Dari Malaysiakini

Kerajaan persekutuan telah terlebih belanja RM4.83 bilion tahun lalu. Ini merupakan defisit kedua tertinggi selepas tersasar bajet operasi RM5.7 bilion pada tahun sebelum itu.

“Ini menunjukkan masih terdapat kelemahan dan perancangan kewangan dan pengurusan,” petik Laporan Ketua Audit Negara 2009 sambil menekankan bahawa perbelanjaan sepatutnya hanya dilakukan selepas mendapat kelulusan.

Laporan itu juga mendedahkan 11 agensi – termasuk Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM), Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam dan 10 kementerian telah berbelanja melebihi bajet operasi mereka sehingga sebanyak RM3.61 bilion.

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Dari Suara Keadilan

Ketua Oposisi, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim hari ini menyatakan rasa simpati kepada mangsa bencana letupan Gunung Merapi, Indonesia yang telah mengorbankan 15 nyawa setakat ini.

Dalam pada itu, beliau turut menggesa rakyat Malaysia agar segera memulakan ikhtiar bagi membantu dengan menghulur dana, ubat-ubatan dan lain-lain bentuk bantuan kepada mangsa bencana tersebut.

Sebelum itu, Bernama melaporkan seorang wartawan portal berita vivanews.com adalah antara 15 yang ditemui mati di dalam dan sekitar halaman rumah jurukunci Gunung Merapi, Mbah Maridjan di kaki gunung itu yang meletus petang semalam.

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By Hussein abdul Hamid

These Malays who are the leaders in UMNO….they were once decent people. There were once Malays who had the well-being and welfare of other Malays in their hearts. They wanted the Malays to succeed in education, in business and they wanted the Malays to be able to stand with pride amongst the other races in Malaysia. They started their life in politics with these thoughts.

It changed when Mahathir took his place as Prime Minister. This was no ordinary man. He had intellect. He had intelligence. He worked hard and he knew exactly what he wanted and how to go about getting it. He was a man who had the power to do much. If only he had used his power for good rather then for evil.

As he was talking about racial harmony he understood the need of the racial divide to keep the people off balance and he used the racial divide to weave his politics of divide and rule. As he consolidated his hold on his cabinet he understood the need to have Minister who were corrupt, weak of the flesh and susceptible to the lure of money and every other imaginable persuasion so that he could use these weaknesses to exert control over them. Truly Mahathir is a disciple of Machiavelli – adept in using cunning and deceitful tactics in politics!

What happened with Pak Lah totally defined Mahathir. Nothing matters except what Mahathir wants. Not what UMNO, Barisan Nasional, the people or what the country wants. He will have his way no matter what. God did not give him the grace to understand that others are different in thoughts and deeds to him. In the end that will be the epitaph of this man.

And now to where we are at now. Does Najib ever stop to look at the people in the country that he is Prime Minister of as individuals? Does this Din who is so fond of issuing threats and ultimatums from his Ministry of Home Affairs ever stop to think that these people that he issues those threats and ultimatums are made up of individuals – Malay, Chinese, Indians, Sikhs, Ibans, young and old, men and women…that each and every one of these individuals are able to think for themselves and decide what they want to do with their life and their votes? Or are all these leaders on an ego trip?

“Ego: The fallacy whereby a goose thinks he’s a swan”

For me the spectacle of Najib trying to impose some semblance of dignity and authority to the position of Prime Minister of our country is sad because:

“The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply” Kahlil Gibran.

Najib you cannot build a house on sand. It is futile for you to expect the people of this country to allow you to govern them until you have earned that right.

For one you were not chosen to be Prime Minister of this country by the people – Pak Lah did! So you came into office with blood on your hands–Pak Lah’s blood. It was a well-organized assassination. UMNO at its best. Not only were Mahathir and you able to turn UMNO against their own President but also you even managed to get the people of Malaysia to come along for the ride.

At that point of time Najib presented a clear break from the excesses of Pak Lah and the ‘excesses’ we most disliked was the power (real or imagined) then being wielded by Khairy Jamaluddin. We would even have accepted Mahathir back as Prime Minister if it meant we could rid ourself of that young upstart call KJ!

So that alone meant that Najib came in as Prime Minister on a high. But wither goes Najib after that? The growing unpopularity of a once much loved and popular Prime Minister affectionately called Pak Lah had propelled Najib, albeit with much help from Mahathir, into a post he badly needed to ensure his political survival even as another potentially deadly threat looms -ALTANTUYA!

