Defend from Who? At What Cost?

Just recently our dearest PM declared "We must defend Putrajaya at all cost" as a rallying cry for party members at the 61st Umno general assembly in a speech which hinted general election is around the corner.

Frankly, as a citizen of the nation personally I found his statements quite frankly inappropriate in multiple accounts. First, a defend stance would indicate one is under attack, a general election is hardly an "attack" or "war" to begin with. Second, the saying of "at all cost" would have most wondering how far will the current administration go to ensure a victory. What if the cost involves degradation of moral values or breach of conduct?

There is a general sense from the public point of view the current ruling regime has been in power for far too long and it seems half a century of ruling have since rendered a certain group of people to believe the rights in power to govern this country is a kind of "ownership" instead of "stewardship". That itself in my humble oppinion, is the first step towards down fall.

The Best of Free Promotion

Boo-Yeah! From the makers of Bolehland comes another self foot-shooting incident of helping discontent voices making their point. First we have Cartoonist Zunar arrested, new book seized,
and book launch a hit despite author's arrest.

Can I bribe you with your own money?

A recent hot topic on the National Front (Barisan Nasional) - Can the Prime Minister openly bribe voters and get away with it? Apparently in Malaysia, anything is possible, as per the national mantra of Malaysia Boleh! (Malaysia Can!), set by the 4th Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir.

This Hand Shake can create 77 millionaires

Apparently our dearest ruling regime has done it again, in the time of multiple problems in all fronts it is revealed their PR contract with Apco cost RM77 mil a year. The seems like a staggering amount of money to look good. Yeah, looking good now aren't we?

The Thailand Red Shirts

Some issues have affected the comic update rate lately, this might get worse before it gets better. This strip dealing with Thailand declared state of emergency was in fact supposed to be done a few days ago - when the news was still hot - not that it isn't now, in fact it's getting hotter!

Anyway, for some behind-the-scene information, Jack's comment in this strip was a reflection of a friend's comment, who is unhappy with the current local political situation when he read the proposed script. As much as I would like to see the Malaysian Parliament being stormed in the light of some local headlines at times, in reality it can be a very unsettling approach to solve any problems.

The Malaysian Parliament building

It is in my opinion, not uncommon for a nation to be divided on core issues, but if every time a side won and the other side took to the streets, nothing can be done to progress forward, no?

NEM = NEP 2.0?

For Malaysians, today marks a very special day, for our 6th and current Prime Minister, Dato' Sri Mohd. Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak, will be announcing the NEM (New Economic Model), which is designed to replace the NEP (New Economic Policy), which has been criticised for being unfair to the other minority races in Malaysia via its affirmative action that was put into place by his father, Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein Al-Haj, the 2nd PM, which was also responsible in setting up Barisan Nasional, the current leading Government party. While we wait for the news of the new NEM, here's what Al Jazeera (English-language channel version) has to say:

If you're wondering who's the guy who keeps saying "Shit!", he's none other than Ibrahim Ali, the founder and 1st president of Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia, or better known as Perkasa, a Malay supremacist (Ketuanan Melayu) organisation (yes it's surprising in a post-Nazi era, we still have such institutions).

Official Sedition Remarks

On nation's top news, Prime Minister's aide probed for sedition.
What a way to promote racial harmony ... from Prime Minister's own office.

Copenhagen Accord = Kyoto Protocol 2.0?

Sad to say, the recent Copenhagen Accord is no different from the Kyoto Protocol made 13 years ago, which entered into effect 5 years ago, designed to solve the same problem of global warming which will result in climate change. This has yet to be solved thanks to humanity's selfish behaviour which will only end up destroying themselves ultimately. Well, maybe robots might take over!

The Protocol ends in 2012, where the new Accord is designed to take over, but whether this will affect any change remains to be seen, as Kyoto was a failure with the biggest source of global warming being the United States and this same country refused to be part of the Protocol:

Hopefully now with Obama @ the helm and this time US is a part of the new Accord, come 2012 when the Protocol expires, the new Accord with US involved will make our world for the better.

Explosive Words

Check it out... some fella in power finally got the guts to spill some truth.
More interesting read are the people comments \ more comments.

Malaysian Circus Association

To those of you who are not Malaysian or have no idea what the strip is all about here is the run down: A large political party in Malaysia recently has a dispute between its chairman and its deputy.

To cut a long story short; chairman fires deputy, deputy fights back. They held an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to let the party delegates decide their fate because... this is suppose to be a democratic party, so to speak.

Turns out shockingly if they accept the voting result both of them will be out of power, however that pales in comparison as on the next day both men shook hands on uneasy truce, called it a day and turned their backs on the EGM result.

All the promises and talks they mentioned about "their fate on the hands of delegates", "uphold the party ruling", "in the party's best interest" before the voting all gone with the wind.

So much for democracy.