Sunday, August 30, 2009

Gaza- A people under siege

The Israeli blockade of Gaza Strip, now in its third year, has shown the extremely deep seated hypocrisy in what is put forth as pristine, faultless, superior “western values.” Westerners have been inoculated against any sympathy for the victims by the skillful portrayal in the western corporate media of them as perpetrators and mad suicide bombers, instead of people in the midst of a serious crisis of human dignity and people fighting for the right to live on their own land. Rather than feeling sympathy, the westerner at best has been taught that “both sides are at fault” and that people should “stop killing each other.”

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Meanwhile Israel…exploding beyond its agreed upon borders, holds the power of life and death over all of them. They have the bombs, the jets, the armored vehicles and all the latest technology at their disposal. What do Palestinians have? Primitive rockets at best and more often than not, just stones.

The population of Gaza has been forced to live with the steady degradation of the conditions of everyday life, caused by the erosion of the means of subsistence and by the gradual evaporation of the infrastructure. Vital services in the areas of the health, water, sanitation and education have been seriously eroded. Many are unable to go to their jobs, as nearly 120,000 Palestinians have lost their means to support their families. Water is a serious problem, as only 15% is allocated for the use of Palestinians while the Jewish residents around the block fill their swimming pools.

This blockade and the subsequent genocidal attack were the result of Hamas acquiring the majority of votes in the 2007 election. Since then, funds have been cut off, humanitarian workers have faced imprisonment and intervention against their efforts. While pretending to believe in free elections, the west has soundly condemned and refused to accept the collective will of the Palestinian people. In other words, vote for whom you are told or you will be starved, bombed, forced to live like animals, have your electric power cut off until you decide you’ve suffered enough. To remind, collective punishment is a war crime!

Haughtily, Israel and western leaders proclaim they will not speak to Hamas. Why? Because they are to be compelled to accept things as they are. They must declare Israel’s right to exist, right along with Israel’s denial of the Palestinian right to exist. (continue reading..)

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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Indonesia dan ketaksuban tentang hak budaya yang diciplak






Kontroversi tentang tarian pendet yang timbul di Indonesia adalah kontroversi yang tidak perlu. Namun menuduh Malaysia terus terusan sebagai pencuri menunjukkan akal pendek oleh puak puak yang membuat tuduhan tanpa usul periksa di Indonesia.

Sebenarnya Indonesia tidak boleh menuntut hak cipta terpelihara keatas mana mana aspek budaya pun. Kerana budaya bukan sesuatu yang rigid sebaliknya dinamik. Apakah orang jawa yang berhijrah ke Malaysia tidak boleh mengamalkan budaya mereka kerana budaya ini sudah di "klaim" oleh Indonesia sebagai budaya hak cipta terpelihara?Sebenarnya tarian pendet dari Bali yang dibising-bisingkan itu bukan ciptaan dan hak milik Indonesia pun kerana tarian itu diadaptasi dari tarian hindu. Apakah ini bermakna India berhak menuntut hak cipta tarian itu?

Indonesia sendiri adalah penciplak besar kerana mencuri bahasa Melayu untuk dijadikan bahasa Indonesia dan seterusnya bahasa itu dihancurkan oleh mereka. Untuk memahami bahasa Indonesia , anda perlu memahami bahasa Inggeris kerana banyak terminologi bahasa itu diadaptasi terus dari bahasa Inggeris, aneh bukan kerana kebanyakkan rakyatnya tidak pandai berbahasa Inggeris!. Claim menjadi Klaim. Seharusnya Indonesia menukar bahasa rasminya kepada bahasa Inggeris.

Mengapa Indonesia memilih untuk menjadikan bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa kebangsaan mereka? bukan bahasa jawa yang lebih prominen?. Jawapanya kerana bahasa Melayu sudah menguasai nusantara waktu itu dan ditututurkan dari selatan Filipina membawa ke Kampuchea.

Siapakah yang menjadikan BAHASA MELAYU menjadi bahasa lingua franca Asia Tenggara? Jawa? Boyan? Madura? Batak?


Alasan kedua sebenarnya adalah dari segi strategi geo politik mereka untuk menguasai Malaya dan Borneo melalui doktrin Indonesia Raya mereka. Namun strategi itu digagalkan oleh pembentukan gagasan Persekutuan Malaysia.


Namun hal ini memang tidak akan berakhir. Karana keseronokan Indonesia hendak bertengkar dengan Malaysia. Mengutuk Malaysia memang menjadi hobi masa lapang mereka. Namun jika kita berjalan di pasar-pasar mereka kita akan dapat banyak barangan kulit berjenama yang diciplak oleh mereka. loohhh bolehkah begitu bapak?

Biarkan luncai terjun dengan labu-labunya.




Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Tahniah YB Ustaz Salleh Man. Tahniah kepada Demokrasi

Tahniah Kepada YB Ustaz Salleh Bin Man kerana memenangi Pilihanraya DUN Permatang Pasir. Nampaknya MAIPP akan ada YDP baru.

Tahniah PAS kerana mampu mengekalkan momentum PRK.

Seperti yang aku nukilkan terdahulu, UMNO sememangnya tidak mahu menang di Permatang Pasir jadi tidak ada apa yang hendak disedihkan.

Sekalipun PRK kali ini tidak lebih dari pertandingan baling lumpur (mud slinging) tetapi begitulah adat berpolitik di Malaysia. Tidak ada yang haram semua halal. Semua boleh.

Apapun yang penting demokrasi di Malaysia subur

Salam untuk pendokong-pendokong demokrasi

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Apakah semua Negara Islam di Dunia membawa Islam Palsu?

Aku terbaca nukilan YB Zulkifli Nordin, peguam dan MP Kulim dari PKR yang enigmatik itu. Beliau melabel fatwa dari Majlis Fatwa Negara sebagai Fatwa Doraemon kerana Pengerusi Majlis Fatwa itu meningkah kenyataan TG Nik Aziz, bahawa hak menentukan syurga /neraka adalah hak Allah.

Beliau lalu mengutarakan soalan-soalan berikut:

Saya nak tanya Prof. Abdul Syukor, Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Fatwa Hadorion ini, apakah mengubah ayat ALLAH saperti yang dibuat UMNo/Be End tidak sesat?
ALLAH perintahkan sebat/ rejam penzina, UMNo/ Be End tukar kepada denda;
ALLAH perintahkan qisas dalam kes bunuh, UMNo/ Be End pakai undang-undang Lord Reid;
ALLAH kata curi potong tangan, UMNo/ Be End tukar kepada penjara;
ALLAH perintahkan jangan sembah berhala, UMNo/ Be End terus menerus menyembah Tugu Negara walaupun difatwakan syirik oleh Majlis fatwa;
ALLAH perintahkan wanita Islam menutup aurat, namun UMNo/Be End biarkan pramugari muslim di syarikat Air Asia dan MAS dipaksa memakai mendedah aurat dan pakaian yang mengaibkan;
ALLAH kata Al Quran undang-undang tertinggi, UMNo/ Be End letakkan Perlembagaan Persekutuan mengatasi Al Quran (Artikel 4 Perlembagaan).

