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Saturday, 15 April 2017

M’sian in trouble in Indonesia over communist symbol

Malaysians travelling to Indonesian please take note or will be thrown in Jail



M’sian in trouble in Indonesia over communist symbol


Mataram police seized Mohamad Tarmizi’s T-shirt and released him after giving a warning
JAKARTA: A Malaysian was detained by Indonesian authorities in Mataram, Nusa Tenggara Barat, for wearing a T-shirt with an image of the communist hammer and sickle symbol that has been banned in the republic.
Mataram Section police chief Taufik was quoted by online media as saying that police detained the Malaysian, identified as Mohamad Tarmizi Mohamad Nordin, 50, at a hotel in Kota Mataram yesterday, following a tip-off.
The Malaysian was found at the hotel lobby and was wearing a T-shirt with the communist symbol, he said.
According to Taufik, when questioned, Mohamad Tarmizi said he was not aware of the ban by the Indonesian government on the use of the communist symbol.
He said the police seized the T-shirt and then released Mohamad Tarmizi after giving him a warning.
Mohamad Tarmizi was in Mataram on business and the police did not find other communist-related items on him, said Taufik.

RUU355: Umno’s missed opportunity - No it is good riddance to UMNO and PAS

Below is all water under the bridge now and the secular voters of both side of the divide learned from the UMNO-PAS Tango on RUU355 is that there will not be any peace , racial or religious harmony until these two parties are send into oblivion or buried forever.

RUU355 have brought of the greatest fears of the majority of the voters that having UMNO and PAS, there will be no peace or prosperity for Malaysia and a doom future for the future generations.

Mind is made up and UMNO with her associates and PAS already are tried in a court of public opinion and sentence to history and never to return.

There was no religion in RUU355 or in the political dance of UMNO and PAS but a game of political dominance with satanic proportions

Good Riddance


Two reasons why Umno, and not PAS, should have tabled RUU355
COMMENT
The tabling of a motion which is now known as RUU 355 by Abdul Hadi Awang (Marang-PAS) is a missed opportunity for Umno.
Had the bill been tabled by an Umno MP, there wouldn’t be opposition and objections across the board – from within the ruling coalition and opposition parties.
As it stands, because the bill was PAS-sponsored, MCA, MIC, Gerakan, DAP, Warisan along with Sarawak- and Sabah-based parties stood their ground against the bill which was only meant for Muslims.
However Hadi successfully tabled the motion which was supported by his secretary general Takiyuddin Hassan (Kota Bharu-PAS) who provided justification for the raise in penalties.
The fear against the proposed amendment stems from PAS itself that wants to implement the Islamic penal code, hudud in Kelantan.
PAS even used hudud for by-election campaigns in Kuala Kangsar and Sungai Besar.
During the Sarawak state polls, Hadi urged for a Muslim leader to be elected. Sarawak had non-Muslim chief ministers in the past.
Their cause for concern is also based on the ruthless action taken by state religious authorities.
The raids in search of couples committing close proximity for instance even landed foreign tourists into trouble in Langkawi some years ago.
There was also the ban over the use of the word ‘Allah’ during which the courts ruled that the word is exclusively for Muslims in Peninsula Malaysia. The ruling however doesn’t effect Christians in Sabah and Sarawak.
The second point is, Umno also lost its chance take the lead from PAS to champion Islam.
There is no doubt that Islamic banking, the establishment of International Islamic University and other Islamic agenda in the nation were due to Umno. These were in the past.
PAS clerics to date have a better hold over the Muslims compared to Umno clerics. Hence Umno would have gained brownie points if it’s lawmakers tabled the private member’s bill.
Had Umno lawmakers tabled the bill, it would have raised Umno’s chances to regain Kelantan, and even do well in other Malay states such Terengganu and Kedah.
Umno also would have effectively ended PAS dominance over Islam by tabling it on their own.

These Are The Top 20 Most Addictive Songs Of All-Time, According To Scientist

These Are The Top 20 Most Addictive Songs Of All-Time, According To Scientist



Below a few samples of the popular songs









Videos below explaining not All Punjabis or Sikhs and not all Sikhs are Punjabis

See Videos below explaining not All Punjabis or Sikhs and not all Sikhs are Punjabis









The future is here, no more bulk X-Rays, MRT scans or Citi Scans, the digital era has arrived

The future is here, no more bulk X-Rays, MRT scans or Citi Scans, the digital era has arrived. See video below


SINGAPORE PROPERTY PRICES TO DOUBLE BY 2030: MORGAN STANLEY

The smart money will be in Singapore property as the Singapore dollar appreciates and investing in Malaysia will see the investments value get depreciated year in year our as the Ringgit have been on a depreciation mode because government is cash strap and a weaker Ringgit brings in more Ringgits on the sale of Oil and Gas produce.


SINGAPORE PROPERTY PRICES TO DOUBLE BY 2030: MORGAN STANLEY


The protracted downtrend in Singapore’s property market is poised to end next year, with home prices set to double by 2030, Morgan Stanley said in a Wednesday note.
“Property market bears expect slower population growth, an ageing population, and a structural growth slowdown to weigh on the long-term property market outlook,” the note said. “We disagree and believe home prices will double by 2030.”
That implies a 5 to 6 per cent increase per annum and would mark a reversal from a long downtrend in home prices.
In the first quarter, overall private home prices fell 0.5 per cent on-quarter, the 14th straight quarter of declines. This time around, however, the bulk of the decline was in relatively small landed property segment, while non-landed prices were steady.

