False Claims and MP

Comment:

I wonder if things like this also happen in Malaysia?! (False claims and jailed sentences for MP).

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=155780506&ocid=MSNToolbar100
(8 January 2011)

Chaytor jailed over false expenses

David Chaytor has been jailed for 18 months after making false expenses claims. Former Labour MP David Chaytor has been jailed for 18 months for making false Parliamentary expenses claims. Chaytor, 61, became the first politician to be convicted and sentenced over the expenses scandal which has rocked Westminster. He submitted bogus invoices to support claims totalling £22,650 for IT services and renting homes in London and his Bury North constituency.

But the properties were owned by him and his mother, and he did not pay out any of his own money, Southwark Crown Court in London heard. Chaytor, of Lumbutts, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty last month to three counts of false accounting between November 2005 and January 2008.

The former MP is now facing a large legal bill for both his defence and the costs of bringing the prosecution against him. Sentencing Chaytor, Mr Justice Saunders said the Parliamentary expenses scandal has "shaken public confidence in the legislature and angered the public".

In mitigation, James Sturman QC said Chaytor was a "broken man" who had already paid a "quite devastating price" for his actions. He said: "He accepts he has brought shame on himself, he has brought shame on his family and he has brought shame on Parliament."

A Labour Party spokesman said: "David Chaytor had already been suspended from the Labour Party and following his custodial sentence he has now been excluded from the party."








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Top Gear and Islam

Source:
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2011&dt=0101&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Luar_Negara&pg=lu_07.htm


Top Gear persenda Islam


Jeremy Clarkson dan Richard Hammond memakai burqa bagi melindungi muka mereka dalam episod khas Boxing Day yang disiarkan pada 26 Disember, 2010. - BBC

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LONDON 31 Dis. - Penyampai- penyampai rancangan televisyen pemotoran Britain, Top Gear mencetuskan kemarahan masyarakat Islam, apabila mempersendakan agama itu dengan aksi memakai burqa dalam episod khas Boxing Day yang disiarkan pada 26 Disember lalu.

Dalam episod itu, Jeremy Clarkson dan Richard Hammond memakai burqa bagi melindungi muka mereka daripada dilihat di jalan. Episod itu turut menampilkan seorang lagi penyampai, James May yang disapa mereka sewaktu dalam perjalanan pulang dari hospital selepas menerima rawatan akibat kepalanya terhantuk pada batu semasa berada di gurun Syria.

Bagaimanapun jenaka yang cuba ditonjolkan mereka dikecam hebat oleh masyarakat Islam kerana ia disifatkan sebagai mempersendakan agama Islam. "Burqa adalah simbol agama kami dan ia tidak patut dijadikan bahan jenaka oleh sesiapa.

"Ia akan dilihat sama teruk walaupun dilakonkan di negara yang majoriti penduduknya bukan Islam," kata jurucakap kumpulan Islam Britain, Islam4UK

[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam4UK ]

Dalam episod khas yang ditonton enam juta penonton itu, tiga penyampai tersebut memandu kereta sport direka khas ke Baitulaham melalui Turki, Syria dan Jordan.

Aksi mereka memakai burqa boleh dilihat semasa memandu kereta dan membantu May yang cedera di kepala, namun pemilihan pakaian itu turut dikritik di Twitter dan laman-laman web diskusi.

Stesen penyiaran BBC berkata, pihaknya masih belum menilai reaksi penonton berhubung perkara tersebut. Ini bukan kali pertama Clarkson membangkitkan kemarahan masyarakat Islam berhubung pemakaian burqa. Pada Julai lalu, dia memberitahu penonton Top Gear, dia pernah ternampak seorang wanita Islam memakai seluar dalam yang menarik di bawah burqanya. - Agensi

Komen:

Apa lagi yang hendak dinilai, takkan orang kulit putih tak faham, atau tak cukup ilmu, untuk memahami yang memakai burqa (sejenis pakaian perempuan Muslim), dan mempersenda-senda boleh menyebabkan orang Muslim marah?! Saja nak uji atau membuat orang Islam marah lagi lah tu... atau untuk menaikkan rating 'show' mereka... Cepat orang Islam kena boikot 'show' mereka dan kutuk habis2!

