Saturday, 21 June 2014

Khaled's claims of innocence and my reply

I took the following from the Facebook page of Johor Menteri Besar DS Mohd Khaled Nordin. I believe that his media handlers had requested for the newspapers to publish it today. Honestly, I doubt that Khaled had written it himself. 
If I were to bet, I would place my wager on the piece actually being written by his political secretary who is also the Umno division chief of Lim Kit Siang's jajahan takluk.

Well, never mind.
My comments are in blue.




Biar sejarah tentukan Menteri Besar Johor ini mampu beri manfaat untuk rakyat atau tidak- Mohamed Khaled Nordin
You want to wait until Johor is history for you to be judged? Like the history of Malacca Sultanate, is it?

Sebagai seorang Menteri Besar, saya sangat menghormati Duli Yang Maha Mulia Sultan Ibrahim Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar. Tuanku adalah seorang yang sangat mengambil berat akan hal ehwal Kerajaan Negeri dan juga negeri Johor tetapi baginda tidak pernah mencampuri urusan pentadbiran negeri sejak saya menjadi Menteri Besar. Tuduhan yang mengatakan Tuanku Sultan mencampuri urusan pentadbiran Kerajaan Negeri adalah tidak benar sama sekali.Tidak ada apa yang perlu dikhuatirkan kerana Sultan tahu dan memahami peranannya selaku pemerintah negeri, tidak timbul soal campur tangan baginda dalam hal ehwal pentadbiran negeri.
Do you think those JCS people are keeping their mouth shut, Khaled? Do you think those low ranking officers at the government agencies are blind and do not see what is going on? Everyone in Johor knows what is going on. They just don't say anything because they were either scared or just don't give a crap, ok. I suggest you go and ask the Orang Asli Seletar at Kampung Bakar Batu on the opposite side of Danga Bay, whether they know what are going on. Those people are more honest than the average Johoreans. I believe they also have heard something about this matter.

Sebagai Menteri Besar, saya berperanan untuk memberi nasihat kepada baginda dan baginda menghormati saya sebagai pentadbir Kerajaan Negeri. Malah, saya juga sentiasa taat dan setia kepada Tuanku sebagai Sultan bagi negeri Johor dan jajahan takluknya.
Please list down three instances when you had directly advised Tuanku Sultan ever since you become the MB over a year ago. Got or not?

Saya juga tahu ada pihak yang melemparkan tuduhan kononnya saya tidak berupaya untuk 'menasihati' dan 'mengawal' Tuanku Sultan terutamanya dalam soal pentadbiran tanah. Ini tidak benar.Tugas saya bukanlah untuk mengawal selia aktiviti Sultan tetapi untuk memberi nasihat kepada baginda.
So, on the matter of land, you do advise Tuanku is it?  Okay, please then tell Johoreans what was your advise when Tuanku wanted to sell that parcels of land in Nusajaya to the Chinese company for over RM4 billion. Is that State land or Tuanku's own land? Do you know how damaging that land deal was to Tuanku's reputation? There are other examples, but let me stop at that.

Ingin saya tegaskan di sini bahawa, biarlah sejarah yang menentukan sama ada menteri besar yang dikatakan tidak dapat menasihati Tuanku ini boleh membawa manfaat kepada rakyat di negeri Johor atau tidak.
Let's not talk about history, ok. Let's talk about what you had done for Johoreans over the past one year since you become MB. Anything significant? Ada tak?

Sebagai pemimpin yang dipilih oleh rakyat tidak ada apa yang harus saya bimbangkan selagi saya tidak melakukan sesuatu yang membawa kemudaratan kepada rakyat negeri Johor. 
Ya, the problem is that you had done exactly nothing. That's harmful to Johoreans. 


Kalau hubungan tidak baik, MB hendak bertemu dengan Sultan pun akan menjadi masalah.Hubungan dengan Sultan Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar menjadi asas kepada saya untuk memberi nasihat tanpa rasa gentar atau pilih kasih.
Okay Khaled, how many times have you said NO to Tuanku since you became MB? Once, twice, thrice?

Mengenai Lembaga Perumahan dan Hartanah Johor (LPHJ), saya tidak menafikan bahawa Tuanku Sultan kecewa dengan persepsi negatif yang dilemparkan kepada baginda berhubung isu yang melibatkan enakmen tersebut.
What do you expect Khaled? Everyone to keep quiet about it? It's your duty to protect Tuanku from being ridiculed and you had failed.

Segala persepsi serta tuduhan yang mendakwa bahawa enakmen itu bercanggah dengan prinsip Raja Berpelembagaan adalah tidak tepat kerana setiap apa yang terkandung di dalam deraf asal pindaan ke atas enakmen tersebut adalah selari dengan Undang-Undang Tubuh Negeri Johor 1895. Harus diingat, Johor adalah negeri pelopor yang mengamalkan sistem Raja Berpelembagaan di negara ini.Kesultanan Johor telah sedia wujud sejak tahun 1885 lagi. Raja memainkan peranan check and balance di dalam sebuah negara
If the initial draft of the enactment was in accordance with the Constitution, then why do you need to go and amend it before tabling it at the State assembly? And come on la Khaled, don't go running around and hide behind old history as basis that what you did with the enactment was right. Most people don't give a shit about it, ok.

