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November 21, 2016November 21, 2016

The Pleb Versus The Noblemen

Whoever is familiar with the study of the Constitution would know Walter Bagehot, an editor, economist and political analyst who also wrote a book called ‘The English Constitution.’ There is one apposite quote of his that I thought befits the current situation and that is:

“Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.”

The above quote refers to that man who claims to be virtuous but really is the epitome of evil; so evil that Pharaohs would have sought help from God’s Prophets to free them from this person – Mahathir Mohammad.

We have had noblemen leading this country, shining a light upon the path in which this nation walks even through its darkest hour. Tunku Abdul Rahman was the son of the 25th Sultan of Kedah, Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid. Tun Abdul Razak was the son of the 9th Orang Kaya Indera Shahbandar of Pahang, Dato Hussein bin Mohd Taib. Tun Hussein Onn was the son of UMNO founder, Dato Onn Jaafar who was the Menteri Besar of Johor.

I was priveleged some time back to a chat with Professor Anthony Milner, a researcher from the Australian National University, an Emeritus Professor, School of Culture, History & Language of the ANU, on the topic of the Malays. We were discussing the origin of the Malays and the ‘Rajas Melayu.’ Interesting to note that our paths converged when we both agreed that the Malays refer to a collection of people of the Nusantara spanning from the borders of Polynesia and Melanesia to Sumatra, who pledged allegiance to the Rajas whose respective dominions were all that they could survey. It was only when political boundaries were defined in a clearer manner that the Malays were defined according to the nation that they lived in.

The antonym of a nobleman would be a commoner. The fourth Prime Minister was not born into the aristocracy like his predecessors, or a prominent religious family like his successor. In short, I would term him a pleb: a low-born, uncultured, coarse, rude, undistinguished – and a personal favourite: scum. His grandfather, Iskander Kutty hailed from the southern Indian state of Kerala. His father was from Pulau Pinang, a school principal.

Mahathir had nothing to show. He had nothing compared to his predecessors. This probably shaped the way he managed this country: through the rule of iron fist, autocratic, dictatorial, enriching cronies and nipotes to prepare him for the end of days. A man who has nothing has nothing to lose. Therefore, it was always his way, or the highway. He had this habit of making enemies everywhere, including the members of the royal households. And as James A Baldwin once said, “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”

One would have thought that this nonagenarian would spend the twilight moments of his miserable life repenting for the wrongs he had done, alas no! His perfervid hatred for the man who stands in between him and his undying ambition to ensure that his family would be remembered as an aristocratic bunch rather than the descendants of the evil-smelling Kutty whom had just gotten out of the stowage of a slave ship, has caused him to make a reciprocal turn on all his words, often filled with delusional tales to cloud the minds of those too young to remember anything bad about him. He has nothing to lose.

In 1867, Bagehot asserted in ‘The English Constitution‘ that the Constitution needed two parts: the dignified – to excite and preserve the reverence of the population’ and the other, the efficient – to ‘employ that homage in the work of government’. The monarch was the prime example of dignity in this sense and the Prime Minister and his cabinet of efficiency. Therefore, the monarch, while lacking executive power, had an important constitutional role.

But in 1993, Mahathir, being a pleb and an undignified one too, decided to encroach into the realm of the dignified. Mahathir amended the Federal Constitution with the aim of removing legal immunity of the royalty.The amendments were made at a time when the Malaysian monarchy witnessed a deteriorating relationship with the government (specifically Mahathir). Before the amendments were made, the Constitution granted rulers who have violated the law not to be prosecuted by the criminal court unless he voluntarily wishes to surrender his legal immunity.

This laid the royalty bare and are now subjected to public scrutiny, bringing the royalty and monarchy close to becoming irrelevant. As a result, members of the royalty have been seen to assiduously court public opinion after prolonged years of subservience to Mahathir’s rule (Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, Muhamad Takiyuddin Ismail (2013)).

Mahathir had nothing to lose. These were the Rajas Melayu. He need not show any allegiance to anything Malay as he is not truly one. UMNO was just a vehicle for him to have power in order to make riches. When UMNO went against him he had UMNO declared illegal in 1988. Then he created a new UMNO where playing fields were no longer level and he had automatic nominations as the President of UMNO. What is UMNO to him but just another Malay institution where he, the soupçon Malay felt no allegiance to.

Finally, the Sultan of Johor told Mahathir to shut up. Not once, but twice.

And Mahathir is never concerned about the people of Malaysia. Politics, to him, is what serves only him. Therefore, his call for the people to overthrow the government is a total reciprocal from his way of dealing with demonstrations against him during his premiership. And how was it during his time?

During his time, when people demonstrated against him, he appealed to the participants to use the ballot box to bring about their desired reform. What is his stand now? He incites people to force change undemocratically!

You can watch a video to see how Mahathir had Anwar Ibrahim arrested and the way he had the police to handle those who demonstrated against him when he was the Prime Minister.

As Lord Acton wrote in his letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton on the 5th April 1887:

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

And in the case of Mahathir he is not just a bad man, but a pleb and a scum.

November 20, 2016November 20, 2016

Much Ado About Nothing

I remember waking up on a Sunday, 9th March 2008 it was, thinking how different life would be thenceforth. The Barisan Alternatif, the precursor to the now-defunct Pakatan Rakyat had managed to wrestle the state of Srlangor where I live from the clutches of the Barisan Nasional, which also lost three other states, Pulau Pinang, Perak and Kedah. It was a situation difficult to fathom but I though to myself the voters had spoken and that the Barisan Alternatif had won these states fair and square and that democracy works.

