Jumaat, 30 Disember 2011

Ahad, 25 Disember 2011

Free Anwar Campaign BEBAS ANWAR 901

Sabtu, 24 Disember 2011

Pakatan akan umum ‘manifesto bersama’ di konvensyen kebangsaan

KUALA LUMPUR, 24 Dis — Pakatan Rakyat akan mendedahkan manifesto bersama parti perikatan itu pada konvensyen kebangsaan bulan depan di mana pemimpin tertinggi percaya ia akan menekankan dan membantu menyatukan persediaan mereka dalam menghadapi pilihan raya umum ke-13.
Difahamkan manifesto Pakatan Rakyat berbentuk “mudah, ringkas” dan “halus” untuk memberikan dan menjelaskan maklumat penting apa yang ditawarkan gabungan tiga parti itu kepada rakyat.
Sebelum ini The Malaysian Insider melaporkan Pakatan Rakyat berkemungkinan akan mengadakan konvensyen kebangsaan yang terakhir di Kedah pada 14 Januari depan untuk merangka strategi pilihan raya mereka.

“Sekarang, ia (manifesto bersama) akan diperkenalkan semasa konvensyen kebangsaan. Butirannya belum dimuktamadkan tetapi kami kerap bertemu untuk menyiapkan semuanya,” kata Pengarah Straregik PKR Rafizi Ramli.
“Manifesto ini akan mengandungi dasar-dasar yang paling penting dan matlamat tiga parti dalam Pakatan Rakyat...ia akan diperhalusi. Kami tidak boleh membawa begitu banyak mesej semasa pilihan raya, jadi pengundi akan mudah faham dengan apa yang ditawarkan kami iaitu sebagai satu gabungan dan bakal kerajaan,” tambahnya.
Manifesto Pakatan Rakyat akan “menyatukan” kedua-dua Rangka kerja Bersama dan Buku Jingga, menurut Rifizi.
Buku Jingga yang dibentuk secara bersama menawarkan beberapa aspek utama dalam tempoh 100 hari selepas menawan Putrajaya termasuk memberikan elaun bulanan RM500 kepada guru yang akan membelanjakan kos keseluruhan sebanyak RM3.2 bilion setiap tahun.
Ia juga turut akan mengambil langkah tertentu untuk memansuhkan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negara (ISA), memansuhkan sistem tol serta menawarkan akses perkhidmatan Internet tanpa wayar di kawasan bandar dan luar bandar.
Bagaimanapun Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak telah melakukan transformasi dalam pentadbiran termasuk memansuhkan ISA, menggubal undang-undang perhimpunan aman serta membenarkan pelajar berumur 21 tahun ke atas untuk menyertai politik luar kampus.
“Ia seperti manifesto pilihan raya. Kami akan memberikan tumpuan tentang apa yang kami ketengahkan seperti bagaimana kempen Tony Blair pada 1999 yang memberikan fokus kepada beberapa kisu utama,” kata Rafizi.
Bekas perdana menteri UK Blair berjaya memimpin Parti Buruh memperoleh kemenangan besar pada pilihan raya umum 1997 negara itu dan melaksanakan beberapa manifesto termasuk memperkenalkan gaji minimum, Akta Hak Asasi dan Akta Kebebasan Maklumat.
Pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat yang bertanggungjawab untuk merangka manifesto bersama itu terdiri darida Rafizi, Nurul Izzah Anwar, Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Chua Tian Chang, Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, Salahuddin Ayub, Dr Hatta Ramli, Tony Pua, Liew Chin Tong, Teresa Kok dan Anthony Loke.
Rafizi menegaskan manifesto itu dirangka pada masa yang tepat, menambah bahawa ia menunjukkan walaupun PKR, PAS dan DAP berlainan idealogi namun berjaya disatukan secara bersama seperti satu perjanjian.
“Kami tidak menang pilihan raya hanya kerana sokongan penyokong kami...kami memerlukan manifesto ini untuk ditawarkan kepada pengundi. Isu-isu yang dibangkitkan seperti gaji, kos sara hidup yang tinggi. Ini akan menarik perhatian generasi muda,” katanya.
Dijangkakan konvensyen itu akan menjadi tumpuan, Rafiziz berkata perbicaraan liwat yang melibatkan Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim akan diumumukan pada 9 Januari turut akan mempengaruhi suasana.
Keputusan perbicaraan kes liwat Anwar yang telah mengambil masa selama dua tahun itu dijangka akan berakhir pada 9 Januari yang melibatkan Ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh itu dengan bekas pembantu peribadinya Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan tiga tahun lepas.

Kempen ‘Tolak Fitnah II, Lawan Konspirasi’ dilancar 28 Disember

KUALA LUMPUR 23 Dis: Pemuda Pakatan Rakyat (PR) dan Pertubuhan Bukan Kerajaan (NGO) akan melancarkan kempen ‘Tolak Fitnah II, Lawan Konspirasi’ pada 28 Disember ini, kata Ketua Angkatan Muda KEADILAN (AMK), Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin.
Menurutnya, itu antara resolusi yang dicapai Pemuda PR dalam mesyuarat yang dipengerusikannya malam semalam.
“Kempen bertemakan ‘Bebaskan Anwar 901′ ini kita lancarkan bersama Pemuda Pakatan dan NGO di Kelab Sultan Sulaiman, Kampung Baru pada 11 pagi 28 Disember ini.
“Perincian lanjut mengenai jelajah ini akan kita maklumkan pada hari itu,” katanya kepada Keadilandaily.com hari ini.
Menurutnya, sebanyak 500,000 risalah yang mengandungi fakta sebenar mengenai kes Fitnah 2 sudah tersedia untuk diedar sepanjang jelajah itu.
“Sepanjang jelajah ini kita juga berharap risalah mengenai kes Fitnah II yang kita edar ini rakyat membacanya seterusnya memahami dengan baik serta bersama mengedarnya kepada kenalan seramai mungkin.
“Ini penting kerana kes ini kerap diputar belit media arus perdana, jauh sekali memberi liputan adil kepada Datuk Seri Anwar,” tegasnya.
Menurutnya, jelajah itu berlangsung serentak di beberapa lokasi seluruh negara dengan kemuncaknya ialah perhimpunan rakyat di Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur pada 9 Januari depan.
“Oleh itu, kita mengalu-alukan rakyat hadir beramai-ramai dan datang seawal mungkin pada perbicaraan itu sebagai tanda solidariti kita bersama pemimpin rakyat, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim,” tegasnya.

Anwar yang juga Ketua Umum KEADILAN kini berdepan kes Fitnah kali kedua dengan keputusan itu akan diumum pada 9 Januari depan, selepas melalui perbicaraan selama hampir dua tahun.
Kes yang disifatkan mengulangi konspirasi Umno-BN itu bermula beberapa hari selepas Anwar mengumumkan bertanding dalam Pilihan Raya Kecil (PRK), Permatang Pauh pada Ogos 2008.

