Hishammuddin follows his predecessor by issuing stupid statement!

Got this from Loyar Burok!

A the statement by Home Minister Hishammuddin shows that he is not any smarter than Syed Hamid Alba.

I think any person who takes on this Home Ministry post becomes obtuse or a little daft?

Wasn’t it this Ministry which was helmed by a person claiming that some individuals were arrested under the ISA, for their own safety?

Now of course we see the news where Hishammuddin suggests that the primary reason we are all feeling unsafe in this country is because we have demonised the Police force.

How can that be logical? Even if it is accurate, are we saying that in spite of being paid with our taxes; the Police choose not to solve crimes, because the people around�them, don’t like them?

Perhaps Hishammuddin needs the SB to be on his side? Perhaps he wants to curry favour with the IGP? We will never know, but whatever his reason for saying what he said, it only makes him look more obtuse than ever.

The main problem, Mr Minister, is that the Police force is corrupt. Corruption has blinded their conscience, and this has led to the breakdown of security services in Malaysia. How many times have we heard of close friends informing us of their ‘horror’ stories with the Police.

How many times have we read about corruption in the force. This issue has been ventilated so much, but very little is done to arrest the big boys in PDRM. Whenever there is an arrest by MACC of Police officers, it is always some low-ranking officer, a sergeant or corporal.

Even when they DO arrest the big boys in PDRM, the chappies get off at trial due to poor investigations by MACC or poor prosecution.

I can tell you what the problem is, Mr Minister – and that is having people like you in Government, people who allow the perpetuation of corruption in our system. Take people like you out of the system, and perhaps 50% of the problem will go away.

Once we rid this country of people like you, then the system should next purge all the corrupt in the civil service.

Till then, as a law-abiding citizen and a tax-payer, I would try my very best, to learn to love the Police, again.

A summary of Goods and Service Tax (GST)!

For those of you who are too lazy to read a lot, I have gone through the net and summarize this GST issue which the BN govt wants to implement.

In a nut shell, GST works like this:
Supplier A sold his products to supplier B for RM100 and assuming 3% GST applies, he will bill supplier B RM103.

Supplier B has a policy to earn 9% on his selling price hence the cost to consumers will be RM110 (RM10 margin on RM110 selling price gives you 9% margin) plus 3% GST i.e. RM3.30 will be added onto the bill, making it RM113.30.

Supplier A collects RM3 from B and pays to the IRB within a specific period, like 2 months from date of invoice while B would pay IRB RM3.30 and claim back RM3.00. The end result is IRB getting RM3.30, 3% on the ultimate selling price of RM110. Consumers pay the whole RM3.30.

The above is a very simple illustration. In real life, goods and services pass through many parties before arriving at hands of ultimate consumers.

Presently the Malaysian tax structure provide that people earning below RM3,000 a month can be exempted from tax owing to the series of relief and scale tax rates.

With GST, everybody would be taxed regardless of income level, as long as he or she spends money.

For more information on the implications of GST, check out this page.

This is what our "brillant" PM has to say about the GST!

It’s not going to be an abrupt introduction,” Najib said, adding that if the GST materialised, the rate would not burden the poor or middle-class Malaysians.

At the moment, people with salary below RM3,000 per month can be exempted from income tax. Now a poor person in Malaysia should be earning less than RM3,000 and with GST, that person who was not paying income tax would now instead be required to pay GST.

Now how would that "not burden the poor"?

“And, it would not lead to inflation,” he added.
He has to explain how he can guarantee that there will be no inflation as a result of GST. Inflation is defined as generally increases in price of goods and services. Now if something that cost RM100 now becomes, says after GST at 5% , RM105, to me as the ultimate payer of GST, there is a price increase.

(source from MalaysiaToday)

This is what our brilliant Second Finance Minister has to say!
If we can secure a sustainable revenue, we can get a good budget," he said.
Husni said the government was expected to earn 1.0 billion ringgit (294 million dollars) in the first year of the GST implementation.

MAYBE if the govt wants to secure a sustainable source of revenue, they should consider fixing the stupid expenditure in the auditors general's report first!

The new Istana Negara cost RM1.1billion!

And the GST is expected to earn the govt a revenue of RM1billion!

Draw your own conclusion lah!

Is the government attempting to shift the taxes from the rich to the ordinary people??

First the govt, in this year's budget gave a 1% tax break for those who earn RM100,000.

Who earns RM100,000 a year but the rich!

On the other hand they dump a 5% property gain tax and the RM50 ringgit credit card tax on the middle income group and the retirees.

Well at least the pirated DVD's, massage palour, and health spa (prostitution) will not increase their prices (since they don't have to pay GST)!

For futher reading check out great articles here

and here!

Auditor General's Report! Why hasn't anyone been charge?!?

Last year, the govt paid RM5700 for a car jack worth RM50.

This year, according to the Auditor General's Report, a government-owned vehicle consumed a tank of petrol worth RM113 within a few minutes.

2 Acer laptops cost a whopping price of RM84,640
A 17-inch monitor costs RM7,500
A pole platform that cost RM990 was bought for RM30,000
A thumbdrive that cost RM90 was bought for RM480
A cabinet that cost RM1,500 was bought for RM13,500
A flashlight that cost RM35 was bought for RM143
A welding machine that cost about RM20,000 was bought for RM4,1429.

Mara also spent RM2.08mil buying computer software it didn’t need

A national infrastructure company has been losing money for three years, causing it impossible to redeem the balance of the issued bond amounting to RM7.10 billion.

Even more absurd, a total of RM5.77 billion has been spent in the 179km Rawang-Ipoh double-tracking railway. Averagely, each kilometre cost about RM30 million with the overturn of 32.9%.
(source from MALAYSIA ALTERNATIVE VOICES and the Star)

Also today the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) claims that up to 60% of the Sarawak government allocations — running into billions of ringgit have been misappropriated.

WILL THE BN GOVT TAKE ANY ACTION?!?

NO WAY!