Just four months before that, the Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil (BERSIH) organised a rally demanding the clean-up of the electoral roll, use of indelible ink, abolition of the postal voting for military and police personnel, and free and fair access to the mass media for all political parties. Between 10,000 to 50,000 protesters attended the rally. On that note, the victory of the Barisan Alternatif in the four states underscored the fact that the election system and principle of democracy work in Malaysia.

Since then, BERSIH has seen their numbers dwindling. BERSIH 2.0 saw between 10,000 to 20,000 people attending this rally. BERSIH 3.0 again saw about 20,000 people attending while BERSH 4.0 saw between 29,000 to a peak of 50,000 people attending. With over 13 million registered voters in Malaysia those who attended the BERSIH rallies made up on 0.38 percent of the total number of voters – hardly a significant number.

Prinumi founder, Mahathir Mohammad, attended BERSIH 4.0, and declared his support for the movement. This is funny considering that when he was that capricious potentate for 22 years, he banned all protests and assemblies and locked away those who opposed him without any chance of a trial.

In an effort to bring Najib Razak down, Mahathir undertook an effort to get the people to sign his Deklarasi Rakyat and in May of this year declared that the declaration had gotten the signature of 1.27 million individuals. This is a significant number since it represented 9.77 percent of the number of total voters in Malaysia.

It was funny that Mahathir had chosen to make a grand entrance to join the BERSIH 5.0 participants – using a private jet. For someone whose battle cry include the fight against GST and rising cost of living, blaming government austerity drive for all that, he surely knows how to show those whom he lead the meaning of prudent spending.

One would have thought that with Mahathir’s participation, at least a million people would flood the streets of Kuala Lumpur, but that never materialised. only 15,500 participants attended the rally. That was all that Mahathir could muster – a meagre 31 percent of the previous BERSIH attendees. This is because people could see how big a hypocrite Mahathir is, and many stayed away because of his support.

Mahathir should realise that people can see through his lies and know better than to join in the farcical struggle to fight corruption. After all, he is the Father of Corruption. I did not say that. Anwar Ibrahim did. And Mahathir fighting against corruption is as hypocritical as having Lim Guan Eng, who has been charged in court for corruption, join BERSIH to fight corruption.

Let us face it. The only way to change a government democratically is through the ballot box. The 2008 and 2013 General Elections have proven so. Why demonstrate when it is much ado about nothing?

November 17, 2016

The Swedish Kroni

BERSIH seems to have changed their tactic to get the support of the masses from having sexy girls wearing their t-shirt to having an old man donning the latest t-shirt.

For all the hype that Mahathir’s done in support of his friends at BERSIH, the fossil will not be attending the rally on Saturday. Instead, he will be flying off to Sweden. And it won’t be the first time that he leaves the country after causing something bad.

19th November will also be the 31st anniversary of the Memali tragedy. Mahathir left the country a few days after that while his then-deputy Musa Hitam took all the flak for the mishandling of the event.

But why Sweden?

I found this. Perhaps he’s gone to get outside help again to run this country down.

November 16, 2016November 16, 2016

When God Is Not Lord

Oh! Here goes a Muslim trying to teach Christians about Christianity. I don’t see the wrong in doing so when I see Christians in the form of DAP politicians quoting the Quran teaching Muslims what ‘true Islam’ is. They even do so within mosques and suraus.
I was reading the Malaysia Outlook’s article on a Catholic activist telling Catholics to stay away from the BERSIH gathering on the 19th November 2016. The activist, Joseph Sta Maria has irked fellow Catholics by asking them to refrain from participating in Saturday’s gathering. Among the condemnations against Joseph include the following:

I find it amusing that some people think that Catholicism was borne out of politics. It wasn’t. Catholicism is the earliest form of Christianity that predates the First Council of Nicaea by 325 years! Followers of Jesus of Nazareth believes that Jesus is the son of God which is part if the Trinity concept. After Jesus was crucified and rose from the date, he appointed Peter as the leader, hence the very first Pope.

Joseph Sta Maria is the head of the Melaka Portuguese Community and was appointed as a representative of minority ethnic communities under the state Barisan Nasional’s social service unit (Pembela), an effort by Malacca Chief Minister Idris Haron to address the needs, and include the views, of minority communities.

Mixing religion with politics started when Anthony Bernard Paul, the Bishop for Melaka and Johor, openly made a statement in support of BERSIH.

The call by Bernard Paul for Christians to participate in the BERSIH rally invited the criticism by Parti Cinta Malaysia’s Vice President Huan Cheng Guan.

As a Bishop, said Huan, Bernard should focus more on church matters rather than meddling into political matters that were irrelevant to religion.

“Don’t bring religion into politics. It’s unwarranted. I think this is a half past six Bishop. Why urge the people to participate in Bersih rally?”
“A religious figure like him should not encourage the public to go for demonstration or rally. A highly respected religious figure, but he talks like an idiot,” blasted Huan.
I personally find Bernard Paul’s calling as an invitation to anarchy. He gave his reasons for his support of BERSIH which goes along the thinking of Christian supporters if gun rights in the US and Christians might wrongly twist these into excuses for disrespect and disobedience to authorities which is forbidden by God as given in the Bible.