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PTK di Mansuh !

http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=1221&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Terkini&pg=bt_08.htm

(21 December 2010)

Mekanisme baru ganti PTK - Najib
21/12/2010 11:21am


KUALA LUMPUR 21 Dis. - Kerajaan akan berunding dengan Cuepacs untuk mewujudkan satu mekanisme penilaian baru kakitangan awam bagi menggantikan Penilaian Tahap Kecekapan (PTK) yang telah dimansuhkan.

Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak berkata, penilaian baru itu akan dipastikan menjurus kepada aspek yang berkaitan bidang tugas kakitangan awam sahaja. - Utusan



Also see:

http://cuepacs.blogspot.com/

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/12/22/nation/7668334&sec=nation

(22nd Dec 2010)

Govt doubles Cuepacs grant to RM2mil

KUALA LUMPUR: The annual government grant for Cuepacs has been doubled to RM2mil from next year and the Government will also consider giving bonuses to civil servants if the country’s financial position improves, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.

The Prime Minister said that Cuepacs will receive an allocation of RM1mil as a one-off payment for the congress to repair its headquarters in Pudu which was said to be in a dilapidated state.

The Government had earlier raised the quantum of the annual grant to the congress from RM350,000 in 2009 to RM1mil this year. Najib said the Government understood what Cuepacs wanted but the Government had to be realistic in its spending.

“We will do the best (for the people) but within the capability (of the Government). I would be most happy if I could pay bonus because I will be able to see the smiles on the faces of the 1.3 million civil servants,” he said at the Cuepacs 25th triennial seminar and convention here yesterday.

Najib said that when Cuepacs demanded a RM500 bonus for each civil servant every year, the Government had to fork out close to RM1bil. He advised Cuepacs to refrain from having a confrontational approach with the Government.

Comment:

What I see more important is not the 'bonus issue' per se (even though a bonus would be good), but more importantly the M'sian government must control and monitor the prices of essential raw materials and goods/products, so that it will not be too high and burden the lower income groups of people in the society. Whats the point of having a high salary, when you have to also pay higher prices for the goods? ; I noticed that in developed countries like, UK and Australia, even though the salaries of workers are high, but the prices of essential goods are keep relatively low ; Ask any M'sians and they will immediately tells you that the prices of goods are getting higher by the day, now thats what the M'sian government must tackle.

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Hakim Mahkamah Syariah

KOMEN:

Apa sudah jadi dengan hakim mahkamah syariah kita? Hakim mahkamah syariah umpama 'ustaz' yang berjawatan tinggi... gaji pun boleh tahan... tapi sempat lagi buat rasuah?!

Antara masalahnya, mungkinkah:

1- Gaji tak cukup tinggi?

2- Tidak ada sistem 'check and balance' yang berkesan daripada pihak atasan?

3- Mungkin juga tiada sistem 'maklumbalas awam' yang efektif (effective public feedback), dimana pendapat dan pandangan umum (aduan awam) dianggap 'sampah.'

Buatlah 'interview' dengan 'hakim' tersebut, dan tanyalah apakah sebenarnya yang berlaku sehingga menyebabkan keruntuhan darjat/moral yang begitu drastik?

http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=1214&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Terkini&pg=bt_08.htm (14th Dec 2010)

Bekas hakim dipenjara 19 tahun kerana rasuah
14/12/2010 4:03pm
IPOH 14 Dis. - Bekas Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah Perak, Hassan Basri Shapie hari ini dihukum penjara 19 tahun dan denda RM210,000 selepas disabitkan atas tujuh pertuduhan rasuah. - Utusan


http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=1214&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Mahkamah&pg=ma_02.htm (14th Dec 2010)

Bicara Hakim Syarie khalwat 31 Januari (2011)

PULAU PINANG 13 Dis. – Ketua Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah dan pasangannya yang sebelum ini ditahan oleh penguat kuasa Jabatan Agama Islam Pulau Pinang (JAIPP) kerana disyaki bersekedudukan, dilepaskan oleh Mahkamah Rendah Syariah di sini dengan bon mahkamah RM3,000 setiap seorang.

