GIVE US A REAL PARLIAMENT AND WE WILL GIVE YOU A NEW COMPLEX

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by Howl Pillai


Yes that's what I said ! Give us a real Parliament and we will give you a new complex.

Unlike the detractors, I say: What better place to make a fresh start than Parliament? We can get going again when we have a real Parliament housed in a sparkling new complex!The present one, just 47 years old is a bit of a disgrace. A national embarrassment even! Its roof leaks like an old bucket and its air conditioning is as dodgy as the artful, hot-headed parliamentarians that need cooling . Things got so bad that once it was even shut down for all of two whole years. On another occasion recently, its not so hallowed grounds even doubled up as a temporary abattoir. What a shame !

And for the record,some 80% of all legislation initiated by the Executive was passed into law in this same building without any amendments.So it is entirely untrue that rubber and its allied industries, like rubber-stamping has seen its heyday. And this very building is no colonial vestige. Built in 1962/3 it then cost a modest RM16 Million. That, mind you, was in the innocent and happy pre-massivecorruption era of the sixties. Please note "massivecorruption" is now widely regarded as a single word in this country.They are inseparable. In today's terms, such a building will cost some RM200 Million,assuming an average annual inflation rate of 5%. The new complex we are informed is estimated to cost a whopping RM800 Million. We have 222 raucuous parliamentarians prone to whooping and chanting.Now that works out to  just RM4 Million per lousy, noisy and vulgar mouthpiece of the party or if you prefer political mouth organ.Mercifully, we are a forgiving nation of kindly also-rans, driven by a passion for mediocrity and with a penchant for cost overruns. So we will generously throw in the additional RM600 Million.We simply need a real parliament no matter what the cost.No expense should be spared.Give them the best.Not just a building. Give them a whole complex and be done with it! We must get it right the second time. And I know I speak for most Malaysians when I request the following strings be attached like all things in this fair land :

1)It must be free of even the slightest taint of scandal.The contract for its construction must be awarded on the basis of an open and competitive bidding tender process. This whole process must be made transparent so that even a fool can see through it.The whole tender process must be telecast live. This is more important to us than the live telecasts of the World Cup.After all the World Cup comes around our way once every 4 years whilst Parliament may never come around our way!

2)One of the first things we want within the new complex is a world class 'animal testing' facility.It would be hard for any MP to object.The Lower Chamber has repeatedly echoed with cries of "Binatang", "Babi","Lembu" and "Ular".We suspect too many animals have sneaked into Parliament under disguise and cover of darkness. More scary still, we now have sufficient evidence that these animals have taken over the last vestiges of legislative power remaining in Parliament. All MPs must therefore be stringently tested on a quarterly basis and the results made public.

3)To retain the salient and defining principle of Parliament regulating its own affairs, we insist the new complex contain a modern detention centre to house all ISA detainees who are also MPs.The voices of the Rakyat's representatives must be heard in Parliament even if their bodies are incarcerated.Also one of the first acts of the real Parliament would be to pass an Act setting aside the Kamunting Detention Centre exclusively for the use of ordinary folks like writers,thinkers,poets,musicians, academics and a steadfast and principled judge or two(if there are any still left)

4)The new complex must have a well equipped branch of the National Registration Department given our MPs' propensity for quickie multiple marriages and divorces. Sudden death is also now an issue.Tell me who in this country is not tired of both bye and buy elections? An efficient branch of this Dept will go a long way towards reducing time wasting and improving MP productivity.Later we can  set some very basic KPIs for our MPs like attendance and punctuality.

5)Which brings us to the need to have a 18 hole golf course and club for MPs within the sprawling grounds of the complex.Besides helping us know where to find them in a national emergency, it will cater for their recreatinal and sporting needs.The soon to be approved sports betting business will do just fine to fill the gap although we have our reservations about gambling.Please note the Rakyat has consistently maintained that fighting to legalise things deemed 'haram' is akin to screwing for virginity even if the fight is led by a former PM.

6)We insist that both a primary and secondary school from anywhere in the Klang Valley, like Rawang for example,be transferred in toto to the new complex.MPs should be encouraged and be given incentives to send their children to these schools. This will have the singular benefit of impressing upon our Ministers and MPs the true state of our education system.The MIC must take note that the same rules will apply if they as usual request for a Tamil school within the complex.

7)We insist any one of the large supermarket chains open a store within the complex.Besides catering for the favorite past-time of some of our MPs and Ministers ,shopping can now be done locally in the comfort of the precints of Parliament.Besides it will help them know the true cost of living.They can then decide which subsidies to keep and which to remove after ensuring the selling of sugar,salt,sardines and salted fish is properly licensed. These items now form the staple diet of our working classes.As an added benefit prices of essential goods can be monitored daily by MPs and Ministers without resorting to making sense of complicated statistics,graphs and pye charts.

8)To ensure no citizen is abused unto death nor thrown out of the upper floors of buildings when 'routinely questioned' we insist a National Interrogation Centre  entirely of glass be built within the complex and within sight of Parliament.We need their urgent oversight of the police force.

9)To ensure the project is completed on time,we insist Sime Darby be pre-disqualified. Besides we want to plant the seeds of true democracy not damn it.Their resources will be stretched cleaning up Bakun Dam anyway.

10)To ensure the complex does not turn into a white elephant we insist political leaders,past or present,suffering from megalomania or variants of it be excluded from all committees entrusted with any part of the project.We have all now learnt that ego-tourism has emptied the national coffers. The fear of bankruptcy now looms large in this land.For once in a long time, no one wants to see 2020 !

11)To ensure full accountability, all members of the 1998 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee be excluded on the basis that they have yet to present the Accounts of the Games. We still do not know who got the Wealth but we know the common people picked up the tab.

12)Likewise all those involved in some dubious way or other with the disastrous PKFZ mega-project be excluded.Besides, Parliament is better known for horse trading than for advocating free trade.Witness that even selling sugar now requires a licence.The next item that will be licensed, the rumour mills say, is the humble condom. We are not surprised because only the Government has a monopoly to legitimately screw us.

