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Friday, March 20, 2009

BAJET MINI 2009 - terbaik untuk negara!


1. Pembentangan Bajet Mini 2009 bagi merangsang pertumbuhan ekonomi sekaligus meningkatkan daya tahan negara dalam mengharungi kemelesetan ekonomi global telah selamat dibacakan untuk kali kedua di Dewan Rakyat baru-baru ini.


2. Dengan memperuntukkan RM60billion (satu jumlah yang amat besar berbanding jangkaan ramai yang rata-rata menganggarkan RM6billion), pembentangan bajet ini mendapat pujian ramai, termasuk dari kalangan tokoh pembangkang sendiri.


3. Sumber kewangan yang didapati daripada Kumpulan Wang Disatukan itu akan dibelanjakan mengikut teras-teras yang telah dikenalpasti, dengan tempoh pelaksanaannya selama 2 tahun.


4. Empat teras tersebut adalah mengurangkan pengangguran dan menambah peluang pekerjaan; meringankan beban rakyat; membantu sektor swasta menghadapi krisis ekonomi semasa; dan membina keupayaan masa depan.

5. Prihatin dengan peningkatan kadar pengangguran di kalangan rakyat, kerajaan antara lain akan mewujudkan 163,000 peluang latihan dan penempatan pekerjaan di sektor awam dan swasta, mengisi 63,000 jawatan di pelbagai agensi kerajaan dan memberikan insentif cukai kepada syarikat yang mengambil pekerja yang diberhentikan.

6. Kerajaan juga akan menampung kos yuran pengajian masing-masing sebanyak RM10,000 dan RM20,000 bagi pelajar yang melanjutkan pengajian ke peringkat doktor falsafah dan sarjana serta mengembangkan skop skim Prosper Siswazah.

7. Prihatin dengan kos sara hidup yang semakin meningkat, peruntukan tambahan RM674 juta disalurkan sebagai subsidi untuk mengelakkan kenaikan harga bahan makanan harian seperti gula, roti dan tepung, selain RM480 juta supaya kadar tol lebuh raya tidak dinaikkan.

8. RM200 juta pula diperuntukkan sebagai peruntukan tambahan kepada Syarikat Perumahan Negara Bhd untuk membina rumah mesra rakyat, sementara bagi membantu pembeli rumah, kerajaan akan memberikan pelepasan cukai ke atas faedah pinjaman perumahan sehingga RM10,000 setahun selama tiga tahun.

9. Tidak dilupakan perusahaan kecil dan sederhana (PKS), kerajaan antara lain akan menubuhkan Skim Jaminan Modal Kerja dan Skim Dana Jaminan Penstrukturan Semula Industri masing-masing dengan dana RM5 bilion; serta sebuah Institusi Jaminan Kewangan dengan modal awal RM1 bilion.

10. Bagi sektor automotif, kerajaan bersama dengan Proton dan Perodua mewujudkan skim pelupusan kereta di mana pemilik sebarang jenama kereta yang mahu melupuskan kereta berusia lebih 10 tahun akan diberikan diskaun RM5,000 bagi membeli kereta baru.

11. Timbalan Perdana Menteri turut mengumumkan yang kerajaan akan meningkatkan dana pelaburan Khazanah Nasional sebanyak RM10 bilion yang akan dilaburkan dalam projek impak tinggi dalam tempoh dua tahun akan datang; mengenal pasti projek pelaburan bernilai RM5 bilion yang akan dilaksanakan secara di luar bajet; serta penyediaan dana sebanyak RM2 bilion bagi pelaksanaan projek melalui Inisiatif pembiayaan Swasta (PFI).

12. Hari ini, kita dapat menyaksikan betapa kuasa-kuasa besar dunia seperti Amerika Syarikat sendiri memerlukan suntikan ‘berbillion’ mahupun ‘trillion’ bagi membaikpulih keadaan ekonomi negaranya. Ada diantara rakyatnya - para siswazah, cendekiawan dan cerdik pandai perlu hidup di dalam khemah disebabkan kehilangan mata pencarian berikutan krisis subprima yang melanda negara itu sejak tahun lalu. Pertumbuhan ekonomi sebanyak negatif 1.6 peratus turut diramalkan bagi Amerika Syarikat, sementara United Kingdom negatif 2.8 peratus, dan Jepun negatif 2.6 peratus.

