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Anwar to contest at Permatang Pauh - Press Conference

Anwar Ibrahim announced today that he will contest a by-election for the Permatang Pauh parliamentary seat which will be vacated by his wife and PKR leader Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.

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DATUK SERI WAN AZIZAH WAN ISMAIL QUITS!

— PRESS STATEMENT  —
31 JULY 2008, PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA

After deliberating with my family, the Keadilan party leadership and our partners in the Pakatan Rakyat, I have officially submitted my resignation as Member of Parliament of Permatang Pauh to the Speaker of Parliament YB Tan Sri Datuk Pandikar Amin Bin Hj. Mulia today to make way for my husband, Anwar Ibrahim, to contest as a candidate for Pakatan Rakyat in a by-election as soon as possible.

This is consistent with our goals towards securing a Parliamentary majority and forming a new government within this year.

This decision is the right decision for Malaysia.

The nation now faces some of the greatest challenges it has encountered since gaining independence. The UMNO-led Barisan Nasional government has mismanaged the economy and steered the nation towards a catastrophe. It has allowed the integrity of the justice system to fall into deeper infamy. It has stroked the flames of racism and driven a wedge of mistrust between Malays, Chinese and Indians, while thoroughly neglecting the needs of the indigenous peoples of
Sabah and Sarawak.

Anwar Ibrahim has articulated a vision for Malaysia that has brought hope to the people. He has the experience and intelligence to reinvigorate our economy, and the charisma and integrity to unite the Malaysian people and restore credibility to our institutions of governance.

I will continue to serve as president of Parti Keadilan Rakyat and as chairperson of the Yayasan Aman (Peace Foundation).

I whole-heartedly thank my supporters in Permatang Pauh who have stood by me in the most difficult of times since September 1998 and have shared in the joy of victory we all experienced on March 8th. The future of our nation lies in the dedication and commitment to justice and freedom that I have experienced as your representative in Parliament and I look forward to many more years of serving you with sincerity and with humility.

DATUK SERI WAN AZIZAH WAN ISMAIL
President Parti Keadilan Rakyat

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Hospital Pusrawi Press Conference

Hospital Pusrawi had a press conference to confirm that the test done by Dr Muhammad Osman Abdul Hamid did not conduct a sodomy-related examination on Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

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Fuel Prices May Drop

This is music to everyone ears. A report from the star indicated the price of petrol may drop if crude oil prices stay at US$125 (RM408) per barrel for at least three week. I’m curious, when the price of fuel increased..Operational cost and production cost increased with everyone claiming that it was impossible to run their businesses without increasing the price to the consumer. So if there is a drop in price of fuel are all these other prices going to drop as well??? I don’t think so!

In most countries the price of fuel is determined by the world oil price, soo fuel could cost RM 2.70 today and RM 1.80 next month or even go up too RM4.00 in 6 months time. But prices of goods and services are not effected, how is that possible??? I think planning is key!

Yes the nation was furious when the price increased by 40% , then Anwar and gang came out to pledge that if the Pakatan takes over the price will drop by 50 cents the next day. Then the debate that toke place on the fuel prices happened. Now the government are considering in reducing the price of fuel …YEY but before you get too excited, lets look at the larger spectrum…

How much more are you paying for your goods and services(minus the new cost of fuel) now compared too before? Whats the ratio?? For me..the I’m paying so much more for other stuff as compared to just fuel.. Price of food,electricity,services have all shot up!! Now if the price of fuel reduces, I’m going to save a little on the fuel but the others????

Planning doesn’t look like the best attribute of the government eh! Subsidies are great but if it were planned better, the people really can enjoy the fruit of all this hard work that is happening in the background.

Its all about the money isn’t it? Survival is in question nowadays and those in power need to do a much much better job for the people because those waiting in the wings seem to have a plan that’s waiting to be executed!

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Uncle Pet Live on Video

Saiful’sUncle Pet on video challenging RPK! The sole person from the Saiful’s camp who has been in touch seems to be loosing his cool. Mr Lawyer…where are you??

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Racist or Pure Rude?

You go into a bank and to get some banking work done. While you are at the bank you are having trouble getting the information required to make a certain payment. When a amount is quoted for you to make a payment ,there is no proper explanation on why the amount is such.

What do you do?

You clarify and re-clarify. Now what if every time you ask you get different figures being quoted. Due to the nature of the query, verification from different branches are required. You leave your contact number with the bank personal to get back to you and as you are making your way out of the branch, you suddenly receive a sms on your mobile saying :

(‘Si keling uma td bnyk songgeh tension btul nk windsn lah x nk la dkat 1 jam
melyan dia. Mesti x leh rnew rtax dia kita rasa ada saman sbb biasanye cstmr bnyk
hal memang x lpasnye rtax dia. Td kta ckp dgn alvin nanti u check dgn alvin k n tel
no cstmr pun dh bg. Tq- sarna dis my 2nd tel no’)

You then get a family member to come to help sort this out and when you approach the bank, they acknowledge the mistake and the person who sends out the sms admits that it was her mistake and promise to give a acknowledgement to this case in writing.  A week an a half has past and nothing has been received as yet.

