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NOT ALL JEWS IN ISRAEL HATE ARABS IS A FACT
WHICH PART OF THE CHRISTIAN TRINITY IS
ALLAH ?
PAYING 2.7 BILLION
PER ANNUM OF 1MDB LOAN THAT WENT INTO NAJIB'S ACCOUNT ?
KEJAHATAN
KITA TIDAK AKAN TERPADAM DENGAN MENCERITAKAN
KEJAHATAN ORANG LAIN |
TRIP TO
LOMBOK
Had it not
because of my maid, I wouldn't have known
Lombok. My maid was from this island. I had work
very hard to obtain the work permit for she came
direct to me only through her local agent. Her
second medical checkup is due in October but I
had to send her home because my wife passed
away. It was folly of me not to take her phone
number and the detail of her abode.
Somehow I had
made a promise to my wife's brothers and sisters
that I will take them to Lombok for a joy trip.
My budget was just enough for four persons. I
was taken aback when another one wants to join
in. I can't afford to add another RM2K plus. I
can only offer to pay half of the tour fare. I
told them our purpose are to enjoy the beauty of
the island. I love lost contact with my maid.
Rusli and his
neighbor also shown their interest in Lombok and
care to join us. Altogether there will be 10
persons, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Lombok on
the coming 28th July.
Yesterday I tried
my luck and dialed the Lombok agent who sent her
to me. He answered my phone but he had a hard
time recollecting who I am and who my maid was.
This evening he sent a message telling me my
maid's number. I sent SMS to my maid telling her
of our visit and asked her what does she want.
"I want a hand
phone to be given to my son," she said after I
dialed her number. "How many of you are coming ?
" She asked. "Six," said I.
"My house is too
small, Pak to accommodate all the six."
"No. We will be
staying in Jayakarta Hotel."
I emailed the
hotel expressing my desire to book one more room
for just one day. I will do the booking through
my travel agent tomorrow, after which I will go
to look for a hand-set for her kid.
I began to feel
God's providence day by day. Many good things
seem to be showing. As a layman I can sleep
better than my Prime Minister. I enjoy playing
fireworks with my grand children, and I myself
was having fun with sprinklers.
I have never
expected to be able to get in touch with my maid
anymore till the last minute, when things were
so easy.
On the screen the
hotel looks nice and grand. Since I only have to
bring a phone, I don't have to buy any space for
any luggage.
22/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
NAJIB'S PROBLEM
IS ROSMAH'S FACTOR
I
feel so sorry for Najib. I believe he won't face
such an acute problem as he is now if he had not
take Rosmah as his wife. There isn't any world
leader who took another man's wife as a spouse
and leave his own astray. Thing was not right
from the beginning. He probably did not know the
social life of Rosmah as much we the student of
Malaya university did.
Think of
the FLOM. Try to imagine how it came in
existence ? We have previous PM's wives and
there was no FLOM then. Of course we cannot tell
what went on in their home and what they talked
to each other. We only heard the story from
Deepak, the carpet seller. It was better for us
to see and hear from Rosmah, herself. Surely she
spoke a lot in the media. We were not wrong to
say she wanted to be in the limelight in the
management of the country and in some she acted
like a foreign minister or a Prime Minister when
she talked to Vladimir Putin. And she said that
she had no time for sports as she was busy with
the affairs of the country.
People
nearer to them talked about Queen Control. I
chose to dispel it. But with so much messy
stuffs now I came to conclude she must be doing
something that cause things to happen as it is
now. When people asked question about her son's
property purchase, the reply was on Mahathir;s
son's own expensive cars. We the people are not
Mahathir nor are his sons. At the moment we know
money has been going into Rosmah's account.
Using the existing law to hide and protect
criminal acts won't erase the truth.
Tun Razak
was a noble man. So were his families. Would
Najib be different from now if he had not
married Rosmah ?
Najib
prefer to face shame to resigning. Shame indeed
when Thailand and Singapore would come to know
of the money going into Najib's personal
account. If Najib says he never used even a
single cent but instead gave it to UMNO then he
had to show which branch and which persons got
the money. Mahathir's questions to the UMNO top
echelons as to the amount they get was very
pertinent and smart. All added up must be 700
millions.
The lavish
lifestyle of Rosmah would have made people to
guess that part of the money was plucked from
1Mdb.
The talk
about Rosmah went shopping using government's
jet could be true or a total lie. But people saw
bits and pieces to derive at decisive
assumption. Her words and countenance, her
activity at Putrajaya somehow spread to the
public. As there are bootlickers, there are as
many souls that hate her demeanor trying to
preach and taught others what to do.
World
leaders would not want to bear the shame. They
would resign soon after a scandal, whether it is
true or not.
22/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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LIM TEONG
KIM |
Listen to
Lim Teong Kim on soccer.
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1ST SHAWAL
EID FOR MUSLIMS
It has been
raining all along since a few month ago. Call it
a coincidence if you will, that the rain halted
for a few days during the Idil Fitri, after
which it started to rain again. I call it a
blessing from God.
Prayer
in Moscow on 1st Shawal
Nearing oneself
to God will make you feel that you are not alone
and you always want to do good, earning honest
money, wanting to avoid being haughty and
arrogance, fear of committing sinful acts like
lying and stealing, for you know God sees you
every moment of your lifetime.
There were less
children coming to visit this year. I had to
raise the angpow to RM2 each. There were only
about 60 children only who came. As I had
expected family members and friends only came to
visit in the evening. Over all it is a merry and
enjoyable Hari Raya.
But Najib and
Rosmah remain a stigma in my mind. How could
they live with money going into their accounts.
They are hunting for those who leaked the
information, which was very wrong and sinful
indeed. And they are trying to play with
religion and God to save themselves.
Viewing Muslims
throughout the world welcoming the 1st Shawal
elated me very much especially in non-Muslim
countries like Mexico, USA, Italy, England,
Albania, China and Russia. Russia was
probably one of the largest. They miles and
miles of them taking the streets for the prayer.
In fact if you have been with other Muslims you
will realize that the Malays are not the best as
they think they are. The top leaders especially
bring disgrace to the religion of Islam.
There are more
Chinese Muslims than the Malays.
The Muslims who
are still alive today are looking forward for
the next Ramadan. Insya Allah we live long
enough to see another Eid prayer next year.
Hopefully also Najib would repent and Rosmah
vanishes from the thin air.
21/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
BEING MALAYS
ARE NOT PASSPORT TO IMMUNITY |
A thief is
a thief. There is no special treatment
regardless of his race and creed, and his title
and position. There is no different in stealing
hand phones and 1Mdb money. The only different
is a layman stealing RM2 from a mosque was
jailed for 2 years and the big time robbers are
helped to escape by command of power.
Alex Jose
had angered the Malays when he said the Malays
originated from the generation of pirates. We
chased him out of the country and we said
English Queen had been given praised to English
pirates who plundered Spanish galleons in the
yester years.
While all
others are stealing and hid themselves our race
seem to have pride to let the world knows that
we too can plundered big money and snatch
whatever that come our way, handbags, hand
phones and money from religious collections. If
we are angry by the beating of the Malay thieves
at Low Yatt we are telling the others that the
Malays could not be touched at whatever crimes
they indulge in, including the cow-condo and the
1mdb fiasco.
Sorry, I
see Low Yatt theft is almost equal to Putrajaya
in principle though the magnitude of one is much
more colossal. Being a Malay is not a passport
to immunity and free from any kind of
punishment. The Malays can do no wrong and UM NO
can do no wrong are of an identical maxim.
Likewise if
a Chinese is caught stealing and robbing a Malay
he too should be facing similar treatment.
Malaysians are unfortunately
obsess with racial sentiment. Aware of this I
refrained from an immediate punishment on my
Chinese student at their wrongdoings. If a Malay
were to hit a Chinese there is always a question
"Is he punishing with the good intent to teach
and educate him or is he punished because of
mere racial hatred ? " I informed the parent.
The parents were usually happy and allow me even
to administer corporal punishment. One student
told his father in Hokien that he was punished
because he was a Chinese. The father asked
him,"How many Chinese in the class ? " When he
answered there were five the parent shouted at
him, "Why the teacher punish you but not all the
others. You must be a bad boy." His father
smashed him. That was one remained in my memory.
The Malays in Low Yatt was
shown stealing stuffs. They must have been
robbing other Malays as well. They may be doing
worst thing to their parents. Their hands must
be cutoff .
19/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WE ARE NOT
REBELS
Are you a rebel ?
I am not. Most of us are not though we strongly
challenge our leaders at their follies.
Politicians are of the habit of insulting our
intelligence. When we are told not to believe
the news on social media we just asked ourselves
a simple question, "If the news and accusations
are lies why don't Najib sue them ? After all
Najib have been suing a lot of people." Many of
us are waiting for Sarawak Report and the Wall
Street Journal to be sued by Najib. Any other
actions will be deemed as efforts of spinning
and twisting facts.
We know that we
won't win the fight because we are not in
command of the resources, mainly the judiciary
and the police. We don't have the money to buy
fake guys to confuse and fabricate evidence. Yet
we say Najib lied to us because he has been
lying all the way through his teeth, promises
which were not fulfilled and lying about the
cash in BSI. And conclude that he is lying to
the people who are now willing to die for him.
Of course 1Mdb is
a big thing for us because the flare falls on
everyone of us. If Najib could not pay the huge
loan for more than 5 years, how is he going to
settle it within a short period ? He has to
burden the people by cutting subsidies and tax
them. Do you think he can settle the debt ? I
don't think so. The money collected will be used
for something else that benefit him and the
party. The suspicion that 1Mdb was channeled for
personal use was not without a base.
The strategy is
to make people dispel the social media. The
cyber troopers. The ministers and the ongoing
road show is telling people the same thing.
There is no
reason for WSJ to oust Najib and to publish news
on the money that going into Najib and Rosmah's
account. If it is a slander, surely it is a
biggest and most sinful slander that need to be
taught a lesson. Najib must sue those media.
NOTHING ELSE.
What was said is
not a rebellious thought but a sensible and
logical intellection.
17/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
BLIND
LOYALTY |
It is not
about conceding defeat if we care to assess the
real economic situation of our country. We
cannot allow emotion running our demeanor and
decision. We have put so much accouter to fight
local perception of ourselves and to fight
against declining ringgit but to no avail. We
just want to please ourselves by saying
foreigners are interested in investing in 1Mdb.
The Malays termed it 'SYOK SENDIRI'.
We are
kampong heroes. When we enter the international
platform we are beaten flat as what had happened
to Pulau Batu Puteh. We tell WSJ to appoint
Malaysian lawyers and we want the proceeding to be
held here, for we are in control of everything,
including our
judiciary system.
Not all
see us as what we want them to see. And
we cannot underrate others and think we can fool
everybody. Foreign nations do
observe us and hear our words, comprehending the
lies told and the countenance displayed when you
appear on national TV. And when you are
desperate you start to shout that the world
conspires against you. We lie to our own people
to get away from being hauled.
I found
that products that were once produced in Malaysia
are now made in Thailand. Factories seem to be
moving away. When we say our economy is
dwindling they say that Malaysia has a very
strong fundamental. We intervene to halt the
declining ringgit without visible effect.
When
leaders are causing disharmony and social
instability they accuse the fault lies with the
people. It is those who lied, deceived, corrupt
and robbing public funds who are the main
culprit and the source of disharmony.
They threatened the public. They play with
racial sentiments. They show their arrogance and
stubbornness.
It is true
that there is a big fear of someone going to jail. No
matter what they do they will one day be in
there.
Malaysia is
blessed by it's distance to the Middle East.
Otherwise she will certainly follow the fate of
those war torn countries, the worst was Iraq and
followed by Libya; one leader was hung and the
other was killed and sodomized.
We are
waiting for our currency to recuperate to the
normal state, the FGV loomed to an acceptable
price and the people will not be tortured by the
severe taxation. We want to see how the world
perceived on the 1Mdb issue after all the
resources deployed. If we failed it would prove
that the UMNO core members and the grassroots
are fooled. How many believe that none of the
1mdb money went to Rosmah and Najib ?
Najib has
to sue Sarawak Report, the Edge and WSJ to make
sure the weapons will not strike him deadly
years later. Failing to do so means the
accusations are true. All other spinning could
be dispelled and ignored by the UMNO group.
A change in
leadership could bring change for the better. We
are not asking for a leader from an opposition
but from BN itself. I am not sure the economy
can recuperate quickly. He already said it would
take him until 2020, which he meant he must be a
Prime Minister till then. It is a type of
blackmailing to deceive the UMNO members
themselves. His cyber-troopers and the members
of the propaganda unit too will live to regret
for the whole of their lives.
I have said
once before the GE13 "Wait. It will serve you
right..." to the cyber troopers in the FB. And I
am going to say the same thing again to those
people.
16/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
SPYING AT
WORK VIA INTERNET |
I used to watched
private security TVs from my laptop with VB
codes, attaching the winsock facility to the
algorithm. And looked
into data in people's routers. That was just for
fun. If I would have been serious in peeping
into public computer systems I would have
just to learn a little bit more. I realized
then younger people could comprehend numbers
they saw on the screens. I knew what I did was
immoral and wrong. That did not make me a
criminal yet unless I went into hacking.
If a stupid
person like me had reached some level of the
knowledge at
peeping into the secrecy of others, I am sure a
big number of the young generations must have
reached higher level and able to decipher
and to jumble binaries. Data that pass through
cables can always be hijacked or captured. But
they are usually jumbled up into various forms.
Either one develops the decoder or just steal
it.
I would have been
a criminal if I were jobless. So were many
others. I can't say how many steal information
for money.
The moving data
in a cable can be read even by the satellite. It
was done in Falkland and Iraq's war. There used
to be a gadget sold freely to capture phone data
by attaching it to the cable. But the wafer's
maker had a portion of spying circuit in the
processor that could send back every bit of data
to the main bank in a respective nation. The
solution is to self-develop the chips.
Right now spying
is mainly done on servers. To do so on home PCs
there must be a spy software planted into the
computer. Software developers are successful in
planting the Malware by making you download
movies, pictures or attractive applications.
Free software like Whatsup, Skype and Browsers
can do fantastic things on home PCs.
I would never
encourage government agencies to link their
machines to the internet. All computers that
contain data have to be offline and independent.
I have a firm
believe that foreign nations have stolen tons of
important data from our government, and to have
known many truths that we are trying to hide and
denied. It has a great influence on our economy.
16/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
DUIT RAYA
FOR KIDS |
Traditionally we have been giving money to kids
who come to our house during the Hari Raya. It
is them who create the happy and glorious
atmosphere and making the spirit alive and
joyful. In those years the average was 20 cents
but today we increase it to RM2.
Ang Pow
packet is something new to the Malays. We adopt
the Chinese culture to be part of our own. Last
year my wife was still alive and she said that
the number of visiting kids were fewer. It made
me sad. Even beggars were few. I hope to see
more beggars and children this year. Beggars
mean beggars of all races and religions, young
or old.
It
disturbed me when recently some religious people
were telling us that giving money to children is
not Islamic. As someone posted it on
the FB I wrote a comment saying the Arabs
brought plenty of expensive toys to be given to
children after the prayer in the United States
on one occasion.
We may not
realize how much happiness can we get from being
good to people of all religions and races.
Preaching love and affections and friendship
while practicing honesty, sincerity and
goodness. We don't give all we have but we give
the extra that we have and whatever we can
afford to offer. It was children that made the
world glitter and livelier. We will continue
trying to make their dreams come true.
The Muslims
start their New Year celebration by a prayer. It
is a happy and grand moment that last for about
1 1/2 hours complete with the preaching. If it
falls on Friday they will go for the second
prayer at about 1.20 pm. I have to ask my
daughter to distribute the money to children
visitors and beggar as both of the payer time
are near each other and we have to be away from
home till 2.30 pm or so.
On the
second Hari Raya less children come to the
house. We will see them at the mall as early as
the second day at the toy department and some
swarm at the smart phone vendors. Just ask a kid
what he wants to do with the accumulated money,
it may amaze you.
15/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
REDUCING A
MESS IN MY SHACK
This year I
manage to make my shack a little less messy. Now
I can allow ham visitors to enter my radio room.
I hope to complete clearing the mess after the
festive season by doing an inch a day. But the
cobwebs are still hanging. It was left there on
purpose. I want the spiders to have some food.
I have three
power supplies. The Diamond is not used. It is
for a backup. I used Hammax for my HF and VHF.
My FR7900 is mainly for monitoring and
occasionally carried it out as a mobile station.
The main rig for my HF use is ICOM 756. The
backup rig is FT857D. Two laptops are ;aid on
the table, an Acer and a Macbook Pro. The former
is used to write blog and the later for
surfacing and downloading and watching movies.
At least they look a bit neat in arrangement.
I have two
colossal equipments unused, a washing machine
and a mini-bar. Both take up space. I don't know
what to do with them and with my books. I wish
God would instill in me with some excellent idea
how to get rid of them. They robbed the space
for my dress. In the meantime I hang my dress on
the wall.
I try as much
things in my room as possible. When my daughter
comes back she would keep those in different
places and whenever I need to use them I would
not be able to find the tools.
One of the most
organized hams in the country is a currently
sickly Eshee, 9M2FK. Eshee or Ismail Razak has a
kind of a reference book arrange the items in
alphabetical order and the location indicator of
the items. The boxes where he kept his tools and
equipments are well arranged. It facilitates a
quick search. I can't cope with his discipline
even how hard I tried. Further more when age is
catching up the body and mind are getting rusty.
I am captured by sheer indolent.
I can take a
breath a little looking at my shack, at least
from today until some time when Ramadan is over.
I hope it can last me for a few more months.
12/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
STRUGGLING
TO PAY THE DEBT |
Restructuring plan of a debt ridden
corporation is not new. It was done in the
United States in 1932 and 1957. UNCTAD laid down
the path to help such corporation. The
restructuring is aimed at generating cash flow
to pay the debt and the interest. Cabinet
ministers bought the idea.
What do the
laymen like us know ? We were asked to believe
that it will work. We were not told that it was
a struggle to raise fund which finally ended up
in borrowing from IPIC and Anbar. MOF said it
was not a loan but part of 1MDB asset has to go
IPIC. 1MDB is to work with GLC, TNB, MMC
belonging to Syed Mokhtar and the Indonesian
Mula group. 1MDB Energy Holding is given a new
name Edra Global Energy.
They are to
devise ways and means to raise funds.
Najib is
very confident that money could be raised easily
by toll hike, cutting fuel and other subsidy and
GST. He has the psychological department to
appease the people. "Fuel hike is for the good
and benefit of the people", "GST is good for
you", "If you don't like Malaysia go and live
somewhere else". And Najib used 1Mdb money to
build mosque to appease the people.
A million a
day when reaching 2.7 billion a year will move
out of the country just for paying interest. How
much foreign cash does 1Mdb brought in into
Malaysia ? It is different selling a two ringgit
land to Tabung Haji to selling it to a British
firm for 20 million ringgit. One does not
increase the wealth of our nation while the
other does. This hari raya; if you son give you
RM200 and you give it RM50 each to your
grandsons, the amount of money circulated in
your house is RM200. If a towkey gives you
RM200, the amount of money circulated is RM200
extra.
Greece
could have escaped bankruptcy just by increase
higher taxes to pay the loan. Did she ?
1Mdb
claimed that it's assets exceed the loan by leap
and bound. If the asset is worth 150 billion
then just sell 42 billion of them and done with
the whole issue. Everyone will be happy ever
after. And that's the reason people are saying "show
us the money". And many believe part of the
1Mdb]s money went into somebody's pockets. When
WSJ and SR narrated it went into Najib and
Rosmah, the related banks did not deny it
immediately as it was a serious accusation
involving a Prime Minister and his wife. Both
Aam and Affin bank did not have to wait for
permission from anyone to deny if that did not
happen. The delaying of time certainly would
create suspicion of tempering and fabricating.
What raised
questions were the Cayman fund in BSI, flow of
money into Jho Lo's account and the purchase of
property by Rosmah's son.
12/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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IBER CUP
2015
"The
IberCup is currently one of the most important
World Youth Soccer Tournaments on the Planet.
Around 60 countries, more than 8000 players,
coaches and family take part every year for a
week of competition, fantastic experiences and
extraordinary opportunities to compete with some
of the TOP teams in the world. The proximity to
the Gulf of Mexico area allows everyone to enjoy
the beautiful beaches all along the Sarasota sea
coast. The amazing weather at this time of the
year makes the IberCup much more than a soccer
tournament... through soccer, it creates the
possibility of meeting both outside and on the
field with participants from all over the world,
being currently the most international soccer
tournament throughout the World.
Every year, The IberCup Tournaments have the
participation of more than 800 teams from 60
diferent countries. Famous teams such
as Liverpool FC, Manchester City, Ajax, Bayer
Leverkusen, O. Lyon, Atletico Madrid, Inter
Milan, Juventus, FC Porto, SL Benfica, Sporting
Lisbon, FC Zenit, Valencia CF, Sevilla FC, Real
Betis, Malaga CF, Espanyol Barcelona, Deportivo
la Coruña, Chivas Guadalajara, Paris St Germain,
CR Vasco da Gama and Olimpique Marseille,
already participated in previous editions. The
participants are between 10 and 17 years boys
and girls, distributed according to their age in
Boys U-10, U-11, U-12, U-13, U-14, U-15
and U-16, and Girls U-15, U-16, U-17 and U-18."
In 2015
tournament our boys under 13 emerge a champion.
It indicates that
we have all the potential to be a team of fame.
But we don't as the boys are growing older.
Recently we were shamed by the Palestinian and
even Timor Leste. But the boys will remember it
for their whole life as a team that could
compete and beat teams from Europe.
The Thais and
Vietnamese are superior to us in many ways, not
only in soccer. The Thais are dominant in sports
arena for quite a number of years. A Thai friend
said to me, "If you are talking about big money,
Brunei should be supreme in every field." When I
went to Hanoi tour one of the members said, "In
Malaysia 98% are political." I don't understand
what he meant.
