A very interesting article by Dr Bakri Musa. Details as below. Enjoy...

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M Bakri Musa

M. BAKRI MUSA, M.D.
General Surgery
700 West Sixth Street, Suite S
Gilroy, CA 95020
Phone 408 842-1511
E-mail: bakrimusa@juno.com Website: www.bakrimusa.com

APPOINTMENTS: Professional

2004 Chief of the Medical Staff, St. Louise Regional Hospital, Gilroy, CA
1989 Active Staff, St. Louise Regional Hospital, Gilroy, CA
1982-89 Active Staff, Wheeler Hospital, Gilroy (Closed in 1989)
1978-82 Chief of Surgery, Harney County Hospital, Burns, OR
1976-78 Surgeon, Government of Malaysia Medical Service
1974-76 Staff, W.W. Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1972-74 Resident in Surgery, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton
1971-72 Research Fellow, Medical Research Council of Canada at U of A.
1970-71 Resident in Surgery, Montreal General Hospital
1969-70 Intern, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton
1965 Demonstrator, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Non Professional: 1994 Board of Director, Private Practice Doctors Inc., an Independent Practice Association of over 60 physicians.
1992 Managing Partner, Gilroy Professional Group Partnership, a real estate partnership. President, South Valley Islamic Community, Morgan Hill, CA
DEGREES AND DIPLOMAS

1985 Fellow, American College of Surgeons (FACS)
1974 Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC)
1973 M.S. (Experimental Surgery) University of Alberta
1971 Research Fellowship, Medical Research Council of Canada
1969 M.D. University of Alberta
1966 B.Sc. (with distinction) University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

AWARDS AND HONORS:

1968 Mosby Prize in Microbiology, U of A School of Medicine
1967 Morris Weinlos Prize in Pathology
1966 First Class Standing Award, University of Alberta
1965 First Class Standing Award, University of Alberta
1964 Lehmann Prize, (for top freshman in Chemistry) and First Class Standing Award, University of Alberta

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS READ

Musa, M. Bakri: Fab2 Antibody Fragments and Xenograft Rejection. Masters Thesis, U of A, 1973.
Musa, M. Bakri: Germ Cell Malignant Tumors in Father and Son. Canadian Medical Association Journal 112:1201, 1975.
Musa, M. Bakri, S Katakka, A Khalik: Anorectal and Perianal Complications in hematologic malignant neoplasms. Canadian J Surgery 18:578, 1975.
Musa, M. Bakri, Freda Meah: Isolated perforations of jejunum and ileum in blunt abdominal trauma. Aust & NZ J Surgery, August 1977.
Laidin, A Z, M. Bakri Musa: Pre and Post incisional topical antibiotic prophylaxis in appendectomy wounds. Malaysian J Surgery, June 1977.
Wahab, YHA, M. Bakri Musa: Rupture of herniated small intestines from blunt abdominal injury. Injury 9:225, 1978.
Musa, M. Bakri: Spontaneous gastrocutaneous fistula complicating benign gastric ulcer. British J Clinical Practice, August 1979.
Musa, M. Bakri: Anorectal Complications of Leukemia. Read at the Congress of Medicine, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Musa, M. Bakri: Medical Management of Amebiasis. Read at the 29th Congress, International Academy of Proctology, Kuala Lumpur 1977.

GENERAL ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES

Dr. Musa’s general essays have appeared in The New Straits Times, Far Eastern Economic Review, Education Quarterly, International Herald Tribune, and Businessweek, and his commentary aired on the Voice of America and America’s National Public Radio’s Marketplace.
Columnist, Malaysiakini.com, Malaysia-Today.net, and The Sun Daily (Malaysia).

