Datuk T charged, all 3 'boroi' plead guilty...
'Minimal' charges against Datuk T, no criminal intimidation or blackmail
RPK ngaku Bersih di "hijack" ahli politik?
Perkasa Stages Support for Datuk T at Jalan Duta Court
The Year of the Rakyat takes over from The Year of Reformasi
Zeitgeist is a German word which is translated into English as 'the spirit of a times'. A check with Wikipedia revealed a following reason of a word:
Zeitgeist is a ubiquitous cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and/or domestic meridian within a republic or even specific groups, along with a ubiquitous ambiance, morals, sociocultural direction, as good as mood associated with an era.
The term zeitgeist is from German Zeit "time" (cognate with English "tide" as good as "time") as good as Geist "spirit" (cognate with English "ghost").
This year's brand new events might reveal which a Malaysian Zeitgeist is already here. A series of happenings with predictable plots as good as outcomes which have left Malaysians thoroughly disgusted as good as disenchanted with Prime Minister Najib Razak's character of government, choice of policies as good as politicking style.
Never prior to is a wish amongst a people for remodel as good as shift as clever as now. And here's why.
Significant events
It has been a slippery slope for a BN supervision since a sex video implicating Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim was shown to a organisation of reporters as good as journalists upon Mar 21, 2011.
Some 2 weeks after which - upon Apr 6, 2011 - senior Customs officer Ahmad Sarbani was found dead upon a 1st Floor of a MACC premises in Jalan Cochrane in Kuala Lumpur. Coming upon a heels of an additional questionable deathfall, which of Selangor domestic officer Teoh Beng Hock, this positiv! ely gave a BN supervision a bad picture as good as reinforced a growing t! alk arou nd town which a MACC was a 'deadly' interrogator.
Open vote-buying at a 10th Sarawak state elections held upon Apr sixteen additionally added to a negative sentiment for a BN. Although, Chief Minister Taib Mahmud won a massive victory, a people were unfortunate as good as there was no celebration. Voters there felt deceived by a prevalent electoral rascal happening right prior to their eyes.
The BN's chronicle of MCA in Sarawak, SUPP, was additionally nearly wiped-out by DAP. Thus began a anti-Chinese turn in a mainstream media. Utusan's highly-charged report of 'DAP being in joining with Christian pastors to set up a Christian state' escaped with usually a reprimand from a Home Ministry. Again, a situation invoked a deep clarity of misapplication amongst a public, generally a Christian community.
Another prominent event was Anwar Ibrahim's Sodomy II trial upon May 16, where a Court asked Anwar to come in his defence. It was a preference which everybody approaching as good as it compounded a feeling of helplessness opposite a judiciary which was clearly no longer independent as good as fully taking orders from a Najib administration.
When Anwar's PKR jubilee was in jeopardy with de-registration by a Registrar of Societies, a public cheer was so shrill which ROS knew improved than to proceed. Wisely, it forsaken a threat.
In early June, a results of a PAS jubilee polls had UMNO leaders condemning their arch rival for allegedly abandoning a Islamic struggle in favour of a Welfare State. PAS was additionally accused of pandering to a final of a DAP. And when a sex CD suddenly emerged melancholy to allegation a repute of Mat Sabu, a newly-minted PAS emissary president, it set up a heckles of a Malay village - already fed-up with a gutter politicking going upon in a nation.
Also in June, a Prime Minister's revisit to Kazakhstan to foster shared ties was condemned after MP for Kuala Selango! r Dzulke fly Ahmad revealed which Najib had gone there with an a outrageous 200-member entourage. Najib was accused of t! iming th e official outing to coincide with his daughter's rendezvous to a Kazakh scion. Cynicism abounded which a 'first' family would bob to using public money to pay for a cost of their personal celebration.
Showstopper
But it is Bersih, which has incited out to be a show-stopper. In a brand new poll by Star, 99 per cent of a respondents voted in await of a rally which is scheduled to be held upon 9th July. What was a government's reply to this?
The Election Commission rushed to contend which taking to a streets was not a solution, while Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali was some-more blunt. He in jeopardy a Chinese by telling them to "stock up" food as good as stay home which day or risk being killed in secular riots as had happened upon May 13, 1969.
Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein done matters worse by refusing to retaliate Ibrahim Ali for his seditious comments. To have matters worse, Hisham additionally refused to grant permits, thereby rendering a Bersih rally illegal in a bid to shock Malaysians from joining in a call for free as good as satisfactory elections.
Bersih boss Ambiga Sreenevasan, who spilled a beans by divulgence which a EC had refused to heed Bersih's previous remodel proposals, perceived a death threat. By then, wordless ire had overtaken a polite society movement in Malaysia. PAS boss Hadi Awang done story when he systematic all 1 million members to take partial in a rally.
The spirit of a times is positively blowing when there is such mass await for Bersih as good as a 8 final for free as good as satisfactory elections. This is generally poignant now, when there are signs which snap polls will be a dirtiest ever in Malaysian history. Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is approaching to call for snap polls soon, has already vowed to urge Putrajaya at all costs.
Spirit of a times relocating ! opposite BN
Yes, a spirit of a times is relocating opposite a BN government. They must listen to a voice of a people who demand electo! ral refo rms though they seem to be turning a deaf ear.
If a supervision continues to be deaf to a cries of a people, July 9 might only as good go down in story as a day for Malaysians to usher in a brand new era. This date might be perpetually etched in Malaysian as good as universe story only as a fall of a Berlin Wall upon Nov 9, 1989.
The signs of a great matter for shift is about to begin. The people are restless. But this time it is not a quarrel of Anwar alone as in 1998 as good as 2008 which were a Years of Reformasi. This time, it is a Year of a Rakyat.
The Najib Administration including a Election Commission would do good to heed a voices of a rakyat (populace) or else they will surely be consigned to a dustbin of history.
Is a rakyat (populace) ready for a Zeitgeist - The Spirit of a Age?
- Malaysia Chronicle
University of burden
The Swinburne university campus in Kuching is becoming a dear place to study, ruinous a hopes of internal students.
KUCHING: Swinburne University of Technologys campus here, a partnership in between Australia as well as a state government, has come underneath glow for putting a heavy monetary weight upon students as well as staff.
