So here's another one, Cut&Pastry to serve Thee -- my most esteemed Readers! -- at thy breakfast table.Or maybe brunchtime -- you lazy BUM -- ooops -- BUMmer!
From the newest kid on the blog, freemalaysiatoday.com with some sweet icing on the fresh kambing, courtesy of my matey heart at work for the past month to bring the babe into this harsh, cruel world called REALITY:
PR Registration Marks Beginning of Two-party System
Sat, Nov 7, 2009
National
Zaid_IbrahimPakatan Rakyat (PR) coordinator Datuk Zaid Ibrahim says he is confident the authorities will approve the coalition’s registration.
“There’s no reason for the government to reject the application, now that all three parties (in the informal coalition) have agreed to merge into a single entity,” he said.
The three are Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), the Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Parti Islam sa-Malaysia (PAS).
Zaid is a member of the PKR supreme council and protem chairman of the proposed coalition. He submitted his application for PR registration to the Registrar of Societies (ROS) last Nov. 6.”We’re following the procedures that the ROS has prescribed as well as all legal requirements, and we’re now only awaiting approval,” he said.With the registration, the public can expect to see a written constitution and a common symbol for PR.
“We have agreed on the basic principles and these will be tabled at the PR convention his December, he said.He said the registration would mark the beginning of a two-party system for Malaysia, pointing out that it is a system adopted by all developed and democratic countries.
PAS Central Committee member Datuk Kamaruddin Jaafar also expressed confidence that ROS would approve the registration.kamaruddin
He said: “ROS has announced that there are no legal impediments, that only technical matters remain to be sorted out. Although we expect BN (Barisan Nasional) to launch all kinds of attacks, we are confident the registration will be successful.”
He added that the formalisation of the coalition would kill off all accusations about he three parties being at odds with one another. “Gone too are all those other issues raised in order to destabilise PR, such as the question of PAS cooperating with UMNO.”
teng DAP’s Teng Chang Khim, who is the Speaker of the Selangor Legislative Assembly, said the formalisation would result in a strengthened PR.”BN will see the registration as a threat,” he said. “They have been saying that the three parties have no common philosophy or purpose. The emergence of PR as a single entity will show in black and white that we indeed have similar objectives.”
He also said the coalition’s formalisation would not prevent other political parties rom joining it as long as there were no objections from any of the founding parties.The registration of PR is a step in the direction of a two-party system,” he added.
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SECOND HELPING, anywan?
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马华的存在价值？
07-11-09 19:05 PM
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刘国伟
作为已经历满60年的华基政党，从1949年成立以来，经历过不下于6次的大小党争，在每一次的党争中虽深明必有所失，但是却依然未能吸取历史教训，引发了一场又一场的党争，没错，这就是我们熟悉的马华。
不管是有史以来最剧烈的梁陈党争或历时最久的双林AB队党争，都说明马华在『内斗』方面有着其他政党望尘莫及的本事。
当人民终日遭受电动火车的拥挤煎熬，当公立医院的设备与素质无法提升，而医务人员态度傲慢时，当国家的旅游美食的专利都可以出现争议时，我们的马华领袖却只不过正在忙着拜票，铲除异己。
详文。。。
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Self-help helping jest For THE Record -- I still spin the 45rpm His Master's Voice vynl, favourite tune as we look into the mirror every morn,who's that Man in the mirror? which every Malaysian involved or committed to the AGENDA4CHANGE must ask of themselves, OCCASIONALLY. Yes, only on occasions I llok into that mirror to check on the dwindling number of Einstein lookalike hair on the bald plate:)
BLOGORHYTHMS
Sun, Nov 1 redated 8 (cun ah?), 2009
Opinion
A Fifth Estater Shares Some Personal Bytes
By YL Chong aka Desiderata
I am sure my esteemed readers would know what the Fourth Estate refers to in general. Just for the education of ignoramuses, digressing a little for your benefit –- modern commentators seem to interpret the term “fourth estate” as meaning the fourth “power” which checks and counterbalances the three state powers of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary.
Hence ,the Fourth Estate encompasses the traditional media like the Press, manifested by their products that is the papers on your breakfast table represented by the The Star, The New Straits Times and theSun, and in the background the television stations like RTM and TV3, and radio networks like 89.9 and LiteFM resounding with their visual and sound bytes. I know many of you refer to newspapers as MSM (mainstream media) with unspoken disdain – I can tell from the special intonation in thy voice in your less guarded moments of exuberance, my *BUMmer friends!
My virginal column today is about a younger Estate called the Fifth, a term coined by the American press to describe a new breed of writers riding the wave of Internet journalism, who don’t need much capital but just time and some basic writing skills to start a weblog, shortened to blog, generously hosted gratis by providers such as Blogger.com and Wordpress.com. A blog is essentially an amateur’s journal comprising entries, which could be newsy, or just lifestyle or personal diary jottings, normally entered into a logbook in the old days, but now enabled by the world wide web to be posted on the Internet almost instantaneously.
