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UMNO unprepared to change

Posted by: free&fair on April 13, 2008 8:30:25 PM (765 reads )

The big question of whether any new leadership in UMNO will do better than Badawi is answered in the negative by many commentators -as in this one by Malaysian Insider. This argument follow on to argue that Mar 8th election results is a beginning of an irreversible decline of UMNO/BN and its racialist ideology. The argument focus on the undeniable negative aspects of UMNO/BN. Could there be any possiblity for a reformed UMNO-we need to look in other directions to look for these elements. The positive elements must come together fast enough before UMNO/BN is gone for ever:

Samy Vellu send his empathy to Pak Lah

Posted by: free&fair on April 13, 2008 8:14:22 PM (699 reads )

Both men are facing pressures to step down-from outside as well as from inside the party. No wonder Samy is the first leader coming to Pak Lah's rescue:

Confirmed: Pak Lah asked to leave `politely'

Posted by: free&fair on April 13, 2008 4:24:37 PM (681 reads )

The PM cum UMNO President has been asked to `expedite' `transition of power'-or in plane language-he has been asked to leave/get lost ASAP! Watch out: The next 12 hours will see some dramatic announcements! A number of scenarios are possible:

1. Badawi may try to play his delaying tactics-but time is running out. There may even be a timetable already set. And he has no choice on his succesor -Najib has already been named in the `deal' to give Badawi the temprory support. So he may indeed choose to announce it at earliest possible time eg the next Cabinet meeting on Friday. If this happen there will certainly be a speedy Cabinet reshuffle under new PM Najib.This is a pro-Najib scenario. Other possible scenarios:

2. he may call for an UMNO Emergency Meeting-which will give him more time -and some more options to prepare for his unavoidable exit eg a big retirement package ala Mahathir(who went to South Pole on public expense!), or a UMNO Youth Chief position for his SIL.This scenario may give a platform to Razaleigh to explore an option other than what Najib can offer;

3. The more radical option would be : if he feel really pissed off: he resign from his MP position -forcing a by-election!!! Or a threat to this effect may hold off some pressure from those in UMNO/Najib's faction. In any case his days as UMNO President & PM are numbered. Some bloggers even postulate that he may cross over to join Anwar, and bring down the BN govenment ....if he still has resolve to make a splash before his exit. Politics is the arts of the possible. Watch out!

Lookng back: he has been provoked to hit back at his opponents -and the `blame his critics' response was too little too late. Nothing fatal was delivered to substantiate the counter criticisms. The rejection of his explantion set the stage for his exit-which played out in the subsequent visits to the various states to face unfriendly rebuke and call for resignations from the divisional war lords. Even the Parliamentarians support could not help to resuscitate his fading aura as a PM.

The PC after meeting UMNO Johor 2 days ago (Friday) was probably deemed to have not gone far enough to spell out his impending exit -he only hinted broadly that he will not PM for `too long'-thus the need for a clarification by the UMNO Johor spokeperson that PM has `won' their support through a `step-down-orderly-soon' deal. Now: how soon do the UMNO warlords want?

The more important issue is: what changes will the new PM bring -whoever that may be.

April 13, 2008 16:46 PM

Call To Expedite Transition Of Power

JOHOR BAHARU, April 13 (Bernama) -- The plan for transition of power from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak should be expedited in an orderly manner to ensure that the people are not left wondering about it, Johor Umno information chief Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi said today.

Beginning of Pak Lah's End in sight?

Posted by: Anonymous on April 13, 2008 3:58:54 PM (931 reads )

Muhyiddin who said UMNO's crisis is only in the eyes of the few beholders now make a significant concession that the crisis is indeed more than just a problems of the few eyes. The `UMNO leadership crisis' come from his mouth now:

Muhyiddin joins call for urgent change in Umno leadershipHe warns if Umno doesn't act now, it may never come back

"If the changes are not made immediately, Umno will also lose power and can never make a comeback," said the International Trade and Industry Minister.

CONGRATULATIONS Jeff Ooi!

Posted by: Anonymous on August 05, 2007 12:05:35 PM (850 reads )

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Cute FRU to stop anti-toll protestors !