It proposed to collect parking price for vehicles parked within a universitys devalue given a beginning of a year, pronounced Wong King Wei, a newly elected Padungan assemblyman.
The parking price was RM1 per hour as well as upon criticism of a students as well as me, a management motionless to say a hourly rate though bound a limit rate of RM4 per day, he told a State Legislative Assembly yesterday.
Wong pronounced which during one time, Sarawakians were anticipating which with a impasse of a state supervision in substantiating a university in Kuching, a locals would get good quality preparation during a in accord with price.
Sad to say, a state supervision has proven us all wrong. The price price of a university has kept increasing given a establishment in 2000.
The price price for a tyro doing an engineering course can strech more than RM10,000 per semester as well as it will be increasing from subsequent year with a fix percentage, he said.
Furthermore, Wong claimed, a collection of parking price had been contracted to a Barisan National (BN) associate company, namely Kuching City Parking System Sdn Bhd.
Where is rakyat didahulukan (people first), if a supervision mendahului (prioritises) creation increase as well as mendahului a associate company? he asked.
On a issue of electricity, Wong pronounced Sarawak had a Batang Ai as well as Bakun hydro electric da! ms, as w ell as coal-power plants, though most Sarawakians were still living in darkness, ! individual ly Dayaks staying in longhouses.
Having electricity as well as treated water supply seems to be as well lush for them, he said, pointing out which Sarawak would be celebrating a 50th anniversary in Malaysia in 2013 whilst BN would be celebrating 50 years of carrying ruled a state.
However, it is a contrition for BN for unwell to yield a simple needs of a people. The supervision is ignoring them. The state is wealthy, a leaders have been wealthy though a people have been poor, he said.
Twitter Revolution: something for us to learn on 9th July 2011
TERUSKAN LANGKAHMU BERSIH 2.0
Cheap Shop Than Lowering Prices
Evil stalks the brave and threatens the peace
Cheap Shop Than Lowering Prices
There have been leaders who leave their bequest granting independence, or environment up large scale rubber camp as good as palm oil schemes or togetherness or supposedly first world infrastructure, a car which isn't as audacious as a seed's name it took, a still world's identical tiwn towers as good as who can dont consider about a toll, fee here as good as fee fee there. The present a single wants to leave a legacy, a numeric a single a 1 which is attached a landscape of BolehLand so which any a single seeing a 1 in front will know which is a bequest left following his 1Malaysia concept.
The ultimate is a Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia which is peculiar as a a single is left during a back of rsther than than being in a front as a norm to prove we am a first 1 to have thought of this idea, a arrange of 'my 1'. But a English interpretation reads 1Malaysia People's Stall/Shop?
This 1Malaysia emporium is radically a kind of mini cheaper chronicle of a some-more expensive 7-Es shops. And KR1M operations from 7am-11pm with a disproportion which it is supposed to cater to a revoke income we have been told as good as selling cheaper, with a price tab about 30-40% cheaper. The goods have been sourced in bulk from Mydin, a hypermarket sequence which sells most things during a revoke price. But we know no a single hypermarket can claim all their goods have been given than their rival!
The eminent target according to a male himself is designed to assistance bring down a prices of goods as good as ease a weight of a usual man. And this is a great novel thought which a Pakatan fellos have been rsther than slow or useless in we do anything to assistance those affected by a taking flight inflation.
The weight of a usual male these days is inflation, taking flight prices pleasantness of a management o! r misman agement of 1Malaysia's government. So rsther than than managing a nation good so which acceleration wont' weight a people, a most appropriate alternative is to let acceleration climb as good as ! set up t his 1Malaysia shops to opposite a acceleration brought about by a mismanagement of a country, huh?
The concept is great as good as it gives work to a most unemployed as good as let's goal those who set up shops have been from a pool of unemployed as good as not a little ahmad, ah kow, muniandy or mydindin successful business male who gets a cut as good as get richer!
Will this cheaper chronicle of a 7es as good as mom & cocktail shops means a passing of a 7es as good as mon & cocktail shops, or even a hypermarkets? Considering a rsther than ambitious entrepreneur approach of selling where it is limitless for those who can afford, would we see those who have income as good as don't be astounded a top as good as filthy abounding class will sapu all a sardines as good as what not from a shelves leaving a usual folks to be left with things which they don't need during all!
It is not a parable or speculation which those who buy upon a cheap have been routinely those who can means to emporium during Weld than patronize a Giants. Simply since it's human inlet as good as very most BolehLand's robe of excessive shopping when a price is low seen by a sales phenomena.
So who is starting to carry out a abounding fellos from shopping up a things a these usual folks 1Malaysia shops as good as deprive a usual as good as poorer folks from removing things upon a cheap?
The peculiar thing about this KR1M is they get their supply from a large wholesaler who runs a outrageous hypermarket joint! Why can't this superstore sell a equipment a same price as a KR1M shop?
Kudos to 1Malaysia afterwards for environment up these shops. We goal which it's sustainable? It would be great if a price or procession to set up such a emporium can be made good known to other forward! unemplo yed people similar to our graduates. Or a single needs to be a little domestic party part of to be given a licence to work a shop? Who provides a funding as good as what is a expected turnaround period?
There is little clarity in most of these 1Malaysia ideas. The public does not know a costs involve in environment up a 1Malaysia Clinic and! most ot her 1whatever including this latest. Is a supervision funding it, where is a income coming from as good as is there any cut for a financier? A gratification state is not cheap even if these days everyone seems to wish to be concurred as environment up a some-more gratification state than a other chairman or party!
There have been most initiatives often those who appeal for supports from GLCs as good as in isolation sector have been plonking a '1' in front of their scheme, programme, beginning as good as what not to give it legitimacy. They consider by putting a '1'. it's a little enchanting number which will means a CEOs reception their requests to shiver as good as pointer millions of ringgit goodwill as good as sponsorship income to these opportunist since a 1 in front means it has a blessing of a male or a madam for which matter!