BOOKS PUBLISHED (Strategic Information Research Development, Malaysia):

The Malay Dilemma Revisited: Race Dynamics in Modern Malaysia, (1999) ISBN: 0-583-48-367-5
Malaysia in the Era of Globalization (2002) ISBN: 0-595-73577-0;
An Education System Worthy of Malaysia (2003) ISBN: 0-595-26590-1;
Seeing Malaysia My Way (2003) ISBN: 0-595-30318-8;
With Love from Malaysia (2004), Co-written with Karen E. Musa ISBN: 0-595-31607-7 Towards A Competitive Malaysia: Development Challenges in the Twenty-First Century (2006) ISBN: 0-595-31607-7
HOBBIES AND SOCIAL CLUBS

1989 Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International, Rotary Club, Morgan Hill
1985 Member Cal Sailing Club, Berkeley, Ca
1982 Certified PADI Scuba Diver
Hobbies: Scuba diving, sailing his sloop, Makan Angin.
Morgan Hill, CA
November 2006

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It Happened Under Your Watch, Najib!

January 10th, 2010

It Happened Under Your Watch, Najib!

M. Bakri Musa

“Don’t point the fingers at UMNO or anyone else,” so declared an angry Najib Razak, responding to a question on last Friday’s bombing of a church. It was pathetic to see him react thus, a body language that bespoke of a sinister kid whose bag of malicious tricks finally exploded in his face.

Najib would like us to believe that those acts of arson were spontaneous combustion. What a pathetic attempt at extricating himself from the ugly and dangerous mess he helped create! His performance was more to convince himself, for he could not possibly convince us.

Here he was after pouring the gasoline feigning surprise when someone finally lit a match. It was Najib who only the day before the incident declared that “Muslim groups were free to protest and express their views about the ‘Allah’ issue.” Just in case that message did not register, he added that the authorities would not stop groups from gathering at mosques and protesting there. Najib’s cousin and Home Minister, Hishammuddin, echoed the same sentiments.

Obviously somebody took them at their words. It is truly touching to see these two ministers belatedly becoming so protective of citizens’ rights to protest! The pair obviously do not appreciate the subtle but enormous difference between having those rights and the wisdom to exercise them appropriately.

Najib and Hishammuddin must think that Malaysians are a dumb lot not to see through their charade. It was Hishammuddin who first unhinged that dangerous religious wrecking ball with his banning of the use of the word Allah by that Catholic publication.

Contrast the words and deeds of these two very public purveyors of the “1Malaysia” fantasy to that of the leaders of Pakatan. In a statement issued through PKR, Anwar Ibrahim declared that “the wish of the non-Muslim community to use the term ‘Allah’ is a positive and welcomed development. We must not let that be an opportunity for those with malicious intent to seize the occasion to portray themselves as champions of Islam.” Amen to that!

Anwar realized only too well the potential dangers of stoking the religious fire. To emphasize his point, Anwar called for restraint and urged his followers not to participate in the planned Friday demonstrations. It was a particularly prescient call. Anwar must have read Najib, Hishammuddin and all the other characters in UMNO well; he knew their mischievous if not evil intent.

Anwar was not alone; leaders of PAS went out of their way not only to discourage the demonstrations but also to defend the rights of the Catholic publication to use the term “Allah.”

I do not know whether Malaysians, specifically Malays, are becoming more sensible or the restraint urged on by Anwar and the others had an impact, for come Friday the demonstrations were definitely muted. The egging-on by UMNO leaders fell flat; instead the rotten eggs landed on the faces of UMNO leaders.

The exemplary stand of the opposition leaders was a stark contrast to the mischievous if not downright dangerous antics of UMNO leaders. The contrast did not end there. Immediately following the tragic incident, Selangor Pakatan Mentri Besar Khalid Ibrahim visited the charred church. His was a much needed and very comforting presence, as well as a deeply symbolic gesture. It was a spontaneous yet splendid demonstration of common sense and deep concern for your fellow citizens, as well as of leadership.

Najib was content to condemn the hooliganism from afar, and in the process found himself in an uncomfortably defensive position. He did not visit the damaged church until the next day, but not before he had launched his party’s People’s Champion campaign in preparation for the next elections. That was Najib’s priority.

