Check out this new music video released by Aliran.
That should maybe counter some of the negative vibes in the air today.
I don’t expect the Pas-Umno rally to exceed the turnouts at the Bersih rallies, which ran into a few hundred thousand. The Pas 355 rally in February 2017 drew around 20,000 – so ma be the rally today might get double that ie close to 50,000.
Let’s see what happens. Enjoy the weekend.
Update 1: a political scientist-friend at the scene of the rally tells me the crowd is at most 50,000 just after 2pm.
Update 2: In the end, looking at aerial photos, I estimate the crowd to be between 50,000 and 100,000 ie a bit larger than my guess of 50,000 but still smaller than the Bersih rallies.
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Unhappy mahasiswa to join anti-Icerd rally
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/12/08/unhappy-students-to-join-antiicerd-rally/
PTPTN fiasco shows that our country can save tax payers’ money by reducing the intake of local university undergraduates, and less burden on PTPTN. Currently there are close to 15K unemployed graduates, and those with jobs cannot repay PTPTN loan even RM50/month. In other words we have been producing graduates with irrelevan skills that cannot secure good paying jobs. PH government should instead channel more resources for TVET education as vocational skills can guarantee jobs and reduce our dependency on foreign labour.
No skills future no job.
Cannot depend on government aid forever since national debt already high.
Malays must face the reality.
Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir announced that the overhaul of Malaysian education will diminish the current focus on religion.
https://www.malaymail.com/s/1705356/for-education-overhaul-pm-moots-cutting-back-on-religion-studies
“Someone changed the curriculum in school and now national schools have become religious schools.
“They are all learning about the religion of Islam and not learning anything else. As a result, those who pass in school are not very conversant with subjects that are useful for them to get jobs, but they are very good ulama,” he said.
Wah Lao! Tabung Haji also operate like JJPTR?
Over-stated profits, under-stated value of assets, an unbalanced profile of depositors and questionable transactions were all uncovered in the review of the financial position of Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH).
The consultants highlighted that TH was sitting on up to RM10.2bil in losses of its domestic and international equities as of October this year and its liabilities outstripped assets by RM9bil.
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/12/11/review-finds-tabung-haji-in-dire-straits-questionable-transactions-found-all-over-in-report-of-i/#ZGCJu6eiBKV72UGw.99
The days of easy money is over. The bumi institutions like Tabung Haji (perniagaan tak sah, hibah haram?), Felda, Mara etc all losing money due to mismanagement (corrupt practices?) and in high debt! Better heed PM Mahathir’s advice to work hard and earn proper income. Otherwise have less children to lessen burden please. We do not want to see Yellow Vest protest in France to happen here since cost of living will go up inevitably due to our weak Ringgit.
The Tabung Haji Act 1995 prohibits the payment of dividends, or hibah as they are called in Islamic financial terms, when in deficit or when there are no distributable profits.
Ye right, bru.
Have less children to lessen costs of family living. Gomen should cut costs of subsidising large families who procreate … without proper family planning. Learn some sex education is one way to go…
must be non malay and DAP’s fault…
Has PAS taken some of 1MDB monies and now have to protect UMNO at ALL cost?
The (religion) PAS practice – Racism OK but STEALING Tabung Haji, FELDA, MARA, IMDB monies is ok – BY THE WAY IT IS ALL MONIES RELATED TO MALAYS! Well done!!!
The uninformed (wrongly uneducated) ones equate human rights to supporting LGBT movement.
Also they are scared rakyat can have choice of choosing their religion, or to believe in Santa Claus if human rights are practiced.
The respond of Suhakam to anti-ICERD demo is MTV??? HADI Awang just linked legal discrimination to his Islamic cause and the left respond is music video? The right now has religo war as main political opposition and the left want to sing to them?
If you see the picture on today’s paper, the desperate Zahid Hamidi grabbed Hadi’s hand to raise high up! Umno is courting PAS!
Zahid divorce Umno?
http://www.nst.com.my/node/439044/amp
More like Umno ejecting Zahid by year end due to his poor leadership, worst than Hadi!
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said that non-Malays should be grateful that they were welcomed by Muslims to Malaya despite coming as coolies.
