tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112488332024-02-02T09:12:28.314-08:00NewsKini News Engine BlogNews Engine Relevancy ResearchNewskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-21801490852472517602023-06-07T01:50:00.010-07:002023-08-29T19:36:29.758-07:00Pengumuman: Newskini direhatkan seketika. (Newskini temporary rest)<p><b>Announcement:</b></p><p>There will be no Newskini update sometime in 2023<b>.</b></p><p><b>Pengumuman</b></p><p>Newskini akan dirihatkan sementara pada suatu waktu di tahun 2023. </p><p><br /></p><hr /><p>Lama sungguh laman ini tidak bertulis. Mungkin elok jika kita catatkan beberapa perkara untuk digarap bersama:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqZ6iZZE88A95HO-02J8Bo3WXuU8O0c499k0p7AdKsBb276MQgwNqkTmdHTUP0IkTcEOwEMB5btvbAyLwok06LgsaBHxF0AZ17_tbcozyTTNIycyRDbQhggkY60zilEIIrDBKdtNlQNr0fE6eY0MdKrmrHRqyUcgdWhWqs7mWFt0EZATI9v8/s1280/journalist-2824231_1280.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqZ6iZZE88A95HO-02J8Bo3WXuU8O0c499k0p7AdKsBb276MQgwNqkTmdHTUP0IkTcEOwEMB5btvbAyLwok06LgsaBHxF0AZ17_tbcozyTTNIycyRDbQhggkY60zilEIIrDBKdtNlQNr0fE6eY0MdKrmrHRqyUcgdWhWqs7mWFt0EZATI9v8/s320/journalist-2824231_1280.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Newskini ditubuhkan kerana setiap media mempunyai objektifnya yang tersendiri. Lazimnya setiap berita atau artikel itu ditulis mempunyai maksud dan tujuan tertentu. Kadangkala ia perlu disemak oleh ketua seperti 'editor-in-chief'.</p><p>Mereka ini semuanya makan gaji. Berita dan rencana perlu ditapis atau diolah agar ia memberi keuntungan kepada syarikat (atau parti atau organisasi) dan tidak membawa petaka kepada yang empunya syarikat berita itu. </p><p>Fokus pemberitaan sebegini menyebabkan media sudah lari dari matlamat asalnya. Sepatutnya media menguntungkan masyarakat - bukan menguntungkan kroni.</p><p>Media sepatutnya mendidik masyarakat - bukannya asyik memuji memuja satu pihak dan menanam benci seperti meluat terhadap pihak tertentu seolah-olah semua yang dibuat oleh pihak lawan adalah salah belaka. Akhirnya masyarakat semakin terbelah dan dalam keluarga pun boleh bermasam muka kerana dirosakkan oleh media.</p><p>Media tersebut telah membuatkan manusia <span style="color: #cc0000;">bertuhankan</span> parti atau pemimpin atau organisasi. </p><p>Pemimpin mencerna politik benci, sehinggakan mereka semuanya sebenarnya <span style="color: #990000;">tidak bersalam di hati</span> walaupun masing-masing menunjukkan muka yang senyum manis ketika bersentuh jari sempena Aidil Fitri</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Logo Burung Newskini</b></p><p>Newskini memilih gambar burung sebagai logonya kerana burung adalah satu haiwan yang amat teristimewa.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjynzifwmBdkxMWBg0NSCdfbFma0LgQqDLNtGT7LvklOSVGUjvckB0OznaASWh8ANjp46TcNlmdflfrv67JGUvTBgEpM03xCcHl3PUmjjru0KoKpA90Iaaf6e-OUAM-YX0QMNZ3d-HY7IeHtWO6KNblp-9QwKkasiR8W8dqMX5UHkh-5IP4SN0/s640/hudbird.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjynzifwmBdkxMWBg0NSCdfbFma0LgQqDLNtGT7LvklOSVGUjvckB0OznaASWh8ANjp46TcNlmdflfrv67JGUvTBgEpM03xCcHl3PUmjjru0KoKpA90Iaaf6e-OUAM-YX0QMNZ3d-HY7IeHtWO6KNblp-9QwKkasiR8W8dqMX5UHkh-5IP4SN0/s320/hudbird.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>1. Burung menghancurkan tentera Abrahah (yang ingin memusnahkan Kaabah) dari udara.</p><p>2. Burung hud-hud pula mempunyai satu kelebihan visual jauh (a extra visual sense?) yang istimewa sehingga ia menjadi panduan (guidance) yang boleh diharap oleh Nabi Sulaiman (as).</p><p>3. Burung cuba memadamkan api yang dinyalakan untuk membakar Nabi Ibrahim (as).</p><p>4. Burung gagak pula mengajar Qabil bagaimana cara dia perlu mengkembumi Habil. Burung gagak ini juga muncul tanpa ibu (born without mother)</p><p>5. Selain di atas perkataan burung disebut agak banyak di dalam al Quran. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Matlamat Newskini</b></p><p>1. Mendidik masyarakat dengan secara tidak langsung.</p><p>2. Memberi paparan 'di luar kotak' sesuatu isu atau berita.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Words of Wisdom (Miscellaneous)</b></p><p>Truth is the fix for everything.</p><p>The breath of the man is his steps to his end</p><p>The love of life is the head of every sin.</p><p>Whoever fears Allah, his knowledge is complete.</p><p>Through kindness, hearts are owned.</p><p> One who loves something speaks about it constantly</p><p> The fruit of knowledge is worship.</p><p> He who is not concerned about improving his Hereafter is not a believer.</p><hr /><p>The Prophet (saw) said:</p><p>He who is given four things will not be deprived of four others: </p><p>- he who is granted seeking the forgiveness of God will not be deprived of being pardoned; </p><p>- he who is granted thankfulness will not be deprived of increase; </p><p>- he who is granted repentance will not be deprived of acceptance; </p><p>- he who is granted supplication to God will not be deprived of response.</p><hr />Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-37522681995283936552018-05-09T03:21:00.002-07:002018-05-13T01:00:10.435-07:00Malaysia Election: Photo of the day with Zeti.<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are sharing a simple photo picture </span>here capturing the excitement with Tan Sri Dato' Sri Dr. Ungku <em>Zeti</em> Akhtar binti Ungku Abdul Aziz. </span><br />
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<br /><br /><b>Bloomberg: Malaysia's Political Earthquake Is Deeply Ironic </b><br /><br />The opposition just won, led by a former head of the establishment. <br /><br />May 10, 2018, 4:39 AM GMT+8 <br /><br />After six decades of uninterrupted rule by one political bloc, Malaysia's democracy showed it can work — ousting that bloc and the nation's incumbent leader in a seismic shift. The irony is that it took a onetime scourge of democracy to come back from retirement to topple the party that ruled since independence from Great Britain in 1957 — the same party he led as prime minister for 22 years.<br /><br />How much will change? <br /><br />by Daniel Moss<br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><small><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></small></span>
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That man, Mahathir Mohamad, declared in his 90s that his new mission
in life was to oust Prime Minister Najib Razak and the ruling
Barisan Nasional coalition. They had become corrupt and too addicted
to power, he claimed. Never mind that as prime minister Mahathir did
much to centralize power. Never mind that Najib's career was
nurtured by none other than Mahathir.
Najib claimed the opposition, now on the cusp of taking control of
government, is a motley collection of parties. True enough. That's
how parliaments work.
How would the opposition rule? Like Mahathir last time around or
more freewheeling? How would leadership issues within the opposition
resolve themselves, chiefly the relationship between Mahathir and
Anwar Ibrahim, now languishing in prison? (Put there the first time
by Mahathir.) What will be the administrative priorities of an
opposition that probably doubted it could ever win?
It almost doesn't matter for now, because first the nation and the
world can savor that this system, constructed on theoretical
possibilities, has been shown to work. Gerrymandering and crackdowns
on the press can't suppress political and economic tides
indefinitely. Ironies abound. Nobody in the media in the 1990s, when
I worked in Malaysia, would have considered Mahathir a friend of a
free and vibrant press.
Barisan Nasional had struggled in recent years and, as a result, had
become more dictatorial and more dependent on xenophobic appeals to
rural Malays and political Islam. How the opposition functions in
government and what the role of smaller parties looks like is
anyone's guess. And all this assumes, of course, that the government
allows the opposition to take office. There's never been a change of
power in Malaysia, since independence. The party was the government
and the government was the party.
Not to get completely swept up in the moment: Over the longer run,
Malaysia's economic and political direction will be governed by
interest rates and fiscal and regulatory policy, just like most
countries. Mahathir himself isn't exactly a political novice. And
there are broader macroeconomic forces also at work, including
China's relative economic strength, what happens with global trade
and developments in technology.
The economic and social distortions caused by the existing regime's
preferences for powerful Malays, members of the majority ethnic
group, may not go away soon. They were cemented during Mahathir's
previous tour of duty.
Malaysia faces its share of challenges in this new era. And with a
former prime minister returning to power, it's fair to wonder how
much will really change. There's also no getting away from the fact
that the once-unstoppable Barisan Nasional has lost the election.
That's already a huge change.
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Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-79262124379297638672017-02-26T01:23:00.000-08:002017-02-28T20:41:11.691-08:00The Donald Trump Media War Focus<br />
<i>The first war that President Trump has declared is a war against the news media. - <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/25/opinions/trumps-war-on-media-zelizer-opinion/" target="_blank">CNN</a></i><br />
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Even after winning the presidential election, Donald Trump is still at war with the so called "corporate" media. This simply means the media is actually the effective weapon to dominate and sustain power.<br />
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No wonder Steve Bannon (Breitbart) has been hired as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_to_the_President" title="Assistant to the President">assistant to the President</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Chief_Strategist" title="White House Chief Strategist">White House chief strategist</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a> administration. Perhaps this is why some are simply saying:<br />
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<i> Donald Trump is a media </i><i>organization - </i><i><a href="http://www.cjr.org/tow_center/donald_trump_media_organization.php" target="_blank">Columbia Journalism Review</a>.</i></div>
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<i>Some observers suggested the move to block some organisations from the
Friday briefing was an attempt to distract the public from controversial
stories. On Saturday, the Trump administration faced new reports
regarding its <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/donald-trump-russia-reince-priebus-fbi-talks-james-comey">efforts to downplay</a> what intelligence agencies believe to be <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/michael-flynn-transcripts-russia-democrats-investigation">communications between campaign staff and Russian intelligence</a>.</i><br />
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<i>Opposing the mainstream media plays well with Trump’s base. Rob Mahoney, <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://cpj.org/about/staff.php">deputy executive director of the CPJ</a>, a nonprofit that promotes press freedom worldwide said
it also serves the administration’s aim to protect itself against
legitimate criticism. - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/trump-media-war-committee-protect-journalists-warning" target="_blank">Guardian</a></i><br />
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<b>Donald Trump is smarter than you think</b><br />
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This is the real reason of him winning the US presidential election. Those who think he is still a joke have made terrible mistakes. Donald Trump is always a playmaker. He can play against the 'corporate media' by simply <span style="color: red;">outplaying</span> them.<br />
He just need to win the millions of '<span style="color: red;">unseen</span>' audience.<br />
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This '<span style="color: red;">play</span>' has actually made Donald Trump a super salesman with super attention and coverage.<br />
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According to a psychological analysis from the University of British Columbia,<br />
<span style="color: red;">style, not substance,</span> accounts for Donald Trump's U.S. Republican presidential nomination.<br />
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<i>Psychology researchers at the university compared Trump's speech style
and Twitter usage to that of the other top nine Republican contenders.
The real-estate mogul and reality star consistently ranked highest in
ratings of grandiosity, "I"-statements, informal language, vocal pitch
variation, and use of Twitter - <a href="https://phys.org/news/2016-11-trump-political-success-triumph-style.html#nRlv" target="_blank">Phys.org</a></i><br />
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<i>Estimates by the analysis firm Quant of “earned media” – all coverage
that isn’t paid advertising – in the US in January showed that Trump was
not just the centre of attention: he <span style="color: red;">received more coverage</span> than the
next 1,000 most-covered people combined. That’s all the Kardashians,
Biebers, sports stars and politicians you’ve ever heard of. - <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/why-donald-trump-is-the-undisputed-king-of-all-media-1.2987823" target="_blank">Irishtimes</a></i><br />
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<i>Trump <span style="color: red;">exploited</span> the public’s existing distrust of media and sought to strip news outlets like CNN and The New York Times of all legitimacy. He targeted journalists like Fox’s Megyn Kelly and NBC’s Katy Tur. He even withheld press credentials from newsrooms like The Washington Post. Toward the end of the campaign, he claimed the “corporate media” was part of a massive conspiracy to block him from the White House. - CNN</i>
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<i>References:</i><br />
<ol>
<li><i><a href="http://www.macleans.ca/politics/washington/donald-trump-waged-war-against-the-media-and-won/" target="_blank">Donald Trump waged war against the media. And won.</a> - Macleans</i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/americas/2016/10/donald-trump-media-161025183220968.html" target="_blank">Donald Trump's war on the media</a> - al Jazeera</i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://qz.com/833465/a-donald-trump-presidency-is-forcing-an-entire-generation-of-journalists-to-rethink-what-journalism-even-means/" target="_blank">A Trump presidency is forcing an entire generation of journalists to rethink what “journalism” even means</a> - Quartz </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://observer.com/2016/11/this-election-has-disgraced-the-entire-profession-of-journalism/" target="_blank">This Election Has Disgraced the Entire Profession of Journalism</a>- Observer.com</i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://www.firstpost.com/world/us-election-2016-how-american-media-steers-public-opinion-towards-hillary-clinton-3093920.html" target="_blank">US election 2016: How American media steers public opinion towards Hillary Clinton</a> - FirstPost</i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/08/media/trump-versus-the-media-election/" target="_blank">Fallout from Trump's war on the media will linger after election</a> - CNN</i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/25/opinions/trumps-war-on-media-zelizer-opinion/" target="_blank">President Trump's dangerous war on the media</a> - CNN</i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/14/donald-trump-winning-war-cnn/" target="_blank">Donald Trump 'Winning' War with CNN</a>- Breitbart</i></li>
<li><i><a href="https://phys.org/news/2016-11-trump-political-success-triumph-style.html#nRlv" target="_blank">Trump's political success was a triumph of style over substance: research</a> - Phys.org</i></li>
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<br />Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-76866751793155848332016-06-07T23:45:00.001-07:002019-07-04T19:22:25.287-07:00Imam Khomeini Advice On Journalistic Priorities This was an advice to media managers from Imam Khomeini as printed on Iran Kayhan International newspaper in 1985 - long before the era of the internet. Perhaps it is about time to share this to the whole world as the media today is mostly engineered to serve its masters.<br />
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The late Khomeini was a master in mass uprising in his time.<br />
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Some of the interesting points in this advice are:<br />
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1) Publishing focus, priorities and relevancy<br />
2) The press belong to all the people - not just political leaders<br />
3) Criticism must not violate ethics<br />
4) Press should be a center for people to benefit from.<br />
5) People should be <span style="color: #cc0000;">educated </span>by the news<br />
6) Avoid useless repetition<br />
7) News should be prepared in a manner that it can be useful<br />
8) The <span style="color: #cc0000;">real intention</span> of publishing a piece (should be to improve the society).<br />
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<b>Imam Khomeini Offers Advice On Journalistic Priorities </b>
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Tehran (Kayhan International) - On Sept 1 1985 - The managers of Tehran's three most important dailies met with Imam Khomeini (ie Kayhan, Ettela 'at. Jumhuri- Eslami).<br />
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In this meeting. the Imam made some important statements with regard to the Media.
The following is the text of the Imams address. <br />
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(Please refer to the scanned images)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">A typical press coverage in 1985.</span><br />
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Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-7865526853749746742015-07-19T19:58:00.007-07:002018-04-23T20:11:30.204-07:00Sarawak Report Unblock Censorship HowtoThe Malaysian government has decided to block www.sarawakreport.org
from local access. It means the information published by
http://www.sarawakreport.org is very damaging to Najib and Rosmah.
By blocking access, it shows the government don't even has pants
to go in this war.
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<b>ACCESS VIA GOOGLE CACHE:</b><br />
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Basically Google Cache is in the form of the following schema:<br />
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.sarawakreport.org/<br />
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Instead of retyping above for every different articles -<br />
simply go to<br />
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<a href="http://news-kini.appspot.com/s/pythoncgi/news-01-sarawak_report.html" target="_blank">Google Cache links of Sarawakreport at NewsKini</a><br />
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and look for <u><span style="color: #444444;">[GC - Google Cache]</span></u> links there - it should work with latest articles from sarawakreport.org. <br />
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<b>A ROSMAH SHOW OF POWER OR SIMPLY A VERIFIED EXPOSURE?</b><br />
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It is interesting to note this blocking was activated after
Rosmah was exposed twice (RM 2,000,000 transaction and a
photo in yatch).
Did Rosmah ever issued a denial of those extra-ordinary transaction?
There is something really bad inside the photo below which can blow
secret things apart and verify all doubts.<br />
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<b>DNS BLOCK IS TOO EASY TO BYPASS</b>
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Basically MCMC type of blocking is a DNS (domain name service) repoint
where the standard DNS provided by your ISP
has been modified so that the name www.sarawakreport.org will point to
a blacklisted IP (ip address).
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To circumvent the blocking just change your DNS server setup
to public DNS, either A) or B) below
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A) Google <a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/">Public DNS</a>
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<ul>
<li> 8.8.8.8 </li>
<li> 8.8.4.4 </li>
</ul>
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B) OpenDNS:
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<ul>
<li> 208.67.222.222</li>
<li> 208.67.220.220</li>
</ul>
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<b>HOW TO CHANGE DNS SERVER?</b> <br />
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Please refer to <a href="https://store.opendns.com/setup/#/">Open DNS step-by-step procedure</a>
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<b>STILL BLOCKED??? THEN INSTALL TOR PROJECT BROWSER</b>
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Sooner or later they might decide to block access to sarawakreport completely
(via IP and port). In such case -- perhaps it is best to install <a href="https://www.torproject.org/">TOR ANONYMOUS BROWSING PROGRAM</a> into your PC - especially when you don't want the 'Special Branch' to 'identify' your internet activities.
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Below is www.sarawakreport.org screenshot using TOR browser <br />
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The TOR browser is pretty straight-forward to install and it is free!
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Reference:
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/malaysia-admits-to-censoring-the-internet-1719447291">GIZMODO:</a>
Malaysia Admits to Censoring the Internet 946<br />
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Jeremy Malcolm and Sarah Myers West Filed to: internet 7/22/15 3:20am<br />
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<b>Malaysia Admits to Censoring the Internet</b><br />
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In 2011, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak promised that Malaysia
would never censor the Internet. Speaking at the first
Malaysian—ASEAN Regional Bloggers Conference, Najib said: “I have
no doubts whatsoever that Malaysia has one of the liveliest
blogospheres in the world. And definitely one of the freest if not the
most free…[former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad] made the
promise to the world that Malaysia would never censor the Internet. My
government is fully committed to that wisdom. We intend to keep his
word.”<br />
Four years later, beleaguered by allegations that $700 million in
funds were suspiciously transferred from a Malaysian state investment
fund into his personal bank account, Najib went back on that promise.<br />
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<b>Blocking of the Sarawak Report</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
The UK-based news website the Sarawak Report was blocked in Malaysia
on July 19, 2015 upon orders from the Malaysian Communications and
Multimedia Commission (MCMC). The site remains inaccessible from
within the country unless users access the site on their mobile phones
or via a VPN. The MCMC ordered Malaysia’s Internet service providers
to take the site down after it published news on the bank transfer
allegations, though reports suggest the block has been unevenly
enforced. The MCMC’s rationale for their order was that the site has
published “unverified information” and posed a threat to
“national security.”<br />
This is the first time Malaysia has publicly acknowledged blocking a
political website, and it is particularly notable because the case
strikes at the heart of political corruption within the country.<br />
The story surrounding the suspicious bank transfer initially broke on
July 2, when the Wall Street Journal and Sarawak Report published the
result of an investigation into a Malaysian investment fund,
1Malaysian Development Berhad (1MDB). The investigators found that
hundreds of millions of dollars had been funneled into the private
accounts of Najib Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor.<br />
Since then, Najib has responded assertively to the accusations, with
his legal representative calling the Wall Street Journal article
“political sabotage” and stating that the allegations are
“neither here nor there.” Meanwhile, police have launched an
investigation into the source of the leaked documents and the
“possibility of a conspiracy to subvert Malaysia’s democratic
process and topple the prime minister,” according to Inspector
General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar. The editor of the Sarawak Report
also reported being harassed and stalked by people believed to be
employed by United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the ruling
political party in Malaysia. <br />
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<b>Censorship Comes Out Into the Open</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
The government’s censorship of the Sarawak Report is remarkable both
for its unapologetic execution and for its blatant political
character, but it is hardly the first time that the government or its
supporters have censored Malaysia’s Internet—whether openly or
less so. During the 2013 general election, strong evidence emerged of
Malaysian ISPs throttling access to alternative news portals and
pro-opposition content on YouTube. However, when confronted with this
evidence, the MCMC denied that any such restrictions had been put in
place and Instead of retyping all above - go to Newskinisimply blamed the outages on congestion.<br />
The following year, the BBC reported on the Malaysian Prime
Minister’s response to complaints about raises in the cost of basic
goods and services, such as fuel and electricity—to which he
responding by simply pointing out that the price of Chinese water
spinach, kangkung, had lately fallen. The story went viral, spawning
all manner of video parodies and image memes. Embarrassed, government
ministers began to call for crackdowns on the phenomenon, only to be
stymied by the government’s promise that there would be no
censorship of the Internet.<br />
Or were they? Despite the promises, users soon began to share reports
about difficulties they had in attempting to access the embarrassing
BBC report. Investigations by Malaysian transparency NGO Sinar Project
revealed that indeed, it did appear that Malaysian ISPs were blocking
or throttling access to the report. Sinar Project not only
meticulously documented their findings, but they even released their
tools on Github to allow others to replicate their investigation. Yet,
once again, the government denied all responsibility for the
outages.<br />
Given this history, it seems highly likely that the blocking of the
Sarawak Report is not the first time Malaysia has engaged in political
censorship of the Internet—it is merely the first time that the
government has openly admitted to it. <br />
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<b>Legal Status of Censorship Under
Malaysian Law</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
The MCMC has claimed that the temporary block of the Sarawak Report
was carried out under the Communications and Multimedia Act of 1998,
but Malaysian law does not sanction the censorship of online websites.