Rabu, 21 Disember 2011

Gayung Pusaka - Anwar Ibrahim

Rapat Rakyat - Anwar Ibrahim

Rapat Rakyat Lim Guan Eng

Rapat Rakyat - Lim Kit Siang

Rapat Rakyat - Mat Sabu

Rapat Rakyat Zuraidah Kamaruddin

Sabtu, 17 Disember 2011

(Q&A) Anwar Ibrahim: How To Insulate Malaysia From Global Crisis?

(Q&A) Anwar Ibrahim: What Is The Proposal To Replace The ETP?

Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysia - The Widening Income Gap (Part 4/4)

Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysia - The Widening Income Gap (Part 3/4)

Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysia - The Widening Income Gap (Part 2/4)

Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysia - The Widening Income Gap (Part 1/4)

Kalau Obor Perjuangan Itu Jatuh!

SESUATU yang ramai tidak mahu saksikan ialah pada 9 Januari 2012 ini Anwar Ibrahim akan digiring ke penjara Sungai Buluh untuk meneruskan 'pengajiannya Phdnya' di sana. Rasanya ramai rakyat yang berdoa dan bermunajat serta bersolat hajat memohon agar Anwar tidak di bawa ke penjara. Sekurang-kurangnya biarlah Anwar melalui pilihan raya ke-13 yang akan tiba tidak lama lagi.

Mereka yang berhati mutmainah akan mengira memejarakan Anwar satu pengkhinatan kepada bangsa Melayu dan negara ini. Sebaliknya mereka yang memakai baju amarah akan melihat satu kejayaan buat mereka. Sesungguhnya mutmanianah dan amarah itu dua nafsu yang jauh beza dan nilai taranya.

Itu harapan dan impian banyak orang terutamanya rakyat yang mahukan perubahan. Tetapi tidak dengan Ha Najib Razak dan kuncu-kuncunya. Bagi Najib pula pengiringan Anwar ke penjara satu keperluan dan satu kebagusan. Hanya dengan memenjarakan Anwar sahaja memberi sedikit harapan untuk Najib terus mengangkat sumpah sebagai PM di hadapan Agong baru.

Kalau pilihan raya ke 13 berjalan dengan sempurna, dengan Anwar masih berada di luar dan tiada sekatan-sekatan baru yang lebih ganas, rasanya impian Najib untuk menjadi PM sudah berkecai. Silap hari bulan Najib akan menjadi perdana menteri dari rahim Umno yang terpendek. Kerana mungkin Najib menghidu itu maka tiada ada pilihan buatnya melainkan menggunakan teori Mahathir Mohamad, penjara Anwar kemudian bubar parlimen.

Katakan pada 9 Januari ini Anwar akan digiring ke penjara, apa jadi dengan Pakatan Rakyat? Ramai orang berkira semangat para pendokong Pakatan Rakyat akan mengendur. Ramai yang menjadi lemah dan gemulai. Keinginan yang membuat-buak kini untuk merampas Putrajaya akan mengendur dengan tiba-tiba kalau Anwar berada di dalam. Kenapa jadi begitu? Kenapa selemah itu jiwa para pejuang sedang jiwa mereka harus menjadi kayu dan batu yang harus menggeras.

Kenapa harus kendur untuk menyerang Putrajaya kalau Anwar berada di penjara. Kenapa harus menjadi lemah gemulai dan berputus asa. Mereka yang melihat hanya Anwar segala-galanya tentu akan meras begitu. Hidup jangan lekas berputus asas. Dalam perjuangan untuk menegakkan kebenaran, menghapuskan kemungkaran... tidak ada hentinya. Ia juga memerlukan nilai harga yang mahal untuk dibayar. Perjuangan itu akan diteruskan hatta Anwar dipenjara 10 kali lagi pun. Ingat tiap dari kita sudah dititik besi kursani perjuangan ke dalam kalbu sebelum kewujudan Anwar lagi.

Para mujahadah dan mujahidah perlu ingat bahawa Anwar bukan segala-galanya. Anwar hanyalah kebetulan saja. Anwar hanya pembawa obor perjuangan saja yang dipilih kerana keberanian dan ketulusannya. Bila tangannya sudah melecur dan terbakar, sebelum obor perjuangan terlerek ke bumi, sambar dan angkatlah setinggi keupayaan yang kita ada. Julanglah ramai-ramai. Di luar sana masih ramai pejuangan kebenaran yang sedia memelucurkan tangannya. Usah risau dan rungsing.

Kalau kita kecut, kalau kita lemah untuk mengangkat obor maka selama itu kezaliman akan bermahajalela dan mengganas sampai ke anak cucu cicit kita. Jangan biarkan lembu terus gemuk .... mari kita relakan jajari jemari kita terbakar dan melecur demi anak cucu masa depan.

Kita haerus mengenali diri kita, siapa diri kita. Yang tidak mengenal diri sendiri itulah yang menjadi masalahnya. Tiap daripada kita semua adalah pembawa obor. Kita adalah pemikul panji-panji perjuangan. Dengan tiadanya Anwar bukan alasan untuk kita berhenti mara dan mengendurkan langkah. Sebaliknya apa yang ditanamkan Anwar jadikan azimat dan tangkai untuk terus mara dan marah. Penyeksaan dan ketidakadilan serta fitnah ke atas Anwar harus dibayar tunai dengan menumbangkan regim zalim.

Anwar sudah bilang dia akan berjuang dari penjara. Penjara baginya bukan tembok batu yang menghentikan segala gerak tindaknya. "Saya akan menyatu padukan dan memperkemaskan ikatan Pakatan Rakyat dari penjara," begitulah kata-kata Anwar. Kalau dari ruang tertutup dan terbatas Anwar masih boleh berjuang, nah bagaimana dengan kita yang bebas menghirup udara di luar ini. Bachul sangatlah kita.... Sesungguhnya setiap dari pendokong keadilan dan pendesak perubahan harus malu dengan Anwar.

Bertolak dari aspirasi dan semangat itu saya melihat Pakatan Rakyat akan menjadi lebih kuat dan bersemangat lagi kalau tertakdir Anwar diringkukkan di penjara. Perasaan geram dan marah rakyat akan bercantum untuk memantulkan satu pukulan padu ke arah muka tebal dan bebal UBN. Dengan masuknya Anwar nanti (mudah-mudahan) ia akan menghuru harakan lagi ketumbokan UBN kini sudah siap mara. Marah yang kita simpan tatkala pertama kali beliau di penjara kita keluarkan semua untuk mengiringi langkah melakukan perubahan.

Tetapi saya yakin saat Anwar di giring ke penjara tidak ada lagi air mata yang akan mengalir. Tidak ada lagi suara histeria yang meraung di luar mahkamah kesal dan sebal atas apa yang berlaku. Tiada lagi perempun, gadis dan ibu merintih kehibaan melihat dengan penuh kesenduan saat Anwar di bawa ke Sungai Buluh. Tidak ada lagi. Semua orang kena keringkan air mata untuk tidak ditumpahkan pada 9 Januari.

