UPDATED: Hulu Selangor By-Election.... The Countdown

 IT WAS A BUY-ELECTION WON BY UMNO-BN

OFFICIAL TALLY:

BN =24,997 

 PKR= 23,272

MAJORITY WIN BY BN:  1,725 votes

Money was literally thrown at the Malay voters to vote an Indian candidate.  (RM  64 Million for Hulu Selangor)

The dirtiest election campaign by UMNO-BN in recent memory.

Nonetheless, the  people of Hulu Selangor has spoken loudly

Go to Anil Netto Blog for Live Updates

FINAL VOTER TURN-OUT ( 5 PM) :  75.87 % voter turnout or 48,935 out of 63,701 voters. 

TIMELINES: (STAY TUNED ON THIS PAGE)WILL BE UPDATED UNTIL FINAL RESULT KNOWN

8.00 PM

FINAL RESULT: BN WON THE BY-ELECTION

The BN have nothing to gloat over after splashing out and promising all that money.

7.55 PM

Mkini official:  BN 19067 / PKR 17554   - A Margin: 1513

7.45 PM

PKR needed 80% of non Malay votes, he only got 68%.

 Latest unofficial tally from Aku Budak Balun @ Hulu Selangor: BN 20,827 PKR 20,293 

7 more polling districts to report
7.40 PM

10,000 votes more to be couted


 Latest unofficial from Khairy: : ‎​19,067 BN - 17,554 PKR ....BN led by 1,300 votes

PKR admit lost in FELDA area...
7.35 PM


PKR supporters believe Not enough Malay support and support from urbanites to bring PKR across theline

 7.30 PM
 
There are still a lot of votes left to count. Around 30,000.

Official EC tally so far: BN 3,134 PKR 3,772
7.20PM

Votes in Malay areas coming in only trending 40% to 43% for PR only. PKR might be in trouble

 
Total Tally:  PKR 9,116 BN 7,280

7.15PM

These results so far are mostly from the Chinese polling center. The votes from Malay area yet to come in 

 UNOFFICAL TALLY :  BN 6985 - PR 8885.... PKR leading by about 2,000 votes

7.10 PM
  
Anil Netto noted kampung/rural votes still be counted

Pakatan Ops Centre tally:    BN 6,840 PKR 8,509 


7.06 PM

 Kampung Padang
Saluran 1: PKR - 77 BN - 209

Saluran 2 PKR - 154 BN - 191

Unofficial PKR 8509 BN 6840 ... PKR still leading.. lead extends to about 1,500

Batang Kali - PKR 901 BN 798

Total Tally: PKR 7162 BN 6063... PKR is still leading

6.50 PM

Ampang Pecah PKR - 148  BN - 216  

38,000 votes more to count.....STILL TOO EARLY TO CALL 

Unofficial   TOTAL COUNT:  PKR 6141    BN 5278

  6.45 PM

With 11,000 votes tallied PKR leading by 900 majority. (Fahmi Fadzil reports)


UNOFFICIAL Total Count:  PKR 5176 BN 4682 
PKR leading at this stage according to Malaysiakini 

6.35 PM


PKR  wins Kg. Bharu:   KKB by 736 votes.


6.30 PM

Ulu Yam Bharu - BN 572, PR 397 

Kuala Kubu Bharu (Sal 1-3 ) - PKR 897, BN 499



6.25 PM

Unofficial,   Kg Baru Cina PKR leading in 2 saluran
6.20 PM
 Anil Netto reports no clear trend 

Postal Votes:PKR - 120, BN - 767 Rosak - 12


6.15 pm
  
RASA BN 75 PKR 301
 PERTAK   PKR 22  BN 15
 SALURAN 1  KUALA KELOMPANG BN 128 PKR 98 ROSAK 6

KUALA KUBU SALURAN 2:    BN 155 PKR 105 

BATANG KALI SALURAN 1 BN 94 PKR 171 

Unofficial results:
SMK Dato haji Kamaruddin
PKR - 135
BN - 82

Ulu Yam Barat  (6.15 pm)
PKR - (138)

BN - (226)

6.00pm

Unofficial - PKR leading in Soeharto

5.30pm

Unofficial,  PKR leading in Gedangsa (counting on-going)
5.05 pm:

PKR wins Bukit Frasers: PKR (22) BN (15) Spoilt (1) 38/68 (55.9%)
(Zorro reports)
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  5pm: Voting Closed


4.30 pm

VOTER TURNOUT

Kg Jumut, Hulu Bernam 70%

Bandar Kalumpang 65%

hulu Yam Timor 71%

Sg Tengi Selatan 81%

Bukit Berungtung 58-3%

SK Taman Buaya Raya 38.96%
of 1350 eligible voters.

3.05PM

VOTER TURNOUT:
Sg Buaya 67%

SJKC Batang Kali 70%

SRJKC Choong Chee 81%

SMK Bukit Sentosa 40%

SJK(T) Sg Choh 70% (situation here has turned chaotic....FRU has been deployed)

SRKRT Changkat Ledang Asa (Hulu Bernam) 63%

SK Sg Selisek (Hulu Bernam) 73%
SKGesir \Tengah (hulu Bernam) 45%
SJK(T) KKB 53.54%
3PM:
Voter turn out is 67.18% - 43,333 out of expected 63,701 voters.

The Slave-Lord Relationship of MIC to UMNO

MIC Information Chief, P.Kamalanathan Greeting UMNO's Deputy President, Muhyiddin Yassin By   Kissing His Hand Slave-like



AND THEN COMPARE TO THIS.............

Self-Respecting UMNO Malays Greeting UMNO Deputy President Muhyiddin Yassin



Excerpt from article by Bridget Welsh in Malaysiakini

MIC's  Loss of  Face

There is considerable loss of face as a result of the party being passed over in their candidate selection and many consider Kamalanathan to be a traitor to the party for kissing the hand of the DPM.

 Note: Malaysian Insider quoted Muhyiddin Yassin as saying, “I did not ask him to kiss my hand but he did it..." Read here for more

Traditionally MIC has many of its voters in its parliamentary seats registered outside. They are brought “home” to vote. Kamalanathan himself is apparently registered in S Samy Vellu's former seat of Sungai Siput. The MIC party has been largely excluded from the campaign as Umno has dominated the ground.

This may affect the party's own efforts in supporting the MIC candidate. Their presence this round is lower than previous campaigns. Part of this is a result of the by-election dynamics.

Another part of this is a sense that Umno bullied MIC  publicly and many are smarting.

Ibrahim Ali/PERKASA /UMNO Mengajar Anak Muda Melayu Adat Berkurang Ajar (Lihat Gambar)

DEMONSTRASI - 24 APRIL 2010

DEMONSTRASI- 29 August 2009


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Datuk Ibrahim Ali boasted that thousands of slippers would greet Tony Blair if he set foot in Malaysia, but he only mustered less than 100 protesters at the “slipper protest” today (24 April 2010).

His Malay rights group Perkasa joined a few other groups who did not want the former British prime minister to speak at a success seminar in Bandar Sunway here over his alleged war crimes.

The dismal showing did not seem to faze those gathered at an entrance to the Sunway Pyramid Mall. Chanting “Allahu akbar” and “Blair! Blair! B*****d!”, the protesters stepped on and burned flyers printed with Blair’s face.

They also threw slippers at a banner featuring the crossed-out faces of Blair, George W. Bush and the Star of David.

The group was mainly made up of young Malays, although a dozen or so Iraqi nationals were also present.

Video Perlu di Tonton: Pandangan Tentang Orang Melayu, UMNO dan Emosi

UMNO Terlampau Menghina Zaid Ibrahim Sebagai Haiwan Bukan Sebagai Manusia Dari Kaum Melayu

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Quote:

"Zaid itu manusia, kenapa digambarkan seolah-olah beliau seperti haiwan? 

Tak munasabah langsunglah!!.”
-Saorang Graduan Dentistry (Pakar Gigi)

PRK Hulu Selangor - UMNO banyak membantu Zaid

by

Aspan Alias

Setelah berulang alik keHulu Selangor dua tiga hari ini saya banyak mendapat pelajaran yang boleh memberi munafaat kepada diri saya sendiri dan pada sesiapa yang mahu belajar dari PRK ini.

Salah satu pelajaran yang saya dapati ialah mempelajari saikoloji manusia yang berpelajaran dikalangan orang Melayu dan juga bangsa-bangsa lain yang akan mengundi pada hujung minggu ini. 