Specifically, the MCMC referred to Sections 211 and 233 of the Act,
which prohibit the provision of “content which is indecent, obscene,
false, menacing, or offensive” as well as the “improper use of
network facilities or network service.” However, while both of these
Sections provide for fines as a penalty for violations of the law,
they do not provide for blocking or taking down websites.<br />
Though the ban reflects Malaysian authorities are increasingly finding
extralegal online censorship to be within their comfort zone, the
unsophisticated methods of blocking have made circumvention relatively
easy for Malaysians. The Sarawak Report created a new URL,
sarawak-report.org, that appears to be accessible, even as their main
address, sarawakreport.org, is blocked. The block also does not appear
to impact browsing from mobile devices.<br />
Sarawak Report readers appear well-versed in circumvention practices,
if the comments on the site’s Facebook page are any indication.
(Readers have suggested a wide variety of VPNs, Tor, and web-based
proxies to get around the block. For more on these circumvention
tools, check out EFF’s Surveillance Self-Defense page on
circumventing online censorship.) Yet, even poorly executed online
censorship is cause for concern—especially where, as here, it seems
to mark a growing willingness to bend the law when deemed to be
politically expedient.<br />
<i>This article first appeared on Electronic Frontier Foundation and is
republished here under Creative Commons license.
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Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-17497879254971543692014-03-29T21:27:00.002-07:002014-03-29T21:42:34.955-07:00In Malaysia, truth is a stranger. What if Inmarsat is wrong? Another Junk Science?Side Note: We expect to see more Altantuya appearing as the MH370 flight mystery deepens - especially when someone has started to cast doubts and questioned Inmarsat accuracy.
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Source: <a href="http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/in-malaysia-truth-is-a-stranger-1.1310242">GulfNews - Wash Post</a>
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<br />
<p> By Hui Mei Liew Kaiser Published: 20:00 March 29, 2014
Gulf News</p>
<p>On Monday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak appeared before the
press to announce that missing flight MH370 “ended in the Southern
Indian Ocean.” Najib’s statement finally gave the families of the
passengers an “answer” on the fate of their loved ones. But it
comes after weeks of spectacular obfuscation by Malaysian government
officials, who repeatedly fudged details, contradicted each other or
used the tragedy to score points against the political opposition.</p>
<p>Just to add insult to injury, Malaysian Airlines informed the families
of the sad news by sending them a text message. Small wonder that some
of the relatives are now accusing Malaysian officialdom of
orchestrating a “cover-up,” and demanding to see concrete
evid-ence such as the plane’s black box.</p>
<p>The rest of the world has reacted to the half-truths of the Malaysian
authorities with bewilderment. But to us Malaysians it’s nothing
new: We’ve been putting up with this sort of garbage our entire
lives. Our officials are incapable of communicating because they’ve
never felt the need to. Our corrupt and incompetent bureaucracy
regards its own citizens with such top-down contempt that its dialogue
muscles have simply atrophied.</p>
<p>So it’s no wonder that Malaysians have spent the past few weeks
coping the way we’re accustomed to: by indulging in conspiracy
theories, the last pathetic refuge of people who know that they can
never expect the truth from their own leaders. So we’ve seen some
Malaysians blaming the loss of the plane on everyone from our own
government to the United States, China, North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan
and — why not? — aliens. Yes, it’s sad. And yes, it’s more
than a little crazy. But in the final analysis you can’t really
blame us. Where else are we supposed to find any answers?</p>
<p>The Malaysian government’s response has been dismal almost from the
moment MH370 went missing. In most countries, the prime minister would
step forward and take the lead during a catastrophe of this magnitude.
In Malaysia, however, our prime minister decided to spend his time
boasting about his skill at buying cheap chicken, analysing the
economy’s health based on the price of kangkung (water spinach), or
strolling around shopping malls. He’s left the bulk of the mundane
task of disaster management to the acting transport minister cum
minister of defence, Hishammuddin Hussain, who has figured as the
official government spokesman at a number of press conferences
following the disappearance of MH370. (Hishammuddin, it’s worth
noting, is a cousin of Prime Minister Najib — a coincidence quite
widespread in a country where politicians are often linked by clan
ties.)</p>
<p>Judging by the reactions from passengers’ families and the
international media, Hishammuddin hasn’t exactly been doing a
stellar job. In the early days of the investigation, the minister and
his team event offered a conspiracy theory of their own. In this case,
Malaysian officials speculated — without offering any particular
evidence to back up their claim — that the plane’s pilot, a
“fanatical supporter” of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and a
relative of Anwar’s son-in-law, might have been motivated to hijack
his own plane for political reasons. The day before, a Malaysian court
sentenced Anwar to five years in prison on sodomy charges, a decision
that bars him for running for office in upcoming elections. Again,
none of this comes as a particular surprise. In recent years,
government officials have developed the habit of blaming everything
and anything on the opposition, and especially on Anwar.</p>
<p>Paternalistic political culture</p>
<p>One side effect of the government’s inept response to the MH370
catastrophe, according to some, is that it has prompted some unwelcome
analysis of the country’s political system, which has been dominated
by the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition for the past 57 years.
So is Malaysia’s paternalistic political culture really being
challenged now that MH370 incident has exposed its leaders to the
withering judgements of international critics? I’m inclined to doubt
it. As soon as the MH370 issue cools down, Malaysia’s government
will return to business as usual. Nothing will change.</p>
<p>Just consider the scandal surrounding Abdul Taib Mahmoud, the chief
minister of the Malaysian state of Sarawak. According to the Bruno
Manser Fund, a Swiss environmental group, and local critics in
Sarawak, Abdul Taib, who’s held office since 1981, has amassed
enormous wealth (and caused vast environmental damage) through his
unchallenged control of the state’s forests. These critics allege
that Taib has used his power to enrich his own family and
well-connected cronies, who have harvested billions of dollars’
worth of tropical timber. Early last year, the international
corruption watchdog group Global Witness released extensive video
footage from a covert investigation that showed Taib’s cousins
explaining how they had circumvented state laws to acquire vast tracts
of forest land.</p>
<p>In January 2013, 20 Swiss members of parliament filed a motion calling
for an immediate freeze of assets held by Swiss banks on behalf of the
Malaysian Taib family.</p>
<p>In a normal, democratic political system, all this would have prompted
official investigations, parliamentary inquiries, demands for
accountability. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission did organise
a probe to investigate Taib — but the minister simply declared, with
apparent impunity, that he would not cooperate with the “naughty”
and “dishonest” commission. As a result, Malaysian officials have
yet to open a domestic investigation into the case. One year later, in
February 2014, the probe made the improbable claim that it could not
find any evidence that Taib had abused his power. On this March 1,
Abdul Taib was sworn in for a term as Sarawak’s governor — a
position even more powerful than the one he held before.</p>
<p>Zero sense of accountability</p>
<p>Taib can get away with this sort of thing precisely because of his
cozy relationship with the ruling BN coalition and the party that
dominates it (the United Malays National Organisation, or UMNO). The
ruling coalition sees Sarawak as a vital cache of votes for the party,
and within this system, Taib is untouchable. In our general election
last year, the main opposition coalition, led by Anwar Ibrahim, won
just over 50 per cent of the vote — yet BN still ended up with 60
per cent of the seats in the national parliament. That’s because the
government uses gerrymandering and elaborate dirty tricks to divide up
the election system in ways that ensure continued BN rule, regardless
of the way Malaysians actually vote. It’s not surprising, then, that
there is zero sense of accountability in our country — and that the
government officials who have risen to the top of the system feel
little pressure to respond to those pesky demands for information from
ordinary people.</p>
<p>The Malaysian government has a long history of ignoring its
citizens’ right to know. Just take one of the most notorious cases.
Back in 2002, an international human rights group filed an
international court challenge alleging that the Malaysian government
had accepted millions of dollars in bribes from a French shipbuilding
company in the $1.25 billion (Dh4.59 billion) purchase of two Scorpene
submarines. Though the French investigation produced enough evidence
to implicate top Malaysian officials, the government summarily denied
the claims, and no one was ever punished. Over a decade later, the
scandal is still unresolved.</p>
<p>Or take the murder of Mongolian model and translator Altantuya
Shaariibuu (which has also been linked to the submarine case).
Witnesses linked Altantuya romantically to one of Najib’s best
friends and close policy advisers, a man named Abdul Razak Baginda.
Sources claimed that she was trying to blackmail Razak with her
knowledge of the shady submarine deal before she was killed by two of
Najib’s bodyguards. Though the case implicated both the Malaysian
prime minister and his wife, the government never initiated any
official investigation. The case has remained in limbo ever since.</p>
<p>A private investigator, P Balasubramaniam (known as “Bala”), made
a convincing statutory declaration for the prosecution in the
Altantuya case — but soon retracted the statement, and subsequently
dropped out of sight, along with his entire family. Bala turned up
again a few years later, claiming that he’d been offered $1.5
million by a businessman close to Najib’s family if he’d take back
his original declaration. Bala died of a heart attack on March 15,
2013, in the midst of campaigning for the opposition in the upcoming
election. Then Olivier Metzner, a French lawyer involved the submarine
court case, was found dead in “an apparent suicide” two days after
Bala’s death.</p>
<p>Not long after that the Malaysian Court of Appeals decided to acquit
the two policemen who had been sentenced to death for Altantuya’s
murder. The court’s decision provoked an angry response from
Altantuya’s father and the Mongolian government. But, as we’ve
pointed out, foreigners apparently have just as little right to
satisfactory information from the Malaysian government as Malaysian
citizens do.</p>
<p>We Malaysians, in short, have been putting up with this culture of
official impunity for decades. Without having much choice in the
matter, we’ve become accustomed to living under an authoritarian
bureaucracy that mocks our requests for honest dialogue, and revels in
its own contempt for basic rules of transparency and
accountability.</p>
<p>Now the international community is getting its own taste of what
dealing with this system is really like. What’s more, MH370 proves
that Malaysia’s political immaturity is not merely a domestic issue,
but threatens the citizens of other nations as well. As Malaysian
citizens, we offer our sincerest condolences to the families of the
passengers and the international community — and we hope that
you’ll join us in the fight against our government’s blatant
corruption. — Washington Post</p>
<br />
<br />
<i>Hui Mei Liew Kaiser is a graduate of Northern University of Malaysia
in finance and international trade. She also holds a degree from the
University of Malaya in International Strategic and Defence Studies.</i>
<hr>
<p>Source: <a href="http://celebzter.com/what-if-they-are-wrong-satellite-company-inmarsat-while-searching-for-malaysian-airlines-flight-mh370-reverses-position-on-where-missing-plane-flight-mh370-may-be/">Celebzter.com</a></p>
<b>
What if they are wrong? Satellite Company Inmarsat reversed position on where MH370 plane flight may be</b>
<p><i>By DJ Tanman on March 27, 2014 </i></p>
<ul>
<li> Swell of satellite experts question accuracy and reliability of
data and methods for satellite ping “math” to locate a moving
aircraft, while major news headlines praise the satellite company who
claims to have located the final position of Flight MH370.</li>
<li> The math formula to project the last known location of the plane
may be right but if one shred of input data is incorrect, the plane
could be actually thousands of miles away.</li>
<li> Missing Information: <font color=darkred>The world was told by Inmarsat where Flight
MH370 was located at 8:11 AM, but where is the ping data showing
where it was at 7:11 AM, 6:11 AM, 5:11 AM, 4:11 AM, 3:11 AM, 2:11 AM?
Certainly it would be great information for investigators to know the
route the plane came on, and if the satellite company claims they have
this data, why have they not published it?</font></li>
<li> Why is the satellite company not transparent about the missing
satellite data which would have shown the flight path not just the
last ping location, asks many satellite experts.</li>
<li> This is NOT GPS technology being used, the satellite company
Inmarsat says their technology is not even designed to locate planes
and this is the first time in history its ever been used this way in
“ground breaking” math. Does “ground breaking” mean Junk
Science?</li>
<li> Inmarsat Satellite company owners have earned more in stock
spiking from their claims they figured out where plane ended up, than
the US Government has spent on their own investigation of the missing
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.</li>
<li> <font color=darkred>18 days later; no plane, no debris, claims of “beyond a
reasonable doubt” by satellite company, but no proof. Is this
really “junk science”?</font> After numerous claims of sighting of
jet debris from 3 countries using high tech satellites is it time to
rethink our reliance on sciences that are wrought with human error of
interpretation?</li>
</ul>
<p>Its been there for nearly 5 days in headlines around the world in
black in white. Most of us read it but skipped over this detail
consumed with the bigger newest headlines, “All have been Lost”
when reading the announcement made by The Malaysian Prime Minster upon
his own belief that satellite company Inmarsat had accurately
concluded that the doomed Flight #Mh340 vanished into the southern
Indian ocean, directly heading for the South Pole. But when the news
is sorted out and facts and details are sifted through , there it is ,
the satellite company responsible for promising to have located the
last known location of the missing flight MH370, also states
something in plain sight…they made a mistake in their previous
calculations just a week earlier when they projected that the plane
could have flown as far north as Kazakhstan ( formerly part of
Russia) but changed that assumption to a location thousands of miles
away. The obvious was in plain sight, by their own admission, they had
already made errors on calculations conducted during one of the most
mysterious events in recent world history, in this case, their
calculation may have been thousands of miles off. What the press read
and played out was that Inmarsat come up with the “right answer”,
forgetting quickly they had just made a huge error by their own
admission.</p>
<p><b>Swell of satellite experts question accuracy and reliability, while
major news headlines praise the satellite company.</b></p>
<p>Which got us to ask the question; what if the company providing the
most important relied detail in the search; Inmarsat satellite, could
still have made mistakes? We quickly began to investigate this and
stumbled upon a bunch of experts in satellite and mobile consulting
like Palo Alto USA based TMF Associates and others on the ‘net.
Chatting it up in forums were other engineers, physicists, former
aviation experts, and mobile technology experts who had lots of things
that seemed to challenge what we were reading in the headlines. And
at times, contradict immediately what we were reading in the news.
As we read more and more reports of questions posed by experts , some
of them were shocking and contradicting some of the constant barrage
of headlines to congratulate the satellite company for its
“groundbreaking math” in finding the supposed final location of
Flight MH370. With details about technology we would need to seek out
the experts . The most obvious question posed there by the experts
was about those arcs many were seeing on television reports and in
newspapers.</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/7Ik5Z0EdXV_PgzHiDFCtinhyKFdpCRLlmqoI72HbMqJYemymr6mGs_4_pApg9bwxfMT1Swn8yf2mRNW1Tm1rQZR93nabixlN6kMsGSR6qSEupGMlzc-kRUcjJw5pTA" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img width="500" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/7Ik5Z0EdXV_PgzHiDFCtinhyKFdpCRLlmqoI72HbMqJYemymr6mGs_4_pApg9bwxfMT1Swn8yf2mRNW1Tm1rQZR93nabixlN6kMsGSR6qSEupGMlzc-kRUcjJw5pTA" /></a></div>
<p>What if they are wrong? Satellite Company Inmarsat reversed position
on where MH370 plane flight may be</p>
<p>PIng Data created by Inmarsat shows their calculated probable arc
where missing flight MH370 may have been located at 8:11, but where
are the arcs for earlier ping times?</p>
<p>Missing Information: We were told where the plane was at 8:11 AM, but
where is the ping data showing where it was at 7:11, 6:11 AM, 5:11 AM,
4:11 AM, 3:11 AM, 2:11 AM? One of the first questions brought up by
experts was ‘where is the ping data from the other hourly
intervals?</p>
<p>If the final arc could give us the location of where the plane ended
up; ping data and plot points could be shown for every hour before
going back to 1 :19 AM when the plane went off radar. And these plot
points when put together could give us some of the possible locations
of where the plane flew from So where is that data? This seemed to fly
right over the head of the media and journalists, it seemed no one
asked this question. But not the engineers and consultants in
satellite aviation. They were outright appalled that this data was
missing and no one in the media or the world was asking ‘where is
that data? Certainly knowing where the plane had been for hours before
and its path could tell us lots of details for an investigation that
has theories from suicide, terrorism, hijacking and even mechanical
error being question. So plotting out where the plane had just been
for hours seems logical to be an important bit of information that is
right out in plain sight as missing. A few newspapers including the
Washington Post apparently inadvertently drew in other arc circles to
demonstrate these pings at other hours and even on CNN a demonstration
incorrectly implied that many circles and arcs being drawn were from
the previous ping data from previous hours Not true says many
satellite experts since this data to this date has been shown to the
media or to the public.</p>
<p>The math formula may be right but if one shred of input data is
incorrect, the plane could be actually thousands of miles away.</p>
<p>This already happened to Inmarsat when they admitted had missed
critical assumptions in their original data calculations and plotted
that the plane could be as far away as Kazakhstan or as south as
nearly Antarctica. Now that is one wide range in the first place when
you are pinpointing a location of a 777 plane and narrow it down to a
stretch on an arc of several thousand miles. Once Inmarsat dug deeper
with their engineers they looked over things and realized they had
left out a few variables, they changed the public statement. The plane
could not be thousands of miles up on the arc in Central Asia, it was
south back thousands of miles off the coast of Australia.</p>
<p>Data is information points that construct a math formula. You can have
the correct math but if the data varying like speed you get a
different answer every time speed changes. If we want to calculate
signal speed from a satellite, we know that light waves travel at
186,000 miles per hour. In 1/1000 light travels 1860 miles, just about
the distance from the satellite to Malaysia. so if a ping takes 2/1000
of a second that means the satellite is half the distance away.</p>
<p>This is NOT GPS technology, the satellite company says their
technology is not even designed to locate plans and this is the first
time its ever been used this way.</p>
<p>Inmarsat is the British company that carried out the satellite
analysis that determined the plane went into the southern Indian
Ocean. Malaysia’s Prime Minister said Monday the plane was last
tracked over the water, west of Perth, Australia. There is “no
way” the plane went north, said Chris McLaughlin, a senior vice
president at Inmarsat. This of course contradicted the company’s
earlier information it had released showing a map where the likely
last ping from the plane was, clearly showing it assumed it could have
been as far north as Kazakhstan. MH370 search map 315x236 What if they
are wrong? Satellite Company Inmarsat reversed position on where MH370
plane flight may be</p>
<p>Inmarsat retracted this earlier map concerning the plane’s possible
location as far north as Russia and Central Asia</p>
<p>The route into the southern Indian Ocean was the “best fit” with
the signals the plane sent to a communications satellite.</p>
<p>But he cautioned to the press, “Nothing is final.”</p>
<p>“We’re not Earth observation satellites, we’re data satellites.
So it will require a lot of different skills, a lot of different
people, not least the naked eye, to finally confirm what happened to
370.”</p>
<p>McLaughlin said the mathematics-based process used by Inmarsat and
Britain’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch was
“groundbreaking.” The new calculations underwent a peer review
process with space agency experts and contributions by Boeing, he
said.</p>
<p>19 days later no plane, no debris, claims by satellite company, but
no proof. Is this really junk science?</p>
<p>Experts question how the satellite company assumed the signal was not
affected by environmental or physical factors like weather, or
concrete or even one expert asked what would effect of a sinking plane
only 200 miles from the satellite be, could it create a signal slowed
down . This would make it appear so that the plane is thousands of
miles away, when its really just a few hundred miles away. The number
of variables that would affect data could change the results say the
experts so would mean this event could have dozens of possible
variables that could effect the data. Which is exactly the mistake the
satellite company made the first time around, when they estimated the
plane could be as far north on an arc as Kazakhstan, or as far south
as off the coast of Perth Australia. If you are guessing, this would
be hardly science and more like junk science. And why did they change
the location from the north to south, because of the variables ( the
satellites speed vs. airplanes speed and resulting doppler effect )
was not taken into account. Our point here is besides speed are there
not other variables that could affect the location of the plane. This
is the question other satellite experts point out could be certainly
the case. And miscalculations can result in huge variation on how
the entire investigation is handled, if the plane is in another
location the investigation could shift to terrorism or in the current
proposed location, the notion of a suicide. That uncertainty of the
potential of worst kind of terrorism alone and the families of the
passengers of flight MH370 deserve these questions to be asked and dug
into. malaysian airlines mh370 315x177 What if they are wrong?
