“Jilat, jilat!”

SHAH ALAM 8 Julai – Pas Selangor menyifatkan Perhimpunan Protes Sejuta Rakyat-Protes Sampai Turun di Kelana Jaya, Ahad lalu, sebagai tidak relevan dan gagal mencapai matlamatnya.

Pesuruhjaya Pas Selangor, Datuk Dr. Hassan Mohamed Ali berkata, perhimpunan itu gagal selepas tindakan penganjur mengundang kumpulan muzik underground sehingga mencetuskan insiden aksi penyanyinya melondehkan seluar pada persembahannya.

Katanya, pihak penganjur seharusnya peka dengan budaya serta agama kerana tindakan penyanyi kumpulan Carburetor Dung, Alak jelas bertentangan dengan budaya dan agama yang diamalkan di negara ini.

Menurut beliau, insiden berkenaan juga dilihat tidak menjurus kepada matlamat sebenar perhimpunan itu diadakan bagi membantah kenaikan harga minyak yang dikatakan membebankan rakyat ketika ini.

‘‘Saya tidak nampak apa relevannya pihak penganjur mengundang kumpulan itu mengadakan persembahan sedemikian kerana ia jelas tidak sesuai dengan tujuan sebenar perhimpunan itu. Malah, ia juga dilihat seolah-olah satu pertunjukan hiburan.

‘‘Saya difahamkan juga, ketika perhimpunan itu, kira-kira 700 orang Unit Badan Amal Pas turut menarik diri sebagai urus setia dan saya tak salahkan mereka.

‘‘Tetapi saya fikir, jika itu (persembahan) merupakan tarikan orang ramai hadir ke perhimpunan tersebut, saya anggap ia tidak mencapai sasaran dan tidak berjaya,’’ jelas beliau yang juga Exco Hal Ehwal Islam, Adat-adat Melayu, Infrastruktur dan Kemudahan Awam Selangor, di sini hari ini.

Panasnya Hari Ini!

Panas menggila di kota Kairo.

Geram Sejuta 6 Julai

details: http://geramm.org/v1

End on End

Guillem: You know that when you return to Manchester people will be upset with you

Ronaldo: But that will pass, a couple of good goals and people will be happy

Ummm I don’t think so Mister. It will take much more than just a couple of good goals for us to start liking you again.

Fuel Hike: Protes!

Updated news;

http://protes2008.blogspot.com/

C7 tells CR7: Man Utd doesn’t need you

Ronaldo`s Ego Talks Louder Than Money
by Pete Gill

‘Why would Ronaldo want to leave the champions of Europe?’ asked one perplexed Mailboxer this week. Only the man himself can produce the definitive answer, but it is probably precisely because Manchester United are the champions of Europe and England that Ronaldo wants to leave.

As a Manchester United player, he has nothing left to prove or win. If he has concluded that two Premier League titles, one FA Cup, one Carling Cup and one European Cup amount to a satisfactory haul from his five-year haul in England, then who can argue? He has become a visitor from his own success.

The wording of the statement with which he finally confirmed his intention to leave Manchester this summer depicted money as fundamental to his choice. Yet what is money to Ronaldo, already a multi-millionaire at the age of 23? If simple greed was paramount in his outlook then his representatives would currently be in negotiations with United over a new deal, striving to engineer a bidding war between United and Madrid.

A £300,000-a-week wage – the amount Madrid are supposedly offering – is a sum that would capture anyone’s attention, but the status that such a deal would confer on Ronaldo is equally persuasive. The supreme egoist, Ronaldo wants to be regarded as the best player in the world. Is there a more trenchant cause to claim that title than becoming the best-paid player in the world as well as the most expensive? Note that his statement stipulated that he was willing to join Madrid only if they “pay what Manchester United ask of them”. Money matters to Ronaldo but not necessarily in the way that his detractors claim.

Not that labelling Ronaldo the supreme egoist is necessarily a rebuke either. Ronaldo’s game is based on confidence and arrogance in much the same way as Thierry Henry’s is/was on pace. Without belief, the tricks and outrageous showmanship would be redundant. Madrid’s trick has been to feed that swollen ego by making Ronaldo the subject of the summer. He is, it is reasonable to presume, loving the attention as well as the blatant implication from Madrid’s pursuit that only he alone – the greatest player on the planet – can save the Spanish giants from becoming also-rans on the continent (they may have won La Liga in successive years but it is four years since they progressed beyond the first knock-out stage of the Champions League).

There was a telling sight in the immediate moments after United’s Champions League victory in Moscow. As the rest of the squad rushed forward, seemingly joined at the hip, towards Edwin van der Sar, Ronaldo stood alone before throwing himself to the turf. Perhaps it was an instinctive reaction of relief following his failure to score in the penalty shoot-out. Or perhaps it was the response of a showman still striving to hog the limelight, unable to share the drug of adulation. Only Ronaldo himself really knows, but the moment was memorable in so much as it was the first public indication that he had bought into the notion that he was the core individual in Manchester United’s legendary one-man team.

Regardless of the money involved, Madrid’s approach, dressed up as a plea for a one-man rescue act, has thus become too good for Ronaldo to turn down. Without it, another year, and the risk of relative failure, at Old Trafford would await. He may lack the modesty to ask himself such as question, but how could Ronaldo realistically improve on a season of 42 goals, a Premier League title, Champions League glory and another Player of the Year award? The challenge of resurrection that awaits in Spain is the one that his ego craves and requires to sustain itself.

