NFC: Jangan beban parti, ketua Umno Cheras desak Shahrizat dan suami

KUALA LUMPUR — Ketua Umno Cheras Datuk Wira Syed Ali Alhabshee meneruskan desakan dengan yang terbaru menggesa suami Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil yang mengetuai projek ternakan lembu kontroversi, Pusat Fidlot Nasional (NFC) supaya tidak lagi membebabnkan partinya.
Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Salleh Ismail, suami Shahrizat merupakan pengerusi eksekutif NFC. Pengurusannya turut dikendalikan oleh anak-anak mereka.
Syed Ali menegaskan, sikap berdiam diri Mohamad Salleh dan enggan tampil menjawab segala tuduhan dilemparkan pembangkang terutama menerusi laman-laman blog boleh mengelirukan rakyat dan menjadi beban kepada Umno.

Iran tiru, bina pesawat kawalan jauh Amerika

Tehran yakin miliki senjata baru canggih tak lama lagi

TEHRAN- Iran akan meniru sistem kejuruteraan pesawat kawalan jauh Amerika Syarikat atau ‘drone’ yang dimilikinya dan kini dalam ‘peringkat akhir’ mendapatkan rahsia perisikan senjata canggih itu bertujuan menghasilkannya dengan lebih banyak pada masa depan.
Ketua Jawatankuasa Keselamatan Kebangsaan Iran di Parlimen, Parviz Sorouri, memberitahu semalam: “Tindakan kami berikutnya adalah untuk meniru sistem kejuruteraan pesawat itu,” kata Parviz yang dilaporkan laman web televisyen tempatan Iran.
“Pada masa akan datang, kami akan berupaya mengeluarkannya secara besar-besaran. Jurutera Iran tidak lama lagi akan membangunkan sebuah pesawat canggih sama seperti pesawat Amerika,” katanya lagi.
Iran berkata, ia memiliki pesawat canggih Amerika berbentuk kelawar yang melakukan misi pengintipan diberi nama RQ-170 Sentinel pada 4 Disember lalu ketika ia berada di ruang udaranya.
Iran menyatakan, sebuah unit perang siber Pengawal Revolusi menggodam kawalan penerbangan pesawat pengintip itu.

Dr M: ‘Usahlah cari bomoh kerana ingin menang’

KUALA LUMPUR — Sementara tumpuan negara menuju ke arah pilihan raya umum ke-13, bekas perdana menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad menasihatkan ahli-ahli politik tidak perlu mendapatkan khidmat bomoh untuk menang.
Kata beliau, kemenangan tidak akan dijamin oleh bomoh, sebaliknya kualiti perkhidmatan dan tingkah laku seseorang akan membawa kejayaan dalam pilihan raya.
“Ahli-ahli politik pun tak usahlah cari bomoh kerana ingin menang. Bukan bomoh yang boleh beri kemenangan. Budi yang baik, tingkah laku yang sopan, keperihatinan akan masalah yang dihadapi rakyat yang boleh memberi kemenangan dan kejayaan,” kata beliau dalam entri terbaru blognya, bertajuk “Tajuk” hari ini.

Ratusan bilion di ‘sita’ dari Petronas: Kenapa Najib membisu?

Petronas merupakan salah satu firma korporat yang sentiasa mengaut keuntungan setiap dua tahun. Ia mempunyai monopoli besar dalam aktiviti carigali minyak di Malaysia dan mungkin wajar dikatakan yang Malaysia banyak berbudi kepada Petronas sejak penubuhannya melalui Akta Pembangunan Petroleum 1974.
Namun, ia juga sebuah firma yang diselubungi misteri. Ia 100% milik negara dan belum ada ura-ura ianya akan diswastakan. Justeru itu, keuntungan syarikat adalah milik negara iaitu Malaysia. Namun adakah ini yang sebenarnya berlaku?
“Sejak 1974 hingga 2010, Petronas merekodkan keuntungan berjumlah RM700 billion. Nah, sekarang ini yang lucunya. Selama 36 tahun ini, keuntungan yang dicatatkan sangat kecil jika anda bandingkan pendedahan Wikileaks yang menyatakan Petronas menduduki tangga ke-13 di dunia dalam mengaut keuntungan. Bagaimana ini boleh terjadi adalah satu keanehan kalau tidak kerana rasuah yang berleluasa,” ujar Timbalan Presiden PKR, Chua Jui Meng kepada Malaysia Chronicle.

Masih ingat Rosmah Mansor?