The only UMNO leader who visited the damaged church right away was its Youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin. He conveyed genuine empathy; his condemnation and expression of sympathy were genuine and heartfelt, a welcomed change from the hollowness of Najib’s.

Khairy’s presence made the absence of the other UMNO leaders that much more noticeable, and vulgar. These supposedly more seasoned UMNO leaders could learn a thing or two from Khairy on the importance of showing leadership in moments of crisis. You cannot teach that; either you have it or you don’t. Obviously Najib does not have it.

Najib’s bag of tricks was so crude that even foreign observers saw through it. “The real reason UMNO is politicizing the issue and pandering to its conservative base,” wrote the Wall Street Journal, “may be to deflect attention from its own political vulnerabilities.”

Najib had every reason to want to change the horrible headlines that were damaging his leadership, the latest being the jet engines stolen from a military base. The theft occurred during Najib’s tenure as Defense Minister but was only recently being made public.

That was not the only serious lapse of security during Najib’s tenure as Defense Minister. There was the spectacular and potentially devastating collapse of the naval base in Pularek just before its official opening. And to balance things out, there was the lethal attack on the army base in Grik, Perak, by a band of sarong-clad Al Maunah gang members. This recent revelation of the stolen jet engines was merely part of Najib’s trademark pattern of incompetence.

Thus far Najib is determined to repeat that same pattern as Prime Minister, except that he has now progressed beyond incompetence to being sinister.

It is downright malicious for Najib, Hishammuddin and others in UMNO to attempt at dividing Malaysians by needlessly treading on our religious sensitivities. Najib’s “1Malaysia” campaign has barely begun and he has already made a mockery of the ideal.

Specifically, Najib’s attempt to split Muslims in the opposition parties was brazen, crude and potentially destructive. There were initial intimations that his dirty scheming would work, what with the mainstream media continually harping on the supposed differences among the leaders of PAS and Keadilan over this issue. Najib and others must have been licking their chops, savoring the ‘brilliance’ of their strategy while remaining oblivious of the dangerous forces that they had unleashed.

Thankfully this time around Malaysians are far ahead of their leaders; we did not fall for this ugly and dangerous ploy. I am heartened that even UMNO’s own New Straits Times felt emboldened enough not to defend the administration on this matter.

In a thoughtful commentary, Rehman Rashid not too subtly reminded us of the terrible mess we found ourselves in with this manufactured crisis. Left unstated is the role of our leaders in leading us to be where we are today. Of course it would be too much to expect the mainstream media, specifically NST, to explore that. Under the circumstance, Rehman has gone as far as he could, and I applaud him for that.

In his piece Rehman wrote, “Debilitating dogmas need to be debunked, political parasites purged, and Little Napoleons stripped naked and hounded out of town.” Strong words! At least he has demonstrated that sycophantic editors (or at least their toadying editorials) are out too!

I hope that the positive gestures by Khairy and refreshingly candid commentary by Rehman would move Najib, Hishammuddin and others in UMNO away from their dangerous games. If they do not, then it is time we take the match away before they burn down the country. It is also time we tell them in no uncertain terms that they are not only unfit to lead our great nation but they also pose an imminent danger to Malaysia.

The nation suffered terribly in 1969; that national tragedy was instrumental in elevating Tun Razak to the nation’s top post. We should never risk our nation to another tragic episode under the inept and sinister leadership of his son.

We must not let Najib and his UMNO cahoots continue their bag of dirty tricks upon us. The fire next time might not be so easily contained. The conflagration then could rip us all apart. Let us not even contemplate giving them another chance; we have had enough!

source: http://www.bakrimusa.com/

An erection once every FIVE years?

This phone interview with the ex-Minister of Information, Zainuddin Maidin, who defends police action against protesters calling for changes to electoral process, tells it all. Listen very carefully around 2 min 20 seconds into the video. God bless Malaysia.