Satellite Company Inmarsat reversed position on where MH370 plane
flight may be</p>
<p>Protestors march in China to demand that Malaysia turn over satellite
data to Chinese Government for inspection.</p>
<p> When we see especially families of passengers on the missing flight
MH370 s who have reached the same conclusion; that there is not any
proof that not only “all are lost”but that the satellite company
who released data that created this conclusion has not proven its
reliability having changed its position of the possible end of flight
by thousand of miles already. Sadly much of the difficulties of
getting to the facts of missing flight MH370 is about gleaning through
the pubic relations posturing that is going on. And here we have
started to sift through a seemingly great corporate PR story which was
mounting; a public satellite company, stockholders anxiously awaiting
to see if their military services and aviation satellite
communications company Inmarsat will come up with the right answer,
because it could be worth millions in spikes on daily trading of the
company’s stock, literally. With facts like that woven in the myriad
of stories coming out from every direction, it gets even murkier to
wade through the mystery of missing flight MH370 with its 239
passengers. and crew.</p>
<p>----</p>
<p><i>"DJ Tanman" is living a dream as Hollywood writer/producer whose
passions span his ventures in his fashion channel, motorsports ,
action sports, and generally living life on the edge with adventures
to last a lifetime. His work in writing/creating and productions
includes many action sports TV series with Momentum for Fox Sports as
well as reality shows for CBS/ABC. His most TV series recent being
BYOB-Bring Your Own Board TV. He has turned his endeavors and passion
in writing to charity driven causes and campaigns and hoping to
spotlight more celebrities and real life stories that have a
compassionate side to them. He is a self proclaimed "closet" nerd
having studied calculus, physics ,engineering, business
administration, classic music, screenwriting and film studies at
colleges including Northeastern, American Film Institute and UCLA.
</i></p>
Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-58293359192585136892014-03-23T21:09:00.006-07:002014-03-23T21:09:58.490-07:00MH370: At last someone (a Pulitzer Prize winner) mentioned AltantuyaRef: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/03/23/malaysia-airline-najib-government-corrupt-column/6797203/" target="_blank">USA Today</a><br />
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<b>Malaysia's bumbling ruling elite: </b><br />
<br />
Column<br />
<br />
Lewis M. Simons 5:40 p.m. EDT March 23, 2014<br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>Fiasco over missing airliner just the latest example of country's </i><br />
<i>inept leadership.</i><br />
<br />
<br />
As errors, misstatements, retractions and head-scratching<br />
rationalizations tumble over each other in the case of Malaysia<br />
Airlines Flight 370, the world is coming to recognize what the<br />
country has known for decades — that Malaysia's leaders are<br />
accustomed to getting away with murder.<br />
<br />
Sometimes figuratively: For example, with elections looming and<br />
Prime Minister Najib Razak losing popularity, top opposition leader<br />
Anwar Ibrahim recently was sentenced to five years in prison on a<br />
sodomy charge. Two years ago, Anwar, who enjoys support in<br />
Washington, was acquitted after spending six years in prison on the<br />
same charge.<br />
<br />
And sometimes perhaps literally: In October 2006, the gruesome<br />
remains of a human body were discovered on a remote hilltop outside<br />
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's principal city. There was no corpse,<br />
really, just hunks of flesh and shattered bone. DNA determined that<br />
the victim was a 28-year-old Mongolian woman who had been involved<br />
in a long love affair with one of Najib's closest advisers.<br />
<br />
These instances of real-life political shenanigans and<br />
pulp-fiction-style crime share deep cultural and behavioral traits<br />
with Malaysia's clumsy handling of the mysterious Boeing 777 and the<br />
239 people on board.<br />
<br />
Spinning dubious stories<br />
<br />
In the cases of the murder and the missing plane, Najib and other<br />
political leaders have felt free to spin their own dubious stories.<br />
The big difference is that this time, the world is watching as the<br />
leaders repeatedly are caught in their own web of claims and<br />
denials, allegations and refutations.<br />
<br />
Where does this arbitrary political culture come from?<br />
<br />
In 1979, following traumatic, bloody rioting between Malays and the<br />
substantial ethnic Chinese minority, the government granted a broad<br />
array of privileges to Malays, in effect ensuring them of perpetual<br />
power.<br />
<br />
This quota system also enabled the ruling party, which has held<br />
office for 60 years, to ride roughshod over the facts, as we now see<br />
regarding the missing plane. Questions such as how two Iranians<br />
carrying false passports were allowed to board were bungled. The<br />
matter of the jetliner turning off course went unreported.<br />
<br />
A full understanding of Malaysia's ineptitude on the world stage<br />
today isn't possible without recognizing the power elite's belief in<br />
its open-ended unassailability.<br />
<br />
Until the jetliner flickered off Malaysian radar screens, that<br />
misplaced cockiness was best seen in the case of the murdered woman,<br />
Altantuya Shaariibuu. She had accompanied Najib, then defense<br />
minister, and his adviser, Abdul Razak Baginda, her lover, on a trip<br />
to Paris to purchase two French-built submarines and an overhauled<br />
Spanish sub for Malaysia's Navy.<br />
<br />
The package was worth nearly $1 billion. French authorities are<br />
investigating whether the defense company gave a $100 million<br />
"commission" to Baginda. Shaariibuu, according to witnesses<br />
at her murder trial, demanded a $500,000 slice for her services as<br />
"interpreter."<br />
<br />
Blind eye to justice<br />
<br />
Once her remains were discovered, the short-reined domestic press<br />
turned a blind eye on the prime minister's evident connections,<br />
which he blithely denied. Baginda, an Oxford Ph.D., was imprisoned<br />
on charges of abetting the woman's murder.<br />
<br />
A year later, the high court acquitted Baginda. He left the country.<br />
A private investigator he had hired quickly filed a stunning<br />
declaration in court, implicating the prime minster and his wife in<br />
organizing and covering up the crime. Baginda quoted a text message<br />
the prime minister allegedly sent him after the woman's remains were<br />
discovered: "I am seeing IGP (inspector general of police) at 11<br />
a.m. today … matter will be solved ... be cool."<br />
<br />
Within 24 hours, the private detective, without explanation,<br />
replaced his declaration with a new one that erased all references<br />
to the prime minister. Then he fled Malaysia.<br />
<br />
In both documents, the detective identified two junior police<br />
officers on the prime minister's security detail as having carried<br />
out the killing. They were arrested, tried and sentenced to hang.<br />
That never happened. Last August, the pair were acquitted.<br />
<br />
After eight years, the murder case remains unresolved.<br />
<br />
Anwar is in limbo, appealing his sodomy conviction yet again.<br />
<br />
Najib, prime minister for five years, until now has remained aloof<br />
and secure from the world's stares. With the disappearance of Flight<br />
370 and the world pointing repeatedly to all the faulty information<br />
coming out of Malaysia, business as usual finally might be coming to<br />
an end.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Lewis M. Simons, a Pulitzer Prize winner</span>, was based in Malaysia with<br />
his wife and two daughters, who were born there.<br />
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<small><tt>Malaysia Airlines flight: 'This is not a normal investigation'</tt></small><br />
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Malaysia's vanishing airplane catastrophe exposes the country's
political and social fault lines.
Last updated: 20 Mar 2014 06:01
Zarina Banu
Zarina Banu is a freelance writer, focusing on economics and
business-policy in the Asia-Pacific.
A catalogue of backtracking is defining the investigation thus far,
writes Banu [EPA]
The crisis over Malaysia's missing Flight MH370 would surely test
any government. But Malaysia's handling of the search, investigation
and communication with the outside world has thrown it into an
uncomfortable spotlight and caught it severely off guard.
The catastrophe is exposing the deep fault lines characterising the
country's political economy. Since independence from the British in
1957, Malaysia's ruling elite have built and reinforced a political
system that has institutionalised their cultural and economic
dominance.
Inconsistency
The system is so entrenched, it shapes and permeates all layers of
Malaysian society. Now we're seeing it play out in how the
administration is managing and communicating the investigation to
the rest of the world.
A catalogue of backtracking is defining the investigation thus far,
frustrating the families of those on board and provoking a backlash
of anti-government feeling.
We've seen Malaysian officials contradict each other over vital
early details about MH370's satellite communications systems. Acting
Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein and Malaysian Airlines CEO,
Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, have disagreed over whether the system was
switched off before or after the flight's co-pilot uttered the now
infamous signoff: "Alright goodnight" to ground control on
the morning of March 8 when the plane disappeared.
Consequently, the pilot and co-pilot, Zaharie Shah and Fariq Ab
Hamid, became the first suspects, in a possible plot to sabotage or
hijack the Boeing 777, which led to bewilderment and distress
amongst the families.
Inconsistencies also stood out in the police investigation. At one
point, Hishamuddin said police officers had visited the homes of the
pilots as early as March 9, the day after the aircraft vanished. But
police chief Khalid Abu Bakar then confused the issue by saying
officers had in fact not gone to the pilots' homes.
Things were muddled from the start. The hunt for the ill-fated jet
began on March 8 in the South China Sea, was abandoned and diverted
to the Andaman Sea and Indian Ocean.
Malaysians are concerned about the state of readiness of their
military, after radar tracked an unidentified object moving west
over peninsular Malaysia on March 8 and the air force took no
further action to ascertain what that object was.
Sources close to the government have said, off-the-record since they
are not authorised to talk to the media, that they are unsure how to
manage the message.
Sure, it is a trial that would test any government, agency or
communications team. With a daunting search involving more than 20
countries and stretching across some 6.2 million square miles, it's
like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Yet, there are some fundamentals here that Malaysian government
agencies aren't following. What they should be doing is: Verify the
incoming information; unify the message; decide which agency takes
control of its dissemination and keep the families informed at all
times.
The baffling stream of information must be heart-breaking for the
relatives of the 227 passengers and crew. Of those, 154 are Chinese,
a ratio which has prompted the mainland to rally behind their cause.
Families of the victims have been filmed shouting at Malaysian
officials as their grievance builds over the lack of information and
disorienting turn of events.
China's Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Hong Lei, has even urged
Malaysia to provide, "comprehensive and correct
information".
My message to the government would be: Yes, this is not a normal
investigation, but instead of playing victim to events, leverage the
nexus of abnormality, tragedy and interest in the story to recreate
a new Malaysia.
Malaysian government under microscope
Let's put it into context.
The global glare of publicity is landing on an administration deeply
uncomfortable with any level of scrutiny.
Malaysia's ruling party keeps tight control of all aspects of
domestic media - it is either state-sponsored, choked by
authorities, or opposition-led. Media outlets or editors that dare
question the administration perish by the wayside, or are ordered
back in line.
At election time, the New Straits Times newspaper, a mouthpiece for
the ruling coalition will be awash with barely rewritten government
press releases, eulogising about the "achievements" of those
in power.
What has this to do with Flight MH370? This stranglehold on free
expression has nurtured a government unused to being cross-examined
in public and more accustomed to changing its mind and message at
will.
Moreover, the lack of oxygen given to rational democratic debate
within Malaysia has fostered a cosseted leadership that either goes
on the attack or retreats to its ideological ivory tower when it
feels imperiled.
To enforce its intolerance of dissent, the Malaysian government
deploys powerful tools of control. Until September 2011, the
Internal Security Act (ISA) was a catch-all deterrent to those who
spoke out openly against the government.
It sanctioned detention without trial and swept many opposition
members into solitary confinement. In its place, authorities have of
late been commandeering the Sedition Act to silence critics with
increasing vigour.
This insidiousness has come to haunt the Malaysian government in its
current time of need. True, as Hishamuddin said, "This is not a
normal investigation".
But his and his cohorts' mishandling of crisis communications has
made the government look shifty instead of perhaps being just plain
incompetent, adding rocket fuel to the plethora of theories on the
plane's whereabouts.
Hishammuddin - himself - is political royalty: He's the current
prime minister's cousin, the son of Malaysia's third prime minister
and nephew of its second. With his blood ties, he could easily be
Malaysia's next prime minister.
Ethnicity and connections are highly likely to determine one's fate
in Malaysia. Lucrative affirmative action policies promote ethnic
Malays over the more than 30 percent Chinese and Indian minorities.
The situation translates into each Malaysian being born with a
semi-pre-ordained destiny - boosted by state coffers - that will
decide which university you choose, what jobs you get, how many
children you have, or even whether you end up in the cabinet.
Meanwhile, the elite have enriched themselves through a cosy network
of crony capitalism that venomously lashes out at those who threaten
its existence. Malaysia ranks third, behind only Russia and Hong
Kong, in The Economist's crony capitalism index 2014, a list of
"countries where politically-connected businessmen are most
likely to prosper".
It's a sad indictment for a country that was once celebrated as
having as much economic potential as South Korea.
Seize control of the situation
Social media, Asia's rising economic clout and irreversible
globalisation mean the insular behaviour of the Malaysian government
is long past its sell by date.
A Malaysian love of communication has neatly translated into a
wholehearted adoption of the internet and social media - and with
great effect. More and more Malaysians are turning to alternative
web sites like Malaysiakini, The Malaysia Insider and Free Malaysia
Today to source their news.
Indeed, the opposition's popularity partly rests on the delivery of
its message through Facebook, SMS and whatsapp. Last year, the
opposition's frontline social media campaign helped it wrestle away
the government's crucial two thirds parliamentary majority, needed
to change the constitution.
It's time the ruling coalition acknowledged that its supremacy -
which has benefitted the few at the cost of many - needs a serious
overhaul.
As a communications professional, my message to the government would
be: Yes, this is not a normal investigation, but instead of playing
victim to events, leverage the nexus of abnormality, tragedy and
interest in the story to recreate a new Malaysia.
Zarina Banu is a freelance writer, focusing on economics and
business-policy in the Asia-Pacific.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not
necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.</tt></small></pre>
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Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-41552088057069146032012-08-26T03:44:00.000-07:002012-08-26T03:56:21.173-07:00NewsKini new URL update after cjb.net ceased URL redirection serviceSince cjb.net has discontinued its free redirect service - our news website is no longer accessible via http://newskini.cjb.net. <br />
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However NewsKini Main System can still be accessed via the following URLs:<br />
<p>
<li>Direct Access: <a href="http://news-kini.appspot.com/s/pythoncgi/index.html">http://news-kini.appspot.com/s/pythoncgi/index.html</a> </li>
<li>Access via a URL shortener:<a href="http://goo.gl/WSlMw">http://goo.gl/WSlMw</a></li>
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The NewsKini cloud app is still at <a href="http://news-kini.appspot.com">http://news-kini.appspot.com</a> - but it would not be updated as frequent as the Main NewsKini News System URLs above.Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-84247728489948152342012-04-28T13:32:00.000-07:002012-04-30T11:29:33.976-07:00Bersih Rally: Police Violence Against Journalists Points to Real War AheadEven Aljazeera and Malaysiakini crew (journalist, cameraman, photographer etc) have became
victims of the police violence in Bersih Rally. It can be said that this is the <span style="color: red;">worst attack</span> on cameraman in Malaysia history.<br />
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It is obvious now that the real war out there is in the media capture!
By arresting and attacking the <span style="color: red;">primary</span> carriers of information - the political masters think
they can control what we see and hear. However, this will only trigger a wave of <span style="color: red;">secondary carriers of information</span> (citizen journalism) unlike anything seen ever before.<br />
<br />
Imagine anyone with a smartphone camera can easily become an unofficial citizen journalist. This is a liquid media revolution which will flow by itself by its own energy as witnessed in Egypt.<br />
<br />
<i style="text-align: left;">"I don’t think anyone could have predicted that smartphones would end up
playing a major role in journalistic coverage or revolutions
worldwide—but as this <a href="http://frugaldad.com/digital-cameras/" target="_blank">infographic</a> shows, they have." - FrugalDad*</i><br />
<br />
Many people think the social-political leaders are the most contributing factor for toppling 'hard to fall' corrupted governments like in Egypt and Libya. But it is actually the <span style="color: red;">primary and secondary journalism</span> that ultimately <span style="color: red;">connect, move and bind things together and trigger more uprising</span>. It is the media that made the message reaches everywhere.<br />
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In other words - these are the ultimate 'liquid bullets' that can really capture and continue to flow. . i.e. a <span style="color: purple;">MOVEMENT</span>. Not only that - it can move and touch the outsiders too - even the journalist himself!!!<br />
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“<i>I didn’t go to Libya to <span style="color: purple;">cover</span> a war, I went to cover an uprising,”
said Brown, who was using an iPhone loaded with the Hipstamatic app
after dropping his SLR on one of the first days he was there. “But then
it became a war so I followed it, because that’s where the story was
<span style="color: purple;">movi</span></i><span style="color: purple;">ng</span>.”- Time Magazine - Michael Christopher Brown - photo journalist.<br />
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Remember the great Mahatma Gandhi himself was a journalist!<br />
<br />
<i>''As a journalist, Gandhi could have taught a few lessons in mass
communication. An <span style="color: magenta;">effective communicator</span>, fearless and eloquent with his
words, he reached out to millions of people and convinced them of his
cause.</i><br />
<strong><i><br /></i></strong><br />
Consider this simple words from Mahatma Gandhi:<br />
<br />
"<i>Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love</i>"<br />
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<b>THE POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE CAMERA </b><br />
<br />
It seems as if there are special orders from above to control not just the protesters - but also the Press people with camera! And they didn't even care who you are - MalaysiaKini, <em>Guang Ming Daily, </em><em>Channel News Asia, </em><em>Merdeka Review, Malay Mail, or even </em><em>Al Jazeera cameras</em><em>. </em>Instead of safeguarding the safety of press men, the police are assaulting them. The main-stream media and the top BN leaders even made matters worst by siding with the police as if the police are always 100% right. (Hishammuddin was quoted as saying the police have acted <a href="http://www.nst.com.my/latest/police-dealt-with-rowdy-protestors-professionally-hishammuddin-1.78706" target="_blank">profesionally</a>). This is a very BIG mistake when we view the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y8wIUtqJ6A" target="_blank">Police Cruelty at Bersih 3.0 below (Reaching 406,132 hits</a>). We can expect the first 'citizen journalist' video to gain traction as we approach the election.<br />
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Hishamuddin so-called police acted professionally!</div>
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Al Jazeera report using Ipad after camera 'professionally' busted by police .</div>
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An investigative journalist will surely ask himself - why they want to target the camera? Of course the images will create undesirable impact against the establishment - but there is something more out there that they do not wish to be discovered - especially by expensive HD/SLR cameras.<br />
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These cameras can see beyond the surface - that's why the CSI team also used them . They provide exceptional details and identification invincible to the naked human eye. Those who study eye iridology and facial blood map can predict and read your characters by analyzing your face!! (See Note 4)<br />
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<i>Reference: </i><br />
1. MalaysiaKini: <a href="http://malaysiakini.com/news/196348" target="_blank">Press pixmen nabbed over assault pictures</a><br />
<i>2.</i> FrugalDad: <a href="http://frugaldad.com/digital-cameras/" target="_blank">The People's Tech Revolution</a><br />
3. MalaysiaKini: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np8ro9esPsI&feature=fvsr" target="_blank">Bersih 2.0 Pic Journalism Controversy with MCMC </a><br />
4. Anatomist CSI: <a href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/pdo/ll_pdo.nsf/pages/PDO_facialmapping" target="_blank">Facial Mapping CSI</a><br />
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<br />Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-35181078204316587462012-03-15T01:04:00.000-07:002012-03-15T01:04:09.568-07:00NewsKini Cloud is now running at Google GAEWe are now running a <b><a href="http://news-kini.appspot.com/">Beta NewsKini Google App Engine (GAE)</a></b> program.<br />
<br />
Initially all updates will be performed manually until an automatic <br />
server efficient crawling backend program is completed.Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-13138371051522988182012-03-12T12:04:00.001-07:002012-03-12T12:05:53.983-07:00NewsKini cloud in progressNewsKini App is still under construction inside the Cloud -<br />
but in the meantime part of it can be seen below:<br />
<br />
<li><a href="http://news-kini.appspot.com/list">News List</a></li><br />
<li><a href="http://news-kini.appspot.com/browse/News_Maker.html">Browse News Maker</a></li><br />
<br />
In the next few days we are going to populate the database with more socio-political news sub groups.<br />
<br />
Then we can generate the main page at new URL<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #006666;">http://news-kini.appspot.com</span><br />
<br />
Once completed <span style="color: #38761d;">http://newskini.cjb.net</span> will be redirected <br />
to this new URL.Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-29767694321733711172012-03-04T19:11:00.000-08:002012-03-04T19:11:26.636-08:00NewsKini moving out to the cloud.NewsKini is unavailable temporarily due to new server application migration - we hope it will be running by 12th March 2012.Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-65744019337702565532011-08-20T12:26:00.000-07:002011-08-20T12:26:45.006-07:00Google and Motorola Mobility - Purely Genius or Simply Disaster?The answer can be found through the the following clues: <br />
<br />
<div style="color: #990000;">Conceptually - Google is a 'middle man' technology company</div><div style="color: #990000;">whose business is about connecting something with something using something</div><span style="color: #990000;">with superior quality and speed. </span><br />
<br />
eg connecting 'billions of human' to 'massive amount of information' using 'sophisticated' technology<br />
in the fastest way (and as accurate as) possible.<br />
<br />
<br />
In other words Google is a 'medium' technology company which<br />
aims to become a useful tool (eg Search/Email/Ads) and destination (eg Youtube).<br />
<br />
As such it will always evolve to become the most sought-after and dependable content delivery company.<br />
<br />
Google success will depend on speed, accuracy and style (like Apple) of<br />
delivering (or connecting) those hungry users with the desired information.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Motorola has produced some innovative things with style in its history.<br />
Perhaps Motorola compression patent is the 'most-wanted' in Motorola<br />
innovation because wireless is an expensive medium. Or Motorola CPU<br />
and chips experience inside flying GUI Apples. It is not just the invaluable<br />