“Every person is to be in the subjection of the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those in exist are eatablished by God.” (Romans 13:1)

The commandment is addressed to all mankind, without exception. Every person is included in this instruction—both believers and unbelievers. Every person is required to be in subjection to the governing authorities. Subjection certainly includes obedience, but it implies even more. Subjection focuses on the spirit or attitude of the individual, which leads to obedience. It recognizes an authority over us to which we are obliged to give not only our obedience but our respect. Whether democratic or autocratic, heathen or God-fearing, every government which has the power to rule over its people has been granted that power and authority by God.

Therefore he who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.

Of course there would still be thise Christians who would believe in Bernard Paul’s calling to the BERSIH rally more than God’s Bible. Given that Christians like Tony Pua, Hannah Yeoh and a few others who continue to lie despite calling themselves Christians, how many Christians actually believe in the Bible?

And how many would remember 2Corinthians 11:14?

“And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”

November 15, 2016November 15, 2016

Bila Bulan Mengambang Ramai Jadi Parasit

Saya ingin berkongsi maklumat daripada Saudara Mohd Syamirulah Rahim mengenai mitos yang mengaitkan parasit, gula dan bulan mengambang yang sering dikongsi oleh laknat-laknat yang bersekolah tetapi mempunyai parasit memenuhi kaviti otak:

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PARASIT MENGGANAS KETIKA BULAN PENUH?

Sebuah kepercayaan khurafat yang sebenarnya sebahagian dari agenda besar yang membahayakan nyawa anak-anak kita.
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Nematode, Cestodes, Trematodes. Ini adalah antara apa yang saya pelajari ketika tahun pertama sekolah perubatan lagi, didalam subjek Parasitology. Kami belajar mengenali apa itu parasites, meneliti rupabentuk mereka melalui mikroskop dan melukis kembali, mempelajari bagaimana cara mereka membiak dan keadaan mereka membiak.

Subjek Parasitology ini agak ketara di ingatan saya kerana itu tahun pertama saya di Russia, dan kebetulan itu winter pertama saya. Hendak ke kelas seawal jam 7 di pagi musim sejuk Russia sangat, sangat mencabar.

Atas sebab itulah saya sendiri cukup teringat memori belajar mengenali Taenia solium, saginata, loa loa, trichuris trichura onchocerca wusheriria entamoeba (dan pelbagai lagi).
Subjek parasitology tidak berakhir di situ. Throughout the years, kami mempelajari pula mengenai sistem tubuh badan. Bagaimana sistem pertahanan tubuh badan berfungsi, melindungi diri dari jangkitan parasit-parasit ini. Sampai tahun keempat, kami belajar sekali lagi mengenai parasitology khususnya melibatkan aspek pediatrik (kanak-kanak).

Kali ini termasuk juga bab rawatan dan bab komplikasi. Tak cukup dengan itu, di tahun enam, kami ulang sekali lagi bab jangkitan parasit melalui subjek Infectious Disease.

Kali ini lebih mencabar kerana kami perlu turun sendiri ke hospital penyakit berjangkit (infectious disease hospital) melihat sendiri penyakit-penyakit ini.
Dan itu pengalaman ketika study.

Bila masuk bekerja, jumpa sendiri pesakit yang ada helminth infection. My goodness. Lebih menakutkan dan ngeri. Saya pernah ada seorang pesakit, kanak-kanak dari kalangan orang asli. When we started the treatment, boleh keluar cacing-cacing tu selambak teruknya. And there is always a presentation.

Maksudnya pesakit jangkitan parasite ni tidak akan datang saja-saja dengan batuk selesema muntah with no clear presentation. There is always a presentation, but whether it is clear or not, it is up to the clinician untuk evaluate.

Sebab itulah tak pernah saya lihat pakar-pakar mendiagnosis jangkitan parasite/kecacingan hanya berdasarkan satu dua klu. Mesti ada “soalan-soalan spesifik” yang akan ditanyakan. Mesti ada pemeriksaan. Dan sudah tentu, untuk merawat, mesti ada bukti perlu disertakan.

Tidak pernah seorang doktor mendiagnosis seseorang pesakit, “Awak ada jangkitan kecacingan” melalui Facebook. Ianya tidak beretika. Diagnosis tidak boleh dibuat semudah itu. Apatah lagi mengatakan “awak perlu start makan ubat blablabla”.

Tiba tiba…
Sampai kepada saya sebuah dakwaan bahawasanya “parasite lebih aktif membiak ketika full moon”. Saya pertama kali dengar benda ini dari sumber luar negara, bukannya dari Malaysia.

Tak pernah-pernah masa saya belajar, ada dikaitkan dengan kitaran bulan terhadap jangkitan parasite. Fikir pun dah tak logik. Macam mana parasite tu tahu, esp kalau dia duduk dalam badan? Dia boleh nampak ke bulan tu full moon ke tidak? Apa mekanisma dia tahu? Nak merawat ni, its all about explaining.

Kalau air pasang sebab bulan penuh tu pun kita ada explanation dia, how would you explain parasite yang tak boleh nak appreciate phase of moon as their stimuli, tiba-tiba boleh react on that?

Moreover, sepanjang pengalaman saya termasuklah di jabatan kanak-kanak dan jabatan kecemasan, tak ada pula tiba-tiba kes kecacingan meningkat ketika bulan penuh. Kalau ada mesti kita dah boleh expect, sebulan sekali ada spike, peningkatan kes kecacingan. Kita ada statistik, ada rekod kedatangan pesakit, rekod kemasukan pesakit di ward. Tidak pernah wujud pattern tersebut – bila masuk time bulan purnama je, banyak kes kecacingan.