HOW DO YOU CATCH YOURSELF?

The new Istana Negara Report!

Questioning the monarchy is a dangerous area to talk about in Malaysia!
I will try to do so carefully! Back in 2006 the govt launch the project to build a new "istana" for the King.
It was suppose to be complete by 2009 at a cost of RM400million.
(source from Bernama and the Star)

However it is coming to the end of 2009 and the Istana is no where near completed and the cost of the Istana has balloon up to RM1.1billion!
(source from Malaysiakini)

WHY HAS THE COST GONE UP BY MORE THAN 100%??

The new Jln Duta Istana will sit on 96.52 hectars of land!

THAT's equivalent to 2.3 MidValley Cities, 4.9 KLCC parks, 209 Khir Toyo mansions, and 3,472 average semi-D houses (at 3,000 sq ft each). Our present Istana Negara, on Jalan Istana, is a historic building dating back to 1928, and it sits on 11 hectares of land. Our new Istana therefore represents a nine-fold increase in the amount of land that has been set aside for our Malaysian royalty. (source from Nut Graph)

I wonder how most Malaysian feel about this 1.1billion ringgit project at a time of economic crisis where the govt is suppose to try very hard to balance its budget deficit!

Biro Tata Negera propagates to the Malays that "outsiders" have come and stolen all their wealth!

I wonder what BTN lecturers has to say about the Istana.

I like what the author of the Nut Graph article wrote.

"...we live in a constitutional monarchy. That means that our monarchs are accountable to us."

"Where in Malaysia can we have such an open, fearless debate on our monarchical institutions? In the UK, open public debate has not resulted in anarchy and the monarchy's dissolution. Rather, it has resulted in a monarchy that has incentive to remain relevant to the people over whom it constitutionally governs, and also continues to be, on the whole, well loved by the majority of British.
That begs the question: Are our royals afraid of what the people think of them that they need to be protected from public opinion? "

"In Malaysia, I, for one, have no idea how much the rakyat spends on our constitutional monarchs. And I am quite sure that there have been no studies or inquiry commissions into this. Unfortunately, in Malaysia, asking for monarchical accountability of their expenses will probably be construed as derhaka, or hasutan against our royal institution."

"There are not even, so far as I am aware, any polls of enquiry regarding the general popularity of the various monarchs and their families, let alone published accounts of royal expenditure.
Under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, all royal projects are obliged to be conducted by open tender, but as PAS's Mahfuz Omar has pointed out, Projek Istana Negara was not, and the project's costs have suffered as a result. Initially slated to cost around RM400 million, our new Istana Negara is about to cost the nation RM1.1 billion instead."

"Are the royal families not, according to the precepts of constitutional monarchy, legally bound to the Malaysian constitution, and thus at least financially accountable to the people? Should we, the people, not have some say in how we ourselves are financing our Supreme Heads of State?"

Barisan National Government Breaks Contract to Punish PRK states?

Is the Barisan National Government breaking their contractual obligation to punish PRK states?

Taken from Tengku Razaleigh’s official weblog

The Government has now responded to Kelantan’s claim to a portion of the profits derived from petroleum resources extracted offshore by PETRONAS.

Its response violates the letter and the intent of a solemn agreement signed between each State Government and PETRONAS under the Petroleum Development Act.

That agreement is made out in language simple enough for a schoolboy to understand, in both Bahasa Malaysia and English.

The Constitutional rights of the people of Kelantan are denied. However this has implications far beyond Kelantan:

1) It negates an agreement signed between the Kelantan Government and PETRONAS. By implication, it negates identical agreements signed by PETRONAS with every other state and deprives the people of their constitutional rights.

2) The Government’s refusal to recognize a straightforward contractual obligation on PETRONAS’s part puts a question mark over the status of oil payments due to the other oil-producing states. The States’ rights to 5% of profit derived from the extraction of any petroleum resources is based on a quid pro quo according to which the States vested entirely and in perpetuity all their rights and claims to petroleum resources to PETRONAS. In return for this PETRONAS is legally bound to pay the states the 5% directly

3) If PETRONAS no longer recognises its legal obligation to pay the States what is due to them under the Petroleum Development Act, the States, and in particular Sabah and Sarawak, will now wonder if the corresponding Vesting Deed by which they vested all their rights in their petroleum resources to PETRONAS remains in force.

4) The Government’s response substitutes for PETRONAS’s legal obligations under the Petroleum Development Act an arbitrary “compassionate payment” from the Federal Government. This casts serious doubt on the Malaysian Government’s respect for the sanctity of contracts and the rule of law. Let’s not talk about spurring investment to take our economy to a higher level if we fail to understand the importance of abiding by contractual obligations.

I helped craft and negotiate the Petroleum Development Act. As Chairman of Petronas, I signed separate and identical agreements in respect of these payments with each of the Mentris Besar of the States. I must insist that PETRONAS is bound by them and that the Federal government should not interfere in their fulfillment.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
Member of Parliament, Gua Musang

How the gov't 'looted' up to US$100 bil

Taken from Malaysiakini- When I read this report, I got so sick! Where are there still supporting BN?!? I just can't understand it?!?

I hope all BN supporters would read this report and Kick BN Out!

The multi-billion ringgit Port Klang Free Zone scandal may be big, but it is only the latest in a long line of scandals going back to the early 1980s.

Time magazine quoted Daniel Lian, a Southeast Asia economist at Morgan Stanley in Singapore, saying that the country might have lost “as much as US$100 billion since the early 1980s to corruption”.

The scandals listed below are only a small sample of the looting of the country's coffers:In July of 1983, what was then the biggest banking scandal in world history erupted in Hong Kong, when it was discovered that Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF), a unit of Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd, had lost as much as US$1 billion which had been siphoned off by prominent public figures into private bank accounts.

