Poor Iban and Taib's Family Members Luxury Lifestyle

Kuching
Thursday, 11th November 2010

After almost 30 years of ruling Sarawak, Taib Mahmud has gathered more than enough wealth for his family members!

While majority of Iban still living under poverty line but Taib's family, on the expensed of their NCR lands have been living luxuriously and extravagantly.
Please see some photos of Taib's  family members here. Hopefully by showing their photo here, the Iban in the long house will be able to see by themselves the true colours of Taib's family members, therefore will be able to make rational decision whether to vote for BN in the coming state election.

 ‘Sexy lighting’ – Ladies in Red

Playboy collection – Ani Ta Tufail (by day she acts as a company director) and friends are the ‘women in red’

Elia Geneid (niece of Taib) gets flirty

 Taib niece, Elia Geneid – with a house this big I will dress as I want to

Glamour 

 Smooching up to my brother – niece Anita Tufail

Elia Geneid – all on show for her funky male friends

Harem – Taib’s daughter Jamilah (second right) is Director and Shareholder of many of Taib’s huge foreign property interests abroad, while (far right) neice Anita Tufail inserted herself into the Board of a major timber company straight after college to profit from the proceeds of logging

Busts and baubbles – low cut dresses for Taib sister Raziah and daughters to show off the main attraction (the wealth around their necks)

Old and young – Taib’s sister, Zaleh Mahmud with the next generation, posing for the boys and getting through husbands like old dresses.

Bad influence? – dressing sexy

For sale? – pouring out onto the street

Give it tongue – Clearly the menfolk approve!

Hey don’t forget the Key Man who made it all happen! – Taib at the Monaco ‘Islamic Fashion Show’ with his son, brother in law – and some suckers who paid?

Wake Up MACC This Old Man Admitted That He Has More than Enough Money and Willing to Bribe the Iban With RM 600 Per Door

Kuching
Tuesday, 9th Nov 2010

These Videos Very Clear that Taib Has More Than Enough Wealth To Bribe Iban Families in Sibu for RM 600 each Family...MACC what are you waiting For? Until the Old Man Died?

Same old boasts and same old bribes – Taib had nothing new to offer in Sibu. Taib has not only been caught out bribing voters, but also admitting to his vast wealth! The illegal act and the confession were both captured in a video recording of an election speech that has now come into the possession of Sarawak Report.

In the recording he tells his audience:

“I’ve got more money than I can ever spend, so I don’t worry about money. All my children now look after [my money], so I am giving you something very nice”

Later he makes a direct offer to bribe the audience of longhouse voters, who he was visiting during the Sibu by-election:

“I am prepared to give you 600 ringgit per [longhouse] door, normal thing right, no change. People have said that’s a lot of money. I have many friends all over the world. They are in Germany, Japan, China. We can talk, ask them to invest here.”

“More money than I can ever spend” - vindication of Sarawak Report

The footage was taken while Taib was doing the rounds of the longhouses during the recent Sibu by-election, where he in fact suffered a shock defeat. It shows the aging politician employing his tried and tested method for winning seats, without realising that time and technology has moved on.

He should have known that what you say in public these days gets recorded! In response, Sarawak Report would like to thank him for his statements, which we regard as a vindication of our accusations over the past weeks and a full confession of his corruption.

His remarks admitting he has accumulated ”more money than I can ever spend” out of abusing his position of power in Sarawak, were recorded on cheap equipment by observers in the audience, who say that he repeated the same claims and offered the same bribe of 600 ringgit per door (longhouse family) numerous times as he visited different communities.

In so doing he has demonstrated that while he officially disguises the fact that he is the real owner of his family’s fortune by using his siblings and children as nominees, he still thinks he can get away with bragging about it in public, especially when he is trying to impress voters he wants to bribe.

However, this time he did not get away with it. In Sibu the voters knew full well that he was trying to bribe them with their own money, having stripped them of their lands and taken the profits. Their message to the Chief Minister after this speech in June was that if he has more money than he can ever spend why is he still seeking to stay on in office and make yet more money out of Sarawak?

