FLOM : Float or Flop?

Andrew Hornery

PRIVATE SYDNEY

Designing the truth

IT'S NOT every week PS lands in the centre of an international scandal, but last week's story about Rosmah Mansor, the wife of the Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, and her lavish New Year's Eve Sydney shopping spree has proved to be hotter than a Penang curry. After the story appeared in the Herald it went viral on the wildly inflammatory Malaysian blogosphere, where readers were outraged the woman introduced to Sydney fashion designer Carl Kapp on New Year's Eve as the First Lady of Malaysia (FLOM) had spent an estimated $100,000 on his designer threads.

FLOM, who is at home with all the world's other first ladies, including Michelle Obama, is well known in Malaysia for her purported shopping habits. She visited Kapp's Paddington boutique with her entourage of six after discovering his range at David Jones during a holiday in Sydney.

It was Kapp who later told PS he visited the $20,000 a night penthouse she was staying in, where he met Mr Razak, at the newly opened luxury hotel The Darling.

Following the PS article, FLOM was approached by a reporter in Malaysia and quizzed about her Sydney shopping tour de force, first reported on respected Australian fashion journalist Patty Huntington's Frockwriter website after Kapp's Sydney publicity firm, Little Hero, pitched the story to Huntington, along with two other media outlets. When PS called, Kapp was only too happy to talk about FLOM, even posing for a photo having already crowed about his new VIP muse on his Facebook page, though it was mysteriously deleted once the controversy erupted.

Back in Malaysia, FLOM told the mainstream media, much of it owned by her husband's government, PS's report was ''rubbish'', ''wildly exaggerated' and she was a ''victim'', adding that Kapp would be issuing a statement on the affair.

Meanwhile, a campaign to discredit PS was launched in Malaysia, with everything from details about my personal life to being named on disgraced medico Geoffrey Edelsten's mildly amusing list of ''Australia's Worst Journalists'', being given an airing.

PS managed to get hold of Kapp's official statement. He denied being flown to Malaysia in coming weeks specifically to fit FLOM for her ''massive'' order of 61 garments, for which she paid up front. Yet Kapp told PS last week ''she is flying me to Malaysia for fittings in February''.

Kapp would not disclose the exact value of FLOM's order to PS but he did not dispute PS's $100,000 estimate.

Kapp's statement, issued by the same publicity firm that was originally drumming up interest in the FLOM story, said: ''It is our view that the article has unfairly given the impression that the Carl Kapp establishment is indiscreet and is willing to divulge personal and private information about our clients. This is manifestly untrue, and we wish to state unequivocally that we value greatly the privacy of our clientele and would never violate their confidence under any circumstance.'' How reassuring.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/private-sydney/royals-snippy-over-snappy-cover-20120127-1qlpw.html#ixzz1ki9V9xeo

Mahathir:How great art Thou?

It has been a while since I last wrote about our great one – the great Tun Dr. Mahathir. Unlike Rosmah’s self accredited FLOM, this ‘Great One” title was conferred on Mahathir by others. Mahathir never laid any claim to being great at anything – it is us that say that he is Great. Mahathir did not have to say it because in his mind, he knew that he was great! 

Great at manipulating people, great at giving our money to his family and cronies, great at spending our money on grandiose projects that will later be referred to as “Mahathir’s great Follies”, and only the great Mahathir made corruption, money politics and the policy of divide and rule among the various races in Malaysia the pillars by which UMNO has now been defined starting from the time he took over as Prime Minister.

As he himself likes to point out “He did it his way!”

Yes Sir the way someone used power within government for his own vested interest of consolidating power within himself for his own agenda rather then for the interest of the Rakyat!

You TUN have greatly failed the trust we put into you as our leader. What makes you stand apart from any other Malaysian is the magnitude of the abuse of your executive powers as Prime Minister done deliberately and with malice aforethought! And the irony of it all is that you honestly believed that you have been the greatest Prime Minister Malaysia has ever or will ever have! What a load of rubbish!

