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Most people have a misconception that our rivals are our greatest enemies. In actual fact, we are our own greatest enemy. It is more often that our self-sabotaging behavior prevents us from achieving success. I cannot find any better phrases than that described by Jan Christian Smuts, a prime minister of South Africa, “A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.” Therefore, it is more important to learn how to overcome ourselves than overcome our rivals.

In this article, I am going to take you through these 6 key self -sabotaging behaviors that most of time cause failure.

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Where Has All of Malaysia’s RM456 billion Oil Money Gone
To....UMNOputra cronies?

Where Has All of Malaysia’s Oil Money Gone To?
Has anybody ever stopped to think and question this
very important question? I wrote a Bahasa Malaysia
I wrote a Bahasa Malaysia version on this issue.
And I received a comment in English that
touches the heart and soul of this topic:

Anonymous said...I am 40yrs old now. I have NEVER EVER seen
a single sen of Petronas's money for 40 years. I believe as long as BN is still in power, I will
NEVER EVER see a single sen of Petronas's money for the
next 40 years.

My whole Malay version of this article quoted an example of how Norway handled profits from their mining/oil industry.
Allow me to quote:
The Government Pension Fund - Global (Norwegian: Statens
pensjonsfond utland, SPU) is a fund into which the surplus wealth produced by Norwegian petroleum income is deposited.
The fund changed name in January 2006
from its previous name The Petroleum Fund of Norway.

The fund is commonly referred to as The Petroleum Fund
(Norwegian: Oljefondet). As of the valuation in June 2007,
it was the largest pension fund in Europe and the fourth
largest in the world [1], although it is not actually a pension fund as it derives its
financial backing from oil profits and not pension contributions. As of 30 September 2009 its total value is NOR 2.549 trillion ($455Bn)
[2], holding 0.77 per cent of global equity equity markets.
[3] With 1.25 per cent of European stocks,
[4] it is said to be the largest stock owner in Europe.
[5] Despite the influx of oil money, Norway has not reduced their
taxes nor have they introduced subsidies or use the money for
white-elephants projects.
They have kept their oil profits for the future
generations of Norwegians (be it the total population of
Norway is not more than 5m lives).

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR OIL REVENUES?

From various reports (namely from Dr Mahathir himself in
one of his articles), we can sum up the total contribution
of Petronas to the government in these terms:

Tun Hussein Onn Period : RM 33 Billion
Dr Mahathir Period : RM 165 Billion
Pak Lah’s Period : RM 256 Billion

So an estimated total of RM 456 billion in terms of oil
revenue has been received by the Malaysian government from
Petronas since Petronas’s inception.

Now, the reason why the commenter above expresses his worry
is that to date, the people of Malaysia do not have the
faintest idea where the oil money has gone to. I mean, if I was a Norwegian, and someone asks me where has Norway’s
oil money gone to, I can easily answer the oil money is
currently residing in Norway’s pension fund.

But, for a Malaysian, that is not an easy question to answer.
As the comment I quoted above shows, we Malaysians
has never really seen a single cent of Malaysia’s oil money.
In fact, we have to pay through our noses when we
fill up our cars at Petronas’s petrol stations. I mean, for all the oil money Petronas makes, why couldn’t
they at least keep the Petronas Station toilets clean. > < Is that too much to ask?

INDONESIAN EXPERIENCE

I also cited the Indonesian experience with oil money.
During their OPEC heydays, Suharto+family and his cronies
were enjoying life like no one knows. They were
They were drowned in money.
A veteran Indonesian oil-worker I know told me that
during the heydays, oil was found in INLAND INDONESIA.
They do not have to explore oil offshore back then. They found oil within Indonesian land.
And all of the money was not spent where it counts i.e.
infrastructure, facilities, savings etc.
Suharto+family and his cornies robbed Indonesia’s oil
money blind. So during Indon’s heydays, we do not see many
highways, bridges, roads etc. Most of the oil money goes to
Suharto and his cronies pockets.

In order to keep the people subdued, Suharto subsidized
everything i.e. gasoline, food etc. But, even with the
subsidies, it didn’t account much to the total oil earning
of Indonesia because back then food and gasoline was cheap.

Trouble really starts when the oil money ran dry. The oil drills are digging out air instead of the normal
black stuff.
So, no more money for subsidies and no more money for
their big pockets.
And sure enough 3 years later, Indonesians became more
jobless and more hungry than before. The oil money has run
out and the country is in a deep hole that they can never
climb out of.

In the aftermath of Suharto’s fall, there was massive starvation.
People were living in abject hardship. The oil money that helped to keep people slightly above starvation is no more.
So, naturally, 50% of the people went below starvation level.

Food became very expensive and their money became devalued
so much. The result, close to 1 to 1.5 million girls/women
in Indonesia had to turn to prostitution just to stay alive.

Suffice to say, Indonesia is a GREAT example of how the oil
curse works.

ARE WE TO SUFFER THE SAME FATE?

UMNO and BN are no less of a thieve then their Suharto counterparts.
We Malaysians are also being robbed blind by UMNO.