We need to study
deeply on Nicole and Chong Wei, how they became
leaders and earned international respect.
Soccer is about
skill, spirit, organization, sciences, brain and
strategy.
Do our TV
publicize the champion team on a regular basis
and let the team organization say something
about their path to success ?
12/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MORE PROBLEM
FOR ROSMAH |
Najib is a
warrior and Rosmah is a fighter. Both were
telling us not to believe in the social media
because they contain slanders and fallacies,
irresponsible for ill intent postings of their
evil deeds. Rosmah's 2 million was deposited on
several occasions by an en employee of Najib
into her accounts. She didn't deny it but
command for the probe on the bank. The depositor
denied he knows Najib when pictures show proofs
of them together at many places. Rosmah has to
face another allegation pertaining to the murder
of Altantuya.
Najib goes round
the country to get support including the state
of Kedah whose chief minister was called 'jebon'
( a monkey like animal ) by him. People were
sure that he had commanded the police and the AG
to side him. Both the police and AG have known
the truth as much as the public. They MUST weigh
between morality and protecting major sins even
if they do not believe in God and religion. The
whole world is observing and assessing the
situation. Rosmah will be more prominent than
Najib. People already published comments that it
is Rosmah who is putting Najib into difficulty.
Likewise the
propaganda unit at Putrajaya should start
thinking hard whether to go on fighting for the
wrong. What it does is driving greater anger
among the people. If Najib has heeded the advise
of UMNO veterans by resigning or going for
holiday leave the responsible citizens might
have shown some pity and stop pursuing the
evasive attack on them.
The propaganda
unit can attack Mahathir, Mahyuddin or Anwar.
That won't make people lose sight on Najib and
Rosmah. Really 1MDB is a BIG issue. It is BIG
because it can lead the nation to bankruptcy.
After all Anwar is in jail. Mahathir is no more
a Prime Minister. And Mahyuddin has eyes and
ears and he too has supporters behind him. The
cyber troopers can try to convince the
non-English educated readers, hoping the Malays
are stupid enough to accept their arguments.
They were beaten flat by the English speaking
readers.
The think-tank
group by now should know the standard of their
PHDs and their status as university professors
or lecturers, for ordinary laymen could present
more convincing debunk on their materials.
The best way is
not to fight but to find redemption in ways
people can except without putting the couple in
the worst position. They must repent and
denounce the worldly temptations, lust and
avarice, spend part of their time to learn about
heaven and hell, asking God for forgiveness and
indulge themselves in social work.
If you fight you
are putting pressure on the people, which will
be met with an equal force against you. By now
Rosmah should have known that she has enemies
all over. They hated her, not just for nothing.
People did not show similar feeling on the
previous Prime Ministers' wives.
Below from
TMI:
The man who had allegedly
transferred RM2 million into the account of
Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor and later denied
working for the prime minister and wife had, in
fact, travelled extensively with the couple
around the world.
Whistle-blower site Sarawak Report said the
individual, identified as Roslan Sohari (pic),
had made 16 trips to cities like London in
October 2013 and Jeddah as recently as last
month.
The trips, posted on his Facebook account,
coincided with trips made by Prime Minister
Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife, Rosmah.
Yesterday, Sarawak Report said Roslan deposited
RM2 million into Rosmah's account in Affin Bank
Berhad in eight deposits within 2½ months
earlier this year.His details, including
phone number and occupation, were also published
by the blog. Roslan was said to be a personal
assistant attached to the Prime Minister's
Department.
However, when Malaysiakini called the number,
he denied working for the prime minister and his
wife.
Sarawak Report said today although the
Facebook page was deactivated soon after
yesterday's expose, other social-media users had
saved his photographs and details.
The pictures were compiled and the blog
compared his trips with that of Najib and
Rosmah's.
His profile picture on WhatsApp appeared to
show the same person as the Roslan in the
Facebook account.
"What the many, many pictures uploaded by
this Roslan Sohari onto his Facebook site show
is that this Malaysian has lived a life of
travel luxury over the past year, hopping around
the world’s capitals and staying at only the
very best of hotels," the blog said.
"Intriguingly, all his snapshots from
different parts of the world on different dates
perfectly match the official travel arrangements
for the man who was cited as his boss on the
Facebook site before it was removed.
"That is, the Prime Minister Najib Razak."
It said that Roslan has accompanied Najib and
his wife Rosmah on these trips but on occasions,
he had been part of only Rosmah's entourage.
Another piece of evidence that disputes his
earlier denial of knowing the prime minister and
his family is that he had uploaded a picture of
the identity card of Najib and Rosmah's
daughter, Nooryana, on his Google+ account.
Nooryana had come under the spotlight
recently after pictures of her lavish wedding
reception was leaked and was criticised by
Malaysians. She had married Daniyar Kessibaye, a
Kazakh.
"So, do people believe that Roslan Sohari
knows nothing of Najib and Rosmah and rightfully
denies the evidence that he deposited two
million ringgit of cash in Rosmah’s account
earlier this year?" Sarawak Report asked.
"Or do we think he just panicked and lied?"
The allegations against Rosmah come in the
wake of last week's expose by Sarawak Report and
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that US$700
million (RM2.67 billion) was moved among
government agencies, banks and entities linked
to 1MDB and finally ending up in Najib's
personal accounts in five separate deposits
between 2013 and this year.
A special task force consisting of
Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail,
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu
Bakar, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)
chairman Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed and Bank
Negara governor Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz, has
been formed to look into the allegations.
The task force has frozen six bank accounts
and seized documents related to 17 bank
accounts. – July 10, 2015.
11/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
END OF TIME
SOON ?
Malaysians are
not the only people who are talking about
politicians going to hell, the Americans too. The
Americans are worst off because they believe the
day is coming very soon.
23th September 2015 great disaster will strike the
earth. They are talking about the 7th trumpet and
about the coming of Fatima. Hollywood movies depict
stories of fake Presidents and injustice and crimes
in America. They say god and religion is dead to
imply political leaders do not fear God anymore and
use religion merely for political tool.
My mother used
to say, "Don't bother about the infidels. This world
is made for them. They will be wealthy and rich."
She does not live to see the Muslims who robbed the
money and hid and change and destroy the evidence to
protect the criminals. There is no morality and no
shame, no conscience and no fear of God. If truly
they believe in God and sins and hell, they would
not have put hardship and burden on the people,
punished and arrest those who spoke of their
wrongdoings.
The Malaysian
believers merely say that the end of time is nearer
but do not predict the dates as the Americans do.
But we could expect a major catastrophic some day
for we are in the quake zone. Again the laymen will
suffer and die while the politicians will fly away
to safer places. There are enough jets for the top
UMNO echelons. Najib and his family has a new plane
to go. Yet that may not be the end of time.
The probability
of the meteor to hit the world is there. It may not
be a direct hit. A slight scratch on the side can
cause the earth reverse it's rotation. For a moment
millions will die of a severe shock and earth
movement. Even if Najib is on the plane he won't be
safe. There will be a strong turbulence and he has
no time to ask God for forgiveness.
Other cabinet
members, Ghani Patail and Khalid will have to face
God in the next world trying to explain that they
are under the orders of Najib and only carrying out
their duty.
Mankind has his
duty to God. Then their duty to provide welfare for
the people. They can't escape for carrying out a
sinful duty to protect any sinful act because they
have the choice not to. At the time of hardship
Satan says to a man "Make me your god and say I am
your god. I will provide lavishness and everything
you want." And the man says, "Oh Satan...I make you
my god...provide me with what I want..." Can he
justify to God that he is forced to do that because
he was in difficult time ?
Let us dismiss
what the Christians say about the coming ending but
never be too confident that nothing bad will happen.
If the trend follows bad thing will strike us, the
Malaysians.
10/07/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE AGONY OF
ALL |
We know PM Najib
is in agony. When the FELDA settlers received
bills of over RM100+ each for replanting, they
were more painful. When million of people pay
more each day they keep the pinch in their chest
without a word. Anwar's Family faced the worst
trauma. And those who were kicked out of their
jobs shed their tears and pray to God. My mental
state is unstable and disturbed thinking of the
large payment of 1MDB and 2.7 billion dollar
annual interest.
Rosmah talked
about the slander on her husband. There could be
an atom of truth. Every Prime Minister, how good
they were, were criticized. But non of their
spouses were whipped for a simple reason. They
knew their places and their roles. You can't
stop people talking about Altantuya, on million
dollar ring and expensive handbags. They asked
where the money came from. Answers given were
debunked by Najib's own family member and Datin
herself said she saved her money for her
expensive purchases. And they follow the trail
of the jet, trying to figure out who were on the
plane.
It was not the
ordinary laymen who made those things happen.
They were on the stage and they made it
happened.
Many a time our
acts were causing pain to the people who watched
them. We would feel hurt and angry if a step
farther kicks and step on a 3 year old child.
Intelligent people would feel dishonored if you
are trying to teach them what patriotism is
because they know the different between a
nation, a political party and a person who run a
country.
Premiership is a
great responsibility to cater for the welfare of
the citizens not an opportunity to enjoy a
comfort life, nor to seek pride and power above
religion and God, nor to make money by doing
business, parading insatiable lust.
When evidence is
tempered with and fabricated to put your
challenger in jail it was a great agony to the
victim and the people of morality and God
fearing.
We had a great
pity on Najib but we have a greater pity on the
unfortunate laymen who are being sucked by
leeches to pay for the debts they made and the
money they siphoned. We had a great pity on the
first wife of Najib whose husband was snatched
away by a wicked woman. She has been suffering
for a very long time.
We are in more
pain.
08/07/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
BAD WEATHER
BAD ATMOSPHERE
It has been raining cats and dogs for almost a
week now. When it came heavy it was like the
whole sky falling, only about 3 to 5 minutes.
Then later it rains again. It did not stopped
people from populating the streets, rushing to
super stores like ants spending money for the
coming New Year, Aidil Fitri. Commodities were
raised in prices, a small mat that sold for
RM2.90 is now RM4.30.
Rain does
not touch my heart at all. Once in a while it
flashes through my mind whether it is some kind
of a sign, trying to whisper the fate of our
beloved nation. Could it be a bad omen ?
Most people
simply don't care what happen because they care
more for themselves. They overtook left and
right during the heavy traffics, made U-Turn at
forbidden junctions, crossover red light during
the jammed road and double parked behind your
car and went away. We see greed in them and
other sinister characteristics like gluttony,
sloth, envy, wrath, and lust. Those boiled up
together to wrap our nation as it is today, when
combined with the greed and lust of our
leaderships.
Whichever
things go Malaysia will be experiencing gloomy
weather for a long time to come.
I don't
remember Kinabalu had a quake before. Now even
peninsula Malaya was shaken by the wave. People
always asked why the calamities strike the poor
not the affluent, the robbers and thieves. When
there was flood the politicians were in the safe
areas. When there were fire the common people
get the burn. The lower groups were more with
God than the top echelons. The top always get
away with everything.
The
drizzled has stopped. Buka Puasa is serene, no
sound of wind blowing and no sound of the rain
drop. Late tonight it may rain again.
08/07/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof
|
WHAT'S NEXT
? |
Refer to my
article on 'What's
Next ?' It is about
bad luck or bad
omen brought by a certain personality. Because
it is a mystery and not visible to the naked
eyes it has to based on vigorous observations
from the past to the present trend. Some
tradition believe that the 'soi seow' resides in
only ladies. Although the modern minds dismissed
it yet Feng Sui masters are getting millions out
of it.
If all the major
turbulences were due to coincidences then there
were too many and too often. Strange things
happen believing coming from a strange lady who
acted a foreign minister and a Prime Minister
and opening FLOM for the first time in Malaysian
history. Civil servants in Putrajaya just talked
because they could not stand her. At least 50%
of the hearsays were taken to be true while
others were assessing the validity of what they
heard.
I just have a
strong sense and a premonition that something
else would strike us if PM Najib still have her
by his side.
When we are in
difficult situation we often ask for God's help,
for divine intervention. But God helps those who
help themselves.
If the next bad
luck befell only Najib and Rosmah then be it but
it may strike the whole nation.
Najib together with Jho Lo
07/07/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHAT IS THIS
?
I have seen the following
several times at different location
21-3-2013
USD619,990,988 into Najib's account at Aimbank
21-3-2013 USD60,339,98 into Najib's account at
Aimbank
3-4-2013
Parliament was dissoved
5-5-2013
GE13
29-7-2013
Aim Bank executive was murdered
30-8-2013 The two accounts were closed
Tomorrow will be a big day
because Najib is going to sue WSJ. It will be a
great fun.
The game of mud slinging has
begun. Najib's team begins their attack on
Mahyuddin who know much about who odered the
killing of Altantuya and Rosmah's share in 1Mdb
via her son. But what matters is the current
crime committed, about the 1Mdb fund that went
into Najib's account and the murder of Altantuya
and an Aim Bank personnel.
I am sure Najib's camp will be
out of mud while the hidden enemies within has a
fistful of the mud each. They are tracking and
trailing the cash flow. They will surely pressed
for the arrest once proven. Dato' Harun Idris
was arrested before. It would not be the end of
the world. New leadership can take over.
Criminals and the abettors must be persecuted
too.
QUESTIONS -
What happen to the million
dollar ring ? Where it is now ?
What money were used to pay to
advertise Najib and Rosmah in foreign newspaper
?
06/07/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
IF I WANT TO
STEAL I WON'T KEEP THE MONEY IN MALAYSIA - NAJIB |
Almost
everything in Malaysia is under PMO. It is safer
for PM to keep his money here than anywhere
else. The manufacturing and destroying of
evidence is common in many places. He has the
command over these institutions. The secret will
not be divulged unlike the BSI Singapore. What
we may not realize is most banks are under
Goldman Sachs.
PM's words do not have values
because he had not been telling the truth many
times before. We would still remember his denial
of meeting Saiful before Anwar was charged and
later admitted that he did. He lied in the GE13,
the promises that were never fulfilled. He lied
about the cash transfer into BSI. And he will
always continue lying.
For PM to accuse the people to
topple the government is indeed wrong because
people still want the current government to
proceed with the new leadership under Mahyuddin.
Keeping money in Malaysia was
the only choice for fast withdrawal for various
purposes, some may be devious. For local
corruption cash withdrawal from local banks were
seen before during the general election.
The questions still hanging
are about the big debt and high interest. 1MDB
cannot afford to pay them and Najin has to
resort to amassing money from the public to pay
the perpetual debt. Why must he still hang on to
his prime minister's post. He never replied on
Reza's Aziz purchased of properties in the
United States and his relationship with Jho Lo.
Let me tell everyone that Aam
Bank and BNM would have vigorously denied of WSJ
from the first day of it's publication. They
won't wait for any single day nor would they ask
for Najib's permission to deny it. If both were
to announce the denial 2 or 3 or a week later,
we can be sure that the data has been tempered.
And like always they play for time to think what
to say and do.
Najib has been listening to
the advice of bad and evil people. Many a time
his second wife did the talking for him on
nationalism and to Putin in MH17.
True said Mahathir, that to
strengtened UMNO and BN government the leader
must be changed. Though several names were
suggested, Mahathir chose Mahyuddin. If Najib
has done wrong he must be forgiven and let him enjoy
the family life in peace and tranquility. Let us
all together mend the damage done.
06/07/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
WILL NAJIB
DECLARE THAT 1MDB IS HIS OWN PERSONAL ASSET ? |
Will Najib
declare that 1MDB has nothing to do with the
ownership of the government but belonging to
him, UMNO or BN ? And the government of Malaysia
to say that the signing of a guarantor is not
legal as it was not approve by the parliament
and therefore it's on Najib personal accord and
therefore is invalid ?
The United States
government has ever discussed almost similar
matter and refused to accept it as a
government's matter.
Mahyuddin should
start thinking about it now and consult his
friends and the G25 members to seek for opinions
and advice from as many intellectuals as
possible. Najib on his personal task has caused
a very great damage to the country and Malaysian
economy. And worst is Najib is killing the
FELDA's settlers slowly and in no time they will
be out of land.
The traitors are
a handful of UMNO members up there who supported
the selling of the nation to Goldman Sach,
putting burden on the citizens. They are
sadistic specie who love to see people in great
pain. Siphoning money is one, sucking people's
blood is another. Playing with the Holly book
and even using God to win support. Now people
begins to know what GST is for and why petrol
prices went up and toll hike is unavoidable.
Let us recall
back what UMNO guys were telling the people:
"1MDB is so profitable that the opposition is
very jealous."
"1MDB goes to support religious schools and
building mosques"
"1MDB is the goose that lays the golden egg"
Our religious
schools and pondoks were there even before UMNO
was born. After independent till Mahathir it was
the government who took care of our school
buildings and education, not 1MDB.
I am sure BN
under Mahyuddin could reduced at least 40% of
the existing problems.
05/07/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
I NEVER TOOK THE
MONEY FOR PERSONAL USE-NAJIB |
It is confirmed
that the money went into Najib's account. It may
be true that Najib never took it for his own
personal use. The WSJ never said it was for his
personal expenditure. PMO and AG were shown the
documents. Najib kept on saying, "I never took
the money for personal use." WSJ said Najib kept
on saying it was all the design of political
opponents coming to get him after seeing the
documents.
It is common
practice for
the government departments and in politics an
offender like Najib was asked to resign or else
he would be taken to court. Mahathir must have
known about it too and warned Najib the same
thing. That's the reason why Najib blamed
Mahathir for the exposure. I think WSJ had been
very careful in publishing the article.
Najib is now
taking action to sue the WSJ which he must or he
has to resign. What would his
luck be ?
There was a bad
story going on in the social media about
Rosmah's
engagement with black magic. Most politicians
have bomoh with them. Many a time several of
Najib's effort to free himself against
implication were successful. That made them to
believe Rosmah's enchantment worked well.
Mysterious events
happened. Looking the trend worst thing
could have happened to Najib. I don't know what
will happen next. It may not be something to do
with 1MDB. It could have been anything at all.
Keen on watching is Najib's first wife. People
are willing to save Najib but not Rosmah. Rosmah,
as I saw it, had caused much harm to Najib and
anger among the members of the public. I don't
think my sense failed me when I saw her riding
the government's jet as if they belong to her.
04/07/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHERE IS THE
MONEY ? - MAHATHIR
Mahathir
mentioned the word stolen as far as 1MDB's money
goes. He seems to have the information and asked
Najib to quit his pose and gave it to his
Deputy. Najib was adamant because he has all the
resources behind him, especially so with the
money which he habitually used to buy support
and popularity. He was very confident of his
steps. "I am in controlled," he said.
What he did
not know that each day he is making enemies with
the local people as well as with the principled
foreigners. His team composed of PHD graduates
thought they could outwit all their opponents
with daily meeting, planning and brainstorming.
What they need is the money to buy people and
manipulate facts.
Recently
PMO issued a statement," There are certain
individuals to undermine confidence in the
economy, tarnish the government and remove a
democratically elected prime minister." And they
went on saying that Najib cannot be that stupid
to draw money into his own account. His
challengers asked him to sue WSJ immediately and
not to delay and play with time looking for the
loopholes to corrupt a particular individuals.
Najib is
never democratically elected to be a prime
minister. Mahathir put him there and there was
never a Presidential election as what they have
in the United States. His opponents said only
47% including the Sabahans and the Sarawakians
chose BN, that minus gerrymandering, vote
rigging and ballot boxes tampering.
What I
could not say is how much money went for other
election expenditure and other payments to erase
his crime and how much went into his own pocket
and Rosmah lavish shopping. During every
election we will see a band of UMNO big muscle
men went to banks and drew out tons of cash. My
UMNO teacher said,"I won't be in UMNO without
the big cash I get every election time." He
bought houses and expensive cars after election
seasons.
Hence the
money has to be kept in the local bank. Najib
thought the bank will keep secret. True indeed
the bank will not dislodge customers'
confidence. But clever people can always sniff
the smell of money by trailing the data using
sophisticated hitech means. The challenge of
Najib's think tank and the Propaganda unit was
accepted by brainy individuals. In one of my
articles I mentioned about the battle between
the brain and brawn. IGP was using all his
muscles to arrest and intimidate the opponents.
And Najib with Rosmah left bad impression of
themselves on the plane ride and the purchase of
a new jet.
Where does
the money go ? The worm is out of the can.
The whole
world is looking at Najib and the game his team
is playing. UMNO members no longer support him
as his policy is pinching them and their
families.
With the
bad luck possibly carried by Rosmah, he can
prepare for the worst.
Najib
should rest and go away for a long holidays. Let
Mahyuddin deal with the problem.
03/07/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof
|
MINIMUM WAGE
WHO GAIN WHO LOSE ?
Wow Najib
gave BRIM, money to Felda settlers and agreed to
minimum wage law. From RM900 the Union is asked
for RM1500. We have to be educated and go to
high school. The Union was very happy and the
private sector workers rejoice with the new
salaries.
I have
written on the topic before pointing on the
negative side of it. Telling people about it
would be futile as they will dismiss it.
It takes a
few months for many of us to realize the effect.
JVC closes it's factory and I believe many will
close and quit the country. And when I visited a
super market, I found the cashier was a Bangla
who could not even answer questions from several
customers.
Minimum
wage simply increase cost. Shops and firms whose
sales could just cover the bare capital and the
products are not highly demanded would
experience declining income. Small shops could
even face loses. As they close down the
employees lost their jobs. Supermarkets will
import cheap workers and the school leavers will
have to look for jobs somewhere else.
We will be
facing greater social problems in the near
future. I believe firms will be leaving our
country for one of the two reasons; the
increasing cost of labor or the owners do not
like Najib anymore. Factory owners are human
too. They have taste towards political leaders
like any other persons. As vices are exposed and
Najib and his team are showing arrogance, they
began to hate Malaysian leaders for various
behavior including the possible involvement in
mafia and gangsters.
Najib must
always look before he leaps, on any issue,
especially on the long term effect.