Posted by: free&fair on Tue, 09 January 2007 22:37:52 (1513 reads)

A big difference from past police response to popular anti-toll protests : the police fielded young female FRU at the front rows to stop the anti-toll hike protestors in KL ! The change of tack seems to reflect the fact that the toll hike is less than convinsing compared to before -and the cronies will have a hard time to keep the government either agreeing to toll hikes or pay hefty compensations. The government is thus put on the back foot in relation to popular protests. So what should the protestors do ? May be this is the time to step up the protests so as to tap into the depth of the anti-toll hike sentiments ! Tun M's admission that the toll agreements were weak provided a huge boost to the anti-toll hike cause. The protestors must go on to squueze all advantage from these positive developments !

Developers who want to blunder & get away

Posted by: free&fair on December 19, 2006 10:25:43 AM (1507 reads )

The statistics are out on developers who have been found guilty by the Housing Tribunal-but the reason why this tribunals can't expand beyond Kl remain a mystery. The lack of confidence of the citizens against the justice system in the country is well supported by various inexplicable but simple implementation (or lack of it) of some measures which proved to be effective to weed out the rule-breaking industry players. Enforcement officers are often short handed-compared to service charges collection counters. Errant developers get used to act above the laws -and the returning of the same parties to power ensure that the same rotten system continue. Solution : choose another party/ies to run the government/country !

Penang's own drag queen show :

Posted by: free&fair on December 19, 2006 1:02:07 AM (1384 reads )

It was a surprise presentation at a gig held in conjunction of the world Human Rights Day on Dec 10th-at D' Space. While metals music may not be everyone's cup of tea -there are many who could be sympathetic-but get put off by the difficulties to make sense of the music. But not all bands are making it difficult for the audience to make sense of their performance-here we have a nice sample where the band did try to put across simple and strong message to the responsive audience -try download it :

GLC's of course help Bumis-including Pm's Bumi son & son-in-law

Posted by: free&fair on December 09, 2006 12:06:51 PM (803 reads )

Whenever I hear the Govt said GLC's help Bumi's I can't help recall a joke told by a friend: are the son & son-in-law of the PM Bumi's ? So GLC's certainly have helped Bumi's ! Who could be so stupid to think otherwise. The idea is: the GLC's are supposed to help all Malaysians -but if we limit it to their own admitted range ie Bumi's -then they should help all or the majority of Bumi's -not just an ethnic community -or actually even less-the UMNO related Bumis only ! That's the point. They sell their policies on serving all -then actually enriching a few. That is the tricks of politicians all over the world. Then are the people not entitled to take them to task over this hypocricy ?

Racial split a political expediency

Posted by: free&fair on December 05, 2006 7:29:44 PM (1543 reads )

Malaysians are unhappy with racial splits -but look closely -there are those who benefit and enjoy the splits. They rely on it for political survival ! That is the frank reason for the playing up of ethnic differences and ethnic insecurities in Malaysia. Until there is a formula to allow political leadership to be decided on a different basis this tragic charade will continue for a long while yet -with the ethnic politicians doing it wiht their eyes open. To call them racist is to compliment them -they are just a small minority who managed to get the majority on their side by scaring them enough of other communities ! They are not big enough to be a `race' or `ethnic community'. They are a political community ! Our suggestion : start addressing this ethnic politics from local government levels ! Demonstrate that people of different ethnic backgrounds and religions can live and work together at local levels -before we push this change upwards. Notice local governments -where they are elected, is always a precursor of political change at state & federal levels in other countries ! Local government elections which were won by Islamists in Algeria scared the hell out of the militarists rulinggroup that they nullify the elections at higher levels -proving the power of democracy rather than disproving it ! But political parties always see things from the apex of power -thus neglecting politics at the ground levels-and local governments without elections does not help. But there is nothing in the law to say that if the government won't hold local elections then the people can't do it on their own !!!!So let's do it -it should be real fun !!!

Why security guards with guns overcome by robbers with only parang s?(Update)

Posted by: free&fair on November 21, 2006 9:34:54 PM (394 reads )

By now Penang and Malaysia had added `the biggest computer chips heist(RM50mil)' to their cap of dishonour -leaving a shade of suspicion on how security guards with rifle/guns got overcome by robbers with only parangs ? Was it a case of `willing robbers and the willingly robbed' ? There are at least 3 rings of security at the Mas-cargo air-port security area : the entrance custom-with armed officers; the individual warehouse security -most probably with rifle (?), In between there should be at least another layer of security for the entire warehouse area-most likely also with armed security. At all 3 levels there are also security cameras -so to say that all cameras and tapes were taken away by the very `well planned' robbery is baffling-given that many recording storage (tapes, hard discs) nowadays are located at some distance from the actual cameras-with some even linked to distant computers! On top of all the above there are also various alarm systems at various points at the warehouse complex. All these shows that for the robbery to succeed a big section of the warehouse to custom areas must have been compromised ! That this could be done prove that Penang International Airport is most inviting to robbers -as proven by the previous robberies which grew bigger and bigger....

