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All the Stupid Gaffes the Media Mocks About Palin, Obama Actually Delivers Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:26 AM PDT Via AoSHQ, by I Own The World, it’s going viral: See also related comparisons at:
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Why You And I Need To Drag Our Asses Out There On The 9th Of July Posted: 20 Jun 2011 11:03 PM PDT Simply put: we can never have a change of government EVER, if there is no electoral reform.
Based on the present system (of gerry-mandering), the opposition will NEVER form the federal government because it will NEVER win more than 50% of the seats in Parliament (unless it can win more than 60% of the votes, which is quite impossible with that many phantom and postal votes floating around). If you don't quite understand what all this is about, check THIS out. That's the technical reason, by the way. For a more philosophical one, let's just say it's a matter of dignity. 
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Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:58 PM PDT Source:Nan Yang San Pau
2011/06/19 5:35:07 PM （巴生19日讯）巴生市议会上月完成巴生池龙花园社达卡路改善沟渠工程却无法根治淹水问题，当局在查究后得知临近新建广场的排水系统构造问题所致，居民促 请市议会尽快对症下药，以早日摆脱淹水噩梦！ 巴生池龙花园社达卡路的居民面对淹水的困扰逾15年，超过30户人家受影响。当地居民指出，每次只要下大雨半小时，就担心淹水，若晚上下雨，就无法安眠。 担心老年人安全 由于该花园住了许多乐龄人士，半夜淹水让人担心老人家安全及不便；居民每次淹水之后，还面对疲于打扫、家具被浸坏及墙壁肮脏等“后遗症”，无不感到厌烦及无奈。 巴生市议会去年该花园面对严重水灾事件后，展开改善及加深沟渠工程以纾缓淹水问题，有关工程也在上月宣告完成，但两个星期前，当地下大雨后，依然发生淹水事件，让居民感到疑惑及不满。 市议会在经过追查后，相信淹水问题无法根治是附近一间大型广场四周的排水系统构造出现问题所致；当地居民希望市议会尽快针对此事与广场负责人商谈，以一劳永逸解决该花园淹水问题。 巴生区国会议员查尔斯今早连同巴生市议员何福强巡视社达卡路及与当地居民对话，了解淹水情况及商量对策，最后决定由以居民兼莎阿南市议员约加为首的巴生池龙花园水灾委员会继续跟进此事。 何福强也指出，他将与市议会有关小组官员到有关广场四周实地考察排水系统情况，以对症下药。 若证实广场排水不良 市会应发警告信惩戒 巴生池龙花园居民去年成立的N48C池龙花园居民水灾行动委员，将与巴生市议会跟进当地的淹水问题，巴生区国会议员查尔斯也会协助及监督情况的进展。 查尔斯说，该花园去年面对两次严重的淹水事件，当时他已向市议会提出必须解决，之后市议会展开改善及加深沟渠的工程，并于上月完成工程，但无法纾缓当地的淹水问题。 “较早前，我们怀疑是新建广场四周的排水系统构造出现问题，下大雨时，沟水回流及造成毗邻的住宅花园淹水。” “今次市议会完成加深沟渠的工程，却无法解决淹水问题，更确认是来自新建广场的排水系统。” 他认为，有关问题存在已久，如果确定广场的排水系统构造问题，市议会应发出警告信给该广场，以示惩戒。 他说，有居民建议在新建广场四周设建水泵，以把沟水引到大沟渠去，避免沟水回流及造成淹水。 他促请市议会两个月内，可有个确定的决定，协助居民摆脱淹水的噩梦。 查尔斯促中央政府 发放贫苦家庭援助金 巴生区国会议员查尔斯促请中央政府及雪州政府发放每户贫苦家庭100令吉援助金，以助居民应付目前沉重的生活负担。 他今早巡视巴生池龙花园淹水问题及赠送康乃馨予居民庆祝父亲节时说，现在人们的生活成本提高，面对很多压力，居民现在面对最大的压力来源是财务问题。 他认为，中央政府及雪州政府迫切需要帮助人民解决此事，短期的解决方法，中央政府及雪州政府应发放月薪少过1500令吉的贫苦家庭每户100令吉援助金，让他们购买米粮等必需品。 “那些贫苦家庭因面对沉重的生活负担，老人家生病不敢看医生，孩子也没有钱去补习。” 他说，至于长期的计划，中央政府应调整我国的最低薪金制度。 “我国的职工在过去15年来，薪水只是增长2.6%，我国许多职工的最低薪水还停留在700令吉，尚未达致最低薪金763令吉的标准。” 李光明（45岁，住在当地32年）：最高水位达6寸高 该花园最近十年来，经常面对淹水，最高水位6寸高，致使家具及墙壁等遭浸坏，损失难以估计。 除了财物损失，我们担心淹水时，只有年老的父亲李约瑟（78岁）及母亲林金双（75岁）在家，会造成危险及不便。 最近一次淹水于两个星期前，凌晨3时下大雨，母亲唯有摸黑起床拿东西塞住厕所的排水洞，无奈雨水从厨房进来，造成水淹3寸高，幸好大雨及时停了，否则后果不堪设想。 我们投诉多次，但至今没有解决。现在父母每次下大雨，都担惊受怕，我们在外知道下大雨，也赶回家查看会否淹水。 郑忠源（44岁，住在当地15年）：家具浸坏损失惨重 我们住在这里多年来，经历多次大大小小的水灾，尤其2008年开始常发生严重水灾，去年3月及9月也发生两次大水灾，3月的那次，刚好我们出远门，回到家看到所有家具全被淹坏了，损失惨重。 巴生市议会及水利灌溉局没有认真看待该花园淹水事件，此事一直悬而未解。 当局在解决淹水问题上行动缓慢，例如既然确认新建广场四周的排水系统构造出问题，当局应尽快对症下药，以免居民受苦。
       
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Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:26 PM PDT I received this from this outfit here the National Inflation Association of the US. They are talking about inflation in the United States. . When the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) reported their latest consumer price index (CPI) inflation data last week, everybody in the mainstream media worked tirelessly to spin the data in order to proclaim that U.S. price inflation is not a problem. Most articles in the media reported that inflation slowed in May due to falling gas prices. The truth is, gas prices rose last month and U.S. price inflation is spiraling out of control. . (MY comment : Folks its "Barang Naik" all over the world. And here is another fact : even the US Government bullshits their people about Barang Naik). . Price inflation based on the CPI on a year-over-year basis rose during the month of May to 3.57%, up from 3.16% in April. The official rate of price inflation has more than tripled over the past 6 months. . The U.S. dollar is still rapidly losing its purchasing power and the rate at which it is declining in purchasing power is accelerating. . On an unadjusted basis, gas prices rose 3.6% in the month of May. . Paul Krugman, who has been calling for massive price deflation the whole entire time that NIA has been predicting massive price inflation, is refusing to admit he has been wrong and is telling all Americans to ignore rapidly rising food and energy prices because he claims they are too volatile. . He is telling the world to focus solely on the core CPI, which ignores food and energy, the two items that Americans need most to live and survive. . (My comment : this is the CPI bullshit that was