This message needs to be repeated by all the voters at the State Election and the Federal Election. The opposition coalition wants to end Taib Mahmud’s illegal plunder of the State of Sarawak!

See for yourself

Sarawak Report has produced a transcript of what the Chief Minister said in the recording, which was spoken partly in Malay and partly in English with some Iban, in a speech to a crowded longhouse. While the audio is not good, it is perfectly possible to make out his words. (Download the transcript in English and Malay)

False promises and dreams of ‘development’

Apart from his admissions, the Chief Minister concentrated the rest of his speech on trying to entice the longhouse folk into surrendering up their remaining native lands to the State. His excuse is that he will then be able to develop a grand ’Master Plan’ that he claims will provide them with amenities and development.

But, over the last 30 years Sarawakians have all heard these promises many times before. Many have surrendered him lands and received nothing. Sarawak is the richest State in Malaysia, but now holds many of its poorest and most backward people, thanks to Abdul Taib Mahmud.

Yet, in his speech the Chief Minister tries to blame the people for their predicament! Instead of showing sympathy and appropriate guilt, he blames them for not giving him MORE of their resources. He also suggests that it is their traditional way of life that is holding them back.

“How many of you have a salary?” he asks accusingly,”For those of you who have a salary, how many of you can afford to buy a house?”

He scolds his audience to “stop their old customs” and abandon “cultivating hill rice”, because it is ”no progress and no benefit”. Instead he tells them to ”go for a Master Plan” and “give the mandate of the land to the Government!”.

Sensibly, the people of Sibu rejected Taib’s suggestions. Sarawak is littered with failed ‘Master Plans’ where only a few Taib cronies and family members made a profit. After 30 years the people know that the only “progress and benefit” Taib really cares about relates to that of his own bank account.

To give him their land is to lose it.

RM 600 Bribe



More than Enough Wealth

Bala Demands Attorney General Probe Into Documents Linking Murder to PM

Kuching
Sunday, 7th November 2010


Let me admit to you that I did sign a false statutory declaration. Yes. I did. I signed a false statutory declaration. It was the second one, not the first one. The first one was entirely truthful. The second one was a complete pack of lies. I admit this.

OPEN LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Dear Tan Sri,

My name is Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal.

I think you may have heard of me.

I was Razak Baginda’s private investigator hired by him to protect him from his ex girlfriend Ms. Altantuya Shaaribu (deceased), sometime in 2006.

Remember you charged him for her murder but he got off. Instead, two of the Prime Ministers body guards got convicted. Stranger things have happened, I am sure you would agree.

But I digress. Let me come to the point.

I have been made to understand that you have decided to close the case involving 2 statutory declarations I signed sometime at the beginning of July 2008 in Kuala Lumpur.

The contents of these statutory declarations were diametrically opposed. Both could not have been true and therefore one of them was false. I trust that makes sense to you.

The police, I believe, have investigated the circumstances surrounding the making of these 2 statutory declarations under s.199 of the Penal Code, for an offence which carries a sentence of 3 years imprisonment and a fine. This is not a trivial offence.

The police must have interviewed my lawyer Americk Sidhu, his secretary, the Commissioner of Oaths who attested my signature and a variety of other witnesses you have mentioned who were somehow intrinsically interwoven in the construction and affirmation of both statutory declarations, one way or another.

It has therefore come as a great surprise to me to discover that you have been unable to decipher any wrongdoing from the enormous amount of evidence the police must have been able to accumulate from their investigations.

Please permit me to assist you.

Firstly may I suggest that you re-open this file immediately.

I will make it easy for you.

Let me admit to you that I did sign a false statutory declaration. Yes. I did. I signed a false statutory declaration.

It was the second one, not the first one. The first one was entirely truthful. The second one was a complete pack of lies. I admit this.