patents that Google is after - it is the speed and quality factor!<br />
<br />
To achieve ultra speed user experience - the Android OS alone is insufficient:<br />
Remember thats why Apple chose Motorola for those old Macs!<br />
<br />
To summarize:<br />
<span style="color: #990000;">Google will acquire more company in the future - especially those </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">that have anything to do with t</span><span style="color: #990000;">he media content, media delivery and media connection</span>.<br />
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Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-50800875387558011992011-04-22T21:14:00.000-07:002011-04-22T21:19:05.015-07:00Typical MACC disaster with Teoh and SarbaniA) For Teoh they said it was both suicide and homicide.<br />
B) For Sarbani they concluded that it was an accidental falling down death.<br />
<br />
If you read carefullty between the lines - it is not really diffcult to <br />
understand :<br />
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1. Direct attack to the skull by banging head to wall.<br />
2. Indirect attack to the brain by continuous slapping.<br />
3. Attack to human sense of balance by spinning the <br />
body around and around many times (create dizziness)<br />
4. Tying the legs and hanging a person upside down for a few hours.<br />
<br />
After either one of above (or a combination of any of above) <br />
put the victim near a wide-open window of a tall building - <br />
you will get the most probable answer!<br />
<br />
It is a '<span style="color: red;">blood and brain'</span> torture technique commonly used to<br />
extract confession.<br />
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Reference: http://clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/6/10/49058.html<br />
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<b>Upside Down Torture</b>: <br />
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This is one of the commonly used tortures inflicted by labor camps and brainwashing classes on Falun Dafa practitioners who refuse to give up their belief. This torture makes the practitioner's <span style="color: red;">blood back-flush</span>, and can result in <span style="color: red;">loss of consciousness or even death after a long period of time</span>. Sometimes the police forbid the practitioner to use the toilet, and hang the practitioner upside down to humiliate him or her.Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-69423314405647697342011-04-11T19:58:00.000-07:002011-04-11T20:31:45.356-07:00Newskini.serveftp.net suddenly dissappearedIf you are accessing Newskini via newskini.serveftp.net then<br />you won't be able to reach us from 11th April 2011.<br /><br />The reason is because DynDNS no longer provide free IP parking<br />inside serveftp.net domain name. <br /><br />Dyndns has been doing this kind of drastic changes without<br />'proper' notice. <br /><br />Newskini should be accessed from url <a href="http://newskini.cjb.net">http://newskini.cjb.net</a><br />This will forward to http://newskini.dyndns.org<br /><br />In the future we intend to stop using DynDNS services completely - <br />thus do not bookmarked us at http://newskini.dyndns.org<br /><br />We had similar experience before where our account was suddenly deleted by DynDNS.<br /><br />This kind of problem is typical with the so called 'free' web services<br />which will change the "terms of services" anytime they like.Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-68037307005198659992011-03-27T02:50:00.000-07:002011-03-27T11:29:21.932-07:00Datuk T and Stupid Sex Video Crap PropagandaIf you are sick of hearing all the crap from the crony media<br />- then you are not alone. <br /><br />Don't be like some so called 'loyar burok' who always act <br />with full lawlessness:<br /><br />"KITA teguk benda mabuk tu dulu.... KITA tengok blue dulu"<br /><br /><br />The police can always check with Telcos of anyone's<br />location at the stated time (using mobile phone signal).<br />That's why the law for all mobile phone must be registered.<br /><br />Yes - can check Datuk T, Anwar or whoever wherever.<br />No need to beat around the bush with bullshit! <br />It is a simple technology where Telco can 'see'<br />anyone anywhere.<br /><br />Just Google for 'phone locator technology SS7':<br /><br />You may get the Network World Magazine (Mar 2, 1998)<br />article : <u>Telcos tussle with feds over surveillance</u><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border:0px" src="http://books.google.com/books?id=gBsEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA8&ots=zRDDE70w_O&dq=phone%20locator%20technology%20SS7&pg=PA8&output=embed" width=500 height=500></iframe><br /><br /><br /><b>Stop Stupid Crap Please</b><br /><br />Mobile Positioning and SS7 is a standard which glue things together. <br /><br />- SS7 made <a href="http://www.mobilein.com/mobile_positioning.htm">Mobile Positioning</a> easier.<br />- Every call in every network is dependent on <a href="http://www.mobilein.com/ss7.htm">SS7</a><br /><br /><i>AT&T developed SS7/C7 in 1975, and the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT) <br />[109] adopted it in 1980 as a worldwide standard. </i> - Refer: <a href="http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=330805">Cisco: Role of SS7 </a>:<br /><br />It shows how stupid the so called 'One-Malaysia'<br />which claimed to be championing MSC (Multimedia Super Corridor).<br /> <br />Mobile phones are like little networked computers with built in <br />locator device with SIM identification.<br /><br />From: <a href="http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=330805">Cisco: Role of SS7 </a>:<br /><br /><ul><br /><i>Each time a cellular phone is powered up, SS7/C7-based transactions identify, authenticate, and register the subscriber. Before a cellular call can be made, further transactions check that the cellular phone is not stolen (network dependent option) and qualify permission to place the call (for example, the subscriber may be barred from International usage). In addition, the SS7/C7 network tracks the cellular subscriber to allow call delivery, as well as to allow a call that is already in progress to remain connected, even when the subscriber is mobile.</i><br /></ul><br /><br /><br />Telco has a <u>location register</u> to track anyone anywhere.<br />Refer CNET article: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20002986-245.html">Legal spying via the cell phone system</a><br /><br /><ul><br /> <i>Only telecom providers are supposed to have access to the location register, but small telcos in the EU are offering online access to it for a fee, mostly to companies using it for marketing data and cost projections, according to DePetrillo.<br /><br />"Using previous research on the subject as a starting point, we've developed a way to map these mobile switching center numbers to caller ID information to determine what city and even what part of a city a phone number is in" at any given moment, he said. "I can watch a phone number travel to different mobile switching centers. If I know your phone number, I can track your whereabouts globally."</i><br /></ul>Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-71636440854998979212011-01-23T09:07:00.000-08:002011-01-26T19:04:12.178-08:00Microblogging Rosmah can be an app killer futureWe are about to see the rise of micro blogging using phones or using<br />personal computers (people too lazy to type or just want to broadcast<br />something important as brief as possible ).<br /><br />This is ideal when<br /><br />a) reporting disaster (accident, flood, traffic jam, harsh weather)<br />b) straight facts or figures (stock, election, percentage)<br />c) picturing scene via camera phone (crime scene, moving strategy).<br />d) mass broadcast of a political liability<br /><br />This broadcasting trend has a potential....<br />especially if one's channel center (facebook/tweet or whatever)<br />has a reliable reputation.and integrity.<br /><br />Imagine if people subscribing to that channel can receive<br />SMS (or auto feed internet message push) to their phones<br />instantly!<br /><br />Sooner or later someone could write a program to generate<br />a Buzz automatically (with pictures too!) and tweet instantaneously.<br /><br />Object -------- Action/Attribute/Happening<br /><br />eg<br /><p><br />teoh beng hock --- death<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrmcCVyu8DK-wgxBh-MvIwCn66lChjULoSBmWB01eITb_flexDVSgpem0A3zRDMfJukK9bXyQAvJzq-0Xnyh_-HU8Ik8e_i5eWomWsYfST1TuZFxyvD-wSDrnXncUpDoDDqpq6zg/s1600/tbh.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 193px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrmcCVyu8DK-wgxBh-MvIwCn66lChjULoSBmWB01eITb_flexDVSgpem0A3zRDMfJukK9bXyQAvJzq-0Xnyh_-HU8Ik8e_i5eWomWsYfST1TuZFxyvD-wSDrnXncUpDoDDqpq6zg/s320/tbh.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565455669712890354" border="0" /></a><br /></p><br /><p><br />obama -- basketball accident<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaYhngOciOxOQmi89zijEGvI47jBKnKLLkTzoHiSp6QtG8Mkvf6WikNCrpbM9CacPk9hS8BhcluP22o_BGuSK48-Omnw2VSekNlQzu-zKVWXOEJ-Cyu9uO7NrExkFNMOyyfhjhGg/s1600/tbh.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 145px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaYhngOciOxOQmi89zijEGvI47jBKnKLLkTzoHiSp6QtG8Mkvf6WikNCrpbM9CacPk9hS8BhcluP22o_BGuSK48-Omnw2VSekNlQzu-zKVWXOEJ-Cyu9uO7NrExkFNMOyyfhjhGg/s200/tbh.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565457098628908066" /></a><br /></p><br /><p><br />sometimes it can be difficult especially someone doing multiple object/words action:<br /><br /> rosmah -- dubai <br /> rosmah -- fly (aeroplane, kite etc)<br /> rosmah -- 600K money dubai <br /> rosmah -- 100K hotel dubai<br /> rosmah -- expenses<br /><br /></p><br /><p><br /><br /><br />Speaking of Rosmah - if you look at the Star newspaper - almost everyday there will be<br />a picture of Rosmah (in color print) in the first few pages. There is a reason for<br />Star doing this but it may backfire... because it is already too excessive...<br />ie the paper has made Rosmah to appear more show stopper (prominent/active/power/important etc) <br />than Najib,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLTWO5gUbhauVe72qGbUlieM1o4QX3GTvXUcFnWY0KpZiBbmhLxZ-z52PYBj5kPFW94QIO5LNyKDdp5b7Yty22dK5IDN7Wz3l64_MyKd-aYldseUOaKZaYFJ4vlWS5nf57ROVrdg/s1600/rosmah.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 157px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLTWO5gUbhauVe72qGbUlieM1o4QX3GTvXUcFnWY0KpZiBbmhLxZ-z52PYBj5kPFW94QIO5LNyKDdp5b7Yty22dK5IDN7Wz3l64_MyKd-aYldseUOaKZaYFJ4vlWS5nf57ROVrdg/s200/rosmah.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566691168334859858" /></a><br /><br />Look at above photo - which was probably taken from Kroni paper.<br />Rosmah was photo captured in more focus and in front of Najib.<br /><br /><br /></p>Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-49602243639898076472009-10-23T23:03:00.000-07:002009-10-23T23:41:08.675-07:00Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand: Teoh Beng Hock case 80% homicide<pre><small><tt><tt><i>This revelation is from one international forensic pathologist expert.<br />If we can bring more experts then more bizarre things will be exposed!<br /><br />In case you didn't know, MACC's famous style of torture is by turning<br />off the lights so that you can't see or identify the culprits who beat<br />you. And they use things like wood to beat in order to mask or hide<br />any obvious external injuries.<br /><br />Few important observation here in this report:<br /><br />a) Attack to HEAD SKULL (signs of the culprit's impatience)<br />b) Attack to ANUS (torture to extract confession).<br />c) The attacker body size is probably bigger than Teoh's.<br />d) In order words - its too much force or excessive torture .....<br /><br /></i><br /><br /><br />Ref: <a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/22/nation/4952131&sec=nation">The Star</a><br /><br /><b>Pornthip: Several of Teoh’s injuries appeared inconsistent with fall</b><br /><br />By WANI MUTHIAH<br /><br />SHAH ALAM: Renowned Thai forensic pathologist Dr Pornthip<br />Rojanasunand told the inquest into the death of political aide Teoh<br />Beng Hock that it was an 80% probability his death was a homicide.<br /><br />She said it was only a 20% probability that Teoh had committed<br />suicide.<br /><br />Dr Pornthip also testified that the marks on Teoh’s neck looked<br />like he had been manually strangled.<br /><br /><br />The Selangor government had invited Dr Pornthip, the<br />director-general of Thailand’s Ministry of Justices Central<br />Institute of Forensic Science, to give her expert opinion.<br /><br />She is well-known for her prowess in cracking open complicated<br />homicide cases.<br /><br />She is the author of Investigation of Corpses, which sold 100,000<br />copies in Thailand, and also led a group of international forensic<br />scientists in 2004 to identify the remains of the Asian tsunami<br />victims.<br /><br />Her life and work was narrated in the National Geographic<br />documentary Crime Scene Bangkok in 2004.<br /><br />Questioned by Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, counsel holding a watching brief<br />for the Selangor government, Dr Pornthip said that several of<br />Teoh’s injuries appeared to be inconsistent with a fall from<br />height and appeared to be pre-fall injuries.<br /><br />(Dr Pornthip had been provided postmortem reports prepared by Dr<br />Khairul Aznam Ibrahim from the Klang Tengku Rahimah Ampuan and<br />Universiti Malaya Medical Centre’s Dr Prashant Samberkar as well<br />as pictures of Teoh’s injuries.)<br /><br />Referring to an anal tear Teoh suffered as a “penetrative<br />injury”, Dr Pornthip said she had never seen this type of injury<br />in cases of a fall.<br /><br />If the injury had indeed been caused by a bone protrusion, she said<br />it would have come from the inside of Teoh’s anus.<br /><br />She said the abrasions on Teoh’s right upper thigh looked like he<br />had been beaten with a piece of wood.<br /><br />She added that there was a need to cut open the skin to check for<br />internal bleeding to determine whether Teoh had been tortured.<br /><br />(Both the pathologists who had conducted the postmortem on Teoh had<br />not done so.)<br /><br />Dr Pornthip also said Teoh’s skull fracture was not typical of a<br />transferred injury due to a fall but was more compatible with a<br />blunt force being directly inflicted to the head.<br /><br />She said the transferred injury to the skull due to the impact of<br />the fall would typically cause a ring fracture at the base of the<br />skull around the spinal column and not a cervical spine fracture as<br />suffered by Teoh.<br /><br />Dr Pornthip said Teoh, 30, was probably alive when he hit the<br />ground but might have been unconscious before the fall.<br /><br />She said this was because there was no reaction wounds on his ankles<br />and wrists to show he had instinctively tried to stop himself from<br />hitting the ground.<br /><br />She said it was possible he was unconscious from manual<br />strangulation or pain from the anal region.<br /><br />She estimated his time of death to have occurred between 6am and 8am<br />on July 16.<br /><br />Teoh, the political secretary to Selangor executive councillor Ean<br />Yong Hian Wah, had been summoned to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption<br />Commission (MACC) office at the 14th floor of Plaza Masalam to be<br />questioned over the irregular disbursement of state funds on July<br />15.<br /><br />He was found dead on the fifth floor service corridor of the<br />building the following day.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the Selangor government called on the authorities to<br />study the expert opinion of Dr Pornthip on Teoh’s death.<br /><br />“Her evidence has indeed proven that the state’s fear on the<br />safety of government officials during interrogation by the MACC is<br />not totally unfounded,” Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim said<br />in a statement yesterday.<br /><br />Given her experience, he said Dr Pornthip’s evidence could not be<br />taken lightly.<br /><br />He reiterated his government’s call for a Royal Commission of<br />Inquiry into Teoh’s death instead of just looking into the<br />interrogation methods used on him by the MACC.</tt></tt></small><hr /></pre>Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-85593843116681528692009-08-28T23:55:00.000-07:002009-08-29T00:07:11.127-07:00Asia Sentinel: Malaysia's Port Storm<span style="font-style: italic;">A must-read article.</span>... <span style="font-style: italic;">which main stream media should have put into front headlines.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Did MACC go to investigate aggressively and snatched PC or laptops like they did to Pakatan Rakyat?</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Reference: <a href="http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2020&Itemid=229">Asia Sentinel</a><br /><br />Monday, 24 August 2009<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Malaysia's Port Storm </span><br /><br />Written by Our Correspondent<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission dances gingerly around a huge</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">scandal</span><br /><br />Malaysia's Anti-Corruption Commission has been tireless in the pursuit<br />of wrongdoers, particularly those from the opposit<span style="font-size:12;"><img src="http://www.asiasentinel.com/images/stories/smoothgallery/JAN2008/malay-port.jpg" style="float: right;" alt="Image" title="Image" border="0" height="257" hspace="6" width="320" /></span>ion Pakatan Rakyat<br />coalition that controls Selangor, Malaysia's richest state. But<br />somehow – perhaps just an oversight – the MACC has been dawdling for<br />five years on a case that appears to be one of the biggest scandals<br />ever to hit a country that has generated some spectacular ones.<br /><br />That is the RM7.45 billion (US$2.12 billion) cost to turn Port Klang,<br />the seaport 70 km. west of the capital of Kuala Lumpur, into a<br />national transshipment hub to rival the Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai.<br />Its directors say it is likely to default on billions of ringgit in<br />loans, with the possibility, according to an auditor's report, that<br />accumulated interest could drive the cost to a whopping RM12.45<br />billion.<br /><br />Conceived in 1999, the Port Klang Free Zone was yet another massive<br />development scheme put forward by former Prime Minister Mahathir<br />Mohamad although he had left office before the real carnival began.<br />The project appears to have ignited a virtual feeding frenzy for<br />politicians from the Barisan Nasional, or ruling national coalition.<br /><br />The port development was awarded as a turnkey project without<br />competitive bid to well-connected political cronies of the United<br />Malays National Organisation and the Malaysian Chinese Association,<br />the two biggest components of the Barisan Nasional. Project outlays,<br />originally projected at RM1.95 billion, ballooned to RM3.52 billion,<br />with interest accounting for another RM3.9 billion by 2012. The<br />parties to the contract have fallen on each other, describing illicit<br />payments and filing lawsuits. The squabble appears set to wreck what<br />is left of the MCA, already in disastrous shape after the electoral<br />drubbing it took in March 2008 elections.<br /><br />The case stands in vivid contrast to the MACC's zeal in prosecuting<br />opposition politicians from the Selangor state government. As many as<br />six or seven have had their office records dealing with constituency<br />expenditures taken away for investigation. The most publicized of<br />those was State Executive Councilor Ean Yong Hian Wah, whose aide,<br />Teoh Beng Kock, died on July 16, either by suicide or other means,<br />after undergoing a marathon questioning session in the MACC offices<br />over RM2,400 worth of flags the lawmaker handed out to his<br />constituents during a Merdeka (Freedom) Day celebration.<br /><br />An anonymous letter written on MACC stationery was released to the<br />press last week, accusing Hishamuddin Hashim, an MACC deputy director<br />for Selangor state, of conspiring with Mohammad Khir Toyo, a leading<br />United Malays National Organization politician and former chief<br />minister in Selangor state, to start corruption probes into opposition<br />politicians. Khir Toyo has denied the charge. Opposition Democratic<br />Action Party officials have been accused of fabricating the letter.<br />Its origin is currently under investigation by police.<br /><br />Certainly, there appears to be plenty about the Port Klang development<br />for the MACC to investigate. The project is mired in controversy and<br />name-calling, with Tiong King Sing, the head of Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd,<br />the company given the turnkey contract to build the massive facility,<br />saying he had paid RM10 million in three installments to Ong Tee Keat,<br />the head of the MCA, "for activities related to the MCA. Tiong is a<br />leader of the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party and head of the<br />influential Backbenchers Club in the Dewan Dakyat, or parliament. Ong,<br />also the transport minister, is offering to sue Tiong for his<br />assertion that he had channeled money to Ong. Other MCA stalwarts are<br />seeking to oust Ong from his leadership position, further fracturing<br />the party.<br /><br />Kuala Dimensi in turn is wholly owned by Wijaya Baru Sdn Bhd, which is<br />the main contractor to Kuala Dimensi. Wijaya Baru is controlled by<br />Wijaya Baru Holdings Sdn. Bhd. Azim Mohd Zabidi, the former UMNO<br />treasurer, is chairman of Wijaya Baru Global Bhd. Chor Chee Heung,<br />former deputy was former deputy home minister under Mahathir, who was<br />home minister and fiance minister at the time. Chor was the Wijaya<br />Baru Global non-executive deputy chairman from April 2004 till July<br />2007.<br /><br />"This Port Klang FreeTrade zone is a colossal mess, with billions upon<br />billions gone missing. It was earmarked for the MCA and the Chinese<br />community," said a lawyer with links to the United Malays National<br />Organization. "Many MCA/Chinese contractors benefitted from the deal.<br />It has been an issue for the last six years, but only now has it<br />become explosive."<br /><br />Opposition member Ronnie Liu, a DAP official, lodged a police report<br />with the MACC on the scandal as early as 2004. The DAP has lodged a<br />series of other reports in the intervening years, said a spokesman for<br />the Pakatan Rakyat, the opposition coalition headed by Anwar Ibrahim.<br />None of the requests, the spokesman said, elicited any response from<br />the authorities. Recently Ahmad Said Hamdan, the chief commissioner<br />for MACC, declined to answer questions in a parliamentary accounts<br />selective committee hearing into the Port Klang scandal, saying the<br />case is still under investigation.<br /><br />The story was broken wide open, however, with the recent publication<br />of a 51-page confidential report into the port's finances by the<br />international accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers. The report,<br />dated Feb. 3, was "not intended for general circulation or<br />publication. It must not be reproduced, republished, copied,<br />distributed, excerpted, disclosed, quoted, alluded or referred to,<br />whether in whole or in part, to any other party in any way without<br />prior written consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services Sdn<br />Bhd (PwCAS)." However, selected parts were indeed excerpted,<br />disclosed, quoted, alluded or referred to by the opposition, and since<br />been given wide distribution.<br /><br />Among other things, according to the report, which was obtained by<br />Asia Sentinel, "…significant project costs, weak governance and weak<br />project management have severely undermined the viability of the<br />project. It is imperative that (the Port Klang authority) take<br />immediate actions to restructure the (ministry of finance) soft loan<br />of RM4.632 billion to avoid a potential default in 2012. The<br />Government of Malaysia would need to make a concerted effort to turn<br />the Port Klang Free Zone into a viable venture."<br /><br />The report names a veritable rogue's gallery of MCA and other<br />officials involved in the development of the project including two<br />former transport ministers, Ling Liong Sik, the former MCA head, and<br />Chan Kong Choy; three former Port Authority chairmen, the former UMNO<br />treasurer Azim Mohd Zabidi, the first woman general manager of the<br />authority, O.C.Phang and the project executor, Tiong King Sing.<br /><br />In addition to awarding the contract to Kuala Dimensi without<br />competitive bid, the land purchase was never vetted by the Malaysian<br />cabinet, although it cost RM1.088 billion against a market value of<br />the land of only RM442 million. Kuala Dimensi "may have overcharged<br />PKA for interest by between RM51 million and RM309 million in<br />connection with the purchase of the land," the report said.<br /><br />According to another report, The 1,000 acres for the port were<br />purchased by the government from Kuala Dimensi at RM 25 per square<br />foot, or RM 1.8 billion inclusive of interest, giving Kuala Dimensi a<br />capital gain of RM 993 million because it in turn had purchased the<br />land from the Pulau Lumut Development Cooperative for only RM 95<br />million -- RM 3 per square foot. An UMNO assemblyman, Abdul Rahman<br />Palil, was both the Pulau Lumut Development Co-operative chairman and<br />a port director in 2002 when the land for the free zone was sold to<br />the port authority. The then-transport minister rejected an assertion<br />by the Malaysian Attorney General that the land could be acquired for<br />"public purpose" under the Land Acquisition Act at RM 10 per square<br />foot.<br /><br />As a result, the report said, interest on a soft loan from the<br />Ministry of Finance "will increase the project outlay from RM4.947<br />billion to RM7.453 billion. Unless the MOF soft loan is restructured,<br />total outlay for the project will increase to RM12.453 billion.<br /><br />And, five years into the project, it remains only 14 percent occupied<br />and "revenue generated is inadequate to cover its operating expenses."<br />The zone is expected to be in cash deficit from 2012.