03/07/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
Billions pumped into Najib’s accounts, 1MDB
probe shows
|
Investigations into debt-ridden 1Malaysia
Development Berhad (1MDB) have allegedly
uncovered billions of ringgit channelled to
the personal accounts of Prime Minister
Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the
Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and
Sarawak Report reported. Both are quoting from documents from the
1MDB probe that is being carried out by
the Malaysian government, with Sarawak
Report claiming that the
Attorney-General was also aware of the
information.
The documents show that US$700
million (RM2.67 billion) was moved among
government agencies, banks and entities
linked to 1MDB and finally ending up in
the prime minister's personal accounts
in five separate deposits, WSJ said.
It said that the largest transactions
were deposits of US$620 million and
another one for US$61 million in March
2013, two months before the general
election was held.
However, Putrajaya has denied the
reports, saying Najib has not made use
of any public funds.
"The prime minister has not taken any
funds for personal use,” a Putrajaya
spokesman said.
“The prime minister’s political
opponents, unwilling to accept his
record or the facts, continue to try to
undermine him with baseless smears and
rumours for pure political gain.”
Meanwhile, an 1MDB spokesman said,
referring to the transfers into Najib’s
account: “1MDB is not aware of any such
transactions, nor has it seen any
documents to this effect.”
The spokesman cautioned that doctored
documents have been used in the past to
discredit 1MDB and the government.
Sarawak Report said RM42 million had
gone into Najib's accounts from SRC
International Sdn Bhd, the Finance
Ministry-owned company that had taken a
RM4 billion loan from the
Retirement Fund Incorporated (KWAP).
"The money taken from SRC
International is a particularly shocking
revelation, because this was money lent
by the public pension fund KWAP and
never accounted for," the report said.
The Finance Ministry had said
previously SRC invested the funds in
Gobi Coal & Energy Ltd, a
Mongolian-based company, but provided no
other details than that.
A director of SRC, Nik Faisal Ariff
Kamil, the report said, had power of
attorney over Najib’s accounts,
according to documents acquired from the
investigation.
The latest transaction, the reports
said, was in February this year. The
documents show that SRC International
had transferred RM10 million into an
account under the name of “Dato’Sri Mohd
Najib Bin Hj Abd Razak” at AmPrivate
Bank in Kuala Lumpur.
WSJ also reported that SRC and the
bank refused to comment on the matter.
1MDB is currently the subject of
inquiries by a number of authorities,
including the auditor-general, Bank
Negara, police and the bipartisan Public
Accounts Committee.
Najib, who is also finance minister
and chairs 1MDB's advisory board, has
come under severe criticism in recent
months over a number of issues,
including that of 1MDB which has amassed
RM42 billion in debts after just six
years of it being set up.
Yesterday, the prime minister
admitted that he was depressed by the
rumours linking him to 1MDB's
controversial land deal with Tabung
Haji, saying a responsible government
would not use public funds to bail out a
state-owned company. – July 3, 2015.
The Malaysian Insider Report 03/07/2015
PM Najib should not wait any
longer but to sue the WSJ, the
NYT, SR and the Edge immediately
to clear his name. |
03/07/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE AURA OF
ROSMAH
The people has
not been fair to Rosmah. They threw so much
slander on her and said unacceptable things on
her. They even blamed for the quake in Japan and
Sabah because both happened after her visits.
Whatever the slander she is chosen as the second
beautiful First Lady in Asia.
Today the JVC
factory closes down. Thousands will lose their
jobs. Worst will be coming. The country will
follow Greece and the economy will be the worst
in our history. Are we going to blame Rosmah
like Najib is blaming Mahathir ? MH370 and MH17
could not be the cause of Mahathir. Unless the
people believe that it is the end of the good
luck of the lady. Someone has to look at the
aura of Rosmah.
But it does
not say whether a person brings good or bad
luck. Certainly the nation is crumbling. Could
we blame the people who come to think that the
bad polluted atmosphere originates from a source
?
02/07/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
FREEDOM AND DRESS
CODES |
Who says
there is a freedom of dressing in the whole wide
world ? Only recently an American judge upheld
the suspension of an employee for wearing scarf
in her work place. And in many places head gears
are banned in the United States and Europe. So
is in Olympic and Asian Games where women are
not allowed to cover their heads. They termed it
dress codes.
When in
Malaysia dress codes are applied in institutions
they called it undemocratic and against human
right. The educated class should also open their
eyes and look at democracy in Europe and United
States as well. It
is only fair for the lovers of Western culture
to learn freedom and human right as practiced by
the White skin specie. There isn't even freedom
to assemble and freedom to assemble. People who
question 911 were arrested at dawn in their
homes. They killed the innocent women and
children, unarmed and unprotected. They
justified it under the atmosphere of war. When
an employer does not like you he just have to
say 'you are fired' and you are gone. truly if
you love those countries ask to migrate and live
there. There are kingdom of Chinese, Indians,
Arabs, Koreans and Vietnamese there. You can
join them. You can exchange spouse, naked in
public and even have sex in the open.
It is
pertinent for government agencies to impose
dress codes on the workers and the visitors
though the later is not required to wear
uniform. During my working days the Muslim boys
were instructed not to wear the 'ketayap' (the
male head dress as worn by the Jews but of the
bigger size for the Muslims). Even in the United
States some schools impose school uniforms. If
an individual has a right, an institution and
the organization too has it's own right. And the
right need not be spelled in the regulations and
law.
23/06/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE FATE OF
NAJIB WHEN HE GROWS OLDER AND RETIRED |
Najib
will be old and tired. So is Rosmah. I
won't live long enough to see what
will happen to this couple but Mahathir may. His masterly
corrupting technique may make many receivers
happy but a few will be extremely agitated. It
will be these few who will make sure Najib
will pay for deceit. Najib does not leave
Malaysians with a high income and wealthy
when he retired but he will leave the people in greater
poverty, bad economy and becoming slaves to Goldman
Sachs. For these he will never be forgiven. He will be severely punished. A citizen commented in TMI
that he wants to see Najib rot in prison. It
was evasive and insolent. That's the degree
of anger and hatred.
You can
very well predict Najib's future after GE14.
Win or lose we somewhat could estimate the
severity of his sufferings. Of course the
world politics do determine his fate.
Najib's
greatest sins is he forces God to side him
by using the 1MDB's controversial money to
build mosque mainly to get the support for
the alleged crime committed. You may ask what are
the crimes ?
One of the crimes is to borrow
money from a terrorist, Goldman Sachs, at a
high interest rate. He will have to defend
himself that he never used public fund to
pay the loan and the running interest. To do
so is the criminal breach of trust.
Government had been building mosques
everywhere since independent without the use
of the fund under question and
investigation. His tricky intent to use God
to silent the Muslims is a sinister attempt.
Secondly he has been using
scapegoats to deny a fault. He blamed Bank
Negara on BRIM. He blamed the civil servant
when caught lying to parliament. Kandasamy
said he was the fault in 1MDB fiasco. Now
Najib is manipulating with Xavier to say all
accusations by SR and the Edge were false.
He will be drilled by the people in court
and he will say, "I am too old to remember.
I did not do all those things. THEY did it."
The Jews still jailed
those Nazis who murdered thousands of them,
hunting the murderers deep in South American
jungles even with new faces and names. They
dig and dragged back to Israel.
People are angry because
they continued to be duped and treated like
kids, just because they are not supported by
cops, judges and lawyers. So far Malaysians
do not keep vengeance against those who
oppressed them. By themselves they will
never go militant, unless being pushed to
the end endlessly by the top UMNO leaders
who prefer to fight and defend the
wrongdoings.
It is
better for Najib to give someone else to
take charge of finance. When Tan Siew Sin
was the finance minister and Tengku was the
Prime Minister nobody plundered our national
coffer and we had had so much surplus. The
government could create so much jobs for the
people. Najib is figured to have bad intent
holding the post. Indeed he was with the
1Mdb and the rest. He left a suspicion that
he was using the fund for his own interest.
All the planning and
thinking by the propaganda unit and other
advisors trying to right the wrong is the
responsibility of the Prime Minister. So far
it looks their planning is ruining him,
painting an evil picture of him. And people
do not forget how Anwar was framed and
Altantuya was killed. If the mentality of
Jewish vengeance germinate in the coming
generations those involved in lying and
deception will be convicted and severely
punished, even at
their dawn age.
That's the future, the
fate that may befell Najib and Rosmah in the
coming time, the sin of aggravating the
populace, and throwing blames on everybody
else on their own follies. If Najib can
betray Mahathir, the next PM can also betray
him.
30/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman
Raof |
WHO ARE WE TO
QUESTION ROSMAH ? |
We
have to understand that Rosmah Mansor is the
First Lady of the country. We cannot expect her
to be like any other normal woman especially in
her dress and attire. We can't persuade her to
use fake handbags and jewelries. Even the normal
housewives want to be noticed. If she chose
any expensive items it is of her prerogative. Who
are we to dictate what she should and should not
wear. Any wealthy person can spend their money
in ways and manners they want.
If anyone
dislike her just because she wants to look
better and uses better stuffs on herself, it
would be very wrong and insolent.
But by fate
people are rude and impertinent accusing her of
purchasing million dollar ring, and handbags
using public funds. And what came out of her
mouth was a rush, " I accumulate my money.." And
PMO said all expenditures were from Najib's own
wealth which of which he inherited from his
family. Then there was a leak that nobody could
question any invoice of any purchase and they
must be paid.
Words
spread until no one can remember the source. And
they depend on social media to confirm what they
heard.
My wife
supported the use of government's jet by a Prime
Minister's wife. "She is a Prime Minister's
wife," she said to me. But there were
individuals who took pain to monitor the
movement of the jet which they believe Rosmah
took the ride for shopping. I saw a picture
published in a social media showing Rosmah in
Bangkok. They now suspect the new jet was
specially purchased for her convenience.
The fact is
we cannot simply believe what we hear. We have
to see with our own eyes. We must also remember
PM or his spouse must be protected from
terrorism. Commercial plane is never save. MH370
is a lesson to be reckon with, a pilot can dive
a plane in anger. Pilots can hate political
leaders like anybody else. None dare to
attribute MH370 to court's decision on Anwar.
Yet vicious
words spread about Rosmah's role in managing the
country. She said, "I don't have time for
badminton now because much of my time was taken
by managing the affair of the country." She was
said to talk to Putin on MH17. PMO did not deny
that she talked to Russia about it. With FLOM,
her statement and her talking to Putin gave her
the power over several Ministers especially
foreign and Prime Minister.
Who are we
to question the First Lady ? We don't have
Shafiee to defend us, and we don't directly pay
the salaries of our AG, the police chief and the
court judges. We cannot go against the mountain,
but to remain barking day and night.
27/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
FRAMING MAHATHIR USING FOREIGNERS
? |
Finally they
decide to frame and set up Mahathir by bringing
2 names into the limelight, Xavier and Suffi. It
looks like Xavier is planted and even his trip
to Thailand was planned. Suffi was expected to
walk into the trap. This is how the story goes.
While Xavier was
in Thailand and was arrested Suffi went to see
him several times requesting him to temper with
1Mdb data. Sufii is a man in charge of Che Det's
blog. Therefore it was Mahathir who stole the
data and changed it to release to Sarawak
report.
Do you buy the
story ?
Think for a
minute. Xavier was said to be an IT man. Then he
was said to be the manager of 1Mdb. He stole the
data and was asked to leave the company with the
award of 15 million. He went to Thailand and was
arrested as he was said to ask 1Mdb to pay more
than 15
million, a kind of extortion. Sufii went to see
Xavier requesting for the change in data which
Xavier admitted to the Thai authority that he did.
Wait a minute.
Does it make sense ?
First Xavier was
trying to extort or blackmailing 1Mdb. Why was
he wanting to blackmail the company ? And why
the 15 million was paid to him ? It is not only
confusing but it does not make sense at all. And
it is very illogical and absurd. The build up of
the events by the consultant to set up Mahathir
was too rushy. And obviously they were using the
1Mdb's money. Even then 3/5 months ago
1MDB should have jumped to say such and such
areas were tempered and false. They didn't. They
employed the 3rd person to say it months
later.As a reader put it they were waiting for
the Thai police to say it was false when they
were suppose to know on the day it was published
and to point out the tainted parts.
The main aim is
to make all the UMNO members to dismiss The Edge
and Sarawak Report. These are the people who can
put Najib away. In the another roadshow soon
UMNO members will be briefed on the role of
Sufii in tempering the stolen data. Mahathir
will be blamed for the Sarawak Report in as much
as he was blamed for the decline of ringgit.
If those social
media were liars, Najib would have not lied in
the parliament about the Cayman's fund in BSI
Singapore. Since when Sufii went to see Xavier
to temper with the data ? People do not forget
that Jho Lo said he was not the guy who made
decision but Najib. For every exposure published
they were no immediate debunk if they already
knew about Sufii and Xavier. They waited for
months.
What did they do
during those periods ? Go for vacation and enjoy
the Artic atmosphere ? Going to parties and
having fun the whole 3 or 4 months ? Obviously
they teamed up to squeeze their brain for the
lucrative rewards.
I am not going to
detail on Xavier's movements because I can't
simply guessed his solid movements. But the
story told to us by 1Mdb is clear enough.
The laymen
questioned why Xavier is to be charged in
Thailand and not somewhere else, when the first
news was he was to be extradite. Some remembered
very well of China's request to India to arrest
the Tibetans who ran protest in the
subcontinent. The Indian obliged.
It is interesting
to note about Xavier being paid 15 million. Then
he asked for more and he was accused of
extortion and blackmailing. Mind us that he was a director. Does
a director type and keep the data in the server
? Don't 1Mdb has an IT man to do it ? Think
about it for a minute.
Xavier was said
to ask for 15 millions. Is the amount big for
Najib ? What is a hundred million compared to 15
? "Pay him to admit the data was tempered."
Responding to
articles in the Social media, people wanted to
know which parts of the data was tempered and
what were the original ? The consultants will
have to ask for a little more time to figure out
and more payment has to be made.
UMNO members have
to think and not to straight away believe what
Maslan, Zahid or the proganda unit is and will
be telling them. They have been told by the MOF
itself of the huge amount of interest to be paid
minus the loan. The amount is very scary. And
they have to know where Najib is going to get
the money from to pay the interest and the loan.
How much is being paid monthly or yearly ? What
is the role of Jho Lo ? How much did he give to
Rosmah's son for the property ?
Mahathir is
facing his own sin miserably now attempting to
eat him bit by bit.
Mahathir is a
stingy man. If he isn't he would have bought the
IGP. And one would wonder how much he had paid
to Xavier to distort the data. This Mamak lose
to Najib's propaganda because Najib is willing
to pay at any price and he is scared to spend
even a few hundred ringgit.
Let Mahathir
struggle with his sin.
And UMNO members
should use their brain themselves and opened
their eyes to observe Rosmah and Deepak and
Rosmah and Jho Lo. If God's willing they will see
through the wall. After all people above 60
should lie and rest and prepare for the next
world. Let the young people take over. Never
underestimate the younger generations. We have
seen them in Azmin and Guan Eng.
25/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
FOOLING
PEOPLE ALL THE TIME |
People up
there should stop thinking that people are fool.
People have been reading about disinformation,
moles and all other dirty arts of cheating and
deceptions. When they get away with it they
thought they have achieved great victory.
Despite they jailed Anwar, murdering Altantuya
and winning a few by-elections people know the
game the played and whether Anwar was guilty and
who ordered the bombing of Altantuya.
After
attempting to lie on Cyman fund in Singapore
bank, now they are trying to say the data stolen
from Petro-Saudi was tempered. The responses of
the people are as follows
The
composition of the Propaganda Unit and all the
government agencies to repaint the real events
does not show they are smart enough. Public
resources are wasted and the economy continues
to dwindle. The question is how much was paid to
PGI to say it was tempered ? Who hired PGI ? There is no
point in the restructuring of the 1MDB if there
is no real profit. Selling 1 hundred ringgit
property for 100 million to government controlled
body is not the real profit. If it is to pay
back to Goldman Sachs it is just taking the
money from the people. Borrowing from a local
bank to pay a debt is not solving the problem
either.
We know that when there is
leak of money movement into Jho Lo's account the
first thing was to investigate who stole the
information ? That's the behavior of the crooks.
What was the real reason for formulating OSA ?
And it was similar to the money for NFC being
used for something else ?
That's the reason for saying
'I don't take even a single cent because it can
do nothing. But I take billions because it does
wonders." You can pay experts to work for you,
to pay for disinformation and used the troopers
to attack on the truth as false.
Then they call people to be
patriotic as if Malaysians and the opposition
members are not. Who in this world want to be
patriotic to Rosmah Mansor ? Or any particular
person ? I am willing to die for my country, not
for Najib, Rosmah or even Lim Kit Siang or Hadi
or Anwar.
What has the Thai police to do
with 1Mdb ? How could they come to know and
arrest Xavier ?
Don't you ever smell
that it all started when they hired a team to
trace the Swiss IT man for fear he could cause
much more damage ? When they traced that he was
in Thailand our government requested Thailand to
arrest him and at the same time 1Mdb was ready
with denial and disinformation. And now the Thai
police come to know the whole truth about Jho Lo
and other devious 1Mdb activities. Thailand is
not a fool either. There are principled people
in the Thai government who do not condoned any
hanky panky by anybody within or outside the
border.
As someone mentioned Sirul was
a key man to Altantuya and Xavier to PetroSaudi
possible scam. The Malaysians has begun to see
the scheme to repay the huge loan and the
interests. Don't you see how the value of our
currency could be affected by 1Mdb scheme ?
Simply, by raising fake profit without any
substantive increase in productivity has the
effect of printing more cash without the backup.
What is a fake profit
then ? Selling a 2 ringgit land for 2 million to
a sibling company is a fake profit. Kickbacks
are fake profit.
It's a pity the whole force
has to camp together to change the perception of
the people, mainly the UMNO members. All the big
brains merge to distort the truth which were in
fact failed to confuse millions of small men on
the streets, some with only secondary school
education. These small brains understand the
time lapse of Najib's response to accusations
and questions, as what was done on Anwar Ibrahim.
If the whole big brains fail, Malaysians should
not be surprised. That's how we lost the Pulau
Batu Puteh, and Ghani Patail failed to bring
back the stolen jet engine. No wonder they can't
strengthened the ringgit. And more so they can't
get 90% of people's votes.
UMNO is just lucky that the
people do not organize themselves like the Jews
did. They too could have special forces to go
world wide tracking the shadows of Najib and
stationed themselves in every part of the world
and in every departments, and for a team to
pluck and encrypt data that pass through cables
deep in the ground, and jam the communication
satellites and the TV signals. It is not they
can't do it even under tight surveillance, but
they don't want the nation to be chaotic. All
they want is UMNO to be clean and stop
plundering our nation's coffer.
Even with their handsome
salaries they are fooling themselves and their
generations. Already people were kicked out of
their jobs and the fate of the civil servants
are becoming bleak. While their big mouths were
yelling Najib's economic successes the
government is finding hard to cope up with it's
employees. The money they get does not
compensate with the lost they will soon realize.
They themselves are big fools.
We all remember the horror of
Mahathir. Now he knows what his sin is. God let
him see, feel and smell his own sin, the great
Najib.
24/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
HAM RADIO A
LITTLE SMALL DEFINITIONS |
In my days,1970s,
when I applied for radio amateur examinantion
(RAE) from the telecom, I was given a few sheet
of papers in which there was written a
definition of amateur radio, SOP and radio
regulations, was suppose to be the first of the
two parts of the test paper. The second part was
on the technical stuffs. I did not learnt the
hobby definition by heart and right now it is
very fuzzy in my memory. But I remember very
well the key words. Putting back together it
sounds something like this: Amateur radio is a
hobby where a licensee is permitted to
use the radio service for experimentation,
preparing for emergency service on a
specified frequency without any pecuniary
motive. Of course I may have left something
else. There are three more words that I can
remember quite well: no politics, no
business and no religion.
Though during the
communications we did not do any business, we
were interested to know the price of the
equipment used. Nobody dared to ask 'How much
? ' as it is related to money. So we went
our way to ask 'What's the damage like ?'
And the answer would be in the value of
resistance like 200 ohm or 2K ohm.
Beginning ham
radio started with homebrew set. A single valve
transmitter is good for CW. Adding another they
created a modulator and could go on AM. When I
came in commercial rigs were available. Soon
later a linear amplifier were made to boost the
power. A linear was a term to mean power
amplifier though in its working side it may not
be in linear form.
Stations using
linear seldom said they used power amplifier.
They just told at what power they transmitted.
"I am running 1 kilowatt on my 4 element yagi,"
they would say. Telling people that you are
running 100 watts or 50 watts was normal. If you
told them you are using FT DX400 and running at
150 watts it would not be a surprise to the
other party. Some 6146 rigs in pair can produce
more than a 100 watts.
Hams like to tell
stories and let their friends know the distant
stations they used to work. I would tell my
friends," I work North pole barefoot and
I got a 59+20 ." Barefoot was to mean without
external amplifier. But during my course of
communication I did not remember telling my
counterparts that I was on barefoot, instead the
power used. Unless someone were to ask me, "Are
you using a linear ? " I would have replied,
"No. Barefoot." The question was rare.
While some love
high power, others want to know at what lowest
power and to what distant a signal can go. The
best mode to test is using CW. It is easier to
copy because it it non-modulated. Modulated weak
audio would be very incomprehensible by the
language slang. They built a low power
transmitter and called it QRP. The word barefoot
is never associated with QRP.
There was no
computer then. Our knowledge was not as wide as
the people today. Today they come up with many
definitions and concepts which some are very
Greek to us. They master the hitech stuffs and
digital technologies, and the various
interfaces. If I keep on forgetting the flow of
current in the balance modulator, how could I
understand the complicated logic circuits.
I keep on using
Thanks instead of Tango Kilo, giving my call
sign when requesting to join a communication
instead of using 'contact...contact, or breake..'