Masih ingat Rosmah Mansor? Sudah pasti. Siapa boleh lupa pada Wanita Pertama Malaysia – FLOM!
Beliau sememangnya telah menjadi sedikit ‘low profile’ semenjak dua menjak ini. Sehinggalah lelaki karpet beliau Deepak Jaikishan, yang popular setelah kes akuan bersumpah P.I. Balasubramaniam mengenai Altantuya dan juga Scorpenes dan sekarang muncul semula di tempat yang paling tidak disangka-sangka: dunia korporat Malaysia.Ini semua pun masih dibawah perhatian Rosmah.
Untuk Deepak, beliau seperti “kakak” dan kepada seorang lagi anak ikan korporat, Jho Low, beliau bukalah “mak angkat” tetapi “rakan baik”. Tetapi apa pula dengan beliau- siapa mereka ini?
Sehingga kini, tiada satu kata pun yang beliau ucapkan walaupun beliau sangat dikenali dengan sesi karaoke beliau yang berpanjangan dan kadang-kadang memarahi orang apabila tidak dapat apa yang beliau mahu.

Pertelingkahan dalaman Umno: Perebutan Kuasa peringkat tertinggi – Bhg 1

Sememangnya presiden Umno Najib Razak dan timbalannya Muhyiddin Yassin tidak seia sekata. Malah, terdapat persaingan sengit antara mereka sebelum Najib ditabalkan sebagai presiden UMNO selepas Abdullah Badawi dipaksa pemimpin atasan untuk bersara awal.
Nama Muhyiddin sekarang semakin terkenal di kalangan komuniti Melayu.Telah beberapa kali timbul cakap-cakap tentang siapakah paling layak bertanding untuk jawatan presiden walaupun dirinya dan Najib sering dipersembahkan secara bergandingan oleh media kawaanl kerajaan supaya nampak akrab. Jangan salah anggap kerana mereka sememangnya sentiasa bersaing.

Rakyat Perak masih taruh harapan pada Nizar

KUALA LUMPUR- Dewan Pemuda PAS Perak mendakwa terdapat usaha dari pihak tertentu yang akan cuba mencemarkan imej dan nama baik bekas Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin (gambar) menjelang PRU-13 nanti.
Tindakan itu, kata mereka ekoran Mohamad Nizar masih mendapat sokongan dan menjadi harapan seluruh rakyat negeri itu untuk kembali memegang tampuk kepimpinan kerajaan negeri.
Timbalan Ketuanya, Dr Raja Ahmad Al-Hiss berkata, faktor sokongan padu rakyat terhadap Nizar itu juga turut menjadi kebimbangan besar BN negeri itu terutama Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir.
"Pada kami, sebenarnya Barisan Nasional (BN) Negeri Perak amat bimbang perkara tersebut dan cuba memastikan imej Datuk Seri Nizar diburukkan dengan pelbagai serangan.
"Kami yakin rakyat sedang menunggu untuk menyuarakan ‘undi’ mereka bagi memastikan Datuk Seri Nizar dan PR meneruskan pentadbiran bersih yang ‘terhenti’ dalam tempoh 11 bulan sahaja," katanya dalam satu kenyataan kepada Harakahdaily.

Rot in system: Teachers suffer, cronies benefit, warns Nie Ching

The plight of temporary teachers is symptomatic of the rot in not just the Education Ministry but the entire BN administration.
Recently, up to 7,000 temporary teachers have been shortchanged by the government, as their ‘contract of service’ have been changed to a ‘contract for service’so as to ‘exempt’ the Ministry from paying EPF contributions, bonuses, maternity benefits and other basic benefits which amount to RM200 per teacher per month.
The Education Ministry is lamenting that it is lacking in the financial resources to make those payments. By stripping RM200 per month from every temporary teacher, a year’s savings would amount to merely RM16.8 million – a mere fraction of the amounts that are lost in wastages and corrupt practices inherent in the system.
Till now, the problem has remain unsolved despite repeated assurances from Deputy Education Minister Datuk Ir. Dr. Wee Ka Siong. Therefore, I would like to put forward a proposal.

Hasan Ali: I will accept if PM appoints me to discuss PAS-Umno unity

KUALA LUMPUR — Embattled PAS leader Datuk Hasan Ali has openly announced his willingness to accept any invitation from the prime minister to discuss uniting his party with Umno, claiming he would do so using Islam as his pillar.
In an interview with Utusan Malaysia published today, the Selangor state executive councillor, whose political future in PAS currently hangs in balance, said he would give a “positive answer” to such an invitation.
“I have no problem (with that). If the prime minister says we appoint you to gain input, that in the name of unity I be allowed to use Islam as my pillar, insyaallah I will give a positive answer,” he told the Umno-owned daily.
Hasan (picture) also said he “hopes” to be invited into his party’s top leadership committee to help resolve the matter, adding that if Islam is regarded as the true unifying factor, such talks would be more successful.

