Abdullah Ahmad Badawi States A Possible Cabinet Reshuffle Will This Be Inclusive Of The Changing Leadership In MCA Or Other UMNO Vocalists Are Affected Too? I read this a moment ago: mSTAR OnLine Reports: Berita » Khamis Oktober 23, 2008 Abdullah: Rombakan kabinet ekoran perubahan kepimpinan MCA BEIJING: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi hari ini tidak menolak kemungkinan melakukan [...]

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A US-based Nigerian news blogger is being held without charge by Nigeria’s secret service.

Jonathan Elendu was taken into custody on Saturday when he arrived in the capital, Abuja, on a family visit.

The State Security Service (SSS) has refused to allow his lawyers access to him and denied him a medical visit.

Elendureports.com is one of a number of diaspora-run “citizen reporting” websites about Nigeria and is known for publishing controversial stories.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/7686119.stm

Post from: The New Politickler

KUALA LUMPUR - Lembaga Disiplin (LD) UMNO menyatakan jaminan untuk memberi perlindungan kepada mana-mana saksi yang tampil membantu penyiasatan dan memberi keterangan bagi merealisasikan sifar politik wang dalam parti sebagaimana yang pernah dimaklumkan pada pemilihan parti 2004 yang lalu.

Pengerusinya, Tan Sri Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen Tengku Ismail mengingatkan ahli-ahli UMNO terutamanya calon yang akan bertanding agar tidak melibatkan diri dalam gejala tersebut dan saksi yang tampil membantu LD akan diberi perlindungan.

“Setiap saksi yang tampil, akan diberi imuniti.

“Menjadi hasrat, tujuan dan kehendak pimpinan parti, untuk menghapuskan politik wang,” ujarnya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika sidang media LD di Menara Dato’ Onn, Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra (PWTC), di sini.

Dalam masa yang sama, beliau turut memaklumkan bahawa tribunal siasatan dan mesyuarat LD pada minggu lepas telah memutuskan seramai enam ahli UMNO telah diberi amaran kerana didapati bersalah mengikut Perlembagaan parti dan juga Tataetika berhubung sabotaj parti ketika Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-12 (PRU 12) dan juga politik wang.

Mereka adalah Datuk Ishak Ismail dari UMNO Bahagian Seremban, Datuk Mustaffar Kamal (Raub), Datuk Abdullah Abu Bakar (Raub), Datuk Suhaili Abdul Rahman, Datuk Yunus Kurus dan Alias Hussin, kesemuanya dari Labuan.

Manakala dua orang lagi dicadangkan agar dipecat keahliannya kerana menjadi calon bebas dan menjadi wakil calon pembangkang pada PRU 12 lalu iaitu, Isang Rawai dari Bahagian Kota Marudu dan Mohd. Shamsuddin Dawam.

“Tujuh lagi ahli yang turut disiasat, didapati tidak bersalah,” katanya lagi.

Mereka adalah Jelin Dasanap @ Jelani Hamdan, Majial Mangulizang dan Kampun Inok dari Kota Marudu, Datuk Ahmad Yassin dan Ja’far Ahmad (Ledang) serta Shahrl Ismail dan Jamilah Endan dari Tanjong Piai.

Menurutnya lagi, gejala politik wang yang dianggapnya sudah menjadi semacam satu budaya di dalam parti perlu dihapuskan kerana ia bukan sahaja boleh merosakkan individu terbabit malahan kepada parti dan juga negara.

Sehubungan itu, pemikiran ahli-ahli UMNO mesti diubah bagi memastikan gejala ini tidak terus berleluasa, tambahnya lagi.

Pada sidang medianya yang lalu, beliau telah mengingatkan ahli-ahli UMNO terutamanya calon yang akan bertanding agar tidak melibatkan diri dalam politik wang dan kesalahan yang melanggar Tataetika parti.

Beliau menyatakan bahawa penglibatan ahli-ahli UMNO dalam politik wang demi untuk mendapatkan pangkat adalah sesuatu yang tidak sihat dan membahayakan kedudukan UMNO sebagai sebuah parti pada masa akan datang.

Tambah beliau lagi, budaya yang tidak sihat yang menular ke dalam parti boleh dibanteras sekiranya mendapat kerjasama daripada ahli-ahli dan juga kepimpinan parti.