Tindakkan menyerang peribadi yang keterlaluan boleh memakan diri sendiri dan sebaliknya memberi banyak kebaikkan kepada pihak yang difitnah dan dihina.

Tindakkan pembantu-pembantu BN menyerang dengan tidak ada belas kasihan terhadap Datuk Zaid itu telah membuatkan ramai yang telah mengambil tindakkan akan mengundi beliau.

Saya sendiri yang mendapat panggilan talipon dari pemimpin cawangan UMNO yang saya kenali telah berjanji untuk memberikan undi kepada Zaid Ibrahim.

“Tak mungkin Datuk Zaid sehina yang digambarkan. Tak mungkin. Pihak BN telah melakukan penghinaan melampaui batasan kemanusiaan seolah-olah Zaid ini seekor anjing kurap ditepi jalan.” Kata seorang guru bersara.

Seorang lagi dari kaum cina yang saya kenali berkata, “dulu saya undi BN, tapi ini kali saya bagi Datuk Zaid. Saya sudah banyak benci dengan cara BN hantam D Zaid. Itu cakap memang tadak baik punya” Chin bercakap selamba sahaja.

Seorang kaum ibu pula berkata,

“Suami saya talipon dari Melaka yang dia akan bercuti hari Jumaat untuk buat kenduri, panggil saudara mara. Nak kempen untuk Datuk Zaid sikit.

Suami saya tidak pernah nak sokong pembangkang tetapi kali ini terpaksa berikan kepada Zaid kerana penghinaan terhadap beliau yang tidak ada batas kemanusiaan.”

Itulah yang saya dapati dari perbualan dengan beberapa orang pengundi tempatan.

Sesungguhnya untuk memahami saikoloji yang mudah ini, seseorang itu tidak payah keUniversiti untuk mempelajarinya.

Menuntut diUniversiti tidak menjamin seseorang itu boleh menggunakan pemikiran yang dianugerah tuhan itu. Malahan ramai penyokong BN ada sarjana muda, dan sarjana dari England, Australia atau pun New Zealand masih sanggup untuk menjadi pecacai kepada kempen buruk ini.

“Zaid itu manusia, kenapa digambarkan seolah-olah beliau seperti haiwan? Tak munasabah langsunglah!!.” Kata anak muda yang baru sahaja pulang dari mesir setelah tamat pengajian ‘dentistry’ itu.

Saya pun menjawab, “betullah tu!” sambil bersetuju bahawa kita tidak boleh menghina manusia yang juga datangnya dari Tuhan itu.

Seorang yang bekerja disalah sebuah jabatan Persekutuan dari Shah Alam pula berkata,

“Kalau nak menang pun jangan lah jadi pariah pula.. Nampak sangat tidak ‘classnya, dan saya tak mahu lah dapat dosa kering macam tu!.Macamlah kita ni tak pernah bersekolah dibuatnya”.

Tetapi apa yang jelas sikap memaki hamun dari pihak BN ini, menyebabkan kempen BN itu tidak membawa faedah kepada BN sendiri malah ianya memberikan kelebihan kepada Zaid Ibrahim.

Bagi Zaid penghinaan pihak UMNO ini memberikan beliau kelebihan.

Sesungguhnya UMNO lah yang memberikan dokongan kepada Zaid dari sudut hakikinya.

Zaid Ibrahim, Principled, Courageous and the People's Politician

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PETANG ITU - 38 TAHUN DAHULU

by

Hishamuddin Rais

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Ini cerita lama.

Tapi baik juga untuk dibuka kembali agar kita semua dapat tahu apa yang berlaku puluhan tahun dahulu.

Cerita-cerita ini kalau baik kita jadikan tauladan. Kalau tidak molek dapat kita jadikan sempadan.

Kalau tidak pun kita baca untuk ketawa.

Ceritanya bagini:

Saya ingat lagi pada tahun 1972 - ketika itu saya anak mahasiswa yang mengulang tahun satu di Universiti Malaya. Saya telah aktif dalam perjuangan gerakan mahasiswa sejak dari awal tahun pertama lagi.

Pada tahun itu, ketika Kongres Tahunan Persatuan Kebangsaan Pelajar-Pelajar Malaysia (PKPM ), saya telah dilantik untuk menjadi Setiausaha Agung. Badan yang bernama PKPM ini telah diharamkan pada tahun 1974 - sesudah demo pelajar menyokong warga Baling.

Ketika saya dilantik sebagai SU Agung PKPM – perang Vietnam sedang rancak. Kuasa imperial Amerika sedang melancarkan perang kolonial ke atas Vietnam, Laos dan Kamboja – sama seperti yang sedang berlaku di Iraq dan Afghanistan hari ini.

Justeru dalam Kongres PKPM tahun 1972 itu ada terdapat resolusi yang mengutuk imperialis Amerika Syarikat dan menyokong perjuangan menuntut keadilan oleh rakyat Indo China. Ketetapan yang dibuat dalam kongres akan menjadi dasar persatuan sehingga ke kongres tahun hadapan.

Pada zaman itu gerakan mahasiswa cukup rancak.

Saya adalah seorang ahli kelab sosialis yang aktif. Justeru pandangan politik saya adalah kiri. Buku dan akhbar yang saya baca adalah kiri. Negara dan pemimpin negara yang saya hormati adalah dari jalur kiri.

Berdasarkan resolusi PKPM yang anti-Amerika saya telah memasang poster-poster anti-perang Vietnam yang kami terima dari International Union of Students yang berpengkalan di Prague.

Rupa-rupanya ada juga kumpulan mahasiswa, terutama dari PMUKM yang yang tidak bersetuju dengan pemasangan poster ini. Lalu saya dikritik sebagai SU Agung PKPM yang tidak bertanggungjawab. Sebenarnya isu poster anti-perang Vietnam ini hanya alasan.

Kritikan ini datang dari pelajar reaksionari bermazhab kanan.

Akhirnya satu persidangan tergempar telah diadakan. Persidangan ini diadakan di Dewan Majlis Persatuan Universiti Malaya. Saya ingat lagi petang itu – delegasi dari PMUKM, dari Serdang College, dari Institut Teknoloji Kebangsaan, KSITM dan tuan rumah PMUM turut hadir.

Saya dapat merasakan seolah-olah telah ada persetujuan untuk menyingkirkan saya dari PKPM. Idris Jusi, dari PMUKM mula bercakap membuka kes tentang saya yang dikatakan tidak mengikut dasar PKPM dan dilihat pro-komunis.

Dari KSITM, presidennya Zahari tidak pula bercakap. Yang banyak bercakap ialah Ibrahim Ali.

Pandangan-pandangan kanan dan reaskioner bertaburan pada petang itu.

Sebelum keputusan dibuat untuk menyingkirkan saya dari PPPM tiba-tiba seorang wakil delegasi dari KSITM mengangkat tangan untuk berucap.

Saya masih ingat lagi anak muda itu. Dia kurus lansing dan kacak. Berkulit sawo matang. Anak muda ini memakai seluar hitam dan berbaju biru. Mustahil saya akan melupakan susuk ini.

Sampai akhir hayat saya ingat apa yang berlaku pada petang itu. Tidak mungkin saya akan lupa kerana pada petang itu saya sedang disalib.

Masih terngiang di telinga saya hingga ke hari ini apa yang dikatakan oleh anak muda itu:

“Sebelum dia dibuang, dia berhak untuk diberi peluang bersuara. Ini adalah cita-cita demokrasi pelajar… dan ini adalah hak dia.”

Saya terperanjat kerana tidak ada sesiapa dari persatuan lain yang menyokong saya kecuali PMUM. Saya terperanjat kerana anak muda ini berani ‘pecah regu’ untuk menyokong saya.

Saya kagum atas keberanian nya.

Saya tidak kenal anak muda ini. Tapi saya tahu anak muda ini datang dari KSITM – satu persatuan pelajar yang saya anggap reaksionari.

Bila saya selidiki baru saya sedari anak muda ini ialah Zaid Ibrahim – pelajar jurusan undang-undang Institut Teknoloji Mara. Saya juga difahamkan si Zaid ini datang dari Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman (STAR) seteru kuat sekolah saya, MCKK.

