Muhyiddin uses Azizan to justify sugar subsidy cut

From Malaysiakini Kow Kwan Yee 11:42AM Oct 26, 2013

SG LIMAU Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin today justified abolishing the sugar subsidy by pointing to former Kedah mentri besar the late Azizan Abdul Razak, whose legs were amputated due to diabetes prior to his death on Sept 26.

"The problem with Malaysia is, we're prosperous.

"Those who died are destined by Allah, but in this world, many are eating a lot at the same time taking a lot of sugar, until......I don't have to elaborate much about the late (Azizan, right).

"Because of this (consuming sugar), he is forced to go through the process where his legs had to be amputated," Muhyiddin said.

The DPM was trying to justify the subsidy cut, saying the government wanted to control the people's high sugar consumption as it led to health problems.

He was delivering his speech to 1,500-strong crowd at SMK Sungai Limau for a meet-the-people session today as part of the by-election campaign.

The death of Azizan, the former Sungai Limau state assemblyperson for five terms, resulted in the upcoming poll.

Meanwhile Najib is so full of himself that he can tell people with a straight face that the reason they lost in the election is because they were successful in implementing the BN policies! How did we end up with such an arrogant, dillusional idiot as PM? I am not sure who is worse. The PM or the DPM!

No goodies, but gov't splurges will continue

Take from Malaysiakini

By Tonu Pua

MP SPEAKS Stripping the 2014 Budget of its cosmetic makeup, taking away the glossy distractions and analysing the bare bones will provide an extremely clear indication that nothing much will change in Najib Abdul Razak's second term as prime minister and finance minister .

The Economic Report 2013/14 gave the good news that the expected revenue collection for the current year 2013 is RM224.1 billion, or RM14.4 billion higher than the original budget projection of RM208.7 billion. 

By right, the RM14.4 billion increase in revenue should have resulted in a lowered projected budget deficit of four percent to a market-euphoric 2.6 percent. The budget deficit for 2013 should have shrunk from RM39.9 billion to only RM25.6 billion.

However, it didn't. Despite collecting the significantly higher-than-expected revenue, the deficit for 2013 remained at RM39.3 billion. It means that almost every single sen of extra revenue collected by the government is immediately expended, instead of contributing towards reducing our debt.

What is interesting when you comb through the expenditure figures is that despite the increase in revenue, the actual development expenditure of the government was RM2.7 billion lower than the budgeted RM47.8 billion. 

The development expenditure has the larger economic multiplier effect because it represents investments by the government for future higher returns. Development expenditure includes building schools, hospitals and other public infrastructures.

The lower-than-budgeted development expenditure, the higher than expected government revenue means that the government's operating expenditure exceeded the budget massively. The government overspent in operating expenditure by RM14.3 billion more the original budget of RM201.9 billion.

A forlorn picture...

The above paints a forlorn picture for the government's public finances because the BN administration has consistently and significantly overspent the budget annually for the past 15 years. It is completely impotent in enforcing financial discipline in government expenditure.

A review of the 2014 Budget will show that it is primed for the same inevitable outcome as those of the past. Najib is asking Parliament to increase the operating expenditure further to RM217.7 billion, despite a massive RM7.3 billion cut in the subsidies budget from RM46.7 billion in 2013 to RM39.4 billion in 2014. 

Effectively, that means whatever that is saved from the subsidies reduction goes entirely towards other government operating expenditure. 

The biggest beneficiary is the government's expenditure on "Supplies and Services", which will enjoy a RM2 billion increase in allocation to RM36.6 billion for 2014. 

It is shocking that the government needs to further increase the budget for "Supplies and Services", especially since the budget for it in 2010 was only RM23.8 billion. That is a 53.8 percent increase in spending for "Supplies and Services" in just four years.

Why is the government asking ordinary Malaysians to tighten their belts and suffer higher prices, but the government itself chooses to continue with its big spending ways with "Supplies and Services"? 

The subsidy cuts aren't going toward reducing our debts or deficits. Instead, it is just providing more funds for the government to go shopping. It should be noted that the annual scandals uncovered by the auditor-general on purchases of ordinary products at outrageous prices are all part of this "Supplies and Services" budget.