“Sebaiknya setiap aduan perlu dilaporkan secepat yang mungkin, tanpa menunggu tempoh yang lama manakala pengadu yang menarik kembali aduannya akan turut disiasat,” jelasnya lagi.

Dalam pada itu, ketika ditanya, beliau berkata tempoh kempen yang panjang pada pemilihan parti juga boleh menyebabkan gejala politik wang semakin berleluasa.

Daripada 30 September sehingga ke hari ini, LD menerima 185 aduan baru berhubung salah laku ahli parti di mana jumlah keseluruhan aduan adalah sebanyak 632 kes.

sumber : umno online

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Year 2008 United States election is just around the corner, Barack Obama and John McCan always hightlight about “CHANGE”.  Does Obama = CHANGE or McCain = CHANGE?  You have the right next 2 weeks. How about Malaysia? Frankly speaking. I wish Malaysia can CHANGE goverment. I have make a lot of changed recently.

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2. I bought a brand new Linksys Wireless G ADSL 2+ modem.

3. Terminated my Hong Leong Bank credit card. Why? I have told them I can’t afford to keep so many credit card and I have choosed HLB credit card. A small request - change malling address have to go HLB branch and no free for life scheme. Too bad.

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Pakatan Rakyat (PR) today presents recommendations to the lawmakers in the Malaysian Parliament as they continue to debate the 2009 Budget presented by the government on 29 August of this year. PR recommendations are made in light of the global economic and financial crisis, the sharp decline in commodities markets and the anticipated impact of these and other factors on the Malaysian economy.

Pakatan Rakyat believe that the 2009 Budget as presented is deeply flawed, not only in its assumptions but also in its prescriptions for navigating the country through the stormy waters of prolonged global economic recession expected in 2008 and 2009. The nation’s leaders seem to be on auto-pilot, unaware of the challenges which have already risen in the form of runaway inflation, rising unemployment and declining foreign investment. More troubling is their prolonged state of denial over the grim economic forecasts. The entire industrialized world, upon which the Malaysian economy relies heavily, is bracing for the worst recession in over a half century and our leaders have not offered a single reassuring statement or policy to indicate that they understand the gravity of the situation.

There is a pressing need for a meaningful exchange of ideas by lawmakers on both sides of the political divide to formulate a more credible budget and a more responsible plan to allocate and spend the money that has been entrusted upon the government by its rightful stewards, the people of Malaysia.

more at http://www.mpkapar.com/manikavasagam/posts/recommendations-by-pakatan-rakyat-for-the-2009-malaysia-budget/

Post from: The New Politickler

上个星期出席一位波兰朋友的生日派对，
出席的人，不是波兰，巴西，Estonia， Czech就是瑞士的朋友。。
台湾也有叻。。
真的是。。。世界各地朋友云集在一个小小的派对里。。

普通问题就会问到。。
m=不是我
p=是我

m: 你什么名字？
p: Paul
m: 本地人？
p: 猜猜看。。
m: 应该不是。
p: 不像吗？
m: 你不像马来人。。。
p: 我当然不是！
m: 你是马来华侨？
p: ？？？？？？（暗想：我是大马的华人啦。。不要一时一时加个“马来”字可以吗？）

我们竟然被外国人视为，大马华侨。。
其实他们也没不对。。。
我们的确是。。
如果不是的话。。。
我们的同胞就不会不时不是叫我们回kampung啦。

但是我对他们当我是马来人就有点不舒服，
但是我们是马来西亚人，不就是马来人吗？
又有什么不对？
就是不爽
但是，什么人也不重要啦，最重要是生活开心。

但是有件事是让我感到特别意外地，
有条巴西佬在这里居住了五年。。。
他竟然比我还要清楚大马情况。。
什么情况？
there。。
那个态度问题啊，
服务素质问题啦，
歧视问题咯。。。

他，
还安慰刚刚从瑞士来不到一个月的朋友，
习惯就好，
我就劝那位瑞士佬，赶快离开，泰国比较好！

Karoshi Suicide Salaryman is a top flash game. Try it out, if you are stuck or you give up, leave a comment here and I will provide you the guide to go pass that level.

Cheers!