So while a little 1Malaysia programmes have been sucking income from corporations for most dubious shioksendir1 programmes as good as have quick income scams, there have been a little which we hope, even if they have been eminent - won't siphon a Treasury dry? But afterwards if we have been told there isn't most in a kitty, where did a funding come from for this ultimate KR1M scheme, huh? So a little clarity would assistance or does 1Malaysia consider given it's a illusory great thought for a usual people, we don't need to be accountable or transparent. You only evangelise which to general leaders during general dialogues, huh?
KR1M will have a own type of customers as good as we goal it's a usual folks as good as not those abounding fellos. But afterwards given it's open diversion in this no restric! tion pol icy, noone should feel bad if they ride off a trolley load of tuna or rice right?
So what's a next 1concept? How about a 1Teh Tarik or 1Mamak emporium given a price is becoming rsther than ridiculous!!! If that's as good difficult perhaps 1Malaysia can revoke prices they can do so if they want, similar to cars, public transport, tolls, what about electricity as good as additionally income taxation as good so which we can means such things but overpaying simply. That approach we won't need to set up 1this as good as which to count! eract wh during we created since we didn't wish to do a obvious, huh?
We still can have such 1cheap shops as good as cheaper prices for most other things as good right? Is KR1M a antidote for a government's mismanagement which has acceleration upon a climb as good as bringing hard times to a usual folks as good as a middle income group too, huh?
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Let God deal with Taib Mahmud
Disclose RCI report tomorrow, Lim tells cabinet
Reason seen as a Weapon, not a Path to Truth
June 23, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15
Reason seen as a Weapon, not a Path to Truth
By Patricia Cohen*
For centuries thinkers have assumed that a uniquely human capacity for logic has existed to let people strech over mere notice as good as reflex in a search for truth. Rationality authorised a solitary thinker to blaze a trail to philosophical, dignified as good as scientific enlightenment.
Now a little researchers have been suggesting that reason developed for a utterly opposite purpose: to win arguments. Rationality, by this thirty-six-inch ruler (and madness too, but good get to that) is zero some-more or reduction than a servant of a hard-wired compulsion to delight in a debating arena.
According to this view, bias, miss of proof as good as alternative ostensible flaws that pollute a stream of reason have been instead amicable adaptations that enable a single organisation to remonstrate (and defeat) another. Certitude works, however neatly it might skip from a truth.
The idea, labeled a controversial speculation of reasoning, is a brainchild of French cognitive amicable scientists, as good as it has influenced vehement contention (and appalled dissent) among philosophers, domestic scientists, educators as good as psychologists, a little of whom contend it offers profound insight in to a approach people consider as good as behave. The Journal of Behavioral as good as Brain Sciences clinging a Apr issue to debates over a theory, with participants challenging all from a definition of reason to a origins of verbal communication.
Reasoning doesnt have this duty of assisting us to get improved beliefs as good as make improved decisions, pronounced Hugo Mercier (left above), who is a co-author of a biography article, with Dan Sperber (right). It was a purely amicable phenomenon. It developed to assistance us remonstrate others as good as to be careful when others try to remonstrate us. Truth as good as correctness were next to a point.
Indeed, Mr. Sperber, a part of of a Jean-Nicod Research Institute in Paris, first developed a version of a speculation in 2000 to insist why expansion did not make a manifold flaws in logic go a approach of a prehensile tail as good as a four-legged stride. Looking during a vast physique of psychological research, Mr. Sperber wanted to figure out why people persisted in picking out justification that supported their views as good as abandoned a rest what is good known as confirmation disposition leading them to hold on to a thought doggedly in a face of strenuous discordant evidence.
Other scholars have previously argued that logic as good as madness have been both products of evolution. But they usually assume that a role of logic is to assistance an individual arrive during a truth, as good as that madness is a kink in that process, a arrange of mental myopia. Gary F. Marcus, for example, a psychology professor during New York University as good as a writer of Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of a Human Mind, says distortions in logic have been unintended side goods of blind evolution. They have been a result of a approach that a brain, a Rube Goldberg mental contraption, processes memory. People have been some-more expected to remember equipment they have been familiar with, like their own beliefs, rsther than than those of others.
What is revolutionary about controversial speculation is that it presum! es that given reason has a opposite role to win over an opposing organisation flawed logic is an adaptation in itself, utilitarian for bolstering debating skills.
Mr. Mercier, a post-doctoral fellow during a University of Pennsylv! ania, co ntends that attempts to absolved people of biases have unsuccessful because logic does exactly what it is ostensible to do: assistance win an argument.
People have been perplexing to reform something that works perfectly well, he said, as if they had motionless that hands were done for on foot as good as that everybody should be taught that.
Think of a American judicial system, in that a prosecutors as good as invulnerability lawyers each have a mission to construct a strongest possible argument. The thought is that this routine will reveal a truth, usually as a most appropriate thought will delight in what John Stuart Mill called a marketplace of ideas.
Mr. Mercier as good as Mr. Sperber have skeptics as good as fans. Darcia Narvaez, an join forces with professor of psychology during a University of Notre Dame as good as a contributor to a biography debate, pronounced this speculation fits in to evolutionary psychology mainstream thinking during a moment, that all you do is encouraged by rapacity as good as manipulating others, that is, in my view, crazy.
To Ms. Narvaez, logic is something that develops from experience; a a subset of what you unequivocally know. And most of what you know cannot be put in to words, she explained, indicating out that language developed relatively late in human development.
The approach you make use of our minds to navigate a amicable as good as general worlds involves a lot of things that have been implicit, not explainable, she said.
On a alternative side of a divide, Jonathan Haidt, a psychology professor during a University of Virginia, pronounced of Mr. Sperber as good as Mr. Mercier, Their work is important as good as points to a little ways that a limits of reason can be strike by putting peop! le toget her in a right way, in particular to challenge peoples confirmation biases.
This absolute idea, he added, could have important real-world implications. As a little biography contributors noted, a speculation would appear to envision constant deadlock. But Mr. Sperber as good as Mr. Mercier contend that as people became improved during producing as good as picking detached arguments, their comment sk! ills evo lved as well.
At slightest in a little cultural contexts, this formula in a kind of arms race towards greater lack of simplicity in a production as good as evaluation of arguments, they write. When people have been encouraged to reason, they do a improved job during accepting usually receptive to advice arguments, that is utterly in all to their advantage. Groups have been some-more expected than individuals to come up with improved results, they say, because they will be exposed to a most appropriate arguments.
