Monday, March 19, 2012

Mr Strawberry Nightclub Tinggalkan UMNO Dia Kata Penipu Rakyat



















Hantu Laut

Baru bangun tidur kah? Tidak mahu pemerintah menipu rakyat ?

Selama beberapa tahun didalam UMNO adakan kamu sedar yang pemerintah termasuk kamu sebagai menteri menipu rakyat? Pada masa itu kenapa tidak letak jawatan menteri dan keluar parti?

Baca seterus disini.

Rakyat bukan bodohlah Mr Strawberry Nightclub!

Dimanakah kredibility bekas menteri UMNO ini?

(My first short Malay composition)

(Strawberry nightclub is in Kota Kinabalu where Kadir Sheikh Fadzir used to hang out with his businessman friends whenever he visited KK as Minister of Tourism)

Kadir resigned from UMNO.Read here.

Do not agree with political analyst Khoo Kay Peng.Kadir is a spent force, he has no grassroots in UMNO, it's good riddance.


Investigating Judges Named in Malaysia Submarine Graft Case

French case draws closer to Malaysian officials

Two magistrates have been nominated in Paris to investigate the politically explosive 2002 purchase of Scorpene submarines by the Malaysian Ministry of Defense when Najib Tun Razak was Defense Minister.

The case focuses on a 1.2 billion euro contract called a
“programme soumalais” with the state-owned French defense giant DCNS, formerly known as DCN. The contract was later transferred to Armaris, a joint venture between DCNS and the French company Thales. In questioning in the Dewan Rakyat, the Malaysian Parliament, it transpired that a €114 million (US$150 million at current exchange rates) commission had been paid to a newly-minted company called Perimekar Sdn Bhd, nominally owned by the wife of one of Najib’s best friends, Abdul Razak Baginda, then the head of a Malaysian think-tank.

It is likely to take several years before the case comes to fruition. In the meantime Najib, now Malaysia’s prime minister and head of the United Malays National Organization, the country’s biggest political party, is preparing for snap elections, possibly in May or June, according to political observers in Kuala Lumpur.


At the heart of the story are allegations of a massive scandal involving not only Malaysian officials but top French politicians and arms purchases in Pakistan, Taiwan, India, Chile, Argentina, Saudi Arabia and other countries as DCNS geared up to sell naval equipment across the planet. The allegations include blackmail, kickbacks, a string of murders in Pakistan, Taiwan and Malaysia and involvement of such top figures as former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur and others.


Other magistrates are handling different aspects of the affair. One, called “
l’affaire Karachi,” has raised suspicions of the involvement of the current French President Nicholas Sarkozy, who faces a difficult re-election campaign. Sarkozy has angrily denied any involvement. In that case, the deaths of 11 French engineers who were blown up in Karachi was first laid to a bomb set by Al Qaeda. However the bomb was later believed to have been set off by Pakistani military officials angered because the French had reneged on bribes promised by Balladur but cancelled by Jacques Chirac after he defeated Balladur for the presidency.

Judges investigating the affair have been probing whether Balladur received “retro commissions” or kickbacks for the contract. Balladur has given no credible explanation for 10 million French francs (€1.5 million) which found their way into his campaign coffers. Sarkozy was his campaign finance minister at the time.


In accordance with the French legal system, the Malaysia case has first been the subject of a preliminary survey from the financial division of the legal police. So the appointment of the two investigating judges, Serge Tournaire and Roger Le Loire, follows more than two years of investigation. The two are known for previous investigations on national and international corruption matters. They have broader powers to investigate independently and can call witnesses and conduct international surveys.


According to financial statements, the cost of the program was divided into four contracts:

  • The contrat Scorpene, about €670 million, for two Scorpene submarines, built in France and Spain, and delivered in July 2009 and July 2010 ;
  • The contrat Formation, signed in 2003, to train 156 submariners over four years.
  • The contrat Ouessant for the rehabilitation of an Agosta-type submarine which has never seen service and is now a museum in Malaysia. The two together amount to 313 million euros/
  • The contrat Malsout, provided logistics for the installation of Malaysian navy personnel, over 200 people located in Brest and Cherbourg, from December 2002.

The payment of bribes -- called commissions in this case – to foreign public officials as part of international contracts has been illegal in France since the ratification of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Convention on bribery of September 2000.

Since the beginning of the probe, bribes amounting to €32.5 million have been investigated, authorities say.