United have repeatedly and strenuously insisted that they will not sell their prized asset and the issue now becomes collision of two truisms: the first that Sir Alex Ferguson never sells a player he wants to keep and the second that clubs, even the biggest kind, never keep players who want to leave. The likelihood is that Ferguson will eventually be worn down by Real’s resolve and Ronaldo’s agitating into accepting a deal. United will surely eventually follow Ronaldo’s example and regard Madrid’s offer as too lucrative to refuse. With the fee bound to exceed £70m, Ronaldo’s departure would finance at least two high-profile signings, most probably either Dimitar Berbatov or Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and, given Carlos Queiroz’s increasing influence, Porto’s Ricardo Quaresma.

Although Quaresma would be a like-for-like replacement for Ronaldo, the arrival of a second striker would also enable United to move in a new direction. The flexible, interchanging 4-3-3 formation of last season was designed in part to reflect Ronaldo’s evolution into a forward who was neither a winger nor a striker. As such, their development was reliant on his. Independent and once again masters of their own collective destiny, United could revert to a 4-4-2 system that would instead make Wayne Rooney and partner its centrepiece.

The question is whether Ferguson, now openly discussing his retirement, still possesses the energy for another rebirth. The ‘Ronaldo team’ should have been the last of his reign. Suddenly, and without warning, that plan has been scotched.

Yet the doom-mongers should tread carefully. Queiroz has already accepted the bulk of Ferguson’s day-to-day responsibilities and the loss of Ronaldo will no doubt be offset by headline-grabbing arrivals. The temptation will be to depict Ronaldo’s departure as a 42-goal reduction. It will be no such thing. Just as the £2bn supposedly lost by the British economy in the wake of England’s elimination from Euro 2008 didn’t go up in smoke at a giant bonfire, the player(s) who replace Ronaldo will provide their own number of assists and goals. It may not equate to the amount he produced in 2007/08 but it should suffice.

Regardless of whether Ronaldo stays or goes, Manchester United will still begin 2008/09 as the favourites to retain their domestic and European crowns.

Thoughts of the day;

Eric Cantona has told Cristiano Ronaldo: Manchester United will survive without you.

With Ronaldo touting himself to Real Madrid, United legend Cantona stepped into the battle yesterday declaring: “United is one of the biggest clubs in the world.

“They have been winning, are winning and will continue to win things generation after generation. They will always win whoever they have playing for them.”

Fuel Hike: PROTES sampai turun!

Minyak: Protes besar-besaran 12 Julai

Ribuan orang akan digerakkan untuk menyertai protes membantah kenaikan besar harga minyak di Menara Berkembar Kuala Lumpur pada jam 3 petang 12 Julai.

Penganjur Gabungan Anti-Inflasi (Protes) berharap dapat menghimpun 100,000 orang untuk mendesak kerajaan supaya mengurangkan harga minyak ke paras asalnya, sebelum ini.

“Kami percaya, dengan kenaikan drastik harga minyak, kami akan mendapat sokongan rakyat…

“Ini tidak sama dengan perhimpunan anjuran Bersih. Ia akan lebih besar. Impaknya juga akan lebih besar,” kata penyelaras Protes, Dr Hatta Ramli dalam sidang akhbar hari ini.

Hatta menjelaskan bahawa Menara Berkembar KLCC dipilih sebagai tempat protes tersebut kerana ia merupakan ibupejabat syarikat minyak negara, Petronas.

Menurutnya, Malaysia adalah sebuah negara pengeluar minyak dan keuntungan yang dicatatkan oleh Petronas sepetutnya digunakan untuk meringan beban rakyat, akibat kenaikan harga minyak.

Semalam, Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi mengumumkan harga petrol naik 78 sen atau 41 peratus kepada RM2.70 manakala harga diesel naik RM1 atau 63.3 peratus kepada RM2.58.

Kenaikan harga minyak itu adalah antara langkah drastik kerajaan untuk menangani kenaikan subsidi minyak, yang dijangka mencecah RM56 bilion tahun ini.

Selepas membuat pengumuman tersebut, Abdullah berharap rakyat Malaysia tidak mengadakan demonstrasi membantah kenaikan harga bahan api itu.

Ronny: I’m OFF…

According to The Sun, Ronny has told SAF himself that he will go to Real if the price is right…

Earlier today;

Real To Offer Ronaldo 300k A Week?

In the latest development in one of the most bizarre and high-profile transfer sagas in the history of football, Real Madrid are reportedly ready to offer Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo an earth-shattering contract to move to the Spanish champions…
»Comments (65) Print This Story Send To A Friend Contact Us galleria zoom Much of the English press are reporting that the Portuguese phenomenon will be earning the astronomical figure – comfortably over twice as much as the next highest earners in the sport – in a five-year contract worth a staggering £75 million.

Los Blancos are reported to have made it clear to the player’s representatives that the offer will not be on the table in a year’s time – which is when it is now rumoured Ronaldo will eventually make his ‘dream’ move.

It was stated late last week that Ronaldo would make a final decision on his future in the coming days and rumours emerged yesterday that the winger had told family and close friends of his plan to leave the club, though there were conflicting reports released hours earlier that the player would stay on for a further year at Old Trafford.

next year?

watch out this space.