I beg to differ O Great One! For just as you cannot build a house on shifting sand neither can you build a great nation on lies and half truths.

Take Anwar Ibrahim. When you decided that you needed to neutralize the potential harm that could have been done to UMNO if Anwar, Abim and PAS were to align themselves against UMNO you decided to neutralize Anwar by enticing him into UMNO. And the offer that you dangled in front of Anwar was too good for the gullible Anwar to refuse. You  knew that the pull of power was something Anwar found impossible to resists. 

Mahathir requested a security assessment on Anwar from PDRM's Special Branch.

In response to Mahathir’s request to the Special Branch for a security assessment on Anwar Ibrahim, the Special Branch  provided advise that Anwar, apart from being an ISA detainee, was involve in homosexual relationships. The SB recommendation was that AI should not be part of the government due to his immoral behaviour. The letter was signed by the then Director Special Branch Tan Sri Mohd Amin Osman and delivered to you three weeks before Anwar joined UMNO in 1982.

It was sixteen years later that Mahathir used the information contained in that SB security assessment to rid himself of Anwar.

Mahathir says that he has a strong revulsion for what is legally and morally described as an ‘unnatural sex’ – sodomy – as that was what he accused Anwar of indulging in. If he does have that strong a revulsion to sodomy then why did he put up with Anwar for 16 years when he knew from day one from that SB assessment what Anwar was already indulging in!

Mahathir was not repulsed by anything. He amassed dossier on the wrong doings of his cabinet ministers, including Najib, to be used on a need basis as and when required. He will use whatever information he has and with Anwar he had lived that lie from day one.

This is how deceitful Mahathir is. And this deceit has been standard operating procedure for UMNO ever since.

If Mahathir is prepared to put up with Anwar for 16 years and living a lie with someone he even accepted as his deputy what else is he prepared to do?  So I tell you that this Mahathir is truly a great man – a great man that can work for 16 years with an Anwar he knew was tainted from day one of his entry into UMNO. And he was even greater in his charade of wanting Anwar out because of his revulsion of Anwar’s sodomy rather then anything else.

Anwar was never his protégé. All previous attempts to oust Anwar from his position as DPM was thwarted by Mahathir because to Mahathir the timing was not right. And that harsh and cruel treatment of Anwar by Mahathir was never because of any moral issues – it was just Mahathir’s way of making Anwar understand that the unforgivable sin in as far as Mahathir is concern is be disloyal to Mahathir. Anything else he will overlook – but that!

This is what UMNO has now become. You can be forgiven for anything – corruption, sexual excesses, duplicity, abuse of executive powers even murder most foul – if your loyalty to UMNO is total. There is no room for anything else.

And so we must tell UMNO that we too will have no room for anything else but ABU. There is no room to negotiate, no room to give and take and certainly no room to accommodate what UMNO now represent in the future that we aspire our country to have. ABU! ABU! ABU! 

How votes are bought in Malaysia and the polling booth orientation

with thanks to BLOG For CHANGE

Friday, January 27, 2012

During my training as a polling and counting agent for the 2008 elections, my trainer explained to me how votes are bought by the corrupt UMNO/BN.

It all starts with a voter going in to the polling station with a pre-marked fake polling ballot in favor of UMNO/BN candidate hidden in his pocket and putting that pre-marked voting slip into the ballot box, then taking out the unmarked voting slip out of the polling station. However, first I will explain how the much much earlier orientation of the privacy shield at the polling booth makes cheating very difficult.

Earlier orientation of privacy shield at polling booth which makes buying of votes difficult

It seemed some time in the past, the privacy shield was orientated away from the polling agent and so when the voter is at the polling booth, his back is facing the polling agent. See Figure 1 below (click to enlarge):

Figure 1: Earlier layout of privacy shield and polling station which made bying of votes difficult

So it seems that polling agents will be able to observe the back of the voter at the polling booth and while no person other than the voter himself will be able to see him marking the ballot slip, he will be unable to take out the pre-marked voting slip from his pocket and hide the real unmarked polling slip in his pocket without being observed, put the fake pre-marked ballot slip into the ballot box and take the unmarked genuine polling slip out of the polling station.

