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Jemputan ke Rumah Terbuka Deepavali Parlimen Subang 2013 Posted: 13 Nov 2013 09:18 PM PST   Pejabat Ahli Parlimen Subang mengalu-alukan kedatangan tuan/puan ke Majlis Rumah Terbuka Deepavali 2013 yang akan diadakan pada: Tarikh:   17th November 2013 (Ahad) Masa:    12.01 pm hingga 3.00 pm Tempat:  Laman Pekaka Kota Damansara, Seksyen 8,              Tapak Letak Kereta Semoga kedatangan tuan/puan akan sama-sama memeriahkan majlis ini

Message dalam FB oleh AJK JMB Sri Pelangi U5 Shah Alam Posted: 23 Apr 2013 07:39 PM PDT JMB... dapat dilahirkan 11/01/2010 dengan usaha dan bantuan Peter Chong selaku wakil Ahli Parlimen Subang (YB R. SIVARASA)..dan sinking fund & car park Isu dapat dibawa ke Pejabat MBSA dan berkesempatan untuk bertemu dengan Datin Alina sehingga kini dibawa ke mahkamah tinggi dan Pihak JMB mempunyai documentasi yang kuat dan kukuh tentang kesalahan Pemaju...kesemua ini adalah usaha daripada Sivarajan, Dr Nasir, Peter Chong, Sivarasa..... Setelah JMB mengambil alih pengurusan PSPU5, kita dapat keadaan selese...harga rumah melambung naik dlll.....oleh itu kenang lah budi dan mereka yang boleh melakukan perubahan ban berjasa kepada kita.... Pada itu, saya selaku JMB SRI PELANGI berterima kasih kepada R SIVARASA, PETER CHONG, DR NASIR, SIVARAJAN DAN SEMUA...OLEH ITU HARGAI LAH UNDIAN KALIAN DI PRU13 NI....INI KALILAH....

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Anwar Ibrahim

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[PRESS STATEMENT] Deepest Condolences and Sympathies To The Filipino People Posted: 12 Nov 2013 01:22 AM PST I am writing to offer our deepest condolences and sympathies to the Filipino people for the most tragic loss of lives and the havoc and destruction brought by the typhoon. This indeed is the deadliest disaster in your history, and in this hour of need, we want you to know that we will support bipartisan efforts in Malaysia – including Pakatan Rakyat controlled states to help in any way we can. ANWAR IBRAHIM

[PRESS STATEMENT] BERNAS To Go Private: Greed Gone Wild Posted: 11 Nov 2013 10:45 PM PST PRESS STATEMENT 12 NOVEMBER 2013 BERNAS To Go Private: Greed Gone Wild Introduction 1. Getting de-listed from being the darlings of the stock exchange to being privately owned seems somewhat of a trend recently. Blackberry was a recent example where it had to be de-listed to go private after losing almost USD 70 billion from its original valuation of USD 80 billion five years ago. The challenging business environment has made it difficult for listed companies to continue offering stellar returns to shareholders and going private offers the management an opportunity to really focus on growing the business by focusing on its long term aims. 2. In Malaysia, de-listing and taking a company private was due to an entirely different reason, greed. 3. BERNAS does not suffer from the same problem as Blackberry. BERNAS' share price is on an uptrend and had trebled over the last five years. It is an example of a stable company with consistent annual nett profits averaging RM 135 million a year since 2006 with revenues that have risen steadily from RM 2.1 billion in 2006 to RM 3.6 billion in 2012. 4. BERNAS is indeed a very attractive acquisition target to any ultra wealthy private individuals. Combine these healthy profit performance with its monopoly over rice import AP's and a growing population with a staple diet of rice would cause these same individuals salivating at the prospects of owning this 'cash cow' company. Original Intent 5. Let us be reminded that the original intent to privatise BERNAS was not only to ensure the fulfillment of the nation's growing rice requirement (through management of the National Stockpile and the Padi Price Subsidy Scheme) but also to ensure that bumiputera farmers, rice distributors and the workers at BERNAS benefit from the equity ownership that came with the privatization exercise. 6. This was highlighted by the then Finance Minister in Dec 1995 in an answer to Mr Lim Guan Eng in parliament, and followed through by the formation of the Budaya Generasi Sdn Bhd consortium of companies in Jan 1996. The consortium enabled more than half of BERNAS' equity to be owned by associations of farmers (KADA, MADA, NAFAS), fishermen (NEKMAT) and BERNAS workers. Round 1 7. Up until the end of 2009, these representations appear to have been systematically bought over by an individual, namely Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary through his companies (Gandingan Bersepadu Sdn Bhd and Tradewinds) which resulted in him effectively owning 53.7% of BERNAS through an acquisition led by Maybank Investment Bank Berhad amounting to RM 526 million. Nett profits at BERNAS averaged at RM 164 million annually while revenues grew from RM 3.3 billion to RM 3.6 billion over 2009 to 2012. Round 2 8. When the government finally extended BERNAS' mandate to manage the country's rice supplies and its monopoly over rice imports from 11 Jan 2011 until 10 Jan 2021, Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar's greed became greater. 9. An offer to acquire BERNAS at RM 3.70/share was made by late Feb 2013, through his other companies namely, Perspective Lane (M) Sdn Bhd, Kelana Ventures Sdn Bhd, Seaport Terminal (Johore) Sdn Bhd and Acara Kreatif Sdn Bhd. This recent acquisition, also advised by Maybank Investment Bank Berhad was said to cost RM 477 million. 10. By 6th Nov 2013, BERNAS' board was asked to consider a voluntary de-listing from Bursa Malaysia since its public shareholding spread had dropped to 16.31% (below the required listing requirement of 25%) following the systematic acquisition by Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar. 11. In February 2013, Maybank Research made the following forecasts for BERNAS' expected revenues and profits for 2013 to 2015. Basically, revenue is expected to rise to almost RM 3.9 billion by 2015 from RM 3.6 billion in 2012. Profits will surge by about 40% to RM 165 million in the near term due to lower international rice prices which resulted from surplus production in Thailand, Vietnam, India and Pakistan. These will benefit any future owners of BERNAS. Questions raised 12. How was it that one individual is now allowed to gain monopolistic control over our strategic rice business when this could be potentially harmful to the stability of future prices which was original intent of BERNAS' privatisation? 13. Why has the government digressed from its original intent in the formation of BERNAS which was to protect the interests of bumiputera farmers, distributors and BERNAS workers? Is the equity ownership of these people in BERNAS not worthy of the government's protection, yet ultra-wealthy, politically connected individuals get all the privileges? 14. How were the latest acquisition of BERNAS worth RM 477 million, and the combined acquisition of Tradewinds Plantation and BERNAS worth RM 1.173 billion by Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar's other companies (Perspective lane, Kelana Ventures, Seaport Terminal and Acara Kreatif) made possible by Maybank IB? How was it possible for one individual to continuously and successfully obtain massive repeat loans from the same bank? 15. We condemn the recent spate of opportunistic acquisitions by Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar as his intent to take full control over BERNAS at the time when its rice imports monopoly was to continue until Jan 2021, since these would result in mainly profiting one person, namely himself Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim Head of Opposition, Malaysian Parliament Ketua Umum, Parti KEADILAN Rakyat