The victim receives a bouquet of flowers today out of no where and when confronted the bank they say that the matter is being investigated and will revert when they have a update together with a contact of another bank personal.

The bank has got the right to investigate but a whats taking them so long for a acknowledgement?

The victim is in a fix right now and needs to fix this attitude and get compensated for the trouble they have gone through.

We live in 2008 in a nation that claims to be a country where all races live in perfect harmony and yet we face such people. Should we tolerate such behavior? What are your thoughts??

(Victim details,bank details will not be revealed without the consent of the victim)

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More Join PKR

A Inside source confirmed that this week there will be up too 2000 new members submitting their memberships to join Parti keADILan rakyat at Kapar. Most of these new members are coming from MIC and MCA. The wind is blowing towards the light blue future now eh!

More will be updated when confirmation is received

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Anwar to be Charged

In the latest report by the Malaysian Insider, the police will be charging Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim for sodomy. The investigation was done based on Anwar’s DNA from 1998 when he was first charged for sodomy.

This report is out despite the reason events of the medical reports that indicated that Saiful was not sodomized in the first place.It getting a little worrying for the lay men to watch such drama happening but we sure hope this get cleared up asap and allow the nation to be back in business again.

I hope all this will get cleared up and allow the nation to get back to business again.

Read the full story HERE

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Uncle Pet Challenges Pete

In the latest report by Malaysiakini, Uncle Pet who has been the only one who has been consistently appearing to the press is angry!!

Exceprts :

“One more thing, for Raja Petra (Kamaruddin) if he hears this. I want to see him,” said Pet.

“Have you read what Petra wrote about me in his blog?” he questioned. “He has attacked me personally, saying that I sodomised my nephew.

“Pilih apa gelangang yang you mahu (Choose wherever you want). He called me an auntie and so on and so forth. Come and see me if he wants to know me better. Because I want to see him too,” said Pet.

Getting very hot eh! Instead of Uncle Pet, i think i like to hear what Saiful or the family has got to say. Don’t they have a lawyer to respond to these statements? Uncle Pet is obviously not the best person to respond to anything if he cant keep his emotions in place isn’t it?

I’m also wondering whats taking the police so long to sort this case out? The more it delays the more you are going to hear about these kind of allegations. Yes, we feel sorry for Saiful’s family for the ordeal they have to go through but we also have to feel sorry for Dato Seri Anwar’s family for what they have to put up too isn’t it?

Uncle Pet got furious after reading a story on RPK’s site entitled The Malay Unity Sodomy Conspiracy

Justice has got to be served and it needs to be sooner rather than latter!

PS - Wonder what RPK has got to say to this!

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Racial Harmony

I went through the BTN behaviour modification and racist indoctrines many-many moons ago and I found myself troubled by all the racist propaganda. Late nite discussions with my roomie at the time (the late Benan RIP), and we concluded that the BTN wanted to brainwash us into believing that:

EVERYBODY (at one time, in one way or another) is a racist.

This means that you, the reader, are a racist, your father, your mother, your siblings, your cousin to the son of a brother who is an uncle of a nephew who is also a son-in-law to the cousin who is twice removed to a politician is also a racist.

Mahathir is a racist. Bodowi is a racist. KJ is a racist. Hishamuddin is a racist. Karpal is a racist. Same goes for Kit Siang, racist. And let’s not forget Anwar. He is also a racist. Wow.

Really?

If every single human being in Malaysia is a racist, have we any hope to co-exist? Is it impossible to have racial harmony and with that, social justice? Can we still achieve racial harmony; build trust and commitment in a pluralistic society? How do we fight racism while having a long history of racial injustice?

It is interesting to read the definitions of racism found by searching ‘define:racism’ with google.

‘Believing that one race is superior to another. Used historically to justify imperialism and human rights abuses.’

In another light, racism marginalizes groups of people, depriving them of the privileges that others routinely enjoy. Exclusion. Alienation.

As I grew into adulthood, my world-view expanded and had many opportunities to work with so many people, numerous penjajah from the portuguese, dutch, japanese to the brit, and even played footie and worked with the Jews. It’s not haram to work with a jew-lah. Tak mati pun.

I believe in Malaysia for Malaysians. We share the same air, drink the same water and our blood is red from shedding blood for this country..

According to Rawls, to have racial harmony or peace in a nation state that is pluralistic in terms of race, religion and ethnicity, the basic institutions must be arranged in a manner that all members of that society have good reasons for thinking these institutions are just and that they are legitimate members of the society.