Progress ? No. I prefer the basic.
23/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
PAS IN TITLE UMNO
AT HEART |
Hadi
exposed himself when he said, "UMNO is not
Pharaoh." He has a great obligation to Najib who
went to see him at hospital ward. He felt he owe
something to UMNO and Najib.
Kedah went back to UMNO even
long before GE13 as Hadi insisted the unpopular
Azizan to be the Menteri Besar. Kedah had a
leadership crisis then because Azizan had failed
and even had employed several UMNO men in his
administration. He gave away Trengganu and now
he is about to give away Kelantan to UMNO.
One of his biggesr political
sins was he insulted Wan Azizah in the Menteri
Besar crisis. He risked the Pakatan pack and put
much torment on Wan Azizah's mind. Kelantan can
start counting it's number of days under Hadi.
We have a 'soi seow' lady already. Now we see
the ;soi seow' male counterpart. |
WHO HAS BEEN
TARNISHING COUNTRY'S NAME ? |
Najib, Anifah and
other BN Ministers have told much to the world
about Anwar Ibrahim. Now WSJ in it's front page
is telling about Najib. NYT was telling the
world about 1MDB and Najib. Both Anwar and Najib
are not our nation. Najib doesn't even represent
all the people. He never consult Parliament
about the formation of a company which I think
of his own, and cling it to MOF to get the
backup guarantee for loan.
Mahathir talked
about Najib to foreign media and Anifah talked
about Mahathir to the same media. It was not our
nation that order the killing of Altantuya, the
torture on Teoh Beng Hock and the siphoning of
public funds.
Najib should sue
WSJ and NYT NOW and QUICK to clear his image and
the image of his wife. How could the Malaysians
tarnish the image of the country at all when
they learnt about power abuse from foreign
newspapers and magazine ? It was not about
Malaya but about Najib.
The world have
eyes. They watched the giving of cash to the
villagers to get support as Najib was cornered
and caught lying. What he does is worst than
Marcos, as if people are so blind and are so
stupid.
The attempt to
accuse Mahathir for the decline of ringgit was a
bad and disgraceful one. Ringgit would surely
decline if Najib gives out cash without the
corresponding increase in productivity. It is
just like printing more money. Giving fish is
different from teaching how to fish. One is a
transfer without productivity and the other
contributes to GDP and productivity. Yet he was
blaming Mahathir. Won't that stupidity would
have painted a bad image on a Prime Minister ?
The eyes of the
words are in Malaya, the embassies and their
ambassadors. The FELDA guys may be blind,
blinded by the cash handouts they received, but not the
foreigners. Najib can buy most people most of
the time but he can't buy all people all the
time.
If Najib really
loves his nation, it would be better for him to
ask Mahyuddin to take his place. He can retire
peacefully with his accumulated wealth. We the
Rakyat have been living without a private jet, a
big house or expensive cars, and we are not
starving. 99% of us are without titles, never
shook hand with world leaders but our lives are
not miserable.
Najib should not
be scared of retirement. Instead he can live in
felicity.
21/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
BAD AND
ARROGANT EDUCATION POLICY MAKERS |
I was
already retired when the Ministry of Education
decided to execute the PBS, the school
base examination system. During my visit to my
old school, the vocational school, I told the
Deputy Head that PBS will fail within 5 years.
We discussed on several educational matters
including the formation of Vocational College
which I very much dispelled with the ideas.
I have been
seeing education for both the smart and the
non-smart kids. The voluntary and the system
dropped out will mainly come from the less smart
children. There are many late developers who
only compute their future at the later age. I
was one of them, the lazy and stupid boy. It is
these dropouts who would cause social disorders
in the society. Education must also cater for
the well being of our society and therefore for
the less academically inclined kids.
PBS would close the door to
the late developers. They cannot seat for any
exam anymore as a private candidate. PBS was
only for a school candidate. They kill the
future of many people.
I also had dispel the idea of
Vocational College. The system was suppose to
take high achievers after Form 3, two years
following the secondary education and if
qualified would continue with the diploma. The
teachers were complaining because they could not
teach in-depth skill and no proper resting place
for the students after a long school hours.
To cut short, in the technical
area under Technical Division of the Ministry of
Education there are 2 types of diploma; diploma
by polytechnic and by vocational college. A
diploma student from the polytechnic has SPM
certificate as well additional mathematics. A
diploma student from vocational college is
without SPM and without additional mathematics.
95% of the students in the vocational system are
Malays. And those who do not qualify for diploma
will earn nothing, no SPM and no skill.
Vocational education which was
once to provide a place for those who were not
interested in solely academic subjects have a
new feature.
Hearing words of threat from
the top and what it will be doing to the
students'
future, again I would pray so that the persons
responsible for PBS and Vocational College be
strikedso hard by lightning until the charred
produce endless smoke till the end of the world.
21/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
NEVER STOP
EVENING WALK DURING RAMADAN |
Evening walk as
usual during Ramadan. The first day I planned
buying food after my exercise. At 5.00 pm I set
out for my usual walk at the usual place. I felt
my body was much lighter than before and I could
walk at a faster phase. After 2 rounds, 1.6
kilometers of the inner circuit, I felt my
energy had vanished. I was not tired or
exhausted, only I felt my feet could no longer
took more steps.
On the second
Ramadan I decided to use the outer circuit, 1.2
kilometer per round. I was able to finish three
rounds. I had some energy left but just called
it a quit. It was good enough for the fasting
month. My energy seemed to maintain on the 3rd.
day. Though I could do it for 4 rounds, I only
did three.
The sequence of
buying food and exercising changed. I went to
buy food first and kept them in my car and went
for my walk. At 4.00 pm I went to Pasar Ramadan
where I did not have to hasle with the crowd.
There was lesser and fewer customers. At 6.00 pm
I could not even move. Funny, people could stand
and waited for a slight movement.
The routine will
continue for almost 30 days with a slight
adjustment in the kind of food. The taste may
not be to the desired standard. I found the
Nasi Goreng and the Nasi Daging
were not suitable. I finally decide to go on the
White Rice sold by one Kelantanese
stall. The Murtabak made by Rose
Restaurant contains the right ingredient with
the right taste. It is more expensive than the
others but it really worth the money. The
Murtabak is for sahur and rice for the
breaking of fast.
I arrived home at
about 6.30 pm, organized the foodstuffs on the
roundtable and went to take my bath. While
waiting for the time, 7.34 pm, I lingered around
my computer table.
I hardly saw the
Malay joggers at the circuit, not like the usual
days when there were approximately 30 to 40
persons. The number was reduced to about 4.
Those who did the slow jog were seen to complete
just one round and then disappear. The next one
I hope to finish 4.8 kilometers. It did me good
for I felt very fresh and fit minus the usual
energy.
21/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
ALMOST THREE
MONTHS TODAY |
It has been
almost three months now since my wife departed
to the next world. I remember her as an ardent
supporter of Rosmah. When I mentioned of
Rosmah's lavishness she would say, "She is the
Prime Minister's wife. She has to be the best in
the country. There's nothing wrong to it. She
has money to buy anything she likes." She
realized how much the government took care of
her, even after her retirement, till her death.
The genetic traits of my kids seem to be of
their mother. I did not want to talk politics to
my kids.
I am sure
her soul is still praying for the well being of
the First Lady. Three months without her is very
empty. This Ramadan during the break-fast time,
I always remember her as if she is beside me.
Rosmah Mansor may not know that she lost someone
who adored her so much.
For the
last 2 days I spent about RM11 for food each
day, for breakfast and sahur. On both nights I
could not finished the rice. Truly if I spend
the same amount each day for 30 days, my total
expenditure for food will be less than RM400.
Even with my wife and a maid food consumption
was less. For the first few days I had to throw
a lot of untouched cookies.
20/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
NAJIB MUST SUE
NYT AND OTHER FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS |
It is a high time
for PM Najib to sue the NYT and other foreign
newspapers that wrote about 1MDB's fiasco and
Najib's misuse of the fund for his personal
gain. Either direct or indirectly the foreign
media was saying Rosmah's son has the share of
the money. The latest it says Najib used the
money for the campaign in GE13. The exposure on
Rosmah's expenditure on handbags brought shame
to himself and the nation. The accusations were
strong enough for Najib to take legal action.
Instead he takes
action only on the local who quotes what the
foreign papers published. Why ? He knows he will
be defeated and the truth will dominate
international media. But at home he has the
judiciary on his side and the lawyers who can
twist and turn facts down. They will bark at the
foreign media at the distance.
It is more
shameful for a Malayan to hang on the Sabahans
and the Sarawakians to remain in power.
The time will
come when the FELDA settlers who were given huge
sum of money before the GE13 and probably in the
coming GE14 realize they will one day be chased
out of their houses when FELDA is taken over by
some foreign firms. It may be exposed that they
were paid by the 1MDB funds as a favor for the
vote requested.
Najib keeps
secrets not only to the populace but also to
UMNO members throughout the country. There are
massive things they don't know what Najib does
with the money and why. Only some can see
through the wall and scent things behind the
veil. A reader mentioned that he could smell
people who are employed and pay to write for
Najib, local as well as foreigners, because
comments by the local people are too powerful to
debunk.
Najib could save
more by challenging the foreign media by taking
legal actions on them. At the same time he could
clear himself.
19/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
IS 1MDB MAKING
PROFIT ? THEN SETTLE THE DEBT |
There is
plenty of smokes and things have become fuzzy on
1MDB issues. They are trying to bring
authorities like the PAC and auditors to stop
criticism from the people. So much so facts and
reality have been swayed. Anifah Aman himself
said the audit said 1MDB had 51 billion dollar
assets, much more than the 42 billion dollar
loan.
The
laymen's are not losing their tracks and still
do not hear things they want. Is 1MDB making
profit ? By the authority's report of the 51
billion, in excess of loan, it is making a good
profit. Then how much the loan and the interest
had been made since the date of the loan ? Why
then they were talking of getting the 2 billion
to pay the interest ? First Kandasamy mentioned
Ananda Krishnan was paying. Then it went quiet
and it was made a secret of the source of the
fund, making people guessed it was paid using
public fund.
Then there
was a lie on the movement of money into the
Singapore bank, which was denied by the later.
1MDB twisted to say it was in UNIT. It never
mentioned cash nor gold. Many renown accountants
said they never heard of UNIT.
The MOF
admitted that it is hard for the government to
pay the interest. If by the profit then we want
to know much profit does 1MDB made per month and
how much has been paid to Goldman Sachs ? We
would expect since 2008/9 the amount of loan has
been greatly reduced.
It was
Anifah who lied to the world not Tun Mahathir.
Nobody
touched on Jho Lo. He is not a man who has
nothing to do with the 1MDB and in no existence.
Jho Lo himself admitted that Najib himself had
made all the decision, why blamed him alone. And
there were movement of cash into his account.
And unless answered people want to know the
relationship between Jho Lo and Rosmah's son, of
where he got so much money to buy property and
film making. It would have been a conjecture the
money was from Jho Lo.
I own a
house. I strive daily to make my ends meet. And
one man said, "Don't worry you have a property
worth 1 million." And a day later another man
said,"Hey your house worth 3 millions."
That's how
1MDB's assets were said to be 51 billion. They
could even say it is 100 billions. But to say
100 billions the public will ask them to sell 50
billion and settle to 1MDB loan. We will be very
happy then.
No matter
how much smoke 1MDB raised it cannot pay the
debt and the interest. It is still borrowing
from the local bank. And Najib said, :People
must pay GST or the country will go bankrupt."
The only source to pay the loan is by increasing
taxes and tolls and forcing government related
bodies like Tabung Haji, EPF and PNB to lessen
the burden.
It was the
laymen who asked 1MDB to show them the money,
not Tun Mahathir. Go to hell with asset's value
when they are not liquid enough even to pay the
interest, and any government body can put any
value they think fit. Show us the profit in
cash. Why more loan from local bank ?
19/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHY NAJIB
WANTS TO HIDE TOLL HIKE ? |
A Muslim is
answerable to God. A government is answerable to
the people because the people pay them the
salaries. A truth is divine, a lie is a word of
hell.
We understand
that the government is hard up of money due to
the mismanagement of public funds, paying the
unnecessary huge interest to a company own by a
terrorist, Goldman Sachs. The lavish spending
and the loan were for individual comforts and
strategy to maintain perpetual power. It was an
avarice of mankind, loved by the Satan.
If Najib finds
that GST isn't enough and want the toll hike,
why must he hide from the people ? Planning the
time what to lie to the people so that he could
maintain his popularity ? If Najib is popular
enough and the world believe so much in him, the
ringgit will not decline that much no matter
what anybody said about him.
It was a
government servant who talked about Rosmah's
purchase and payment. Lucky for him he is saved
by OSA that keeps documents from leaking out and
used as evidence in court. It was a government
servant who leaked about the hell of 1MDB.
There is only one
person who does not know what her husband and
kids were doing, the honorable Shahrizat. Others
have extra telepathic senses that can sense how
the Scorpene case was settled. And know how busy
people in 1MDB to start with documents to show
as if everything was in order.
Public servants
are people with conscience and with religious
beliefs. They know what should be secrets and
what not. They are responsible to the country
and the nation, not to an individual. The bad
acts of a public servant is to create bad story
about his boss or the people in the office.
If there is a
secret meeting between a Minister and Obama,
then he must keep it a secret. If there is a
meeting between a Minister and a Mafia
Godfather, he needs to know what's the meeting
is all about. It is his work to save the nation
and the people.
18/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
DEMOCRACY -
GANGSTERS BECOMING POLITICIANS |
In a
democratic country even a lowly gangster goon
can become a leader. A drug Kingpin has the
capacity of buying himself up. All he need to do
is to be a hypocrite and spend part of his dirty
money on the people. A gangster can easily win
an election through fraud, using the mob to
change ballot boxes. We still remember the
floating boxes found in the river. The
deployment of the rogue goons to create fear,
threatened the voters and changing and
manipulating the ballot boxes, and the extensive
use of government and public resources gave them
almost absolute advantage.
French
researcher Sophie Lemiere,
Malaysians should express our thanks
to you for a well-researched report.
How, we wish this report can reach
those rural Malays so their eyes can
be opened.
My family and I suffered at the
hands of these Umno gangsters simply
because the three of us wore Bersih
T-shirts at the Ambiga Sreenavasan
ceramah in Merlimau, Malacca, which
was subsequently
cancelled.
The repairs to my damaged vehicle
cost more than RM2,000. Police
reports were made and the matter
reported to Suhakan but up to now
nothing has happened.
Is this Allah-fearing nation, I have
told Allah that I'll not forgive
them. I have every confidence that
Allah will take revenge for me in
time.
This is certainly the mark of a
Satanic regime. May Allah hears the
cries of his people.
Sophie Lemiere is our new Malaysian
darling when the likes of the White
House has failed to stand up for
democracy in Malaysia in the name of
TPPA (Trans-Pacific Partnership
Agreement).
This is a perplexing problem that
Pakatan Rakyat may not have the
ability to overcome. All Malaysians
who reject BN must work together to
develop a network to prevent people
from joining these gangs as it is
not in the best political interest
of the police and BN to curb these
gangs.
We need to beef up social support
networks integrated with private
sector employment to wean these
members away from gang activities,
depriving Umno-BN the ability to
cordon roads, disturb peaceful
assemblies, threaten violence when
purported racial/religious supremacy
is challenged in debates |
Top
politicians were known to
work with Mafia. What do the voters
know ? They were asked to be loyal to
individuals, not the country. For God's sake
you must not be surprise to read the news on
the link between a
Minister and a crmininal.
People
like Mugabe dared to continue because he
thought his gang was the most powerful. He
will continue to plunder public fund, and
act arrogantly. Once in Taiwan, gangsters
didn't bribe the politicians, they became
ones. The weak and helpless in the Middle
East had no choice but to join ISIS.
There are a lot of
literature pursuing on these topics for your
perusal. And if you keep on digging into it
and watch Hollywood movies on some real
stories then you will be able to compare the
power of global gangsters and how they
operate.
Democracy is a haven for
capitalists and gangsters. If they cannot be
politicians, it is enough for them to be a
policeman. The human trafficking story that
is still a hot news involves a high ranking
Thai police.
17/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
NAZRI - LOW CLASS GANGSTER |
Nazri talked like a low class gangster when he
implied that he was elected by the people while the
Tengku Mahkota wasn't. Karpal Singh could have said
the same thing. Surely others are saying the same
thing too, which means Karpal and Nazri is bigger
than the King. But Karpal had to suffer just by
quoting what is in the constitution.
Nazri was not elected by the people of Malaysia nor
Malaya. He was elected by a handful of stupid people
who thought they would get all the benefit by
licking his boot. He should read what the people
commented about him. He probably thinks the whole of
Malayans like him.
If
Karpal was bad, Nazri is no better than the former.
The former was a very successful lawyer and well
respected.
Is
UMNO becoming more barbaric and so very stupid ?
They live on the denying syndrome and stubbornly
pulling the economy down. They should examined 1MDB
more closely with a free mind. Even today it is
borrowing money to pay the interest and the other
lender. It sell cheap asset at a very high price to
the body controlled by the government to gather cash
to pay the loan. They found they still could cope
with it.
And they come up with GST, and hiking toll and gasoline
price.
The Sabahans and the Sarawakians may love Nazri as
much as they love their own chiefs who plundered
their lands.
Najib, as an elected person, has a numerous
bodyguards around him. Should he, if he is chosen by
the people ? Why not Nazri call for a special
election next week just to find out whether the
whole Malayans like him or not ?
The country can bet that any low class gangster will
not get voted.
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THE ROYAL MESSAGE
MESEJ UNTUK RAKYAT MALAYSIA
Kebelakangan ini, saya hanya
menyuarakan pandangan supaya
mereka yang diberikan amanah
jangan salahkan rakyat
kerana hilang keyakinan
dan kepercayaan terhadap
anda, tetapi fikirkanlah
mengapa rakyat telah hilang
keyakinan dan kepercayaan
terhadap anda. Nampaknya
teguran saya secara baik ini
telah mendapat maklum balas
yang kasar daripada seorang
menteri. Kalau saya mendapat
jawapan sedemikian, apa
harapan untuk teguran rakyat
lain didengar?
Anda seorang menteri,
bukannya tuhan dari
syurga yang tidak boleh
ditegur. Jangan fikir
rakyat negara ini wujud
untuk memberikan anda
jawatan dan kekayaan,
tetapi jawatan tersebut
wujud supaya anda
memberikan khidmat
kepada rakyat. Apabila
saya bersuara, saya
melakukannya sebagai
pemimpin rakyat saya,
rakyat Johor dan
Malaysia. Saya hanya
mengingatkan para
pemimpin negara ini
bahawa mereka mempunyai
tanggungjawab untuk
berkhidmat kepada rakyat,
dan nampaknya oleh sebab
itu saya diserang.
Dalam aturan dunia yang
baru, saya membayangkan
masa depan di mana
setiap orang mempunyai
hak menyuarakan pendapat
masing-masing. Namun,
keadaan di Malaysia pada
hari ini tidaklah begitu,
menteri-menteri pantang
ditegur. Saya rela
dicemuh untuk
mempertahankan perkara
yang benar, daripada
disanjung untuk membela
perkara yang salah.
Saya bukan ahli politik.
Saya hanya
bertanggungjawab kepada
Allah, Sultan saya, dan
rakyat Johor. Saya
bukannya menjalankan
suruhan seperti boneka.
Johor hanya mempunyai
tempat bagi mereka yang
mahu berkhidmat kepada
rakyat, bukan untuk
mereka yang mahu meraih
undi demi kepentingan
peribadi.
Akan tiba suatu masa, di
mana rakyat Johor perlu
membuat keputusan demi
kebaikan masa depan kita
dan generasi yang akan
datang. Kita akan
bersatu dan membuat
keputusan tersebut
sebagai Bangsa Johor,
untuk menempa masa depan
kita. Bersatu kita teguh,
bercerai kita roboh.
Saya berdiri untuk
rakyat saya, bukan untuk
merebut kuasa, bukan
untuk menumbangkan
kerajaan, tetapi untuk
menjaga kesejahteraan
rakyat saya.
Saya tidak pernah
menyuruh sesiapa
berundur atau meletak
jawatan, hanya sekadar
memberi ingatan kepada
ahli politik berkenaan
peranan dan
tanggungjawab mereka.
Sekiranya perkara
seperti itu pun anda
tidak boleh terima,
jelaslah kepada seluruh
rakyat betapa angkuh dan
sombongnya anda.
Alhamdulillah, saya
telah dikurniakan dengan
kehidupan yang selesa.
Kalau hendak diikutkan,
saya boleh hidup dalam
dunia saya sendiri tanpa
menghiraukan
permasalahan rakyat,
tetapi saya di sini
berdiri teguh bersama
mereka. Jadi kepada
mereka yang ingin
mencemar imej saya dan
menjadikan saya musuh
awam nombor satu,
sesungguhnya rakyat
lebih bijak dan mampu
menilai sendiri.
Jangan gunakan saya
untuk mengalihkan
tumpuan daripada isu-isu
nasional yang lain.
Negara ini memerlukan
ahli politik yang bersih
dan telus, yang
menjalankan
tanggungjawab mereka
dengan keikhlasan dan
integriti.
-DYAM Brigadier Jeneral
Tunku Ismail Ibni Sultan
Ibrahim, Tunku Mahkota
Johor.
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MESSAGE FOR MALAYSIANS
Of late, I just voiced
out my opinion and a
reminder that people who
has been entrusted with
the responsibility to
not blame the people for
losing trust and
confidence in them, but
think of why the people
no longer have the
confidence and trust in
them. Apparently my
gentle reminder has been
met with a rather
hostile response from a
minister. If I got such
a reply, then what
chances does the rest of
the rakyat have?
You are a minister, not
a God from the heavens
who lord above
everybody. Do not think
the people of this
country exist to provide
you with position and
wealth, but the position
exists for you to serve
the people. When I voice
out, I do it as the
leader of my rakyat, on
behalf of Johoreans and
Malaysians. All I did is
to remind the leaders of
the country that they
have a responsibility to
serve the people, and
for this, I am attacked.