Hakim Nik Bukhari Hashimy Nik Yahya menetapkan jumlah tersebut selepas pihaknya dimaklumkan oleh peguam Ahmad Munawir Abd. Aziz yang mewakili pasangan terbabit bahawa anak guamnya sudah berkahwin di luar negara.

Pada prosiding di mahkamah hari ini, peguam itu turut mengemukakan surat pengesahan pernikahan pasangan terbabit. ‘‘Justeru itu, pihak pembelaan memohon siasatan semula dilakukan sebelum sebarang tindakan lanjut diambil terhadap suspek sama ada mereka didakwa ataupun sebaliknya atas tuduhan berkenaan,’’ kata Ahmad Munawir.

Nik Bukhari menetapkan 31 Januari depan untuk sebutan semula kes tersebut bagi membolehkan tindakan susulan dibuat oleh pihak pendakwaan terhadap suspek yang berusia 40-an dan 30-an. Terdahulu, kedua-dua suspek hadir ke mahkamah pada pukul 10 pagi diiringi peguam mereka, Ahmad Munawir yang turut dibantu oleh Wan Faridulhadi Md. Yusof.

Kes tersebut kemudiannya didaftarkan oleh Bahagian Pendakwaan JAIPP. Ketua Pendakwa Syarie, Mohd. Zulkhairi Aziz mendaftarkan kes itu mengikut Seksyen 27 (a) (b) Enakmen Kesalahan Jenayah Syariah Negeri Pulau Pinang 1996 iaitu berkhalwat. Bagaimanapun pertuduhan berkenaan tidak dibacakan terhadap pasangan itu setelah pihak pembelaan mengemukakan representasi kepada Ketua Pendakwaan Syarie Pulau Pinang supaya kes tersebut disemak semula.


http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=1210&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Mahkamah&pg=ma_07.htm (10 Dec 2010)

Tindakan tegas hakim khalwat

PULAU PINANG 9 Dis. – Jabatan Agama Islam Pulau Pinang (JAIPP) hari ini mengesahkan seorang hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah di negeri ini ditahan kerana disyaki bersekedudukan dengan seorang wanita di sebuah perumahan kerajaan di sini Ahad lalu.

Pengarahnya, Sazali Hussin berkata, buat masa ini, kes membabitkan hakim tersebut yang berusia lingkungan 40-an dan berkhidmat di Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah di sini sedang giat dijalankan. “Kita bertindak atas aduan yang dibuat orang awam dan buat masa ini tidak dapat beri komen kerana ia masih dalam siasatan,” katanya kepada Utusan Malaysia ketika dihubungi di sini, hari ini.

Sebuah akhbar hari ini melaporkan, seorang Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah ditahan penguat kuasa JAIPP kerana disyaki bersekedudukan dengan seorang wanita di kuarters kerajaan di Georgetown di sini, pada Ahad lalu. Menurut laporan itu, hakim terbabit ditahan kira-kira pada pukul 2 pagi dan ketika serbuan dilakukan isteri dan anaknya tiada di rumah kerana dikatakan berada di ibu kota.

Sementara itu, Ketua Polis Pulau Pinang, Datuk Ayub Yaakob ketika dihubungi turut mengesahkan pihaknya menerima laporan mengenai penangkapan seorang hakim dan wanita kerana disyaki berkhalwat. Sementara itu, di ibu negara, Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom berkata, pihaknya akan mengambil tindakan terhadap hakim syariah tersebut.

http://www.hmetro.com.my/articles/Hakimsyariahbersekedudukan/Article (9th Dec 2010)

Hakim syariah bersekedudukan
Oleh Idris Musa

KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah ditahan penguat kuasa Jabatan Agama Islam Pulau Pinang kerana disyaki bersekedudukan dengan seorang wanita di kuarters kerajaan di Georgetown, Ahad lalu. Menurut sumber, hakim terbabit yang berusia 40-an ditangkap ketika bersama pasangannya kira-kira jam 2 pagi.