Enakmen LPHJ adalah sama sepertimana semasa kita hendak menubuhkan Johor Corporation (JCorp) dahulu. Sedikit pun tidak berubah. Sama juga sepertimana ketika saya mengetuai Kementerian Pembangunan Usahawan dan Koperasi dahulu, kita hendak menubuhkan Suruhanjaya Koperasi Malaysia, pelantikan anggota lembaga, pengerusi, ketua eksekutif semuanya mestilah dilakukan atas perkenan Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong. Di negeri, Sultan yang memainkan peranan tersebut.
What's wrong with you Khaled. JCorp is a private entity while the board would be part of the Johor's executive branch. It's a totally different thing. In JCorp case, it doesn't involve the direct executive power of the State, but that's not the case with the board. You understand that or not? Or are you trying to fool the orang kampung?

Tapi oleh kerana enakmen LPHJ ini baru dan jarang-jarang dilakukan di peringkat negeri, orang sangka, kita hendak masukkan elemen baru yang memberi kuasa tertentu kepada Sultan sedangkan ia adalah sama sepertimana sebelum ini dan sama juga di peringkat persekutuan yang memberi kuasa-kuasa tertentu kepada Yang di-Pertuan Agong. Sudah semestinya apa sahaja kuasa yang diberikan kepada YDPA ia selari dengan peruntukkan di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan. Sama jugalah di peringkat negeri, kuasa Tuanku Sultan adalah tertakluk kepada Undang-Undang Tubuh Kerajaan Negeri.
Again, if nothing was wrong with it, why you need to make changes to the initial draft in the final hours before its tabling? Why not just tabled it as it is? Just ignore la all those complaints. Yes, that includes the complaints on this matter by former PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Khaled, do you think Dr Mahathir is a fool for opposing the enactment?

Kepada anak Johor, saya seru supaya kita mengukuhkan ikatan muafakat menghadapi cabaran di negeri Johor dan tidak terpengaruh dengan hasutan dan cubaan untuk mencemar Institusi Diraja Johor.
Siapa yang nak cemar institusi Diraja Johor, Khaled? Orang macam aku ni ke atau orang yang berselindung dibelakang institusi Diraja nak mengaut untung dan laba? Go and ask your boys how rich they are now after just a year being the special officers of the Johor MB. Go to the Kota Iskandar parking lot and check out what cars they were driving. You want me to name your special officer who wears a Rolex watch?

Muafakat membawa Berkat
Memang muafakat membawa berkat, tapi jangan sampai muafakat rompak harta negeri sudah lah.


Allah Berkati Johor
Amen

69 comments:

  1. fuiyoo...so ganas....so garang....so powerful reply....

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    1. jahanam johor..UMNO will perish from johor because of the imbecile Khalid Nordin..orang melayu boleh start pindah..pi dok hutan..khalid will be remembered as the bastard responsible for 'bastardizing' the malays in Johor

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  2. Sesuatu yg cik annie kena tahu ialah kalaulah khaled ini seseorang atau sebagai mb yg tidak jujur, masakan anak mahathir datang dan belajar sesuatu darinya baru-baru ini untuk majukan kedah! !!

    Kemungkinan besar juga, apa yg berlaku di putrajaya, sdg berlaku di johor - punahsihat berkomisi.

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    1. Adakah dalam setahun MB Khaled jadi MB Johor sudah banyak yang dia bangunakan Johor?

      Apa pun pembangunan hebat yang terjadi di Johor dan ada yang hendak dipelajari MB Kedah adalah hasil penah lelah pemimpin pemimpin yang dulu!

      Rom tidak dibina dalam setahun!

      Tetapi untuk memusnahkan apa yang telah dibina sekelip mata pun boleh terjadi!

      Tahniah Annie, teruskan pembongkaran kepincangan di Johor. Kita rakyat tahu apa yang perlu dilakukan dalam PRU ke 14.!

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    2. Mukriz pi johor bukan untuk pelajari apa-apa pun cuma mereka buat mou untuk mengujudkan kerja-kerja usahasama antara kedah johor .

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  3. I am 100 percent behind you Annie I am a proud Malay nationalist and will be one until I die, bangsa Melayu sekarang nampak nya sempot dan sempit pemikiran untuk berfikir sadikit. In some way I like his late father who was a bit of a Malay nationalist from the royal family.
    BTW is MB Khaled a married man?

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    1. But still can have more wives according to religion

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    2. Married not sure. But he has a son who was an associate at Zico. Now he is a partner in a small Malay law firm.

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    3. He used to be very close with a gay couple by the name of Robert Lim and LW Kin.