The city-state’s housing prices surged more than 60 per cent from 2009 through 2013, propelled by rock-bottom global interest rates and quantitative easing in developed economies, even as the government enacted a series of cooling measures from 2011 to prevent a bubble from forming.
But in early March, the government scaled back some of the curbs, including lowering the seller’s stamp duty and shortening the minimum holding period to avoid it.
Morgan Stanley said that was a signal the property market was closer to the bottom, which should improve buyer sentiment.There were signs buyer sentiment has already picked up: One recent launch, Park Place Residences, sold its entire phase one, initially set at 40 per cent of the 429-unit total before being raised to 50 per cent, within a day.
The bank expected sales volume would surge this year, with the increases in transaction volumes to spur prices higher next year.
Supply was also set to decline, the bank noted. From 2014-16, private residential supply added around 20,000 units a year, twice the historical average since 1990, it noted. But in 2017-18, supply levels were set to fall 40 per cent each year, it said.
The property market in Singapore can be closely watched for economic and investment implications.
Morgan Stanley noted that around 91 per cent of Singapore’s resident households own their homes, with residential property around 45 per cent of total household gross assets last year.
Additionally, Asian investors tend to have large allocations to property in their portfolios.
– Asiaone






UMNO Team B plan to counter UMNO Team A

UMNO team B need now to start consolidating their support and spend part of the cash they were hording to secure the UMNO members in the constituencies the UMNO team B are Member of Parliaments and State assembly men. Watch out for the Brutus as Team A would by right already have their Trojan horse in these UMNO divisions controlled by Team B.


Past expel UMNO leaders did not act quick enough to consolidate and secure their support in the very place they held sway and were state assembly men or Member or Parliaments. The Trojan horses from Team A will start making the bussing noises like bees and will try to undercut the team B support among UMNO members. Once the Trojan horses have done their job of turning the loyal supports of Team B into neutral or team A supporters , signal will be given to Team A to start the noises and process of expelling these Team B leaders from UMNO.
Make your supports realize that the UMNO of Team A without the support of Team B will not have a realistic chance of winning or retaining enough seats to be the dominant party in BN and head the next government if by luck BN wins enough seats.

With Team B supports consolidated and also secret talks underway with PH, Team B with block of committed members are in a position of strength to be the power brokers come nomination day as they can easily carry 2 sets of nomination papers and on conclusion of the secret talks with PH, can on nomination day submit the PH nomination forms and PH support letters to stand as a candidate.

The secret talks will be about seats that will be given to Team B which will be in a region of 30% to 40% of the Team B seats if the PH parties are willing to give these seats to Team B. Team B can stand as PKR or Amanah or Pribumi or Warisan and maybe DAP and all depends on the negotiations. This will check mate UMNO Team A and a swift fall of BN on nomination day will uncontested seats won by PH between 10 to 15 seats and a huge Blow to BN which they cannot recover in time. Pribumi win also win some 10 to 12 also uncontested seats as the candidates from UMNO who are secretive supporters of Pribumi will be carrying also 2 sets of nomination forms and support letters.

End of nomination day PH will have between 20 to 27 uncontested Parliament seats.
Best for Team B not to make noise or give cause for Team A to expel them and all meeting and negotiations should be conducted overseas using agents as not to arouse Team A suspicions.
Just act Goody Goody and find out who the Trojan horses from Team A are and have them quarantine and also make sure them know they are compromised already.


Team B need to start moving around their cash reserves around Team A will have ACA or SPRM raiding these safe houses which act as Team B banks.


Start reaching out to Pribumi - Mahathir and PKR - Anwar

Amanah will also spring some surprises on PAS come nomination days as a good 30% of PAS candidates will also be carry 2 sets of nomination forms and support letters and will only file Amanah nomination forms and not PAS nomination papers.

Malays are shy people and if they want to do a surprise, they will not talk openly but when times to do so, the actions will speak louder

Whoops!!! Magnets Are A No-No For Your Mobile Phones!!! Here’s Why…

Whoops!!! Magnets Are A No-No For Your Mobile Phones!!! Here’s Why…




According to what was reported by The Star, your magnetic smartphone holder could most possibly be disrupting your reception!
You know those mobile phones holders that allow you to “clip” on your phones effortlessly – that makes it look like your phone is simply resting over the air cond vent, yea those magnetised ones are “harming” your phones.




A major technical inspection association just claimed that the magnetic field generated by the magnet that is stuck to the phone may interfere with the mobile network.
So, in a way, by you wanting to receive calls without getting much distracted while driving, is actually not doing much good as it kinda ‘blocks’ calls from coming in.
The professionals are recommending to use non-magnetic brackets instead. The ones like this…





But you don’t have to worry though, because magnets do not affect other aspects of a mobile phone, like the battery or any other software. And do take note that it could actually damage bank cards or other cards containing a chip when the mobile is carried in a pocket.

Okay, so my personal review is that after using the magnet holders my GPS ‘readings’ do get a little whacky at times and all this only started after I stuck on the magnet to the back of my phone. Yea…yea…no bashing, please…I know GPS would not be affected because of a magnet, but hey since it’s already somewhat jamming phone calls, might as well just get rid of it, right?