In my humble opinion where Najib erred was in his handling of the Altantuya situation. His early appointment as Prime Minister was not, as he thought, the solution to this problem. It merely gave him time to regroup. He should have used his entry into office to sit down quietly and figure out what he could do to diffuse the Altantuya problem – not use the Prime Minister’s office as a refuge from it.

Yes there were questions about his past judgement in his days as MB of Pahang and in Federal Politics that could embarrass him on a personal and political level but who in UMNO did not have skeletons in the closet? There were worries about the propensity of Rosmah to act more ‘Presidential’ then Najib but even this, with common sense, could be managed.

In other things political Najib had vision but lack substance. He was unable to maintain the mood of the people. When Pak Lah took over from Mahathir there was much hope for change for the better and this was reflected in the results of the emphatic 2004 election victory that the people gave to Pak Lah.

But this mood changed quickly when promises are not followed by action especially in today’s over wired news availability through the Net. As impressive as Pak Lahs “Work with me not for me” utterances were…cakap bukan serupa bikin…and his inability to rein in KJ costs him the Prime Minister’s job.

But Najib was unable to build on this. What he has done quite well without help from any quarters is to dig a hole too deep for him to climb out of – and there is nobody around willing to give him a helping hand to escape oblivion. Ahhhh the arrogance of power overcomes all of us…not just the strong and powerful, not just the little Napoleons…but also even those Mata Mata in uniforms on their money seeking beats around the streets of our towns and cities! They fail to understand that Malaysia belongs to many who are already dead, the few that are now living and the countless numbers that are still unborn!

For over fifty years you leaders in UMNO have been beating this country of ours to near death. It would do you all good if you stop to understand that we are all individuals amongst the faceless masses that you see. Go listen to what they have to say. Go understand what they aspire to. Or, better yet, understand that like you, they simply want the right to earn a decent living, a roof over their heads and the freedom to live their live to the best of their ability in peace.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855

If you understand this, then maybe you will understand the need to have compassion, decency and aspire to do well to others in your time as Prime Minister…in your time in life. ….but maybe…just maybe…it might be too much to ask of you and of those in Barisan Nasional.

PRESS STATEMENT:
26 October 2010

Keadilan wishes to clarify that the judgment in default obtained today by Felda was only against publisher Pelita Koridor Sdn Bhd and printer Percetakan NPK Sdn Bhd for failure to file the memorandum of appearance. This judgment was entered despite their appeal for a short postponement as they were in a process of appointing solicitors to handle their case. No merit of the case was heard.

No judgment in default was entered against the 4 other defendants namely Keadilan President Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Deputy President Dr Syed Husin Ali, and Dzulkarnain Taib and journalist Rusnizam Mahat of Suara Keadilan. All of them have filed in their statement of defence through their solicitors Edwin Lim, Suren and Soh.

The above defendants Pelita Koridor and printer Percetakan NPK Sdn Bhd will be applying to set aside the judgment in default once they have appointed their solicitors.

Kindly take note.

Issued by
Latheefa Koya
Information Chief

Dari Merdeka Review
Oleh Faisal Mustafa

Seperti tahun-tahun yang lampau, setiap kali Belanjawan dibentang, rakyat akan menanti-nantikan gula-gula yang bakal diumumkan bagi manfaat dan meningkatkan taraf hidup. Amat terkejut apabila dikaji dan diteliti

Belanjawan tersebut tidak menampakkan ianya memfokuskan keperluan dan kehendak rakyat kebanyakan, malah, ianya kembali ke era Mahathir dan projek meganya. Di sudut yang lain pula, golongan kemiskinan tegar berhempas-pulas mencari sesuap makanan.

Melalui temanya dan bibit-bibit ucapan politiknya, sudah tentu Belanjawan 2011 ini akan menjurus ke arah Negara berpendapatan tinggi. Namun sebarang petanda bahawa Belanjawan disediakan selaras dengan tema yang menjadi modal air liur sejak kebelakangan ini. Mereka mendakwa kononnya Belanjawan kali ini Belanjawan untuk rakyat, sedangkan rakyat sendiri menggelar Belanjawan kali ini sebagai “Belanjawan Seluar Dalam”.

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From The Canadian Press
By Julia Zappei, The Associated Press

A doctor acknowledged during Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial Monday that a detailed report he and two colleagues wrote after examining the Malaysian opposition leader’s accuser was never submitted as evidence in court.