Mr. Mercier is eager about a theorys intensity applications. He suggests, for example, that children might have an easier time learning abstract topics in mathematics or physics if they have been put in to a organisation as good as authorised to reason through a problem together.
He has additionally recently been during work applying a speculation to politics. In a brand new paper, he as good as Hlne Landemore, an assistant professor of domestic science during Yale, propose that a arguing as good as comment skills employed by groups make approved discuss a most appropriate form of government for evolutionary reasons, regardless of philosophical or dignified rationales.
How, then, do a academics insist a endless stalemates in Congress? It doesnt appear to work in a U.S., Mr. Mercier conceded.
He as good as Ms. Landemore suggest that reasoned contention works most appropriate in smaller, mild environments rsther than than in Americas high-decibel adversarial system, in that partisans find to score domestic value rsther than than arrive during consensus.
!Becau se individual logic mechanisms work most appropriate when used to furnish as good as evaluate arguments during a open deliberation, Mr. Mercier as good as Ms. Landemore, as a unsentimental matter, endorse a speculation of deliberative democracy, an approach that arose in a 1980s, that envisions mild town-hall-style deliberations. Championed by a philosophers John Rawls as good as Jrgen Habermas, this arrange of collaborative forum can strike a bent of groups to polarize during a extremes as good as deadlock, Ms. Landemore as good as Mr. Mercier said.
Anyone who enjoys spending end! reduction hou rs debating ideas should appreciate their views, Mr. Mercier as good as Mr. Sperber write, though, as even they note, This, of course, is not an evidence for (or against) a theory.
*Patricia Cohen covers ideas as good as intellectual hold up for The New York Times, a position she has held given February 2007. Previously, Ms. Cohen served as theater editor for 3 years. She assimilated The Times in 1997 as Ideas editor to create as good as launch a Arts & Ideas section.
Before joining a paper, Ms. Cohen was a governing body as good as lifestyle editor during a Washington Posts Style section. She was additionally senior features editor during Rolling Stone. She started her journalism career during Newsday as good as New York Newsday as a part of of a editorial board, as good as afterwards became domestic editor for New York Newsday. She lonesome City Hall as good as a federal courts prior to becoming a editor of a Sunday perspective section,Current.
WILL THE CHINESE STAY AWAY FROM BERSIH2.0?
Mike Lee commented in Malahysiakini: After all the threats done by Perkasa as good as UMNO, will the non-Malays fasten the Bersih Mar or they would rsther than stay during home? Check out:http://diskopi.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/bersih-2-0-will-the-chinese-stay-home/
I checked out the above site and
I TOO BELIEVE THAT THE MAJORITY OF CHINESE IN KL WILL STAY AWAY FROM BERSIH 2.0
Tuju Malbaru, essay upon WARUNG IDEA DISKOPI done this observation:
My rough reading is they will. The Chinese will stay during home (or they will go shopping). Like any alternative large demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur given the 1998 Reformasi Movement the Chinese will stay during home despite Kuala Lumpur City being predominantly populated by the Chinese. we can say this rsther than authoritatively given we have participated in roughly all of these demonstrations. we am the actual witness as good as we saw clearly with my own eyes the racial combination of the participants of these demonstrations.
I too have participated in all the large ones given the Kesas Highway Reformasi demonstration which scarcely price me my job given an UMNO guy reported me to the MD. we wrote about his progressing as good as will not repeat it as it had the happy ending with my MD prone finally to my conviction.
However, of late the number of Chinese participating have increased though by my standards when compared to the alternative racial groups, still pathetic.
The initi! al demo which we participated in was during the national Nationa! l Union of Teachers (NUT) Strike in 1967 which succeeded in bringing about next to pay for women, as good as pension, housing as good as health benefits for all teachers. We took to the streets, though here again the participation from the Chinese teachers was not encouraging.
WAS IT APATHY?
On our way to Ipoh which night when Perak MB Nizar was told to vacate the MB chateau we done the peril with RPK which although Nizar had endeared himself to the Perak Chinese THEY would not turn out to support him. we mislaid the peril when we saw the throng in the residence. we was embarrassingly astounded during the turnout.
WAS IT TO SYMPATHISE, which brought them out which night?
On May 7 2009 during the Perak Assembly of the 65 of us arrested the majority were Chinese.
DID THEY COME OUT BECAUSE THEY WERE ROBBED OF THEIR VOTES FOR NIZAR?
Over the last three months, activities against LYNAS has been the accordant KUANTAN effort by the Chinese village with good support from the alternative races to such an extent which the Pahang MB asked Why usually the Chinese are demonstrating? HERE
MAYBE THE CHINESE IN KUANTAN ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE CHINESE IN SELANGOR AND KUALA LUMPUR..Is there?
But we say this againthe Chinese presence upon 9 Jul 2011 will be immaterial as good as insingni! ficantpr obably token. PROVE ME WRONG!
BUT LET ME TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK THOSE C! HINESE W HO HAVE ALREADY MADE UP THEIR MINDS THAT THEY WILL TURUN PADANG!
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Qardawi pun dikelentong, inikan rakyat biasa ...
Bersih: Death threat the work of cowards
Lets be dauntless sufficient to come out as well as speak instead, says Bersih 2.0 steering cabinet part of Maria Chin Abdullah.
Bersih 2.0 currently slammed a villainous move of those behind a death threat SMS targetting a arch Ambiga Sreenevasan, in relation to a programmed July 9 rally.
This is unacceptable, a SMS is not only life-threatening, though additionally has connotations of racism, pronounced Maria Chin Abdullah (centre in photo), a Bersih 2.0 steering cabinet member.
Let's be dauntless sufficient to come out as well as talk, instead of being so villainous as to send threatening as well as extremist SMSes. Let's talk, Maria told a press conference after camp a military inform during a Travers military hire in Kuala Lumpur this afternoon.
Maria additionally urged a sender to stop such moves.
At slightest six reports were lodged against a death threat SMS, a earliest of which was sent final night as well as one after another in to a morning.