STICK WITH NAJIB & PAS GETS RUBBED OUT BY UMNO : NO WAY OUT FOR HADI & CO BUT TO ‘HUMBLE’ DOWN & WORK WITH HARAPAN

My take is that PAS is suffering from terminal diseases and now have a relapse and in ICU after last treatment backfired on PAS and the disease has spread fast and chances that it is going to die off. Best and humanly can do to let PAS die a peaceful death is to pull off the life support and tell it pass in obviation (Suffering for grand delusion)


STICK WITH NAJIB & PAS GETS RUBBED OUT BY UMNO : NO WAY OUT FOR HADI & CO BUT TO ‘HUMBLE’ DOWN & WORK WITH HARAPAN




A FORMER PAS stalwart’s feelings towards his old party reflects the challenges it faces as it tries to position itself as the “kingmaker” of the 14th general election.
Before PAS split from its opposition allies in 2015, PAS stalwart Mohamad Ismail sent five of his seven children to study at the Darul Quran madrassah (seminary) founded by party president Abdul Hadi Awang.

But after the events of 2015, which also saw a wave of high-profile PAS leaders leave the party, Mohamad removed all his children from the madrassah in Marang, Terengganu, and enrolled them in schools in Kuala Lumpur.
“After (the events of 2015), I told myself I will never vote for PAS again,” said Mohamad, who hails from Segambut, Kuala Lumpur.
Mohamad is one of those PAS supporters turned off by the Islamist party’s direction in the past year, including scorning its former allies, DAP and PKR, and tying to cultivate friendly ties with traditional nemesis Umno.
According to a former party official, Dr Abdul Latif Ibrahim, they make up about 30% to 40% of supporters.
For Latif, a former assistant secretary-general of PAS, the loss of support is one of the reasons PAS will fail in its attempts to be “kingmaker” in GE14 by forming a third opposition bloc.
“For me, 30%-40% of PAS members are now confused about the party’s direction, especially after it attempted to cultivate ties with Umno,” said the former Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) associate professor.
His view is consistent with that of other analysts who argue that PAS can only become a true kingmaker if it works with other opposition parties to ensure straight fights against the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition.





If the party persists on its current path of wanting to form a third opposition bloc, it would lose half of the 21 the seats it won in the 13th general election four years ago, said another analyst, Ibrahim Suffian of the think-tank Merdeka Center.
This is seen in the context of historically, BN always wins in multi-party contests as votes against it are split among different opposition parties.
“To be a real kingmaker, PAS needs to avoid multi-party fights and negotiate with all other opposition parties,” he said.
This is since all parties contesting in majority Malay-Muslim seats, such as Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia and PKR would need PAS support to win, said Ibrahim, who is Merdeka Center executive director.
“So automatically, PAS support will become the deciding factor,” he said.
Since parties eyeing majority Malay Muslim seats will need PAS support, the Islamist party can then set the terms for cooperation and even influence the direction of the largest opposition bloc, Pakatan Harapan (PH).
PAS’s ambitions of being a kingmaker were expressed as early as January when the party organ Harakah front-paged a statement by Dr Nik Muhammad Zawawi Salleh titled: “PAS ‘kingmaker’ PRU14”.
On April 9, PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man reiterated that it will not join PH or work with the pact’s member parties, DAP and Amanah. Instead, it will focus on building a third bloc with Parti Ikatan Bangsa Malaysia.
Ibrahim predicts that PAS would lose at least 10 of the 21 parliamentary seats it currently holds. This includes the five seats that it lost when the MPs left to form Amanah.
“It will also lose seats it won on the west coast of the peninsula, such as Hulu Langat, Bukit Gantang and Pokok Sena, which have significant non-Muslim voters,” said Ibrahim.
His analysis supports that of Invoke’s, a research unit started by PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli. Invoke’s findings show that PAS could lose all its seats if it went up against BN and PH.
– https://www.themalaysianinsight.com

AMBITIOUS KHAIRY MOVES CLOSER TO THE PM’S CHAIR: AS TALK OF HISHAM-KJ FOR PM-DPM COMBO GROWS, KHAIRY LAUDS NAJIB’S ‘WISE’ DECISION TO PROMOTE HISHAM, DISPLACE ZAHID

Wonder in bed who is on top and who is on the bottom and who turns his bottom cheeks upwards when sleeping. Any condoms used as one might just get pregnant


AMBITIOUS KHAIRY MOVES CLOSER TO THE PM’S CHAIR: AS TALK OF HISHAM-KJ FOR PM-DPM COMBO GROWS, KHAIRY LAUDS NAJIB’S ‘WISE’ DECISION TO PROMOTE HISHAM, DISPLACE ZAHID





PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Hisham­muddin Hussein’s appointment as Minister with Special Functions will strengthen the Government and Umno, says the party’s youth wing.
Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin said all speculation surrounding the appointment was “unfounded”, adding that the move had the full backing of the Cabinet and party grassroots.