Defence questions why Saiful did not fend off Anwar

ALLEGED sodomy victim Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan's credibility was again questioned after he was accused of having lied when testifying in the trial against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Anwar's lead counsel Karpal Singh said Saiful's evidence and his credibility should be re-appraised by the High Court.
The lawyer questioned Saiful's actions before, during and after he was allegedly sodomised by Anwar.
During submissions yesterday, Karpal said it was difficult to believe that Saiful had acted like a 'lamb', obeying Anwar's instructions although he had every opportunity to escape.

As GE-13 looms, Perak already turning into a political ‘killing field'

The latest polls show that Perakians will favour Pakatan in the next general election, expected to be called in 2012. It is going to be a mounting task for Barisan Nasional (BN)to remain in power after the muddled and dubious take over from Pakatan in February 2009 after three state legislative members from Pakatan declared themselves as Independent. Apparently, the electorate are still incensed over the events that brought down Pakatan’s government through the court processes.
Zambry Abdul Kadir, the present MB, cannot be solely blamed for the present Umno and BN’s unpopularity in Perak. In fact their popularity countrywide also have dashed to its lowest ebb because of their poor leadership qualities and the buzz pertaining to scandals, corruption, and cronyism among their leaders.
The prediction by political analysts is that the next general election would see Pakatan win with a simple majority in Perak. Zambry is aware of this predicament and the time now is just bad for him, as added to this political decrepitude there are a few ardent Umno aspirants eyeing for the post of Perak MB – pathetically sighting Zambry’s weaknesses as a leader for the past three years. A voter from Ipoh has this to say: “The next general election will see a win for Pakatan. Zambry, or any other Umno aspirant to become MB, will not sway the people’s sentiment here. The people will still vote for Pakatan.”

Submarine resurfaces to reveal UMNO leaders' ties with sex bloggers

Dec 12: Far from putting to rest suspicions revolving the controversial purchase of the two French Scorpene submarines, the trip by Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng last week has brought to the surface UMNO leaders' close ties with individuals behind several semi-pornographic blogs specialising on stories and pictures of sex scandals. Following admission by the blogger Papagomo that he was part of the submarine trip, Defence minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was taken to task over his statement guaranteeing no blogger was on board during Lim's trip, arranged by Zahid to dismiss allegations that the submarine could not submerge.

Armed Forces not UMNO's political playfield

Er Teck Hwa, Bakri MP

Press statement by Bakri member of parliament, Er Teck Hwa According to a report dated 10 December 2011, a pro UMNO blogger called Papagomo, was at the same place where Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his two deputies, P. Ramasamy and Mansor Othman were, when they had access to the KD Tun Razak Scorpene submarine. Papagomo portraited in his blog negatively that Lim Guan Eng had a bout of sea-sickness while inside the submarine. Besides that, a reporter at the scene at the material time there was another pro-UMNO blogger, named “Big Dog”, (Zakir Mohammed), was also there. According to a photo of Malaysiakini, apparently his presence was effected by being flown to Langkawi Airport in a military helicopter.

Canada Muslims say no problems over face veil ban during oath-taking

Toronto Sun

TORONTO, Dec 13: Some Muslim women will be hesitant to remove their niqab (face-veil) for a citizenship judge but others feel the new law requiring is in the best interest of Canadian security.   The face-veil worn by some Muslim women is not a requirement in Islam “I think this is something women would consider doing,” said Alia Hogben, executive director of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women. “In this case the niqab is being removed for safety and security reasons.” Muslim females are now required by law to remove their niqab or other face-coverings in front of a judge while taking an oath of Canadian citizenship. They can be refused Canadian citizenship if they do not remove the ‘sacred’ garment after two warnings by the judge.

Emulate Penang, declare assets: PAS Youth

Dec 13: Praising the Penang state government’s move to compel all its exco members to declare personal assets, PAS Youth has called on other state governments to emulate the move.

“Asset declaration is the right and important direction so that exco members work with full accountability, responsibility and transparency for the sake of the people instead of themselves,” said the PAS Youth's information chief Riduan Mohd Nor (pic).

Earlier, Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng announced that the assets of state Exco members would be published online within a month. This followed Selangor's move to declare assets of its Exco. The Kedah and Kelantan state governments helmed by PAS have however yet to follow suit.

Riduan said many leaders whether at state or national level were reluctant to declare their assets.