One can easily tell that this government has its priorities all wrong in increasing operating expenditure and at the same time reducing development expenditure. From a RM47.8 billion budget in 2013, Najib is proposing a steep cut to only RM44.5 billion in 2014. 

This means that the 2014 Budget has the lowest proportion of development expenditure in Malaysian history, of only 17 percent. In 2003, more than 30 percent of the national budget was allocated to development expenditure.

The 2014 Budget paints an obvious picture of a government failing to reform despite a "brave" goods and services tax (GST) proposal. Without any attempt to instil financial spending discipline in the government, as exposed above, it does not matter how much additional revenue, budgeted or otherwise, the government is going to receive. 

The money will be spent, not saved or invested. Worse still, the tax ringgit will be spent on the wrong priorities.

Hence, given the above context, the proposed and much-hyped GST isn't a policy of reform. Instead, it is a measure of desperation to continue filling the coffers of the government so as to reduce the need for the BN adminsitration to cut down on its excesses.

Using the Petronas earnings, the government has created and cultivated a bloated bureaucratic monster that has grown so big over the past decade, Najibnomics takes the easy way out by cutting subsidies and raising taxes to satisfy its out-of-control operating expenditure.

Najib abusing his position to save Utusan!

Recently Najib gave Utusan Malaysia his endorsement when he urged government departments, government-linked companies (GLCs) and Bumiputera firms to advertise more in the Umno-owned Bahasa Malaysia daily to ensure the newspaper's capability to compete in the long term. This is an outright abuse of his position and wrong! Utusan is a private company spewing out racist lies and slander. On top of that to name a street road after this UMNO own company is a shiok sendiri exercise that is abusing his power! 

I like the response from the article below taken from Malaysian Insiders.

How far does one go to support fiction? In Utusan Malaysia's case, it goes as far as getting government departments and state companies to advertise in the Umno-owned newspaper to ensure its survival.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's push for his party paper today to get such advertisements has to be seen in that light - an endorsement for fiction writing which the daily indulges in from time to time.

After all, no other Malaysian newspaper has lost as many defamation cases as Utusan Malaysia in the last few years.

In opening the 75-year-old newspaper's new office today, Najib said Utusan cannot rely solely on circulation to stay in business and that advertising is needed to keep the news company afloat.Despite its fiction writing putting Malaysians at loggerheads with each other, here comes the prime minister asking Malaysian taxpayers to fund this party newsletter to ensure it can compete in the future.

And this is where money from the GLCs and government departments come in. After all, most of the private sector have ditched advertising in the daily over its racial slant in recent years.

But make no mistake, the advertising ringgit from GLCs comes from taxpayers, many of them educated Malaysians who live in urban areas - the same voters who rejected the politics of racism and chauvinism espoused by Utusan Malaysia.

What would they think of this latest move then, to use their hard-earned money to support a paper prone to fiction? Wouldn't that money be better used to mitigate the effects of rising costs?

Is keeping Utusan afloat a priority for this government over the livelihood of most Malaysians?

And renaming the Jalan Enam road where the Utusan Malaysia office is to Jalan Utusan is a priority and pride for this government?

“Jalan Enam has no meaning. It will be renamed Jalan Utusan,” Najib announced at the opening of the newspaper's new building.

What really has no meaning is supporting such fiction that causes racism and makes people argue with each other. That is what Utusan and its editors have done and were found guilty and fined in a court of law.

This government has a country to run and an economy to grow, not put priority on helping a newspaper survive because it belongs to the ruling party. - September 13, 2013.

The VINDICATION of Lim Kit Siang!

Finally Tanda Putera admitted to their slander. But the damage is done! How do they fix this? What is more sickening is that this film cost the govt RM4.8million.

Tanda Putera producer finally apologises to Lim

11:45AM Sep 13, 2013

More than a year after the film 'Tanda Putera' was embroiled in controversy with its Facebook page accusing DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang of urinating on a flagpole, the film's producer has finally issued an official apology.

"We, Messrs Pesona Pictures Sdn Bhd, unreservedly apologise to Lim Kit Siang for the embarrassment caused by the abovementioned publication which is devoid of truth," it said in a statement uploaded on Facebook this afternoon.

In an earlier posting yesterday, theFacebook site of the film based on the May 13, 1969 race riots attributed the faulty allegation it made July last year to a junior social media administrator.