invented in America - and imported here to Malaysia by the same American 'con-sultans' who have now taken over the Government. They ignore the price of food and fuel in the CPI. Our CPI computation takes into account 500 different items. Depleted uranium pellets, spare parts for the Sukhois, engine oil for our submarines and other unrelated stuff like that. Chicken prices have gone up from RM6.00 a kilo to RM8.00 a kilo. And the price of fish has gone up since the deep sea fishermen went on strike. It has not come down yet. Its been a week already. Where is Noh Omar? Has he had that dialogue with the fishermen yet? Rashid our air cond service man was just in this morning. He says that fish prices are high 'di kedai orang Acheh yang jual ikan dekat rumah saya'. Fish prices have increased between RM2.00 to RM6.00 per kilo, depending on the type of fish. My question is - you screw things up, siapa jadi miskin dulu? Orang Melayu juga. You dish out deep sea fishing licenses to the cronies and then the cronies 'Ali Baba' the license to the Vietnamese. The Vietnamese scoop up all our fish and go and sell it in Thailand. You also chop the diesel subsidy to the fishermen by 55 sen per litre overnite - they suffer a 44% fuel price hike overnite. I have a silly question : did anyone calculate or study the impact of a 44% increase in diesel price on an industry whose major operating cost is diesel fuel? Eventually our local fishermen go on strike, fish prices go up, orang Melayu jadi miskin dulu. Pandai sungguh Menteri kita.) Core CPI is weighed heavily by rents and America's Real Estate bubble still isn't done deflating. The only purpose of having a core CPI is for Keynesian economists like Krugman to use it to mislead Americans and deceive them into believing that inflation is not a problem. . Core CPI was an invention of the Nixon administration, which right there should tell you all you need to know about it. President Nixon's idea for creating core CPI, was to deceive Americans about price inflation by excluding the items that were rising the most, which he would justify by calling these items "too volatile". NIA has predicted from the very beginning that inflation will not effect all goods and services equally and that as inflation begins to spiral out of control, inflation would gravitate most towards the prices of the items that Americans need the most, and there is nothing that Americans need more than food and agricultural products, and to a lesser extent energy. So much for Barang Naik issues in America. They also bullshit their people. This morning there are people standing outside Maybank branches and they were handing out this flyer. Its called The Tyranny of Maybank or "Penganiayaan Oleh Maybank". The document has been scanned and I hope you can zoom it up.  Among the things it says are : i. Maybank exposes Customer's Information to POS Malaysia ii. Maybank spent RM7.5 million on the Malaysian Golf Open 2011 iii. The Maybank CEO is paid RM4.7 Million per annum or RM12,868 per DAY ! ! Can I make a suggestion? Can we hire a robot to run all our GLCs? They are mostly monopolies or oligopolies. They operate in a protected or a highly regulated environment. They do not really compete in the open market. You really do not need top notch CEO salaries to manage a fully protected, highly regulated, monopoly business. And if the GLC runs into trouble (as they so often do) the Government will bail them out. So is there a real need to pay these CEOs these multi milion dollar salaries? Take Khazanah Nasional for example. It was first run by Civil Servants, seconded to Khazanah who may have been paid slightly better allowances. Khazanah Nasional did so much better finacially. Now after the "quick to market" crap they are floundering like fish on a Vietnamese deep sea trawler with a Malaysian license. Khazanah Nasional now makes most of its money by selling shares in public listed companies and GLCs which were bought by or allocated to Khazanah when the Civil Servants managed Khazanah during the time of Tun Dr Mahathir. Even a housewife can do this type of business - just sell off the harta warisan and harta pesaka that your father and gradfather left to you. In the final analysis what happens ? Orang Melayu jadi miskin dulu. Dont forget. Why? Because the Malays not only form the largest sector of the population but they are most affected by anything that the Government does (except the RM4.7 million per year CEOs of course). Gaji RM20,000 sebulan cukup lah. Kerja CEO GLC Kerajaan ni tak payah pikir pun. Kalau nak sambung kontrak atau naik gaji, main golf dengan Menteri, kalau ada masalah upah 'consultan', lepas kerja hisap cigar, main guitar, jammin'. 