It does not make sense.
Saya cuba semak kesahihan dakwaan tersebut. Semua carian saya, membawa kepada laman-laman web “dubious” di Internet. Menariknya laman-laman ini tidak ada rujukan saintifik langsung.

Yang ada hanya anekdot dan testimoni. Menarik lagi, dakwaan kononnya full moon boleh mempengaruhi ini, sejarahnya boleh dijejaki sehingga ke zaman jahiliyah. Zaman eropah dalam pagan.

Heish, ini kepercayaan khurafat. Khurafat? Yelah, khurafat, mempercayai bahawa sesuatu fenomena alam yang berlaku boleh menentukan keadaan/kesihatan dalam keadaan tiada penjelasan yang diterima akal. Khurafat lah tu.

Percaya kalau burung terbang ke kiri atau kanan memberi petunjuk kepada perjalanan. Ini yang dinamakan tatayyur.

Arab zaman dulu percaya gerhana bulan dikaitkan dengan kematian. Nabi s.a.w cukup marah bila kematian anaknya dikaitkan dengan gerhana bulan.

Fenomena alam adalah tanda-tanda kekuasaan Allah. Memang sesetengah fenomena alam boleh membawa kesan khasnya kepada kesihatan, tetapi bukanlah kepercayaan membuta tuli.

“Khurafat adalah kepercayaan kepada ramalan-ramalan bintang, zodiak, angka, nombor, kod matrik, tarikh kelahiran, abjad nama, rajah-rajah tertentu, kitaran hari dan bulan dalam kalendar, bertenung nasib dan sebagainya dalam merancang dan melaksanakan sesuatu perkara dan mengatur kehidupan serta menentukan masa depan;”, demikian disebutkan didalam garispanduan Khurafat yang dikeluarkan Jabatan Mufti Negeri Melaka.

Carian saya menerusi laman-laman sains pula menemui ZERO kaitan antara full moon dan jangkitan parasit. Takkanlah fenomena alam yang dah beribu tahun ni, tak pernah ada orang perasan dan buat kajian mengenainya dan membuktikannya? Tiada. Yang ada hanyalah kajian yang membuktikan fasa bulan TIADA KENA MENGENA dengan kesihatan.

Di jurnal kajian haiwan pula, ada dijumpai. Tapi semuanya menafikan dakwaan tersebut, atau memberikan penjelasan yang logik.

Contohnya dakwaan bahawa tabiat singa menjadi lebih kerap memburu ketika bulan penuh. Bukannya sebab singa tu ada sensor khas boleh tahu bulan dalam fasa apa. Tapi sebab bila bulan penuh, cahaya tersebut membantu singa memburu dengan lebih mudah. Itu penjelasan yang logik dan diterima akal, dan dibuktikan secara saintifik.

Menariknya, kaitan antara jangkitan parasite dan full moon, turut tidak lari dari dikaitkan dengan penyakit…u know it.. AUTISM.

Aik, dulu kata vaksin penyebab autism? Ini kata kononnya jangkitan parasite pula turut menyebabkan autism? It does not tally at all. Kita dah banyak kali ulang, autism is a spectrum of disease with multiple etiologies. Tapi tak pernah kita kaitkan antara jangkitan parasite dengan autism. Kanak-kanak autism dan kanak-kanak biasa, kedua-duanya berpotensi dijangkiti parasite. Tidak ada link mahupun correlation mengaitkan keduanya.

Buktinya cukup mudah. For the last few decades, bilangan kes parasitic infection adalah semakin berkurangan (kerana parasite dikaitkan dengan kebersihan, dan kita dah berjaya mencapai kebersihan yang banyak khususnya melibatkan negara dunia ketiga dan negara membangun).

Sedangkan, bilangan kes autism pula semakin meningkat over the last few decades. Ironinya, ini hujah geng mereka juga, bilangan kes autism semakin meningkat, puncanya adalah sebab thiomersal dalam vaksin.

Tapi bila kita remove dan ban thiomersal dari vaksin (following wakefield claim), kes autism tetap meningkat juga.

Dakwaan-dakwaan mereka ini terbukti tidak tally dan tidak saintifik.

Lebih menarik lagi, semua laman-laman yang membicarakan mengenai kaitan jangkitan parasit dengan bulan, pasti akan menyebut sesuatu yang digelar “parasite protocol”.

Manusia-manusia yang menyebarkan kerisauan dalam ibubapa bila mengatakan “anak jadi batuk masa bulan penuh sebab ada parasit”, mereka sendiri bila ditanya “habis nak buat macam mana?“, akan menjawab dengan “parasite protocol“.

Tidak ada yang menyuruh berjumpa doktor untuk pemeriksaan lanjut.
Parasite Protocol, kononnya ianya sebuah strategi khas membasmi kewujudan parasit dari tubuh badan.

Apa yang disebut sebagai kononnya “protocol” tersebut pun tidak ada satu guidelines yang jelas. It’s not “a” protocol.

Masing-masing laman web ada variasi masing-masing. It’s multiple protocols. Saya mencari lebih lanjut mengenai protocol ini.

Secara asasnya ia membawa general rule yang sama – katanya gula menyebabkan parasite menjadi aktif, tapi memakan sayur-sayuran akan mengurangkan keaktifannya.

Ini pelik. Kerana kalau disebut gula, dalam usus badan manusia semua jenis karbohidrat akan ditukarkan menjadi gula ringkas untuk tujuan penyerapan. Ini kami pelajari dalam bab digestive system.

