Be Careful What You Take From 'Wikipedia'

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I do, sometimes, use Wikipedia for reference but usually check with other sources if I have my doubts on the accuracy of the information.

One must not forget that Wikipedia is not perfect because it is written collaboratively by the people who use it and can be edited and changed on the same basis.In spite of those weaknesses, it is still a good reference source.

The recent controversy on the re-opening of the 'Double Six' tragedy got me curious whether Wikipedia carry such information and to my surprise it does but with grave error.

The full text below.

Double Six Tragedy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Double Six Tragedy, also known as the Double Six Crash, was a plane crash which took place on June 6, 1976 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The plane, operated by Sabah Air, coming from Labuan crashed in the sub-district of Sembulan in Kota Kinabalu upon approaching Kota Kinabalu International Airport. The crash killed everyone on board the flight, including Tun Fuad Stephens, the Chief Minister of Sabah at that time. The other passengers on the flight were State Ministers Datuk Salleh Sulong, Datuk Peter Mojuntin, Chong Thien Vun, and assistant minister Darius Binion. Others who perished were the then Secretary of State for the Ministry of Finance of Sabah Datuk Wahid Peter Andau, Director of Economic Planning Unit of Sabah Dr. Syed Hussein Wafa, Isak Atan (Private Secretary to Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah), Corporal Said Mohammad (bodyguard to Tun Fuad Stephens), Captain Gandhi Nathan (the pilot of the aircraft) leaving tun fuad's son johari alive until today.

The reason behind the crash is uncertain. Immediately after the accident there were allegations of foul play because of the death of the Chief Minister, but no evidence of such has ever been found.

The error in the above is regarding the son of the late Tun Fuad, Johari Stephens. He actually perished in the crash.There was no survivor at all.

I was at the crash site soon after it happened.The area was eventually cordoned off by the police.

A monument was built on the crash site which has recently been Incorporated into a small park by a private developer.

Taking step to correct the error.

Newspaper cutting,Daily Express 7 June 1976.

Click to enlarge.

Edited and error corrected in Wikipedia.

The Truth Never Lies

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The title may be oxymoron but it's the truth and truth doesn't lie.

The constant battering of the so-called baddies is nauseating.One side think they are holier than thou and portray the other side as the devil. They played on the callow and infertile minds of the young voters and drummed the ignorant, the gullible and unsophisticated minds.The simpletons, those who believe in anything you feed them.Little things please little minds.They seemed to have learned the art of indoctrination of the masses.

The clock is ticking, with or without substantive issues the propaganda machine must go on.Lies or truths, don't matter at all, they must keep the momentum alive by whatever means.

The oppositions seemed incapable of constructive criticism.They have completely ran out of substantive issues. Day in, day out they can only dwell on trivialities and mendacious propaganda.Some are so ridiculous, it's kind of ticklish, goes to show how bankrupt of ideas this bunch of stumbling political amateurs are.Vote them in and see how quickly they will destroy this nation.

Jewish moles in the PDRM? Surely, there are moles all over the place.What difference does it make whether they are British,American,France or Jews? Are they truly moles or just doing the work they are hired for? Than there are this childish thing like 1 Malaysia copied 1 Israel and APCO is a Jewish company.So, what's the problem? Anwar, the still de facto leader of the oppositions once sat as chairman of a Jewish-led organisation.

Yesterday, opposition lawmakers were chanting UMNO APCO in parliament that brought the house down.Thrash-talk and imbecile behaviour.Waste of parliamentary time and pathetic show of unruly behaviour.How do we, the taxpayers, benefit from this kind pettiness on some miserable company called APCO being played out in Parliament? Are there no better things they can thrash out in the august house.

APCO is a reputable international consultancy firm and has international staff working for them globally, have clientele all over the world and would have done work for the government of Israel.So what? Should that stop Malaysia from employing their expertise? If they are Mossad than I can understand the uproar.

The pompous display of trash (that's what I think it is) by the oppositions was instigated by Anwar Ibrahim to cover up his own long association with prominent Jewish figure like Paul Wolfowitz, the scandalous ex-president of the World Bank who gave a lavish tax-free pay rise to his girlfriend.He was the first president of the bank dismissed for wrongdoing.Wolfowitz was also one of the main architect and the most hawkish advocate of the Iraq War when he was the American Deputy Defense Secretary.Being close friend, Wolfowitz appointed Anwar as Chairman of Foundation for the Future run by him.

If the Muslims of Malaysia want to know, this is the man, this close friend of Anwar Ibrahim who was mainly responsible for the deaths of thousand of innocent Muslims in Iraq and the destruction of the country and this is the same man who once said about the Holocaust "It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities. It doesn't mean you can prevent every such incident in the world, but it's also a mistake to dismiss that sort of concern as merely humantarian and not related to real interest."


The Face of Genocide

So, how could APCO and the bloody Jewish moles supposedly working in PDRM be worse than this Jewish friend of his who slaughtered innocent Muslims by the hundred of thousands.