      Wanna Be Kin by LW Kin Presiden Imuone Diamond Club

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RiMxheaXUM

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    4. So interested in who? Father or son or father and son'

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  4. Wow!!! Totally speechless.

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    1. We can see but can ypu be writeless?

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  5. I think in LOGIC one would say that this MB guy is "hedging" the issues to win his argument - it certainly smells of ulterior motives. Why can't he state clearly "exactly how" his amendments to the Lembaga Perumahan dan Hartanah Johor (LPHJ) will improve the administration of Johor's housing and real estate management towards the common weal of ordinary working Johoreans.

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  6. Annie,

    1. Bad leader begets bad followers!

    2. ONLY a bad leader like DSN would reward a bad follower like Khaled ( and to think that this guy is a faggot?!)

    3. All this nonsense would stop ONLY when UMNO is defeated. They think that they are gods now!!!

    4. For what is worth, I live in an opposition state, and I am happy. I see and enjoy improvement in the infrastructure and services provided. Sure, those fellows are as corrupted as UMNO/BN fellows, but at least, they give us some crumbs as opposed to the former that took even our crumbs away and left us to die!!!

    5. IT IS TIME TO CHANGE THE BN GOVERNMENT WITH ANOTHER GOVERNMENT, AND LET US KICK THESE CORRUPTED POLITICIANS AND THEIR ILK TO KINGDOM COME!!!

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    1. Have you ever heard of any Pakatan blogger criticising their leaders such as Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng the way I am criticising Khaled? I am doing this so that BN will clean up their act and not let Johor fell to Pakatan which wil among other stifle all dissent ala-DAP.

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    2. Re. I see and enjoy improvement in the infrastructure and services provided

      You mean like pot holes and water problem in Selangor, and the Kampung Buah Pala, Kampung Mutiara debacle and not to forget the Malay small traders being systematically discriminated in Pulau Pinang?

      Or an increase in Electricity and water tariff in Pulau Pinang and increase in quit rent and business license in Selangor?

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    3. In Najib's eye, doesn't matter whether Khaled is a good leader or a lousy one, as long as he served his purpose well. we cannot swim into Najib's heart to see how honest he is for the good of the people but from his action we can see that at best incompetent to lead the ummah.

      Rakyat should be aware of this and choose wisely come GE14,

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    4. You are the next dyana. Your cowok is from dap and you do just like dap. Who in dumno help you? Ibrahim, bung, noordin, perkasa, isma?

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    5. Re. Have you ever heard of any Pakatan blogger criticising their leaders

      They are humble and subservient servants to their dear leader "hatta minum air lombong pun tak apa".

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    6. 1. Penang ever escalating traffic problem;

      2. 8 rivers in Penang are classified as highly polluted where 4 are classified as "DEAD";

      3. The ever escalating property price in Penang with no affordable home to the right;

      4. 20 sen plastic bag charge/tax introduced but no audit has been done and nobody knows whether they money has gone to or rather to whose pocket;

      5. RM2 bed tax for tourist? This is a very creative and innovative accounting practice, with the flourishing "Prostitution" activity and with influx of China dolls in Penang, the RM2 bed tax can be collected by hour;

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    7. Re. ONLY a bad leader like DSN would reward a bad follower like Khaled ( and to think that this guy is a faggot?!)

      Lo and behold, install the Pakatan GOMEN, they will appoint their wife, son, daughter in the cabinet, as it is now there are the cult Trinity of Anwar-Azizah-Izzah, Lim Kit Siang and Sons and the late Karpal and Sons.

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    8. Hello anon 9.03 dont talk shit la , there nothing being done or any imporvement in opposition state ada pun dia orang naik gaji dan elaun masingx2 adalah . di penang tidak ada satu yang membanggakan , hari-hari buat kondo mewah , halau penduduk kawasan melayu ,naik kadar sewa dan tarif air menyusahkan penduduk cuma orang bodoh dan rasis saja yang suka macam ni punya kerajaan . they also corrupted but in another way round . i hope you understand what i mean .

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    9. Dear Anon

      Improvement in infrastructure & service provided in opposition state?

      You can't be talking about Kelantan right? That backward state trying to introduce an archaic criminal law?

      Or are you talking about Penang where jams aplenty & the hills are raped to fill the pockets of developers? I don't think much about their service improvement when the CM's car is photographed parking to a no parking sign. The enforcement must need new glasses, one would assume.

      If it is Sean gor you're referring to, I thought water was aplenty there until 2019? And I do wonder why workshops are doing roaring business with cars needing to change their absorbers frequently. And the rubbish piling up alongside the increasing rodent population is an indication how the state is thriving post BN rule.

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    10. Anon 09:03 must be dreaming or he/she is high on drugs! Which PR States are you talking about? There are only 3 and none is a role model for a well-managed state.

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    11. All agreed, pr states are no role.model. This Annie busing and why question umno which is far better than pr. Annie must be Jane bone dap undercover.

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  7. Go Annie go ..

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  8. "Orang macam aku ni ke atau orang yang berselindung dibelakang institusi Diraja nak mengaut untung dan laba?"

