Rosmah nak pergi shopping kat Dubai, New York, London atau Ulanbataar, apa salahnya?
Duit RM600k itu bukan duit dia kah? Duit siapa lagi?
Hubby dia perdana menteri Malaysia tau? Don’t play play. Mesti Dotty banyak duit lah.
Lagipun, Dotty seorang pompuan yang baik. Hari-hari dalam suratkhabar beliau ditemani kanak-kanak yang cute dan cun, macam Dotty jugak.
So biarlah Dotty pergi shopping. Lagipun, Krismas kan dah dekat, dan New Year pun akan datang.
Takkan nak Dotty pakai baju dan anting-anting yang lama dan buruk. Takde standard lah.
Dotty, sebagai first lady, mesti ada standard macam bini Obama, baru konsep 1Malaysia dapat dipromosikan ke taraf antarabangsa! Read the rest of this entry »
Rocky Bru said “I said I was confident that under Najib’s watch we witness the abolition of such archaic regulations as the PPPA, which among other things requires newspapers to renew their publishing licences annually”. (The Media Under Najib)
I almost chocked, as I feel the print media journalist must feel now after reading these guidelines (Malaysiakini)!
The Home Ministry’s year end present to journalists has given new meaning/value to what is “undesirable” and what is to be “banned”. It’s really like asking the journalists to go commit suicide, sorry to those friends who are still in the media!
But this is Great for politicians! More reasons now to vote Najib’s government out!
But looking at the guidelines again, it seems Utusan Malaysia may be one of the newspapers that may be in trouble soon, if this reads properly: Read the rest of this entry »
I ask, “Is the earth alone?”
Don’t you have to go to the earthworm,
busy making earth fertile, and ask before taking any important decision!
Who knows if the ants are more concerned about the earths future than you.
I am worth an earthworm.
For you I am only an ant to be crushed.
My human rights puny before your demon rights.
I may be insignificant come on.
Agreed.
Yet my claim over the earth is no way less than yours.
BY Gyanendrapati, poet & chair
People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights, India.
New Premier, Old Pledges, Pervasive Culture of Impunity:
By SUARAM.
In conjunction with the International Human Rights Day 2009, Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) releases its Overview of Malaysia’s Human Rights Report for the year.
Detention without Trial Continues
SUARAM notes that despite the new Prime Minister Najib Razak’s pledges of reform and for greater adherence to human rights, no substantive legislative and institutional reforms have been introduced so far.
Despite the crescendo of calls for the repeal of the Internal Security Act (ISA) by civil society, the much-publicised review of the ISA announced by the Prime Minister has not materialised. The government has also made no mention of two other detention-without-detention laws, namely the Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crime) Ordinance (EO) and the Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) Act (DDA), despite their similarities with the ISA. With no mention of a review of the EO and the DDA, and by only amending the ISA instead of repealing it, it is clear that the government does not intend to do away with the practice of detaining individuals without trial.
The ever creative Zunar, our dearest political cartoonist has published his cartoons in a book this time: “Perak Daul kartun”! Why a book? Because he has heard nothing from the Home Ministry regarding his publication permit ever since his first collection of cartoons hit the streets. This new book cost only RM10, and you can buy it off www.cartonkafe.com.
In a press statement, Zunar says he does not wish to have a confrontation, which is why he is publishing his cartoons in a book this time, and not in a magazine form, as he did earlier. His reason for publishing this book is to share his alternative cartoons about current affairs in Malaysia, which mainstream cartoonist failed to do.
“We believe the cartoonist’s role is not just to share humour in his/her composition but also have the social responsibility to criticise, document reality, share information, raise the voices of the people and also to educate”. Read the rest of this entry »
I wonder what you think of this ruling? Is it fair? Is 12 years still too long for an employer who struck her domestic worker with a hot iron on her chest, and abused her repeatedly? If you think it is too long for a first time offender, the Indonesians obviously does not think so:
From the JAKARTA POST:
The NGO Migrant Care, has condemned the controversial verdict of a Malaysian court, which shortened the jail sentence of a Malaysian employer charged with abusing an Indonesian maid in 2004.
Migrant Care said the reduced sentence was humiliating for Indonesia.
“The reduction in the jail sentence is an indication of discriminative court practises in Malaysia and the impunity of Malaysian employers.
“The Malaysian Court of Appeal has no sense of justice,” Migrant Care policy analyst Wahyu Susilo said here Friday.
He added that Migrant Care also regretted the government’s silence during the trial, which he said gave the impression the government paid no serious attention to the protection of Indonesian citizens, including migrant workers, overseas.
The court ruling was made only weeks after the President met with his Malaysian counterpart, Najib Tun Razak in Kuala Lumpur, who pledged to provide stronger protection for Indonesian migrant workers. Read the rest of this entry »
Najib Razak on PI Bala’s damning claims that Najib knew murdered Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu and his brother Nazim and a businessman linked to the prime minister’s wife made him retract a statutory declaration on the case.
“I will not entertain any frivolous statement,” Najib said icily before asking reporters to move on to the next question at the Umno supreme council meeting last night. (Malaysian Insider)
So Bala gets off scott free for making frivolous statements? How nice you are Najib!
Let’s hope the MACC probe on PI Bala’s claim won’t be anything like the one on Teoh Beng Hock!
From MALAYSIAN INSIDER:
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 — Anti-graft authorities will begin investigating private detective P. Balasubramaniam’s claims of being paid off in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case by people linked to Datuk Seri Najib Razak when they question an opposition politician tomorrow.
Let’s hope we don’t have to invite Dr. Pornthip for another visit to this blessed country!
As for me, I am so glad to know that though Altantuya is now resting in peace, the truth of her death will continue to find its way to reach us.
Can we ever reverse the BRAIN DRAIN trend? I am afraid, it is a bit too late…or is there still hope? You tell me.
“I challenge you to take personal ownership over the well-being of your fellow countrymen. If you can do this and do it well, I can guarantee you that the material benefits will follow,” (PERAK’s Raja Nazrin said here)
I don’t think anyone buys this anymore. Besides material benefits are not the be all and end all. That’s what the government’s propaganda machines would like us to believe. People leave for many reasons – for their sanity, their dignity, not to feel second class in their supposedly own country, and for some sense of freedom and peace from political, racial and religious bigots now colonialising and destroying Malaysia!
Of course, bigots exist, thrive and reproduce everywhere. But it’s one thing to experience it in a foreign country, but quite another, and the feeling is worst, too see it in your own country. It sucks your blood, depletes your soul until you do not want any part of it…
Come on Tian Chua! (RM600k ‘wired illegally to Rosmah…”)
