Dari TV Selangor

Kes konspirasi kedua terhadap Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menjadi penanda aras tahap kepercayaan masyarakat dunia terhadap institusi kehakiman di negara ini.

Ini, kata Pengerusi Biro Antarabangsa dan Biro Latihan Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Mustafa Kamil Ayub mendorong pelabur asing menjauhi negara ini lantaran kes berkenaan membukti ketidakbebasan institusi kehakiman Malaysia.

Sehubungan itu, beliau mendesak Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak supaya memberi pertimbangan serius terhadap kenyataan pengasas kumpulan Virgin, Sir Richard Branson.

“Itu gambaran, persepsi dan hakikat yang ada hari ini. Apabila seorang ahli perniagaan masyhur membuat kenyataan sebegitu rupa, ia adalah pandangan yang serius dan harus diterima Perdana Menteri.

“Sistem undang-undang dan perjalanan kes yang adil adalah prasyarat penting di kalangan pelabur asing untuk datang ke Malaysia tetapi pelabur asing meragui perjalanan undang-undang di Malaysia,” katanya kepada TV Selangor hari ini.

Pengasas Kumpulan Virgin, Sir Richard Branson hari ini menyifatkan perbicaraan kes konspirasi kedua terhadap Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sebagai “duri” dalam reputasi Malaysia yang secara keseluruhan boleh dianggap baik.

Bercakap pada persidangan antarabangsa di Kuala Lumpur, jutawan popular yang terkenal kerana berani memberi pandangan tegas, Najib untuk campur tangan bagi memastikan keadilan untuk Anwar.

“Jika anda pemimpin berani, anda harus tegas untuk mengatasi hal yang hanya merosakkan nama baik anda. Hal ini (Kes Anwar) dah lama berlarutan. Ia memberi kesan buruk kepada imej negara ini di kaca mata dunia,” kata Branson.

Mustafa berkata, pengamal undang-undang, ahli perniagaan mahupun ahli politik yang mengikuti perjalanan kes konspirasi kedua itu, pasti menganggap ia sebagai satu konspirasi.

Beliau menyedari ramai pelabur berpotensi mengalih modal ke negara lain kerana tidak yakin dengan sistem pentadbiran dan perundangan bagi menjamin kepentingan perniagaan mereka.

“Jikalau berlaku pertikaian undang-undang perniagaan, mereka akan merujuk kes ke mahkamah Singapura atau Hong Kong. Ini membayangkan ketidakyakinan mereka terhadap perjalanan dan sistem undang-undang di Malaysia.

“Jadi, kerajaan Barisan Nasional dan Najib harus mempertimbang kenyaraan Richard bagi memulihkan keyakinan pelabur kepada Malaysia. Mereka seharusnya bertindak berani tanpa mengutamakan kepentingan politik,” katanya.

Dari TV Selangor

Pengerusi Persatuan Anak Peneroka Felda (Anak), Mazlan Aliman berkata, tindakan membawa kes ke mahkamah adalah hak peneroka, bukannya dipengaruhi mana-mana pihak sebaliknya, satu keperluan supaya mereka tidak terus ditindas Felda yang terbukti memanipulasikan Kadar Perahan

Gred (KPG).

“Mereka menuntut hak mereka. Peneroka mengambil pendekatan mahkamah sebagai saluran, jadi apa salahnya? Peneroka sudah menggunakan pendekatan berunding tetapi tidak diendahkan Felda, jadi mereka gunakan kaedah

perundangan,” katanya kepada TV Selangor.
Bernama hari ini melaporkan, Timbalan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Ahmad Maslan mendakwa ada pihak menghasut peneroka supaya mengambil tindakan saman di mahkamah berhubung isu Felda memanipulasi isu perahan minyak.

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JEMPUTAN MEDIA
27 SEPTEMBER 2010

Dijemput menghadiri sidang media Setiausaha Agung yang akan diadakan esok, Isnin 27 September 2010 di Ibu Pejabat Parti Keadilan Rakyat yang dijadualkan pada jam 10.00 pagi.