Dari enzim-enzim yang ada, hinggalah struktur sel usus sendiri. Manakala sayur-sayuran pula, well guess what, sesetengah parasit merebak melalui sayur-sayuran pun. Not necessarily melalui daging atau sumber lain sahaja.

Bahan-bahan lain, tak usah cakap lah. Ada yang suruh beri air laut. Ada yang suruh beri pasir.

Ya, pasir.

“Protocol” ini bukan sehari sahaja. Tapi diulang-ulang setiap hari sehingga berbulan lamanya.

The protocol does not make sense. I look further into it just to be sure. Then it struck me. Ada manusia yang gila turut meletakkan CD sebagai sebahagian dari “parasite protocol”. Bukan CD movie tu. Tapi chlorine dioxide. Ianya bahan peluntur yang lebih kuat berbanding chlorin yang dicampurkan didalam air.

CD didalam parasite protocol ini dibancuh untuk diberikan dalam bentuk enema iaitu melalui dubur bayi.

Ironinya, dose chlorine dioxide yang diserap oleh bayi yang diberikan enema dari parasite protocol itu lebih toxic berbanding thiomersal didalam vaksin. Hypocrite kan, bila datang kepada vaksin golongan ini begitu anti dan sensitive dengan bahan-bahan didalamnya.

Tetapi dalam “parasite protocol”, campur macam-macam bahan yang kononnya dilabel “natural”, tak kisah pula diberi kepada bayi mereka. Walhal ada mereka tahu, apa “bahan kimia” yang terkandung dalam so called “natural product” tu?

Minyak kelapa dara itu sendiri essentially is trialglycerol. Sejenis “bahan kimia”. Ia diekstrak dan purify menggunakan enzim “Trypsin”, enzyme yang sama digunakan dalam pembuatan vaksin, yang mana ia boleh datang dari sumber porcine (babi) dan bovine (lembu).

Kita mudah percaya apa sahaja yang dinamakan “natural”. Walhal tidak semua yang dinamakan “natural” itu selamat.

Dan kini,

Dakwaan “full moon parasite” mula disebarkan di Malaysia. Berbahasa Melayu.

Dan kita tahu ianya disebarkan oleh golongan antivaksin juga.

Again, saya ulang berkali-kali sejak sebelum ini – ideologi antivaksin is just the tip of the iceberg. Ada banyak cara mereka mempengaruhi ibubapa.

Mereka mendakwa kononnya jaundis itu selamat, kononnya full moon parasite active. Then slowly mereka akan menghasut, sedikit demi sedikit.
Siapa mereka ini? One for sure, mereka tak belajar subjek Parasitology mahupun Parasitic Infection dan perubatan.

Dan secondly for sure,
Mereka sendiri, apabila sakit atau anak anda sakit akibat mengikut nasihat yang mereka berikan, akan datang ke hospital juga. Mencari doktor. Bukan mereka.
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Antara bacaan berkaitan bagi yang berminat :

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/bleaching-away-what-ails-you/

https://chronicleflask.com/2016/08/27/mms-and-cd-chemistry-the-facts/

http://www.vice.com/read/parents-are-giving-their-children-bleach-enemas-to-cure-them-of-autism-311

http://anonhq.com/bleach-away-defect-medical-abuse-disabled-children/

November 14, 2016

The Malay Barua

PKR’s habitual liar Rafizi Ramli has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for being in possession and publicly disclosing documents that have been classified under the Official Secrets Act, 1972. Rafizi, who is known for repeatedly dishing out lies for the public’s consumption, had been warned on several occassions that he would be committing an offence under the said Act if he chose to disclose the contents of the 1MDB audit report.

Rafizi likes to portray himself as a hero and whistleblower when all his employed methods have been going against the various respective laws. He probably felt invincible when in two previous cases involving the Prime Minister and wife, as well as the Deputy Prime Minister, he got away after the plaintiffs let him off provided he removed slanderous postings from his social media. Two weeks ago he was told to pay RM200,000 to the Chairman of the National Feedlot Company and to the Company for defamation. This time around, he has been found guilty in a criminal court and is therefore a convicted criminal.

Firdaus Azil of BERNAMA pointed out on Twitter that there are five Opposition lawmakers who have the same report in their possession – two from the DAP, two from PKR and one from PAS, yet none of them have disclosed anything. The five Opposition lawmakers include DAP’s hot-air balloon, Tony Pua, whom, as a member of the Public Accounts Commitee, has been very vocal on the 1MDB issue. Yet Tony has revealed nothing from the audit report. Firdaus asked his followers why hasn’t Tony Pua revealed any of the information he is privy to? The answer he gave is that Tony, as air-head as he may be, is not stupid.

Therefore my conclusion is simple: Tony creates all the hullabaloo and lets someone as drama queen and dumb as Rafizi to do his dirty job for him.

What then is Rafizi if not a Malay barua?

November 13, 2016

Cooking Oil In Numbers

I still see people whine about having to spend 71 Sen to 73 Sen per day on cooking oil. They write this on social media using their recently-purchased iPhone7.

The Malaysian government gives RM1.05 billion in subsidies to 23 cooking oil manufacturers to produce 1.02 billion tonnes of cooking oil per year (85,000 tonnes per month).