"The administrator at that time, who was also our friend, received a link from a visitor who sent a picture of Lim Kit Siang with the wrong caption.

"Our junior administrator did not do it on purpose, but he thought it was correct, so he uploaded it," the posting reads.

The caption had said Lim urinated on the flagpole outside the house of the then Selangor menteri besar Harun Idris.

Yesterday's 'Tanda Putera' Facebook statement said the mistake was promptly rectified and claimed that the administrator and film producer have since apologised, though it did not specify to whom.

However, it noted that there were demands for an apology onFacebook where the posting originally appeared: "No problem, we will do it (apologise on Facebook)," the posting says.

"The picture and caption were not our creations but were sent to us," it adds.

Elaborating on the faux pas in the latest official apology today, the film's producer said Lim's photograph and erroneous caption was posted on theirFacebook page by a subscriber and was spotted by the page's administrator.

"Innocently believing the same to be in some manner relevant to the movie Tanda Putera, he proceeded to copy and save them onto theFacebook's photo album.

"The publication thereof was purely an inadvertence, without any malice or bad faith intended," it said.

However, the company said it stood by the content of the 'Tanda Putera' film.

Apology missing
This is the first public apology made. It was absent in the prominent public rebuttal by film director Shuhaimi Baba on Aug 15, 2012, almost a month after the controversy first erupted.

Shuhaimi (right) had merely said that the erroneous posting was removed and that at no point did Lim appear in the film.

However, she insisted that the urination incident was real, though not by Lim himself.

'Tanda Putera' chronicles the relationship between former prime minister Abdul Razak Hussein and his deputy Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman in the midst of the 1969 race riots, which continues to be a divisive topic, and more so today as a result of the controversial film.

Lim has repeatedly denied the urination incident, seen as a provocation for the 1969 race riots, pointing out that he was in Sabah when the May 13 tragedy broke out in Kuala Lumpur.

He had also urged the filmmakers to apologise over the allegation.

On Monday, Lim, who is also DAP national adviser, commenced legal action against Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia and former information minister Zainuddin Maidin for repeating the 'urination' allegation against him.


AND even through Tanda Putera has completely bomb in the box-office, the film director Datin Paduka Shuhaimi Baba has already begun work on her next movie for which she is expecting another government grant!!!! WTF!

WE NEED TO VOTE BN GOVT OUT TO SAVE MONEY ON USELESS FILMS!

Is this not a cruel and evil sentence!?? What kind of Judge is this?!?

Its been a long time since I posted but when I read this I cannot tahan! We need a change in govt to get rid of judges who are not doing justice in our Country!

3 who protested against Zambry as Perak MB go to jail

Ahmad Fadli KC 4:33PM Sep 13, 2013

Thirteen people, some of whom are single mothers and cancer patients, who protested at the appointment of Zambry Abdul Kadir as the new menteri besar at the Ubudiah Mosque in Kuala Kangsar four years ago, were today ordered to serve their two years’ jail sentence at Tapah prison.

This follows the Kuala Kangsar Sessions Court finding them guilty of participating in an illegal assembly and fining them RM5,000, after refusing to grant an application for a stay of the sentence pending appeal.

The two years’ jail is the maximum jail sentence accorded for illegal assembly under the Police Act.

Sessions judge Norsalha Hamzah ordered the sentence to run from today as she refused to grant a stay.

According to lawyer Augustin Anthony, as a result of the court not granting a stay order they will file a formal application at the Taiping High Court on Tuesday at the earliest. Monday is a holiday as it is Malaysia day.

The 13 were protesting the appointment of Zambry as the new Perak menteri besar from BN, when the Pakatan Rakyat government under the stewardship of Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin fell.

This happened as a result of three Pakatan assemblypersons defecting to BN, resulting in the government’s collapse and leading to a constitutional crisis.

Augustin said the lawyers are upset as the court did not consider granting a stay as they had argued that some of the accused are single mothers.

“Some of them are also cancer patients,” he toldMalaysiakini, adding that despite such grounds the court refused to grant a stay.

Among the lawyers representing the accused were Aminuddin Zulkifli and Zamri Ibrahim.

BN Ministers are Idiots! (Penan Issue)

Keruah Usit 12:14PM Jul 27, 2013

ANTIDOTE The first-term Sarawak state assembly representative for Telang Usan in Baram, Dennis Ngau, has spread ripples of disbelief and laughter in the social media following his remarks on the rape of Penan women and schoolgirls.