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M'sia should be very rich but not. WHY? Here's why...

The below tells it all. However, IMHO, there could be more that we are not aware of or have proof of it. If the below article is not true, the writer can be sued. So, it must be substantiated and thus TRUE!!!

This is the main reason why I decided to retire early. Why pay income tax for it to be squandered/pilfered away? So, having paid so much money in income tax all these years, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

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

Nov 28, 09 11:28am

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

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

The scandals listed below are only a small sample of the looting of the country's coffers:

In July of 1983, what was then the biggest banking scandal in world history erupted in Hong Kong, when it was discovered that Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF), a unit of Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd, had lost as much as US$1 billion which had been siphoned off by prominent public figures into private bank accounts.

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

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

No major politician was ever punished in Malaysia despite a white paper prepared by an independent commission that cited cabinet minutes of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad giving an okay to a request to throw more money into the scandal in an effort to contain it.

That was just the first Bank Bumi scandal. The government-owned bank had to be rescued twice more with additional losses of nearly US$600 million in today's dollars.

Ultimately government officials gave up and the bank was absorbed into CIMB Group, currently headed by Nazir Razak, the sitting prime minister's brother.

Bank Negara lost RM20 bil

That scandal, which stretched over several years before its denouement in 1985, set the tone for 24 years of similar scandals related to top Malaysian officials and was the first to prove that in Malaysia, you can not only get away with murder, you can get away with looting the treasury as well.

Perwaja Steel, for instance, lost US$800 million and its boss, Eric Chia, a crony of Mahathir's, was charged with looting the company. He stood trial, but was acquitted without having to put on a defense.

In the mid-1980s, the Co-operative Central Bank, a bank set up to aid the Indian smallholder community, had to be rescued by Bank Negara, the country's central bank, after hundreds of millions of ringgit in loans granted to a flock of Umno and MIC politicians became non-performing.

Some had never been serviced at all. Although the chief executive and general manager were charged with criminal breach of trust, none of the politicians were ever charged.

Before that, the Malaysian government was believed to have lost US$500 million in an attempt at Mahathir's urging to corner the London tin market through a company called Maminco, driving the world price of tin from US$4.50 per tonne to US$7.50.

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

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

'Malaysia's Enron scandal

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

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

"Bank Islam had a reputation in the market for being the spoilt child of the Malaysian Ministry of Finance; and the perception of the bank was more of a Muslim financial fraternity or government development financial institution," the report said.

In 2007, in what was called Malaysia's Enron scandal, the publicly traded Transmile Group Bhd, whose chairman was former MCA president and cabinet minister Ling Liong Sik, was caught having overstated its revenue by RM530 million.

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

Bailouts and more bailouts

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

The government also repeatedly bailed out highway construction concessionaires, all of them closely connected to Umno, to the tune of another RM38.5 billion.

In 2008, it was revealed that Rafidah Aziz, who had served as trade and industry minister for 18 years, had been peddling approved permits for duty-free car sales and allegedly lining her pockets.

Two companies which didn't even have showrooms – one of which belonged to the husband of Rafidah's niece – received scores of permits.

Although Rafidah came in for heavy criticism from within Umno, she remained in office until she was defeated in party elections.

In the 1960s, federal prosecutors in the United States who were attempting to jail the late labour boss Jimmy Hoffa for looting the Teamsters Pension Fund of millions of dollars with his cronies were puzzled by the fact that their revelations appeared to have little effect on the union's rank and file.

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

source: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/118519

A Dream: Let Chin Peng come home.

Why, why, why... when M'sia can forgive the Japanese and have bilateral relations with communist China, why when a peace treaty was signed with CPM, isn't Chin Peng allowed to come home? What can a 85 year old man do? He had lost his troops and now to deprive him of visiting the graves of his dead parents and brother!!! Is the M'sian authorities that vicious and unforgiving? They can bring back the dead body of a known terrorist from Indonesia, why can't they allow Chin Peng? Here's more...