In other cases involving DCNS, particlarly the Karachi one, Nicholas Bazire, 54, the best man at Sarkozy’s wedding to supermodel Carla Bruni, was arrested and charged with misuse of public funds in Balladur’s 1995 presidential campaign. Another friend, Thierry Gaubert, Sarkozy’s cabinet chief when he was budget and communication minister, was arrested earlier.

Sarkozy is seeking avoid the appointment of an instruction judge in other aspects of the DCN case.. But the political knives may be out, especially if Sarkozy loses the presidential election.Having been named in the press in the Karachi case, observers in Paris say he could use the Malaysian case as a weapon against the Socialists. Currently his Socialist opponent, Francois* Hollande, leads him by 10 percentage points. The first round of voting is to be held in May.


The case also holds obvious political implications for Najib. A former DCN financial director, questioned in another case, alleged that the Malaysian case violated the OECD bribery convention. The Malaysian end of the episode has received widespread publicity, not just because of the €114 million commission paid to Razak Baginda’s company, but because of the gruesome murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, a Mongolian translator and party girl, who was killed in 2006 by two of Najib’s bodyguards and whose body was blown up with military explosives in a patch of jungle outside Shah Alam.
Read more.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

A Panoply Of Lies,Half-Truths And Make-Believes: Malaysia's Future Fuhrer

Hantu Laut

Arrogant, hubristic, intolerant and I mightier and smarter than thou complex.The man who couldn't tolerate dissents and differences of opinion.

Say "yes" to everything Anwar says and does, you be loved, say "no" , you be damned.

That's Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's future fuhrer and dictator.

"If I don't like you I can remove you or get you removed" which he did to many of his colleagues, close friends and political aides the moment he saw them as threats to his position.The last victim was the gullible Zaid Ibrahim who seemingly posed a threat to his leadership.

Zaid left PKR with his tail in between his legs, claiming cheating in the party elections he attributed the plot by Anwar and Azmin Ali to boot him out of the party.

Too bad for Raja Petra, he should have known better Anwar is more powerful than him.He sees RPK as a nobody, a tool to be used and abused.

Anwar managed to bar Raja Petra from attending Wikileaks global forum where RPK will be one of the invited guests.The former darling of the pro-opposition movement has fallen out with the de facto opposition leader calling him morally unfit to become prime minister. RPK said "how could he imagine debating Prime Minister Datul Seri Najib Razak "when he is too chicken to face me"
here.

Anwar can never have true and royal friends.All those around him are sycophantic good time friends.His insecurity is reflected in his nepotistic way, putting his wife, daughter and his sidekick Azmin Ali in crucially powerful positions in the party.

Even the once most powerful PM, the bedevilled Mahathir Mohammad did no such thing.He allowed his son Mukriz to enter politics and take active involvement in the party only after he stepped down as PM.

That Assange guy? Certainly not the type one should associate with, as morally repugnant as our prime minister wannabe. He has no balls to tell Anwar you either come on my terms or don't come at all.

I anticipate some adverse reactions from the U.S.administration over Anwar's participation in the Wikileaks forum.

Assange, the man behind Wikileaks is considered by the U.S government as high-tech terrorist.

You see Petra! He views you as insignificant.The man whom you blindly supported for years at high cost to your personal liberty now look down on you as he did to all those whom he sees below his dignity and level of importance to bother with.

The man who countenance the use of street protests to bring down a government.His Geobbles were already on massive propaganda campaign inducting venoms in the mind of the masses that if they were to lose the elections it was due to massive cheating by BN and an uprising of people's power is justified to bring down such government.

Not only he behaves like that, some pro-opposition bloggers, the Geobbles of Anwar and Pakatan Rakyat, would drop your blog from their blogroll, if you dare criticise Anwar or any Pakatan leaders.They couldn't stand the idea of sending traffic to your blog to read your piece that they can't stomach. It shows the uncouthness and the contradictions of these political greenhorns, though, have come of age , have not grown any wiser.

These are the very same people who talk endlessly about lack of freedom in this country, about the opposition not given accessibility to mainstream media, about the ISA, about corruptions and just about anything they can find to blast the government.

We have chief minister and menteri besar in opposition controlled states, on one hand, calling for more freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom to crap on the streets, freedom to screw the government, on the other hand banning certain mainstream media from covering their press conferences.