Orientation of privacy shield to facilitate cheating

In the 2008 and prior general elections, the privacy shield was deliberately reoriented to face the polling agents and the voter's back is facing away from the polling agents can see only the legs of the voter while the backside and upper body is hidden from the view of the polling agents (see figure below, click to enlarge):

Figure 2: Orientation of privacy shield 2008 and "prior" which enables cheating

Thus to start off, a cooperating voter is given a fake pre-marked (in favor of BN) polling slip to hide in his pocket, walks into the polling station and is given a genuine polling slip, take the slip to the polling booth and now his back is facing away from polling agents and only his legs are visible.

He hides the unmarked genuine polling slip into his pocket unseen by the agents, take the pre-marked false ballot slip and put it into the ballot box and walks out of the polling station unhindered.

At a secret location the first voter exchanged the unmarked genuine polling slip for a pre-arranged sum of money.

The genuine polling slip is pre-marked in favor of UMNO/BN and is given to the next voter with instruction to put that into the ballot box and take out the unmarked ballot slip in order to collect his loot.

The second bought voter goes in and is given a genuine unmarked polling slip, goes to the polling booth and again hide the unmarked polling slip in his pocket unseen, goes to the ballot box, puts in the pre-marked slip and walks out of the polling station with the unmarked polling slip (genuine) undetected.

Again at the secret location, he exchange the unmarked polling slip for money and that unmarked polling slip is pre-marked for the next voter and the whole process is repeated until the end of polling.

Thus in this way the person/party who wants to buy votes ensure that the bought voter actually vote for the selected candidate.

The "new" orientation of the privacy shield as shown in NST

I saw the new arrangement of the polling station in New Straits Times and it is shown with the original orientation of the privacy shield facing away from the polling agents with the whole of the back of the voter visible to the polling agents which must be enforced at all cost. This is as it should be and and was the orientation used in the distant past (see figure below):

Previous and "new" layout of polling booth and polling station

Actually, the diagram in NST may be slightly different from the above which is reproduced from memory, but the essential relation of the polling agents, the voter and the privacy shield is as shown. That diagram I believe is given by the Election Commission. If anyone has that diagram given by the Election Commission anywhere on the web, hope you can leave the URL in a comment below.

Thus I hope those doing the training for the upcoming 13^th General Election should inform the potential polling agents and all polling agents must ensure that this orientation of the privacy shield is adhered to.

Please spread this information to as many people as you can to reduce buying of votes.

Helen Shapiro - Not Responsible (Stereo)

Who are the Malays?

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Who are the Malays?": 

HH,

First photo - yup, he's a malay with a jewish nose because he said so and he's an UMNO muslim as well.

Second photo - yup, he's also a malay because he's an UMNO muslim with a darker complexion.

Third photo - yessirree, definitely a malay because he's an UMNO muslim written all over him.

Fourth photo - holy cow, she's surely a pure malay bred as true as she says she's not involved in the NFC but most importantly, she's an UMNO muslim.

Fifth photo - sorry mate, this guy is definitely not a malay because he's not yet a muslim even though he's a great pal and lap dog to UMNO.

Sixth photo - oops, this guy is more malay than a real malay because he's more muslim than a real UMNO muslim.

In your case sir, it's difficult to say if you are a real malay because you are not in UMNO. However if you join UMNO with immediate effect, you will undoubtedly be a real malay since UMNO only fights for malay rights. 



Posted by Anonymous to steadyaku47 at Friday, January 27, 2012 7:22:00 PM GMT+10:30

Who are the Malays?

Pok Li has left a new comment on your post "Who are the Malays?": 

First photo - the nose looks like those who come from Kerala.

Second photo - whatever name he carries will not change people's perception of his original race.

Third photo - not too much different from the one in the second photo except his dressing ma makes him look more classy.

Fourth photo - if she's a Malay then Juhi Chawla, Ashwariya Rai are also Malays.