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Posted: 20 Jun 2011 06:59 PM PDT  The good cop The bad cop The ameeno gang knows Using it all the times Only the people Some get hooked Some know the trail The way it is playing The ruling elites They close one eye and ear “What did they say? We don't hear it!” The Constitution rights These people ignore They want their power The rolling gravy train What will the people do? They can't sit and keep quiet The future is at stake For the country and her people They will march for change The empires in history All collapse people make it It's the willed of the people 
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Posted: 20 Jun 2011 06:40 PM PDT The bogus monks They come for alms The gullible people They give without asking Maybe the people think They do a good deed The bogus monks carry own sins Fleecing the public On the roads begging From the good heart people In the market place They give you their greeting The bogus monks They come for alms Give me your charity You will be bless! 
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Democracy and freedom of expression Posted: 20 Jun 2011 07:07 PM PDT In The Wolf and the Silence of the Lamb, I said, among others: “The core of democracy is representation. It is a system of governance where the people are represented by representatives who are elected by the people. These representatives then form a government. The government than governs the people. A state is then formed, consisting of the government and the people it governs.” More
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AMBIGA SREENEVASAN’S MALAYSIAN SPRING IS ADVANCING IRANIAN WOMEN LEAD THE PERSIAN SPRING Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:39 AM PDT BN’S RATIONALE ABSURD US first lady Michelle Obama (right) and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hand Ambiga the Secretary of State’s Award for International Women of Courage, on 11 March 2009
Ambiga Sreenevasan is a colossus of intellect and integrity in the Malaysian legal fraternity. Ask any lawyer and they will tell you. Here is what Wikipedia has to say:
Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan (born 1956) is a Malaysian lawyer who served as the Malaysian Bar chairlady from 2007 to 2009.
In March 2009, she became one of the eight recipients for the 2009 Secretary of State’s Award for International Women of Courage Awards. In the ceremony, the United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commented, “… Ambiga Sreenevasan, has a remarkable record of accomplishment in Malaysia. She has pursued judicial reform and good governance, she has stood up for religious tolerance, and she has been a resolute advocate of women’s equality and their full political participation. She is someone who is not only working in her own country, but whose influence is felt beyond the borders of Malaysia. And it is a great honor to recognize her and invite her to the podium.”
References: “Remarks by Clinton on International Women of Courage Awards”. America.gov. United States. 11 March. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
 On Thursday June 2, 2011, women’s rights activist, Haleh Sahabi (aged 54) was killed as a result of brutal beatings by the Iranian regime’s security forces. Her body was later snatched from her house and buried secretly to curb the outcry of the family, friends and ordinary Iranians. Haleh, a political prisoner, had been let out of prison temporarily to attend her father’s funeral.
The regime’s heinous actions drew outrage at home and abroad. The State Department condemned “the killing of Iranian activist Haleh Sahabi in the strongest possible terms.” Britain also called for an immediate investigation into her death.
Haleh’s killing is the latest case of state-sponsored murder by the regime ruling Iran. The past three decades abound with examples of state-sponsored killing of dissidents. On April 8, 2011, Tehran used its Iraqi proxies to crack down on exiled opponents. The Iraqi Army, using armored personnel carriers and Humvees, attacked unarmed Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, killing 35, including eight women, and injuring hundreds.
The 29-year-old Asieh Rakhshani, raised in Northern California, was one of eight women. She was shot at close range, while filming the attack on Ashraf. She graduated in Albany, California majoring in journalism. A caring, conscientious and intelligent girl, she decided to join her fellow comrades in Ashraf in the quest for democracy in Iran.
Last Modified: Wednesday, Apr. 20, 2011 – 8:15 am
Asieh Rakhshani chose to leave her comfortable Northern California lifestyle to join a controversial Iranian democracy movement based at Iraq’s Camp Ashraf.
That choice apparently cost the 30-year-old journalist her life April 8, when Iraqi soldiers killed 34 unarmed Iranian expatriates after a confrontation over control of the camp’s northern section, the United Nations reported.
“My sister was one of the seven women killed,” said Hamid Yazdanpanah, a UC Davis and McGeorge School of Law graduate whose parents raised Rakhshani as their own until she left to rejoin her activist parents at Camp Ashraf in 2000.
Rakhshani was filming the pre-dawn attack when she was shot to death, said Yazdanpanah’s mother, Ensieh Yazdanpanah. ”She wanted to live in a free Iran. She was sending lots of messages of hope to youth in Iran. … She was full of life and joy.”
Ensieh Yazdanpanah and dozens of Iranian Americans have protested in Washington, D.C., for medical care and assurances that people still in Camp Ashraf will not be massacred. “I lost my daughter, but I hope to prevent other attacks,” she said.
The U.S. State Department has condemned the violence against Camp Ashraf – longtime headquarters of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, ”the people’s freedom fighters.”
MEK is considered controversial, and is on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.
Until MEK surrendered its weapons in 2003, it had a long history of terrorist attacks on Iranian officials dating back to the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979, including the 1981 assassinations of the prime minister and former president.
GROUP BACKED SADDAMMEK sided with Saddam Hussein in his victorious war against Iran. Saddam allegedly used MEK troops as security against dissidents throughout the country, including the Kurdish independence movement.
The new Iraqi regime has “had ample time to investigate these allegations and charge MEK officials, and they haven’t,” said Hamid Yazdanpanah.
“From the beginning, there’s been bad blood between them and the Iraqi government, who saw them as accomplices with Saddam’s regime,” said Abbas Milani, director of Iranian studies at Stanford University.
“When that regime fell, there was no place to go – nobody wanted them,” Milani said.
“They were disarmed and essentially allowed to stay there, but sooner or later it was clear something like this would happen.”
The U.S. government ”is deeply troubled by reports of deaths and injuries” at Camp Ashraf, said State Department spokesman Mark Toner.
“This crisis and the loss of life was initiated by the government of Iraq and the Iraqi military. … We reiterate our call for the Iraqi government to live up to its commitments to treat the residents of Ashraf humanely, in accordance with Iraqi law and their international obligations.”