They were lodged by, between others, Bersih steering cabinet part of Wong Chin Huat, PKR Youth deputy arch Khairul Annuar Ahmad Zainudin, Ambiga as well as PKR authorised bureau arch Latheefa Koya.
Ambiga (right in photo) additionally appeared during a military hire this af! ternon.< /p>
The threat will not shift our plan (to rally), pronounced Ambiga.
However, Ambiga! pronounced sh e as well as alternative members will take precautions to ensure their safety.
She pronounced if a military were operating efficiently, she had no reason to fear for her safety.
She welcomed Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein's statement which military would investigate a SMS, saying she has confidence in a military to fix up a sender.
The military have all a means to find a senders, she said.
Nothing secular in Bersih rally
To a question, Ambiga pronounced which some groups have been looking to spin a Bersih convene in to a secular issue.
As distant as you have been concerned, you have been going to do this peacefully. There is zero secular about it.
She pronounced she additionally hoped which a force of law would be used against those who used injustice as well as threats.
Just as "there is no point if anybody wants to give recommendation to me, Ambiga pronounced she additionally has no recommendation for Perkasa arch Ibrahim Ali.
When asked upon a progress of a military to call up a leaders of Umno Youth, Perkasa as well as Bersih who have been organising rallies upon a same day, Ambiga pronounced a military has nonetheless to contact her.
Ambiga pronounced Bersih would give a cooperation to a police.
Since (Hishammuddin) had pronounced no assent will be issued, you will not apply, she said.
IBRAHIM ALI, GO FUCK YOURSELF! SORRY!
Woody Allen as Howard Prince in The Front (1976)
Let me begin lah by straightaway apologising.
That's mean I have been misquoted as well as misunderstood by the Zionist foreign as well as internal press, together with though not singular to Buntutsan, Bumno bloggers as well as everyone else who review the title of this blog.
Journalists from 'The Malaysia Insider' have been the worse misreporters as distant as we am concerned. You have been criminialized from reading this post. we will not verbalise to you. When do we wish to interview me?
There is nothing wrong with the election system. You mean the Opposition could have won some-more seats in 2008 merely since 1 million citizens who were overseas could not vote? Or, since there were allegations by which traitorous Anwar's crony Jewish friends (Soros, IMF, UN, World Bank, Einstein, Congress, Ambiga) in United States of America which postal votes were manipulated as well as alternative votes bought?
! Don't have fake accusations against us which you! can't ( as well as never will be means to if we can help it) infer in OUR courts.
Damn which bloody Hindu lady for raising non-religious issues as well as formulation the pacific march! All banana root lunch eaters as well as beef as well as pig snafflers, do not we brave write or march against me. This is not the warning, only friendly advise. This is what democracy is all about, we dontch know ah?
Stock up upon food as well as H2O (it's not my fault if Syabas as well as Puncak's taps have been dry) as well as stay indoors for about an eternity. Better still, book the kerosene-less sampan with oars to have which easy outing to Singapore, Chennai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Medan or Beijing.
There, there! we only warned we as well as we have been doing it again. Is which the threat? Don't review as well as misquote me as well as spread rumours, we Nazi Apcospindoctors! Don't turn my statements. I'll huff as well as I'll smoke and.......damn these horse opera fairy tales meant to intentionally incite my followers.....oink..snort...
donplaypuks as well as fuck around as well as deliberately misquote me. we did not contend fuck, we actuallly meant apanama....
The last straw: Furious Hadi orders 1 million PAS members to attend Bersih
UMNO has had it easy for as well long. So has a BN coalition it heads. Prime Minister Najib Razak has not been shy to brag his approach by regulating a might of a government machinery as well as a institutions of authority to say his momentum.
But with a subsequent ubiquitous choosing upon a way, a Pakatan Rakyat led by Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim is starting to show a long-held-back muscle. Leaders all three member parties PAS, PKR as well as DAP have spoken their unreserved support for a Bersih 2.0 convene organized by 62 of a country's many determined NGOs.
The convene is mean to be a adults march for democracy, culiminating with a delivery of a memorandum to a King, perfectionist free as well as satisfactory elections. But somehow, Najib as well as his UMNO celebration hold which a march is a slap in a face to his leadership.
They have resorted to unpalatable means, including threatening racial clarification opposite a Malaysian Chinese, "preventive arrests" as well as many lately, detah threats re issued opposite Bersih organising chairman Ambiga Sreenevasan, a former conduct of a Bar Council as well as a receipent of a prestigious International Women of Courage Award.
That was a last straw.
1,000,000 members from PAS
In a rare show of wordless fury, PAS boss Hadi Awang ordered all a single million of a members to stick upon a Bersih 2.0 slated for July 9. So as well will Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim Ali as well as it is expected a DAP will additionally encourage a supporters to stick upon unrreservedly as well as without fear.
I call upon all PAS memb! ers supp orters to stick upon a Bersih convene upon July 9 to direct for clean as well as fa! ir elect ions, pronounced PAS boss Hadi Awang.
This is not a initial time he has spoken support for a rally. Earlier this month, a PAS executive cabinet endorsed a motion by a newly-minted emissary boss Mohamad Sabu to send 300,000 members.
Hadi reiterated a 8 reforms demanded by Bersih were eminent as well as just, in line with amicable probity espoused in Islam.
Another famous cleric, Dr Asri Zainul Abidin, additionally pronounced a same a day ago. Asri had additionally warned a authorities not to make use of underhanded equates to to disrupt a rally.
Stand up as well as verbalise up for yourselves
At a press discussion earlier today, Anwar called upon Malaysians to mount up to UMNO as well as a BN, propelling them to reject a racial as well as passageway for liquid politicking practised by their leaders to adhere to power.
"We have been obviously disgusted. But what is worse, it is not usually about a purveyors though a actuality which this complement seeks to condone, concede as well as proclaim this. So, all a some-more reason why members of a open contingency take a position. Enough of this racist tongue as well as nonsense. We have to verbalise up, pronounced Anwar.
DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang, who was additionally present, was just as burning in his words. The maestro leader accused Najib of plunging Malaysia in to a lowest ebb, where democracy as well as civil rights had a slightest space, racial polarization a many misfortune in 5 decades, whilst a manage to buy faced bankruptcy by 2019 - as foresee by a government's own analysts.
