From malaysiakini.com: Former Umno president Dr Mahathir Mohamad today announced that he was quitting Umno with immediate effect and urged other members to emulate him.

From blog.limkitsiang.com: Two weeks ago, when speaking at the first public ceramah/consultation with DAP MPs, Excos, State Assembly representatives in Ipoh, I broached the subject when the UMNO Youth leader and Education Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussin will publicly apolog

From youtube.com: Ketua bahagian Cheras menyifatkan tindakan ketua Pemuda Umno, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein meminta maaf dalam isu keris sebagai menjatuhkan maruah orang Melayu.

Datuk Syed Ali Al-Habshee berkata, keris adalah lambang orang Melayu dan hak orang Melayu yang perlu dipelihara.

From thestar.com.my: KUALA LUMPUR: Cheras Umno has called for Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to set a date for his departure as Prime Minister.

From malaysiakini: I refer to the Malaysiakini article Whom should we trust?

Sim Kwang Yang has raised some very pertinent issues in his essay. Ultimately, we have to love and trust ourselves before we can love and trust anybody else. Otherwise we will end up behaving like the proverbial lemming, incapable of independent thought and action.

From malaysiakini.com: I refer to the Malaysiakini report Umno, not Malays, under threat.

I have shared my view on the need and existence of the BN component parties just before the elections and after reading the above report I have decided to share this view.

From thestar.com.my: PUTRAJAYA: The change in the Umno leadership can take place any time as long as Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has sufficient time to prepare for the next general election, supreme council member Datuk Shahrir Samad said.

Shahrir, who is also Johor Baru MP, believed the handing-over of leadership by party president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi should happen before the 13th general election.

Since the recent general election, voices have risen up in a shrill warning cry that the Malays are now ‘under threat’. But perhaps the real threat is the threat to Umno hegemony.

AND so it begins. Race-based rhetoric has raised its ugly little head in response to a democratic process. Over 49% of the people of Malaysia have voted for parties that have rejected race-based affirmative action in favour of a needs-based platform.

It did not take very long for voices, both common and royal, to rise up in a shrill warning cry that the Malays are now “under threat”.

 © thestar.com.my

The ‘peoples-that-be’ seek renewal and reconciliation while powers-that-be crave denial and vengeance. Folks want to get on with new state administrations but federal powers want to punish their voting preference by cutting funds and curtailing state government functions. There comes a proposal, from within the BN cabinet no less, to apologise to the long-suffering judges and families of the 1988 judicial tragedy. The idea is swiped down, by the cabinet of course, with no reasonable explanation.

 © malaysiakini.com

As Umno divisions in Selangor continue to pile on the pressure on their president Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to step down at a meeting in Subang Jaya, the president-in-waiting plays his part as the perfect deputy.

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