When the U.S. combat mission ended in Iraq, the fate of Camp Ashraf was left completely in Iraqi hands.
Since many of the 3,400 people in the camp have received paramilitary training, they aren’t eligible to enter the United States as refugees. Several hundred who renounced MEK returned to Iran.
Asieh Rakhshani was born in Karachi, Pakistan, where her parents and other Iranian dissidents had fled in the early 1980s.
They moved to Camp Ashraf, but when the first Gulf War broke out in 1991 “all children (were evacuated) from the camp and her parents sent her to live with us in Sacramento,” said Hamid Yazdanpanah.
The family moved to Suisun City in 1993 and later to Richmond and Albany, where Rakhshani graduated from high school.
She rejoined her parents at Camp Ashraf in 1999 to fight for a free Iran, ”because she felt it was her responsibility to continue her family’s struggle,” Hamid Yazdanpanah said.
After the shah fell and MEK lost a power struggle with Shiite clerics, thousands of MEK supporters were tortured and executed.
Rakhshani’s aunt and uncle were among those put to death, Hamid Yazdanpanah said.
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Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:00 AM PDT   There were no howls of outrage or attempts at disruption but only good-natured curiosity and non-stop traditional music as American psychologist Courtney Mitchell tied the knot with fellow American Sarah Welton, a lawyer by profession, in Kathmandu valley’s celebrated Dakshinkali temple on Monday, making it Asia’s first public lesbian wedding and an additional feather in the cap of Sunil Babu Pant, Nepal’s only openly gay legislator. “Is it a real wedding or are they shooting a film?” asked a perplexed Mahamaya Shrestha, who had come from Baneshwor to offer puja at the temple but flocked to the wedding drawn by the sight of the cameras, traditional musicians piping away and Nepal’s third genders adding a touch of colour in their richly embroidered saris. Courtney, 41, had lived in Nepal for six years, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and then working with the UN’s World Food Programme. Pant said he met her at a “3D” party – Diwali, Disco and Drag – in 2001 when Blue Diamond Society, the gay rights organisation founded by him, was still at a nascent stage. She helped him with some of the documentation and when she left Nepal in 2003, she gifted all her furniture to the struggling NGO. “I always thought I would return to Nepal,” Courtney said on Monday, dressed to kill in the rich Nepali daura-suruwal and topi worn by Nepali grooms. “However, I had never thought in this way.” The couple, who knew their wedding had generated some interest in the once conservative Hindu kingdom, also said they were overwhelmed by the intensity of it. Upendra Lamicchane, the 25-year-old Brahmin priest chosen to marry the couple, took it in his stride despite it being his first same sex marriage. Last year, Pant and Blue Diamond Society had hosted a temple gay wedding for British citizen Sanjay Shah and his Indian partner, who did not want to be named. Prior to that, an eloping pair of teenaged girls from Kolkata had arrived at the Society’s office in Kathmandu, asking Pant to marry them but were advised by him to return home and complete their studies first. Pant being an MP currently involved in drafting a new constitution for Nepal, the wedding ceremony was full of political banter. When the transgenders attending the wedding hid the groom’s slippers, Pant haggled with them, refusing to pay the NRS 1000 they were demanding. “First you agreed on NRS 900,” he told them with mock severity. “Now you are seeking more. It’s just like the agreements between (Maoist chief) Prachanda, (prime minister) Jhala Nath (Khanal) and (opposition leader) Sushil (Koirala).” Not to be outdone, his adversaries shot back, saying, “You lawmakers have increased the time for writing the constitution by three months. So why not increase the money too?” With the lesbian wedding, Pant’s Pink Mountain Travels and Tours kicks off its wedding packages for same sex partners, promoting Nepal as an adventure and cultural destination for the community. Though the newly-weds had to call off their elephant ride in the afternoon as the zoo said the hired tusker had fallen ill, they will however spend their honeymoon trekking in the Shivapuri forested area on the outskirts of Kathmandu valley before heading for Nagarkot. Courtney, whose contract with her university in Denver ends in a year, says she would like to come back to Nepal with Sarah and Stella – the nine and a half month old daughter they have adopted – to work related to refugees, human rights and research. Their marriage is not recognised inColorado but they are hoping the US would follow Nepal’s example one day. “It was wonderful to see foreigners coming out of the closet and openly marring in Nepal,’ said a wistful Kali Chaudhary, a 32-yea-old who comesfrom the conservative Terai plains in the south. “I can’t disclose my true identity to my family for fear they will throw me out. I wish a day would come when such openness is possible in Nepal’s villages as well.”        
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MAKING THE HOME SAFE FOR OUR ELDERLY PARENTS Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:44 AM PDT The highlight of the 50plus Expo organized by Council of Third Age (C3A) Singapore from April 1-3 was the "My Life, My Home" exhibition. This video above posted on YouTube by C3A takes viewers on a virtual tour of an age-friendly home. When you have an elderly parent living with you, safety in the home becomes a paramount concern. Poor vision and limited mobility make the elderly prone to accidents and falls. It's better to take preventive measures than be sorry later.
 We didn't have to spend a bomb on expensive home renovations to reduce the risk of falls. My mother sleeps on a queen-size bed. It gives her more room to turn over on her side without falling off the bed. For a single bed, adding a side rail serves the same purpose. There are two bedside lamps (one broke) and the switches are within easy reach.
 
With careful planning and simple adaptations, we can make the home comfortable and safe for our elderly parents, and ourselves too when we reach their age. Housing developers are starting to realize there is a huge demand for age-friendly housing, and are incorporating safety features in the design of such homes. It's about time. 
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Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:47 AM PDT Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20).
Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy. The 14 characteristics are: 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays. 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc. 3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc. 4. Supremacy of the Military Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized. 5. Rampant Sexism The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy. 6. Controlled Mass Media Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common. 7. Obsession with National Security Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses. 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions. 9. Corporate Power is Protected The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite. 10. Labor Power is Suppressed Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed . 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts. 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations. 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders. 14. Fraudulent Elections Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections. Copyright © 2003 Free Inquiry magazine Reprinted for Fair Use Only. Well, it sure looks like the Malaysian government has purchased the glossy-print, leather-bound edition of the Book Of Fascism and memorised every word in it! 
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Posted: 20 Jun 2011 07:20 AM PDT  reper Taker of the souls The evil breeds in the dark One by one the demons fall Of humans living in hell The potholes of many He needs to fill it up quickly For his lord has to return With many souls to make his recovery For thousands of years Living under the darkness Though he can summon his army The way of his return is soon The black ravens fly Flipping black wings in the sky Calling out his name The lord of the darkness The Reper stands alone Knowing his job hasn't done Many souls he will take For his lord summons it Yet in the whirring echo The prayers sing into the dark sky He can't fight it for he knows The Lord prayers the invincible strikes So he waits Standing alone On the darkness of the sky For the greedy and corrupted ones to come by 
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Posted: 20 Jun 2011 07:05 AM PDT  doomsday The doomsday it is said Somewhere in October The occult leader claimed His followers praying fervently For them they think they have The journey to heavenly gates They think they are the chosen ones Leaving planet Earth For these sect of people What they read in the Bible? Don't they understand what they read? It is only God will decide No mortals or any sons of god Will they know the end of time It's like a general election The leader holds the date God's administration will come On planet Earth to give humans the chance To live and follow the rules on God's will Until then we are pretty much do as we please The prophecies of the ancient It hasn't been fulfilled all The king of deception will rule Before God come to take it over Now better be good Leave the negative vibes behind Cultivate the good values Learn the way it is written 
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[2384] Innovation is not for African countries Posted: 20 Jun 2011 06:51 AM PDT The following illustrates the GDP per capita of countries attending the Langkawi International Dialogue. Seychelles has been left out because it is an outlier and it is messing up the graph. The next graph shows the human development index of the same countries with the exception of Tanzania (the omission is purely a matter of aesthetic). Seychelles has been left out because there is no data for the small island state. Out of this set of countries, Malaysia is the only country classified within the “high human development” group. What is the point of these two graphs? One will quickly see the difference between Malaysian and these countries. What I am driving at is that Malaysia and these countries are essentially at two different stages of economic development. To put it bluntly, these African countries are behind the curve (with the possible exception of Botswana). With that, the optimal economic policy at encouraging economic growth for the two groups are likely to be different. If there are overlaps, the overlaps are likely to be limited. I am posting this because several Malaysian media have reported the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak stating in his speech at the Langkawi International Dialogue that innovation is the key to growth.[1][1a] The audience? Leaders and delegates of the listed African countries.[2] It was not that best of all messages. Why? Innovation-based economy is just not for the African countries attending the Langkawi pow-wow. The actual act of innovation is really more relevant to countries sitting close to the technology frontier. While Malaysia is not at the frontier like how the United States and other advanced countries are, Malaysia is definitely closer to it than the Africans. That means innovation does have a role to play in the economic growth of Malaysia, and increasingly so given where Malaysia is on its developmental curve. To paraphrase the idea, the farther a country is from the frontier hence the less developed a country is, the less relevant innovation should be to its economic policy. What is more relevant for least developed countries is learning by imitation. This does not mean any innovation is unwelcome in these African states. Innovation is certainly good but to engage actively it as part of government policy is likely to be an expensive exercise when compared to the imitation path. This is an important point because many of these African countries are not exactly rich. One has to be close to the technology frontier to innovate in a big way so that innovation becomes the engine of growth. For the African countries, they have a lot of ground to cover. Really, there are other basic issues requiring attention first, like water and electricity coverage. It is not absurd to pour billions into innovation-based activities while basic infrastructure is missing? The countries have to prioritize their resources and imitation is the more cost-effective developmental path compared to innovation policy set. The imitation path may not be sexy but it has proven to work. Look no farther than the four Asian Tigers, namely Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In fact, look at the experience of Malaysia for the most part of the 1980s and the 1990s. There were some innovations, but it was mostly about copying foreign technology and diffusing the relevant technology to the masses. Economist Paul Krugman famously wrote it was all about perspiration, not inspiration.[3] Even more relevant for these African countries are something more basic than innovation. It is simply capital accumulation and good institutions. In the orthodox growth model, it is assumed that savings are automatically translated into investment in productive activities that increase production and wealth. This is an overly optimistic view of human behavior. There are friction between savings and investment and that could be corruption. Looking at the records of a majority of these African countries, corruption is a big issue. In the case of Zimbabwe, it is simply gross mismanagement of the economy. If I were the keynote speaker instead of the PM, I would have asked these African countries to learn the Malaysian lesson of the 1980s and the 1990s, the one which was about capital accumulation and good institutions instead of innovation. To be fair, the PM did mention about the application of technology (I would like to criticize the “appropriate technology” approach but I will reserve for another day) and good institutions. But that does not make the innovation suggestion any less wrong.
