

Event No. 9: New IGP, AG, ACA DG and Chief Justice is elected to replace the Umno elected reps. Anwar still undergoes trial for Sodomy but will be dropped due to false evidence.

BN 4 : PR 6

Event No. 10: All the corrupted BN MPs, their families and cronies; be investigated for crime against Malaysians committed in the past 20 years.

BN 4 : PR 7

So who comes out the winner in the end? It is still too early to break out the champagne. The race will continue, but it looks like Pakatan Rakyat will win this Decathlon...

7 KEBETULAN UNTUK PENGUNDI PERMATANG PAUH

Courtesy from MarGeeMar

7 KEBETULAN UNTUK PENGUNDI PERMATANG PAUH MENGAPA ARIF SHAH TIDAK BOLEH MENJADI MP.

Ini untuk para pengundi di Permatang Pauh. Artikel ini sangat penting. Bacalah, kemudian fikir-fikirkan dan renung-renungkan.

1. Calon BN/Umno Arif Shah Omar Shah berkata beliau telah berhenti mengikuti pengajian Phd. Di Edision University of Technology. Soalannya, bagaimanakah seorang yang hanya mempunyai kelulusan Diploma sahaja seperti Arif ini,boleh terus melangkah sampai keperingkat Phd. pula? Pelik tapi benar! Takkan Si Arif ini tak tahu bahawa sesiapapun boleh membeli Phd dari universiti ini? Samada Si Arif ini bodoh sial ataupun cuba menipu Rakyat dengan Phdnya.

2. Sogok RM500 kepada penduduk Permatang Pauh upah sebagai perisik.

3. Tidak membayar wang caruman KWSP.

4. Menyertai perarakan haram Umno di Komtar apabila Pakatan Rakyat mengambil-alih Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang. Perarakan haram ini disertai Arif kerana kononnya kedudukan kaum Melayu di Pulau Pinang diancam oleh kerajaan PR.

5. Ariff Shah adalah adik kepada Tan Sri Amin Shah Omar Shah (Foto atas kanan) yang kini tinggal di UK kerana terlibat dalam skandal . Skandal ini melibatkan kes penipuan PSC Industries Berhad, dimana Amin Shah telah diberi kontrak bernilai lebih daripada RM24 billion dalam bentuk kontak TLDM sekitar tahun 1998 pada ketika Timbalan Perdana Menteri Najib Tun Razak memegang jawatan Menteri Pertahanan. Kerajaan Malaysia telah membayar Amin Shah berbillion Ringgit sebagai ‘duit hangus’ tetapi malangnya Amin Shah tidak menunaikan bahagiannya. Berbillion Ringgit wang Rakyat Malaysian telah lenyap begitu sahaja. Ini merupakan skandal kewangan terbesar dalam sejarah Negara! Mustahil jika Arif Shah mengatakan bahawa beliau tidak terlibat dalam perkara ini.

6. Demi mempopularkan dirinya dikalangan orazng Melayu yang menyoal laterbelangnya sebagai seorang India Muslim, Arif Shah telahcuba munukarkan nama George Town kepada “Bandar Datuk Abdullah Fahim”.

7. Arif Shah inilah yang telah mendesak Pak Lah bersama pemimpin Unmo Pulau Pinang lain untuk membatalkan semua Projek Mega di Pulau Pinang sebagai hukuman kepada Rakyat Pulau Pinang kerana mengundi Pakatan Rakyat.

Pada pendapat saya, jika seseorang itu boleh bercakap bohong tentang kelulusan akademiknya, beliau juga boleh berbohong tentang pembabitannya dalam perniagaan abangnya, Amin Shah. Di Negara demokrasi lain, seorang individu seperti Arif Shah tidak akan diletakkan bertanding segai seorang calon sama sekali.

Swearing is the new game in town

In a typical western court, a person swears on the Bible to "tell the truth and nothing but the truth" so help him God. In Buddhism, you create your own bad karma - and there's no such thing as swearing on the Buddha's picture or image to support your claim of the "truth". Chinese families were known to settle disputes by swearing in front of a deity. The divine retribution is very heavy on the sinner who lied.

In Islam, swearing on the Quran is not part of the teachings in Islam as Tuan Guru Nik Aziz had said and cannot be found in the Quran or Hadith. A Quran is meant to be recited, understood, and used as law for Islam religion, not to be sweared upon.