Selanjutnya klik sini

Aku tidak ingin memperdebatkan soalan soalan beliau. Cuma aku tertanya-tanya hampir semua negara Islam hari ini kecuali Arab Saudi dan Iran dan Pakistan ( itu pun dengan beberapa 'modification' tertentu) tidak mengamalkan seperti kehendak soalan YB Zulkifli Nordin tadi. Sistem yang diamalkan lebih hampir kepada sekular cuma terdapat beberapa elemen Islam termasuk enakmen-enakmen Islam yang di gabungkan dengan undang-undang sekluar. Ini termasuk juga negara jiran kita Indonesia. Apakah semua negara Islam ini membawa Islam Palsu? Islam mereka tidak boleh dibawa ke syurga?.

Soalan aku yang kedua adalah jika PAS dapat memerintah negara apakah jaminan yang PAS akan mengamalkan semua kehendak-kehendak seperti soalan diatas? Dengan DAP dan Anwar Ibrahim sendiri sudah mengumumkan bahawa mereka tidak akan menerima negara Islam sepenuhnya? PAS sendiri tidak berani menghentikan penjualan arak di Kedah dan Selangor? Jika benar ini semua salah UMNO mengapa setelah berkuasa mereka tidak berani mengambil tindakkanyang sama? takut hilang undi? Mengapa takut undi melebihi takut kepada Allah?


Soalan aku yang ketiga adalah mengapa YB Zulkifli Nordin berada didalam PKR dan bukan didalam PAS?. PKR adalah sebuah parti seperti UMNO malah banyak orang-orang mereka adalah orang UMNO dengan feel dan perangai UMNO.

Salam untuk YB Zul.

URGENT Appeal For The People Of GAZA

A Ramadan Appeal for all People of Conscience
in the World
Support Justice in Palestine this Ramadan
Please Give To FreeGaza.org


“Your Lord is He Who speeds the ships for you in the sea that you may seek of
His grace; surely He is ever Merciful to you” (Qur'an 17:66)
"Those who give to charity night and day, secretly and publicly, receive their
recompense from their Lord; they will have nothing to fear, nor will they grieve”
(Qur'an 2:274)


Dear Friends of Palestine,


Inshallah, this appeal finds you and your families in the very best of
circumstances. Sadly, not all of our brothers and sisters in the world share this
good fortune. The Palestinian people continue to live under a cruel occupation
regime, subjected to merciless Israeli policies designed to ethnically cleanse
Palestine of her people. The situation is especially dire in Gaza, where Israel has
imposed a brutal siege that is denying 1.5 million Palestinians basic food,
medicine, and the freedoms that we take for granted.


More than simple charity, the Palestinian people need our solidarity and political
action. They need us to challenge the policies that leave them in need of
humanitarian aid. This Ramadan make zakat and fitra to the Free Gaza
Movement to purchase cargo and passenger ships in order to break the Israeli
siege of Gaza. Please organize at least one Iftar dinner for Free Gaza, and
please give generously.


Over the last year, the Free Gaza Strip by organizing eight sea missions to Gaza.
In spite of Israel’s naval blockade we successfully arrived in Gaza Port on five
separate occasions, bringing in dozens of journalists, human rights workers,
parliamentarians and other concerned people. We took out dozens of Palestinian
students and medical patients, and helped to reunite families separated by the
siege. Ours remain the only ships to sail to Gaza in over forty‐two years.
It’s not enough.


The sacrifices of the Palestinian people for the last 61 years must not be
forgotten. Israel's 22‐day assault on the Gaza Strip last December & January
killed over 1400 Palestinians and destroyed thousands of homes, schools,
mosques and hospitals, leaving thousands of Gaza’s Palestinians living in rubble.
Maintaining the Gaza siege after these attacks and denying Palestinians the right
to rebuild their lives is part of a continuing Israeli campaign against all of
Palestine.


On 30 June 2009 Israel hijacked our boat, the Spirit of Humanity, as it was on its
way to Gaza, arresting the 21 human rights volunteers on board. However, we
are not backing down. We will never back down. Now, more than ever, it’s critical
to continue these missions and demonstrate the power of the international
civilian community to stand up to cruelty, human rights abuses, and oppression.
We have reformulated our strategy. We are now organizing to return in bigger
numbers and with bigger force. Your support is essential to the success of the
next sea challenge to Israel’s brutal blockade.


FIVE WAYS YOU CAN HELP BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA
"The landing of two wooden boats carrying human rights activists in Gaza is an
important symbolic victory ... Above all, what is being tested is whether the
imaginative engagement of dedicated private citizens can influence the struggle
of a beleaguered people for basic human rights, and whether their courage and
commitment can awaken the conscience of humanity to an unfolding tragedy."
Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the OPT


(1) DONATE. You have donated generously to us in the past. We need you to do
it again. Donate in support of civil resistance and people to people solidarity.
Please consider making a donation of $500 (€500 or £500) and asking 9 friends
to do the same. Go to: www.FreeGaza.org/en/Donate.
Please do it now.


(2) FUNDRAISE. Plan a fundraiser in your home or community. Hold an Iftar
dinner for Free Gaza this Ramadan. A dinner, Ramadan’s Sweet Bazaar, or
other event could be a great way to get your friends and family more involved in
our efforts, while contributing to our goal of confronting the Israeli siege until it
collapses.


(3) EDUCATE. We have volunteers in various countries that might be available to
come speak at your school, university or other venue about their experiences in
Gaza, the horrifying effects of Israel’s illegal blockade, and what the Free Gaza
Movement is doing to break the siege. Consider hosting an event or a speaking
tour for the Free Gaza Movement. For help in doing this, please contact us
friends[at]freegaza.org


(4) OUTREACH. We would like to get celebrities, dignitaries, and community
leaders to join our next mission in order to draw more attention to the dire
situation in Gaza and the need for immediate action. If you have contact to a
public personality, please ask them to lend their voice and presence to this
nonviolent action in defense of human rights. If someone is not able to physically
be on our boat, ask him or her for a statement or letter of endorsement.


(5) VOLUNTEER FOR ACTION. We need volunteers to help us with research,
writing, local outreach & organizing in your community, website maintenance,
graphic design, and much much more. If you are interested in volunteering with
the Free Gaza Movement, please contact us at volunteer[at]freegaza.org.
We are asking for your zakat and fitra this Ramadan, but not as simple charity ‐
we're asking for zakat as political action. Palestine does not need charity.
Palestine is not a poor country, and Palestinians are not a poor people. They are
being forced into poverty.


The people of Gaza are being collectively punished by Israel for the “crime” of
being Palestinian. This is unacceptable. We believe that it’s our collective
responsibility and take direct action to end this unjust siege, and we are asking
for your help and participation. Thank you for your consideration. Ramadan
Mubarak! Ramadan Kareem!


Peace be with all our sisters and brothers in the world.
“And why should ye not fight in the cause of God and of those who, being weak,
are ill-treated (and oppressed)?—men, women, and children, whose cry is: ‘Our
Lord! Rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors; and raise for us
from Thee one who will protect; and raise for us from Thee one who will help!’”
(Qur’an 4:75)


For more information and to donate, please visit FreeGaza.org
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Cyprus Registered Charity # HE 246993
122 Athalassis Avenue, POB 28779
2082 Nicosia, Cyprus
Bank Information
Account name: F.G. Human Rights Projects Ltd
122 Athalassis Avenue, POB 28779
2082 Nicosia, Cyprus
Bank Name: Bank of Cyprus Public Company Ltd
International Business Unit, Nicosia, Cyprus
EURO Account
Account number: 0155-01-096552-00
IBAN: CY06 0020 0155 0000 0001 0965 5200
SWIFT Code: BCYPCY2N
US Dollar Account
Account number: 0155-40-768398-06
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Account number: 0155-40-768401-01
IBAN: CY90 0020 0155 0000 0040 7684 0101
SWIFT Code: BCYPCY2N

Friday, August 21, 2009

PAS dan Politik Islam yang songsang dan sempit

Pada aku PAS sebenarnya adalah parti alternatif yang tulen orang Melayu/Islam di Malaysia. Hanya ada dua parti sahaja yang diyakini dapat membela dan memelihara kepentingan umat Melayu/Islam di tanah watan ini. UMNO dan PAS.


