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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Monday, September 3, 2007
Abbas announces new electoral law to exclude Hamas
Sunday, September 2, 2007
War on Terror !
As Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild, pointed out, Bush “overlooked the 4 million Indochinese and 58,000 American soldiers who paid the ultimate price for that imperial war. And the myriad Vietnamese and Americans who continue to suffer the devastating effects of the defoliant Agent Orange the U.S. forces dropped on Vietnam.”
In fact, the U.S. “liberated” Japan by dropping two atomic bombs on it--entirely unnecessary militarily, but politically useful in sending a warning to the USSR, then looming as its main rival in the postwar world.
Unquote:
Lying about Vietnam to justify his war
Oliver Stone to film My Lai massacre
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:44:45
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The new movie called Pinkville will be written by Mikko Alanne, focusing on the investigation of the 1968 My Lai massacre.
Production will begin early next year with a 40 million dollar budget.
Pinkville will be Stone's fourth movie on the Vietnam war, following the Oscar winner Platoon, Heaven and Earth, and Born on the Fourth of July.
'Redacted' depicts Iraqi horrors
Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:35:50
Source: Agencies
| American film director, Brian De Palma |
American film director Brian De Palma has stunned the Venice Film Festival with his traumatic new film about the horrors of the Iraq war.
Brian De Palma said he hoped seeing such images would alert Americans to the truth of what is going on in Iraq and would ultimately stop the war.
The film, Redacted, is based on the horrible real-life incident in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, in which American soldiers violated a 14-year-old schoolgirl before setting her body alight and shooting dead her parents and her five-year-old sister.
Other events shown on film include the fatal shooting of a pregnant Iraqi woman at a US military checkpoint as her brother was driving her to hospital.
The film is a response to what De Palma sees as sanitized media accounts of the war seen in the United States.
"All the images we have of our war are completely constructed - whitewashed, redacted," said De Palma adding that "one only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to get their congressmen to vote against the war."
De Palma casts relatively unknown actors as the army recruits and filmed on location in Jordan
US 'intellectually bankrupt' over Iraq
Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:07:57
Source: agencies
| General Sir Mike Jackson |
The head of the British army during the invasion of Iraq has criticized the US post-war policy in Iraq as intellectually bankrupt.
General Sir Mike Jackson, a now retired former chief of the general staff, said the approach taken by former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was "intellectually bankrupt" and described his comment that US forces "don't do nation-building" as "nonsensical" The Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday.
Gen Jackson said Mr. Rumsfeld was "one of the most responsible for the current situation in Iraq."
Jackson was particularly critical of US President George W. Bush's decision to hand control of the post-invasion running of Iraq to the Department of Defense.
"All the planning carried out by the State Department went to waste," he noted.
Jackson further added the entire US approach to tackling global terrorism was "inadequate" because it relied too heavily on military power at the expense of nation building and diplomacy.
The remarks come as officials from both the US and UK have been blaming each other over Iraq.
General Jack Keane, a former vice-chief of staff of the US army, said there was "frustration" in Washington at Britain's role in southern Iraq as he shed light on media reports that American officials think British forces have failed there.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Will G3 stops IAEA report to UNSC
Diplomacy can resolve Iran's N-issue
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:43:52
Source: PressTV, agencies
| Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix |
The former UN chief weapons inspector says diplomacy is the best way to resolve the standoff with Iran over its uranium enrichment program.
Iran should be provided with security guarantees that it will not be attacked, and the United States should normalize relations with Iran to help resolve the current row over that country's nuclear activities, Hans Blix maintained.
The former UN official, who is currently chairman of Sweden's Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, said that the diplomatic approach as adopted by Washington toward North Korea has not been used with Iran.
"On the contrary, you have three US aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf which the Iranians may see as needing to protect themselves from in future," said Blix who was delivering a keynote address to the Second Commonwealth Red Cross and Red Crescent Conference on International Humanitarian Law in Wellington, New Zealand.
Without taking into account the peaceful objective of Iran's nuclear program, Blix said Iranians should be assured that they do not need to have nuclear weapons.
France, UK, US slam IAEA report
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:28:30
| France, UK, and the US disapprove of recent IAEA report on Iran. |
A senior Iranian diplomat said that the envoys had met with IAEA Chief Mohammad ElBaradei, to object to his report and politically influence him. Chinese, German, and Russian diplomats did not attend the meeting.
The American, British, and French envoys reportedly stepped up pressures on ElBaradei as the agency nodded its agreement with Tehran to remove Iran's case from the UN Security Council's agenda.
ElBaradei's report suggested that the recent agreement between the Islamic Republic and UN nuclear watchdog was a breakthrough in Iran's nuclear case.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
US is world's most armed society
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:29:20
Source: Reuters
| US citizens own 270 million guns. |
There are some 270 million guns in the US, nearly 90 for every 100 citizens, this has turned the country into the world's most heavily armed society.
US citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.
About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said. "There is roughly one firearm for every seven people worldwide. Without the United States, though, this drops to about one firearm per 10 people."
India had the world's second-largest civilian gun arsenal, with an estimated 46 million firearms outside law enforcement and the military, though this represented just four guns per 100 people there. China, ranked third with 40 million privately held guns, had 3 firearms per 100 people.
Germany, France, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil and Russia were next in the ranking of country's overall civilian gun arsenals.
On a per-capita basis, Yemen had the second most heavily armed citizenry behind the United States, with 61 guns per 100 people, followed by Finland with 56, Switzerland with 46, Iraq with 39 and Serbia with 38.
The report, which relied on government data, surveys and media reports to estimate the size of world arsenals, estimated there were 650 million civilian firearms worldwide, and 225 million - nearly three times fewer- held by law enforcement and military forces.
Only about 12 percent of civilian weapons in the world are thought to be registered with authorities.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Terkuburnya Kelantan Delights di Suria KLCC
Malam tadi adalah malam terakhir restoran Kelantan Delights – satu-satunya sahaja restoran masakan Melayu yang beroperasi di Suria KLCC – menghidang makanan di situ. Mulai esok (23hb Ogos) berakhirlah riwayatnya setelah beroperasi selama 10 tahun memperkenalkan masakan Melayu, khususnya makanan Kelantan seperti nasi kerabu dan nasi dagang kepada pelancung dalam dan luar negeri di situ.
Penutupannya juga menandakan sudah tidak ada lagi restoran yang menyajikan masakan Melayu di situ. Apakah salah kalau disimpulkan bahawa pengurusan Suria KLCC tidak mahu ujud kedai yang menyediakan masakan Melayu kepada orang ramai yang berkunjung ke Menara berkembar Petronas? Ini hanya Pengurusi Eksekutif Suria KLCC dan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutifnya, seorang warga Australia bernama Brian Andrew yang boleh memberi jawapan.
Kalau ditanya tentulah mereka mengatakan bahawa tuan punyai Kelantan Delights, Sdr Juhaidi Yean Abdullah dan isteri tidak mahu membayar sewa yang dikenakan, ia itu RM44,000 sebulan, naik dari RM30,000 sebelum ini.
Juhaidi berkata masalahnya bukanlah kadar sewa yang dikenakan, tetapi sikap pengurusan yang agak bongkak seolah-olah memberikan kata dua kepadanya tanpa mahu berunding. Apakah kenaikan kadar sewa yang begitu melonjak berpatutan – naik hampir 50 peratus dalam tempoh setahun?
Pengurusan Suria KLCC juga tidak telus kerana merahsiakan kadar sewa yang dikenakan kepada premis lain yang bersebelahan. Misalnya Chakri Palace (masakan Thai), Spice of India atau Madame Kwan dan Shan Village (masakan Cina). Apakah kadar sewa yang dikenakan kepada mereka itu sama dengan yang dikenakan kepada Kelantan Delights?
Mereka menjadikan kadar sewa yang dikenakan seperti satu rahsia negara yang amat besar sekali.
Kini premis itu yang telah dipopularkan juga oleh Kelantan Delights akan diberikan kepada suatu restaurant Korea. Dengan ini berbagai masakan negeri asing boleh dinikmati di Suria KLCC tetapi jangan harapkan mendapat masakan Melayu di situ. Apakah gambaran yang hendak diberikan pengurusan Suria KLCC? Salahkah kalau disimpulkan bahawa mereka berpandangan bahawa masakan Melayu tidak layak disajikan kepada pengunjung Menara Kembar Petronas?
Apakah salah kalau diandaikan pengurusan Suria KLCC tidak langsung prihatin dengan keadaan tempatan? Dengan tamatnya riwayat Kelantan Delights di situ, makanan Melayu sudah tidak terdapat lagi diMenara Kembar Petronas. Apakah tidak aneh masakan bangsa-bangsa lain boleh dinikmati di situ tetapi masakan tempatan tidak ada?
Apakah makanan Melayu tidak setaraf makanan bangsa-bangsa lain hingga tidak lagi diberi tempat di situ? Salahkah kalau disimpulkan bahawa pengurusan Suria KLCC tidak mahu orang yang mengunjundi Menara Kembar Petronas menikmati masakan Melayu?
Maka tidak menghairankan pengacara TV Aziz Desa yang turut hadir dalam jamuan terakhir di situ malam tadi antara lain memberi rangkap pantun ini:
Buai laju-laju
Sampai KLCC
Apa nasib Melayu
Merempat di negeri sendiri.