Every month, Malaysians use only 45,000 tonnes of cooking oil while 40,000 tonnes go missing and almost always end up in neighbouring countries. That is more than RM494 million in subsidies that should be enjoyed by Malaysians that are being enjoyed by people in other countries.
Don’t you think it is only fair that subsidies remain only for the 45,000 tonnes that we all use while the remaining oil produced go unsubsidised? The 45,000 tonnes are mostly made up of the 1kg polybags while the 40,000 tonnes are mostly in bottle packaging.
The RM494 million should be redistributed in the form of BR1M and other uses where it benefits the target groups as well as other Malaysians in general.
Let us all be pragmatic and realistic about the situation, and more importantly – be mature in our thinking. Let us make sure only WE benefit from whatever assistance the government gives us.

November 10, 2016November 10, 2016

Defence: The RMAF And TNI-AU Strengthen Ties

In another step for Malaysia into strengthening ties with its neighbours, the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) plays its part by strengthening its cameraderie with its Indonesian counterpart, the Tentara Nasional Indonesia – Angkatan Udara (TNI-AU).

Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Di Pertuan Agong Almu’tasimu Billahi Muhibbuddin Tuanku AlHaj Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah as the Field Marshall and Commander-in-Chief of the Malaysian Armed Forces saw it fit to bestow upon the Chief of Staff of the TNI-AU, Air Chief Marshal Agus Supriatna, the honorary award of the Darjah Panglima Gagah Angkatan Tentera (PGAT).

To present the award on behalf of His Majesty was the Deputy Minister of Defence, Dato’ Sri Mohd Johari bin Baharum. The ceremony was held at the Ministry of Defence in Kuala Lumpur.

Air Chief Marshal Agus Supriatna saluting Dato’ Sri Mohd Johari bin Baharum after receiving the Darjah Panglima Gagah Angkatan Tentera

ACM Agus began his military career in 1983 and became a A-4 Skyhawk pilot from the No.11 Squadron based at the Lanud Iswahjudi Madiun (Iswahyudi Air Force Base) in East Java town of Maospati in the Magetan Province. He was promoted to his current post in 2015.

ACM Agus who is on a two-day working visit to Malaysia also paid a coutesy call to the RMAF Chief, General Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Roslan bin Saad TUDM at the latter’s office.

The ceremony was attended by senior officers from the RMAF, the Royal Malaysian Navy, the Malaysian Army as well as members of the TNI-AU delegation.

Good neighbours and brothers-in-arms: Chief of RMAF General Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Roslan bin Saad TUDM having a chat with his TNI-AU counterpart Air Chief Marshal Agus Supriatna at the Ministry of Defence

November 9, 2016November 9, 2016

Trumped

Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States of America

A few hours before Hillary Clinton conceded defeat, signs were everywhere that she was heading down the abyss. On Twitter people were talking about moving to Canada while the Canadian Immigration website crashed for reasons not yet known to us. Hillary finally conceded defeat making Trump the President-elect. The next four years of his Presidency is going to be worth watching.

I can understand how the supporters of the Democrats feel right now, my home state of Selangor fell to what was the Barisan Alternatif in 2008 and the first 24 hours was filled with uncertainties. In the end, it was business as usual albeit having to sufer the occasional water outtages as well as incompetent solid wastes collection contractors. Other than that the state runs on autopilot while the politicians in charge of the state are busy giving ceramahs non-stop.

Trump has promised to make America great again. To make America great again America’s military would also be made great. It also means that America’s businesses will be given priority over foreign-owned ones.

How does this augur for Malaysia?

Firstly, the Republican-heavy Congress would not pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement as Trump sees the TPPA as a vehicle that would allow Asian businesses to take over the American economy. If it were to go ahead a major tweaking of the TPPA needs to be done – tariffs would be raised to favour the American economy and that would not go down well with the other potential TPPA partners. Anyhow, with the TPPA still not ratified, Trump is likely to hold to his pledge to withdraw the United States from the free-trade agreement. The good thing from that would be Malaysia’s continued hold on its protectionist policies aimed at preserving the Bumiputra rights as well as the protection for local industries.

Malaysia’s manufactured exports to the US saw an increase by 13 percent recently. With Trump favouring the great American economy, this would be greatly affected since Malaysia’s economy is 90 percent reliant on exports. Nomura Holdings in early July 2016 in a report titled ‘Trumping Asia’ bluntly said that if Trump wins, Asia loses. The Philippines would be the country in the South East Asian region that would be most affected by Trump’s Presidency while Malaysia is fourth after Indonesia.

Chart image from Boomberg with source from Nomura

It is not surprising then to see Prayuth Chan-O-Cha of Thailand, Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, Duterte of the Philippines and Najib Razak of Malaysia visit China in May, September, mid October and end October respectively to strengthen economic ties and increase trade with China. These leaders must have predicted that the Democrats would lose to the GOP and knew that if trade is not increased with the largest Asian economic power these nations would stand to lose. Purchasing the Chinese corvettes was definitely a good decision now given that any purchase from the Western powers would come with lots of strings attached.

China is not without danger because of Trump’s Presidency. With levels breaching the USD 600 billion level, China is the US’s largest trading partner, and as President, Trump could impose punitive duties that includes a 15 percent tariff on China for a maximum of 150 days without having to go to Congress for approval.

Militarily, Trump had made a statement on China’s expansion in the South China Sea. “We have rebuilt China, and yet they will go in the South China Sea and build a military fortress the likes of which perhaps the world has not seen,” Trump said. “Amazing, actually. They do that, and they do that at will because they have no respect for our president and they have no respect for our country.”