Ketika UMNO yang banyak dikuasai oleh golongan bangsawan Melayu dan Iktisad melayu hampir gagal membawa panji-panji Melayu / Islam, aku sangat berharap yang parti ini dapat mengambil tampuk kepimpinan Melayu/Islam dan membawa masyarakat ini kearah yang lebih baik.


Dalam politik, pertelingkahan adalah sesuatu yang lumrah. Berbeza falsafah diantara kumpulan adalah asas kepada sistem politik. Tetapi dalam Islam ada diajarkan ADAB untuk bertelingkah. Ada etika yang diajar oleh Rasulallah untuk memberi pendapat serta ada etika untuk tidak bersetuju. Begitulah halnya dalam Islam.


Aku menjangkakan apabila mereka memanggil diri mereka sebagai pejuang Islam Sebenar, pembawa panji-panji ajaran Rasulallah aku menjangkakan satu piawaian berpolitk yang tinggi. Satu etika yang menggambarkan kemurnian ajaran Rasulallah. Jika UMNO tidak mempunyai etika politik yang betul itu adalah kerana mereka membawa Islam palsu. tetapi yang mendakwa membawa Islam tulen juga mengamalkan etika politik macam UMNO, apa pula halnya?


Apabila Ustaz Nasaruddin Hassan Tantawi, seorang ulamak muda yang terdidik dalam Islam, yang lidahnya dimenghambur ayat-ayat suci alquran, mengambil pendekatan mendedahkan aib seorang saudara se Islamnya dengan mendakwa Rohaizat mempunyai isteri kedua yang terbiar.Aku tergamam seketika. Sekalipun Rohaizat membawa Islam palsu, seorang ulamak yang mempunyai taraf yang tinggi macam Nasrudin tak perlulah terjun kelembah kekotoran untuk sama-sama bergelumang tahi....


Mungkin benar niat beliau supaya supaya rakyat tidak berketuakan seorang yang mendera isteri, tetapi dalam PAS sendiri banyak ketuanya tidak menjalankan tanggungjawab menjaga isteri dengan betul.


Contoh yang paling nyata adalah Ketua Dewan Ulamak PAS yang disaman oleh isteri keduanya kerana mendera dan tidak memberi nafkah kecuali yang batin. Beliau masih ketua Dewan Ulamak tanpa sebarang tindakan diambil. Dalam posting aku terdahulu ada aku link kan beritanya.


Hakikatnya Tuan Guru, ini masalah banyak lelaki samada dalam UMNO dan PAS. Cerita yang ini terlalu panjang untuk dikesahkan. Banyak siu lain yang boleh Tuan Guru bahas dan debatkan.


Kata Rasulallah kalau tidak ada yang baik hendak diucapkan eloklah berdiam diri...

Salam untuk pembawa Islam palsu dan Islam sebenar.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Orang UMNO tak sayang UMNO dan Sijil perakuan masuk Syurga PAS.

Kadang-kadang aku terfikir samaada masih adakah sikap sayangkan parti dalam diri mereka yang mengaku pejuang. Apabila sesorang itu berjuang, mereka harus mendahulukan apa yang diperjuangkan dan bukan mendahulukan kepentingan diri.

Aku percaya sebagai seorang yang terlatih dalam bidang guaman Rohaizat tahu apa signifikan hukuman yang beliau terima dari Majlis Peguam. Tak kiralah sama ada beliau mempunyai alasan tentang apa yang terjadi. Kalau kita tanya semua penjenayahpun mereka ada alasan mereka sendiri. Kalau kita dengar cerita mereka 90% mereka yang berada dipenjara itu tidak bersalah!

Apabila ditawarkan sebagai calon Rohaizat pasti sedar beliau berada didalam keadaan 'disadvantage' . Kedudukan beliau tidak memberi kekuatan kepada parti beliau dan dalam keadaan UMNO yang teruk dilanda masalah imej, situasi beliau akan merumitkan lagi UMNO. Tetapi beliau memilih untuk tidak menolak pemilihan ini.

Sikap bujur lalu melintang patah inilah yang menyebabkan UMNO akan tersungkur dalam jangka masa panjang. Sudah lah Tan Sri Muhyidin dan Zahid Hamidi tertidur dalam melaksanakan tugas mereka. Kini UMNO terpaksa menerima kesan busuk ini. Jika ini jenis pejuang yang kita ada dalam UMNO, eloklah bungkus kain baju siap-siap.

Atau semua ini memang menggambarkan UMNO dah tak ada calon yang ok?

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Petang tadi aku minum dengan rakan yang dah lama aku jumpa dan perbualan kami menjurus kepada pilihanraya Permatang Pasir dan Dakwaan TG NA tentang Islam Palsu UMNO macam Islam Palsu Palestin.

Menurut beliau PAS patut menubuhkan satu organisasi Quality Control yang memberi sijil jaminan ISLAM SEBENAR macam label Sirim. Menurut beliau lagi jika benar PAS mendakwa sesiapa yang undi PAS akan masuk Syurga, maka wajarlah PAS mengeluarkan sijil Perakuan Masuk Syurga yang ditandatangani oleh ulamak PAS dengan menyatakan syurga mana yang sipolan-sipolan dapat masuk ( syurga ada 7) pintu no berapa ( kalau ada banyak pintu macam di Mekah) barisan berapa, presint berapa ( Sebab bunyinya macam mereka tahu benar syurga tu macam mana..)

isu ni dah jadi isu teknikal la pulak...

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

UMNO Tak Mahu Menang Di Permatang Pasir

Bila UMNO membuat keputusan memilih Rohaizat Othman sebagai calon di DUN Permatang Pasir, UMNO dengan segera menampilkan satu imej yang akan menjadi beban sepanjang kempen pilihanraya ini. Beban yang sengaja dicari.


Mungkin benar Rohaizat tidak terbabit dalam hal yang di ceritakan itu, namun hakikatnya beliau telah digantung dari menjadi peguam oleh Majlis Peguam. Itu sudah memadai untuk menyusahkan UMNO. Tidak ada apapun alasan yang boleh digunakan untuk menangkis fakta ini. Akibatnya UMNO terpaksa menggunakan strategi defensif sejak awal lagi. Ini bukan satu strategi yang baik ketika berperang dikubu lawan. Mungkin UMNO memang tidak mahu menang dan hanya bertujuan untuk mengurangkan undi PAS.



Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Ronnie 'Takebeer' Liu Tarbiahkan umat Islam tentang takrifan bir dan minuman keras.

Ini part yang aku tak suka tetapi kena terima, bila orang Islam di beri pendidikan asas tentang perkara-perkara yang mereka kira mereka faham!

