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Anwar Ibrahim

Anwar Ibrahim

Saman: KEADILAN Akan Bersemuka Dengan Pimpinan BN Yang Terlibat Skandal NFC

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 12:13 AM PST

KeadilanKini

Ketua Wanita KEADILAN, Zuraida Kamaruddin menyatakan sekiranya Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil meneruskan saman bernilai RM100 juta berkaitan dakwaan penyelewengan dalam pengurusan kewangan National Feedlot Corporation (NFC), pihaknya bercadang untuk memanggil semua pimpinan kanan negara yang pernah terlibat dalam skandal tersebut.

“Pihak saya, dan Rafizi (Ramli) telah bincang dengan mendalam mengenai strategi pembelaan kami. Sesiapa yang pernah membuat keputusan berhubung NFC atau pernah beri komen, mereka akan dipanggil sebagai saksi untuk beri keterangan,” katanya di Ibu Pejabat Parti Keadilan Rakyat di sini hari ini.

“Saya yakin bila Shahrizat dipanggil jadi saksi dan disoalsiasat, mereka terpaksa mengaku beliau sendiri pernah habiskan masa beli kondominium mewah.

“Saya juga nak cadangkan Shahrizat kibarkan bendera putihlah,” sindirnya kepada Menteri Pembangunan Wanita dan Kebajikan Masyarakat itu.

Beliau turut yakin bahawa rakyat Malaysia akan teruja menanti agar kes saman ini dibicarakan dengan secepat mungkin.

Turut hadir pada sidang media tersebut adalah Pengarah Strategi KEADILAN, Rafizi Ramli dan Ahli Parlimen Lembah Pantai, Nurul Izzah Anwar.

Program #MeetAnwar Siri ke-5: Dialog Anak Muda Bersama Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim – 10 MAC 2012

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 09:09 PM PST

Satu Program Dialog Anak Muda anjuran Anwar Ibrahim Club (AIC) bersama Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim (Penasihat Ekonomi Negeri Selangor) akan diadakan seperti ketetapan berikut:
Tarikh: 10 Mac 2012 (Sabtu)
Masa  : 2.45 ptg – 5.45 ptg
Lokasi: De Palma Hotel Ampang
            Jalan Selaman 1/2 , Palm Square, 
            Ampang Point Jalan Ampang, 68000 Ampang,
            Selangor Darul Ehsan.

Dialog ini antara lain bertujuan untuk membincangkan isu-isu semasa membabitkan generasi muda Malaysia khususnya persoalan masa depan ekonomi, politik dan sosial tanah air.

Untuk makluman, program ini hanya terhad kepada 100 orang sahaja dan penyertaan adalah percuma. Justeru diharap sdr/i dapat mengesahkan kehadiran sebelum 7 Mac 2012 (Rabu)Klik disini untuk sebarang pertanyaan : http://aicmalaysia.blogspot.com/2011/12/program-dialog-bersama-dsai-22-disember.html

Program Jelajah Anwar Ibrahim Ke Johor

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 09:03 PM PST

DEMI RAKYAT

10 Mac 2012 (Sabtu)

1) 9.00 – 12.00 mlm – Ceramah Perdana 1 – P> Bakri

Lokasi: Pusat Bertindak AMK Bakri,
Parit Arab, Batu 8 ½, Air Hitam, Muar

2) 9.00 – 12.00 mlm – Ceramah Perdana 2 – P> Sri Gading

Lokasi: KM 18, Kg Parit Haji Salleh Ros,
Jln Kluang, Batu Pahat

3) Penceramah:
i. YB Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim
ii. YBhg Dato' Seri Chua Jui Meng
iii. YB Abdullah Husin
iv. YBhg Hassan Karim
v. YBhg Syed Hamid Ali

Ten Reasons Why Najib Won’t Debate — Mansor Rehman

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 07:21 PM PST

The Malaysian Insider

The prime minister may make light of the survey findings which indicate that most Malaysians want him to debate with Anwar Ibrahim but the sad fact is that this man has too many skeletons and question marks next to his name to risk a debate even with Jelapang Hu.

Therefore the best he can do via his blog (again a safe option so he will not have to answer tough questions from the alternative media) is to talk about only debating with responsible leaders and not those prone to conspiracy theories.