13) To ensure the Rakyat is never kept in the dark nor be victimised by news blackouts, we insist TNB guarantee that power disruptions are few and far between in the new complex. Simply put, we want Parliament to be properly empowered.Above all it should not be some shady extension of the Executive.

14)Since almost any significant activity is now deemed worthy enough to set up a university for its study, we insist that a university be also set up within the premises of the new complex to cater for 'parliamentary studies'. Why should this initiative surprise anyone at all ? Have we not heard it be said so often by our erstwhile Ministers : "The matter is now before Parliament and they are studying it in detail!" We propose the to- be- set up institution of higher learning be called "University Demokrasi" or "UDemo" for short. And its motto by unanimous agreement: "OUR PARLIAMENT IS EITHER AT OUR FEET OR AT OUR THROATS"

Citizens ! Lets Demo!

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Iran and US vying for greater influence in Messy Middle East

Libya in tatters 

Egypt's revolution seems to have been all noise over nothing, the military is back in power they have even appointed a new prime minister and the next thing they will do is to appoint a new military strongman as president ,that the US had a strong hand in what happened there is no secret.

The Americans may not really  want Gaddafi  out, he is manageable but the Americans are worried  a post Gaddafi Libya will  send oil  spiraling up even higher then present day prices and the new leadership  hostile to American business interests.

The need for intervention and an American presence is thought by the Americans to be the best idea in a post Gaddafi Libya, but as usual the Americans read all situations wrong and this is very very wrong.

Any American presence will only encourage the presence of Hezbollah and Al Qaeda, that will turn Libya into another Iraq and make it ripe for Iranian picking.

The Libyans on both sides of the divide will not want the Americans in, if at all anything they may even join forces to keep "Uncle Sam," out.

The people who could help Libya out of this situation and keep the Americans away is Chavez of Venezuela, he has already offered assistance to bring warring sections together and the Arab League is in agreement with his suggestions, but Libya's new opposition has flatly turned down any suggestion for negotiations with Gaddafi.

Chavez may play yet another card and bring the very respected Fidel Castro into the fray. Castro is well respected by most left leaning middle east nations and the Arabs have a huge respect for both him and Chavez.

If all fails Gaddafi could be headed for Cuba or Caracas, its not that he has no choice, the west are aware of this possibility and that is why they are demanding that all Gadafi's assets overseas be frozen, less he transfers them either to Cuba or Venezuela.

So you see American intelligence "is a contradiction of terms" as there is absolutely no intelligence in what they do, the CIA is more like the Central Idiots Agency.

To intervene in Libya will only provoke the Arabs and give the Iranians and Syrians all the advantage in the propaganda war against the American, it will open the door for Iranian intervention via the Hezbollah and Hammas.

The Muslim brotherhood is not Al Qaeda, far from it, they are but an Islamist organsiation trying to implement Islamic law in the Arab states, the Muslim brotherhood is predominantly Sunni whilst Hammas and Hezbollah are both Shite, both Hezbollah and Hammas operate in Arab territory which is predominantly Sunni,and that could spark inter faith clashes between the Muslims of the separate confessions, and in the process push the brotherhood towards Al Qaeda, a situation no one wants.

Ahamdinijad  of Iran is also using these conflicts  as an effort to divert attention of the opposition in his own country that threatens to run berserk over his rule. Iran is still ripe for another revolution, and it is a clear indication that the great revolution of Iran was not that great after all. It has not delivered on its promises and the Iranian peoples are getting fed up with this regime.

 The entire Middle east is in for regime change, it is the inability of these people to actually focus on the main issues that make their revolutions ineffective, and subject to being hijacked by others as is the case in Egypt. The Arab nations need real and credible leadership, which is lacking terribly in these states.

Ideologies differ, you have the extreme fundamental religious groups who coerce using religion and besides them there is hardly a choice, that is why Gaddafi once said that the people do not know what they want and as a result the government would give to the people what it thought best. Evidently Gaddafi did not give enough and what he gave was too little too late.

Libya may need another Gaddafi, a more benevolent  Gaddafi, Egypt may require a Nasser a benevolent Nasser, who would then prepare these countries for a democratic transformation.

Now as Libya slides into Civil War, what is to happen of Egypt and the Arab and Iranian revolutions.

Apparently no one cares, the whole world is only worried about the oil, who cares for the Arabs, really no one,even Chavez is doing it for the sake of Oil.

Can our Police Chiefs match this Indonesian Cop

In Jayapura Indonesia the police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Imam Setiawan has resigned of his own accord to take responsibility for what his officers had done.

Adj. Sr. Comr. Imam Setiawan said he made the decision because  the "moral responisbilty" for the incident should be attributed to him, and apologised to the family of the victim, a young lady who was forced to perform oral sex by three of his officers.

This police Chief did not wait for any investigation into the incident to take place first, neither did he make a statement to say that appropriate action would be taken against his officers, but took responsibility for what they had done and resigned as there was nothing much he could do in the circumstances.

“As the chief of the Jayapura police force, I hold full responsibility for the immoral acts of my three subordinates, that’s the consequence of being the leader. I consider myself to have failed in my duty and am hence resigning my post.”

He  apologized to the public for the officers’ actions, "their  duty is to protect and serve but instead they used the advantage of their positon to commit this heinous crime it is a shameless act, and i apologise to both the public and the family of the victim."


The femalevictim now being detained   at Abepura  revealed she was forced to perform oral sex on three officers during a three-month period while in remand at the Jayapura Police’s detention center.

The victim told the press that the incidents occurred between November and January, when she was being held for illegal gambling.

The officers in question were sentenced to 21 days in jail and slapped with administrative sanctions, including a delay of promotion.

Whilst being criticized over the light punishment, he was not in a position to mete out harsher punishment, no one from the family of the woman including her husband has come forward to make a police reprot, and unless someone does he has no powers to chrage and prosecute those involved in this incident to the fullest extent of the law.

"I remain powerless to bring criminal charges against them, but if they do come forward, I will ensure that the officers face the full extent of the law,” he said.