If Saiful/Amno say its part of Prophet Muhammad SAW teachings, the Quran during the Prophet's time isn't in book form like one can get today. It was passed on and memorized by Muhammad's disciples. Only during Khalifah Saidina Usman's time, that he decided to document the Quran as the people who memorize the Quran verses were getting old, beginning to forget the verses, and dying or old age.

If swearing can get Saiful proof his innocence and saudara Anwar's guilt, we should get all these people to swear immediately:
* Azilah Hadri & Sirul swear they did not kill Altantuya
* Aziz Buyong swear he did not strap C4 on Altantuya
* Rahim Noor swear he did not cause Anwar's black eye
* Muhammad 2x swear he did not bring out undeclared cash from Australia (although caught doing it!)
* Muhammad 2x swear he speekee no ingliiish
* Najib swear he did not summon Musa Hassan to instruct Musa Safri to order Azilah Hadri to kill Altantuya.
*
*...and the list goes on.

Such irony isn't it? We have laws in Malaysia, civil and syariah. But at the same time, these Umno goons keep asking Anwar to swear on the Quran, like Saiful did. Even Tun Mahathir challenged Anwar to do the same to proof he is not guilty. Why not ask every criminal to swear while we're at it, then the courts, lawyers, prosecutors, judges can call it a day, since everyone is innocent. Welcome to Malaysia, where swearing by the good book has more weight than our Civil or Syariah laws. No pun intended despite how questionable the integrity and transparency of our judiciary is in right now.

Anwar made a wise decision not to play along. That would've made Islam look like a joke, where everyone can swear on the Quran and claim innocence. Now, it is Saiful who looks like a complete fool. No one beliefs him. I mean, if a 12 year old can protect himself from being sodomised by his teacher what is Saiful's excuse?

Its time to open up

Selangor MB was caught by suprise when thousands of UiTM students marched towards SUK, the official Selangor government administration building. The students were protesting suggestion by YB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim on UiTM opening up 10% of its intake quota for non-bumiputra students.

I see Khalid's intention is good: to create a more competitive environment for Bumiputra students whilst having much-clever non-Bumi students as the challengers. Besides, competition makes us become a better person, we know where we are relative to others around us. So whats is the problem of having just 10% non-bumi competing amongst the 90% bumis? Exactly, nothing.
Its just another day where umno is using Khalid's suggestion to stir-up the racial issue. I can't help notice the word 'hadhari' printed on the protest banner.

UiTM is funded by the government, thus making it IPTA (Awam) status. Government funded means the money is coming from Malaysian tax payers, you and me. Now, its a fact that majority of tax payers are non-bumis, ie the Chinese. Knowing that, is it too difficult to spare 10% of the quota for the non-bumis to study there? Indians and Chinese are Malaysians too remember?

Imagine the universities worldwide practicing this quota system. We will never have Malaysian graduates from MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Kettering and thousand others. Reason: we are not Caucasian, thus we are not eligible to study there. These prestigious schools and many others accepts students based on merits, not based on ethnicity and where they're from. Its not abnormal to see the best MIT student is a Chinese, or a Russian, or Indian. Its nothing to be afraid of when a Malaysian tops out the Deans List at London School or Economics. The Malaysians see this as a national achievement, while the Americans or British sees this as a challenge for them to improve.

Instead of being selfish and racist, UiTM should open up its doors to non-Bumi students as well. 10% is too small a percentage to hurt anybody. But these Malay students will know where they are on a level-playing field. We always jeer our sportsmen as being 'jaguh kampung', now lets put the money where our mouth is. Then maybe one day, UiTM and others like it will become the school of choice in the likes of the American and British Ivy Leagues.

Another theory on Saiful-Najib-DSAI saga

So a friend came over to visit a few nights ago. Turns out he has some nuggets to share about our friend, Saiful the sodo-mee. This is what he has to say:

Saiful was indeed planted by Umno (aka Najib) to spy on PKR's campaigning activities during March 8 election.

Post election, several secret meetings held between DSAI and MPs from all over the country, in particular from Sabah and Sarawak. As DSAI's aide, Saiful was in charge of setting-up these meetings, the dates, time, and venues on behalf of DSAI. It is unknown if Saiful is also present during these secret sessions.

Most of the time, the meeting was conducted at the Damansara condominium where the alleged sodomy (ies) took place. Saiful was pronged in the butt 8 times, mind you.