My articles here will mostly concern a subset of this species called Bloggers, i.e. those Bloggers specialising on socio-political topics — termed “SoPo” by one buddy who runs his posts at howsy.blogspot.com, and then-London-based budded the idea to organise a gathering of such specimens which resulted in my involvement, and as they say, the rest is history called *BUM2007.
These Bloggers and their commenters often render the www another “wild, wild west” where there is hardly any law in operation, comparable to the law at the end of the barrel of the gun in early United States frontiers inhabited by colourful legends like Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the Clanton brothers, and now the cyber frontiers by the loudmouthed conversationists who also shoot from their hips. Yes, we have fearless Malaysians who enjoy letting steam off in their OK Corral, and their motto is that “No holes are barred” – not the Prime Minister and his cronies, definitely not The Beauty and the Beasts, and not the Opposition Leader, and yes, his cronies too! The only restrain with the modern-day pioneers may be a Court Order or a letter from the aggrieved subject’s lawyers for a few million quid and to “cease and desist” from further defamation. Such “Officialese” these modern cyber combatants would collectively greet with four-letter words which I won’t dignify spelling out here because some under-aged girls from Malacca may be my fans, hear. LOL! That’s blogspeak for Laughing out loud!
At present, most people of the senior age group still depend on the daily newspapers or TV channels for coverage of current events, local and international. The new media will see mostly the younger set who will wield growing influence in opinion shaping, and hence local political developments, as the Bloggers and their readers step up in engaging in "interactive" debate. Even the Barisan Nasional component parties have wakened up to this new turf for warring, with the UMNO Youth setting up cyber troopers to join the battle field. This will only augur well for the country, for a more informed citizenry who benefit from critical intellectual discourse across political divides will aid the process of a democratising nation committed to a freer Malaysia.
Citizen journalism will continue to grow as long as the MSM are constrained by restrictive laws such as the Printing Presses and Publications Act and the Official Secrets Act, and an Information ministry that oversees information and the media more as a propaganda machinery as self-confessed by a former Barisan Nasional Information Minister. A recent Star report titled “ The truth emerges” quoted former Information Minister Mohamed Rahmat in a book that was released on Oct 12 admitting to the fact “… that his job was really as a Propaganda Minister”.
In his political memoirs, Umno: Akhir Sebuah Impian (Umno: The End of a Dream), he explained how his ministry’s campaigns, such as Setia (Loyalty), were actually a response to the Team A versus Team B split in Umno in 1987.
Tok Mat also admitted in his book that he first used Information Ministry staff in 1977 on a “mission” to topple the PAS State Government of Kelantan. He also revealed that in 1995, during the Sabah state elections, he sent 500 ministry staff members to “campaign for Umno” against PBS (Parti Bersatu Sabah, which was controlling the state government then).
To a question by the Star interviewer, if he considered what he did an abuse of power, Tok Mat, as the minister is popularly called, replied: “You could say I abused radio and TV, but it was a privilege I had. I could not depend on TV3, (The New) Straits Times, Berita Harian or Utusan Malaysia because they were then controlled by Anwar Ibrahim’s boys. I had no choice but to use RTM.
“I was asked to bring PBS down. I shut the media off, there were no reports. People didn’t know what the Sabah Government was doing, so it looked like they were doing nothing. It was a very dirty tactic,” he now confessed.
This has given rise to the much entrenched “self-censorship” practice by the MSM Editors trying to outdo each other to be His Master’s Voice, as disclosed by former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad at *BUM 2009.
It is generally acknowledged –- especially by the Opposition and civil society groups, and also belatedly by the federal ruling government’s leaders – that the tsunamic electoral swing towards the Opposition in the last General Election was in substantial part caused by the presence of a thriving Internet media including the Sopo Blogs. Here I will cite three Sopo buddies who have influenced Desi in blogosphere — Jeff Ooi of screenshots.com, who graduated to become a DAP member of Parliament, Ahirudin Attan of rockybru.com, alleged by some quarters to have “sold” out, but that’s for a brighter day), and I will be forced into committing harikiri if I omitted Raja Petra Kamarudin of malaysia-today.net.
Digressing a byte, which is a Blogger’s privilege to abuse, I note that at RPK’s, some regular commenters over-claim their joint “ownership" so much so they use “profanities” in every other sentence, not much different from my villager-mates used to at the basketball court some three decades back, and I thought I had progressed somewhat. One colleague is being kind describing these fifth estaters by association as “rabid”; I quickly add that, at least they are not labelled as “communist”. As a fifth estater, I adopt the policy of “Live and Let Live”, and it will be brotherhood if we end the day chorusing the Beatles’
About two years back, a group of Bloggers associated with the People’s Parliament launched a boycott of the mainstream media. Certain parties, including this writer, managed to “dilute” the action from a total boycott to just not buying the newspapers one day in a week, hence the initiative was renamed “Paperless Tuesdays” or something like that. I am happy to report most Bloggers I interact with are reasonable conversationists, making good sparring partners — they do listen to Other Voices. I believe dissenters on the Harlal MSM move, including myself, and the late Capt Yusof Ahmad (May his soul rest in peace) aka Ancient Mariner, who impressed on the organisers that boycotts of any kind must take into consideration the impact on fellow Malaysians dependent on that trade or product for a living. got a good hearing. A secondary point I raise too personally: frankly, are such boycotts sustainable in the long term?