This is diversion 101: when you are stuck, blame the other party. In truth, Najib Razak will not debate with anyone and these are the reasons:

1) He will be asked questions about his deafening silence in the wake of the campaign of violence by his party and their storm troopers Perkasa against the Opposition.

2) He will be asked about the ballooning national debt and the irresponsible manner in which his government is spending money to buy votes.

3) He will be asked to justify the unholy haste in which the government is pushing through the listing of Felda.

4) He will be asked to answer questions on the death of Mongolian model Altantuya Shariibuu, the infamous sms exchange between him and lawyer Shafee Abdullah and the hefty commission paid to a company linked to his confidant in relation to the submarine deal.

5) He will be asked to define his moving 1 Malaysia concept in the wake of his adoption of Perkasa's Ibrahim Ali, Zulkifli Noordin and Hasan Ali.

6) He will be asked to debate the NEP and its love affair with cronies.

7) He will have to discuss the foot-dragging surrounding the National Feedlot Corporation and the reluctance to investigate the Attorney-General Gani Patail over a box full of serious allegations, not to mention the settlement with Tajuddin Ramli.

8) He will have to talk about the government's embarrassing use of taxpayers money to pay FBC Media and buy good publicity abroad.

9) He will have to talk about his half-baked apology for the past sins of Umno.

10) He will have to talk about Sodomy II.

A debate will be too onerous for Najib and that is why he will not share the stage with Anwar Ibrahim or anyone. That is the plain truth and it hurts.

Surveillance Inc: How Western Tech Firms Are Helping Arab Dictators

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 06:53 PM PST

From www.theatlantic.com

As democratic movements spread in the Middle East, governments are cracking down, and that means big business for the companies who help them do it.

Reliance means vulnerability, and the activists and citizen journalists of the Arab uprisings rely heavily on the Internet and mobile technology. They use text messaging to coordinate protests, for example, or social media sites to upload the photos and videos that then make it into mainstream global media. In the first protests in Tunisia, because traditional journalists could not get access, citizen journalists filled in, using YouTube and the live-streaming platform UStream to give the world — including, for example, the Egyptians and Syrians who later began revolts of their own — a window into the events there.

For all of the good this technology has done, activists are also beginning to understand the harm it can do. As Evgeny Morozov wrote in The Net Delusion, his book on the Internet’s darker sides, “Denying that greater information flows, combined with advanced technologies … can result in the overall strengthening of authoritarian regimes is a dangerous path to take, if only because it numbs us to potential regulatory interventions and the need to rein in our own Western corporate excesses.”

The communications devices activists use are not as safe as they might believe, and dozens of companies — many of them based in North America and Europe — are selling technology to authoritarian governments that can be used against democratic movements. Such tools can exploit security flaws in the activists’ technology, intercept a user’s communications, or even pinpoint their location. In many cases, this technology has led to the arrest, torture, and even death of individuals whose only “crime” was exercising their universal right to free speech. And, in most of these cases, the public knew nothing about it.

“The Chinese could come here and learn from you.”
Recent investigations by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News have revealed just how expansively these technologies are already being used. Intelligence agencies throughout the Middle East can today scan, catalogue, and read virtually every email in their country. The technology even allows them to change emails while en route to their recipient, as Tunisian authorities sometimes did before the revolution.

These technologies turn activists’ phones against them, allowing governments to listen in on phone calls, read text messages, even scan cell networks and pinpoint callers with voice recognition. They allow intelligence agents to monitor movements of activists via a GPS locator updated every fifteen seconds. And by tricking users into installing malware on their devices — as is currently happening in Syria – government agents can remotely turn on a laptop webcam or a cell phone microphone without its user knowing.

In Syria recently, American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Rémi Ochlik were killed by a mortar attack that may have been targeted to the locations of their satellite phones. We don’t know for sure how the Syrian army tracked them, but Lebanese intelligence had recorded Syrian officials as planning to target Western journalists, and following satellite phone signals is just one of the tech-aided ways they could have done it.

Syria and other abusive Middle Eastern regimes rely on technology companies such as Area SpA, the Italian firm that contracted with the regime there to build a surveillance center, and that pulled out only after exposure by Bloomberg News prompted protests at their Italian headquarters. There’s also the American company Bluecoat Systems. When it was reported that their Internet-monitoring equipment had been re-sold to the Syrian government, a senior VP told the Wall Street Journal, “We don’t want our products to be used by the government of Syria or any other country embargoed by the United States.”