Ngau made his remarks in response to a PKR accusation that Women, Family and Community Development Minister Rohani Abdul Karim, had misled a regional forum by making a verifiably incorrect claim. The minister had said that the recommendations of her ministry's Task Force Report, on sexual violence by loggers in Baram, had already been carried out. 

Rohani (left)said this at the Seventh Meeting of the Asean Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, which was held in Kuala Lumpur from July 22 to 24.

Dennis Ngau rode to the minister's rescue, but stumbled. "I did not read the Task Force Report, but I'm sure the government took it seriously and at times may have to adjust to suit the local environment," he was quoted as saying by the Borneo Post. 

Instead of saving the minister, Ngau appears to have trampled her underfoot. His verbal slapstick has drawn even greater attention to the minister's controversial claim.

Sarawak PKR vice-chairperson and state assemblyperson for Batu Lintang See Chee How had on July 23 challenged the minister for trying to paper over the scandal surrounding the loggers' sexual assaults. 

"I am disappointed with the minister as she did not speak the truth at the international forum," See, a human rights lawyer, told the press.

"I regret the minister was misguided and wrongly advised into making an embarrassing statement that most of the recommendations listed in the National Task Force Report were executed," he went on.

"Someone commented that BN ministers lie to the Malaysian public on a daily basis. They do. But misleading an international or regional audience is serious."

Task Force's shocking findings

Loggers in Baram have raped girls as young as 10 years old. These crimes were uncovered by a federal Cabinet Task Force in September 2009. 

The ministry's Task Force was unanimous in the finding that "sexual abuse of Penan girls and women by outsiders dealing with the Penan, including logging company employees and traders, had indeed taken place." Their brief visit, over four days, documented eight cases of sexual abuse.

According to the Task Force, the roots of this sexual violence included poverty, isolation, excessive dependency on logging companies for transportation to clinics and schools, mistrust of the authorities among the Penan and prejudice towards the Penan. 

The Task Force had recommended far-reaching improvements in transportation of schoolchildren, infrastructure, birth and citizenship registration, healthcare and education, and in the self-determination of the Penan.

These findings were then broadened in July 2010 by another investigation by the Penan Support Group, a coalition of NGOs. The PSG uncovered seven new instances of sexual violence, and tied these in with the wider socio-economic deprivation of rural communities. 

Logging companies offer powerful support and generous donations to the ruling political elite. They own newspapers, infrastructure and even politicians.

‘No further action' by government

Five years later, the Penan face exactly the same challenges, and are as vulnerable as ever to sexual abuse. Not a single rapist has been brought to justice: the police blame a lack of funds for their failure.

"The complaints lodged with the police on sexual assault against Penan women have been classified as ‘NFA' (no further action)," See said.

"Until today, there has not been any arrangement done to ferry Penan children to their boarding schools and back to their settlements."

Penan settlements in Baram Tengah have had to rely on a single four-wheel-drive vehicle, purchased for them by the Selangor and Penang state governments, to have access to distant schools and hospitals.

See (left) noted that the Sarawak government had gone as far as sponsoring a women's empowerment workshop in Baram, conducted by a local NGO, Sarawak Women for Women Society. But, he added, there was no additional effort put into the health services, national registration and pre-school classes in Baram, as recommended by the Task Force.

"However, I welcome the commitment by the federal minister to visit the Penan community in Sarawak to review the implementation of the recommendations made in the report, and I hope she will make full and frank disclosure of her report later," he said.

See was more direct in calling Dennis Ngau's outburst "the confession and proof of a failed assemblyman" in a social media remark.

"This is the single most important cabinet report affecting the people of Ngau's constituency, he didn't bother to read (it) but quickly jumped up to defend the mediocre minister, and is making it worse for her now," See observed.

Ngau had told the Borneo Post that the BN government had engaged with the Penan in dialogues and meetings "to make them understand why they must accept development".

He also appeared to doubt the findings of rape by the ministry's Task Force, telling the Borneo Post that "the Penan that I met and asked even denied that such thing [sic] even occurred". 