“Sewaktu kejadian, isteri dan anaknya tiada di rumah kerana dikatakan ke ibu kota. “Pasangan itu ditangkap penguat kuasa agama hasil maklumat diperoleh,” katanya ketika dihubungi, semalam.

Hakim terbabit dikatakan berkhidmat di Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah di sebuah negeri di utara Semenanjung sejak lebih setahun lalu. Sebelum ini, beliau bertugas di Jabatan Kehakiman Syariah Malaysia (JKSM), Putrajaya. Kes berkenaan bagaimanapun masih di peringkat siasatan Jabatan Agama Islam Pulau Pinang dan hakim terbabit belum didakwa, sebaliknya dia dibebaskan dengan jaminan Jabatan Agama Islam selama seminggu.

Sumber itu berkata, kes berkenaan agak sulit (??) kerana mempunyai unsur ugutan daripada tertuduh terhadap pegawai penyiasat. Namun, katanya, pihak penyiasat sudah membuat laporan polis berhubung perkara berkenaan. “Pada masa ini hakim terbabit diberi jaminan penguat kuasa. Tempoh jaminan akan berakhir Isnin depan dan pada hari berkenaan, kes dijangka disebut di mahkamah syariah.

“Beliau sebelum ini dikatakan mengugut pegawai siasatan dan penguat kuasa dengan mengancam untuk mengambil tindakan jika mereka meneruskan kes berkenaan kerana beliau mendakwa mempunyai hubungan rapat dengan pihak atasan,” katanya.




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Program Realiti atau Realiti Kehidupan?!

Komen:

Bagaimana mereka menang?? Bukankah mereka ini terpilih daripada ratusan calon, dengan kriteria yang amat ketat?! ... Lakonan saja... Itu lah sejak dulu lagi saya 'anti' program realiti... Tak tengok pun... Maksiat.

http://www.hmetro.com.my/myMetro/articles/Sein_Nanasahbercerai/Article/index_html
(9th December 2010)

Sein, Nana sah bercerai
SHAH ALAM: Bagaikan sudah terkena badi, mahligai perkahwinan juara program realiti Sehati Berdansa musim ketiga, Sein Ruffedge dan Nana menemui titik nokhtah apabila Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah, di sini, membenarkan permohonan perceraian pasangan itu dengan talak satu, semalam.

Sein, 27, atau nama sebenarnya Syed Hussein Syed Mustaffa melafazkan talak pada jam 2.46 petang, selepas mahkamah membenarkan permohonan Nana, 26, yang juga anak bekas Menteri Besar Selangor, Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib untuk berpisah secara baik. Nana yang pernah menyertai rancangan realiti, Mentor musim pertama memfailkan permohonan itu mengikut Seksyen 47 Enakmen Undang-Undang Keluarga Islam Selangor 2003.

Prosiding perceraian berkenaan berlangsung di hadapan Hakim Syarie Zainor Rashid Hassin dan Nana atau nama sebenarnya, Noor Diyana Muhammad diwakili peguam syarie, Zuri Zabudin Budiman. Sein bagaimanapun tidak diwakili peguam syarie.

Terdahulu, Zuri Zabudin memberitahu, permohonan untuk bercerai itu difailkan berikutan pasangan terbabit tidak lagi mempunyai persefahaman dalam rumah tangga yang dibina sejak Julai 2006. “Pasangan ini tidak dapat lagi menjalani kehidupan sebagai suami dan isteri dan wujud perbalahan berpanjangan. Mereka masih serumah tetapi tidak tidur bersama. Pelbagai usaha sudah dijalankan tetapi tiada jalan penyelesaian,” katanya. Zainor Rashid selepas mendengar lafaz itu mensabitkan gugur talak satu kali pertama secara rajie terhadap Nana dan memerintahkan dia untuk beredah selama tiga kali suci.

