Zaid Is Now “Tipu Punya Kuda”.

By Syed Akbar Ali.

I told you so. The majority of PKR members are Indian Tamils, mostly from the estates. Accoding to the PKR many of these estate Tamils are illiterate and don’t know if they are coming or going. Here read for yourself, from today’s Star. You can read the full report here.

• delegates expressed concern over the “quality” of its membership.
• Concerns over “illiterate” and politically immature members
• some members from an estate ..the impression party election voting for Selangor Mentri Besar.
• election officers had to help tick the ballot boxes to assist illiterate members.
• Syed Husin said new members should undergo training courses
• Thinagaran from Perak called on party leaders not to use terms like “Trojan horse”. . .“our members do not understand big words,’’ he said.
• Delegate Azman Abidin ..prevent “Tom, Dick and Harry” from contesting party positions.
• “How can they be division leaders when they can’t even fork out RM15,000 to hold programmes?”
• no representation of certain ethnic groups in the party’s top hierarchy.
• no representation from Sarawak in the central party leadership
• Indian leaders have voiced concerns not a single (Indian) leader was elected to the top.
• “All the heavyweight Indian leaders were thrown out.
• no Indian representation in the Wanita line-up.

I find the comment by Thinagaran from Perak interesting. He told party leaders not to use big words like “Trojan Horse”. Estate Indians do not watch ‘Troy’ with Brad Pitt in the role of Achilles. So they wont know big words like “Trojan Horse”. “Tipu punya kuda” may work but I don’t know. If that too is too difficult, maybe the Brader should just try ‘Deyyyyy !!! Thambi !!!!’ I am sure most of the PKR’s illiterate members would understand that.

60% PKR Members Tamils? DAP Multiracial? Theresa 5th Last From The Bottom

By Syed Akbar Ali

The Selangor DAP election results are in. The corrupt have been kicked out. I dont know if the soul of the late Teoh Beng Hock has been placated. He lost his life because of the corrupt too. Thats what everyone is saying. Two things to note about the DAP though.

First here is the DAP's multiracial lineup for Selangor :

Teresa Kok (Chairman), Tony Pua (Deputy), Teng Chang Kim (Vice Chair), Ean Yong (Secretary), Ng Suee Lim, Hannah Yeoh (Treasurer), Lau Weng San, Teo Nie Ching, Janice Lee, Lim Soon Hong, Tiew Way Keng.

As you can see for yourself, all the eleven very important posts above are very multi racial (Theresa Kok is actually a closet Indian). Tony Pua is a Malay. On the other hand, just like in the PKR (we will see shortly) the racist Indians in the DAP have completely cornered the 'curry leaves' positions. The Indians have monopolised the fetchers and the getters roles. S Ramakrishnan, Gobind Singh Deo and T Kannan are good old "committee members". Charles Santiago has made it to Vice Vhairman. Dey thambi, lu pergi cuci kereta ok.

Here is something even more interesting. Therese Kok came in 11th place in the 15 man Selangor DAP committee. That is 5th last from the bottom. Theresa only received 437 votes. The highest number of votes went to Janice Lee who got 703 votes. Even Teng Chang Kim beat Theresa Kok with 524 votes. However when the newly elected Committee met in their "secret star chamber" to choose the Chairman, 5th from the bottom Theresa Kok was elected Chairman. Teng Chang Kim lost by one vote to Theresa.

How did that happen? This is the DAP's secret star chamber method of choosing their leaders. Many people do not realise that the DAP party members do not vote directly for their leaders. They only vote for the committee. The committee then picks the Chairman, Deputy Chairman etc. So people who are close to the Father and the Son can still get elected.

Poor Janice Lee came in tops as Miss DAP Selangor with 703 votes. So what? 5th from the bottom Theresa Kok is closer to Father and Son. So is Tony Pua. So Theresa is Chairman and Tony Pua is Deputy. Teng Chang Kim can go and sell bah kut teh in Sungai Pinang. Janice Lee can go to the beauty parlour and get her nails done.

I was in PJ on Saturday morning (27^th November 2010). I stopped to have breakfast at the Lotus Restaurant at PJ New Town. Usually my wife and I stop for breakfast at the Lotus Jalan Gasing for Sunday breakfast on our way to work. This time I wanted to check out the PKR Convention that was going on Saturday morning at the PJ Civic Centre. Coincidentally this is where my wife and I were married 25 years ago.