He has taken the blame for what his officers had done, in shame he has acceted responsibility, and has quit his post and the force.

This can be a classic example for our Top Cops to follow, how often and how many more times must me hear of detainees dying whilst under detention and our Top cops making all the excuses for it.

When a person is detained by the police his security becomnes the responsibility of the force and if anything should happen to him the top person in the department has to take responsibility.

We salute Adj. Sr. Comr. Imam Setiawan, you are a man Sir, a gentleman.

In Merlimau the land of the great Chinese warrior Hang Tuah...

Melaka - Merlimau

In this land of the great Chinese warrior Hang Tuah, UMNO Presents; "Ketuanan Melayu, and sends the "1 Malaysia" to the dumps.

In Melaka today the focus is on Merlimau, its an all Malay affair, perhaps so Malay Chua Soi Lek may be persona non - Gratia.

It looks like Lim Guan Eng and Lim Kit Siang have some credibility in that area even amongst the Malays
after the Rahim Tamby Cik debacle some years ago and  from some segments  of constituents the  who still have a good measure of respect for  the Lims and DAP, but of course the "mamak kutty" Mahathir Mohammed has turned it into a nasty racial battle, claiming the PAS has betrayed the Malays, and his beloved Ketuanan Melayu concept.

The Merlimau election is proving that the 1 Malaysia concept propagated by Najib Tun Razak is nothing more then a sham. It is  conducted to portray Najib as the Number 1 in the country and that is why he continues to wear that shirt with the number 1 on it, the banners of 1 Malaysia carry his face, driving the message that Najib is number 1 in this country, and in one Malaysia, the party he leads is still talking about "Ketuanan Melayu" created by a fascist ex prime minister who needs no introduction.

When one needs to see the true colours of UMNO one needs an election like Merlimau, where the stakes are with the Malay vote, watch now how UMNO bribes, watch how UMNO subtly threatens,and watch how UMNO effectively uses religion for its own purpose and then points the finger at PAS, and the fact that this soap opera continues to be the show bought by so many Malays time and time again shows how far UMNO has gone on making the Malay ignorant that his very rights are being stolen from right under his nose by UMNO.

There seems to be nothing Malaysian in Merlimau, it's all about UMNO, no 1Malaysia only 1UMNO with Najib as number 1.

The March 8th Tsunami was but a ripple to UMNO, it was the first time in many years that UMNO has had its feathers ruffled, and they are confident they can ride the wave again and come back victorious under Rosmah, .................oooops I meant Najib,( Rosmah literally wears pants, and Najib does wear a skirt every now and then, it's called  a sarong).

Merlimau belongs to the BN and that is a forgone conclusion, PAS can't take it away form UMNO, so Najib is grinning from cheek to cheek,   he should sack his foreign Minister and appoint Rosmah to the post, if not for Rosamh all our students in Egypt would have died, that is what he want's us all to believe.

Now Najib is thinking of making a film called "Rosmah Returns," I suppose,  Rosmah has refused to act that part but alas the other person who could have played the part is dead. Remember Mona Fendy? She would have fit the role like a glove -  a striking resemblance in many ways.

In this land of the great Chinese warrior Hang Tuah, UMNO plays Malay racial politics talking about Ketuanan Melayu, and Hang Tuah the great Chinese warrior who is well remembered by the    historic well in that state, where the ruler was offered a wife by the great Hang dynasty and where the Malay ruler paid homage to the Chinese Emperor,  UMNO Presents Ketuanan Melayu, and sends the 1 Malaysia to the dumps.

Xposed!!!!!! you know this man, or do you.

These facts were   sent to me by a friend, it was on an   FWD: mail, there are so many and the authors of such mails and they  are not known, this author is not known as well.

I am using this piece without his permission, but I do hope he will give it to me, in fact I am sure he would he would want this to reach out to all.

If the author does come forward I will give him the credit now read it and guess who this chap is;

Once upon a time ... there was a country that had a very well known leader.  These are some of the facts about this leader: 

He wrote a book about racial issues.  

His country was poor until he industrialized it. 

He promoted the creation and manufacturing of the first national car

He promoted the development of science in his country. 

 

He made sure that his country hosted a world-class sports event

 

Large and impressive stadiums were built for that purpose. 

He had to deal with a severe currency devaluation.

 

He insisted that the problems of his country were due to  a conspiracy by Jews, foreign powers and obscure elements. 

 

He criticised the major powers of the world. 

Most of the countries in the world criticised him, but some  said he was right. 

He reduced political opposition to an insignificant level,   and the press was controlled by him. 

He had a number two who called for reforms and caused the jealousy of other big shots in the party.  

His number two, who had been with him for around 17 years,  was finally removed under accusations of homosexuality and treason.

and the rest of the story is very well known....
 

 Does this sound familiar ?    Do you know who he is ?

Are you sure?     Think twice .... because you may be wrong !! 

He was Adolf Hitler, \

the Nazi the war criminal, the worst thought about this person in the history of this world. 

Now ask your self how many of the statements  above can be rightfully attributed to Mahathir?
The answer is all.

God forbid he be the identical twin of Adolf 

Hitler.

"Where's the UN!!!" Cry the Libyans

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The Libyans are disillusioned, the United Nations(UN) is doing what it does best - drag its feet amidst veto after veto which hasn't happened yet and  meeting after meeting before coming up with concrete policies to safeguard the people of Libya.

If the UN does not understand that Gaddafi is no different from the likes  Pol Pot, Hung Sen, Hitler and the rest then the world body is not only grossly inefficient, but is also completely out of touch.

With its membership it is difficult to understand why the UN is slow to mobilise its resources to address this grave situation in Libya. Gaddafi will not think twice about killing his own children for his own purpose so what is it to him to kill innocent Libyans who mean much less or nothing  to him.

That the world at large and the UN in particular tolerated a Gaddafi and continues to tolerate more Gaddafis indicate that the UN has not learned from history.

In Iran there is a cry to kill opposition leaders for peaceful demonstrations, peaceful demonstrations are violently attacked from Tripoli, to Tehran across Kuala Lumpur.