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KERUAH USIT is a human rights activist - ‘anak Sarawak, bangsa Malaysia'. This weekly column is an effort to provide a voice for marginalised Malaysians. Keruah Usit can be contacted at keruah_usit@yahoo.com

Janji di tepati!! TNB increase tariff!

FROM MALAYSIAKINI

Kua Kia Soong 10:37AM Jul 27, 2013

COMMENT In my recent article ‘Damned Dams & Noxious Nukes: Questioning Malaysia's Energy Policy' (Suaram 2013, p 2), I had warned that the government would surely raise electricity tariffs after the 13th general election.

Right on cue, Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has just announced that there will be an upward review of the electricity tariff. TNB is justifying this increase by claiming that domestic consumers have been subsidised long enough.

However, who have been the main beneficiaries of the government subsidies?

The energy industry in Malaysia has become a mega business and the government has been subsidising private businesses handsomely for at least two decades, even as it announces attempts to remove subsidies for domestic consumers.

In the mid-Nineties when the IPPs first came into the energy production scene, the industrial sector was TNB's largest consumer, with 60 percent of electricity consumption, but it was paying the lowest rates averaging 15.98 sen per kilowatt hour. On the other hand, the domestic and commercial sectors were paying 21.5 sen per unit and 23.3 sen per unit respectively. (New Straits Times, Jan 17, 1996)

But any privatisation exercise can only be called a success if the businessmen who bid for the projects succeed in raising financing from the banks through their own credentials. What is evident in the privatisation contracts in the energy industry of Malaysia is that many of the crony capitalists (who are, strictly speaking, failed businessmen) rely on the Malaysian workers' pension fund, the EPF, through their links with the government.

Thus, then-energy minister S Samy Vellu justified the EPF as the single biggest source of financing for the Bakun Dam project:

"Bakun, you see, they need some government help... They need government help to borrow money. About RM15 billion to generate 2,400MW of electricity, which means Ekran needs to borrow from the EPF," Samy Vellu said. (Business Times, Feb 23, 1995)

Well-connected IPPs

TNB used to be the sole electricity provider in the country but after the blackouts and brownouts in 1992, independent power producers (IPPs) were allowed into the industry.

They were politically well-connected but devoid of any electric power engineering or generating experience, and the power purchase agreements they signed with TNB allowed them highly favourable terms with take-or-pay arrangements for power generation, i.e. if there was no uptake, the IPPs were paid a capacity charge to offset this.

Furthermore, they could pass their cost increases, such as any fuel price increases, to TNB. But TNB itself does not enjoy such a cost-pass-through formula to help it recover any increases in costs.

In 1995, a single IPP made RM800 million in profits - about half of what Tenaga made with all its national plants! Furthermore, the IPPs do not have to invest in transmission or distribution - the expensive parts of the business. (Sunday Star, Sept 1, 1996)

If we compare the generation costs of TNB and the IPPs, we will have an idea of TNB's problems. In 1997, TNB was paying between 11.8 sen and 15.5 sen per unit of electricity to the five IPPs while its cost of generating electricity was less than 10 sen per unit. (The Star, April 20, 1997)

To solve these contradictions, TNB saw the only way out as raising electricity tariffs and to urge consumers to use more electricity, including drying their clothes with electrical appliances! Either way, Malaysian consumers lost out and the need for energy conservation was put off once again despite the pious declarations at the Rio conference.

Apart from the dice being loaded in favour of the IPPs, they also built power stations at sites of their own choice, not where they were needed. Thus, YTL built a station at Paka, Terengganu, (where the gas supply comes in) although electric power was desperately needed in the north and central regions.

The admission of the IPPs into the energy industry and subsequent flip-flopping policies reflect the total lack of planning and well-thought out energy policy.

The costs of excess capacity

TNB has been keeping a reserve margin in excess of 30 percent over the nation's total demand. In fact, this reserve margin was boosted to 42 percent after the commissioning of two new power plants in 2003. With rising operational costs, including that of excess capacity maintenance, TNB was forced to cut its reserve margin to just below 25 percent. This move was estimated to save the corporation RM1 billion in maintenance cost a year:

"Tenaga has to bear the cost of managing excess capacity on its own. It pays independent power producers about RM500,000 for every megawatt a year and normally draws less than four-fifths of that power... Imagine how much Tenaga spends to manage about 1,500MW of excess capacity from the IPPs!" (New Straits Times, Aug 30, 2003)

There is thus no justification for the Bakun Dam which harnesses 2,400MW electricity when the demand for energy in the whole of Sarawak state was only around 400MW in 1997. The original intention was for the electricity produced to be transmitted 665km to the west coast of Sarawak and a further 670km to Peninsular Malaysia, through high-voltage undersea cables that have never been tested through this distance anywhere in the world!