“Whether or not the speculation involves the Prime Minster, Deputy Prime Minister or the upcoming Umno elections … it is completely unfounded because we are all in support of the appointment.
“We need a strong senior leadership team in the Government and in the party to face the coming general election, whenever that may be.
“In fact, within Umno, we are quite amused with all the speculation and all the analysis on this appointment because it is rather straightforward.
“It’s to ensure he (Hishammud­din) is able to continue with some of his cross-ministerial and strategic duties,” Khairy, who is the Youth and Sports Minister, said after a ceremony to unveil the new TN50 ambassadors.
Hishammuddin’s new appointment was announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Wednesday. His new portfolio is on top of his Defence Minister post.
Khairy said the appointment was discussed in Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, adding that Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and all others were fully supportive.
“We have explained to the grassroots that the Government and the party will be strengthened by the appointment.
ANN

BATA KLCC Just Sparked Fire Amongst Customers And Netizens For Their Racist Promotion Ad!!!

Why make a Fuss in words only, BATA is not going to notice. Make a fuss with your wallet and boycott all Footwear made by Bata and they will come running on 4 legs with their tail between their hind legs and apologize just like Unite Airlines did. Demand that they donate School shoes to every school going kids in the estates irrespective of race for a year. This will teach them not to be racist


BATA KLCC Just Sparked Fire Amongst Customers And Netizens For Their Racist Promotion Ad!!!




Update:
So after a little digging here’s the real Story behind this. It’s written on their website about BATA story. Created for school children in India in 1936 “Originally created for Indian school children, the pinstriped sneaker with the distinctive rubber toe guard became one of the best-selling shoes of all time – and is still sold around the world.”
Damn! If this was what they were aiming for, they should really consider re-hiring their creative director! They should have come up with “Shoes for Indian school children…where it all begin” or something like that! Very poor choice of words I would say.
This was what Sanjay proposed the ad to be like:



Wow! Absolutely didn’t see this coming from a brand that is loved by (almost) all Malaysians!
I wonder what was the branding team was thinking? I know that for a fact good exposure or bad exposure it’s still exposure, but you (BATA) didn’t have to go down that low, right?

What does it mean by “Shoes For Indian School Children”, anyways? Does the kid instantly transform to Rajinikanth or something?
The Coverage received this info from a close source whose female friend had visited the BATA outlet in KLCC just recently and noticed this mini promotion ad that was placed on a shelve in the store.



Not sure if there’s such thing as a different kind of shoes that Indian schools need to comply with but wait…let me check…NOPE…sorry can’t find any sort of information that supports this “needed” labelling.
According to the source (Sanjay), he had called up the outlet itself and had a brief conversation with a staff there named Jimmy. Sanjay said that because Jimmy wasn’t fluent in English, he kept on mumbling and chewing on his own words.
He asked the man about the promotion and Jimmy simply kept repeating “This one for India”. Sanjay felt like the staff was being very defensive even though he was asking in a calm voice. Jimmy told our source that he could talk to the HQ if he wanted to know more about the promotion, while clearly stating that he doesn’t have anything to do with it.

Well, most likely he really isn’t related to this matter as it would have been the branding and marketing team’s problem. However, in my point of view, if you know something is amiss with a certain campaign, shouldn’t you at least say something about it?
And when Sanjay asked for the store manager, Jimmy claimed that the person wasn’t around.
Now netizens are just wondering are there shoes for Malay and Chinese kids as well? Sanjay’s post has been growing 1 share per minute since he uploaded the news on his Facebook and filling up his comment box rapidly.


Yamunah Samynathan Rubesh Wait what does it even mean?? Means catered for kids from Indian schools?? Or Indian kids.. Or Indian feet?? Like any of those has any difference
Nithya Punniamoorthy Do they have shoes for Chinese and Malays?
Arvin Sivasundram Why the other children wear slipper ka?
Sara Kanna That’s awkward…
#batamalaysia #bata #shoe #shoeworld they better have a good reason for such sales strategy in the 21 century…
Apple Lonzki This is pure Racist!! MY GOD

It’s over, says Chef Wan about daughter’s marriage

It’s over, says Chef Wan about daughter’s marriage

 | April 15, 2017
Celebrity chef speaks of sadness as a father and lashes out at son-in-law for not fulfilling responsibility as a husband.



PETALING JAYA: The pain of a father was evident in a series of Instagram posts by celebrity chef, Chef Wan, as he wrote of his daughter’s unhappy marriage and impending divorce.
Recognising the futility of keeping the matter a secret any longer, Chef Wan said he had to be upfront and “tell the truth, nothing but the truth” about his daughter Serina Redzuawan’s “unhappy marriage” to Gavin O’Luanaigh, a British expat working in Malaysia for more than 16 years.
“For a long time I had been keeping my silence except for one Instagram update talking about the responsibility of a husband towards his wife, and how some husbands are stingy, and that reference was made on this same issue.
“So, rather than have the press speculate, I am very happy (to say) that my daughter is filing for a divorce and we will go ahead with all legal proceedings to fight for her rights and justice too,” Chef Wan said, adding he had advised his son-in-law numerous times on the importance of providing financial support but it was not heeded.
Serina and O’Luanaigh were married in Kuala Lumpur in January 2011, with the Asian Food Channel airing a feature (on Astro) a month later on the preparation that went into the grand celebration dinner, led by Chef Wan himself.
Chef Wan, whose real name is Redzuawan Ismail, was candid in talking about marriage and the risks that came with taking on a life partner.