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Anak Muda Kampung Nak Senang

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Polis edar lakaran wajah suspek kes bunuh pegawai kanan JAIP Posted: 12 Nov 2013 05:30 AM PST Polis edar lakaran wajah suspek kes bunuh pegawai kanan JAIP 2013/11/12 KUANTAN: Polis Pahang hari ini mengedarkan lakaran wajah seorang suspek kes pembunuhan Ketua Penolong Pengarah Penguat Kuasa Jabatan Agama Islam Pahang (JAIP), Ahmad Rafli Abd Malek, Ahad lalu. Ketua Polis Pahang, Datuk Sharifuddin Ab Ghani, berkata lakaran itu membabitkan suspek yang memberi salam kepada mangsa sebelum rakannya melepaskan tiga das tembakan ke arah mangsa. "Suspek dianggarkan berusia lingkungan 50 tahun dan saya percaya kes ini dapat diselesaikan tidak lama lagi," katanya pada sidang media sebentar tadi. http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/PolisedarlakaranwajahsuspekkesbunuhpegawaikananJAIP/Article/?bh

Kenapa kumpulan ajaran sesat Tuhan Harun berpusat di Pahang? Posted: 11 Nov 2013 02:43 PM PST Setelah ketua kumpulan ajaran sesat "Tuhan Harun" yang terlibat dengan penyelewengan pelaburan beratus-ratus juta ringgit ditangkap oleh As Syahid Ustaz Rafli yang mati ditembak pada 10 November 2013 barulah pihak berkuasa mendakwanya atas kesalahan penyelewangan wang. Secara tidak langsung As Syahid Ustaz Rafli bukan saja berjaya membanteras ajaran sesat tetapi berjaya membongkar kes penipuan wang melibatkan beratus-ratus juta ringgit. Di mana wang beratus-ratus juta ringgit itu disimpan sekarang????? KUALA TERENGGANU: Individu paling dikehendaki Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) berhubung kes penipuan membabitkan kerugian RM200 juta, Harun Mat Saat, 45, dipercayai menggunakan alamat palsu bagi mengelak diburu pihak berkuasa ketika menjalankan kegiatan. DINA MENCURI LEBIH BND $91 JUTA DARI HAMPIR 5000 ORG BRUNEI. http://menuntuthak.blogspot.com Wednesday June 8, 2011 Self-styled prophet talks about lewd acts HARUN MAT Saat, who claims to be the prophesied messiah Imam Mahdi, talked about lewd acts during a series of "religious" ceramah aimed at promoting his get-rich-quick scheme, reported Harian Metro. Jumaat April 10, 2009 Konsert Malam Seribu Karya diteruskan tanpa Siti VISUAL laser bertulis kalimah Allah, Nabi Muhammad dan bismillah merupakan antara tarikan dalam Konsert Malam Seribu Karya Rock Rohani di Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam pada 18 April ini. Jalan cerita tersebut berkisarkan tentang kehidupan, perniagaan dan visi yang ingin dicapai oleh penaung Karya Hadani, Ustaz Harun Mat Saad. Selain Ustaz Harun, konsert ini akan dijayakan oleh artis yang bernaung di bawah Karya Hadani Yantzen, Razak Ahmad, Ezam Akar, Sham Barongan dan Rahmad Mega. Ustaz Harun lucah KUALA LUMPUR: Bukan hanya mengaku dirinya jelmaan Imam Mahdi dan berkuasa mengalih posisi bulan, bintang dan matahari, malah Ustaz Harun tanpa segan silu beraksi 'panas' ketika menyampaikan ucapan atau syarahan kepada pengikutnya. "Lebih menghairankan, sepanjang menjadi pengikutnya saya tak pernah melihat dia menunaikan solat dan sering menolak ajakan kami dengan pelbagai alasan," katanya. Rujukan http://amkns.blogspot.com/2012/01/polis-boleh-cari-pengganas-tapi-tak.html