Firstly the crowd was very small. Here is a picture of inside the PJ Civic Centre where the PKR Convention was held. As you can see in the picture the seats are mostly empty. I can vouch for this. I had no difficulty at all finding parking – meaning there were not many people around. The restaurants around the area were not even full. It was a very poor turnout.

And there was a fair number of PKR people who had come to protest the large scale party election fraud which has gone unchecked. Later I did manage to get some interesting feedback from some interesting people.

Actually the PKR has about 40,000 active members only and not 400,000 as boasted. They may have 400,000 (or even 4 million) names on their rolls but those are just names. The actual active members are very far less.

Here is something even more interesting. The PKR says that 50% of their members are Malay, 22% Indian, 12% Chinese and so on (give or take a few points). The same observers whose job it is to observe such things dispute these figures. Of the actual active members of say 40,000 they say that a majority 60% are Indian Tamils.

This means that PKR is now an Indian majority party. However almost zero Indians won any major party posts. The party elections have suffered serious accusations of fraud by almost the entire PKR leadership (except for a few family members and their lovers). Hence no Indians were elected to high positions. Some are of the view that the PKR will self destruct over the coming months.

My view is that if Indians form 60% of active PKR members then they have been seriously short changed. They should demand the party elections be declared null and void. The party must then conduct its elections again. One way to do this (from my previous understanding) is to press for an “extraordinary general assembly” or special assembly. There must be provisions for this in the party constitution. Usually if there are sufficient numbers of party members ready to petition the party, they can force an extraordinary assembly and demand for another properly conducted party election. Or take the case to Court.

Something similar is being done in Johor. There is another bar brawl going on, this time among some Indian lawyers in the Johor Bar. Here is the news:

Johor Bar crisis worsens

JOHOR BARU: Lawyer P. Suppiah, booted out as Johor Bar committee head . . maintains that he is still the rightful chairman. . . The EGM, which was called by a group of disgruntled lawyers on Friday, passed a vote of no confidence against Suppiah . . The meeting, which was attended by 158 members, also elected a new committee with S. Balarajah as the new chairman. The Johor Bar has 1,350 members.

(Someone should tell these folks they should only drink after dinner. Dont drink and drive and dont drink before meetings.)

So it can be done. The PKR can call for an EGM of sorts and do another vote. Maybe this time the PKR can get Raja Aziz Addruse, Tun Salleh Abbas and folks of such ilk to perform the ‘Election Watch’ role. Maybe they can get the United Nations to send an observer team. Do it properly lah.

Then if Indians really make up 60% of PKR’s active membership (of 40,000) hopefully more Indians will be elected to higher party posts. If they don’t do this, PKR will probably self destruct in about six months. Even if they run the party elections again, the party will self destruct away. The Malay members will not tolerate Tamils sitting over them in the party.

Anyway the wife of the party leader, who happens to be president, made the keynote speech. She said the following:

"Apa yang tidak pernah dialami oleh Sdra Anwar? Ditangkap, diISAkan,dipukul, disiksa, diaibkan dan dihumban ke dalam penjara. Sejak merdeka, tidak pernah ada tokoh negara lain yang difitnah, dihina dan disiksa secara berterusan seperti yang dialami Saudara Anwar. Namun, beliau tetap gagah dan tabah meneruskan perjuangan bersama kita. Apakah rahsia sebenar hingga beliau tetap kental sehingga ke hari ini? Jawapan saya adalah Saudara Anwar Ibrahim adalah seorang insan yang hebat yang memang dianugerahkan Tuhan untuk kita semua untuk menjadi pemimpin rakyat. Jika beliau insan biasa seperti kita, sudah lama mengundur dan tenggelam di celah segala cabaran dan gelora yang berlalu."

Lets do some rewording of the statement above by Wan Azizah. For example something like this:

"Apa yang tidak pernah dialami oleh Ummi Hafilda ? Ditangkap, dipenjarakan, disiksa, diaibkan, di ugut dengan ISA. Sejak merdeka, tidak pernah ada tokoh negara lain yang memfitnah, menghina dan menyiksa secara berterusan seorang wanita seperti yang dialami Ummi Hafilda. Namun, Ummi tetap gagah dan tabah meneruskan perjuangan bersama kita. Apakah rahsia sebenar hingga beliau tetap kental sehingga ke hari ini? Jawapan saya adalah Ummi Hafilda adalah seorang insan yang hebat yang memang dianugerahkan Tuhan untuk kita semua untuk memecahkan tembelang manusia laknat. Jika beliau insan biasa seperti kita, sudah lama mengundur dan tenggelam di celah segala cabaran dan gelora yang berlalu."