Semenjak petang itu saya tidak bertemu dengan Zaid Ibrahim. Kami meneruskan keyakinan diri. Saya difahamkan Zaid telah menjadi seorang peguam yang berjaya. Saya terus menjadi diri saya.

Lima tahun dahulu seorang kawan dari MCKK mengajak saya untuk menjadi ahli Civil Society of Malaysia. Ini badan hak asasi manusia yang cuba diwujudkan oleh Zaid Ibrahim.

Cuma ada ‘catch’ - sesiapa yang ingin menjadi ahli wajib membayar RM250. Jumlah ini agak berat untuk saya - lalu saya menolak jemputan ini.

Seminggu sebelum Ngo ini berkumpul dan bersidang saya telah mendapat panggilan telefon mengatakan bahawa RM250 telah dibayar oleh Zaid Ibrahim. Saya hairan kerana seumur hidup saya – saya belum pernah bercakap sepatah pun dengan susuk ini.

Dari panggilan talipon - saya telah diberi kebenran untuk datang ke persidangan pertama Civil Society ini di Hotel Renaisance.

Inilah kali kedua saya melihat Zaid Ibrahim.

Kali kedua ini agak berbeza. Anak muda kurus yang berbaju biru dan berseluar hitam dahulu telah agak bersisi. Rambutnya telah dicantikan oleh anyaman uban. Baju dan pantalon yang dipakainya kelihatan dari jenis yang baik dan bermutu. Nah!

Pastilah dia telah berjaya hinggakan sanggup membayar yuran untuk orang yang tidak dikenalinya.

Dua hari sebelum nama Zaid Ibrahim dimahsyurkan sebagai calon di Hulu Selangor saya telah pergi menemuinya.

Rumah kediaman si Zaid ini bukanlah sama seperti bilik sewa tempat saya menginap. Ini kawasan lumayan yang hanya 30 minit dari Serendah Hulu Selangor.

Mata saya memerhati dengan rapi untuk mengetahui lebih dalam lagi manusia yang bernama Zaid Ibrahim ini. Rumahnya tidak mengancam tapi pastilah lebih luas dari bilik sewa saya. Dalaman tidak lucah dan bukan bermotifkan budaya ‘arriviste – horray henry’ yang sering kita temui di wilayah-wilayah mewah.

Tujuan saya datang kerana ingin bertanya apakah dia masih ingat lagi apa yang terjadi di Dewan Majlis PMUM 38 tahun dahulu. Zaid termenong sabentar sebelum mengakui yang dia pernah datang ke PMUM untuk bermesyurat. Tetapi tidak ingat apa tujuan dia hadir. Malah dia juga tidak ingat bahawa pada petang itu yang di salib ialah saya.

Saya tidak merasa kecewa kerana si Zaid tidak mengingati episod itu. Inilah perjalanan hidup kita sebagai manusia . Terpencar pencar - ada yang kita ingati dan ada yang kita lupakan. Untuk kita – pekara yang ini mungkin penting dan untuk orang lain pekara yang sama adalah ‘non event – tidak ada apa apa yang penting’.

Kenapa saya menulis kesah ini?

• Saya menulis kerana susuk yang bernama Zaid Ibrahim ini sedang berkempen untuk memenangi kerusi di Parlimen.
  
  
• Saya menulis ini kerana saya yakin bahawa manusia yang bernama Zaid Ibrahim ini adalah manusia demokrat. Tiga puluh lapan tahun dahulu – ketika kami masih lagi anak pelajar - si Zaid ini telah memperlihatkan sifat jujur dan demokratnya.

Pada petang itu, 38 tahun dahulu, si Zaid telah tidak terpengaruh dengan tohmah anti-komunis, anti-kiri dan anti-sosialis.

Sifat demokratiknya telah tertanam dalam sebelum dia meletakan jawatan sebagai menteri kabinet kerana menentang ISA. Susuk yang bernama Zaid Ibrahim dapat melihat salah dan benar.

Jika saya warga Hulu Selangor saya merasa senang hati untuk menobatkan Zaid Ibrahim sebagai wakil suara saya di Parlimen.
-Hishamuddin Rais

UMNO Meludah ke Langit Akhirnya Jatuh ke Muka Sendiri Juga.

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Inilah Hishamuddin Hussein,
Menteri Dalam Negeri,
Sepupu dengan Perdana Menteri, Najib Razak
(Gambar sebenar)





Zaid minum arak!!

Pertama sekali mereka yang menimbulkan isu ini perlu ukur di baju sendiri terlebih dahulu.

• Ada juga terdengar pemimpin yang ada skandal seks dengan seorang artis.
  
  
• Ada juga dengar seorang pemimpin terlibat dalam kematian seorang wanita rakyat asing.
  
  
• Ada juga dengar seorang pemimpin mengambil komisien rasuah berjuta-juta ringgit.
  
  
• Ada juga orang tertentu yang menggunakan bomoh, jampi dan santau.

Meludah ke langit akhirnya jatuh ke muka sendiri juga.

Kita kena tahu apabila Zaid Ibrahim meminum arak dahulu adalah Zaid Ibrahim yang berada di UMNO. Bukan Zaid Ibrahim yang kini berada di Pakatan Rakyat.

Mengapa dahulu bila Zaid dalam UMNO tidak berani menimbulkan isu ini? Tiada seorang pun dalam kalangan UMNO yang cuba menasihatkan beliau? Mungkin UMNO sedar itu juga budaya mereka?

Serangan mereka hanya menyerang diri sendiri kerana menyerang Zaid Ibrahim yang minum arak semasa berada di UMNO.

• Ada juga bekas Menteri Besar Selangor yang terlibat dalam 100 juta rasuah di Australia.
  
  
• Ada juga seorang bekas Menteri Besar Selangor yang kata orang menerima suntikan botox di muka dan pada masa yang sama menggunakan wang rakyat berhibur di Disneyland.
  
  
• Ada juga bekas Ketua Bahagian salah satu bahagian di Selangor yang membina mahligai dan Istana sendiri.

Taktik mereka menyebarkan gambar bogel Elizabeth adalah politik yang paling keji.

Jangan lupa Pengerusi MCA kini juga adalah seorang yang memiliki video dan skandal seks yang jauh LEBIH TERUK berbanding Elizabeth yang menjadi mangsa seks.

Jangan lupa. Seteruknya-teruknya Barisan Nasional cuba hendak merendah-rendahkan Zaid Ibrahim sebenarnya menunjukkan kegagalan dan kelemahan mereka sendiri.

Sebab seteruk-teruk Zaid mereka bukankah UMNO dan Barisan Nasional yang melantik Zaid menjadi Menteri Kehakiman?

Khairy pula jangan cuba melaga-lagakan Zaid dengan Azmin sebab UMNO sendiri Palanavel, Mugilan, Kamalanathan dan Taib dari UMNO juga berkrisis.

Ali Rustam dalam videonya menuduh Khalid Ibrahim membantu orang kaya sahaja. Habis UMNO bukan tolong Melayu kaya sahaja ke? Tolong India Ananda Krishna dan Cina Vincent Tan?

Ingat rakat:

1. 1 undi kepada BN adalah undi kematian menghalalkan kematian Teoh Beng Hock Cina
   
   
2. 1 undi kepada BN adalah undi kematian bersetuju kematian Kugan India
   
   
3. 1 undi kepada BN adalah undi memberi mereka menembak 5 kali kepada Norizan Melayu
   
   
4. 1 undi kepada BN adalah undi menyokong kematian wanita warga asing di Malaysia

Sesungguhnya itulah 1 KEMATIAN PELBAGAI BANGSA 1MALAYSIA di Malaysia

Kalau kita berperikemanusian yang mengasihani roh-roh yang telah meninggalkan kita maka kita perlu memangkah BN.

Kalau kita bersetuju dengan tindakan pembunuhan dan tindakan kejam itu makalah teruslah undi BN sebab kita tidak akan tahu satu hari nanti ibu kita, bapa kita, kekasih kita, keluarga kita, anak kita atau sesiapa yang rapat dengan kita juga akan mati sedemkian.

Antara minum arak dengan pembunuhan, pilahlah sendiri.

Lagipun isu minum arak adalah isu lama semasa beliau berada di dalam UMNO.

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This Is How Low UMNO Will Go

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Art Harun

The Barisan Nasional, especially UMNO is devoid of any usable issue in the Hulu Selangor I suppose. It is also absolutely corrupt of any idea on how to win the heart and mind of the voters.

