Thursday, February 16, 2012

Mahathir: Menambah filem cerita hantu karut-marut menghalang kejayaan orang Melayu

Mahathir: Menambah filem cerita hantu karut-marut menghalang kejayaan orang Melayu

Mahathir: Menambah filem cerita hantu karut-marut menghalang kejayaan orang Melayu

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:04 PM PST

TAKUT 1. Kita semua tahu takut. Kita takut sakit. Kita takut kehilangan mereka yang disayangi. Kita takut dicedera atau dibunuh orang. Kita takut iman digugat. Kita takut mati. Kita takut dan kita patut takut. Sedikit sebanyak ia menyelamat kita.2. Tetapi kadang-kadang kita takut kepada yang kita tidak patut takut. Kita takut gelap. Kita takut makhluk [...]


Don't rely on Wikipedia for information

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:05 AM PST

At breakfast yesterday morning, someone mentioned about our so-called First Couple. A friend mentioned about the recent wedding of Najib's daughter, and I said she is Rosmah's, especially having read about the controversies concerning whether it was private or official. But another friend said, no, she is Najib's first wife's daughter. I said I can easily check to see who is right. I didn't mean to be nosey but more out of curiosity and to test my memory, so I searched online just to get the facts right.

According to Wikipedia:

On Rosmah Mansor:

"She married Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak in 1987 and the couple has two children - Nooryana Najwa and Norashman Razak. In addition to them, Rosmah also has three other children - Azrene Soraya (first marriage), and two other children from her second marriage with Abdul Aziz Nong Chik."

On Najib Tun Razak:

"In 1976 Najib married Tengku Puteri Zainah Tengku Eskandar ('Kui Yie') with whom he has three children: Mohd Nizar Najib (born 1978), Mohd Nazifuddin Najib and Puteri Norlisa Najib. In 1987 he divorced Ku Yie and married Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor with whom he has two children: Mohd Norashman Najib and Nooryana Najwa Najib. This is Rosmah's second marriage as well. She has two children from her previous marriage to Farid Ismeth Emir who was a former TV news presenter and currently a general manager in a trading company."

According to an article on Stress Control, among the items on the list, the following caught my attention:

"5. If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague."

I wonder if the above rule applies in the surprising vagueness of details (especially numbers do not add up) concerning our First Couple. I am surprised nobody in our PM's overstaffed office bothered to correct the misinformation.

By the way, my sister-in-law just mentioned about her husband's complaint that some of his medical students treat Wikipedia as if it is an authoritative source for medical information!

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The Proposed 1Care – Does It Really Care?

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:07 AM PST

 

By Toh Kin Woon*
 
Introduction
Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960), who was the Minister of Health in the United Kingdom immediately after the 2nd World War, once stressed that where medical needs exist, medical care should be provided and budgets should be of secondary importance. Based on this progressive and compassionate principle, he went on to establish Great Britain's National Health System (NHS), which was then one of the most inclusive, comprehensive and equitable healthcare systems in the world. Unfortunately, Bevan's stand is not much supported by many policy-makers today, especially after the widespread dissemination of neo-liberalism.
 
The consequences are concern over costs rather than adequate healthcare coverage for the people, especially the poor and marginalized and priority on profits for healthcare providers over good health for the general population, achieved largely through rationing of heath care resources via the ability to pay rather than need.
 
That health is a social good with large positive externalities is increasingly being forgotten. Similarly neglected is the recognition that access to adequate healthcare is a basic human right. Hence, that the state should play a fundamental role in its provision in order to obviate under-consumption by the poor and sick, while at the same time preventing over-consumption by the rich and healthy, is increasingly being ignored. This has led to continuous moves by the state to outsource the many aspects of healthcare provision, such as treatment, drug supply, non-medical services and financing, to the private sector providers such as private hospitals and clinics, pharmacies, large contractors and insurance companies.
 
Like many other countries, Malaysia has not been spared the onslaught of neo-liberal thinking. The effect is the outsourcing to the private sector of several services related to healthcare management such as hospital cleaning and laundry, the management of clinical wastes, facility engineering and bio-medical engineering, as well as the procurement of drugs.  Such privatization has sharply increased the costs of servicing the healthcare system. Alongside these measures, the state has introduced the system of co-payments by patients and private practice by doctors in publicly funded hospitals after working hours. Under the former, patients are now required to pay high collateral payments for the treatment of several conditions such as orthopedic procedures which require plates and nails, lens for cataracts, clips for surgical procedures, drug-coated stents for angioplasties and certain anti-cancer drugs, while under the latter, patients would be required to pay much more if they wish to seek earlier and speedier treatment.
 
The financial burden borne by poor patients has gone up consequent upon the introduction of co-payments. At the same time, they are being increasingly excluded from the much needed after office hours for-profit services. Added to these worrying trends is the planned introduction by the Ministry of Health of a new healthcare system that, according to sources familiar with the scheme, are likely to bring even greater burden to the poor and sick.
 
1Care –Salient Points
Called 1Care, this new healthcare scheme, whose details have as yet to be officially announced, has the following broad features.
  • 1Care will be funded by a national health insurance system, which requires every household to contribute close to 10% of its gross household income to it. This amount is, however, to be shared among 3 parties viz the individual, the employer and the government, though the proportions have as yet to be worked out. How the government plans to collect such premiums from the self-employed and the amount to be collected have not been worked out. The government is, however, likely to pay for the premiums of civil servants, pensioners and up to 5 of their dependents.
  • Contribution by every household is compulsory and payment has to be done upfront. The current practice of fee for service will be replaced by fee before service.
  • It will be managed by a National Healthcare Financing Authority (NHFA), which is likely to be a government-linked company (GLC).
  • The new 1Care healthcare system does not provide for all your medical expenses. It does so for only a prescribed basic list. The costs of seeking treatment for anything beyond this basic list will have to be borne by the patients themselves out of their own pockets.
  • Patients are not allowed to see doctors of their choice, but will have to see one allotted to them. Private practitioners will have to join the 1Care system if they wish to see patients covered under this scheme.
  • Patients can see specialists only after first being screened by general practitioners who will decide when they can do so. This is a practice called gate keeping. Such rationing of specialist care applies to healthcare by general practitioners as well under the proposed 1Care scheme. This means that patients cannot visit their doctors as and when they please, though how this is going to be regulated is as yet unclear. For those wishing to seek specialist care without the requisite recommendation by their doctors, they will have to pay out of their own pockets as these visits will not be covered by national health insurance.
  • The proposed fee for seeing a general practitioner under the 1Care system is RM60, which is only for consultation and does not include medication. Compared to the present charge for treating common illnesses, including medication, these proposed fees work out to be three to four times more for patients. Although these charges may be covered by national health insurance, patients may still be asked to make certain co-payments.
  • Medicines prescribed will have to be from a standardized list of not the original medicines in line with the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines. The idea is to save costs for 1Care and maximize profits for the insurance companies, which will have a big say in deciding on this list and the prices of medicines. Needless to say, these companies are likely to approve the cheapest medicines.
 