13. Justeru, sebagaimana yang telah disarankan oleh Timbalan Perdana Menteri sewaktu membentangkan Bajet Mini ini, kerjasama semua pihak amatlah diperlukan bagi meningkatkan lagi daya tahan negara dalam menghadapi krisis global ini. Segala demonstrasi dan tingkahlaku yang tidak membawa kebaikan dan memburukkan imej negara hendaklah dihentikan dan bersama-samalah kita meningkatkan daya usaha bagi memajukan ekonomi negara. Yakinlah, bahawa Bajet Mini 2009 ini adalah yang terbaik, dan mampu meningkatkan kemampanan negara dalam menghadapi ribut ekonomi yang melanda dunia kini.


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Thursday, March 19, 2009

ALI IS OUT but ALI is not a scapegoat

UMNO Disciplinary Board and Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in its move to form a clean party and society, had taken the following actions against:-

> Datuk Seri Mohd Rustam barred from contesting after he was found guilty of breaching party ethics.

> He will be allowed to remain as Malacca Chief Minister.

> Datuk Seri Dr.Khir Toyo cleared and Khairy Jamaluddin found guilty but given just a warning.




Ali, 59, was involved in a three-cornered fight vs Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Tan Sri Muhammad Taib for UMNO`s deputy president post.

Ali who is also Malacca Chief Minister, garnered 46 nominations to contest the post vis Muhyiddin 91 and Muhammad 46.

The board was independent and not even the party's supreme council could interfere with its decisions. The independence of the board is to ensure the good name of Umno.

The board denies conspiracy.


Najib said ,` Ali was not made a scarpegoat by UMNO in its crackdown on vote buying in the party election campaign. `

` We have to sacrifice in party`s interests`.

`We want UMNO to be seen as a clean party`

` If we don`t change, we will be changed.`


He added that Mohd Ali would also continue as election head for Kuala Sepetang, a state constituency under the Bukit Gantang parliamentary seat, for the upcoming by-election there.

Najib also said that Mohd Ali's fate now rested with the panel of appeal and whether or not a decision would be made before the party polls was up to the panel.

Meanwhile Ali said `
I accept decision with an open heart`

`I hope that this will strengthen UMNO. I am a party man and I will sacrifice anything for the party,even my life and soul.`

Hishammuddin said that he was impressed with Mohd Ali’s leadership among the younger generation of leaders.

I am touched by his demeanour in this sad affair where at the same time, one cannot be above the party regulations and decision,” he added.

No one is above the law. We must accept and respect the board`s decisions as winds of change as something positive towards forming a clean party and eventually a clean and ethical society.Do not salivate conspiracy theories.It is not a political ploy.There is no sacrificial scapegoat.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

BN Candidate for Bukit Gantang-a chosen best for the grassroots!!!.

Bukit Gantang is a small town and parliament constituency in Perak, Malaysia.It is famous for its durian orchards.There is a nice small stream at the nearby Bukit Berapit.Did you know too one of the longest train tunnel in Malaysia is also found in this hilly area.

But come April 7 , all eyes will set upon this lush greenery.

Bukit Gantang is gearing towards a by election following the demise of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party parliamentarian, Roslan Shahrum, on February 9 2009.

In the March 2008 general elections, Roslan polled 20,015 votes against the 18,449 garnered by Barisan Nasional’s Datuk Abdul Azim Mohd Zabidi.The third candidate
M. Morgan, an Independent candidate, received 872 votes .

As a Malaysian who is going to exercise his elecgtoral rights again, it is his duty to know the man he is putting his vote for this time around. Knowing the candidate who you are going to cast the vote for helps decision-making easier and frees oneself from the hassle of political woes.

What then are the expectations of Bukit Gantangnians? A POLITICAL PUPPET ? A FEROCIOUS TIGER ? A ASPIRING BUT LAWLESS POLITICIAN? OR ONE WITH LOCAL ROOTS, BRAINS AND VAST EXPERIENCE?





This time around BN has fielded a local, Ismail Saffian to this constituency of 55,471 voters of whom 63.48 per cent are Malay voters, 26.77 Chinese, 9.71 per cent Indians and others, 0.4 per cent.

Ismail, 49, the former Bukit Gantang Umno division information chief, was chosen because he is a local and accepted by the grassroots and the Bukit Gantang Umno leadership.

Ismail, a local from Kampung Kubu, Bukit Gantang, is also the Human Resources and Management Services Director of the National Solid Waste Management and Public Cleaning Corporation.

The precondition was, however, imposed on Ismail is, he would not contest in the next divisional elections. In last year's divisional elections, Ismail lost to Trong state assemblyman Datuk Rosli Hu-sin in the contest for the post of Bukit Gantang Umno division chief.

The by-election is held simultaneously with the by-elections for the Bukit Selambau state seat in Kedah and Batang Ai state seat in Sarawak.