    IMUONE Anyone?

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    1. Apa ada pada IMUONE dengan Khaled Nordin?

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    2. Legalitas Perusahaan

      https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.68190103696.69704.67839953696&type=3

      http://tasman.webs.com/profile.htm

      P.S

      Semua info, berkenaan di Malaysia telah dipadamkan, hanya yang terdapat di Indonesia saia yang masih ada. Saya rasa info ini juga akan dipadamkan tidak lama lagi.

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  9. I hope MB or his kuncu-kuncu read this

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  10. Now I see the real annie... so far so impressive and quite focus. You always mention sickness....its just an illusion anyway. Get the right Dr, you hit the road again.

    And this article about Khalid and Johor, Johoreans - the unexplainable sympton of sickness.Like MERS... who do you think create it ?

    Kudos Annie. Keep it up. Listen to the song - lady marmalade...

    Bitter always associate with the good medicine

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    1. Real Annie, she man with profound interest in footy and hitting aeroplanes. Any mothers, sisters, grandmothers do it?

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  11. Annie bloger upahan jer. Meraunglah sekuat hati mu, namun engkau bukan yang pegang jawatan MB.

    Apa yang you boleh buat? Nak lawan MB?

    You siapa? Sedar lah sikit.

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    1. Anon 16:04,

      Annie rakyat biasa yang mempinyai hak untuk mengundi. Beliau juga penulis blog yang berpengaruh juga.

      Annie boleh mempengaruhi pembacanya termasuk pengundi kawasan MB Johor.

      Apa macam kalau pengundi tidak mengundi MB Johor dalam PRU 14.

      Bolehkah si Khalid Nordin ini terus jadi MB Johor.

      Nampaknya ahli ahli politik bernama Khalid ini ada masalah kronik dalam politik!

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    2. Macam tu lah juga Khir Toyo rasa bila dia berkuasa di Selangor sebagai Menteri Besar Selangor dulu. Jangan lupa "Langit tidak selalu cerah".

      Sedang Kahlid Nordin dan kuncu-kuncunya sibuk mengaut laba, ahli pembangkang pula sibuk membuat pendaftaran pengundi baru di Johor Bahru. Taktik yang sama digunakan oleh Hannah Yeoh dan Nuruk Izzah. Kalau tak silap selepas saja PRU!13, Ahli Parlimen atau ADUN Senai DAP dah mula bawa kerusi meja buat daftar pemilih baru bagi mengukuhkan kedudukan beliau di Senai pada PRU14.

      Bye Bye Kahlid Nordin.

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  12. How ordinary Singaporeans view the issue ....

    http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/06/21/mahathir-thwarts-sultan%E2%80%99s-power-grab/

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  13. Really, Annie?

    Where were you when all the other MBs were in power?

    How much did each of them do for the Johor economy?

    From August 31, 1957, what was the Alliance/BN governments' vision for Johor?

    Surely it was not for Johor to be a maquiladora adjunct to Singapore, a "Shenzen" to Singapore's Hong Kong or an inconsequential part of the Sijori triangle?

    Have successive Johor state governments ever run a budget surplus?

    Has Johor Corp and the other investment arms of the state government brought in high-end investments and good jobs for Johoreans?

    Have they positioned Johor Bahru into a modern dynamic metropolis with efficient infrastructure, public services and public transport system?

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  14. I dont understand why Khalid Nordin should lie to the public, especially Johor's. He is the Chairman of Kumpulan Prasarana Rakyat Johor (KPRJ). Yet someone higher up is controlling the Company. He cant even control the CEO Datuk Moy, who had claimed that his monthly remuneration is being determined by the Sultan.

    Forest City is owned by Country Garden and supposedly KPRJ. It will be managed by Country Garden Pacific View Sdn Bhd (CGPV). 34% of CGPV is owned by the Sultan under Esplanade Danga 88 Sdn Bhd. KPRJ has no share in CGPV. CEO of KPRJ reports to the Sultan not MB Khaled Nordin.

    Land for the Forest City is owned by a dummy company owned by the Sultan's crony. For the use of KPRJ's name, KPRJ was paid RM300 millions after title issued. The title is freehold. Daeng Malek is board member of CGPV.

    Khalid Nordin, janganlah nak tipu orang Johor. Kakitangan Kerajaan dan Johor's GLCs telah hebahkan kesemua perbuatan kepetualangan yang berlaku kepada masyarakat Melayu baik di bandar atau di kampung.

    Mana ada perasaan untuk membela orang Melayu. Bangkit Melayu Johor.

    Jika tidak ada tindakan drastic, kita runtuhkan Kerajaan Barisan Nasional.

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    1. Real Malay dilemna. Undi UMNO kena tipu. Bernaung di bawah raja kena tipu jugak. Kalau ke PAS, lagi tipu, malah duit dalam poket kena keluar atas nama infak. Kalau ikut PKR, akibat bontot melecet. Kita undi DAP lah, at least depa terang-terang tipu.