Beliau juga memerintahkan supaya perceraian itu didaftarkan di Pejabat Agama Daerah Petaling dan surat nikah pasangan tersebut dibatalkan. Sein dan Nana mendirikan rumah tangga pada Julai 2006 dan hasil perkongsian hidup mereka dikurniakan dua cahayamata, Syed Tamriz Al-Qudsy, 3, dan Sharifah Inaiya Al-Qudsy, 1. Sein yang kini aktif sebagai pelakon dan pernah menjayakan drama bersiri ‘Adamaya’ bergandingan dengan Lisa Surihani. Dia juga pernah muncul sebagai pelakon undangan dalam Hotel Mania terbitan KRU Studio selain membintangi filem Sepi arahan Khabir Bhatia. Sein dan Nana adalah pasangan peserta Sehati Berdansa terbaru yang tidak dapat mempertahankan rumah tangga mereka. Sebelum ini, pasangan Asheed Def-Gab-C, Atilia, Dira Abu Zahar, Radhi OAG, Sabrina Ali dan Anne Ngasri turut menerima nasib sama. Pengacara Fahrin Ahmad yang menjalinkan hubungan dengan Linda Onn dan Scha Al Yahya ketika mengacara program ini turut berdepan kontroversi panas.

[Alamak... Macam tuhan tak restu program realiti ini... Macam-macam musibah ditimpa!]

Sementara itu, pada prosiding sama, mahkamah juga merekodkan persetujuan bersama Nana meliputi nafkah edah, mutaah dan harta sepencarian serta hak penjagaan dua anak mereka.




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Internet SCAM... ITS a worldwide phenomena

Comment:

Internet SCAM... ITS a worldwide phenomena, the question is, when is the Interpol (International Police) going to do something about it? In some case, the scammer face was caught on cctv, his Identity Card was used to withdraw the money, and yet local police did not do anything to apprehend the man?? What more proof does the police need then?


http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/mp/8481039/woman-loses-600-000-in-love-scam/
9th December 2010)

Woman loses $600,000 in 'love scam'

JAYNE RICKARD, The West Australian
December 9, 2010, 10:18 am

A 43-year-old Perth widow was scammed out of $600,000 after falling for a man online who was involved with a professional crime gang. The woman, who has two children aged 16 and 17, is now homeless, bankrupt and without a car after selling everything to give the man she believed loved her with funds for a business venture.

"All the time I was questioning myself but I had to give something a go, I wasn't working and I was trying to change my life, trying to make it better, a better life for my kids," the woman said. The woman met the man through an online dating service in November 2009.

She went online in search of a partner after her husband died 11 years ago and met 'Christopher', who told her he was of Greek origin and living in the US with business interests in West Africa. The pair were soon messaging each other directly in what she believed was a budding romance. Christopher began calling his victim almost every day and after chatting with him for a month, invited her to invest in an oil export project in the vicinity of the Nigerian/Cameroon border.

Later she began wiring him money through a series of deposits to overseas bank accounts over 12 months. "He was really convincing, he was a master, a master of convincing and making me feel loved and trusted that he knew what he was doing," she said. "I had to borrow funds from my investment property, which they helped me set up, I sold my properties, sold jewellery, sold my cars to raise the funds for this."

She was sent numerous fake documents and certificates supposedly from lawyers and accountants in the US and Nigeria. The victim borrowed against her Redcliffe home and investment property in Swan View and also borrowed money from family and friends before realising she had been scammed.

"I didn't want more of the same from the past, I wanted to do something more, I wanted to travel the world and experience everything. "I was lonely and the kids are grown up now so I thought I could have a man to grow old with," the woman said. "It was like Christopher hypnotised me into a false sense of a dream of what could be possible. I am back to reality now and I want my life and home back.

"I'm bankrupt now, none of my family talk to me, except my daughter, my daughter still loves me and I've got a couple of friends left but no, everyone deserted me." The scam is a timely reminder for women who could be dealing with fraudsters online.

NOTE: ITS also a reminder for 'men' as well, beware of girls from China, Cambodia, Thailand, (to name a few, but not exclusively to this list only), who said that they 'cannot live without you' and need you to send money to support their families, relatives, and/or to do business in their countries.

Consumer Protection Commissioner Anne Driscoll said romance scams targeted vulnerable people and built up trust using false documents and websites to support their claims. "The person perpetrating this scam is a professional conman. There is no sense of remorse as he has cold heartedly groomed his victim with regular telephone calls and promises that have convinced her to send money overseas," Ms Driscoll said.