Tidak ada demostrasi lagi membantah pembawaan Anwar ke Sungai Buluh. Semuanya akan berjalan dengan tenang. Sebab semua orang sudah faham dan sudah masak dengan apa yang berlaku. Semua orang sudah mangli dan semua sudah berazam akan menghadapi saat-saat itu dengan penuh ketabahan dan keberanian. Iya untuk menang dalam peperangan semua orang harus degil dan berani.

Pengalaman lebih 10 tahun lalu memberi kekuatan kepada mereka. Kali ini rakyat tidak lagi menzahirkan kemarahan dengan protes, jerit, laung dan apa juga bentuk fizikal lain. Tetapi rakyat akan protes dengan senyap, laksana kalau mengharungi air, air tidak pun beriak dan berkocak. Kalau merentasi semak, semak usahkan berbunyi patah pun tidak. Rakyat akan protes dalam senyap, rakyat akan membunuh UBN dalam senyum dan tawa.

Rakyat akan menjerut leher penzaliman dengan tali azam dan nekad yang kuat. UBN tidak memahami ini, dan inilah nanti yang akan menjadikan UBN akan mati dalam ketawa sehingga mereka tidak percaya bahawa jasadnya sudah tidak akan bergerak lagi selepas ini. Rakyat bukan mahu melihat dan menanti penghukuman ke Anawar untuk dikatakan zalim, tetapi proses perbicaraan itu menyebabkan rakyat sudah mual dengan UBN.

Kepada pendokong keadilan, kebenaran dan perindu sebuah perubahan - persalinan kerajaan, tenang-tenang sahaja tunggu 9 Januari ini seperti telah berlalu sejuta hari sebelum ini. Kita tidak mampu melawan takdir tetapi ingat kita boleh mengubah skrip yang sudah berada di tangan kita berdasarkan sebuah firman berbunyi; nasib sesuatu kaum itu tidak akan berubah kecuali dia sendiri akan mengubahkannya. Dan Tuhan Maha Pengubah. Nah mari kita ubah.

Rosmah sudah kembali .... dengan kek harijadi ke 60 yang bersaiz besar ... padan dengan dia ...

Rosmah sudah kembali lagi. Setelah selesai mengerjakan haji dan agak sepi semasa perhimpunan agung UMNO, wanita pertama Malaysia, atau lebih dikenali dengan nama FLOM sudah siap sedia untuk menyerlah, dan kenapa tidak?

Jika ramalan pemerhati politik tepat tentang suaminya yang bakal dijatuhkan, iaitu Najib Razak, dia akan langsung dipinggirkan dari golongan atasan. Mereka berdua akan dipulaukan seperti penyakit berjangkit dan Najib juga akan kehilangan jawatan sebagai presiden UMNO pada pemilihan parti tahun 2012 yang akan datang.

Ini akan menjadi tamparan yang maha hebat buat Rosmah.

Kek bersaiz gergasi

Pada 10 Disember yang lalu, sahabat dan pencacainya telah mempersembahkan wanita berusia 60 tahun ini dengan sebuah kek harijadi yang amat besar, hampir sebesar sebuah meja. Tidak seperti saiz dan rupa pelik yang dipersembahkan oleh pemimpin UMNO Pulau Pinang kepada Lim Guan Eng, kek Rosmah yang berwarna putih dan pastel begitu cantik.

Kek itu sudah semestinya dipersembahkan pada pembukaan Ekspo PERMATA 2011 yang diadakan di Pusat Konvensyen Kuala Lumpur. Melihat kepada gambar yang tersebar di alam maya, sememangnya Rosmah sendiri terpegun dengan saiz kek yang besar itu. Bukankah itu memang padan dengan orangnya?

Ramai yang berfikir, berapakah kos kek tersebut dan adakah pemberinya mengharapkan pulangan dari FLOM? Jika ia sebenarnya dibuat untuk meraikan kejayaan kumpulan kebajikan PERMATA kenapa tidak tertulis, “Selamat ulangtahun ibu PERMATA” diatasnya?

Bukankah Rosmah sepatutnya meraikan harijadi di dalam parti tertutup dan menggunakan duitnya sendiri untuk membuat persediaan itu? Walhal itu adalah harijadinya.

Apa pun, bermula dengan parti kecil yang ditaja ini Rosmah seakan-akan memberitahu semua bahawa setelah perhimpunan agung UMNO, dia sudah kembali dengan penuh gaya.

Menang atau kalah, keluarga Najib akan keluar dari Putrajaya, tiada majlis meriah meraikan mereka. Walaupun begitu, mereka akan tetap pergi dengan segala kemewahan yang telah diikaut sementara rakyatlah yang sengsara membayarnya.

Kisah cinta dan perkahwinan

Sebagai bekas pegawai bank, Rosmah sememangnya jauh lebih bijak dari rakan-rakan yang lain.

Dia telah berjaya menawan hati bakal perdana menteri dan ini telah membuktikan kelicikkannya.

Lahir dalam keluarga yang sederhana, dia berjaya memasuki Kolej Tunku Kursiah, seterusnya Universiti, mengahwini personaliti tv, mengadakan hubungan sulit dan seterusnya berkahwin dengan Najib.

Najib yang merupakan anak sulung perdana menteri kedua Abdul Razak Hussien telah pun mendirikan rumah tangga dan merupakan menteri pendidikan sewaktu mereka mula berkenalan. Namun

, percintaan mereka lebih hebat dari ikatan perkahwinan masing-masing dan mereka kemudiannya meninggalkan pasangan mereka untuk bersama.

Bagi membuktikan bahawa dia layak untuk pengorbanan yang dibuat, Rosmah membiarkan dirinya dibelakang tabir, dan menjadi seorang isteri yang taat, penyayang dan memberikan sokongan penuh kepada suami. Dia telah berjaya melindungi sikap sebenarnya yang dikatakan pengkritik sebagai seorang yang bercita-cita besar dan boros.

Tidak sabar untuk menggantikan Jeanne Abdullah

Mungkin Rosmah merasakan bahawa dia telah lama bersabar dan tidak mampu menunggu lagi untuk menjadi isteri perdana menteri sehinggakan didalam perbualannya dengan rakan-rakan rapat,

mengejek Tun Jeanne Abdullah sebagai tidak layak untuk anugerah tersebut.

Apabila sampai masa Najib mengambil alih kediaman rasmi perdana menteri, Rosmah telah menempah kelengakapan dalam rumah yang mewah dan baru berharga mencecah RM65 juta.

Tapi, pada malam 9 Disember 2006, dalam majlis makan malam rasmi yang meraikan penabalan YDA ke 12,

dia telah menunjukkan belangnya apabila mengarahkan majlis ditamatkan pada pukul 10 malam.

Dengan satu arahan keras, Rosmah telah memendekkan majlis lebih awal 2 jam yang telah menyekat YD Agung untuk bermesra dengan tetamu yang datang dari dalam dan luar negara.

Cintakan Bollywood

Kerenah besar kepala yang ditunjukkan oleh Rosmah adalah kerana semata-mata mahu menghadiri majlis penuh glamor, iaitu Global India Film Awards [GIFA BOLLYWOOD] yang diadakan di Stadium Bukit Jalil.