<br /><br />The MACC said recently that it had formed a 30- member panel to<br />investigate further.Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-68372208186071659142009-08-28T22:33:00.000-07:002009-08-29T08:04:30.827-07:00The MACC Lying Bunch of Liars: Anuar, Ashraf, Najeib and More to come<span style="font-style: italic;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" class="tsArticleHeadline" >Another cut and paste of important news reports you should not have missed.<br /><br />Sooner or later these MACC bunch of liars will meet their fate of doom.......<br />It can be seen they are nervous when being questioned to the specifics..<br />especially Mohd Anuar Ismail.<br /><br />This Mohd Anuar Ismail and Hishamuddin Hashim are two monkeys which<br />will lead to the bigger "money keys" above them.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Note: The MACC Torturing by slapping one's face or hitting the soles of<br />one's feet</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> is too FAMOUS already.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">I have friends whose hearing has been<br />seriously impaired because of the slapping. Hitting the soles has also<br />caused a serious walking or standing imbalance for the rest of one's life.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" class="tsArticleHeadline" ><hr /><br /><br /><br /><br />Reference: http://sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=37495<br /></span><b><span class="tsArticleHeadline" style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><br />Teoh Beng Hock inquest: MACC officer accused of torturing witnesses, suspects</span></b><br /><br /> <i><span class="tsArticleByline" style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:78%;" >by Tan Yi Liang</span></i><br /> <span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><br /><table align="right" border="0" bordercolor="silver" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td> <p align="center"><img alt="" src="http://www.sun2surf.com/images/sun2surf/articles/37495/Mohd%20Ashraf%20Mohd%20Yunus.jpg" border="2" height="282" width="230" /><br /><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;" ><strong>Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >SHAH ALAM (Aug 28, 2009):</span></strong><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > The inquest into the death of Teoh Beng Hock got heated up today when a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Selangor branch officer was accused of torturing witnesses and suspects.</span></span> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The allegation by Gobind Singh Deo, the lawyer for Teoh's family, was however denied by the officer, Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus, the inquest's 19th witness.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">He also denied allegations by Gobind that he was being investigated over a police report that torture was used to extract statements at the Selangor MACC office.<br /><br />Gobind then produced a police report which accused Ashraf of torturing a witness during an interrogation, saying that the witness would be brought to court to testify. </span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"This report details how the torture is done, how they physically and psychologically break you down, and when we bring this witness to testify, he will identify these officers and how it is done," said Gobind, who presented a copy of the report to Coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas. The complainant was not named.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">At this point, the counsel assisting the government, Tan Hock Chuan asked for Azmil to advise Ashraf of his rights in light of the evidence within the statement.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Tan said Gobind has the right to pursue this line, although it does not relate to this case, but that to be fair to the witness, he should be told that he can refuse to answer any question that incriminates himself, and it is his right to appoint a lawyer before Gobind pursues this line of questioning further.</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Azmil, who then advised Ashraf of his right to decline questions and to seek counsel before answering questions on the report, then asked Gobind to outline the gist of the reports.</span> </p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> "I have a police report detailing how the witness was tortured by MACC officials on the 14th floor of Plaza Masalam. <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Among the allegations were that officers took turns to slap the witness, blindfolding them, wrapping an iron bar to hit the stomach and buttocks, stripping,<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> whipping of the genitals and soles of feet</span>, and other abuse to the genitals</span>," said Gobind.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">He said there were more than one police report but no action was taken as "the police also feared the MACC".</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This was objected to by MACC counsel Abdul Razak Musa, who questioned the relevance of the report to the inquest. </span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"This diverts the focus of the inquest, and there is no evidence to prove the claims," said Abdul Razak, who was countered by Selangor government counsel Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, who said the two coroners, Dr Khairul Ibrahim and Dr Prashant Samberkar, had not ruled out the possibility that Teoh was tortured prior to his death. </span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"This report proves that torture does happen and testing <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">this report will prove that the last three witnesses are lying,</span>" added Malik.<br /><br />Azmil allowed the request, but directed that Gobind stick to one report to keep the focus on the inquest. </span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"A lot of possibilities were raised by Dr Khairul in his testimony, but possibilities remain. We need to keep the scope narrow, and if the allegations are the same, we can stick to one report. If you want to test that theory, we can restrict it to one report," said Azmil.</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><span style="font-style: italic;">Reference: http://www.mysinchew.com/node/28753</span><br /><br /></span><h2 class="title"><span style="font-size:100%;">Torture allegations levelled at MACC</span></h2> <div class="submitted"><span style="font-size:100%;"> 2009-08-28 20:37 </span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">SHAH ALAM, Aug 28 — The inquest into Teoh Beng Hock’s death heated up today with allegations of torture by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) against “victims” who have subsequently lodged police reports on the alleged physical and psychological abuses at its Plaza Masalam office.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Gobind Singh Deo, who is acting on behalf of Teoh’s family, said one of the complainants will be testifying at the inquest to dispute denials by MACC officers that no oppression takes place while they interview witnesses and suspects.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">The lawyer made the revelations while cross-examining MACC officer Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus and sought the courts permission to read one of the police reports to him.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Coroner, Azmil Muntapha Abas was told the police report detailed torture which a victim was subjected to while detained by the MACC, on the 14th floor of Plaza Masalam.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">The political secretary of DAP’s Ean Yong Hian Wah was questioned at the same MACC office before he was found dead at a landing on the 5th floor of Plaza Masalam, on July 16.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;">Among the abuses in the police report include being stripped naked, blindfolded, and being kicked in the stomach by MACC officers, who took turns to slap him.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;">“They also hit him with an iron rod wrapped in newspapers besides canning him on his private parts and on the soles of his feet.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Gobind said he had pictures of the injuries suffered by the victim and had interviewed him personally.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Lead lawyer for the Attorney-General’s (AG) chambers Tan Hock Chuan said he had no objections to the questions but said the magistrate ought to advise the witness on his rights against self-incrimination or saying anything that could implicate him in a criminal offence.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Both Tan and Azmil were given copies of the police report. However Gobind refused to hand a copy over to MACC legal director Datuk Abdul Razak Musa, citing concerns for the victim who lodged the report.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">“To be fair, the witness was not one of the MACC officers mentioned in the police report.” said Tan but added the witness should still be given an opportunity to be advised by his own lawyer while the rights against self incrimination should be explained to him.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Meanwhile Abdul Razak argued that the court should not take into account the police report because “it’s not relevant to this case.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">He pointed out that a pathologist who testified earlier had said Teoh was not assaulted.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">He added “Even if it happened….” but sat down before completing his sentence.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">However lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, who is acting for the state government, told the court the pathologist did not discount the possibility that Teoh may have suffered pre-fall injuries. Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus in the waiting room, before his testimony. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">All MACC officers, who have testified so far, claimed suspects are not subjected to abuse, and it was important for this fact to be tested, Malik said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Azmil said he would allow Gobind to used the police reports as a basis in his line of questioning of Mohd Ashraf.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">He also explained what self incrimination meant to the 25-year-old MACC officer and informed him that he had a right not to answer the question.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Mohd Ashraf, who worked in a factory before joining the MACC in 2005, said he understood.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">However the court was adjourned today before any further question was put to him, and will resume on September 8.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">After today’s proceedings were adjourned, Gobind explained that as an officer of the court, he was duty bound to inform the coroner on what basis he was cross-examining witnesses on.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">He said this was why he informed the court about the allegations in the police report against the MACC.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;">“The MACC claims there is no abuse of suspects, we will show otherwise and will do it by way of evidence.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">He added the police reports lodged against the MACC had never been investigated by the police and they too need to explain why.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">He said this will be raised not only during the inquest but later at the Royal Commission, which was announced to probe if Teoh’s human rights were violated while questioned by the MACC. (<i>By Neville Spykerman/The Malaysian Insider</i>) </span></p><br /><span class="tsArticleHeadline" style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><hr style="height: 3px;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Reference: http://www.mmail.com.my/content/11636-macc-no-procedure-grilling-witnesses</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div id="content-header" style="font-family:arial;"> <h2 style="font-weight: bold;" class="title"><span style="font-size:130%;">MACC: No procedure for grilling witnesses</span></h2><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><div class="field field-type-date field-field-date" style="font-family:arial;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><span class="date-display-single" style="font-size:85%;">Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 07:26:00</span> </div> </div> </div> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">THERE is no standard operating procedure for the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) for its investigations or interrogation of witnesses.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">MACC deputy superintendent Mohd Anuar Ismail, who said this at the inquest into the death of DAP political aide Teoh Beng Huat, added that all MACC actions must be within the ambit of the MACC Act 2009.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Asked by coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas if there were any procedures applied by the MACC during the custody period or if there was any standing order or internal practice directive, Anuar said they would inform the senior officers and wait for instructions.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Asked by Gobind Singh Deo whether, as the investigating officer, he was responsible for the witness, Anuar said "yes" and that his role was to ensure that witnesses did not face any problems in MACC .</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind: </strong>How did you ascertain this?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar:</strong> Through my officers.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind: </strong>But isn’t it not important for you to ask the witness?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar:</strong> As an investigating officer, there is no need to ask all witnesses and accused.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind: </strong>I f witnesses want to complain and you have this attitude, how are they supposed to complain?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar:</strong> I do not know.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind: </strong>As an investigating officer, you must be fair to both the accused and the prosecution. If your officer<br />had used force on witnesses, do you honestly believe that they will tell you about it? Think about it.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar:</strong> No.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Anuar also said Teoh did not speak to him when he asked Teoh in MACC recording officer Mohd Nadzri Ibrahim’s room around 2am on July 16 if everything was all right. He did not ask Teoh anything further.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind: </strong>How can it not cross your mind that something may have been wrong with Teoh? How can you go back to sleep? Are you not bothered about Teoh?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar:</strong> I disagree.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The witness also told the court that as the investigating officer, he did not telephone the police upon receiving news that Teoh’s body was found on the fifth floor of Plaza Masalam about 2pm on July 16.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Anuar said he referred the matter to the head of the investigations unit, Hishamuddin Hashim, who instructed him to go to Putrajaya.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong> My God! You all go throughout the whole country while there is a dead body there. What is wrong? Why did you all go to Putrajaya?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar: </strong>To get clear instructions.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong> Why only three hours later did the police arrive at the scene? Why did you not tell the police, he (Teoh) was in your custody?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar: </strong>The witness had been released.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong> Stop messing around! Don’t play games here! Why did you not lodge a police report immediately?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar: </strong>The situation was chaotic at that time because a body had been spotted.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind: </strong>Yes, you panicked. But you should not panic if no wrong had been done. Anuar, who had earlier told the inquest that he practised as a lawyer before joining MACC, said he did not not know the law on the<br />finding of a dead body.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">“Forget the law," said Gobind. "As a decent human being, when you find a person dead, will you not call the family or the lawyer of this person?"</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Anuar grinned and said he would do so if the dead person was his friend. He later admitted that he did not<br />lodge a police report as his boss had not instructed him to do so. He did so only the day after the body<br />was found, when Hishamuddin instructed him make the police report.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong> If you were instructed not to make a report, you would not do so?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar:</strong> "I would not make one."</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong> But what about the body in the meantime? Leave the dead body there for one week? Is this how the MACC operates?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar:</strong> We need to receive instructions first, to know what to do.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong> But why wait for one day? Is this reasonable?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar: </strong></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >To me, it is not reasonable. I waited because I was waiting for instructions on the actual procedure.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" >Did it not hit your conscience that your main witness is dead, and you go into your office</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" >and do nothing?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Anuar: </strong></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >Yes, it did.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Gobind: </strong></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" >“You were hiding something, right? This is why you did not lodge a police report so the entire crime scene would be tampered with, because you people killed Teoh Beng Hock!"</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">MACC counsel Datuk Abdul Razak Musa objected to the question but Gobind said it was a question the witness could choose to agree or disagree with.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The inquest continues.</span></p><br /></span><br /><br /><hr /><span style="font-style: italic;">Reference: http://www.mmail.com.my/content/11873-teoh-beng-hock-inquest-‘i-have-no-reason-lie’</span><br /><div id="content-header"><br /><h2 class="title"><span style="font-size:100%;">THE TEOH BENG HOCK INQUEST: ‘I have no reason to lie’</span></h2> </div> <!-- /#content-header --><div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"><span style="font-size:100%;"> MACC officer not sure if he punched out, not sure who was with Teoh at that time </span></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Pearl Lee</span><br /></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="date-display-single"><br />Friday, August 28th, 2009 06:57:00</span></span> </div> </div> </div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />A MALAYSIAN Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officer was accused of lying and covering things up during the Teoh Beng Hock death inquest hearing in Shah Alam yesterday. </span><br /><br /><p><br /><br /><img src="http://www.mmail.com.my/sites/default/files/imagecache/small/najisb.jpg" alt="Najeib" style="margin: 3px;" align="right" border="2" height="220" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="150" /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Mohd Najeib Ahmad Walad, 29, the third MACC witness, said he was <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">not sure</span> if he punched out on July 16 when leaving the MACC office at Plaza Masalam around 2.30am, after smoking, eating and going to the men's room.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">He said he left with two officers he identified only as <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Ridhuan and Hassan.</span> Najeib said he last saw Teoh about<br />10pm on July 16, sitting on a sofa in the guest area with two officers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">"But I can't remember who they were as I was merely passing by," Najeib said to a question from counsel Gobind Singh Deo, who is holding a watching brief for Teoh's family.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Gobind</strong>: What was Teoh doing?<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib:</strong> He was sitting, I guess, as I did not see him standing. I am not sure if he was lying down or sitting.<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Gobind: </strong>Can you remember now what he was doing?<strong><br /></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib:</strong> He was sitting.<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong>This is a court. Don't play around! What was his position?<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib:</strong> He was sitting.<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Gobind</strong>: Who was there with him?<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib:</strong> I'm not sure.<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong> Did you punch out when you left?<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib</strong>:I am not sure how I left.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">This is because besides punching out' we can also use the intercom to leave.<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong> How did you leave then?<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib</strong>: I'm not sure.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Asked by Gobind to describe the condition at MACC at night, Najeib said it was peaceful.<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong> There was no shouting and yelling at each other? Did you see anyone quarrelling when you went to the toilet?<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib:</strong> I did not hear anything.<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Gobind</strong>: You were there (in the toilet), and if there was anyone quarrelling, you would know right?<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib</strong>: If there was I would run. His answer drew laughter from the public gallery.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Gobind asked Najieb if he had run that night, and the witness said no.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">On Tuesday, MAAC deputy superintendent Mohd Anuar Ismail told the inquest thay he was told by an officer called Bulkini that he (Bulkini) had seen Teoh quarrelling with DAP Kajang municipal councillor Tan Boon Wah at 2am on July 16.<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Gobind:</strong> How did you know you left the office at 2.30am?<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib:</strong> I merely estimated the time.<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Gobind</strong>: How did you make that estimation?<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib:</strong> Because my friends suggested we leave about 2.15am.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Najeib said that there was a clock at the punch card machine that showed 2.30am and he may have seen the time there.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">The lawyer lost his cool and suggested that Najeib was lying his way through the proceeding.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">"<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">You are lying, </span><em style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Ini semua satu penipuan</em><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> (This is all a lie). All the answers are either </span><em style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">tak pasti</em><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> (not sure) when he says it's ‘</span><em style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">pasti'</em><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> (sure), he can't answer the question. You are covering up. That night Teoh Beng Hock was whacked and that is why all your testimony is inconsistent</span>," Gobind said..</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">"No!" Najeib replied.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Questioned by government appointed lawyer Tan Hock Chuan, Najeib said he was part of a team that had gone to the Selangor State Secretariat building on the afternoon of July 15 to get documents on State allocations for the Seri Kembangan constituency.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">The team was led by <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Mohd Anuar Ismail</span>, the investigating officer in Teoh's case.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">He said after checks were done on Teoh's laptop and desktop, he had found four invoices in the laptop and four letters on donations from the Seri Kembangan constituency.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">"Teoh later insisted he wanted the laptop and the CPU (central processing unit) to be with him and he also insisted (after being told to go to the MACC building) that he wanted to drive there himself."</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Najeib, who had followed Teoh in his car, said Teoh appeared restless as he drove to Plaza Masalam.