The unpublished truth about Malaysia's political situation.

On June 17th a series of new guidelines were drawn to ensure that the mainstream media do not go overboard in their zest to stretch the truth. It is morally wrong to criticise a democratically elected government like BN.

Today the pro-opposition media and blogs have overtaken the MSM and pro-government by 10 to 1, which is a constant headache for the Information Ministry. The MSM cannot dispense the truth fast enough to counter the lies by the opposition.

‘Dirty’ comics about Bersih making the rounds

The same comics were also available at an official EC function.

PETALING JAYA: Once again cartoons have become the chosen weapon of the anti-Bersih groups as Lembah Pantai residents found out this morning: they awoke to find the bright yellow comic books in their mailboxes.

The contents of the 12-page booklet, entitled “8 Tuntutan Bersih Yang Perlu Anda Tahu (The 8 Bersih Demands That you Should Know), mocked both Bersih’s demands as well as Pakatan Rakyat.

The comics also vilified Bersih chairman, S Ambiga, as well as Pakatan Rakyat leaders including PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang and newly-minted PAS deputy president, Mat Sabu.

The booklet was published by Gerakan Generasi Prihatin Malaysia (GenPrima). The back-cover listed the many reasons why the “illegal rally” was being held.

Among those reasons were to divert attention from Anwar’s sodomy case and the sex video, to cover up PAS’ shame of dropping the Islamic state and to overthrow the government by force.

Lembah Pantai MP, Nurul Izzah Anwar, didn’t mince her words when condeming this latest attack on both coalitions.

“I’m not ruling out the complicity of the police force and security apparatus,” she told FMT. “In March, lewd comics of the opposition leader was circulated in Lembah Pantai, but the police still don’t have any leads. And now there’s another comic series going around.”

The previous comic booklet, entitled “Kisah Juara Raja Lawak”, was mailed to newly registered voters in her constituency and contained obscene images of Anwar. This booklet, however, was slipped into residents’ mailboxes.

“The comics made wild allegations including painting Ambiga as someone out to topple the government,” she said. “It was filled with hatred and lies. There is no way this could have been done without government support.

“It’s a concerted attempt to create a climate of fear. And people are angry but they are also scared. I’m truly speechless over this incident.”

Nurul noted that the booklet was professionally designed and appeared to draw inspiration from Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia’s cartoon column, “Senyum Kambing”.

She also said that a leaflet with similar sentiments was distributed at the Bangsar mosque last night. The leaflet shot racial slurs at Ambiga as well as the Indian and Chinese communities. It also threatened to “kill off” the Pakatan leadership.

“We will definitely be lodging a police report over this later today,” Nurul assured. “We must because even if the police do not take any action at least we have it on record.”

Comic available at official EC event

Even more shockingly these comics were also made available at an official Election Commission (EC) luncheon talk in Seri Pacific hotel last Thursday.

The booklets were displayed on a table outside the ballroom that was manned by EC staff. The staff, however, were not seen distributing the booklets themselves.

The luncheon, entitled “Bersih’s demands – what is EC’s explaination?” was aimed at explaining the EC’s stand on each of the eight demands.

But during the talk EC deputy chairman, Wan Ahmad Wan Omar, accused Bersih of being a political tool to topple the government.

Both the EC chairman, Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof, and Wan Ahmad are currently in Bangkok on invitation by the Thai government to monitor the country’s polls tomorrow.

EC’s public relations executive, Sabri Said, declined to comment on the incident.

“This is related to EC policies and only the chairman or his deputy is allowed to issue a statement,” he said.

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Opens Up About School Bullies While Posing Topless in GQ Magazine

She’s been doing the rounds in a series of glossy magazines since being named the Hottest Woman on Earth by Maxim, but Rosie Huntington-Whitely wasn’t always so popular.

The model-turned actress has opened up about her battle with former school ground bullies, who would call her ‘kipper lips’ and ‘t**t lips’. The 24-year-old revealed the taunts while stripping down to a sheer deep red gown and bikini bottoms for the July issue of GQ magazine.

