August 12, 2009 EXPOSED: ‘RM10 mil for MCA boss’ by Yong Kai Ping and Ng Ling Fong Twenty-four hours after a police report was lodged against developer Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB), the company’s top brass have made some startling revelations. KDSB chief executive officer Tiong King Sing – who is also the Barisan Nasional [...]
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August 12, 2009Peringatan kepada semua YB, ahli dan penyokong PKR
August 12, 2009posted by din merican—August 12, 2009 Saudara Anwar Ibrahim mengingatkan kita semua: …Tidak lama dahulu ramai yang percaya parti (PKR) ini tidak ada masa hadapan. Mereka mentertawakan hasrat serta cita-cita kita. Muncullah nujum-nujum politik yang meramalkan kepupusan PKR kerana tidak percaya politik baru yang kita bawa; sebuah negara yang benar-benar bersatu dan tidak terperangkap dengan [...]
Chua cadang MCA keluar dari Barisan Nasional
August 11, 2009The Malaysian Insider 10hb. Ogos, 2009 Chua Jui Meng cadang MCA keluar dari Barisan Nasional Oleh Zukri Aksah Bekas Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Chua Jui Meng berkata, sudah beberapa kali beliau mencadangkan kepada kepimpinan MCA agar parti itu keluar dari Barisan Nasional (BN). Cadangan ini beliau buat kerana marahkan sikap buruk beberapa kerat pemimpin UMNO yang [...]
Gentle remainder from a friend
August 11, 2009by Haris Ibrahim We need to teach politicians a lesson. Pakatan Rakyat politicians, that is August 10, 2009 On 4th February, 2008, in “The People’s Voice & The People’s Declaration” post, this is what I wrote : “Malaysia belongs to her people. You and I and every person for whom this country is home. Every indicator [...]
Anwar Ibrahim’s Media Statement on Communal Politics
August 11, 2009KENYATAAN MEDIA UNTUK EDARAN SEGERA 11hb. Ogos 2009 Pimpinan UMNO dan konco-konco mereka memintal propaganda yang memanipulasi simbol-simbol tentang bangsa, agama dan raja dengan hasrat agar pemikiran rakyat kembali sempit dan mundur. Ini bukanlah kali pertama saya menjadi sasaran di dalam isu pengkhianatan ini. Mereka telah mencuba puluhan kali sebelumnya. Usaha terbaru dengan menghebahkan isu [...]
Al Jazeera on ISA
August 10, 2009In case you missed the Al Jazeera show on the ISA and the August 1 demonstration, watch here for exceptional spinning by Rembau MP Khairy Jamaluddin and a relatively more balanced view presented by Datuk Zaid Ibrahim. Particularly disturbing was the explanation given by the pro-ISA NGO arguing that the ISA is in fact in [...]
Net Filter: Big Bucks involved (?)
August 10, 2009August 10, 2009 Net filter: ‘Someone’s making a fast buck’ ‘Imagine if billions of Chinese computers are forced to install this filtering software, how much money can be made from this? Are the software vendors now knocking on Malaysia’s door?’ On Rais defends Internet filter plan Hardtail: Someone somewhere is trying to make a fast [...]
Muhyiddin’s Vituperation against Anwar Ibrahim
August 9, 2009posted by din merican–August 9, 2009 August 8, 2009 UMNO’s gushing drivel by Terence Netto The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a subjugated plain, Among it’s desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While [...]
An ill-considered move by Rais Yatim
August 9, 2009The Malaysian Insider August 7, 2009 Don’t Filter Out Democracy by John Lee It is really funny how the announcement came. The government yesterday put out a tender for companies to help filter the Internet. Now, in places like China and Iran, this happens quite regularly. But in Malaysia — well, this is a first [...]
PKR congratulates Aung San Suu Kyi
August 8, 2009August 8, 2009 AMNESTY AWARD FOR AUNG SAN SUU KYI On behalf of KEADILAN, I would like to offer my heartfelt congratulations to Aung San Suu Kyi on receiving the Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2009 from Amnesty International on 27 July 2009. Her unwavering courage and determination, as well as her immense personal sacrifice, [...]
Pakatan Rakyat’s quest for the Middle Ground
August 8, 2009August 7, 2009 Anwar Ibrahim seeks to reach the middle ground by Terence Netto PKR supremo and putative chair of Pakatan Rakyat Anwar Ibrahim said the opposition coalition does not aspire to be a monolithic entity but neither does it want to sound like a cacophonous street band. Alluding to the discord among Pakatan’s three-party [...]
1Malaysia: A Closed Society?
August 6, 2009August 6, 2009 A Serious Challenge to Freedom of the Internet in 1Malaysia The government is considering imposing an Internet filter to block “undesirable” websites, on the grounds of maintaining racial harmony in the multicultural nation, a senior official said. The move was quickly condemned by the opposition which described it as a “horror of [...]
Malaysian Evasion: Just abolish ISA
August 6, 2009Malaysian Evasion: The Prime Minister should abolish ISA (Internal Security Act) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574327700317374782.html WALL STREET JOURNAL AUGUST 3 2009 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak promised in April that his government would conduct a “comprehensive review” of the Internal Security Act, a colonial-era law that allows indefinite detention without trial. On Saturday, 10,000 Malaysians marched in the [...]
1GreenDam Black Malaysia
August 6, 2009It’s not entirely surprising that the government’s failure to compete effectively with independent voices on the internet has led to its policy of “If you can’t beat em, and you failed and joining them, then ban ‘em”. Rais Yatim today announced tenders for an Internet filter to block undesirable content, a move that directly contravenes [...]
Dr.”Raba” goes to Washington
August 6, 2009COMMENT: After protracted wrangling between Washington and Kuala Lumpur for more than 1 year following the retirement of professional diplomat Ambassador Dato Rajmah Hussain, the issue of the next Malaysian Ambassador to the most powerful nation in the world has been resolved. Our new man in Obama Land is none other than a Najib crony [...]
Sakmongkol AK47 talks of 1Malaysia
August 5, 2009August 5, 2009 One Malaysia and Ethnic Nationalism Let’s us talk about OneMalaysia. Without a comprehensive exposition of what it means, save for maybe its launching with much fanfare and its ‘reduction’ into a song by the heart-warming and assuring voice of singer Roy, it is up to us to translate it. Then there is [...]
Utusan Malaysia: The Malays are cowards
August 5, 2009posted by din merican– The Malaysian Insider August 4, 2009 The Malays are “bacul”, say Utusan Malaysia The UMNO-owned Utusan Malaysia appeared set to raise the temperature on the race debate when the newspaper published an opinion today calling on the Malays not to be cowards anymore and rise up to face the challenges being [...]