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Unapologetic Chin Peng's final wish

Low Chia Ming
Nov 29, 09
9:07am

Although Chin Peng desires nothing but to return home, the 85-year-old former Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) leader is however not prepared to apologise for what he did, contrary to a newspaper report last week.

“I have no other wish apart from returning to my country,” said the 85-year-old former rebel leader.

The government is adamant on not allowing Chin Peng, who resides in Thailand, to set foot on Malaysian soil, citing the atrocities committed by the armed insurgents.

Speaking to the media in Hatyai, Chin Peng, whose real name is Ong Boon Hua, said he wants to visit the graves of his parents and pay his respects as well as to meet his family members again.

Chin Peng is in the southern Thai city to attend the 20th anniversary celebration of the Hatyai Peace Accord, which ended the armed revolt of CPM.

The treaty was signed by Chin Peng and Rashid Maidin representing CPM and Abdul Rahim Noor and Megat Junid Megat Ayub represented Malaysian government in Hatyai on Dec 2, 1989.

The urge to return home burns with such intensity that the former CPM leader is even considering taking the risk of coming back 'secretly' and let the government deal with him.

"I have no other wish. I hope to return to the country to pray for my dead parents and brother. That is the only wish I have in whatever time I have left,” he said.

Chin Peng said he was willing to meet Najib Abdul Razak on the matter when the prime minister visits southern Thailand next month.

Apology not an option

However, Chin Peng, who hails from Sitiawan, stop short of offering an apology for waging an armed struggle.

Asked if he would consider doing so in exchange for a ticket home, the frail-looking octogenarian paused for a moment to reflect on the question and then answered with a firm “No”.

His lawyer Leong Cheok Keng, who accompanied Chin Peng during the interview, criticised an English daily over the 'apology' issue.

During an exclusive interview with the Star last week, Chin Peng was reported to have apologised to the victims and families who suffered CPM's acts of violence.

He was quoted as saying that while CPM did not subscribe to the killing of innocent civilians, he however conceded that “we might have made mistakes in some cases.”

According to Leong, who brought along a recording of the Star interview, Chin Peng had said that he was willing to apologise if there is evidence to prove that CPM members had deliberately slain innocent civilians.

It was unfair of the newspaper to play up the 'apology' in that manner because it gave the impression that Chin Peng was regretful or even admitted to have killed innocent people, he added.

Citing the saying that 'all is fair in love and war', the lawyer argued that armed personnel who perished during the conflict should not be categorised as civilian casualties.

Chin Peng also denied the allegation that he had failed to turn up for the interview session arranged by the government after he submitted his application to return to Malaysia a year after
inking the peace accord in 1989.

He claimed that it was the government officials who gave him the run around by failing to show up for the interview on several occasions.

"I felt that I was fooled," he added.

'Selamat Tinggal'

Asked if he regretted signing the peace accord since the government failed to honour its promise in allowing CPM members to return, he said the peace accord was a product of circumstances, brought about by the end of the Cold War.

Chin Peng also stressed that his faith in communism has not changed but added that his political ideology does not come in the way of his wish to return home.

"I want to go back, no matter if it is a capitalist Malaysia or communist Malaysia, because it is my home," he said.

Asked if he could turn back time, would he walk down the same road, Chin Peng said he would choose the same path if no other alternative was available in addressing the conditions of that era.

He reiterated that he joined CPM willingly.

“If I judge myself, it would be an arrogant act. It is better to let the people of Malaysia judge if I had done good or bad things to the country. Let the people make their own evaluation,” he said.

When requested to say something in Bahasa Malaysia, Chin Peng took journalists by surprise when he uttered 'Selamat Tinggal'.

The former CPM leader said he chose these words for two reasons. The first, “selamat means peace and tinggal means live” and so he hopes all Malaysians would enjoy peace and happiness.