It’s not the first time Rosie has posed for the magazine, but this time she admitted: ‘I was teased about the way I looked at school.’

While being photographed topless with her arm covering her modesty, she said: ‘I got teased because of my lips. ‘I used to get called T**t lips – because I had big lips but no breasts. And then I was called Kipper Lips.

‘There was a big group of girls that was Devon’s answer to Mean Girls, and they would storm the bathrooms shouting, ‘I’m going to f****ing deck you, Lips! See you on the school bus’.

‘And boys didn’t really go out with me.’

Despite the grim portrayal of her childhood, the Tavistock-born beauty did say she had fun with friends too. ‘We’d hang around in soggy jeans drinking cider. I did long for the city. But I was a very outdoorsy kid.

‘Until I was 15, riding was my thing – I was horse-obsessed.’

But her whole life suddenly changed when she was 17 and started a summer internship in the back room of a modelling agency. ‘I was shocked. I used to see all these supermodels walking into the agency – tall, elegant glamazons. I was just a big lump from Devon.

‘But within a year I was travelling to America, being booked for French Connection, Tommy Hillfiger, Abercrombie & Fitch. I started to make serious money.

‘Suddenly school didn’t seem quite so important.’

Since her big break, Rosie’s modeling career has sky-rocketed and seven years later, she has transformed into an actress for Michael Bay’s latest film. She replaced Megan Fox in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, out next month, and plays Shia LaBeouf’s girlfriend in the film.

The modest star says that although she doesn’t think she’ll become the next Meryl Streep, she’s willing to work hard for a shot to make it big in Hollywood.

‘Would I like even a sniff of Angelina Jolie’s career? Yes.  Do I think I have a future in this business? I certainly hope so. And I’m going to work damn hard to make sure I do,’ she said. Rosie, who currently dates Jason Statham, added: ‘I’m not standing here and saying I’m an amazing actress or that I’ve had a heap of thespie training. But you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.’

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Singapore escorts: Not always about sex

She has just returned from an 18-day all expenses paid “working” trip to the US.

Two weeks later, she set off for another “working trip” – a one-week trip to Saudi Arabia.

When she is not jet-setting, the 26-year-old Chinese Singaporean works part-time as a therapist in a hotel spa. Or, models for editorial photos in women’s and lifestyle magazines.

But Uma – as she is popularly known – prefers her “other” job as a social escort. As she puts it: “I get to travel and make money at the same time.”

Even though the tall and attractive lass can easily apply to be a flight stewardess or turn full-time model, Uma prefers the short cut to riches.

Take for example, the trip to the US. She was paid S$26,000 (RM60,840 - after the agency cut) in cash and nearly S$11,000 (RM25,740) for shopping expenses.

But the job is not so rosy and comes with risks, admitted Uma, who spoke to The New Paper on condition that we use only her escort name.

Precisely what a Hong Kong-based woman, Ms Di Di, 36, found out recently when she agreed to be an overseas social escort to a Singaporean here who allegedly promised to pay her 200,000 yuan (RM92,922) for three days of her service in Singapore.

But the man disappeared after they had sex without paying her, she claimed. Worse, the two got into a scuffle and Ms Di Di hurt herself.

While Uma counts herself lucky for not having had such an encounter, she has heard of others who did.

“It all depends on how ‘insured’ you are,” she added, in fluent English. By that, she means the social escort agencies they work with.

Said Uma: “As escorts, we won’t usually know who our clients are until we turn up at the designated point of meeting. Our managers are the ones who screen the clients, take on the assignments and send us to them.”

While some escorts accept private assignments, Uma prefers to let an agency handle her bookings. This, even though the agency can take a cut of up to 40 per cent of the fee.

She said: “I prefer not to take the risk, and because I work at the spa, it’s inconvenient sometimes to answer calls.”

She gets an average four local assignments a week – typically, they require her service for a few hours a day. At least one of the clients is a regular.