And so they resorted to character assassination from the word go. That, I suppose, has been their trademark. And we all have come to expect it from them.

How sad.

On one hand we want to be a high-income country by whatever year. We want to be a world class country with world class infrastructure blah blah blah. But deep down inside, we are just a bunch of useless, vile, vicious and selfish animals, waiting to pounce on the unsuspecting and helpless.

That is what we are.

And so Zaid Ibrahim used to drink.

So what?

He had said he had repented. At least, he is a Muslim who had even performed the Haj. The BN candidate is not even a Muslim! (I am not being a race or religious-centric here. I am just continuing with the same rationale and theme as theirs).

You want to talk about moral? Hahahahah...excuse me.

• What about detaining people without trial?
  
  
• What about having sex with under-age girl?
  
  
• What about corruption in PKFZ?
  
  
• What about building a huge mansion from money which apparently came down from the sky?
  
  
• What about corruption?
  
  
• About sanctioning the torture and death of arrested persons?
  
  
• About paying "commissions" for national purchases?
  
  
• About abuse of power?
  
  
• About pinching a woman's ass?
  
  
• About using the religion for political mileage?
  
  
• About money politics?
  
  
• Hell, what about being video taped while having sex with a personal friend and later becoming the President of a major component party of the Barisan Nasional?

No. All those are a-okay. But drinking alcohol? Cannot. Only some people can hold shares in a beer company. That's a-okay.

As if that is not enough, just visit THIS SITE and look at the picture of Zaid with apparently a bottle of Jack Daniels.

(Image courtesy of ARTiculation blog)

And look at the original picture as compared to the picture appearing on that site.(see photo above) .It is sinful!

Perak Monarchy Making a Mockery of the Award of Datukship to Hee Yit Foong

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The Perak Sultan Made her a "Datuk"

Her Contribution to Perak for the Datukship ??
For Frogging to BN

The DAP Frog, Hee Yit Foong made a Datuk by the Sultan of Perak

Once dubbed as “the most hated woman in Malaysia”, the Jelapang assemblyman who helped bring down the Perak Pakatan Rakyat (PR) government last year will now be known as “Datuk Hee Yit Foong”.

The deputy state speaker was awarded the Darjah Datuk Paduka Mahkota Perak (DPMP) in conjunction with the Sultan’s 82nd birthday today. .

Ironically, she will now share the same accolade as that accorded to her former party’s chief, Perak DAP chairman Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham.

The now Barisan Nasional-friendly (BN) independent will receive the award at an investiture ceremony today.

The polio patient was one of three state assemblymen in Perak whose decision to turn independent in the 59-seat assembly changed the power equation in February 2009. Hee is the only one to receive the award among the three.

Her involvement had led to a steady stream of criticisms and accusations from her former party colleagues who strongly believed that the estranged former DAP leader was on the Barisan Nasional’s payroll.

Hee had the distinction of being the first non-Malay female and disabled person to be appointed as Deputy Speaker in the state legislative assembly when PR took power after Election 2008.

Today, she will be among the 919 to be conferred awards and titles from the state’s ruler Sultan Azlan Shah and one of the 56 to receive the title of “Datuk”.

Must Read Article !!: IGP Musa Hassan- Harapkan Pagar, Pagar Makan Padi

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IGP Musa Hassan- Personal Interest above National Interest and Security

by

Din Merican

The Malay proverb “Harapkan pagar, pagar makan padi” is classical Malay politeness in rebuking traitors and damning treachery.

The English reader would be more familiar with “A wolf in sheep’s skin”. That is how IGP Musa Hassan has been “fondly” labeled as the “Musang” (although musang is fox and not wolf).

As I reflected on today’s Friday sermon, I have decided to put to test the pronouncement by the Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin that he is “a Malay first and then a Malaysian”.

Whether being a Malay first would mean that Malaysian Malays would be more tolerant of the treacherous acts, abuses of powers and breaches of justice , epitomised in the person of IGP Musa Hassan and so rampant in other government institutions today, especially in the law enforcement agencies?

RPK’s Malaysia Today (The Corridors of Power) is now running Round 8 of 10 of the expose’ that IGP Musa Hassan had placed his personal interests over the interest and security of our country.

Musa Hassan has been clearly shown to have canvassed for the “Police Reporting System” just as he did for the PDRM helicopter leasing with companies all linked to him and to that shadowy character B.K. Tan.

What is startling is that RPK had disclosed all these since 2008 and yet Abdullah Badawi extended Musa Hassan’s contract for two years!

It is as clear as light of day that Musa Hassan has betrayed his oath of office to protect the country and the constitution. His connection with companies like Asiacopter, Webpower and Asiasoft have been illustrated in the documents provided by his own officers to RPK.

Why should this happen?

The answer is simple enough – because the men in blue are just too revolted by the lies perpetrated by their own IGP, and have lost confidence in him.

Musa and Gani Patail

This is a silent revolt by the men in blue.

• They saw in Musa a man who lied about being a law graduate and yet continues to be promoted.
  
  
• They saw Musa’s determination to fix Anwar Ibrahim and dubbed him the “Mattress Carrier”.
  
  
• They saw Musa’s mercuric rise despite his mediocre performance as a police investigating officer (IO).
  
  
• They saw Musa working hand in glove with the Along syndicate in 2006 and in an affront to the country’s system of criminal justice, A-G Gani Patail released a known criminal Goh Cheng Poh @ Tengku Goh, while 6 rank and file officers were charged for blowing the whistle on Musa, the No. 1 crook.

Fixing Dato Ramli Yusuff

They saw how Musa fixed Dato’ Ramli Yusuff, his only adversary in PDRM. Even as Dato’ Ramli was vindicated and acquitted by both the Sessions Court and the High Court in Kota Kinabalu, the criminal justice system was constantly being manipulated by A-G Gani, in whose hands are vested the absolute power of prosecution.

On the pretext of enforcing the law, IGP Musa and A-G Gani Patail victimized the innocent and released the criminal.

How else do we justify that there is no appeal against Razak Baginda’s acquittal although he was the one who brought in the UTK boys who murdered the Mongolian beauty Altantuya Sharribu? It seems that Ramli Yusuff’s sin in using the Cessna is bigger than murder!

The silent revolt even culminated in IGP Musa’s ADC who swore a Statutory Declaration to disclose the links between Musa Hassan and BK Tan in WebPower and the links to Asiacopter via Othman Talib who was Musa Hassan’s man in the Police Force Commission.

And yet NOTHING was done to remove this cancer from within the PDRM.

Instead, Musa uses his network of covert writers to petition against police officers who stood in his way. Lourdes Charles, his contact in the main stream media will then set out to lynch these officers publicly. That is how smooth Musa has been.

When Dato’ Zubaidah Ismail, PDRM’s Deputy Director of Logistics, launched an investigation to disclose that the Police Reporting System was compromised by foreign elements (read Israeli agents!), Musa’s covert hands moved in to discredit these officers.

So you have a scenario where petitions will surface against these officers alleging that they are involved in corrupt activities in order to discredit the disclosures that they are about to make.

Sounds familiar?

That’s what Musa did to Dato’ Ramli Yusuff and to Dato’ Johari Baharom. One of the oldest tricks in the book. RPK may not have realized that the report to Robert Phang that was produced in Round 8 in MT today is exactly one of the decoys used by Musa Hassan to cover his tracks.

This is the ultimate treachery by this son of a religious teacher – he literally handed over the nation’s security system to the Israelis!

The MACC, Dr. Pornthip Rojanasunand, and The Death of Teoh Beng Hock

This scene is repeatedly seen in the other uniformed services. The MACC, supposedly the highlight of the Abdullah Badawi’s administration has turned out to be an uncontrollable monster.

The distrust in the police force is compounded many times over by the brute force of the MACC. As if killing Teoh Beng Hock, merely needed as a witness in a RM 2,400 investigation, was not bad enough.

That the current MACC No.1, Dato’ Abu Kassim, was consulted from the very beginning when Teoh’s body was found suggests that he is implicated in the cover up attempts.

In a charade to show transparency, the famous Thai pathologist, Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand, was brought in. And when things did not go their way, the MACC lodged a report against Dr Pornthip.

Now a new charade is being put up by the Minister of Home Security, Dato’ Seri Hishamuddin Hussein, over the guarantee of Dr Pornthip’s security to testify in the Inquest.