Beliau percaya pegawai MBSA atau ahli majlis mungkin salahfaham dengan Akta Eksais 1976, yang menyebut bahawa lesen minuman keras tidak diperlukan bagi menjual minuman dengan kandungan alkohol kurang daripada 8.8 peratus."Dalam Bahasa Malaysia, tidak terdapat terjemahan yang tepat bagi minuman keras.

(Istilah) bir hanyalah terjemahan terus. Orang Islam mungkin tidak faham istilah ini. Tetapi bukan Islam dapat membezakan bir daripada arak."(Dalam istilah perundangan) bir didefinasikan sebagai 'minuman keras'. Tidak ada deskripsi yang lebih tepat (daripada itu)," kata Liu, yang bidangkuasanya sebagai exco negeri termasuk memantau perjalanan majlis daerah.

Ekoran serbuan tersebut, Liu berkata beliau telah mengadakan pertemuan dengan empat ahli malis MBSA, pengarah pelesenan dan seorang pegawai daripada pasukan yang membuat serbuan tersebut.

(sepenuhnya klik sini)

Maknanya YB yang menjaga hal ehwal Islam itu belum habis baca akta. Dari segi teknikal undang-undangnya nampaknya beliau Ronnie 'takebeer' Liu berada dilandasan yang betul. Maka termalu-malulah kita. Kita hanya bersandar kepada alasan sosial dan adat semata-mata. Inilah yang bakal memerangkap kita dalam banyak hal kemudian nanti. Ketidak upayaan orang Islam melindungi hak mereka dari sudut perundangan.

Hal hal teknikal sebegini amat penting kerana kita tidak mengklasifikasikan 'al khamar' dengan bahasa undang-undang dunia. Pada kita asal memabukkan semua tidak boleh, tapi sudah dasar manusia suka sangat mencari kesempatan dan ruang untuk meloloskan diri dari segala macam undang-undang yang mengikat. Ini kes sama macam kes Nabi Musa dengan Sapi Betina.

Jangan salahkan sesiapa melainkan diri kita. Aku syak draf undang-undang ini disediakan oleh orang bukan Islam dan kemudian diiakan oleh MP-MP Muslim kita yang bangang dan inilah hasilnya.

Jadi jika PAS atau sesiapa sahaja yang nak mengharamkan jualan 'bir' tu, akta kena gubah semula beb!.

Oh ya, dalam konteks yang sama kilang di Shah Alam dan Sungai Way tu bukan kilang 'minuman keras' , patutlah banyak 'melayu' kat situ dan padanlah Ketua Pemuda satu tu tak kisah bergambar dengan meja penuh menatang tu.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Jika MP UMNO mengucapkan lawak bodoh ini, tentu dah kena seranah!

'Menurut Gobind, satu laporan akan dibuat oleh pakar-pakar tersebut berhubung penemuan terbaru itu. Kumpulan pakar forensik dan peguam meninjau kembali kesan darah di tingkat berkenaan bagi menentukan sama ada ia milik manusia dalam siasatan inkues kematian Teoh. Menurut Gobind lagi, beliau tidak menolak kemungkinan kesan yang ditemui di tangga di Tingkat 15 merupakan darah haid pekerja wanita SPRM menitik keluar kerana salah kira hari. Oleh itu beliau akan menyarankan kepada koroner dan inkues hari ini supaya tong-tong penyimpan pad wanita terbuang di Tingkat 14 dan 15 disita dan diselidik untuk mendapatkan lebih banyak sampel darah.'

Jika lawak bodoh ini diucapkan oleh Dato' Aziz atau Bung Mukhtar sudah tentu sekali mereka akan diseranah oleh pejuang pejuang wanita. Ingat lagi lawak 'bocor' mereka?

Rupa-rupanya MP dari PR juga buat lawak bodoh yang tak cerdik ini, tetapi mentaliti untuk menghina sentiasa ada dalam kepala hotak mereka yang kacau tu. Cuba buat lawak sikit pasal 'Hard Kaur' yang tak reti kira hari, tentu sekali mereka berang.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Ketuanan yang tewas kepada keTaikoan

Apabila Dato' Seri Dr Mahathir Bin Muhammad, Mantan Perdana Menteri Malaysia mendakwa bahawa orang Cinalah tuan sebenar di Malaysia ini, ramai yang secara diam-diam dan secara hakikinya memperakukan kenyataan tersebut. Jika mantan PM yang membuat dakwaan sebegitu ia sudah tentulah tentulah berasaskan?. Manakan tidaknya beliau sendiri pernah didakwa meninggalkan mesyuarat MT UMNO selama lebih 2 jam kerana berbincang dengan tuan punya syarikat YTL yang tak menyempat-nyempat hendak berdiskusi dengannya. Begitulah berkuasanya tuan-tuan ini. PM pun boleh dikerahkan dihadapan anak-anak buahnya.

Mungkin ini sesuatu yang pedih untuk diakui tetapi itulah hakikatnya. Memandangkan orang-orang Melayu hanya ada kuasa politik, kuasa ekonomi ditangan orang Cina, maka tuan pada hakikinya dipegang oleh kapitan-kapitan yang memiliki guni-guni emas. Kuasa untuk memilih boleh dikawal. Kuasa politik boleh dijual beli. Kuasa politik bersifat dinamik, ia tidak kekal kepada satu pihak semata-mata. Ia boleh beralih arah. Sebab itu Yahudi Amerika melobi kedua-dua calon Presiden Amerika. Siapa pu yang menang, mereka tetap boleh dicucuk hidung.

Maka disinilah jawaban bagaimana 6 kotak beer lebih berharga dari maruah seorang Melayu yang bernama Hassan Ali. Suara Hassan Ali hanya suara kuasa poltik yang boleh dineutralkan. Hassan Ali pun tahu suara beliau tidak membawa makna, tetapi beliau membawa watak pesuruhjaya PAS, jika beliau tidak bersuara apa orang kata pulak?.

Tetapi realitinya suara -suara Melayu sudah tidak mampu lagi untuk membentuk sebarang arah yang dapat mencerminkan ketuanannya. Ketuanannya hanya tinggal nama yang tidak membawa makna.

Apakah hak asasi manusia pada definasinya? Sudah tentu hak asasi majoriti diutamakan tanpa menindas hak asasi kaum minoriti. Jika semua hak asasi kaum minoriti harus diberi keutamaan maka sudah tentu selepas berbagai-bagai lagi tuntutan akan disuarakan kerana semuanya mempunyai hak yang sama yang dijamin oleh perlembagaan. Maka jika dahulu kerajaan yang memerintah dikutuk kerana tidak mendaulatkan syariat, kini kita hendak lihat sejauh mana syariat dapat didaulatkan oleh rejim yang baru.

Namun suara-suara apologetik sudah kedengaran, PAS sudah menjalankan tanggungjawabnya, maka PAS sudah terlepas dari disabitkan.

Samaa ada usaha itu membuahkan hasil atau tidak, Pas Selangor sudah terlepas daripada menanggung dosa. Pas Selangor sudah melaksanakan tanggungjawab yang diamanahkan oleh parti dan ahli serta penyokongnya. Perjuangan Pas telah dilaksanakan di Selangor! Soal menang dan kalah dalam perjuangan ia adalah subjektif, tidak bermakna menang itu benar dan kalah itu salah (sepenuhnya klik sini)

Mudah sungguh menjadi sebuah parti seperti PAS, jika tidak dapat membantah dengan tangan hendaklah membantahkan dengan mulut, jika tidak dapat membantahkan dengan mulut hendaklah membantah dalam hati. Jadi selepas ini PAS hanya akan membantah dalam hati je lah ye....