"We see in a nation this sinister extremism rearing a ugly head. These were unheard of in a past, a open hazard of assassination is now developing as a ultimate form of extremism, pronounced Kit Siang.
If they had taken proper stairs to safeguard which moderates can have their rightful place in a natio! n as wel l as clamp down upon such extremism, Malaysia would not be in a sorry state which it is in today. Instead of a home minister, police, together with alternative domestic leaders creation groundless threats."
- Malaysia Chronicle
Mal aysia Chronicle appends below a 8 reforms drawn up as well as demanded upon interest of Malaysians by a a Bersih steering committee:1. Clean a electoral roll
The electoral hurl is marred with irregularities such as defunct persons as well as mixed persons purebred underneath a single address or self-existent addresses. The electoral hurl contingency be revised as well as updated to clean out these haunt voters. The rakyat have a right to an electoral hurl which is an accurate thoughtfulness of a choosing by casting votes population.
In a longer term, BERSIH 2.0 additionally calls for a EC to exercise an automated voter registration complement upon eligibility to reduce irregularities.
2. Reform postal ballot
The stream postal list complement contingency be reformed to safeguard which all adults of Malaysia have been able to exercise their right to vote. Postal list should not usually be open for all Malaysian adults living abroad, though additionally for those inside of a nation who cannot be physically benefaction in their choosing by casting votes subdivision upon polling day. Police, troops as well as civil servants as well contingency opinion normally like alternative electorate if not upon avocation upon polling day.
The postal list complement contingency be transparent. Party agents should be authorised to guard a entire routine of postal voting.
3. Use of memorable ink
Indelible ink contingency be used in all elections. It is a simple, affordable as well as in effect solution in preventing voter fraud. In 2007, a EC motionless to exercise a make use of of memorable ink. However, in a last days leading up to a 12th General Elections, a EC motionless to repel ! a make u se of of memorable ink citing authorised reasons as well as rumours of sabotage.
BERSIH 2.0 final for memorable ink to be used for all a upcoming elections. Failure to do so will lead to a unavoidable finish which there is an goal to concede voter fraud.
4. Minimum twenty-one days debate period
The EC should outline a debate duration of not less than twenty-one days. A longer debate pe! riod wou ld concede electorate some-more time to gather report as well as counsel upon their choices. It will additionally concede candidates some-more time to disseminate report to farming areas. The initial national elections in 1955 underneath a British Colonial Government had a debate duration of 42 days though a debate duration for 12th GE in 2008 was a small 8 days.
5. Free as well as satisfactory access to media
It is no tip which a Malaysian mainstream media fails to practice proportionate, satisfactory as well as design reporting for domestic parties of all divide. BERSIH 2.0 calls upon a EC to press for all media agencies, generally state-funded media agencies such as Radio as well as Television Malaysia (RTM) as well as Bernama to allocate proportional as well as design coverage for all potlical parties.
6. Strengthen open institutions
Public institutions contingency action independently as well as impartially in upholding a rule of law as well as democracy. Public institutions such as a Judiciary, Attorney-General, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency (MACC), Police as well as a EC contingency be reformed to action independently, uphold laws as well as protect tellurian rights.
In particular, a EC contingency perform a inherent avocation to action independently as well as impartially so as to enjoy open confidence. The EC cannot go on to explain which they have no energy to act, as a law provides for sufficient powers to hospital a convincing electoral system.
7. Stop corruption
Corruption is a dise! ase whic h has infected every aspect of Malaysian life. BERSIH 2.0 as well as a rakyat direct for an finish to all forms of corruption. Current efforts to eradicate crime have been small tokens to appease open grouses. We direct which critical action is taken opposite ALL allegations of corruption, including opinion buying.
8. Stop unwashed politics
Malaysians have been tired of unwashed governing body which has been a main feature of a Malaysian domestic arena. We direct for all domestic parties as well as politicians to put an finish to passageway for liquid politics. As cit! izens an d voters, you have been not interested in passageway for liquid politics; you have been interested in policies which start a nation.
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See startles Sarawak state assembly with his revelation
However, See (left), who is also PKR report chief, did not wish to discloses a names of these companies, though, he claimed which they were in his possession.
The Batu Lintang representative also told reporters which a a single of a officials obliged for a issuing a licences had entered politics.
The lists looseness details have been as follows:
1.Timber Licence T/8487 released upon Mar 21, 2011 for NCR Land during a Lemanak Area, Lubok Antu, with a benefaction area of 3,281 ha;
2. Timber Licence T/8493 released upon Mar 25. 2011 for State land during Batang Ai / Sg Engkari inside of a Batang Ai Catchment area, with a benefaction area of 830 ha;
3.Timber Licence T/8492 released upon Mar 25, 2011 during a catchment area as well as NCR land measuring 2,250 ha adjoining T/8493;
4. Timber Licence T/3568 released upon Apr 11, 2011 over a State land during Sg Dangap/Sg Bian area in Pakan District, with a benefaction area of 3,367 ha; and,
5. Timber Licence T/8497 released upon 14 Apr 2011 over a State land in between Sg Tu as well as Sg Sangang during a west side of Sg Sarawak Kiri, which is a Bengoh H2O catchment area, with a benefaction area of 2,612 ha;
Blatant contravention of laws charge
See said: "Then, we have T/8496, next to a ! Bengoh j oist benefaction area co! vered un der T/8497, T/3567 in Balai Ringin, T/3561 as well as T/3566 in Kanowit as well as T/9181 in Bakong.
"It is understood which there have been more than these joist licenses released in in between a time when a previous State Assembly was dissolved upon Mar twenty-one as well as a polls upon Apr 16," he said, when debating a Yang di-Pertua Negeri Abang Muhamad Salahuddin Abang Barieng's address.
Besides a crude timing in a distribution of a joist licences, he pronounced it was a blatant contravention of state laws to issue joist benefaction licences for H2O catchment areas as well as known native customary rights (NCR) lands.
He added: "One particular chairman or his family" have been not a beneficiaries of these joist licences.
"It appears so, as well as we was utterly relieved when we researched into a credentials of a companies as well as benefaction holders which we was not looking during a single particular chairman or his family.
