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- Khairy, Oh why Khairy?
- US will fully control its fighter aircraft fleet if Malaysia purchases their F-18
- Ladies & Gentlemen, we have safely landed…
- The plot’s the same, just the props and players change
| Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:51 PM PDT He has committed the cardinal sin of politics by picking on not his political opponent, but his son. A mere school boy, what could Lim Junior have possibly done to deserve such slander? Lim Guan Eng and Lim Kit Siang have every right to be outraged at this despicable behaviour. It is one thing to have pro-UMNO bloggers spreading lies and slander over the Internet. That only reaches a limited audience. Politician expect to face criticism on a daily basis. In fact one would argue that criticism could make one stronger. However, to level a blow on a 16-year old boy, this is no longer fair game. No one would ever tolerate attacks on a person's child, whether in government and opposition. When an opposition member condemns the child of a member of the ruling party, when that child is in no position to defend his or herself, it should be roundly condemned. It holds true the other way round. Right now, Khairy Jamaluddin finds himself in a precarious position. As UMNO Youth chief, he has painted an image that he is a moderate and an agent for change within a party which has lost their core values in their quest to retain power. He is a young, highly educated and well spoken leader, representing the next generation of politicians in this country. We also know he is a loving father with two sons which he dotes upon. Imagine if one of his sons was in Lim Junior's position. Wouldn't he be outraged? We would be appalled if he was not. Why one earth then did he decide to add fuel to fire with his two tweets, the first one yesterday where he said in response to another tweet by pro-Umno blogger "@PapaGomo" translated to "Maybe he destroyed Kampung Buah Pala because he wants to replace it with Kampung Buah Dada", which can be construed as a direct attack on Lim Junior. Despite clarifications that the girl in question was not even in the same class as Lim Junior, Khairy was relentless. In his response to calls to apologise, he defended his comments tweeting "Bro, what BN leaders & their families get from the opposition is far worse. Don't be hypocritical" replying to Liew Chin Tong and Satees Muniady. I actually replied, via @douglast86 "because BN leaders feel aggrieved of past attacks they can justify an attack on LGE son?"
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| US will fully control its fighter aircraft fleet if Malaysia purchases their F-18 Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:31 PM PDT The Royal Malaysian Air Force (Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia) has its own fleet of American F/A-18Ds. The air force split their order between the F/A-18 and the Mikoyan MiG-29 in 2007 and now has 8 F-18's. They are all controlled by the U.S. software that guides the pilot. The software will not allow any Malaysian fighter jets to target an 'enemy' who is 'pro-U.S.' in the event of a clash. This info provided by the Turkish media fully confirms multiple conclusions of the renowned military experts that export models of the American fighters are larded with "bugs" in the specific software that are destined to transfer to US all the confidential flight data and even block aircraft from current operation when its beneficial to American manufacturer. Moreover these program bugs are programmed to completely disintegrate aircraft. Malaysia must bear in mind that its goal of obtaining fleet of modern American aircraft run risks of losing every single fighter plane if Washington decides to prevent them from operations. US-inspired mutinies in the Middle East and Northern Africa clearly signify that Americans won't stop from achieving their goal being topple of government of sovereign states or disintegrating its F-18 fighters sold overseas. According to the Ankara's Star Gazete American-made F-16 fighter aircraft will be reequipped soon with a new Turkish radar system. The new radar system – Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) – is a defensive command and control system developed by Turkey's Military Electronics Industry (ASELSAN) for the nation's air force and navy. It is slated to replace a similar US version which is in use today. Order that came directly from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office also encourages change of naval and submarine radar systems. The main cause of this decision is that specific software currently used in the American radar system automatically detects Israeli aircraft as friendly and doesn't allow to fire at Jewish war planes. Modern Turkish F-16 radar system will be modified to recategorize Israeli targets as hostile. The Turkish IFF system is scheduled to be mounted on all Turkish fighter jets, military vessels and submarines in the near future. According to foreign media sources, the IAF has a fleet of 1,964 aircraft, including 689 advanced assault helicopters and F-15 and F-16 fighter jets. Israel's aerial superiority will soon receive a significant boost, in the form of the US-made F-35 fighter jet. Like Israel, Turkey has also been promised the F-35. It is slated to receive it by 2015. Malaysia's Fighter Jets
