OBAMA AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

1. When President Obama made a bid for three trillion dollars in order to deal with the financial crisis, I assumed that like the immediate past President and the Head of the Federal Reserve, he was going to use the money to bail out the failed banks and financial institutions.

2. This would be an exercise in futility because those banks and institutions failed because they cheated, because they abused the system. The only way they could be restored is by allowing them to cheat and abuse again, creating money out of thin air and lending 20 to 30 times more of this money to the funds held by the borrowing institutions for them to invest. It is this practice which has precipitated the financial crisis.

3. The bailouts have clearly failed. Increasing the amounts of bailout will not result in success. The failure will only get worse. It’s the classical sending good money after bad money.

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PEMILIHAN MAJLIS TERTINGGI UMNO

1. Perhatian rakyat Malaysia terutama orang Melayu ialah kepada peristiwa-peristiwa yang sedang  berlaku dalam UMNO. Samada mereka ahli atau bukan ahli mereka tahu UMNO memainkan peranan yang besar dalam kehidupan mereka, dalam maju mundurnya Negara mereka.

2. Apa yang mereka lihat sehingga kini tidak menyenangkan hati mereka akan keupayaan UMNO dikekalkan.

3. UMNO yang telah perintah Negara ini dengan baik selama 50 tahun sekarang dilihat sebagai parti yang tidak bermaya.

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PENGAJARAN DAN PEMBELAJARAN SAINS DAN MATEMATIK DALAM BAHASA INGGERIS 2

1. Saya ingin jelaskan sekali lagi kenapa Sains dan Matematik perlu diajar dalam bahasa Inggeris.

2. Tidak seperti matapelajaran lain, sains dan matematik adalah ilmu yang berkembang dan bertambah sepanjang masa.

3. Tiap hari berpuluh kertas melapurkan hasil kaji selidik yang dibuat di seluruh dunia. Hampir semua kertas ini disediakan dalam bahasa Inggeris.

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THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

1. The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant of arrest for Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, the sitting President of Sudan.

2. The ICC admits that this is the first warrant of arrest ever issued for a sitting Head of State of the ICC.

3. The alleged crime of President Al-Bashir is that he is “suspected” of having co-ordinated the design and implementation of the counter-insurgency campaign or alternatively it is also found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that he was in control of all branches of the “apparatus” of the State of Sudan and use such control to secure the implementation of the counter-insurgency campaign.

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THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

1.      The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant of arrest for Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, the sitting President of Sudan.

2.      The ICC admits that this is the first warrant of arrest ever issued for a sitting Head of State of the ICC.

3.      The alleged crime of President Al-Bashir is that he is “suspected” of having co-ordinated the design and implementation of the counter-insurgency campaign or alternatively it is also found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that he was in control of all branches of the “apparatus” of the State of Sudan and use such control to secure the implementation of the counter-insurgency campaign.

4.      It is also alleged that he was responsible for;

  • Five counts of crimes against humanity : murder – article 7(1) (a); extermination – article 7 (1) (b); forcible transfer – article 7 (1) (f) and rape – article 7 (1) (g); (the fifth is not stated)
  • Two counts of war crimes; intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities – article (2) (e) (i); and pillaging – article 8 (2) (e) (v) (the second crime is not given)

5.      Apparently it was found that the President did not commit genocide and this charge could not be brought against him.

6.      The world is aware of the hatred of the Untied States for President Bashir and clearly the US would like to see a regime change.  Maybe the fact that Sudan has fairly large oil reserves has nothing to do with wanting to remove a recalcitrant Head of State.  But maybe it has.  Seems that those who have oil who are not compliant will get into trouble with the United States.

7.      But the grounds for arrest can easily be applied to (former President) George W. Bush and (former Prime Minister) Tony Blair.  The two are both guilty (proven) of more killings, extermination, forcible transfer and rape by virtue of their having, as Heads of Government, actually co-ordinated the design and implementation of the illegal wars against Afghanistan and Iraq – countries which cannot be proven to have attacked the US the way the insurgents attacked the Government of Sudan.