In the new world order,
I envision a future that
every person has a right
to voice their opinions.
However, that is not the
case in Malaysia today,
where ministers think
they are untouchable. I
am willing to be cursed
for standing up for what
is right, rather than be
loved for defending what
is wrong.
I am not a politician. I
am only answerable to
Allah, my Sultan and the
people of Johor. I do
not do the bidding of
some puppet-master who
pulls the strings. Johor
only has place for those
who want to serve the
people, not for those
who want to garner votes
for their own interests.
There will come a time,
when the Johorean people
must decide what is best
for us and our future
generations. Decide and
unite we will, as Bangsa
Johor, to forge our
future. United we stand
strong, divided we fall.
I stand for my rakyat,
not to joust for power,
not to topple the
government, but to
ensure the well-being of
my people.
I never told anybody to
step down or resign,
only to remind
politicians of their
roles and
responsibilities. If you
cannot deal with that,
it just shows your
arrogance to the people.
Alhamdulillah, I have
been blessed with a
comfortable life, and I
can just live my own
life and be oblivious to
the worries of my
people, but here I am,
standing firm by their
side. So for those
wanting to tarnish my
image and make me public
enemy number one, the
people are smarter than
that, and they can think
for themselves.
Do not use me to divert
the attention from
national issues. This
country needs
politicians who are
clean and transparent,
who carry out their
duties with sincerity
and integrity.
-HRH Brigadier
General Tunku Ismail
Ibni Sultan Ibrahim, The
Crown Prince of Johor.
15/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
BEAUTIFUL SONGS
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Songs
that are sweet to my ears may not be to
yours. At 68 I still appreciate what I
called good music and beautiful songs. I
don't buy albums or listen to songs. Once in
a while when I came across a vocal of nice
melody I would pause to listen to them. Yeh
Sama, a Hindi song, is one of them. Others
are Besame Mucho, Seroja and Widuri.
No matter
who sang those songs they would captivate my
soul. I tried to memorize the lyrics. They
did not stay long with me. In time every
word fades from my mind. I am glad there are
people who share similar taste and published
these songs on the Facebook.
14/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
HOW POOR IS THE
POOR MALAYSIANS ?
The
trip to Balkan is months ahead. I may die first
before the day arrive. As usual I would make a long
preparation. In my previous trip I bought 4 pieces
of new shirts which I wore only 2. The rest I used
shirts I bought about 20 years ago. The colors and
designs that I like today may seen as stale next
week, and I won't wear them again.
During my last window shopping
there was a much discounted sale at Pacific. Each
cost less than RM50. I bought 5 pieces, enough for
the 14 day visit.
The point is not about buying
shirts but what about the unwanted ones. There were
several which I never wore, or wore once. I don't
have any more room to keep them. I decided to give
away to people whom I think is poor. Choosing and
folding some Batik and other casual T-Shirts, I put
them in a plastic bag. I placed the bag in front of
my house as it was a fine day, hoping for someone to
pick it up. Till evening it was still there.
I picked it up and put in my car,
thinking I could find someone I can give to.
This morning I drove through Jitra
on the way to Bukit Kayu Hitam to buy some
fireworks. I saw a man sweeping the road. I stopped
my car and move towards him with my bag. I told him
that I have some shirts to give away. "I don't need
them. Find someone else." I went back to my car with
frustration. In my mind even the blue collar workers
earn a lot of money. They may not reject it if it
was some big cash.
About a mile
away I saw another sweeper. I went to him with my
bag, and told him about the condition of the dress I
was going to give away. "You want to give me ? " He
asked. "Yes, if you want them." He was very glad to
accept the bag.
Each shirt cost me between RM35 to
RM60. I seldom used batik anymore except for the
festivities. I have two pieces of expensive designs
I bought while I was working. And I have been
wearing them many times.
I remember my religious teacher
told me, that dress to be given away should be the
new ones, not the shabbily torn ones or those we
have been using many times. My maid asked for my
unused shirts to be given for her husband. I was
very glad and permitted her to choose the nice ones
only. She went back with 30 KG of dresses in her
luggage, minus the 8 KGs carrying.
I made a policy not to give away
trousers unless they are new and unused.
Rejecting
usable gifts created an impression that the people
whom we think are poor are really not poor. Thanks
to the minimum wage law. The bag snatchers and
garbage hunters go on motorbikes to do their daily
business. Moonlighting would give them double
earnings. If the whole family work the total
household income would be at least RM2500.
At the jogging track I saw almost
everyone was holding a smart phone each in the
playground area. School boys and girls were seen to
own one too. People going for the BRIM came out of a
car carrying the stylish cell-phone. How poor is the
poor Malaysians ?
Probably you have come across a
beggar who refused to accept 50 cents and walked
away without it saying 'stingy person' to you
?
14/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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QUAD COPTERS |
I
am eyeing at a new toy called Quad Copter, now has a
camera fixed to it, priced range from RM200 - RM500.
It is available at almost all toy shops in the
country.
It would be a nice
hobby to try but it could turn out to a frustrating
one. The battery won't last even 15 minutes of
flying. The average will be about 10 minutes. We are
not genius enough like the American youths who can
overcome the problem. Or there may be a durable and
powerful batteries manufactured. They may not be
accessible to the laymen.
I
believe that in time to come it will become a very
popular hobby.
The unit cost about USD2000
My
decision to quit buying ham gear other than CW key
open up to the purchase of an RM8000 flying kit.
That is the cost of a Balkan or Eastern European
trips. Surely it is lighter than my RM8K 756 Pro or
my old FT101B. I hope my dream will come true.
12/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
A
CENT CAN DO NOTHING, A BILLION CAN DO WONDERS I don't take
a single cent of 1Mdb's money) |
A cent can't do
a thing, a billion can do wonders. Couldn't that
money be used to buy people to make decision for
ourselves ? Who would you buy then ? It is a
question and you find the answer.
It is hard to
talk about integrity where money is concerned. There
is an amount that can always break the camel's back.
Corruption is not Malaysians, it is all over the
world; the White, the Black, the Brown and the
Yellow give for a favor, and take to honor the
request. Many a time they were disguised under the name to gift,
help the needy, a reward and a
responsibility. We tend to think the White skin
communities do not know the words corrupt and
corruption. Many were shock to whatever happened in
FIFA.
Everyday people
take money from others, not belonging to them, also
using different names. What is with an exchange for
goods and services is rendered as legal. What
without is termed robbing. The goods and services
must be of acceptable of equal value. If a roti
canai is sold at 1.50 a piece it is an equal and
acceptable value. If it costs 25 dollars a piece it
is called robbing or blood sucking capitalist whore.
Government
takes money from people in term of direct and
indirect taxes. Insurances and highways and other
bodies too enjoy similar prerogative. As far as
government's collection is concerned the public need
to know where their money go to. Expenditure on
defense, security and safety of the populace is well
understood. Healthcare an education consumed a big
bulk of national coffer.
The fund
collected by the government is not BN's or UMNO's
money. If they are to be of BN or UMNO's then only
UMNO, MCA, MIC and Gerakan members are subject to
taxation. Only then funds for development can only
be distributed only to BN's members. Statement like
"You vote for PAS you will not see the wind of
development" is considered coming from Satanic
specie.
When Taib
Mahmud stole the timber in Sarawak he did not steal
from the Sarawakians. If Najib did not use the
government of Malaysia as a guarantor and did not
use any public fund to pay interest of the loan or
the loan itself, he too did not steal from the
people. But he did. And people are sniffing around
to see whether part of the loan is used to pay to
individuals in the audit department, the police
chief, the AG and other relevant people to make
decision or say things as to his favor. A cent would
not arose any suspicion but a few billions will.
A Haji or a
clerick can easily succumb even to a small amount of
money, especially the poor religious clerics. Hadi
would be easily satisfied if his son-in-law get a
few hundred thousands, or a simple visit by PM to
see him in hospital ward. An educated and ethical
person with strong mind may not succumb to a few
thousand dollar gift but may lose consciousness as
the amount has reached a few hundred thousands to a
million. How strong one can be to reject a few
hundred thousands. I worked my whole life but cannot
accumulate even a hundred kilo.
Today the
public begins to get skeptical about judges taking
money for the favorable judgment. It has been proven
that the judiciary had been manipulated before. May
a man be a priest, a Haji or a man of holly place I
won't trust him with his integrity. He won't touch a
cent but he won't reject a sack of big money.
At least 50% of
the citizens do not trust the police anymore for the
parts they have been playing in attacking the
political parties and protecting individuals.
If you ask me
whether I would betray a friend for a million I
would not answer you. Probably I would say "Show me
the money".
Criminals tend
to hide behind the available law from exposing their
crimes like the OSA and bank acts. But the members
of the public do judge by what they see.
The big
questions are 'How much is Najib willing to pay to
save himself from any charges ? Where would he get
the money from ? How much had he spend to boost his
local and international image ? He cannot dodge the
question by pointing at Mahathir misdeeds.
11/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
IF UMNO LOVE NAJIB, THEY LOVE GOLDMAN SACHS |
I
was having my dinner at a restaurant when TV3 news
was airing 1MDB issues. Arul Kandasamy was said to
admit that he lied to Najib. To me it is a big joke
for a billion dollar company owned by the government
is happy to employ a liar. Arul had lied about the
source of money to pay to the bank before. But this
is not the point. When Najib was accused of lying in
parliament, PMO said it was the Ministry's staff who
prepared the reply. The liar was the civil servant.
PMO said it was not lying but it was merely a
misinterpretation. It was the cash in Singapore bank
but the unit. Now Arul says he was lying about it.
Then Jazlan said that
the 42 billions was not missing because the audit
says they saw the bank statement. Mind you the bank
statement cannot show the total of 42 billion. The
total amount in the statements in 2015, 2014, 2013
cannot be at that figure. It has to be much less. If Jazlan believe the sum in the bank
statement is 42 billion, then it has to be a real
big lie.
WHY ?
The money was said to
have been invested and in the purchase of the
properties. These monies are not with the 1MDB
anymore. Which bank statement are they talking about
? The movement of cash into Jho Lo's account too
would not show the balance in the 1MDB bank
statement. If 2 billion were invested in company Y,
then the 2 billion is in the Y company's account. If
5 billion were used to buy a hundred million dollar
land then the 5 billion is in the company that sold
the land. What the people want to know why the cheap
land was bought at a high price ?
How much is exactly
in 1MDB account now ? Surely the skeptic need
several months to check the authenticity of the
paper statement. Anyone can type anything on any
paper. Laymen like us have been seeing plenty of
papers from all sort of departments brought by
beggars to show to us.
Remember, the ability
to pay the debt is from the profit, not from any
other source, like GST for instant.
10/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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KISAH
SEDIH
PUTERI
ZAINAH
ISTERI
PERTAMA
NAJIB
YANG
RAMAI
TIDAK
TAHU !!!
Inilah
Kisah
Sedih
Puteri
Zainah
Iskandar,
Isteri
Pertama
PM, Dato'
Seri
Najib
Razak |
Semua
orang
tahu
Datin
Hajah
Rosmah
Mansor
atau
lebih
dikenali
sebagai
BikMama@LadyFirst
ialah
isteri
kedua
Dato
Seri Hj
Mohd
Najib
Razak,
PM
Malaysia.
Manakala,
Isteri
pertama
PM Najib
Razak
pula
ialah
seorang
insan
bernama
Puteri
Zainah
binti
Iskandar
(kerabat
diraja
Kelantan),
perempuan
pertama
yang
bersama
PM Najib
membina
kehidupan.
Siapakah
Puteri
Zainah
ini?
Mari
kenalinya
lebih
dekat
lagi..
Dia
adalah
wanita
pertama
yang
berada
di sisi
PM Najib.
Wanita
pertama
yang
berada
di kiri
PM Najib
diatas
pelamin
yang
kilau
gemilau
suatu
ketika
dahulu.
Wanita
pertama
yang
menjadi
teman
tidur PM
Najib
yang sah.
Wanita
pertama
yang
meyendukkan
nasi ke
pinggan
PM Najib.
Wanita
pertama
yang
mengambil
baju dan
seluar
PM Najib
untuk ke
pejabat.
Walaupun
ada
kuasa
yang
cuba
untuk
menafikannya,
namun
sejarah
dan
biologi
tidak
boleh
menafikan
bahawa
darah
wanita
ini ada
dalam
tubuh
tiga
orang
anak
Perdana
Menteri
itu,
Mohd
Nizar,
Puteri
Norlisa
dan Mohd
Nasifuddin.
Puteri
Zainah
masih
hidup
dan
masih
sihat
wal
afiat.
Cebisan
kenangan
indah
dan
buruk
beliau
dengan
PM Najib
masih
terpapar
di
kepalanya.
Dia juga
berhak
sebenarnya
bercakap
mengenai
PM Najib.
Dia
masih
waras
untuk
bercerita
segala-galanya
dari
malam
pertama
sehinggalah
kemalam
terakhir
kehidupan
rumah
tangganya
bersama
PM Najib.
Sebelum
Datin
Rosmah
Mansor
menjelma
dalam
kamus
hidup PM
Najib,
Puteri
Zainah
atau
lebih
dikenali
dengan
Ku Yie
inilah
yang
mengikut
PM Najib
ke
majlis-majlis
kerajaan.
Yang
menemani
PM Najib
menziarahi
rakyat
di Pekan
dan
seluruh
Pahang
semasa
PM Najib
menjadi
Menteri
Besar
Pahang
dulu. Ku
Yie lah
yang
menjadi
pujaan
dan
kesayangan
Tun Puan
Rahah.
Mungkin
ada juga
yang tak
tahu
bahawa
bekas
suami
Datin
Hajah
Rosmah
Mansor
ialah
Farid
Ismeth
Emir
iaitu
pembaca
berita
Dunia
Jam 10
di RTM1.
Manakala
anak
perempuan
Datin
Hajah
Rosmah
Mansor
bersama
Farid
Ismeth
pulak
ialah
Azrene
Soraya
iaitu
isteri
kepada
penyanyi
yang
juga
pakar
motivasi
terkenal
Datuk Dr
Fazley.
YM
Tengku
Puteri
Zainah
Tengku
Iskandar,
bekas
isteri
Perdana
Menteri
yang
juga
dahulu
pernah
menjadi
Menteri
Belia
dan
Sukan,
Datuk
Seri
Najib
Tun
Razak
menangkis
fitnah-fitnah
yang
menuduh
beliau
tidak
siuman
dan uzur
untuk
menjalankan
tanggungjawabnya
sebagai
seorang
isteri.
Menurutnya,
fitnah-fitnah
tersebut
sengaja
disebarkan
untuk
menjatuhkan
imej dan
memalukan
beliau
sebagai
salah
seorang
kerabat
di-Raja
Kelantan.
Tengku
Puteri
Zainah
menegaskan
beliau
tetap
tabah
dan
berusaha
menyelamatkan
rumahtangganya
daripada
menuju
keretakan
meskipun
fitnah-fitnah
tersebut
sering
menghantui
kehidupannya.
Walaubagaimanapun
telah
ditakdirkan
Allah
SWT
penceraian
berlaku
juga
antara
beliau
dengan
Datuk
Seri
Najib
pada
bulan
April
1987, 28
tahun
yang
lalu.
Menurut
Tengku
Puteri
Zainah
lagi,
beliau
telah
diceraikan
tanpa
pengetahuannya
dengan
beberapa
alasan.
Beliau
melahirkan
rasa
sedihnya
kerana
walaupun
setelah
menjalanikan
hidup
berumahtangga
selama
hampir
10 tahun
dan
telah
dikurniakan
seramai
tiga
cahayamata,
tiba-tiba
diceraikan
tanpa
pengetahuan
beliau.
Tengku
Puteri
Zainah
juga
memberitahu
bahawa
sebelum
penceraian
berlaku,
beliau
serta
bekas
suaminya
tidak
pernah
bersengketa.
Cuma
selepas
suaminya
dilantik
menjadi
Menteri
Belia
Dan
Sukan di
tahun
1987,
Datuk
Najib
tidak
pulang
ke rumah
selama
lebih
enam
bulan
sebaliknya
beliau
menetap
di
hotel.
Menurut
beliau,
Datuk
Seri
Najib
hanya
mengunjungi
beliau
di
waktu-waktu
tertentu
sahaja
ketika
beliau
ditempatkan
di rumah
milik
kerajaan.
Tengku
Puteri
Zainah
diceraikan
dengan
talak
satu
kini
tinggal
bersama
dengan
tiga
anaknya
Mohd.
Nizar,
Puteri
Nerlisa,
dan Mohd.
Naziffuddin.
Tengku
Puteri
Zainah
telah
berjaya
menuntut
nafkah
sara
hidup
sementara
untuk
beliau
dan
anak-anaknya
dari
bekas
suaminya
itu di
Mahkamah
Tinggi
Syariah.
Tengku
Puteri
Zainah
dan
anak-anak,
walaupun
cuba
menunjukkan
kegembiraan
di wajah
masing-masing,
tetapi
itu
hanya
sekadar
kegembiraan
kerana
menyambut
kedatangan
Hari
Raya,
bergambar
di pagi
Hari
Raya
Puasa
1987.
Pada
malam
menjelang
Hari
Raya itu
juga lah
PM Najib
dan
Rosmah
telah
pergi
ber'honeymoon'
di
Eropah.
Juga
menjadi
pertama
kali nya
Nizar,
Puteri
Norlisa
dan
Naziffuddin
berhari
raya
tanpa
bapa
mereka
disisi.
10/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
A VISION OF A
LEADER
A
leader must have a clear vision of
what sort of nation is he/she to create. Mahathir
has a futuristic Malaysia like a sci-fi advance
living with hitech communication and transportation
system with no smoke and no noise pollutions. He
will gear all the available resources towards
achieving the goal. The goal is very realistic and
achievable. The best is to do them ourselves, else
we have to purchase them.
When I was
first on the monorail in Disneyland in the early
80's I felt I was on top of the world, a few among
the Malaysians was to taste the ride. Today it has
become a public transportation system in Kuala
Lumpur.
It was during
his period we heard of the term 'enhancing a dignity
of the Malays' for the Malays are looked as pariah
owing to their ignorance, arrogance, lack of skills
and less competitive. He stressed on Sciences and
technology and to pursue English as a tool for
technological advancement.
We may or may
not agree with him. But his vision was clear.
If a leader is
without any realistic vision, his mind will run
wild. One of it he will only think how to remain in
power and how to make money as much as possible for
himself and the rest to corrupt the people. Marcos
gave out money during the general election and the
public charged him as guilty and deposed him.
The aspiration
of the people and the leaders towards the common
goal that push China to achieve the goal of space
exploration and other advance technology. So are the
Koreans. They built a very strong educational
foundation for decades. Korea surpassed many nations
in their technology sold to worldwide consumers,
smart phones and motor vehicles.
You must not be
surprise to know that there are leaders who want the
Malays to remain stupid so that they could easily be
deceived and lied and cheated, to be blind to see
the country is ruined by the hanky panky management
of public funds.
Greed is not a
vision. Using public funds for personal comfort is
not a vision too.
10/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHERE YOU CAN LISTEN TO CW |
Having fail to hear Morse codes on 7 Mhz I went to
WEBSDR.ORG. On 6606.47 there was a station
transmitting codes like I used to listen many years
ago, messages from ship to shore. That helped me a
lot in mastering CW. It is sending 5 alpha-numeric
characters in a group.
Scanning up I heard W5GJ,Bob, on 7025.28 working
I1MMR. The later is very much stronger. It is 9.28
am local time. A few more stations were heard
sending at a speed of about 10-12 words per minutes.
If we are at 9.28 am, somewhere in the United States
is at 9.28 pm. In the good old days when the band
was opened there were hundreds of powerful stations
slammed in at 59+ RS at 6.00+ pm local.
Those who want to
hear CW and could not do so from the home station,
might want to try the websdr.org. You don't have to
download any software. It is the url itself. Type
it. Try on Saturday night and Sunday morning in the
West when hams do not go to work. You will begin to
learn and know whether they use machines or their
otherwise to copy an send Morse.
Since ship to shore
is still in existence, it would be the most
appropriate for the new comers to learn copying.
That was what I had been doing and I knew I slowly
developed the copying skill.
It is a pity that
7Mhz seems to be an Indonesian band. We don't have
to blame others for the happening. Neither did it
start by the new hams. What happened is not for the
literature.
Never think Morse is
not used anymore just because you do not use it.
Even no-code hams are trying their best to have the
Morse communication.
09/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE QUAKE - TIME TO PONDER |
Physic and metaphysic. Reality versus myth. Are
we to blame the nude Europeans that caused the wrath
of the earth ? If we choose to believe in mystical
power of the unseen and the unknown, we need also to
blame the series of bad luck that have been striking
us soon after the jailing of Anwar Ibrahim. Surely
we cannot put the blame on the visitors.
Science has the answer and there are volumes of
books written on it. We need to study more on the
earth crust and the location and it's activity.
However to the believers it is the sign of the
end of times. Both Islam and Christianity is talking
about it. The end of time differs from the
retribution from God for the sins of mankind. If God
shows His wrath on the sinful creatures, Europe
should be the target where sexual acts, and free
sex, the freedom of drug consumption, and the same
sex marriages are more sinful and against the
religion of Christianity and Islam.
Bangkok is sex city. It is blooming healthily.
People live in fear of disaster and lament after
it struck,
losing homes and other properties. Lives went
missing. The trauma is far from end.
Mhayuddin, Hadi and Kit Siang went to the
affected area without announcing to anyone and they
were there fast. I am sure there were many other
Malayan who rushed together with financial support,
unknown and untold. Enemies become friends. All
Malaysians must give support to the victims without
any political gimmick.