Sebenarnya PAS Selangor boleh melucutkan jawatan Ronnie 'TakeBeer' Liew. PAS Selangor memang mempunyai kuasa untuk membetulkan keadaan dengan tangannya sendiri. PAS Selangor memilih untuk hanya membantah dalam hati . PAS Selangor sendiri tahu apa kuasa yang ada padanya tetapi memilih untu akur dan tunduk ikut saf. Kalau Doktrin Negara Islam boleh dikesampingkan apa lagi dengan sedikit hal arak 6 kotak.

Tetapi itulah mentaliti Melayu kita. Kita terlalu banyak beralah. Kita yakin boleh 'win the war' walaupun 'losing the battle'. Masalahnya kita 'keep on losing the small battle'. Dalam hal ini kita tidak boleh tidak kena angkat topi pada Ronni Takebeer, kerana keampuhannya bermain politik. Jadi Dr Hassan 'Six Pack' Ali you just have to shut your mouth.

Hakikatnya PAS tidak berani go for broke. PAS tidak berani untuk melucutkan jawatan Ronnie Takebeer. Gunakan kuasa yang awak ada...ada berani?

Salam untuk yang sanggup mati kerana kandang babi di Kedah sana.

p/s: Mengapa aku beria-ia mengkritik PAS dalam soal ini sedangkan UMNO mempunyai masalah yang sama?

Jawabanya adalah kerana PAS menjual diri sebagai penjaga ketuanan Islam. Mereka mengiklan dirinya sebagai Islam sebenar sebab itu mereka mempersoalkan semua yang UMNO buat atas nama Islam. Bila diminta memilih diantara prinsip dan kedudukan...kita dapat lihat apa pilihan mereka. Dan mereka dapat pula datang dengan alasan yang lucu2.

Bagaimana hendak menegakkan daulah Islamiah dengan hanya 51% penduduk negara beragama Islam sedangan hal 6 kotak beer pun terhoyong hayang? Kalau semuanya sama dengan apa yang UMNO lakukan sebelum ini maka apa yang berbeza?

kita lihat ada orang sanggup keluar kerajaan hanya kerana satu kandang babi..tetapi ada orang tak berani sekalipun ia benar atas nama Islam.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Penulis Blog Yang Bacul

Ada sesuatu yang tidak kena dengan situasi kita di negeri yang kita namakan Malaysia ini. Apabila orang Melayu/Islam memberi pandangan tentang sesuatu isu berkenaan dengan hubungan kaum kita dengan segera akan dilabel sebagai rasis. Pada masa yang sama kumpulan ini dengan sewenang-wenangnya menghina agama, Sultan dan adat budaya kita tanpa segan silu dan tanpa batas adab. Yang lucunyanya selepas mereka menghamburkan kata nista itu, mereka lari lintang pukang ketakutan.



1. Blog sjsandteam telah di 'delete' (klik sini)



2. Dalam posting tweeter mereka, mereka menghina pula Raja Nazrin Shah (klik sini)



Minta maaf lah tuan, if you think you get the country to be free of Islamic values and The Monarchy, you are day dreaming. Malaysia and Islam and its monarchy are indispensible, You can say whatever you want, if you insist, there will be blood on the street. But I doubt it, I doubt whether you have balls to battle it out. People like you are cowards. You hide behind freedom of speech only if it suit you, but when the freedom of turn against you, you label it racist.



Hakikatnya kumpulan-kumpulan bacul ini hanya berani menghentam secara curi-curi kemudian lari. Kumpulan ini banyak bersarang di malaysia today.

Inilah akibatnya bila bangsa -bangsa yang tidak bertamadun ini diberi muka. Sebaik sahaja dapat sediki kuasa habis semua hendak disapunya. Seolah-olah orang Melayu/Islam di Malaysia tidak punya hak langsung. Seolah-olah kerana DEB memberi keistimewaan kepada kaum pribumi, hak itu hilang bila undi memihak kepada mereka.

DYMM Raja Nazrin Shah bertitah dengan penuh bijaksana dan dengan mesej tersirat halus kepada kaum pribumi. Apa yang bakal menanti mereka jika mereka tidak berhati-hati. Beliau amat maklum bahawa hanya orang Melayu/Islam Malaysia sahaja yang prihatin dan sayang kepada kesultanan mereka, jangan harap kaum lain akan mengangkat semua ini ditempat setinggi sekarang ini.


Masalah kita adalah ada Melayu yang sanggup membakar semua ini kerana secalit dendam. Hanya kerana ingin bertakhta beliau mahu meroboh semua apa yang dibina semenjak 52 tahun dahulu. Beliau sanggup menjadi boneka, beliau sanggup jadi pak turut, beliau sanggup menjadi penderhaka, beliau sanggup menjadi petualang demi sedikit kemanisan kuasa. Namun hakikatnya jika kita sudah sampai kepada tiada jalan kembali, yang menang hanya akan jadi arang dan yang kalah pastilah hanya jadi abu. Dan itulah yang dikehendaki oleh kumpulan ini.

Biar menang sebagai arang, janji menang. Biarlah memerintah hanya negeri pasir dua butir tapi tetap jadi pemerintah.


Salam untuk melayu yang sentiasa dimalukan.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

PAS dan 'TakeBeer'.

Akhirnya Pesuruh Jaya PAS Selangor pun bersuara. Mungkin agak terlambat dalam 7 hari. Tetapi Pesuruh Jaya PAS Selangor membuktikan beliau mempunyai telur jantan di tubuhnya. Maka terpecahlah tembelang tentang apa yang berlaku secara rasmi di sebalik tirai di Selangor.

Dari pendedahan ini maka kita rakyat marhaen boleh membuat beberapa kesimpulan;

1. Exco Selangor mencampuri urusan pentadbiran PBT secara langsung. Sama ada ini boleh dipanggil penyalahgunaan kuasa, aku tidak pasti, tetapi yang pasti ada Exco yang berlanggak sebagai gangster Kampung Dusun di SUK. Jadi dimana beza BN dengan PR?

2. Exco DAP tidak peduli dengan sentimen masyarakat Melayu. Sifat Chauvinis mereka sangat jelas. Jika mereka ini memerintah Malaysia, bayangkan siapa yang akan beraja dimata dan bersultan dihati.

3.Sikap besar kepala ini bukan dilakukan oleh exco DAP sahaja, malah Ahli Majlis DAP di PBT juga mempunyai sikap mereka sahaja yang betul dan kaedah mereka sahaja yang perlu diikuti. Tanyalah pegawai PBT Ampang Jaya, Kajang, Selayang dll.

3. PAS gagal dalam menangani isu penjualan arak di Selangor. PAS baru sahaja ditempelak oleh DAP dan MCA tentang hak untuk menjual arak kepada khalayak samada di kawasan majoriti Melayu/Islam atau tidak. Inilah maslahat yang sama yang didepani oleh UMNO tetapi UMNO memilih untuk mengikut telunjuk MCA. Jadi kita lihat sejauh mana PAS dapat mengatasi maslahat ini. Pada firasat aku status quo akan kekal. Maknanya PAS akan mengikut telunjuk DAP. Jadi PAS dan UMNO sama sahaja. Tetapi PAS memakai jaket Islam dan UMNO jaket nasionalis, maka nampaknya PAS akan masuk syurga walau pun arak dijual secara umum sama macam zaman UMNO.

