Good news for blogger's

[updated:18:05 / 21 Mac 2008] New Information Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek says he will not control bloggers but will listen to them and hopes to meet them soon to get feedback. This is a positive policy statement from the new media man. Anyway, Yang Berhormat, even if you have intention to do so, you wont be able to do it, so dont dream about controlling the bloggers.

Its BN strategy

Main stream media reported, Pa Lah aware that the opposition efforts to buy over the BN parliamentarians to jump over to Barisan Rakyat. Buying over the candidates/ parliamentarian is BN's strategy and the history has recorded this dirty strategy very clearly. It's happen so many times in Malaysian politics and the party behind this buying over is umno@bn. In fact in just concluded general election there were so many incidents to buy over the Barisan Rakyat candidates. Some succesfull but majority rejected the buying over strategy. One of the cases was Selangor state seat N.43 Sementa under P.109 Kapar parliament seat. Supposed Kapar PKR youth division chief should contest against umno man but he disappear a day earlier before the nomination. Umno managed to buy over him. The same goes to the independent man in N.25 Bukit Selambau under P.14 Merbok parliament seat. MIC try their best to buy over the man but he stand firm and with the help of PKR, he defeated mic and today he has been appointed as Kedah state EXCO after joining PKR. So if Pa Lah said, the other parties are trying to buy over the BN parliamentarian then for me it's a stupid joke which people will not buy any more. Bribing the parliamentarian to jump over is umno's strategy not other parties. So stop feeding us with a stupid joke.

Learn about People's Power

Umno are provoking malays to go against the People's Power who has decided to knock out umno@bn in Parliament, 5 state and Kuala Lumpur. As usual they used the racial card in the name of "malay supremacy" and "special rights". It seems, the one who are provoking malays is umno conglomerates and who gain from umno racial policy. By loosing all the developed state to the Barisan Rakyat, meaning umno putra are going to lost their rice bowl too. So they need to do something in-order to remain in business track. But what umno refuse to admit is when Tun Musa Hitam said the government has to do away with bumiptera special rights and NEP for the sake of getting the FDI for Iskandar Development Region project none of the umno man are dare to organize the demonstration. But then when they lost their political power they are doing all type of sabotage including hiding the important files from EXCO offices. Umno need to learn the meaning of people's power in order to remain relevant in malaysian politics otherwise the voters will pack you in 13^th general election.

Pa Lah counting his days

Pa Lah yesterday announced his new cabinet line up. As he mention earlier, the numbers in cabinet has been reduced from 90 to 69. The numbers has been reducing tremendously when he decided to drop the Parliament Secretary post. In term of minister and ministry not much changes, 32 full ministers and 26 ministries. On top of that, Pa Lah also decided to appoint ex-minister Sharizat as a special advisor with minister status to advice him on the women and family matters. I don't think Pa Lah need a special advisor just to advice him on women and family matters when there is already a ministry to take care. Source said, the major reason for the appointment was umno women wing was damn angry with Pa Lah since there is no representative from the wing in cabinet. Rafidah threaten to resign even to relinquish his parliament position if necessary. Some umno parliament members also have voiced out their dissatisfaction and might jump to PKR as a sign of protest. While I was typing this notes, I received a txt msg from reliable source saying Radzi Sheikh Ahmad resign as BN and umno secretary general since he cannot work effectively anymore and PM has accepted his resignations. Radzi was dropped from the cabinet lineup although he was holding the important position in party. Even the younger brother of Sabah CM rejects the deputy minister post saying he is senior enough for minister post. With all this incidents and the most important is when umno youth wing decided no actions will be taken to Mukriz Mahathir, I do believe Pa Lah counting his day in office.

New Cabinet

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak

Ministers in the Prime Minister's Department
Tan Sri Bernard Dompok
Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz
Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Datuk Mohd Zaid Ibrahim
Datuk Amirsham Abdul Aziz

Deputy Ministers in the Prime Minister's Department
Datuk Johari Baharom
Datuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim
Datuk K. Devamany
Datuk Hassan Malik

Finance
Minister - Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Second Finance Minister - Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop
Deputies - Datuk Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Datuk Kong Cho Ha

Defense
Minister - Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak
Deputy - Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop

Internal Security and Home Affairs
Minister - Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar
Deputies - Datuk Chor Chee Heong, Senator Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh

Housing and Local Government
Minister -Datuk Ong Ka Chuan
Deputies - Datuk Robert Lau , Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin

Works Minister
Minister - Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamad
Deputy- Datuk Yong Khoon Seng

Energy, Water and Communications
Minister - Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor
Deputy- Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum

Agriculture and Agro-based Industry
Minister - Datuk Mustapa Mohamed
Deputy - Datin Paduka Rohani Abdul Karim

International Trade and Industry
Minister -Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin
Deputies- Loh Wei Keong, Datuk Jacob Dungau Sagan

Foreign Affairs
Minister -Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim
Deputy- Tunku Azlan Abu Bakar

Education
Minister -Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein
Deputies -Datuk Wee Ka Siong, Datuk Razali Ismail

Higher Education
Minister - Datuk Khaled Nordin
Deputies - Khoo Kok Choong, Datuk Idris Harun

Transport
Datuk Ong Tee Keat
Deputy - Anifah Aman

Human Resources
Datuk S. Subramaniam
Deputy- Datuk Noraini Ahmad

Women, Family and Community Development
Minister-Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen
Deputy- Noriah Kasnon

National Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage
Minister- Datuk Shafie Apdal
Deputy-Datuk Teng Boon Soon

Science, Technology and Innovation
Minister- Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili
Deputy- Fadilah Yusof

Entrepreneurial and Cooperative Development
Minister - Datuk Noh Omar
Deputy- Datuk Saiffuddin Abdullah

Natural Resources and Environment
Minister - Datuk Douglas Unggah Embas
Deputy - Datuk Abu Ghapur Salleh

Rural and Regional Development
Minister - Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib
Deputy- Tan Sri Joseph Kurup

Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs
Minister - Datuk Shahrir Samad
Deputy - Jelaing Mersat

Plantation Industries and Commodities
Minister - Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui
Deputy- Senator A. Kohilan

Youth and Sports
Minister - Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaacob
Deputy - Wee Jack Seng

Health
Minister - Datuk Liow Tiong Lai
Deputy- Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad

Information
Minister - Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek
Deputy- Datuk Tan Lian Hoe

Tourism
Minister - Datuk Azalina Othman
Deputy - Datuk Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Abu Taib

FT
Minister - Datuk Zulhasnan Rafique
Deputy- M. Saravanan

Tengku Razaleigh's Letter

Well, someone going to rock the boat again in umno. Who is going to say bye-bye in umno hierarchy this time? Let's wait and see what is going to happen in umno election this year.

Since when ?

Its sound and look like a good drama stage by umno penang on last Friday 14 Mac. They requested Lim Guan Eng to present the blueprint on how the new state government going to assist the Malays and Indians from being marginalised. What make me laugh at their drama was, umno was never bothered about Indians and suddenly they are trying their best to be a hero and demanding state government not to marginalised Indians. If this umno man has brain, they should ask Pa Lah to present the blue print in parliament on how umno dominated federal government going to assist Malaysian Indians. Otherwise don't stage any drama. Malaysian Indians are getting sick after buying all your sweet talk.