Disana, Rosmah dengan beraninya meninggalkan rombongan termasuk suaminya dan beberapa kenamaan yang juga dipaksa balik untuk menonton dirinya bermesra dengan artis Bollywood tanpa segan silu.

Pada ketika itu, belang sebenarnya nampak satu persatu. Skandalnya tidak mengenal batasan, dari penglibatannya dalam komisyen kapal selam Scorpene, yang melibatkan pembunuhan Altantuya Shaariibuu, keakrabannya dengan golongan antarabangsa yang kaya dan mewah, berbelanja dengan boros dan pembelian barangan peribadi dari beg tangan Birkin yang bernilai RM100 000 sehinggalah ke cincin berlian biru yang berharga RM73 juta.

Tabiat borosnya telah menjadikan rakyat miskin semakin geram dengan perempuan yang melantik dirinya sebagai Wanita Pertama Malaysia ini.

Vain Najib paints himself into a corner, dooming BN with an Anwar 'guilty' verdict

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim’s Sodomy II trial has cast a long shadow over the nation’s political landscape for the past three years.
Coming hot on the heels of the 2008 general election that swept Pakatan Rakyat into power at five states, Anwar was accused of sodomy by a 27-year-old male aide in June the same year. The timing and execution of the charge, including the role played by Prime Minister Najib Razak, gives clear indication that a political ploy had been sprung to deny Pakatan Rakyat more leeway come GE-13.
And what better way than to target the head of Malaysia's first meaningful opposition. Indeed, the writing is on the wall and many, including Anwar himself, is expecting a guilty verdict come January 9, 2012.
"The process has not been fair. This is not a fair trial and we have adduced enough cogent, compelling, incontrovertible evidence to support that," Anwar told reporters after the trial ended. "Having said that, we are still hopeful that sanity will prevail and the judge will decide based on the facts and the law."

No difference
Indeed, Anwar is prepared for a jail term. One that he is not unfamiliar with; having spent 6 years in jail before he was acquitted of sodomy and released in 2004. A Sodomy II guilty verdict could see Anwar spending a maximum of 20 years in prison, which many believe would spell the end of his political career.
"It doesn't make a difference -- in jail or outside, I will fight for justice," Anwar said.
With or without a guilty plea on Anwar, the days for Barisan Nasional as Malaysia's ruling coalition are numbered. In the years from 1997 to 2008, no one ever gave the opposition a chance of surviving the BN's mighty and slick machinery.
But not only has Pakatan survived, it has blazed a trail. Never-before-achieved performances were recorded by the Selangor and Penang state governments. Latest polls show Pakatan ahead of BN in several states, including Perak and Selangor.
Vanity will ensure Najib orders a 'guilty' verdict
The political tsunami of 2008 was not simply a victory for Pakatan Rakyat. It was a revolution put in place by the people of Malaysia. Of the 11 million registered voters, 7.94 million cast their votes during GE-12.
Of this number, 4.08 million voted BN and 3.79 million voted Pakatan Rakyat. In other words, 4.08 million Malaysians helped to keep the BN as the government of the day, whilst 3.79 million voters returned Pakatan in five states. This trend should be reinforced in more-or-less the same numbers in GE-13. The political landscape has changed since 2008 and favors Pakatan Rakyat, more than BN.
When one adds the Anwar factor to this simmering mix of public discontent towards the BN, the scales once again tips heavily towards Pakatan. To Umno and BN, Anwar remains an enigma.Their problem with him is two-fold. Should they slap on him (1) a non-guilty verdict, or (2) a guilty verdict? Actually, whichever they decide, the outcome will be the same.
A non-guilty verdict enforces the point that the whole trial was a politically motivated attempt aimed at cutting off the head of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. It proves that the Barisan Nasional government has taken the people of Malaysia for a ride and unearthed the depth to which the party has sunk in order to cling to power.
The aggressive campaign to paint Anwar as a non-credible candidate for the prime minister of Malaysia would back-fire. A non-guilty verdict would seriously dent the credibility of arch rival Prime Minister Najib Razak, for the Sodomy II was launched the moment Najib “advised” Saiful Bukhari Azlan (Anwar’s accuser) to lodge a police report. And because of this, Najib - known for his vanity and braggadocio - has no choice but to see the game to the end.
A hero and a savior thanks to Najib's ill-advised strategy
Yet, a guilty verdict would in turn make Anwar Ibrahim a political icon on par to Nelson Mendela. A figure seen as a victim of a government seen as increasing corrupt and oppressive, willing to go to great lengths to silence its critics. It will further boost the stature of Anwar and the mystique that surrounds him.
He would be a hero and Najib the villain, and a foolish one at that. The chances for BN to lose GE-13 would be heightened tremendously. Call it karma, but what goes around comes around. A spiteful bid by Najib and wife Rosmah Mansor to shackle Anwar with false charges may well result in the couple being hounded out of Umno for losing the party its long-held federal government.
It will add to discontent rising in Malay as the latest Global Financial Integrity Report shows Malaysia as now being the 4th most corrupt nation in the world, after China, Mexico and Russia. Within Southeast Asia, Malayisia is the most corrupt having suffered illicit outflow of funds of USD338 billion for the period 2000 to 2009, compared to next most corrupt neighbour, Philippines which suffered illicit outflows of USD131 billion.
Indeed, many Malaysians will question if Anwar is guilty, then what about the many other politicians still at large who continue to squander public money, including Najib himself? As they say, those who live in glass houses like the Umno warlords, should not throw stones. The image smearing campaign by the BN government would have back-fired and cause many more to support the cause of the opposition in Malaysia.
Scorn of the global community
Leading British daily The Guardian predicted Anwar would soon become a victim of “egregious, politically suspect injustice” in a reference to his grossly skewed sodomy trial. In a scathing commentary, the UK daily even urged Malaysia’s western allies in the UK and US to “take a closer look at their friend.”
The daily argued that the Najib government’s handling of Anwar’s “highly dubious” sodomy charge warranted closer scrutiny of the country’s democratic practices. Among others, its editor SimonTisdall sniped at Najib for his “authoritarian tendencies” and “blatant political scaremongering”, even accusing the Malaysian prime minister of lacking in originality for recycling the sodomy charges against Anwar and being accustomed to wielding power due to his family lineage of top political leaders.
“If Anwar is found guilty — and the trial judge seems to have made up his mind already — he will not be the only or even the most important victim of an egregious, politically suspect injustice. Malaysia’s democratic reputation will have been critically wounded, and for that outrage, Malaysians will have their prime minister, Najib Razak, to thank,” Tisdall said.
Even without Anwar, Pakatan is a million times better than BN
A guilty verdict for Anwar would spell doom for BN. Times have changed in Malaysia since the days of 1997. Then, Anwar stood alone against the might of the BN machinery. Today there are other opposition leaders who are equally as capable as Anwar, even if they may not be as charismatic.
However, you look at it, a Pakatan even without Anwar is a million times better than BN - regardless of whether Najib, his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin or Mahathir Mohamad rules at Umno.
No, putting Anwar in prison does not kill the movement for reform, instead it will accelerate the Malaysian people’s aspirations for reform and change. Sorry to say this, but foolish Najib has again painted himself into a corner.

