Anwar’s hand in Lahad Datu isn’t credible theory!

By Joe Fernandez

There is quite a bit of material in the mainstream and alternative media hinting, suggesting and even accusing Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim as the arch villain behind the Lahad Datu intrusion and subsequent standoff.

As the various conspiracy theories go, this is the weakest of them all. We can only await the proposed Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Lahad Datu with bated breaths.

Anwar may have met Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) leader Nur Misuari in Jakarta and Manila, as reported by several sources including Malaysia Today. However, such meetings by themselves tell nothing. Both men were longtime friends. The MNLF Leader may have wanted to catch up with the Opposition Leader because he’s also the Prime Minister in Waiting.

“Ajaran Sesat” oleh Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya

Dalam satu bulan yang lalu, Pengerusi dan Timbalan Pengerusi SPR sering mengatakan tentang “ajaran sesat”.Lihat TheBorneoPost 20^hb Feb 13 dan TheStar 22^hb Mar 13.Ia telah jelasnya menjadi satu corak yang tidak seharusnya ditinggal tanpa dicabar oleh kerana ia seakan-akan mengelirukan orang awam.

Setelah menuduh NGO-NGO tidak bernama mengelirukan orang awam dengan “ajaran sesat”, SPR terus programnya mengelirukan orang awam malah lebih dengan membuat pengumuman awam yang akan retak atas tatapan yang teliti.

“Ajaran Sesat” by the Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya

For the past one month, the EC Chairman and Deputy Chairman have been flogging the meme ‘ajarasesat’ . See TheBorneoPost 20^th Feb 13 and TheStar 22^nd Mar 13. It has clearly become a pattern that should not be left unchallenged as it appears designed to mislead the public.

Having accused unnamed NGOs of confusing the public with “ajaransesat”, the SPR continues its program of confusing the public even more by making public pronouncements that come apart upon careful scrutiny.

Malays must avoid being a Broken People

By Joe Fernandez
If Malays want to avoid being a Broken People, they and others as well, should not get into rhetoric and polemics and the politics of disruption and distraction.

The media, in that sense, is doing a great disservice to the people. They should focus on helping make a difference for the better, not run back and forth between Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar Ibrahim to manufacture news. Every fart from Mahathir is in the news.

We should focus on what brings us together as a people.

Rasisme Adalah Jenayah : Amk Sulaman

TUARAN – Angkatan Muda Keadilan N.10 Sulaman telah Berjaya menganjurkan program “Hapuskan Rasisme, Rakyat Bersatu ke arah Negara Sejahtera.” Bermula pada Sabtu lepas, 23hb Mac dengan aktiviti-aktiviti seperti pertandingan futsal,pertandingan autoshow dan Bintang Idola Reformasi dan acara berakhir pada ahad semalam dengan majlis penutupan dan penyampaian hadiah bertempat di Restoran Transit, Lok Batik Tuaran.

“Tujuan program ini diadakan adalah untuk mengajak rakyat bersama-sama untuk menghapuskan isu perkauman serta mengeratkan silaturrahim lagi sesama kita. Disamping itu kita memberikan pemahaman kepada rakyat bahawa ini juga salah satu perjuangan Pakatan Rakyat.” menurut Faizal Derasik, Ketua AMK Sulaman.

Malaysia has an Evil side that bears watching!

By Joe Fernandez
Dr Paraman, as usual, has put together a thought-provoking piece -- Hindraf critics are demonising the victims in http://english.cpiasia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2503&catid=219&Itemid=189 -- and no doubt with the help of subject matter experts on several related issues.

No one can deny the arguments being made and which can continue to be made among others by the Indian Nation in Malaysia, the largely stateless underclass in particular.

Wajah Jeneral Perang Dan Menteri Pertahanan Sulu Yang Berjaya Ditangkap

Berikut adalah dua keping gambar yang memperlihatkan wajah Jeneral Perang Dan Menteri Pertahanan Sulu yang dikenali sebagai Datuk Amir Baha@Datuk Bahang.

Insecurity in eastern Sabah raises questions!

By Joe Fernandez
Hoteliers in Sabah are grumbling increasingly loudly that tourists are canceling too many bookings in the wake of the Lahad Datu Standoff and the on-going mopping up operations by security forces. They worry that things may become a whole lot worse for the hospitality industry in the state before turning for the better, if at all, in the near future.

The state has some 25, 000 hotel rooms to help the hospitality industry rake in some RM 5.2 billion last year from nearly three million visitors. The forecast revenue for 2015, according to Sabah Tourism Board chairman Tengku Zainal Adlin, is RM 15 billion on the high side. That amounts to a quarter of the RM 60 billion per annum that Malaysia presently collects from tourism receipts.

Sulu incursion: Hiding from the truth

By FMT Staff  and Luke Rintod

KOTA KINABALU: As the dust settles on the incursion by a group of armed men from the southern Philippines, the question of who will take responsibility remains hanging. Most politicians in the government have resigned themselves to watching from the sidelines.

Foreign Minister Anifah Aman, the younger brother of Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman, appears to be passively muddling through the crisis.

Cracks appearing in Sabah Umno?

By Luke Rintod of FMT

A Sabah NGO - United Suluk Community Organisation (USCO) -
has, strangely enough, decided to move into ‘active’ politics.

KUDAT: Speculation is high that former deputy chief minister under a PBS-plus government, Amir Kahar Mustapha, is about to quit Umno and join an opposition group.

The former Banggi assemblyman, who is the eldest son of ex- Sabah chief minister, the late Tun Mustapha Harun, is said to have been approached by the members of the Suluk community here to represent them in the opposition in the coming election.