Hormatilah masyarakat bukan Islam sebagai saudara kita yang belum mendapat hidayah.. berikan perhatian dan bantuan kepada mereka. Doakan semoga beroleh hidayah. Itu cabang dakwah terbaik buat masa ini.... ISLAM bukan milik orang Melayu... Tetapi orang Melayu yang mengaku ISLAM perlu membela agama ALLAH ini.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Sunyi...
Hormatilah masyarakat bukan Islam sebagai saudara kita yang belum mendapat hidayah.. berikan perhatian dan bantuan kepada mereka. Doakan semoga beroleh hidayah. Itu cabang dakwah terbaik buat masa ini.... ISLAM bukan milik orang Melayu... Tetapi orang Melayu yang mengaku ISLAM perlu membela agama ALLAH ini.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
nEW LEADER FOR pATRIOTIST aND nATIONALIST
TOKYO (Reuters) - Shinzo Abe, a conservative advocate of a more muscular Japanese foreign policy, was overwhelmingly elected as ruling party leader on Wednesday, setting the stage for him to be chosen prime minister next week.
Abe, who will become Japan's first prime minister born after World War Two, has pledged to rewrite Japan's pacifist constitution, forge even tighter security ties with close ally Washington and put patriotism back in Japanese classrooms.
He has also promised to seek a thaw in ties with China and South Korea, chilled by outgoing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to a Tokyo war shrine. But he has stressed that better relations require efforts on all sides.
"The Liberal Democratic Party has pursued an ideal of making Japan richer and a country with pride," a determined-looking Abe told party lawmakers after the vote. "I would like to keep that fire going and carry on the will to push ahead with reforms."
Abe took 464 of the 702 valid votes from LDP lawmakers and party chapters, against 136 for Foreign Minister Taro Aso and 102 for Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki, his rivals.
Lawmakers applauded when Koizumi, wearing a blue suit and red tie, cast his ballot in the contest that brings down the curtain on his more than five years as LDP leader, during which he battled his party's old guard to push reforms.
Abe, who turns 52 on Thursday, has promised to pursue growth while pushing economic reforms begun by Koizumi, who took power in 2001 vowing to cut his party loose from the grip of vested interests and reduce government's heavy hand on the economy.
His party victory all but ensures his selection as prime minister when parliament convenes on Sept. 26 because of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's grip on the lower chamber.
The soft-spoken Abe has long topped the list of politicians Japanese voters prefer to see succeed Koizumi, making him the candidate of choice for a hefty majority of LDP lawmakers looking ahead to elections for parliament's upper house next summer.
Abe, first elected in 1993, became a household name four years ago for his tough stance in a feud with North Korea over Japanese citizens kidnapped by Pyongyang decades ago.
ASIAN DIALOGUE OR FRICTION?
Now Abe faces the dual challenges of repairing ties with Beijing and Seoul and keeping economic reforms on track while addressing voter worries about the widening social gaps many see resulting from Koizumi's reforms.
"I like Abe's basic stance on policy. He has good relations with the United States and I like his strong attitude towards North Korea," said Tomoya Minakawa, a 39-year-old IT engineer.
"I want the next prime minister to improve relations with China and South Korea," he added. "I'm not sure if Abe can do that, but I support him."
Abe, a third-generation politician, is thought unlikely to adopt Koizumi's combative approach in forging ahead with economic reforms and so far has not fleshed out details of how he intends to get a handle on Japan's bulging public debt.
"Frankly, I don't know much about his policies. I just know that he's popular, not whether his policies are good or not," said Hiroshi Sase, 36, who works for an employment agency.
Attention is already turning to the question of who will be awarded plum cabinet posts.
Aso is expected to get either a top party post or a cabinet portfolio after campaigning on a platform that echoed Abe's own.
Tanigaki, who clashed with Abe over Yasukuni and when to raise Japan's 5 percent sales tax, has already said he would not remain in the cabinet if he lost the LDP race.
Abe has defended Koizumi's pilgrimages to the Yasukuni Shrine, where Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal are honoured with war dead.
He has also has sidestepped the issue of Japanese leaders' responsibility for the war and visited Yasukuni in the past.
He has declined to say whether he pay his respects there as prime minister, an ambiguity some see as leaving the door open to better ties with Beijing and Seoul.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Lee Kuan Yew Revisited
'I could not help telling him that day, " Today is the day of your victory, the day of my defeat; but in five to ten years, you will certainly feel sad about it."