I am of the opinion that the term “We have rebuilt China” used by Trump is the large balance of payments deficit that the US has with China. If the US could ‘prove’ that China is a currency manipulator, which the US Treasury could easily declare without needing the approval of the Congress, it could trigger a range of trade restrictions against China – a form of pressure for China to ‘respect’ the US as required by Trump to make America great again. Which is why the visit by Najib Razak to China recently was not an act of ‘kow-towing‘ to a Big Brother, but rather saying “Malaysia is a friend, how can you (China) help us so we can help you?” China now needs its South East Asian neighbours as well as Russia as its allies.

We have stepped into an era that will be filled with surprises and not less scarily challenging. The only consolation is that George Soros who finances both the Hillary campaign machinery as well as the Opposition and pro-Opposition organisations in Malaysia will find it hard to thrive. Perhaps as a gesture of goodwill Trump should look into the affairs of the Open Society Institute and how its financing of the Arab Spring has given rise to the terrorist activities in North Africa, the Middle East as well as in South East Asia and take criminal action against the OSI.

As Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister said early this year, “We are all discovering Donald Trump, as he is himself: there is a stream of consciousness approach to policy pronouncements. One can only hope that it evolves towards addressing the strategic interests of the United States in the world.”

There may be a side to Donald Trump that we have not yet seen. Others with better insight into things would probably have a better read of his character. Of course, I am not talking about the Pribumi supremo. He never has anything good to say.

Trump would also need friends as China does, and he would look at nations with leaders who are level-headed as they are smart. I was about to end this post when I saw this Tweet on my timeline:

A tweet by Jonathan Head, BBC's Southeast Asia correspondent — A tweet by Jonathan Head, BBC’s Southeast Asia correspondent

Apparently, not only is Najib Razak a golf buddy of Barack Obama. He is also Trump’s favourite Prime Minister, as signed on a photograph taken of the two of them. As I said, leaders have to have foresight and know what is best for the country he leads. And a line in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII that reminds me exactly of this situation:

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Najib Razak's looking forward to meeting Trump...again — Najib Razak’s looking forward to meeting Trump…again

I call that a masterstroke from a great Statesman.

November 8, 2016

Minyak Habis Sambal Tak Enak

Dua bulan yang lepas saya telah menghadiri perjumpaan bekas Pegawai Kadet Tentera Udara DiRaja Malaysia yang dilatih di Sekolah Pegawai Kadet TUDM di TUDM Kinrara dan TUDM Subang. Antara perkataan yang terbit dalam ucapan-ucapan pada malam tersebut adalah perkataan MANTAN.’ Salah satu teori yang diketengahkan mengenai perkataan tersebut ialah ianya berasal dari Indonesia dan membawa maksud ‘Mundar mANdir tanpa jawaTAN.’ Teori kedua mencadangkan maksud ‘Manusia Tanpa Nafsu.’ Apa jua maksud yang tersirat nukilan saya pada malam ini adalah mengenai rengekan mantan Ketua Puteri UMNO Bahagian Sepang dan mungkin kini ahli Pergerakan Wanita UMNO Cawangan Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi, Rina Mohd Harun di dalam laman Facebooknya.

Begitulah rengekan Saudari Rina mengenai kepayahan hidup yang dialami oleh orang ramai. Saya yakin sebagai mantan ketua sebuah pergerakan di peringkat UMNO Bahagian, beliau pernah menghadiri kursus-kursus jatidiri di pusat-pusat latihan UMNO terutamanya di Janda Baik dan Kemensah. Beliau juga telah diberi ilmu dan cara-cara untuk menjawab pertanyaan serta menangkis tohmahan yang dibawa pihak pembangkang. Berlatarbelakangkan sebuah sekolah berasrama penuh yang berprestasi tinggi serta latihan-latihan yang telah diterima dari UMNO saya lebih mengharapkan Saudari Rina mempunyai kemantapan daya juang yang tinggi, matang pemikiran dan lebih bijaksana.

Malangnya, setelah habis beribu nampaknya hasilnya tiada. Bagai minyak habis sambal tak enak.

Seperti penulisan saya tempoh hari, saya telah menjelaskan (biarpun dalam bahasa yang mungkin sukar Saudari Rina fahami) bahawa pihak Kerajaan telah memberi subsidi kepada 23 pengeluar minyak masak utama untuk mengeluarkan 85,000 tan minyak masak untuk kegunaan rakyat setiap bulan. Kajian mendapati rakyat Malaysia hanya menggunakan sebanyak 45,000 tan minyak masak sebulan manakala 40,000 tan lagi hilang atau tidak dapat dikesan dan dipercayai diseludup oleh pengedar ke negara-negara jiran.

Rasional penghapusan subsidi bagi semua jenis minyak masak kecuali minyak masak 1kg yang dijual di dalam polybag adalah supaya kegiatan penyuludupan minyak dapat dikurangkan dan dihapuskan kerana ianya lebih sukar untuk menyeludup keluar minyak masak di dalam polybag. Subsidi boleh ditukarkan ke bentuk lain yang lebih tepat disaluran kepada golongan sasaran. Golongan berpendapatan rendah dan juga peniaga restoran dan gerai kecil-kecilan lebih gemar menggunakan minyak masak dalam polybag 1kg maka ini bermakna bahawa kos sara hidup golongan-golongan tersebut tidak berubah, dan makanan yang mereka jual juga tidak patut dinaikkan harga. Bukankah ini lebih baik dari wang subsidi hasil cukai rakyat dimanafaatkan oleh rakyat Malaysia sendiri dan bukan oleh warga asing?