8.      As Heads of State faced with insurgency the President of Sudan has a duty to act against the insurgents.  Of course he must be control.  He wouldn’t be a responsible Head of State if he left the counter-insurgency measures to others.  Since when has it been considered wrong to fight against insurgents?  Are Sri Lanka, the Philippines and others also guilty.

9.      We are not told that weapons were used by Bashir but Bush and Blair directed the sanctions which killed 500,000 Iraqi children, use of depleted uranium in bombs and shells, instigated a war between Sunni and Shiah Iraqis, killed more than 100,000 “civilian not taking direct part in hostilities,” detaining and torturing prisoners outside the law and a host of other crimes against humanity which deserves to get the attention of the ICC; which the ICC should issue warrants of arrest.

10.    If President Bashir is considered culpable, then Bush and Blair must be considered even more culpable.  Many other Heads of Governments must also be issued warrants of arrests.

11.    But the ICC is obviously applying double standards, picking on President Bashir but ignoring the perpetrators of the same crimes by other Heads of Governments.  It is the essence of justice that it applies to everyone equally.  How can we respect the ICC if it is so obviously biased and openly discriminates between different people.

12.    I would warn the Heads of State of other weak countries that they are likely to suffer the same fate as the President of Sudan.  It is not necessary that you have done something wrong.  If you are a recalcitrant, trumped up charges can be made against you and warrants of arrest issued.  You are aware that the United States is bent on effecting regime change everywhere.  The ICC will be a good apparatus for this.  It will be cheaper than shock and awe invasions.

13.    The world must condemn the ICC action because it represents a travesty of justice. If this is allowed to go through, the ICC will become another apparatus of resurgent imperialism of the powerful countries.

14.    We are already living in an unjust world.  There will be more injustice with the setting up of ICC.

PENGAJARAN DAN PEMBELAJARAN SAINS DAN MATEMATIK DALAM BAHASA INGGERIS (PPSMI)

1. Saya berasa amat sedih apabila membaca laporan berkenaan demonstrasi yang dipimpin oleh tokoh sastera Melayu menentang pengajaran sains dan matematik dalam bahasa Inggeris.

2. Kononnya ini akan menidakkan kebolehan bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa pengantar dalam ilmu ini. Konon ia akan mengurangkan perkembangan bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa kebangsaan.

3. Kita harus ingat bahawa pelajaran bukan semata-mata untuk memaju atau mengembangkan bahasa. Pelajaran adalah untuk penguasaan ilmu, pelbagai jenis ilmu.

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RASUAH UMNO 2

1. Di waktu mesyuarat bahagian-bahagian UMNO diadakan untuk mencalon calon-calon bagi Majlis Tertinggi UMNO, pengerusi Lembaga Disiplin (Tengku Ahmad Rithaudeen) telah menyatakan yang beliau telah terima lebih 900 aduan berkenaan rasuah dalam pencalonan.

2. Orang ramai tertunggu-tunggu untuk mendengar tentang siasatan dan tindakan yang diambil terhadap mereka yang terlibat.

3. Sekarang Mesyuarat Agong yang akan memilih ahli-ahli Majlis Tertinggi akan diadakan tidak lama lagi. Tetapi tidak ada apa-apa pun kedengaran berkenaan 900 aduan tersebut.

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SOUND BITES (SNIPPETS)

1. Saya berada di Argentina baru-baru ini. Negara ini mendapat namanya daripada “argent” atau perak. Jika penegmbara Melayu yang sampai ke wilayah ini sebelum orang Sepanyol, mungkin Argentina mendapat nama “Perak” kerana negara ini benar-benar mempunyai banyak logam perak. Terdapat banyak barang kraf mereka yang diperbuat daripada perak.

2. Argentina sembilan kali lebih besar daripada Malaysia. Pada satu masa dahulu Argentina menjadi Negara yang ke-enam terkaya di dunia. Kawasan tanah rata “pampas” beratus ribu kilometer persegi. Rumput tumbuh dengan sendirinya di kawasan ini.

3. Orang Argentina hanya perlu lepas lembu di kawasan ini dan lembu akan membiak dan membesar tanpa perlu diberi makanan selain daripada rumput yang sedia ada. Apabila tiba masanya penternak hanya dikehendaki tangkap lembu dan jual. Inilah punca kekayaan orang Argentina dahulu.

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