'He smirked. I do not think he understood me then, or later. He was only relieved and happy that his position as leader of the MCA and the MCA's position in Malaysia were now secure. The threat from the PAP and the Malaysian Solidarity Convention had been removed. The MCA would be supreme. But secure and supreme were relative terms in this case. four years later, in May 1969, Malay rioters in Kuala Lumpur would kill and maim hundreds of Chinese and burn their homes and cars. In 1973, when Ismail died, PM Razak promoted Hussein Onn to be his deputy. Loyal though, Tan had been to the Alliance and to UMNO, he was Chinese, and he discovered that he could not be deputy prime minister. He resigned in 1974, overcome with shame and bitter disappointment. He did not understand that he had already lost out when he had unwittingly helped to get
This is the true face of LKY. He was and still is a Chinese Ultras....
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Saman trafik, Warisan jepun dan ngomolan lain...
'Japan's Princess Kiko has given birth to a baby boy, potentially resolving the royal family's succession crisis.
The 39-year-old princess gave birth by a Caesarean section two weeks early, after complications in the pregnancy.
Princess Kiko, wife of the current emperor's second son, already has two daughters, but women are not allowed to ascend to the Chrysanthemum throne.
Her son becomes the first male heir to be born into Japan's royal family in more than four decades.' BBC News
Ini melegakan keluarga diraja Jepun. Mungkin ada harapan nak jadi Presiden (seumur hidup?) Persatuan Bolasepak Jepun satu hari nanti!
Orang tanya saya pasal budget tahun ni... susah nak bagi jawapan. Sebabnya? tak tahu kenapa. Tak ada keghairahan nak menonton pembentangan tersebut kat TV... saya bukan peminat Mahathir tp fikir Pak lah nak bentang... ngantuk pula rasanya... apa pun saya sempat bagi tahu students supaya simpan stok rokok sebelum harga naik ....
RPK kata perkahwinan Siti macam sarkas... saya setuju 1000%... bacalah No Holds Barred... dalam Malaysia Today...
Sejarah Rashid Maidin? Nasihat untuk pelajar... jgn pilih untuk baca buku yang kita rasa kita boleh setuju... tp baca semua buku yang boleh buat otak kiri dan kanan berdebat...
'If you reach a verdict of death... remember that i am a military man and should be killed by firing squad and not by hanging as a common criminal' - Saddam Hussein
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Ke Makam Bonda
Ke Makam Bonda |
Kami mengunjungi pusara bonda, Tegak kami di makam sepi, Dalam kenangan kami melihat, Bibir bonda bersih lesu, Nisan batu kami tegakkan, Senyum kemboja menghantar kami, Begitulah bakti kami berikan, |
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
AUKU dan pelajar
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Kaki judi dinasihatkan sentiasa dekat dengan Samy Vellu
' I don't want to support any team, because whatever team I support will win' ( theSun p. 2)
Jadi S. Subra harus berjaga-jaga.... mungkin pengadil telah memakai jersi pihak lawan...
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Apa ada pada politik?
Hari ini membuka kata dengan meminjam tulisan Pak Goenawan dari Catatan Pinggirnya. Sebetulnya apa yang ingin diluahkan ialah bagaimana istilah politik telah disalahfahamkan dengan makna yang yang cukup memualkan. Politik dikaitkan dengan rasuah, salah guna kuasa, jatuh-menjatuhkan kawan dan yang paling berat membelakangkan kepentingan rakyat. Pelajar seringkali ditakut-takutkan dengan politik, kakitangan kerajaan tidak boleh berpolitik (habis tu apa yang dia orang buat kat pejabat? bukankan pentadbiran awam itu sebahagian daripada disiplin sains politik?) sehinggakan pensyarah universiti melontarkan kata-kata, ' saya seorang ahli akademik yang tidak mahu berpolitik', nah, habis umat ini bila mahu memisahkan politik dengan kehidupan seharian.... Jadi mari kita bincangkan bagaimana menyucikan politik.....
Monday, May 08, 2006
Another hamper to the voters
Series of hampers:
Kelantan - University?
Terengganu - University .....and now.............. here we go....
Sarawak bakal miliki lapangan terbang, pelabuhan baru
LAWAS 8 Mei - Lawas bakal mempunyai sebuah lapangan terbang baru yang dapat meningkatkan daya saing bandar di utara Sarawak ini.
Menteri Perancangan dan Pengurusan Sumber II Sarawak, Datuk Awang Tengah Ali Hassan berkata projek bernilai RM150 juta itu yang diluluskan kerajaan pusat di bawah Rancangan Malaysia Kesembilan akan dimulakan tahun ini.
Beliau memberitahu Bernama di sini hari ini, lapangan terbang itu dapat mengendalikan pesawat jenis Fokker tetapi kerajaan merancang meningkatkan keupayaannya untuk mengendalikan pesawat lebih besar pada masa depan.
Bagi menjamin daya maju lapangan terbang itu, kerajaan Sarawak dan Sabah akan membincangkan program kerjasama untuk membangunkan kawasan sempadan kedua-dua negeri, katanya.