This statutory declaration was prepared by some unknown person(s) and I was forced by very thinly veiled threats and intimidation to sign it.

I have already made this known to the world at large and I am surprised your office has not picked this up as yet. Everyone else has.

If you are unable to ascertain this information which I have just provided to you directly, please feel free to contact me at this email address bala.p.i@hotmail.com and I shall forward to you a copy of the video recorded interview I had in the presence of my lawyers in Singapore last November, and a copy of the transcript thereof.

Otherwise you can find this information on all the blogs worth reading (such as Raja Petra’s ‘Malaysia Today’) and also on ‘You Tube’. ( Just type in ‘PI Bala’ into the search column and you will be surprised what comes up).

So you may now consider charging me for making the false 2nd statutory declaration after the clues I have given you.

I do however reserve the right to plead not guilty to the charge as I believe I have a very good defence.

Your prosecutors will also have to make sure they call all the necessary witnesses to prove their case against me. These witnesses will have to include the following personalities:

(i) a lawyer named Mr. Arunampalam a/l Mariam Pillai (who coincidentally does legal work for Deepak Jayakishan and Rosmah Mansor’s personal companies).

(ii) a Commissioner of Oaths (Zainal Abidin Bin Muhayat) who works in the office of M/s Zul Rafique and Partners (Advocates & Solicitors) and who attested my signature when he came to the room in which I was being held at the Hilton Hotel Kuala Lumpur.

(iii) Deepak and Dinesh Jaikishan ( very good friends and confidantes of Rosmah Mansor).

(iv) Datuk Nazim Razak (younger brother of the Prime Minister), and his wife.

(v) ASP Suresh (a suspended police officer formerly attached to the IPK HQ KL).

(vi) Officers from the Immigration Department Damansara (who assisted in obtaining urgent passports for my family).

(vii) A host of journalists and reporters who were present in the lobby of the Prince Hotel Kuala Lumpur when a lawyer called Arunampalam released my 2nd statutory declaration without my permission.

These are just some of the witnesses I can think of but I am sure you know how to do your job so that should be no problem. I don’t want to be accused of trying to teach an old dog new tricks.

If for some strange reason my defense is called, I will also be able to provide witnesses to support what I have to say. I need not disclose who these witnesses are at this stage and I am sure you know that as well.

I shall now wait for the charge against me to be laid.

I will be more than happy to return to Malaysia to defend myself but you will have to ensure that my safety is guaranteed as there are some people who would prefer that I was not around.

Best regards,
Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal
[Bala (PI)]


The above Open Letter was first published by Malaysian Chronicle

California lawmaker’s terrorism claims add to Anwar’s woes

Kuching
Monday, 1st November 2010

DeVore linked Anwar to the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) - “Muslim Brotherhood front that has repeatedly been tied to terrorist network financing”.

Already in the dock for sodomy, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is now facing the spectre of terrorism links from a California lawmaker as US and British authorities grapple with terrorist threats from Yemen last week.

Charles S. “Chuck” DeVore, the Republican member of the California State Assembly, has linked Anwar to the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), which he claimed is a “Muslim Brotherhood front that has repeatedly been tied to terrorist network financing”.

The three-term California assemblyman wrote five days ago that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should avoid the PKR de facto leader in her three-day visit to Malaysia starting this evening.

With national polls looming next year, Anwar’s alleged links to the US Islamic outfit could put the opposition leader on defensive, on top of the second sodomy charge he is facing now 12 years after the first complaint cost him the deputy prime minister’s post.

This is not the first time that Anwar’s moderate credentials have been questioned but his camp have rubbished DeVore’s attack, noting that it bore the hallmarks of a character assassination campaign hatched in Malaysia.

Anwar’s international credentials could however be hurt by any attempt to link to terrorism by DeVore, who despite being a minor official, is said to have links to the head of the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) and senior officials in the Department of Homeland Security.