Its just another way of looking at things lah. Its called “putting yourself in the other fellows shoes”. Ummi Hafilda was tortured and she was also threatened with detention under the ISA. For that serious abuse of power the president’s husband was jailed for six years.

The wife says that her husband is god’s gift to mankind. (Fuyyo, even the dictator Tun Dr Mahathir never claimed to be anyone's gift to anyone. And he is still gracefully retired.) When Wan Azizah says this I don’t know if it includes the present criminal charges he is facing in Court. Or his prior godly actions which led to his being the chosen one in Court.

Here is the latest picture of the husband. Note the extremely worried look on his face. This worried look seems to be getting worse by the day. There is a constant dark shadow. This is not my psy war ok, you can see the picture yourself. There are tompok tompok hitam on his face. Some say they are age spots. Others say they are because of some kind of withdrawal symptoms. When he does not get his frequent dosage of ‘supplements’, such symptoms may appear. As the stomach churns lah. If you are not convinced, there is one more picture below this. See for yourself.

The sooner these folks disappear into the trash heap of history, the better. The country can settle down to business again. Cut the politicking. We have more important things to do. We have to whip the BN boys and girls into shape. We may have to whack them out of shape first.

Jom. Kejor Yob Kejor !

Religious Conmen Need You

By Syed Akbar Ali

I have always held that the religous people are just conmen. They just want your money. Here is a cheapo example of another religious conman. This guy is worth millions of US Dollars. He also has millions of followers. It is none other than Sathya Sai Baba the infamous Indian cult leader. Watch the video. My conclusion at the bottom.

Conclusion : Watch the video again. All the envelopes that the Sai Baba fellow is collecting from the silly people are money donations. They give him their hard earned money. These are the poorer people.

In return they get cheap "magic" ash from Sai Baba which they put inside their mouths. Cash "out of pocket" in exchange for cheap ash "in the mouth". Super dungus. While the poor get ash, the richer dungus who make bigger donations get a silver trophy and a gold chain.

This Sai Baba guy is using cheap tricks. Yet millions have been fooled by him. Why or how does he get away with it? Answer : the people must be silly and unintelligent. Only then can such conmen survive. Religion thrives on dungus.

There are many kinds of cons. Religion has always been the biggest conjob invented by cheap tricksters. The new ones gaining popularity are feng shui and the vasu-sastra bull. When I hear people talking about feng shui I cannot believe how dumb the human being can get. 'Double 8', facing northwest, red colour. The video above just provides more evidence of this.

I read a book about feng shui once. I think I have solved the world's feng shui problems. I have figured out a simple method to solve the entire world's feng shui. It is very simple really.

The feng shui guys say that if you are a bank or a hotel, for good business profits they tell you to put a stone lion at the building entrance. Sometimes they tell you to place a pond with koi fish in it for good chi. You can place a cannon or an octagonal mirror facing away from your house. That will reflect back or chase away all the evil spirits and negative chi. All this may balance the chi forces around the bank, the hotel, your house etc. You will then have good "feng shui".

Expanding on this idea, why not place a stone lion on the North Pole. That will capture all the good chi in the universe. Then to balance it off lets place another stone lion on the South Pole. That will circulate the good chi evenly between the North and South poles.

Then we can put a huge octagonal shaped mirror on the Equator - this will reflect back all the ugly alien faces from outer space, so we wont get any bad chi from outer space either.

Then lets rear fish in all the oceans and lakes in the world. That would create a complete feng shui balance for the whole world and put all the chi energy on a sound footing for the whole world. Apa macam boleh ke? Then we wont have to worry about bad feng shui anymore.

I know I will make many people unhappy with this. What can I say - the super dungus are not just in Government. Get a life folks. Sai Baba? How about 'saya bubu'?

Safer Outside Our Home?