"People searching for partners online should never entertain business propositions or send money to people they have never met in person or don't know they can trust." The woman's complaint to WA ScamNet at Consumer Protection has also been reported to the WA Police for further investigation. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission estimated money lost by Australians in romance scams totalled $6.5 million in 2009. WA ScamNet has got information and advice about romance scams.



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Internet Scam lagi...

http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=1122&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Jenayah&pg=je_01.htm (22nd November 2010)
Wanita rugi hampir RM40,000
Oleh RANIA PARAN
pengarang@utusan.com.my
MIRI 21 Nov. - Gara-gara ingin mendapatkan wang tunai yang banyak dalam tempoh segera, seorang wanita tempatan kerugian RM39,350 selepas diperdayakan seorang lelaki dari United Kingdom yang dikenalinya melalui Internet. Mangsa yang berusia lingkungan 30-an memberitahu, dia mengenali lelaki itu sejak dua tahun lalu menerusi sebuah laman sosial di Internet.

Sejak tiga bulan lalu, katanya, mereka mula bercerita mengenai topik pelaburan dan kenalannya itu yang mendakwa bekerja sebagai peguam bela memberitahu bahawa dia merancang untuk melabur sebanyak 200,000 pound sterling (RM1 juta) bersama mangsa. Tidak berapa lama kemudian, mangsa menerima panggilan telefon daripada seseorang yang mendakwa dirinya merupakan ejen logistik dari Kuala Lumpur.

Pemanggil itu memberitahu mangsa bahawa ada satu bungkusan yang dikirim oleh seorang lelaki dari London kepadanya namun pemanggil tidak pasti apakah kandungannya kerana bungkusan itu dibalut dengan ketat dan tidak boleh dibuka.

Sementara itu, kenalannya itu mengesahkan ada mengirimkan satu bungkusan mengandungi wang 200,000 pound sterling. Namun demikian, ejen logistik itu meminta mangsa membayar RM4,000 untuk mendapat kelulusan kastam sekali gus bagi membolehkan bungkusan itu dihantar terus kepadanya.

Selang beberapa ketika, mangsa sekali lagi menerima panggilan daripada seorang 'pegawai kastam' di Kuala Lumpur yang memberitahu kandungan kotak itu tidak boleh diperiksa atau diimbas sebagaimana diarahkan oleh rakan sejawatannya di London. Ejen logistik itu sekali lagi menghubungi mangsa dengan memberitahu dia memerlukan bayaran RM12,000 bagi membolehkan mangsa menuntut bungkusan itu.

Teruja dengan isi kandungan bungkusan itu, pada 2 November lalu, mangsa memasukkan sejumlah wang RM5,000 diikuti RM2,350 pada 3 November dan RM12,000 pada 4 November. Pada 7 November, wanita itu sekali lagi memasukkan sejumlah RM9,900 dan diikuti RM5,100 pada jam 12.55 tengah hari pada hari yang sama menjadikan kesemua wang yang dimasukkan ke dalam akaun terbabit sebanyak RM39,350.

Note: They ‘jackpot’ you until you realized you are being cheated… Then you stop sending money… ah, its too late… they have played the jackpot till the lady wake up !

"Selepas memasukkan duit yang begitu banyak, baru saya tersedar ada sesuatu yang tidak kena. Saya rasa pihak terbabit menipu untuk memasukkan wang ke dalam akaun mereka," katanya selepas melaporkan kes itu kepada Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Pujut, Andy Chia di pejabat Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak (SUPP) Pujut, Pujut 7, semalam. Selain itu, mangsa telah membuat laporan polis. Menurut mangsa, setiap panggilan yang diterima adalah daripada individu yang berbeza berdasarkan bunyi suara dan masa yang berbeza.

INTERNET SCAM:

The Phone Callers:

1- Kenalan lebih 2 tahun, mana boleh tipu.
2- Orang lain panggil, lain-lain orang, mana boleh tipu (kalau tipu mesti seorang).
3- Orang 'kastam’ yang panggil (bukan orang jalanan).

The Facts:

1- Kenalan lebih lama, lebih untung.
2- Orang lain panggil, lain-lain orang, kawan dia lah !
3- Orang 'kastam’ sebenarnya budak cuci tandas !


