Hantu Laut
This is just the beginning. UMNO beware, given time Perkasa will grow to be a political force to be reckoned with.
As far back as a year ago I predicted the Malays would contemplate the 'Hidup Melayu" once again.
As much as many of us wanted it the other way it would be a long time before this nation reach political maturity and multi racialism politics takes a footing here. The Malays will not give up political powers without a fight.
Do not kid yourself that there is something seriously wrong with our political system.It is the same every where.The majority leads and held on to political power as long as the electorate allow them to do so.
What Perkasa is doing and with the full backing of former PM Mahathir Mohammad, supports for the cause would swell as time goes by.
"Let sleeping dogs lie" means don't disturb a situation as it would result in trouble or complications and it has.
Zaid Ibrahim,Tengku Razaleigh and the likes wanted to be seen as liberals but they are in the minority.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Sleazeball Politics
Hantu Laut
The revelation by Zulkifli Noordin that he was asked to link the Altantuya murder case with Najib and Rosmah,maybe, tip of the iceberg.There may still be many of this type of sleazeball politics in the Pandora's box.
There may be truth in Zul's claim.As we Muslims say if you have 'iman' you wouldn't succumb to such evil act no matter how lucrative the offer is.'Fitnah' as we all know is the greatest sin in Islam, unforgivable by Allah, only the victim can forgive the doer.
Zulkifli might have been reluctant because of his conscience but there are other unconscionable individuals who are prepared to do the devil's work.
It makes one wonder how much money had passed hands in this sleazeball politics. I am not sure which came first, Raja Petra's Statutory Declaration which implicated Rosmah to be at the scene of the murder or Bala's Statutory Declaration implicating Najib's sexual relationship with the murdered girl?
This smear campaign confounded by the relationship of Najib with Razak Baginda have succeeded to merge the simple-minded into believing it. The opposition has shown extremity of ill will and dirty tactics that paints a sordid picture of what they are capable of doing.How much does it take to pay the low-life to lie?
The oppositions have also found a new tool to straighten the lie, the use of Statutory Declaration.Any contemptible liar can use it.
To the simple-minded Malaysians the SD is the truth.Some even put their faith in the low-life who are prepared to sell his soul to the devil for the devil's reward. Every man has a price.What would people like Bala fetch if offered the witch's brew?
How many times can a serial and congenital liar change his lies? A scientific study has shown that genetic defect partly contributed to a person inability to tell the truth. In the case of Bala, not less than three times.He made the first confession, withdrew it and now coming back for more.Said he was threatened and paid money by Najib's men to withdraw his SD.This man is not only a liar he is also an extortionist.
To sow the seeds of discontentment and doubt in the minds of the simple-minded, SD may be insufficient to lure some of them to bewilderment, technology becomes handy as mind-bender for the intellectually deficient.Visualization and doctoring images can boggle the mind and the oppositions, surprisingly PAS seemed not to have any objection, have resorted to this kind of muck.Remember Tian Chua, the master forger ? Below, are some of his and Pakatan' supporters handiwork to discredit Najib.
If truly Najib knew this lady there must be photos of them somewhere.Till today, none, including professional and journalistic sleuths, have been able to produce the real photograph.
Here is Anwar response to a journalist who asked him about Zulkifli's revelation.He responded : “It is a very unreasonable statement from a journalist...who is paying you to ask this question?”
Was that an expression of guilt. Just because the oppositions pay people to lie, he thinks everyone can be bought.
Below, he participated in Bala's press conference.
Why participate, if you have no vested interest in it?
Would you vote for sleazeball politics?
The revelation by Zulkifli Noordin that he was asked to link the Altantuya murder case with Najib and Rosmah,maybe, tip of the iceberg.There may still be many of this type of sleazeball politics in the Pandora's box.
There may be truth in Zul's claim.As we Muslims say if you have 'iman' you wouldn't succumb to such evil act no matter how lucrative the offer is.'Fitnah' as we all know is the greatest sin in Islam, unforgivable by Allah, only the victim can forgive the doer.
Zulkifli might have been reluctant because of his conscience but there are other unconscionable individuals who are prepared to do the devil's work.
It makes one wonder how much money had passed hands in this sleazeball politics. I am not sure which came first, Raja Petra's Statutory Declaration which implicated Rosmah to be at the scene of the murder or Bala's Statutory Declaration implicating Najib's sexual relationship with the murdered girl?
This smear campaign confounded by the relationship of Najib with Razak Baginda have succeeded to merge the simple-minded into believing it. The opposition has shown extremity of ill will and dirty tactics that paints a sordid picture of what they are capable of doing.How much does it take to pay the low-life to lie?
The oppositions have also found a new tool to straighten the lie, the use of Statutory Declaration.Any contemptible liar can use it.
To the simple-minded Malaysians the SD is the truth.Some even put their faith in the low-life who are prepared to sell his soul to the devil for the devil's reward. Every man has a price.What would people like Bala fetch if offered the witch's brew?
How many times can a serial and congenital liar change his lies? A scientific study has shown that genetic defect partly contributed to a person inability to tell the truth. In the case of Bala, not less than three times.He made the first confession, withdrew it and now coming back for more.Said he was threatened and paid money by Najib's men to withdraw his SD.This man is not only a liar he is also an extortionist.