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Suara Sri Andalas

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• Saya Akan Terus Siasat, Cari Penanggungjawaban – Rafizi
• Kes NFC: Shahrizat Tarik Balik Saman RM100 Juta Terhadap Rafizi, Zuraida
• MB: Aedes Tak Kenal Ahli Politik, Jangan Politikkan Isu Denggi

Saya Akan Terus Siasat, Cari Penanggungjawaban – Rafizi Posted: 11 Nov 2013 01:30 AM PST KUALA LUMPUR 11 NOVEMBER: Pengarah Strategi KEADILAN, Rafizi Ramli tekad akan terus menyiasat untuk mencari penanggungjawaban terhadap skandal penyelewengan RM250 juta dana projek National Feedlot Corporation (NFC). Rafizi"Saya akan terus menyiasat dan mencari kebertanggungjawaban isu NFC ini walaupun selepas kes saman ini digugurkan," kata Rafizi. Beliau mengulas pembatalan saman RM100 juta oleh Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil terhadapnya dan Ketua Wanita KEADILAN, Zuraida Kamaruddin setelah Ketua Wanita Umno itu menarik balik saman tersebut. Penarikan saman itu dibuat di hadapan Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi, Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera pagi ini. Dalam saman yang difailkan pada 19 Januari tahun lalu, Shahrizat mendakwa Rafizi dan Zuraida membuat kenyataan fitnah berhubung pendedahan mereka mengenai projek NFC. Namun pada 9 Mac pula, Rafizi dan Zuraida memfailkan saman balas di Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur terhadap bekas Menteri Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat itu  berhubung satu ucapan didakwa berbaur fitnah yang diujarkan bekas menteri tersebut. nfc shahrizat familyJelas Rafizi sebelum ini, langkah itu diambil untuk memastikan kes melibatkan syarikat NFC yang diusahakan keluarga menteri itu terus dibawa ke mahkamah. Saman balas itu diambil kerana khuatir pihak plantif mungkin mengambil keputusan melengah-lengahkan perbicaraan ini atau menarik balik saman dalam masa terdekat untuk mengelakkan dokumen penting dan pemimpin tertinggi BN diseret ke mahkamah untuk memberi keterangan. Sumber: KeadilanDaily

Kes NFC: Shahrizat Tarik Balik Saman RM100 Juta Terhadap Rafizi, Zuraida Posted: 11 Nov 2013 01:15 AM PST KUALA LUMPUR 11 NOVEMBER: Kes saman RM100 juta Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil terhadap Pengarah Strategi KEADILAN, Rafizi Ramli dan Ketua Wanita KEADILAN, Zuraida Kamaruddin dibatalkan setelah Ketua Wanita Umno itu menarik balik saman tersebut. RafiziMenurut Rafizi yang juga Ahli Parlimen Pandan, penarikan itu dibuat Shahrizat tanpa sebarang syarat. Dalam saman yang difailkan pada 19 Januari tahun lalu, Shahrizat mendakwa Rafizi dan Zuraida membuat kenyataan fitnah berhubung dakwaan mengenai projek National Feedlot Corporation (NFC). Penarikan saman itu dibuat di hadapan Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi, Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera pagi ini. Sumber: KeadilanDaily

MB: Aedes Tak Kenal Ahli Politik, Jangan Politikkan Isu Denggi Posted: 11 Nov 2013 01:00 AM PST SHAH ALAM 11 NOV: Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim mengingatkan semua pihak supaya tidak mempolitikkan masalah demam denggi yang melanda Selangor. Bercakap pada pelancaran program Strategi Mobilisasi Sosial dan Komunikasi (COMBI) anjuran Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya (MBPJ), beliau berkata, isu kesihatan tidak wajar dipolitikkan. "Nyamuk Aedes tidak mengenal sama ada anda ahli PKR, MCA atau mana-mana politik. Ia boleh terkena pada sesiapa jua jika masyarakat tidak mengutamakan pencegahannya," katanya.   Beliau berkata, pencegahan demam denggi penting kerana tiada satu sistem imunisasi bagi mengatasi wabak itu, berbeza dengan beberapa penyakit lain yang ada suntikan untuk meningkatkan imunisasi manusia. Statistik Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Selangor menunjukkan sebanyak 11,498 kes dilapor setakat 5 Oktober lalu, meningkat 61.74 peratus berbanding 7,109 kes bagi tempoh sama tahun lepas. Sebanyak 14 kematian akibat denggi dicatat tahun ini berbanding 11 kes bagi tempoh sama pada 2012. Sebanyak 230 lokaliti wabak dilapor dengan 75 lokaliti (32.6 peratus) daripadanya di Petaling, 71 lokaliti (30.9 peratus) di Hulu Langat dan 44 lokaliti (19.1 peratus) di Gombak. Jabatan itu menyatakan terdapat 16 lokaliti wabak tidak terkawal dan 22 lokaliti hotspot atau wabak berlarutan di Selangor. Sumber: SelangorKini