Uma said “role-playing” is vital. Clients hire escorts for companionship, or “you can act as an interpreter or even role-play as a personal assistant”, she explained.

For overseas assignments, once the agency has cleared the client and they are linked up, Uma said: “We’re on our own”.

She claimed that she had a “sister” (industry slang for those working together) who was so badly abused by a client that she was hospitalised for nearly a week.

It was a case of rough sex gone wrong. In the end, the matter was privately settled after the agency intervened on the victim’s behalf to seek compensation.

Uma also knows of some who have contracted sexually transmitted diseases, Which is why some escorts, such as Pond, 23, claimed they don’t offer sex.

“I’m in this because of the quick bucks, but it’s not worth it if I catch any sexually-transmitted disease,” said Pond, who was lured into the trade three years ago.

Pond, who has a private secretary’s diploma, said she earns S$1,800 (RM4,212) a month in her day job as a telemarketer – not enough to feed her love for travelling and branded bags.

She claimed that even without the “extra services”, she can easily make S$5,000 (RM11,700) a month. The earnings double during “peak seasons” such as when there’s an event held here or during festive occasions.

For those who offer sex, overseas assignments or clients are preferred for the sake of anonymity. Ling, 30, is an example.

She told The New Paper: “Sex is an ‘under-the-table arrangement – out of the agency’s purview.”

But times are not as good for her now, said Ling, who has been working as a freelance escort for about six years.

Ling said: “I used to get about one overseas job every two months, but I’ve only had one assignment this year.” That was a five-day trip to Germany with a Singaporean-Chinese businessman. She was picked as she speaks German and English.

Her client ended up sealing the million-dollar contract. Said Ling: “He was so happy that he gave me a thank-you red packet of S$3,888 (RM9,098).”

This was on top of the S$12,000 (RM28,080) she had picked up for the trip.

Escorts who accompany clients overseas don’t usually share rooms, though some may, if extra service is in the contract.

Both Uma and Ling said that some clients may even require them to arrive separately for discretion.

Uma added: “Sometimes, depending on the number of days engaged, we may either arrive later or depart earlier.”

What the escorts look forward to are the pockets of free time. Ling said: “That’s when we really enjoy ourselves, doing whatever we want.”

Uma, who has a diploma in business administration, intends to run an online business – possibly in fashion – when she retires, say in two years.

She said: “It’s a very practical (industry), where one has an expiry date.”

So Uma, who is the sole breadwinner in her family, makes it a point to save at least half of the fees she makes from every job.

Overseas assignments aside, her average monthly earnings from the other bookings can go up to S$12,000 (RM28,080) in a good month. A far cry from the S$1,500 (RM3,510) she earns a month as a therapist.

Her mother, a housewife, does not now what Uma does. She has not seen her father since he walked out on the family when she was nine.

Flexibility of working hours was also one reason that first attracted Uma, whose younger brother, 21, is mentally-subnormal.

Said Uma: “Mama has her hands full in taking care of my brother. Sometimes, it can be very trying for her especially when he flies into a tantrum and starts attacking even strangers.”

But, said Uma: “My family background is no excuse for what I do.”

When Uma has to travel, she tells her mother that it’s for work.

She said: “For me, it’s just a job. I don’t dwell on whether it’s morally right or wrong. For that matter, I don’t have sex with all my clients, so there are times when the service I provide is clean.”

Generous – and appreciative – clients add to the “perks” of the job for Uma, who has travelled to Paris, London, Vancouver, Toronto, Belgium, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

But not every client is generous, Uma said.

“It’s only because he (the particular client) is a regular (for more than three years) and we’ve sort of developed some affection for each other to a certain extent,” she added.

Uma declined to give more details about the client, except that she knows he is “married with three young kids”.
But she dismissed the possibility of having a long-term affair with him.

Uma said: “It’s one thing to have an affection and another to be committed. This is the real world – it’s highly impossible that the client will fall in love with his escort.”