Second, he said it means 'goodbye', hinting that if the government does not grant his wish to return, then this could very well be his final interview.

source: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/118540

Some dreamy songs of mine...

Here's a classic that we used to sing during our school days, way back in the 60's. It's an Indonesian song. Sorry, I don't know who's the singer.





Here's one from Eydie Gorme, Blame it on the Bossanova. A timeless classic that we used to enjoy in school.




Being a "banana" doesn't mean that I don't enjoy mandarin songs. Here's one by one of my favourites, Huang Xiao Jun, titled 'The Wandering Songstress'. Enjoy...



My all time favourite mandarin song by the late Teresa Teng, 'The moon represents my heart'. Incidentally, PAS, an islamic society in Malaysia, adopted this song. Why? Translate it and you'll know the meaning. Enjoy...




More to come...

Dream on 1Malaysia!!!

Abandoned bumis the real face of '1Malaysia'

Nov 19, 09 8:00am

'So this is the real face of '1Malaysia' - the classification into bumiputera and non-bumiputera with consequent entitlement to rights and privileges. Tell me again, what is the meaning of '1Malaysia'?

Fury over 'disowned bumiputeras' in Sarawak

Kgan: So this is the real face of '1Malaysia' - the classification into bumiputera and non- bumiputera with consequent entitlement to rights and privileges. Tell me again what is the meaning of '1Malaysia'?

An empty slogan to fish for votes from the non-Malays? We must be the only country in the world where education opportunities are dependent on skin colour.

To Sarawak and Sabah: take care. This bumi/non-bumi divide will eventually spoil the racial harmony you have now. If East Malaysians are smart, they should throw this poisoned chalice from Umno back to its face and declare everybody non-bumi.

Chipmunk: So much for the '1Malaysia' pledge. Tell me Mr PM, what did you mean by the above slogan which you preach so often? What is '1Malaysia' to you? Are they just campaigning words for the next general election?

If '1Malaysia' is preached sincerely, then do away with the 'bumiputera' status or include all of the rakyat under it. Mr PM, your response to this will determine the results of the 13^th general election.

Lonestar: We should do away with the bumiputera/non-bumiputera divide. After all, we are from the 'bumi' and will surely return to the 'bumi' after all is said and done. Whichever party takes over from BN has to ensure that Malaysia is not divided ever again along racial or ethnic lines.

Petestop: Why are the East Malaysians complaining now when it is they who ensured that BN formed the federal government? Peninsular Malaysia rejected the BN government by a simple majority.

Perhaps the East Malaysians just want to continue to get short-terms goodies and are blind to the fact that they are losing out in long-term. For example, Sabah is the state with the highest number of impoverished persons in Malaysia.

Emergency motion on Klang shooting rejected

Ch: When police officers shoot, they say they do not shoot to kill. Maybe they need some help to identify the parts of the human anatomy (chest versus arms/legs) to hit with bullets if they want to avoid fatalities.

Concern Citizen: Unnecessary shootings are not urgent to discuss but the 'potong' issue can be discussed in Parliament. I think the deputy speaker is under the control of BN. By right, the speakers and his deputy must be neutral persons in the Dewan.

Malay: Of course, BN is not interested in debating the issue. Both the speaker and deputy speaker are BN people. This is not important to them because it is not their families. BN is playing with Indian lives.

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, if you don't know how to run the country, resign. IGP Musa Hassan, where are you? MIC, you should close shop if you cannot fight for the Indians.

Ex-Perlis mufti charged

Mr KJ John: Unless he preached in a public space, this charge isn't valid. Anyone is free to be invited into a private space to preach and teach scriptures, regardless of the specific interpretation of them.

Surely there cannot be a law against an event held in a private space unless it involved some specifically banned teaching.

Chipmunk: I am sure there are many more people out there who give religious talks without authorisation but apparently former Perlis mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin was the key target in this case.