The scene is no better in the Armed Forces. Already the purchase of the French Scorpene submarines was tainted with the blood of Altantuya. Then when the submarines arrived, there were endless public displays of one of Malaysia’s weapon of strategic defence.

Euphoria turned into hysteria when the submarines could not submerge.

And then the theft of the fighter engines!

Plundering our National Wealth

If all these seemed like a joke, it is not ! No self respecting nation in the world would allow its wealth to be plundered by the very custodians who were entrusted to protect it. No self respecting nation, except Malaysia.

And after all these, the leadership of this country seems interested to only improve their image by engaging Fox and then APCO. As if these PR exercises will cure the ills of the country.

We have fundamental issues of integrity, honesty, transparency, justice, rule of law at stake here not just an image issue. And yet the leadership seem oblivious to cure these ills.

The Constitution states that to be a Malay is to be a Muslim. Instead of using all of Islam’s universal values to promote justice and peace on earth, the Jabatan Agama especially the Religious Minister, Dato’ Baharom exploited the Malay thinking by proferring this verse from Quran Surah An Nisa’ 4: 59 “ Obey God, and Obey the Apostle, and those in authority over you” as a command to obey the government leaders.

Good Governance, DPM, Sir

Since the DPM (Muhyiddin Yassin) want to be Malay first and then Malaysian, why not go back to Malay civilisational rules? What would the ancient Malays say to all these?

The proverb “ Raja adil raja di sembah, raja zalim raja di sanggah” is NOT a hallowed call.

Despite being a feudalistic society, the ancient Malays had settled guiding principles that demanded the people to rise up against injustice and unjust rulers.

Unfortunately, the Malay politicians today use that proverb only against their own sultans.

To make that proverb easier to understand – rephrase that to “ KERAJAAN adil KERAJAAN di sembah, KERAJAAN zalim KERAJAAN disanggah”.

Thus, it would be the obligations of every able bodied Malay to rise up against the injustice that is so rampant today.

Similarly, the so called Islamic authorities have desecrated the proverb “ Biar mati anak jangan mati adat” as being Unislamic.

It is not too difficult to realize that in ancient times, laws were not written. Laws were part of the way of life, just as Islam is a way of life.

Adat refers to the common law of the land, just as the English common law that has become part of the law of our land. If they had taken cognizance that the “adat” referred to in that proverb are not rites or rituals but the common law, they would then realize that adat is also a source of Islamic law under the category of “U’rf”.

Why the significance of that proverb?

Because the ancient Malays would not condone the violations of laws, of justice and of fairness. The ancient Malays’ adherence to the Rule of Law is crystallized in that proverb, that they would rather sacrifice their children than to abandon the laws by which they live.

So, Tan Sri Muhyidin, while I want to support to you in being a Malay first, I would also ask you and all the Malay government leaders to adhere to these universal Malay values and enforce the laws against the thievery of our country’s wealth and bring these perpetrators to justice!

We Malaysians want honest and accountable government and that is a reasonable and rational expectation.

Jagalah maruah Bangsa kita dulu.
-Din Merican

UPDATED! MIC Got Pissed On the Head by UMNO for the Hulu Selangor By-Election

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UPDATE:

The Public Fooled by BN for Candidate Selection for Hulu Selangor

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".... Kamalanathan is a relative of Samy Vellu whom he can control, so Samy makes a pact with UMNO to play it for the public to ensure his hold on the party and the supporters are not affected. In this way, he would look good for the public as he can point out to the Indian voters that he had no choice but to abide by UMNO’s decision.

The hate factor, at least amongst the Malaysian Indians, at the moment is Samy Vellu. BN needed to engineer a way out to persuade those Indian voters there to vote for BN. Samy played the role assisted by UMNO on how to hoodwink the public and get the result they want without bringing Samy into the picture. This is a typical good cop, bad cop scenario.

Read here how Kamalanathan had been lobbied by Rocky Bru,UMNO's media spinner, in the Malay Mail.

--- END OF UPDATE -----

The Barisan Nasional i.e. Umno, has REJECTED MIC President Samy Vellu's first choice, MIC Deputy President G Palanivel as the BN candidate for the Hulu Selangor by-election, instead UMNO chose P Kamalanathan.

It is UMNO, and NOT MIC, which dictates who in MIC should stand for Hulu Selangor.

To put it bluntly, MIC has been dealt a slap, leaving its leaders red-faced with embarrassment.

MIC members and supporters are wondering what good is the MIC president who cannot convince the BN leadership to field the party's candidate, and who has to submit to the will of Umno?

Sources claim that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak wants to prove that he could win Indian votes without Samy Vellu's MIC.

Najib has on numerous occasions, sidestepped Samy Vellu and MIC, when reaching out to Indian voters.

Now Samy Vellu has to swallow his pride and back Kamalanathan, setting aside the fact that it is Umno, and not MIC, which delivered the final verdict.

He would have to rally his demoralised soldiers on the ground to swing into action, after days of confusion as to who would be the candidate.

To make matters worse, if Kamalanathan wins, the MIC president would have nothing to gloat about, since it would be evident that it was the Umno gamble which paid off.

Samy Vellu would also have to convince Palanivel's supporters, who are seething with anger, that their leader had been led by the nose ring to the slaughter house.

It is an open secret that Palanivel wanted to contest in this by-election in order to pave the way for his return to Parliament, and possibly back into the Cabinet.

Palanivel, who was a four-term Hulu Selangor MP, is known to be a man of pride and would find this humiliation difficult to swallow. Talk is that he has been offered a senatorship, which would probably see him appointed as a deputy minister. The question is, would he accept it?

For now, Palanivel is still licking his wounds.

It is common knowledge that Najib views the veteran politician's continued presence at the helm as a major stumbling block in capturing the hearts and minds of the Indian community.

The decision by UMNO-BN to drop Palanivel would also have a significant impact on MIC, with members wondering what good is a deputy president with no clout.

In the final analysis, a victory for Kamalanathan would be a defeat for MIC.

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ZAID IBRAHIM DEFENDS HIMSELF AGAINST UMNO'S CHARACTER ASSASSINATION

(Zaid Ibrahim is the proposed PKR candidate for the Hulu Selangor By-Election)

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As the shootout for Hulu Selangor draws near, the dirty campaign of Umno has begun in full swing. Predictably, Umno are not focusing on issues of the rakyat. Umno are focused on the only thing they know: to spread lies and misinformation.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister and his hired hands, one of the issues plaguing my candidacy is my disciplinary record, of being suspended by Umno for money politics. They conveniently use this to accuse me of everything under the sun: being corrupt, greedy, wealthy, etc.

As always, the truth will set you free. It is perhaps something Umno is unfamiliar with. Time and time again, they continue to underestimate the intelligence of the rakyat and try to confuse them with fiction, but the rakyat knows better.

I have defended myself from these accusations many times, but will do so again. So here it is…

1. In 2001, I won the contest for the post of Umno division chief for Kota Bharu. Took me three attempts and 10 years but I did it.
   
   That left them with no choice but to field me as a candidate in the March 2004 general election. I won a hard fought contest for the Kota Bharu parliamentary seat, although the three State Assembly seats in that parliamentary constituency were won by PAS. (Somewhat similar to the present situation in Hulu Selangor: the three State seats were won by BN in 2008, and now I am trying to win it again for PKR.)
   
   I expected a more supportive reaction from Umno — after 15 years of PAS rule BN had at last won in Kota Bharu. But it was not to be. They were ready to knife me again.
   
   
2. By June 2004, there was another contest in Umno Kota Bharu. I was able to retain the seat of division chief, uncontested. But other positions were up for grabs. In that contest, certain individuals issued complaints in false statutory declarations that I had given money to “my agent”, the late Datuk Zahari Wahab, in exchange for votes purportedly on my behalf.
   
   I was charged on Oct 16, 2004 with money politics. Utterly ridiculous: I won the seat uncontested. How could I be charged with money politics when there was no contest? But within Umno, I guess anything is possible.
   
   
3. By the time of the first hearing before the Umno disciplinary board, Zahari Wahab had passed away. He, too, had been charged with money politics, which I believe was also false.
   
   With his demise, the Umno disciplinary board could not put forth Zahari to support their claims. They did not put forth any other witness, only the false statutory declarations which I had no opportunity to challenge. I described the proceedings as a sham and that upset them. They were determined to pass judgment without any basis whatsoever.
   