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At Berkeley, Krugman’s warning becomes reality Posted: 11 Nov 2013 12:39 AM PST Salon How the crisis at our greatest public university reflects crippling inequality and the dangers of austerity How long will it take us to understand that the entire neoliberal project – the puritanical mania for cutting taxes, cutting social services and cutting budget deficits that has dominated the Western world's economy for more than 30 years – has been a disaster? And guess what, liberals: You don't get to point the finger at Ronald Reagan, Maggie Thatcher and Milton Friedman and claim it was all their fault. The reformist center-left, whether it took the form of Bill Clinton and the "New Democrats," Tony Blair and "New Labor" or the watered-down social-democratic parties of Europe, has enthusiastically rebranded itself as a servant of global capital. If you were genuinely surprised that the Obama administration loaded itself up with Wall Street insiders, or that it failed to punish anyone for the massive criminal scheme that resulted in the 2008 financial collapse, you haven't been paying attention. I make that point because it's almost impossible to have a serious discussion about this country's economic problems without getting trapped into partisan political bickering, which is almost irrelevant in this context. The activist Tea Party right (at least in its populist, non-elite form) and the activist Occupy left are essentially reacting to the same phenomenon – worsening inequality, and the long-term economic and psychic decay of the United States – but interpreting it in different ways. Working-class whites who feel an immense loss of relative privilege and social status are not wrong, for example – but it doesn't have much to do with the Kenyan socialist Muslim in the White House, or his namby-pamby and admittedly screwed-up healthcare law. As Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz recently noted, census data reveals that men with high-school diplomas but without college degrees earn about 40 percent less today (in real terms) than they did in the 1970s. Obama didn't do that; capitalism did. Stiglitz concluded his essay on inequality – which argued that it was a political choice, rather than the inevitable result of macroeconomic forces – by writing that he saw us "entering a world divided not just between the haves and have-nots, but also between those countries that do nothing about it, and those that do. Some countries will be successful in creating shared prosperity — the only kind of prosperity that I believe is truly sustainable. Others will let inequality run amok." Which kind of country do we live in? That was the question that ran through my mind this week while I was watching Frederick Wiseman's magisterial documentary "At Berkeley," a portrait of America's most prestigious public university as it wrestles with piecemeal privatization and the near-total abandonment of its historic mission. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, Stiglitz's tag-team partner on the economic left, chimed in this week with a related argument. When the ideologues of austerity piously refuse to invest in jobs, infrastructure or education while wrapping themselves in the mantle of fiscal responsibility, he wrote, they're actually inflicting irreparable long-term damage on the economy. Krugman's focus in that column was primarily on job creation, but his lesson clearly applies to Wiseman's depiction of a legendary state university that has long been considered on the same level as Harvard and Oxford and MIT and Stanford but that also, within living memory, charged no tuition at all to California high school graduates who qualified for admission. Appropriately enough, it was Ronald Reagan who did away with all that. The onetime B-movie icon ran for governor of California in 1966 promising to "clean up the mess at Berkeley," and I can't help wondering whether Wiseman's title is a sly reference to that famous slogan. Reagan of course meant the Free Speech Movement and organized student opposition to the Vietnam War, which was still widely popular among the public. Once he took office in Sacramento (after defeating Democratic incumbent Pat Brown, a godfather of the University of California system and the father of current Gov. Jerry Brown), Reagan demanded that the UC regents start charging student fees for the first time. (The word "tuition" was initially avoided.) He also proposed cutting the university budget by 10 percent across the board – a sequester, as we might say today – and suggested that the regents could make up the shortfall by selling off the rare books collection in Berkeley's Bancroft Library. No Gutenberg Bibles or first-edition Shakespeare folios were auctioned off to pay the bills at Berkeley, but that sounds an awful lot like Tea Party anti-government rhetoric circa 2013, doesn't it? Of course Gov. Reagan presented his idea as hard-headed realism, but it's difficult to miss the vindictiveness, or the clear ideological content: Why the hell do those eggheads need a bunch of dusty old books in languages no normal person can read, anyway? If we flash-forward to the present, the Republican-appointed bankruptcy manager of Detroit seems determined to sell off the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection, which also feels punitive and political, rather than practical. Have people unfortunate enough to live in a bankrupt and mismanaged city forfeited the right to see Diego Rivera's Marxist frescoes, or 15th-century Flemish religious paintings? In retrospect, I wonder whether Reagan's assault on Berkeley wasn't the zero moment of the conservative revolution, a magical melding of anti-elitism, anti-intellectualism and anxiety about government spending. Reagan and his supporters couldn't understand why the Golden State's taxpayers should fund a world-class research university, especially since it seemed to be producing radicals and dissidents in large numbers. Higher education was seen as an instrumental value, because we need to supply society with enough doctors and engineers and so forth, but never as a valuable public benefit in itself. More than four decades later, we see Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau (who retired this year) tell a group of administrators and faculty leaders that state funding has fallen to 16 percent of the school's annual budget, an all-time low. While he insists that Berkeley can find ways to maintain its "public character," that's almost a term of art at this point. So Reagan has won. While you won't encounter any of that history directly in "At Berkeley," Wiseman has been observing American society and politics since the 1960s, and definitely understands the background to what he finds on the campus today. Like all of Wiseman's films, detailed social portraits, "At Berkeley" strictly adheres to the rules of the documentary style known as cinéma vérité. That means there is no narration, no on-screen names or charts or crawls of text, no talking-head interviews or other explanatory material. It certainly does not mean that the film pretends to be neutral or objective, or that no story is being told. Whether he's shooting a field hockey game, a seminar on Thoreau, a lecture on the shifting understanding of cancer genetics or a group of workmen pouring cement in Berkeley's football stadium, Wiseman captures the vibrant and diverse life of an institution in permanent crisis. I should say here that "At Berkeley" had considerable personal resonance for me, because I spent much of my childhood on or near that campus and my father taught there for more than 30 years, and also that Wiseman's films can be challenging for newcomers until you get used to them. In theaters all four hours of "At Berkeley" will be shown straight through, and while that's rewarding it's not the only way to watch it. Wiseman typically shoots more than 100 hours of video (he recently switched to digital from film) and then painstakingly edits down to the narrative he wants. It may not feel this way at first, but every scene in "At Berkeley" is in there for a reason, and I'm pretty sure that watching and rewatching the film in segments will reveal more thematic connections. Sometimes the themes of "At Berkeley" are right on the surface, as when we hear a student from a Caribbean nation discuss how stressful and difficult life in the United States has turned out to be, and how her friends back home get subsidized educations and can afford to have reasonable adult lives unburdened with immense debt. Later in the film, a middle-class white student breaks down in tears at the fact that her family is too wealthy to qualify for financial aid, but too poor to afford a so-called public university without taking out risky and onerous loans. An administrator tells Birgeneau that the 1,232-acre campus now has exactly one employee to mow all its lawns. Sometimes they are more metaphorical, as in classroom discussions about the nature of time, or Thoreau's observations about man's "profane" relationship to nature, or the discovery that cancer viruses require a specific "microenvironment" to flourish into tumors. I think my favorite scene, and the one that puzzled me the most at first, was a long and fascinating conversation with a graduate student who is designing a robotic assistive device for a paraplegic man that enables him to walk upright. In discussing the risks that the man will lean too far backward and fall, the student observes that walking involves that risk for all of us, and that learning to walk is about flirting with the possibility of falling, going right to the edge of instability and sometimes over it. Berkeley, that famous hotbed of intellectual ferment and discord, is still walking, in Wiseman's judgment, but only just. It remains an elite institution of higher learning, but one that like most others in Western society is largely dependent on billionaire donors, corporate sponsorships and government research contracts. "At Berkeley" is both a work of social observation and a work of philosophy (Wiseman has always been acutely sensitive to hierarchies of power), and it definitely isn't just a story about Berkeley or about higher education. One of the greatest acts of neoliberal hypnosis over the past 40 years has been convincing almost everyone in mainstream politics, conservatives and liberals alike, that it was both fiscally prudent and morally necessary to subject the entire public sphere to "market forces." It was neither prudent nor necessary; it was a vicious and misguided political decision, rooted in a quasi-religious dogma that sought to imprint the values of the market on every aspect of society and has largely succeeded. It was led by those who despised the communitarian values represented by the public sphere and longed to banish them, and abetted by those who went along because they didn't want to look like wimps. It has poisoned our future.

