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 Back in town - by @lbert
  Posted:28/02/2006 - 14:10 - in category: travel abroad
Back from the country of no progress.
Again i stick to my vision that Indonesia does not want any progress, they love to stay in the stone age.
Back home i found that the hystery about the cartoons is not yet over. Totally ridiculous!
It is high time that people in Malaysia learn what satire is, it is a non existing thing in Malaysia.
Mind you can you imagine a person on TV giving an imitation of our PM as a satire? He will be under ISA probably the next day and the station closed.
If you cannot handle it, you close it down or sue for millions, that is Malaysian style.
The cartoons were for Danish public showing the Danish view on Islam.
If this view is a lousy one? Who the hell to blame..... right only the Islamic world.
They behead in the name of Allah, the fly planes into the WTC in the name of Allah, they wanne destroy Israel in the name of Allah... and go on.
But if someone makes a cartoon the whole world is to small. This shows the narrowmindedness of the followers (not the religion).
I will support Denmark! I vote for freedom

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 Abroad......... - by @lbert
  Posted:16/02/2006 - 10:58 - in category: travel abroad
I am in Indonesia at the moment, and seen the news i missed nothing.
A useless cabinet reshuffle thats all. The PM is definitely in his last term as pm.
This one is not gonna last, no guts at all.
Samy still there, fat lady still there, nono Noh also still there, this is a reshuffle?
I rather go and enjoy the food here.......
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 300 unemployed extra... - by @lbert
  Posted:10/02/2006 - 09:04 - in category: politics Malaysia
It is now definitive the Serawak Tribune is no more.
300 people got to suffer because of 1 editor, sounds quit unfair.
On top of that Beranama stated:
the government issued a blanket prohibition in the whole country starting today on the printing, import, production, circulation, distribution or possession of the Sarawak Tribune publication which undermine public order, security and national interest or which may disturb the minds of the people.
.....Yes people are so stupid they are easily disturbed. And it seems i cannot even have a copy of the Serawak Tribune.
Well got to make sure i get one...its gonna be a collectors item in a while.
Government forgets that the cartoons are now everywhere onthe net. Thanks to actions like these. They only inflame the whole thing.
Well done Malaysia, as OIC president you have shown to follow the rest of the Muslim nations, and instead of a 'educated' reaction you have shown your immature face again.
And on top of that made 300 people unemployed.
Long live press freedom in Malaysia......
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 Bye bye press freedom... - by @lbert
  Posted:09/02/2006 - 10:19 - in category: politics Malaysia
updated
The cabinet decided to suspend the license of the Serawak Tribune indefinitely. (according to NST this morning).
So this proofs Abuddlah & rakan2 is no better than Mahatir & rakan2.
Nothing changed, pressfreedom does not exist in bolehland.
This is ridiculous, the cartoons were on the Umno Reform website for over a week, do they get suspended?
Minister Noh Omar knew about the identity of the squat gate affair from the beginning, does he get suspended?
China press had 2 editors sacked over the squat gate affair, Utusan Melayu did the same, did they get suspended?
People get shaved bald for playing a friendly mahjong game, anyone in the policeforce suspended?
PM had announced the setting up of the independent police complaints and misconduct commission (IPCMC), UMNO youth chief, Hishamuddin, came out to oppose this idea - wasn't this a question of 'disobeying' the boss? Did he get suspended.
Malaysia has double standards all over, but than is that new in bolehland?
But it seems that Serawak Tribune hits the streets as normal today, so where did NST get this info?
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 Self explaining - by @lbert
  Posted:07/02/2006 - 15:28 - in category: general

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 All compasionate... - by @lbert
  Posted:07/02/2006 - 07:46 - in category: general
How to convince people that Islam is a tolerant, level-headed and peaceful religion?

For the wrong way to do it look at politics-101
here
Pictures speak a thousand words....
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 How to handle sensitivities - by @lbert
  Posted:06/02/2006 - 16:41 - in category: general
From Washington Post 03/02/2006.

Click here to enlarge.
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 Need and aircon to survive? - by @lbert
  Posted:06/02/2006 - 12:36 - in category: general
Can you really not survive without aircon?
Well think for once about poor people in Poland and Russia was have to endure -36 degrees (BAWAH BEKU!) in unheated houses.
These temperatures are enough to let any moist escaping from mouth or nose instantly freeze on the face.
Hypothermia and frostbytes can appear in minutes if the body is not covered properly.
Already 230 people died in this weather in Poland and we complain ....panas lah.....

Railroad tracks in Gdansk, end January
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 Poor Denmark - by @lbert
  Posted:06/02/2006 - 12:08 - in category: general
Poor Denmark.
Now Denmark is compared to the great big evil, the great Satan of all nations, the USA.
But why did the Muslim world react so furious?