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">He also said that <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Anuar instructed him</span> to print copies of the documents. Najeib said he had to ask Teoh for the passwords to access the laptop and desktop.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">He also said that he did not jot down the password for the laptop but remembered the password for Teoh's desktop, which was ‘SUK 2009'.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Gobind: </strong>Because you did not jot down the password, you can't verify that the documents came from the laptop, can you?</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib:</strong> No.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">The witness also said that he did not know whether MACC officers used force on suspects that were called in.<br />Asked by MACC lawyer Datuk Abdul Razak Musa whether he had reason to lie, Najeib answered:"No."<br /><strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Razak: </strong>On the night of July 16, did you see anyone being interrogated loudly, the way Gobind questioned<br />you?</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Najeib</strong>: No.</span></p><br /><br /><hr /><span style="font-style: italic;">Reference: http://www.mysinchew.com/node/28635</span><br /><h2 class="title">MACC officer admits top officials gave orders</h2><div class="submitted"> 2009-08-25 18:46 </div> <div class="content_wrapper"><p>SHAH ALAM: Anti-graft investigator Mohd Anuar Ismail told the coroner’s court Tuesday that top Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officials had ordered him to step up investigations into allegations that Selangor assemblymen misused public funds.</p> <p>He named the senior officials as <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Selangor MACC deputy director Hishamuddin Hashim and investigations unit chief Hairul Ilham Hamzah.</span></p> <p>One of them was named in a mystery letter alleging political collusion in investigating the Pakatan Rakyat state government.</p> <p>Mohd Anuar, 32, is the 16th witness in the inquest into political aide Teoh Beng Hock's death on July 16 at the MACC office in Plaza Masalam here.</p> <p>Previously a lawyer, he had gone through six months of training at a police college in Kuala Kubu Baru before joining the MACC.</p> <p>Teoh was earlier interrogated for nearly 10 hours before he was found dead the morning he was to register his marriage to his two-month pregnant fiancee.</p> <p>The MACC investigator also admitted to Teoh family lawyer Gobind Singh Deo that it was unusual to question people into the wee hours of the morning.</p> <p>He also told the court that he did not check if Teoh's lawyer M. Manoharan had turned up to be present during the interrogation. Gobind claimed Manoharan had waited an hour at the MACC office.</p> <p>Gobind: Why did you need to question the witness at night?</p> <p>Mohd Anuar: That's normal practice.</p> <p>Gobind: Don't be silly. If I asked you to climb a tree, will you do it? I'm asking you why?</p> <p>Mohd Anuar: To hasten the investigation.</p> <p>Gobind: Why?</p> <p>Mohd Anuar: <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">[after hesitating] Because the issue had become sensitive.</span></p> <p>Gobind: What issue?</p> <p>Mohd Anuar: The issue on the allocation of state assemblymen. Because the newspapers were publishing it every day.</p> <p>The MACC man's reply drew a snide remark from Gobind before he continued his heated interrogation of the witness.</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Gobind: You were directed to bring them in and get confessions from them?</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Mohd Anuar: No.</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Gobind: Please! You're on oath here.</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Mohd Anuar: [hesitates] Ya.</p> <p>Gobind: Who directed you?</p> <p>Mohd Anuar: There were two people.</p> <p>Gobind: Who are they?</p> <p>Mohd Anuar: <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">The deputy director Tuan Hishamuddin Hashim and Tuan Hairul Ilham.</span></p> <p>Gobind: Who is he?</p> <p>Mohd Anuar: Head of investigations unit.</p> <p>Gobind seemed satisfied that he succeeded in extracting some names from Mohd Anuar, but couldn't seem to stop from pointing out that the MACC investigator who had been asked to step up the investigations had been “sleeping all night”, causing the public gallery to erupt into chuckles -- even drawing a smile on the magistrate's face — and a faint protest from the witness.</p> <p>MACC legal affairs director Datuk Abdul Razak Musa objected to Gobind's line of questioning and later called the inquest a “kangaroo court”.</p> <p>Coroner magistrate Azmil Munthapa Abas asked Gobind to “soften” his manner of questioning the witness. <i>(By Debra Chong/The Malaysian Insider)</i></p> </div><br /><br /><hr /> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" class="tsArticleHeadline" >Reference: http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=37342</span><b><span class="tsArticleHeadline" style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />IO ordered to pressure Beng Hock into spilling the beans</span></b><br /><br /> <i><span class="tsArticleByline" style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:78%;" >Tan Yi Liang</span></i><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.sun2surf.com/images/sun2surf/articles/37342/TeohInquest.jpg" align="right" border="0" /></strong></span> <span style="font-size:85%;"> <p><strong>SHAH ALAM (Aug 25, 2009) :</strong> Senior Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers ordered an investigating officer to detain political aide Teoh Beng Hock and three other witnesses for questioning overnight to pressure them to spill the beans over alleged misappropriation of allocation for a state assemblyman, the inquest into Teoh's death was told today.</p> <p>MACC investigating officer Mohd Anuar Ismail said this was done because the investigation into the case had to be "sped up" as the issue of the alleged misuse of public funds had become "sensitive" as it was all over the newspapers.</p> <p>Under intense questioning from Teoh's family counsel Gobind Singh Deo, Anuar admitted he had held Teoh and three other witnesses over the night of July 15 as the Selangor MACC deputy director Hishamuddin Hashim and the head of investigations Hairul Ilham had directed him to extract information from the witnesses.</p> <p>He said Teoh was questioned by two officers from 6pm until 3 to 3.45am the next day, and described the extended detention as "normal".</p> <p>He said he was not aware that Teoh's lawyer M. Manoharan had been waiting to see Teoh for more than an hour, although he had agreed to allow the lawyer to be present during the questioning. He said he however had not checked if Manoharan was there, as Teoh was just a witness and had not been arrested.</p> <p>Gobind Singh: "Isn't it oppressive for an individual to be interrogated late into the night?</p> <p>"It may tire the witness," said Anuar, who admitted there were was no standard operating procedure for interrogating witnesses, except the procedures under the Anti-Corruption Act and several other laws.</p> <p> <table align="left" border="0" bordercolor="black" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td> <p align="center"><img alt="" src="http://www.sun2surf.com/images/sun2surf/articles/37342/GobindSinghDeo.jpg" border="1" /><br /><strong><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;" >Gobind Singh</span></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table>On another matter raised by Gobind, Anuar admitted he did not make a police report immediately after seeing Teoh's body at the fifth floor of Plaza Masalam at 2pm on July 16 as he was directed by Hishamuddin to go to Putrajaya to seek instruction from MACC headquarters.</p> <p>"There was panic upon seeing a body there. I informed Hishamuddin about the matter and sought further instruction," said Anuar.</p> <p>This response shocked Gobind, who asked Anuar whether he cared about the fate of his "star witness".</p> <p>Anuar replied that he would have made a report if he was "instructed to do so".</p> <p>Gobind then suggested that Anuar was "actually hiding something". "That's why you were afraid to lodge a police report at that time, so that you could conceal the evidence at the scene because it was actually the MACC officers who killed Teoh," he said.</p> <p>Anuar denied this, along with an allegation that the MACC routinely questioned witnesses at night to hide any evidence of torture as the surrounding offices were closed. </p> <p> <table align="right" border="0" bordercolor="black" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td> <p align="center"><img alt="" src="http://www.sun2surf.com/images/sun2surf/articles/37342/fz_Anuar_Macc.jpg" border="1" /><br /><span lang="EN"><strong><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;" >Mohd Anuar Ismail</span></strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Anuar said when he went to check on the recording of Teoh's statement at 2am by a junior MACC officer, Mohd Nadzri Ibrahim, Teoh appeared uncomfortable, as if he was holding something back. </p> <p>"I suspected that something was amiss, but decided not to ask Teoh what was troubling him in front of the recording officer," said Anuar, who said he went back to sleep.</p> <p>Gobind then accused Anuar of lying to the court when he testified yesterday that Teoh was not oppressed during the questioning, since he was sleeping.</p> <p>When Gobind suggested that Anuar did not know whether Teoh was oppressed, Anuar nodded.</p> <p>Under questioning by MACC counsel Datuk Abdul Razak Musa, Anuar said the MACC had seized boxes of documents from contractors linked to Teoh's boss executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah regarding the misappropriation, and testified that Teoh had seemed "nervous" when his laptop and desktop were seized at his office at the Selangor State Secretariat building. He said four pages of documents printed from the laptop were used in the questioning of Teoh.</p> <p>The inquest continues tomorrow.</p></span>Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-83700218321731212562009-08-20T20:14:00.000-07:002009-08-20T21:43:09.296-07:00Teoh Beng Hock Mystery: Mystery Letter ExposedI have suspected Khir Toyo has something to do with this for quite<br />some time! This mystery letter has confirmed it all. <br /><br />I was also wondering if the man who captured Elizabeth Wong private obscene <br />photo was actually hiding inside Khir Toyo's bungalow? Telco people could <br />easily check this out!!. It seems things are pointing to Khir Toyo - remember <br />the Balkis scandal which was exposed just after Pakatan Rakyat took over Selangor.<br /><br /><br />Reference: <br /><br /><li> <a href="http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/25886/84/">MalaysaToday: The shit has hit the fan</a></li><br /><li> <a href="http://politicsinmy.blogspot.com/2009/08/mystery-letter-gives-clues-of-murderer.html">Politicsinmy Blog</a></li><br /><br />We will cut and paste whatever from above here so that you will get an all-in-one info at one place here.<br /><br /><br /><hr><br /><br /><b>RE: BRIBERY, MISCONDUCT AND CORRUPTION OF A SENIOR OFFICER OF MACC SELANGOR</b><br /><br />With due respect, we would like to refer to the above subject-matter.<br /><br />Please be informed that we, officers of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), feel obliged to expose the misconduct and bribery of a senior officer of MACC, <b>DEPUTY DIRECTOR (DD) MACC Selangor known as PKPj I HISHAMUDDIN BIN HASHIM</b>, in connection with the case of <b>TEOH BENG HOCK</b> and another case involving the bungalow of <b>DATO' SERI DR MOHAMAD KHIR BIN TOYO</b> in Section 7, Shah Alam, Selangor.<br /><br />2. For the kind information of YBhg Tan Sri/Dato/Tuan/Puan, the DD was directly involved in the investigations on the fraud case of the Selangor State Government's funds allocation for YB Ean (ADUN Seri Kembangan). His involvement was not just on official orders, but he has also been given instructions to his subordinates to find, with any means possible, any evidence of wrongdoing by the Selangor State Government. He acted in this manner as he had made a conspiracy with Khir Toyo to topple the state government of Selangor. As a consequence of his greed, it had resulted in the death of <b>TEOH BENG HOCK</b>. There arise a few suspicious questions for us, officers of the MACC Malaysia, regarding how Teoh Beng Hock could have died. We suspect of the DD's involvement in the death of Teoh Beng Hock as based on the following allegations:<br /><ol type=i><br /><br /><li> DD had ordered all MACC officers involved in the operation that he was not directly involved in the case. In fact, he was the one who gave all the orders in this operation and other operations of MACC Selangor. In fact, he was afraid to be involved directly because this could expose his conspiracy with <b>Khir Toyo</b>.</li><br /><br /><li> The chemists have discovered fingerprints and male DNA on the front side of both sides of <b>Teoh Beng Hock's</b> belt. Based on the knowledge of our officers of MACC Malaysia, DD has an individual style of interrogation techniques which include interrogating a suspect by holding the front of his belt, lifting him a few times while shaking him.</li><br /><br /><li> The process of collecting DNA from Selangor MACC officers was performed in 2 sessions. In the first session of collecting DNA, DD made every effort to evade from giving his DNA sample. The DD was said to have given his DNA sample in the second session, but suspicions arise because DD gave his DNA sample in the privacy of his own office while all other MACC officers including the MACC Director have given their DNA samples in a meeting room in the presence of many other individuals. Why did the DD give his DNA sample in a secretive manner? Was the DNA provided really his DNA? We, the officers of the MACC Malaysia, felt puzzled that there was no one else in the presence of the DD when he allegedly gave his DNA sample? We recommend that the DNA Test on the DD must be done again, witnessed by a group of people who can be trusted.</li><br /><br /><li> We have been informed that the DD had ordered his subordinates to erase/clean the fingerprints on the window that Teoh was believed to have fallen from. This proved so when the police could not find any signs of fingerprints, new or old, on the window. The question is, why did the DD order that to be done?</li><br /><br /><li> We suspect, based on information we have obtained, that the DD did not clock out with his punch-card when he left the office on 16th of July 2009, at 6:10 am. This is important because it can prove that the DD was the last person to see Teoh. The question is why he did not clock out with his punch-card as he is a person who always punches his card. For record, he is very diligent with his punch-card.</li><br /></ol><br /><br />3. For the information of YBhg Tan Sir/Dato/Tuan/Puan, the DD in question is very influential in the enforcement of investigation operations around Selangor and the rest of Malaysia. In MACC Selangor, he is the most important person who decides whether a case should be prosecuted even if the power should rest in the hands of the Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP). His decision is prompted by his personal interests and those of his co-conspirators. So, it is no surprise that he led the MACC Selangor Investigative Unit for decades, at least since the Selangor state government was under the helm of the Barisan Nasional government (Khir Toyo) until now. He was promoted ahead of schedule, from Grade 41 to Grade 54, within a period of 16 years without transfer to other positions or locations other than that of the MACC Selangor. Based on the terms of employment of MACC, any officer who has been promoted or who has worked for more than 5 years in a State should be transferred to a different location to avoid the officer being involved in local bribery. One of the reasons he was never transferred is because he was tasked to "take care of" the position of Dato' Seri Dr Khir Toyo in Selangor. As a result, Khir Toyo also "took care of" his position in Selangor as a reciprocal favour.<br /><br />4. As a result of his position in MACC Selangor for these many years, he has been involved in various cases of bribery and misuse of power. Some of the incidents of bribery or misuse of power that we have investigated are as follows:<br /><br /><ol type=i><br /><li> Closing the case of Khir Toyo connected to the approval of a road construction project, in Sekinchan measuring 20.5 km valued at RM 92.5 million to a contractor that was nearly blacklisted, <b>Meram Holdings</b>. According to the JKR's estimates, the road should have cost less than RM 50 million. The subcontractor that did the work on the project was Cabaran Wangsa, owned by Pua Kim An, the landlord of a house that had once been rented by Khir, while another company director, Ahmad Tarmizi Tajjeury is Khir crony that was also given 100 acres of land at a profit to him of at least RM 20 million.</li><br /><br /><li> Possess assets that exceed his emoluments such as:<br /><ul><br />a. Own a few rental houses of which one is a two storey terrace house that was purchased at an exceptional price from Pemaju Kumpulan Lebar Daun Development Sdn Bhd, as a result of the closing of the case against the Group Executive Chairman, Dato' Noor Azman @ Noor Hizam bin Mohd Nurdin. The case was investigated by then BPR Selangor for a few years together with various other houses owned by him. To avoid public and subordinate suspicions, he lived in the Government Quarters in Kg Atap, Kuala Lumpur.<br /><br />b. Own a Petronas petrol station on the left of the Federal Highway KM 8.6 - 8.7, Section 1, Federal Highway, Shah Alam, 40000 Selangor (near the Melati Roundabout, from Shah Alam to Klang bound, registered under the name of his brother. The petrol kiosk only just began operation this year (2009), part of which was built above a Chinese cemetery. He managed to get the site to build the petrol station because of his power, which was exercised during the period of Khir Toyo's government in Selangor.<br /><br />c. Own several plots of land around Shah Alam, in which one of them is believed to be beside the new SACC Mall registered under the name of a wife of a Selangor MACC driver named Abdullah b Azim, a full time homemaker in her late 30s.<br /></ul><br /> </li><br /><br /><li> He has been caught in close proximity with a subordinate officer, Investigator rank, named Nor Azlina bt Mustafa at the side of the Shah Alam Lake in early year 2009 by 2 police officers. He showed his identification card (MACC) and informed the police officers that he and the officer were in the course of an operation and they were released. These "intimacies" between him and the Investigator were repeated and are a common knowledge of many including his own wife. The only action taken by the Department was to transfer the officer involved to the MACC Headquarters in Putrajaya. This was ineffective because Azlina is still always with the DD at the Selangor office.</li><br /></ol><br /><br />5. The objective of this letter is to uphold justice and prevent the further abuse of power especially in the MACC and throughout Malaysia. We in the MACC, are fed up to see his antics which have the blessings of the powers that be, like the sayings "beraja di mata, bersultan di hati". We in the MACC have lost all means to find departments/institutions/NGOs that can champion this issue so the appropriate action can be taken.<br /><br />6. We, the officers of the MACC, would be touched and thankful that YBhg Dato'/tuan/puan could expose this issue to the people and the authorities so that an organisation/NGO can take the appropriate action, or an <b>independent investigation</b>, can be taken and raised to the <b>Cabinet</b>. This is very important because it involves the integrity of a serving officer of a department that upholds the laws involving human integrity. The DD is now making every effort to press his subordinates to find any faults involving ruling PKR with the hope that the PKR-led government will fall in Selangor and his secret will be safe. For your information, the DD is now very afraid whenever news about Dato' Seri Khir Toyo is released in the press and he would be very afraid if the case would expose his involvement.<br /><br />7. We hope that any brave individuals or organizations can spread this information so that our actions can be brought to the attention of the responsible and trusted authorities and that justice can be done. We are unable to do it ourselves because he has "cable" with the higher authority.<br /><br />8. Cooperation from YBhg Tan Sri/Dato'/tuan/puan is much appreciated and we hope that through your action, much more information can be brought to light involving individuals with no integrity. We hope that this will cleanse the MACC and its officers from further involvement in bribery and corruption.<br /><br />Thank You.<br /><br /><br /><b>"To serve for the beloved MACC/ Country"</b><br /><br /> <br /><br />We are by order of,<br /> <br /><b>PEGAWAI-PEGAWAI SPRM MALAYSIA</b><br /><br /><hr><br /><br /><br /><b>KEGIATAN RASUAH, SALAHLAKU DAN PENYELEWENGAN PEGAWAI ATASAN SPRM SELANGOR</b><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIaS5alwyoyxjSeVFZ_tFBDpxCL20Ur-QBaLG3hStBFX9M4XyCBBhV3bAh-sZoIPka84DFiahlkescgkcXtOS8ue1J6_BaB9KW3Jroele3bQ5o1APY2VmGM0vO0yn2yPlIxpBVA/s1600-h/page1gnjfupgtjr.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIaS5alwyoyxjSeVFZ_tFBDpxCL20Ur-QBaLG3hStBFX9M4XyCBBhV3bAh-sZoIPka84DFiahlkescgkcXtOS8ue1J6_BaB9KW3Jroele3bQ5o1APY2VmGM0vO0yn2yPlIxpBVA/s320/page1gnjfupgtjr.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372262163613965362" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBcJaWVhybk778SguHzUccadTl9LTUKQF8kKvhhuTQjO34fAEBIeHwmI5-y627ggrBmhYi6eLRis-1_x-7KA6d_5lpcOGjQgebkk1fuiA4K-ewNOT4_mft7aaj-0FpB_qg8YlqgA/s1600-h/page2brq.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSfNTp2REGnp85YtuzQU5yqKzuyShrb8eOLkGB37JGervgwBzsqCTg8H1J7vslyBE5PMgQiOGZLAQiwJeBRbrXqg77tnQny5-lb4h-HvzwDxX1g_8hJeM7l9t3TYoiwwilZHE1wQ/s320/page4n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372262731341815106" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPs2u9IQNtRbzeBlB49f6e65JfTX5ZULmw9TX2yt1XK9cjF4t2bPMm4KkfjlVbnX68WlNchhIcMvI4wyCdqsCaMeuBLORz9x7TZaqq33NZy9IvsbSaJgM6hvjKvMbu9Gj_YGiTg/s1600-h/page5nen.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPs2u9IQNtRbzeBlB49f6e65JfTX5ZULmw9TX2yt1XK9cjF4t2bPMm4KkfjlVbnX68WlNchhIcMvI4wyCdqsCaMeuBLORz9x7TZaqq33NZy9IvsbSaJgM6hvjKvMbu9Gj_YGiTg/s320/page5nen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372262934945417378" /></a>Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-73727035648249250412009-07-23T20:46:00.000-07:002009-07-23T21:22:26.762-07:00Kim Quek: A Royal Commission of Deception<i>The following is a good commentary and observation by Kim Quek.<br /><br />Notice the characters and the subjects:<br /><br />a) Character of Police - slow in action and suppressing vital info<br />b) Character of MACC - secretive and trying to avoid responsibility<br />c) Teoh Beng Hock's Mobile Phone - remained 'invisible' until day 4<br />d) Room at 14th floor - Details remain undisclosed<br />e) CCTV records - was taken only on day 4<br /><br />Article taken from: http://en.suarakeadilan.com/top-story-1/2009/07/12359<br /></i><br /><br /><br /><b>A Royal Commission of Deception</b><br /><br />Friday, 24 July 2009<br /><br /><br />By Kim Quek<br /><br />Prime Minister Najib Razak has finally announced the setting up of a<br />Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to assuage the nation’s anger<br />over the tragic death of Teoh Beng Hock in the hands of the<br />Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).<br /><br />But what a let down, and what a deception!<br /><br />Instead of probing the death of Teoh, the Commission is asked to<br />look into the interrogation methods of the MACC.<br /><br />The absurdity of this move is akin to a school boy caned to death in<br />a school, and the public inquiry is over the disciplinary procedure<br />of the school, not over how and why the boy met his death.<br /><br />The injustice that befell Teoh Beng Hock – a clear victim of<br />political persecution – has infuriated the nation to boiling<br />point, and yet Najib thinks that an RCI looking into MACC’s<br />methodology would be sufficient to douse the anger and restore<br />confidence in his leadership.<br /><br />What does he take Malaysians for? A bunch of dimwits?<br /><br />Oh ya, I know what they will say, concurrent with this RCI is an<br />inquest where a magistrate would look into the cause of death. But<br />any one familiar with legal practice can tell you that comparing an<br />inquest to a RCI is like a child vs an adult.<br /><br />An RCI is commissioned by the King, and it is usually made up of<br />senior members of society with distinguished records of competence<br />and integrity, and having wide power to summon for witnesses and<br />evidence, and reporting to the King; whereas an inquest is manned by<br />a junior legal officer whose source of evidence is limited to<br />feedings from the authorities (mainly police) with no power to call<br />for witnesses and other evidences, and forwarding the findings to<br />the attorney general.<br /><br />Since an RCI is going to be set up in response to public demand to<br />uncover the truth pertaining to Teoh’s death, why create another<br />junior body to take away the principal task – finding out how and<br />why Teoh died – leaving RCI to do a side show?<br /><br />Besides, without allowing RCI to probe into the death, how could it<br />fathom what has gone wrong with the operations of MACC’s? In fact<br />these two tasks are integral and inseparable.<br /><br />Only when the full circumstances surrounding the death are<br />ascertained, can the defects of the system be defined and<br />recommendations made.<br /><br /><b>Umno’s intentional hide-and-seek</b><br /><br />hideandseek1This is plain common sense, and I can’t imagine a man<br />of Najib’s intelligence cannot comprehend it. That leaves us with<br />no alternative but to conclude that the UMNO leadership is playing a<br />game of hide and seek with the public with respect to this tragedy.<br /><br />Najib said “the government will do whatever that is necessary to<br />find the truth” and Inspector General Musa Hassan has repeatedly<br />warned the public not to speculate and hurl accusations but to trust<br />the police to carry out a “transparent and professional”<br />investigation, but what has transpired is contrary to these<br />assertions.