Finally, the Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Jais) has come up with a charge after contemplating what to charge him for. Speak of selective judgement. Anyway, Asri, the folks down south welcome you anytime.

Wira: The prime minister has already indicated that he does not agree with the arrest. I wonder on whose instruction is the prosecutor's office proceeding with the charge anyway? Or is this really a 'sandiwara'?

Perhaps causing Asri and the Muslim community in this country to rejoice should the government later force the prosecution to withdraw the charge?

source: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/117784

Is PM, Najib, dreaming?

I've got so many relatives living overseas. Some of them even accepted citizenship over there, mainly in Australia, UK and USA. They are professionals and having a great life. What's there to attract them to return? Perhaps, when M'sia accepts Anak Malaysia i.e. 100% equal rights, they might. As it is, the rich bumis are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer. The rich that can afford houses gets 7% or so discount when buying houses, mar.

What about education? Just this morning, I was talking to an Indian friend, Bala, while having our regular breakfast together. He's one of a charity foundation founder/member. He told me he visited a family that have 3 daughters. They lived in Kampong Gandhi, in a dilapidated wooden house, which is, really a room. With no electricity and an outdoor toilet cum bathroom. The 3 girls each got 14 A1 in their SPM. They couldn't get the PTPTN loan, not to mention getting a place in the local Uni. When my friend found out, he approved their loan to study medicine in India. The eldest of the girls is now on her forth year.

What about promotional opportunities for non-bumis in the civil service, not to mention they being accepted there? Sure, the govt can spin that they are not interested to be in the armed forces and police. In reality, he who holds the weapons control, right?

I could go on and on... on the issue of the govt being biased and racist. Best is to let a neutral party and writer to the talking. If this author is writing garbage, he'll be sued a long, long time ago. In his book, names and dates and transcripts were provided as evidence. Even the cause of May 13, 1969 racial riots were exposed. Who is this brave man? He's none other than the ex-PM of Singapore, Harry Lee Kuan Yew. His 1st book is entitled, 'The Singapore Story'.

Last but not least, if the M'sian govt can only do 10% of what Harry Lee did, we'll be the richest nation in the world. We have so many natural resources and land, yet, if one venture into the kampongs, one can still find people living in abject poverty... many still without water and electricity. Whereas, take a look at the type of cars and houses that our ruling BN/UMNO people are having? It boggles one mind that they can have all that with just their salaries. Then, they build 'white elephants'. Send a man into space, buys submarines, starts a Formula 1 team, etc... Now, they want to build a bridge to link Malacca to Indonesia. Why they wanna do this is obvious to at least 90% of the population. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why.

Back to the subject matter. Dream on dear Najib, if you wanna reach out to M'sians living abroad. As mentioned by one of the Parlimentarians a couple of days ago, 20,000 professionals are US citizen and/or permanent residence there.

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Sunday November 15, 2009

Reach out to Malaysians abroad to help promote country, says Najib

By NELSON BENJAMIN

SINGAPORE: The Malaysian Government is reaching out to Malaysians abroad to help promote the country.

“The new dimension in our consideration now is that we do not look at Malaysians abroad as having lost them for good. I think they want Malaysians to reach out to them,” said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

“Let’s make the connection and benefit from them. We want to reach out to all of you and you help us,” he said, adding that they could help promote Malaysian interests while doing their own jobs in their respective countries.

Najib was speaking to more than 100 people, mainly Malaysians living or working in Singapore at a dinner hosted by him and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor on the sidelines of the Apec Summit here on Friday.

Power lunch: Najib chatting with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton before an Apec Summit lunch event at the Presidential Palace in Singapore Saturday. — AFP

He stressed that Malaysians living and working overseas cannot be considered unpatriotic or disloyal.

“I find Malaysians working overseas, including Singapore, have strong feelings, vibes and wanting to do something for Malaysia.