COMMENT:

Put some money to ‘clear’ tax and insurance and postage, and get $200,000… Must be my good luck boyfriend / girlfriend /overseas rich friend / Buyer!

IT’S THE SAME story, but with different ‘victim’ !

Airport Nude Scanner and Health Issue

Comment:

For the non-Muslim, it’s the issue of ‘privacy and health’ concerns, some lamented that ‘What is all the fuss of a little radiations at the airport for a safe journey’, ‘After all, there is the nude beaches, and people are all the more at risk from alcohol, cigarettes (tobacco), and road accidents than a little radiations at the airport.'

My answer to them is – ‘A little radiation a day, multiple that to a few weeks and months, then you get a really radiated pilots and air crews, and airport staff.’ Furthermore, for Muslim, the idea of nudity is always a major concern, because Islam prohibited and condemned nudity in public places and mass-media... and now that Western scientists have claimed (and possibly also proved in the near future) that the Nude Scanners are harmful, what is all the fuss of not stopping its wide usage?!

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/8312701/scanners-at-us-airports-may-be-dangerous/ (13th November 2010)

Scanners at US airports 'may be dangerous'
AAP November 13, 2010, 6:23 am
US scientists have warned that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners being used to screen passengers and airline crews at airports around the country may be unsafe. "They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays," Dr Michael Love, who runs an X-ray lab at the department of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at Johns Hopkins University school of medicine, told AFP on Friday.

"No exposure to X-ray is considered beneficial. We know X-rays are hazardous, but we have a situation at the airports where people are so eager to fly that they will risk their lives in this manner," he said. The possible health dangers posed by the scanners add to passengers and airline crews' concerns about the devices, which have been dubbed "naked" scanners because of the graphic image they give of a person's body, genitalia and all.

A regional airline pilot last month refused to go through one of the scanners, calling it an "assault on my person" and a violation of his right to privacy.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began rolling out full-body scanners at US airports in 2007, but stepped up deployment of the devices this year when stimulus funding made it possible to buy another 450 of the advanced imaging technology scanners.

A group of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) raised concerns about the "potential serious health risks" from the scanners in a letter sent to the White House Office of Science and Technology in April. Biochemist John Sedat and his colleagues said in the letter that most of the energy from the scanners is delivered to the skin and underlying tissue. "While the dose would be safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body, the dose to the skin may be dangerously high," they wrote.

The Office of Science and Technology responded this week to the scientists' letter, saying the scanners have been "tested extensively"by US government agencies and found to meet safety standards. But Sedat told AFP Friday that the official response was "deeply flawed."

"We still don't know the beam intensity or other details of their classified system," he said, adding that UCSF scientists were preparing a rebuttal to the White House statement. Some 315 "naked" scanners are currently in use at 65 US airports, according to the TSA.

France's Richest Woman Sues Daughter

Comment: MONEY, HAPPINESS... AND L'OREAL

I don’t know what goes on between the mother and daughter, but thing don’t look so good… who says money can buy happiness… who says ALL rich people are happy… money too have a limit to your happiness… Money is the root of all evil when… Individualism, materialism, secularism, greediness, and moral-decay are the center point/focus (and not moral enrichment, philanthropy, compassionate, humanity, benevolence, and definitely also religious enrichment !!).

I heard that people around Liliane Bettencourt, 87 yrs old, sole heir to the Loreal cosmetics empire, the richest woman in France, and 17th richest in the world (Forbes Magazine)... The accused is Banier, 63 yrs, close companion to Liliane Bettencourt, since her husband dead, is accused of 'abuse of frailty', a criminal offence in France, according to court documents, Banier had been the recipient of cash, cheques, and gifts worth a staggering $1.3 billion. Also involved in the limelight are her Chief Financial Adviser, and French politicians... (Writer: Meg Mason, 10 Oct 2010, 'Who Stole the Loreal Millions', Sunday Herald Magazine).

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/8170920/frances-richest-woman-sues-daughter/

(21 October 2010)

France's richest woman sues daughterAAP October 21, 2010, 4:00 am.