4. Ironinya dengan PAS adalah salah atu hujah mereka kenapa UMNO tidak mengikut lunas Islam adalah kerana Arak dijual secara berleluasa di Selangor. Kilang arak ada di Selangor. tetapi sebaik sahaja mendapat kuasa retorik ini hilang. Timbul pula hujah arak adalah untuk bukan Islam dan mereka berhak dan sebagainya. Itu adalah hujan Ustaz Azizan di Kedah. Di Selangor tiada resolusi dari PAS Selangor untuk menutup kilang arak di Shah Alam. Malah YB Khalid juga mempertahankan hak bukan Islam untuk mentekadarah arak. Apa bezanya dengan zaman UMNO?. oohhh..dizaman UMNO mereka tidak menggunakan ayat alquran dan sirah Rasulallah untuk menghalalkan perbuatan ini....bodonya UMNO.

5. YM DR Hassan Ali patut tahu ada satu lagi benda yang lebih merbahayakan dan sangat memabukkan di Selangor..benda itu disebut KUASA.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Is the Vaccine Industry the Next Bubble to lift United State out of the financial quicksand?

It is a certain fact that United States is slowly sinking in a huge financial mess. If this problem is faced by other country, I'm sure that poor country is down to her knees already. But this is no ordinary country. This is too big to fail country.


What ever it is the US need a miracle to lift her out of this mess. The great country need something to generate it economy. Remember the dot com bubble and the housing bubble? They are the bubbles created to save US from the sagging economy.


United State unfortunately , does not have any productive or meaningful manufacturing capabality to compete with the rest of the world other then its cars (gone already) and military industrial complex. They thought by focusing to be the world financial centre, they are able to control the world. But United State is like a great magician. She still possessed something up her sleeves, she has not run out of ammo.


The United States still have a competitive edge in term of technology . She has something that other countries still lack. She still has a well developed biological war fare technology. Now they have better terms for this . Its Bio defense!.


The United States has painstakingly collected all the fatal viruses found all over the world. They have almost a complete collection of known fatal viruses. Infact the net is full of written analysis of United States ability to conduct a bio warfare. If you read the Tom Burghard article (i repost it below) regarding US bio weapon industry you will now that they are capable of creating a global crisis!.


'Nothing happened by accident'. This rather old cliche sum up all the happening in world now . It is not a co incidence when H1N1 struck the world just after the United State almost fell to its knees. H1N1 which was born out of a combo of Spanish Flu Virus, Avian Flu Virus and Human Virus through a technic called gene splicing could not have come out of a pig farm from Mexico. Give the swine a break man.


World Health Organization predicted that as many as 2 billion people will be affected by H1N1 by 2011(click here). That is many billion dollar vaccination program. What if the world is hit by all kind flu one after another?. After all what is the need of all that collection if you end up a failed state like the Soviet?

Monday, August 3, 2009

Is H1N1 a test run for something more deadly?

America's Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction; Biological Warfare
Bioweapons research, secrecy and contamination go hand in hand
by Tom Burghardt
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The 2001 anthrax attacks underscore the dangers posed to our health and safety by the Bioweapons-Industrial Complex.

The killer(s) employed a military-grade version of the deadly pathogen, a four-mutation blend of anthrax prepared at the government's test site at the remote Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Based on available evidence it's a near certainty that the weapon came from stockpiles at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Ft. Detrick, Maryland.

Before the dust cleared prominent opposition politicians had been attacked, five people were murdered, 10,000 more were exposed and representative government ground to a halt as panic set in.

According to multiple media reports, federal investigators concluded that the anthrax spores in the letters addressed to former Senate leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) could only have been produced in a state-run lab. The weaponized version of the pathogen contained as many as one trillion spores per gram, a concentration sufficient enough to kill half the American population if widely distributed.
But rather than giving pause to Pentagon weaponeers, Big Pharma who profit handsomely from vaccine production, the $100 billion agribusiness empire that drives research and the politicians who do their bidding, decades-long U.S. biowar programs have miraculously morphed overnight into a new growth industry: "biodefense."

What had once been Washington's dirty little secret has now blossomed into a $50 billion cash-cow for academic and corporate grifters, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

As the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists pointed out last year, "massive U.S. biodefense spending and a buildup of high-containment laboratories throughout the country might have created an internal security risk that no outside terrorist group could ever duplicate. Nearly two dozen new federal and many more new private biosafety level 3 and 4 laboratories have been built in recent years, meaning a large cadre of scientists has access to extraordinarily lethal material."
Indeed, under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the new National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (
NBACC) opened in 2008 at USAMRIID. The center conducts inherently dual-use classified research and is currently managed by the spooky Battelle National Biodefense Institute.

Under the rubric of preventing bioterrorism, one question that DHS has not answered is whether or not government scientists and private contractors will conduct illicit experiments that violate the Biological Weapons Convention?

We may never know. Claiming that research will not breach the BWC, DHS avers that a "Compliance Review Group" overseen by senior Homeland Security officials will monitor NBACC operations. However information, including the Review Group's reports on Center operations or accidents at the facility may not be available under the Freedom of Information Act under cover of national security.

While it is reasonable to protect the nation's food supply from mischief, including sabotage by terrorists or deranged individuals armed with dangerous pathogens, work on animal diseases should be done transparently and safely. This however, is not the approach favored by the Department of Homeland Security.

A culture of secrecy and cover-up permeates the agency; after all DHS answers to the militarized Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the so-called security "czar" who oversees the 16-agency U.S. intelligence complex.
"Food security" under such conditions is hardly amenable to public accountabilty; it is however, a formula that can be highly detrimental to our health, safety and well-being.
National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility

When the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to phase out the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) by 2015, the agency cited the need to "enhance our nation's capacity to assess potential threats to humans and animals alike."

Averring that the Plum Island facility "is near the end of its lifecycle" and "is too small to meet the nation's research needs," DHS now plans to open the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Estimated to cost taxpayers some $700 million to construct, the department plans to have the site up-and-running by 2014.

The authority for building the new facility comes from Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9 (HSPD-9): Defense of Agriculture and Food. HSPD-9 mandates that the secretaries of Homeland Security, Agriculture, and Health and Human Services; the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the heads of other "appropriate" federal departments and agencies "in consultation" with the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, "accelerate and expand the development of countermeasures against the intentional introduction or natural occurrence of catastrophic animal, plant, and zoonotic diseases."

According to a 2007 report by the Congressional Research Service:
The DHS foresees multiple uses and goals for the new facility: serving as a unique BSL-3 and BSL-4 livestock laboratory capable of developing countermeasures for foreign animal diseases; providing advanced test and evaluation capability for threat detection, vulnerability assessment, and countermeasure assessment for animal and zoonotic diseases; and supporting countermeasure licensure.

The research agenda for NBAF is to be at least partially based on current risk assessments and subject to change as the risk assessments change. The DHS predicts that the facility will focus on foot and mouth disease (FMD), classical swine fever, African swine fever, Rift Valley fever, Nipah virus, Hendra virus, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, and Japanese encephalitis. (Dana A. Shea, Jim Monke and Frank Gottron, The National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility: Issues for Congress, Congressional Research Service, RL42160, November 15, 2007)

A zoonotic disease is one that can easily be transmitted from animals to humans; examples include Rift Valley fever, Lyme Disease, West Nile virus, H1N1 and H5N1 influenza. These pathogens however, can also be deployed as plausibly deniable bioweapons, a point not addressed by government investigators.