What is the point of having charter after charter with the signatories showing scant regard for what they have solemnly undertaken to uphold.
 
How long more will the Libyans have to cry for help before it comes, how many innocent Libyan lives must go before the United Nations realises its folly.

The problem with the UN is that it has too much power wrested on so few, America, Russia, Britain, France and Russia have this veto power that renders this body a toothless tiger, probably the time has come for the world to form a new body with equal representation, based on a global policy of human rights where the basic human rights are truly enshrined and against which its membership must act on the instructions of the body.

Leadership in the body must be by election and a council of elected members, to make this more effective.

The globe has shrunk and that is the direction this world has to be looking into, the opinion of this blog is not the answer it is but a suggestion, serious consideration of giving this world body which is a mere toothless tiger more bite is urgent to  prevent wars and the deprivation of  basic human rights and the right to life.

28 February Boycott Print Media Day

Sedition "guidelines"  to be introduced to shut you up!!!
                           BUT

"The Kingdom Can Strike Back."

Let us Act Now to protect and safeguard our freedom!!!!!

Boycott the mainstream media on 28th February 2011.

Main Stream Meaning the daily newspaper you read everyday, "The Sun" may be excluded.

The government has begun to act in preparation of the next General Elections, and from lessons learned from the previous General Elections they are wary of the power of the alternative media, the media of the people, for the people and by the people - the true democratic media.

This is  the very media who were very responsible for loss of the two thirds majority of the Barisan Nasional government and the fall of five states in the peninsular to the opposition in the 2008 General Elections.

Contrary to what the printed media says about the people having lost trust in the opposition and are gaining confidence in the government , there   is a real possibility that the damage could be even worse come the next elections to the Barisan Nasional and, that is why Najib is so careful about not rushing into a General Elections to test his popularity, it is reported that the alternative media has the ammunition to attack the present day government and deal it with a nasty blow that could even cost them Putrajaya and, Najib is fully aware of this possibility.

In anticipation of this the Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein   has fired the first salvo.

He  has announced that Home Ministry will release its guidelines on sedition that will include online publications like news portals and blogs then retracted it in the face of popular objection.

According to sources, "the guidelines were in the pipeline to counter the rising trend in 'sedition' and 'libel' cases involving online media and social sites."  what this means is that the BN government is finding it more difficult to hide their wrong doings. They instead use the print media to come out with false reports about the opposition as has been witnessed several times, by the media controlled by them.

"Sedition" means in UMNO terms, anything anti UMNO or for that matter BN, except if you use derogatory terms against the Indians and Chinese that is highly encouraged by UMNO and tolerated by the MIC and MCA as has been done so many times in the past.

These 'Sedition guidelines"  are  in stark contrast with the "the freedom from censorship granted to online content by the Bill of Guarantees, signed during the formation of the Multimedia Super Corridor."

The question is now how will Malaysians be able to access the truth if this is allowed to go through?

The people are being robbed of their freedom by this intimidation, and how do a people intimidated so, respond?

For starters let us  boycott all main stream media officially on February 28th.

Why February 28th, because February 28 will give us the time to organise an effective boycott.

This email will be read by at least 500 readers on this blog  alone.

For starters Toffeesturn is   asking all of you who read  this to send it out to at least fifty people, if you could do more the better, it has to reach as many Malaysians as possible, no signatures necessary, just do not buy your daily papers on that day.

Tell  your newspaper vendor not to deliver on the 28th of February day, give him a holiday.

It will be nice if the alternative media allows free viewing on that day.

Let us also try and give Saturday 28th February a try, even if it affects 10,000 readers. We may never know the real damage.

But if we succeed they will know one thing for sure, that, "The Kingdom Can Strike Back,"  in a peaceful manner, after all these papers belong to them, lets tell them we have the power to close it down. this is how we deal with them.
 

Boycott all mainstream media, all the newspapers owned by the BN and its cronies.

Send out immediately !!!!!!! to all you know.
 

Let's get Mahathir to shut up and shut him out.

I do not think it will be too formidable a task to shut up and shut out  this insolent senile old idiot.

How can that be, we have seen Hosni Mubarak, kicked out in recent week, Mubarak was a dictator and a Military man, whe was kicked out without any trouble.

The Colonel Gaddafi, the most powerful of  Arab dictators, a man who openly supported terrorists activities, if you remember the 1973 attack on the AIA building in KL by the Japanese Red Army, and how they left for  Libya with Malaysian hostages.

In the eighties there were Malaysians who were offered money  by his regime if they were prepared to go to Libya for terrorists training, if anyone had taken it I have no clue, but that Gaddafi did finance the Moro Liberation front and that Tun Datu Mustapha was a beneficiary to such funding is no secret.

I am sure you remember the Lockerbie bombings, and with all that he was still immune to any form of reprisals from the affected countries, this man who sits on one of the world's biggest oil deposits has thought himself invincible and has now to face the reality of losing his throne.

If this man can be deposed, why not this interfering,  senile old idiot called Mahathir Mohamed?

This  man had no credibility at all, he is in fact what we call lallang, he is afraid of people who are better then him, or nearly as good as him.

He thrives in supporting the cause of another idiot Ibrahim Ali, and he does it knowing that Ali may be able to help his cause.

Just before he left office at the time he sacked Anwar and the Malays rose up agaisnt him, he called them stupid, he said it was the Chinese who were the backbone of this country, then he said no matter how much you help the Malay he can't progress. he spoke like the true non Malay he is.

Today as he runs his son Mukhrizs' campaign to become PM, he goes back to the Malay, telling them they do not have to be apologetic for their failures, and the Chinese should not be jealous of Malay wealth.

There is no such thing as Malay wealth all that has been taken form the Malay by the likes of Mahathir Mohamed, under the guise of Bumiputera businesses. All those Bmi allocations have gone to his childrenand his cronies, some even believed to be fronted by other people on his behalf, and the ordianry Malay deprived of everything.

To keep the Malay quiet he had ASM and ASB so that they could get some money, but the bulk went to his children and his cronies. Some of his cronies turned against him and he can't do a thing because they'll expose him.

