Sabah, Sarawak at historical crossroads come the 13th GE

By Joe Fernandez
The unprecedented political divide in Malaya with the emergence of Pakatan Rakyat (PR) taking half the 165 Malayan seats in Parliament and five states (now four) and Kuala Lumpur on Sat 8 Mar, 2008 opened up a historical window of opportunity for Sabah and Sarawak to free themselves from the 50-year-long vice-like grip of the Malaya-dominated Federal Government in Putrajaya.

In 2008, voters in Malaya voted against the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) -- and not so much for PR -- and hence, it's said, the Opposition Alliance won by default. PR turned in a miserable performance in 2004 at the 12th General Election.

Indian capacity to ‘create trouble’ endless

By Joe Fernandez
Carpet dealer Deepak Jaikishan has now let on that Rosmah Mansor, the wife of Bugis-origin Prime Minister Mohd Najib Abdul Razak told him once that “90 per cent of all problems in Malaysia are created by ten per cent of the Indian community”. Call it either super efficient utilization of human resources or not enough trouble being created.

The last time we heard any such thing, it was Adolf Hitler blaming the Jews in Nazi Germany, “for creating trouble”, before sending the scapegoats to the gas chambers.
 

Full Report on Venezuela´s Situation

December 9th: Chavez announces that he needs to go through another surgery

As it is known, on December 9th 2012, Commander President Hugo Chavez publicly informed the country and the world that he had to go back to Cuba. He would have to go through surgery, as new cancer cells have appeared in his body.

For the President to leave, the National Assembly approved an unlimited permission. It is important to account that even the opposition voted in favor of this “unlimited” constitutional permission.

Pope says will resign on Feb 28

He says that his strengths, due to an advanced age,
are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of
the Petrine ministry.

VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday he will resign on Feb 28 because his age prevented him from carrying out his duties, an unprecedented move in the modern history of the Catholic Church.

“After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry,” the 85-year-old pope told a meeting of cardinals.

“In order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me,” he said.

Indians in a spot in any Islamic Revolution after 13th GE

By Joe Fernandez
Given the looming 13th General Election, the minority Indian Nation in Malaysia must keep in mind the tragic fate of the Christian minorities in the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring -- valid as its other reasons are -- which chose to ignore the fact that the only majority that matters is that in the legislature, not in demography. And that dialogue, not necessarily to agree, is the best way forward politically in any civilised nation wedded to democracy, human rights and freedom.

Consider the fact that Obama, a Black American, became US President. The Blacks number only ten per cent of the US population.

Why is Musa protecting a ‘criminal’?

Alleged Filipino conman Manuel Amalilio was given a
legal and valid Phillipines passport in 2009. This
means he automatically lost his citizenship under
Article 24 of the federal constitution.

PETALING JAYA: Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman must explain the depth of his ‘family’ ties with alleged Filipino conman Manuel Amililio and why he obstructed the later’s arrest and deportation to the Philipinnes. He also must explain why the entire court proceedings involving Amililo was carried out in a hospital.

Musa had last week admitted that Amalilio was a ‘distant relative’ but said ‘whether or not’ they were related the authorities must carry out a thorough investigation.

Amililio, was arrested last November and immediately ‘handed over’ to the Philippines police. But 10minutes before boarding the flight the decision was rescinded and he was returned to Sabah police.

Mahathir's Tall Tales on Sabah!

By Joe Fernandez

We have heard it all now on Sabah from former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

In his latest take on the on-going Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) in the state, Mahathir claims that he instructed that only those eligible in Sabah should be granted citizenship.

This is rich!

He’s degenerating before our very eyes even as a poor liar.

There’s an old Malayalee saying with which Mahathir should be familiar: “Once you tell a lie, you must tell a thousand other lies to cover up the first lie.”

We need many more museums in Sabah

Kudos to the Sabah Muzeum for launching the Keningau for having launched the new museum building in Keningau to exhibit Keningau history and culture. In fact it has been long overdue, knowing that the Keningau district is replete with important history and cultural heritage. It would have been right for such a museum to have been established there since the beginning of independence but as I know it the museum has always been considered a low priority, and never given substantial allocation for the state budget to do all its necessary work, especially in the area of documentary and archaeological research. There had not been enough emphasis on documentation and research in Sabah and this should be addressed immediately, especially by the political leaders.

 

Anak kepada Ibu tunggal, 3 tahun menanti IC

8 Febuari- Hari ini Gabungan NGO Menuntut Hak Rakyat Sabah (GEGAR) tampil ke SUHAKAM bagi membela nasib seorang ibu tunggal kepada tiga orang anak, Puan Ollivia Julius@Mastura Anizan yang dinafikan hak anaknya untuk mendapat kad pengenalan MyKad. Anaknya, Nurul Hamizah Yasmin kini berusia 15 tahun menerima tekanan yang begitu hebat apabila tidak memperolehi kad pengenalan. Nurul Hamizah telah dilahirkan pada 27 November 1998. Lapan bulan selepas itu Nurul Hamizah memperolehi sijil kelahiran dengan cop “pendaftaran lewat”.

Nurul Hamizah terpaksa membawa sijil lahirnya kemana sahaja dan seringkali berasa malu untuk keluar rumah. Ketika Nurul Hamizah berusia 12 tahun, Puan Ollivia telah mengemukakan permohonan Mykad daripada Jabatan Pendaftaran Negeri (JPN) Kota Kinabalu untuk anaknya. Namun, permohonan tersebut ditolak oleh pihak JPN atas alasan Sijil Kelahiran tersebut perlu dibawa ke mahkamah terlebih dahulu untuk pengesahan.

Anti-Sabah and Sarawak page draws flak

The Facebook page, created by one Mohd Syahiran,
pours scorn on East Malaysians.

PETALING JAYA: An anti-Sabah and Sarawak Facebook page, created on Dec 19 last year, has raised the ire of social networking page users.

Named the Semenanjung Malaya Anti-Sabah dan Sarawak page, the site is created to criticise the East Malaysian states and even referred to residents there as “ungrateful”.

“Peninsula doesn’t need Sabah and Sarawak for 1Malaysia. The East Malaysians have no brains, stupid and love to encroach into other’s territory. What a shame for Malaysia,” read the description.