Isn't this hypocrisy of the highest order?

Than, we have the threesome, Yong Teck Lee of SAPP, Jeffery Kitingn of PKR and Lim Kit Siang of DAP who wanted the 'Double Six' tragedy, the plane crash that killed Sabah Chief Minister, the late Tun Fuad and a number of cabinet ministers in Sabah on 6 June 1976 to be re-opened for investigation without giving any specific reason.All they said was based on new revelation by Tengku Razaleigh on his recent visit to Sabah where he stirred Sabahans to get more money out of Petronas and where he related the story.

I presumed, these three ignoramus weren't born yet when the tragedy happened because what Razaleigh revealed during his talk was not anything new.It was common knowledge that he boarded the wrong plane and Harris Salleh had to call him to disembark from the wrong plane and join him in the other plane where he should have been in the first place.

What was the motive behind this rather unusual request? Do they think there have been foul play? Jeffery by his wordings implied there was.Otherwise, why would they asked the case to be re-opened.The Federal government should investigate.They are implicated.

Former Sabah Chief Minister Harris Salleh took exception to it when it was reported in the newspaper and accused Yong and Jefferey of being mischievous and demanded that they repeat it more specifically.The two cowards did not dare give specific reason why they asked for the case to be re-opened.I, myself, as a Sabahan and close friend of the late Tun Fuad family have asked Lim Kit Siang through 'twitter' for his reason but he has not responded.Copy of my tweet below.

@limkitsiang Hi, Y.B Lim, could you tell me why you want the 'Double Six' tragedy case reopen.We,Sabahans are concerned n want to know. about 13 hours ago via web in reply to limkitsiang

Harris was right.It's pure mischief because none of them dare give specific reason why they wanted the case re-opened.

They should put the money in their mouths.

The Federal government should investigate the three and find out what they know that the government don't.

Here, is my former school teacher rather harsh treatment of Najib, a man who has only been in the job for 1 year and expects him to do miracles, something, like in the footsteps of Moses as he parted the Red Sea when he and the Israelites were pursued by the Pharaoh's army.

Najib's Do or Die

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Well done! Mr Prime Minister.That's the way how it should be.A man who is not afraid of losing his job will do a better job.

Najib says his head is on the chopping block for purging rent seekers and political patronage and I believe him.

It's about time a leader take the bold step to stop this despicable practice of political largasse, giving huge contracts to party members,cronies, sycophants and hangers-on who do not have the capability to do the job other than sitting on their asses collecting million of ringgit by selling off the contracts.

The right thing to do is to have fair distribution of these contracts to all Malaysians and where preference for bumiputra participation are required, a special category of tender system exclusively for bumiputra contractors could be set up.There can be a two-category system, one for all Malaysian and the other exclusively for bona fide bumiputra contractors.In this way bumiputras are not deprived of the chance to share the economic pie and can compete among themselves under the new economic model.The other catergory should be opened to all Malaysians including bumiputras who think they can compete with the non-bumiputras. In the case of projects of extreme urgency or of sensitive nature the prime minister can dispense with the tender system and allow the projects to be on negotiated basis.

The present system is a 'catch penny' situation where the person given the contract is only concerned about the money but not the quality of the product.That's why, over the years, we have numerous abandoned projects and sub-standard products delivered to the government and no action taken against the culprit because he happened to be a powerful party member or a rich and powerful crony.The system has made those kind of bumiputras to become the abominable leeches, continuing to demand more and more projects to feed their insatiable greed and laziness.

The ruling party is full of them and think they should be given the handouts as of rights. Where do you think the easy money goes to? Certainly, not to fund further businesses because they have none.It goes to building palatial homes, buying posh cars and branded goods.When the money level is low they would go again for more and if they don't get, they start bad mouthing the leadership and some would even abandon the party and jump to the opposition hoping for better luck in the event the opposition won the elections and took over the government.

I have seen this happening since the formation of Malaysia and you see the same politicians being recycled over and over again.Sabah, used to be the place for recycling politicians but now politicians in the Peninsula seemed to have joined the circus and found the long-term benefits of recycling.

As I have said in my earlier article there is nothing wrong with the NEP if put to its proper use, helping the poor and needy Malays and bumiputras.

Najib needs to change the perception that the NEP is not to make the rich richer but to help give the poor and needy a decent living.The NEP should be retained for that purpose and that purpose only.Under his NEM he can create a new model to help other needy Malaysians the same way as helping needy bumiputras, therefore, providing fair and equitable treatment to all Malaysians.

There are many other things that he needs to revamp to truly show that he is serious about changing the social landscape of this nation.

Some, maybe, painful to do away with but unless he swallows the bitter pill now and takes his chances and between the risk of being castrated by his party members and the risk of no UMNO government tomorrow, I would say go for it.

Do or die!

Below is an article from Time Magazine published on 4 April 2010.

Affirmative action: Bad for growth?