General surgeon Mohamad Razali Ibrahim, a prosecution witness, made the revelation during cross-examination, bolstering defence claims that it has been repeatedly denied key pieces of evidence in the politically charged trial.

Following the disclosure, High Court Judge Mohamad Zabidin Diah immediately ordered the report to be produced as evidence and adjourned the trial until Tuesday.

Anwar, 63, claims the government concocted the charge of having sex with Saiful Bukhari Azlan — at that time his 23-year-old aide — to thwart his political career after big election gains in March 2008.
Anal sex, even when consensual, is a crime in Muslim-majority Malaysia, punishable by up to 20 years in jail.

Mohamad Razali and his two colleagues have previously testified that there was enough medical evidence to show that Saiful was sodomized. They have told the court that semen traces in swabs taken from Saiful proved that penetration took place despite a lack of physical scarring linked to anal sex.

A medical report dated July 13, 2008, and signed by the three doctors has been submitted in court to corroborate their testimony.
However, during cross-examination Monday, Mohamad Razali said he and the other two doctors had previously written a more detailed report after conducting a preliminary anal examination on Saiful on June 28, 2008, the day the accuser came to the hospital, complaining of pain in the anus.

The surgeon did not say what was written in the first report or why it never made it to the court. But the defence is apparently hoping that it will contradict the observations in the July 13 report.
“The prosecution witness has for the first time admitted that there was a prior report. … He says a lot more was written there,” defence lawyer Sankara Nair told reporters. “There are gaps. … If there is a contradiction, we need to know.”

The government has denied there is any conspiracy against Anwar, who is on trial for sodomy for the second time in his career. The first time was in 1998 after he was fired as deputy prime minister in the wake of a power struggle with then-leader Mahathir Mohamad.

Anwar was subsequently convicted of corruption and sodomy. He spent six years in jail before the sodomy charge was overturned. Anwar claimed he was framed by Mahathir, which the former leader denies.

After being released, Anwar formed an opposition coalition which made unprecedented inroads during general elections in March 2008.

Dari Harakah

Ketika penyokong BN yang mewakili 60.1 peratus pengundi Bumiputra Islam di Batu Sapi membuat bantahan secara terbuka terhadap BN kerana memilih calon bukan di kalangan mereka, penyokong Umno di Galas memprotes dalam diam pemilihan orang kuat Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah

sebagai calon di situ.

Di Sandakan, 500 ahli PBS dari bahagian Sekong membantah pencalonan Linda Tsen Thau Lin, balu Edmund Chong Ket Wah, bakas anggota Parlimen, sebagai calon BN di Batu Sapi.

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Jadual Kempen Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim di DUN Galas

26 Oktober 2010 (selasa)

9.00 – 12.00 mlm – Ceramah Perdana 1

Lokasi : Padang Bola Kampong Kerinting, Gua Musang

Penceramah:
1) YB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim
2) YB Dato’ Seri TG Haji Hadi Awang
3) YB Sallehudin Ayub
4) YB Dato’ Nasaruddin Daud
5) Lain-lain Pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat

9.00 – 12.00 malam – Ceramah Perdana 2

Lokasi : Peti Undi Kampong Baru, Gua Musang

Penceramah :

1) YB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim
2) YB Dato’ Seri TG Haji Hadi Awang
3) YB Sallehudin Ayub
4) YB Dato’ Nasaruddin Daud
5) Lain-lain Pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat

Dari Harakah

Ahli Parlimen Gombak, Mohamed Azmin Ali menegaskan, kedudukan Orang Asal di Semenanjung Malaysia tidak akan terjamin pada masa akan datang sekiranya hak mereka tidak dimasukkan dalam tafsiran Perkara 153 dan Perkara 160 Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

Azmin ketika mengemukakan soalan tambahan dalam sesi soal jawab lisan di Dewan Rakyat hari ini berkata, tiada langsung peruntukan dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan yang menjamin kepentingan Orang Asal di Semenanjung walhal mereka merupakan kaum pribumi yang telah lama menetap di negara ini.

Menurutnya, Fasal (2) Perkara 160 hanya menafsirkan Orang Asli adalah Orang Asli Semenanjung Tanah Melayu manakala dalam artikel 153 Perlembagaan Persekutuan, ianya hanya merangkumi Melayu dan Bumiputera Sabah dan Sarawak sahaja.