The potential threats of BN MP defections are real. Saiful immediately reported this to Najib.

Using C4 would be too obvious, and they can't pin DSAI on corruption since he doesn't have any, Thus, Najib, Gani & Musa created this Sodomy II story, similar to the Sodomy I episode.

The accusation is simple, and punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment. It would prevent DSAI from entering parliament, and would deter the potential defectors from jumping ship.

When asked if DSAI had ever been to the condominium, he didn't deny he's been there on more than a few occasions. Even the condo security personnel has testified to the police of seeing him entering the premise.

So the story of the secret meetings must be true.
Najib is aware of this, and he probably even have the list of MPs waiting for DSAI to win Permatang Pauh on Aug. 26.

DSAI must be stopped at all cost, even if Najib has to recycle the bullshit story of Sodomy I.

Where is Pak Lah during all this? Can't figure this one yet. Either he is out of the loop, sleeping, or he is on top of all this but manage to keep out of the lime light. I guess we will find out soon enough, come PR taking over the Federal Government.

Yesterday marks another dark day for Malaysia. They finally nabbed saudara Anwar soon after he arrived home after having his statement recorded at ACA. The night before, we see She-biri-biri got grilled by Anwar live on TV. How fast things can turn around.

To the 30 plus so called Barisan MPs, where art thou? The rakyat is depending on you to jump to Pakatan Rakyat. This is the only way to strip power from the recalcitrant Umno goons. Their fear of losing power must be at its maximum, when they decided to repeat 1998. Ignoring the fact that majority of Malaysians does not believe Anwar to be a sodomizer, Umno couldn't go any lower.

Najib, gani and musa must've been able to sleep peacefully last night. Their #1 nemesis is now under police custody, and will soon be charged for sodomy. Thats 20 years maximum jail time for Anwar. Raja Petra, nemesis #2 will be summoned to Police HQ today for the "seditious" post he made on MT regarding Rosmah's involvement in Alatantuya murder. And Umno probably has plans to put him away too.

Anyway, Anwar had previously said that he has the alibi and proof of his innocence. Lets hope that is true. Same goes to you RPK and your trusted source. Our doa goes to both of you.

To saiful #$%@$&^%, I'm certain you will be punished if not now, in the afterlife. With 10 million rakyat cursing you to rot in hell, I'll be suprised if you didn't.

Again, to the BN MPs who are having 2nd thought about Umno, jump now and save Malaysia. We can't afford to wait another 5 years.

Fuel dilemma and wealth creation

Great debate tonight between DS Anwar Ibrahim and Shabery Cheek. Although to me, it looks more like an experienced debater who knows macro economy against a layman, who resorts to firing cheap shots when he couldn't hack it. Well at least Shabery has the guts to face DSAI on live television. If it were Pak Lah, its guaranteed to be one hell of a disaster of Umno. Will be eaten alive and spit out by DSAI like nobody's business.

So now we have heard DSAI's approach to reduce petrol price if PR succeed in taking over the government. What I wonder, and was mentioned by Shabery, is how long can the subsidy last? As long as Malaysia is a net exporter, we should be profiting from the oil price increase, but sooner or later, the well will dry up. Maybe not in my lifetime, but during our children's generation. Should that day come, are we going to see a sharp increase in oil prices when government can no longer subsidize our fuel?

The point I'm getting at is, the government in power should focus on wealth creation. Increasing FDI will create wealth. Exporting more than importing will create wealth. Basically, we need surplus of foreign cashflow coming into the country. That is how we can expand the cake for every Malaysians to share. At the moment, the government is only distributing the cake, but no one is putting new cakes into the oven.

But how do we create wealth? The same way how Koreans, Americans, Britain, Japanese, French or any developed nation did it. Invest in R&D and create new products that we can EXPORT. Innovate on the current ones and EXPORT them as well. That is one way how wealth is created. From passenger cars to handphones to LCD tvs, the Koreans have them all. And exporting creates wealth for their country.

Same goes for Singapore. With no natural resources, they focus on other areas for wealth creation: Services sector such as banking, high finance and insurance sector. With clients from all over the world, wealth is certainly pouring into Singapore.

When Malaysia has mastered the art of wealth creation, our Ringgit would surely appreciate, and so will our buying power. That time, maybe we will not be too burdened by the fuel prices since most of us would be able to afford it, even without subsidy. Only then, can we truly be called a developed nation.