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TMI:

Tycoon Tan Sri Vincent Tan today accused illegal bookmakers of spending millions of ringgit to fund a campaign to torpedo his plans for legalised football betting, and would wait for the right conditions to revive plans, gaming analysts said today.

He also told gaming industry analysts that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) was to blame for the Najib administration’s backtracking, and alleged that illegal bookmakers had spent between RM100 million and RM300 million to smear his attempt to introduce above-board football betting.

Oh really?

If this is so, then I have a beef to pick with these illegal bookmakers: Where’s my RM 1 million?!

After all I wrote such a nice article on the evil’s of betting, and who knows how many blog posts – surely worth something right? (faster contact me :)

I mean seriously, RM 100-300 million? I think this Vincent Tan fler is a bit perasaan.

Exactly what would these bookies spend that kind of money on? Promoting Old Town Kopitiam instead of Starbucks? :|

Noler, I think this is not a victory for illegal bookies, but for the rakyat.

Not only are we spared the scourge of more gambling, but we have probably stemmed some flow to Umno’s war chest. If we’re lucky, we have even created some friction between Vincent and Najib & gang.

So, here’s kudos to all those who have worked hard to uphold justice!

And now, who you betting on? Paraguay? Japan? Spain? Portugal? Take half ball? ahaha…

Zunar at the press conference we held together

I wanted to offer my ‘condolences’ to Zunar, having just read the news:

The Home Ministry has banned a Malaysiakini book by popular cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque, or better known as Zunar, under the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984.

In addition to Zunar’s ’1Funny Malaysia’ – which is published by Kinibooks, a subsidiary of Malaysiakini – two other comics were also banned.

Home Ministry secretary-general Mahmood Adam said the ban was issued following the contents in the three publications that were deemed unsuitable and undesirable for public reading.

In a statement issued today, Mahmood said the book banned was titled ‘Perak Darul Kartun’ and the two comics titled ‘Isu Dalam Kartun’ and ’1Funny Malaysia’.

Unsuitable and undesirable?

Yeah, maybe if you’re BN and planning to stay in power forever >:(

It was very recently, that our friend Najib said:

In his speech titled “A New Vision for Malaysia”, the Prime Minister made clear that he was not opposed to dissent or opposition because he believed legitimate views deserved to be heard.

I think the PM’s hypocritical definition of legitimate is at best, laughable, and at worst fiendishly self-serving.

It remains to be seen what will happen with my own publication, Where is Justice – but perhaps best you get a copy now before it meets a similar fate.

This banning is a shameful act of cowardice, and I hope Zunar knows that we are behind him all the way!

ps- Hillarious article by @junewow on TMI :)

I really wonder what to make of all these alleged JI threats.

On the one hand, of course we want to be wary against the type of terror attacks we have seen in Indonesia and the like.

On the other, do we really trust our government when they start going on about such terror threats?

I won’t pretend to know for sure, but observe the style of these ‘witch hunt’ briefings -

Another high-level briefing was held at the Bukit Aman federal police headquarters last night as part of efforts to send out the red alert amongst the government’s senior echelon on the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) threat.

Apart from the movement’s terrorist threat, participants at the briefing also heard that JI subscribed to Wahhabism, an ultra-conservative, hardline form of Islam. This sparked fear among some present that a witch-hunt may be on the cards.

The high-ranking officials attending the meeting – among them the police task force on terrorism, public university vice-chancellors and heads of security departments – were clearly uneasy with what they heard.

This due to the deputy director of the Al-Quran and Core Knowledge of Institut Latihan Islam Malaysia, Zamihan Mat Zin who alleged a link between Wahhabism and several notable Islamic figures in the country.

Among the names mentioned were former Perlis mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidi, the state’s current mufti Juanda Jaya, former Perlis menteri besar Shahidan Kassim and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang.

I can see it now – dark room in Bukit Aman, figures huddled around a small table, one small overhead lamp, while one man goes on and on about these devils and their many co-conspirators.

Exactly the type of thing that would precede an Ops Lalang type of operation.

Perhaps this whole JI thing is manufactured to fit two goals:

Firstly, to appease America and their never ending anti-terrorism campaign (Najib lovessss America. During the Gaza flotilla crisis, Umno didn’t even dare to protest outside the American Embassy – choosing the UN instead :P )

Second of course, to conveniently get rid of political enemies.

Perhaps Najib is using his carrot and stick again against Asri – join Umno, or be arrested as a JI sympathist. Tsk3.

Let us be vigilant, Malaysia!

A busy morning alas, forgive me as merely reprint a statement released while I was travelling, speaking to the mistreatment once again of migrant workers.

STOP PENALIZING WORKERS WHO WANT TO GET JUSTICE
- MAXTER GLOVE SHOULD REINSTATE BURMESE MIGRANT
WORKER WHO COMPLAINED TO LABOUR DEPARTMENT

We, the undersigned 66 organizations, groups and networks, concerned about migrant and worker rights, are appalled at the treatment of workers at Maxter Glove Manufacturing Sdn Bhd (229862-H), at its factory at Lot 6070, Jalan Haji Abdul Manan, 6th Miles off Jalan Meru, Klang, Selangor, Malaysia.

We are appalled at the dismissal of Thu Maung, a Burmese migrant worker, who courageously lodged a complaint at the Labour Department to claim his rights as a worker. Claiming worker rights by lodging complaints against errant employers at the Labour Department is the proper and legally recognized procedure in Malaysia. It is very wrong for employers to discriminate against and/or terminate workers who are exercising their legal rights. It is also wrong for employers to discourage and/or threaten workers from seeking justice, when worker rights are being violated.
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Muhyiddin:

“Every component party must administer their party effectively and enhance changes quickly so that BN’s image will remain intact,” he told reporters.

Muhyiddin said the transformation was important and necessary because the eco-system and political landscape of the country has changed because the public are now knowledgeable and well informed.

You gotta love it… BN must change because….. the public are now knowledgeable and well informed??

Enhance changes quickly so image remains intact??

Tsk tsk, that really is a very frank admission that for all these years (while the public was presumably ‘ignorant’ and ‘uninformed’), BN has been stealing from us, beating us up, locking us away, and stealing from us some more.

It’s good they’re acknowledging the need for change, but are they capable of change? Hmmm.