Why Worry?
Based on what we know thus far, Malaysians have much to be concerned over the proposed 1Care healthcare system. Why?
  • For a start, everyone, irrespective of his or her socio-economic status, will have to pay for healthcare. They will have to contribute to the national health insurance scheme. Presumably, anyone who is unable to contribute because of financial difficulties will not be covered and  will hence not be treated even in public hospitals, which currently provide almost free medical treatment to all who cannot afford to seek treatment in private hospitals and clinics. This gives rise to the possibility that the poor and sick may not get access to healthcare, a basic human right.
  • The introduction of a national health insurance scheme adds on to the financial burden of the poor, who are already stressed by rising costs and hence declining real wages. The government can well counter by insisting that it will pay for the premiums of the poor, but only after they have passed a means test. We all know though that such tests are more often than not exclusionist in nature. It is not easy for the poor to prove that they are indeed poor.
  • The new practice of having to get medicine from a pharmacist will mean placing a great deal of inconvenience on rural and semi-urban residents who will have to travel a considerable distance to the nearest pharmacy.
  • Placing the entire healthcare system under the NHFA will mean that erstwhile public healthcare providers will have to change their entire orientation from being social service providers to corporatized entities out to cut costs and seek profits. Being a GLC, this is what the NHFA will set out to do, leaving the poor and sick vulnerable to being excluded from basic healthcare. The ideal that where medical needs exist, medical care should be provided and budgets should be of secondary importance will not be realized under this framework of operation.
  • The introduction of 1Care opens up more profit opportunities for financial services providers, in particular insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. Given the propensity of the present Federal Government to use state power to nurture crony capitalism, more crony capitalists are likely to emerge to exploit these opportunities for profits. Indeed, with declining opportunities in manufacturing, plantations and construction, services such as healthcare are fast emerging as new profit centers. This clearly has not escaped the attention of power holders and their business allies. When 1Care is implemented, the divide between the rich and poor, already yawning wide, will yawn even wider, thereby worsening a wealth and income distribution pattern that is skewed in favor of the rich.
 
Conclusion
Our analysis of 1Care and its social implications seem to suggest that the over-riding concerns of the government are controlling costs and availing more opportunities for appropriating profits to private healthcare-related service providers under the new healthcare system to be managed by a GLC called the NHFA. Malaysians must rightly wonder why greater priority is placed on curbing costs over meeting healthcare needs, especially to the poor and needy in a resource rich country such as theirs, that until recently only spent roughly 2% of GDP on healthcare, way below the minimum 5% as stipulated by the World Bank. While controlling costs is not undesirable in itself, using the need to curb costs as an excuse to deny access of the poor to basic healthcare or to introduce a new financing scheme that works against them is, however, clearly unacceptable and socially undesirable.
 
In seeking additional finances to meet rising costs, most Malaysians will agree that in the Malaysian context, rather than introducing additional payments to be borne by the poor, it is a case of re-arranging priorities.  Wasteful spending can be curbed, if not eliminated, thereby freeing resources that could then be productively mobilized for spending on basic healthcare.
 
Spending on healthcare should also be further increased. Our current public health system, thus far funded by general taxation, has provided decent healthcare for the general public, including the poor and has thus helped play a key role in nation building and social solidarity. We see no reason why the system, especially its financing, needs to be overhauled. This is not to suggest that the healthcare system, as it is, is bereft of problems. But these should be tackled without the necessity of requiring every Malaysian to contribute to a national health insurance scheme.
 
We, therefore, reiterate that illnesses and health care should not be viewed as commodities to be allocated through the market. This is because such outsourcing to markets invariably leads to over-consumption by those with financial resources and under-consumption by those who are indigent, at the same time as it yields huge profits to healthcare-related service providers. Rather, healthcare should be seen as a social good, whose provision, including its financing, should be largely, if not exclusively, the responsibility of the government. Further, it bears repeating that healthcare services must be regulated and administered such that it benefits all members of the Malaysian society who are in need. The regulation of the national risk pool is a fundamental role of the government, as it is this facility which allows the social solidarity principles to function – the principles that the rich support the poor; the healthy support the sick and the young support the aged.
 
 
*Toh Kin Woon is a Senior Research Fellow of the Penang Institute.

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The Salient Points by Dr Ng

 

1Care on Facebook


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Penswastaan Bayan Mutiara Pengkhianatan keatas rakyat PP

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:30 AM PST


Mengenai skandal RM10 billion tanah yang dijual kepada Ivory Sdn Bhd,Lim Guan Eng dilihat mempunyai kepentingan didalam urusan jual beli tanah ini memandangkan beliaulah yang membuat keputusan mengenai pemberian tanah dan projek tersebut,walaupun PDC sebelum ini telah membuat perancangan untuk melaksanakan projek tersebut.

Lim Guan Eng juga harus jawap,secara teknikal bukan beretorik dengan kenyataan politik,ada banyak perkara yang terselindung disebalik skandal 10billion ini.Jika benar regim ini mengamalkan CAT,sudah pasti ia akan cekap dilaksanakan , telus dan akauntabiliti.

Nampak gaya ciri ciri CAT Guan Eng hanyalah kosmetik.Berikut kenyataan Pemuda Umno Pulau Pinang.

Salam,pemuda umno pp amat kecewa dengan dasar lge untuk tidak menyelesaikan masalah yang timbul dalam pembangunan Bayan Mutiara tetapi terus mempolitikkannya dengan melibatkan pemimpin2 umno.

Untuk makluman lge,pembangunan bayan mutiara bukan masalah UMNO tetapi masalah rakyat pulau pinang tidak kira dari apa golongan samada miskin atau kaya..kolar biru atau kolar putih.

Pemuda berpendapat pengswastaan bayan mutiara adalah satu pengkhianatan kepada rakyat pp berdasarkan fakta2 berikut:


1.pelan pembangunan asal bayan mutiara telah direkabentuk oleh PDC Properties sb dan PDC Consultancy sb yang rata2nya adalah rakyat pulau pinang dan sebahagian besar daripada mereka adalah golongan profesional dan mempunyai pengalaman serta kepakaran yg amat baik berbanding dengan pemaju swasta yg dilantik.


2.pelan kebenaran merancang keseluruhan bayan mutiara telah diluluskan pada 2008/2009 yang mana kepakaran perunding yang digunakan adalah daripada PDC Properties dan PDC Consultancy.Malahan pelan bangunan bagi 1 blok kondominium telah lulus.
Pelan pembangunan asal Bayan Mutiara juga mengandungi 5 blok kondominium,kawasan komersial,tapak sekolah dan tapak masjid.


3.Disamping kepakaran dan pengalaman PDC Properties dan PDC Consultancy,kerja2 pembinaan juga boleh dilaksanakan oleh PDC Nusabina yang juga merupakan anak syarikat PDC yang amat berpengalaman dalam melaksanakan pembangunan2 PDC selama ini.


4.Semua hasil kerja dan kepakaran yang ducurahkan oleh PDC Properties dan PDC Consultancy telah musnah sebegitu sahaja apabila keseluruhan pembangunan diberikan Tropicana Ivory SB yakni syarikat usahasama pemaju Ivory Properties Group Berhad dan Dijaya Corporation Bhd.


5.tidakkah lge nampak bahawa semua kepakaran yang akan terlibat dalam pembinaan projek pembangunan ini tidaka akan mendatangkan keuntungan kepada PDC dan tidak akan ada penambaikan pengalaman dan kepakaran kepada kakitangan profesional PDC.