From The Huffington post
By Thor Halvorssen and S.E. Parker

This week, hundreds of diplomats, heads of state, and leaders from across the globe will descend upon midtown Manhattan for the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly. In attendance, among others, will be Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Gil-yon, and Ethiopian Prime Minster Meles Zenawi.

The UN recently began an overhaul of its headquarters, a major facelift for what has become an aging and dysfunctional, if iconic, piece of modernist architecture. Delegates arriving over the next few days won’t be too inconvenienced; refurbishment of the General Assembly building won’t commence until 2013.

Blocks away from the United Nations, in New York’s tallest monument to Twentieth Century architecture — the Empire State Building — is the office of the Human Rights Foundation. HRF promotes civil liberties in Latin America, and over the past five years, has defended victims of human rights violations in Bolivia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. As much as HRF would like to focus on every country in Latin America, our resources and priorities are these countries. Our staff includes individuals from across the political and ideological spectrum; our board is made up men and women who have suffered at the hands of despots from the far right to the far left. We consider our work apolitical, consistent, and principled.

In 2007, HRF applied for official Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (EcoSoc). Such accreditation carries with it a formal and internationally credible platform from which to expose and denounce human rights violations from within the halls of the UN. It would have given HRF the credentials to attend UN meetings and conferences, designate UN representatives, and issue statements at the EcoSoc. It would have enabled HRF to directly question the representatives of governments of regimes — like Sudan, for example — who recognize the UN as a place where they can, quite literally, get away with murder.

HRF’s application was derailed by a smear campaign waged by the Cuban government. Threatened by HRF’s mission to promote civil liberties, and fully aware of the organization’s effective educational programs and widespread publications inside Cuba, the Castro government lobbied aggressively against this non-profit.

Equipped with crudely forged documents, the Cuban delegation cast HRF as a “subversive” anti-government organization, in particular alleging that then-Chairman of HRF, author and poet Armando Valladares (who spent 22 years in a Cuban prison and became Amnesty International’s first prisoner of conscience in Cuba), was a convicted terrorist in Cuba and a former member of dictator Fulgencio Batista’s National Police. Among the forged items circulated to the UN committee by the Cuban delegation was a Cuban police identity card that incorrectly identified Valladares’ eye color, birth date, blood type, and listed his height and weight using the metric system, while Cuba still used feet and inches at the supposed time of issue.

HRF was told by one country’s mission to the UN that they had never seen such an effort from the Cuban delegation, which included numerous calls and visits to most of the other 53 members of EcoSoc. HRF was not allowed to be present and defend itself, respond to its accusers, or question the evidence presented against it. We lost the accreditation vote and have to wait several years before reapplying for consultative status in the UN’s Ecosoc. (more…)

Dari TV Selangor

Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (SYABAS) telah menuntut bayaran sebanyak RM308 juta dari Kerajaan Selangor didakwa sebagai “pampasan” kerana terhalang dari menaikkan tarif air di Selangor.

Menurut Setiausaha Politik kepada Menteri Besar Selangor, Faekah Husin, Syabas membuat tuntutan itu menerusi dua surat tuntutan bertarikh 15 Septermber lalu dengan memberi alasan kononnya syarikat itu mengalami kerugian disebabkan keengganan Kerajaan Selangor membenarkan tarif air dinaikkan yang dikatakan terkandung di dalam perjanjian konsesi.

“SYABAS pada masa yang sama mengugut untuk mengheret Kerajaan Selangor ke mahkamah jika gagal menunaikan tuntutan mereka dan enggan mematuhi syarat perjanjian,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan akhbar hari ini.
Faekah bagaimanapun menegaskan Kerajaan Negeri tidak gentar dengan tuntutan Syabas, kerana tidak mahu rakyat Selangor menanggung harga air yang lebih tinggi dari kadar sepatutnya.

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Dari Malaysiakini

Adakah ia sepatutnya pertumbuhan 6 peratus untuk 10 tahun akan datang atau adakah ia sepatutnya 9 peratus?