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    2. He lied? Why umno and bloggers talk talk and dont implement sharia laws to punish liars. All also lie

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    3. Singapura satu ketika dulu merupakan tanah jajahan Johor. Dah fully jadi hak milik orang asing. Ianya tidak akan menjadi milik kita lagi. Angkara siapakah yang menyebabkan ianya jatuh ke tangan pihak asing? Sejarah mungkin berulang.

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  15. TQ Annie. A very critical postings.

    I think PM is not backing Khaled on the issue. TS Muhyiddin got the backup from Tun M when he was handling the palace. I pity MB Johor… He can't handle the palace and unless PM do something about it. Hope that it is not too late.

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  16. As a Johorean , I am with Annie on this . Being quiet does'nt mean we are happy or unaware of what is going on.
    R&F @ Tanjung Puteri , Country Garden's @ Dangga Bay , Peter Lim's Vantage Ba....is just among the list..
    But do the the Royalty, the MB and his people care for Johore? They are just taking cue from the Khazanah people@Iskandar Development .Who are the Qingzao Zhaoyan and other deals ..?
    What we are seeing is a mad scramble from greedy people in power to enrich themselves in whatever way.
    Pak Lah's 4th floor corridor, Nur Yaacob , Azman Mokhtar started it and now everybody's into it..
    Hilang semua pedoman . NAUZUBILLAH !!
    And someone mentioned PR..tak payah..I still enjoy fresh water not from lombong...hearing loud speakered azan wihout restriction.
    and yes...Friday holiday to attend prayers with ease...SYUKUR!!
    wak

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  17. Now they are talking about turning Johor Bahru into the new Shenzen. What? Another chinese prostitution heaven. Mintak jauhkan.

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    1. Be careful, brudder.

      The same China is "aksi besar" in the South China Sea.

      Mana Uncle Sam? Buat diam-diam sahaja!

      So, please don't make jokes about Shenzen! JB hasn't got much to be proud about, anyway, seeing as how Johoreans have still got to "cari makan" in Singapore.

      Where's the dignity when 1 Singapore Dollar is worth 2.5+ Ringgit, eh?

      Iskandar Malaysia's raison d'etre seems to be to "complement" Singapore. Is there real skills transfer to Johoreans from all the investments pooling into Iskandar? Can educated and talented Johoreans make a good life and future for themselves in Iskandar Malaysia & the rest of Johor, without having to labour overseas?

      Like they say, talk is cheap. Mouthing off in blogs and in the social media is easy-peasy. But where are the solutions to the problems?

      Ms Annie can emote from her pulpit. But, like I asked earlier, what have the MBs in Johor done for the development of the state from the time of Merdeka?

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    2. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

      Ini gurindam Raja Ali Haji pasal yang keempat:

      Hati kerajaan di dalam tubuh, jikalau zalim segala anggota pun roboh.
      Apabila dengki sudah bertanah,
      datanglah daripadanya beberapa anak panah.
      Mengumpat dan memuji hendaklah pikir, di situlah banyak orang yang tergelincir.
      Pekerjaan marah jangan dibela, nanti hilang akal di kepala.
      Jika sedikitpun berbuat bohong,
      boleh diumpamakan mulutnya itu pekong.
      Tanda orang yang amat celaka,
      aib dirinya tiada ia sangka.
      Bakhil jangan diberi singgah, itupun perampok yang amat gagah.
      Barang siapa yang sudah besar, janganlah kelakuannya membuat kasar.
      Barang siapa perkataan kotor, mulutnya itu umpama ketur.
      Di mana tahu salah diri, jika tidak orang lain yang berperi.

      Ini gurindam pasal yang pertama:

      Barang siapa tiada memegang agama,
      sekali-kali tiada boleh dibilangkan nama.
      Barang siapa mengenal yang empat,
      maka ia itulah orang ma'rifat
      Barang siapa mengenal Allah,
      suruh dan tegahnya tiada ia menyalah.
      Barang siapa mengenal diri,
      maka telah mengenal akan Tuhan yang bahari (samudera).
      Barang siapa mengenal dunia,
      tahulah ia barang yang terpedaya.
      Barang siapa mengenal akhirat,
      tahulah ia dunia mudarat.

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    3. Foreign investor use local financing, use foreign workers, export their product abroad, enjoy long term tax holidays. What do we get? pregnant unmarried local girls and bayi buangan. Shenzen can go to hell.

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    4. http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/06/22/st-editor-mistrusting-pap-govt-is-the-new-norm-now/

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    5. So, what is your alternative for Johor?

      Big talk, no action?

      That's typical of Malaysian politicos who have no idea of the importance of education, skills and talent in the modern economy.

      They have the mindset that "bagi duit, semua boleh".

      Which is why people still go to work in Singapore!

      You mean that all the Johor MBs and the VVIPs feel no shame about this?

      Why don't you ask them this, Annie, instead of rambling about the DAP and the BN?

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    6. Sanker Rampion,

      Re. Mana Uncle Sam? Buat diam-diam sahaja!