The current total energy demand in the whole of Sarawak is only 1,000MW, so the government has been trying to attract the biggest energy guzzlers, such as aluminium smelters that happen to be the most toxic as well. These environmentally polluting industries are then touted as part of the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (Score).

In fact, hydro-electric power dams and toxic aluminium smelters are all industries rejected by developed countries. None of these countries, especially Australia, wants to have toxic industries in their own backyard. Lynas is but the most recent example.

But the Sarawak state government is willing to have these mega projects for rather dubious purposes. The desperate chase for investments to take up the excess Bakun energy after the dam has been built shows a total lack of economic feasibility studies which should have been done long before the dam was built. Is it surprising therefore that many Score contracts have been given to companies owned by members of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud's family?

As long as the full eight-turbine capacity of the Bakun dam is not being fully utilised, it will not be economical as the same amount of water is required to run one or all the turbines. It is comical to see the same vacillating suggestion being made every time the government is faced with this conundrum, namely, to resurrect the submarine cables to transmit the surplus power to the peninsula!

The recent blackout throughout Sarawak has been attributed to a glitch at the Bakun dam which triggered the state-wide blackout. Has the cost of the blackout been worked out yet?

The Bakun dam project cost has ballooned to well over RM8 billion. At the end of the day, the project will be a yoke around Malaysian consumers' necks and we will have to pay high tariffs to cover the losses incurred by the developer and/or TNB.

More mega-dams for us to subsidise

But the monstrous Bakun dam is not all that has been dreamed up by the Sarawak state government. The 944MW Murum dam is soon to be impounded. Like Bakun, this latter dam project is in violation of international standards on indigenous rights as guaranteed in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), of which Malaysia is a signatory.

As with the Bakun dam, none of the studies related to the projects have been transparent. The affected Penan and Kenyah have stated that they have never been asked for their consent, as demanded by the UNDRIP.

The project developer, Sarawak's state-owned electricity generating company, Sarawak Energy Bhd (SEB) has not provided indigenous communities with an opportunity to grant or withhold their "free, prior and informed consent" for the project as required by UNDRIP. Even in cases where there was agreement, the resettlement plan was not made known to the indigenous peoples prior to the start of the construction, and they were not informed about the project's impacts.

The social and environmental impact assessment (SEIA) for the Murum project is seriously flawed. International standards - including the World Bank IFC Performance Standards - universally require that the SEIA must be completed during the design phase, before the government approves the project and before construction begins.

This was not the case with the Murum Dam Project. The SEIA process only began after construction of the project was already under way.

When the 944MW Murum Dam costing RM3.5 billion comes on stream, the total installed capacity of the two dams will be 3,344MW. The combined cost of the two dams is RM10.8 billion. There are also plans to build more dams - 1,400MW in Balleh, 1,000MW in Baram, 150MW in Limbang and 300MW in Metjawah, among others.

Sarawak's existing capacity to generate electricity (viz. 1,300MW) without the Bakun dam already exceeds the peak demand of 1,100MW. Electricity generated cannot be stored. Unused power will be wasted. The government hopes that energy guzzling industries such as aluminium smelters will come and take up this surplus of energy...

In such a state of affairs, who is subsidising whom? Don't even mention building noxious nuclear plants!

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KUA KIA SOONG, a former MP, is adviser to human rights NGO Suaram.

BN logic of "winnable" candidates!

These are some of BN "winnable" candidates for this coming GE13!
1. Ceylyn Tay Wei Lung a.k.a Ms Equality
She tells Malaysians that that in Malaysia, the Chinese community cannot expect equal treatment because of their small numbers. 




2. Jessie Ooi a.k.a Ms Tow Truck Driver

3. Datuk Zulkifli Noordin
This guy is the best lah!
 Apart from calling Indians "Keling", just check out what else he says in these you tube and ask yourself if this is somebody you want in government?