The newly launched Maybank2u 2.0 (M2U 2.0 review) online banking portal has been reverted back to the classic version due to some technical problems.

If you access Maybank2U website now, you can still see the new web design but there is a notice on the front page stated that users will log in via the classics Maybank2U website instead of the redesigned Maybank2U 2.0 site.

Maybank apologise for any inconvenience M2U users may have experienced

It is not a surprise to most of us who had a preview of M2U 2.0. The new website had slow response time when we were testing.

Maybank2U 2.0 is SLOW

When Maybank2U 2.0 launched in public, Colin Charles compared the speed of the new website against the classic Maybank2U website.

The result? The new Maybank2U website is a lot slower than the classic version! M2U 2.0 has about 50% more HTTP requests and 95% slower!

Maybank2U 2.0 needs better system

I have been tracking Maybank2u website uptime and response time since its public launch. The website has a great downtime at 19 Oct 2008 for 44 minutes.

Maybank2u website downtime

The Maybank2U website also has rather slow response time. The average response time is only 4,706ms. The slowest response time is up to 6,489ms!

Maybank2U website response time report

For your information, 1,000ms is equal to 1 second. Meaning, Maybank2u website took about 5 seconds to answer your request. It is very slow… A website should keep the response time to less than 1 second.

Maybank should do some real system optimization and/or upgrade the hardware system.

Anyway, good luck to the Maybank2U development team. Hopefully the Maybank2U 2.0 will be back soon!

For those of you who have not seen the video of the Petronas Deepavali ad which i blogged about a few days ago.I didn’t have the video then but i found it on Youtube(below). I have seen a few blogs who have blogged about the ad as well  and the comments they receive is pretty mixed.

I know everyone is entitled to their opinion and thoughts but this is mine.

Yes, its a Petronas Ad and Yes, Leo Burnett must have made some money as the agency that made the add but how does that effect you? I don’t understand the logic about worrying about something that doesn’t impact you at all?!

Its the festival of lights! Lets sit back forget the bureaucracy, they politics, the money and just enjoy the advertisement! Happy Deepavali !

Enjoy

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Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) — Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said he’s running out of options to unseat the government, seven months after reducing the ruling coalition’s majority to the smallest since independence in 1957.

Anwar, 61, missed deadlines he set to have coalition lawmakers defect to the opposition and parliament conduct a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. The premier’s response was to accelerate a power handover to his deputy, Najib Razak.

“I’m not saying we have no options left, but I’m saying it’s getting to be much more difficult,” Anwar said in an interview yesterday in his parliamentary office in Kuala Lumpur. His three-party People’s Alliance remains confident it can woo the 30 coalition lawmakers it needs to form a majority after taking control of 5 of 13 states in the March elections, he said.

Anwar’s assessment, the most pessimistic since the election, suggests the transfer of power to Najib will be smooth, removing the uncertainty that has contributed to a 37 percent decline in the benchmark stock index this year.

“It’s only right for Anwar to clarify the People’s Alliance stand to the public,” regarding their diminishing options, said Tricia Yeoh, director of the Centre for Public Policy Studies, an independent research institute in Kuala Lumpur. “They should focus on administering the five states well and strengthening the bonds within the parties. This will demonstrate that they can be a formidable alternative federal government.”

Missed Deadlines

Anwar failed to meet his Sept. 16 deadline to oust Abdullah, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the founding of the Federation of Malaysia. He was also unable to persuade the prime minister to recall parliament for a confidence vote or even meet with Abdullah to discuss a change of government.

The opposition has pledged to end Malaysia’s system of preferences in employment and education for ethnic Malays and to reduce corruption. The ruling National Front, headed by the United Malays National Organisation, adopted a race-based system known as the New Economic Policy in 1971.

Anwar said he is exploring other options for a takeover that would be “peaceful and orderly” and adhere to the constitution, without elaborating.

Abdullah, 68, agreed this month to hand over power to Najib, the son of Malaysia’s second prime minister, in March. Previously the transition had been planned for June 2010, three years before the next general election must be held.

Cause for Regret?

“The opposition wants Abdullah to carry on, because they believe if he leads the party in the next election, their chances would be enhanced,” former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in a separate interview yesterday. Mahathir, the nation’s longest-serving leader, handpicked Abdullah as his successor, a decision he said he now regrets.