Posted by Michael Schuman Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 9:55 pm

My post today is about a country that doesn't usually get much attention in debates about global economic issues – Malaysia. But don't be too quick to click to the next webpage. What's going on these days in that small, tropical nation is raising interesting questions about the relationship between social justice and economic development.

Malaysia's prime minister, Najib Razak, is in the process of overhauling what is likely the world's most extensive and intensive affirmative action program, called the New Economic Policy, or NEP. First instituted in the early 1970s, the NEP was designed to expand the role of the impoverished Malay community in the national economy. The Malays represent the majority of the population, but back when the NEP was launched, Chinese immigrants and foreign firms owned the vast majority of the country's assets. To fix that, the Malay-dominated government adopted all kinds of rules and regulations that gave special perquisites to Malays. Malay-owned companies received preferential treatment when bidding for state contracts, for example, while the government mandated Malay investors receive 30% of initial public offerings on the local stock market. It was an amazing experiment in social reconstruction.Read more.

NEP Is Only A Small Clog In The System

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Najib announced the NEM (New Economic Model) on 30 March 2010.He hasn't even started, so how could he stalled? Asia Sentinel commemorated his one year in office with this story.

Certainly, one should not expect everyone to support or agree with his new policy. The oppositions, no matter, how good his new policy is, would surely find fault with it and not gave him the support.It is what the American called "hyperpartisanship", a sharply polarized situation in which political parties are in fierce disagreement with each other.

You don't need reason to disagree, just disagree for the sake of disagreeing. Lim Kit Siang has mastered the art of hyperpartisanship. He is the biggest and most fierce rabble rouser and becoming the most dangerous man in the country, raising racial and religious issues without blinking an eye.

Those who have benefited from the NEP in a big way and filled their pockets to bursting point are some of those who think thay have achieved success on their on own merits and now think they don't need the NEP.These are the few Malays who changed their tune hoping to jump on the next bandwagon that they reckoned will ride to victory in the next general elections in 2013 and with it bringing a new kind of gravy train that they hope to benefit from. They came in all shapes, sizes and intellectuality.

A well-known columnist who during the Mahathir's era think that the NEP was a great idea and tried to sell it to South Africa as affirmative action for the blacks seems to have changed his mind about the goodness of the NEP.When Anwar Ibrahim was in UMNO and was deputy prime minister he did not see anything wrong with the NEP, had no objection or made any attempt to fight for change.A well-known lawyer who was once a big recipient of the NEP, directly or indirectly, have now changed his wavelength.The NEP had become a distinct and distant memory.

Are they for real?

I am not a great proponent of the NEP, at least, not the way it is being plonked around now.It would have been good if it had remained in its original shape, that is to bring the whole Malay community at par with the other races in term of economic benefits and standard of living.It has, in some ways, achieved some of its objectives.

Forty years ago, most Malays dreamed only to be civil servants, uncomplicated, risk free and secured job.The civil service was geared to accept mostly Malays.It shunned the mindshares from commerce.Almost all economic activities were in the hands of the Chinese.Malays, were mostly rural agrarian and urban working class.Little or no emphasis were given to commercialise the Malays then. Now, there are large number of Malay middle class and increasing number of professionals and businessmen.Without the NEP, the progress would have been painfully slow.

It is not the NEP at fault, it is the way it is being abused that had turned it into a four-letter word, euphonious for those who benefited from it and perfunctory disquiet for those who don't. It has become a gravy train to enrich a handful of rent-seekers.

Most of the huge contracts given to these parasitic rent-seekers would eventually land in some Chinese towkay's lap and worse they would come back for more and more of these handouts through their political connections.The intended purpose of making them entrepreneurs become self-defeating.This is the hickey side of the NEP that we should be fighting to get rid of completely, not the NEP as a whole.There is no point scrapping the NEP, wholesale, if such practices still continue under other pretexts.

In a nutshell, kill political largesse and corruptions, the NEP is not the scourge that destroying this country and should not be made the sacrificial lamb.

Power and money are something difficult to give up.Man's greed for power and wealth have no bounds.For some, power and wealth precede ethics and morality.In politics, the ingrates and unprincipled will always change allegiance to serve their greed for more power and money.They say one thing today and say something else tomorrow to feed their insatiable appetite.Many of this type are now courting Anwar Ibrahim and if they were writers and columnists the writings have changed to obsequiously serving the oppositions.

Ethically questionable behaviours of politicians and official malfeasance are what we should be concerned with.The NEP is only a small clog in the system.Corruptions and abuse of power are the ones that's killing this country.This was where Pak Lah had failed miserably causing political upheaval and throwing the nation into political dissension and instability.If he had pushed through his promised reforms he would have been the strongest and most powerful prime minister today.

Would Najib be in the same shoes? Not likely.The man is a worker, he only gets forty winks. He has the nation at heart and is prepared to work hard to heal the wounded tiger.He can only succeed if his ilk gave him the support he needed.

The result of the Hulu Selangor by-election would be the first measure of his and UMNO existential political future.