However Ong Tee Keat, the former MCA President, the only MCA guy who fought hard to find out the truth about the PKFZ scandal is no a "winnable" candidate??!?!?

Wow!! Najib's logic is amazing!!

And to think I haven't even talk about BN's candidates with false degrees yet!

Lets compare this with some of opposition's candidates!

1. Tony Pua
Graduated from Keble College, Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics under a scholarship from the MTC Foundation in 1994. Prior to that, he received Asean and Shaw Foundation scholarships to pursue his "O" and "A"-Levels in Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College.

He worked for Andersen Consulting (now renamed Accenture) as a consultant after he graduated from Oxford. Two years later, in March 1997, he started Cyber Village when demand for e-business consultancy grew.

With his combined savings and those of his parents amounting to RM20,000 and another RM30,000 chipped in by three friends, he went ahead to open an office in Overseas Union Garden, Old Klang Road, KL with four staff.

In August 2001, Cyber Village became the first Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC)-status company to list on the Singapore Dealing and Automated Quotation System (Sesdaq). Its public offer of 400,000 shares drew an over-subscription of approximately 2.7 times.

2. Yeo Bee Yin

Studied at SMJK Seg Hwa. After that, continued her education in Chemical Engineering in Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) under Petronas Scholarship and graduated with a First Class Honors. 

Worked for Schlumberger, a US oil and gas company, as an international field engineer for oil exploration and production. 

After working for 2 years, she went on to pursue MPhil (Masters in Philosophy) in Advanced Chemical Engineering in Cambridge University under Gates Cambridge Scholarship and completed my master degree with a Commendation. 

(Read her story here! Very inspiring!)

3.  Ong Kian Meng

Professional Experience

• Election Strategist, Democratic Action Party of Malaysia (08/2012-)
• Director, OKM Consulting (07/2010-)
• Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Policy Science, UCSI University (06/2010-)
• Regional Consultant, Blue Ocean Strategy Regional Center (06/2010-)
• Policy Analyst, Socio Economics Development and Research Institute (SEDAR) (01/2002-06/2003)
• Policy Analyst, Institute of Strategic Analysis and Policy Research (09/2001-12/2002)
• Associate Consultant, Boston Consulting Group (1999-2001)
• Summer Intern, Monetary Authority of Singapore (08/1998-09/1998)

Educational Experience

• PhD. Political Science, Duke University, US (2004-2010)
• M. Phil. Economics, University of Cambridge, UK (1998-1999)
• B. Sc. Economics, London School of Economics, UK (1995-1998)
• A Levels, Raffles College, Singapore (1993-1994)
• O Levels, Raffles Institution, Singapore (1991-1992)
• SMK La Salle, PJ, Malaysia (1988-1990)

Awards and Honours

• ASEAN Scholar (1991-1994)
• Fulbright Scholar (2004-2006)

4. Rafizi Ramli Pengarah Strategi Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).

•  This is the guy who help expose the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) scandal.

•  Studied at Kolej Melayu Kuala Kangsar (1990 – 1994) . Won the Anugerah Carey/Bolkiah sebagai Pelajar Terbaik Keseluruhan 
• Continued his studies at University of Leeds , England (1996 – 1999). Received the Arthur Crabtree award 1997, Pelajar Terbaik Tahun Pertama Kejuruteraan Elektrikal dan Elektronik ;Ijazah Kelas Pertama (Tahun Pertama dan Kedua) dan Ijazah Sarjana Muda Kejuruteraan Elektrikal dan Elektronik.
• Earn his Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) within 2 years and became a ICAEW member in 2003.
• Was accepted into the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) in 2003 when he return to Malaysia.
• Worked in Petronas and promoted to became one of the youngest Senior Manager there.

See his full touching story here too.

My fellow Malaysians! Is it still unclear to you who you should vote for??

Najib! Solve your own Water problem first lah!

How does he amass such indecent amount of wealth?

Malaysian seek answers and justice for this issue!!



Watch the videos! If you love justice and hate corruption, you will surely get angry and make sure BN gets kick out in Sarawak!





How does Taib response to all this?!?!

Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud has today accused the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) investigation of himself for graft as “victimisation”, reserving his cooperation as he believes that they have been “naughty and dishonest”.

