 And in response to Zahrain’s linking him to the blogger, Zaid Ibrahim retorts: So what? show that blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin and Pakatan Rakyat secretariat coordinator Zaid Ibrahim had checked into the same hotel in the UK last year.This has raised the eyebrows of Bayan Baru MP Zahrain Mohamed Hashim, who quit PKR in February and declared himself an Independent lawmaker. “I have here their hotel bookings. Raja Petra made a booking from Oct 1-4 at the Britannia Hotel (in) Manchester and Zaid made a booking at the same hotel from Oct 1-3,” he told journalists at the Parliament lobby today. He questioned the “coincidence” and called for an investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to probe if there is link between the duo. “I am asking MACC to (find out who is funding) Raja Petra’s stay in London. What was (Zaid) doing with a fugitive in Manchester?” asked Zahrain. Asked if he was accusing Zaid of providing the funds, Zahrain denied this but said he wants MACC to get to the bottom of the matter. He also claimed to have a copy of an email from Raja Petra to his daughter, stating that he had received RM470,000 from Amarjit Singh. Since Amarjit is a lawyer for both Raja Petra and PKR, said Zahrain, the money may have come from the party. “I know that there is a relationship between the PKR right-hand man with Raja Petra, based on the hotel booking. Therefore I want (de facto law minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz) and MACC to investigate,” he said. Zahrain (left) added that he would hand over his information to Nazri after the press conference. Raja Petra was charged with sedition and criminal defamation last year but was given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal in both matters, as the prosecution could not serve the warrant of arrest on him despite several postponements. Missing from Malaysia since May last year, he now lives in self-imposed exile. In an immediate response posted on his blog, Zaid stayed true to character and appeared unpertubed by the accusations. ‘I met RPK. So?’ He instead expressed ‘pity’ for Zahrain for being “so pathetic”. “Parliamentarians should be proposing ideas for national policy and be brave in criticising government decisions… this is their job, especially “Independent” MPs who are favoured by the PM. “That is why I am surprised that this has been made an issue. (Zahrain) has become like a member of the Special Branch,” he said in the posting. Zaid also admitted to being friends with Raja Petra and his wife Marina that he had met with them during his trip to Manchester last year. While Raja Petera did indeed make the bookings for him, the former did not stay at the hotel as it was only 15 minutes from his home, said Zaid. “Meeting Raja Petra is not a crime, dear YB. Even you have been to his house in Manchester,” he said, turning the tables on Zahrain. Unlike others, he suggested, he does not believe in abandoning friends in times of need and would visit them everytime he is in London. “I will be in London again next week and God-willing, I will meet with Marina and Petra. “I also hope to meet with Bala if MACC does not want to meet with him,” he said, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the anti-corruption agency’s decision to cancel its much awaited interview to record private investigator P Balasubramaniam over the Altantuya WHERE TO NOW MESSIAH? What goes round comes round. Raja Petra Kamaruddin (RPK, Raja) was always about his self-centered narcissistic person. He was destined to fall on his own sword when the extent of his far fetched allegations against the Prime Minister and his wife began to take a life of its own out of the Raja’s control. Added to his circus was one Balasubramaniam (Bala) the former policeman turned private investigator turned internet media sensation appearing with his lawyer Amarick Siddhu Singh. Siddhu admitted on the record that he had assisted Bala with his Statutory Declaration, that he had taken instruction from Bala about its contents. That document it so happens turned out to be another complete fabrication of inconsistencies and lies in the mould of the Raja’s own. There were those video taped interviews of a Raja so contrived, complete with feigned emotions of a “father who had looked into the eyes of the grieving father of the late Altantuya Sharibuu and knew what it felt like”. This RPK followed up with even bolder claims that he had control over a police officer at Bukit Aman who would do his every bidding. Not quite satisfied with his epiphany of lies to outrage a nation he offered them the ultimate insult by claiming that he was possessed of firsthand information, from a military intelligence officer who he claims was present at the disposal of Altantuya’s body the day it was allegedly blown up with C4 explosives tied to her corpse. Speculation was rife that Altantuya may have been alive when blown up adding to the gruesome fiction created and disseminated by RPK. RPK had become addicted to the reactions, the feedback to his lies, his fictions and fantasies. RPK began to feel the embrace of fame and popularity. Having fallen for the seduction of fame and public recognition he immersed himself in his new found passion of playing “the boy who cried woolf”. He called out woolf time and time again and the gullible and the opportunists in his midst answered his call each time. It was fun. It became addictive. He became a prisoner of his vanity and cocooned himself in that web of deceit he had spun around others engulfing and entrapping himself in the process. NOTHING IS COMPLETE WITHOUT PARTICIPATION OF THE MALAYSIAN BAR Then there was the Raja supported by the