Minggu lalu, badan pemikir kerajaan – Unit Pengurusan Prestasi dan

Penyampaian (PEMANDU) mendedahkan program pelaburan bernilai RM1.376 trilion untuk 10 tahun akan datang yang jumlahnya tiga kali ganda pendapatan per kapita negara yang mampu memacu Malaysia ke status negara maju menjelang 2020.

Lebih 60 peratus pelaburan akan datang dari sektor swasta, 32 peratus daripada syarikat berkaitan kerajaan dan 8 peratus lagi daripada kerajaan.

Dalam membuat pengumuman itu, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (PEMANDU) Datuk Seri Idris Jala berkata pertumbuhan negara mesti mencapai sekurang-kurangnya 6 peratus setahun bagi menjadikan sasaran itu satu kenyataan.

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Dari Harakah

Data ekonomi Melayu membuktikan bahawa bila-bila masa sahaja orang-orang Melayu akan kehilangan kuasa dan suara jika Umno dibiarkan terus berkuasa, kata Naib Presiden PAS, Datuk Mahfuz Omar.

“Pada masa ini pun ramai orang Melayu terutama di luar bandar yang hilang kuasa dan suara kerana kemiskinan dan dijerat oleh hutang kepada tauke-

tauke.

“Antara sebab perkara tersebut berlaku ialah apabila kekayaan negara tidak digunakan dengan saksama dan bersungguh-sungguh untuk membantu rakyat keseluruhannya tetapi lebih banyak yang dibolot oleh kroni-kroni Umno,” kata beliau.

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Dari Harakah

Bekas Menteri Besar Perak, Datuk Seri Muihamad Nizar Jamaludin mendakwa Tun Dr Mahathir dikuasai otak perkaumannya manakala Nuzul Izzah Anwar pula mencabar Tun Dr Mahathir berdebat ekoran dakwaannya Melayu akan hilang kuasa jika Pakatan Rakyat memerintah negara.

“Oleh itu, dengan matlamat untuk bertukar pendapat, demi mewujudkan ‘Malaysia Yang Lebih Baik Untuk Semua Rakyat’, saya dengan rendah hati membuat tawaran untuk berdebat dengan Tun Dr Mahathir supaya ‘kebimbangan’ Melayu – yang pastinya tidak melibatkan keseluruhan masyarakat – yang disebut itu dapat dijelaskan, sama ada kerana Takut

Melayu Hilang Kuasa atau Hilang Harta?” kata Nurul Izzah dalam satu kenyataannya.

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Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim akan menghadiri majlis hariraya terbuka Parlimen Lembah Pantai pada Jumaat 24 September 2010, 8-11 malam, bertempat di blok D, PPR Kerinchi , berdekatan stesen petronas baru, Lembah Pantai.

By Anwar Ibrahim

When I was sacked from the government and the ruling party in September 1998, a tremendous ground swell of support swept the nation and unleashed forces that could not be contained by the powers that be. Neither could the walls of incarceration in Sungai Buloh prevent the birth of a new party that was destined, together with its allies, PAS and DAP, to take the nation’s politics to a new dimension. Thus was born Parti Keadilan Nasional, a party founded on a truly multiracial platform fighting for justice and freedom, democracy and good governance. As it grew from strength to strength emboldened by a fervent belief in the process of reform and renewal, the party became Parti Keadilan Rakyat after its merger with Parti Rakyat Malaysia.

It is this spirit of change that was the driver for the adoption of a new system of voting for this year’s party elections under which the party’s 500,000-odd members will be able to vote for their leaders directly across the board. While such a practice is hardly new for most political parties in mature democracies across the world, it is indeed a first in Malaysia. This is empowerment of the members and with power comes responsibility. We believe the members will use this power wisely and judiciously.

It is true that the last few months have not been easy for KEADILAN. We still have a long way to go but at least we are moving forward and not backwards. The run up to the party elections has seen some very harsh words coming from certain leaders in a fashion not befitting the position that they aspire to be in. In this regard, the criticism that there is an emergence of “UMNO Culture” in the campaign for party positions is unfounded. At the same time, we cannot rule out entirely the possibility of Trojan horses having found their way in. But we remain steadfast in the belief that our members are mature and wise enough to decide what is best for the party. The truth shall prevail.

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