To sow the seeds of discontentment and doubt in the minds of the simple-minded, SD may be insufficient to lure some of them to bewilderment, technology becomes handy as mind-bender for the intellectually deficient.Visualization and doctoring images can boggle the mind and the oppositions, surprisingly PAS seemed not to have any objection, have resorted to this kind of muck.Remember Tian Chua, the master forger ? Below, are some of his and Pakatan' supporters handiwork to discredit Najib.
If truly Najib knew this lady there must be photos of them somewhere.Till today, none, including professional and journalistic sleuths, have been able to produce the real photograph.
Here is Anwar response to a journalist who asked him about Zulkifli's revelation.He responded : “It is a very unreasonable statement from a journalist...who is paying you to ask this question?”
Was that an expression of guilt. Just because the oppositions pay people to lie, he thinks everyone can be bought.
Below, he participated in Bala's press conference.
Why participate, if you have no vested interest in it?
Would you vote for sleazeball politics?
Thursday, March 25, 2010
New York Times pays damages to Singapore's leaders
(Reuters) - The New York Times Co apologized to Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew on Wednesday and paid S$160,000 ($114,000) in damages for an article about Asian political dynasties.
An apology in the opinion section of the New York Times' website said that any inference that Lee Hsien Loong "did not achieve his position through merit," was unintended.
The article, entitled "All in the Family," was published on February 15 in the International Herald Tribune (IHT), the global edition of The New York Times.
Lee Hsien Loong is the son of independent Singapore's first leader, Lee Kuan Yew. The New York Times also apologized to Goh Chok Tong, who succeeded the older Lee as prime minister.
Davinder Singh, the lawyer acting for the leaders, told Reuters that the IHT's publisher, editor of global editions, and the article's author, Philip Bowring, also agreed to pay damages of S$60,000 to Lee Hsien Loong, and S$50,000 each to Goh Chok Tong and Lee Kuan Yew, as well as pay their legal costs.
Singh said the article was "libellous" and the Singapore leaders had demanded an apology, damages and costs.
He said it was in breach of an undertaking made by both the publisher of the IHT and Bowring in 1994 that they would not make further similar defamatory allegations to those made in an article by Bowring in the IHT in that year called "The Claims about Asian Values Don't Usually Bear Scrutiny," for which the IHT and Bowring also paid damages and costs to the three leaders.
A spokesman for The New York Times Co declined to comment beyond the apology, while Bowring did not respond to a Reuters query for comment.
Singapore's leaders have in the past sued and won damages, or out-of-court settlements, from opposition politicians and foreign media including the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and The Economist.
Singapore, considered to have the lowest political risk among Asian nations by many risk consultancies, is a hub for manufacturers, banks and expatriates, who value its stability. The ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has governed for 50 years.
Singapore was ranked 133rd among 175 countries in the World Press Freedom Index 2009 by Reporters Without Borders.
(Reporting by Neil Chatterjee in Singapore and Tiffany Wu in New York; Editing by Nick Macfie and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
Here's the Times' apology, printed today:
Source:Reuters
In 1994, Philip Bowring, a contributor to the International Herald Tribune's op-ed page, agreed as part of an undertaking with the leaders of the government of Singapore that he would not say or imply that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had attained his position through nepotism practiced by his father Lee Kuan Yew. In a February 15, 2010, article, Mr. Bowring nonetheless included these two men in a list of Asian political dynasties, which may have been understood by readers to infer that the younger Mr. Lee did not achieve his position through merit. We wish to state clearly that this inference was not intended. We apologize to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong for any distress or embarrassment caused by any breach of the undertaking and the article.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
A Nod For Lim Kit Siang
Hantu Laut
I'll make an exception this time and give Lim Kit Siang a nod to his article here.
It's true, Minister of Health Liow Tiong Lai should take responsibility and resign his post.He has shown total incompetence, indifference and showed no concern at all on the worsening health care in Sabah.
The crisis is not new, it is over two years now and nothing has been done to stop the shuttling of patients from one hospital to another.
On one of his visits here the Prime Minister has assured Sabahans that he would make immediate allocation to resolve the health care crisis in Sabah.
The money might be there but what's the point if you have a minister who can only provide lip service and not the health care service that Sabahans have been deprived of for a long time.In spite of the much talked about takeover of SMC nothing significant has happened.
PM Najib should take personal interest in the crisis if he wants his fixed deposit intact.Better do it fast before Sabahans decide to tukaron bangkad.
It is poor Sabahans that suffered most and if the PM didn't already know, that's where most votes come from.Ignore it at your own perils.
Maybe, Najib should do a first, sack the man.
I'll make an exception this time and give Lim Kit Siang a nod to his article here.
It's true, Minister of Health Liow Tiong Lai should take responsibility and resign his post.He has shown total incompetence, indifference and showed no concern at all on the worsening health care in Sabah.
The crisis is not new, it is over two years now and nothing has been done to stop the shuttling of patients from one hospital to another.
On one of his visits here the Prime Minister has assured Sabahans that he would make immediate allocation to resolve the health care crisis in Sabah.
The money might be there but what's the point if you have a minister who can only provide lip service and not the health care service that Sabahans have been deprived of for a long time.In spite of the much talked about takeover of SMC nothing significant has happened.
PM Najib should take personal interest in the crisis if he wants his fixed deposit intact.Better do it fast before Sabahans decide to tukaron bangkad.
It is poor Sabahans that suffered most and if the PM didn't already know, that's where most votes come from.Ignore it at your own perils.
Maybe, Najib should do a first, sack the man.
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