“They (MACC) don’t deserve my cooperation because they have been naughty… and they have not been honest,” he said when met after attending the BN supreme council meeting in Kuala Lumpur today.

Najib strategy for winning PRU13?!

Can you guess how Najib plans to win this election.


1. Cheating?

2. Bribing?

3. All of the above!

Here are some examples that may help you decide!

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19, 2013): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak today announced a one-off payment of RM500 for more than 26,000 staff of Telekom Malaysia (TM) as rewarded for their "contributions, commitment and loyalty" to the company....it is hoped that on my next visit to Telekom, InsyaAllah (God willing) I will be holding the same position," he said to applause and cheer.


 Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced today a “token of appreciation” of RM1,000 each to staff of the national oil company Petronas ahead of elections expected soon....“So when the time comes, I hope you decide wisely,” he said.

Three journalists’ organisations received RM50,000 each while 103 NGOs got between RM5,000 and RM50,000 at a dinner attended by party boy and billionaire Low Taek Jho,widely known as Jho Low.

Need more prove? Listen! Listen! Listen from his own mouth! Then ask yourself is this the kind of PM you want for Malaysia!

Gutless Najib had no response to Dr M's crap?!?

Pay attention to the dates of those statement. I am still waiting for Najib to response to Dr M's crap!?  I guess UMNO can say what the want but it looks like they and PERKASA are working together?!?

DPM let slip BN's real intentions after elections!

How smart are you to say something like that??

Maybe he wants to go back to the good old times of Pak Lah!

From Malaysian Insider

KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 – Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin warned the Barisan Nasional (BN) machinery today against complacency, admitting that beating Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in the coming polls contest would not be an easy task.

The deputy BN chairman said the opposition will be fighting tooth and nail to achieve its Putrajaya goal this time around and would not give up so easily.

“We have to be ready because it will not be easy to get the opposition to surrender,” he told BN members when launching the pact’s Batu parliamentary command centre here.

Muhyiddin told party workers to work their hardest to draw more support for BN, adding they should not give up as long as victory is not yet on their side.

“Do not sleep until the very final day. Only once we have won, you can sleep for however long you like... but as long as victory is not in our hands, we have to be alert... do not allow our enemies to sneak up on us and influence our voters,” he told some 500 at the function this evening.

Rais: OK to use govt machinery for campaigns

Misused Govt things ah?? No problem lah! We are still the govt mah! And we are use to it lah!

From Malaysiakini

Rais: Okay to use gov't machinery for campaigns

Ahmad Fadli KC 8:04PM Apr 9, 2013

Information, Communication and Culture Minister Rais Yatim today defended BN's actions of using the Information Department's machinery for campaigning purposes.

He said that there is nothing wrong with the usage of government's machinery because BN is still considered the caretaker government from now until the nomination day.

"Now we are in an environment of carrying out duties as a temporary government. The government still exists under Article 43 of the federal constitution and all things that involve executive powers - such as Article 38 and Article 43 - on the powers of appointing ministers, also falls under the ministry's function, all ministries are to function as per normal procedures," he added.

"However, starting from nomination day, no government agency can take part in any programme that helps the election campaign of any one party," he stressed.

"It is wrong for them to assume that the Information Department or the Science Department can't come out with explanations in behalf of the government," he said.

He said that even though the nation is in an "interim government" environment, the powers of the government remains.

Malaysiakini had earlier reported that three vehicles belonging to the Information Department were used to facilitate the opening of BN's election command centre for the Batu parliamentary constituency on Sunday.

'Airtime offer was to broadcast only once'

Meanwhile, Rais said that the government's offer of 10-minute airtime for Pakatan Rakyat to present their manifesto in the state channel, Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM), would be broadcast only once, and not repeatedly over the campaign period.

"We (would) give 10 minutes only once, not on every campaign day. This is not about campaigning, it is only about explaining the gist of the respective manifestos," he stressed.
  
According to the minister, Pakatan can explain five full pages of their manifesto if they utilise the 10 minutes completely.

"I have conducted tests and in 10 minutes, we could read at least five pages of A4 papers with a one-line space between sentences," he said.

He added that the opposition's refusal to accept the offer was only an attempt to "mock" RTM.

However, Election Commission (EC) chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof had previously said that the government's airtime offer to the opposition was to have been part of an ongoing series and not a one-time deal.