Mengenai kesukaran mendapatkan bekalan minyak masak, sesiapa yang mempunyai akal dan logik yang baik pasti tahu adalah mustahil untuk negara alami kekurangan bekalan minyak masak sedangkan penggunaan bulanan hanyalah 45,000 tan sedangkan minyak masak yang dihasilkan adalah sebanyak 80,000 tan. Sekiranya Saudari Rina dan para pengomen statusnya itu mempunyai akal yang baik maka sudah tentu mereka boleh mengagak bahawa kekurangan bekalan minyak masak adalah disebabkan oleh perbuatan sorok oleh para peniaga agar 1) para pelanggan membeli minyak 5kg sahaja, atau, 2) stok yang sedia ada boleh dijual apabila harga siling minyak selain minyak polybag 1kg naik pada bulan Januari 2017.

Sekiranya Saudari Rina dan para pengomen mendapati sukar untuk tiba ke logik tersebut maka saya cadangkan supaya mereka lakukan carian Google untuk berita yang berkenaan perkara tersebut. Yang itu paling mudah. Cuma saya ingin menbuat suatu perbandingan di sini: saya mempunyai 10 mulut di dalam rumah saya yang perlu diberi makanan setiap hari. Minyak masak 5kg yang berharga RM15.25 boleh bertahan selama tiga minggu di rumah saya. Ini bermakna saya hanya berbelanja sebanyak 71 Sen sehari untuk minyak masak. Adakah Saudari Rina serta para pengomen menggunakan minyak masak lebih dari saya setiap hari?

Harga sayur naik, petik di belakang rumah.

Saya amat tertarik dengan kenyataan ini, Sebagai seorang politikus yang terpelajar pasti Saudari Rina peka dengan masalah bekalan makanan di Malaysia. Malaysia mempunyai 30 juta penduduk yang memerlukan 2.9 billion tan metrik beras setiap tahun, dan permintaan untuk beras dan lain-lain bahan makanan bertambah setiap tahun dengan bertambahnya bilangan penduduk negara ini iaitu pada kadar 3.9 peratus di antara 2012 dan 2013. Walaupun kita mengimport makanan terutamanya beras, kita masih belum dapat mencapai 100 peratus Self-Sufficiency Level (SSL) terutamanya untuk beras.

Memetik sayur di belakang rumah sendiri bukanlah suatu perkara yang baru. Saya sendiri mempunyai tanaman keperluan harian di laman rumah saya seperti cili, limau kasturi, limau purut, belimbing buluh, pandan, serai, pisang, daun sup dan lain-lain. Pada tahun 1974, untuk mengurangkan kesan inflasi Perdana Menteri Kedua, Tun Haji Abdul Razak telah melancarkan Kempen Buku Hijau dengan menambahkan hasil pengeluaran makanan dengan memaksimumkan penggunaan tanah. Melalui rancangan ini rakyat dikehendaki bergiat cergas dalam memajukan bidang ekonomi terutamanya dalam sektor pertanian. Antara rancangan yang telah diberi penekanan ialah galakan tanaman jangka pendek dan penternakan ayam itik dan juga pemeliharaan ikan air tawar serta sistem pemasaran yang lebih licin melalui agensi-agensi seperti FAMA, LPP, RISDA dan Jabatan Pertanian.

Memetik sayur yang ditanam sendiri di belakang rumah bukanlah bererti kemunduran. Negara-negara Barat seperti Amerika Syarikat, Kanada, Kesatuan Eropah telah lama sedari betapa pentingnya keselamatan makanan (food security) dalam mengurangkan kos sara hidup dan kos makanan yang dijual.

Jika kita tidak mempraktikkan penanaman sayur-sayuran di rumah atau kebun maka kita akan rasa tertekan. Malaysia mengimport sebanyak RM45 billion makanan dari luar negara dan jenis makanan yang diimport adalah tembikai, pisang, rambutan, bawang, bawng putih, ubi keledek, tomato dan cili! Ini semua merupakan makanan yang boleh kita petik di belakang rumah. Dan harga makanan ini semua tertakluk kepada harga matawang asing! Kalau tak mampu, maka ubahlah cara hidup dan tanam tanaman-tanaman yang dinyatakan di atas. Jangan kita jadi pemalas. Malah saya sendiri menunggu siapnya rangkaian LRT dan MRT sepenuhnya supaya boleh saya beli sebuah basikal untuk saya gunakan dari rumah atau pejabat ke stesen LRT/MRT yang berhampiran.

Begitulah kisahnya ya Saudari Rina. Saya yang tiada latihan UMNO pun rasanya boleh memberi penjelasan yang agak baik berbanding dengan Saudari Rina yang cepat putus asa dan jumud minda. Saya tidak boleh bayangkan bagaimana Saudari Rina menjadi seorang ketua/pemegang jawatan sedangkan Saudari Rina hanya menunggu untuk disuap jawapan dan tiada langsung inisiatif untuk menghuraikan persoalan dan tangani segala kegusaran yang ada. Sebaliknya, Saudari Rina merendahkan marabat Saudari Rina sendiri dari kedudukan seorang ketua kepada seorang pengikut. Ada sebab Saudari Rina memegang jawatan – ianya menunjukkan ada yang percaya Saudari Rina boleh berfikir dan fikirkan cara-cara untuk membantu yang tidak boleh naik ke atas. Bukannya sama-sama membuntu dengan yang sepatutnya dipimpin.

Kesian UMNO dan kesiankan mereka yang memilih anda untuk memimpin mereka kerana sikap anda telah menggagalkan impian mereka buat anda.