I see things in my nonsensical way. There is a
Malay proverb ' Sudah Jatuh Ditimpa Tangga' to
indicate that misfortunes strike successively. The
more Najib defend 1MDB the lower our ringgit become,
increasing prices of import items. We have problems
of FGV Feldo stuff. We are paying millions each day
for the 1MDB interest. Now the quake and Najib is
away. It keeps on coming and the Malaysians must
buckle up themselves. I never believe they were
co-incidences.
If we can't fight fate then we can study our
readiness in facing the quake that has just
happened. What if it happen again ? As quake is
usually followed by Tsunami, are we prepared for the
calamities ? What sort of organizations are already
operating at every part of Sabah and Sarawak, both
which are larger than the Peninsular Malaysia ?
I just felt sad the victims will be given RM1000.
How much did the family of the victims of MH370 and
MH17 get ? Prices of commodities in Sabah are
costlier than the Peninsular. I wonder what is going
to be done to the damage homes and properties.
The Sabahans have a great deal to ponder.
08/06/2015 -
Abdul Rahman Raof |
1 MDB - WHAT CAN AND CANNOT BE TOLERATED |
There is a risk in most business. Many companies
experience loses and closed shop. If 1MDB is facing
the same fate it can very much be tolerated. Yet
people may ask what is the business of a government
doing a business when it's main function is to
stimulate the economic growth and for stronger
economy. Instead we are hunting for money to pay a
very high interest rate per day. Najib at any cost
will not disclose the interest 1MDB has to pay, not
for the loan, but of it's interest. If this question
is thrown at a forum, the public will not hear a
true figure. It would be a very scary and bizarre
numbers.
Najib may ask Saudi Arabia to help in the settling
the debt, which could easily be resolved.
But it will not account for any misappropriation.
1MDB took a long time to set the figure of
respective investments. It met with a defiance
rebuttal pointing at the string of lies that
originated from 1MDB guys. The Ministry of finance
too was playing with terms and words which many
accountants rejected.
When Jho Lo is using the money belongs to 1MDB
nobody from Najib's camp pretend there is nobody by
that name and nothing happen between Jho Lo and
1MFB's money.
The opposition wants to know about the real cash,
not merely the numbers on sheet of papers. For
instant if 1MDB purchase a thousand dollar land for
1 billion they want to know whether the seller has 1
billion dollars liquid money, and that is not a
temporary amount put on the seller's name.
Even the money used by Reza Aziz to buy property has
to be answered. Any lie won't last long. People need
to know whether Jho Lo financed Rosmah's son.
The demeanor of the Finance Ministry is against the
General Order laid out by the British. The venture
has created suspicion and seen to be dishonest and
corrupt.
If
Saudi Arabia is willing absorb all of the 1MDB, good
or bad, then it is a relief for us.
But Parliament has to be made supreme, not Putrajaya.
As it is now it looks like that Putrajaya is running
the parliamentary institution.
We
cannot tolerate all others, other than the losing by
the poor management of 1MDB.
A
criminal cannot be allowed to hide behind his title
or post. That's what the Kingdom of Thailand is
treating the last lady Prime Minister as.
07/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
PITY THE POLICE |
Have it
ever occurred to you that Jho Lo is only a proxy,
doing the business for a certain person ? I would
think that the big bulk of the poor policemen are
protecting the scam, otherwise they would have made
several arrests by now. If Jho Lo were kidnapped and
forced to reveal the person, he would surely expose
who the person is.
The police does
not earn much and they cannot do as much as they
want. We won't forget a young policeman in Sarawak
who was trying to investigate the illegal logging
alone, was advised by his colleague not to be too
zealous in his work, and he was finally shot and
killed. Most were commanded to obey orders. And that
they did.
Just because they obey orders some
members of the public equate them with the
government's running dog and being attacked
mercilessly by political party members. A few pious
ones who could not stand the force who want to quit
could not do so because they don't have enough
saving when they are jobless.
What if they know that Jho Lo is
working for an individual to rake public money and
manipulate the fund for personal enrichment ? There
is nothing that they can do. They have to remain
silent and whisper nothing, not even to their own
friends. What had happened to Zaidi was a strong and
clear warning.
We would expect the top cops would
do something. They too follow orders.
07/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
OUR
PREDICTION COMES TRUE |
Once the police said that teachers were the culprit
who sowed anti-government sentiments among their
students. The growing number of anti-government
citizens were wrongly diagnosed. It was not due to
the teachers but due to the arrogance of UMNO
members in work places and kampongs, with cocky
behaviors and harsh voice when talking to people.
They thought they were untouchable.
In
our school, there was one such a person, a
non-teaching staff not even with a college degree,
who thought highly of himself. The hatred towards
UMNO by almost of all the teachers were very intense
and reached the peak during the trial of Anwar
Ibrahim. That was the time when exam questions
mentioned Mahathir's siblings in the mathematics
test papers.
Everyday the teachers analyzed the court proceedings
and cursed Mahathir for every alteration of charges
on time, date and other happenings. When we later
heard of the death of those who were conspiring to
jail Anwar we came to agree that it was the
punishment from God.
Why God did not take away Mahathir's life ? We were
told of his consuming a very special drug which was
very costly that could turn an old man to be active
and young. I told them that probably God wants him
to live longer and to punish him in the present
world for his doing. Many came to agree with the
prediction.
Long after that we split. Some retires and some went
on transfer. I retired in 2003, not in the same
school. Now is 2015. I see our past prediction comes
true. It was the comeuppance on Mahathir. And Najib
jailed Anwar. Najib got the punishment more sooner.
Mahathir's mental agony is now known by all. He
elected a man who did not care less about him. Najib
is using all of the nation resource to debase and
discredit him. He is being bullied and tortured.
I
fear the consequence that will befell Najib could be
worse and bizarre. Rosmah has been equate to Marrie
Antoinette. The police already imagining of
kidnapping and bombing building by IS members. If
the police predicts of the coming of IS in Malaysia
and somehow it does then nobody can save the
country. However I don't think the Malaysians would
topple the government using arms.
Let the police assess the degree of hatred on Rosmah
by the citizens to gauge the possible action of the
possible consequences of punishment. You can try to
imagine it by yourself.
We
are observing what sort of comeuppance is faced by
Mahathir. I believe he will suffer as much as many
of us had been sufferings under his tenure.
To
me 1MDB is not the last that is haunting Najib.
There will be bigger evil that will strike the
nation. I believe in the mystery of the unknown, the
evil spirit of bad luck residing in an evil lady who
had brought a series of misfortunes to the nation
from HM370 to economic strain and poor performance
in sports and games. Most of all the Malays will
break and dissipate. Singapore is the mirror.
06/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE HAPPY FACES OF OUR LEADERS
It is the grassroots
who are suffering from Najib's economic policy. They
have to pay more for the cost of living. They are
fumed by Rosmah's extravaganza, and fed up with the
lies they themselves told the voters. In Malaya only
those of the top civil servants and the members of
the Propaganda unit still obey Najib. The level of
anger towards Najib is at a very dangerous height.
Does Najib know this ? He does. That's why he bought
a new jet. It could save him in case of an uprising.
He prefers to be in Sarawak and Sabah, states were
divorced from Malaya before the formation of
Malaysia. Taking literally Sabah and Sarawak are the
strangers adopted by Malaya. It is highly possible
that Najib be made a ruler of Sarawak and Rosmah of
Sabah if Malaya is not a safe place for both.
To the laymen like us
we don't believe in such thing as uprising to topple
the government. Not to the police who imagine things
from all angles and possibilities. The police
targeted the Malays to be militants and try to
associate a few with the ISIS.
Now the pressure is from UMNO. The longer the delay
by Najib, the more spoil he brought to the Malays.
BN and RM have changed from Barisan National to Bini
Najib and Ringgit Malaysia to Rosmah Mansor. The
degree of disrespect shown on Najib by the citizens
is down the mud, and very disturbing. I am sure
people in PMO read those comments too. Attempts to
fight back were too weak. The lashings were hard and
strong. Najib must be told. Let him read himself.
Someone must advise
PM to take a long vacation and forget Malaysia for a
few months, take a rest in Switzerland, Finland,
Hawaii, South Pole and Bolly Wood. Let Mahyuddin run
the country in his own way. That will cool down the
UMNO grassroots who are dropping big bombs on PM.
05/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
CHANGING INTEREST ? |
There are two
activities that are almost dying from my passion;
computer programming and hamming. Once I was fearful
of their diminishing away and living me in limbo,
like taking my life away. But now my interest in
them seem to be faded.
Probably ageing
could be the main cause, the decay of body and
mental metabolism that made me lazy to crack my
brain in planning the code algorithm and to quest
into a new arena of programming for the Apples.
Furthermore Apple programming is not free. We were
given free software but we have to pay for
publishing. I can't pay even if it is only a dollar.
I don't possess the plastic money.
As for the ham
radio the world seems to be changing too. All over
the old hams began to disappear. Many went to meet
God. In the country they have lost the interest
totally. When an antenna dropped it remained there
unattended. One of the most active in the
yesteryears was Rajamani, 9m2RJ, whom we nicked him
as Raja Jepun. He is still strong and agile. His
location is never friendly for a dipole erection.
Bahar never came back for an unknown reason. When
there was disintegration their voices become dead on
the band.
Thanks to the
enhancing of computer technology that has cushioned
all the previous fear. I have a blog to type, movies
to download and watch, and various news to follow,
and the numerous communication channels to choose. A
long distant communication is made possible for free
with visual technology. Almost everyday you will
receive some news through Whatsup and Facebook.
Occasionally I
would switch on my radio, scanning the band and
listen to people talking and it gave me ideas on the
state of ethics, morality and discipline of the
common people around the region. I wouldn't want to
say more about it. I do not manufacture them. Some
people did.
Though hamming
has much been reduced, I intend to buy another
electronic CW key by MFJ. At least I can exercise my
fingers and keep my mind alert. If my radio were to
get kaput one by one, I won't buy a new one to
replace them. I can use WebSdr to monitor Morse
communications for my mental exercise.
Morse codes is
just another language. I was almost at a lost when I
visited Hanoi recently. I could not speak even a
word of Vietnamese as I could speak Thai and
Chinese. I wont want to lose those abilities.
Sometimes I spoke Mandarin and Thai to myself while
driving. These are treasures we have to keep. Some
other hobbies we could somehow dispel with.
Shifting from
radio and programming to writing are not the
shifting and changing of interest. Rather they are
the shift in focus. What is so special about writing
is, it is my weakest ability that had failed me all
along from my school days till now. I failed in all
my English test, scored poorly in GRE. Like one of
my friends who dare and brave enough to speak in
English despite his broken grammar, I too prefer to
push myself trying to express something which I very
much hope people would understand me. It is a great
challenge. And I really love it.
In ham radio
what remain a glory is the Morse codes send and
received using human minds and manual skills. There
is nothing else.
05/06/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof
|
HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE YOUR SPOUSE ? |
Many of us don't know how much we love our spouse
when we think we were. I don't know how much I love
my wife until she was bed ridden and passed away. I
have been alone and doing some traveling alone for
days yet during that time I always felt she was just
beside me. Now without her I really feel the
emptiness and very lonely. I prefer to be alone than
be with friends. Many a time a have a lovely dream
so surreal that I have had a filling of fulfillment,
about togetherness with the whole family.
One student of mine from a Chinese school who
married a wealthy man who is now 72 and she 53 and
had bear several children. She has a factory and
shop houses given to her. "My income is 20K per
month, cikgu," she told me. "I have a lot of money
but I am not happy. I perished my my love for
33 years and now he betrays me." Her husband had a
38 years old girl friend. I know how much she loves
him. She talked about committing suicide. I am still
her teacher and I am trying my best to keep her
sober and straight.
There is another Malay student whose husband has
given her whatever she wants. Observing her
flirting with several men, I feel her love towards
him is not really deep as the other one.
Money and materials could not guarantee happiness
and satisfaction. I think love is about care and
sincerity. 'Till death we depart' is the real union
which had been very common in the past, less true at
present time. Divorce was rare in the past. Though
polygamy was allowed in Islam, it hard to find a man
who marry more than one or flirting around.
Love is not in the words one utters. We don't
describe with words.
When I put my wife on her wheelchair, took her to
bath and nurse her vowel, put on her dress and
combed her hair, I knew what love is. Let her soul
and spirit be with me now so that I won't feel
lonely.
There were one or two ladies who threw smiles at me.
I never response because I felt I belong to someone
else, as if my wife is still living. Truly indeed I
love my wife that much.
Those students of mine have their own paths to
follow. I can pray for their well being and will
make the best decision to themselves. They will
eventually realize what love really is.
05/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
1
MDB - ATTEMPT TO LIE IS VERY SHAMEFUL |
Najib is a
Prime Minister. A man of honor should not be called
a liar or the defender of liars.
If I run a
company I could answer where about of my money, the
lost and profit, within a few seconds. One of my
bosses told the people in one meeting that he was
very impressed when he wanted to know the result of
his relative's application into my school. I gave
almost an immediate detail, the parent's name and
address and the former school.
Similarly I would be able to
tell anyone the last balance of my account by
disciplines immediately even if I am away in foreign
land.
Why ? This is the age of
computer and internet and the jobs were well done in
an honest manner.
When Mahathir
asked Najib to account where the money went, they
took a long time to come up with a chart when Najib
could have come with the answer at the most 1 hour.
Mahathir may not be an accountant but there are many
great minds who are well verse and who have put a
very strong and convincing rebuttals. They lashed
the cyber-trooper hard. They have responded on
behalf of the ex-Prime Minister.
I am not so
educated as those who challenged the 1MDB investment
chart. So are many of us. Yet we do see many missing
things to say 1MDB is making another attempt to lie.
The phrase another attempt shows there have been
previous attempt before. What were the previous ones
? Aru mentioned that Mr. Ananda Krishnen was giving
a 2 billion to rescue 1MDB. Then the Finance office
denied it. Then there was a letter of deposited cash
into a Singapore Bank, which was denied by the bank.
I have been
looking where about the name of PetroSaudi and the
name Jho Lo who himself said he was not the final
decision maker in the 1MDB. Money movement monitored
not only belonging to Jho Lo but also Najib and
Rosmah. I know 1MDB is working hard to convince the
people that Sarawak Report is false. But it was
Sarawak Report which exposed the Caymen fund in
Singapore. It was a truth that failed to be denied.
Finally, I was
trying to figure the running cost of 1MDB; the
salaries, the rented buildings, the lawyers, the
payment for the auditors, the utility bills and
other expenses; they are not cheap. For 5 years the
figure would reach a few millions or even billions.
This amount is invisible. Where does the money come
from if all were invested ? Oh Sorry, I forgot
they put it under working capital. But surely we
want to know the detail breakdown on the working
capital.
Sooner or later
1MDB will be cornered again. Would Najib say it is
not his responsibility for the lies ?
Nevertheless
there will be somebody who will do the cross
checking. There will be no transparency and things
will be locked as top secret.
It looks like
that 1MDB will be forking from the profitable
companies owned or run by the Malays. Probably it
will over the Haj job run by Tabung Haji to pay the
running interest of the loan. The picture of it's
glamorous projects and investments which promted Ku
Nan to take it as the goose that lays the golden
egg, can never be true simply because it is
DEBT RIDDEN company.
1MDB has to
make sure it's bank account is completely secured
from being seen and plucked by others. Mind you the
restructuring is made after a very nasty attacked by
Mahathir and concerned citizens. What it means it
has been a long honeymoon ride from 2008 to now. We
know that many bad stuffs have been erased as the
eraser of immigration Altantuya's report.
The goose that
lays the golden egg had several audit change before
the final one in which Najib's son from his first
wife was in it. And there was a CEO who resigned
before the present one. Why ?
It never says
how much interest has to be paid a day and how much
income it gets per day.
For a primary
school boy to lie nobody would give a damn to it but
it should have not come from a Minister or a
Ministry, and a high profile body. It is a shame.
04/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
RECOVER THE 42 BILLION AND ROSMAH IN PROPER PLACE |
Who wants to know about the re-structuring of 1MDB ?
I want to know how much of the money went to Jho Lo
and how much of Jho Lo's money went to Najib's
family. These were the questions that Najib were
dodging most of the time. He won't allow any UMNO
members to press him with them. And he will do
anything and using all the resources to sway from
the missing money. Mahathir charged Najib for
committing a punishable crime.
Najib should learn the history of Dato' Harun Idris
who was arrested and jailed despite of a strong
support by the Malays throughout Malayan Peninsular.
And about what is happening in Thailand. The evil in
Thailand began with Taksin's wife and it dragged
till now. And he should take a retrospect of
the role and activity of his spouse and seek around
about the mystery of bad luck. If a great turbulence
were to strike the consequence would be a grave one.
Probably the acceptable redemption is to put Rosmah
back in her place and to recover back the 42
billions. If he chooses to ignore it I have a strong
haunch his ending will be worst than Dato' Harun
Idris. The current proxy war against Mahathir
creates greater anger and the movement against him
will peak up the vast momentum which can hit with
deadly impact.
While Rosmah is winning in her game the country is
experiencing a descending atmosphere in economy,
sports, education and morality. Our currency value
shrinks, FELDA scheme programs plunges and there is
a hesitation in the real investment venture ( Najib
can always create freak investor to boost his
popularity ). Lim Chong Wei was struck with a
misfortune and we are lag behind our neighbors in
sports. The progress in sports is a mean to measure
our mental prowess and ability. We are disgraced
with our educational standard which we have been
bragging much. We are getting more selfish and
greedy and continue to lose social responsibility
that lead to the non-stop crimes and drug
distribution. It is the feng sui of 'soi seow'.
Najib should also consider whether the smile of the
people he looked at will remain the same when they
turn their back against him. Doing the road show
could create a false image. I see his safety is by
putting Rosmah at her proper place and he has to
recover the 42 billion, before doing the
restructuring. And Najib must not forget the fate of
Dato' Harun Idris, Morsi, and the family of Taksin.
03/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
LAW MAKERS ARE POOR AND WE ARE RICH LOTS |
I counted my
money this morning. I have a hundred dollars left.
It very well can last me for at least three days if
I merely spend it for food. Only yesterday I bought
a 9 watts LED bulb which cost me 27 dollars. a 9
watt bulb is enough to light my hall. I know
my electricity bill will be less than a hundred. It
was only forty The most expensive bill I have to
commit is the internet. If for only surfing I would
have cancelled it and opt for smart phone. But I
have a blog to run.
If I think of
money and saving, I have better be alone for the
rest of my life. I don't foresee I can save anymore,
or I cannot be as free, with a spouse, as I am
now . The hundred ringgit would be just a chicken
feed, reasonable for a single, not to a family man.
These few days
my breakfast is less than RM4, tomato rice with egg.
In the good old days the same menu would fill our
stomach with only 20 cents. We used to buy Ali Nasi
Lemak near the Empire, "Nasi satu telur setengah."
Now the greedy hawker has raised a cup of ice water
to two dollars.
The TM net bill
has arrived. I scratched my head a little. I decide
to wait another 20 days to settle the bill.
I remember
Shahidan Kassim, one of the law makers said, that he
has to 'ikat perut' as the salary he gets was barely
enough to buy food. Ministers were poor people. So
were the people in Putrajaya. True enough there are
a lot of people like me are richer than the people's
representatives because we have been traveling
overseas for vacation trip.
I do not smoke.
I do not go to barbers for more than 30 years. Now
that I live alone, I work on my own hair. I don't
even use mirror but use the sense of my hands to
explore it's cut. Just on these two items I can
amass enough for my trip. The 600 cc car saved much
on petrol. I didn't bother to queue up at midnight
to fill my gas tank at the hike of fuel price.
I have no big
saving other than the ASB. My pension is divided
into two portions; traveling and food. When I went
to see places I did not spend my money to buy
souvenirs back home. Most of all I never bought
anything for myself. When my wallet go really dry I
have no choice but to dig some from the ATM machine.
The cat food is about to finish.
Shahidan Kassim
has got his salary increased. But they are still
poor. We are the wealthy lots because we travel to
see places, we enjoy splendid cendol and rojak and
cucur udang at the night market.
02/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
PENSIONERS ARE NOT IGNORED |
One day a beggar mat come to your house and you give
him a dollar. He takes the money, look at you and
walked away and shouts, "Only a dollar for a rich
man like you. A stingy capitalist. Go to hell." What
would you feel ? Many a time you extend your help
without any ulterior motive but in return you become
the object of curse. This was the relationship
between Anwar and Mahathir and between Najib and
Mahathir.
I
cannot criticized the government all the time. I am
not at all being neglected as a pensioner. I have
more than enough despite having have to struggle at
the rising cost of living. Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam
Malaysia has awarded me what I was supposed to have
within a short period of time, on funeral service
donation, my wife pension fund and her medical
expenditures.
I
have responsibilities; to be grateful for the good
deeds of the government and to see the citizens
welfare are well taken care off. I cannot bite the
hand that feed me and I can't allow the other hand
to pull the trigger on other innocent men.
Many of UMNO members and Ministers are in my
position. As I observed many say nothing at the
wrong doings of their boss. So are the civil
servants and the police chief.
If
the government stop feeding me I will die much
sooner. I won't be able to take care of my health
anymore and would wish a faster death.
It
would be very bad of me to yell that God gives me
the money and the money belong the rakyat. I have
heard words from many frustrated people about the
ungrateful house maids from Indonesia who never knew
what kindness mean. And my maid just rang me up
once, never again.
But then I cannot right the wrong and defend the
sinful acts, for God is greater than men. Kindness
of mankind should also never be forgotten. If we
brought up with dirty money by dirty men, are we to
kill him for his crime ?
Religion taught us and wisdom console us. We have to
find a virtuous way to guide him to the correct
path, so that he will abandon the sinners and follow
the ways of God. It takes some great skill to
achieve it.
We
should ask ourselves that are we worst off than our
friends in other countries ? Some are very miserable
and life has been very unfair. Unfortunate people
who are badly treated may fight back. And those who
think their money has been stolen will not stay
silent.