The corruption and crooked deals are what has made him subservient to the Police and the MACC, if he goes for them they'll go for him, its I scratch your back you scratch mine thing and he understands his place.

He was smart he made sure everybody had some dirty linen in the closet, very dirty linen, and with that he controlled them.

He now want's to make a comeback, I'd like to hear Mukhriz say we'll fight to the last bullet, this is it this must surely be it let us rid ourselves of this pest.

Seif al-Islam attempts a desperate buy out of the Libyans

Gaddafi and Chavez 

Ahmad Jibreel, a Libyan diplomat, has  confirmed that the minister of Justice In Libya   had sided with the protesters and that he has joined the demonstrators.


 Now that major cities are in the hands of the people we shall be able to allow in the foreign media said Ahmad Jibreel

"The more he kills our people the more people come out to the streets, he can't buy us, he can't intimidate us anymore, we want our freedom."

“Gaddafi's guards started shooting people in the second day and they shot two people only. We had on that day in Al Bayda city only 300 protesters. When they killed two people, we had more than 5,000 at their funeral, and when they killed 15 people the next day, we had more than 50,000 the following day.

His comments came hours after Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of the Libyan leader, warned of a civil war if anti-government protests continue to spread in the country.

Speaking on state television in the early hours of Monday morning, Seif Gaddafi blamed thugs, inmates, foreigners and Islamists for the unrest that has spread across the country since February 14.

He promised a conference on constitutional reforms within two days and said Libyans should “forget oil and petrol” and prepare themselves for occupation by “the West” if they failed to agree.

The younger Gaddafi contrasted the situation in Libya with revolts earlier this year in Egypt and Tunisia, where longtime rulers were forced step down or fled in the face of mass popular discontent.

Protesters in Libya have similarly called for Muammar Gaddafi's ousting, but his son warned against this, saying “Libya is different, if there is disturbance it will split into several states”.

“You can say we want democracy and rights, we can talk about it, we should have talked about it before. It's this or war. Instead of crying over 200 deaths, we will cry over hundreds of thousands of deaths.

“Brothers, there are $200bn worth of projects at stake now. We will agree to all these issues immediately. We will then be able to keep our country, unlike our neighbors.

“Or else, be ready to start a civil war and chaos and forget oil and petrol.”

But his statements have failed to hinder demonstrations. Protesters say they have taken control of several key towns, including the eastern city of Benghazi. Al Bayda and Sabha were also said to have been taken over by protesters. 


Gaddafi in the meantime is not to be seen, his appearance on TV was short and there was no way of determining if he was in Libya, or wiith his friend Hosni Mubarak in Egypt or in Venezuela.


Cuba is reported to be willing to offer him refuge if conditions are met.

Gaddafi gone mad, Son Saif Gaddafi orders shooting and bombing in Tripoli

Gaddafi's Signature

Libyan warplanes were bombing indiscriminately across Tripoli on Monday, a resident of the Libyan capital told al Jazeera television in a live broadcast. Although reported to be directed by his son "it has the Gaddafi signature on it," Adel Mohamed Saleh said.

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Saleh, who called himself a political activist, said the bombings had initially targeted a funeral procession. "Our people are dying. It is the policy of scorched earth." he said. "Every 20 minutes they are bombing.

Asked if the attacks were still happening he said: "It is continuing, it is continuing. Anyone who moves, even if they are in their car they will hit you."

An influential Sunni  Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa on Monday that any Libyan soldier who can shoot and kill embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi should do so “to rid Libya of him”. 

“Whoever in the Libyan army is able to shoot a bullet at Mr Gaddafi should do so,” Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who is usually based in Qatar, told Al Jazeera television. 

He also called on Libyan ambassadors around the world to distance themselves from Gaddafi’s regime.

Qaradawi, 85, hosts a popular show on Al Jazeera satellite channel and has close ties with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

Libyan warplanes were bombing indiscriminately across Tripoli on Monday, a resident of the Libyan capital told al Jazeera television in a live broadcast.

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Adel Mohamed Saleh said. Saleh, who called himself a political activist, said the bombings had initially targeted a funeral procession. "Our people are dying. It is the policy of scorched earth." he said. "Every 20 minutes they are bombing.

Asked if the attacks were still happening he said: "It is continuing, it is continuing. Anyone who moves, even if they are in their car they will hit you."

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Libya+warplanes+bombing+Tripoli+Resident/4320473/story.html#ixzz1Edy6kepC

 

There was no independent verification of the report but Fathi al-Warfali, the Libyan activist who heads the Swiss-based Libyan Committee for Truth and Justice, who was taking part in a protest outside UN European headquarters in Geneva said he had heard the same reports. 

Meanwhile both the BBC and Al Jazeera have claimed Jamming of airwaves in Iran and in Libya, and claimed the jamming is coming from within those countries. 

According to the NYT, Monday night, witnesses said, the streets of the capital, Tripoli, were thick with special forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi as well as mercenaries. They shot freely as planes dropped what witnesses described as “small bombs” and helicopters fired on protesters. 

Hundreds of Qaddafi supporters took over Green Square after truck loads of militiamen arrived and opened fire on protesters, scattering them from the square. Residents said they now feared even to emerge from their houses.

“It was an obscene amount of gunfire,” said the witness. “They were strafing these people. People were running in every direction.” The police stood by and watched, the witness said, as the militiamen, still shooting, chased after the protesters.

The escalation of the conflict came after six days of revolt that began in Libya’s second-largest city, Benghazi, where more than 220 people were killed in clashes with security forces, according to witnesses and human rights groups. The rebellion is the latest and bloodiest so far of the uprisings that have swept across the Arab world with surprising speed in recent weeks, toppling autocrat.

Gaddafho  the Colonel who  seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1969 and is just referred to as "the leader"  is now reported to be placing his son in the forefront, and in typical fashion of how the middle east operates, may tturn on his son in the last days of this revolution to appease the people.

Saif Gaddafi the son of Gaddafi has been inthe forefront of the current situation in Tripoli and has vowed rivers of blood and a fight to the last man and the last bullet to save his father.