Antara mereka yang hadir adalah beberapa orang rakan wartawan dan personality TV seperti Ras Adiba. Kelantan Delights juga meraikan seramai 40 orang warga tua dari Rumah Seri Kenangan Ceras.
Apakah yang boleh disimpulkan dari perkembangan terakhir ini yang dihadapi pekedai-pekedai Melayu di situ? Nampaknya satu demi satu kedai Melayu terpaksa ditutup.
Maka dengan itu kini tiggal hanya 10 buah kedai yang diusahakan Melayu daripada 325 buah kedai. Apakah ini tidak menimbulkan keresahan dikalangan orang Melayu? Apakah pihak berkuasa tidak langsung prihatin dengan perkembangan ini dan sikap pengurusan Suria KLCC?
Kabarnya keadaan di Alamanda Putrajaya yang juga diuruskan Suria KLCC tidak banyak berbeza dengan apa yang sedang berlaku di Menara Kembar Petronas. Tidak menghairankan kerana Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Alamanda adalah isteri kepada Brian Andrew iaitu Lisa Words. Apakah tidak aneh isteri boleh dilantik sebagai boss anak syarikat di mana suaminya menjadi ketua?
Perkembangan ini sebenarnya memberi implikasi besar terhadap kedudukan perniagaan Melayu di kompleks beli belah yang bertaraf antarabangsa. Orang Melayu sendiri tidak mengharapkan pembelaan dari komplek yang dikuasai bukan Melayu seperti Mega Mall atau One Utama. Tetapi kompleks membeli belah yang dikuasai sebuah Syarikat Kaitan Kerajaan (GLC) tentunya perlu ada sedikit pertimbangan untuk menggalakan peniaga Melayu.
Apa yang berlaku kepada Kelantan Delights juga menunjukan sikap kurang prihatin oleh kerajaan dan institusi yang kononnya diujudkan untuk memelihara dan membantu peniaga Melayu. Jadi dimanakah usaha mahu menggalak orang Melayu berniaga? Melayu yang benar-benar berkebolehan bukannya yang Ali Baba dimana rakan kongsi Melayu hanyalah sebagai ‘sleeping partner’ saja.
Apa khabar Kementerian Pembangunan Usahawan dan Koperasi? Apa khabar MARA? Tidak adakah satu pun Jabatan atau Ajensi Kerajaan prihatin terhadap apa yang sedang melanda peniaga Melayu di Suria KLCC?
Khabarnya Ketua Setiausaha Kementeri Pembangunan Usahawan dan Koperasi ada menemui Pengurusan Suria KLCC. Tetapi tidak pula diketahui apa hasilnya. Yang diketahui Kelantan Delights sudah tutup kedai di sana. Nampaknya tidak ada kesudahan.
Malah perjumpaan antara Ketua Setiausaha Kementerian dengan pengurusan Suria KLCC yang tidak membawa kepada pembelaan peniaga Melayu akan memberikan hasil yang lebih buruk kerana tidak apa pun yang berlaku. Pengurusan Suria KLCC tentunya akan bersikap lebih bongkak dan sombong seolah-olah mereka kebal dan boleh melakukan apa saja tanpa siapa pun boleh menegur.
Malam tadi saya juga terpegum melihat empat pasagan orang putih yang hendak memasuki restoran. Salah seorang pekerja Kelantan Delights yang berada dipintu memberitahu bahawa restoran tidak dibuka untuk pelanggan malam itu. Tetapi Sdr Juhaidi yang kebetulan berada berhampiran sedarkan apa yang berlaku dan terus mencelah dan memperlawa mereka masuk menikmati hidangan secara gratis.
Salah seorang daripada mereka memberi tahu bahawa mereka datang dari Rusia dan mahu menikmati Nasi Kerabu sambil menunjukkan buku pelancungan dalam bahasa Rusia dengan nama Kelantan Delights di tandakan. Juhaidi terus gugup bahawa restorannya dimasukkan dalam buku pelancungan Rusia. Beliau memberitahu mereka bahawa Nasi Kerabu tidak disajikan malam itu tetapi telah memberikan mereka hidangan nasi dagang serta hidangan lain.
Seorang daripada pelancung Rusia itu yang perkenalkan dirinya sebagai seorang pegawai Kerajaan Tempatan Moscow telah memperlawa Juhaidi membuka Kelantan Delights di ibu negara Rusia itu. Nampaknya orang asing lebih menyokong Kelantan Delights daripada Suria KLCC.
Juhaidi memberitahu saya bahawa restorannya itu sememangnya mendapat tempat dalam beberapa buku pelancungan asing selain dari dalam bahasa Inggeris juga buku pelancungan dalam bahasa Jepun dan Arab.