France's richest woman, the L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, has lodged a suit against her only daughter alleging psychological abuse, one of the multibillionaire's lawyers said. Lawyer Pascal Wilhelm on Wednesday announced the civil case against Francoise Meyers-Bettencourt after the estranged daughter tried for a third time to have her 87-year-old mother deemed mentally unsound."Psychological violence is a very recent offence close to physical abuse," Wilhelm told AFP.

Bettencourt's only daughter earlier this month asked a judge to have her mother made a ward of court. Two previous attempts were rejected because of a lack of medical evidence. "It is unacceptable to be targeted three times in a short space of time by attempts to be made a ward of court when you have transferred... almost 16 billion euros ($A22.75 billion) to your daughter," Wilhelm said on Sunday.

The daughter's lawyer, Olivier Metzner, called the suit a public relations stunt. "What's funny is that the law governing the charge of psychological abuse concerns vulnerable persons, they're shooting themselves in the foot," Metzner told AFP. Several judicial investigations are under way into affairs linked to Bettencourt's fortune, including allegations of tax evasion and illegal campaign funding that have implicated French Labour Minister Eric Woerth.

Bettencourt's daughter alleges people close to her mother, including celebrity photographer Francois-Marie Banier, have taken advantage of her and claims she is no longer in a fit mental state to manage her fortune.

Pusat Islam NY Bercirikan Moden: " This is it !! "

Comment:

This is it !! This is the 'unity' among Muslims that we are praying daily... This mosque will be built based on the 'unity' of many contributors, from philanthropies, charitable organizations, and sincere Muslims... InsyaAllah... This is it !!

http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=1004&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Luar_Negara&pg=lu_02.htm (4 October 2010)

Pusat Islam New York Berciri Moden

Lakaran pusat Islam yang dikeluarkan oleh SOMA Architects kelmarin bercirikan reka bentuk moden merakamkan pemandangan luaran pusat tersebut yang dirancang dibina dekat Ground Zero di New York. - AP

NEW YORK 3 Okt. - Lakaran pusat Islam yang dirancang pembinaannya dekat Ground Zero di sini menggambarkan ia mempunyai ciri-ciri reka bentuk moden yang lebih futuristik dan menarik.

Gambar lakaran yang dipamerkan di laman web rasmi projek tersebut masih di peringkat cadangan, tetapi pemajunya telah menyatakan hasrat untuk menggunakan reka bentuk yang santai dan kosmopolitan di tapak kontroversi itu.

"Kami mahu ia menggabungkan ciri-ciri reka bentuk Islam dan moden bandar New York, selain mengekalkan konsep kehijauan yang menenangkan.

"Saya yakin selepas ia siap sepenuhnya, tidak ada mana-mana pihak yang akan menganjurkan piket untuk membantah pembinaannya kerana reka bentuknya yang moden," kata pemajunya, Sharif El-Gamal. Kata Sharif, upacara pecah tanah projek itu mungkin diadakan dua atau tiga tahun lagi, tetapi beliau berharap, ia dapat dilakukan secepat mungkin.

Empat tingkat daripada pusat Islam setinggi 16 tingkat itu, akan dilengkapi dengan pusat sukan, jimnasium dan kolam renang, manakala satu tingkat lagi akan dijadikan pusat penjagaan dan tempat permainan kanak-kanak. Bangunan berkenaan juga akan dilengkapi beberapa buah restoran, kelas memasak, studio rakaman, pusat pameran dan auditorium yang disediakan untuk penganjuran upacara kebudayaan.

Menurut Sharif, pihaknya merancang untuk menyediakan kemudahan yang membolehkan masyarakat setempat melakukan pelbagai aktiviti termasuk melakukan senaman harian serta tempat untuk pasangan muda beragama Islam mengadakan temu janji makan malam. Dewan solat dua tingkat pula akan dibina terletak di tingkat bawah pusat Islam itu.

Di tingkat 12 bangunan itu pula akan menempatkan memorial bagi memperingati mangsa yang terkorban dalam serangan 11 September dan ia akan dibuka kepada semua pelawat dari pelbagai agama. - AP