BN despises bumis Posted: 11 Nov 2013 12:31 AM PST Malaysiakini BN ministers must think the bumiputras are stupid and not worthy of respect. Nancy Shukri, the de facto law minister, said that she defended pro-bumiputra policies because without them, social problems would be created when bumis, who are lagging behind, would resort to theft when they have no money. First. She insults bumiputras by insinuating that they have no self-respect or dignity, and have no compunction about stealing. Second. Despite their vast wealth, ministers and their family, friends and cronies of Umno Baru and BN politicians, allegedly steal from the rakyat, every day. Scandals, all with political links, have been quietly swept under the carpet. They range from the Bank Bumiputra fiasco to the bail-out of companies belonging to the sons of politicians. Farmers were deprived when money intended to expand the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) was diverted. In 1974, news of the Baling hunger strikes, when Malay farmers were struggling to feed their families, was censored. Nancy, who is also a Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, casually labels poor bumiputras as potential thieves. In the past, her peers also branded bumis as lazy, stupid and ignorant. Last month, this government inadvertently said that Malays were easily confused, when a court ruling decided that the word 'Allah' could not be used by non-Muslims. It appears that the qualities which define the proud Ketuanan Melayu man are stupidity, arrogance, a state of confusion, laziness, ignorance and a propensity towards criminality. The National Economic Policy (NEP) launched by Abdul Razak Hussein, the PM in 1971, was supposed to end in 1990. Both Razak's deputy, Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman and the permanent secretary in the External Affairs Ministry, Ghazali Shafie, agreed that should the NEP fail to get substantial results by 1990, then a change of strategy was warranted. From 1990 onwards, successive PMs simply allowed the NEP to limp along in its various guises. This does not help the Malays and Umno Baru, the ruling party, will suppress any challenge which it sees as a threat to its power and its privileges. The launching of the Bumiputra Economic Empowerment (BEE), in 2013, by Najib Abdul Razak was a political ploy to assuage the extremists in Umno-Baru. He was preparing for the toughest election in his career, the Umno Baru internal election. The affirmative action policies championed by Umno Baru do not benefit the average bumiputra. The only people who grow richer are those with political clout. How many of the Malays who have made it to the billionaires club of Malaysia, do not have political or royal credentials? Only Umno Baruputras have the money to buy townhouses or apartments in Kuala Lumpur. Only elite Umno Baruputras can afford apartments in Central London to accommodate their children who are studying in England, on scholarships which should have been awarded to the poor and deserving bumiputras. Former teachers allege that examination pass marks are lowered to allow more Malays to pass. Umno Baru is tacitly admitting that the majority of Malays are not academic, but why will it not tackle the root causes for poor academic performance? Lack of competition leads to decline in performance Malay extremists, who want to cage the Malay mind with their indoctrination, are gaining ground. Children who attempt to gain fluency in English are teased for speaking English and told they are unpatriotic. Malays who show curiosity about people of other faiths are called un-Islamic. The lack of competition on the sports field and the athletic domination of one race, has resulted in a decline in performance, at international level. Contrary to popular belief, Malays are not averse to technological advancements. If anecdotal evidence is to be believed, politicians at both federal and state levels, take helicopter rides to conduct aerial surveys to find land which is ripe for picking. A survey of beach properties on our islands and coastline might reveal an interesting abundance of politicians and their proxies. In Perak (and presumably in other states), people with allegedly close links to the top can amass great fortunes. State lands are acquired for a song and resold for millions of ringgits. A person's political patronage can be revealed by the properties he develops and the name-dropping tactics he employs to defend the destruction of historical buildings, which are then replaced with structures of steel and glass. During a court hearing last month, the list of people who were arraigned for the Genneva Gold scam, read like a list of 'Who's Who' with datuks comprising 85 percent of those charged. Umno Baru uses the Chinese or the communists as convenient scapegoats because communism plays on the heartstrings of the Malays. Chin Peng's ashes were prevented from being buried in his parents' ancestral plot, in Sitiawan. Why are dead communists so feared? This government is happy to do business and grant honorary degrees to communist leaders, some of whom are tyrants. Is this why other nations are spying on us, because of our ties with communist North Korea and conservative Iran? Behind the scenes a battle is raging between former PM Mahathir Mohamad and Najib Abdul Razak.  Mukhriz Mahathir has suffered two serious defeats in as many months and Mahathir is sore with Najib. In 1981, Mahathir's political secretary, Siddiq Ghouse, was imprisoned for allegedly being a KGB agent, a few days before Mahathir became PM. Around the same time, three soviet agents were deported for being KGB spies. Was Siddiq's arrest and the soviet expulsion a coincidence, or a conspiracy? In the mid-70s, then-German chancellor Willy Brandt resigned when his aide had been arrested for being an agent of the Stasi, the East German secret service. Mahathir's enemies may have hoped that Siddiq's arrest would cause Mahathir's downfall, but it did not work, because Mahathir is not like honourable western, Japanese and South Korean politicians who resign after a whiff of scandal. Today, attorney-general Gani Patail is accused of having allegedly employed CIA operatives. Is Mahathir using the tried and tested Umno Baru formula of "reds under the beds", to discredit Najib's government? A charge of sodomy against Najib's closest aides may not work, because no member of the rakyat would believe this bit of histrionics, again. Is Mahathir exacting his vengeance on Najib with talk of spies and espionage, using similar methods as those used to get him out of the way in 1981? Umno Baru and BN will use the bumis to advance their own careers. To them, the bumis are just cannon fodder. Nancy has insulted all bumis, she should make an unreserved apology.