[1] — PUTRAJAYA, June 19 (Bernama) — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has called on African and Caribbean nations to embrace innovation as a key priority to achieve a competitive edge globally and take their economies to new heights. [Mikhail Raj Abdullah. Embrace Innovation to Score High in Global Business Rankings - Najib. Bernama. June 19 2011] [1a] — 16. A term often associated with advanced economies these days is innovation. Countries that make innovation a priority have achieved a competitive edge over others, with countries like Korea and Taiwan who have invested heavily in this field succeeding in taking their economies to new heights. 17. There is no doubt that countries with knowledge and innovation-based economies score high in international business rankings. For example, Scandinavian countries with small populations still have among the highest per capita incomes in the world. Innovation, specialisation and internationalisation of their large-scale research facilities have helped them overcome the small size of their domestic economies. [Najib Razak. LID 2011 Keynote Address. June 19 2011] [2] — See LIST OF COUNTRIES ATTENDING LID 2011. Bernama via Yahoo! News Malaysia. June 17 2011 [3] — Consider, in particular, the case of Singapore. Between 1966 and 1990, the Singaporean economy grew a remarkable 8.5 percent per annum, three times as fast as the United States; per capita income grew at a 6.6 percent rate, roughly doubling every decade. This achievement seems to be a kind of economic miracle. But the miracle turns out to have been based on perspiration rather than inspiration: Singapore grew through a mobilization of resources that would have done Stalin proud. The employed share of the population surged from 27 to 51 percent. The educational standards of that work force were dramatically upgraded: while in 1966 more than half the workers had no formal education at all, by 1990 two-thirds had completed secondary education. Above all, the country had made an awesome investment in physical capital: investment as a share of output rose from 11 to more than 40 percent. Even without going through the formal exercise of growth accounting, these numbers should make it obvious that Singapore’s growth has been based largely on one-time changes in behavior that cannot be repeated. Over the past generation the percentage of people employed has almost doubled; it cannot double again. A half-educated work force has been replaced by one in which the bulk of workers has high school diplomas; it is unlikely that a generation from now most Singaporeans will have Ph.D’s. And an investment share of 40 percent is amazingly high by any standard; a share of 7O percent would be ridiculous. So one can immediately conclude that Singapore is unlikely to achieve future growth rates comparable to those of the past. But it is only when one actually does the quantitative accounting that the astonishing result emerges: all of Singapore’s growth can be explained by increases in measured inputs. There is no sign at all of increased efficiency. In this sense, the growth of Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore is an economic twin of the growth of Stalin’s Soviet Union growth achieved purely through mobilization of resources. Of course, Singapore today is far more prosperous than the U.S.S.R. ever was–even at its peak in the Brezhnev years–because Singapore is closer to, though still below, the efficiency of Western economies. The point, however, is that Singapore’s economy has always been relatively efficient; it just used to be starved of capital and educated workers. [Paul Krugman. The Myth of Asia's Miracle. Foreign Affairs. November 1994]
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Posted: 20 Jun 2011 05:26 AM PDT  And gets away with it without fear of getting arrested at all.How nice would it be if all Malaysian are able to speak their mind freely without the fear of being arrested under ISA or be charge for Sedition! But why do ordinary Malaysian have this fear in them? Is it because we have seen people like Theresa Kok and the Sin Chew reporter Tan Hoon Cheng getting arrested under Section 73 (1) of the ISA in 2008. For just doing their job!   How does those "sins" compare to Ibrahim Ali who had threaten Christians nationwide with a holy war against any move to usurp Islam with a Christian state. In that incident he was neither charge or sent to jail under ISA. I guess you can't blame him for being bolder to now threaten Chinese nationwide with violence! Yet do we expect any action to be taken against Ibrahim Ali? The answer is surely a big NO!! But Why??? How can Ibrahim Ali and his Perkasa get away with this without any action from the Police or government? See how violent they are here!
Perkasa has called for a counter-rally dubbed 'Peace March' on July 9, while Umno Youth also plans to hold a simultaneous rally to defend the current electoral system. But the electoral system is very screw up! Here is prove! So why is defending it?!? If you read the article above about the prove of our screwed up electoral system, you will realize very quickly how the screwed up system is benefiting UMNO!! So why is Ibrahim Ali helping UMNO?!? I leave you to come to your own conclusion! I hope all Malaysian will come out in full force to support the Bersih rally! This is for the sake of Malaysia!! It is the only way we can eventually bring Ibrahim to justice! 
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J.J.'s 21st Birthday Gathering Posted: 20 Jun 2011 07:48 PM PDT J.J. turns 21 on the 23rd of June. It seems to me he turned 18 not too long ago. Nevertheless I have watched him develop the last three years through his own efforts and trials and tribulations into the intuitive young man he is today. He will continue to grow from here and continue to build on a sense of values that Mummy ingrained in his first 17 years.
It has been a transitional year for him not only in age but also in his chosen career field of audio engineering. As he cuts his teeth in the company that he is with now, I am thankful there are still decent people around who earnestly teach him. This past Saturday, he had a few friends over to usher in his 21st year and Krystyn put in a lot of effort as the main organizer. Krystyn invited members of a Christian cell group J.J. sometimes fraternizes with. They are a well brought up bunch and do their parents proud. It was certainly a different experience with a group that cold-called a few months ago. Special appreciation goes to cell leader Mei Fong for her initiative and I hope they enjoyed the company and the food (especially the roast pork courtesy of Amah Nellie). To J.J., here's wishing you a great adult life ahead and be assured that you have what it takes to stand tall in a world that has become exceedingly cynical and unforgiving. Mummy would have been proud of you. Some photos:                              
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Apabila kita mengalabah, sah Bersih telah berjaya mendapat sambutan ramai. Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:43 AM PDT Ibrahim Ali sudah bertindak terlalu jauh dan melampaui batas sebagai seorang yang hidup di dalam sebuah negara demokrasi. Perkasa dipergunakan olehnya untuk memperjuangkan kehendak dan kepuasan peribadi beliau dengan membakar semangat rakyat untuk berfikiran ganas dan ini merupakan tindakan yang tidak bertanggungjawab terhadap bukan sahaja kepada rakyat malahan kepada diri beliau sendiri.