   It was clear that I was being framed. I questioned how the board could arrive at their decision without supporting proof or evidence. In the end, the Umno disciplinary board ruled that I was guilty of money politics but were willing to spare me on condition that I apologise for questioning their process and authority.
   
   Under no circumstances was I ever going to apologise to them: to do so would be to implicitly admit guilt, and I was not going to compromise on principle and on my innocence. When I refused, the Umno board suspended me for three years.
   
   
4. In 2008, when I was made a minister, I did not wish for there to be any doubt as to my character and credibility as I undertook this important responsibility in what I considered to be a reformist Government. I wanted to clear my name of any suspicion. So I requested the Anti-Corruption Agency to investigate me further. Until today they have not come forth with any outcome.
   
   The truth is I had not done any of the things claimed by my opponents; that is why I was made a minister.
   
   
5. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin suggested today that I was picked as the candidate for Hulu Selangor supposedly because of my deep pockets. My lovely wife and my daughter Alysha are very excited: they asked where did I hide my wealth and they insist I take them out shopping. Now, I’m in trouble!
   
   I suggest it is best for the DPM to hold his tongue. It is not befitting of a DPM to stoop so low.
   
   
6. I was never wealthy, unlike other Umno ministers. I was a minister for only six months. Before that I was never a crony of anyone, nor had I obtained any concessions or APs or even blocks of shares.
   
   I would be prepared to publicly disclose my possessions and my so-called "wealth" and that of my family and my children as well — on the condition that the DPM and his Cabinet colleagues do the same of their own possessions and that of their families, their children, and their nominees.
   
   
7. During my brief tenure as minister, (Tun) Pak Lah and I suggested that Cabinet Ministers should declare their assets to show that BN Ministers are clean and not afraid of full accountability and transparency. Many senior ministers opposed this. They opposed everything good that Pak Lah wanted to do. I wonder what the DPM has to say about this now.
   
   If he hasn’t got anything useful to add, I suggest that we move on and address the issues I have raised for the people in Hulu Selangor, and the issues facing the country.

Let's have a fair fight and see who has the support of the people!
-Zaid Ibrahim

Tan Wei Shu - Under-Performing and Power-Greedy ADUN from Kedah

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Unreliable and Sacked
from Kedah Exco for Poor Performance

PKR's Bakar Arang (Kedah) assemblyman Tan Wei Shu has quit PKR and he said will remain as an independent assemblyman.

He was dropped in the recent state exco reshuffle. PKR leaders said that the Kedah MB dropped Tan from the state exco as his performance was below par. He was replaced as Kedah exco member by Sidam assemblyman Tan Joon Long @ Tan Chow Kang last month.

“He knows why he was dropped but he is not happy as the party agreed with the state government on the matter,” said a party leader, who added that the party had anticipated Tan's move.

PKR leaders said that Tan's decision to quit the party was due to his unhappiness after being dropped as a state exco member.

Speaking to reporters in Parliament, PKR chief Anwar Ibrahim said he was not surprised by Tan's decision. “He started attacking us a few weeks back and now he has picked the time to coincide with the Hulu Selangor by-election to leave,” he said.

PKR’s Sungai Petani MP Johari Abdul has denied that he was responsible for the abrupt departure of the Bakar Arang state representative from the party.

The parliamentarian also denied he had conspired with state party leaders to oust Tan as Kedah state exco member. Johari said the political decision to drop Tan a month ago was “taken collectively by state and national leaders.”

It is learnt that Tan and Johari had a ugly spat during the state P KR liaison committee meeting a fortnight ago.

Tan is said to have accused Johari of plotting to oust him from the state cabinet in the PAS-led Kedah government helmed by Menteri Besar Azizan Abdul Razak.

Johari cited Tan's ‘poor performance’ as the main reason for his exit from the state administration.

Tan's departure from the party today leaves PKR with only three state representatives, which include S Manikumar (Bukit Selambau) and Lim Soo Nee (Kulim). All PKR assemblypersons are state executive councillors now.

"KICKDEFELLA", Jangan Bermulut Busuk dan Berkurang Ajar, Pergi Buat Laporan Kepada SPRM (MACC)

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Semenjak “KICK" (Kickdefella) ada tuan baru ni, habis diserangnya TGNA (Tok Guru Nik Aziz) . Walaupun dalam isu Arifahmi, saya bersependapat dengan beliau, tapi sejak akhir-akhir ini, tulisan beliau amat melampau.

Saya menahan diri saya menulis berkenaan beliau sebab dinasihatkan jangan melayan Kick sebab nanti akan menaikkan imej beliau.

Saya sengaja mendiamkan diri terhadap Kick walaupun pada mulanya saya telah menghidu bau yang sangat tengik dan busuk melalui artikel beliau yang memuji Zulkifli Noordin Al Kazzab. Agaknya sebab Kick dan Dzul ni dah masuk bakul yang sama, maka terpaksalah dia memuji sesama sendiri.

Namun,sekarang saya mencabar Kickdefella supaya MEMBUAT LAPORAN KEPADA SPRM di atas segala tuduhan beliau yang beliau katakana berlaku kronisma, nepotisma dan rasuah.

Dalam isu balak pun, saya mencabar Kickdefella untuk MELAPORKANNYA kepada SPRM bagi berlaku siasatan terperinci terhadap pemberian balak di seluruh Kelantan.

Kalau setakat dedah syarikat balak memberi sumbangan kepada PASTI Kelantan, apa masaalahnya? PASTI Kelantan adalah institusi yang banyak berjasa kepada rakyat Kelantan terutamanya yang miskin.

Bagi yang miskin, pendidikan pra sekolah yang mereka mampu tanggung hanyalah TADIKA KEMAS. Malangnya, Tadika Kemas adalah mempunyai kurikulum yang sekular dan tidak menjurus kepada pembinaan akhlak dan kefahaman Islam.

Maka, PAS menubuhkan PASTI bagi memberi pendidikan pra sekolah Islam yang murah harga yurannya supaya rakyat miskin di Kelantan dapat menghantar anak-anak mereka untuk mendapat pendidikan pra sekolah berteraskan Islam.

Saya sendiri kalau menjadi MB akan MEWAJIBKAN semua syarikat yang mendapat konsesi balak untuk menyumbang kepada PASTI. Ini kerana ia menjamin kelangsungan dakwah, membantu orang miskin, memberi pendidikan pra sekolah yang sesuai dengan kemampuan orang miskin dan yang paling akhir menjadi saingan kepada kurikulum sekular Tadika KEMAS yang tidak membina minda Islam di kalangan kanak-kanak.

Jadi, kalau setakat sumbangan kepada PASTI si Kickdefella nak jadikan isu, saya nasihatkan Kickdefella, pegi main jauh-jauh.

BERIBU-RIBU keluarga miskin di Kelantan telah mendapat manfaat yang jelas dari sistem PASTI di Kelantan. Jangan lupa tu wahai Kick.

Lagi satu, seperti yang saya kata sebelum ini, kalau saya menerima hadiah kek dan pakej haji, saya pun tidak akan bertanya kepada pemberi hadiah berapa harga kek atau pakej haji yang hendak dihadiahkan kepada saya.

Itu namanya KURANG AJAR. Adab orang Melayu bila orang bagi hadiah kita terima dengan baik dan tidak menyoal berapa harga hadiah tersebut hatta sebiji gula-gula pun. Mungkin Kick ni orang Siam sebab adab orang Siam mungkin lain dari belah sini.

Saya juga nak tengok di mana Tok Guru Nik Aziz menyimpan wang hasil dari “rasuah balak” seperti yang cuba dilukis oleh Kickdefella. Saya jamin Tok Guru tak makan walau SEDUIT pun hasil balak tersebut.

Akhir kata, berenti lah melalak sana sini wahai Kick. Kalau kamu ada bukti, sila buat laporan SPRM dan biar mahkamah menentukannya.

Saya tahu sapa tuan baru si Kickdefella ni dan mengapa beliau berani menuduh Tok Guru sebagai menderhaka kepada Sultan.

Pelik tak dia boleh dapat surat menyurat yang berkaitan dengan Istana? Mana dia dapat ye?