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Apa motif pembunuhan pegawai Jabatan Agama Pahang? Posted: 11 Nov 2013 05:57 AM PST Antara kes besar yang dikendalikan oleh As Syahid Ustaz Ahmad Rafli yang mati ditembak semalam ialah kumpulan ajaran sesat Tuhan Harun , dimana ketua ajaran sesat ini Harun Mat Saad telah terlibat juga dalam kes penipuan deposit sebanyak RM 40 juta, ada yang mengatakan juga beratus-ratus juta ringgit, termasuk melibatkan pelabur dari negara Brunei. 12 PENGIKUT TUHAN HARUN DIBURU 16 Mei 2013 Jabatan Agama Islam Pahang (Jaip) mendapat perintah Mahkamah Syariah Pahang dan bersetuju mengeluarkan waran tangkap bagi memburu 12 pengikut ajaran sesat Tuhan Harun atau turut dikenali sebagai Tuhan 2013. Ketua Penguat Kuasa Jaip, Ahmad Rafli Ab Malik berkata, mereka diburu dalam lingkungan umur di antara 12 hingga 41 tahun termasuk isteri ketiganya, Shuzliana Mokhtarudin, 29, dan empat anak-anaknya iaitu Mahni Harun 12, Saufi, 18, Lukman, 20 dan Muhammad, 21. "Setakat ini di Kuantan, kami telah menyerbu tiga premis termasuk di Jalan Bukit Ubi dan Indera Mahkota 6. 'TUHAN HARUN' DIDAKWA MENERIMA DEPOSIT HARAM RM40 JUTA KOTA BHARU 29 Mei 2013 - Selepas didakwa menyebarkan ajaran sesat dan mengaku sebagai tuhan, hari ini Harun Mat Saad dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Sesyen di sini atas dua tuduhan menerima deposit secara haram sebanyak RM40 juta daripada beberapa buah syarikat dan orang ramai. Ketua kumpulan ajaran sesat 'Tuhan Harun' itu didakwa membantu dalam pengurusan dua syarikat untuk menerima deposit bermula dari September 2006 sehingga Mac 2008. Harun, 47, yang bertindak sebagai penasihat syarikat Business Time Dina Sdn. Bhd., dan Pan Pheonix Dina Sdn. Bhd., mengaku tidak bersalah selepas pertuduhan dibacakan oleh jurubahasa kepadanya di hadapan Hakim Yusuff Yunus. 31 PENGIKUT AJARAN 'TUHAN HARUN' DIMINTA SERAH DIRI KUALA LUMPUR 11 Nov. 2013 - Seramai 31 pengikut ajaran sesat Tuhan Harun diarahkan menyerah diri kepada pihak berkuasa bagi membantu siasatan berhubung kes tembak seorang pegawai penguat kuasa Jabatan Agama Islam Pahang (JAIP), semalam. Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar berkata, kesemua pengikut ajaran itu sebelum ini telah diarahkan untuk menyerah diri apabila beberapa pengikut dan ketua ajaran itu ditahan JAIP, sekitar tahun ini. http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/Jenayah/20131111/je_11/31-pengikut-ajaran-Tuhan-Harun-diminta-serah-diri http://www.sinarharian.com.my/politik/12-pengikut-tuhan-harun-diburu-1.160639 http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/Mahkamah/20130530/ma_06/Tuhan-Harun-didakwa-menerima-deposit-haram-RM40-juta