“Marriage is always a gamble but you must be truthful and happy otherwise have the balls to walk out of it.
“But, yes I am sad for my grandchildren, though I believe with all our attention and love they will survive,” he said speaking of Serina and O’Luanaigh’s two children.
Citing his own experience, Chef Wan said even though he was divorced, he had continued to give his ex-wife RM3,000 every month for her living expenses and even bought her an apartment.
“In any marriage a wife needs to be spoilt by the husband, but it’s a pity my daughter has to work very hard to earn a living. As a father, of course, I feel sad for her.
“I told my son-in-law dont be ‘a cheap f****** b******!’ Kasi kan…,” Chef Wan said.
“Enough is enough, so if you don’t want to listen to your father-in-law’s advice, it ends here.”
As a reminder to all husbands, especially Muslim men, Chef Wan said they must always remember the vows they took and understand the responsibilities that come with it.
“There is no such things as my money is my money. You also need to contribute to the household.
“A wife’s living expenses are the responsibility of her husband and there is no question about this!” he said.

Rafizi challenges Nasharudin to declare assets, finances


Rafizi challenges Nasharudin to declare assets, finances




PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli says he can't wait for ex-PAS deputy president to sue him in order to throw 'hundreds of questions' over ties with Umno. PETALING JAYA: Rafizi Ramli has challenged former PAS deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa to declare his income and assets, as well as all contributions received, to prove that he did not obtain any money from a former subsidiary of 1MDB. The PKR vice-president today said Nasharudin should sign a statutory declaration (SD) on the matter to back his claim that he did not get a single sen from SRC International Sdn Bhd.

He said Nasharudin should include in the SD contributions received by organisations and projects that he has led, such as the Nassar Foundation which he chaired. “He should also detail in the SD how the properties, incomes and contributions were spent and to whom monies contributed were paid to,” Rafizi said in a statement. The Pandan MP added that the SD should cover the relevant details for every year from 2012 to 2017. On Thursday, Rafizi filed an SD naming Nasharudin, who currently heads Putrajaya’s Global Movement of Moderates (GMM), as the PAS member whom he alleged had received funds from SRC International.

Rafizi had said based on information he received from a former senior officer of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), money from the former 1MDB subsidiary, which was said to have been transferred to Prime Minister Najib Razak’s accounts, had also made its way to Nasharudin’s bank account. Yesterday, Nasharudin denied the allegation, calling it “baseless” and “irrelevant”. He added that the statements against him were also “a gross defamation” to both him and PAS. Rafizi today said the asset declaration that he has asked Nasharudin to make was not difficult to do, as he himself did it every year. He said there were hundreds of accountants and lawyers who would scrutinise every sentence in the SDs. “If any information given is not accurate, the people of Malaysia will lodge police reports and he can be jailed,” Rafizi said.

He also said he couldn’t wait for Nasharudin to sue him, because the plaintiff in any suit would be the first on the witness stand. “I have hundreds of questions to pose to Nasharudin on his alleged involvement in lobbying the PAS leadership to become friendlier with Umno.” Rafizi also said he was not disturbed by the criticisms hurled against him after he made the allegation against Nasharudin, having anticipated such reactions beforehand. “I am not in the least affected. I have undergone such things every time I exposed misappropriation of public funds since 2011,” he said. Nasharudin was PAS deputy president from 2005 to 2013. He was sacked from PAS’ governing council in January 2013, but has remained a member of the Islamist party. SRC International was founded as a 1MDB subsidiary in 2011, but later removed and placed directly under the Finance Ministry in 2012. -FMT


The Brilliant Incoherence of Trump’s Foreign Policy

The Brilliant Incoherence of Trump’s Foreign Policy .The United States periodically debates whether to do more or less abroad. Trump won by promising both. But he can’t possibly deliver.
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The United States periodically debates whether to do more or less abroad. Tru


very 20 years or so—the regularity is a little astonishing—Americans hold a serious debate about their place in the world. What, they ask, is going wrong? And how can it be fixed? The discussion, moreover, almost always starts the same way. Having extricated itself with some success from a costly war, the United States then embraces a scaled-down foreign policy, the better to avoid overcommitment. But when unexpected challenges arise, people start asking whether the new, more limited strategy is robust enough. Politicians and policy makers, scholars and experts, journalists and pundits, the public at large, even representatives of other governments (both friendly and less friendly) all take part in the back-and-forth. They want to know whether America, despite its decision to do less, should go back to doing more—and whether it can.

The reasons for doubt are remarkably similar from one period of discussion to the next. Some argue that the U.S. economy is no longer big enough to sustain a global role of the old kind, or that domestic problems should take priority. Others ask whether the public is ready for new exertions. The foreign-policy establishment may seem too divided, and a viable consensus too hard to reestablish. Many insist that big international problems no longer lend themselves to Washington’s solutions, least of all to military ones. American “leadership,” it is said, won’t work so well in our brave new world.

With minor variations, this is the foreign-policy debate that the country conducted in the 1950s, the 1970s, and the 1990s. And it’s the same one that we have been having for the past few years. The rise of the Islamic State, the Syrian civil war, Russian aggression in Ukraine, and China’s muscle-flexing in East Asia jolted the discussion back to life in 2014. Presidential debates in 2015 and 2016 added issues (from Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal to his Asian trade pact) and sharpened the controversy.

