Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Kerajaan tak sekat Bersih3.0...Stadium Bukit Jalil ditawar...Ambiga nak bullshit apa lagi


Senang cakap bos Bersih Datuk Ambiga tak payah nak bullshit panjang-panjang.Berterus terang cakap mereka sengaja nak cari sebab untuk berkonfrantasi dengan kerajaan pada Sabtu ini menerusi Bersih 3.0.
Bodoh dan bahlul sangat bagi siapa saja yang tidak dapat meneka nawaitu tersirat mereka bila melihat segala rentetan kepada rancangan mengadakan himpunan yang kononnya untuk menuntut pilihanraya bersih dan adil.
Ini jelas terpancar bila puak ini berdegil nak 'langgar' juga Dataran Merdeka sekalipun Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) bertegas tidak izin tempat bersejarah itu digunakan untuk tujuan berkenaan.
Sebelum ini semua orang lihat bagaimana mereka ketepikan begitu sahaja segala rumusan Jawatankuasa Khas Parlimen (PSC) Menambahbaik Proses Pilihanraya yang mereka sendiri ada wakil.
Banyak masa dan wang ringgit terbuang begitu sahaja untuknya.
Suasananya dijadikan seolah tidak ada satu pun yang kena di kaca mata mereka selagi mereka tidak dapat bertenggek di Putrajaya.
Mereka sekarang merasa seolah boleh berbuat apa saja di negara ini - tak peduli samaada langgar undang-undang atau tidak.
Tambah terserlah lagi Sabtu bila Pengerusi Perbadanan Stadium Malaysia,Datuk Jamil Salleh  membuat kenyataan rasmi menawarkan Stadium Bukit Jalil sebagai lokasi himpunan itu.
Stadium itu di dalam dan kawasan sekitarnya senang-senang boleh menampung lebih 150,000 orang tanpa mencetuskan kesesakan lalulintas dan suasana kecoh di tengah pusat bandar.
Sumber: Agendadaily
Jarumemas: Memang itulah niat mereka sebenarnya. Tindakan mereka itu bukan sahaja akan menusahkan orang ramai yang mahu berurusan di ibu kota, malah para peniaga juga akan turut mengalami kerugian.  Semasa perhimpunan Bersih 2 dulu, ramai peniaga yang merungut kerana perniagaan harian mereka terjejas.  Ada ke mereka bayar ganti rugi kepada para peniaga? 

DAP: DPM using ‘selective’ statistics on Malaysian education


KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 – Lim Guan Eng today accused Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin of “cherry-picking” favourable statistics from selected studies to dupe Malaysians into trusting the quality of the country’s education system.
The DAP secretary-general, in a statement today, pointed Muhyiddin to numerous other international studies, which he said have repeatedly painted Malaysia’s education system in a bad light, even ranking it below many countries within the ASEAN region.
“The truth is that the reality of our education is far from the rosy picture that Muhyiddin is painting.
“Data and statistics from world renowned international reports have shown time and time again that there is a crisis in Malaysian education.
“In fact, Malaysians do not even require a report to tell them that there is a dire problem with our education system that produces unemployable graduates who are unable to think critically,” Lim complained.


Jarumemas: Nothing will stop the oppositions from commenting whatever programme or projects done by the government. They always use foreign reports and data to condemn  the Malaysian's system of education. 

SPR cetak 5,000 naskah buku tepis dakwaan pembangkang











PUTRAJAYA, 24 April — Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR)  telah mencetak 5,000 naskah buku yang menjawab segala dakwaan pembangkang ekoran mereka kerap  mempertikaikan kredibiliti sistem daftar pemilih.

Pengerusi SPR, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof, ketika sidang media pelancaran buku tersebut berkata, pihaknya berharap segala dakwaan pembangkang itu dapat dijawab dengan penghasilan buku berkenaan.
Buku yang menggunakan bahasa Melayu sepenuhnya ini sudah dicetak sekitar 5,000 naskah, dengan versi berbahasa Inggeris masih lagi berada di dalam proses percetakan.
“SPR telah mencetak 5,000 naskah versi bahasa Melayu. Untuk versi berbahasa Inggeris masih lagi dalam proses,” katanya dan menambah, kos setiap naskah berkenaan dianggarkan berharga RM4.
Tambah Abdul Aziz, sejak laporan Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas Parlimen (PSC) berkenaan penambahbaikan pilihan raya membentangkan laporan mereka, pihaknya menerima pelbagai reaksi berkenaan daftar pemilih yang menurutnya, kebanyakan daripada reaksi dan dakwaan itu adalah tidak tepat.


Jarumemas: Masih skeptikal dengan sikap pembangkang. Rasanya mereka tetap menolak apa sahaja  yang SPR lakukan selagi mereka tidak berjaya memerintah negara ini. 