6.Tahukah lge jika nilai pembangunan kasar(gdv) bayan mutiara adalah 10 billion,maka Pemaju akan membuat keuntungan sekurang kurangnya 30% yakni 3 billion.Pada hakikatnya kerajaan negeri telah RUGI sebanyak rm2 billion apabila hanya mendapat keuntungan 1 billion sahaja,itupun setelah 5 tahun.


7.Keuntungan sekurang2nya sebanyak 3billion boleh diperolehi sendiri oleh PDC jika pembangunannya dilaksanakan sendiri oleh PDC memandangkan Pelan Pembangunannya telah lulus.


8.Bolehkah lge mendesak pemaju ivory untuk melantik PDC Properties dan PDC Consultancy sebagai Perunding bagi keseluruhan projek ini.Bolehkah lge mendesak ivory untuk melantik PDC Nusabina sebagai kontraktor bagi keseluruhan projek ini.


Jelas LGE bukan sahaja telah mengadaikan tanah pulau pinang tetapi juga nasib rakyat pulau pinang terutamanya golongan miskin dan sederhana.

Bekas Bendahari UMNO Selangor Pecah Amanah, Seleweng RM18.85 Juta Wang Kerajaan Negeri ?

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:11 AM PST

SHAH ALAM 16 Feb: Angkatan Muda KEADILAN (AMK) Selangor menuntut siasatan terhadap bekas Bendahari Umno Selangor, Datuk Manan Md Said berhubung dakwaan pecah amanah dan salahlaku, membabitkan penyelewengan RM18.85 juta wang kerajaan negeri. Justeru, satu laporan polis dibuat terhadap Manan di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Shah Alam petang tadi oleh AMK Selangor melalui ketuanya, Irwan [...]


LGE: I know what you did to have CNY family holiday in Italy

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:32 AM PST

Unspinners-It is almost like the title of the above movie. Important thing is we know who paid for LGE's family Christmas holiday to Italy.

China man like Lim Guan Eng with hair comb so belia like that won't spend money like that. They all save save save, never spend one. Never mind if grandchildren later stylo and spend their money. But they wont spend.

Some must have someone pay for the trip which must involve his family of six plus one bodyguard. The cost of the business class trip say to Milan may fetch up to RM100,000. Why Milan and not other destination?

Dangerous ma ... Many Malaysian will bump into them.

Ah ... I know, I know. It must be the Bayan Mutiara land sales deal below:



But CM said, the land sale by PDC was via open tender.

Aiyeah ... you believe a China Man? Only his hair straight one. Everything else can be made crooked.

First ask, what are the prequalifications to tender. Can be like put high reserve price like RM200 psf. From there you can guess if it is difficult or not to tender.

If get list, much better. One can see if the names are all same kaki one. With high reserve price, you know only few can masuk tender. Easy to cut deal with all.

Then can fix. I put high sikit, and you all turun sikit. Look like real competitive tender.

If some cacai simply enter, how? Win tender also no guarantee ma ...Happen in Penang already where when they see those winning tender not their kaki, they cancel and call for re-tender. Next one, sure la dia punya kaki win.

You must notice first if something peculiar to say ada deal or not.

So who belanja for holiday then?

This deal got JV between Ivory Prop and Dijaya. Ivory Properties are new players and heard owner are pro DAP and PKR already. They may be in to help for campaign fund. Gangerous for LGE to pow.

Must be from Dijaya. Their brother Tan sri Vincent Tan is pro Mahathir last time. Must be difficult for them to get contract in Penang. So they come in by going together with those who will win bid. Before that bayar itu toll ma.

Also we hint last time there is a Tan Sri who belanja?

There is not many Tan Sri to guess lah. Read back here and you can guess it is Vincent Tan's brother, Tan Sri Danny Tan.


Pisau kata " Guan Eng kata kontraktor bumiputra paling banyak dapat kontrak dibawah regim DAP,hehe banyak tapi nilai projek ciput bolehlah untung sekupang dua ...skali tauke cina masuk berbillion untung bhai.."

Nasib masa depan Shahrizat adalah 'prerogative' PM, kata Najib

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:06 AM PST

"Masa depan politik Shahrizat bergantung kepada Perdana Menteri" kata PM Najib. Sesungguhnya itulah hakikatnya jika dipandang dari sudut jawatannya sebagai ahli jemaah kabinet negara. Sememangnya jawatan menteri itu adalah 'prerogative' Perdana Menteri seratus peratus. PM boleh melantik sesiapa sahaja dalam jamaah menteri, waimma melantik orang yang tidak berguna kepada negara dan rakyat.

Begitu juga dengan pemilihan sesiapa yang hendak dilantik sebagai senator yang dicadangkan oleh Kerajaan Persekutuan. Itu juga adalah 'prerogative' Perdana Menteri. Oleh kerana 'prerogative' Perdana Menteri itulah maka kita lihat ramai menteri-menteri kabinet Najib itu ramai dikalangan mereka yang menjadi persoalan dan isu besar dalam politik negara pada hari ini.

Itulah sebabnya kita melihat ramai menteri-menteri yang masuk ke dalam jemaah menteri itu mengikut 'pintu belakang' kerana mereka telah ditolak oleh rakyat dalam pilihanraya yang lalu. Selalunya mereka ditolak oleh rakyat kerana bersebab. Tentulah penolakkan itu disebabkan kerana mereka tidak melepasi tahap kelayakan yang asas tetapi oleh kerana Perdana Menteri tidak menghormati pandangan rakyat, mereka ini dibawa juga ke dalam kabinet oleh Najib dan tentunya Najib mempunyai sebab yang tersendiri membawa yang 'reject' ini ke dalam jemaah menteri beliau.

Shahrizat telah ditolak oleh pengundi Lembah Pantai dalam pilihanraya dahulu. Begitu juga Koh Tsu Koon. Tetapi mereka masih dibawa ke dalam kabinet oleh Najib dan memegang jawatan yang tinggi-tinggi. Idris Jala tidak pernah pun menjadi ahli kepada mana-mana parti dan tidak pun tahu rupa borang pencalonan pilihanraya. Raja Nong Cik pun begitu dan beliau kini menjadi Menteri bertanggungjawab terhadap Wilayah Persekutuan. Ramai lagi ahli-ahli parlimen yang dipilih rakyat tetapi mereka hanya diarah untuk menjadi pak turut sahaja.

Shahrizat yang telah didesak oleh rakan dalam partinya sendiri untuk berundur berkata yang beliau tidak akan meletakkan jawatan, Beliau berkata beliau mempunyai 1.3 juta ahli wanita UMNO dibelakangnya. Saya tidak tahu kenapa dibabitkan ahli-ahli wanita UMNO bila berhadapan dengan skandal wang yang sangat besar oleh keluarganya. Tetapi ramai juga ahli-ahli wanita UMNO yang tidak bersetuju Shahrizat kekal dalam jawatannya kerana ia sudah pasti menjejaskan nama baik UMNO khususnya wanita.