The story involved murder, suicide and the involvement of officials at the very top of the Malaysian government. Ultimately it involved a bailout by the Malaysian government amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Mak Foon Tan, the murderer of Jalil Ibraim, a Bank Bumi assistant manager who was sent to Hong Kong to investigate the disappearance of the money, was given the death sentence, and Malaysian businessman George Tan who had participated in looting most of the funds, was jailed after his Carrian Group collapsed in what was then Hong Kong's biggest bankruptcy, and a handful of others were charged.

No major politician was ever punished in Malaysia despite a white paper prepared by an independent commission that cited cabinet minutes of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad giving an okay to a request to throw more money into the scandal in an effort to contain it.That was just the first Bank Bumi scandal. The government-owned bank had to be rescued twice more with additional losses of nearly US$600 million in today's dollars.

Ultimately government officials gave up and the bank was absorbed into CIMB Group, currently headed by Nazir Razak, the sitting prime minister's brother. Bank Negara lost RM20 bilThat scandal, which stretched over several years before its denouement in 1985, set the tone for 24 years of similar scandals related to top Malaysian officials and was the first to prove that in Malaysia, you can not only get away with murder, you can get away with looting the treasury as well.

Perwaja Steel, for instance, lost US$800 million and its boss, Eric Chia, a crony of Mahathir's, was charged with looting the company. He stood trial, but was acquitted without having to put on a defense.In the mid-1980s, the Co-operative Central Bank, a bank set up to aid the Indian smallholder community, had to be rescued by Bank Negara, the country's central bank, after hundreds of millions of ringgit in loans granted to a flock of Umno and MIC politicians became non-performing.

Some had never been serviced at all.

Although the chief executive and general manager were charged with criminal breach of trust, none of the politicians were ever charged. Before that, the Malaysian government was believed to have lost US$500 million in an attempt at Mahathir's urging to corner the London tin market through a company called Maminco, driving the world price of tin from US$4.50 per tonne to US$7.50.

It then sought to cover up the loss by establishing a US$2 company called Mukawasa from which allocations of new share issues to the government's Employees Provident Fund (EPF) were diverted. Mukawasa expected to sell the shares at a windfall profit to hide the tin speculation.

Mahathir also was behind an attempt by the then governor of Bank Negara, the central bank, to aggressively speculate in the global foreign exchange market. Bank Negara ended up losing an estimated RM20 billion. The governor, Jaffar Hussein, and the head of forex trading, Nor Mohamed Yakcop were forced to resign.'

Malaysia's Enron scandal

There have been many other political and financial scandals since. In 2005, Bank Islam Malaysia, the country's flagship Islamic bank, reported losses of RM457 million mainly due to provisioning totaling RM774 million as a result of bad loans and investments incurred by its Labuan branch.

Cumulatively, Bank Islam ran up non-performing loans of RM2.2 billion, partly from mismanagement and poor internal controls but also "years of regulatory indifference fueled by the misconceived notion of an untouchable Bank Islam because it was a favourite child of the Malaysian government, being the first and model Islamic bank in the country and region," according to a December 19, 2005 article in Arab News."

Bank Islam had a reputation in the market for being the spoilt child of the Malaysian Ministry of Finance; and the perception of the bank was more of a Muslim financial fraternity or government development financial institution," the report said.In 2007, in what was called Malaysia's Enron scandal, the publicly traded Transmile Group Bhd, whose chairman was former MCA president and cabinet minister Ling Liong Sik, was caught having overstated its revenue by RM530 million.

A pretax profit from RM207 million in 2006 was actually a loss of RM126 million, and a pretax profit of RM120 million in 2005 was a loss of RM77 million, causing the government postal company Pos Malaysia & Services Holdings Bhd to warn that its earnings for the 2006 financial year might be affected by the reported overstatement, as the postal group owned 15.3 percent of Transmile.

Bailouts and more bailouts

Over the years 2001 to 2006, the government had to spend billions to rescue seven privatised projects including Kuala Lumpur's two public transport systems, the perennially ailing Malaysia Airlines, the national sewage system and a variety of others that, in the words of one study, "had been privatised prematurely."

The government also repeatedly bailed out highway construction concessionaires, all of them closely connected to Umno, to the tune of another RM38.5 billion.In 2008, it was revealed that Rafidah Aziz, who had served as trade and industry minister for 18 years, had been peddling approved permits for duty-free car sales and allegedly lining her pockets. Two companies which didn't even have showrooms – one of which belonged to the husband of Rafidah's niece – received scores of permits.

Although Rafidah came in for heavy criticism from within Umno, she remained in office until she was defeated in party elections. In the 1960s, federal prosecutors in the United States who were attempting to jail the late labour boss Jimmy Hoffa for looting the Teamsters Pension Fund of millions of dollars with his cronies were puzzled by the fact that their revelations appeared to have little effect on the union's rank and file.

It was because no matter how much money Hoffa and his cronies stole, there was always money left because the fund was so rich. That appears to be the case with Malaysia.

Why Najib is slience about this?!

Liar Liar Muhyiddin Tries to Justify BTN

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin denied claims that courses run by the Biro Tatanegara (BTN), or National Civics Bureau, were a form of political indoctrination.He said they were instead meant to inculcate nationalism and unity among the people in line with the 1Malaysia concept. "BTN courses are not for 'converting' participants to Umno and BN. There are no ulterior motives; these courses are well-intended," Muhyiddin told reporters in Pagoh.

I want to know, if the BTN is really promoting 1 Malaysia, why is it so secretive?
Participants are not allowed to bring in hand phones or any types of recording devices!
Participants cannot bring out any material from BTN as well!
WHY are Malays and non-Malays are separate for certain sessions!
I challange the BN govt to prove that BTN has no racist elements at att by showing the exact curriculum of BTN and opening up the BTN camps to the public!

But the sad fact is that anyone who has been to BTN camps knows without a doubt that Muhyiddin is lying through his teeth!

How did such a man become Malaysia's DPM??

And why are the MCA, MIC, GERAKAN and all the other non-Malay component parties of BN keeping quiet about this?!?