Let’s look at the Pakatan Rakyat. The PR is a notion of coalitions taking the form of consensus-building. The goal is to build actual consensus in real political context and the concept of PR works on the belief that there is a level of cooperation between racial groups to shape negotiated norms that will allow us to tolerate each other as we pursue common ends. A common allegiance to ‘Ketuanan Rakyat’ provided a unified perspective from which people of different color can adjudicate their differences.

Someone wrote:

“The fact that the PKR had performed better than previous elections is because it had fielded its candidates from a broad spectrum of race, religion and creed. Unlike its associate, PAS which campaigns solely on religious platform, both PKR and DAP are able to attract a broad spectrum of urban voters. The strong performance by non-Malay candidates in Malay majority constituencies clearly shows that racial cards and the politics of intimidation are NO longer the name of the game for Malaysia in the 21st century. In majority Chinese communities, both Gerakan and MCA were performing badly. The Hindraf movement had to some extent swung the votes from traditional MIC to the Opposition parties. Both MIC and its rival, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) which played on racial cards lost badly.”

True. Ketuanan Rakyat. Good. Ketuanan Melayu. Racist. Ketuanan Islam. Racist. Or is it? Racism can take many forms and be defined in different ways. When we add the ‘Tuan’ to indicate superiority that may result in the social, political and economic advantage of one group in relationship to another, then hell yeah, let me put this bold. RACIST. Who are certain factions within PAS trying to fool?

Like many young ‘arranged’ marriages, time is needed for the relationship to mature and in the process love quarrels may occur. Consensus assumes that people are willing to agree with each other and that any conflict can lead to creative, intelligent and mutually beneficial decisions. Despite these conflicts, I would like to think racial coalitions can be used to create a racially harmonious and just society, but we must realize that is a society where there has been and continue to be wide-spread racism, any small disagreement between members of different racial groups can serve to undermine any common ground that has been established . The threesome coalitions of PKR, PAS and DAP at a glance may be difficult to maintain and it seems like they will require constant maintenance for their continued existence. Goodwill is not enough and weeks ago, I imagined them breaking down because of a possibility that members of the coalition do not see in their best interest to continue. Or it may also occur because of some misunderstanding between members of the coalition. I could be proven wrong today.

(The Star) - Perak Umno has offered the state PAS to team up with it but Perak Mentri Besar snubbed the offer saying, “PAS in Perak will be in Pakatan Rakyat forever and ever.”

Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin … well done sir!!

The PR has good leadership. When we talk about the interests of members of the Pakatan, we should note that they may have long-term and short term interests. Whatever it may be, you and I would agree that very often it is extremely hard for people to look at their long-term interest, especially when they seem to conflict with their short term interests. My run towards financial independence by my 40s was derailed somewhat by recent events. Courageous leaders play an important role in getting people to focus on short term as well as long-term interests. We still need the redistribution of wealth to the rakyat this will require large scale government intervention to assure access to basic goods. I suspect that when this is done, people from different races (racist that they may be) will come to see that they have a great deal in common.

PAS members need to see that it is not in their interest to adopt such a narrow short-term interpretation and look closely at this UMNO muzakarah, muqabalah thingy (why can’t they come with an easier word to understand). What are the aims of the participants in this new proposed coalition? Is it to achieve a common good? Maybe. But will it be to ensure racial harmony? I think not. Each party is not attempting to achieve the common good of the rakyat, to promote racial harmony. They only want to maximise personal interests and survival of certain individuals. A by-product of their efforts may be the promotion of common interest, that is the so-called ‘Ketuanan Islam’, but seriously, this is not the true objective. In this regard, this merger talk is quite similar to the social contractarian approach in political philosophy. In the social contractarian approach, members of the state of nature are rational egoists who are attempting to agree on principles that will maximise their own interests. UMNO is a sinking ship and they only want PAS to help them stay afloat.

‘Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering’ - You know who.

It is hate that makes the housewife throw down the daily newspaper in fear, repulsion and anger, after reading yet another child-molester or rapist. It is hate that makes the Malaysian man curses to read yet another police brutality, corruption and court scandal. It is hate that brings rage into the heart of the Malaysian farmer when he reads billions loaded and given away as ‘incentives’ to aid cronies when he cannot get the smallest break from an unmerciful government to save his farm.

Emotions do things, and they align individuals (including racists) into communities. Aristotle differentiated anger from hatred in that ‘anger’ is customarily felt towards individuals only, whereas hatred may be felt towards whole classes of people’. More generally, hate also names an intense emotion, a feeling of ‘againstness’ that, according to Sartre, is always, in the phenomenological sense, intentional. We are as responsible for what it is we do as well as what it is we don’t do. Hate is a choice and the rakyat, refused the racism game and have channeled that other kind of hate to a common goal which is ‘Ketuanan Rakyat’ and true enough, the ruling coalition was made to suffer. Padan muka.

Do it at your peril PAS. Sleep with the devil and the rakyat will make you pay.

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