Dari Malaysiakini
Oleh Yong Kai Ping & Ng Ling Fong

Dua puluh empat jam selepas satu laporan polis dibuat terhadap syarikat pemaju Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB), pegawai tingginya membuat satu pendedahan yang mengejutkan.

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif KDSB Tiong King Sing – yang juga pengerusi Kelab Penyokong BN – mendakwa beliau telah ‘menderma’ RM10 juta kepada Presiden MCA yang juga Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat tahun lalu.

Wang tersebut, tambahnya, adalah untuk aktiviti-aktiviti yang berkaitan dengan bahagian-bahagian MCA.

Timbalan Tiong dalam KDSB, Datuk Faizal Abdullah berkata Ong telah menggunakan jet peribadi milik syarikat tersebut sebanyak lima kali dan ‘berhutang’ kepada mereka sebanyak AS$40,000
bagi perkhidmatan tersebut.

Bercakap kepada Malaysiakini, Tiong mendakwa beliau telah menyumbangkan berjuta-juta ringgit selepas diminta berbuat demikian oleh Ong.

Wang tersebut dibayar secara tunai dalam tiga peringkat sewaktu pertemuan dengan presiden MCA itu di Petaling Jaya dan Kuala Lumpur.

Dari Tempointeraktif
oleh Goenawan Mohammad

Senin, 10 Agustus 2009

SAYA tak bisa mengerti bagaimana Rendra ”pergi selama-lamanya”, kecuali bahwa jasad itu dimakamkan, 7 Agustus 2009, dalam umur hampir 74. Rendra tak pernah mati: ia telah memberi kita puisi.

Lalu terdengarlah suara

di balik semak itu

sedang bulan merah mabuk

dan angin dari selatan.

Sajak seperti ini ditulis sekitar setengah abad yang lalu. Tapi deskripsinya yang bersahaja dan terang tetap menyembunyikan sesuatu yang seakan-akan baru terungkap secara mendadak buat pertama kalinya hari ini. Rendra menghadirkan yang tak terhingga. ”Tujuh pasang mata peri/terpejam di pohonan”. Imaji seperti itu terus-menerus tak bisa dibekukan oleh tafsir.

Puisi tentu saja bisa beku, juga puisi Rendra. Ini terjadi ketika apa yang tumbuh dan hidup dari dalamnya—yaitu yang fantastis, yang ganjil, yang misterius—ditiadakan. Ini yang terjadi ketika puisi diambil alih perannya oleh ajaran, dengan niat bisa berguna secara efektif. Dan zaman bisa membutuhkan itu: karena keadaan, kita dengan brutal menuntut puisi untuk mati suri.

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From The Malaysian Insider

By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 12 — Utusan Malaysia reporter Mohd Nizam Mohd Yatim told the High Court today that he thought the phrase “ultra vires” contained in a press release issued by Karpal Singh meant the DAP man was insulting the Perak Sultan.

Mohd Nizam, the prosecution’s first witness in Karpal’s sedition trial, was subjected to a rigorous cross-examination by defence counsel Jagdeep Singh Deo, and appeared rattled by the lawyer’s questions.

At one point the Utusan Malaysia reporter did not appear to even know what Karpal Singh was being charged with.

The reporter was also unable to show a clear understanding of the barrage of questions by Jagdeep on the four-page press statement distributed by Karpal during a press conference on Feb 6 this year.

Based on a report written by him and published by the newspaper, Mohd Nizam had been put on the witness stand by the prosecution to show that Karpal had committed sedition.

By questioning him over his understanding of what transpired during Karpal’s press conference, the defence was attempting to prove he was an unreliable witness.

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16 OGOS 2009 (AHAD)

“ANWAR AKAN JAWAB SIAPA PENGKHIANAT MELAYU”

PROGRAM I :

PELANCARAN JENTERA DAN BILIK GERAKAN PKR PILIHANRAYA KECIL DUN PERMATANG PASIR

TEMPAT : PERMATANG PASIR

MASA : 9.00 – 12.00 MALAM

PENCERAMAH :

1) YB DATO’ SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM

2) YAB LIM GUAN ENG

3) YB PROF MANSOR OTHMAN

4) YB SAIFUDIN NASUTION

5) YBHG MAT SABU

6) YB DATO’ ZAHRAIN HASHIM

PROGRAM 2 : CERAMAH PERDANA

TEMPAT : TAMAN CERMAI, PERMATANG PAUH

MASA : 9.00 – 12.00 MALAM

PENCERAMAH:

1) YB DATO’ SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM

2) YB DATO’ SERI HAJI HADI AWANG

3) YB LIM KIT SIANG

4) YBHG MAT SABU

The Malaysian Insider | 12 August 2009

REMBAU, Aug 12 — More than one type of fireworks was going off in the quiet village of Kampung Selemak here last night at PKR’s Merdeka celebration. Responding to Umno’s relentless accusations that he is a traitor to the Malays, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim attacked his bitter rivals last night in front of a large rural crowd.

Despite the accusations of betrayal, several thousand Malays, and a smaller number of non-Malays, still made the trek to this hamlet, located in Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin’s constituency in Negri Sembilan, to hear Anwar rail against what he said was Umno’s own betrayal of the Malays.

Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had last week labelled Anwar a traitor to the Malays and party-backed newspapers like Utusan Malaysia went to town with the story.

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SABTU, 15 OGOS 2009
MASA: 5.00-7.00 PETANG
TEMPAT: GERAI PAK AMIN, TAMAN SAGA, MENTAKAB, PAHANG (BERHAMPIRAN PADANG BOLA TAMAN SAGA)

Moh ngeteh bersama Anwar Ibrahim!

Semua warga dijemput hadir, jamuan ringan disediakan.

PEJABAT DATO’ SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM

bettermalaysia.com

By Hussein Hamid

Why is it that I, as a Malay, show much disrespect to Najib? Why are there so many Hang Jebats as oppose to Hang Tuahs in this time of ours – ready to do verbal battle with our leaders? Menderhaka they say. Sometimes after I have written my piece I read them and I am appalled at the venom of what I write. While we are Hang Jebats we do what we do because of what Hang Tuah had said “Takkan Melayu Hilang di Dunia”. If we do not care for our survival as a viable partner to the other races in our country then who will?

We want to tell the Malays and the people of our country that there is an alternative to the excesses of the past fifty years when UMNO were in power and got totally carried away. You not only systematically steal from our national treasuries but also take from other Malays what as taken years to acquire. How else do you explain the use of the EPF and Petronas funds to bail out your failures?

If you ask how can DAP, Keadilan and PAS work together towards a common goal when their fundamental beliefs are so divisive? I say this….how about principled politics?

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Wak Sembab, pengkhianat Melayu sebenar

Oleh Rona Sina

kahkahkah! Ini taktik nak rendahkan standard Anwar. Masa Najib TPM dulu, Anwar banyak membantai Najib berbanding Pak Lah kerana Najib dilihat Anwar lebih berkuasa dari Pak Lah. Apabila Najib jadi PM, Muhyiddin coba-coba menjadi permaidani kepala rimau untuk Najib, biar Anwar lanyak dia berbanding boss dia. Dia pun melaung-laungkan “Anwar pengkhianat Melayu!” supaya Anwar terus melawan dia. Biar standard Anwar hanya lawan TPM dan bukan PM…Sentimen ini akan terus dimainkan ehingga PRU akan datang.

Macam Ezam dululah. Menyalak sama Anwar agar Anwar mengalih tumpuan kepadanya dari terus menyerang Dewa Bt Cave tu..
Akhirnya budak ni lingkup. Semua PRK yang dia sertai habis lingkup. Di manek Urai dia tak datang, Bn nyaris menang. Kahkahkah!..

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Dari The Malaysian Insider
By Neville Spykerman

SHAH ALAM, Aug 11 — The Selangor government is moving towards a clear separation of powers between the state government and the legislature, to avoid what Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders have claimed was executive interference during the Perak power tussle.

Currently, Speaker Teng Chang Khim has limited autonomy over the legislative assembly which is located within the state secretariat and his staff are employees of the state government.

However, this is set to change if the Selangor Legislative Assembly Service Commission Enactment (Selesa) 2009 is passed.

The enactment will put Selangor at par with other developed Commonwealth countries, where there is a clear distinction between the executive – which is the state government, the legislature and judiciary.

Under the Doctrine of Separations of Powers, each of these three organs of state are equal and functions as a check and balance to prevent abuse.

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