First of all the whole thing would have died within a week, if a few muslims clerics in Denmark did not bring it to the outside world, with no other purpose than throwing oil on an already burning fire. (afterall who reads Jylland Posten outside Denmark)
On top of that, they added 3 extra cartoons (of very bad taste) to it and stated that these were also published.
After that Saudi Arabia started to blow the whole thing out of context in order to hide their own haj stupidities.
And after that the whole internet jumped on it publishing the pictures everywhere or providing links.

So the comments of Malaysia's pm and Indonesia's president on the cartoons, serve no other purpose than instigating people to look for them on the internet.
And the cartoons themselves?
Well some are pretty good, and some are awful.
Afterall they are cartoons.
And i do not really see why the Islamics should complain as many Arab newspapers have published cartoons of equally bad taste, and did the West burn their embassies?
Samples......well i got them.....

The cartoon above, clearly depicting the railroad to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau � but with Israeli flags replacing the Nazi ones � is from the Jordanian newspaper Ad-Dustur (October 19, 2003). The sign in Arabic reads: �Gaza Strip or the Israeli Annihilation Camp.�

In this cartoon, from Al-Watan newspaper in Qatar (June 23, 2002), Ariel Sharon is shown watching on the sidelines as an Israeli plane crashes into New York�s World Trade Center. The Arabic words alongside the Twin Towers are �The Peace.� This cartoon restates the widely held myth in the Arab world that Israel and the Jews were responsible for the 9/11 attacks which were in fact carried out by al-Qaeda.
Well i will stick to these but there a hundreds more......
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 Poor Borneo.. - by @lbert
  Posted:05/02/2006 - 16:18 - in category: general
By accident i stumbled on some WWF data on Borneo (Indonesian and Malaysian).
The facts a simple dazzling.
By 2010 Sarawak has almost no lowland forest left. 2/3 of Sabah and Sarawak forests destroyed. Probably too rivers polluted, and water problems for irrigation.
Look at the prognoses below, it is hard to believe but true. All in the name of progress (greed).

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 Botak, botak. - by @lbert
  Posted:04/02/2006 - 12:09 - in category: general
It seems that Police Diraja Malaysia is never going to learn.
The shaving bold of 11 elderly people is a scandal in 1 simple word.
The CID chief of Kajang trying to defend this, MUST be sacked on the spot with loss of pension, this kind of people do NOT belong in the police force.
The 11 people should be compensated for the humiliation with at least a few thousand ringgit each, if possible paid by the policemen involved.
It seems that whatever investigation into the police or whatever commission, nothing is going to change, the police gives a damn, it is a state within a state. A solution? ... Yes sack ALL top brass in the force and replace them no one spared, thats a way to start fresh.
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 Insulting arab cartoons. - by @lbert
  Posted:03/02/2006 - 23:36 - in category: general
For a comparison, i would ask you to go here and enjoy a nice collection of cartoons from the Arab world of course mainly depicting Israel or Sharon.
If Jylland Posten drawings were insulting are these not?
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 Another angered muslim organisation - by @lbert
  Posted:02/02/2006 - 14:30 - in category: general
The muslim consumers organization of malaysia was angered by some caricatures in the danish Jylland Posten.
Well i wonder who the hell in Malaysia reads the Jylland Posten.
Secondly the drawings were in the newspaper several month' ago, and not yesterday.
So the only thing they do is join the crowd of thin skinned easily and always offended muslims. And mind you this whole thing started in Saudi Arab, probably to hide their stupidity in handling the last haj.
Come lets boycot and take Lurpac butter of the shelves!
The drawings were posted in Europe. Satire is accepted in europe, and you can make caricatures.
How come Europe should change their customs, their law, according to what is acceptable to Muslims in the Middle East?
Why not vice versa?
Religious feelings cannot demand special treatment in a secular society, in a democracy one must from time to time accept criticism or becoming a laughingstock, whether catholic, reformed, hindu, budist or muslim.
If you cannot bear any critics, you should not comment and proclaim either.
A comment in English in the Jylland posten you can find here.
And one of the drawings posted which was so called offending, i personally like this drawing of Julius,
depicting suicide bombers arriving in heaven.
I absolutely cannot see whats wrong with this, as it ridicules only those idiots who kill others in the name of the religion and still think they go to heaven. Should this not be allowed?
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 KL one of the world's cheapest cities?? - by @lbert
  Posted:02/02/2006 - 12:58 - in category: general
Well this may be true for a foreigner with his income in US$ or Euro's, but not for a Malaysian.
Malaysia is getting one of the MOST expensive countries in the far east, as far as cost of living for the locals is concerned.
Even Singapore is a lot cheaper (when you earn in S$), cost of living is peanuts!
Malaysia veggy, chicken, meat you name it....all expensive compared to income.
So the NST should not try to make its readers happy with dead mice.......
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