<br /><br />The police investigations in particular have been shockingly<br />questionable and unprofessional.<br /><br />It should be plain from day 1 of the discovery of the body (July 16<br />) that Teoh died while under custody and he fell from the window of<br />the MACC’s 14 floor office.<br /><br />That he was never released was verified by his personal articles<br />including his hand phone which were still being kept by MACC when<br />the body was found and the fact that he could not have walked off<br />the office on his own as implied by MACC as he did not have the<br />electronic card to open the door.<br /><br />That he fell through the office window was evidenced from the 14th<br />floor window latch which was found next to Teoh’s body.<br /><br /><b>Questions Galore</b><br /><br />Then why didn’t the police seal the office, seize all<br />relevant documents including notes of interrogation, dust for finger<br />prints particularly those at the window on the very first day (July<br />16), as death by foul means clearly could not be excluded.<br /><br />Despite evidence of Teoh’s fall from the building while under<br />custody, why did Selangor police chief Khalid Abu Bakar say that he<br />did not suspect foul play and classified the case as “sudden<br />death” – even before autopsy was performed? Didn’t this<br />presumption betray patronization of a fellow law-enforcing agency?<br /><br />Why did the police forensics personnel visited the crime scene only<br />on Day 4 (July 19) to take evidence, removing articles such as<br />documents, CCTV records, window latch etc, knowing that vital clues<br />could have been erased, tampered with or removed in the intervening<br />3 days? Didn’t this reflect a lack of seriousness?<br /><br />Why did the police deny repeatedly to assemblyman Ronnie Liu until<br />day 4 that it had Teoh’s hand phone, when in fact the phone has<br />been in its possession since day 1? What was the police secretly<br />keeping the phone for so many days for?<br /><br />The body was discovered at 1:30 pm and Teoh’s boss assemblyman Ean<br />Yong Hian Wah arrived at the MACC office at 5 pm asking to see Teoh,<br />but the personnel therein including Selangor police chief Khalid Abu<br />Bakar did not entertain Ean Yong for more than an hour.<br /><br />Why keep the news from Ean Yong for so long? Why wasn’t Teoh’s<br />family informed in the first instant? Was this long duration of<br />silence a needed interval to complete certain preparatory work<br />before the bad news was announced to the world? Shouldn’t such<br />improper conduct give rise to suspicious imputations?<br /><br />The autopsy was completed on day 2 (July 17), why is the police<br />still keeping the findings under lid?<br /><br />As for MACC, questions galore that suggest criminal liability over<br />Teoh’s death in the backdrop of a political conspiracy to sabotage<br />the Selangor Pakatan state government with corruption prosecutions.<br />Examples of these are:<br /><br />1. Why did director of investigations Shukri Abdul lie that Teoh was<br />released at 3:45 am and that he had no idea how Teoh’s body landed<br />on the fifth floor balcony, when in fact Teoh was never released and<br />he fell off a window in the office? Was there a necessity to lie if<br />there was no criminal liability on the part of MACC?<br /><br />2. Why was Teoh tortured in a marathon interrogation that stretched<br />into the early hours of morning when he was not a criminal suspect<br />but only a witness assisting in an investigation over a hearsay<br />allegation of misappropriation of a paltry RM 2,400 by his boss Ean<br />Yong?<br /><br />Ean Yong was among a group of seven Pakatan assemblymen selected for<br />investigation for unspecified suspicion of miss-using their annual<br />allocations of half a million ringgit each. In contrast, Pakatan<br />complaints against BN assemblymen for having dubiously spent their<br />entire annual allocations within the short period of two months<br />shortly before the last election in Mar 8, 08 have been met with<br />silence for more than a year.<br /><br />3. Why have Pakatan leaders been systematically hounded over dubious<br />petty allegations while MACC routinely playing deaf and dumb over<br />multi-million and even multi-billion scandals of corruption and<br />abuse of power by Barisan Nasional leaders?<br /><br />Why keep silent over the RM 12.5 billion PKFZ scandal despite having<br />received numerous reports of complaints from Pakatan since 2004?<br /><br />Why took no notice over the recently exposed mansion of former<br />Selangor Menteri Besar Khir Toyo reputedly worth RM 24 million which<br />was well beyond his accumulated official income?<br /><br />Why took no action on Khir for the numerous reports of corruption<br />and abuse of power uncovered by the Pakatan state government since<br />the last election?<br /><br />It is as clear as day light that MACC exists not to wipe out<br />corruption, but to wipe out Pakatan Rakyat – not only in Selangor<br />but all over the country.<br /><br />It is in the realization of this despicable role played by MACC,<br />that the tragic death of an upright and dedicated young man – who<br />was due to get married on the day his life was so cruelly snuffed<br />out – has caused the tolerance of the nation to touch its breaking<br />point.<br /><br />Let us resolve that the fascist power be not tolerated henceforth.<br />Let us all stand up for justice for Teoh Beng Hock.<br /><br />.<br /><br />[Kim Quek aka Yong Thye Chong is a well-respected political<br />commentator and author]Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-53026083770517366342009-07-19T10:59:00.000-07:002009-08-20T21:20:30.817-07:00Teoh Beng Hock mystery notesThe death of Teoh Beng Hock has become a mystery<br />waiting to be solved magically by power of the internet.<br /><br />We are seeing very little information being slowly released<br />to the public which is suggesting as if a 'grand conspiracy' <br />is in progress.<br /><br />a) The Police being too slow and unprofessional (Getting CCTV, Teoh's mobile phone and checking staircase)<br />b) MACC remained secretive (refuse office access and publishing details. Most loud PR was 3am discharge time!)<br />c) Official Sudden Death Plunge theory being mostly propagated (and some warning against speculation/opinion) <br />d) Death Details (Blurred/Small Photo) coverup (lacking details as if to hide something)<br />e) Broken Belt (unknown DNA?) and Stains (Rust or Blood) at staircase known for too late (weeks later)<br />f) No reason given for Teoh's torn trousers (No one suggesting it could be purposely being torn by someone)<br />g) The broken window latch analysis was missing (could be a planted evidence by somebody)<br />h) The Blue Marks on Teoh's stomach info was not highlighted or made into media headlines!<br />i) Teoh's missing wristwatch and marks on his palm.<br />j) Teoh's new shoes / soles condition (This is an MACC favourite torture technique - knock the soles of your feet)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Lets read a quote from <a href="http://www.malaysianmirror.com/nationaldetail/6-national/5375">Malaysia Mirror</a> on 21st July 2009:<br /><p><i>Well-placed sources and officials close to the MACC said Teoh was "manhandled and threatened" by investigators during a 10-hour interrogation as part of a political conspiracy to bring down opposition leaders, led by Anwar Ibrahim, and to implicate them for alleged misuse of funds.</i></p><p><i>"When he refused to do so, the officers dragged him to a window on the 14-story building and threatened to throw him out," the said the source who was not authorized to speak to media.</i></p><br /><br /><br />Out of many reports out there perhaps the biggest clue is<br />the MACC refusal to grant access to all rooms on the<br />15th floor!<br /><div class="note_title_share clearfix"><div class="note_title"><span><br />[Latest Mystery Edit: 7th August 2009]<br /><br /><b>The Staircase Stain Clue?</b><br /><br />As reported by MalaysiaKini on 7th August 2009, under the title<br />"TBH inquest: Blood on stairwell?"</span></div> </div><br /><i><br />“We were walking up the staircase to the 15th floor <span style="color:darkred;">through the backdoor</span>. When we reached the 15th floor, we found a two-feet long stain on the floor of the staircase,” a lawyer for the Teoh family Lim Lip Eng told reporters on Friday.<br /><br />“We asked the director of Selangor MACC what was the stain but he didn’t know. The police investigating officer said he <span style="color:darkred;">would inspect</span> the substance.”<br /><br />Lip Eng was part of the entourage of lawyers, court officials and police that accompanied coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas to Plaza Masalam, where the office of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission is.<br /><br />The group was originally slated to visit just the 14th floor office and the 5th floor corridor where Beng Hock’s body had been found after a marathon interrogation by MACC officers.<br /><br />But the lawyers also asked to see the 15th floor, where there were more interrogation rooms. Although they <span style="color:darkred;">were not allowed</span> to enter, they spotted similar looking stains on a wall in one of these.<br /></i><br /><br /><br /><b>Photo: Seriously Lacking in Details</b><br /><br />For example, only one photo (Edit: Some days later, Kosmo published a closeup photo showing Teoh's torn pants but blurred) at the scene (with lacking details<br />of course!) was shown to the public. Why show only one photo<br />and why there was no close-up photo? It is simply because<br />they don't want to lead you to the 'ultimate information'!!!<br />Otherwise the police will state 95% instead of only 60% of<br />total investigation!<br /><br />The following are some interesting findings/theories from<br />the net:<br /><br />1. The picture didn't show any obvious pool of blood<br />and didn't specify reasons for such despite claiming<br />Teoh died because of the plunge.<br /><br />2. Reports didn't mention which part of Teoh's body hit the<br />ground first.<br /><br />3. Reports didn't say which parts suffered the most impact.<br />Reports should state the percentage of damage on all parts<br />of his body and details like which parts produced the most<br />blood vessels leakage.<br /><br />4. There was no picture or description from which room and<br />which window Teoh was said to be falling from. The people was<br />just told it was from the 14th floor.<br /><br />Ref: <a href="http://merdekareview-bm.blogspot.com/2009/07/misteri-kekal-misteri.html">Merdeka Review</a><br /><br /><i>Malah, seandainya Teoh jatuh dari tingkap tingkat ke-14, bahagian pejabat tersebut perlu dikenalpasti. Sama ada tempat di mana Teoh jatuh itu merupakan ruang tamu, pantri, bilik soal siasat, bilik mesyuarat dan sebagainya, adalah petunjuk penting dalam siasatan.</i><br /><br />5. If Teoh was merely a witness as said by MACC, then MACC<br />has already 'tortured' Teoh mentally and physically by detaining<br />him (and his mobile phone) up to 3am on that day.<br /><br />(Note: United Nations Report classified depriving sleep as a kind<br />of popular interrogation torture)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ref : United Nations, Economic and Social Council, Commission on<br />Human Rights (42d Session), P. Kooikmans (Special Rapporteur), Torture and Other Cruel,<br />Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, February 19, 1986, 28-29.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />6. There was no report on what food or drinks that Teoh has<br />consumed on that day. CIA or KGB are well known to deprive<br />their victims of solid foods during interrogation or giving special<br />doses of interrrogation drugs systematically or hiddenly.<br /><br /><i>Refer: Essential Forensic Biology By Alan Gunn </i><br /><br />7. There seems to be a systematic and massive mainstream<br />media propaganda against Pakatan Rakyat Selangor government<br />with Star newspaper printing a BIG cover headlines <span style="font-weight: bold;">'Shah Alam Raid'</span><br />on 16th July 2009.<br /><br /><!-- <img src="http://newskini.serveftp.net/css/c/20090716_v12_fp_thestar.jpg" height="172" width="120" /> --><br /><br />Please note that Teoh was found dead on that same day, 16th July 2009 and Khir Toyo bungalow case issue was exposed about 2 weeks before that (7th July 2009)<br /><br />See: <a href="http://www.malaysia-kini.com/blog/2009/07/07/pictures-of-datuk-seri-dr-khir-toyos-bungalow/comment-page-1/">MalaysiaKini</a> Khir Toyo's Bungalow:<br /><br /><img src="http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/8333/pic04734.jpg" width="400" height="268"><br /><br />8. It was said that the building has security doors but until now<br />there is no report on whose card has been used to open the<br />door of the 14th floor or what has caused the door to be opened.<br />Besides this, there is also no report on what type of electronic<br />security door system that MACC is using.<br /><br />9. The report didn't mention the physical journey and history of<br />Teoh's mobile phone. It also didn't state if Teoh did make any call<br />or contact after 3am. For a typical busy person like Teoh, it is natural<br />that he would have made some phone calls or checking SMS upon<br />release. The Telco providers can actually check whether his phone<br />was turned on/off or was sending/receiving SMS in the telco server log.<br />From this server log we can know when Teo has been released.<br /><br />From : <a href="http://merdekareview-bm.blogspot.com/2009/07/misteri-kekal-misteri.html">Merdeka Review</a><br /><i><br /><ul><br /><li>Dakwaan pihak SPRM bahawa Teoh Beng Hock telah dibebaskan pada jam 3.45pagi, 16 Julai, dan Teoh meminta untuk tidur di pejabat mencungkil keraguan, antaranya:-<br /><br />Sekira-nya Teoh telah di- bebaskan, mengapa dompet, telefon bimbit dan dokumen penting yang lain masih berada di tangan SPRM?</li><br /><br /><li><br />Mengapa polis mengambil telefon bimbit Teoh dari pihak SPRM pada hari keesokan tragedi berlaku, dan bukannya pada hari kejadian berlaku?</li><br /><br /><li><br />Mayat Teoh ditemui pada jam 1.30 tengah hari, 16 Julai. Pegawai SPRM dikatakan telah mengenalpasti identiti Teoh pada ketika itu, namun mengapa polis gagal mengesahkannya, sehingga jam 5 petang?<br /></li><br /></ul><br /></i><br /><br />10. MACC has been known to have prepared a written confessions<br />and then tortured their victim until he or she finally gave up and<br />signed the confessions. This is not a hearsay - we have friends with<br />proofs of such kind of torture.<br /><br />11. There is a possibility that Teoh was punched/kicked somewhere<br />near the stomach and the genitals until he is lifeless. (This cause an<br />internal bleeding (haemorrhage) and sudden death - that's why no large pool of blood<br />can be seen around his body).<br /><br />[Edit 31st July 2009 : He was beaten as the blue marks were found on <br />his stomach as reported in the press. ]<br /><br />[Edit 7th August 2009: Media reported Mystery DNA on Teoh's belt. ]<br /><br />The police can use DNA tracing on Teoh's clothes to identify those<br />who had made contact with him but so far we didn't get any info<br />on this.<br /><br />Just for the record - the police didn't wear any special clothing<br />(like the Angkasawan thing) when they were around Teoh's dead body.<br />This is really bad for CSI.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><i>Refer: Essential Forensic Biology By Alan Gunn </i><br /><br />12. It might be true that he was already dead before being thrown<br />out of the window. Then the body position may have been adjusted<br />so that it is lying sideways in order to prevent zooming digital cameras<br />to detect some other important clues.<br /><br />From what common sense can 'see' - Teoh's body may not have been thrown out<br /> from the 14th floor and it seems he was already losing some blood (internally <br />or externally) before being put (but the too clever media reported as plunged) <br />on the 5th floor. By telling everyone Teoh fell from 14th floor it will hide<br />the possibility that he could have been killed somewhere on the 15th floor<br />and then was carried via backdoor staircase to the 5th floor. <br /><br />Fake Evidence Possibility:<br />It is unfortunate that there is no focus on fake evidence possibility.. ie <br />someone could have purposely broke the window latch or handle and place it<br />near Teoh's body. Or those torn trousers could also be another fake evidence <br />trying to make it appears that it was caused by the latch. It could be that<br />Teoh was killed somewhere else (not at 14th floor) but it is really bad that<br />14th floor was exaggerated. There is a possibility that 15th floor could be <br />the culprit because MACC is very secretive on this floor.<br /><br />The police should have sealed the MACC office (and stairways too) on 14th <br />and 15th floor from day one of the incident but this didn't seem to happen at all! <br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">REFERENCE</span><br /><br /><a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGQN-70WIEe3mCGo4P-ZxzeN4ZYaVwokX7rosL3x8HNGn-rpKPD2e8r-5hE7Dbkcymz4K-MjKR_-WXw3Zl__HnlLsVObGG7GuXGzmNkJFjwv-yrgL3QOAO9gD1Zy_SOAXXI-gzMg/s1600-h/janus.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGQN-70WIEe3mCGo4P-ZxzeN4ZYaVwokX7rosL3x8HNGn-rpKPD2e8r-5hE7Dbkcymz4K-MjKR_-WXw3Zl__HnlLsVObGG7GuXGzmNkJFjwv-yrgL3QOAO9gD1Zy_SOAXXI-gzMg/s320/janus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360962983651200610" border="0" /></a><br />In the Conclusion section of the book "Janus-faced justice - Political<br />Criminals in Imperial Japan" b<span class="addmd">y Richard H. Mitchell</span>, it was written:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">... For beatings when they wished to leave no marks, interrogators used</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">rubber truncheons and small sandbags. Other techniques were blows to the</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">solar plexus or a hard kick to the genitals.... (page 171)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"A 1986 United Nations report on torture presents the following list of methods </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">of physical torture, which is not considered exhaustive: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">beating, burning,<br />extracting (teeth,nails, etc), suspending, suffocating,</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">exposing to excessive<br />light or noise, denying sleep or food, assaulting sexually,</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">administering drugs,<br />and electric shocks. " (page 173)<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-42444761204312687032008-09-17T09:53:00.000-07:002008-09-24T10:07:20.116-07:00When Governments step up blogger arrests...It is a sign that your message has hit the target.<br />Not just any target - but the target where it hurts<br />the most. You message has made a tremendous<br />impact.<br /><br />This is an important information revolution concept.<br /><br />An analogy of this is the 'art' and 'strategy' in the game<br />of wrestling. You need to find the weakest part of your<br />opponent. Sometimes you need to pretend as being<br />too tired or nearly losing in order to fool your opponent....<br /><br />ESTABLISHING A CONNECTION<br /><br />In other words it is a blogger's tactical journey to achieve his<br />ultimate goals. A blogger purposely publishes certain articles<br />to lead his audience somewhere. Some could be plain explicit<br />while some could be too implicit but very effective and deadly.<br />In the end the audience is 'electronically' connected with<br />maximum 'data transfer' and minimum packet loss......<br /><br />IT IS ALL ABOUT CONNECTION<br /><br />It is an art of making a connection and shaping the information<br />to build or destroy something...... and this is all done using<br />a programmed flow or exposure of information. The intended<br />recipients will react to such information and this will spark<br />a chain of reactions.<br /><br /><br />THE CHAINS OF REACTION<br /><br />This stage is very important because it is a movement<br />of information.<br /><br />When something moves a lot of things can happen.<br />A movement of information will create a force and a momentum<br />that will change the society.<br /><br />All great revolutions in this world begins with a messenger,<br />a message, and a guided movement of such message.<br /><br /><span class="ZIEL"><span class="sqq">"If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've<br />got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot."<br /> - Confucius<br /></span></span><br /><br />When a government arrests bloggers we know that the<br />government is already too weak. It is interesting to note<br />here that many governments were brought down after<br />such political arrests. It may happen sooner or later - but<br />the falling process has begun...........Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11248833.post-87288663005757800452008-05-22T03:52:00.000-07:002008-05-27T09:38:57.083-07:00Take that: Internet key to Obama victories and Beyond Blogging<span style="font-weight: bold;">'Yes We Can'</span><br /><br />You might have probably heard this 'magic phrase' many times<br />during the Obama campaign. It can bee seen that Obama is<br />using some crucial and important elements in his campaign:<br /><br />1. A Belief that you can<br />2. Love to contribute and achieve the goals<br />3. Internet as the key transport mechanism<br />4. The spirit of togetherness<br /><p>Love is probably the greatest thing in this life. Love can unite and energize people.</p><p>And when this love comes with Belief - the movement will be unstoppable....</p><p>Love and belief will bring people together irrespective of differences like race, skin color or status.<br /></p><p>This is because love and belief will lead to support and sacrifice.<br /></p><p>Look around and you will see a lot of things are moving in this (love and belief) direction.</p><p>Obama is receiving some 'magical' contributions nationwide - and some are very<br /></p><p>imaginative that it will indirectly hit the intended target groups spontaneously........<br /></p>For example, the 'Obama Girl' Youtube is a product of such elements.<br /><br /><br />Read the following two articles carefully - You will notice something:<br />- It is the <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">Magical Power of Internet </span><br /><br /> a) Main site as a center for knowledge, activities, programs, mobilization and reference.<br /> b) How blogs managed to engage (two way communication, as it happens event/issues)<br /> c) Social Media to organise and network (expand) further.<br /><br /><br /><hr /><br /><br />Reference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7412045.stm<br /><h1> Internet key to Obama victories </h1> <!-- S BO --> <!-- S IBYL --> <div class="mvb"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="466"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="bottom"> <div class="mvb"> <span class="byl"> By Steve Schifferes </span> <br /> <span class="byd"> BBC News </span> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/999999.gif" alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="466" /><br /> </div> <!-- E IBYL --> <p> <!-- S IIMA --> </p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="226"> <tbody><tr><td> <div> <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44675000/jpg/_44675105_obama_ap226b.jpg" alt="Barack Obama in Des Moines, Iowa - 20/5/2008" border="0" height="170" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="226" /> <div class="cap">From early on, Mr Obama adopted the internet to reach his supporters</div> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- E IIMA --> <p> <b>With Barack Obama moving close to victory in the Democratic presidential primary campaign, the internet has proved one of the key tools to his success. And it may well give the Democrats a big advantage during the Presidential race itself .</b> </p><p> The internet has been moving to the mainstream of political life in the US for some years. </p><p> But in this presidential cycle it has been particularly important for the Obama campaign, which was starting from scratch with few resources and little name recognition. </p><p> The internet favours the outsider, and gives them the ability to quickly mobilise supporters and money online. </p><p>And the more nimble use of the internet by the Obama campaign in its early stages helped him overcome the huge initial lead of Hillary Clinton in the presidential nominating race. </p><p> <b>Ready to go</b> </p><p>Mr Obama's internet strategy was at the heart of his plan to win the Democratic nomination, according to expert Phil Noble, who tracks trends in relation to the internet and politics. </p><p> </p><p>When Senator Obama announced his campaign, his internet site was already fully developed and ready to go - <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">with a set of tools which allowed supporters to meet and organise as well as contribute money.</span> </p><p>According to Michael Turk, the e-campaign director for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, the Democrats had learned the lessons of 2004 very well in an "arms race" between rival teams of developers. </p><p> <!-- S IIMA --> </p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="203"> <tbody><tr><td> <div> <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42261000/jpg/_42261158_kerry203.jpg" alt="John Kerry" border="0" height="152" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="203" /> <div class="cap">John Kerry depended on online fundraising in the 2004 campaign</div> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- E IIMA --> <p>Mr Noble says he expects Mr Obama to raise $1 billion online during the 2008 campaign, 12 times as much as John Kerry raised through online fundraising in 2004. </p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">And he says that two million Obama activists have already been mobilised to become volunteer workers for the campaign - a key advance in the "ground war" of getting out the vote.</span> </p><p>And some key internet stunts - including the independently developed "Obama girl" mock ad on YouTube - helped increase Mr Obama's public profile early on. </p><p> <b>Primary advantage</b> </p><p> Both the fundraising and the mobilising potential of the internet proved key advantages for Mr Obama during the primary season. </p><p> <!