But individual politician is not a government. He
can't claim he is and has complete immunity over
everything, and above the law of men and God. He has
to accountable to the people and the nation, over
the money he collected from the people and all the
deeds and treatment on the rakyat. He cannot use his
office to lie and deceive, or to pay in order to
retain his status quo.
JPA/PSC has been there for a very long time. The
British left the organized department to facilitate
the running of the nation. There were guidelines,
procedures and rules to be followed. It was to be
the heart of the government. We were lucky to be
ruled by the British, not the Dutch or the French.
It
was someone in JPA who have done a lot to help the
pensioners.
I
know Najib told them to take care of the pensioners
too. And I have to say thank you to Najib too.
Nevertheless Najib must recover back the 42 billion.
It is tough but he has to do it. He has to plead to
Jho Lo not to turn his back away.
We
pray.
01/06/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
AM I HAPPIER ? |
We tasted the
days when we slept with windows opened the whole
night, when we could leave our luggage in public
places unattended and left the house key to our
neighbors when we were away for a few days. We
didn't have TV and light bulbs then. Nobody in our
village earned more than 500 dollars a month. But we
were not miserable nor unhappy.
My neighbor had
a Dick Tracy, Kit Carson and Billy The Kids comic
books. I did not know where he get them from. I saw
the future which is now today through the comic book
of Dick Tracy. He was a police detective who used
spy gadget like communication using wrist watch and
vehicles like scooters.
In those days
we perceived the Chinese as wealthy people. My
mother used to tell me not to get jealous of Chinese
successes and wealth because this world belong to
them and ours is after our death. We submitted and
accepted our fate as what we were. Our Chinese
neighbors were just like our relatives. I remember
my mother cried when two of our Chinese neighbors
passed away.
I never dream
to see 21st century and never expect to see the year
2020. By God grace I am right here in a different
world. Robbing, killing and cheating seem to be the
characteristics of human culture. Houses are with
fences and some are 10 feet tall, with automatic
gates or gates with locks. These gates are closed
almost all the time.
Salaries are by
the thousands. A person with 3000 dollars of monthly
income is considered poor. The same person buys
smart phones for his children, buy a car and a
motorbike, color TV and washing machine. A person
who own 4 luxury cars including a new 400,000 plus
BMW is still helped by the government giving what we
called BRIM.
In the current
century the Malays are called robbers as they robbed
billion of dollars. They lie and deceive their own
people, acquire cheap land and sell them to
developers at a much higher price. Crimes have
become a norm, redefined to make it legal.
Courtesy has
vanished. Trust is a big gamble.
But
technological progress is amazing. The world becomes
so very small. We can shout at our friend with our
image on to a friend in the North Pole or Mecca and
carrying on live video communication with superb
clarity. We can go to Hong Kong, Beizing and Narita
within hours. I watch 3D movies from my TV nad
wash-dry my clothing during the rainy days.
In the end I
asked myself, am I happier now than 60 years ago ?
Happiness does
not lie on technology or money. It is a sentiment,
an emotional state borne by perceptibility of our
senses. Najib and Mahathir have everything they
want; the money, huge bungalows, and all the
material wealth, yet both are not at peace. They
accused each other of robbing the country's money.
Mahathir is 90 and Najib is almost my age, at a very
dawn of their ages.
Certainly I was
happier during the British time and time before
Mahathir and Najib.
One day I fear
this country will be run by a big time gangster.
31/05/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
GREEDY RELATIVES |
I
could not recall when my wife was first
hospitalized. But it was a long time ago. Among her
relatives, only her sister-in-law did care to nurse
her while in the ward for almost a month. For years
after that she would come to do some spring cleaning
and organized my house. The rest of other sisters
seldom come to visit her even years after her
bed-ridden. I never took it at heart.
After her death, when I was on the process of
transferring a little of what belonged to her, one
of her sisters told me about the land where she
stayed before, that my wife had made an announcement
her part will be given to the family in case of her
death. I did not know there is another piece of land
to be divided and her name is in the grant.
I
have never bothered about whatever which does not
belong to me, even her savings and her house which
she bought using loan from the government, which she
asked me to manage when she was bed-ridden. If her
brothers and sisters want those lands with her name
on them, just take them.
Today one of her brothers came to see me wanting to
know whether the document I submitted include one
piece of land located at a place unknown to me. "I
do not know what land and it's where about. It was
you and my son who went to procure the document and
had it filled up," said I. "That time my brother
said that the land was to be sold. So, we don't tell
you," he replied.
I
don't care about those lands and I never want them
for myself or my kids. My mind ran wild with bad
thought about her brothers and sisters. Do they
think I am a greedy person ? I told them how much
their sister has in her savings which were to be
divided among three of my kids. Her aunty was the
very curious to know the amount. I did not tell them
how much I put in my pension fund for her.
I
had briefed my kids that her ASB bonus for a year
has to be given to her maid for another 12 months
salary though she has gone back to Lombok. Another
handsome amount to be given to her sister-in-law who
has been taking care of her till her last breath.
They agreed.
I
just don't feel happy sensing the aroma of greed.
One of her sisters had help me to process her
pension funds. She did not ask for anything, and
said nothing about my wife belongings. I have some
plan to award her when the time comes.
My
wife's pension is paid to me. It is never my money.
Part will go to the local mosque and part of it will
be shared by some really needy people and religious
institutions. I travel with my own saving and my
pension.
I
have paternal blood brothers and sisters whom I
prefer to dispel due to the greed that came from
their roots. They are rich and wealthy,
inheriting a vast amount of land. I just don't feel
that I am a part of them.
I
feed cats. I believe they pray for me not to be a
wealthy and rich but not to make a starving man. By
definition I am one mm above the poverty level,
cutting corners here and there, yet enough to buy
food for them and the shillings accumulated enough
to buy tickets to see places. If I have RM20K I
still want to fly business class. If I have RM1K, I
still want to stay in a RM700 hotel. I don't smoke
nor drink nor wasting money unnecessarily. I don't
have even 1000 cc car. How much could I save ?
I
won't fight over a piece of land that does not
belong to me, not from my sweat and blood. I hope my
brother-in-law will not bring news which will delay
the on-going transfer process.
31/05/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MY
NEXT TRIP |
My next trip
will be to the Balkan region on the coming 10th.
September following the Poto Travel. I have to
inform the company that I want to make the payment
in August. My wallet is almost empty right now. If I
fail to accumulate the required amount I may have to
cancel it.
I always get a
window seat when travel in group. For a short
distant of less than 4 hours I could patiently stay
there without movement. For a long hours I usually
asked for an alley. That when I traveled alone. It
gave me more freedom of movement and going to wash
myself at the toilet with more ease.
I am anxious to
see a country that has leave a great impact to the
world; Greece. Much were heard about it during the
history class. To be there, inhaling the air of the
land and touching the earth and the stones would be
more satisfying than just by looking at the
pictures. And Bosnia is a new country for me. I had
never heard of it during my school and university
days. I just want to see it.
Even before
confirming the booking I already start to think how
to go and come back from KLIA to my home town. The
flight from KLIA will be almost midnight. I am sure
by 8 pm we will have to gather at the airport
counter. If there is a morning train, it will be my
first choice. If I have to take a bus I would go for
Transnational. The minds of most bus drivers are
almost similar to the politicians, who do not care
about the safety and welfare of the people. They
think they are on the racing track.
The package
costs about RM11K for 11 nights. That's a lot of
money, a year of saving. But money won't follow me
to the grave yard.
It is a good
time for me to go places while I am alone. Someone
suggested that I should get a spouse and take her to
see the world together. Surely it would be folly of
me to spend double the amount. Getting one means I
am locking myself up in prison, more so I would sell
away my freedom.
30/05/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
WE
ARE PART FOR THE CAUSE OF INFLATION |
We
are part for the cause of inflation. We buy despite
the high price tag as if nothing has happened.
Recently an ice water seller asked me for RM2 for a
glass which I used to pay only RM1, I gave back the
water and walked away. I remember very many years
ago when Black Market sold cinema tickets at double
the price, people passed words not to buy them.
People walked away even after they brought down the
price.
Before I buy anything at a Mamak restaurant I always
asked for the price of each item. At Sub Way, I just
walked through after looking at the price tags.
But there are goods that we have no choice but to
consume. Rice, fish, vegetables, baby milk are all
essential items. Mackerel which used to cost a
dollar per kati is now sold at RM16 per kilo.
Squids, crabs and prawns fetched up at astronomical
prices. The poor can't afford. Most people buy them
as usual.
Whenever I saw people doing shopping at the
supermarket I said to myself "Wow, these people
really have a lot of money". A small amount of
cashew nuts cost RM27 and yet people bought them.
Sport shoes are at the average of RM250 a pair.
When we still pay for the non-essential goods there
is always a tendency for the price to keep on
rising. Call it crazy or stupid when people still
buy a kilogram pf mango for RM25. It is just one
fruit. There are other sweet mangos that sold at
RM10 per three kilos. You won't die not eating
durian, mango or rambutan.
We
don't have to be schooled to study consumerism. A
lot depends on common sense and discipline and self
control.
It
is hard though but we have to admit that we are
among the culprits who drive prices up.
28/05/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
SAR - SOP FOR
COMMUNICATION
When we do
things we have to be serious about it. We do not
forget the phrases like 'tidak apa' and 'cin-cai' as
attitudes. It has to be completely erased from our
culture. In the recent Search and Rescue simulation
held at Timah Tasok Perak, the radio operator must
follow a certain SOP to adopt and it has to be set
as a written rule. Do the radio operators to follow
the amateur radio style, the CB or the pirate
mode of communication. Try to recall back which
style was exactly used ?
When I listened
I could tell quite a lot about the operator. Then I
knew we had taken the attitude of Tidak Apa or
Cin-Cai. There is no set out written SOP applied.
You may ask
whether it does matter. Yes indeed. If system is not
set up and closely followed it could lead to chaos
once a certain practice has become a habit, the
wrong has become right. That's one of the reasons
why the rental of call signs have become rife and
pirates continue to loom in great numbers.
I saw the
SEANET operators ran the recording tape while
running the net. That is a system. And in the
disaster communication and reporting forms must be
filled to record the time, sender and the receiver
and the content. These have to be filed up and keep
in archive.
In the meantime
the relevant authority must decide the mode of SOP
to be followed during the communication of SAR.
27/05/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
From http://www.un-spider.org/book/export/html/5100
Satellite
communication for disaster management
English
During this session,
presentations and discussions on
satellite communications
services, namely
satellite phones, Very Small
Aperture Terminals (VSATs), and
Broadband Global Area Networks (BGANs)
for
emergency telecommunications
were held by the service
providers and technology
developers. This publication
includes three examples of
applications that were recently
developed in this field.
IT-supported
management of mass casualty incidents:
the e-Triage project
English
Anton Donner and Javier
Mulero Chaves
DLR, Institute of
Communications and
Navigation, Weßling/Oberpfaffenhofen,
Germany
Introduction
The World Health
Organization (WHO)
gives the following
definitions of disasters and
emergencies:
“Disasters are events
that occur when significant
numbers of people are
exposed to hazards to which
they are vulnerable, with
resulting injury and loss of
life, often combined with
damage to property and
livelihoods.”
and
“Emergencies are
situations that arise out of
disasters, in which the
affected community’s ability
to cope has been
overwhelmed, and where rapid
and effective action is
required to prevent further
loss of life and livelih-ood.”
(1)
These definitions imply
that emergencies are
characterized by limited
resources in terms of
medical personnel and
infrastructure, which
underlines the importance of
mobilizing regional,
supra-regional and/or
international help to the
affected regions. Effective
deployment of this help is
crucial but only possible if
a common operational picture
between authorities,
coordination centers, and
staff working in the field
is rapidly developed.
Upon arrival on site, the
first task of a rescue team
is to look for injured
persons and to assess the
situation. For scenarios
with many (seriously)
injured persons, many
countries have foreseen a
standard procedure for the
initial scouting, known as
“triage”. According to it,
teams consisting of medical
doctors or paramedics
classify victims according
to different categories
(e.g., immediate, delayed,
minor, no chance of
survival) and attach paper
labels to the victims.
Paper-based triage and
registration systems are
still state-of-the-art,
because they are robust and
their usage is intuitive.
Nevertheless, the main
drawback is that information
about affected persons
remains among the persons
themselves, making
disaster management
considerably more difficult.
Data can be duplicated/
aggregated by manually
copying triage tags only,
which is a laborious and
time-consuming process.
Moreover, as soon as there
is more than one rescue team
(organization) involved
maintaining different lists,
or there is more than one
access to the disaster area
(which is the typical case
for wide-area disaster
events with large
geographical extension, like
earthquakes), registration
of injured/affected persons
turns out to be a logistic
problem since it can only be
performed at defined
transfer points. Besides,
experience has very often
shown that injured persons
‘bypass’ the theoretical
work flow of the rescue
chain (see Figure 1),
because passers-by or
relatives take them to the
nearest hospitals. This
effect implies an additional
problem, namely a saturation
of the geographically
nearest hospitals, which
very often do not have a
communication return channel
to coordination centers.
Figure 1: Present work
flows and operation control
for individual rescue (solid
lines and blocks) and MCI
(dashed lines and blocks).
Indeed, triage and
registration performed at
different places by
different teams maintaining
different lists are
indubitably an error-prone
approach. It can happen that
all later attempts to track
the way of single patients,
their attendants and
transport vehicles are not
very successful, although
this could be of key
interest in scenarios with
nuclear, biological or
chemical hazards. Last but
not least, relatives have a
legitimate interest in the
whereabouts of their family
members.
Communication and
dissemination of this
information in order to
provide coordination centers
with an accurate situation
overview (i.e. number of
victims, injury categories
and their location) becomes
one of the main challenges
to overcome, since the
normal medium nowadays for
exchanging information are
voice-based radio systems.
Key concept
Earlier works have
already described concepts
for and advantages of
IT-supported MCI management,
which can be applied not
only to operations in the
field, but also to
emergency rooms of
hospitals. A comprehensive
overview can be found in
(2). Some of these system
architectures include
wearable sensors with
wireless connectivity, e.g.
(3), (4); others use radio-frequency
identifications (RFIDs) in
read/write mode, e.g. (2),
(5), which means that data
is stored both in the RFID
chip and transmitted from a
handheld device to a
database. The main objective
of this article is to
describe the e Triage
approach (6), which is a
research project funded by
the German Federal Ministry
of Education and Research
and which consists of four
main elements: autonomous
communication
infrastructure, electronic
data recording, a
distributed database system
(7), and psychological
acceptance research. Outcome
of the project will be a
demonstrator system for
registration of affected
persons of an MCI. In more
details, the e-Triage system
comprises a
satellite-based
communication system with
terrestrial radio cells that
can be installed in the
field, matching end devices
with dedicated application
software for the
registration of victims, and
a distributed,
self-synchronizing database
system guaranteeing maximal
availability without a
single point of failure.
Main differences to
approaches described in
literature are:
- Sensors monitoring
vital parameters of
single patients might be
a valuable tool in
hospital environments,
but for e-Triage the
concept decision was to
apply a simple
classification scheme
only.
- Triage tags
(registration cards or
colored wristbands) are
not used as data storage
media. Instead, a triage
tag is labeled with a
unique identifier (ID)
in different formats
only (RFID, optical
matrix code, human
readable text). With the
ID the patient’s data
set can be obtained from
the database.
- A distributed
database system mapping
IDs to persons is a key
component of the
approach. Not only
hardware with optical/RFID
scanners can be used to
obtain the patient ID,
but also notebook or
desktop computers may be
used for this purpose
(with the database
software running from
external flash drives
and the ID typed in with
a normal keyboard).
- User terminals are
designed primarily for
regular rescue services,
so that in case of a
disaster they are
instantly available.
Unique electronic labels
remaining attached to
victims show advantages for
the subsequent rescue chain:
due to the contact-free
readability it is possible
to equip ambulances and
doorways of (field)
hospitals with scanners
which automatically transmit
the new location (and/or the
geographical position) of
the respective person to the
control center via various
complementary wireless
transmission links (see
below). Additionally,
patients could change their
status (e.g., from category
II “delayed” to category I
“immediate”) and this
information is fed into the
continuously updated
distributed database
allowing an operation
control to trace how the
situation evolves. On site
forces can be redeployed and
additional forces dispatched
on the fields. (Field-)
Hospitals can organize their
care capacity, call for
back-up personnel and send
feedback reports to remote
coordination centers. Last
but not least, information
regarding the whereabouts of
the victims is easily
obtainable and the entire
information base is
available for a later
evaluation since MCIs are
always subject to later
police investigation.
Data management
Figure 2: Distributed
database system (DDBS)
concept and synchronization
of DDBS instances along the
rescue chain.
Albeit the main challenge
for the e-Triage system is
aggregation of distributed
data acquired from many
terminals in the field, a
fully centralized approach
for data storage is not
desirable. Rescue operations
are temporally and spatially
distributed events. Thus, a
distributed data management
approach has to be applied
(see Figure 2). Arriving
triage and medical rescue
teams have to be able to
start working immediately
without having to wait for
the communication
infrastructure to be set up.
Furthermore, all the
collected data needs to be
forwarded to local and
remote decision makers
automatically. As an
integral part of this
architecture, network
outages or node failures
have to be anticipated.
Thus, the underlying storage
technology will be a
distributed database system
(DDBS), which has to cope
with a variety of different
communication technologies,
including terrestrial
wireless and satellite links
with different bandwidths. A
basic assumption for the
design is that, on the one
hand, the network topology
might change at any time. On
the other hand, all involved
communication links are not
reliable so that
intermittent network outages
might occur (e.g., end
devices leaving the coverage
area of the locally
installed radio cells).
Nodes of this DDBS are
installed in all mobile user
terminals (tablet-PCs), at
communication nodes (OSECEs),
and in the remote area. The
DDBS discovers joining and
leaving nodes, and
(re-)joining nodes have to
be synchronized with the
core DDBS. This design
supports even scenarios with
no network connectivity at
all: it is possible to
synchronize database nodes
by exchanging flash memory
cards.
Communication
Figure 3: e-Triage
communication suitcase
(on-site emergency
communications equipment,
OSECE) consisting of an
Inmarsat BGAN satellite
terminal, a GSM pico cell,
and a WLAN router (9).
An electronic
registration system for MCIs
requires wireless
communication services, and
since local infrastructures
may not exist at all or can
be destroyed, it is of
paramount importance that at
least a temporary
communication system is set
up. Even if functioning
networks exist, it is most
likely already saturated by
the affected persons using
their mobile phones. For
rescue missions in less
densely populated or less
developed or seriously
destroyed countries
satellite phones (e.g.,
Globalstar or Iridium) are
commonly used during the
first hours/days. The idea
of backhauling terrestrial
cellular networks via a
long-haul satellite link is
not new and commercial
products already exist. An
example is Emergesat by
Thales Alenia Space which
has been designed to fit
into a container for air
freight. Disadvantage of
this solution is that it is
rather bulky and transport
into an affected area can be
rather challenging. The
development of a more
flexible and faster
deployable solution has been
initiated in the WISECOM
project (8) and is currently
continued within e-Triage.
The basic design goal is
that the complete on-site
emergency communications
equipment (OSECE) fits into
a hand-luggage size
suitcase. The chosen
satellite technology is
Inmarsat BGAN, which is
globally available but
offers limited
bandwidth only, and the
resulting suitcase prototype
is 56cm x 35cm x 23cm,
including a battery pack for
a few hours runtime (9). The
BGAN terminal itself needs
only to be taken out of the
suitcase, and the antenna
can be easily pointed to the
satellite within a few
minutes.
A second more powerful
OSECE system is currently
under development for use in
mobile coordination centers,
which is based on a
commercial Very Small
Aperture Terminal (VSAT)
satellite system and which
offers more capacity and
wider terrestrial coverage.
Manual alignment of the
antenna reflector (diameter
ca. 1 m) is not an option
for this application, so the
decision was to use a
self-aligning antenna unit
which can be mounted on a
suitable vehicle.
The quasi-stationary
OSECE nodes include several
base-stations for different
wireless technologies:
- WLAN: Data
communication as well as
Voice over IP (VoIP)
calls can be provided by
WLAN access points. For
the registration of
affected persons WLAN is
the preferred medium
since it offers
sufficient bandwidth for
many terminals in
parallel.
- GSM/GPRS: These
well-known standards
allow voice and data
communication. GSM cell
phones are inexpensive
and available all over
the world, which in turn
means that in most cases
the access to the
temporary GSM service
has to be restricted to
avoid network
congestion. Then again,
a GSM base-station can
be configured so that
unknown phones are
booked into the network
in a listen-mode only,
which is an excellent
possibility to
distribute information
or warning messages
among the population in
the area. A major
disadvantage of GSM is
the missing group call
functionality. General
packet radio service (GPRS)
is the secondary medium
for data exchange in the
e-Triage concept.
- DECT:
Digital Enhanced
Cordless
Telecommunications (DECT)
is suitable for voice
communication in
vicinity of the local
coordination center.
- TETRA: The PMR
standard TETRA will not
be part of the final
demonstrator system, but
is currently under study
within the project.
The different terrestrial
wireless technologies
supported by an OSECE are
depicted in Figure 4. Note
that two or more OSECEs
connected via WLAN in
bridged mode can be deployed
in the field with only one
having backhaul
connectivity.
Figure 4: Fully deployed
e-Triage communication
infrastructure.
Conclusion
This paper has given a
brief description of the
architecture of the e-Triage
system and the challenge to
manage data in MCIs.
Although earlier and other
current works have studied
single components of
electronic MCI management, a
unique feature of e-Triage
is that for the first time a
coherent overall concept
consisting of mobile
devices, communication
infrastructure, and data
management is under
development. Another unique
feature is that all
developments, ranging from
hardware selection to
graphical user interface
implementation, are
accompanied by a team of
psychologists, ensuring that
all components are
self-explanatory and can be
used intuitively without
causing additional stress.