Fifth photo - this ex-Indian community's 'Sivaji the boss' should have passed as a Malay based on the above personalities criteria.

Sixth photo - this guy is more Malay than the Malays as he seems to be more religious.

All this while I thought I'm a pure Malay but now begin to wonder where do I stand as I am nowhere compared to these guys. 


Posted by Pok Li to steadyaku47 at Friday, January 27, 2012 3:25:00 PM GMT+10:30

Who are the Malays?

Who are the Malays? 
Is this man a Malay?

 Or is this guy a Malay?

Maybe this is the real Malay?

I am so confused! Because here comes another one that has her hands up telling me that she too is a Malay!   

Now if they are all Malays how soon before this guy becomes a Malay? How soon !!!!

Or this guy!

This is what happens when race and religion becomes the purview of the government to decide. This is what happens when education and the means to earn a living is, to a large extent, decided  by what race you are and what religion you practice. 


This is what our country has now become. 

Ethnic engineering done to serve the interest of UMNO. 

Ethnic engineering done to serve the interest of UMNO politicians : Politics as practised by these UMNO politicians is now a profession that insists in sharing the same bed of the oldest profession known to man - and it does so because politics as practiced by UMNO and  Barisan Nasional has sunk below the oldest known profession : PROSTITUTION! So for UMNO, sharing the same bed as the oldest profession is one step up! 


It is not enough that there are so many "engineered Malays" who are now in UMNO but these "ethnically engineered Malays" are now Melayu "keturunan India, Indon, Burma and so on and so forth" and they have been send forth into the rural and urban areas to go forth and multiply - and in time to come ensure that these "keturunan Melayu" will numerically eclipse the non-Melayu and ensure that UMNO will forever reign in a Malaysia that not only is populated in large numbers by the Malays but also by all these keturunan Melayu that are now enthusiastically being engineered by UMNO! 


It would be a dream come true for UMNO - a Malaysia full of Malays and those of "keturunan Melayu." But have they ever considered what 'stock' these "keturunan Melayu" are descended from? 
  
Not from the best of genes that any sensible  "ethnic engineering" should  be  engineered upon but really the worse  and most base of human genes that have come to Malaysia because they are not able to make it in their own country. And from these genes will our Malaysia now be build upon. It does not need an Einstein to figure out what sort of a society will evolved from these genes. But does UMNO cares? UMNO would prefer to be in the land of the blind - for in the land of the blind, the one eye is King - and UMNO intends to be that one eyed King.

Look no further then UMNO itself. How many of those "India mari keturunan Melayu" are depriving the real Malays of their rights? These 'Melayu keturunan India" began breeding prolifically with the coming of Mahathir! And now UMNO has enough "keturuan Melayu India" to make Indians think that UMNO should establish a 'recruitment center' in INDIA - preferably base in Kerala!  


You cannot fault these opportunist who will seek any which way to become Malays especially when UMNO started tinkering with Race and Religion to make as many "Melayu" as possible who would be beholden to UMNO for their "Melayu" brand.And where it suits UMNO, they move the goal post to make as many "Melayu" as possible. There is no doubt  that they have already taken a foot hold within UMNO. Now we Malays, together with the non-Malays will just have to wait their entry into our homes - Mahathir have already done their entry into government!  

That is why we need to get rid of this "ethnic engineering UMNO government". They will stop at nothing to stay in power. It should not matter if you are a Malay or a Non-Malay. If you are a citizen of Malaysia then you are on par with everyone else. This is what 1Malaysia means!  

Abraham Lincoln's Advice to PM Najib

Abraham Lincoln's Advice for 1 Malaysia to succeed.     Such concise encapsulation of fundamental truths.       Food for Thought. How True !

6 remaja ditahan bantu siasat gangguan majlis ABU

with thanks to Malaysiakini:

• RENDING
• YourSay/VoxPop
• Sodomy II
• Corruption
• Students
• DAP

Abdul Rahim Sabri 12:43PM Jan 25, 2012

Polis menahan enam orang remaja untuk membantu siasatan berhubung kejadian gangguan terhadap majlis ceramah pergerakan Asalkan Bukan Umno (ABU) di Jalan Kebun, Shah Alam, Sabtu lalu.