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Bengkel PWD mejalani proses pencerahna... tahniah Yb Rodziah Posted: 11 Nov 2013 01:30 AM PST Bengkel Penilaian Interaktif PWD Selangor Bengkel Penilaian Interaktif Pusat Wanita Berdaya Negeri Selangor telah diadakan pada 8 hingga 9 November 2013 di Hotel Laman Seri, Seksyen 13, Shah Alam. Ia telah disertai oleh 40 orang penyelia PWB dan telah menjalani proses penialian program, sumber manusia dan keupayaan pengurusan PWB masing-masing. Bengkel itu telah dirasmikan dan dirumuskan oleh Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Tetap Hal Ehwal Wanita Negeri Selangor, Rodziah Ismail. Ia bertujuan untuk merangka pelan tindakan PWB 2013-2018 agar ia lebih dinamik dan memenuhi keperluan wanita setempat dengan dilandasi prinsip-prinsip tata-kelola baik, musyawarah, kefahaman gender yang baik, dan disertai asas bahawa hampir seluruh rakyat Malaysia hidup beragama. Di antara perkara lain yang telah diutarakan ialah pengurusan stres dan menilai tahap stres para penyelia PWB dan perkongsian untuk mengatasinya. Dapatan di bengkel tersebut, laporan-laporan serta dapatan berterusan dari PWB sejak ia dijenamakan semula (dahulu digelar Pusat Komuniti Wanita) pada November 2011 akan digunakan bagi merangka perancangan dan pelan tindakan PWB Negeri Selangor. "Tugasan sebagai penyelia PWB adalah sesuatu yang fokus dan wajar diberi tumpuan. Para penyelia bukan sahaja melaksanakan usaha advokasi, menganjur berbagai program dan kelas kemahiran. "Tetapi juga melayani penduduk wanita setempat yang memerlukan tempat rujukan yang boleh membantu atau menunjukkan jalan-jalan ke arah penyelesaian permasalahan yang mereka hadapi. Kadangkala wanita perlu kepada perkhdimatan seperti guaman dan kaunseling." "Wanita berdaya lagi memberdayakan wanita lain…itu adalah misi pemberdayaan wanita Selangor," - Rodziah Ismail

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GHAIRAH DENGAN TUNTUTAN PERMODENAN TETAPI JANGAN BUANG SISTEM NEGARA SISTEM RAJA ~ RAJA DR NAZRIN SHAH Posted: 11 Nov 2013 02:13 AM PST

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FORUM GST Posted: 10 Nov 2013 05:17 AM PST

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• Ilham Centre: Pakatan Tidak Perintah Selagi Rakyat sokong Politik Wang
• Ejen Amerika di Pejabat Peguam Negara: Anwar Gesa “Rehatkan” Gani
• Rumah Terbuka Deepavali DUN Seri Andalas Meriah

Ilham Centre: Pakatan Tidak Perintah Selagi Rakyat sokong Politik Wang Posted: 09 Nov 2013 08:30 PM PST Badan penyelidik Ilham Centre menyarankan kepada pembangkang Pakatan Rakyat (PR) supaya mendidik pengundi menolak politik wang sekiranya mahu memenangi pilihan raya umum (PRU) ke-14  akan datang. Berdasarkan penemuan kajian terkini semasa pilihan raya kecil (PRK) di Sungai Limau baru-baru ini, Ilham Centre mendapati pengundi tidak kisah mengenai politik wang ataupun habuan gula-gula yang diberikan semasa proses demokrasi sedang berjalan. "Di Sungai Limau, kita tanya mengenai kewajaran pengundi menerima habuan politik dan 63% kata wajar dan boleh diterima," kata Pengerusi Ilham Center Muhamad Hisommudin Bakar kepada The Malaysian Insider. Muhamad Hisommudin berkata, sikap sedemikian adalah sesuatu yang membimbangkan kerana menunjukkan satu corak demokrasi yang tidak sihat di kalangan pengundi. "Ini maksudnya mentaliti orang kita ini yang menerima rasuah politik, perkara ini termasuklah pembangkang. Sepatutnya mereka gagaskan menolak politik wang ini. "Tapi mereka ini beritahu pengundi apabila diberi duit, ambil tetapi jangan pangkah," katanya. Beliau menggesa PR sekiranya mahu memainkan peranan sebagai pembangkang yang berkesan perlu mendidik pengundi tentang politik wang ini. "Sebenarnya dalam iklim demokrasi sebenar, jika kita nak mendidik rakyat menolak rasuah politik politik, kita kena mula sejak awal. "Kalau dengan peratusan ini, sampai bila-bila pun pembangkang tidak boleh menang," katanya. Sebelum PRU13 yang berakhir 5 Mei lalu, parti pemerintah Barisan Nasional (BN) berbelanja besar dengan pelbagai pemberian yang dianggap oleh pengkritik sebagai "gula-gula politik". Pengkritik dan pemerhati tidak menolak berbilion ringgit dihabiskan oleh BN sepanjang tempoh berkempen, malah Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dikatakan berbelanja lebih besar semasa berkempen berbanding perdana menteri sebelumnya. Bagaimanapun, Najib masih gagal untuk merampas kembali majoriti dua pertiga di Parlimen malah kehilangan undi popular buat kali pertama dalam sejarah kepada PR semasa PRU13 lalu. Sumber: The Malaysian Insider

