- Not surprised. RT @anwaribrahim: Court:our appeal for docs rejected!Can't we prepare our defense?Why deny us? #
- http://twitpic.com/1wxm3o #
- Here we go again! RT @chunwai09: Perak DAP Adun Keshvinder Singh quits party and declares support for MB Zambry. #
- Hmmm, I should be rotating the photo in my phone first so that it comes out the right way up! #
- Just testing sending photos on twitter 🙂 #
- http://twitpic.com/1wwsht #
- Side effects of cholesterol-lowering statins: more risk of liver problems, kidney failure, muscle weakness, cataracts http://bit.ly/dsbxda #
- RT @malikimtiaz: TBH inquest resumes. Porntip video link application this morning. http://fb.me/B86jHIEK #
- Hey whadayaknow, U.S. Knew About Afghan mineral bonanza back in 2007 and that could have influenced military buildup http://huff.to/aItZoI #
- US oil spill is 'environmental 9/11' – a defining moment that cud change how Americans view the environment http://bit.ly/cDPv7w #
- U.S. eye massive iron and copper deposits in Afghanistan worth US$1 trillion. Economic colonialism beckons? http://nyti.ms/b9xJcU #
- RT @shenloh Watch as those involved manipulate the vote on the Botanical gardens arches http://screenr.com/3nK #
- RT @shenloh Watch as those involved manipulated the vote on the Botanical gardens arches http://screenr.com/3nK #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20
Is this the shape of things to come?
The way we go about planning the economy without a thought to the environment is worrying. Sometimes a cartoon can say so much more than words.
Berjaya-owned Sun spotlights sports betting
Of late, the Berjaya-owned Sun newspaper has been highlighting the issue of sports betting and illegal betting syndicates. It’s news coverage, however, should be seen in the light of who owns the free tabloid.
On 15 June, the paper front-paged Mahathir’s dismissal of opposition protests on the issue with the headline “It’s all politics”.
The following day, the paper wheeled out ex-Magnum director and former Anwar ally S Nallukarupan with the headline “Anwar’s ploy”. Nalla lashed out at Anwar, saying “the issue has been manipulated by PKR for political mileage”. Keshwinder’s defection was sidelined to the left-hand column of the front-page.
Today’s Sun frontpages the arrests of 10 people for running illegal online betting on World Cup football matches.
Leaning Arch: Now you can’t measure the tilt!
Talk about a cover up! Someone has just put up a barrier around the ‘Leaning Arch of Penang’ after the revelation yesterday that its tilt has worsened.
Notice that the fencing is not to protect the unsuspecting public from danger in case the arch collapses (it is too small for that). But it appears aimed at blocking Penang’s newest ‘tourist attraction’ from further public scrutiny.
Leaning Arch of Penang: A poem
Blog reader, cheahst, was so ‘inspired’ by the ‘Arc of Folly’ (as he calls it)Â in Penang that he immediately penned a poem.
what could be more beautiful or symbolic…
than a slowly tilting crumbling arch.
representing all the trespass, all the folly,
of governance in decline.
Canadian property market receives lift
Hey, maybe I shouldn’t have gone into journalism.
Perhaps I should have gone into politics or property investment.
Then I would be interested in some of these exclusive properties displayed on the Sarawak Report website.
Penang Botanic Garden arch leans further
Who needs the Leaning Tower of Pisa when we have the Leaning Arch of Penang!
To find out once and for all whether one of the two arches there is really leaning, ‘someone’ set up two plumb lines last night at the arch.
He found that not only is the arch tilting dangerously, it has worsened since the use of the theodolite in early May. It was then five inches off the vertical, but is now 15 inches.
Bruised last year, Keshwinder ‘sees the light’
Another one bites the dust – or rather leaps across the political divide. This time from the DAP, showing that the party-hopping syndrome is not confined to the PKR.
In the video clip, at 6:07, a man in dark attire, with an audio device on his ear, steps forward to remove what looks like the prepared statement from the table in front of Keshwinder. Another blog reader watching Bernama news over Astro at 6.00pm noticed that the three men-in-black with Keshvinder appeared to be ‘in control’ of the press conference. Mkini reported that they were ‘bodyguards’, one of whom revealed that they work for a ‘Hamidah’.
What makes Keshwinder Singh’s hopping over to Zambry all the more intriguing is that it was just over nine months ago that the Malim Nawar Adun suffered a hard knock on the head when he was among Pakatan reps who tried to attend a Perak State Assembly sitting on 2 September 2009.
Going bananas in Zimbabwe
I cannot for the life of me imagine why any businessman would want to invest in Zimbabwe.
Look what happened to one such business venture, a Malaysian-Dutch firm Matanuska, which had its banana plantation seized by a retired army general-turned-Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Tanzania.
Perhaps Matanuska thought its interests would be protected by Zimbabwe’s Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (Bippa) with Malaysia. Under this agreement, the firm was reportedly offered land but not title to the land. Or maybe they thought Malaysia enjoyed a special relationship with Zimbabwe!
Mahathir, radioactive waste and Papan
While Malaysia has big plans to go into nuclear energy, it is still grappling with radioactive waste from the Asian Rare Earth facility in Papan more than 20 years ago.
The Sunday Star carried an excellent write-up on Papan here. (Too bad it was not a cover story but instead appeared deep in its inside pages.) Aliran also carried a story here. In both pieces, Mahathir’s claims on the real situation there have been exposed. During his administration, folks were arrested under the ISA for standing up to protect their area from radioactive waste. It is only in recent years that action is being taken to reduce the danger. Now, the real story emerges. What has Mahathir got to say to those folks who were unjustly detained under the ISA and the rest of the Papan residents who were put at risk?
BN leaders with short memories are now talking about going into nuclear energy.