Anwar, a former deputy leader of UMNO, returned to parliament in a by-election on Aug. 26. He was fired as deputy prime minister by Mahathir in 1998 and jailed on charges of having illegal sex with a man and abuse of power. The sodomy conviction was overturned in 2004.

Anwar is currently facing similar sex charges after a 23- year-old former male aide filed a complaint with police.

“They don’t have a case. That I know for a fact,” Anwar said. “What they want to do is to embarrass me.”

source: bloomberg.com

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By Hafidz Baharom editor@thenutgraph.com The Nut Graph WHAT’S the difference between a book and a politician? This was a question posed to me recently by a close friend after having one too many beers. Somehow, the mind gets more creative when it’s intoxicated. Well, I said the first major difference was that I find books interesting to read. From Bill [...]

Letters by Moaz Yusuf Ahmad Subang Jaya, Selangor RE: Putrajaya monorail report and Putrajaya Corp. bus purchases When it was announced in early 2008 that the government was taking another look at the Putrajaya monorail, it could hardly have come at a better time. This was in late April/early May, and I had just finished participating in the Majlis [...]

Apple released a new Get a Mac ad sometime ago. It’s a great ad but if you know the back story its even funnier. I thought everyone knew it but my colleague didn’t when I showed it to her today, so I thought I’d share it here too.

Here’s the new ad, and the back story follows after the jump.

Click here to view the embedded video.

‘Bean Counter’

The back story

A few months back, Microsoft awarded a USD300 million ad budget to ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky to rebrand Microsoft as a cool company. Apple’s clever ad basically used Microsoft’s budget against themselves by asking “If Windows Vista is having problems, why are you spending all that money in advertising and not fixing Vista?” While it may not be totally fair, but Apple’s advertising agency is really smart I think.

I also think that the first ads that Crispin Porter + Bogusky produced were pretty good. Bill Gates is a super geek, and quite a good actor as well (link to the above ad). Those ads mysteriously got canned, and then we got the silly “I’m a PC” ads instead.

Did Apple or Microsoft’s ads influence you in any way at all? Catch all the other Get a Mac ads on Apple.com.

Only one BN MP signs petition for debate on ISA Fauwaz Abdul Aziz Oct 23, 08 4:19pm Malaysiakini One Barisan Nasional member of parliament was among 76 other MPs who signed an opposition-initiated petition calling for a debate of the review and repeal of the Internal Security Act (ISA) in the Dewan Rakyat when it reconvenes after [...]

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I give a lot of talks, but not a lot of pitches to VCs. But if I were planning to, I’d definitely recommend you to watch David S. Rose on pitching to VCs from TED. It’ll eat up fifteen minutes of your life, but the pitch coach, is simply fabulous. Heck, you can learn a thing or two for normal presentations too…

I took some notes:

* People - convince them that you are the people and convince them you are the one they are going to invest it
** 15-30 minutes at most
* Convey integrity, passion, experience, knowledge, skill, leadership, commitment, vision, realism, coach-ability (ability to listen)
* Business models, financial requirements - this is normal
* Timeline: 10-30s to get attention (grab the emotional attention), and keep on getting better, better, better, and then knock them out. A logical progression (think like a staircase)
** validation, believable upside (don’t lie!), things I know or understand, things that make one think, no typos/errors/etc.
* when speaking? use images, or something like what steve jobs does
* slide deck: company logo, business overview, management team, market, product, business model, strategic relationships, competition, barriers to entry, financial overview, use of proceeds, capital & valuation
* always use presentation mode, always use a remote control, hand outs are NOT your presentation (lots more information as it has to stand without you), don’t read your speech, never, ever look at the screen

Thanks to @ditesh for pointing this out.

It seems that this Fable II is a pretty good game with Gamespot (8.5), TeamxBox (8.9), IGN (8.8)and Eurogame (10/10) (yes, 10/10, I said that too).

Buy Fable II Game or the Limited Edition Fable II. I guess it would be a great gift for Christmas.

Sydney Morning Herald: Malaysia’s best-known destination for street food has been renamed, in a surprise re-branding that has created an uproar among the dozens of traders who sell local delicacies there.