In fact, most founders, especially the Editors, of current online news portals like malaysiakini.com and The Nut Graph, hailed previously from the MSM where they honed their journalistic skills, and like it or not, the reality is that many MSM newshounds have also carved a name for themselves in blogosphere. I believe having one foot in each of the 4th and 5th Estates brings along certain advantages as well as challenges. Ask the Protem president of the yet-to-be-registered National Alliance of Bloggers, Rockybru, who recently graduated back into Malay Mail as chief honcho careering as Ahirudin Attan and receiving lots of accusations by bloggers who once “walked with Rocky” as having “sold out”, but that rumour is for another day.
BUM refers to Bloggers Universe Malaysia, and a BUMmer is hence a resident of that universe by practice or association. Desiderata is proud to say for the record he and some fellow BUMmers organised the three annual outings — BUM2007, BUM2008 and BUM2009.
The columnist YLCHONG, who boasts three decades of journalism experience covering mainstream, alternative and diplomatic fields, will spin his Blogorhythms as and when the BUMmer heart beats in tandem with his newshound mind cells. He blogs at desiderata2000.blogspot.com where often he spices his posts with DDC, translated as Da Desi Code because he’s nowhere nigh Da Vinci. Those who know him well know he’s easily bought over by a cuppa of tehtarik, and Lingam’s kambing will be appreciated as a bonus.
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4.00PM: Equal 4th helping from My Malaysian buddiess -- Dr Nagappan with teammatey Nantha Kumar and Mageswari --who share in his mother tongue I will slowly learn to desipher!:)
மலேசியா கிண்ண இறுதியாட்டம்: வெற்றி யாருக்கு?
Fri, Nov 6, 2009
செய்திகள், விளையாட்டு
பா.நந்தக்குமார்
நாட்டின் புகழ்பெற்ற கால்பந்து போட்டியாக விளங்கும் மலேசியா கிண்ண இறுதியாட்டத்தில் கிளந்தான் நெகிரி செம்பிலானைச் சந்திக்கவுள்ளது. 39 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு பிறகு இறுதியாட்டத்திற்குத் தகுதி பெற்று இருக்கும் கிளந்தான் குழு கிண்ணத்தை வெற்றி பெற்றே தீர்வது என்று முழு மூச்சில் களம் காணவுள்ள வேளையில் கிளந்தானை வீழ்த்தும் சூட்சமம் எங்களுக்குத் தெரியும் என நெகிரி செம்பிலான் மார்தட்டி வருகின்றது.
நாளை இரவு 8.45 மணியளவில் புக்கிட் ஜாலில் தேசிய அரங்கில் இரு குழுக்களும் பலப்பரிட்சையில் இறங்குகின்றன. 2006ஆம் ஆண்டில் பெர்லீஸ் குழுவுடன் இறுதியாட்டத்தில் தோல்வி கண்ட நெகிரி செம்பிலான் மூன்று ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பிறகு இறுதியாட்டத்திற்குத் தேர்வாகியுள்ளது.
தங்களுக்குக் கிடைத்திருக்கும் இந்த இறுதியாட்ட வாய்ப்பை நன்றாகப் பயன்படுத்திக் கொள்வோம் என நெகிரி செம்பிலான் அணியின் கேப்டன் சாம்ரி யாயா தெரிவித்துள்ளார். நாளை நடைபெறவிருக்கும் இறுதியாட்டத்தில் கிளந்தான் வெற்றி பெறும் எனப் பலரும் கருத்துரைத்துள்ளதை நிராகரிக்கும் அவர் கிளந்தான் குழுவைக் காட்டிலும் நெகிரி செம்பிலான் மாநிலத்தில் இன்னும் திறமையான ஆட்டக்காரர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள் எனக் கூறினார்.
இதனிடையே கிளந்தான் அணியின் புதிய கேப்டன் இந்திரா புத்ரா பேசுகையில், எப்.ஏ கிண்ண இறுதியாட்டதில் சிலாங்கூரிடம் தோல்வி கண்ட கிளந்தான் மலேசியா கிண்ணத்தை வெல்ல முழு வீச்சில் களம் இறங்கும் எனப் பதிலளித்தார். 39 ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பிறகு இறுதியாட்டத்திற்கு தேர்வு பெற்றிருக்கும் வாய்ப்பை வீணாக்க மாட்டோம்.
மலேசியா கிண்ண வரலாற்றில் முதல் முறையாக கிண்ணத்தை வென்று கிளந்தான் மக்களுக்கு இன்ப அதிர்ச்சி வழங்குவோம் என அவர் மேலும் தெரிவித்தார். நாளை இரவு 8.45 மணிக்கு புக்கிட் ஜாலில் தேசிய அரங்கில் நடக்கவிருக்கும் இறுதியாட்டம் கால்பந்து ரசிகர்களுக்கு ஒரு விருந்தாக அமையும் என்பதில் ஐயமில்லை.
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