Sabah poverty: EPU formula all wrong, says Sipaun

By Dominic Legeh

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah continues to top the list of poor states in the country because the federal government's allocation for each state is based on the number of Malaysian citizens in each state and not the actual population.

Former Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) vice-chairman, Simon Sipaun said the Malaysia Plan formula which was used by the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) was not feasible for Sabah because it did not take into account the thousands of illegal immigrants.

He said nine years ago when Suhakam was under the chairmanship of Musa Hitam, they had a dialogue in Kuala Lumpur which involved the relevant ministers and the EPU.

“During the meeting, I asked (the EPU) how they allocated money to all the states when formulating the Malaysia Plan.

"In the case of Sabah, I said, there are many illegal immigrants in Sabah and supposing that we have half a million illegal immigrants in Sabah, do you take into account the total number of people in Sabah when you allocate the money or not,” he recalled.

Malaysia’s hypocrisy over child abuse

Cherry-picking from Syariah law for excuses that suit them

Mariam Mokhtar, Malaysia Chronicle

EDITOR'S PICK Malaysians have long acknowledged that they are subject to selective justice; poor vs. rich, muslims vs non-muslims, women vs men and now it seems children vs adults.

The marriage of a 14-year old girl on 7 December sparked public outrage. To get around this, Muslim ministers cherry-pick from syariah law. It is this false adherence to Islamic principles and the “holier than thou” attitude that exposes their blatant hypocrisy and double standards.

Nazri Abdul Aziz, minister in the Prime minister’s department who is in charge of legal affairs, finally revealed that the government had no intention of reviewing laws allowing for underage marriages because the practice is permitted under Islam.

He said, “If the religion allows it, then we can't legislate against it. Islam allows it as long as the girl is considered to have reached her pubescent stage, once she has her menstruation".

Another man in a songkok

In the old days kids of 10 or 11 went to war and at 14 or 15 they were veteran soldiers and at 18 were considered old (by 40 many were already dead). That was more than 1,000 years ago. So at 14 they got married, even in the west.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

The height of a man’s songkok is not a measurement of his piety, says the PAS spiritual leader, Tok Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat. Nik Aziz was of course referring to thesongkok-clad PERKASA leaders.

In fact, a songkok makes a man an Indian because the songkok originated from India, not Malaysia. So the PERKASA people should be screaming Ketuanan India rather than Ketuanan Melayu.

Now another man with a songkok -- the Jakim director-general -- has decreed that child marriages are kosher. Imagine children of the age of 14 can get married but they are not old enough to vote. You can trust them to have children and raise a family but you can’t trust them to vote.

And they say we are insulting Islam.

By the way, this man, Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz, was one of those who made a police report against me that resulted in my ISA detention back in 2008.

Okay, is Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz now going to defend slavery? Slavery is legal in Islam and has never been banned. Ask any ulamak and he or she can tell you that Islam never banned slavery. Therefore, you can legally keep slaves.

Sultan of Brunei, a man of immense wealth is a happy man ?

This man has all the luck !

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah ... President of the richest country in the world 

The Sultan of Brunei's wealth increases by 90 euros every second. 

This means around 5400 euros per minute, 324000 euros each hour, 7776000 euros a day 

The palace has 650 suites ... each furnished at not less than 150,000 thousand euros.

Consists of 1788 rooms with some furnished in gold and diamond-encrusted 257 bath inlaid with gold and silver and a garage to accommodate 110 cars.

Don’t Change Your Country, Change Your Government

Malaysia For All
A very inspiring and notable tweet from YB Hannah Yeoh yesterday prompted me to put up this posting.
@hannahyeoh Just heard news another young lawyer friend will b migrating 2Australia.Young people,don’t lose hope.Dont change ur country,change ur govt!
This country is at its worst since Merdeka in terms of education, human rights, corruptions while the institutions are not performing their duties, without fear or favor, entrusted upon them but to abide by the calls of the ruling elite.


We see how this country fared from being the best in Asia to become the worst in the bottom half. All along what we can see is that the government is simply happy to be the best among the worst but not striving to gain the best among the best status.

I Kings 8:24 A miracle Blessing is coming for you !

I Kings 8:24

A blessing is coming to you in the form of a new job or financial break through.   Don't ask questions just forward to loved ones and trust God!   I did.

Psalm  46:10    
'Be  Still  and   Know  that  I  AM  GOD'  
Please  don't break this even if you only send it to one  person. Look at the
Date when  this was started.

NOTICE  AT THE END, THE DATE   THIS  CANDLE WAS  
STARTED.
GONNA  GIVE  YOU   GOOSE  BUMPS  
I  am not going to be the one who lets it  die.   I found it believable  -
Angels  have  walked   beside  me  all  my  life - and  they  still   do.  
*********************  
This  is to all of you who   mean  something  to  me;   I  pray  for   your  
Happiness.    
The  Candle Of Love, Hope &   Friendship    

15th  of September, 1998.
Someone who  loves you, has helped keep it alive by sending it  to you.
Don't  let The Candle of Love, Hope and Friendship die!   Pass It On
To  All Your Friends and Everyone You Love!    May God richly bless  
You  as you keep this candle burning.   I  received this today for the 1st  
Time  and I hope it comes back someday again.  
Please keep this candle  alive..............
Don't  walk  in front of me, I may not  follow.
Don't  walk behind me,  I   may not  lead;  Just   walk  beside  me   and  be  my  friend !

FOCUS ON YOUR SOUL

God bless you as you pass on this message of hope to five others. Bishop TD Jakes

My prayer for you today

Very, Very, soon and I say Very, Very, Very soon, GOD is going to do a miracle and lift u up 4 GOOD.