Tetapi oleh kerana itu adalah 'prerogative' Perdana Menteri maka Shahrizat kekal sehingga saat ini sebagai seorang menteri. Najib boleh memilih untuk mengekalkan Shahrizat atau meletakkan beliau ditepian politik perdana negara kita. Najib mempunyai hak untuk mengikut kehendak ramai atau menolak kehendak ramai dikalangan ahli-ahli dan pemimpin UMNO sendiri.

Didalam UMNO apabila seseorang itu sudah mendapat pangkat yang tinggi seperti menteri, kesalahan sebesar mana pun amat susah untuk dibuktikan kerana 'prerogative' Perdana Menteri tadi. Tetapi mata-mata yang menerima sogokan sebanyak RM200 sangat cepat dan mudah untuk diambil tindakan.

Kalau ditanya beberapa orang menteri yang ada sekarang ini semuanya mahukan supaya Nor Mohammed Yakcop dibersarakan kerana imej beliau yang tidak setaraf dengan jawatan yang beliau pegang. Setiausaha politik beliau ditangkap dengan jumlah wang yang besar dalam rumahnya di Pulau Pinang, tetapi Nor Mohammed Yakcop masih segar bugar dalam kabinet Najib kerana itu adalah 'prerogative' Perdana Menteri.

Justru itu kita telah melihat bukti kukuh yang 'prerogative' yang ada pada Perdana Menteri itu hanya diperguna untuk mengekalkan orang yang tidak lagi layak untuk diletakkan dimana-mana. Oleh kerana terlalu ramai pemimpin 'reject' dalam pentadbiran kita, maka keseluruhan parti itu juga sudah menjadi parti 'reject'.

Oleh kerana parti itu sudah menjadi parti 'reject' maka pimpinan menggunakan wang ringgit untuk membeli perasaan rakyat dalam kita menghampiri pilihanraya kali ini. Maka beraturlah rakyat lima enam jam untuk mendapatkan jumlah wang sebanyak RM500 kerana kesuntukan dalam kehidupan dan di antaranya yang teramai beratur itu adalah kaum parti pemerintah itu sendiri iaitu Melayu.

Sebegitu lama kita merdeka rakyat masih dibeli dengan wang secebis itu untuk meneruskan kuasa yang mereka sedang pegang dengan penuh keenakan itu. Dalam pada itu beretoriklah pimpinan kita kononnya akan membawa negara kepada negara berpendapatan tinggi menjelang tahun 2015.

Saya tidak nampak bagaimana ia akan dicapai bila rakyat masih diarak untuk beratur untuk mendapatkan RM500 itu. Ini kah dia salah satu cara untuk meningkatkan pendapatan rakyat sehingga USD15,000 setahun seperti yang dijanjikan oleh pentadbiran Najib kepada rakyat?

Dari RM500 jika nak sampaikan kepada pendapatan tahunan sebanyak US15,000 setahun itu, amat jauh untuk dicapai. Tidak tahu lah samada tahun 2015 itu merupakan 'target' yang tepat untuk mencapainya. Tetapi kalau 'target' itu pada tahun 3015 mungkin matlamat itu akan tercapai.

Tetapi bagi segelintir yang dalam kuasa serta kroni-kroninya, usahkan US15,000 setahun, malahan USD berbillion-billion pun boleh dicapai. Maklum sajalah mereka akan terus bermaharajalela dalam kuasa kerana Perdana Menteri menggunakan 'prerogative' beliau untuk mengekalkan mereka yang tidak semenggah ini dalam barisan pimpinan yang tamak haloba tanpa batas itu.

Selagi PM menggunakan 'prerogative' beliau untuk mengekalkan pimpinan yang tidak semenggah ini dari menggunakan 'prerogative' beliau untuk mengeluarkan mereka dari barisan kabinet negara, selagi itulah kita tidak dapat memperbaiki keadaan yang kita semua hadapi.

Maka kali ini kita mengharapkan rakyat pula untuk menggunakan 'prerogative' mereka untuk melakukan pertukaran yang amat diperlukan oleh rakyat kini.

Judiciary now cowed due to Dr M, says ex-CJ

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:58 AM PST

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 11 — The courts have become subservient to politicians in the executive arm of government today because of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, former Chief Justice Tun Mohd Dzaiddin Abdullah said today. The retired judge highlighted the amendment to Article 121 of the Federal Constitution, made during Dr Mahathir's administration in the 1980s, [...]


Half truths again, Dr M?

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:55 AM PST

Reviled former premier Mahathir Mohamad was accused of resorting to "half-truths", even deflecting blame onto the King, when he denied the claims made by former chief justice Dzaiddin Abdullah that he was to blame for the slide in justice and integrity in Malaysia's notorious legal system The 86-year-old Mahathir called Dzaiddin's comments "slander", but he [...]


I am not so in love with Maths as compared to dissecting frogs, but apparently Maths is saving the world

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:57 AM PST


I mentioned a book, The Number Devil that apart from others, also explains how tree branches are following the Fibonacci Numbers.

Guess what, in another part of the world, a 13-year old just made a solar power breakthrough after looking at the pattern of tree branches.

Now that make you wish you didn't hate Maths so much in middle school.

Valentine:Karpal Berdehem,PAS Tarik Handbrake

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST


Baru baru ini Karpal didapati menghina umat Islam apabila mempersoalkan kenapa PAS mahu sambutan hari valentine diharamkan.

Hujah Karpal mudah,hak asasi manusia harus ditegakkan,hukum agama hanyalah persoalan yang dibangkitkan oleh PAS maka ia tidak penting.

Nik Abduh,Nik Aziz,Nasarudin dan juga beberapa pemimpin PAS sekarang ini sudah mendapat arahan daripada DAP agar tutup mulut dan jangan persoalkan hak DAP dalam menegur umat Islam.

Bagaikan menarik handbrake,PAS sudah mula berlembut dengan Karpal,kita sudah mengjangka inilah yang akan berlaku terhadap pelacur agama yang tidak mempunyai pendirian.Karpal bukannya budak budak,dah berpuluh tahun menjadi ahli parlimen dan wakil rakyat,sudah pasti beliau tahu mengenai sensitiviti agama.

PAS seolah cuba melembutkan keadaan kononnya berlaku salah faham. Memang sah kerandut telurnya sudah hilang apabila DAP berdehem.

Karpal keliru, salah faham isu Hari Kekasih


Pas Kelantan menganggap Pengerusi DAP, Karpal Singh keliru dan salah faham sehingga menyebabkan beliau mempersoalkan pendirian Pas berhubung sambutan Hari Kekasih.

Timbalan Pesuruhjaya III Pas Kelantan, Datuk Mohd. Amar Nik Abdullah berkata, pendirian parti itu mengenai sambutan Hari Kekasih hanya ditujukan kepada orang Islam dan perkara itu yang perlu difahami oleh Karpal.

"Mungkin ada kekeliruan di pihak Karpal sebab bila kita bercakap mengenai Hari Kekasih, kita bercakap dari sudut dan perspektif agama serta ditujukan kepada masyarakat Islam sahaja.

"Boleh jadi dia salah faham sebab dia ingat kita tujukan kepada semua orang. Sebenarnya orang bukan Islam kita tidak melarang mereka menyambutnya kerana itu hak masing-masing," katanya kepada pemberita di sini hari ini.

Mohd. Amar diminta mengulas kenyataan beberapa pihak yang meminta Pas mengkaji balik hubungan mereka dengan pakatan pembangkang disebabkan kenyataan Karpal itu.