Gaddafi's days look numbered and he is expected to be either overthrown or killed by his own bodyguards,  within the next few weeks.

Amid reports that he had fled to Venezuela, Gaddafi appeared on state TV to insist: 'I am in Tripoli and not in Venezuela. I am in Green Square with the youths, do not believe those dogs.' He gave the brief statement in a bizarre TV interview while holding an umbrella and sitting in the front seat of a car.

Gaddafi spoke out after reports suggested a massacre had taken place in the city’s Green Square and left more than 600 dead, taking the death toll across the country to more than 3000.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358972/Libya-protests-Gaddafi-fled-Venezuela-air-force-attacks-civilians.html#ixzz1Ee6BA1A9

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2049665,00.html#ixzz1Ee3fnqIJ

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Massacare In Libya turns the tide against Gaddafi

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 "Tribal leaders  are urging the people now to kill Gaddafi"
Baghouti el Najami

The tide has turned on  Gaddafi, and he has resorted to bringing in mercenaries from Tunisia, but they have been arrested by forces loyal to the people.

Protesters were even reported heading   to Gaddafi's compound in the city of Al-Zawia near Tripoli and the Al-Zuwayya tribe in eastern Libya has threatened to cut off oil exports unless authorities stop what their tribal lleader called  "the oppression of protesters", the Warfala tribe, one of Libya's biggest, has reportedly joined the anti-Gaddafi protests.

 Akram Al-Warfalli, a leading figure in the Al Warfalla tribe from southern Tripoli, one of Libya's biggest, told the network: "We tell the brother (Gaddafi), well he's no longer a brother, we tell him to leave the country."

There is anti-Gaddafi graffiti on the walls of building in alomst every major city   Libya, and Gaddafi is not to be seen or heard.

In Benghazi witness said that a section of the troops had joined the protesters on Sunday as chaos swept the streets of the city, worst hit by the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year old rule.

Libyan clerics have urged the security forces to stop killing the people.

An urgent appeal from religious leaders, intellectuals, and tribal  elders from Tripoli, Bani Walid, Zintan, Jadu, Msalata, Misrata, Zawiah, and other towns and villages of the western area, the appeal, signed by the group of leaders,  says, "We appeal to every Muslim, within the regime or assisting it in any way, to recognize that the killing of innocent human beings is forbidden by our Creator and by His beloved prophet of compassion, peace be upon him. Do not kill your brothers and sisters. Stop the massacre now!"

Libya is the stronghold everyone wants to follow, its strongman Gaddafi has remained supreme all these years, he looked impossible to overthrow, but times can change everything and Gaddafi's time has come.

From London, my friend Trabooulsi says, " It is not Tunis, or Cairo, they are like the prophets of old telling us of this coming, Gaddafi is gone and with him the rest, once Gaddafi falls Iran will follow, and the whole of the middle east, and we may see more turmoil in the aftermath before real peace is gained."

Traboolsi estimates at least 800 killed and maybe more, he says it is a conservative estimate. 

Against this backdrop, Malaysia has to be very careful, its people are being driven to the brink,  right now we have the Sodomy II, we have the Port Klang Assemblyman's case where the Judiciary has interfered with the executive, we have Teoh beng Hock, we have Interlok, we have had a PAS rally where Najib was given a warning on what could happen.

The police and the army can't hold against the will of a people, so take a lesson, the government must cool down the situation, we can't afford this type of crisis in Malaysia, but we can't be pushed int creating one either. the government needs to act responsibly.

Najib may be driving us to do an Egypt

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Clashes between anti-government protesters and Gaddafi supporters escalate as army unit 'defects' in Benghazi. Clashes reported in Tripoli, even Gaddafi the strongman who gave orders to shoot on sight and has reportedly killed about 300 Libyans is now in serious trouble.
The Libyan people want to triumph, other hardline states will follow.

Even Gaddafi is not safe now.

We are seeing how it is happening in the Muslim world one nation after another, and for about the same reasons it will happen here.

Hardliners like Gaddaf of Libya,  Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, Iranian regime, and Syriain strong man Asad have been challanged,a nd the situation is escalating.

The Malaysian minister of Education in his narrow mindedness has only focus on students, he fails to see once the students take to the streets the parents and other adults will too.

The Port Klang case shows the amount of influence this government wields over bodies they are not supposed to have anything to do with.

The Elections commission had no right to interfere with a decision of the speaker, but they did to please their political masters, Najib and gang, the Judiciary had no place in what was an executive decision, and yet they did, the people have no recourse, this government will bulldoze regardless of what can be seen as blatant disregard for the voice of the common man.

The Teoh Beng Hock case, the interlock casefor what it is worth and the frustrations of the rakyat have been seen by the gathering in Kedah yesterday.

There is the rape of Sarawak by but one man, the great oil find announced by the government off Sarawak, is nothing but taking back part of what was sold by Badawi to the Sultanate of Brunei, individuals selling state property, its happening in Malaysia, the Sarawak CM is a classic example.

Temperatures are rising, and we have seen how it is being handled in the rest of the Islamic world,  it is fresh in the memories of all Malaysians - Egypt that is, now we have Libya, Algeria, Bharain, Iran, Jordan and even Yemen the government had better learn how to behave.

The Oh I See (OIC) wave widens as hardline states experience massive protests.

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Yea the the wave of protests in the Islamic world is widening, tyranny is no more acceptable to the people whilst the tyrants fight back in typical style to supress the will of the people.

Even the hardline states of Iran, Libya, Syria and Algeria have not been spared.

In Libya  alone latest reports indicate more then 175 deaths with the number increasing as the Libyans show sign of letting up on both sides of the divide.

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is confronting the most serious challenge to his 42-year rule as leader of Libya by unleashing his army on unarmed protesters.

Al-Zahf al-Akhdar a pro government  newspaper warned that the government would "violently and thunderously respond" to the protests, and said those opposing the regime risked "suicide".
All communication with the outside world  has been cut off, and the web is trying to defy this ban with Google offering the Libyans a route to report what is happening.The main  center for revolt in Libya is Benghazi.