"Countermeasure licensure" of course, is a formula for handing over the fruit of publicly funded research to unaccountable private corporations who stand to make hefty profits from the manufacture of vaccines.

More pertinently, will America's expanding "biodefense" industry serve as a cover for the manufacture of new weapons of war?

As Watergate-era congressional investigations and multiple media reports have conclusively demonstrated, for decades the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon employed far-right Cuban mercenaries to attack the economic and agricultural infrastructure of socialist Cuba.
Indeed, Newsday reported as far back as 1977, that "operatives linked to anti-Castro terrorists introduced African swine fever virus into Cuba in 1971. Six weeks later, an outbreak of the disease forced the slaughter of 500,000 pigs to prevent a nationwide epidemic."

The African swine fever virus deployed in the attack according to participants, was believed to have originated from stockpiles stored at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and handed over to CIA-trained terrorists at Ft. Gulick, an Army base in the former Panama Canal Zone.
And in 1981 according to researcher William H. Schaap, Cuba was struck by a devastating epidemic of Dengue fever, "one of some 250 arthropod-borne viruses, or 'arboviruses,' diseases transmitted from one vertebrate to another by hematophagous arthropods--blood eating insects, usually mosquitoes."

"Dengue and other arboviruses" Schaap wrote, "are ideal as biological weapons for a number of reasons. Dengue, especially hemorrhagic dengue, is highly incapacitating; it can be transmitted easily through the introduction of infected mosquitoes; it will spread rapidly, especially in highly populated and damp areas."
Citing the simultaneous outbreak of the disease in three widely separated parts of Cuba and that it is "extremely unusual that such an epidemic would commence in three localities at once," and the absence of the disease on adjacent islands such as Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Schaap concludes that the pathogen was purposely introduced into Cuba as a bioweapon.

Indeed, Army researchers at Ft. Detrick had conducted dispersal studies of the Aedes aegypti mosquito--and Dengue fever--used in the 1981 attack against the island nation.

The epidemic which hit Cuba in May 1981 was of type 2 dengue with hemorrhagic shock. Except for the type 1 epidemic reported in 1977, this was the first major dengue outbreak in Cuba since 1944, and, most importantly, the first in the Caribbean since the turn of the century to involve hemorrhagic shock on a massive scale.

From May to October 1981 there were well over 300,000 reported cases, with 158 fatalities, 101 involving children under 15. At the peak of the epidemic, in early July, more than 10,000 cases per day were being reported. More than a third of the reported victims required hospitalization. By mid-October, after a massive campaign to eradicate Aedes aegypti, the epidemic was over. (William H. Schaap, "The 1981 Cuba Dengue Epidemic," Washington, D.C.: Covert Action Information Bulletin, Number 17, Summer 1982)

And if the past is any guide to future actions by the Pentagon and the so-called Intelligence Community, what can we infer from DHS's stated goal of standing-up NBAF as a center for assessing "potential threats to humans and animals alike"? As it turns out, quite a lot.
Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigators charge that DHS relied on "a rushed, flawed study" to justify its decision to locate the $700 million research facility for highly infectious pathogens "in a tornado-prone section of Kansas, according to a government report," The Washington Post reported July 26.

The dubious report in question, United States Department of Agriculture Biocontainment Feasibility Studies, Study Report: Plum Island Animal Disease Center, was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and prepared by the giant defense and security firm Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).

Talk about feathering one's own nest! SAIC's Frederick, Maryland advanced technology division (near Ft. Detrick) has partnered-up with with a host of federal agencies including the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, the Pentagon's primary biowarfare research center.

Needless to say, the spooky firm has considerable clout in Washington. According to Washington Technology's "2009 Top 100 Federal Prime Contractors" list, SAIC clocks-in at number 7 (just behind KBR Inc.) with some $4,811,194,800 in revenue, the bulk of earnings coming from defense and security contracts with the federal government.

Last year however, a preliminary GAO report was unveiled during hearings before Congress' Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce. It was highly critical of the flawed reasoning behind DHS's NBAF decision and SAIC's report. Relying on USDA's 2002 study, GAO auditors found that the agency,

has neither conducted nor commissioned any study to determine whether work on foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) can be done safely on the U.S. mainland. Instead, in deciding that work with FMD can be done safely on the mainland, DHS relied on a 2002 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) study that addressed a different question. The study did not assess the past history of releases of FMD virus or other dangerous pathogens in the United States or elsewhere. It did not address in detail the issues of containment related to large animal work in BSL-3 Ag facilities. It was inaccurate in comparing other countries' FMD work experience with that of the United States. Therefore, GAO believes DHS does not have evidence to conclude that FMD work can be done safely on the U.S. mainland. (Nancy Kingsbury, Managing Director Applied Research and Measurements, Government Accountability Office, High-Containment Laboratories: DHS Lacks Evidence to Conclude That Foot-and-Mouth-Disease Research Can Be Done Safely on the U.S. Mainland, Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, May 22, 2008, GAO-08-821T)

The SAIC review addressed a different issue: whether or not it is "technically feasible" to conduct such research on the U.S. mainland. GAO averred, "This approach fails to recognize the distinction between what is technically feasible and what is possible, given the potential for human error."

Citing "methodological problems" in SAIC's study, GAO auditors found that the report: "(1) did not assess the history of releases of FMD virus or other dangerous pathogens, (2) did not address in detail the issues related to large animal work in BSL-3 Ag facilities, and (3) was inaccurate in comparing other countries' FMD work experience with that of the United States."
GAO concluded that among the report's more glaring and obvious problems, "(1) the study used an ad hoc method to select its expert panel that was not necessarily free from bias; (2) the study report was written by a single third-party person under contract for that purpose who was not present during the panel discussions; and (3) no concern was taken to ensure that the expert panel members reviewed either the draft or the final version of the report. At least one expert panel member expressed disappointment with the slant of the report."

Indeed, the SAIC review failed to address the issue of past releases of FMD or other pathogens, nor did it assess "the general history of accidents within biocontainment facilities." No small matter when it comes to potential mischief or lax safety standards known to exist at such facilities.

According to GAO, "the study panel members we interviewed said that no data on past accidents with or releases of either FMD or other pathogens was systematically presented or discussed. Rather, the panel members recalled that they relied on their own knowledge of and experience with the history of releases in a general discussion."