      We don't want Uncle SAM in Selat Melaka as well much to their chagrin, don't you know that?

      Re. So, please don't make jokes about Shenzen! JB hasn't got much to be proud about, anyway, seeing as how Johoreans have still got to "cari makan" in Singapore.

      All at the expense of Singaporean themselves, please read their independent blog and understand their resentment about Foreign Talent. Foreigner are cheaper than Singaporeans at all level and not just Malaysians.

      Re. Where's the dignity when 1 Singapore Dollar is worth 2.5+ Ringgit, eh?

      If you don't understand about foreign exchange and economy please refrain from commenting. SGD is traded openly in the market but RM is traded based on managed float. This is to ensure that RM is shielded from forex speculation and ensuring that our Export and FDI are attratctive enough to the investor. The same tactic has been employed by PR China where they deliberately suppressed their currency down, to make their products and FDI cheaper.

      US warns China after renminbi depreciation

      http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3355dc74-bed7-11e3-a1bf-00144feabdc0.html#axzz35NdOtH7c

      Ask any Singaporean how has strong SGD benefited them so far.

      Re. Iskandar Malaysia's raison d'etre seems to be to "complement" Singapore.

      WOW! we might as well dead without them. THAT IS WHY WE SURVIVE 2007-2008 WORLD ECONOMY CRISIS AND THEY DON' T.

      Re. Is there real skills transfer to Johoreans from all the investments pooling into Iskandar?

      Can you explain why the high need of FOREIGN TALENTS in Singapore then? What have they produced for themselves other than being a service center ?

      Re. Can educated and talented Johoreans make a good life and future for themselves in Iskandar Malaysia & the rest of Johor, without having to labour overseas?

      Have we failed without any of them who have purported migrated estimated at 1 million thus far?

      Re. Like they say, talk is cheap. Mouthing off in blogs and in the social media is easy-peasy. But where are the solutions to the problems?

      YOU HAVE PROVED THAT TALK IS CHEAP WHEN YOU FAIL TO SUBSTANTIATED YOUR CLAIM AND OPINION WITH REFERENCES.

      P.S

      KALAU DAH BODOH DAN TAK BANYAK MEMBACA, JANGANLAH NAK TUNJUK PANDAI. Read here about the current state of Singapore Economy published by FORBES.

      Why Singapore's Economy Is Heading For An Iceland-Style Meltdown

      http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolombo/2014/01/13/why-singapores-economy-is-heading-for-an-iceland-style-meltdown/

      On that note, tell me which country in this world is not struggling in view of the currently economic scenario.

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    7. Singapore’s Foreigner Problem

      A sharp rise in the foreign population has ratcheted up racial tensions.

      http://thediplomat.com/2014/02/singapores-foreigner-problem/

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    8. Singapore Will Lose Her Place Among World’s Top Global Cities Within 20 years. Whose Fault Is It?

      Singapore’s Southeast Asian neighbours Jakarta, Manila, and Kuala Lumpur will overtake the wealthy island-nation at the top of the list of global cities that are attractive to international companies within 20 years, according to a study by global management consulting firm A. T. Kearney.

      http://www.establishmentpost.com/singapore-will-lose-place-among-worlds-top-global-cities-within-20-years-whose-fault/

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    9. Temasek Portfolio Lost $39.91 Billion

      SINGAPORE -- Singapore's state-owned investment company Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd. lost 58 billion Singapore dollars (US$39.91 billion) from the end of March 2008 to November 2008, or a little over than half of its portfolio-value gains from the previous five years, the city-state's finance minister said.

      http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB124350003544761935

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    10. MAS posts S$10b net loss as Singapore dollar soars

      SINGAPORE — The Republic’s central bank posted a S$10.61 billion net loss in its last fiscal year as the local dollar’s gains against the yen and euro diminished the value of its foreign currency holdings.

      The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) also said the city-state’s economy will “comfortably” meet the official growth forecast of 1-3 per cent for 2013, while inflation for the full year is expected to come in at 2-3 per cent, lower than the earlier estimate of 3-4 per cent.

      MAS’s loss for the financial year ended March 2013, its second in three years, was just slightly below the record S$10.9 billion deficit incurred in financial year 2010/11 when the Singapore dollar also soared.

      http://www.todayonline.com/business/mas-posts-s10b-net-loss-singapore-dollar-soars

      P.S

      Has Strong SGD benefited them thus far?

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    11. The Real CPF Problem

      Part 1

      The Singaporean government recently increased the minimum amount required for Central Provident Accounts which as caused concern among many people. Given that I have written numerous times about CPF, I will only recap the highlights before moving on to my primary topic about CPF today.

      First, the Central Provident Fund is vital to understand Singapore government finances. The CPF pays 2.5-4% on funds from savers but then loans that money to the government who issue long term debt securities and unsurprisingly pays a nearly identical weighted amount on what it borrows. The Singapore government then invests the money in different ways, and by all appearances, keeps whatever in excess of the 2.5-4% it earns. The CPF is a central organization to understand Singapore public finances.