For all the evil of Syria’s regime, it’s hard to ignore the role and often the complicity of Western technology companies that can sometimes act as dictator’s little helper. While Syria’s use of surveillance has been particularly egregious and well-documented, this problem goes far beyond just one country. For years, Western firms have been selling surveillance equipment to the most brutal regimes. And while sales to Syria often violate sanctions policy, such companies can sell to many other authoritarian countries — many of them U.S. and E.U. allies — without repercussions.

In pre-revolutionary Tunisia, surveillance firms gave discounts to a government agency because the firms wanted to use the country for testing and bug-tracking. The technology was so advanced that it prompted the post-revolutionary head of the Tunisian government’s Internet agency to remark, “I had a group of international experts from a group here lately, who looked at the equipment and said: ‘The Chinese could come here and learn from you.’”

In Bahrain, dozens of political activists have testified that the security officers who detained and beat them also read transcripts of their text messages and emails likely gathered from technology purchased from Germany-based Trovicor, a former Nokia Siemens subsidiary. According to Bloomberg News, a spokesman for the latter confirmed the sale and maintenance of this equipment to the Bahraini government.

“The bulk of this digital arms trade happens under the radar.
Qaddafi’s regime was later found to have spied on Al Jazeera journalist Khaled Mehiri by monitoring his emails and Facebook messages using technology made by French company Amesys. Mehiri was later interrogated and threatened by the head of Libya’s intelligence service. The reporters who found Mehiri’s surveillance file in Tripoli’s abandoned Internet monitoring center discovered similar files on many other journalists, human rights advocates, and democratic activists.

The mass surveillance industry is a large one — estimates now put the global market at $5 billion per year. The businesspeople getting rich from the crackdown industry don’t often talk to the media, but some of the few who do can seem less than concerned about their potential role in their clients’ violence.

Jerry Lucas is the president of Telestragies Inc, the company that runs ISS World, the trade show circuit (also known as the “Wiretapper’s Ball”) that brings these companies and their clients together. Asked by the Guardian in November if he would be comfortable knowing that regimes in Zimbabwe and North Korea were purchasing the technology from his trade shows, he responded, “That’s just not my job to determine who’s a bad country and who’s a good country.” He added, “That’s not our business, we’re not politicians … we’re a for-profit company. Our business is bringing governments together who want to buy this technology.”

This is the crux of the problem: These companies seem fully aware of what they’re doing – after all, the better they understand how to help secret police find and terrorize dissidents, the better their products will do on the market — but far less concerned about the implications. As Dutch member of the E.U. Parliament Marietje Schaake told us last week, “The bulk of this digital arms trade happens under the radar; through spin-offs of well-known companies, but mostly by players without a reputation to lose with consumers.”

Schaake, who has been leading an effort in Europe to halt the sale of surveillance technologies to repressive regimes, helped pass E.U. export restrictions to some government actors in Syria. In the U.S., Rep. Chris Smith introduced a bill in the House that would require American companies listed on the stock exchange to report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on how they conduct due diligence on human rights issues.

Unfortunately, apart from the work of a few individuals, this problem has gone mostly ignored by Western governments, and the digital surveillance trade still seems to be flourishing. Congress, the E.U., and the U.N. all have the ability act — by requiring the relevant companies to at least transparently evaluate whether or not their technology is aiding in human rights abuses, if not banning those sales outright — but so far, even as dozens of Syrians die every day, they haven’t.

Hampir Ditumbuk Samseng Umno : Nurul Izzah Beri Keterangan Pada Polis

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 05:43 PM PST

Malaysiakini

Naib Presiden PKR, Nurul Izzah Anwar memberi keterangan kepada tiga pegawai polis dari Kuantan berhubung siasatan insiden pada 26 Fenruari lalu yang mana beliau nyaris menjadi mangsa ditumbuk oleh samseng semasa ceramahnya di Felda Lepar Hilir 1, Gambang, Pahang.

Selain Nurul Izzah, turut memberi keterangan, ialah suaminya, Raja Ahmad Shahrir Iskandar dan Pengarah Komunikasi PKR, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.