KICK BARISAN NATIONAL OUT!!!

See here for real testimony of pass BTN campers

See here for the truth about BTN

See this You Tube to know what BTN is teaching the Malays!

LESS we forget the REAL story behind May 13

All Malaysian should read this and remember what our Father of Merdeka said about Najib's dad!

Kapal Singh shoots IGP's dumb remarks!

Taken from Malaysiakini

DAP veteran Karpal Singh failed to see the humour in inspector-general of police Musa Hassan's burlesque comments in response to the opposition leader's demand that the police stop interrogating witnesses after office hours.

On the contrary, the renowned criminal lawyer found the top cop's statement to be bordering on the bizarre.

Karpal had made the demand in view of the Kuala Lumpur high court's judgment last week that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) could only question witnesses between 8.30am and 5.30pm or in other words, during office hours.

However, Musa had ridiculed this, describing the Bukit Gelugor parliamentarian's call to being tantamount to asking police stations to close at 5pm.

"If that is the case, then those who want to lodge police reports after office hours can see Karpal," a news report had quoted the police chief as saying further.

Musa's statement irrational

Speaking to reporters at the Parliament lobby today, Karpal took Musa to task."(His statement) is irrational and verges on the bizarre," he said, adding that the issue was not related to the law requiring that police stations operate around the clock.

Karpal said the police and MACC were bound by the ruling in accordance with article 20 of the Lock-Up Rules 1953.
"The rationale in police stations being open 24 hours is for reports to be lodged in relation to crimes which occur round-the-clock and not for recording statements in relation to those reports," he added.

Karpal also responded to another statement by Musa, who said it would be pointless for police stations to be open 24 hour if the police cannot record statements from witnesses after office hours.

The politician noted that although Section 112 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) empowers the police to record statements from witnesses, there is no time-frame stipulated.

"However, what points towards that direction are the provisions of rule 20 which state that 'suspects are required to be confined to their cell from 6.30pm until 6.30am under the heading 'Time of Rest'," he explained.

No interrogation in lock-ups

Karpal said suspects are by law allotted rest time in their cells between 6.30pm and 6.30am and therefore "it defies logic and common sense how witnesses, who are not even suspects, can be denied this protection."

"In fact, they should be entitled to more protection. The question is not whether witnesses, including victims, who voluntarily come forward after office hours to have their statements recorded."

The question is whether in law they are required to do so, and whether the police can compel them to do so. Musa appears to be thoroughly confused in his approach to the issue," he added.

As to the IGP's argument that the police could record statements after office hours inside the lock-up using Section 113 of the CPC , Karpal said this was in breach of rule 20 of the Lock-up Rules."

You cannot question a suspect during his rest hours while he is confined in a lock-up. A lock-up is certainly not a conducive place to record statements, let alone doing it during odd hours of the night," he added.

In view of this, Karpal advised those who have been questioned as witnesses beyond office hours in the past to consider filing suits against the police and the government for false imprisonment."

However, this can only be extended to those who have been questioned as witnesses beyond office hours in the last three years as Section 2 of the Public Protection Act, 1948 limits suits against the government or its agents or servants to three years from the date of the default complained of," he said.

WHY DID THE BN GOVT RENEW HIS CONTRACT AS IGP?!?!

Nazri big mouth gets him in trouble again!

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz revealed today that Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh can represent the Attorney-General (A-G) and prosecute Datuk V.K. Lingam.

Nazri stressed that the government has no reason to defend Lingam and that veteran lawmaker can charge him.

“If Karpal is willing to represent the A-G, I will persuade the AG to engage Karpal to prosecute on the behalf of the government,” he told reporters at the parliament lobby here. “Let him charge ... the government has no reason to defend Lingam.”

Lingam was implicated in a scandal involving senior judges and found by a royal commission to be the person recorded “fixing” the appointment of judges.

The royal commission found strong evidence against Lingam and in its report suggested that action be taken against him and others implicated in the infamous “correct, correct, correct” recording.

Other figures implicated include Eusoff, Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim and tycoon Vincent Tan, a close friend of former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Nazri explained that Lingam’s action may have been “morally wrong” but stressed that federal prosecutor could not charge him because there are no specific laws against it.

“Give me a section under any Act to charge Lingam. Give me an offence,” he added.

Karpal sounded surprised when he was later asked about Nazri’s offer.
“I am prepared to charge Lingam on the AG's behalf ... what has to be done now is for Nazri to shoot me a fiat (an authoritative order),” said Karpal.

He also hoped that Nazri would not retract the offer and, instead, help expedite the procedures to allow him to take action against Lingam.

Karpal later said that it was common in England for the government to allow private law practitioners to prosecute on behalf of the Queen’s counsel.

“In this country there is a provision in the law for the A-G to issue a certificate which is a fiat to prosecute someone. I call upon Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz to advise the Attorney-General to issue that letter of fiat for the purpose of prosecuting V.K. Lingam,” he told reporters at a press conference in the Parliament lobby.

Karpal pointed out under section five of the Seditious Act (1948), “no person shall be prosecuted for an offence under section four without the written consent of the Public Prosecutor (A-G).

This Nazri is not very smart. He big mouth has put him in a no win situation!

Now if he does not get the AG to allow Kapal Singh to prosecute Lingam, people will say Nazri chicken out!

If he does allow Kapal Singh to prosecute Lingam and KS win, then people will say the AG and Nazri are incompetent!

If KS losses then the people will say that KS tried his best but the courts were bias and corrupted.

But what I guess will happen is that Nazri will hide behind the AG and say that the AG does not agree to this proposition.

A stupid and lame excuse since Nazri is the AG's boss lah!

How can the DPM be so stupid?!

Is the DPM's head so hard (kepala batu) that he does not need a helmet?

Is the DPM above the law that he does not need a helmet?

Is the DPM's head so BIG that he cannot fit into a helmet?

Is the DPM trying to be a crash dummy that he does not need the helmet?

Is the DPM so vain that he does not want to mess his hair by wearing the helmet?