Sodomy II: By now, more people believe in Anwar than Najib

odomy II, considering the manner in which it has dragged on and for such an eternity, isn’t an open-and-shut case as many hopefuls in Umno have been deluding themselves into believing.
An open and shut case would have been over in the shortest time possible and either ending in acquittal, without the defence being called, or with a quick conviction.
Shift in balance of probabilities
The longer Sodomy II dragged on, the more it became evident to the entire world that the balance of probabilities had shifted in favour of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, the accused.
His accuser, Saiful Bukhari Azlan, was coming across more and more like someone who wanted more than the proverbial 15 minutes of fame or notoriety which everyone is entitled to have during their lifetime. He had a key role to play in a high stakes power game and all he had to do was to put his ass – pardon the pun – on the line. But more on that in a while.

Having said that, it must also be conceded that Anwar’s goose was cooked the moment the Judge declared that his accuser has proven himself to be a credible witness.
To add insult to injury, the Judge refused to recuse himself over his controversial remarks and apparent bias.
Surely this must be unprecedented in the annals of the history of Judiciary anywhere in the world.
Benchmark from the past!
Of course there’s that infamous Malaysia-linked case in Hong Kong sometime ago where an about to retire Judge did not take down any notes at all during an extended Trial over several years – busy drawing cartoons instead while pretending to hear the case – and at the end of it all, he freed the accused without giving any reasons whatsoever. Needless to say, the written grounds of decision did not follow at all, for obvious reasons.
So, the prosecution was effectively prevented from appealing against the acquittal of someone who appeared as guilty as hell but was, fortunately or unfortunately, linked to various high-ranking personalities back home in Malaysia.
The Judge was quickly bundled into early retirement and obscurity in England but with his pension and all his retirement benefits and privileges intact.
Perhaps the Judge had already made up his mind even before the case began. It was more than likely that a deal was struck on the case between the UK and Malaysian Governments on a “Let me make a deal with you. You do something for me. I do something for you” basis.
Behind the scenes wheeling and dealing
The Hong Kong case illustrates the kind of wheeling and dealing that can go on behind the scenes in a case like Sodomy II which has nothing whatsoever to do with justice for a victim and enforcing the law, but everything to do with a shameless bid to stave off and delay as long as possible the inevitable loss of political power.
Something little know to the wider public is that the Judiciary has a vested interest in the state, and in this case, meaning the ruling party which has become synonymous with the state after having been in power beyond the eight to ten years possible in a system with checks-and-balances.
In Sodomy II, the Judiciary will be more inclined to lean towards the state which is synonymous, after more than half a century, with the ruling Umno.
Anwar’s lawyers, nevertheless, made the right decision by advising him to make a statement from the dock. In taking this big risk which staved off needless cross-examination questions, one cannot assume that the prosecution will take the position that a spanner has been thrown in the works.
The AG Chambers itself has been divided on Sodomy II indicating that there are still a few decent men and women around at that miserable excuse for politically-motivated persecutions.
Sycophants laugh all the way to the banks
That said, Sodomy II has been a Golden Opportunity of sorts for every Tom, Dick and Harry in the government machinery and apparatus to jump on the bandwagon to please their political masters.
The rewards are rich and ripe for the picking. Sodomy I was an example, dubious as it is, where it’s speculated that a good many people laughed all the way to the bank.
Sodomy II is like lightning striking twice in the same spot.
After Sodomy II, there will be no Sodomy III unlike in Hollywood where there can be any number of sequels on celluloid.
Once – Sodomy I -- is accident, twice – Sodomy II -- is co-incidence, thrice – Sodomy III would be deliberate.
In any case, Anwar is too old to face Sodomy III. In the Hindu way of thinking, the government is God Number 2 on Earth, a place where the God up in the heavens will not interfere.
Plastic sodomy
The speculation in the public sphere is that it was a case of deliberate self-sodomy with a plastic device. The fact that such a theory should be making the rounds reflects more than a suspended belief in the so-called victim’s claims.
The victim himself, it’s being pointed out, has a lot to gain from the case, at least in terms of a windfall bankrolled by vested interests.
There’s sodomy and sodomy. The laws in the country against sodomy are so archaic that it’s hardly, if ever, used. That doesn’t meant sodomy is not going on all the time.
The Biblical injunction tells it all: “He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.” This statement should be directed at all those who have been pontificating sanctimoniously on the issue of sodomy.
The self-sodomy theory aside, the most intelligent guess among bloggers is that the “victim” was suspected by the inner circle in Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) of being an Umno plant.
Suspicion probably led to discovery when the 16 Sept People’s Revolution, a sure thing according to Wikipedia, was crushed at the 11th hour. The mole fled just in time but to return with vengeance stage-managed by the hidden hands behind the scene.
A man is innocent until he’s proven guilty. It’s better to let a thousand guilty men go free than to hang an innocent man.

AMK lancarkan kempen Bebas Anwar 901

KUALA LUMPUR 16 Dis: Angkatan Muda KEADILAN (AMK), menggerakkan kempen besar-besaran dalam usaha untuk membebaskan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dari tuduhan fitnah II.
Menurut Ketua AMK, Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin, kempen dinamakan#BebasAnwar901 itu dimulakan secara maya di laman ‘Twitter’ bagi menghimpunkan seramai mungkin sokongan untuk menuntut pembebasan terhadap Anwar.
Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur menetapkan keputusan terhadap Anwar pada 9 Januari depan.
“Kita ingin mengumpulkan seramai yang mungkin mereka yang membantah usaha kerajaan ingin memenjarakan Anwar berkenaan dengan kes tersebut, yang mana kita lihat segala percaturan untuk memasukan beliau ke dalam penjara sudah dirancang dari awal lagi.

“Melalui kempen ini saya pasti rakyat akan datang memberi sokongan kepada Anwar pada hari keputusan itu nanti.
“Saya juga menyeru seluruh rakyat tidak kira berada di mana pun tanpa mengira kedudukan mahupun kaum turut dalam kempen tersebut dan hadir memberi sokongan kepada Anwar pada 9 Januari nanti,” katanya.
Perbicaraan terhadap Anwar yang memakan masa hampir dua tahun, mendedahkan konspirasi terhadap ketua pembangkang itu.
Pada penggulungan hujah Isnin lalu, peguam Anwar menegaskan pendakwa raya gagal membuktikan fitnah liwat walaupun cuba mensabitkan Anwar sebagai pemilik DNA lelaki Y yang ditemui pada tubuh Saiful.
Karpal Singh juga berkata, pendakwa raya gagal membuktikan sumber asal DNA lelaki Y ialah dari sperma Anwar berdasarkan keterangan pakar DNA antarabangsa, Dr Brian Mc Donald.
Manakala keterangan pakar tulang belakang, Dr Thomas Hoogland membuktikan Saiful berbohong diliwat Anwar.
Dr Thomas yang merawat Anwar sejak 2001 juga mengesahkan Ketua Pembangkang itu tidak mampu melakukan aksi fitnah tersebut akibat kecederaan tulang belakang.
Selain itu, perbicaraan kes itu juga tercemar dengan hubungan sulit antara Saiful dan bekas Timbalan pendakwa raya, Farah Azlina Latif.
Menurut Karpal, kedua mereka perlu dipanggil semula di bawah sekseyn 425 Kanun Keseksaan kerana belum menafikan hubungan antara mereka berdua.