Cheney says US should destroy downed drone, Obama wants it back

PressTV

WASHINGTON, Dec 13: Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has criticized the US President Barack Obama for failing to destroy the spy drone recently downed in Iran. Iranian army officials have said they would tweak the drone's technology to serve Iranian needs Cheney said in an interview with CNN on Monday that Obama should have ordered an airstrike to quickly destroy the downed high-tech unmanned aerial aircraft to prevent the Islamic Republic from subjecting it to examination. He also said Obama was presented with three options for recovering or destroying the UAV, but he rejected all of them. "The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it," Cheney said, adding, "You can do that from the air. You can do that with a quick air strike.”

People in charge under 'benevolent state'

Dec 12: PAS has unveiled its concept of benevolent state by calling for power to be returned to the people and placing government as trustee to public funds.

Launching a book on the concept in Shah Alam yesterday (pic), PAS president Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang stressed that the benevolent state was in line with Islamic teachings.

“We want to change the current concept in which the government treats the people as business tools, and revenue is taken from the people through fixed taxes.

"The government should be the people’s protector, the leaders are the trustees, so we want the people’s right returned,” said Hadi.

NFC: Heads must roll, including Muhyiddin's, says PAS

Dec 13: PAS has warned of many more scandals similar to that of the National Feedlot Corporation if deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin (pic), the man who approved the project during his tenure as the Agriculture minister, continued to dodge blame over his involvement. In response to former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s statement urging Women, Family and Community Development minister Shahrizat Jalil to 'resign before being chased out', PAS leaders said Muhyiddin too must follow suit should the Wanita UMNO chief resign. “Yes, Shahrizat’s family had badly managed the project with elements of public fund abuse, but the person who awarded the RM250 million project to inexperienced and unqualified companies should be meted out with stiffer punishment,” said PAS information chief, Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man.

Muslimat chief tells Malaysians not to be pound-foolish

Dec 13: The adage 'penny-wise and pound foolish' best describes those who are taken in by the RM500 one-off cash aid by the government through the Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) programme. According to PAS Muslimat chief Siti Zailah Mohd Yusuf (pic), people should not invite another five years of suffering and pain in exchange for the one-off payment, saying the exercise was another vote-fishing tactic by UMNO. “Don’t profit for a day, and suffer loses for another five years under UMNO-BN. This one-off phenomenon is happening robustly now. This is the spin off from the culture of corruption engraved deep in UMNO-BN’s administration,” she told Harakahdaily.

PAS komited bantu perjuangan rakyat Palestin

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Dis: PAS hari ini menerima kunjungan daripada tiga wakil Badan Kebudayaan Palestin di Malaysia (PCOM) membincangkan kerjasama dua pihak bagi membebaskan Palestin daripada cengkaman Israel. Kunjungan mereka disambut Ahli Jawatankuasa Kerja PAS Pusat, Datuk Kamarudin Jaffar yang juga Ahli Parlimen Tumpat. Menurut Pengarah Eksekutif PCOM, Muslim Abu-Umar PCOM yang beribu pejabat di sini sudah mempunyai hubungan yang erat dengan PAS lebih 10 tahun lalu.

Penghina hudud jangan kurang ajar - Ridhuan Tee

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Dis: Kolumnis media Prof Madya Dr. Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah baru-baru ini menyelar pihak yang lantang menghina Islam khususnya hudud dan memberikan amaran kepada mereka. Tanpa menamakan secara jelas, Mohd Ridhuan dalam tulisan yang disiar akhbar Sinar Harian kelmarin menggambarkan pihak yang dimaksudkannya adalah 'penzina' dan yang 'berlatar belakang menjijikkan'. Katanya parti-parti politik atau orang bukan Islam boleh memberikan teguran dalam perkara lain seperti salah tadbir urus, salah laku peribadi, rasuah dan sebagainya yang dilakukan oleh sesiapa sahaja, tetapi bila tiba kepada perkara berkaitan agama Islam, 'jangan terlalu kurang ajar'.

Kampung Baru: Tahniah YB Mumtaz

Dewan Pemuda PAS Kawasan Titiwangsa (DPPK Titiwangsa) mengucapkan setinggi-tinggi tahniah dan terima kasih kepada YB Senator Mumtaz Md Nawi kerana berani menyuarakan pandangan rakyat mengenai isu Kampung Baru di Dewan Negara pada 7 Disember 2011. Bagi DPPK Titiwangsa dan rakyat khususnya penduduk Kampung Baru, Keberanian YB Senator Mumtaz mengutarakan isu Kampung Baru menunjukkan keprihatinan kepemimpinan PAS dan Pakatan Rakyat terhadap isu yang amat dekat di hati rakyat itu.

