Kenaikan harga minyak disebabkan oleh peniaga minyak antarabangsa yang menjual beli minyak sesama mereka seperti dahulu mereka menjual beli matawang negara tertentu termasuk negara kita. Terdapat maklumat yang mengatakan mereka menyewa tanker besar untuk simpan minyak menunggu kenaikan harga.

Kenaikan harga yang amat tinggi mempunyai kesan negatif kepada negara seperti China dan Jepun yang bersaing dengan Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah.

It is easy to say this if you are not the subject of Anwar’s plotting and vengeance.

Anwar has succeeded in blackening my name in the United States and Europe of course, but also in Muslim countries. They all think I simply threw him in prison for political reasons.

Tetapi oleh kerana ramai yang meminta komen saya dalam blog maka saya akan beri pandangan awal saya.

Saya terkejut dengan orang yang pertama menyuarakan pandangan yang tak masuk akal berkenaan dengan kes liwat yang baru ini. Kononnya Anwar sengaja menyuruh Saiful buat laporan dia diliwat oleh bossnya supaya Anwar boleh cari perlindungan daripada percubaan membunuhnya. Dengan itu kononnya orang ramai akan bersimpati dengannya.

Shortly after withdrawing subsidy for oil, the Government announced that salaries for Government servants would be paid twice a month.

Now the Government has announced it would continue to pay salaries once a month.

One can almost hear the flip followed by the flop.

2. It appears to be convinced that it can isolate and insulate itself from whatever is happening to the world.

3. It seems to be confident that it will be left untouched.

4. It merely reacts to situations as they arise one by one.

The report to the police had already been made by the people aggrieved by (Justice Ian) Chin’s biased judgement and it had been extended to the Chief Justice, the former Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and to the Prime Minister himself. Receiving no response the complainants had extended it to the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) as well. It is this report that the Government or its agencies should take action on. It details clearly the unethical behaviour of Chin.

I heard about the report from a relative of the people who made the charge after Chin made his “explosive revelation”. The complete set of the report and related papers were sent to me. I also received the same report from lawyers involved in the case after Chin’s revelation.

1. There has been a lot of talk about a Social Contract in Malaysia.

2. Perhaps it would be useful if we understand this concept a little bit more before we argue about it.

3. If we care to look into the origins of the social contract we will find that it is a European concept enunciated by European philosophers. The most famous is Socrates, the Greek philosopher who was jailed and sentenced to death.

1. On June 10, The Borneo Post reported Judge Ian Chin’s “explosive judicial disclosure”, about how judges were threatened and sent to Boot Camps by the former Prime Minister.

2. He made these revelations prior to hearing a case, apparently to avoid being accused of bias.

3. What he did not reveal is that there is a police report against him for breaches of Judge’s Code of Ethics in hearing a case in which he has a personal interest. He presided on a case involving Dato Syed Kechik without revealing that he believed Syed Kechik was responsible for detaining his father and brother 20 years before.

As expected Barisan Nasional Members of Parliament supported the motion on the removal of subsidy for petroleum. Obviously the whip had been used. Only one Sabah MP expressed his unhappiness at the short notice given for tabling this motion. Yet every MP knows that the price of petrol is a big burden for the people.

On Monday June 23rd, the public expected to hear about a motion of no confidence against Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi by the Sabah Progressive Party. I had predicted that it would not happen as the Speaker would disallow it.

But it was the SAPP that decided not to table it. Its MPs were recalled to Sabah amidst talks of threats being made against them.