UPDATE : From info from a security camera firm the security cameras in the Batu Maung warehouse area are all old styled cameras which used tapes to store the video captured on the cameras-so easy for the robbers to just take the tapes away ! Newer cameras store their videos in hard disc stored away from the scene ! And the security there also don't seems to carry arms -according to a reported speech from the Minister of Transport Chan Kong Choy -thus they are easily overcome by the parang wielding robbers ! In addition there were also no alarm system for a facility which store multi-millions goods ! Now you see !

Stop live-broadcast or stop racism ? (UPDATE 2)

Posted by: free&fair on November 21, 2006 2:32:19 PM (418 reads )

Najib responded to criticism of the racist outbursts at the just concluded UMNO Assembly by suggesting that the 1st ever live broadcast of the UMNO annual meet be suspended-glossing over a number of important issues here: if racism is the problem -just stop the racism! Why stop the live-broadcast instead ? People are not complaining about the live broadcast as such ! If they really stop the live broadcast without stopping the racism -is it any better ? Was it not because of the live broadcast that the entire population get to know how racist UMNO delegates and leadership are ? So people do have to thank the live broadcast for exposing UMNO's real identity ! Of course to be fair to all live broadcast should be extended to all political parties, and also to the Parliament proceedings, State Assemblies etc. What go on in these functions are public events -why cover them up ?????
UPDATE 2: MCA's Dr Chua Soi Lek admitted that all race-based parties hold racist AGMs -thus not suitable for live /public telecast(report appended). So this chap has made a significant condemnation of his own party -and Malaysians should accept his suggestion -and go further by stopping such racial parties !

UMNO Assembly : ethnic forum at its worst !

Posted by: free&fair on November 16, 2006 6:30:46 PM (739 reads )

What do you expect a pack of men talk among themselves if not women -and not so approvingly ? What do you expect a pack of Malays (incidentally in this case) talk among themselves if not `the other races' ? It seems that despite the live broadcast of the proceedings there is nothing from the assembly organisers to pre-empt the likely racial speeches from being snatched up as headlines in the media ! By not willing to identify where their members themselves had indulged in racial advocacy and chauvinism the party leaders -the PM included, are guilty of endorsing the assembly as a forum for free venting such sentiments ! Such scenario also admittedly happened when MCA & MIC hold their 1-race only forum. But since UMNO is the dorminant party in the ruling coalition then its standard on this set the standard for the rest. So was it a good standard set ???

PM announced RM600mil allocations to entice UMNO delegates ?

Posted by: free&fair on November 14, 2006 8:00:08 PM (351 reads )

There is something definitely smelling like pork around the UMNO General Assembly : PM Badawi saw it fit to announce RM600mil extra allocations (on top of 9th MP) at a pre-Council meeting to party leaders. This is called `pork barreling' according to some political science terminology! But there is a difference : Pork barreling usually involve announcement of goodies to lure voters at am election -but UMNO extend it to enticing UMNO members. A suggestion is to stop its assembly members from attending a prayer for Tun M's health which take place not too far from PWTC where UMNO meet. Whatever it may be -why a government's pronouncement can legitimately be timed to coincide with a party function ?

Penang Watch web site revived with new design !

Posted by: free&fair on Thu, 09 November 2006 14:30:59 (713 reads)

Since a few months ago when Penangwatch was notified by the web site host SEACEM that there was a security risk in the web site the updating mechanism was suspended -effectively stopping the web site. Updating of the web site continued only on its article section -the updating failure was in the picture uploading part. The waiting game went on for 1 month before Penang Watch was told that the (free)host had just looked at it and recommend a change of the web CMS from MAMBO to JOOMLA system. However Penangwatch team had contacted another local web designer to move house to another host. So the offer by SEACEM was turned down. After that it took another 1 month or more for the new design to come on stream -thus effectively suspending the Penangwatch web site -launched in April, to hybernate for over 3 months in all ! But the wait has finished now -go to www.penangwatch.net to check out the web site with a new look !


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