The retired lieutenant-colonel of the California Army National Guard spent two years in the Reagan administration as a special assistant for foreign affairs in the Department of Defence from 1986 to 1988.

But DeVore’s claims are not expected to get much traction in the Malay heartland that helped deliver four states and 82 federal seats to the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in Election 2008.

In his letter at the bigpeace.com website on October 26, DeVore raised the prospect of Clinton meeting Anwar, whom he described as “a supposed democracy and reform leader who, it is said, has been unfairly maligned by an overbearing government.”

“Clinton shouldn’t, as Malaysia is no Myanmar and Ibrahim is no Aung San Suu Kyi,” said the US politician.

The US Embassy has not indicated that a meeting with Anwar is on the cards but said Clinton will meet with civil society groups before she leaves on Wednesday for Papua New Guinea.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz has said that Putrajaya has no objections to Clinton meeting Anwar, who himself indicated there was no such meeting planned.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who met Clinton in Hanoi for the Asean Summit over the weekend, is not likely to have another meeting as he is indisposed with chicken pox.

Speculation that Najib might call for snap polls has strengthened after the Umno president said he will tour the country early next year to check on preparations for a general election which is due by 2013.Two by-elections are scheduled this Thursday while the Sarawak state election is due by July 2011.

Anwar and his PR colleagues hope the by-elections this week for the Galas state seat in Kelantan and the Batu Sapi federal seat in Sabah could go their way and sustain growing support from Election 2008 where they denied BN its customary two-thirds parliamentary majority in the 222-seat Dewan Rakyat on a reforms platform.

But DeVore said Anwar’s “passion for government reform was suspect from the start.”

“While riding the crest of his popularity in 1998, his allies called for a debate on ‘cronyism and nepotism’ which Malaysia’s former strongman Prime Minister Mahathir quickly turned on its head by producing lists of those who benefited from by receiving shares from privatised government corporations.

“The lists showed Ibrahim, his allies, his brothers and his father owned million of shares in newly privatised companies. Tellingly, Ibrahim’s corruption conviction was never overturned,” he said, referring to Anwar by his father’s name as is the American custom.

The US politician noted that Anwar “enjoys the support of Al Gore and Paul Wolfowitz” but the Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith had called him “an anti-Semitic demagogue unworthy of meeting with the US Secretary of State”.

In stating his reasons against Clinton ever meeting Anwar, DeVore said “Anwar Ibrahim is simply one in a long line of Islamist leaders who know how to say one thing to a Western audience who longs to hear soothing words, while saying and acting differently when they think no one from the West is paying attention.”

He also wrote sarcastically about the possibility of Anwar and his coalition winning the next general election.

“If Ibrahim’s People’s Justice Party (run by his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail) comes to power in 2011, it will likely mark another occurrence of democracy being used to destroy democracy.

“Secretary of State Clinton, if she meets with Ibrahim, will act to boost his destructive charade,” DeVore added.

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Making Money An BN Way

Kuching
Sunday, 31st October 2010

BN's Government Purchase Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicles (AIFV)  For RM8bil 3 times market price!

The government has been taken to task over its decision to go ahead with its plan to purchase RM8 billion worth of armoured fighting vehicles (AFV).

Sungai Siput member of parliament Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj said the price offered by DRB-Hicom Defence Technologies Sdn Bhd (Deftech) was three times higher than the market price for the best APC model, which he said cost not more than RM10 million a unit.

“It's RM31 million per unit when the price of the best APC in the world only costs RM 10 million – this is three times more,” he told reporters in parliament yesterday.

Recalling a question by Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua during the last parliamentary session, Jeyakumar said the Defence ministry had stated that the letter of intent issued to Deftech did not mean the government was going to purchase the APC, but was just meant for further discussion.

“This approach is strange. If we go to a shop, and are given a quotation three time higher the price – we normally will say ‘thank you’ and walk away. We’ll look for a new one.