Jalan Alor, which comes alive at night with more than 100 stalls selling everything from chicken satay to frog porridge, has been renamed Jalan Kejora by city authorities.

Critics say the change is pointless and will only confuse tourists, who nightly flock to the crowded street in the capital’s Bukit Bintang district.

In the Malay language, jalan means “street” and alor means “stream”.

Kuala Lumpur mayor Abdul Hakim Borhan said the plan to change the name to Kejora — Malay for the planet Venus — was made three years ago as part of a re-branding exercise for Bukit Bintang, which translates as “Star Hill”.

“Other roads in the area will soon have new names, and they will all be named after the stars to create a new image,” he was quoted as saying by the Star daily.

But Bukit Bintang parliamentarian Fong Kui Lun, from the opposition Democratic Action Party, said the move has created an outcry among Jalan Alor’s traders.

“No notice, no explanations. They just replaced the street signboard and the only explanation we got from the mayor was in the newspapers,” he said Tuesday.

“For 50 years this street has established itself as a very famous hawker centre, it is almost a heritage to city folk and to just remove the name is a very uncalled for and irresponsible act by city hall.”

Many of the traders have named their stalls after the street, which has existed for more than half a century, and yields more than a million results on the Yahoo! Internet search engine.

Comments: Its a very small issue, but it yields many more glaring poor-decision making in people. Why even bother to change the name? Kejora is Venus in Malay, what fking resemblance to Venus has Jalan Alor got. I guess they wanted it to be all stars, following Jalan Bukit Bintang, which is parallel to Jalan Alor… in which case, you’d be better off to call Jalan Alor the Uranus street.

A rebranding exercise? This shows that some people have got too much fking time on their hands. You really want to spruce up the area: clean up the garbage, have better lighting in the alley ways, lock up all pirated DVD sellers every night till they cry “mommy”, remove all touts and beggars … any one of the above would have been fking marvelous compared to fking Kejora.

Its not even a “colonial name”. On that side topic…, I am already very dismayed with the way we have changed most “colonial streets” into local personalities. We are building new streets everyday, there are plenty of streets to name the local politicians and personalities. How we regard these “colonial street names” tells us a lot about ourselves, how confident we are in our identity, and comfortableness in ourselves. You don’t need to brainwash your own people into thinking certain things never happened - they did. By having the colonial street names, we are not saying we are proud or salute these personalities, but rather that we remember how we got here, the pain and suffering, the trials and victories, we need not like the antics and doings of every colonialists but we remember lest we forget. Bring back the Hume Street, Swettenham Road, Hugh Low Street, Birch Road, etc… not that we liked them or worshiped them, but like it or not, they were part of us. Replacing them is akin to the Japanese rewriting world history, … that Japan never lost the war or that the Nanking massacre never happened.

Street names are more than just names you can throw out. Its heritage, its historical, it has immense contextual meanings, its about identity … Mr Mayor, how would you like it if I were to rebrand you as Encik Selamat Datang, its a thought and I am fking sure it would be a sensational boost to tourism. Please guys and gals, go do something useful

source : Malaysia-finance Blogspot

Post from: The New Politickler

Intel had recently acquirred the company call Neteffect which is focusing on 10Gbps ethernet adaptors technology. As 10Ge is no longer a new thing in the market, but we still do not see it become the popular solution in the industry due to the expensive switches, NIC and solution that been widely control by the technology leader in networking solution. As we may also see some technology related to infiniband which provide 20Gbps by using HCA (host channel adapter), that will be another major competitor to be compared with the 10Ge.

Personally I had been urging the storage and network vendor over and over again regarding the 10Ge products. The reason of it is pretty simple that the Fiber Channel is just too expensive to be deployed and managed VS ethernet 10Ge. But the concern is the vendor are very slow responding to the 10Ge release roadmap although customers are demanding on that.

With Intel moving to the market now, I will see that is a big opportunitty to make this 10Ge become inexpensive in the future with the high volume production provide by Intel in the servers’ market NIC. As virtualization become an important piece in the data center, the bandwidth will required to be grow as much as possible at the same time VS CPU Cores and Memory. Intel had proven their right track on the servers NIC as many of us can easily found that the server NICs are produced by Intel. Even in VMware ESX servers, your VM will be provided either AMD or Intel virtual NIC drivers on top of the hypervisor Virtualization.