Selain lapangan terbang, Awang Tengah yang juga Menteri Kemudahan Awam berkata sebuah pelabuhan baru akan dibina di sini dan tapaknya sudahpun dikenal pasti.
``Dengan adanya pelabuhan tersebut, Lawas berpotensi menjadi pusat eksport bagi pelbagai produk yang ada di sekitar kawasan sempadan di sini,'' katanya.
Beliau yang juga penyandang bagi kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Lawas yang kini dinamakan Bukit Sari berikutan persempadanan semula oleh Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) pada tahun lepas, berkata Lawas juga akan memiliki sebuah hospital baru yang dianggarkan bernilai RM85 juta.
Mengenai pilihan raya negeri Sarawak kesembilan pada 20 Mei ini, Awang Tengah yang dicalonkan semula untuk bertanding berkata Barisan Nasional (BN) bersedia menerima tentangan daripada calon bebas atau calon parti pembangkang.
``Saya bersedia kerana saya tidak memperkecilkan peluang semua pihak dan saya serah pengundi untuk tentukan nasib mereka sendiri,'' katanya.
Bukit Sari yang majoriti pengundi Melayu mempunyai pengundi berdaftar seramai 9,373 orang yang terdiri daripada petani, peniaga dan kakitangan awam serta kakitangan di syarikat persendirian.
Pada pilihan raya negeri 2001, Awang Tengah menewaskan calon Keadilan Japar Suyut dengan undi sebanyak 6,299 berbanding 289 undi yang diperolehi oleh calon pembangkang itu.
- Bernama
Selamat datang aktor baru ruang sivil
Tun Dr Mahathir terus memahat namanya dalam politik tanahair. Boleh diibaratkan bakal menjadi seorang lagenda politik di negara ini, beliau terus menjadi tumpuan utama dalam senario politik Malaysia. Beliau seoalah-olah memberi isyarat bahawa penyerahan jawatan Perdana Menteri dan Presiden UMNO bukan membawa erti untuk tidak mencampuri urusan pentadbiran dan juga politik semasa. Bermula dengan komen bahawa pemerintah sekarang lemah kerana tidak mempunyai pembangkang yang kuat (merujuk kepada kemenangan besar BN dalam pilhan raya 2004), Dr Mahathir terus menggunakan kapasitinya, seperti yang sering dinyatakan beliau, sebagai seorang rakyat biasa yang mempunyai hak untuk bersuara, untuk mempersoalkan beberapa tindakan pemerintah atau lebih tepat lagi jentera pimpinan Pak lah.
Apa yang menarik untuk dibincang ialah bagaimana Dr Mahathir telah menggunakan ruang yang sentiasa dianggap sebagai ancaman kepada pemerintahannya dahulu iaitu ruang sivil untuk menghantui Perdana Menteri yang direstui untuk menggantikan beliau. Masyarakat sivil yang mudah difahami dalam konteks demokrasi negara ini ialah bagaimana individu-individu dan NGO mempunyai kebebasan untuk berkongsi kepentingan dan menyuarakannya untuk kepentingan mereka. Ruang ini sebenarnya cukup bermakna untuk menjelmakan konsep demokrasi walaupun terdapat pendekatan daripada golongan Marxis bahawa masyarakat sivil merupakan satu agen untuk menukar kerajaan yang sedia ada. Namun, pengamal masyarakat sivil di negara ini menyerahkan urusan perebutan kuasa politik kepada parti-parti politik.
Perjalanan masyarakat sivil semasa pemerintahan beliau seringkali dikritik oleh pengamal-pengamal ruang ini dan juga parti pembangkang. Peringkat awal pemerintahan beliau diserikan dengan pembebasan beberapa orang tahanan ISA tetapi beliau mula melihat bagaimana ruang sivil yang ada di negara ini sebagai satu ancaman besar kepada pemerintahan BN apabila Operasi Lalang 1987 telah menafikan kebebasan beberapa aktivis sosial dan politik di negara ini. Akta-akta seperti ISA dan OSA cukup membebankan aktor-aktor sivil dan politik di Malaysia. Ia cukup untuk membuktikan bagaiman masyarakat sivil ini sentiasa diawasi oleh pemerintahn Dr Mahathir.