-Tulang Besi

CABARAN LAGI SATU PADA KICKDEFELLA:

Sila beri justifikasi terhadap sokongan kamu kepada Zulkifli Noordin AL KAzzab dalam artikel kamu bertajuk Tahniah Zul, Takziah Rais

Kamu mengucap tahniah kepada seorang penipu bernama Zulkifli Noordin yang memperjuangkan Islam versi beliau.

Apa justifikasi kamu? Ataupun sebab kamu dan masuk satu kelab dengan si Zul Noordin tu?

Kamu nak jadi penipu macam Zul Noordin jugak ke?

- Tulang Besi

Billy Payne, Chairman of Augusta National Golf Course is a Hypocrite

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BILLY PAYNE
Billy Payne is a Pain to Golf, and to Tiger Woods

by

Reese Schonfield



William Porter Payne, better known as Billy, the chairman of the Augusta National Golf Course, home of the Masters tournament, seems to think that that entitles him to act as if he were the chairman of the board of the "Masters of the Universe".

In a forty-two second clip, he manages to insult Tiger Woods, himself, and the entire Augusta National Country Club by delivering a condescending sermon to the world's greatest golfer (who happens to be honoring the Masters by making it his first stop on his return to golf and probably increasing the tournament's television audience by 50 percent).

I would not be so offended by this had I not known a woman who traveled with the national golf tour for several years while working for a magazine that covered the sport. After being constantly hit on by many of the "best golfers in the world", watching them take their pleasure with other women -- like sailors with girlfriends at every port (golfers seem to find girlfriends at every course) -- she quit her job and went into another line of work.

The hypocrisy, the pretense, of love and loyalty when wives were around and the womanizing after they left had become too much for her. She felt as if she were an accomplice to their infidelity and she left the tour.

Not to be a hypocrite myself, I remember that in the sixties, when women were just beginning to get good jobs in journalism, we reminded them of what were then called "New York Times rules" -- "what happens west of the Potomac, stays west of the Potomac".

Female reporters who went on the road may have been close friends with the wives of many of the men who were on the road with them, but none of them brought back stories about who was doing what to whom while they were out of town. I think that's a good rule, and I think by and large, we're just as well off not knowing what golfers do when they're on tour.

I do know that several others of the world's best golfers were notorious within the community for indulging themselves whenever they could.

Tiger Woods got caught, and he is paying dearly for it. So is golf, just look at the ratings. The last thing he or golf needs is Payne's pious preaching as he joins in the pretense that great athletes must be saintly in order to merit public adulation.

Rock stars and sports stars are like catnip to groupies, and most of them succumb to temptation.

What Tiger did is a sin he shares with many others, and he has acknowledged it.

He doesn't need the likes of Billy Payne, who profits from his presence, to condemn him for his misdeeds.

Billy Payne is a hypocrite and the other Augusta Golf Course members should call him on it.

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Tiger Woods scolded over sex scandal by Augusta National boss Billy Payne

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Augusta National Golf Club chairman Billy Payne scolded 14-time major champion Tiger Woods on Wednesday for the sex scandal that forced a five-month layoff Woods will end Thursday at the Masters.

On the eve of the 74th Masters, Payne made an unprecedented statement about player conduct, making it clear that Woods will no longer be judged solely by how well he scores in relation to par when his comeback begins Thursday.

"We hope and pray begin his new life in a positive, hopeful and constructive manner," Payne said.

Payne said Woods will be playing for more than just himself this week as his comeback begins from admitted adultery that has seen more than a dozen women claim sexual affairs with the married father of two.

"This year it will not be just for him but for all of us who believe in second chances," Payne said.

Describing Woods as a fallen role model, Payne said he was most saddened that a younger generation lost an idol.

"He disappointed all of us and more importantly our kids and grandkids," said Payne.

"Is there a way forward? I hope so. I believe so."

Payne said Woods forgot that "with fame and fortune comes responsibility" and hopes that Woods remembers in the future that children among his supporters want his autograph but "would settle for his smile".

Payne, who said he had spoken to Woods and that Woods attended the champions dinner on Tuesday, added that he wanted Woods to understand that "life's greatest rewards" come from helping others.

Zulkifli Noordin, the Muslim Extortionist

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Zulkifli Noordin pressed me for money, says Kulim ADUN/Kedah exco Lim Soo Nee



ALOR STAR: Zulkifli Noordin is back in the spotlight, with a Kedah state councillor alleging that the maverick MP asked him for money in the name of a third party during the Altantuya Shaaribu murder trial in 2008.

Lim Soo Nee, the state assemblyman for Kulim, said Zulkifli sent him threatening messages asking for money on March 5 and 6 of that year.


He said the Kulim-Bandar Baru MP told him PAS needed the money for its campaign in the 2008 general election.

Lim described Zulkifli as someone who would twist facts to suit his convenience.

“He will go to any extreme to satisfy his needs, even to the point of using third parties,” he said.

“I’m exposing this now only because I can no longer sit and watch him dupe the rakyat. I am sure many are easily hoodwinked by him.”

Zulkifli was sacked from PKR last month and now serves as an independent MP. His recent speeches appear to be supportive of the Najib administration. In one of those speeches, he said he was offered a large sum of money to implicate Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor in the murder of Mongolian beauty Altantuya.

Lim said Zulkifli told him during the 2008 election campaign that he was in possession of sensitive evidence relating to Altantuya's murder.

At the time, Zulkifli was the lawyer for Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri, one of the suspects in the murder. However, he subsequently withdrew as Azilah’s counsel.

Last March 24, Zulkifli resurrected the Altantuya saga in Parliament when he claimed that a third party had offered him payment in return for implicating Najib and his wife in the murder. He said the amount offered was enough to “shake one's faith”.

In the Altantuya case, Abdul Razak Baginda, an aide and close friend of Najib's, was charged with abetting Azilah and another special operations officer, Sirul Azhar.

Abdul Razak was subsequently acquitted, but the two policemen have been sentenced to death.

Describing Zulkifli's disclosure as a “confession” and a “betrayal of friend and party,” Lim said:

“Zulkifli sent me two text messages during the 12th general election asking for campaign money. He claimed a third party needed the funds. According to my SMS record, he said the PAS machinery needed RM21,000 for the campaign and that PAS would boycott the campaign if the request was not met.

Zulkifli said I only needed to bear part of the cost, which was RM7,000. I did not immediately respond so Zulkifli sent me a second message saying I had angered PAS. He urged me to him to give whatever I could.

After Pakatan Rakyat won the election, I happened to meet the Kulim-Bandar Baru PAS chief, Yaakub Husin. I mentioned the incident to him. He was shocked and denied asking for money for the campaign.

Since then, I have been wondering what Zulkifli needed the money for because there was such urgency in his messages.”

He has challenged Zulkifli to tell the truth or at least resign in the name of truth.

“Better we have a by-election,” he said. “Then we’ll see if the Kulim-Bandar Baru constituents will support him.”

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Zulkifli Noordin’s Nose Grows Even Longer

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Zulkifli Noordin tries to come across as a mujahideen.

When he raided the Malaysian Bar Council he declared that he is a Muslim first and all others second. He would defend Islam, declared Zulkifli Noordin , to the last drop of his blood.

That is most noble of this mujahideen who dares do things that many PAS members themselves would not dare do. Zulkifli Noordinis above even PAS.

Why, therefore, did PAS NOT take him as their candidate in the last general election?

The answer is very simple, really.

Zulkifli Noordin is a Pathological Liar

PAS cringes each time Zulkifli Noordin speaks at a ceramah. He is always exaggerating and lying, said one PAS leader to a group of opposition supporters in the UK recently.

This PAS leader then offered many examples of what Zulkifli Noordinhad spoken at various ceramah. But when the party did a check none of what Zulkifli Noordin said was true.

• Zulkifli Noordin claimed to have flown overseas and claimed to have met this person or that person. But when a check was made it was discovered that Zulkifli Noordinhad not even left the country.
  
  And when checks were made with people Zulkifli Noordin was supposed to have met, these people not only had not met him but also did not even know who he is.

That was why PAS did not want Zulkifli Noordin as their candidate in spite of his so-called commitment to Islam and supposedly Islamic credentials.

The word on the ground is that Zulkifli Noordin is too Islamic even for PAS. The truth is Zulkifli Noordin had been bullshitting once too often and each time had been caught spinning a yarn that PAS did not want to touch him with a ten-foot pole.