Here is a test: if you love God and you're not ashamed of Him, send this to love ones and watch what He does for you tonight.

All of us can give friendship to those who need it; loyalty to those who depend upon us; courtesy to all those with whom we come in contact; kindness to those whose paths may cross ours; understanding to those whose views may not be exactly in accord with our opinions.

 

God Bless All of us

Sarawak governemnt - from bad to worse

To all my anak biak,

As your Penghulu, I wish to registered my great concerned with regard to the Ministry of Education decision to categorise our dayak and Orangulu as Keturunan: MELAYU/BUMIPUTERA. In fact I would not mind if its BUKAN MELAYU/BUMIPUTRA. Whatever is your political views, you should treat this matter as deadly serious. We all know the implications- if anyone of you think it ok, or its a coincidence, my friends you are deadly wrong. We must know that their spirit and teaching is to dominate, the means to achieve that objective is irrelevant, as long as it be achieved. ie. by hook or crook, by deceit or lies. Where are our YBs. DS Idris?, Jacob, Lihan, Balang, Mawan, Masing, etc. Where are the Persatuan...FORUM led by Lihan Jok, Kenyah, Saban, Kayan, Berawan, Kelabit...Mr. Dick of Rurum???etc. Our very identity and existence as a race as a unique group of people are at stake here. I noticed with great sadness that those of you in the BN side are only interested to be politically correct. Your balls shrunk when it come to defending your community rights. To all our BN Ybs, I wish to remind you that if you do not make a stand this time, like how you hide yourself in your own closet with regard to the Allah issue, just because its not comfortable to raise the issues to your political Masters, and that you may not be reappointed or renominated, you are going to lost a lot of votes, because I as your penghulu, I have no choice but to direct all my anak biak to vote you out. Hmmm...whether you like it or not, or whether you are a BN supporter, all of us must salute Mr. Baru Bian on this issue. He is the only one so far who dare to make a public stand on this matter. Congratulations to Mr. Baru Bian. Keep it up. And for those who are on the BN side, where are you. It should be easier for you to highlight the issue, as you are supposed to do it within the "BN family" or are you only interested in safe guarding your position that you have become so lame, and had become the lowest class of balls polishers. Come on people, wake up!!!

Penghulu

Ketuanan Melayu: A risky experiment

I was born Malay and was hardly conscious of my race, either at school or at home. Race hardly cropped up in conversation except when we had form-filling to do - like applying for an identity card. Religion was something sacred and the only time we'd be aware of our racial and religious differences was deciding what to wear for a wedding or whose open house to visit, during the various festivities.

Thus, the recent clamour for “ketuanan Melayu” is destructive and damaging - not just for Malaysia but more so for the Malays, the very people that the “ketuanan Melayu” concept is supposed to protect. It is wrong because “ketuanan Melayu” is a dangerous experiment in social engineering.

Our neighbours were both Chinese and Indian. As children, we studied and played with each other, even hitched lifts to school when necessary, whilst the adults shared garden produce, swopped certain special dishes for the various 'open houses' and practiced their own version of 'neighbourhood watch'.

Please stay! Sabah PKR leaders urge Jeffrey

By Luke Rintod of FMT
KOTA KINABALU: Senior Sabah PKR leaders tried their utmost to convince Jeffrey Kitingan to continue to help lead the beleaguered party at a gathering in Tuaran last night.

The informal meeting, attended by the party's top guns, was hosted by Dusun community strongman and former senator Kalakau Untol at his residence.

Outgoing state liaison chief Ahmad Thamrin Jaini, newly-elected supreme council member Dr Roland Chia, Tawau division chief Kong Hong Ming, veteran politician Karim Ghani and scores of other leaders, urged Jeffrey to continue leading the opposition's struggle.

Jeffrey, who was present, said he was there "just to meet friends and tell them that he will continue the struggle in his own way”.

One man’s lie is another man’s fact

But are Chin Peng and Lee Kuan Yew mentioned in this context? They were significant players in the creation of Malaya and later, Malaysia. What we read is about Umno this and Umno that. We are told that Malaya gained independence and Malaysia was later created because of Umno.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Malaysian students abroad told to be wary of media spinning

(Bernama) - Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today advised Malaysian students abroad to be wary of some Malaysian media that are inclined to spinning news stories and spreading lies.

"I ask that the students understand the situation to prevent themselves from being influenced by the news spins and lies," he told a press conference after a dialogue with a group of Malaysian student leaders from throughout Indonesia, here, today.

Muhyiddin, who is on a four-day working visit to Indonesia since yesterday,  was responding to the student leaders' call for the Malaysian media to be truthful and transparent in their news reports.

"I explained that the media was very influential, and while there were media which were supportive of the government, there were others that belonged to the opposition or were pro-opposition, with some of them good at spinning stories," he said.

Also present at the dialogue were Malaysian ambassador to Indonesia Datuk Syed Munshe Afdzaruddin Syed Hassan and director of the Malaysian Students Department in Indonesia, Datuk Dr Junaidy Abu Bakar.

The deputy prime minister agreed that a seminar on the 1Malaysia concept be organised for the Malaysian students in Indonesia and other Malaysians in Jakarta so that they would understand the concept better.

He said experts on the concept could be invited to give talks and interact with the seminar participants here.

Muhyiddin said the Malaysian student leaders also expressed their support for the government's decision to abolish the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examination, but wanted the school-based assessment system that would replace the PMR, to be a sound and viable one.