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 Dont make me laugh.... - by @lbert
  Posted:30/05/2006 - 16:06 - in category: politics Malaysia
Is Malaysia fit for its seat in the newly established United Nationals Human Rights Council?
NO NO and once more NO see the foto's of Malaysia's Bloody Sunday on Malaysiakini.
Malaysia and human rights? No way absolutely unfit.
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 Jogya III - by @lbert
  Posted:30/05/2006 - 11:04 - in category: general
The Indonesia Help blogspot has been revived with info about the disaster area Yogakarta / Bantul.
You can find it here.
Below a detail map of the earthquacke.

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 Myanmar - by @lbert
  Posted:29/05/2006 - 15:51 - in category: politics Malaysia
This country ruled by a bunch of generals who will cling to power by all means, have again extended the house arrest of Ang Suu Kyi.
This is shameless and scandalous.
With this government no dialog is possible, and it is high time that Myanmar is kicked out of Asean. A country like this does absolutely NOT belong in it.
And the Malaysian government should finally stop the silly argument that dialog is the only way to improve the situation in Myanmar.
Nothing will improve. A total boycot should probably more effective. No more foreign flights into Myanmar, means no more tourist money, no more exports means no $$$ and it will starve the generals.
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 FRU ends demo - by @lbert
  Posted:29/05/2006 - 12:19 - in category: general
The FRU ended a demo of anti-fuel-hike demonstrators in a typical FRU way.
People were kicked into the hospital and several got wounds.
This FRU is consisting of a bunch of sadists and it is high time that is is completely dismanteled. These people have no knowledge in controlling a demo, they only know how to demolish it.
It is high time people in Malaysia get the right to demonstrate as is the way in every other democratic country. But at present only Umno youth seems to be able to demonstrate with mobs and go unpunnished.
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 Police threatens government. - by @lbert
  Posted:29/05/2006 - 12:11 - in category: politics Malaysia
This is really unheard of, the police threatening the government because they dont want an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission.
Than saying they will vote for the opposition in the next election.
Well its their good right to vote for the opposition, but as a police force they have no right at all to give threats like this.
Pak Lak, show finnally that you got guts, if necessairy fire the whole upper echalon of the police force on the spot with loss of pension.
Thats the way to deal with a lousy police force that send threads to the government!
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 Jogya II - by @lbert
  Posted:29/05/2006 - 11:22 - in category: general
It seems that the death toll now already reached 3000+. Dont be surprised if it finally will reach the 5000 mark.
The Bantul area is large, with very narrow roads, probably blocked by falling debris and people camping out on the road. So access is difficult.
Pitty the already poor farmers in this area who now have nothing left but their crops and animals.
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 Gempa in Yogya - by @lbert
  Posted:27/05/2006 - 12:01 - in category: general
I was luckily just out of Jogya when the earthquake happened. What i saw here on tv is that the damage is not severe and the buildings with damage are thos glass palaces like shopping malls, sport complex. and of course some ramshackle rumah stengun which are everywhere around in Indonesia.
The earthquacke was actually 33 km south of Parangtritis about 30km deep.
Merapi keeps on spuwing smoke and spitting lava several times a day.
The biggest fear here is that the instable dome collapses and a wave of hot gas and ashes might come down the slopes. But most people are evacuated only a few hard headed remain.
Update 18:00 WIB
The biggest 'bang' has not been Jogya but the area east of Prambanan around Klaten, and south of Jogya in Bantul.
Some areas in Bantul are totally flattened, and in Klaten hundreds of houses collapsed.
The biggest number of victims was in these 2 areas. Total number of death has already climbed to 1.700.
This is probably not the end, as there is no news about the Parangtritis area (on the beach) the closest to the epicentre, there probably nothing stands anymore.
Klaten and Bantul are all build on padi land and without a proper foundation, almost every house will collapse.
The Adi Sucipto airport is closed for a week as the ramshackle construction there almost collapsed totally.
Solo airport Adi Sumarmo (where Air Asia flies) is open.
Early morning i will fly back to Malaysia.
So no more first hand news from than on.
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 Allmost done... - by @lbert
  Posted:25/05/2006 - 15:49 - in category: general
My work in Indonesia is almost done. Had meanwhile some views on the Merapi from a save distance. Lots of smoke but hardly to see anything.
From the homefront i only heard that it seems that UMNO is now ruling the country as they seem to decide whether The Davinci Code can be shown or not..... F#$k them, just buy a CD haram!
They still seem to have their peanut brains....or is even that already to big.
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 Foreign vehicles to pay entry fee - by @lbert
  Posted:04/05/2006 - 15:40 - in category: travel Malaysia
Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said last month that visitors from Singapore and Thailand who used their cars to enter the country would be charged RM20 for an entry permit .
Typical something in the Asean spirit, brainless morons, is this promoting tourism?

Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy said motorcycles and heavy vehicles would be exempted.

See ....its only to get extra money.
As tit for tat probably we will have to pay to enter Thailand (Stupid Singapore already charges RM 20 a day!)
LONG LIVE THE ASEAN SPIRIT....When do ministers start to use their pea sized brains?
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 MP Shahrir to resign - by @lbert
  Posted:04/05/2006 - 15:30 - in category: politics Malaysia
Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club chairman Datuk Shahrir Samad will tender his resignation after the House rejected a motion to probe a newspaper report about an MP who had allegedly asked the Customs Department to "close one eye" in a case involving the import of sawn timber.
Isn't it scandalous that an MP who tries to bribe the customs, is openly protected by members of parliament?
Datuk Sharir is totally right throwing in the towel.
It was Lim Kit Siang who initiated the motion, and in the Kindergarten called Dewan Rakyat, you cannot support a motion of the opposition even if it is about the integrity of Parliament members. Typical bolehland attitude, shameless and scandalous!
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 2005 World Press Freedom - by @lbert
  Posted:03/05/2006 - 12:28 - in category: general
The 'awards' are out, you can find the whole list here
The asian results....
102 - Indonesia
105 - Thailand
113 - Malaysia (2004 122)
140 - Singapore
158 - Vietnam
155 - Laos
Cambodja and Myanmar are not even mentioned.
Dr. M can be happy Malaysia beat Singapore!
But the ranking is still sad, sad, sad....
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 Out of Town... - by @lbert
  Posted:03/05/2006 - 12:09 - in category: travel abroad
I will be enjoying my Air Asia free ticket to Chieng Mai from Friday on for 10 days.
Hope that the weather will be fine, because Chieng Mai is really a very nice town, with beautiful temples
After that i will be going to the land of no progress Indonesia for 12 days to do some work.
So i probably will be back online by the 29th or 30th of this month.
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 This is/was ruling the country... - by @lbert
  Posted:03/05/2006 - 12:03 - in category: politics Malaysia
Look at the education of ministers in Malaysia.
I find it shocking.

PM Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi
University of Malaya - Bachelor of Arts Honors (1964) Islamic studies

Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
King Edward VII College of Medicine, Singapore - Bachelor of Medicine (1952)

Minister of Defence Dato' Sri Najib Razak
University of Nottingham - Bachelor of Arts Honors (1974)

Minister of Foreign Affairs Syed Hamid Albar
Barrister at Law Middle Temple UK Year ???

Ministry of International Trade & Industry Rafidah binti Aziz
Universiti Malaya (BA in Economics in 1966 and Masters in Economics in 1970)

Minister of Agriculture Muhyiddin Yassin
Bachelor Economics & Malay studies (Hons) UM Year ??

Ministry of Domestic Trade Shafie Apdal
(Education Unknown)

Minister of Education Hishammuddin Hussein
LLB University of Wales 1984
English Bar / Malaysian Bar 1985
LLM C & C Law 1988

Minister of Home Affairs Radzi bin Sheikh Ahmad
(Education Unknown)

This government seems to be made up of artists, with the majority having an arts degree.... But nowadays family counts, not the education.
Compare this to Singapore where knowledge really counts!
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 Bow-tie..... - by @lbert
  Posted:03/05/2006 - 10:46 - in category: general
�The Dewan Rakyat is a serious institution that should be given the highest respect. No one can simply tell us what to wear,� S.K. Devamany (BN � Cameron Highlands) said.

Yet they fight whether it is allowed to wear a bow-tie, they can call each other racist, the can tell people to get out of the country.
Does this kindergarten wants to be taken serious?
Razali Ibrahim (BN - Muar) said �If we don�t present ourselves properly, how can people take us seriously?�
Well sorry Razali i think noone is taking Parliament serious anymore, as long as you guys make it the laughing stock in the world!
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 Dr.M vs Pak Lah - by @lbert
  Posted:02/05/2006 - 12:47 - in category: politics Malaysia
The match is getting more interesting by the day.....
While Pak Lah already must be getting nuts by the raising cost of living and interest hikes, and a nullified petrol hike, his predecessor is throwing fresh wood on the fire.
As i see it now, in spite of everything there will still be no bridge, but Pak Lah will not last another term as PM he will be thrown out on the next UMNO general meeting. He has shown no guts. The big corrupters have never been caught, and even the small fry is not prosecuted.
Flaw after flaw is made by the administration, that seems to consist out of a bunch of people who are more interested in their own welfare than the welfare of the country. Millions are still wasted, they never seem to learn.
And all the f#cking newspapers in Malaysia (NST in front) who praised Mahatir to heaven before, now dropped him like a stone.
So much for the integrity of journalism in Malaysia. It makes you puke!!
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