Mingguan Malaysia baru-baru ini melaporkan kenyataan Timbalan Ketua Dewan Pemuda Pas Pusat, Nik Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz yang menyelar tindakan Karpal yang tidak bersetuju dengan pendirian Pas menentang sambutan Hari Kekasih.

Ini berikutan kenyataan Karpal seperti dilaporkan media baru-baru ini yang menggesa Pas menarik balik pendirian membantah sambutan Hari Kekasih semalam kerana ia mempromosikan aktiviti tidak bermoral.

Menurut Karpal, DAP berpendapat pendirian Pas menentang sambutan Hari Kekasih bukan satu langkah yang baik dan tindakan Pas juga bertentangan dengan hak asasi manusia dan prinsip kebebasan.

Tambah Mohd. Amar, Karpal perlu tahu bahawa apa sahaja pandangan mengenai sambutan Hari Kekasih sama ada daripada pemimpin Pas, ulama atau Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan perlu dilihat khusus kepada orang Islam sahaja dan tidak menghalang agama lain.-utusan


Pisau kata " Karpal bukan budak budak,jenis tak faham,ini la buktinya PAS gagal dakwah DAP"

High prices and demand result in sales of babies

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:16 PM PST

Posted on 15 February 2012 - 03:19pm
Last updated on 15 February 2012 - 06:31pm
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 15, 2012): The lucrative price and good demand are among the factors baby sales in the black market are still going on.

Federal CID Secret Societies, Gambling and Vice (D7) principal assistant director Datuk Abdul Jalil Hassan said a baby could fetch a price of RM20,000 depending on the `level of perfection' and fairness of skin.
"The price of a baby is higher if accompanied with identification documents such as birth certificate during the purchase.

"The process of furnishing the identification of a baby is a difficult one and requires cooperation between the buyer and seller.

"We believe baby sale syndicates are getting more rampant due to the very high demand especially from childless couples," he told Bernama, here, today.

Normally, he said most babies were sold at the age of one to three months but there were cases of children up to six years old being sold.

He said expectant mothers, those who conceived out of wedlock or foreigners who wanted money in exchange for the baby, were placed at illegal centres, and well taken care of, to produce healthy babies who could fetch lucrative prices.

The latest figures indicated a drop to nine cases of baby sales last year compared to 20 in 2010.
In January last year, police thwarted an attempt to sell babies who were between five and seven days old for between RM15,000 and RM20,000.

Police also rescued three babies, two women who were in an advanced stage of pregnancy, aged 20 to 30, and a mother of one of the babies in three raids in Selangor during the period.

Kuala Lumpur Social Development, Crime Prevention and Anti-Drugs Voluntary Organisation (Pencegah) president Jeevan S. Ramamurthy did not rule out baby sales in the interior areas.

"The high birth rate of babies make police monitoring difficult. The syndicates are getting more rampant because families are hard-pressed for cash and lack of hospital records make the racket difficult to detect," he said.

He said private clinics issuing false information on births also helped the activities as it simplified the processing of birth documents.

He said to curb baby sales all parties including headmen, village midwives and rural clinics must play an important role to furnish information on births.

A safer way for women who did not want their babies is to register them with the Social Welfare Department for adoption, he added. – Bernama

Source: http://www.thesundaily.my/news/295617


Seals: The government can do all they want enforce, new law and so on nothing will help, the sales will still go on as long as the government do not take action to make ways to provide easy and right ways for the childless couples to have a baby.
Easy and right way here could be 
1. Allow Sperm Bank for the infertile cases
2. Allow foreign adoption. Even if they allow the "agent" must be avoided to make tonnes of money in transit or optional personal involvement without agents for this adoption
3. Change of attitude of the local enforcement not the treat the out of wedlock pregnancies with insults and threats. We need a real social worker at this interface and not a religion activist
4. Allow Anonymous baby drop center at hospitals, social based NGO centers and share the details with NGOs that manage the rights of the religions so that illegal conversions not executed
5. Reduce long queues at the Welfare Center (the last I know was a wait for 2 years and no option to select) 


Without doing any of the above dont ever expect you can reduce the baby sales in Malaysia. The more action the police takes, the more "Underground" the trade will get and the more expensive the babies will be.


I suggest Malaysia should be more liberal and allow point 1 and 2 soonest.  It is a way we live in Malaysia in almost all the cases we have a "ENFORCING" government and policies not a "SOLVING" one .....


Change Government Change ......!!!!!!
The world That I see

Melayu Tak Semestinya Islam-Anwar

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:00 PM PST

LinkMelayu tak semestinya Islam,Begitulah Anwar memberi pendapat bahawa definisi melayu yang termaktub didalam perlembagaan harus ditukar kerana tidak mengikut akan hak asasi manusia.

Baca sini definisi melayu didalam perlembagaan:Klik sini

Anwar memperlihatkan sikap liberal,pluralisme dan beliau kelihatan bersetuju jika mana mana melayu Islam itu murtad atas hak kebebasan manusia.

Anwar sendiri mengakui Umno membela bangsa dan agamanya,perlembagaan yang sedia ada menurut Anwar menyekat melayu daripada mempunyai kebebasan beragama.Apa yang boleh kita tafsirkan jika satu hari nanti Anwar menjadi PM.Satu hari nanti kita akan ada melayu kristian,melayu buddha,melayu hindu atau pun melayu Islam.Kesemua dibawah pluralisme yang diperjuangkan oleh Anwar.

Sudah pasti definisi melayu akan ditukarkan jika pakatan memerintah dinegara ini.Inilah jadinya jika melayu sendiri memperlekehkan bangsa sendiri sepertimana yang PAS lakukan.


Pisau kata "Anwar nak jadi Gus Dur bapak pluralisme"

Sorok Minyak Masak,Lagi Bukti Sabotaj Ekonomi

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:00 PM PST



Inilah yang dikatakan khianat dan sabotaj terhadap kepentingan hak rakyat.Ramai peruncit didapati menyorokkan minyak dan kononnya mendakwa bekalan minyak tidak mencukupi.

Pelik bukan negara pengeksport minyak sawit kekurangan bekalan domestik.Pakatan haprak selalunya akan mengambil peluang menyalahkan kerajaan sedangkan yang menjadi dalang kepada kenaikan harga barang adalah para pemborong dan peruncit sendiri.

Analogi mudah yang diambil oleh pakatan menyalahkan kerajaan memperlihatkan penyokong mereka yang sedia bodoh begitu mudah diperbodohkan lagi.Rakyat yang menyokong pakatan harus mengambil inisiatif untuk menyiasat puncanya bukan terus menunding jari terhadap pihak berkuasa.

Misteri sebuah pasar mini di Presint 9 di sini yang sering kehabisan minyak masak terungkai selepas pemilik kedai itu dikesan menyimpan bekalan di tempat yang tidak dilesenkan untuk kepentingan sendiri.

Timbalan Ketua Penguat Kuasa Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri, Koperasi dan Kepenggunaan, Iskandar Halim Sulaiman berkata, walaupun mendapat bekalan mencukupi, pemilik pasar mini itu dikesan menyorokkan sebahagian minyak masak untuk kegunaan dua restoran miliknya.