Mereka termasuk seorang pelajar tingkatan empat, seorang pelajar tingkatan lima dan pelajar orang yang menunggu keputusan peperiksaan Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM). Manakala yang lainnya menganggur.

Tiga daripada mereka ditahan pada 24 Januari lalu, manakala tiga lagi ditahan awal pagi ini.

Ketua Polis Daerah Shah Alam, ACP Zahedi Ayob memberitahu satu sidang akhbar bahawa mereka berusia antara 16 hingga 19 tahun.

Menurut ACP Zahedi (kiri), mereka ditahan dan disiasat mengikut Seksyen 148,
Kanun Keseksaan. Seksyen berkenaan berkaitan kesalahan rusuhan.

Katanya, kesemua mereka - semuanya penduduk tempatan di situ - telah dibebaskan dengan ikat jamin polis pagi ini.

"Kita tidak reman mereka, tetapi kita mengambil keterangan mereka," katanya.

Polis juga, katanya, sedang mengesan beberapa orang lagi individu untuk membantu siasatan kes tersebut.

 "Masih lagi (dalam siasatan). Belum sudah lagi (siasatan). Kita mencari individu yang dikenalpasti, mengenai rakaman termasuk video yang disumbangkan oleh Encik Kumaran dalam YoutubeMalaysiakini.

"Jadi kita mencari pesonaliti kedua-dua pihak," tegasnya dalam sidang yang turut dihadiri dua lagi pegawai atasan polis daerah tersebut.

Dalam kejadian pada 21 Januari lalu, ceramah ABU di Dewan Orang Ramai Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam di Jalan Kebun itu, terpaksa ditunda selepas diganggu sekumpulan lelaki yang dilapor bersenjatakan kayu dan topi keledar.

Akibat serangan tersebut, seorang lelaki berusia 33 tahun mengalami kecederaan dan dikejarkan ke hospital. Mangsa kini dilaporkan stabil dan masih trauma dengan kejadian tersebut.

Dalam sidang media itu juga, Zahedi berkata seramai 30 lelaki bermotosikal yang mengetahui ceramah tersebut melalui kain rentang yang dipasang, telah menghala ke dewan itu untuk menghalang perjumpaan atau ceramah berkenaan.

Kemudian, katanya, berlakunya perbalahan, termasuk kata-kata
kesat dan menyinggung kedua-dua pihak, sehingga berlakunya kekecohan sehingga menyebabkan ada yang mengalami kecederaan.

"Polis dimaklumkan mengenai perkara itu selepas kekecohan berlaku dan dapat mententeram (keadaan) sesudah tiba dilokasi," katanya.

Dalam perkembangan berkaitan, Zahedi berkata, setakat ini pihaknya menerima enam laporan polis berhubung insiden berkenaan dan tindakan telah diambil terhadap laporan tersebut.

"Kita akan mengambil tindakan jika berlakunya kesalahan. Negara kita demokratik dan berpelembagaan, maka dalam konteks ini setiap orang sama mengikut undang-undang.

"Kita laksanakan tugas kita dengan adil dan saksama dan berpegang teguh dengan undang-undang di negara ini," katanya.

THE ANTI-ABU MOBSTER LEADER

with thanks to : 

Malaysians Must Know the TRUTH

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2012

The Anti ABU Fat Mobster Leader

THE LINK TO A VIDEO CLIP THAT SHOWED CLEARLY THE FACE OF THE FAT MOBSTER LEADER WHO HEADED THE ATTACK ON ABU-HINDRAF MOVEMENT CERAMAH ON LAST SATURDAY NIGHT IN KAMPUNG JALAN KEBUN COMMUNITY HALL, SHAH ALAM/KELANG. HE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS BAHAROM WHOSE REAL NAME IS MUHAMAD RAZALI. THE STILL PHOTO OF THE THREE OTHER MEMBERS HAVE BEEN SHOWN IN THE FB AND IT WILL BE A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE REST ARE IDENTIFIED TOO. 