At the time of writing this
article the system is under
implementation and a series
of real-live trials will
start from January 2011.
Public safety
communication means in most
cases voice communication
(group calls) using
dedicated PMR networks,
which are designed for
closed user groups with
partly specific
confidentiality
requirements. Introducing
data communication to public
safety requires appropriate
preparation, which means
that one may not rely on the
availability of public
(commercial) terrestrial
networks only. With our
satellite-based
communication facilities
flexible data services can
be provided plus the
possibility to quickly
establish point-to-point
telephone services in case
of extreme disasters. It is
important to remark that
even without a backhaul link
all the services provided in
the disaster area are
available, so that the
rescue operation will not be
affected
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Emergency.lu
Solution
English
Marianne Donven, Luxembourg
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Benjamin Hourte, HITEC
Luxembourg S.A.
Alan Kuresevic, SES Astra
TechCom
Sven Mertes, Luxembourg Air
Rescue
Context and
motivation
January 12, 2010: Haïti
has just been hit by an
earthquake of historic
magnitude. Hours later
President René Préval is
walking through the debris
of the devastated capital
Port-au-Prince: “My palace
collapsed… I have no
connectivity for my cell
phone to even call somebody
for help…”.
January 14, 2010: Urban
Search and Rescue (USAR)
teams from Luxembourg arrive
in Port-au-Prince, together
with humanitarian workers
from France and Belgium.
January 15, 2010 (in the
morning): USAR teams, with
their dogs, are still not
able to leave the airport
and likewise hindered to
start their mission. Lacking
telecommunications, among
other requirements, are
identified as a cause of
poor coordination.
After a natural
disaster of such
proportion the first 72
hours are crucial to save
lives. This is all the more
true in an urban context.
Not to blame anybody, but
precious time was lost in
Haïti because the necessary
tools for quick and reliable
communication were not in
place in order to coordinate
and deploy USAR teams as
they arrived.
Upon the return of the
USAR teams to Luxembourg, a
debriefing session with all
participants in the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs allowed
to sketch out a first rough
draft of what is presented
here as
emergency.lu. This
initiative is intended to
bring added humanitarian
value through faster and
more reliable
telecommunication services
in the first few hours
following a natural
disaster, a segment of
emergency relief still
insufficiently covered
today. In order to provide
such a solution,
emergency.lu bundles the
already available equipment
and services from three
different providers:
- Luxembourg Air
Rescue’s (LAR) air
transport capacity to
reach any destination
worldwide within less
than 24 hours,
- HITEC Luxembourg’s
portable Nomadic
Satellite Communications
(NoSaCo®) system
providing end user
services for voice,
data and video
transmission via the
internet (for on-site
coordination between
intervention sites and
global transmission,
respectively),
- Société européenne
des satellites’s (SES)
global
satellite capacities
for satellite based
broadband internet
connectivity.
Under the coordination of
the Luxembourg Ministry of
Foreign Affairs (Directorate
for Development Cooperation
and Humanitarian Action ),
Emergency.lu has been
established as a public
private partnership with the
objective to satisfy the
telecommunication needs of
the international
humanitarian community in
the immediate aftermath of a
natural disaster.
Emergency.lu approach
The Emergency.lu approach
has been defined to propose
a set of services that can
be used without delay by
experts and rescuers
arriving on site. The lack
of coordination during the
first hours after a crisis
is a real difficulty to get
the relevant information to
prepare and coordinate the
help. The existing European
(ECHO) and International (OCHA)
structures, both defined to
organise coordination, are
already proposing the
appropriate mechanisms to
request and organise help.
The need of status
information from the crisis
site is mandatory to prepare
the relevant activities.
Communication is very
important in this first
step. The experts going on
the site are not
telecommunication engineers
but experts in needs
assessment and medical care.
They should have access to
efficient tools for
conducting situational
analysis. Here Emergency.lu
is providing an approach
creating broadband
communication and
additionally offering a set
of services that can be
directly used by the
experts. The existing TAST
and AHP modules proposed by
the UN and ECHO can use
Emergency.lu. The service
approach also includes the
end-devices that can be
directly and intuitively
used by these experts. The
equipment deployed on site,
NoSaCo (Nomadic Satellite
Communication), is creating
a Service Point of Presence
(SPoP, Figure 1). It is
composed by:
- a satellite
communication module,
easy to point even by
non telecommunication
experts thanks to a
sound and visual
pointing system,
- video cameras to
provide picture and
video streams,
- sensors to capture
and transfer
environmental
information,
- voice over IP phones
to communicate locally,
with the operation
centre or with the other
deployed SPoP,
- ruggedized computers
to manage the
information and draw
maps or needs
assessments.
The Haiti crisis has
drastically shown also that
for such a large crisis the
deployment of a central
communication point is not
enough as the help will be
spread along all the theatre
of operations. The creation
of several SPoP can help to
distribute also the
coordination and the
collection of status
information. A permanent
assessment of the rescue and
humanitarian activities can
thus be realised, receiving
constant information from
different locations of the
crisis site.
Figure 1: SPoP deployment
Receiving ample
information can be a real
add-on also for the analysis
of the situation. Indeed,
the collection of pictures,
sensor information or
video clips from the crisis
site allows different
experts, specialised in
different areas, to make
their proper analysis. For
example, water quality
specialists can receive in
their laboratory the water
analysis gained on site
through sensors.
To efficiently collect
this wealth of information,
the NoSaCo terminals are
also equipped with software
for collecting information
from the end-devices
(cameras, sensors or
computers), and storing and
sharing it with the other
SPoP or with the Service
Hosting. This distributed
architecture allows an
advanced management of the
resilience, security and
quality of service, ensuring
that the local collection
and access to information is
still possible even when no
communication to the Service
Hosting is possible. Once
the communication is
restored, synchronisation
processes are sharing
automatically the
information with other SPoP
and in the Service Hosting.
The onsite experts or the
operators do not have to
take care of the technical
elements and can focus on
their primary mission.
Technical architecture
and technologies
The technical
architecture behind the
Emergency.lu platform relies
on three separate layers
(Figure 2).
Figure 2: Architecture
layers
Similar to the OSI
layers, these layers provide
different levels of
abstraction, from the
satellite telecommunication
to the final delivery of a
service to experts and other
users.
Layer 1: Satellite
communication
The overall
telecommunication concept
relies on the creation of
three geographically
distributed hubs. With the
similarity to the OSI Layer
representation, the
Satellite communication
layer can be compared with
the physical layer. The hubs
will maximize service
availability and resource
usage efficiency by
implementing advanced
techniques such as DVB-S2 /
ACM and LDPC FEC coding on
outbound, MF-TDMA and 2D
16-State coding on inbound.
In addition, QoS management
and TCP optimization will
guarantee a good service
experience to the end user.
From a satellite
connectivity perspective,
the teleports hosting the
hubs are selected to enable
up-linking to a designated
subset of SES satellites
that will provide a true
global coverage. As
presented in Figure 3, three
hubs geographically
distributed over the world
give access to enough
satellite beams from SES
fleet in order to provide
both C and Ku
band global coverage.
Figure 3: True global
coverage (C band below – Ku
band above)
This additional
flexibility on the
frequency side will
allow tailored solutions
from a link budget point of
view. Furthermore, relying
on a single satellite
operator also brings economy
of scale and allows for easy
management of a global
satellite service through a
single interface.
From and between the
teleports, IP connectivity
will be ensured to the
Service Hosting and the
global Internet.
Furthermore, the Internet
connectivity allows the
establishment of VPN
(Virtual Private Network)
connections and dedicated
QoS (Quality of Service) for
remote crisis centers, NGO
headquarters or any other
management entities.
Security and privacy can be
provided through encryption
of the traffic. Additional
security can be considered
at application level.
On the crisis site,
NoSaCo terminals are
deployed on site to create
an IP connection with the
relevant hub. This
connection will be used to
create and deploy the
service. The technologies
implemented in the NoSaCo
terminals are obviously
highly tainted by the
technologies implemented in
the hubs. The main concept
of these terminals is to
integrate the modem into a
compact,
light weight and easy to
deploy module. The
compactness of the terminal
will allow its
transportation in small
planes not requiring a long
preparation time (Figure 4).
Figure 4: NoSaCo terminal
Layer 2: Middleware and
services implementation
From a service layer
point of view, the two
hosting
platforms are
implemented in Emergency.lu
to deliver the service to
the users. The service
implementation is however
not only relying on the
central hosting but on
distributed service
implementations (Figure 5).
Each NoSaCo terminal is
integrating a small part of
the service allowing a local
relay of the service. The
direct advantage of this
distribution is the
possibility for the service
to work whenever the
satellite connectivity is
present or not. A kind of
off-line mode is created as
a result.
Figure 5: Service
Architecture
The services supported
and provided are basically:
- Voice communication
using SIP based Voice
over IP communication:
Each Service Hosting is
implementing an IPBX
with dedicated
connection to PSTN and
offering a link to small
IPBX implemented into
the NoSaCo terminals.
- Camera Service:
Collection and sharing
of imagery and video
streams provided by the
included cameras or via
manual upload.
- Map Service:
Repository of tactical
maps that can be
accessed and drawn by
different frontend
applications.
- Sensor Service:
Collecting, analysing
(based on thresholds),
storing, and sharing
sensor data. Typical
sensor information can
be gas and pollution
concentration, humidity
or
temperature. This
service is also managing
the dynamic localisation
of entities provided
currently by GPS.
- The Directory
Service is managing the
contact information that
is used for voice
communication as well as
an inventory of devices
or components and their
logical organisation.
- The Management
Service is finally the
back end component that
is taking care of
tracking the other
middleware nodes, the
auto-configuration and
the security of the
information.
To ensure a convenient
user experience, all
services are using a
self-discovery concept via
IP multicast mechanisms and
are directly managing their
communication and
synchronisation without any
intervention from the users.
Layer 3: End devices and
services access
To provide an intuitive
access to the services, the
NoSaCo terminals include a
set of equipment that is
used to collect information
(Video cameras, sensors) or
to directly interact with
the services (Voice over IP
phones, ruggedized
computers). These
end-devices are
pre-configured to work with
the NoSaCo terminal and, as
a result, ready to operate
in any place.
As stated before, the
terminal has been
implemented in order to
facilitate its
transportation and make its
installation as simple as
possible to anyone with a
minimum amount of technical
knowledge and skills. The
use of the service is made
as convenient as this, using
intuitive, specifically
designed applications.
For the usage on the
crisis site, the ruggedized
computers are equipped with
a tactical application that
is offering an access to the
different services via a
touch screen interface
(Figure 6). This interface
is using the gesture
recognition, now popular in
the mobile areas and
specifically interesting for
ergonomics. Touch screen
interfaces are facilitating
the handling of the
applications as no pointing
devices like mouse or
trackball are required.
Figure 6: Tactical client
Interface
On the other hand, in the
crisis center or
headquarters, a web portal
can be used as user
interface (Figure 7). The
portal provides access to
the same services (Voice,
Video, Sensor, Maps and
Directory). Relying on Web
2.0 technologies, it can be
accessed from different
places in the world like in
laboratories or crisis rooms
in different capitals.
Figure 7: Portal
Screenshot
Deployment scenarios and
conclusion
As mentioned before, the
Emergency.lu approach has
been designed with the
intention to improve the
situation on two main
levels: First, reduce the
duration of transport of the
very first teams to any
major crisis
scene and second,
provide adequate
communication means right
from the beginning.
To meet these objectives,
the consortium has decided
to include air
transportation in the
solution. Through a fleet of
LearJet’s, ready to leave
Luxembourg within the hour,
and with operational and
medical staff on a 24 hours
a day duty schedule on the
airport, Luxembourg Air
Ambulance (LAA) can ensure
the required reactivity.
Although LAA has over 20
years experience in
supporting disaster relief
and humanitarian missions
with fixed wing and rotor
wing aircrafts as well as
medical teams, this more
global approach requires an
impeccable planning
involving all the partners.
At the airport, a controlled
storage is kept constituted
by NoSaCo units, food and
beverage to guarantee
autonomy of the team for 15
days, basic medical supplies
for the team and required
logistic equipment (i.e.
tents, generator).
Frequent trainings,
exercises and pre-emptive
maintenance are organised to
maintain the Emergency.lu
platform on a ready to
operate status.
Besides the technical
readiness, the qualification
of personnel involved in
these rescue missions is
crucial. Procedures have
been designed to optimize
the collaboration between
the different actors, and
training is recurrently
organised. For an optimal
effectiveness of the team,
the pilots have been trained
to install and operate the
NoSaCo installation on site.
They are able to give
instructions to the local
teams and function as
on-site support. All team
members have received in
depth crisis management
education and have
experience in disaster
relief missions.
The emergency.lu
intervention team is
completed by one or more
medical staff , with the
primary objective to ensure
the medical support for the
crew and to support the
medical assessment of the
situation.
Finally, in best case,
the unit is completed with
one or more experts for
needs assessment assigned by
international organisations,
i.e. UN (OCHA) or EU
(ECHO/MIC). Through the
network of partner operators
in Europe, LAA can rapidly
transport these experts from
within Europe not to delay
the departure of the
mission.
It is very important to
point out that the
Emergency.lu solution is not
intending to replace any
existing mechanism or
intervention teams, but that
it should be seen as a
valuable and helpful
support. This service is
planned to be offered to all
international and national
organisations. It has to be
clearly stated that the
solution will work hand in
hand with known UN forces.
Once the system is
deployed, it can be decided
either to dissolve the unit
and return to Luxembourg
with the equipments, or one
can consider building a more
permanent communication
infrastructure, potentially
through an increased amount
of NoSaCo units. This last
option considers that the
effort to support the
on-site population in the
first hours can also be
maintained to assist in the
reconstruction of local
infrastructures.
PLATON -
Trusted Unified Communication &
Collaboration (UCC) in health or
disaster projects
English
Ingo Liedtke, T-Systems
International GmbH, PDC
Engineering, Germany
Introduction
Flooding in Benin,
Earthquake in Haiti,
Cyclone Mick swept over
Fiji's main island:
humanitarian aid and
emergency relief teams
are more and more in need of
a structured, secure
information flow through all
phases of the
disaster management
cycle. Additionally, there
has to be a solution to
deliver limited specialist
resources with a virtual
worldwide support. T-Systems
PLATON services have a
suitable answer.
Disaster management in
the future – 5C
“Collaboration”
As the latest history has
already shown: Disasters are
increasing. Due to that more
and more qualified
specialist resources are
required on site as well as
in project coordination. In
many health and disaster
projects uncoordinated
processes are posing severe
problems. Collaboration
across different
international institutions
and local teams does not
work well. The activities
are very often lacking in
transparency, resulting in
decreased efficiency of
international team work.
That means an unnecessary
increase in the need for
resources and thus higher
costs per saved life . Or,
even worse, more time to the
real rescue is elapsing.
PLATON Services offer
support with a virtual
specialist resource. This
means that the information
flow is structured,
transparent and traceable if
needed to all participants
anytime and anywhere. The
virtual “Task Force
Disaster“ team can
effectively support the
local team via video, voice,
chat and
data.
As the Greek philosopher
Platon has astutely
observed, “the beginning is
the most important part of
the work”.
The PLATON system
With PLATON (PLATform for
Orchestrated Networks),
T-Systems offers an
Internet-based platform for
collaboration cloud
services, including all
desired functionalities at
the highest security level
for worldwide teamwork in
real-time. Experts can
discuss and work together on
e.g. an urgent project issue
or even on sensitive patient
data from the health care
field. Participants
collaborate in a closed
circle absolutely untroubled
in virtually tap-proof
project rooms installed
separately for every single
project through secure
interfaces where
intellectual property and
data integrity are protected
by precisely defined access
rights.
Figure 1: PLATON
„virtual“ project room
The advantage of the
self-sustaining and secure
platform is that the
participants in
across-company project teams
do not have to open their IT
systems to each other.
Client software with
2-factor authentication on a
USB stick with a smart card
and a PIN assures secure
access of the team members
from any place in the world
that can be connected to the
Internet. All documents,
project plans etc. are up to
date and seamlessly
documented at all times and
available for
across-continent and
across-company project work.
Due to integrated
function of Unified
Communication and
Collaboration (UCC), PLATON
users can access all means
of communication via their
PLATON desktop client, i.e.
- E-mail,
-
presence-information,
- data-sharing,
- phone,
- video etc.
to ensure efficient
coordination and focused
team work.
PLATON automatically
updates participants on the
current work situation.
Ideas, plans and changes can
be presented, discussed,
modified or discarded
without any delay.
Manufacturers and
suppliers can communicate
necessary product changes
instantly, thus speeding up
implementation. The virtual
meeting room unites team
members from different
companies and locations in a
short time of about 48 h to
create real value added
networks.
PLATON protects
intellectual property and
ensures efficient
collaboration. PLATON
project teams can grow
dynamically and change on
demand to best suit
real-time requirements. This
means reduced expenditure of
time and resources. The
easier it is to quickly
integrate different
specialists to deal with new
project developments, the
better the final result.
Fewer mistakes mean fewer
corrections, less waste,
less production downtime and
fewer product recalls.
T-Systems is prepared to
modify the PLATON meeting
room to suit individual
needs and expert coaches are
available upon request.
PLATON – Online surgery
for health care and disaster
relief
PLATON brings the
physician specialist
competence to the patient
and not vice versa.
Figure 2: PLATON Health
Client “physicians
conference - online surgery”
As an example the
physician and the patient
“meet” each other in a
secured, virtual surgery for
a video conference. The
phyisician takes his data
and application and can
online discuss the
laboratory values, therapy
plan modification or
X-ray photograph with
the patient. The
“online-surgery” can be
opened for another medical
specialist, if a second
opinion is needed. They can
discuss without media
discontinuity and the data
does not leave the
physician’s PC. The
specialist only sees the
display of the data. The
physicians’ and specialists’
competences can be
virtualized and provided in
any location, thus easing
the communication and saving
time and money. Of course
the online surgery cannot
replace the real surgery,
but is in many cases faster
and more efficient as usual
low-up appointment for a
discussion about e.g.
laboratory data.
In particular this
applies to local disaster
situations where specialists
are not available on site.
With the PLATON services
T-Systems can supply a
virtual competence center
anywhere, anytime, as soon
as the internet connection
is available on the ground.
PLATON – A new
collaborative working
model
In a disaster situation
the human resources are very
likely to be limited and
helpful information has to
be up-to-date at any
location. The PLATON working
model supplies the
information flow with its
structure. Larger data will
be sent by an asynchronous
process, but is tracked and
version-controlled by PLATON.
If rapid information is
needed, the project members
will discuss it via chat in
the secure project room with
the team members.
Figure 3: New
Collaborative working model
- all information flows are
encrypted
If certified or
uncertified information from
the source “crowd” has to be
integrated, PLATON can react
in a flexible way. As an
idea the crowd information
will be integrated and
structured for example by a
data coordinator. This will
enhance the quality of
information and so the
quality of help.
Contact
Ingo Liedtke
T-Systems International GmbH
Systems Integration
Project Delivery Center
Engineering
Senior Sales Consultant
trusted UCC/PLM
+49 711 972 - 43686
(Tel.)
+49 18053344918366 (eFAX)
+49 160 820 97 43 (Mobil)
E-Mail:
ingo.liedtke
[at] t-systems.com
Internet:
http://www.t-systems.com
https://servicenet.t-systems.de/plm
https://servicenet.t-systems.de/platon
26/05/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
GST
- NAJIB BLAMED BUSINESSMEN |
I
have always known that the people and the
businessmen would be blamed on the GST issue. "Who
ask you to eat out instead of doing your own cooking
? You should boycott the shops that raise the
prices...' And you can imagine what else Najib and
Maslan would response to the increased price.
GST created price increase as it pushes the cost of
production and the cost of raw materials. By the
time a production tools arrived into your hand, it
had undergone several GST's charges.
Najib should not ask the people to enforce the rules
of profiteering. He knows that the government cannot
persecute all the businessmen whom he threw the
blame on. It is the government who should enforce
the law, not the rakyat. We know in the court
proceedings factors on production and material costs
will be brought up.
The rakyat must not be duped by another lie.
Many shops stock their purchases. They have paid
taxes for those commodities. The government knows
this too. It cannot take action unless the
government reimburse the amount back to the
companies. Instead the government is trying to make
the people totally blame the business community.
We
cannot deny of the existence of the greedy people.
With or without GST they will push the price up. The
Malay hawkers are now selling a cup of drink for
RM2, formerly RM1. Parking lot at one shopping
complex was raised by 100%, also run by a Malay
company. Greedy businessmen come from all races.
24/05/2015 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE
SPOILS OF HAM RADIO |
Once ham radio
was associated with greatness, a hobby of the wise
and great people who never abuse it to make it look
bad. The process of becoming a ham itself contains
some form of controls in itself. It was not easy to
qualify as a ham radio operator and the authority
closely monitored the transmissions.
Again today I
traced a call sign being used by someone other than
the owner. I recognize the owner's voice and style
of conveying messages. And with a discussion with
another ham friend, he too heard a call sign being
used, which may come from the non-owner. It is
assumed there are many others are using calls
belonging to their friends.
On UHF there
are call signs using numbers like 01, 44 etc. The
mode and lingo used are just like hams of class B.
It is a viral in the whole country. They love the
lingo so much that even the RELA follow it. RELA is
using the equipment for communication just like the
fellow amateurs.
When I saw
people with walkie-talkies in the coffee shops, I
never bother to ask them who they were. Strangely
enough at several places they called by my call sign
and gave theirs. Only then I would chat with them.
Mobile stations
without any identification stuck on their vehicles
created a suspense. They could be hams or otherwise.
If it is
happening on 2 meters it could very well happen on
HF bands. I don't believe the class A licensees will
loan their ID to their friends but other unknown
people may be stealing it for DX work.
The work to
enhance ham radio ethics is not ours. It is the
authority. What else are we to say about it ? Just
wait for the spoils of ham radio is getting bigger
and larger.
24/05/2015
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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