Those of us in the foreign-policy business are always glad to have our concerns get this kind of prominence. Down the decades, these debates have tended to produce a consensus in favor of renewed American activism. Yet each version unfolds in its own way. The global turmoil of 2016 meant that nobody could be completely sure how this one was going to turn out.

We still don’t know. The advent of Donald Trump—his candidacy, his election, and the start of his presidency—has given our once-every-two-decades conversation extra drama and significance. Some commentators claim that Trump wants to cast aside the entire post–Cold War order. To others, he is repudiating everything that America has tried to achieve since 1945. Still others say he represents a break with all we have stood for since 1776 (or maybe even since 1630, when John Winthrop called the Massachusetts Bay Colony “a city upon a hill”).

That we talk this way is but one measure of the shock Trump’s victory has administered. The new president is raising questions about the foreign policy of the United States—about its external purposes, its internal cohesion, and its chances of success—that may not be fully answered for years. Yet to understand a moment as strange as this, we need to untangle what has happened. In this cycle, America has actually had two rounds of debate about its global role. The first one was driven by the 2016 campaign, and Trump won it. The second round has gone differently. Since taking office, the new president has made one wrong move after another. Though it’s too soon to say that he has lost this round, he is certainly losing control of it. In each case, we need to understand the dynamics of the discussion better than we do.

Like its predecessors, the 2016 debate began with a negative premise: America wasn’t doing well enough in the world. In the ’50s, and again in the ’70s, the worry was that the United States had ceded the strategic initiative to the Soviet Union. By the mid-’90s, the U.S.S.R. was no more, but Americans came to feel that they needed a better way of coping with the conflicts of the post–Cold War world. Existing policy did not seem good enough.


Last year was no different. Of the 20-odd Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, none fully embraced the Obama administration’s version of retrenchment. As always, the critiques varied. Some urged doing more; others, less. Among the Republicans, the more-to-less spectrum ran from Marco Rubio to Rand Paul (with upwards of a dozen contenders in between). Among the Democrats, it went from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders (with others in between whom no one can remember). Candidates of both parties seemed more open than they had been in years to the idea of rethinking what America stands for—and should be trying to do.

Humanity in one word

Humanity in one word. See video below 


Girls fight is toilet and now know what they do in toilets. Do not know where but do not care.

Girls fight is toilet and now know what they do in toilets. Do not know where but do not care. They are shy breed and only fight in closed doors. Looks like more of a lesbian type of fight over girls


Remember the puppy got beaten up for chasing a man on a bicycle.

Remember the puppy got beaten up for chasing a man on a bicycle.

Yes he was the man who insanely beat the poor puppy senseless






And poor puppy could not talk human language and here got some to talk in his defense

A cute Condom advertisement and it is a classic

A cute Condom advertisement and it is a classic


Who’s really next in line for Umno’s throne?

Who’s really next in line for Umno’s throne?






A few months ago, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, his deputy Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein met several times to discuss succession planning. It was subsequently decided and agreed that Zahid would be the ​​successor to Najib with Hishammuddin as the new deputy. ​As Umno's election tradition has it, the person who garners the highest votes as vice-president​ will be in line to move up to deputy president. Najib recalled yesterday, "I had been discussing the (special functions minister’s position) with Zahid for months. And then, it was Zahid who suggested that Hishammuddin be awarded the post. "So please, do not create any friction between them." His caution came after speculations that there was a rift between Najib and Zahid. The sidelining of Zahid, the Najib-Zahid rift and the idea that Hishammuddin may overtake Zahid in the leadership hierarchy was more or less put to rest in Najib’s speech.

 The Umno president was clarifying speculative reports on the additional portfolio and appointment of Hishammuddin as a special functions minister in the Prime Minister’s Department. Najib, seeing the rapid political developments with his former mentor Dr Mahathir Mohamad taking him on over the 1MDB scandal, was compelled to put a succession plan in place so that Umno will not crumble. With a structured succession planning, Umno is assured a pipeline of leadership talent with sufficient depth and experience will take over the party leadership when the incumbent quits. For many political parties however, when a new leader has to take over, the transition is seldom smooth. In this case, Najib has planned a smooth one with Zahid given the immediate task of mustering more support for Hishammuddin. Soon after the appointment, in response to the speculations, Zahid commented: “I did not care about the matter (the things said), I carried out my duties and responsibilities. As long as you have not committed wrong in the eyes of Allah and the law... “My work ethic is to continue (with the tasks entrusted) regardless of what people say.”

Any failure on Najib’s part to effectively execute and manage succession planning may lead to many disastrous consequences in the 60-year-old Barisan Nasional which has been ruling the country since independence in 1957. Master of succession planning Failure to have succession planning has had dreadful results in many countries. Nevertheless, Mahathir himself is the master of succession planning when he set the stage for Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to take over, followed by Najib. Najib took pains to assure that there was no rift between Hishammuddin and Zahid at a media event, pointing to the pair who were seated on stage laughing at each over his remark. The special functions appointment will also be a booster for Hishammuddin in Johor, where Umno’s support seems to have waned with the dismissal former deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin. Hishammuddin needs greater support from Johor as opposition leaders - Mahathir and others - try to make new inroads into Umno’s birthplace.