"Kegiatan pemilik kedai runcit ini terbongkar apabila ramai pengguna membuat aduan bahawa bekalan minyak di kedai itu sering terputus walaupun bekalan di kedai lain mencukupi.

"Intipan yang dilakukan mendapati pemilik kedai itu menyimpan minyak masak seberat 1,600 kilogram bernilai RM4,300 di dua restoran di Putrajaya yang juga miliknya," katanya pada sidang akhbar di sini hari ini.

Menurutnya, peniaga itu akan didakwa di bawah Akta Kawalan Bekalan 1991 dan boleh didenda RM250,000 kerana menyimpan minyak masak di tempat yang tidak dilesenkan.

"Pemilik kedai ini lebih mengutamakan perniagaan sendiri berbanding kepentingan pengguna terutama ketika berlaku kekurangan minyak masak," katanya.

Mengenai kekurangan bekalan minyak masak di beberapa tempat di negara ini, Iskandar Halim berkata, masalah tersebut dijangka dapat diselesaikan dalam tempoh terdekat ini.

"Keadaan adalah terkawal walaupun berlaku bekalan yang tidak konsisten di sesetengah tempat. Perkara ini sedang ditangani melalui penguatkuasaan di peringkat peruncit, pembungkus, pemborong dan pengilang.

"Sejak awal tahun ini, seramai 24 peniaga minyak masak telah dikenakan tindakan kerana menyorok, menyimpan tanpa kebenaran atau tidak mempunyai lesen. Sebanyak 128,937 kilogram minyak masak bernilai RM306,810 telah dirampas," katanya.-utusan

Slogan BN= barang naik dah basi,rakyat dah nampak siapa dalang sebenar yang mengsabotaj ekonomi negara dan membunuh kesejahteraan rakyat.

Pisau kata "Ada otak pakai"

Isu perdagangan Malaysia Israel : Tidak perlu Israel bekal dokumen, Dr. M nak seleweng isu sebenar.

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:15 PM PST

Kenyataan Terbuka
Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM)

16 Febuari 2012

Bekas Perdana Menteri Malaysia ke 4, (Tun) Dr. Mahathir Mohamad dalam satu kenyataannya (klik untuk baca) dilaporkan menyatakan Israel membekalkan butiran perdagangan antara Malaysia dan Israel kononya untuk membantu Anwar Ibrahim.

Sebagai orang lama dan licik politik, Dr. Mahathir memang bijak bermain politik persepsi. Kenyataan ini jelas bagi membantu Najib yang terkapai - kapai dengan pendedahan - demi pendedahan bagaimana Malaysia sebenarnya hipokrit dengan sikapnya dalam isu Palestin - Israel.

Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) memberikan fokus dalam isu ini bukan sebulan dua ini malah sudah bertahun. 7 November 2011 lepas YB Er Teck Hwa, Ahli Parlimen Bakri (DAP) telah membantu SAMM dengan membawa soalan oleh SAMM ke Parlimen dalam isu perdagangan Malaysia - Israel. Maka dalam Parlimen Malaysia telah diperakui sememang kita punya hubungan dagang tetapi ia hanya melibatkan syarikat MNC sahaja. Walaupun kenyataan itu menggambarkan kelemahan dan hipokrit negara sanggup gadai prinsip anti Israel hanya kerana untuk tarik pelabur, namun kenyataan tersebut ternyata juga bersifat menipu kerana Malaysia berdagang lebih dari itu dengan pendedahan terbaru ia juga melibatkan penghantaran minyak sawit.

Umum perlu sedar Malaysia ialah negara yang bukan sahaja mengiktiraf Israel tetapi membantu ekonomi Israel. Berdasarkan rekod perdagangan dengan Israel telah wujud sejak 1967 lagi (kemungkinan secara tidak lansung lebih awal dari itu).

Namun serentak dengan kebangkitan kesedaran untuk menyokong perjuangan Palestin dan anti apartheid di Afrika Selatan dalam negara maka Bn terpaksa memperkenalkan akta larang perdagangan yang melarang perdagangan kerana takut populariti mereka merundum. Namun akta larangan perdagangan ini telah ditarik balik serentak dengan jatuhnya regim apartheid di Afrika pada tahun 1994. Kabinet dibawah Dr. Mahathir lah yang membuka ruang dagang dengan Israel semula dengan mengambil kesempatan pada Mei 1994 Parlimen Malaysia meluluskan Akta Larangan Import (Pindaan bil 7) yang menarik balik sekatan import terhadap barangan Isrel dan Afrika Selatan. Ia boleh menggugurkan larangan kepada Afrika Selatan sahaja tetapi begitulah liciknya politik Dr.Mahathir tanpa sedar ia mengambil kesempatan membuka ruang berdagang dengan Israel secara terbuka.

Pindaan tersebut bukan sahaja menjadikan Malaysia berdagang dengan Israel tetapi membantu ekonomi Israel. Banyak pihak dalam dunia tidak mahu membeli barangan Israel tetapi ada syarikat dalam Malaysia mengambil barangan Israel dan memasangnya di sini dan menjualnya sebagai barang yang datang dari Malaysia. Secara tidak lansung kita bersengkongkol memperdaya dunia bagi membantu Israel. Berdasarlan laporan Kesatuan Eropah, Malaysia merupakan rakan dagang ke 15 yang bersungguh membantu ekonomi Israel.

Kenyataan Dr. Mahathir kononya dokumen dibekalkan oleh Israel ialah untuk menutup perhatian terhadap hubungan dagang yang wujud dengan mengalihkan seolahnya pendedahan tersebut ialah sebahagian dari perancangan jahat Zionis. Maka umum kena menolak pendedahan tersebut dengan menerima juga menghalalkan hubungan dagang yang sedang berlansung. Begitulah licik politik Dr.Mahathir ini.

SAMM selaku gerakan muda yang terkedepan dalam membuat pendedahan - demi pendedahan dalam isu hubungan dagang Malaysia Israel menegaskan bahawa tuduhan Dr.Mahathir itu salah dan fitnah semata - mata. Dokumen - dokumen dan data yang didedahkan tidak perlu diberikan oleh Israel cukup dengan sedikit tumpuan kerja maka data tersebut boleh dikumpulkan. Malah ada dokumen asal yang perolehi adalah dari pegawai kanan kerajaan sendiri yang bosan dengan sikap hipokrit regim dalam isu Palestin ini. Di perpustakaan MiTi sendiri wujud bahan - bahan yang merujuk hubungan dagang Malaysia - Israel.

Percayalah selaku negara Israel sudah tentu mereka selesa dengan pemerintah negara hari ini kerana penguasa hari ini jelas menjaga kepentingan mereka. Apa gunanya menyokong perubahan kuasa jika yang menguasai regim kini sudah bersungguh - sungguh menjaga kepentingan dengan Israel dan sekutu besarnya Amerika. Malaysia seiring dengan telunjuk Israel tidak mengiktiraf Hamas, Malaysia akur kempen anti Iran Amerika apabila segera putus hubungan dagang seperti henti penghantaran Minyak Sawit.