Khamis, 15 Disember 2011

Beg mewah terbaru Rosmah berharga RM636,100?

KUALA LUMPUR 14 Dis: Blog pro Pakatan Rakyat menyiarkan gambar terbaru Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor yang bergaya bersama beg tangan mewah jenama Birkin, didakwa milik terbaru beliau.

Beg tangan berwarna merah yang mencecah harga sehingga ratusan ribu ringgit itu dikesan menerusi satu gambar yang disiarkan sebuah akhbar berbahasa Inggeris, The Star.

Milosuam.blogspot turut mendedahkan baru-baru ini Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, pelelong koleksi barangan terbesar di dunia, mengistiharkan lelongan sebuah beg tangan mewah wanita Hermes Diamond Birkin berwarna merah pada harga $203,150 (RM636,100).

Beg tangan mewah itu diperbuat daripada kulit buaya merah yang juga dilengkapi dengan hiasan strap putih, serta kunci-kunci yang bertatahkan berlian.

Menurut blog berkenaan, Jurucakap Heritage, Matthew Rubinger mengesahkan bahawa pemenang bidaan tersebut telah mengunjungi pemilik yang enggan namanya didedahkan kepada umum.

Rosmah sebelum ini yang menggemparkan negara dengan pembelian cincin berlian berharga RM24 juta, dikesan menggayakan sekurang-kurangnya 11 beg jenama mewah berkenaan di majlis-majlis yang dihadirinya.

Bagi beg edisi terhad itu, harga sebuah beg tangan dikatakan mencecah RM28,000 (US$ 9,000) hingga RM472,000 (US$150,000) bagi setiap satu.

Panel khas SPRM bincang kes Taib Mahmud

KUALA LUMPUR, 14 Dis: Panel Khas Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) akan mengadakan mesyuarat khas tidak lama lagi, bagi membincangkan desakan dari 13 NGO supaya Ketua Menteri Sarawak, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud dan 13 ahli keluarganya ditangkap atas pelbagai dakwaan.

Naib Presiden PAS, Salahuddin Ayub berkata, mesyuarat tersebut dijangka akan diadakan dalam masa terdekat sebaik sahaja Pengerusi AJK Panel itu, Datuk Radzi Sheikh Ahmad dimaklumkan mengenainya.

Menurutnya, permintaan agar diadakan mesyuarat tersebut akan dibuat oleh beliau sendiri kepada Radzi atas kapasitinya selaku salah seorang AJK Panel tersebut.

Katanya, tujuan mesyuarat itu diadakan adalah untuk membincangkan tindakan sewajarnya yang patut diambil oleh panel tersebut berhubung laporan berkenaan.

"Saya akan maklumkan perkara ini kepada Datuk Radzi nanti untuk meminta beliau memanggil mesyuarat khas AJK Panel Khas SPRM, bagi meminta SPRM menerangkan kepada kami mengenai laporan itu," katanya ketika dihubungi Harakahdaily, di sini, hari ini.

Semalam, media melaporkan, pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) dari enam negara mendesak supaya Ketua Menteri Sarawak, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud dan 13 ahli keluarganya ditangkap atas pelbagai dakwaan, termasuk salah guna jawatan awam, rasuah dan konspirasi untuk membentuk sebuah organisasi jenayah.

Antara NGO yang membuat tuntutan berkenaan adalah Dana Bruno Manser (BMF), Greenpeace dan pertubuhan pemantau hutan dunia, Fern.

Mereka telah mengemukakan surat bertarikh semalam kepada Kerajaan Malaysia supaya menangkap individu berkenaan kerana dituduh dengan pelbagai dakwaan berkaitan dengan pengagihan dana awam secara haram, salah guna jawatan awam, merampas tanah kerajaan, rasuah, eksploitasi konflik kepentingan dan sebagainya.

Surat berkenaan dihantar ke Pejabat Peguam Negara, Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) dan Ketua Polis Negara.

"Kami memohon pendakwa utama Malaysia pada kadar segera menangkap dan mendakwa Ketua Menteri Sarawak, empat anaknya, lapan adik-beradiknya dan sepupu pertamanya, Abdul Hamed Sepawi," kata NGO itu dalam surat mereka.

Selain Abdul Taib, 75, mereka yang dinamakan itu adalah anak-anaknya, Jamilah Hamidah Taib Murray, Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib, Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib, Hanifah Hajar Taib.

Manakala adik beradiknya pula adalah Ibrahim Mahmud, Aisah Zainab Mahmud, Zaleha Mahmud, Onn Mahmud, Mohamad Ali Mahmud, Mohd Tufail Mahmud, Amar Hajar Fredahanum Mahmud dan Raziah Mahmud.

Surat 10 muka surat itu ditandatangani oleh 13 NGO dari Malaysia, Australia, Jerman, Jepun, Switzerland dan United Kingdom serta beberapa tandatangan individu dari Malaysia.

Menurut Salahuddin, kes tersebut merupakan sesuatu yang amat serius dan pihaknya amat perlu mendapatkan keterangan lanjut dari SPRM dengan segera sama ada benar telah menerima laporan tersebut atau sebaliknya.

"Sekiranya SPRM memang telah menerima laporan itu, satu siasatan menyeluruh perlu dilakukan oleh SPRM bagi membolehkan tindakan selanjutnya diambil ke atas pihak-pihak terbabit," tegas beliau yang juga Ahli Parlimen Kubang Kerian.

Rasuah : NGO Antarabangsa desak Taib, keluarga didakwa

Jika sebelum Ketua Menteri Sarawak dilaporkan memiliki aset sebanyak U$1.46 bilion (RM4.6 bilion) di 14 syarikat. Kini Pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) dari enam negara mendesak supaya Ketua Menteri Sarawak Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud dan keluarganya ditangkap atas pelbagai dakwaan.
Taib dan 13 ahli keluarganya didakwa terlibat di dalam salah guna jawatan awam, rasuah dan konspirasi untuk membentuk sebuah organisasi jenayah.

Antara NGO yang membuat tuntutan berkenaan adalah Dana Bruno Manser (BMF), Greenpeace dan pertubuhan pemantau hutan dunia, Fern. Lapor Malaysiakini.

Mereka telah mengemukakan surat bertarikh hari ini kepada kerajaan Malaysia supaya menangkap individu berkenaan kerana dituduh dengan pelbagai dakwaan berkaitan dengan pengagihan dana awam secara haram, salah guna jawatan awam, merampas tanah kerajaan, rasuah, eksploitasi konflik kepentingan dan sebagainya.

Surat berkenaan dihantar ke Pejabat Peguam Negara, Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) dan Ketua Polis Negara.