YES ISMAIL SAFFIAN YOU CAN WALK TALL FOR BUKIT GANTANG…

BUKIT GANTANGNIANS YOU GOT AN EDUCATED AND EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL FOR YOUR SERVICE.HE CAN BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT !!!!




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Monday, March 9, 2009

UNICEF- A tribute to all women & mothers on this International Women`s day 8 MARCH 2009

KUALA LUMPUR, 5 March 2009 – Behind the closed door of a family home, a woman is being beaten while her children hide in the bedroom, unable to help or stop listening.

According to the UN Secretary-General’s Study on Violence Against Children 2006, up to 275 million children worldwide are estimated to witness domestic violence every year, proving that some of the biggest victims of domestic violence are the smallest and most vulnerable. Even when they are not directly being abused, children suffer greatly when they are exposed to violence in their homes, particularly when perpetrated between or against their parents.

International Women's Day, celebrated this year under the theme, ‘Women and Men: United to End Violence against Women’, is an opportunity to throw open these closed doors and understand the impact of domestic violence on children.

Worldwide, at least one out of every three women is likely to be beaten,coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime. In Malaysia, 485 cases of violence against women were reported to the Department of Social Welfare in 2006.

Come yee all daughters, sons and husbands-Watch this touching song video as my tribute to all women and mothers on earth on this meaningful International Women`s Day







Domestic abuse also perpetuates a cycle of violence for the next generation. Children who grow up with violence in the home learn to use violence in interpersonal relationships to dominate others. For instance,boys who saw their mothers being abused are more likely to grow up and abuse their wives.

This cycle must be stopped so that children can have the routine and normalcy that they deserve in their childhood, and be given the right to develop to their fullest potential.“Every child has the right to be protected from all forms of violence,including violence perpetrated against their loved ones. Children need to grow up in an environment that is safe and secure, where they learn that domestic violence is wrong,” said Mr Youssouf.

As 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, governments are reminded of the promise they made towards all children 20 years ago, and their obligations to protect children from violence, even if it means intervening in “private” spheres. Mr Youssouf stressed the need to engage men and boys in the fight against domestic violence, by mobilising them to recognise the needs of children exposed to domestic violence, as well as encouraging them to change attitudes and traditions that condone abuse.

Beyond the lifelong consequences for children, violence against women has enormous social and economic costs, and poses a serious threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. “If the world is to protect the rights of children, then we must do more to prevent violence against women and promote gender equality,” stressed MrYoussouf.

A world fit for children is also a world fit for women – one cannot exist without the other.

So WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT? YOU CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!!!!

VOICESFROMFAR WISHES ALL OUR FELLOW WOMAN-LISTERNERS NEAR AND FAR `HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN`S DAY `..YOU ARE THE POWER AND BEACON IN YOUR FAMILIES...



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Monday, March 2, 2009

ARE WE TOO MUCH INTO TECHNOLOGY???

Ever wonder what happens when we are too much into technology? Can we attritube the present day invasion of privacy as too much into technology or someone just enjoy playing pranks or just a mean to show us how our society is into real moral decay?

Can we also attritube the global economic turmoil, our political unrest and lawless culture as the result of too much into technology or some default in some intelliegence estimates of some sector or merely an outcry for a change ?

There are so many things about tomorrow, we don`t seem to understand!!! So why not just live day by day trying to understand how much we had live our lifes that have been controlled either by technology , human intelliegence , faith and sense or...???

Sit back and understand them




Wonders of credit cards in economic crunch???



Our lifestyle, food ,work and technology , and... human intelliegence !!!!


See how even our children are into technology too..???

Technological advancement does not advocate we should be lazy or too dependent /complacent in our lifes. We should have plans or intiatives in lifes especially at this time of global economic turmoil. Here`s old saying - A man plans his way but God directs his steps. Let not technology undermine our intelliegence.


And human intelliegence too does not advocate political unrest and lawless culture to get to the means for change. We should stop slandering and make economic recovery the focus of life .

For that matter, we should Kudos Anas Zubedy, the M.D of Zubedy(M) Sdn Bhd for his farsightedness and sincerity in appealing to all Malaysian politicians to stop the power chase, call for truce and focus on the economy. Quote and unquote-` whether Barisan Nasional or Pakatan leads, it is meaningless if Malaysians have no job to go to, no money to pay rent and no means to put food on the table..`.We need a caring government for the day.


Who can take care of our tomorow? Would you say our anxiousness a result of too much into technology and looming economy , our state of prayerless and fearless living, the emerging lawless culture or the never ending political unrest..???

Once again- Do pay heed to Warren Buffet`s advice --ALL HARD WORK BRINGS A PROFIT, BUT MERE TALKS LEADS ONLY TO POVERTY AND NO PROGRESS.



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