The fact that UMNO having to remove subsidies, introducing the GST,
raising taxes here and there shows that OUR OIL MONEY HAS RAN OUT.
THE PARTY IS OVER.

And when the music stops, 99% of Malaysians will find out
that all of the oil money has never went their way at all.
It went into the pockets of UMNOPUTRA and their cronies.

Now, when the oil money has ran out, UMNO and BN has
decided to come and robbed us blind instead by taking money
out of our pockets. They cannot lower their standard of
living and the normal income they use to get by robbing our
oil money.
They now have to rob us for the loss they are suffering due
to dwindling oil revenues.

So, what are we to do now. Our daughters will end up
becoming prostitutes just to buy a kilo of rice in
the future. God forbids.
No one can accuse me of exaggerating when the real live example is just across the Malacca Straits. Come over
Come over and you can witness for yourself.
The Curse of the Oil in real life.

Norway is more Islamic than Malaysia when it comes to oil money.
But will UMNO Mufti’s ever admit to that?

Tulang Besi

ps below is a quote from WIKIPEDIA on the Oil Money
controversy in Malaysia. Happy reading

Oil Revenue Payments to Malaysian Government on July 4, 2009
Petronas adviser Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad asked what did the
government spend with the RM253.6 billion payment
from the national oil company over the past six years when
his successor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was prime Minister.
He said that Petronas has been paying dividends, taxes,
royalties and export duties to the government since 1976,
after it was set up as the national custodian for fossil fuels.
Petronas began by paying the government RM300 million in 1976,
rising to RM2 billion in 1981, when Mahathir assumed office.
The total from 1981 to 2003 was RM168.8 billion for the 22 yrs
that marked Dr Mahathir's tenure as the country's fourth PM.

10] Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang urged the BN Govt to open
its books on Petronas and give a full accounting of how payments from the national oil company had been spent since its inception. Lim said that previously Mahathir did not raise any issues about the misuse of funds from Petronas,
set up in 1976 as the national oil company, to bail out
"dubious projects”. He pointed to the infamous
incident where RM2 billion was used to bailout
Mahathir's son Mirzan Mahathir’s shipping concern
Konsortium Perkapalan Bhd (KPB) in 1998 when KPB was floundering in billion-ringgit debts with its share price
falling to RM3.78 by February 1998, a fraction of its
pre-financial crisis level of over RM17. He claimed that
there were other occasions under Dr Mahathir when
“Petronas was used as a national piggy bank” such as the
RM2.5 billion and RM1 billion bail-outs of Bank Bumiputra in
1986 and 1989, aiding MAS and Proton in their financial
struggles as well as to fund mega-projects such as the
Petronas Twin Towers and the shifting of the federal
administration to.

Posted by Tulang Besi

Dear guys I dont see any action on Malaysian Toyota cars , are our cars safe to drive

the number of cars recalled in US and Europe is alarming , can somebody give some satistic on this issue in Malaysia

Worries about an impending “overly liberal” New Economic Model has prompted nearly 80 Malay groups to form the Malay Consultative Council (MPM) to push the federal government to maintain affirmative action for the country’s dominant race.

A Malay leader revealed that the MPM wants the Umno-led Barisan Nasional federal government to maintain a “guided” New Economic Policy (NEP) that protects the Malays and Bumiputras, saying the community was worried about moves to abolish subsidies and other forms of aid.

We want to ask all those who had grouped into forming the MPM yesterday. What do you mean by dominant race? Which clause in the federal constitution says that you are all overlords and far more supreme or greater than others? Which clause in the federal constitution do really specify and proven your greatness in terms of birth, religion, power, status, tribal and skin colour?

Please be informed that in this country, there are no masters and slaves status here at all. We did not threaten and we are not interested to take over the current racial status or to swallow your economic well-being. Your overly imaginative and "sandiwara" had in fact make you felt threatened. Actually, nobody has ever threaten your positions at all, it is you are the ones who are threatening your own community.

Another question is, why after 53 years with a definite strong backing from the NEP via monopolization of majority of the sectors in this country, the Malay community is still the same and undeveloped? You should not blame us!

You should put this blame to the Umno-led Barisan Nasional federal government who has been ruling this country since 1957. Since 1957 till now has the Pakatan Rakyat ever exist as a partner in the Umno-led Barisan Nasional federal government? No, not at all.

None of the parties in the Pakatan Rakyat coalition, PKR, DAP or PAS has ever being a federal goverment before since their inception. So, why blame them for the continuous backwardness of the Malay community?

One final question to MPM leaders. You said you are all out to fight to champion the bumiputra cause. Can you please specifically describe what bumiputra cause are you or have you and Umno being fighting for so far? Only for yourselves, your pockets, your family members so that you become more wealthier and fatter?

If MPM's cause are for bumiputras, why are you simply excluding the Orang Aslis, Siamese, Dayaks, Ibans, Melanau, Muruts, Kadazans, Dusuns, Bajaus and the rest from your so-called organization? It shows that you are not truly sincere in promoting your cause for the betterment of your bumiputra community.