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Dari Malaysiakini

Kes perbicaraan liwat yang membabitkan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yang bersambung semula hari ini, dengan peguam bela, Karpal Singh menyoal-balas pakar bedah am Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Dr Mohd Razali Ibrahim.
Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur dikejutkan dengan pendedahan seorang doktor pakar bedah am, bahawa wujud sebuah laporan pemeriksaan awal terhadap pengadu utama, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan tetapi laporan itu tidak dibentangkan di mahkamah.

Menurut Dr Razali (kiri) beliau pernah mengendalikan dua kes liwat sebelum kes ini tetapi ini kali pertama dia diminta hadir memberi keterangan.

Katanya, Saiful diperiksa oleh doktor-doktor HKL untuk selama tiga jam dan sepanjang masa berkenaan pegawai penyiasat DSP Jude Pereira hadir bersama.

Beliau berkata doktor yang bertugas mencatatkan sejarah perubatan Saiful dan ada pada satu ketika pegawai polis itu juga menceritakan apa yang berlaku.

Dr Razali Ibrahim juga mengesahkan bahawa doktor-doktor pakar yang memeriksa Saiful antara 28 Jun sehingga 13 Julai 2008 menyediakan laporan awal mengenai hasil pemeriksaan itu.

Disoal Karpal sama ada laporan itu diminta oleh pihak atasan, Dr Razali menjawab “ya”.

Beliau juga berkata laporan polis Saiful terdapat dalam fail berkenaan. Namun semua tiga doktor berkenaan masih belum melihat laporan itu, ketika mereka menyediakan laporan masing-masing.

Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur Datuk Zaibidin Mohamad Diah kemudian mengarahkan Dr Razali untuk mendapatkan laporan berkenaan.

Ketua pendakwaraya Datuk Yusof Zainal Abiden berkata beliau tidak tahu menahu mengenai laporan pemeriksaan awal terhadap Saiful yang dimaksudkan oleh Dr Razali.

“Ini kali pertama saya mendengar mengenainya,” beliau memberitahu mahkamah.

Karpal kemudian memohon laporan perubatan yang pertama yang disediakan oleh ketiga-tiga doktor berkenaan selepas mereka merawat Saiful pada 28 jun. Laporan itu disediakan sebelum laporan bertarikh 13 Julai yang ditenderkan kepada mahkamah.

Perbicaraan kes liwat ini kemudiannya ditangguhkan sehingga esok bagi membolehkan pihak pendakwaan mengesan laporan perubatan awal berkenaan.

Di luar mahkamah, Anwar mendakwa pihak pendakawaan menipu mengenai wujudnya laporan perubatan awal.

Seorang lagi, peguam Anwar, Sankara Nair berkata Mohd Saiful menjalani pemeriksaan awal pada 28 Jun dan satu laporan awal disiapkan tetapi tidak diketengahkan kepada mahkamah.

Apa yang dikemukakan oleh pendakwaraya adalah hanya laporan yang memuatkan hasil pemeriksaan oleh Dr Razali dan dua pakar lain iaitu Dr Khairul Nizam dan Dr Siew Sheue Feng yang dibuat pada 13 Julai.

“Pemeriksaan awal telah dijalankan pada 28 Jun dan kami pasti wujud nota-nota mengenai lalar belakang perubatan Saiful dan hasil wawancara dengan beliau, “ kata Sankara.

Sankara berkata laporan awal itu penting untuk membuat perbandingan mengenai maklumat yang terkandung dalam laporan perubatan yang dikemukakan kemudian kepada mahkamah.

Beliau menyifatkan maklumat tertentu dalam laporan perubatan yang dibentangkan di mahkamah agak terbatas, contohnya sejarah perubatan Saiful dinyatakan sepintas lalu menerusi dua perenggan.

Selain Dr Razali, dua lagi doktor yang akan disoal-balas adalah patologi forensik Dr Siew Sheue Feng dan pakar bedah Dr Khairul Nizam Hassan.

Dua pakar dari Australia – profesor yang mengkaji jenayah dan pakar forensik, Dr David Wells serta pakar DNA Dr Brian McDonald – juga hadir bagi membantu pasukan pembelaan di Mahkamah Tinggi hari ini.

Pada sesi terakhir 14 Oktober lalu, Dr Siew, saksi ketiga memberi keterangan bahawa pengadu utama, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan memaklumkan kepadanya bahawa dia diliwat oleh seorang individu berprofail tinggi tanpa menggunakan kondom.

Dr Siew juga berkata siasatan awal menunjukkan tiada tanda-tanda kecederaan di badan mahupun di kawasan dubur Saiful.