Malaysian Bar and its driver one Datuk Ambiga Sreenivasan who paraded as champion of the anti ISA and of RPK’s cause at its core. In tow were the many lawyers turned overnight sensations courtesy of the RPK sensation and circus. They coveted his fame and adulation riding on his coat tails out of the obscurity of their otherwise incompetent unprofessional existence into a spotlight that has turned into a destructive furnace likely to consume each of them in due course. RPK’s campaign it appears was endemic in the milieu of his generation of Malaysians who saw it as a quick fix alternative to honest argument supported by fact and reason. The Malaysian Bar on the other hand willingly went hand in glove with RPK. The assumption behind the ethos of the Malaysian Bar, RPK’s shield against the law, was that they would use the law to change society from their lofty perches. An expression of self conscious elitism as some would suggest. RPK: VICTIM OR BULLY To some extent Raja Petra Kamaruddin could be said to be a victim of circumstances. Not highly educated, certainly not well read or informed the Raja was culitvated so readily and so shamelessley by an otherwise educated elite of the fragamented opposition to government in Malaysia. A careful examination of events that led to the ascendency of RPK as the focus of dissent in Malaysia will reveal the hand of the Malaysian Bar and those elements within it who have relentlessley used RPK and to some extent Anwar Ibrahim as stalking horses for their own covert political ambitions. They after all presented the ideal opportunity to Malay bashing by the largely Chinese dominated opposition with their minority Indians and sprinkling of confused Malays in the mix. No one could now accuse them of racism. These were Malays bashing Malays. |
- Despite the outcome of this expose in the near future being not very encouraging, take heart, cos even kids are well versed with the ultimate outcome of Najis.
After the murder of Altantuya, a charitable soul contacted Shaaribuu Setev, the father of the young woman : Datuk Syed, honorary consul of Mongolia in Malaysia. “I am ready to do everything to help you”, said the diplomat to Shaaribuu Setev. His dedication even pushed the amicable Datuk Syed to make revelations to the father. “The Malaysian governement is ready to spend one billion of tughrik (mongolian currency, equivalent to 500,000 euros) to cover up the case”
I am referring to the 2 sms’es mentioned at paragraphs 51 and 52 of the first statutory declaration of private investigator Balasubramaniam. Let me reproduce below both paragraphs 51 and 52 of that first statutory declaration.
51. On the day Abdul Razak Baginda was arrested, I was with him at his lawyers office at 6.30am. Abdul Razak Baginda informed us that he had sent Najib Razak an SMS the evening before as he refused to believe he was to be arrested, but had not received a response.
52. Shortly thereafter, at about 7.30am, Abdul Razak Baginda received an SMS from Najib Razak and showed, this message to both myself and his lawyer. This message read as follows: “ I am seeing IGP at 11am today … matter will be solved … be cool”.
Like all of you, I am aware of Bala’s second statutory declaration contradicting the first, but we also have to acknowledge that the circumstances surrounding the making and public announcement of the second statutory declaration, and the subsequent disappearance of the maker of both, might make it prudent for us to defer adjudging which of the two statutory declarations narrates the truth until such time that Bala is available to fully disclose andexplain the circumstances surrounding the making of both statutory delcarations.AS THE TAXI DRIVER SAW…ALTANTUYA’S LAST HOURS.
Her last journey starts at night when she gives a slip to bala’s men watching her movements, she took her last taxi ride from hotel Malaya to bagindas house. What could have been the topic of her discussion with the taxi driver? Was he the one who took down the car registration no, which was used in a grab at bagindas house?.
What she told about own P.I WHO abandon her at the last moment, she was helpless? As the taxi stop she was grabbed and bundled into that car and driven off. If only they had waited, for the taxi go then they had grabbed her, they could have pull off the perfect encounter.
With her name erased from the immigration entries, she will be in the missing persons list. But god was on her side that day, because she had to be scarified, in order to bring to open the evil forces that are planning to rule this country. But to PAS PRESIDENT it just a murder why we have to make it an issue out of it?
The taxi driver went back to the stand at hotel Malaya to be confronted by the victim’s cousin sister to whom he gave the vital informations. The Rest is history…………………………
NOW LISTEN TO THE VOICES FROM THE JUNGLES OR THIS IS AN ACCONT OF THE PERSON WITH CONSCIENCE WHO WAS AT PLACE OF THE TORTURE CHAMBER.
For every genuine journalistic scoop, there is a political or bureaucratic denial. From Watergate to this year’s cholera outbreak in Chennai, all stories big and small have got the first response which is a denial. Some journalists are persistent and go on to prove – with a little luck – the politician/ bureaucrat was lying. But some denials survive in the absence of hardcore evidence, which is often tampered with.
“Was that the satellite we lost for a short while?” I asked in a calm voice that hid my excitement.
“Not lost,” said Raja Petra Kamarudin. “What happened was that one of the control systems did not function. So errors built up and the vehicle lost its reference. So the vehicle was feeling that it was in the right orbit, but it was not.”