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| Ladies & Gentlemen, we have safely landed… Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:27 PM PDT The local time is 5.35pm. The weather is slightly cloudy with the usual monsoon rain expected in about 30 minutes time and the current temperature is 34 degrees Celcius. For those who think that the rain in Malaysia is similar to the rain in Paris, London or New York, please note that our monsoon drains are 8 feet deep and 4 feet wide and run for hundreds of kilometres. They cost 30,000 Malaysian Ringgit per foot to build and 30 million Malaysian Ringgit to maintain per month. We take our rain very seriously, Ladies & Gentlemen. And you would be well advised that our rain is nothing, repeat, nothing compared to the rain in your country. A bit about Malaysia for you. Malaysia is truly Asia. We have the Talibans in some states and government agencies. Please do not ever ever bring with you a Bible in Bahasa Melayu, the national language. Sorry, I have to be more specific. No Bible in Bahasa Melayu is allowed in Peninsula Malaysia. Eh, sorry, I have to be more particularly specific. No Bible is allowed in Bahasa Melayu in the Peninsula Malaysia other than the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, our capital and Putrajaya, our administrative capital. In the states of Sabah and Sarawak, Bible in Bahasa Melayu is kosher. By the way, Bahasa Melayu is also known as Bahasa Malaysia or Bahasa Kebangsaan. As to why it has three names, let's not get into that or otherwise you all would never disembark this plane. By the same token, please do not use the word Allah if you are not Muslims unless you are in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya or the states of Sabah or Sarawak. So Ladies and Gentlemen, beware of the state boundaries while in Malaysia. For example, if you are in Kuala Lumpur going towards PJ Hilton, do stop at the Kuala Lumpur/PJ boundary to throw away your Bible in Bahasa Melayu, if any. And stop using the word Allah too. As a rule of thumb, you would know when to do that when you exit a toll plaza, if you use a highway, that is. So, as I was saying, we have the Talibans. Then we have the Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and various races from the Indian sub-continents. Venture along the Bukit Bintang areas at night and you will see many Chinese from China, Vietnamese, Myanmarese and Cambodians, all of them women. Somewhere in Ampang, you will see many Koreans. Venture into some of our private colleges which teach English – without students although there are many student names on the register – and you will probably see some Iranians. And that's apart from the thousands of Indonesians, Thais and Philippines here. We are truly Asian, indeed. Speaking of Talibans, if you happen to be an American couple of 60 years of age or more, please be careful while in your hotel room. Your room may be raided at 3am and both of you dragged in a hearse or kereta mayat to a religious agency's office for "khalwat." After finding out that you are not Muslims, you would be duly released. So, don't worry too much about it. It is part of our effort to give you a full "Malaysian experience", an experience which you will not forget and will ever remember. Thank you for flying with us, MAS, Malaysia Air-Asia System, ooops, sorry, the Malaysia Airline System. Here at MAS, we give a lifetime warranty that Malaysia will not turn into an asylum. This lifetime warranty is good for 10 days or until you go completely insane, whichever comes first. While in Malaysia, please do not hesitate to drive around. Rent a car, like our national car, the Proton. Mind you, Proton gives a lifetime warranty that it's power windows will work. The lifetime warranty is good for 10 years or until 250000 km, whichever comes first. A double lifetime warranty that all four tyres will continue rotating is also in the pipeline, we heard. Do switch on the television set and watch our national channels please. The contents are guaranteed to be inoffensive by the Minister of Information himself. So you can watch all the programmes without being worried that any of them might offense you, your wife or girlfriends, your kids, your mother or anybody. All offensive programmes, including advertisements or public announcement service have been removed. Do not worry. However, there might at times be some black & white video clips of half naked men in a towel in a hotel room waiting to have sexual intercourse with a nice little sex worker during prime time. That is not offensive. So please do not be offended by that.
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| The plot’s the same, just the props and players change Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:42 AM PDT What am I on about? Well, in August, 2009, UMNO lackeys in Shah Alam, holding themselves out as made up of Muslims who cut across all party lines, defiled the head of a cow, allegedly to protest a proposed shift of a Hindu temple from section 19 to section 23 in Shah Alam. They must have been utterly disappointed that, even as there was all round condemnation of this most disgraceful act that must have deeply hurt every Hindu in the country and beyond, yet there was no reaction from the local Hindu community that might have led to a real heightening of tensions which may well have been the very objective of the staged protest in the first place. Then in January, last year, following the decision of the KL High Court on the matter of the use of "Allah" by the Christian community, the nation witnessed the arson attacks on several churches, notably, the Metro Tabernacle Church near Taman Melawati in KL, the All Saints Church and the Taiping Catholic Church, both in Taiping, Perak and the Sidang Injil Borneo (SIB) church in Negri Sembilan. Then there followed a spate of desecrations and attempted burnings of mosques and suraus. To the unsuspecting, it might have seemed like Christians were retaliating with like for like. I believe that this was the perception that was sought to be created by those who were behind the church burnings. Again, to create an atmosphere of heightened tensions. To lend fodder to Utusan to spin for the Malays in the heartlands that Christians were torching and desecrating Muslim houses of worship. If my suspicions are spot on, then it would seem that things did not pan out as planned. Small-minded, loud-mouthed low-lifes in our midst are at work again. ABIM's Yusri, Perak's Harussani and the big chief amongst the ulamaks, Azmi, faithfully aided by UMNO's Utusan, have once again resorted to their usual alarmist tactics, with the Perak mufti making unsubstantiated claims that 250,000 have renounced Islam, a claim the present mufti of Perlis has dismissed as quite incredible. They are calling on Muslims to rally at Shah Alam this Saturday to press for an anti-apostasy law. Dubbed Himpunan Sejuta Ummah, the organisers must have surely hoped that this weekend's gathering would make the BERSIH 2.0 rally on 9th July pale in comparison. Word has it that a police permit has already been issued to legitimise the event.
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