We want to repeat the above second question to you. Why after 53 years of Umno's rule, your community is still lack behind and backward? You said a "guided" NEP could help to protect and enhance the socio-economic sectors in your community, but has it being a success so far?

If after 53 years of Umno's rule and your community is still lacking and backward in terms of economy, social status, financial, education, technology or civilization, then something must had went wrong with the NEP. Something is very wrong in the NEP. This the fact that NEP had totally failed, because all of you are still feeling being threatened.

All these years, NEP has been "guided" accordingly into the pockets of the elite Umno leaders who now formed a large high class and untouchable group called the "Golongan Bangsawan". NEP has been turned into a tool to enriched this "Golongan Bangsawan" for decades.

NEP had totally failed because Umno leaders had turned this programme into a personal wealth enrichment tool of their own. NEP failed, don't blame others. Blame Umno for all failures and your miseries.

One last word to MPM leaders, please stop your overly imaginative nightmares and dreams. No one has ever being a threat to your community before and no one has ever intend to do so. It is you are the ones who are threatening yourselves.

Get a good and a better quality pillow so that you will not have anymore bad dreams in future.

What can you do with RM170,000 savings? Well, you can always get an Indonesian beauty to become your wife. Yes, you got it right! Indonesian government imposed a rule for foreign men that you have to deposit Rp 500 million (RM170,000) in an Islamic bank in the country before proposing and marrying Indonesian brides.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 — The government is looking at simpler ways to subsidise fuel for consumers after quietly scrapping the proposed tiered fuel subsidies scheduled for May 1 due to its complexity.

Industry sources said Putrajaya made the decision “recently” after complaints that the new subsidy system which uses MyKad for petrol purchase could be a hassle for consumers and petrol dealers apart from causing congestion at fuel stations.

“Oil industry executives have been asked to stop implementing the tiered subsidy system as the government has stopped it,” an industry source told The Malaysian Insider.

A consultant working on the programme confirmed the move, saying “the decision was made fairly recently.”

The Malay Chamber of Commerce Malaysia (MCCM) secretary-general Datuk Abdul Rahim Abu Bakar was attacked by the Penang Malay Chamber of Commerce (DPMPP) president Rizal Faris Mohideen last Wednesday at the Penang International Airport.

Rizal who prior to the Chinese New Year had led a massive demonstration and burning of an effigy at Penang's Komtar to protest an alleged marginalization of the Penang Malay community by the state government.

Not satisfied by the wild allegations made by the DPMPP against the Penang state government, the MCCM leadership decided to take its own initiatives to check and investigate the facts by calling on the Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his state executive council to seek further explanations onto the issue which has been racially provoked by DPMPP.

The MCCM delegation led by its deputy president Datuk Muhammad Muhiyuddin Abdullah and Datuk Abdul Rahim made the correct move by calling on the state government professionally to hold a meeting with them on this issue.

What the DPMPP and its president Rizal Faris did was making this issue into a racial one in order to provoke the anger of the Malay community, thus also promote hate and violence on the state government by chanting slogans, shouting and cursing in the streets.

As Rizal Faris is also a member of the Umno youth, the demonstrations and threats issued by DPMPP and himself on the state government is purely political motivated and did not reflect a professional look at all. His main focus in the said demonstration was to promote anger, hate and violence.

And because of his uncivilized ways in handling this issue, the MCCM leadership decided to ignore him and the DPMPP by going directly to the state government for talks and explanations.

Out of jealousy, greed and anger, Rizal Faris decided to take on the MCCM delegation physically for alleged "bypassing" him and DPMPP in their talks with the state government.

Rizal hated not only the Penang state government but he also hates the MCCM leadership to an extend that he attacked and assaulted Datuk Abdul Rahim and the other MCCM leaders. He thinks that by holding the Umno membership, he would be able to escape the law, he thinks that by having "ketuanan" or supremacist position he was able to assault or attack anyone he likes or whoever he hates.

This is Umno's supremacist, Umno's culture, Umno's hatred onto others and Umno's law of the jungle - simply a bunch of wild boars alike.

The former chairman of the Penang Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Datuk Seri Zahrain Mohamed Hashim has been urged to rejoin Umno, said Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Ahmad Zahid, who is also Penang Umno liaision committee chairman, welcomed Zahrain’s decision to quit PKR and hoped he would rejoin Umno as soon as possible in order to strengthen their supremacist power.

Ahmad Zahid, you were the deputy leader of the successful coup d'etat in Perak on early February 2009 last year that toppled the Perak state government of Datuk Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin and now you wanted to be a leader of yet another coup d'etat in Penang to topple the elected state government of Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.

Ahmad Zahid, we knew that you as a defense minister holds the keys to the armed force, the army intelligence, naval intelligence and air force intelligence, and you think you can use all those military might under your charge to scare our people into submitting to you and Umno.

We challenge you, if you dare to stage another rebellion in Penang by sending your army, tanks and Umno members into the state to seize power from the elected state government, we will assure you with "Our People's Uprising" that you will never forget for the rest of your live.

If you start your rebellion here in Penang, we will start our revolution that will make you regret and attempt suicide. We are waiting!

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