“Kami memohon pendakwa utama Malaysia pada kadar segera menangkap dan mendakwa Ketua Menteri Sarawak, empat anaknya, lapan adik-beradiknya dan sepupu pertamanya, Abdul Hamed Sepawi,” kata NGO itu dalam surat mereka.

Selain Abdul Taib, 75, mereka yang dinamakan itu adalah anak-anaknya, Jamilah Hamidah Taib Murray, Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib, Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib, Hanifah Hajar Taib.

Manakala adik beradiknya pula adalah Ibrahim Mahmud, Aisah Zainab Mahmud, Zaleha Mahmud, Onn Mahmud, Mohamad Ali Mahmud, Mohd Tufail Mahmud, Amar Hajar Fredahanum Mahmud, dan Raziah Mahmud.

Surat 10 muka surat itu ditandatangani oleh 13 NGO dari Malaysia, Australia, Jerman, Jepun, Switzerland dan United Kingdom serta beberapa tandatangan individu dari Malaysia.

Isnin, 12 Disember 2011

Taib’s ‘clever’ daughter sits on 80 companies

Taib Mahmud and his family own shares and directorship in 330 companies in Sarawak.

Last week, the Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) published some truly astonishing research.

The fund, which works to defend Sarawak’s rainforest and its peoples from devastation and criminal exploitation, has been examining the company ownership of the family of the Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud.

Earlier this year, Taib went on record claiming that his hugely wealthy family does not do business in Sarawak because he wants to avoid accusations of corruption and conflict of interest.

Acknowledging the huge wealth of his children and his siblings, he came up with the explanation that each and every one of them is exceptionally clever and that they had gone “outside the country” to earn their money, so he could avoid “being hounded” over “using my influence to enrich myself”.

The BMF research, which is based on official company records in Malaysia and abroad, demonstrates that these claims of the chief minister are simply untrue.

In fact, they amount to the most enormous lie. The chief minister and his family, it turns out, have stakes in over 330 companies in Sarawak, acting as directors in many of them.

These stakes are worth huge amounts of money. The share value of the Taib family alone in just 14 of these Sarawak-based companies amounts to RM4.6 billion.

This sum is clearly just a fraction of the families overall wealth, since it does not include the vast property assets abroad, the rest of the Malaysian assets and their 80 or so other companies worldwide.

‘Passive ownership’

Even as this information was released in Malaysia, the Taibs were facing separate questions in Canada.

Canada’s Global TV’s 16 X 9 programme produced a major exposé last weekend on Taib’s daughter Jamilah Taib Murray’s businesses in Ottawa and questioned whether they had benefited from the money made out of Sarawak.

Jamilah and her husband Sean (who acts as manager for numerous Taib family businesses) brought in lawyers to claim this was not so.

They did admit that Jamilah’s businesses (including the property company Sakto) were started with money given by Taib.

They also acknowledged that Taib’s brother Onn was an original director in the company alongside Jamilah and Abu Bekir, when they were mere students.

However, Jamilah intriguingly claimed that her business in Canada does not invest in any of the wealth she makes back in Sarawak.

In fact, she explained that her role in Sarawak is merely that of a “passive investor”.

‘Passive investor’

What are we to make of this extraordinary statement, that contradicts her own father’s description of the situation?

Taib painted a picture of his clever children who had actively made themselves rich through their “entrepreneurship”.

He even promoted a recorded interview with himself, entitled “Jamilah is rich because she is good”

So what does her lawyer mean by passive investor?

Her father said that she is a thrusting and active businesswoman.

But, could the truth be that Jamilah is just the investor in name and that she is holding those shares as a proxy for her father?

What is certain is that we are talking about a very serious investment indeed. The BMF research showed that Jamilah alone has stakes in well over 80 companies based in Sarawak. She is a director of many of them.

Indeed, along with her sister Hanifah (who equally owns a mass of companies and shares), Jamilah owns the largest stake in Sarawak’s biggest company CMS.

Given that CMS and all of Jamilah’s companies have benefited overwhelmingly from the contracts and permits from Taib, could Jamilah’s “passive ownership” in fact mean that she is merely a name on a piece of paper to disguise her father’s “exploitation of his influence to enrich himself”?

Exploiting Sarawak

Jamilah’s lawyers further claimed that her husband Sean (Hisham) has no interests at all in Sarawak.

We ask, therefore, why is Murray constantly trying to pick up business there from the state government?

For example, a recent investigation in Sarawak Report showed that Murray is a director of the company Premier Cottage (alongside Jamilah’s sister Hanifah), which was recently awarded a pivotal status in Taib’s pet Kuching Isthmus project. This would appear to be a pretty active role.

The shareholder of Premier Cottage is a mysterious foreign outfit called Pioneer City Enterprises.

Why are we not being told who is the beneficial owner of Pioneer City Enterprises, which Murray is so clearly linked to?

And if he is so anxious to keep out of Sarawak, how is it that Murray’s companies are behind the much-touted yet-to-be-built Kuching Tower project?

It turned out that the whole project management of that enterprise has been handed to Sakto-related companies working out of Murray’s Ottawa offices.

So, if the role of Jamilah and Murray is so passive in Sarawak, then who is the real mover and shaker in these major construction enterprises?

More questions than answers

Indeed, every time Taib and his family attempt to answer the glaring questions about the source of their wealth and the nature of their businesses in Sarawak, they raise even more questions in everyone’s minds.

And there is really only one convincing answer that makes perfect sense, which is that Taib is indeed corruptly exploiting his influence to do business and enrich himself in Sarawak – and that he is using his family in a clumsy way to conceal it!

Meanwhile, nothing could have illustrated better how little the people are getting from this form of government than a recent attempt to promote Taib by the Borneo Post.

After 30 years of the chief minister’s so-called “progress and development”, a period in which he has destroyed the forest and planted a million hectares of oil palm, Barisan Nasional’s latest big gesture to the Sarawak’s rural poor is plastic rain-water tubs!

In return for their priceless wood and their land, is this really all they get as a pre-election offering?

Taib’s “passive investment” in his people is the really shocking story here and he deserves no dividends at the coming polls.

Clare Rewcastle Brown

Canadian citizen but voter in S’wak

Chief Minister Taib Mahmud's daughter Jamilah holds a dual citizenship.

KUCHING: Even as the opposition here has called for the 20,180 postal voters in Sarawak to be barred from voting here, a new revelation has surfaced – that of dual citizenship holders who are registered as voters.