“We should capitalise on this and leverage on their presence here to enhance our networking, promote Malaysia in Singapore, make connections and even look for investors,” he said.

The Prime Minister also talked about Malaysia re-adjusting its economic and growth strategies to take into account the changing environment and the global economy.

He said the Government realised that more excitement and buzz needed to be created about Malaysia in its efforts to transform the country into a knowledge-based economy.

“The only way we could ensure enough supply of knowledge workers with the right skills and brains was to create more opportunities in the country,” he said.

“If we can do this, we not only attract Malaysians working abroad, but also expatriates to work and live in the country.”

Najib stressed that Malaysia must not fall short of having its own number of talented people.

Speaking at a press conference later, Najib said among the strategies to get Malaysians to return to the country to work was a 15% tax incentive offered within Iskandar Malaysia.

“For Iskandar, we want Malaysians to come back and work in priority areas,” he added.

source: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/15/nation/5116710&sec=nation

Here's an article regarding 1Malaysia F1 Team Sdn Bhd.

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Formula One - a formula for disaster?

Toyota Motor joined Formula One in 2002. When they left in 2009 they had spent RM $8.11 Billion. RM $3 million a day – everyday for 7 years!

Honda quit F1 in April this year.

BMW withdrew at the end of this year season.

Toyota, Honda and BMW! What does that say about F1? F1 is simply not sustainable. And now Mokhzani Mahathir, Chairman of SIC’s announces:

“Malaysia’s plans to start up and run it’s own Formula One team….If Malaysians need to rally behind an effort to unite our people, let’s use motor sports” and most important of all he reminds us that “Contrary to popular belief, motor sports isn’t just about fun and games but is big business in other parts of the world”.

Company Name: 1Malaysia F1 Team Sdn Bhd


Team Name: Lotus F1

Team
Country: Malaysia


Team Principal: Tony Fernandes

A partnership between the Malaysian Government and a consortium of Malaysian entrepreneurs. What madness is this? You can put any spin you like into this but this is the bottom line. The Barisan Nasional Government will be using hundreds and hundreds of million, if not billions of our Ringgit to finance an entertainment spectacle that will financially benefit their cronies and big business. Najib and Rosmah will enjoy their delusion of grandeur – he having that few seconds of glory when giving away the F1 trophy to the winners at Sepang and she putting on her Islamic Fashion Show in Monaco!

Are we to be taken as idiots again? No businessman in Malaysia not even Lim Goh Tong (may he rest in peace!) if he was alive today would have the audacity to invest in Formula One anywhere in the world – what more in Malaysia! Unless that businessman has been able to conned the Barisan Nasional Government to come up with the billions of Ringgits of Rakyat money to “invest” in this Man Telor of a scheme! And it looks like Tony Fernandes and his team have been able to do just that! Congrats Tony..but that Najib guy is not that bright is he?

Call this F1 Team anything you like but not 1Malaysia F1 Team Sdn Bhd. Because when it fails, as it surely will, it is Malaysia that fails on the world stage.

Somebody better tell Najib that hitching his 1Malaysia to F1 will not make it a success.

As for what participation in F1 will bring to Proton, Lotus or Petronas in terms of innovation and product development - just understand this - with globalization everyone has access to the same material, manpower and technology. F1 is simply not sustainable. It is just entertainment and big business – not for the masses but for the political Elites and their cronies.

But what can we do? We have a government totally out of synch with the realities of what its people want. We must find a way to put the fear of God into this Barisan Nasional Government before we too are drag into the abyss of corrupt and greedy cronyism that they have all comfortably settled into at our expense. I know that we still cannot keep these bastards honest but let us not forget to keep our anger burning. Keep our anger burning so that we will not forget what we have to do come the next General Elections to kick these Barisan Nasional bastards OUT! Keep our anger!

Posted by HusseinAbdul Hamid at Sunday, November 15, 2009

source: http://steadyaku-steadyaku-husseinhamid.blogspot.com/