THE ARTICLE BELOW TELLS YOU MORE ABOUT THIS GUY AND HIS LINK TO HASAN ALI. THREE MOTOR CYCLES' REGISTRATION NUMBERS (BLK 6537, BLH 4761, BLK 6423) HAVE BEEN GIVEN AND POLICE CAN TRACE THEM IF THEY WANTED TOO. THREE DAYS HAVE PASSED WITH NO ACTION FROM THE POLICE. THIS JUST CONFIRMED MY SUSPICION THAT THESE MOBSTERS ARE IN COLLUSION WITH THE POLICE ON THIS ATTACK (DIRECTED BY UMNO ELITE GROUP PERHAPS)

ANTI-ABU MAN ‘BAHAROM’ A SUPPORTER OF HASAN ALI?

Tue 2012-Jan-24 @ MYT 14:42:35 pm

“Baharom” the anti-ABU mobster is alleged by some bloggers to be Muhd Razali of Shah Alam (Facebook photo, right). His photo album on Facebook also contains a picture of a Hasan Ali ceramah poster.

Selangor power play

Hasan Ali, formerly of PAS, has ambitions of being Selangor menteri besar and has been at the forefront of moves for a PAS-Umno marriage of convenience in the name of Malay and Muslim unity.

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Pakatan Rakyat 36 seats (with Hasan Ali)
Umno 20 seats

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PKR & DAP: 28 PAS & Umno: 28

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Such a union, whether by coalition or merger, would lay the foundations for Umno’s takeover of the Selangor state administration. They would have a combined total of 28 seats in the State Assembly, on level terms with the Pakatan Rakyat: Umno (20 seats) and PAS including Hasan Ali (8) against Pakatan Rakyat’s PKR (15 seats) and DAP (13).

There seems to be a link, though perhaps coincidental and tenuous, between controversial former PAS leader Hasan Ali and the man called “Baharom”, or Muhamad Razali, alleged in some blogs to be the leader of the mob that broke up the ABU-Hindraf ceramah on Saturday, at which one man was injured.

There is no indication that Hasan Ali has any involvement with the action of the mob. However, he has been linked to Umno’s moves to regain power in Selangor through a PAS-Umno coalition.

The link to Hasan Ali comes from the Facebook profile of Muhamad Razali, a Shah Alam resident in his late 20s, and formerly from Klang, who was identified by some bloggers and blog commenters as being the mobster leader named as “Baharom” in photos posted online. There is a facial resemblance.

On his profile, Muhamad Razali says he attended SMK Jalan Kebun (school year 2002), which is in the locality where the ceramah was held, in a Shah Alam community hall. (Jalan Kebun, runs between Klang and Shah Alam, and goes past Kampung Jawa, Kota Kemuning and Bukit Kemuning, to Kampung Jalan Kebun.)

LINK TO HASAN ALI

Md Razali’s profile photo album includes a picture of a ceramah poster featuring Hasan Ali, the controversial former Selangor executive councillor for Islamic affairs who was recently expelled by PAS and then sacked from the Selangor Exco.

Hasan Ali has also waged an anti-Christian campaign, alleging large numbers of Muslims being converted to Christianity, and backed a controversial » raid on a Damansara Utama Methodist Church dinner at which several Muslims were present.

He and Nasharudin Mat Isa, a former PAS deputy president, were in secret talks on a coalition with Umno after the March 2008 general elections, in which the Umno-led Barisan Nasional lost power in Selangor.

Since then, Umno president Najib Tun Razak has taken charge of Selangor Umno with the aim of dislodging the Pakatan Rakyat.

Hasan Ali and Nasharudin are believed to have been dropped from the PAS line-up of election candidates for the next election, according to Utusan Malaysia.

WHO IS ‘BAHAROM’ THE ANTI-ABU MOBSTER LEADER?

Tue 2012-Jan-24 @ MYT 13:37:21 p
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