Is the DPM so stupid that he forgot his helmet?

The answer is.............. I really don't care!

I just want to know what will happen if I make a police report (with this picture as prove) that the DPM has broke the law.

Will the DPM be caught or will I be caught for reporting it?

Special Thanks to PT for the pic!

Bala Resurface to haunt Rosmah!

PART 2 here!

Najib the Finance Minister Big Blunder!

This is an article taken from Malaysiakini.
Definitely worth reading for those who do not subscribe to it.

I bet not a few among the participants at the 21st Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Malaysia Implementation Council meeting were held aghast when Prime Minister cum finance minister Najib Razak announced that Malaysia was aiming for a nine percent annual GDP growth until 2020.

In an opening speech at the meeting held in the morning of Nov 9, Najib said: "We aim to be a developed nation by the year 2020 and we are looking to more than double our per capita gross national income from US$7,000 (RM24,500) to at least US$17,000 by then in order to qualify as a high-income nation according to World Bank classifications.

"This would also mean that Malaysia has to grow its GDP by over nine percent annually until the year 2020." (Malaysian Insider, Nov 9.)

Playing with the totally unrealistic growth figure of nine percent at a time when Malaysia and the world are still going through one of the worst recessions in memory with no definite light at the end of tunnel yet, did sound surreal indeed.

More so, when Malaysia's growth record in recent years have been anything but robust. Obviously advised by his aides that his gung-ho expectation was way overboard, Najib scrambled to control damage via a press conference several hours later when he denied having said nine percent.

He said: "I did not say nine per cent, I said around six per cent as nine is not realistic." But of course, Najib's denial came too late, as several news media including Bernama and Star had already quoted him at nine per cent.

Clumsy amendment
Though these media dutifully replaced the figure of nine per cent by six per cent in their updated versions in the afternoon, some betrayed their clumsy amendment by retaining the incongruous per capita GDP growth from the current US$7,000 to US$17,000 in 2020.
If indeed Najib had quoted six per cent, then compounding US$7,000 at the increase of six percent per annum can only bring us to US$13,000 by 2020. Only when we compound it by nine percent can we reach the figure of US$17,000.

Figures tell no lies. It was clearly a deliberate statement, not a typing or reading error. So the big puzzle: How could a finance minister, who is supposed to be the economic czar of a country, make such an unforgivable blunder?

Granted that a man of Najib's position is expected to have his speech writers lighten his work, but he should remain the master as policy formulator and decision maker, not a robot reading out speeches he could not fully comprehend.

Chairing over such an important meeting which deliberates the agenda of MSC Malaysia, which in Najib's words, serves as "a foundation to build a world-class technology sector to kick start a vibrant Malaysian ICT industry", I would expect Najib to be in full possession of a macro view of the nation's economy, the direction it is going, and the specific role the budding ICT industry is playing in relation thereto.

Void of substance
And central to all these is of course a realistic assessment of current and potential strength of our economy.

As finance minister, Najib is sitting at the apex commanding a vast bureaucracy of economic and financial experts and planners, and he should therefore be the best judge of our economic realities.

In fact, he should be the first one to spot any gross irregularity in major economic figures. If he is a competent finance minister, he should be the final arbiter as to what growth figure to adapt for policy making purpose.

Even allowing the fact that he is new to the job, he should at least be able to discern when a wildly unrealistic target is presented to him. Not to be able to sense that nine percent growth is way out of the reasonable realm is a horrible admission of ineptitude.

Under the circumstances, it is not unreasonable to surmise that this could be a case of an economic novice writing out a speech which was read out by an equally ignorant financial boss.

That may not be a far-fetched assumption, given that Najib's premiership so far seem to have been one gigantic public relation exercise void of substance to create the impression of change when in fact nothing has been changed. Not in our hopelessly decadent institutions nor in our utter lack of rule of law.

1 Rotting Malaysia!

The news I read today really made me feel sick!

Our government is so corrupt and useless!!

1. The BN govt set up the Royal Commission for the Lingam case... BUT this has now come to NOTHING!!! ....(also see here for more info)

2. Renowned Thai pathologist testimony that Teoh BH was most probably murdered!!

3. The authorities in Malaysia can kick, kill, throw people off the building and punch people but you get RM3,000 fined and jailed for 6 months if you bite a cop that caught and punch you!

You really got to read this!!

4. MACC star witness does a U-Turn and now says that the 2 Perak Frogs are innocent!

Why am I not surprise!!! Are you!?

5. Idiot Deputy Minister gives lame excuse about not allowing open tender for the purchase of the 2 Submarine!

6. Courts can challenge and overrule the case in Perak case but not for DAP's Gobind's ban.

Let's see if the courts will challenge the Khir Toyo case!

7. RM42,320 for a laptop!!

Actually I am not surprise at this news. It is common knowledge among the marketing and sales community that you have to grease certain people's hand before you can sell them anything in most Public Universities! Everything for books, furniture, fittings, lab equipment, and etc.

This is how it works! The University purchasing officer will tell the salesman how much he wants! Then the salesman will jack up the price of his goods according to their demand. Then he will invoice the University for the cost of the goods + the bribe! The purchasing officer will approve the purchase. Once the transaction is done, the salesman will give the excess money to the purchasing officer!

This problem came up mainly because the of the stupid government practice which gives a certain allocation of cash to each dept and then if a particular dept does not spend their allocation.... the following year, their allocation will be reduce, or they will consider that dept to be non-productive! IDIOTS!

ONE GOOD PIECE OF NEWS AT LEAST.... (read here!)

The only way to save this country is to kick out Barisan Najis(BN) from power!!

Why the PKR govt was brought down in Perak!

This is so explosive that I fear being arrested for just publishing it!!

So pls go read it yourself at this page!

This is so informative!

Very Informative on the PKFZ scandal! Must Watch!

RPK latest Videos! A must watch!!

Also check out this blog!
Great Reading!