By Syed Akbar Ali

Here is something interesting :

Najib: M’sia to form strategic alliances for food production

• SERDANG: Malaysia is looking into forming strategic alliances with other countries for food production, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
• Malaysia would venture into developing food production hubs in the partner countries.
• ". . initiatives that can be taken to ensure food security for Malaysia….” he said.
• ". . more cost effective than increasing food production acreage in Malaysia," he told the media
• Najib also said natural disasters could impact food production. "With climate change becoming a global phenomenon now, not a single country will be spared from its effects. What is important is how countries come together to tackle this climate change problem," he said.

I see some issues with this view.

So for example we want to secure rice supplies for Malaysia. Do we go to Vietnam and say “we will invest in rice farming in your country but the output is for our country’s food security”. Will the Vietnamese just agree to this?

If there is a global crisis or some global climate event that affects rice supplies all over the world why would the Vietnamese give up rice grown in their country to meet the food security of another country like Malaysia? What is the logic?

And if there is a war or global chaos, how are we going to bring the rice over from Vietnam to Malaysia? Other countries have submarines and navies too which they can use to sink our ships, enforce economic embargoes against us and stuff like that.

A good example of a country successfully safeguarding its food security was Iraq under Saddam Hussein after the US embargoed their country. In a very short time, Saddam Hussein made Iraq completely self sufficient in food production. Saddam built canals, vastly increased the acreage under cultivation, grew wheat and sheep and the Iraqis ate well. Imagine what would have happened to Iraq if Saddam Hussein had formed “strategic alliances with other countries for food production” and invested in wheat farms in Russia or rice farming in Vietnam or cattle ranches in Pakistan? The Iraqis would have starved to death.

Food security usually means a country is self sufficient in producing food for its people inside its own borders, especially if the country has ample land area, which we have in Malaysia.

Why would we want to invest our money to develop farms and food supplies in other countries to meet our food security requirements? What happened to Sime Darby or Khazanah Nasional Bhd’s plan to develop rice farming in Sarawak? Do we still remember that? Sarawak is further away from the Peninsula than Vietnam. So can we invest in Sarawak instead of in Vietnam?

Somehow I feel this “strategic alliances with other countries for food production” is another idea for the GLCs like Khazanah Nasional to siphon money out of the country.

I heard from the grapevine that the CEOs of two Khazanah Nasional subsidiaries (Blue Archipelago Sdn Bhd – shrimp farming in Besut and Kerpan) and Malaysian Agricultural Food Corporation or MAFC – papaya farming in Temerloh) have resigned and left.

Maybe someday there will be a PAC inquiry or an Auditor General’s inquiry which will expose just how many hundred millions were burnt in these two food companies. Where is their output for all that money spent?

Not only our food security but even our national security may be best served if we shut down some of these Government Losing Concerns or GLCs.

Rebecca Sta Maria, APs, Flip Flopping

By Syed Akbar Ali

First of all congratulations are due to Ms Rebecca Sta Maria for being appointed the KSU of the Ministry of International Trade & Industry or MITI. Rebecca is 53, which means she can actually serve a five year term until she is 58. That is sufficient time to make an impact.

Rebecca, here is my wish list for you : before you retire please get at least three major foreign steel millers to open steel mills here. If you cannot get those five million tonne capacity monsters, then go for the specialist steel manufacturers.

You know for example the weapons grade steel makers (steel used to make artillery guns and so forth). Bukan kita nak perang dengan siapa pun but specialty steels are an entirely different technology that requires higher levels of skills (Don’t forget : we want to move to a higher income economy). Weapons grade steel millers produce lots of other specialized steels.

And also other specialty steel makers for manufacturing high pressure boilers, making turbine blades and so forth. There is much diversity in the steel industry, so lets please diversify and move to higher income. If your people need free advise, I will be glad to assist.

We also need a thousand fold increase in processing our own rubber into high value downstream products. Medical catheters, engine seals, valve seals, neoprene rubber products, synthetic rubber manufacturing (which uses natural rubber too). The same goes for palm oil. Takkan sampai tua nak potong buah saja. We need to go fully downstream into more intermediate and end products. The potential is limitless. And we control the supply of the raw material. These are industry categories.

Other than industry categories, we need to bring world class names to move to Malaysia – tak kira apa industry dia. Please make this your special assignment. For example over the next five years get Lego (toys), Boeing (airplanes), IBM (computers), Mercedes, Scania, MAN, Nokia, Adidas, Bell Labs, GM Labs, Kellogs, Reebok, Rolex, Seiko, Casio, Caterpillar, Komatsu, John Deere, Sikorsky, Agusta etc to make major investments here. Either new manufacturing plants, research labs, assembly plants or whatever but let it be major investment involving high technology.

