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MASA DEPAN UMNO

1. Pada Pilihanraya Umum 2008 sesuatu yang
tidak pernah berlaku dalam Pilihanraya Umum sebelumnya telah berlaku.
Sebilangan yang tidak kecil daripada ahli dan penyokong biasa UMNO
telah undi parti lawan atau merosakkan undi atau tidak mengundi.

2.
Hasilnya Barisan Nasional telah kalah di lima buah negeri dan satu
wilayah. Di lain-lain negeri di Semenanjung kemenangan Barisan Nasional
adalah tipis. Walaupun Barisan Nasional menang di peringkat pusat
tetapi gagal mendapat dua pertiga daripada kerusi Dewan Rakyat seperti
yang biasa dimenangi sejak merdeka oleh Perikatan dan Barisan Nasional.

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Petronas Adviser

I
have been asked by the media and commentators in my blog as to whether
I would quit as adviser to Petronas following my quitting as an UMNO
member.

I would like to believe it is not exclusive to UMNO members.

Prior
to my being adviser, the post was held by Tun Hussein Onn who was
appointed by me following his resignation as Prime Minister. When UMNO
was made illegal and UMNO Baru was formed Tun Hussein remained outside
the party but this did not affect his position in Petronas. He remained
Petronas adviser until he passed away.

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SANUSI JUNID

1. Saya berasa amat sedih dengan tindakan
untuk menamatkan khidmat Tan Sri Dato Seri Sanusi bin Junid dari
menjadi Presiden Universiti Islam Antarabangsa.

2. Mungkin dia
telah melakukan kesalahan yang besar yang tindakan ini perlu diambil.
Tetapi secara kebetulan tindakan terhadap Presiden UIA ini diambil
sejurus selepas dia keluar daripada UMNO. Apakah perbuatan beliau ini
yang menyebabkan dianya disingkir?

3. Secara kebetulan juga
sehari selepas dia berkempen untuk anak saya di Jerlun pejabat syarikat
UIA Holdings Sdn Bhd milik UIA telah digeledah oleh Badan Pencegah
Rasuah. Tidak ada apa-apa kesalahan dikesan yang dilakukan oleh
Syarikat atau Tan Sri Sanusi.

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RAPID KL

Yang Berhormat Dato’ Bung Mokhtar Radin
(Ahli Parlimen Kinabatangan) telah bertanya dalam Dewan Rakyat
berkenaan 1000 lebih bas milik Rapid KL yang tersadai dan tidak diguna.

Bas-bas
ini dikatakan asalnya milik Intrakota dan City Liner yang telah
diambilalih oleh Rapid KL yang dipercayai adalah milik Khazanah.
Bas-bas ini masih boleh diguna atau boleh diperbaiki dan dijual oleh
Rapid KL. 

Tetapi Rapid KL tidak berusaha bersungguh-sungguh
untuk mendapat balik sedikit pun daripada kos pembelian
syarikat-syarikat ini. 

Kenapa?

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Cancellation of bridge to Singapore

(VERSI BAHASA MALAYSIA DI AKHIR ARTIKEL INI)

I have been asked to please expose all that I know about the misuse of the Rakyat’s money.

In
response to the above request I would like to identify initially four
of the instances where the Government of Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad
Badawi has misused public money.

What I write here would not
be based on speculation or suppositions or possibilities. They are the
things which are public knowledge and can be verified.

I need to explain in detail. So I will deal with one subject at a time.

However, I list below the four specific instances;

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THE TUN SALLEH SAGA

(VERSI BAHASA MALAYSIA DI AKHIR ARTIKEL INI)

1.
When the Government gave ex-gratia payments to the judges involved in
the Tun Salleh Abas removal as the Lord President of Malaysian courts,
the question that needs to be answered is whether it is because of
Government regrets over something that happened not during the period
this Government was in power or is it because of a desperate attempt to
win support after the disastrous results of the election of 2008.

2.
Had the present Government felt regret, it should have paid ex-gratia
payment (for want of a better term) upon achieving power. But obviously
it only felt regret lately, after its brand new de facto Minister of
Law, who incidentally was suspended for money politics, suggested the
move in order to win the approval of the Bar Council.

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Oil Price

(VERSI BAHASA MALAYSIA DI AKHIR ARTIKEL INI)

The
price of crude oil has increased by 400 percent in the last three
years. It follows that the price of products must increase, sooner or
later. In other countries petrol prices had already increased. In the
United Kingdom one litre of petrol sells for more than one pound
sterling or RM7. In the United States it is about RM5.

That the
price in neighbouring countries has gone up is shown by the rush to
fill up by Thai and to a lesser extent Singapore vehicles.

The
Government has now announced an increase in petrol price by 78 sen to
RM2.70 per litre, an increase of more than 40 per cent.

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Tujuan baik tidak halalkan jenayah

YB
Dato Zaid Ibrahim, Menteri Undang-Undang kecewa kerana dia akan
dihadapkan ke Jawatankuasa Disiplin UMNO sedangkan dia hanya
mempertahankan Perdana Menteri.

Peguam ini tidak faham bahawa tujuan baik tidak menghalalkan jenayah.

Takut kerana salah?

Ahli-ahli dan pemimpin cawangan dan bahagian UMNO tidak dibenar mendengar ucapan saya.

Apakah pemimpin tertinggi UMNO takut kerana mereka punyai banyak kesalahan yang mungkin dibongkar oleh saya?

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Multi-racial Malaysia

[EDISI BAHASA MELAYU DI BAWAH ARTIKEL INI]

I have been asked “What is the meaning of a multi-racial Malaysia to me?”

Being
multi-racial does not mean the same thing to every multi-racial country
e.g. Singapore claims to be multi-racial but basically it is a
predominantly Chinese State.

Because of the refusal of the
descendants of migrants from China and India to be assimilated by the
indigenous people we have to accept the retention of the identity of
Malaysian citizens of Chinese and Indian origin. The people of
Indonesian origin chose to be assimilated by the indigenous people, so
they don’t constitute a separate entity.

[EDISI BAHASA MELAYU DI BAWAH ARTIKEL INI]

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Royal Commissions

1. The Royal Commission is not a court of
law and is not supposed to judge and sentence people. But the fact that
such commissions are often manned by judges or ex-judges seems to
indicate that principles of justice and determination of right and
wrong should be based on legal principles.

2. But clearly the Royal Commission on the Lingam tapes has allowed itself the liberty of stretching legal principles in order possibly to achieve a certain objective.

3. One sentence in the report is very telling and I quote, “In the process, Dr Mahathir Mohamad was also entangled. That possibility was ominous when
examined against the factual circumstances surrounding the rejection of
Malek Ahmad as Chief Judge of Malaya. Their ultimate aim or purpose could not be ascertained with exactitude given
the limitation under the (Commission) terms of reference. It could be
related to the fixing of cases as submitted by counsel for the Bar and
others. Certainly it is reasonable to suggest that it could not be anything but self-serving.”

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