Is this how you commit murder and get away with it?

BREAKING NEWS 10AM Nine months after the death of A Kugan in police custody, one policeman V Navindran was charged today at the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court with causing hurt to the 23-year-old detainee.

He claimed trial to two counts of causing hurt in trying to extract a confession. He is charged under Section 331 of the Penal Code.Sessions judge Aslam Zainuddin fixed bail at RM10,000 for both charges. The case will be mentioned on Nov 5.

Navindran, wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt and blue denim jeans, arrived in court about 9.25am.

Attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail in a press statement yesterday said Navindran will be charged under Section 331 of the Penal Code for voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort confession from the deceased and alternatively Section 330 for voluntarily causing hurt to extort a confession from the deceased.

Abdul Gani also took pains to explain why Navindran could not be charged for murder but a lesser charge of causing hurt."There is no evidence that the deceased suffered an instant death. Instead, the deceased died four days after the alleged beating. Therefore, there was a wide gap in between and a charge of murder could not be preferred against the suspect.

The question then is... If Navindran was not responsible of Kugan's death, doesn't that make the PDRM responsible for Kugan's death?? After all Kugan was in police custody during that 4 days gap!

Shouldn't this constitute negligence on the part of the police for failing to take care of the welfare of Kugan while he was in their custody???

And is our AG saying that if the guy you beat up takes 4 days to die instead of dying on the spot, you don't have to be charge with MURDER?!?

What a lot of CRAP!
Taking about crap, I wonder how many Malaysian actually believe that only 1 Indian police officer was responsible for the death of Kugan?!

Are the other 10 police officers? I wonder what race the other 10 officer belongs to?

SCREW ability, integrity or capability! As long as we win!!

Who cares if the guy is an old man!
Who cares if he is tainted with corruption!
Who cares if he has the caliber or the energy to serve the people in the area!

As long as he is popular and can guarantee a win!!
Earlier the SUN reported that...
Muhyiddin said they had gone on the ground to assess the people's feeling on the BN candidate and "it looks like they wanted Isa".

He said Isa's candidacy was decided based on popular demand, and he believed that it was the right decision.

Hishammuddin also called Isa the “people’s candidate,” in an acknowledgement to polls which suggest the former Umno vice-president was very popular in Bagan Pinang despite being tainted by his corrupt past.

Is UMNO treating this by-election as a popularity contest ah?
If I am hearing this correctly from our DPM... UMNO chooses its candidates base on their popularity and not on the quality of the candidate, or how clean, worthy, integrity or the candidate's ability?!?

Wah like that I also can lah! Just bribe the majority group in the area with contracts and other goodies and become popular with them lah!

Opps! Isn't that what got Isa sack from UMNO in the first place?!?

Don't be surprise if this becomes his by-election campaign tactics! (i.e. bribe the voters there with the promise of goodies and development!)

The votes in Bagan Pinang should ask the question...

Why does it take the death of their former state rep before UMNO will come in to help them? What about before this by-election? How much attention did UMNO gave to them?

Also the voters in BP should ask if Isa is really the "people's choice" or is he "UMNO's people choice"! Would they really benefit from his election or will he only look out for his UMNO's gang!

Umno leaders will argue that Isa has already paid the price for being found guilty of greasing the palms of party delegates in the Umno elections five years ago. They will note that he has suffered enough as a political leper and point out that he took his punishment without much protest.

Others may even put a different spin on the second coming of Isa by saying that it shows what a forgiving political party Umno is.

BUT THE QUESTION IS, HAS DATUK ISA SAMAD TRUELY REPENTED OF HIS SINS?

What he said in the Sun newspaper may shead some light on this matter.

When told of the likely scenario of the opposition having a field day bringing up his tainted past, Isa said: "I did not commit a crime. I'm not a criminal. I just did not follow party election ethics and I was punished for that."

Just did not follow party election ethics?!?

The man calls coruption, "not following party election ethics!"

I really hope the people in Bagan Pinang are not as dumb as he is!!

The End of B End! - Isa! BN's Candidate for Bagan Pinang

For the 2nd time in a row, UMNO chooses a candidate tainted with corruption.
At Permatang Pasir by-election, they chose Rohaizat Othman a disbarred lawyer (for misusing clients’ funds).

One would think that it would be difficult to find someone more unworthy than a disbarred lawyer, but trust those UMNO folks, to scrounge even lower to find someone even worse than that.
Now for the Bagan Pinang by-election, they choose Tan Sri Isa Mohd Samad who was suspended by UMNO’s very own disciplinary board for money politics

In Isa Samad UMNO has someone who had been expelled from the party for “money politics,” the euphemism for corruption. Knowing UMNO’s shady ethics, to be expelled for that must take some doing.

And the most amazing thing is that UMNO’s members from that branch wanted only Isa and even threatened to boycott the by-election if UMNO chose another candidate. The fact the Bagan Pinang’s UMNO branch demanded for Isa’s selection only reflects the kind of people who are members there.

An online news splash the news of banners that was placed at several places where UMNO members claims that they will boycott the election if Isa was not chosen. Despite the denial of UMNO Teluk Kemang in putting up the banner, it is quite clear that it was put up at the 11th hour after Muhyuddin said that there is another candidate that UMNO Teluk Kemang had overlooked. It is obvious that the banner was put up in a timely manner to pressurized UMNO national leadership.

It is indeed sad that the members has chosen to proposed and demand a particular candidate instead of demanding that only the truly clean and trustworthy candidate will contest. Indirectly UMNO Teluk Kemang support corruption. Who knows maybe they had benefitted in some way or other previously and expected the same after the election?

But having tasted so many defeats, Najib will do almost anything to win one by-election in Peninsular Malaysia. This include picking a man tainted with corruption and has nothing more to offer the state after being in power (as Mentri Besar) for over 24 years. If he had any talent or innovative ideas, that should have been obvious during all those years.

At this stage of his careers, he should be seeking out and mentoring the next generation of leaders, not desperately hogging the stage.