In a follow-up report published in July 2009, GAO discovered that DHS's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was wholly inadequate and in fact, relied on flawed and outdated methodology to arrive at their conclusions. According to GAO auditors "Comments on the NBAF draft EIS included the following concerns:"

* the ability of DHS and the federal government in general to safely operate a biosafety facility such as the proposed NBAF;
* the potential for a pathogenic release through accidents, natural phenomena, and terrorist actions;

* our May 2008 testimony that concluded that DHS had not conducted or commissioned a study to determine whether FMD research could be conducted safely on the U.S. mainland;
* natural phenomena such as tornadoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes that could cause catastrophic damage to the NBAF and result in the release of a pathogen;
* the possibility that an infected mosquito vector could escape, allowing a pathogen such as Rift Valley Fever virus to become permanently established in the United States;
* the economic effects of a release or a perceived release on the local, state, and national livestock industry. (United States Government Accountability Office, Report to Congressional Committees, Biological Research: Observations on DHS's Analyses Concerning Whether FMD Research Can Be Done as Safely on the Mainland as on Plum Island, July 2009, GAO-09-747)
Indeed similar to the earlier USDA study, DHS's EIS failed to include even a cursory analysis of multiple releases of the FMD virus at Plum Island itself. No matter, full speed ahead!
Leading the charge to site NBAF at Kansas State University is the Kansas Bioscience Authority (KBA), a business and academic consortium chaired by former Democratic governor John Carlin. Plush with industry heavy-hitters such as the Midwest Research Institute (MRI), the lobby shop KansasBio, Symark LLC, a technology commercialization firm specializing in the biosciences industry, KBA is hell-bent on bringing NBAF to Kansas despite serious health and safety concerns.

According to a Kansas City Star report, Tom Thornton, the President and CEO of the Kansas Bioscience Authority told the newspaper "This nation needs to have one modern biocontainment lab that conducts research into these diseases to protect agriculture and protect public health."
Claiming that the GAO report was "biased," KBA's John Carlin asserted that "aside from using Dorothy as their science, they don't have much going for them." Thornton said the project would be built as a "vault inside a vault inside a submarine" to protect against the accidental release of germs and diseases.

In other words, move along...

DHS and USDA assert, despite historical evidence, that Foot-and Mouth-Disease (FMD) as well as research with other dangerous pathogens can be safely conducted on the U.S. mainland at its new agro-defense center. But if evidence from Britain is any guide on what to expect, the explosive growth of Biosafety Level 3 and 4 laboratories in the United States will only compound the problem.

In 2001 and 2007, FMD releases at Britain's Institute for Animal Health at Pirbright were traced to a leaking drain which allowed the disease to escape containment. Crumbling infrastructure is only one of a constellation of issues that led to the outbreaks, investigators discovered. Lax oversight and a culture of secrecy nearly devastated Europe's livestock.
According to Britain's National Audit Office, the direct cost of the 2001 outbreak to the public sector was estimated at over $5.71 billion and the cost to the private sector clocked-in at over $9.51 billion. Indeed, when tourism and supporting industries were factored into the equation, total losses ballooned from $8.56 billion to $10.27 billion when movement into the countryside was restricted by the state, UK auditors estimated.

By the time FMD was eradicated in September 2001, more than six million animals had been slaughtered and the disease had spread to France, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands and Northern Ireland. A similar outbreak in 2007 fueled calls to close the facility.
This is not a problem confined to Britain, but is endemic to the entire bioweapons and "biodefense" complex globally, particularly here in the heimat.

Tip of a Sinister Iceberg

Bioweapons research, secrecy and contamination go hand in hand.
Despite soothing bromides from defense corporations, the military, the scientific community and the politicians who do their bidding, the accidental or planned release of selected pathogens into the environment for "research purposes" is an enduring legacy of America's Cold War biowar programs.

The experimentation on witting and unwitting subjects in a score of top secret Army and CIA programs underscore the sinister nature of the Bioweapons-Industrial Complex. Indeed, a 1994 GAO report, documented:

During World War II and the Cold War era, DOD and other national security agencies conducted or sponsored extensive radiological, chemical, and biological research programs. Precise information on the number of tests, experiments, and participants is not available, and the exact numbers may never be known. However, we have identified hundreds of radiological, chemical, and biological tests and experiments in which hundreds of thousands of people were used as test subjects. These tests and experiments often involved hazardous substances such as radiation, blister and nerve agents, biological agents, and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). In some cases, basic safeguards to protect people were either not in place or not followed. For example, some tests and experiments were conducted in secret; others involved the use of people without their knowledge or consent or their full knowledge of the risks involved. (Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and International Affairs Division, Human Experimentation, An Overview on Cold War Era Programs, General Accounting Office, September 28, 1994, GAO/T-NSIAD-94-266)

Despite efforts since the Watergate-era to uncover the extent of these programs, many remain classified to this day. The GAO found that the Central Intelligence Agency, more concerned with shielding their corporate partners' participation in illicit experiments with LSD and other psychoactive compounds "have made little effort to assist test participants by identifying test locations and participants in experiments conducted by contractors." The Agency "in fact, has not released the names of 15 of the approximately 80 organizations that conducted experiments under the ... MKULTRA program because the organizations do not want to be identified."
One sinister Pentagon project, Operation WHITECOAT, was a secret U.S. Army weapons' testing program carried out between 1954-1973 on Seventh-day Adventist Church conscientious objectors who consented to the experiments, and over 2,300 Army soldiers who almost certainly were not provided anything approaching informed consent. Similar to cattle, sheep or pigs on Plum Island, test subjects were infected with agents such as Q Fever, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, Hepatitis A, bubonic plague, Tularemia (rabbit fever) and Venezuelan Equine encephalitis.
Indeed, the range of experimentation on human subjects carried out by the U.S. biological weapons program makes for a very grim read. As Boston College sociologist Jeanne Guillemin wrote in her disturbing exposé,

The entire experimental legacy is dismaying, from the hundreds of dead monkeys at Fort Detrick to the spectacle of Seventh Day Adventist soldiers, the vaccinated volunteers in Project Whitecoat, strapped to chairs amid cages of animals in the Utah sunlight as Q fever aerosols are blown over them. Most chilling are the mock scenarios played out in urban areas: light bulbs filled with simulated BW agents being dropped in New York subways, men in Washington National Airport spraying pseudo-BW from briefcases, and similar tests in California and Texas and over the Florida Keys. (Jeanne Guillemin, Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, pp. 176-177.)

As Michael Christopher Carroll's stunning investigation of Plum Island, Lab 257 revealed, multiple releases of highly-contagious pathogens including Foot-and-Mouth-Disease and Rift Valley Fever, were systematically covered-up by the USDA and DHS.

Will it be any different at the new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility? If one were to believe DHS, it would represent the triumph of hope over experience. This is not a rational starting point when it comes to experiments with highly-contagious pathogens.

America's corporate media however, seemingly impermeable to anything other than celebrity scandals and the crimes of official enemies, refuse to conduct in-depth investigations into the expansion of America's Bioweapons-Industrial Complex.

Despite government pronouncements, faithfully regurgitated by media stenographers to the public, available evidence suggests that the United States, as in the past, is pursuing the development of biological agents for use in a score of clandestine weapons programs.
Under cover of conducting research on the highly-contagious Foot-and-Mouth-Disease pathogen, a new and improved national laboratory equipped with BSL-3 and BSL-4 containment facilities, like their cohorts at the U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases at Ft. Detrick, Maryland in all probability will continue to investigate the efficacy of waging aggressive biological warfare on an adversary's food supply.

Sound far-fetched? If the evidence from Cold War-era CIA and Pentagon programs, well-documented accidents, illicit human experimentation as well as numerous examples of biological attacks against socialist Cuba are a guide to Washington's future behavior, better think again!

Tom Burghardt is a researcher and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to publishing in Covert Action Quarterly and Global Research, his articles can be read on Dissident Voice, The Intelligence Daily, Pacific Free Press and the whistleblowing website Wikileaks. He is the editor of Police State America: U.S. Military "Civil Disturbance" Planning, distributed by AK Press.