Did the control centres know it was not in the right orbit?
“No, we didn’t know because we rely on the navigation system. The vehicle only tells us where it is. And we did not know where this satellite was.”
I rested my case here, but listened on.
“But we could find out from the (Nasa) website that gives debris information … We had two things to deal with, the inclination and the orbit. The inclination was in our favour. We had to change the orbit.”
That used up a lot of fuel?
Not much since the inclination was in our favour.
Has it brought down the life of the satellite?
“I don’t think so. Fuel used to be the limiting factor in the olden days, but with very good management of the mission, we can save fuel and extend the life of the satellite. Insat-4CR is still in orbit.” Radhakrishnan treated me to a delicious vegetarian lunch that ended with a dessert of ripe papaya. Before taking leave, I shook his hand firmly and said: “Thank you, so much.”
It looks like Prime Minister Najib Razak, at the centre of the Scorpene-Altantuya corruption and murder scandals, is hitting the panic buttons.
Officers from the Companies Commission of Malaysia tried to raid the office of human rights group SUARAM on Tuesday afternoon but had to abort their plan after discovering their warrant had not been signed.
The failed raid follows days of haranguing in the Umno-controlled newspapers urging the government to investigate why the human rights group was registered as a company, and yet styled itself as an NGO or non-governmental organisation.
Umno-linked groups also demanded that the authorities inspected SUARAM’s sources of funding and what happened to the nearly one million ringgit it posted as earnings since 2009.
“It is to distract members of the public and divert attention from the ongoing probe into corruption involved in the Scorpene deal,” SUARAM director Cynthia Gabriel said.
She had tweeted when 4 CCM officers turned up to question SUARAM staff as well as to inspect its books and raid its premise
Is there anything to be gained by interjecting the strangling kudzu of partisan politics into Internet policy? I strongly doubt it and that’s why I am frankly mystified by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) Fred Campbell’s bombastic and highly partisan July 26 opinion piece in the Atlantic calling on conservatives to join the fight for Internet freedom. His hypothesis seems to be that progressives are “winning” in their efforts to subvert the open Internet and deliver it into the clutches of “government control.” Really?
There has always been a strong bi-partisan consensus in favor of a lightweight policy approach to the Internet. The key policy decisions that made the U.S. Internet an engine of innovation and democracy have almost always been made on a bipartisan basis. It was the bipartisan duo of then-Representatives Wyden and Cox who, more than 15 years ago, drafted the seminal law (now known as Section 230) that enabled Internet innovation to flourish by establishing strong liability protections for the Internet’s intermediaries. And earlier this year, it was Representative Issa and Senator Wyden – backed by a strong bipartisan coalition – that lead the successful opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). There is no basis to suggest that this longstanding consensus to keep the Internet above the political fray has been lost.readmore http://themalay-chronicle.blogspot.com/2012/08/najib-bought-raja-petra-kamarudin-scoop.html
That is not to say that there are no disagreements. In a community where there are more opinions than there are issues, robust debate is the norm. But disagreements rarely break neatly along partisan lines. Lets face it. The issues have become far more complex since the days when the Internet ran on top of a regulated, “common carriage” phone network. In today’s environment of unregulated broadband, ubiquitous mobile connectivity, and truly global reach, anyone who thinks there are easy fixes for policy challenges, isn’t thinking very deeply.
What seems to have sent Campbell over the partisan edge are the “Open Internet rules” commonly known as net neutrality, which he sees as a precursor to a government takeover of the Internet. Here is where we cannot paper over disagreements, Those of us who believe the rules are necessary, want to ensure that large network operators do not use their position to exercise “gatekeeper” control. Those who oppose such rules insist that centralized gatekeeping by governments, not companies, is the only real threat. It’s a fair debate, but to suggest that where one stands on the issue reflects diametrically opposed agendas–regarding the general relationship of government to the Internet–is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the debate.
What I can’t work out is why anyone who truly cares about the open Internet would pick the warm afterglow of the anti-SOPA campaign to launch a highly inflammatory attack on longstanding allies.
I refer to Raja Petra’s article published on his blog “Malaysia Today” entitled “The day I met P. Balasubramaniam (part 3) which makes scandalous and false allegations against me and another lawyer M. Puravalen.
Raja Petra does his usual spin of mixing truth and fiction in order to make a story sound interesting. Unfortunately for him, lies remain lies.
Let me give an example of how he did this just a few weeks ago on 18.7.12 in his blog. He dramatically did this opening intro for an article:
“When Sivarasa was in the opposition, he represented Sri Aman Development against MBPJ. Once Pakatan Rakyat took over the Selangor State Government, Sivarasa did a U-turn. He changed sides. He became a turncoat and represented MBPJ against Sri Aman Development …”http://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.com/2012/08/mr-member-of-parliament-sivarasa-rasiah.html
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