“The migrants were brought here by the colonialists, and it is the compassion of Muslims that accepted anyone.
https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/117072
The anyi-ICERD rally is a wake-up call for PH to get out to the Malay heartland with people and policies that will have a transformative impact.
The PH government is too consumed by the blame game which they believe can carry them through to a second term in Putrajaya.
https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/columnists/analysis/2018/12/10/wakeup-call-for-pakatan-govt-the-islamic-flavour-the-sheer-numbers-and-singleminded-purpose-of-prote/#e0xZWP0qOy2d5wtQ.99
Majority of muslims here do not subscribe to human rights for fear of liberal thinking threatening their conservative belief.
ICERD is from UN. Why protest here?
Go to UN New York to protest can or not?
YB Sim should check this up, and implement urban farming in Penang to sustain our vegetable supply and cut reliance on import:
https://www.citiponics.com/
We may be heading to a new world order, one that will put to sleep all forms of discriminations, slavery, corruptions, entitlements, monarchies, religious bigotry, trade wars, terrorism, social class disparity & nationalism. Countries may one day exist only as names but without borders as the socio-political-economic system will function under one global platform. Cross-cultural initiatives will be encouraged as religions play a passive role more of a wallpaper than a patriarch of cultures. And societies will function as cashless in the name of efficiency & security. Digital implant & RFID tech in our foreheads? Or call it the mark… Read more »
it is time you wake up from your dream land…hehe
You’re living in the wrong planet.
“Don’t do unto others what you don’t want done unto you.” ― Confucius I believe Confucius already understood & shared one of the universal values of human rights before the first Chinese armada arrived at Melaka. Did we see any show of Chinese martial art might at the Port of Melaka? Nope. In face Ming China sent Hang Li Po (漢麗寶) as a ‘bride’ to the Malaccan Sultan Mansur Shah. In contrast, the European colonists went on a rampage + mass conversion of the indigenous people to Christianity in the New World of the Americas & often accompanied by show… Read more »
Be thankful to the British. If the Spanish Conquistadors were to invade Tanah Melayu then, all would have been Catholics today.
That is why there is so little Muslim in South America. Even the descendants of Incas became Christians, because Arabs never go there. This is historical facts.
I don’t think our Professor Sejarah KKK will dispute this.
Actually Arabs migrated to South America, and then they converted to Roman Catholicism. For example Carlos Menem’s family in Argentina. Originally Muslims from Lebanon.
Dr M: Migrant workers changing demographics of Malaysia
https://www.malaymail.com/s/1705365/dr-m-migrant-workers-changing-demographics-of-malaysia
The number of foreign workers in Malaysia had increased from 1.7 million in 2010 to 2.1 million in 2013, and subsequently to around 2.2 million in 2017.
YB Yeo Bee Lin’s reply to Lynas employees
https://malaysiakini.com/news/456020
Many may identity with Freedom by the late George Michael:
hehe ..they probably sing a different tune later on..just look at Chandra Muzaffar and that paul low guy…none of these so called NGOs can be trusted…
I believe in Santa Claus more than Chandra Muzaffar, who has betrayed Reformasi. Merry Christmas and Peace on Earth!
I would like to personally thank the gov for not ratifying the stupid agreement. Are the non-Malays living in hell? Nope, end of the story.
It may not be hell on earth’s rare entitlement in Malaya Nusantara, BUT some of us are classified to be handicapped from birth till death. Not experiencing it is anaesthetic to empathy of non-entitlement.
are the privileged race living in hell…?
SHAH ALAM (Bernama): The Malays and bumiputras must work harder to compete with other races in the country, says PM Tun Dr Mahathir. He said the fact was that many Malays and bumiputras had difficult lives and lived in rural areas, even though they had political power. “In our own country, we (Malays and bumiputras) have retreated far from conurbations, and many of us are from poor families. “Yes, today we are powerful politically and with this power, we can extend a little assistance to the Malays and bumiputras, think about it… but if we do not have political power… Read more »
“Malay Dilemma: Work Harder or Die” Jack Trout would have advised the same.
Jack Trout is the author of the book: Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition.
no, the privileged race never know what poverty is, rural cambodia, laos, myanmar,vietnam and china know what poverty is….
But they can sympathise with the plight of Rohingyas.
non malay appointed AG kau pek kao bo, malay steal from malay institution not a squeak…