The latest disclosure is that Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s daughter Jamilah is a Canadian citizen but is registered as a voter in Sarawak.
Jamilah is also mired in controversy over her involvement in some 80 companies in Sarawak.
In Malaysia, it is an offence to hold two passports and be citizens in both countries. Jamilah holds both Malaysian and Canadian citizenship.
Jamilah, 51, has been living in Canada for the past 30 years. She is married to a Canadian businessman Sean Murray and is widely known to be her father’s nominee.
Her full name, Jamilah Hamidah Taib, and her identity card details appear in both the Satok state and Petra Jaya parliamentary constituency list.
Satok assemblyman is Abang Johari Tun Haji Openg, who is Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB) deputy president and a close ally of Taib.
Petrajaya MP is Fadillah Yusof. He retained his seat in the 2008 general election, garnering 19,505 votes. He too is closely aligned to Taib.
The disclosure of Jamilah’s dual citizenship came about inadvertently when her husband Murray issued a statement explaining why he and his wife did not want to be interviewed on a Canadian prime time programme “16×9”.
The programme spoke of the deforestation in Sarawak and the Taib’s family’s investment in Ottawa.
More questions
An excerpt of the statement, which was aired on the programme, reads: “My wife and I are private Canadian citizens. She has lived here for more than 30 years and we have no interest in being interviewed in the press about ourselves, our business, our relatives or about Malaysian politics…. ”
The verbal slip has thrown into light interesting questions.
In Sarawak, there’s curiosity as to whether Taib himself is a dual citizenship holder.
Taib’s wealth extends to eight countries, according to the Swiss-based Bruno Manser Fund (BMF).
BMF released the names of 49 companies in eight countries which were linked to Taib. At least four countries have relented to BMF pressure and are investigating the source of these companies’ wealth.
BMF claims that the origin of Taib’s wealth in these countries was from the deforestation and displacement of the indigenous communities in Sarawak.
Just in Sarawak itself, Taib and his family sit in some 330 companies in Sarawak, acting as directors in many of them.
It is a known fact that a number of corporate leaders in Malaysia hold dual citizenship. But it would be interesting to know how many of our current political leaders or their families hold dual citizenships. Are they all registered as voters here?
Also, is it right for candidates with “conditional” loyalty to the King and country to decide for the genuine Malaysians? Is it right for such leaders to helm and steer Malaysia?
And does Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s vetting process for “winnable” and Pakatan Rakyat’s “principled” candidates include screening them for citizenship, loyalty and patriotism?
‘No room for negotiation if caught’
In 2008, then home ministry parliamentary secretary Abdul Rahman Ibrahim said that Malaysians found holding dual citizenship would have their Malaysian citizenship revoked automatically.
He said the government had revoked the citizenship of 5,310 Malaysians who held dual citizenship.
He said the government detects dual citizenship from reports from Malaysian embassies and consulates overseas, the Immigration Department, police and also the National Registration Department.
“Once we detect Malaysians with dual citizenship or two passports, their Malaysian citizenship is automatically revoked. There is no room to negotiate or choose,” he said.

Ahad, 11 Disember 2011

Richer Than The Queen! Top TV Coverage In Canada, As Taibs’ Wealth is Exposed

Prime Time TV – Global News Canada 7.30pm Saturday

The campaign to expose the corruption behind the deforestation and land grabs in Sarawak has received a top TV billing on Canada’s Global News station.
During a prime-time slot aired on Saturday night’s 16X9 programme, investigative reporter Sean O’Shea focused on the massive property portfolio that has been developed in Ottawa, London and the US under the name of Jamilah Taib, the Chief Minister’s oldest daughter [see 'Family Trees' 16X9 Global TV]

: Threats – Sean Murray has falsely accused Sarawak Report of being funded by Malaysian opposition parties !

This means that for the first time the questions about the money laundering of Taib’s corrupt kickbacks have been publicly raised in North America.
In response Sean (Hisham) Murray, Jamilah’s husband, threatened Sarawak Report. he stated “Jamilah and I find these statements about ourselves and our business false, highly defamatory and very damaging.” However, the couple refused to be interviewed by the programme.
Devastating report on the Taib family’s company ownerships
The show was aired just before the publication of a separate, devastating ‘blacklist’ of Taib family companies by Switzerland’s Bruno Manswer Foundation, now available online.
BMF’s Stop Timber Corruption Report lays out extensive research into the Taib family’s company ownerships in Sarawak, Malaysia and elsewhere.
It establishes that Taib and his immediate family (his children, siblings and cousin Hamed Sepawi) have beneficial shares in more than 330 companies in Malaysia alone. In many of these companies they also act as the controlling directors.
The Taibs also have a further 80 companies in 25 countries across the world including Australia, the UK, US, Canada, New Zealand, Jersey, Hong Kong, British Virgin Islands, Fiji, Cayman Islands, Indonesia, India, Jersey, Saudi Arabia, Labuan, Cambodia, Brunei, China, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam !
Richer than the Queen – assets of at least one and a half billion US dollars !

: BMF’s ‘Stop Timber Corruption’ campaign is cornering Taib with allegations he has proved unable to anwer to a growing body of international critics

BMF acknowledges that this research only covers publicly available information from Malaysia’s Register of Companies and other official company registers.
This means it is likely to represent just a fraction of the Taibs’ actual wealth.
However, by calculating just the share values of 14 of the major companies on this list, they have estimated a total worth of one and a half billion US dollars (4.6 billion Malaysian ringgit).
Not counting their more hidden wealth, this puts the Taib family firmly into the category of one of the richest families in the world and makes them far richer than the Queen of England (whose assets are a mere half billion pounds).
Proceeds of corruption
Given that it can be clearly demonstrated that the majority of these Taib family companies have made their wealth from the receipt of contracts from the Sarawak State Government and land grants from the Sarawak State Government, it is impossible to deny that this wealth has come from the proceeds of corruption by Taib, who is Chief Minister, Finance Minister and Planning Minister of the Sarawak State Government!
My family only do business outside the country!

Business women or just beneficiaries? - Taib's oldest daughter Jamilah (who has interests in over 84 companies in Sarawak) and youngest sister Raziah (who has oil palm concessions greater than the size of Singapore).

All this from a man who had the brass-necked cheek to declare in a recorded interview just a short while ago that his family only does business outside the country, to avoid “being hounded” by accusations of using his political influence to enrich himself!
[see Taib's claim]
So, sadly, we have to add liar to the list of Taib Mahmud’s numerous crimes.
Stolen
The wealth of the Taibs represents the wealth of the natural resources belonging to the people of Sarawak, which the Chief Minister has taken by cheating his people. It is the value of their timber and their lands.
There is also the immense value of Sarawak’s oil, which is treated by Malaysia’s BN party as a national secret!
International disgrace

What rubies! - Taib's latest dependent, his new bride, decked in priceless rubies

The MACC (Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission) will continue to fail to proceed against Taib. Their instructions are to torment him with their investigations, but not to rock BN’s 100% control over Sarawak’s vital federal votes.
Of course, Taib maintains this grip on Sarawak’s votes through deeply corrupt practices, which recently caused 50 thousand people in Kuala Lumpur to come out on the streets calling for free and fair elections.
Shamefully, BN have just responded to those calls at the Bersih 2 rally by bringing in laws to prevent more than 3 people gathering together in a public place without a permit!
So just in the same way that the international community are waking up to Taib, it is also waking up to BN’s corruption and repression in Malaysia. Taib is going to find it harder to do his business abroad in future and BN are going to find it harder to find people prepared to speak up for them internationally.
But, wake up Sarawak! In the end this man is your responsiblity, so don’t let West Malaysia’s BN Party keep treating you like meek children. Get rid of him!