Katanya, sampel daripada empat calitan kapas menunjukkan kehadiran air mani. Calitan kapas itu diambil dari sekitar kawasan dubur iaitu bahagian atas, bawah dan juga peri-anal.

“Ini menunjukkan ada kesan tusukan zakar berikutan penemuan sampel air mani lelaki,” katanya.

Dari TV Selangor

Ansari Abdullah,56, diumumkan oleh Ketua Umum Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sebagai calon Pakatan Rakyat untuk menggalas tugas besar dalam Pilihanraya Kecil P185 Batu Sapi.

Beliau merupakan seorang peguam yang banyak membela kes-kes tanah di Sabah.

Menjawat jawatan sebagai Ahli Majlis Tertinggi PKR dan Ketua Cabang Tuaran. Ansari yang lahir pada 11 Ogos 1954 mengambil jurusan Undang-undang di Universiti Malaya.

Anwar mengumumkan perkara demikian pada jam 5. 03 petang di Dewan Hakka Batu 6 Sandakan di sini.

Turut bersama dalam pengumuman ini ialah Presiden PAS ,Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, Naib Presiden PKR Azmin Ali dan pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat. Serentak dengan pengumuman itu hadirin memberikan tepukan dan sokongan kepada calon yang diumumkan bagi membawa misi besar Pakatan Rakyat khususnya di Negeri Bawah Bayu ini.

Tegas Anwar calon yang diumumkan akan membawa perjuangan membela rakyat Sabah terutamanya isu tanah ke peringkat lebih tinggi.

Hadi dalam ucapannya menegaskan walaupun pilihanraya 4 November di Batu Sapi merupakan satu pilihanraya kecil namun memberi makna besar kepada Sabah dan negara.

Tegas Hadi Awang, walaupun pilihanraya ini pilihanraya kecil namun memberikan makna yang besar kepada Sabah dan negara.

“Rakyat diberi peluang untuk menjadi hakim siapakah yang akan memimpin kerajaan. Pilihanraya Kecil Parlimen Batu Sapi merupakan pilihanraya ke-13 sejak Pilihanraya Umum ke-12 pada Mac 2008 lepas.,”kata Hadi.

Sebelum itu pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat Sabah memberikan ucapan yang senada dan komitmen untuk menumbangkan kerajaan Barisan Nasional dan memberikan kemenangan kepada calon Pakatan Rakyat.

Lebih 5,000 orang memenuhi dewan yang terletaknya lebih kurang 10 kilometer daripada pusat bandar Sandakan.

Sementara itu, Dewan Masyarakat Sandakan akan dijadikan pusat penamaan calon pada Selasa 26 Oktober dan pusat penjumlahan rasmi 4 November ini.

Sebanyak 12 pusat mengundi iaitu enam di Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Sekong dan enam lagi di DUN Karamunting dibuka, dan sebuah bot akan disediakan untuk kegunaan petugas ke satu pusat mengundi yang terletak di sebuah pulau, iaitu Pulau Timbang.

Pengundi berdaftar yang digazetkan bagi kawasan Parlimen tersebut sehingga 9 Oktober lepas ialah 25,582 orang iaitu 24,047 pemilih biasa dan 1,535 pengundi pos.

Kerusi Parlimen Batu Sapi kosong selepas penyandangnya dari Barisan Nasional (BN) Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah terbunuh dalam satu nahas jalan raya pada 9 Oktober lepas.

Pada perkembangan lain,Datin Linda Tsen Thau Lin, isteri kepada mendiang Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah yang juga Timbalan Ketua Wanita PBS Elopura diumumkan sebagai calon Barisan Nasional (BN) .

Dari Harakah

Ketua Umum Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menegaskan, biarlah Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak bercakap ikut rentaknya sendiri sebelum bersara sebagai Perdana Menteri yang keenam apabila Pakatan Rakyat berjaya ke Putrajaya.

“Biarkan Najib bercakap ikut rentak sendiri kononnya mahu menyekat kemaraan Pakatan Rakyat dengan nyawa dan badannya. Ini menunjukan dia dah bimbang, cuma takut nak khabarkan,” ujarnya ketika berucap dalam Majlis Makan Malam Tabung DAP di Raja Uda, malam tadi.

Tambah beliau yang juga Ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh, jika rakyat mahukan pembaharuan dalam pentadbiran, mereka perlu berani ke hadapan mengundi Pakatan Rakyat untuk ke pusat pentadbiran negara buat pertama kali dalam sejarah. (more…)