Oleh itu, apa yang dapat diperhatikan pada perkembangan mutakhir penglibatan Dr. Mahathir dalam menyuarakan pandangan beliau terhadap beberapa isu penting dalam pemerintahan Pak Lah dapat menjelaskan bagaimana beliau menggunakan senjata yang sering mencucuk beliau untuk turut sama dirasai Pak Lah. Isu berkenaan dengan penjualan saham augusta milik proton, pengagihan AP dan yang terkini berkenaan dengan pembatalan pembinaan jambatan menggantikan Tambak Johor telah memeriahkan masyarakat sivil di negara kita. Isu ini berlanjutan apabila Dr. Mahathir telah menyatakan bagaimana beliau telah dinafikan hak untuk bersuara. Ini berpunca daripada keengganan pengamal media utama di negara ini yang kebanyakannya dimiliki oleh parti-parti di bawah BN untuk menyiarkan komentar beliau. Sebagai alternatif, beliau telah menggunakan internet sebagai saluran untuk meluahkan pandangan melalui beberapa surat terbukanya yang dituju khusus kepada pemerintah sekarang.
Dr. Mahathir nampaknya banyak belajar daripada pergerakan sivil yang lain dalam mengamalkan advokasi sosial yang mana pada tahun 1990-an internet menjadi ruang yang paling berkesan untuk melontarkan kritikan sosial dan politik terhadap pemerintah. Dalilnya, semasa pemerintah beliau, sebagai contoh, Malaysiakini seringkali diancam dan kemuncaknya pejabat Malaysiakini telah diserbu polis dan beberapa komputer telah dirampas. Ini kerana media alternatif ini sering memuatkan bukan sekadar berita tetapi ulasan yang kritikal terhadap beberapa tindakan pemerintah. Sejarah berulang, Dr M telah memilih untuk menggunakan ruang siber ini bagi mempertahankan kepentingan legasi pemerintahannya dahulu setelah dipinggirkan oleh media arus perdana.
Untuk seketika, kita lupakan kenangan masyarakat sivil ketika zaman Dr. Mahathir. Mari kita meraikan kedatangan aktor baru masyarakat sivil, aktor yang mungkin dapat memberi udara segar untuk ruang ini terus berlegar dalam meletakkan kepentingan rakyat sebagai pusat utama pemerintahan regim BN.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Tale of the newsmakers
RECENTLY , an editor wrote an article that started with him telling his readers (including this scribe) of a midnight telephone call from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to congratulate him on his appointment as group editor-in-chief. The Prime Minister, said the writer, had asked him to make his newspaper ‘a credible and professional newspaper’.
If Abdullah had been correctly reported, then the impression I get (I may be wrong) is that this particular newspaper, despite being the oldest in the country, had been, until that telephone call in 2003, neither credible nor professional. If that was what the Prime Minister had said, it’s his right. The Prime Minister is entitled to his views as much as we are to ours. This is what being free and democratic is all about.
Then, the writer told us of yet another Prime Ministerial telephone call a few months later, this time in the evening. According to him, the Prime Minister wanted to know what he (the editor) thought of his (the Prime Minister’s) speech at the opening of an Organisation of Islamic Conference meeting on the
The editor told us that he told the Prime Minister that ‘it was a good speech’. Then, the editor told us, he (the Prime Minister) made a request: ‘I know you have many important stories but if possible, I hope you can use my comments as one of the stories on Page 1.’ Then, he told us that he joked with the Prime Minister. He told us that he said: ‘Sir, you are the PM. You want it on Page 1, you will get it on Page 1.’
Then, the editor told us that the Prime Minister told him: ‘No, no. I know you have other important stories. But I hope you can also use this story.’ Then, we were told that the only other time the Prime Minister called him was to express concern about explicit stories like the Norita Samsudin murder trial being ‘played out’ in lurid details (in the newspapers). I have no problem with editors, writers and journalists being a telephone call away from the Prime Minister or are so close to him that they can tell a joke or two.
Everybody knows that Abdullah is a nice, friendly person. But what bothers me is the impression these kinds of reports create. For example, it gives the impression that the Prime Minister is reduced to making telephone calls to newspaper editors to get feedback on his speeches and statements, and to ask for Page 1 displays and prime-time TV coverage. More fundamentally, it gives the impression that ‘what the Prime Minister wants the Prime Minister gets’. Yet, editors and media owners time and time again claim that there is no official interference and that they are free to report whatever they like and in the manner they wish.
And what has happened to the Prime Minister’s communications team, his press secretaries and press officers – isn’t it their responsibility to liaise with the Press on his behalf? I think the Prime Minister should be spared the hassle of contacting the Press himself so that he can devote his valuable time to serving the people.
Even if he did, should it be told to the whole wide world? Or am I being nostalgic of the time when one of the golden rules of journalism was protecting one’s source of information? Also, maybe, in the past, editors were not powerful and influential enough to warrant Prime Ministers to make personal telephone calls to them.
And when the cartoon issues exploded in Jalan Riong, there are so many corners fight, namely, Hishamuddin Aun, Zam (Min. of Info), A. Kadir Jasin, Jeff Ooi and who else? of course, our beloved former PM, Uncle Tun.
So what's next?