"Here, despite knowing it is three times higher, the Ministry of Defence wants to discuss further with Deftech," said Jeyakumar, adding that the government should instead approach the producers directly.

He said the figure was half of the combined budget allocation for Pakatan Rakyat-led states.

“The total annual budget for four Pakatan Rakyat states was just RM4 billion last year. But this single purchase amounts to RM8 billion. This is not money belonging to the Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister which they can simply squander,” he lamented.

Explaining further, Jeyakumar said the amount could have built 160,000 low cost homes to house 800 families in each parliamentary constituency, so that each family can own the house for only RM50,000 a unit.

Mount Merapi In Indonesia Erupts

Kuching
Thursday, 28th October 2010


Indonesia volcano kills 30 including spirit keeper!

Rescuers scoured the slopes of Indonesia's most volatile volcano for survivors Wednesday after it was rocked by an eruption which killed at least 30 people, including an old man who refused to abandon his ceremonial post as caretaker of the mountain's spirits.

Authorities warned the thousands who fled Mount Merapi's wrath not to return during Wednesday's lull in volcanic activity, but some villagers were desperate to check on crops and possessions left behind. In several areas, everything — from the thinnest tree branch to couches and chairs inside homes — was caked with ash that looked like powdery snow.

The latest blast Tuesday night eased pressure that had been building up behind a lava dome perched on the crater. But experts warned the dome could still collapse, causing an avalanche of the blistering gas and debris trapped beneath it.

"It's a little calmer today," said Surono, the chief of Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation. "No hot clouds, no rumbling. But a lot of energy is pent up back there. There's no telling what's next."

Mount Merapi, which translates as "Fire Mountain," has erupted many times over the last 200 years, often with deadly results. In 1994, 60 people were killed, while in 1930, more than a dozen villages were incinerated, leaving up to 1,300 dead.

Still, as with other volcanoes in Indonesia, more than 11,000 people call its fertile slopes home.

Even as rescue officials contended with the volcano — one of 129 under watch in Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago — officials hundreds of miles (kilometers) away were trying to assess the impact of a powerful earthquake off Sumatra island that triggered a tsunami, leaving several hundred missing or dead.

The twin disasters happened hours apart in one of the most seismically active regions on the planet, prompting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to cut short a state visit to Vietnam so he could help oversee the response.

Officials said earlier that by closely monitoring the volcano they hoped they could avoid casualties, but the death toll was quickly rising.

Aris Triyono, of the national search and rescue agency, said his teams were searching the southern slope of the mountain, which has been pounded by rocks and debris, in search of victims and survivors.

Dr. Teguh Dwi Santosa, a doctor at a local hospital, said the death toll climbed to 30 on Wednesday, and 17 had been hospitalized, mostly with burns, respiratory problems and other injuries.

Among the dead was Maridjan, an 83-year-old man who had been entrusted by a highly respected late king to watch over the volcano's spirits.

"We found his body," said Suseno, a rescue worker, amid reports that the old man was found kneeling face-down on the floor, a typical prayer position.

Maridjan, who for years led ceremonies in which rice and flowers were thrown into the crater to appease spirits, has angered officials in the past by refusing to leave during eruptions.

They accused him of setting a wrong example and stopping other villagers from leaving, but Maridjan always said he would only go if he got a sign from the long-dead king who appointed him.

Though thousands of villagers streamed into makeshift emergency shelters after Tuesday's powerful eruption, many defied official warnings and started returning Wednesday, saying they had to tend to their crops and protect their homes.

"We'll do everything we can to stop them," said Hadi Purnomo, the district chief in Sleman, describing several formerly plush villages south of the crater as "death zones." "There's no life there. The trees, farms, houses are scorched. Everything is covered in heavy gray ash."

Several other areas, however, were virtually untouched.

"I keep thinking about what's happening up there," said Hadi Sumarmo, who has a farm in Srumbung, a village three miles (seven kilometers) from the cone. "I just want to go back to check. If I hear sirens, I'll get out again quickly."

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