Ibrahim Ali dengan Perkasanya telah bertindak untuk memaksa Bersih membatalkan rally yang dirancangnya pada 9hb Julai yang akan datang dan beliau bertindak seolah-olah beliaulah yang berjuang untuk negara sedangkan hakikatnya Ibrahim tidak lebih dan tidak kurang dari seorang yang berjuang untuk kepentingan peribadi beliau sahaja. Ibrahim telah menakutkan orang ramai dengan mengingatkan jika ada apa-apa yang berlaku orang-orang Cina terpaksa membeli stok makanan dan sebagainya dan kata-kata ini sengaja dilakukan beliau untuk memanaskan keadaan dan akhirnya keadaan itu akan memberikan keuntungan kepada peribadi beliau di atas rasa takut rakyat. Bersih tidak pernah bercakap tentang pergaduhan. Mereka hanya bercakap tentang isu kebersihan dan ketelusan pelaksanaan PRU di negara ini dan ingin menggunakan rally ini untuk menunjukan manifestasi rakyat yang tidak berpuas hati tentang perlaksanaan PRU selama ini. Ibrahim dan Perkasa mengambil kesempatan untuk menonjolkan diri dengan menggertak dan menakutkan orang ramai yang rally itu mungkin akan menimbulkan haru- biru di dalam negara. Dengan kenyataan beliau di Dewan Sultan Sulaiman Kg Baru hari ini, beliau sepatutnya di ambil tindakan oleh Kementerian Dalam Negeri kerana kenyataan menakut-nakutkan rakyat ini merupakan kenyataan yang terlalu tidak bertanggungjawab. Kenyataan beliau ini sudah membuktikan yang Perkasa dan Presidennya itulah yang cuba membina rasa gelisah di antara kaum dan ini tidak boleh di ambil enteng lagi oleh pihak yang berkuasa. Apa yang di inginkan Ibrahim ialah beliau dipandang sebagai juara dalam ‘mainstream politics’. Maka saya cadangkan supaya Ibrahim Ali ditahan di bawah ISA. Dengann cara itu beliau akan mendapat apa yang beliau inginkan….iaitu untuk dipandang sebagai hero. Kenyataan Ibrahim akhir-akhir ini amat merbahayakan negara dan beliau patut di letak di dalam tahanan. Ibrahim boleh membuat apa sahaja untuk dipandang sebagai hero tetapi janganlah sampai ‘at the expense of national security’. Ibrahim Ali bertindak untuk memperbodohkan rakyat dengan melakukan tindakan supaya beliau masih dipandang oleh masyarakat sedangkan beliau sendiri tahu apa yang beliau inginkan. Apa yang dilakukan oleh Bersih itu bukan penting bagi beliau. Yang penting beliau mesti menyibuk dan mendapat perhatian ramai….tidak lebih dan tidak kurang. Kalau kita tidak bersetuju dengan demonstrasi jalanan kenapa pula kita hendak melawannya dengan demonstrasi jalanan dan terus pula untuk menjadikannya sebagai satu peperangan yang boleh menjahanamkan kesetabilan politik negara. Bersih perlu membuat pengakuan yang rally itu hanyalah satu rally yang mana seperti yang dirancang. Jangan menari dengan rentak yang dimainkan oleh Perkasa kerana tindakan itu hanya memperbodohkan diri kita sendiri. Beliau (Ibrahim Ali) telah melantik diri beliau sendiri sebagai General peperangan. Peperangan apa tu? Siapa yang hendak berperang? Bagaimana beliau hendak mengetuai peperangan sedangkan beliau lah yang mendahului mengangkat bendera putih jika kalah dalam pertempuran. Hanya beliau berharap boleh mengangkat bendera merah jika memenangi peperangan itu dan di nampakan sebagai hero yang perkasa. Berbagai-bagai pandangan yang telah saya terima melalui email saya berhubung dengan rally yang akan dianjurkan oleh Bersih ini. Ada yang menyokong dan ada yang memberikan pandangan yang berbeza. Tetapi setelah di tolak dan dicampur rakyat ramai memberikan perhatian yang baik terhadap rally anjuran Bersih. Walaupun mereka ramai yang tidak dapat bersama mereka tetap memberikan sokongan moral dan mengharapkan apa yang dikehendaki oleh Bersih untuk melihat perlaksanaan pilihanraya yang bakal di adakan itu akan berjalan secara demokrasi yang sebenarnya. Saya telah menulis tentang isu ini yang terang-terang saya katakan yang Bersih telah pun berjaya mendapat sokongan ramai samada rally itu berjaya diadakan atau mampu di kekang oleh pihak yang berkuasa. Perasaan rakyat tidak boleh di kekang oleh Polis atau badan-badan penguatkuasa yang penuh kuasa. 