Untuk mengakhirkan cerita malam tadi bukanlah bermakna Kelantan Delights akan terus terkubur; hanya di Menara Kembar Petronas. Dua bulan lagi ia akan muncul semula kali ini di Sentral, tepatnya di Sooka Sentral bersebelahan pusat pengangkutan Sentral dan Hilton Kuala Lumpur.
Juhaidi memberitahu bahawa Pengurusan MRCB yang lebih prihatin kepada peniaga Melayu telah mempelawanya membuka kedainya di bangunan yang baru selesai di bina itu. Nampaknya ‘Suria KLCC’s loss is a gain for MRCB’s Sooka Sentral’. Kita berhadap Kelantan Delights akan lebih maju dan berjaya di Sooka Sentral.
Rejal Arbee
22 Ogos 2007
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Friday, July 27, 2007
What happen to Anak Raja Bugis?
Malay English
26/07: A comedy of errors (excerpts)
I received a call from the police at 8.00am yesterday that they want to record my statement on the police report lodged by an ex-Selangor Menteri Besar with two Muhamads in his name. I saw the phone call coming and was not only expecting it but was hoping that they would summon me for interrogation so that I can expose this entire episode for the farce that it really is. In short, I pushed their hand with the 'See you in hell Muhamad son of Muhamad' article so that they would be forced to make their move on me.
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"Okay, now I will make that statement. Malaysia Today's domain name is registered in the UK," I told the police. When you click on the domain name malaysia-today.net you are sent to the server of the registered IP address in that domain name. Our server is in Singapore. But what you see is only the front page. Then you choose which item on the front page you want to read and you are sent to the blog. The blog sits in the US. When you post a comment it goes straight to the blog. For all intents and purposes, Malaysia Today is a foreign website and not a Malaysian website. We therefore do not come under Malaysian laws."
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
The Great Debate - Is MALAYSIA an Islamic State (IS) or Secular State (SS)
As for PAS they think that MALAYSIA should be an Islamic State but on the contrary it is moving towards a SS entity.
Within UMNO, MALAYSIA is an IS and adequately the best available IS now. UMNO is even ready to export to the rest of the Islamic world.
In any Islamic Country this situation is always there. The Leaders of an Islamic Country have to give rooms to Muslims and the non Muslims with various different opinions.
In Summary, in Malaysia
B…….but we cannot come to a consensus as to what type State we are and hence what we want
Islamic State (IS) PAS and Islamic State ((IS) UMNO / ABIM / DAP / MCA is not the same.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
AGM, Tahlil & Thanksgiving
Diharap wakil keluarga dapat memanjangkan program ini kepada sanak saudara PERWI. Semua adalah dijemput hadir.
Kepada yang belum mendaftar sebagai ahli, kaunter pendaftaran akan disediakan pada hari tersebut.Bayaran pendaftaran adalah sebanyak rm30 setahun setiap seorang. Bayaran keahlian seumur hidup adalah sebanyak rm300
Kepada mana-mana ahli PERWI yang mempunyai anak yang bakal menduduki peperiksaan UPSR, PMR dan SPM 2007, boleh kemukakan nama anak kepada Abg Ghaz untuk penyampaian Cenderahati peperiksaan.
Jupo di Bachok!..
Salamz,
Amir.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Will Kelantanese be Richer.
The Malaysian government is going to build a 300km crude oil pipeline costing some USD7Billion ( RM24Billion ) from Kedah to Kelantan.
The proposed pipeline will string across three states linking Yan in Kedah to Bachok in Kelantan with an expected investment of some USD7Billion over a period of 8 years, involving the construction of two oil refineries.
The pipe enables ships to bypass the Straits of Malacca. These ships will use import facilities on the West Coast of the Peninsular for oil from the Middle East and Africa to be piped to an export terminal in the East Coast, where the oil will be loaded onto ships bound for East Asia.
Thus it may be seen as an attempt not only to trigger economic growth and development in the region in the near future but the trickle down effect will be there long after our own oil dry up, provided the cost of double handling and taking into account of the time involved to bypass Singapore is cheaper than going via Singapore.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Teasing - The Party's Anthem
If this is the case, then it is certainly not the party that fought for independence, may be a reshaped one to fight for other things after independence, it is said that none of the former PMs are members of this party (except the one just retired)!
Bersatu Kita Bersatu
Dengan Setia Berganding Bahu
Tipu Terus Menipu
Kita Tipu Melayu
Bersama Kita Bersama
Mendukung Hasrat Semua
Berjasa Pada Kroni
Anak Isteri Dan 'Bini'
Lambang Kita Yang Gagah
Dipandang Keji Dan Haprak
Bersatu Bersetia Khianat
Cogan Katanya
UMNO Terus Lara
Rompak Rakyat Malaysia