Umum harus sedar, perang anti Israel dan sokongan terhadap Palestin dalam negara ini hanya untuk mengaburi sokongan dalam negara semata - mata. Kita tidak harus lupa ucapan Dr.Mahathir yang begitu bersifat perkauman dan anti Yahudi, anti Barat dalam Persidangan Umno telah mengundang rasa kurang senang Barat khususnya Amerika Syarikat. Mungkin ketika berucap itu Dr.Mahathir lupa bahawa dalam dunia moden ini ucapanya boleh diikuti di seluruh dunia. Panik dengan itu maka Dr. Mahathir telah menggunakan Heritage Foundation melalui Jack Abramoff dan telah membazirkan sehingga hampir RM40juta wang negara untuk membolehkan pertemuan 'meminta maaf' dengan Presiden Amerika Syarikat dapat dilansungkan. (klik sini untuk membaca lanjut)

Wahai Dr. Mahathir sudah terlalu lama kamu menggunakan taktik yang sama. Memang diakui kamu amat licik tetapi kerana kerap sangat taktik yang sama maka selaku anak muda kami sudah mula boleh membaca taktik kamu. Ayuh anak muda bangkitlah perjuangan pembebasan bumi Palestin ialah perjuangan sejagat dan atas nama kemanusiaan. Kepada penganut Agama Islam adakah kamu masih boleh berkompromi apa juga alasan meneruskan hubungan dagang bagi membantu dari aspek ekonomi untuk meneruskan penjajahan kiblat pertama Umat Islam ?

che'GuBard
Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM)

email : chegubard@gmail.com
blog : http://chegubard.blogspot.com
website: www.anakmudamalaysia.com


Wahai Datuk (Tan Sri) Mufti kangkung pengampu...

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:33 PM PST

mungkin mufti Perak lupa imej Najib rai Thaipusam dengan patungnya yang lebih besar dari patung sembahan agama hindu

Minggu lepas tiba - tiba ramai yang gembira meraikan kenyataan Mufti Perak Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria yang menyatakan Najib seolah menggadaikan akidah apabila hadir dalam upacara keagamaan sempena sambutan Thaipusam di Batu Caves.

Serentak dengan itu kenyataan beliau segera disambut dan diraikan. Pihak pro Najib cuba membela dan geng tak suka Najib pula cuba mengangkat malah ada yang melampau - lampau seolah 'fatwa' tersebut ialah fatwa terhebat sehingga melupakan kerja buat mufti politik ini sebelum ini.

Hari ini Datuk (Tan Sri) Mufti ini membuktikan kekangkunganya dengan membuat pusingan U terhadap kenyataannya. Tiba tiba dia mengatakan tak salah tindakan Najib jika tiada niat dan redha dengan perbuatan agama lain. Dia pula bukan setakat membuat pusingan U tetapi menjadi jurucakap Najib dengan dilaporkan mengakatan bahawa Najib berada disitu hanya untuk menerangkan polisi kerajaan.

Tiba - tiba sahaja, bagaimana dengan kenyataan sebelum ini yang menyatakan "Saya telah tegur setiap tahun namun tidak peduli..........."

Kepada kita semua juga perlu diperingatkan mufti inilah yang sering melontar masalah dan persoalan ditengah masyarakat tanpa penyelesaian, yang hanya tahu mewujudkan kegusaran ditengah masyarakat. Kenyataan beliau kadang kala lebih gimik politik dari ahli politik juga kadang kala lebih bersifat publisiti dari artis.

Dalam kenyataan asalnya dalam isu ini kita sudah mengetahui apa salahnya meraikan teman yang merayakan hari perayaan mereka. Kita mengucapkan selamat hari Thaipusam kepada penganut Hindu tidak bermakna kita meraikan Thaipusam tetapi meraikan sahabat yang menyambut perayaan tersebut.

Dalam kenyataan U turn mufti tersebut yang dilaporkan media hari ini lebih membuktikan betapa beliau sebenarnya lebih layak bergelar ulama Umno apabila menyatakan dengan jelas kononya Najib hadir di Batu Caves tidak salah tetapi beliau kecewa dengan PAS Perak kerana mengadakan hadir, membuat khemah dan ada terkibar bendera PAS di sambutan Thaipusam di Perak. Wahai mufti tahukah kamu bahawa khemah dan bendera PAS itu didirikan dan dikibarkan oleh Dewan Penyokong PAS yang terdiri dari penganut agama Hindu sendiri.

Mufti yang sering membuat kenyataan kontroversi ini turut menghiasi kenyataan pusingan U nya dengan seruan 'perpaduan Melayu'. Dia menyatakan jangan ada pihak yang cuba putar belit kehadiran najib di sambutan Thaipusam (tanpa sedar dia yang buat sendiri) konon katanya ia menjadi fitnah dan tak bagus dalam keadaan Melayu yang berpecah belah.

Wahai Datuk (Tan Sri) Mufti yang sudah tu sudah lah............... nampaknya budaya kangkung yang selama ini menular dikalangan profesor yang menjadi pengampu melampau kini telah dibuktikan sudah menular dikalangan Mufti pula.......

Chinese mustard green at Rm7 per kg.!

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:19 PM PST

(Pic courtesy of Three Tastes.com)

Chinese mustard green (gai choy in Cantonese) is a much sought after vegetable during Chinese New Year, simply because of the leftovers of pork, duck or chicken meat after a sumptuous reunion meal, which could be cooked with assam keping and dried chili to make the delicious sheen lart choy (or sour and hot vegetable dish which most Chinese would like to imagine how chop suey originated). It seems, according to one story which comes to mind, some Westerners went too late into a Chinese restaurant for food when most items on the menu were unavailable. Upon insistence to cook up something, the cook just mixed the leftovers to come up with chop suey!

Anyway, I like the one prepared by Pin Sum Restaurant in Menglembu during lunch time. But I was disappointed last Sunday, when what was served turned out to be white cabbage instead and with something else like curry powder added which put me off. With this in mind, when my wife called up a friend in Pusing to buy 5 kg. of gai choy at whatever price, I warned her that there could be a shortage because of CNY and it takes time to grow some. She was right in saying that the price could be too high for a restaurant to offer as a dish, when her friend called up this morning to say that she has bought 5 kg. at Rm7! Btw, don't believe what we see on tv about government officials checking prices on controlled items over festive seasons. Reality is such that supply and demand in the most basic form is the order of the day, and when in great demand, it is a seller's market with a 'take it or leave it' attitude.

What was the reason for this sudden interest in gai choy? Because our youngest, daughter asked for it on her last visit during CNY. Too bad she and brother and sister-in-law left for PJ on second day of CNY when her mother prepared the dish for her relatives. It was amazing how those who could normally afford and eat expensive dishes went for it as if it was a delicacy!

Another of her favourite is pak charm kai (steamed chicken similar to that of Hainanese chicken rice). This was the first dish she craved for when she recovered from dengue a few years ago, after a 10-stay in a private hospital. I mentioned private for a reason, not out of choice and definitely not to show off. During a dengue outbreak in BG a few years ago, residents were advised to seek medical attention when having prolonged fever. But I can still remember at the time, it was closed during weekends and so on for such outpatient treatment and it takes at least a few days before it can be confirmed if it was dengue.