Uma was initially reluctant to say if they had sex, but later admitted they had protected sex only on one night.

Given the nature of her job, Uma said she also accepted that she would likely not settle down. All three past relationships failed each time after she came clean about her job.

Said Uma: “None of them could accept what I do. And I accept that. But I would rather they heard from me than to find out from someone else.

“So yes, this job comes with a price to pay.”

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What's so difficult about the Datuk T sex video case?

Sex videos and scandals have been the bane of politicians since time-immemorial.

American presidential hopeful, John Edwards, is currently in a tussle with a former political aide over a video showing him and his mistress. Former California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is separated from his wife after news surfaced of a love-child he fathered; a secret he kept hidden for 10 years. 74-year old Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is embroiled in a scandal involving a 17-year old belly dancer which is sending Italy into “turmoil”.

And Malaysia has the Datuk T video extravaganza.

The case that made the headlines the day the Sarawak state assembly was dissolve to pave way for polls to elect a new state administration. The timing can never be coincidental, in politics nothing is by chance but all things are engineered for maximum impact.

In-spite of the scandal, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim made the rounds in Sarawak, which helped returned the opposition an increased representation in the state parliament.

A police investigation is still pending, and now the question on every one's mind is; why is it taking so long? Even Anwar Ibrahim is wondering.

"The police have been giving political statements but taking no action, as if the investigation is as complex as the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case," Anwar had told an online news portal last week.

When you try to prove an insinuation

Why is this case complicated? It has nothing to do with the investigation process, instead it has everything to do with trying to prove insinuation.

Proving a video tape is authentic is like proving human beings breath air. Anything that has not been altered in any manner can be said to be 'authentic'. To prove their point, the police made doubly sure to have the 'authenticity' of the tape proven. Expects in Hong-Kong and the United States were engaged.

But, so what? Yes, the tape is authentic but it merely proves that point. There is nothing wrong with the tape, it could be the most famous pornographic video Malaysia has ever produced courtesy of the Datuk T trio.

Proving the authenticity of the tape can also say that the video can now be classified as pornographic material which means, Datuk T is now guilty of publicly screening pornographic material. This is an offence and he should be rightly charged and the police know it.

The act of screening the material is separate from determining the authenticity of the material. An uncensored sexual performance that is screened to a public audience puts that video into the pornographic category. Thus, not only are the Datuk T trio liable for prosecution, the mainstream media that showcased it on local television should also be charged.

But no charges are being preferred against the men who make up Datuk T - Shazry Eskay, Rahim Thamby Chik and Shuaib Lazim. Instead, the police are still trying hard to prove the insinuation, a self-initiated accusation and this is why it is hard.

If Anwar is innocent, then Datuk T is guilty and so too would Umno be

From the very beginning, it was insinuated that the character in the video was Anwar Ibrahim, and this was mentioned even before any investigation was conducted.

Anwar was judged and pronounced guilty before a court of public opinion, engineered by the government-controlled mass media and the gang of three who each have obvious ties to UMNO.

The police are now hard-pressed to produce evidence to prove this insinuation. This is where things get complicated. If the evidence speaks to Anwar’s innocence, then it also speaks loudly about the guilt of the UMNO-linked trio and the government of the day.

In Malaysian politics, the government of the day cannot be seen as having made a mistake. This explains the protracted nature of the investigation.

This is nothing new in Malaysian politics.

Najib was “cleared” by the police from being investigated in the murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu the day Abdullah Badawi issued the statement that he did not believe Najib was involved. Would the police ever want to come out and say the Prime Minister was wrong in his statement?

The same is also happening in the Christian Prime Minister investigation. The police are trying to prove insinuations because if evidence proves that there is no case, then Utusan Malaysia and everyone involved in glorifying the claims would be liable for charges of sedition.

Anwar Ibrahim was right in asking if this case is as complicated as the Altantuya case. It is, because in both case, the police have to provide evidence to prove insinuations. Not the facts.

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