We really need to focus on these target groups and get them over here. Now Rebecca while on the throne of thought recently I ran into this train of thought. How can we get all these people to come here? The answer came to me instantly. We have to ask them : What can I do for you to make you invest a billion US Dollars in my country?

Then tell your boys to have their Buku Tiga Lima ready. Whatever they want, please write it down carefully and then work quickly and diligently to give it to them. If they want cheap land give it to them (rent it to them cheap for as long as they need). If they ask for money like Government grants, tax breaks, training grants etc work out a workable package lah). If they need reserach facilities, marry them with the thousands of universities, colleges, community colleges, institut kemahiran and what not that we already have in the country.

Really our country Malaysia has everything they will need. It is just a matter of packaging things properly, putting the horse before the cart (or putting the cart behind the horse) and stuff like that. If your boys need assistance in this area, saya boleh tolong juga, to share ideas. We have to move to a high income economy. So please be sharp. Chop chop.

Now we come to the quicksand. Switch to mud tires, deflate the air pressure and switch to four wheel drive immediately. Also don’t forget to fasten your seat belts. Around the middle of this year, the MITI boys said this :

AP abolishment will boost economy.

Observers say move will encourage competition

PETALING JAYA: The abolishment of at least half of the more than 2,000 approved permits (APs) for various products, now the subject of a Cabinet paper being prepared by the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti), is likely part of wider government efforts to transform the economy.

Miti deputy secretary-general Datuk Kamaruddin Ismail had said at a dialogue with the business community in Kuching recently that APs which no longer served the purpose should be removed as the reasons for having them might no longer be valid.

He said that Malaysia had some 10,000 tariff lines that attracted more than 2,000 APs. Kamaruddin said “it is time to look at whether APs are needed for certain industries which may no longer need them.”

Of course this made me excited. I punya BP semua naik you! I thought, at last we could start moving to a higher income economy. But what has happened to that Cabinet paper promised by Datuk Kamaruddin Ismail? Because just yesterday Tok Pa (my former Boss at the NEAC) said this :

Friday November 26, 2010

APs cannot be done away with immediately

THE abolition of Approved Permits (AP) to import vehicles cannot be done immediately as it will cause hundreds of bumiputra entrepreneurs to go bankrupt, International Trade and Industries Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said.

He said the open APs to import cars would be scrapped by 2015. Mustapa explained that there was a need for a period of transition for the abolition of the APs by 2015 to allow automotive businessmen to adjust to the changes and settle their bank loans.

Alamak ! I say, ini macam jangan lah. Ini lah dulu orang kata flip flop. One day say like this, another day say like that. By the way is Datuk Kamaruddin now selling pisang goring at Teluk Cempedak? Or maybe cempedak goreng at Kampong Pisang?

There are 28 million people in this country who are paying through their noses for exhorbitant car prices. Millions of people have taken loans from the banks to pay for expensive cars and vehicles. So whose interest is greater : that of millions of hard working and suffering Malaysians or the interests of a few hundred very, very rich cronies (many of whom are possibly Datos and Tan Sris with bungalow houses, two or three wives, karaoke and dangdut girlfriends and so on) who hold import APs for cars?

How can we trade off the welfare of Pakcik Aziz who works part time as a security guard and then also drives a bus sekolah to make ends meet with the Mercedes Benz owning, bungalow house living and girlfriend swinging AP cronies?

Something is terribly wrong with the thought processes. Pakcik Aziz has to pay through his nose for the van. Dia pun hutang bank juga. The APs keep the car and vehicle prices sky high in this country. If we remove the APs, car prices will be more competitive. Our nation will become more ‘higher income’. This is Standard Two arithmetic.

So please tell the folks at the MITI not to play play ok. Don’t wait for 2015 to abolish all APs. Abolish them yesterday. And please be honest. I know when they say ‘APs will be abolished in 2015’ they are just conning the people to buy time to win the next general elections. Come 2015, they will say ‘we cannot abolish APs now, we will do so by 2020’. And it will go on.

So Rebecca Sta Maria, go girl. You done good. We are all watching you. Do the right thing.