Libyan strongman Gaddafi is under siege from his own people they have had enough of him, he on the other hand has ordered his army to shoot on sight, and there are no international observes in Libya.

In a short message from Tripoli,  my Libyan friend Omrani tells me this is it, the Libyans are not giving up  now, this is exactly what he said, "if we let this man go now, we will remain slaves to his will till he dies, so we want to see him die sooner rather then later,  whichever side o fthe coin you pick we shall die, we prefer to die with courage and respect rather then as Gaddafi's slaves" similar sentiments were echoed by another friend Trabulsi, which incidentally means Tripoli.

The revolts in Libya are mainly centered in Benghazi, Bayda and Tobruk and there seems to be no trouble in Triploic although the people seemed to be very tensed as there is no saying how Gaddafi reacts said Omrani.

In Algeria demonstrations are organized by the Co-ordination for Democratic Change in Algeria and in the latest demonstrations the people were said to number 10,000 and the riot Police 26,000 that makes it 2.6 policemen to an individual demonstrator, how absurd can it get.

CDCA is demanding an end of the government of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria's president, citing the same problems as the Tunisians did,  of high unemployment, housing and soaring costs, and they want him out immediately.


In bahrain Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, the crown prince, had earlier in the day ordered the military to withdraw, and assigned the Police to be  responsible for enforcing order, the Bahrain News Agency reported.

Soon after the crown prince's directive, protesters attempted to stream back to the roundabout, but were beaten back by the police. According to the Reuters news agency, about 80 protesters were taken to a hospital after being hit by rubber bullets or teargas.

Thousands of protesters have reoccupied the Pearl Roundabout in the Bahraini capital, Manama, after troops and riot police retreated from the symbolic centre of their anti-government uprising.

Trouble is still brewing in Iran but a blanket news blackout is making it difficult to get any news feeds from Iran. the same apples to Syria.

The hard line states of Libya, Iran Syria are willing to order the shooting of innocent peaceful protesters in order to remain in power.

In a very recent development, PAS has organised a rally in Keddah yesterday in a show of strength, one of the highlights of the rally was the announcement that actor and songwriter Bob Lokman (below), originally from Kelantan, has joined PAS.

Kedah MB Azizan Abdul Razak, then addressed the gathering, and spoke of the important role of the youth in ensuring that PAS and Pakatan Rakyat continue to rule their respective states.

Azizan then addressed the gathering, and spoke of the important role of the youth in ensuring that PAS and Pakatan Rakyat continue to rule their respective states.

He cited the recent revolution in Egypt that dethroned former president Hosni Mubarak, calling on the people to exercise God's will in fighting a cruel administration.

Toffeesturn is not in favour of an Egypt type revolt we have too much  to loose, but agrees that if the Barisan does not address urgent change that is the way it is bound to go.

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THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR CORRUPTION STUDIES

I think we finally have that rare thing - an honest minister with business acumen, foresight, vision and practical ability.  I am in a celebratory mood ! Just give this a thought : the minister has taken a much maligned national failing out of the shadows and brought it center stage with the avowed aim of making a clean  profit out of corruption !

His speech in Parliament introducing  “The Bill For The Setting Up Of The International School For Corruption Studies” merits being quoted:-

“ We Malaysians did not invent corruption. On this matter we proudly say “Malaysia Ta’Boleh “. We make no apologies for that. Corruption is as old as Adam and Eve. Like prostitution, it has withstood the test of time. Anything as old as that cannot be all that bad. Our real failing as a people is in not recognising that there are two distinct species of corruption. In evolutionary terms we can say that the common ancestor of the animal we call corruption branched out into two distinct lines -government sanctioned corruption and bad corruption. The former is many a splendid thing. Without it how could we have achieved progress, development and modernisation in a mere 22 years? The latter species is of course vile and despicable. Our task now is to recognise the good from the bad. We must not get over-emotional or irrational about corruption. What happened in Tunisia and Egypt stays there. Above all we must not panic. There is enough of it to go around “.

To loud applause he went on to explain that the nation was scoring a world’s first in setting up such a school. He noted that the Chinese whose dazzling economic success is a brand in itself had these past few decades established very specialised universities. These centers of learning focused on a particular discipline. He named a few - University of Foreign Languages, University of Urban Development, University of Ocean Studies, University of Foreign Trade and University of Flight Studies. He said  it was time we established The International School Of Corruption Studies here in Kuala Lumpur and beat the Chinese to it. Besides he said we have the right environment for such a school.

In passing it was explained that such a school will us increase our understanding of why we have one of the highest outflow rates of illicit funds. It would start off like many of our universities, housed in another institution or facility until a proper campus is located and the infrastructure build-up to reflect in his words ‘a world class institution second to none’. Parliament itself had offered to set aside a vacant part within its complex  with a leaky roof  for the use of the school. Likewise an offer had been received from an old and illustrious political party. “These are now being considered. It is important to avoid any conflict of interests situations”, said the minister.

He also outlined that the school will have 4 fully fledged faculties - the Faculty of Political Corruption, Faculty of Corporate and GLC Corruption, Faculty of Police Corruption and the Faculty of Judicial Corruption. The last named faculty will house the privately funded ‘Tun Mahathir Chair of Research On Judicial Appointments’. “ Zimbabwe is considering sending at least a hundred students for training in the school in the first academic intake. We have received inquiries from the world over. Only four countries have not responded to our marketing efforts - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Singapore “, said the minister.

As for me,  it is better we have this International School for Corruption Studies than have a National School for Scandal !  The way things are now, there is every danger that one day soon we will become  a pariah state with or without the introduction of a book that hardly rates as literature.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

By Howl Pillai

Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, my fellow academicians. Good Morning !