Zulkifli Noordin penchant for stretching the truth with the aim of wooing the crowd was well known as far back as 1998-1999.

• Zulkifli Noordin would go round the country to speak at ceramah where he would tell all and sundry about Anwar Ibrahim lying on his deathbed and at the point of death. Umno had poisoned Anwar and he is now dying, said Zulkifli Noordin to the sobbing crowd. The only thing that can now be done is to pray for Anwar’s soul.
  
  Then, the next day, we see Anwar smiling and waving at the crowd as he arrives at court for his trial. But then the kampong folks who followed Zulkifli Noordin’s ceramah the night before were not there in court to see all this. They were still at home wiping their tears after the trauma of Zulkifli Noordin’s ceramah of the previous night.

Now Zulkifli Noordin speaks again and this time about his prediction for the opposition. The part I like most is this:

He laughed when told that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had termed him a principled man for having been brave enough to speak out against his former party, and said: “Well, as I have said repeatedly — the truth will always be the truth and you cannot go wrong when you have the truth on your side.”

70 % of Malays Still Want Crutches from Government

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Nearly 70 per cent of Malay voters in peninsular Malaysia agree with Perkasa’s demands that the government should NOT DISMANTLE quotas and economic protection for Malays.

Only 20 per cent disagreed.

Merdeka Centre polled 883 registered voters in West Malaysia between March 11 and March 27.


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Its findings:

• 68 per cent of Malays said government should NOT dismantle quotas and protection for Malays in the economic sphere, while 18 per cent said otherwise.
  
  
• Malays surveyed were also roughly split down the middle that Chinese are trying to take over the country.
  
  
• 44 per cent of Malays agreed that Chinese are trying to take over the country while 47 per cent of Malays disagreed.
  
  
• Asked if groups like Perkasa would help Umno and Barisan Nasional win the next election, 61 per cent of Malays agreed while 20 per cent disagreed.
  

Zulkifli Noordin, Be "Orang Jantan" and Ask PM Najib about the Mystery of the Murdered Mongolian Woman, Altantuya

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By

P. Balasubramaniam

On March 24th, Member of Parliament Zulkifly Noordin claimed he had been instructed to implicate Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor in the murder of the Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu.

The mainstream media picked up on Noordin’s statement, using it in an attempt to paint Altantuya’s murder as part of a conspiracy to undermine Najib Razak’s position as the Deputy Prime Minister and future Prime Minister.

Whatever Noordin says should in no way distract Malaysians from the facts of this case and the pressing need to re-open the investigation into the murdered Mongolian woman.

Furthermore Noordin is foolish to think that he is somehow in a unique position to make such a daring allegation.

The basic facts of this gruesome murder and conspiracy that are in the public domain already demonstrate a clear link between Najib Razak, his wife, the heinous crime and its subsequent cover-up.

There was no need for him, of all people, to have been chosen as the revealer of all this ignominy. Nor is it reasonable that his services were needed to concoct a false link given how strong the actual links really are.

The only question Noordin should answer today is why he waited so long to divulge information which might have been pertinent to the investigation. If they were factual links of a conspiracy why didn’t he reveal them sooner?

If these links could possibly have exonerated your client, Azilah, from the charge that he faced, are you not duty bound as his attorney to have pursued them to the fullest extent to save Azilah from the cruel fate that he now faces?

Before further confusion arises from Noordin’s grandstanding let me review the established facts of the case and reiterate my willingness to clarify these facts to the Malaysian authorities:

1. Musa Safri is Najib Razak’s aide-de-camp and a superior officer to Azilah and Sirul, who now face capital punishment for the murder of Altantuya.

2. Azilah and Sirul were Najib’s bodyguards at the time of the murder. Najib recently denied this fact once again in an interview in the Economist yet.

3. Musa Safri ordered Azilah and Sirul to help Razak Baginda “solve the problem” with the Mongolian girl.

4. Sirul confessed to having been offered a sum of between RM50,000 to RM100,000 to eliminate Altantuya, or as Sirual described it, “selamatkan”.

5. Sirul, at the end of the trial, said in court… “I am just a black sheep that has to be sacrificed to protect unnamed people who have never been brought to court or questioned”.

6. Razak Baginda and Najib Tun Razak are close associates. Both were intrinsically involved in the purchase of Scorpene submarines and Sukhoi jets for the Malaysian armed forces.

7. Razak Baginda’s company, Perimekar Sdn. Bhd., received substantial commissions for these two deals.

8. Altantuya was Razak Baginda’s mistress at some point in time. Her services as a French and Russian translator were used by Razak Baginda in negotiations for the purchase military hardware.

9. Altantuya had alleged she was owed some commissions for her role in these deals.

10. Najib Tun Razak was the Defence Minister during the period these deals were taking place.

11. Altantuya had travelled to Kuala Lumpur in October 2006 to secure payment of her commissions from Razak Baginda, who had employed my services to keep her away from him.

12. I was called as a witness for the prosecution during the trial of Azilah, Sirul and Razak Baginda and gave evidence in court.

13. I also affirmed a statutory declaration in July 2008 in which, inter alia, further links were established in respect of the relationship between Najib Tun Razak and Altantuya.

14. I retracted this first SD within 18 hours by producing another one, and then went missing with my family immediately thereafter.

15. I have since revealed everything that happened since I released the first SD including evidence of threats, harassment and bribery orchestrated by influential people to ensure my silence.

16. I have identified a number of personalities involved in my removal from Malaysia after I released my first SD and have provided details of payments made to me by these personalities.

17. None of the personalities mentioned by me have denied their involvement in these matters.

18. A police report has been lodged based on my revelations but no police action has been taken to date.

19. A report has also been lodged with the MACC but no action has been taken to date despite my willingness to assist so long as reasonable precautions are taken to ensure my personal safety.

These are simply facts of the case which are known to everyone yet ignored by the courts, the Malaysian authorities and perhaps also YB Zulkifly Noordin.

Furthermore in light of these very public facts and allegations key individuals linked to the crime and cover up have neither refuted nor denied the statements made against them:

1. That I myself had seen a message from Najib on Razak Baginda’s handphone, in the presence of a lawyer, which said…. “Seeing IGP at 11am, everything will be OK…be cool”. This occurred on the morning of Razak Baginda’s arrest for allegedly abetting the murder of Altantuya Sharibu.

2. Raja Petra Kamarudin’s SD stating Rosmah was at the scene of Altantuya’s murder and detonation.

3. That Deepak and Dinesh Jayakishan were representing Rosmah and and/or Najib’s family in seeking to negotiate a ‘deal’ in order to entice me to retract my first SD.

4. That I was subjected to mental pressure by thinly veiled threats against my family, which were made personally by Datuk Nazim Tun Razak (Najib’s Razak’s brother) the day I released my first SD.

5. That Rosmah had invited me for breakfast after I retracted my first SD in order to thank me for doing so.

6. That Deepak organised the application for and securing of passports for my wife and children so that they could leave the country that very same day.

7. That Deepak or Dinesh had organised transportation for me and my family from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore in a van, and thence to Bangkok, Kathmandu, New Delhi and finally Chennai.

8. That Deepak Jayakishan made substantial payments to me to keep me away from Malaysia until Najib Razak became the Prime Minister.

9. My production of copies of various cheques for substantial sums drawn on the accounts of Deepak Jayakishan and Carpet Raya Sdn Bhd in support of my allegations that he had been paid off to leave the country.

10. My identification of the person who was in a blue Proton Saga the day Altantuya was abducted outside Razak Baginda’s house by Sirul and Azilah as one Nasar Safri, Najib’s right hand man.

In October 2009 I recorded an interview in the presence of my lawyer, Americk Sidhu Singh and two other prominent Malaysian attorneys explaining in detail what happened to me after July 3, 2008 when I publicized my first Statutory Declaration. The transcript of this lengthy interview is available online.

I then offered to give a complete statement to the MACC with only one stipulation – that my personal safety be guaranteed. Instead the MACC offered to conduct the interview within the Malaysian High Commission in Singapore, which is virtually identical to conducting the interview inside Bukit Aman itself. Knowing what I have endured for the past 18 months and that witnesses have recently been killed while in MACC custody, the MACC’s offer is foolish and reflects how unwilling they are to take my statement.

Given the interest Zulkifly Noordin has taken in the Altantuya murder mystery I would ask him to raise these important matters with Prime Minister Najib Razak when he sees him next.