"I, thus titillate Chief Minister Taib Mahmud to demeanour into this matter as well as illuminate us as to his findings."
"I am not being personal, contrary to a suspicions of sure quarters. In fact, we was told by my sources which a honourable part of of Balingian (Taib) was not wakeful of a matter," he said. - Malaysiakini
Kelantan over-reacts to Utusan cartoon
In banning Utusan Malaysia from a Menteri Besars functions, a Pas-led Kelantan government does small credit to itself, nor does it enhance a partys credentials as a leader of political as well as social reform.
The anathema was systematic for what a Menteri Besars press cabinet member described as an insult to Islam given of a animation in a paper resisting a syariah as well as physical law coercion response to an instance of rape.
MalaysiaKini photo
That response, standard of most other identical responses worldwide, will usually leave most scratching their heads in wonder which there could be an insult to a religion merely given a remarkable minister or ulama has been criticised or viewed in reduction than adoring terms.
Utusans animation sets out in cold contrariety an increasingly important component of rapist proceedings, a use of modern recording equipment which can constraint a rapist action in progress.
Substitute a lady in a animation with a spoliation victim in a groundwork automobile park, for example. Would a security camera recording of a spoliation be acceptable if a pirate was caught as well as tried under syariah proceedings? Would which same recording be accepted as justification in a civil law court? Or how about a so-called CCTV recording of a male presumably resembling a heading politician carrying sex with a lady who is presumably a prostitute, presumably in a Kuala Lumpur apartment?
Questions such as these have been not counts of interest usually to clerics or lawyers, they have been impending to everyone.
Also impending to everybody in Malaysian society is how clerics as well as ulamas respond to criticism as well as irreverence.
Making fun of politicians, what they do, as well as what they say, is an typical past-time for most Malaysians. Are ulama as well as religious leaders beyond criticism? Are they so sa! intly wh ich they have risen above typical mortals to reside mid in between male as well as God, merely becaus! e they s tudy a word of God?
Religious ideology about a universe, a world, human society as well as human relations has been in conflict with physical views ever given science as well as mass renouned preparation opened humanitys eyes to a genuine wonder of Gods creations all around them.
The greeting by Kelantans politicians will usually harden a perspective which most who have been hold in tall courtesy for their godliness have been essentially no saints.
There have been most reasons to be taunting of Utusans most antics. This is not a single of them.
Jamil Khir nafi guna wang zakat bayar yuran peguam
Liwat: Rayuan hakim tarikdiri ditetapkan 6 Julai
Finally the Smarter Choice on Scholarship?
So when 1Malaysia announced the 9As+ get scholarships initial as great as since now, the ones rejoicing were the non-bumis who felt being unfairly discriminated as distant behind over 30 years yet the little consider over 50 years!!!
So after the people initial or rsther than those super As students initial for scholarships announcement, there was the deluge of applications which flooded JPA, the government group in-charge of charity government scholarships, most suspected formed upon 'kulitfication' than 'qualification', yes?
And what floored the relatives after the scholarships were awarded was the same aged disgruntlement of awarding for local than overseas as great as worst the little alternative courses than the one preferred!
So now, realising which there have been most intelligent kids as great as additionally the outrageous huge amount of income which will be outlayed as great as not looking like giving up of scratching the behind of voters with the grant promise, the compromise is for those who have been undergraduates. And wouldn't it have been easily resolved ages ago, if the PSD fellos decided upon this smarter choice. But it might be which the PSD didn't wish to exercise it since it might meant most of those who got scholarships for matriculation will not even make it upon their own to matriculation or A levels, financially as great as academically! So we give expensive scholarships to 17+ kids, the each year amount perhaps some-more than what starting struggling graduates earned, especially those who have to fend for themselves!!!
Even giving out the millions or is it billions by right away didn't guarantee the scholars will sometime stay after portion their bond. Bet those getting Talent Corps invitation to lap! se were former PSD scholars asked to lapse to assistance emanate the high income society in the rarely widely separated race formed nation, huh?
So it is the good! , correct the nd smarter preference to usually give to those during undergrad level. But it does not solve the most who might not be means to make it to matriculation or A levels. And even those who get in to the MARAs as great as fully residential school have been concerned since even they validate upon the kulitfication level, they have been up against those who have 'connectfication' with leaders as great as even PSD fellos. In the sense, the bumi kaya barus will additionally be pulling or rsther than calling the shots of wanting their kids to get the place initial as great as the rest of those poor as great as nobodys marginalised bumis have been really helpless as great as hope as great as pray Allah will bless them with great fortunes.
So kudos to the smarter 1Malaysia decision then?
But educators will discuss it we which unchanging studious students will be unchanging as great as contend if 1000 9A+ stays unchanging during matriculation as great as A levels, as great as get in to tip universities, PSD will still get the headache of finding the income for this 1,000! It's transferring this dilemma the couple of years forward together with apropos some-more politicised as well! Even if 10% have been not unchanging performers we got 900 undergrads knocking during PSD's door!
So while it is the smarter preference to shift the awards criteria, the large big subject is will PSD carry out the directives sincerely as great as will the income be there too?
To all those students out there, the guarantee is the guarantee as great as it is up to we to take value of this guarantee - so contend 1Malaysia, leader, politician as great as the member of UMNO - with such qualification, it's the fair guarantee as great as understanding right, relatives & students, huh?
Wonder if the Perkasa personality will got in! to the bout of disease again with this ultimate 1Malaysia's decision as great as start his S-attack eh?
Ambiga: Bersih rally will go on
A genocide hazard has done little to hole Bersih's commitment to convene for clean as well as satisfactory elections.
KUALA LUMPUR: Organisers as well as supporters of the Bersih 2.0 convene have been station their ground notwithstanding reception genocide threats via content summary final night.
The summary warned which Bersih chairperson, Ambiga Sreenevasan, as well as those continuous to her would be killed if the convene proceeded as planned upon Jul 9.
After lodging the military report during the Travers military station during 12pm today, the ease Ambiga reliable which Walk For Democracy would go upon as scheduled.
I right away leave this up to the police, she told the media. I believe they will be able to trace the senders identity as they have the phone number. But there is no shift to the convene upon Jul 9.