By building greater support through his new appointment, will Hishammuddin bring back the glorious days of Umno in his home state? It will now be the task of both Zahid and Hishammuddin to recover any lost ground and support from the grassroots. Proper succession planning curtails and obviates disputes, misunderstanding and bloodletting. With this, Najib has set the succession plan in motion and for a smooth transition of leadership within Umno.


 M KRISHNAMOORTHY is associate professor at a foreign university in Malaysia. He is also a freelance journalist and trainer in media relations and crisis communications.- Mkini


From global kleptocracy to leader of the new paradigm Cheap Offers: http://bit.ly/gadgets_cheap

From global kleptocracy to leader of the new paradigm





With the Wall Street Journal reporting recently that Jho Low will face criminal charges for wire fraud related to 1MDB, which ranks as the largest financial scandal of all time according to the Department of Justice, another nail in the coffin of Malaysia’s good standing in the global community has been hammered.

Malaysia has become the face of corruption in the world today. I don’t need to reiterate all the reasons which are clear as a sunny day to all who wish to look. Many don’t wish to acknowledge the facts, and I understand that as it damages us and as patriots we want to protect our beloved nation.

 Instead of rehashing all the sordid details of Scorpene, 1MDB, SRC, and all the collateral damage that it has inflicted upon our parliamentary democracy, our institutional integrity, our rule of law, and our common citizen, I instead prefer to focus this article on the future - where do we go from here?

Believe it or not, we have the key to the future in our hands. Not just in the hands of the power elite, but in the hands of every member of the rakyat from the business tycoons to the farmer settlers. That is nothing more than your vote, and in the next general election you MUST use this weapon.

Even if you feel that the system is rigged against you, as the now-president of the world’s greatest superpower bemoaned, the force or our collective will can effect a historic change. The minute you believe this, our reality will change. Follow your heart and you will show the light of your humanity.


My message could easily be that we must punish those that have done evil deeds. But that is God’s work. Sadly, Justice is not the natural order of the Universe; it is Power. The harsh truth is that most of us living what we think are enlightened and comfortable lives are actually just free-range slaves.

The new paradigm

Your leaders have three swords which they use to enslave you. First: money. Second: influence. And third: reliance on your greed. You should recognise that your desire to serve your own self-interest is their biggest asset. If you take that away, their influence shrivels and their money is abhorrent.

As human beings, your Creator has granted you the freedom to choose - the Right to Free Will. The choices you make with this gift will determine your salvation, regardless of your religious faith. As a Muslim, I recognise that this temporal world will end and I will be held accountable for my actions in the eternal hereafter, where time cease to exist. Patek Philippe watches are redundant there.

Too many cultures and societies have lost touch with this fundamental truth, which no academic argument may bend and no amount of money may buy. Not only the West, who have insisted upon consumption and debt as the way of progress, but also the rest of us who blindly follow this model.

The new paradigm is NOT a new world order, which simply insists on spreading fear and greed through the blunt use of force, but rather the subjugation of self-interest in favor of the betterment of society. Think and reflect upon this, and I give you my personal guarantee that change will follow.

Fellow Malaysians, I appeal to your generosity, because I know that we have that within our society. It is a path that we can enlighten for the rest of the World to follow, which will yield more riches to our community than any number of penthouses, yachts, diamonds and handbags can ever bestow. RAIS HUSSIN MOHAMED ARIFF is a supreme council member of Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu).- Mkini

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Gerakan should blame BN for confidentiality clause, retorts Guan Eng


Gerakan should blame BN for confidentiality clause, retorts Guan Eng





Gerakan leaders who are upset over confidentiality clauses in agreements involving reclamation projects should blame the previous BN government, said Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. Lim said the clause was entered into contracts inked between the previous BN administration and developers carrying out reclamation works. “The agreements were not signed by this present government,” Lim said. “They (Gerakan) should be attacking the previous administration and former chief minister Koh Tsu Koon.” On Thursday, Penang Gerakan acting Youth chief Jason Loo complained that his application under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act for three agreements on the reclamation of Seri Tanjung Pinang 1, Seri Tanjung Pinang 2 and Gurney Wharf were rejected by the state government. The lawyer, who accused the state government of hiding behind the FOI, plans to challenge the rejection of his application at the Appeals Board. Lim decried that BN, which he dubbed “the destroyer of freedoms”, apparently now wants to project itself as the defender of freedom of information.

Developer has right to refuse 

Lim noted that the FOI, which was enforced in Penang in January 2015, is subject to existing legal conditions. “It cannot be retrospective,” said the chief minister, who is also DAP secretary-general. Lim added that his administration could provide the requested information if it were not prohibited by the confidentiality clause. However, it must honour the clause stated in the agreements signed by developers and the previous government. “The developer has the right to refuse to reveal any information without their permission - this is commonly known as the confidentiality clause,” he explained. “If the developer wants to adhere to this clause, there is nothing we can do.” Lim said it was up to Gerakan to challenge the matter at the Appeals Board. However, the party must be aware of the facts of the matter, he stressed. “If they are unhappy with the confidentiality clause, please attack the previous BN government. We should not be attacked for the sins of the previous government,” Lim said after attending the Vasakhi celebrations yesterday. “On this holy day, when you want to forgive, do ensure you know where the sins came from.”- Mkini

'What is the BN up to?'