Bagi mereka yang mendengar atau membaca ucapan beliau di Dewan Negara tempohari, sudah pasti merasa kagum kerana setiap bait fakta yang dikemukakan amat tepat, terperinci, mendalam serta relevan. Ucapan YB Mumtaz juga mengungkit kembali nostalgia almarhumah YB Dr Lo’Lo’ yang selama hayatnya amat gigih memperjuangkan isu ini. Keberanian dan kehebatan seorang wanita yang bangun menyatakan kebenaran memperjuangkan isu Kampung Baru tentunya amat membanggakan golongan wanita seluruh negara khususnya pemilik Kampung Baru.

Peneroka tuntut kekalkan Datuk Dzulkifli, Isa undur

KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Dis: Kira-kira 50 wakil peneroka Felda daripada beberapa negeri hari ini menyerahkan memorandum menyokong Pengarah Besar Felda, Datuk Dzulkifli Abd Wahab di Ibu Pejabat Felda, Jalan Gurney, dekat sini.

Memorandum sokongan itu ekoran tindakan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengarahkan Dzulkifli bercuti dan mengikuti Kursus Pengurusan Lanjutan bagi meningkatkan prestasi untuk melakukan transformasi Felda.

Ia merupakan cadangan Pengerusi Felda, Tan Sri Isa Samad melalui surat yang dihantar kepada Najib bertarikh 21 November.

Arahan bercuti dikeluarkan melalui surat yang diikeluarkan Setiausaha Sulit Kanan Perdana Menteri 25 November lalu.

ATM bukan padang permainan BN

Er Teck Hwa

Berdasarkan laporan 10 Disember 2011, seorang blogger pro-Umno Papagamo, telah berada di tempat yang sama di mana Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng dan dua orang timbalannya P Ramasamy dan Mansor Othman semasa kunjungan mereka ke kapal selam KD Tun Razak. (Er Teck Hwa di depan KD Tunku Abdul Rahman semasa LIMA 2009.) Papagomo telah juga menggambarkan secara negatifnya bagaimana Lim Guan Eng mengalami mabuk laut ketika dalam kapal selam tersebut. Selain itu, seorang wartawan yang berada di tempat kejadian pada waktu tersebut turut menyatakan seorang lagi blogger pro-Umno bernama ‘Big Dog’ (Zakir Mohamad) turut berada di sana. Berdasarkan foto di Malaysiakini, tampaknya kemunculan beliau adalah dalam penerbangan daripada lapangan terbang Langkawi dalam helikopter tentera.

Perbicaraan kes liwat II disambung Khamis ini

KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Dis: Perbicaraan kes liwat II yang membabitkan Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim akan disambung pada Khamis ini, 15 Disember 2011.

Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur, Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah ketika memutuskan perkara itu menjelaskan, sambungan perbicaraan kes itu akan bermula jam 9.30 pagi.

Menurutnya, perbicaraan Khamis ini bagi membolehkan pihak pembelaan menggulung hujah mereka, sebelum keputusan kes tersebut dibuat. 

Sementara itu, peguam Sankara Nair berkata, pihak pendakwa bagi perbicaraan kes tersebut hari ini tetap gagal membuktikan Datuk Seri Anwar bersalah.

"Hujah-hujah yang dikemukakan oleh pihak pendakwa hari ini tetap memihak kepada kami dan kami yakin mampu mempertahankan hujah-hujah kami sebelum ini pada hari Khamis ini," katanya.

Rakyat Kelantan masih perlukan Nik Aziz

SHAH ALAM, 13 Dis: Pensyarah Kanan Jabatan Pengajian Media, Fakulti Sains Sosial Universiti Malaya (UM), Prof Madya Dr Abu Hassan Hasbullah menyifatkan akhlak kepimpinan yang ditunjukkan oleh Tuan Guru Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat sebagai tokoh yang tiada tandingan.

Katanya, sikap kesederhanaan yang ditujunkkan Menteri Besar Kelantan itu sukar dicari pada pemimpin lain khususnya di Malaysia sekarang.

Bukan sahaja sukar dibanding dengan pemimpin lain dalam Umno, malah juga sukar untuk dibandingkan dengan pemimpin PAS yang lain.

"Bagi saya kepimpinan yang ditujukkan oleh kepimpinan Nik Aziz memang tidak ada tandingan, malah sikap kesederhanaan yang ditunjukkan olehnya itu terlalu sukar untuk kita temui pada masa sekarang," katanya dalam Wacana Sinar Harian, PRU13: Undi Siap Jadi Penentu di sini.