Only last week Muhyiddin was at pains to point out that he was intent on seeking fresh talent, especially after the Bagan Pinang branch folks brazenly declared that Isa was their only choice.

But Najib must be so desperate to win a by-election, that he bowed to pressure and chose a tainted man like Isa.

This selection of Isa is the consequence of many years of handouts in which UMNO gives out contracts to their members. And Isa is popular not because he is a quality intelligent leader, but a leader who knows how to manipulate the system to pass contracts to the relevant people.

All the noise from Najib that he wants transparency and accountability in his government is mere empty words and promises. By right, UMNO should discipline their members at Bagan Pinang for even threatening to boycott the election, but instead he chose the easy path for short-term gain.

The earlier rhetoric about UMNO having “to change or be changed” is now proven to be nothing more than just “cock talk,” to put it in the local vernacular. In picking Isa, it is clear that UMNO does not have the will to change and has abandon their commitment to reform itself.

It is very unlikely that Pakatan will win this seat as it is traditionally an UMNO seat. So, I can imagine that Najib craves the right to brag after UMNO wins (assuming they do), to the entire Malaysia. After all, history has shown how UMNO brags that the people support them, and how the opposition is rejected at every by-election they won.

UMNO is the cancer of this country, Malaysians must open their eyes to see that they cannot go on being governed by people who subscribe to corruption as a normal practice!!

This article was cut and paste from various articles on the net. See links above.

More great insights by RPK!

F1 part of 1 Malaysia plan!?

I wonder how this F1 comes into Najib's 1 Malaysia plan??

Or did he think just because that there is the No.1 there so he must get Malaysia and force all the top companies to join in his new pet project as well?!?

In a time when big companies like BMW have pulled out of F1 due financial constrain, is Malaysia having that much money that it can afford to throw more money away??

1st we got the PKFZ scandal which cost tax-payers hundreds of millions!

Then recently we threw away over BILLIONS of Ringgit on 2 submarine and some helicopters!

Then Maybank posted an April-June net loss of 1.1 billion ringgit compared with a profit of RM703.2 million a year ago.

(from the stupid 24hour take over)

Now Najib wants to be the first country to own an F1 Team!

The USA, being the richest nation never had one. China is richer than Malaysia and don't have one. Australia is richer than Malaysia and don't have a team. Norway is richer than Malaysia and don't have one. Germany produces many good F1 drivers and don't have a German team now that BMW had withdrawn.

Malaysia can't even afford to maintain a decent LRT service yet the govt are willing to throw millions into an F1 Team!

(I scan through the internet and put together some comments together that is worth reading on this issue!)

Cost of an F1 Team!

In March, 2007 F1 Racing published its annual estimates of spending by Formula One teams.

Toyota $418.5 million, Ferrari $406.5 m, McLaren $402 m, Honda $380.5 m, BMW Sauber $355 m, Renault $324 m, Red Bull $252 m, Williams $195.5 m, Midland F1/Spyker-MF1 $120 m, Toro Rosso $75 m, and Super Aguri $57 million.

Engines alone can cost a whopping USD15mill/season.

R&D and Start Up cost is not included!!!

Team 1Malaysia F1 is supposedly sponsored by the big companies and TDC.

In Malaysia, big companies are either GLCs or linked to them. The TDC is government-run. So how can we say for sure that tax payer money don't get channelled to these. Surely companies like Air Asia and Naza won't dare to venture into such a risky venture without some financial backing. They would not dare risk their shareholders stake and working capital. So who will eventually bare the cost when/if the team make massive losses?!

What about the effect of forcing companies like Air Asia and Naza to sponsor this project?

Every sen spent goes somewhere - a basic principle of accounting. Advertising cost normally goes into the cost of sales i.e. the price that you sell to the customer. So if the ad cost go up, the cost of sales go up. So if Naza and Air Asia needs to maintain their profit margin, their cost of sales will go up. Meaning, the spare parts, the car service, new car price all will go up. For Air Asia, their ticket cost will go up. Or if they want to maintain the same cost of sales, then the cost of goods sold or sales/admin cost go down. So cheaper spare parts (lower quality), poorer service levels and cars with less options or lower quality finishing. For Air Asia, maybe Tune Hotels no longer have communal toilets inside. The guests have to go to public toilets or do it in the drains outside. Maybe, to board an AirAsia plane, you checkin at the fence along the tarmac and walk across the tarmac to the plane. Save the LCCT terminal charges.

Malaysian Maintenance and Management?

According to theStar 1 Malaysia F1 team will be manage by former Renault technical director Mike Gascoyne. While I respect the man I wonder will he get inteference from all the YB and VIP ini Malaysia!

Only time will tell or is he going to end up the same way as foreigners brought in to our badminton, hockey and other sports teams

Then will the lack-of-maintenance syndrome which Malaysia is so famous for be a plague to this team? Lets hope the car does not fall apart during the race! Can you imagine a front wing dropping off by itself?

Putting Malaysia on the Map!??

Our PM said that...

“This is a meaningful development and I hope that it will further raise our country’s profile on the world stage.”

Oh! I am sure this will raise our country's profile.... but will it raise our profile for the better or worst?

If we keep losing and the M'sian F1 team is not there to just make up the numbers, won't we become and embarrassment to the world?

Have we forgotten the embarrassment we felt when Malaysia hosted its first F1 race in 1999 at the Sepang F1 Circuit and Alex Yoong was the first Malaysian to race in the championships in 2001 and 2002 for Minardi. It was a total flop!!

What will happen then to the wind tunnel and all the billions of equipment and logistics which had been invested in Sepang?

Don't we remember PKFZ the "white elephant"?

Am I being negetive!?

I know ppl will shoot me that I am too negative!

But with so many false starts in the past and failling to follow through all too often, can you blame me for being so negative?? I am not saying that having a Malaysian F1 team is a bad thing, just that whether it is justifiable for us to have one??

I think the biggest question is still...

