FREEDOM FUND 2.0 APPEAL
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Racist Dr M roars again
It's Time To Forget About Dr M – Khoo kay peng
The grand old man of Malaysia strikes again! Venting his anger at Najib's decision to liberalize the economy, he claims that non-Malays, and particularly the Chinese, were the real masters of the country.
“Because they (the Malays) are willing to share their country with other races, the race from the older civilisation of more than 4,000 years and who are more successful, as such today whatever they have now is also being taken away from them,” he wrote in what appeared to be a reference to the Chinese community.
Mahathir anticipated that “with this article I am sure to be branded a racist by the non-Malay racists”.
“But if they are willing to accept the truth they can compare the sacrifices of the Malays who are the original owners of this land with their sacrifices for the interests of the country.”
He argued that the way forward for peace and progress was for the distribution of wealth in the country to be fair even if unequal.
I thought only Abdullah was a flip-flop prime minister. But it is proven today that almost all UMNO leaders, including Dr M, were masters of flip-flop. Dr M once said that this government should appreciate the contribution of the Chinese community. This community did not ask for any grant or subsidy from the government.
Many of them worked hard to send their children to overseas for further studies when higher education opportunities were scarce in the country. A great number of small businessmen I know are now facing a daunting financial challenge from the ongoing global economic crisis. Many of them invested their entire life savings into their business, fully aware that they must work extremely hard to help themselves.
If Chinese were the real masters, we would not have so many 'Malay-dominated institutions' (as claimed by Berita Harian) and we do not need to continue begging for places in the local universities or study grants/scholarships. The vernacular schools would have been flushed with money to continue upgrading their worn out and over stretched facilities due to high density.
I am afraid Dr M is referring to some Chinese as the masters of this country. But some of these masters were your cronies. You made them rich and powerful and gave them public contracts to help them to get where they are today. Some of them had helped you to even pick the right judges to hire and fire. The rest of us, Chinese, are just struggling to make ends meet. How can we be your masters?
The rest of us dare not even raise our voice or react when abused and physically assaulted by officers from your 'Malay-dominated institutions'.
Let me tell you the truth why many Chinese, Indians and Malays were able to find a common ground in their political struggle today. It is because they now realize that the 50% wealth equity is in the hands of a selected few and not in the hands of most Chinese.
Yes, I support your call for a fairer distribution of wealth. Can we start with your super rich sons? If no, please do not tell us to take you seriously. If no, tell me why I should not call you a racist and an out-of-touch leader of the ruling elite. This oppressive government should thank you for teaching them how to oppress to stay in power. The rest of us hope that you will just fade away.
We are not the real masters. If we were, you would have been hauled up to answer to the many abuses and mismanagement of this country.
Source:http://khookaypeng.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-time-to-forget-about-dr-m.html
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
The whole nation is angry!
Everyone, regardless of race and religion, is angry at the tragic death of Teo Beng Hock, who was under MACC custody.
http://ongohing.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/i-cannot-be-neutral-about-issues-of-morality/
http://www.jeffooi.com/2009/07/macc_death_row_forensic_pathol.php
and more………..
Until now, no announcement, yet, that a Royal Commission will be set up to investigate this matter.
Justice delayed is justice denied…..
Friday, July 17, 2009
Who killed you?
Teo Beng Hock, 30, political aide to Selangor State Executive Councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah was found dead in Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) HQ.
He was brought to MACC to assist the officers in investigating a case regarding the abuse of fund in some Selangor constituents. However, he was detained from evening till midnight 3 am. Teo was not a suspect, he was just assisting the MACC officers. The first question we are going to ask: Did he need to be detained in MACC HQ till midnight? Was there such a need? Has any mental torture been done to him?
Secondly, he was slated to be married to his fiancé the next day. Would he commit suicide? That probability was near to zero!
So many question unanswered, a young boy died mysteriously under MACC custody. Remember the poor car theft Kugan who died under police custody? Until now, not even a single police officer was held responsible. No one was brought to court, no one was suspended, nothing happen, it’s totally OKAY to have someone died in police custody, what the heck?
NGOs and civil societies have urged the government to set up an independent royal commission to investigate the death but do you think there will be any outcome? Do you still remember who V.K. Lingam is? Royal Commission has been set up, but so far what do we see?
Friday, July 3, 2009
Where has the money gone?
Petronas adviser Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today asked what did the government spend with the RM253.6 billion payment from the national oil company over the past six years when his successor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was prime minister.
The former prime minister, a trenchant critic of Abdullah, wrote in his www.chedet.ccweblog that Petronas has been paying dividends, taxes, royalty and export duties to the government since 1976, after it was set up as the national custodian for fossil fuels.