Turut mengiringi ketika keterangan diambil ialah peguam N Surendran yang juga merupakan Naib Presiden PKR.

“Kita ada Surendran yang membantu menerangkan semula soalan semasa kejadian itu,” kata Nurul pada sidang media selepas keterangan di ambil di ibu pejabat PKR, petang semalam.

Pada kejadian itu, PKR mendakwa ceramah mereka diganggu oleh ahli Umno yang dengan sengaja menganjurkan sesi karaoke dan memasang pembesar suara di sebuah kedai kopi di mana Nurul Izzah dan Nik Nazmi dijadual berucap.

Ketika giliran Nurul Izzah berucap, “budak-budak muda” dari Umno itu dikatakan mula menyerbu ke lokasi ceramah sambil melemparkan kata-kata kesat kepada anak perempuan Ketua Umum PKR itu. Beliau kemudiannya terpaksa diiringi polis bantuan Felda meninggalkan kawasan berkenaan.

Bagaimanapun dakwaan itu dinafikan oleh Umno. Menurut ADUN Lepar Mohd Shohaimi Jusoh, lelaki yang dituduh cuba menyerang Nurul Izzah itu sebenarnya cuba “melindungi” naib presiden PKR itu.

Tindakan susulan

Katanya, pembantu beliau Asrullah Effendi Abdullah cuba merampas mikrofon dari Nurul Izzah bagi menghalang ahli parlimen PKR itu daripada terus berucap atas alasan penduduk tempatan yang membantah acara itu semakin tidak dapat dikawal.

"Beliau mahu menyelamatkannya sebelum kumpulan belia itu menyerbu ke pentas. Jadi beliau merampas mikrofon supaya Nurul Izzah berhenti daripada bercakap. Beliau takut kerana akan dipersalahkan jika berlaku sebarang kejadian yang tidak diingini,” kata Mohd Shohaimi.

Pada sidang medianya, semalam, Nurul Izzah berkata, beliau turut disoal mengenai insiden pada malam kejadian, persekitaran, dan reaksi mereka yang membuat provokasi dengan tindakan mereka memainkan muzik dengan kuat sebelum ceramah bermula

Selain itu, katanya, tindakan susulan terhadap kes seperti ini adalah penting bagi penguatkuasa undang-undang seperti polis untuk menunjukkan komitmen dan memastikan bahawa tindakan yang sewajarnya dapat diambil.

“Apa yang penting di sini ialah tindakan susulan kerana apabila penguat kuasa undang-undang seperti polis menunjukkan komitmen bagi memastikan tindakan sewajarnya diambil.

“Tidak kira apa bentuk ancaman atau serangan, sama ada secara fizikal atau mental, ke arah mana-mana individu dan tidak hanya pemimpin-pemimpin politik, “katanya.

Kes ini disiasat di bawah Seksyen 148, Kanun Keseksaan kerana merusuh.

Menjadi-jadi

Sejak kebelakangan ini, gangguan ke atas acara dan ceramah yang diadakan oleh pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat yang cuba menggempur kubu-kubu BN, khususnya Umno menjelang pilihan raya umum akan datang, semakin menjadi-jadi.

Pada 26 Februari lalu, Himpunan Hijau 2.0 yang diadakan di Pulau Pinang sebagai sokongan solidariti membantah keputusan kerajaan membenarkan loji pemprosesan nadir bumi milik Lynas Advanced Material Plant (Lamp) beroperasi di Gebeng, Pahang diganggu.

Dalam kejadian itu, beberapa ahli Umno dan kumpulan pendesak Melayu, PERKASA terus mengganggu acara yang dijalankan itu. Ia berakhir dengan dua wartawan cedera. Seorang daripada mereka terpkasa menerima lapan jahitan.

20 Februari lalu, kereta Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim diserang dengan lontaran batu, kayu dan mercun sehingga kemek dan cerminnya pecah ketika berceramah di Jalan Mersing, Sembrong.

13 Februari pula kunjungan Anwar ke Felda Tun Ghafar Baba, di Machap,  Alor Gajah juga dicemari oleh penyokong Umno yang mengganggu ceramah beliau.

Awal bulan lalu pula sekatan jalan raya didirikan daripda menghalang pemimpin dan penyokong Pakatan daripada menghadri ceramah yang dijadualkan di kubu Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak di Pekan.
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