-- S IIMA --> </p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="226"> <tbody><tr><td> <div> <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44675000/jpg/_44675104_clinton_ap226b.jpg" alt="Hillary Clinton in Louisville, Kentucky - 20/5/2008" border="0" height="170" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="226" /> <div class="cap">Senator Clinton took more time to see the full potential of the internet</div> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- E IIMA -->He was able to get more local volunteers on the ground in key states earlier than the Clinton campaign, which was especially important in smaller states and caucus states. <p> And his early success soon generated a wave of small-size campaign contributions that have continued to roll in. </p><p>This gave him a crucial advantage in campaign organisation and advertising over the Clinton campaign, which had raised a large sum of money, mainly from larger donors. </p><p> Funding shortages forced Mrs Clinton to dip into her own pockets, and limited the number of states she could campaign in. </p><p> <b>New tools</b> </p><p>One of the unique features of the Obama campaign has been its ability to embrace social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. </p><p> <!-- S IIMA --> </p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="226"> <tbody><tr><td> <div> <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44660000/jpg/_44660583_mccain_ap226b.jpg" alt="John McCain" border="0" height="170" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="226" /> <div class="cap">Mr McCain has invested less in internet tools despite being an early pioneer</div> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- E IIMA --> <p>Indeed Mr Obama's decision to run was influenced by the fact that a page created on MySpace by supporters not connected to any official campaign quickly signed up 160,000 supporters. </p><p>According Paul Zube and Rebecca Hayes of Michigan State University, Mr Obama is far more popular on Facebook - the social networking site most widely used by college students - than any other candidate. </p><p>And joining Mr Obama's Facebook site - unlike responding to an email message of support - is a public expression of support which can have a broader political impact. </p><p>As such, it may be a more powerful mobilising tool to gain new supporters than sending out emails or expecting activists to come to your website. </p><p> <b>Youth vote</b> </p><p> </p><p> His use of social networking sites has helped Mr Obama to mobilise young people, a group which has traditionally been uninterested in politics, according to Professor Thomas Patterson of Harvard University. </p><p>"Since the start of this campaign in early 2007, I think what we've seen is a second source of energy for young voters and that's the Obama campaign. They were attracted to him in the first instance by his early opposition to the war in Iraq. At the same time, he happened to have the kind of personality, the kind of message that appealed to them," he says. </p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> Mr Obama has consistently performed extremely strong among younger and highly educated voters, whose increased turnout could be critical to the general election.</span> </p><p> </p><p> <b>Lessons of recent history</b> </p><p> In some ways, Mr Obama has drawn the lessons of the failed Howard Dean campaign in the 2004 primaries. </p><p>Mr Dean was the first Democratic presidential candidate to use the internet - through his Blog for America - to mobilise his supporters. </p><p> But he failed to connect with the voting public in Iowa and crashed out of the race. </p><p>Mr Obama has therefore also drawn lessons from the very successful Republican internet campaign that helped re-elect President Bush in 2004 </p><p>As Michael Turk, the Bush-Cheney e-campaign director in 2004 explained, the Republicans were able to mobilise their supporters through a combination of email lists and internet 'data mining'. </p><p>They identified potential Republican supporters in every precinct around the country, using technology which predicts voter preferences on the basis of commercial data on car ownership, magazine subscriptions, and the like. </p><p>And then they sent their campaign volunteers detailed instructions on who to visit, including local maps of the area and walking routes, and issues that each potential voter was likely to be most concerned about. </p><p>Mr Obama has been utilising similar data to target primary voters - where turnout is crucial - through both telephone banks of volunteers and personal contacts. </p><p> <b>Looking forward</b> </p><p>Mr Noble believes that the Democrats will continue to enjoy an <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">enormous advantage</span> over their opponents in the use of the internet for campaigning in this election cycle. </p><p> </p><p>Ironically, the McCain campaign in 2000 - when he unsuccessfully challenged George Bush for the Republican presidential nomination - was an early example of using the internet to raise money online. </p><p>But according to Phil Noble, this time round, Republicans are far behind in resources and investment in internet tools, and that Mr McCain is having difficulty appealing to the traditional Republican base. </p><p> The most important advantage could be in fundraising. </p><p>If Mr Noble's predictions are right, then Mr Obama could have a massive lead in the money needed to carry his message to the American electorate. </p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Reference: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/08_22/b4086044617865.htm<br /><br /><div id="strapBox"> <span class="strap">The Future of Tech</span> <span class="date">May 22, 2008, 5:00PM EST </span> </div> <h1>Beyond Blogs</h1> <h2>Three years ago our cover story showcased the phenomenon. A lot has changed since then</h2> <p class="byline">by <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/print/bios/Stephen_Baker.htm">Stephen Baker</a> and <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/print/bios/Heather_Green.htm">Heather Green</a> </p> <p> In the frantic news biz, where stories go stale overnight, one of our old articles is behaving very strangely. Year after year it continues to draw swarms of online readers, more than holding its own against up-to-date fare. Oddly, while technology races ahead, our story remains frozen in time. It describes a world in which YouTube (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/" rel="ticker">GOOG</a>) has yet to emerge from the garage and Twittering, today's microblogging rage, is left to the birds. </p> <p> The year was 2005, and the story was "Blogs Will Change Your Business." It marked our plunge into the world of bottom-up media, of news as a "conversation." Many people at the time—including a good number at this magazine and throughout the business world—considered blogs to be a publishing tool for trivia, banality, venom, and baseless attacks. This was all true, the article conceded. </p> <p>But in the helter-skelter of the blogosphere, we wrote, something important was taking place: In the 10 minutes it took to set up a blogging account, anyone with an Internet connection could become a global publisher. Some could become stars and gain power. That was already happening. <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">I</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">n this new world, any business that hoped to "control" information—and that included just about everybody—was in for a wild ride</span>.</span> This promised a seismic shock in our own media world. No mystery there. But it also posed challenges for businesses in practically every realm. Every e-mail or memo could be blogged. Every employee, no matter what rank, could become a voice for the company, either publicly or cloaked, some gaining more power than the entire public relations department. "Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out," we warned, adding: "Catch up...or catch you later." </p> <p>Following our own advice, we ended the story by linking to our new blog, Blogspotting.net. The conversation continued on the blog, as it does to this day. Who cared that the magazine piece grew a bit musty? Canaries don't read the yellowing articles lining their cages. </p> <h3>SERIOUS GOOGLE JUICE</h3> <p>Turned out it wasn't quite that simple. The magazine article, archived on our Web site, kept attracting readers and blog links. A few professors worked it into their curricula, sending class after class of students to the story. With all this activity, the piece gained high-octane Google juice. Type in "blogs business" on the search engine, and our story comes up first among the results, as of this writing. Hundreds of thousands of people are still searching "blogs business" because they're eager to learn the latest news about an industry that's changing at warp speed. Their attention maintains our outdated relic at the top of the list. It's self-perpetuating: They want new, we give them old. </p> <p>What to do? Update the old beast, naturally. Early this year, we put out questions on Blogspotting. What needed fixing? Responses streamed in. We called the old sources and contacted some new ones. We annotated the original article, bolstering the online version with dozens of notes and clarifications. That approach works for the Net, with its pop-up windows and limitless space. But for the more cramped confines of the paper magazine, we have to cut to the chase. </p> <p>So here goes. Three years ago, we wrote a big story—but missed a bigger one. We focused on blogs as a new form of printing press, one that turned Gutenberg's economics on its head, making everyone a potential publisher. This captured our attention, not least because <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">this publishing revolution was already starting to rattle the skyscrapers in our media-heavy, Manhattan neighborhood</span>. But despite the importance of blogs, only a minority of us participates. Chances are, you don't. According to a recent study from Forrester Research (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/" rel="ticker">FORR</a>), only a quarter of the U.S. adult online population even bothers to read a blog once a month.<pagebr> </pagebr></p> <p> But blogs, it turns out, are just one of the do-it-yourself tools to emerge on the Internet. Vast social networks such as Facebook and MySpace offer people new ways to meet and exchange information. Sites like LinkedIn help millions forge important work relationships and alliances. New applications pop up every week. While only a small slice of the population wants to blog, a far larger swath of humanity is eager to make friends and contacts, to exchange pictures and music, to share activities and ideas. </p> <p>These <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">social connectors </span>are changing the dynamics of companies around the world. Millions of us are now hanging out on the Internet with customers, befriending rivals, clicking through pictures of our boss at a barbecue, or seeing what she read at the beach. It's as if the walls around our companies are vanishing and old org charts are lying on their sides. </p> <p>This can be disturbing for top management, who are losing control, at least in the traditional sense. Workers can fritter away hours on YouTube. They can use social networks to pillory a colleague or leak secrets. That's the downside, and <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">companies that don't adapt are sure to get lots of it</span>. </p> <p>But there's an upside to the loss of control. Ambitious workers use these tools to land new deals and to assemble global teams for collaborative projects. The potential for both better and worse is huge, and it's growing—and since 2005 the technologies involved extend far beyond blogs. So our first fix is to lose "blogs" from our headline. The revised title: <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">"<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Social Media Will Change Your Business."</span></span> </p> <p>Even when researching a story like this, it's easy to fall into old patterns. Let's see, we thought as we started out: Which top executives are embracing social media? Sun Microsystems (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/" rel="ticker">JAVA</a>) chief executive officer Jonathan I. Schwartz is a blogger. What's he up to? IBM (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/" rel="ticker">IBM</a>) set up its own social network for employees, Beehive. It has 30,000 employees on it. We should definitely give them a call. </p> <p> But hold on. If we're writing about<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> new networks that extend beyond companies and break down their walls</span>, and if these technologies are often beyond the control of executives, what are we doing calling the bosses? Like many others in business, we have developed top-down reflexes that are nearly Pavlovian. <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">We have to deprogram ourselves.</span> </p> <p>So. How to get in touch with the grass roots? We try Twitter, the microblogging sensation. People use it to send tiny haiku-like messages (140 characters maximum) to everyone who chooses to receive their feeds. The two of us each has a few hundred people following our posts, either on the Twitter page, sites like Facebook, or (for a few fanatics) the cell phone. Who are these people? Well, they're just that, people. They're not organized by industry or rank. They're screen names, just like us (stevebaker and heatherlgreen). An estimated 1 million folks are on the Twitter service now. It's a small number, but it includes lots of influential voices, especially in tech. Some follow friends to learn what they had for breakfast or what they saw at the Vatican Museum. But they also may see what technologies their competitors are putting into alpha tests and get the buzz on new rounds of financing. Work and leisure, colleague and rival; they all blend on these networks. </p> <h3>THE 140-CHARACTER RESUME</h3> <p>We send out a few posts on Twitter (they're called "tweets") asking people how social media are changing their work. Scores of responses pour in. People learn what colleagues are up to, inside and outside the company. They see trends. They make contacts. They learn. Some even sell. A Dell (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/" rel="ticker">DELL</a>) employee who goes by the Twitter name of Ggroovin tells us that Dell's service on Twitter has brought in half a million dollars of new orders in the past year. Some on Twitter sniff around for the next job. "The new résumé is 140 characters," tweets 23-year-old Amanda Mooney, who just landed a job in PR.<pagebr> </pagebr></p> <p> Still, we have to talk with a few corporate honchos. How are they dealing with this outbreak of communication tools? J.P. Rangaswami is a good person to start with. He runs technology at BT (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/" rel="ticker">BT</a>), the British telecom giant, and is famous for an approach that blends inside and outside networks. We leave a message with the press department. A day passes. We wonder if we should try another number before it strikes us how silly we've been. We can go straight to the person! That's what social media lets you do. We leave a comment on Rangaswami's blog, ConfusedofCalcutta, and promptly get a reply. He's flying to San Francisco, but he leaves his Facebook and Twitter contacts, along with a cell phone number. </p> <p>Hours later, Rangaswami describes the changes since the 2005 article. Then, he says, there were either traditional communications or weird stuff with funny names, like blogs and wikis. People at BT now embrace a full range of online tools, and they use them more and more, especially as young workers join the company. "The new people come infected with the new world," he says. </p> <p>More than 16,000 BT employees work together on wikis, using the same technology as Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that lets anyone post or edit entries. But instead of teaming up to edit an online encyclopedia, employees gather on them to write software, map cell-phone base stations, launch branding campaigns.Nearly every new project hatches a wiki. This is especially valuable in a global economy, where engineers in Asia can pick up a project as Europeans go to bed. The new groups that evolve on these wikis raze traditional hierarchies: An intern can amend the work of a senior engineer. Meanwhile, some 10,500 employees at BT ( that Rangaswami knows of) are already on Facebook. BT is also offering an internal social network. But just like Facebook and Twitter, it won't work unless it attracts a crowd. Rangaswami can't force anyone to use it. It would be fruitless to try. To hear Rangaswami describe it, all his team can do is provide tools and watch. </p> <p>There's a lot to look at. "We've spent years talking about the value of the water-cooler conversations," he says. "Now we have the ability to actually understand what these relationships are, how information and decision-making migrate. We see how people really work." Why does this matter? The company can spot teams that form organically, and then can place them on targeted projects. It can pinpoint the people who transmit ideas. These folks are golden. "A new class of supercommunicators has emerged," he says. </p> <p>Good networkers have always had their ways to work around the direct reports and dotted lines diagrammed on company charts. They've created informal networks. Now, with social media, they have a fast-expanding set of tools to extend these relationships, and even to change their companies. Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research detail an example from Best Buy (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/" rel="ticker">BBY</a>) in their new book about social media, <cite>Groundswell</cite>. In 2006 two marketing managers at the company worked weekends to create an in-house social network, Blue Shirt Nation. Now it has grown to more than 20,000 participants, 85% of them sales associates. In a company with a 60% annual turnover rate, this group churns at only 8.5%, blogs Gary Koelling, one of the founders. And Blue Shirt Nation gets results. A promotional drive on the site helped persuade 40,000 employees to sign up for 401(k) retirement accounts. This bottom-up approach moves a whole lot faster than initiatives that wind through a corporate approval process. Drawbacks? The new order favors those who network, create buzz, and promote their brand. Managers have to make sure that quieter employees don't lose out. </p> <p>The change is even more dramatic in media. In the world we envisioned in 2005, the old dogs of mainstream media (like us) would learn the new tricks of blogging and use them to extend our reach and clout. We figured we'd be surrounded by constellations of standalone bloggers, each with his or her own niche.<pagebr> </pagebr></p> <h3>COMPETITION FROM THE MEGABLOGS</h3> <p> Steve Rubel was our example. The opening spread of our 2005 story featured a full-page photo of Rubel, PR executive and leading blog evangelist. He was stripping off a sweatshirt, Superman-style, in the vastness of Grand Central Terminal. Rubel's job was to help companies communicate in this new world. He extended his brand by blogging. It wasn't a bad gig. He remains a power in blogging, and his stature won him a job directing digital media at PR firm Edelman & Associates from an office with big windows overlooking Times Square. </p> <p>Sitting there one recent morning, facing a widescreen Mac laptop, Rubel drops a bomb. He doesn't blog much anymore. He lets his popular Micropersuasion site sit fallow for days on end. That would have been sacrilege when we wrote our article. Back then he was posting a dozen times a day—even from bed. </p> <p>What changed? Two big things, he says: technology and media. In 2005, a smart and hyperactive PR guy with a blog could actually be a leader in tech coverage. Rubel came up with scoops. Since then, megablogs with paid staffs, such as Michael Arrington's TechCrunch and Om Malik's GigaOm, have become titans. And sites like Techmeme and Digg aggregate the hottest news—much of it from the megablogs. <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">These are New Media champions, and they come from outside Old Media ranks. Some of them, it could be argued, wield more power than large metro dailies, or even magazines. Go to the Technorati search engine and see how many blogs link to TechCrunch, the leading source for dealmaking in Silicon Valley. Links are only one measure of influence, but a vital one in the blogosphere. The number is 170,908. That's more than (gulp) BusinessWeek.com.</span> </p> <p>Fine. TechCrunch and the others get plenty of attention. But what's it worth? Valuation is a hot question in social media. Andrew Baron, the co-founder of Rocketboom, an early video blog, had some fun with it. A few weeks ago, he announced that he was auctioning his Twitter account, which had some 1,300 followers, on eBay (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/" rel="ticker">EBAY</a>). Anyone who wanted an instant crowd with some influential followers could bid. (Of course, these followers might not stick around under a new regime. That was part of the risk calculation.) The bidding quickly rose above $500. As the auctioning continued, more people (including us) signed up to follow Baron's account so they could witness this drama in action. That increase in his crowd theoretically raised the value of his Twitter property. In the end, he called it off. As we write, his following has climbed to 2,309. </p> <p>While we're talking money, let's revisit one of the boldest assertions in the old article. Could a blogging bubble burst? "That's easy," we wrote, answering our own question. "No." The logic was that blogging, a free form of publishing, was anything but a highly capitalized industry. Even blog technology companies such as Six Apart and Technorati were small fry, backed by just a sliver of the venture capital in Silicon Valley. How could an industry built largely on free labor and free software develop a bubble, much less burst? It can't. </p> <p>But social media sure can. Since our story, major investors and corporations have focused on the profit potential of social sites. Like Baron's Twitter crowd writ large, they promise relationships, millions of them. Such media could be worth a fortune. Strike that: They'd better be. Over the past three years, tech and media companies have been opening up their checkbooks for these properties. Google gobbled up YouTube for $1.65 billion; NewsCorp (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/" rel="ticker">NWS</a>) bought MySpace for $588 million; and Microsoft (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/" rel="ticker">MSFT</a>) bought a pricey slice of Facebook that put a $15 billion valuation on the company. Venture firms, meanwhile, have been racing to fund socres of social media startups. </p> <p>For many of them, the business plan remains blurry. Even giants like MySpace are struggling to figure out the financials. And there's no guarantee that Web masses will stay loyal for the long haul. If investors lose faith in these new ventures built on relationships, all hell could break loose. This could convulse Wall Street, deepen the recession, sink pension funds—you name it. But you know what? The next day, we'll be back on the blogs and social networks, checking up on each other, uploading our analyses, and sussing out opportunities in the storm. </p> <p>Even if the bubble bursts—and we predict it will—the power of social media to transform our businesses and society will only grow. </p> <p> </p><div class="magLinks"><h3>Links</h3><h4>Two blogging giants, Jeff Jarvis and Arianna Huffington, give their takes on how Old Media is adjusting to the current state of the blogosphere</h4><br /><p><strong>JEFF JARVIS, BUZZMACHINE</strong><br />Three years ago, blogs were still a curiosity to a business audience—new enough to warrant a cover story, strange enough to require explaining. Now blogs and social media are not only better understood and accepted, but they are <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">c</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">oming to be seen as a necessity</span> </span>in media and, more and more, in business.</p><p>Next, I think, <cite>BusinessWeek</cite>'s readers will see that social media are changing their fundamental relationship with customers to be less about serving and more about collaborating. No, I don't mean that every product will be the product of a committee. But customers who want to talk will, and smart companies will not just listen but will engage them in decisions. This will have an impact not just on PR and image but on product design, marketing, sales, customer service—the whole company.</p><p>Three years from now, I predict <cite>BusinessWeek</cite>'s cover won't be about blogs or tools but about companies as communities.</p><p><strong>ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, HUFFINGTON POST</strong><br />The growth of New Media journalism will be a hybrid combining the best aspects of traditional print newspapers with the best of what the Web brings to the table. We're getting a glimpse into this with <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">the many changes afoot</span> at Old Media places like the <cite>The New York Times</cite>, and from New Media players like, well, like the Huffington Post.</p><p>The online vs. print debate is totally obsolete. It's as musty as the old barroom argument about Ginger vs. Mary Ann. It's 2008, why not have a three-way? Traditional media have ADD: They are far too quick to drop a story. Online journalists, meanwhile, tend to have OCD—we chomp down on a story, refusing to move on until we've gotten down to the marrow.</p><p>The <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">shifting dynamic between the forces </span>of print and online reminds me of Sarah Connor and the T-101 in <cite>The Terminator</cite>. At first, the visitor from the future (digital) seemed intent on killing Sarah (print). But as the relationship progressed, the Terminator became Sarah and her son's one hope for salvation. Today, you can almost hear digital media (which for some reason has a thick Austrian accent) saying to print: "Come with me if you want to live!"</p></div><br /><br /><br /><hr />Newskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06686234322407795797noreply@blogger.com0