'What is the BN up to?'






Since the political tsunami of 2008, Umno has been in a dilemma. On one hand, they want to continue their business as usual; on the other, they know that in the age of the Internet, it is becoming increasingly difficult due to increased scrutiny on even the tiniest detail of their business affairs. You see, Umno and the rest of the BN are addicted. And no, it is not drugs that they are addicted to but rather their politics of cronyism and patronage. Sixty years of uninterrupted rule by the BN had apparently corrupted and warped their internal democracy and it is now evident that anyone who seeks to rise to the top of the BN parties need to find ways to keep their delegates or ‘downlines’ happy which is usually through monetary means. With their inability to rehabilitate their internal structures combined with increasing public pressure for a clean government, they have decided to turn their attention to breaking apart opposition parties instead. 

With huge financial resources at their disposal (it’s a wonder how they obtain those resources cleanly, seeing that they never have to hold a fund-raising campaign), their focus is to discredit and malign opposition parties through internal and external attacks. Suddenly ‘disgruntled’ party members would attack their leaders in the press and the formation of many so-called ‘check and balance’ NGOs seem to appear overnight. Of course, no political party is free from public scrutiny, but some of the criticisms sound so atrocious sometimes that it could only be assumed that they were made to misdirect the public from the facts. Lately, many of the mainstream media outlets have gone on an opposition bashing overdrive while claiming to be politically impartial. Common sense tells you that no news outlet can be impartial when they are directly or indirectly owned and funded by certain political parties. It can now be safely assumed that the general election is around the corner.

 Why do I say that? Because it is so predictable now, it is almost like a standard operating procedure or SOP. With Malaysia being so centralised already, I can tell you that they are not stopping any time soon. If they have their way, they would continue centralising more and more power so that the top leaders can get more revenue to feed their delegates. This will ensure their political survival in the rotting BN power structure. The same democracy that was put in place to ensure that leadership commands the confidence of the majority is now corrupted beyond recognition thanks to leaders who refuse to step down. The perks of power are too addictive for any of them to willingly let go of power. With facts showing that opposition parties are able to govern better like in Penang and Selangor, steps are then taken to spin malicious lies about the opposition.


 Former ally PAS has gone to town trying to justify to their members and electorate on their now open cooperation with their former rival Umno by saying that the DAP was a ‘dropping’ left behind by the Singaporean People’s Action Party or PAP. It does not take an expert to figure out that the PAP and DAP are two very distinct and different parties and have no party-to-party relations whatsoever. 

‘Umno has stronger ties with the PAP’ You can say that Umno has stronger ties with the PAP on a ruling party-to-ruling party basis. In fact, foreign powers would do their best to keep Umno in power, after all, it is easier to take advantage of a corrupt and incompetent government than a clean one. I guess PAS has conveniently forgotten that they were a splinter of Umno. Whatever it takes I guess, to smokescreen their intentions of wanting to work with Umno.

 So to cut the long story short, what is the BN up to? Simple, use as many dirty tactics to win back the states. Whether it is through gerrymandering or even telling outright lies to steer perception, to the BN, power must be obtained by hook or by crook. After securing power, moves will then be made to pressure state governments under their rule to surrender more power to Putrajaya. Local government elections had been abolished since the 1970s and if there is a chance to further limit the ability of citizens to choose their governments, they would do it in an instant. 

After all, elections are an inconvenience to the BN. All that money they would have to spend on campaigning can instead be used to feed their delegates and themselves. You see, governance has never been the focus of the BN, it has always been what the country can do for them and not what they can do for the country. As the elections draw nearer, their paws are getting itchier. They are getting ready to pounce. 

Imagine all the millions and billions they will get to take if they win. They are salivating at the very thought of it. They do not care if Malaysians lose hope and suffer; their children are all overseas with full bank accounts. They are rich but still want to be richer. Hence, they want to make more money. They don’t care about you, your wife, your children, that average income job you have and the countless loans that you are trying so hard to pay off every month. Your problems don’t even cross their minds when they sit in their private jets or relax on their private swimming pools. Think about it...

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Okay This Is Creepy… Google Maps Has Been Stalking You And There’s A Proof!

Okay This Is Creepy… Google Maps Has Been Stalking You And There’s A Proof!




Wherever you are, whenever you go, YOU ARE BEING WATCHED!

We all love Google, in fact Google is your only friend if you think of it. And this only friend of yours has a serial-killer-grade stash of knowledge about you!
You’re probably aware of this. If not, Google stores your every location traveled. Check stalking here.



On the bright side, If you’d like to check where you most travel during a period of time, you know where to go!
How to disable Google’s tracking and erase your past history?
To check whether location history is enabled on your account, go to the Google Maps Location History page and click the gear-shaped icon button to access your History settings.
You can disable or enable the service there. Disabling your location history, however, does not remove your past history.




If you would like to erase the locations Google Maps has stored for the past 30 days, first go back to the Location History page. The default time period shows your location history for the current day, so you may not see any plots on the map. Use the pull-down menu below the calendar on the left to show your history for up to 30 days.

If you choose a time period during which Google Maps tracked your location, you’ll see all the points where you’ve been on the map. Below the calendar, you’ll see the option to delete your history from the time period you have chosen or to delete all of your history

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