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Kit Siang slams inaction over Ibrahim’s veiled threats Posted: 20 Jun 2011 02:57 AM PDT Source: The Malaysian Insider
By Debra Chong
June 20, 2011
Ibrahim made the remarks during yesterday’s launch of a counter-protest to Bersih. — file pic
KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 — Calling it the most “bloodcurdling and incendiary” statement made in public, DAP’s Lim Kit Siang questioned today Putrajaya’s silence against Perkasa’s warning to ethnic Chinese to “stay home” and “stock up on food” on July 9. Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali, who founded the grassroots Malay nationalist group, had yesterday launched a counter-strike to the July 9 public rally organised by electoral reform group Bersih 2.0. There, he declared “If the Bersih rally is not cancelled… I believe the Chinese community will have to stock up on food”. “If an emergency declared, will the Agong be able to appoint a caretaker leader? Maybe they (the opposition) will take to the streets and demand that they take over the government,” the Independent Pasir Mas MP added. Lim, who is Ipoh-Timur MP, said he was shocked by his parliamentary colleague’s provocative remarks, highlighting that the Bersih campaign is about free and fair elections and had nothing to do with race. He demanded the federal government explain why no action has been taken against Ibrahim. “The question is not about the tirade from Ibrahim Ali but why has he been given the immunity and impunity to make such provocation. “Why is the home minister, the prime minister and the IGP closing their eyes to such provocation and strengthening the impression they are complicit or conspiring with such a threat?” the seasoned DAP politician asked. He added that it was not only Ibrahim but Umno-owned newspaper, Utusan Malaysia, which was behind the move to “demonise the Bersih campaign in racial terms and to subvert the democratic process and topple a democratically-elected government, without basis”. The opposition leader said the show of muscle reflected the desperation of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition’s lynchpin, Umno. “They know they’re in their last months of power because they have lost the public’s confidence,” Lim told The Malaysian Insider. Klang MP Charles Santiago slammed Ibrahim for Perkasa’s provocative stand, labelling the latter an “unmitigated bigot”. “By focusing on the Chinese, he is saying that the Chinese are weak politically, cowing them into subordination,” he said. Santiago, who is also a DAP member, echoed Lim in saying the Bersih march was not about Chinese, Indian or Malays but fighting for a level playing field in Malaysia. “This is a wakeup call. We don’t need bigots like Ibrahim Ali, he is a man looking for relevance,” he said. Perkasa had kicked off its “Peace March” at the centre of Malay nationalism, the Kelab Sultan Sulaiman in Kampung Baru here yesterday by burning images of Bersih chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan. Its self-declared “war general”, Ibrahim, said Perkasa will also march on July 9 if Bersih does, but washed his hands off responsibility for any untoward incident that might happen on that day. “Yes, anything can happen. And so I ask the police to act and use whatever powers are at their disposal,” he told some 500 supporters at the launch.
       
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KL Gangster and Why It Would Change The Landscape of Malay Cinema For Years To Come Posted: 20 Jun 2011 01:44 AM PDT
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Posted: 20 Jun 2011 02:09 AM PDT Source: Sin Chew
  1 of 4  （雪蘭莪‧巴生19日訊）巴生池龍花園瑟達卡路逾20戶居民10多年來飽受逢雨必淹的困擾，尤其該處多數是老住戶，一旦雨水來襲，他們不得不從睡夢中驚醒，還必須防守於門縫、排水洞口阻溝水淹入住家，為“水”忙！ 這些住戶多年來一直有向巴生市議會投訴，但即使市議會在主要排水溝加深和加寬了溝渠，該區依然面對水患問題。 疑發展計劃是水患源頭 他們也懷疑，該區的水患問題，是與當地一個發展計劃有關，尤其該發展計劃將溝渠設計換成90度的直行排水溝，導致溝水倒流。 居民今日再度與巴生區國會議員查爾斯、市議員何福強等人會面時，提出強烈抗議，並促請市議會能在兩個月內一勞永逸地解決問題。 查爾斯披露，當地的水患問題，在市議會提昇了溝渠條件後，依然不斷發生，讓當地的居民生活在提心吊膽中。 他說，當局已鑒定附近的一項發展計劃地區就是水患源頭，尤其溝渠設計導致溝水來不及排入大溝渠，反而倒流，導致住宅區淹水。 “這裡的居民有的已住了30年以上，近10年來一直面對精神壓力，尤其下雨天，更讓他們感到擔心，一直要設法阻止溝水淹入住家，甚至連遠門也不敢去。” 要求市會2個月內解決 查爾斯說：“此課題將由一支以當地居民為首的治水行動小組和市議員帶入市議會討論，並要求市議會在2個月內解決水患。” 他說，在他與專家瞭解問題後，市議會或可在該區的溝渠設立水泵，將來不及排走的溝水直接泵入大溝渠。 他希望市議會能在這兩個月內找到解決方案，而他將在8月底重返此地瞭解情況。 居民有話說： 李光明（45歲）：下20分鐘雨就會淹水 “我住在這裡已32年，近10年來才頻頻發生水災，一年兩三次，即使才下了20分鐘的雨都會淹 水。最近的一次水災發生在半夜，我75歲的母親聽到雨聲就起床‘守’在廁所，用物品擋住洞口和門縫，惟溝水還是淹入，幸好沒有淹入客廳。早前阿姨來小住幾 天，想不到晚上下雨，阿姨隔天卻在一攤水中起身，很狼狽。我們也不能帶家人出遠門，擔心下雨屋子浸水。” 紀麗珠（43歲）：為淹水忙筋疲力盡 “我搬來這裡10多年，才住兩三年便一直面對水災問題。我本身有4名孩子，一旦下雨淹水，我必須忙於打掃住家，搬家私等物品，還要忙著照顧孩子，載孩子上學，真是筋疲力盡。一旦下雨，我就會開始焦慮，擔心屋子浸水。” 詹姆士（69歲）：溝水倒流是根源 “我住在這裡32年，遇過超過20次的水災，家私、地毯等貴重物品都被浸壞，損失無法估計。由於我本身是工程專家，曾到當地水災區瞭解排水溝的問題，我發現溝水倒流是根源，因此建議市議會在特定地點裝水泵。” 鄭忠源（54歲）：因出差外坡無法搶救屋內物品 “我的家在2008年後才面對嚴重水災，最近一次水災是在5月15日。在去年3月份發生的水災，我因在外坡出差，無法搶救屋內的物品，損失慘重。 居民們都就淹水問題向當局多次投訴，但依然沒下文。”        
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During the launch of Perkasa's 'Peace March' yesterday, members of the Malay rights pressure group took to burning and stomping on pictures of Bersih chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan, a former Bar Council president.
“Imagine, ladies and gentlemen, if the Bersih rally is not called off and they go ahead with it - if they don't cancel it on July 8 or 9 - I believe the Chinese community, many of them, will have to stock up on food at home.
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