As a IT Consumers, I am more than happy to see the technology become cheaper and cheaper and of course personally I do believe Intel will able to make the popularization for 10Ge moving forward.

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Contributed by Noor Arianti Binti Osman

KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday, 19 October 2008 – “The Bar Council will keep up the deafening sound of objections against the ISA,” said Lim Chee Wee, the Secretary of the Bar Council, in his speech during the gathering to endorse the abolition of the Internal Security Act, 1960 held at the Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH) today.

Also speaking at the gathering were Dato’ Bong Hon Liong, President of KLSCAH, Dr. Yap Sin Tian, Chairman of Dong Zong, Tan Sri Lim Gait Tong, President of the Federation of Chinese Assembly Hall (FECAM), Ong Chiow Chuan, President of Jiao Zong, Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh, Chaiman of Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI), Norlaila Othman, wife of ISA detainee Mat Sah Mohd Satray, Marina Lee Abdullah, wife of Raja Petra Kamarudin and Haris Ibrahim, lawyer and founder of the blog, The People’s Parliament.

Based on the record provided by GMI Secretariat Enalini Elumalai, this year alone GMI has organised over 30 events calling for abolition of the ISA. Today’s endorsement by various organisations from all over the country is seen as the beacon of hope for this draconian law to be abolished in very near future.

Lim Chee Wee in his speech also noted that endorsements are received from organisations, which comprise not only human rights activists, political parties on both sides of the spectrum and educationists, but even business people. If even business people whom are conservative are concerned about ISA, this goes to show how threatening the public as a whole find ISA, he explained. He also urged the Prime Minister to add repealing ISA as his fourth initiative to his three promised initiatives before he steps down.

Norlaila, also known as Kak Laila, stressed that the best way to recruit support is by word of mouth. Marina suggested GMI to hold this sort of gathering all over the country to increase the momentum.

Haris announced that The People’s Parliament has started “ISA Candlelight Vigil” last week and invited the audience to attend the second vigil tonight. “Let’s do it in every state and keep doing it until ISA is abolished,” he said.

The gathering which ended at about 1pm saw about 300 people from the various organisations in attendance, including the President of Pertubuhan Jamaah Islah Malaysia (JIM), Tn Hj Zaid Kamaruddin.

Also present were Brendan Siva, HR Dipendra and Richard Wee representing the Kuala Lumpur Bar, Syamsuriatina Ishak representing the Selangor Bar as well as the Bar Council Human Rights Committee and Amer Hamzah Arshad, Andy Yong, Fadiah Nadwa Fikri, Maria Soosai Raj and Seira Sacha Abu Bakar also from the Bar Council Human Rights Committee.

source: The Malaysian Bar

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Shahrizat layak tanding Ketua Wanita, mungkin cabar Rafidah? A Leader Can Prefer When She Will Do A Transit A Challenger Out Of Respect Will Be In A Dilemma Especially Ignoring Grassroot Voice So Why UMNO Divisional Meetings Need To Be On When Transition Plan Still Goes On Zubli Zainordin is a Blogger specializing in Political Leaders at Blogs he Authors - A Total Blog, and Satu Blog Total. [...]

WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (IPS) - The announcement by former Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday that he will vote for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president Nov. 4 marks the latest and most prominent, if not entirely unexpected, defection of a major Republican figure from his party’s election campaign.

Powell, who made his announcement on the widely viewed “Meet the Press” public-affairs television programme, cited a number of factors for his decision not to back his old friend, Sen. John McCain, to whose campaign he had contributed money during the Republican primary contest earlier this year.

But he stressed that Obama, whom he called a “transformational figure”, would offer a badly needed “new image of America’s role in the world” and pursue policies, notably a willingness to engage antagonists as well as allies, that have been denounced by McCain and shunned by the administration of President George W. Bush that Powell served for four years.

“…I think the president has to reach out to the world and show that there is a new president, a new administration that is looking forward to working with our friends and allies, and, in my judgement, also willing to talk to people who we have not been willing to talk to before,” Powell, a retired four-star general who served as chairman of the Armed Forces Chief of Staff under Bush’s father, said. “Because this is a time for outreach.”

more at : IPS News

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KABUL, Afghanistan: An appeals court sentenced a young Afghan journalist to 20 years in prison for blasphemy on Tuesday, overturning a death sentence ordered by a provincial court but raising further concerns of judicial propriety in the case.