A panoply of lies, half-truths and make-believes.

I shudder to think of them becoming the government.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Najib, Close Down MAS And F.O The Union.

Hantu Laut

I still remember the day Lee Kuan Yew threatened to close down SIA.That was in 1980 when I still lived in Singapore.

Lee's fiery speech telling the Singapore Airlines' Pilot Association, in no uncertain term, what he intends to do if they continue with their 'work to rule' action that have disrupted several of the airline flight's schedule.The pilots were asking for higher salaries and greater benefits.


At that time SIA had many expatriate pilots.



Lee personally confronted the pilot and told them he would close down the airline, sack all of them, if he had to, and start a new airline.


As a consequent, the association was de-registered and its officials prosecuted and SIA continued to soar into the blue yonder.

Lee has shown how tough he can get when facing a threat.This is what true leader should do when confronted with threat from a small group of people, too selfish to care about the nation's interests.



The great Mr. Lee taking on the Americans.

In 2004, Lee, this time not as PM, but as minister mentor had head-on collision with the SIA pilot union again.Taking up a personal charge to clean up the problem posed by the SIA pilot union Lee warned of "cracking head" if the pilot union moved toward a strike.His concern is two of Singapore's biggest assets, SIA and Changi Airport, which is already facing severe challenges from budget airlines and long-haul air crafts which could bypass Singapore as stopover point.


As they say 'the rest is history' and without me saying, you should know who  the winner was?

I must say, I am disappointed with Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.He succumbed to too many demands made by the oppositions, his own party belligerents and now he seemed to have succumbed to the MAS employees union and the root of the matter is not even over wages and benefits for the union workers but about who can buy into MAS and who can't.



The union is now interfering in the business and management of the company.

Obviously, Najib is listening to the wrong people advising him how to deal with MAS woes.

MAS massive losses of MR2.5 billion incurred last years has nothing to do with the share swap.The share swap was done in August 2011 which is slightly over six months now.


Any nincompoop would know there are gestation periods involved before the company can show profitability. To say MAS is at the losing end of the deal is preposterous.If you replaced one shitty management with another one of the same standing should you expect any better?

Like the carpenter who blame the tools for his shoddy work, MAS management keep harping on increased cost of fuel as the gremlin of their problem. 


What about SIA and other profitable airlines, are their planes running on water? What about Air Asia, the cheapo airline, how the hell they can show profits for the same period? Maybe, their planes are running on sugarcane juice?

It's a shame that this bunch of Malay technocrats never seemed to get their act together, more attune to playing the blame game than getting down to serious work of saving the airline.

Instead of looking into cost cutting, redundancy, retrenchment and boosting sales, they found a new rat on board that may be cutting the ground under their feet.


The rat is no other than Tony Fernandez, whom they see as a threat.

It was reported that officials of MAS union went to see the PM to state their displeasure and opposition to the share swap with Air Asia.The PM should have showed them the door and tell them it is not their business to tell him how to run the government, their business is to look after the welfare of their members.If MAS goes down, they all be out of a job, anyway.

Would 20000 MAS employees scare him into breaching the MAS/Air Asia tie-up? Would a new government entity taking over the airline makes it profitable? I cast my doubt.

Quote
(The Malaysian Insider has learnt that Putrajaya officials are working on a plan for Khazanah to divest its stake in MAS first before a general offer is made for the remaining shares from other shareholders, including tycoon Tan Sri Tony Fernandes’ Tune Air, which owns a 20.5 per cent stake in the national airline. In the August 2011 deal, Khazanah got a 10 per cent stake in Asia’s biggest budget carrier AirAsia.) Unquote.

Food for thought!What happened if Tony Fernandez refused to sell after the restructuring. What you do? Shoot him,ISA him or sent him to Ceylon?

Najib should make business decision, not political decision.He should not entertain the MAS union's demand.It absurd that 20000 MAS employees can save his premiership and he sacrificing more taxpayer's money to appease them.

Najib is moving in the right direction but he must show that he is control, he is the boss, not swayed by people who are harbingers of doom.

Quote (
Failing to placate the union could turn into a political hot potato for Najib as MAS operations are centred in Selangor, an important industrial state Najib wants to wrest back from the opposition in elections that could be held within months. MI) Unquote.

Close down the damned airline and F.O the MAS union.It's the people money that's going down the drain.

Alternatively, sell MAS to Tony Fernandez for a song.