Anyway, she is getting steamed home-bred yim kai to go with sheen lart choy! Some relatives who we know would enjoy sheen lart choy will be invited.
Link

The Jerusalem Post Raikan Sokongan Anwar Terhadap Israel

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:00 PM PST

AIDCNews – 15/02/12 – Michael Ordman penulis penyumbang di akhbar online Israel, The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com) menyambut baik sokongan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim terhadap keselamatan Israel sepertimana yang disiarkan di Wall Street Journal (WSJ) baru-baru ini.




"Dan dari politik dunia, saya secara peribadi suka dengan berita yang diberi perhatian bahawa Ketua Pembangkang Malaysia (bersedia) mengiktiraf Negara Israel ketika ditanya sama ada beliau bersedia membuka hubungan diplomatik dengan Israel", kata Ordman dalam tulisannya di jpost.com bertajuk 'We have lift-off'


Ordman adalah penulis blog dari 'Good News From Israel' turut diiktiraf pemikirannya oleh jpost.com kerana usaha gigihnya memberi perhatian terhadap pencapaian terbaru Israel dalam bidang teknologi, kesihatan, perniagaan, kewujudan bersama dan membina sebuah Negara Israel.


Pada 26 Jan lalu, WSJ telah melaporkan kenyataan Anwar yang berbunyi "I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel," said Mr. Anwar, although he stopped short of saying he would open diplomatic ties with the Jewish state, a step which he said remains contingent on Israel respecting the aspirations of Palestinians"


Maksudnya; "Saya menyokong semua usaha untuk menjaga keselamatan negara Israel, kata Anwar, namun apa yang dia katakan itu tidak bermaksud dia akan membuka hubungan diplomatik dengan negara Israel, satu langkah yang menurutnya bergantung sama ada Israel akan menghormati aspirasi rakyat Palestin".


Susulan kenyataan di WSJ itu, Anwar sendiri mengeluarkan kenyataan di laman rasminya, anwaribrahimblog pada 28 Jan, menegaskan kehendaknya adalah 'two state solution'dalam isu penyelesaian Israel-Palestin.


'Two state solution' merupakan gagasan idea yang dilobi oleh badan antarabangsa yang dianggotainya, iaitu International Crisis Group (ICG) yang mengesyorkan agar Israel dan Palestin sama-sama diiktiraf sebagai sebuah negara yang sah dan berdaulat, di samping mencadangkan agar dunia Islam khususnya negara-negara Arab membuka hubungan diplomatik dengan Israel.


"Pendirian saya ini ternyata sejajar dengan prinsip perjuangan Parti Keadilan Rakyat yang menjunjung tinggi prinsip Keadilan Sejagat dan tegas membela hak mereka yang dizalimi.


"Selain itu pandangan saya ini ternyata selari dengan Resolusi 1397 Majlis Keselamatan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) dan Inisiatif Keamanan Arab (Arab Peace Initiative) yang berteraskan Penyelesaian Dua Negara atau lebih dikenali sebagai 'Two-State Solution'." katanya.


Pada 20 Mac 2008, wartawan jpost.com, Shani Ross pernah menulis rencana bertajuk "Anwar Ibrahim : Malaysia's Future Prime Minister?" yang memuji kejayaan Anwar dalam pilihan raya umum ke-13.


"Kejayaan PKR telah memberikan erti yang besar kepada kebangkitan kembali karier politik bekas Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Anwar Ibrahim.


"Sebagai seorang penyokong Islam moderat, keadilan agama, budaya dan demokrasi liberal, populariti Anwar semakin meningkat, dengan sesetengah laporan mencadangkan bahawa pakatan pembangkang perlu memenangi pilihan raya akan datang, dia (Anwar) mungkin akan menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia", kata Shani Ross yang merupakan Koordinator untuk Persidangan dan Program Eksekutif, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Pusat Antara Disiplin Herzliya, Israel.


Begitu juga dengan kolumnis jpost.com, Amotz Asa-El yang menyentuh nama Anwar Ibrahim dalam rencananya berkaitan dengan homoseksual, bertajuk "Middle Israel: Oy gay!"


"Semasa saya baru menjadi pengarang berita , saya bertemu satu foto telegram dari Kaherah yang memaparkan kumpulan homoseksual ditahan beramai-ramai. Kemudian saya mengikuti kes Mahathir Mohamad , pemimpin Malaysia memecat timbalan berbakatnya, Anwar Ibrahim, dan mendakwanya atas pertuduhan liwat serta memenjarakannya atas dasar 'jenayah'.


"Ketika mengikuti kes-kes di Mesir dan Malaysia, saya sentiasa berbangga dengan kebijaksanaan dan keberanian Haim Cohn, yang lebih ketara melindungi kaum homoseksual kerana dia seorang Yahudi yang tajam daya pemerhatian", katanya.


Haim Cohn yang dimaksudkan oleh kolumnis jpost.com adalah Peguam Negara pertama Israel yang memutuskan untuk mengabaikan undang-undang kepada pelaku homoseksual di negara itu-AIDC


Pisau kata "Jerusalem Post pun Umno bayaq juga ka? isk kesian Anwar kena fitnah..."

'Songkok' does not symbolise Islam

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:58 PM PST

On February 10, Perak Mufti Harussani Zakaria slammed Prime Minister Najib Razak's attendance of Thaipusam celebrations at Batu Caves as 'sacrificing his faith' and was not Islamic.

He was also dismayed when Najib wore the 'kurta' when attending the festival.

However, he took a 360 degree turn yesterday after 'listening' to the prime minister. And finally, Harussani agreed that what Najib did was not against Islamic doctrine.

Mufti pun boleh cakap lepas ke? I don't know why must it took Najib to explain for Harussani to understand. He should have given it a deep thought before making such statements.

Wrong perception and adverse impression always lead to bad words. As I mentioned in my few postings, if we keep on getting the picture from people who are against somebody, the subject will remain rotten forever.

Now, back to the 'kurta'. I think mostly each and everyone of us is aware that kurta is a traditional attire. In India, the Muslims also wear it, just like our 'baju Melayu' which is well-accepted among our multi-racial society.

In Indonesia, for instance, a drive from Medan to Lake Toba will take us through Prapat where pig sellers along the road wear the traditional 'songkok'.

I don't think 'songkok' symbolises a religion. Its more of a traditional patch in the Nusantara. The 'jalabiyah' among the Arabs does not reflect Islam as the non-Muslim such as the Jews and the Erithrean Christians also wear it.

Even the 'cheongsam' does not signifies a religion as it is only a part of the Chinese culture attire.

I am sad that so many people made so many unfair statements about issues pertaining to attire, festivals and processions. In a Malaysian context where we are proud of our multi-religion, multi-racial and multi-culture society, we have long accepted each other's tradition as a common heritage.

Najib attended the function as a leader of a multi-racial and multi-religious nation, who respects other religions and faiths (as encouraged by Islam) and in showing appreciation for the contribution of the Hindus toward nation building.

And what is wrong if he enters the temple?

Hassan al-Turabi, the Sudanese ulama whom I stayed with in Khartoum in 1996, used to say that even non-Muslims can walk into a mosque to seek shelter from his enemy or from the rain. However, it is sad to note that most Muslims are ignoring such an Islamic reality nowadays.

I hope we don't make such a 'silly' mistake anymore.

'Lakum dinukum waliyaddin'...

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