One rural vote worth six urban ballots, favours BN, analysts say


PETALING JAYA, April 25 — The Election Commission’s (EC) drawing of electoral boundaries makes a rural voter worth an average of six urban voters, biasing elections towards Barisan Nasional (BN) as it is stronger in the countryside, according to poll analysts.
Election watchdog Tindak Malaysia founder PY Wong said the ruling coalition won 112 out of the smallest 139 federal seats in Election 2008, giving it simple majority in Parliament with just 18.9 per cent of the popular vote. The seats have not been changed for the next general election.
“Something is seriously wrong when you can win 50.4 per cent of Parliament with just 18.9 per cent of the votes,” he told a forum here last night.
Wong said malapportionment — unequally-sized constituencies — and gerrymandering — manipulation of electoral boundaries — also allowed the ruling coalition to rack up 62 of the smallest seats with just 6.2 per cent of the popular vote.
Another analyst, Wong Chin Huat, pointed out that the smallest 112 seats only represented 33.8 per cent of the electorate.
The Bersih steering committee member said this allowed for the lopsided results in 2004, where BN won 90.9 per cent of Parliament with just 63.9 per cent of the popular vote, while Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail was PKR’s sole MP despite gaining 8.4 per cent of votes cast.
“This means one vote for BN was worth 26 votes for PKR,” he said.


Jarumemas: Has been voting since at the age of 21 without fail, even though at one time I was working in Sabah in 1999. No one sponsored my flight ticket. Even, when I was in Johor Bahru, I drove up together with my parents to vote in Seremban and again no petrol or toll fare were paid by any politicians. Nowadays, voters are given cash just asking them to come back to vote at their hometown. Since voting is voter's duty, their responsibility is to vote wherever their voting stations are. They should not be paid. 

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

PAS chief Hadi Awang vows to join Bersih sit-in

PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang  said he will be at Dataran Merdeka to give full support to the Bersih 3.0 sit-in on Saturday.

In a statement today through his press secretary, he said PAS has called on all its members to join the rally in droves.

“We also urge the police to behave in a rational manner and provide crowd control for the rally," he said.

“They have to learn the lessons of Bersih 2.0 where excessive provocation (from the police) had resulted in chaos that was not a result of the protestors’ actions."

Hadi reminded that the struggle for electoral reforms was important to all Malaysians, whether from the opposition or the government, “and also the police”.

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Jarumemas: Let Hadi joins. He is asking for trouble. Is his heart stable enough?

Malaysian rare-earth anger links up with poll reform calls

BANGKOK - With Western countries and Japan seeking to get around China's domination of the crucial but mis-named "rare earths" sector, a potentially game-changing processing site slated for Malaysia looks set to become a major election issue as that country gears up to vote.

Opposition politicians and local activists from Kuantan - where Australia's Lynas Corp hopes to build a processing plant for rare earth minerals mined in Australia - are protesting against the project. The plant will provide "a crucial link in developing a non-Chinese supply of rare earth metals", according to Yaron Voronas of the Technology and Rare Earths Center, an online forum for the industry.
The fracas looks set to be entwined in Malaysia's fractious party politics as speculation grows that Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak will call national parliamentary elections soon, with whispers about an early June vote to coincide with school holidays. In the meantime, opposition-linked activists will stage renewed public demonstrations on April 28, after the findings of a parliamentary committee set up to assess electoral reform options were dismissed as "flawed" by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Anwar hopes to make history by leading his opposition coalition to victory in the elections, an outcome that would mean a change of government away from the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO)-led administrations that have ruled the country continuously since Malaysia's 1957 independence from Great Britain.
The opposition made gains in the last 2008 elections, but hopes of an outright win are stymied, they feel, by a rigged electoral system. After tens of thousands of Malaysians protested in Kuala Lumpur last July, seeking changes to how the country stages elections, the parliamentary committee recently issued 22 recommendations, including suggestions that the Election Commission operate separately from government and that the required election campaign period be extended to a still-short 10 days, up from the current seven.

Jarumemas:  Optimist that the National Front will win in the general election. The oppositions are trying to smear the elections, the campaigns and the existing government.  

Monday, 23 April 2012

BN meningkat naik di Penang dan populariti Anwar merundum

KUALA LUMPUR, 23 April — Kepimpinan agresif oleh ketua Barisan Nasional (BN) baru Penang Teng Chang Yeow dan penurunan populariti Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim di negeri itu telah memberikan kerajaan harapan mereka akan menawan kembali negeri berkenaan daripada Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pada pilihan raya umum akan datang.

The Malaysian Insider difahamkan BN mahu Ketua Menteri sedia ada Lim Guan Eng hanya bertahan di negeri itu tanpa berkempen di mana-mana lokasi dalam pilihan raya tersebut. Sumber mengesahkan kaji selidik dalaman DAP menunjukkan populariti Anwar merundum termasuk di kerusinya sendiri di Permatang Pauh.

“Lim perlu melakukan sesuatu sekarang kerana sokongan Melayu telah berubah. Populariti Anwar telah turun kepada hanya 50 peratus di Permatang Pauh dan ia amat dibimbangkan,” kata sumber DAP kepada The Malaysian Insider.

Tambahnya, Lim telah mula menggerakkan parti dan pakatannya termasuk PAS dan PKR untuk melakukan kempen yang lebih menyeluruh untuk mengekalkan negeri itu, di mana PR menguasai 29 daripada 40 kerusi. Umno menguasai 11 kerusi yang lainnya.


Jarumemas: Eloklah tu! Mudah-mudahan rakyat sedar bahawa pemimpin yang rosak akhlaknya tidak layak untuk dinobatkan sebagai pemimpin, bimbang nanti Allah akan turunkan bala dan kita yang tidak berdosa pun sama kena tempiasnya, nauzubillah.