What is the relationship between 1Malaysia and the M'sian F1 team?

Is this the aspiration of the Malaysian rakyat??

Does the rakyat as 1 benefit from this project?

Don't we need the money to overcome the global crisis and make those fundamental changes. Eg. health, security, future development of our human resources, social programs. Can we guarantee (& be transparent) that such a venture will not degrade some of these programs that are sorely needed by the citizenry?

F1 can be enjoyed by those who can afford it but affordable healthcare, good security, future of our children etc, these should be something every rakyat be given!

I think the biggest joke is when Najib said that..

“This is where the cars will be designed, manufactured and tested. It will be ‘Made-in-Malaysia, by Malaysians’ and of course, the pit-stops will be run by Malay-sians,”

I died laughing! when I read this in the Star!

Our Proton cars are still made in Japan and we want to make Made-in-Malaysia F1 Cars!!

Why Anwar must go to Jail!

The simply is because Najib cannot afford for him not to. Let me explain!

As far back as I can remember, UMNO and BN have always had 1 main strategy and that tactic is basically to attack and to discredit the opposition. BN will use its main stream media to tell the rakyat that the opposition are incompetent and that they have no experience running the country. UMNO propaganda is to convince the rakyat that if the opposition rule the country, there will be chaos. They will further add that BN will rule the federal govt anyway and if you vote for them at least your area will get some development and projects heading your way. (If you want prove of this just look at how BN campaign in the last few by-election)

This strategy of theirs has not and will not change anytime soon! Why? This is basically because they have no better strategy. Which is easier to do right now?
Win back to hearts and trust of the rakyat? Or discredit the opposition so that the rakyat will feel that they have no better option?

UMNO and BN strategy is very clear! They are not concern about winning back the favour of the rakyat and frankly speaking, I think they don’t even care! So the easiest thing to do is to dishearten the rakyat and to make sure there is no viable alternative for the rakyat to choose (come the next GE).

The best way to do this is to break up the opposition’s coalition. Just take a look at their recently strategy. UMNO propaganda machinery (also known as MSM) will tell the Malays that DAP is controlling PAS and that they will lose their Bumiputera’s privileges if they support Pakatan Rakyat.

UMNO will then get its other BN’s component party to scare the non-Malays that if they support PKR, then PAS will be extremist and that the country will become and Islamic State with Hudud Laws. The ironic thing is that, while running this racist hate campaign, they (through their UMNO control newspaper) are accusing the opposition of stirring up racial and religious sensitivity!

Why are they doing this? It is obvious! They are trying to get supporters from DAP and PAS to fight each other and to break up PKR! UMNO believes that right now, what is holding PKR together is Anwar Ibrahim and Keadilan.

UMNO’s mentality is to take Anwar Ibrahim out of the picture with the hope that Keadillan will break apart. And once Keadillan are in disarray, so will PKR! And if PKR are in disarray, UMNO will tell the rakyat that, PKR are incapable of forming a viable government and better choose a strong and experience government so that the country can enjoy economic stability.

So what can we the normal rakyat do?
Well the first thing we must NOT do is to play into the hand of BN and UMNO! When the police do catch Anwar and throw him in jail, the rakyat must practice restrain. In fact in all the various provocation that UMNO is currently orchestrating, we must practice restrain. Here I must thank and comment the various Indian groups for their calm and restrain respond to the recent Cow Head incident. I think UMNO must have very frustrated that they did not get the response they wanted from the Indian community.

Why does UMNO want to create this tense situation?
It is simply because they need to scare the rakyat into believing that ISA is still useful today! They need a blanket reason to throw their political opponents into ISA and to tell the rakyat that it is the opposition that is causing the chaotic situation. Without chaos like May 13, it will be very hard to justify their actions. If there is a riot with bloodshed, then it is easier to scare the rakyat into believing that the cost of freedom of speech and assembly is a small price to pay for peace. Thus we must make sure that we do not over react to all of UMNO’s provocation!

The second thing we must do is to make sure we VOTE! This is the only way we can really voice our frustration and anger at the present government. And we must be resolute and vote smart! We must make sure no matter where the candidate is from; UMNO, MCA, MIC or even PBS. As long as they are from BN, we must make sure we do not vote for them in any by-election as well as the next GE. We must vote for the opposition at all cost. Even if PKR decide to up a Cow’s Head as their candidate, we must vote for them. We the rakyat must also be weary of “independent candidate” that the BN will plant in some areas to split the opposition’s vote. This has been a very effective strategy use by BN in the past. (The recent MIC AGM is prove of this.)

Not only that, we must make sure we give a full and convincing mandate to PAS, DAP and Keadilllan. This is because all Malaysians knows that, short of a convincing mandate from the rakyat, UMNO with its seemingly endless supply of money will use every dirty trick in the books to entice the various MPs and Assemblymen from PKR to jump ship. You need to look no further than Perak and Sabah for prove of this!

And so if you the rakyat are angry that cow head demonstrating racist can get an appointment with the Home Minister while peaceful demonstration with candles and roses are arrested immediately. If you the rakyat and dumbfounded for the various recent court rulings. If you are wondering why the two Perak frogs facing corruption charges is still being delayed till today?

If we Malaysian want to see the repeal of the ISA,
if we want to see reforms in the Judiciary and the Govt Institutions such as MCMC , MACC, PDRM,
If we want to see justice for RPK, Anwar, Kugan, P.I. Bala, Sujatha, Teoh Beng Hock, Elizabeth Wong,
if we want to see greater freedom of press and assembly,
if we want to see the people responsible for the Lingam case, PKFZ, Penan rape case brought to justice,
if we want to show our displeasure at how BN had robbed our democratic choice in Perak,
then we the rakyat must remember all this injustice and vote in the next GE to ensure BN and its leaders like Taib Mahmud, Khir Toyo, Hishammuddin, Najib and even Samy Vellu does not come back to power!

WITH OR WITHOUT ANWAR IBRAHIM!