Ejen Amerika di Pejabat Peguam Negara: Anwar Gesa “Rehatkan” Gani Posted: 09 Nov 2013 08:28 PM PST Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menuntut agar Peguam Negara Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail "direhatkan" ekoran dakwaan bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad terdapat dua orang ejen agensi perisikan Amerika Syarikat  di Pejabat Peguam Negara. Anwar, yang juga ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh menegaskan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak perlu mengambil tindakan segera memandangkan terdapat banyak dakwaan negatif terhadap Abdul Gani. "Dakwaan oleh Dr Mahathir bahawa Pejabat Peguam Negara mempunyai dua ejen Amerika adalah mengejutkan dan memerlukan tindakan serta merta daripada perdana menteri dan juga Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi," kata Anwar dalam kenyataan di Kuala Lumpur lewat malam tadi. Sebelum ini media melaporkan, Dr Mahathir bukan sahaja mendapatkan pandangan balas daripada bekas pegawai kanan polis Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim dan peguam kanan Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah bahkan menteri juga dibawa berbincang mengenainya. Menurut sumber, Ahmad Zahid dikatakan turut dibawa berbincang oleh Dr Mahathir mengenai tingkah laku Abdul Gani. "Gani juga perlu memberi penjelasan terhadap  semua dakwaan ini termasuk yang mengaitkan beliau dengan kegiatan haram dan aktiviti konspirasi yang turut didakwa melibatkan pejabatnya," kata Anwar. Mat Zain dibawa bertemu Dr Mahathir oleh Muhammad Shafee pada 10 Ogos lalu, tiga hari selepas hari raya Aidilfitri. Mereka bertemu Dr Mahathir di rumahnya dengan disertai bekas setiausaha politiknya, Matthias Chang. Dalam perbincangan di meja makan sempena hari raya itu, mereka berbincang mengenai salah laku Abdul Gani yang bermula daripada kes 'mata lebam' Anwar lagi. Turut dibincangkan adalah kekalahan Malaysia kepada Singapura dalam kes Pulau Batu Putih di Mahkamah Antarabangsa. Abdul Gani mewakili Malaysia dalam kes itu. Ekoran pertemuan 10 Ogos itu, Mat Zain pada 7 Oktober membuat satu akuan bersumpah yang antara kandungannya adalah dakwaan salah laku Abdul Gani dalam kes 'mata lebam' Anwar. Akuan bersumpah itu kemudiannya dihantar kepada Najib. Ia turut dihantar kepada Peguamcara Negara, Datuk Idrus Harun; Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar dan Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. Sebelum ini Pengerusi DAP Karpal Singh menggesa polis menyiasat Abdul Gani tanpa menunggu laporan polis dibuat. Karpal berkata, pada masa lalu polis pernah mengambil inisiatif sendiri dengan memulakan siasatan selepas membaca laporan akhbar. Menurut Karpal, polis mesti merekodkan kenyataan orang penting termasuk Abdul Gani, Dr Mahathir dan Ahmad Zahid bagi memahami kes ini. "Saya harap tiada apa yang diselindungkan," katanya. Abdul Gani, 58, menyertai pejabat Peguam Negara pada 1980 dan dilantik sebagai Peguam Negara pada 2002. Beliau pernah menerima kritikan hebat daripada pembangkang dan badan bukan kerajaan berhubung kegagalan kerajaan dalam kes di bawah seliaannya termasuk kes pembunuhan warga Mongolia Altantuya Shaariibuu dan kes penipuan membabitkan bekas Menteri Pengangkutan Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik. Sumber: The Malaysian Insider

Rumah Terbuka Deepavali DUN Seri Andalas Meriah Posted: 09 Nov 2013 07:56 PM PST Kampung Jawa, Klang, 9 November 2013 - Rumah Terbuka Deepavali DUN Seri Andalas meriah dan dihadiri pelbagai kaum. Majlis Rumah Terbuka telah diadakan pada hari ini dari jam 7 hingga 10 malam di Desa Latania, Kampung Jawa. Pelbagai juadah sempena Deepavali dihidangkan kepada para hadirin. Dalam majlis tersebut sumbangan hamper telah diagihkan dan 'angpow' telah diberikan kepada kanak-kanak yang hadir. Turut hadir meraikan Deepavali bersama-sama adalah YB Azmin Ali, Ahli Parlimen Gombak, YB Amirudin Shari, ADUN Batu Caves, para pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat kawasan setempat, Ahli-ahli Majlis PBT dan Ketua-ketua Komuniti. YB Dr Xavier Jayakumar mengucapkan terima kasih kepada semua yang hadir dan penghargaan kepada semua sukarelawan yang menjayakan majlis.

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