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| Protes Halang PRU-13 Jika Reformasi Tak Dilaksana Posted: 06 Nov 2011 01:25 AM PST Beberapa pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) berikrar mengambil pelbagai langkah sewajarnya untuk menghalang pilihan raya umum ke-13 daripada diadakan sebelum proses pembaharuan sistem pilihan raya di negara ini dilaksanakan. "Maka tidak menolak kemungkinan kali ini rakyat turun bukan sahaja untuk melakukan protes tapi benar-benar untuk menukar regim yang sekian lama gagal menjamin hak rakyat untuk mendapatkan proses demokrasi pilihan raya yang bersih dan adil. "Kita tidak boleh menolak kemungkinan rakyat akan bangkit untuk memastikan regim turun agar proses pilihan raya yang adil dan bersih boleh mengambil tempat dan negara ini boleh diselamatkan," kata pengerusi Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) Badrul Hisham Shaharin (kiri) dalam satu kenyatan media. Menurutnya, yang lebih dikenali sebagai Chegubard, pilihan raya di negara ini hanya boleh diadakan selepas proses penambah-baikan dijalankan sekiranya kerajaan BN tidak mahu berdepan dengan kuasa rakyat. "Yakinlah rakyat sudah mula hilang kesabaran. Negara sedang berdepan dengan krisis kepercayaan proses demokrasi pilihanraya paling teruk sekarang ini. "Jika pilihan raya umum masih berlaku sebelum proses penambahbaikan pilihan raya yang meyakinkan kami berjanji akan menggerakkan mobilisasi rakyat terbesar," katanya. Beliau berkata berdasarkan maklumat terkini, daripada sumber-sumber dalaman yang boleh dipercayai telah mendedahkan bahawa Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak akan membubarkan parlimen dalam bulan November bagi membolehkan pilihan raya umum diadakan dalam masa terdekat. Paling kotor "Jika pilihanraya dipanggil dalam masa terdekat (paling tidak) sebelum menunggu jawatankuasa khas membuat keputusan maka sudah tentu satu pilihanraya paling kotor dalam sejarah sedang dijanjikan. "Jika ini tetap dilakukan maka tidak dapat dielakkan persepsi pilihan raya kali ini hanya proses 'palsu' bagi menghalalkan regim terus berkuasa," katanya. Chegubard berkata selain sistem pilihan raya yang belum diperbetulkan, pentadbiran BN dijangka cuba mengambil kesempatan daripada musim tengkujuh dan musim haji bagi kelebihan mereka. Justeru, beliau yang juga bekas ahli jawatankuasa pusat PKR berkata SAMM bersama dengan organisasi massa yang lain memberi amaran supaya perdana menteri memastikan segala kepincangan sistem pilihan raya negara ini diperbaiki sebelum membubarkan Dewan Rakyat. "Kami SAMM bersama dengan teman-teman organisasi massa yang lain pada hari ini mewakili rakyat keseluruhanya memberi amaran kepada perdana menteri Malaysia bahawa pilihan raya umum hanya boleh dipanggil setelah proses penambahbaikan proses pilihan raya dilakukan. "Proses penambahbaikan ini juga seharusnya satu proses 'reformasi' serius yang memberi jawapan kepada kelemahan-kelemahan yang sering dipergunakan oleh pihak tertentu dan bukan hanya perubahan kosmetik semata-mata," katanya lagi. Kekal berkuasa Sementara itu, Harakahdaily memetik presiden Pergerakan Kebebasan Awam Malaysia (MCLM), Haris Ibrahim (kanan) berkata, pihaknya dan NGO lain yang bergabung dalam organisasi massa tetap bersama keseluruhan rakyat untuk melakukan perubahan. Katanya, rakyat negara ini tidak lagi boleh menerima percubaan Umno BN untuk kekal berkuasa sehingga sanggup melakukan penipuan secara terang-terangan dalam pilihan raya. “Namun kami telah menerima maklumat yang boleh dipercayai bahawa perdana menteri akan melakukan pembubaran parlimen pada 11 November ini bagi membolehkan pilihan raya umum ke-13 diadakan pada 10 Disember ini. “Jika benar, kita lihat ini sebagai satu langkah sekali lagi oleh Umno dan BN untuk memegang kuasa sama ada di peringkat persekutuan dan negeri melalui cara penipuan,” katanya dipetik akhbar rasmi parti PAS. Selain Chegubard, hadir pada sidang media itu, adalah Pengerusi League Unemployed Graduates, Devadas Silvaraju; Presiden Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM), Dr Rohana Ariffin dan Pengerusi India Justice Party (IJP), PS Jenapala. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Greek Debacle or Najib And Ahmad Husni Debacle Posted: 05 Nov 2011 12:30 PM PDT On the 3rd of November, an interview with Malaysia's Finance Minister II, Ahmad Husni, which could only be described as baffling, appeared in the Star. Malaysia, he declared, had enough funds to cushion the economy, should the European debt crisis hit the country. It was a strange statement considering that the European debt crisis, by which we suppose he means the Greek debt crisis, will without doubt hit Malaysia and the world in short order. Ahmad Husni then went on to describe his sources of funds like a housewife pulling out cash from sugar containers and kitchen drawers. RM4 billion from the contingency fund, RM6 billion from Kumpulan Wang Amanah Nasional, 30 billion from trust funds and oh, we can sell off our landbanks. And after that, what will he sell? He has neither strategy nor plan, other than selling off all the nation's assets. Where Malaysia needs a brilliant economist, we are foisted with a 2nd rate accountant in Ahmad Husni. That is not the kind of person we need running Malaysia's Finance Ministry in this terrifyingly testing time for the global economy. Of course, we have Prime Minister Najib Razak as the Finance Minister I, but what could Najib possibly know about the economy? Mirror image of Greece
Greece therefore is forced to request a write-down of its debts in return for which it must implement strict austerity measures. The problem is that the Greek people are uninterested in accepting any further austerity measures. They do not wish to suffer for what they see as problems caused by irresponsible and incompetent politicians. The situation appears insoluble. Add to it the fact that Germany and France are making what can only be described as luke-warm efforts to solve the problem, and we have a very real crisis on our hands. The EU wants private-sector lenders to write off 50% of what Greece owes them. The result of this is that private sector lenders are going to be very reluctant to lend money to Spain and Italy, countries which are still solvent, but labor under a high debt burden. This would inevitably result in a default by Spain and Italy. Which is how the sovereign debt crisis will spread. Say goodbye to your money in the Banks and EPF
Some analysts appear to think that Malaysia is protected because most of the debt (96%) is domestic. But this only means that if the government defaults, the banks will go under. Where your money is. And the EPF will be unable to collect all the dubious loans that it has been making on the instructions of BN Ministers. And the EPF is where the rest of your money is. The MOF is also guilty of awarding projects without a tender even for products which have multiple vendors capable of supplying it. Recently, a RM20 million project was awarded to Century, a company with a reputedly close relationship to Ahmad Husni. We do not know many other projects have been awarded in this manner. The EPF has also been investing in all kinds of dubious projects on the instructions of the MOF. Ahmad Husni therefore cannot claim that he is being a careful custodian of the nation's funds. It is precisely this kind of profligate spending that got the Greeks into their mess. Ahmad Husni would be better occupied in planning a holistic strategy on how Malaysia can continue to grow in the face of a global crisis. Instead he seems to be spending his time spinning politically motivated fairy tales that everything will be all right, so that the BN can win the next election. Everything will not be all right, certainly not if Ahmad Husni is in charge. |
The Greek debt crisis continues to spiral out of control. For those who are unsure what it is all about; Greece has borrowed more money than it can repay, very much like what the BN is doing in Malaysia today.
So why should Malaysians care? Because we are an export driven nation and when demand goes down for our goods and services, we will be affected. It may cause us to go into a recession.| You are subscribed to email updates from Anwar Ibrahim To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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