It is indeed an honour to address this august gathering of the most learned minds of the land. On first being informed of this singular honour of delivering the keynote address, “Unity Among Great Apes”, I was overwhelmed by the temptation to whoop with joy and  dance on my knuckles. But I resisted this natural inclination with all the will I could muster. That temptation is but a mere fragment now but a fragment nevertheless - for I cannot entirely set aside the DNA of my forefathers. I am, in case you have not noticed, an ‘orang utan’ . The more observant of you will  have noticed the disproportionate length of my arms though I am wearing a full formal suit. You may have also been struck by my deeply  resonating  voice. And of course, the shave I had this morning took care of my facial hair. On this matter of facial hair, I note in passing that many of you here today have returned to the fashion of our common ancestor by retaining full length beards. My father was found of grunting, “different folks, different strokes” and I admit on this point that on account of my opposing big toe,  I find wearing shoes painful  but I will not make a fuss over that. All said, we  have to learn to live together, whatever our genetic differences. Now I must  return to the story of my incredible journey.........

About a hundred years ago a great ape and a gorilla called Red Peter was shot and captured alive in Africa. Red Peter is held in honour among us for being a true revolutionary. No, not for him the idea of merely being a rebel espousing many causes. He was single minded following his capture, of liberating himself from the bondage of ignorance. Imprisoned in a research station on an island off the coast this captive great ape studied the dominant and domineering ways of a fellow  great ape, Man. By degrees and in turn  these other great apes, all learned like yourselves, were captivated by Red Peter’s  grace, intelligence, humanitarian spirit and studious attitude. Franz Kafka, in a short account of these events, paints a delightful picture of the learning abilities and perseverance displayed by my relative. It took awhile for news of these epochal events to reach Red Peter’s relatives out here in the East. But when it did, it had a terrific impact on all of us. In our folklore he is referred to as “Peter Merah”. Well, he showed us the way and today I stand before you as a proud fellow great ape. So let me briefly speak of our similarities.....

We orang utans are the only exclusively Asian genus of the great apes. So we are more ‘truly Asian’ than you! Like you, we too have an opposing thumb. Uniquely, and only with you humans and not the other great apes, we orang utans  share similar dental structures, thick enamel, a thick posterior palate, a single incisive foramen, high estriol production, a beard and a moustache! For purposes of assimilation and integration,  what more can you ask of us! But wait, there is more...... on the social side, your love of hand phones is matched by our penchant for making long distance calls over vast jungle distances. We too like to wander and enjoy our solitary moments by traveling and ‘being one with nature’. Like you, we like the high lifestyle but of course our tree nests are no match for your condos in creature comforts.  We are susceptible like you to ‘you scratch my back and I scratch yours’, sexual favours and calculated reciprocity involving exchange of gifts and favours but not amounting to graft and outright commissions that you humans are so found of. We remain incorruptible! Notice that these days we are never caught by humans using the old ‘hand in the coconut’ trick.  On the other hand it must be said that we orang utans have noticed an  increasing numbers of our fellow truly Asians  being caught with their hands in the till! Like you we too groom ourselves and on the right social occasions  get all puffed up but I have digressed. One last comment on the sexes: like you humans, female orang utans are the sex that leaves the group at maturity. Many of you mistake that for promiscuity. Anyways all this shows that learning to be a human great ape  is not really that  difficult. And it all began with the fall......

At age two, the tree I was happily perched on was felled by a chainsaw of an illegal logger . As in your nursery rhyme, “down came baby, cradle and all”.  Mum fled in abject fear. This was the second time her cradle was chainsawed. Was taken 40 miles downriver to a village, treated for a fractured right arm and adopted by a childless old couple who had never given up longing for a great ape baby on account of which they named me Providence!  Primary school followed. Utter confusion reigned here ! First one great ape language and before I could master that a second was introduced. And then one subject was taught in one language and another subject in another. My adoptive parents were in despair. They even considered releasing me back to the jungle. But Mum was kindness personified and all perseverance. She tutored me at home. I complained of school and my fellow little apes. I am not a racist now nor then, but these other kids were monkeys ! And the teaching staff never gave up asking me what type of great ape I was and where I came from.  Soon the kids picked up from where the teachers left of. In defence I said that like Peter Merah, we were all Africans ! Years later I found out that I was indeed right in saying that .There was never enough play time and all of us were ‘fatties’ if not obese. None of us were good at climbing trees. Secondary school was little different but I found it surprisingly easy  to pass the school exams. Dad said I was getting cleverer. And I found a new method of learning and keeping up with the rest. I just aped the cleverer ones! Strangely, my teachers called it ‘copying and plagiarism’.  But I noticed and am honest enough to say it now, no one was failing any exam any more. We had all gotten cleverer together.

Then came  the time of learning about national slogans. Every few years the slogans changed. We wrote essays on the meaning of these slogans. Then came the shock. Soon I figured out that these slogans meant different things to the different human great ape races. Once I asked  mum what “1 Malaysia” was all about. She said I must learn to read the small print attached to the slogan.  It read :”Terms and Conditions Apply to Others. Discussions  Not Included”.  She said I will understand these things when I become an adult and can fend for myself. Then came the next shock. Some of us were abruptly told to fend for ourselves with immediate effect. We had to work or continue our education  using our own resources. I was one of them. My human great ape parents were heart broken. They were also faulted  for not giving me a religious upbringing and I was penalised for being born an orang utan.  I then  realised that religion answered  the million dollar question about who made apes and how we were to thank the maker for making us great apes great. The different great ape races have always quarreled over the name of this maker and often killed each other by the millions over this. My parents kept the simple faith that all apes great and small are brothers and sisters  but that was not good enough. Anyways all that is a long time ago.  We have made much progress in our understanding  of the great apes since then.

Today’s keynote address, “ Unity Among Great Apes” is therefore very relevant especially to our youth but I must end on a note of caution. There is a 99% or more match between our genomes. But the seemingly minor 1% difference at the gene level gives rise to all the difference so evident in our Parliament. This 1% difference accounts for all the racial and religious hatred and bloodletting through the centuries. Witness this very day the level of anger over the matter of whether male great apes should give flowers to the opposite sex at a certain time of the year. As a great ape I find this belittling for we seemingly  remain trapped in the harmful delusion that great apes are special instruments of the Divine Will. God In Heaven ! We must move on and stop aping our past !

Thank You.