      Second, despite Singapore government claims to the contrary, the CPF is imposing enormous implicit taxes or costs on Singaporean savers. If the average Singaporean had earned the average Singaporean wage since 1980 and saved the amount required by law but earned the GIC long term average rather than CPF interest, the average Singaporean would have approximately $850,000 SGD in the bank. This is approximately $300,000 more than they would have earned with the same amount of savings in a CPF account. To put this number in perspective, Singaporeans pay higher fees than what the typical hedge fund would charge. The Singaporean government is directly harming everyday Singaporeans by mandating savings into a seriously under-performing asset for the governments benefit.

      Third, Singapore operates a one sided model where the tax payer assumes the risk but the government gets the benefit. If the investments do well, the government keeps everything above the 2.5-4% CPF interest payment; if the investments do poorly, and let’s assume, the CPF collapses, the tax payer will guarantee the payment to CPF holders. In other words, risks are socialized while benefits are privatized.

      More important than the technical shortcomings of the CPF is how Singaporeans think of CPF, Temasek, and GIC. Officially, the Singapore government holds more than $800 billion in financial assets. Temasek holds more than $200 billion SGD and GIC is estimated to hold around $400 billion of that total $800 billion. Despite official pleadings to the contrary, Temasek and GIC are not private companies they are owned by the government, controlled by the government, and key officials are appointed by the government. Temasek was created out of privatizing government assets. SingTel, the largest holding of Temasek, was created from the Singapore Telecoms and Post Office Ministry. DBS was originally the state owned Development Bank of Singapore. These were and still are public assets. A similar story holds true for GIC and CPF.

      The assets of Temasek, GIC, and the CPF are the assets of the people of Singapore. Only in certain people’s imagination are Temasek and GIC assets private and separate from the people of Singapore. The earnings in excess of 2.5-4% that the government keeps for itself that it does not return to CPF savers are directly harming Singaporeans who are on average $300,000 poorer. GIC and Temasek assets that the government insists are private despite all evidence to the contrary demonstrate the governments disdain for the blessing of the financial bounty it has received from the Singaporean taxpayer.

      http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/05/13/the-real-cpf-problem/

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    12. The Real CPF Problem

      Part 2

      Kenneth Jayaretnam has proposed privatizing and floating Temasek and GIC to then distribute shares to the public. There are many variations of this basic idea. For instance, CPF savers could earn some amount tied to GIC or Temasek or the social security system could be privatized like Chile with savers allowed to invest via private asset managers. Though the government claims to seek an ownership society, the mechanism and returns of the CPF are much closer in reality to the United States social security system where the government uses contributions as a cheap pool of borrowing with extremely low rates paid for contributions. In fact, the most recent US social security actuarial report says that low income earners receive a higher total real return than Singaporean CPF savers in nominal terms. Giving people ownership of the assets Singaporeans created and linking their savings to the returns of those firm would create an actual ownership society.

      As a matter of prudence, I support raising the CPF minimum to ensure income levels for the elderly in the future. However, the easiest and fairest way to accomplish this objective is to pay CPF savers a fair return for the investments that they are funding. The government should not be allowed to confiscate earnings above and beyond the rate it pays on CPF funds. It is complete hypocrisy by the government to publicize the supposedly amazing job it does managing Temasek and GIC which supposedly earn 16% since inception from public assets and 7% in USD term over 20 years from public assets, then plead poverty when paying CPF holders a paltry 2.5%. The wealth of Singapore which has been funded by the Singaporean people belongs to the Singaporean people.

      An ownership society requires that owners of capital the CPF savers are compensated based upon market rates, have the ability to move their funds to higher earning investments, receive information about their investments, and how much they are paying their investment managers. The Singaporean government refuses to provide any of this information hiding basic information that would be considered standard information in the marketplace or if owned. Tragic stories of Singaporean unable to access their considerable savings they supposedly “own” demand government accountability.

      The Singaporean people are the ones to demand answers and changes to how their money is managed.

      Christopher Balding

      * The writer is a professor of business and economics at the HSBC Business School of the Peking University Graduate School. An expert in sovereign wealth funds, he has published in such leading journals as the Review of International Economics, the Journal of Public Economic Theory, and the International Finance Review on such diverse topics as CDS pricing, the WTO, and the economics of adoption and abortion. His work as been cited by a variety of media outlets including the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. Prof Balding received his Phd from the University of California, Irvine and worked in private equity prior to entering academia. The article first appeared in his blog, www.facebook.com/baldingsworld.

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    13. Re. What? Another chinese prostitution heaven. Mintak jauhkan.

      Apa lagi. Kat Singapork Goen dia impot 250K PR China New Citizen per year sebab nak menang Election and still on going. According to report the Chinese Pros are all over the City State now, termasuklah kat Orchard Road bersidai dalam bangunan.

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    14. LOL....what is the point of your voluminous postings, complete with "cut and paste"? Any reasonably intelligent netizen can do the same.