While she pronounced which the content wasnt the surprise, she voiced disappointment which the fellow Malaysian could threaten what is intended to be the pacific event.
We have been peaceful, you have been peaceful, she reiterated. And you assure Malaysians which you will do our pinnacle in being obliged for gripping the convene which way. This summary is already out there.
Ambiga additionally welcomed the matter by Home Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, which he was receiving the hazard very seriously as well as would conduct investigations in to the matter.
She added which she was entirely prepared to cooperate with the authorities in gripping Jul 9 protected as well as peaceful.
Talk to us directly
When asked if she was receiving any confidence measures as the outcome of the death! threat, Ambiga smiled as well as replied, Yes but I prefer to keep them to myself. And as prolonged as the military do their work I have no reason to be afraid.
Others who perceived the content summary included Bersih steering cabinet members, Wong Chin Huat as well as Maria Chin Abdullah, lawyer Latheefa Koya as well as PKR Youth emissary chief, Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin. All 4 additionally lodged military reports today.
This is unsuitable because it contains secular connotations, stated Maria referring to the difference keling paria as well as Cina sial in the text.
The chairman who sent it should be brave enough to speak to us directly.Tell us what your complaint is with the pacific convene for clean as well as satisfactory elections.
Khairul additionally cursed these secular slurs as well as emphasised which PKR would stand upon the front lines with the Bersih cabinet upon Jul 9.
Meanwhile PKR Youth emissary information chief, Rozan Mat Rasip, branded the situation an presentation of the hooligan culture in Malaysia.
The content was sent to political leaders as well as activists who have no ties to the Bersih committee, he forked out. It appears which the sender perceived orders from the high authority as well as I hope the Home Ministry conducts the thorough investigation.
Deep-seated bigotry
In the related development, the Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) cursed the genocide hazard done opposite Ambiga as well as the others.
MCLM president Haris Ibrahim pronounced which each bid had been done to prevent the convene from receiving place but this genocide hazard goes over the pale.
He pronounced MCLM was saddened to see which such deep-seated bigotry as well as hatred exists in Malaysia.
This situation is the outcome of ignorance innate! of the lopsided economy, injured preparation complement as well as theabsence of amicable justice, which have been the consequences of five decades of BN rule, he added in the statement.
PENDEDAHAN PANAS! BERSIH 2.0 ADALAH PERMULAAN KE ARAH NEGARA REPUBLIK!
Bersih 2.0: Why I will march
By Jun Lubis | TMI
We can usually demeanour behind at the past to recognize a main points which have brought us to where we are today.
Today, we am blessed to have a boss who supports as well as shares a same passions as we do: personification a purpose in strengthening polite multitude in Malaysia, along with wildlife charge as well as rural community-based initiatives.
I quite demeanour brazen to her mentorship as she has played a very significant leadership purpose in Green Surf, a home-grown Sabah coalition which successfully fought to stop a coal energy plant being built in a state.
I count behind a years which has brought me to this point.
It is easy to pinpoint my early interest in charge as well as environment work: a childhood memory of examination a documentary of a solitary womanlike researcher slogging her approach through a Borneo rainforest acid for orangutans (like bells toll in my head, telling me which this would be me a single day a bells later valid right) to being preoccupied by a Greenpeace protests in Saraw! ak in a 1990s.
I did not! underst as well as because foreigners would care so most about rainforests so far divided from their homeland. we did not assimilate because a local newspapers were so hostile towards a protestors, to a indicate of making negative personal commentaries about their weight as well as looks.
My initial difficulty done me question what we had suspicion was truth. That all we read as well as hear from alternative people is not necessarily a absolute truth, though rather a semblance of law from their unique perspective as well as experiences.
Yet my domestic recognition usually entirely emerged at a later stage.
I connect those dots behind to my appearance in a 2007 Bersih march.
It was probably a first time we had felt very proud as a Malaysian, to be surrounded by so most of my compatriots seeking a shift in the electoral complement which we feel is astray as well as not representative of a democracy which the nation is built upon.
It was a beginnings of a personal stirring to learn some-more about a domestic issues beyond my home state of Sarawak. Indeed to impetus along alternative Malaysians who felt as strongly as we did was inspiring as well as gave me bravery to continue exploring alternative supportive issues.
There has been most outcry over a past week about a upcoming Bersih 2.0 march. A lot of it has been emotional, as well as hurtful, no make a difference what competition or religion we go to.
No a single with a decent heart as well as a sane mind likes to have an ethnic village singled out possibly to be blamed or condemned for their apparent appearance in a march. Your hermit is my brother, your sister my sister. When we try to hurt others, we usually end up hurting yourself.
Like in 2007, we intend to participate for we await a 8 final as listed out by a organisers of a impetus for freer as well as fairer elections.
This year, it is quite poignant for me, as a Sarawakian, for it was a purported a! buses in a last state election which had stirred a call to revitalise Bersih 2.0.
Even if we dont hold in a money! gracious s which took place in a last state election, or worse yet, consider money governing body is what elections is all about, we cannot repudiate a very simple fact which a non-Barisan Nasional component parties had no giveaway as well as satisfactory access to a mainstream media. One of a 8 calls of Bersih 2.0 for a Election Commission to rectify.
And which is a single out of most bona fide grouses done not only by domestic parties, though additionally polite society.
At a end of a day, to me, it does not make a difference what domestic celebration is in power, though rather those in energy are reminded of as well as humbled by a measureless responsibility placed upon them. we fright which those who duped as well as paid their approach towards domestic energy will not have these values in check. By coming into energy with arrogance, they will continue to lead us with arrogance.
The 8 calls of Bersih 2.0, if implemented, will assistance give us some-more representatives which we seek, no make a difference what domestic parties they hail from.
We wish statesmen who will lead us with honour as well as honesty, not politicians who burn images as well as bluster the communities.
So what purpose will we play come July 9?
Could this be a main indicate in not only the personal lives, though the countrys?
And 10 or 20 years from now, when we demeanour behind as well as ponder how Malaysia was brought to this excellent point, where hopefully we have done leaps as well as bounds towards more advanced inhabitant social alertness for a supervision which indeed represents us, could we afterwards say to ourselves, we played a small purpose which a single excellent day?
This is because we intend to march.