"Where has the money gone to?" Dr Mahathir asked.
Tan Kah Kee & Lee Kong Chian
要使马来西亚和中国两地的华人摆脱贫苦与无知，最关键的办法就是兴办现代教育。陈嘉庚躬行实践，不仅自己慷慨捐款，也同时致力唤起社会团体和社群领袖的办学意识。
陈嘉庚认为体育是教育的重要一环，因此为集美学村和厦门大学建造了运动场和游泳池。
中华人民共和国成立以后，许多华侨子弟归国求学。陈嘉庚协助安排他们在适当的学府就读。
陈嘉庚的第一届全国人民代表大会代表当选证书（1954年）
陈嘉庚的护照
陈嘉庚的生意失败后，他竭尽全力筹措款项，以求让学校继续运作下去。他一方面变卖自己的房产， 另一方面吁请李光前和其他朋友出手相助，创立了集友银行。
尽管当年经济处境艰难，陈嘉庚仍坚持要在中国创办一所大学。面对向外筹集资金不易的困境，他毅然独资办学，终于在1921年建立了厦门大学。在所后的世界经济大萧条时期，陈嘉庚即使在生意陷入困境的情况下，毅然坚持为厦门大学和集美大学村提供经济资助。
莱佛士书院的创立。陈嘉庚为莱佛士学院筹建基金捐资1万元（1941年）。
李光前出身寒微，这更使他对“教育能改善人生”这个道理有着更深的感受。曾立志成为工程师的李光前，非常清楚科学对现代经济发展所起的重要作用。此外，李光前对具备双语能力所带来的优势也有深切的体会，因此他在战后大力提倡新加坡推行双语教育。
李光前出殡时，数以千计的新加坡人为他送行，送殡队伍之长，为史上少见，场面感人。
宽柔中学的账簿，记载着南益树胶公司（Lee Rubbers）每月捐出的款项。
柔佛新山宽柔中学“光前堂”（1964年）
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Identity theft
Do you know that it is not a advisable to leave your mail in your mailbox overnight or on weekends? Do you know that you need to tear up unwanted documents that contain personal information, e.g. credit card statements, bank statements, etc.
Identity theft is a kind of crime without a scene.
First, we would discuss on bank identity theft. There are 1.4 million fraudulent cheques written every day in the United States. Cheque books are stolen and used by thieves. Cheques can also be altered by washing away names of payee and amount and rewrite them. It is easy to steal cheques. Lots of people pay their utility and credit card bills using cheques. ID thieves just have to steal those mails and take away the cheques.
Alternatively, criminals could also print their own checks as this poses fewer risks. In order to print cheques, first they need real account numbers. They could get it by stolen mails or by a tactic called ‘shoulder-surfing’. Shoulder-surfing means standing casually behind an ATM machine customer, close enough to read an account number or a deposit number. Another method is simply retrieving a discarded receipt from the bank after a deposit or withdrawal is made.
In several important ways, identity thieves depend on the mail as a means of acquiring new victims. Many crooks steal other people’s outgoing mail, targeting mail that appears to be a bill payment containing a cheque. Mail theft is a dangerous problem, and is considered the single most common method of stealing another person’s identity.
Source: Stewart, Gail B. 2007. Identity theft. Thomson Gale, MI, USA.
Horizontal Hypermobility
The most notable feature of the new labour market, as just about everyone agrees, is that people don’t stay tied to companies anymore. Instead of moving up through the ranks of one organization, they move laterally from company to company in search of what they want.
The playing field is horizontal and people are always on the roll. This kind of mobility is commonly seen in Silicon Valley. Since then, such hypermobility has become the norm across the entire economy.
Americans now change jobs on average every 3.5 years; and workers in their twenties switch jobs on average every 1.1 years, according to 2001 figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
More than half of IT workers in the Information Week Salary Survey say they have been with their present employer for less than four years and expect to change jobs in less than three years. A quarter of these workers have been in their current job for two years or less and expect to change jobs in a year. More than 40 percent considered themselves “on the market” in 2001. And more than 60 percent say recruiters had contacted them in the past six months – on average, six times.
Fully 60 percent of respondents to a 2001 Towers Perrin survey said there is no longer any appropriate time an employee should stay with a company, and just 10 cited three to five years as appropriate. More than half were actively in the job market at the time of the survey, and more than two-thirds said they thought it would be easy to et another job, even in late 2001, when layoffs hit a ten-year high.
Source: Florida, Richard. 2002. The Rise of the Creative Class. Basic Books, New York.
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