The defendant, Sayed Parwiz Kambakhsh, 23, was a student in journalism in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and worked for a daily newspaper there. He was arrested last October and accused of printing and distributing an article from the Internet about Islam and women’s rights, on which he had written some comments about the Prophet Muhammad’s failings on that issue.

While insults to Muhammad are anathema in Afghanistan, the decisions by both the lower court and appeals court shocked many of Kambakhsh’s supporters and outraged international journalism organizations, which suggested that neither of the trials had been fair. The defendant’s brother, also a journalist, said the proceedings had been prompted by his own critical writings about local militia and political leaders.

more at IHT News.

Post from: The New Politickler

Angry protesters have thrown shoes and bottles at Thailand’s Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat.

About 200 state employees surrounded his car outside the Information Ministry, and called him a murderer.

Mr Somchai is under pressure to resign over recent clashes between police and an anti-government group.

Protesters also say he is too close to former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, who was sentenced to two years in jail on Tuesday for violating corruption laws.

more at : BBC News

Post from: The New Politickler

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Microsoft has declared the October 21st as Global Anti-Piracy Day.  Basically this means they now mean business and are going to start a crack down on the fake softwares out there.Microsoft will be using this as a platform to step up legal action against software pirates though raids by local law enforcement agencies and by filing civil cases against pirates across the globe.

So all of you who are on fake OS’s time to get yourself legit before the big boy starts marking you down as a potential donor Im on a genuine Vista Ultimate and thank god for that

You can read the legal action here.

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I have been watching the crude oil price for a while now. If you look at the sidebar,you will see a live update of the world crude oil price from when it was about $150 and our dearest government raised our fuel prices to RM2.70 a liter to RM 2.40 that we pay for a liter of fuel today.

But does this justify as compared to where the world crude oil stands??

Questions

• I’m no economical champion but its pretty obvious that we are paying premium price for fuel isnt it?? But why?
• Is our fuels still subsidized by the govt?
• Reduce in fuel price does not mean reduced in cost of food/services.others who conveniently increased their prices when the bold move of increasing the fuel was done not so long ago, how?

With the economic meltdown and many nations going into recession i hope that we are managing the situation more prudently in ensuring we don’t drop into too deep shit.. Its a royal mess to get out, if you know what i mean.

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上上星期天公司有活动，早上八点要到活动地点PICC集合。

同事早上七点在公车站等我，双喜爸六点半就被我从被窝拉起来载我到公车站。

出了门看见对面的电线，哇！鸽子排排站、睡觉觉。

我说哇！没见过鸟家们全在一条电线上。

双喜爸说平时上班去了，鸟家们今天星期天没做工在家休息。

Lindsey Evans, Miss Louisiana Teen USA is a moron of the highest degree in my view! Why? With 10 days left as her reign as the iss Louisiana Teen USA, she pulled a stupid stunt by getting arrested this weekend after she and a group of friends allegedly tried to dine-and-dash — all over a $46.07 bill.

Yes thats right it was over $46.07!

You know what puts the icing to the cake?? She left her purse at the scene of the crime. She went back to retrieve it, and was busted when cops found pot in the purse. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA..

Thats what you call stupid with a capital S

Well if there is any positives to take out of this whole debacle, she is about a pound lighter since she doesnt have that hideous crown on her head anymore!

Source: TMZ

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前些日子上了一辆Rapid公车，上车后就闭眼小寐。

听见有人按铃，公车上的播音响起一女声，清楚的普通话：

“你好，请开门。”

我张眼看看……

……

我，这是在哪？

Azizan Abdul Razak cikwiduri.wordpress.com State Leaders The Way They Earn And Spend For The Malaysians At State Level Is Scary Scary More Scary The Central Government The RM5B For Example… But Azizan Razak Kedah State Menteri Besar Did It Reduced State Debt From RM 2.9 Billion to RM 500 Million Please Read Blog KacangHijau Zubli Zainordin is a Blogger specializing in Political Leaders at Blogs he Authors - A Total Blog, and [...]