      And, yet, there are the " hard" facts.

      Let's see - in no particular order of importance:

      1. Singapore is a triple-A-rated economy. Malaysia has a A- rating. Go check what S&P, Fitch and Moody's have said in their analyses of the Singapore economy and finances.

      2. Malaysians are flocking to work in Singapore. Not vice versa. Why are Johoreans (of a certain race, shall we say) working as fast food deliverymen in Singapore?

      3. How much of the FDI that has come into ASEAN gone to Singapore?

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    15. LOL should just have his/her/its own blog.

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    16. Lol graduated from cut n paste uni. The articles are similar western journal writing bad about mh370. These DUMNOs complains yet they are using similar to attack to suit themselves

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    17. LOL has gone MIA. Typical of the trolls who infest the social media

      Note that all his posted diarrhea about Singapore has not affected the confidence of investors in the city-state one bit.

      All the rankings vis-à-vis Singapore and Malaysia show this.

      Best airport? Check. Best sea port? Check. Best airline? Check (of course, this is a given, since MAS has gone into deep doo-doo-dom). Best universities in Asean? Check. Top investment destination in Asean? Check.

      So, LOL is reduced to mouthing off. It must be galling to be so thoroughly ignored by those who matter - like foreign investors, MNCs, global powers etc.

      Back to topic.

      How many Mentris Besar has Johor had since Merdeka?

      What have they achieved?

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    18. Lol graduated from cut n paste uni.

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    19. The latest UNCTAD 2014 World Investment Report bears this out. See the article in today's Star newspaper.

      Malaysia ranked 4th in Asean, in terms of net FDI inflows in 2013, behind Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand (yup, Thailand which lurches from one political crisis to another).

      It seems that Singapore, a pipsqueak city-state, managed to attract approximately 5 times net FDI inflows in 2013 than did Malaysia.

      So, LOL is still wanting to diss on Singapore?

      He'd better ask Miti and Mida how come Singapore is getting more FDI than Malaysia. If he has the guts to do so, that is.....

      And today the Singapore Straits Times carried a report on PM Lee Hsien Loong meeting with top US officials in Washington, DC, including Fed chairman Janet Yellen, US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Treasury Secretary Lew etc. Not bad for a pipsqueak city-state leader!

      Today's Singapore Business Times paper carried a report on red light warning signals about Iskandar Malaysia, especially the massive Chinese property developments there.

      I am sure that PM Najib's news minders would have brought this to his attention. Hopefully!

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  18. Macam ni You kena diBuang Daerah Ni Annie!!

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  19. Nik Kelantanistan22 June 2014 at 20:48

    Khaled Nordin's statement contains a lot of bulls. In truth, he is scared shit of Tuanku Sultan Johor. Silap silap haribulan, Khaled akan kena penampar, worse he may get hit by a hockey stick or forced to eat horse shit or cow dung. People of valour and fearful only of Allah SWT will not last long as MB of Johor. He may be transferred to Kuala Lumpur as DO of Petaling

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  20. Jangan lupa DAP sedang fokus untuk tawan Johor, "Somebody" kena runtuhkan kepercayaan orang Melayu kepada UMNO melalui Khaled !!! Stratgegi ini sudah bermula..

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    1. Saya setuju dengan anda bahawa ini mungkin stratigi DAP untuk menawan Johor.
      Tapi kenapa Khaled.membuat kerja kerja bodoh yang nyata untuk membangkitkan kebenciaan rakyat kepada UMNO?

      Jadi kalau UMNO kecundang di Johor , itu salah Khaled yang menaikkan kebencian orang terhadap salah lakunya!

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  21. Annie

    1. Tanah-tanah yang dijual itu tanah siapa sebenarnya? Adakah ianya tanah Kerajaan negeri yang telah diberikan ke istana? Berapa bidang tanah yang telah kerajaan negeri di bawah kepimpinan Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin berikan kepada istana? Apa tujuan sebenar tanah-tanah ini diberikan kepada Sultan? Adakah Sultan berhak meminta tanah-tanah tersebut?

    2. Adakah Sultan mendapat tanah tersebut secara percuma dari kerajaan negeri? Jika benar, mengapa tanah tersebut boleh dijual dengan harga yang teramat tinggi kepada pihak asing?

    3. Adakah terdapat quota untuk Bumiputera ataupun diskaun untuk Bumiputera di projek-projek pembangunan oleh pihak asing ini? Jika tiada, mengapa ini dibenarkan berlaku sedangkan ada guideline untuk quota dan discount ini di peringkat negeri?

    Wurawari

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  22. Annie

    Khaled used JCorp as an example but JCorp was incorporated before the Constitutional crisis. Therefore, shouldn't the setting up of any board like LPNJ take into account the amendments made in the Constitution post-crisis?
    Also, do we need a wheeler and dealer to sell state land to investors from China? Can't the state do it on its own, therefore reaping maximum gains which can benefit the rakyat?

    Temagi

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