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Allegedly bashed by NINE PAS supporters, this bloke ended up in a hospital bed, looking none for the better coz he still looks … errr … pathetically idiotic.
Soft tissue injury? Now who would believe that a future leader of Malaysia, and an UMNO Supreme Council member at that, can be felled by fisticuffs and legistuffs (sic) when he should have been made of sterner stuff. Wimp! Don’t ever try that stunt of walking into ‘enemy’ territory unless you got kokonut kahunas.
And of course, Homey sez “We have seen what they tried to do to Umno supreme council member Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim .. ” and also ” .. police would carry out a thorough probe into the matter.” Ok, which is which? Homey knows better or is he ‘telling’ the PDRM to investigate according to his ‘announcement’ in the MSM? Or is he jumping the gun as usual, as in the bull-head incident in Shah Alam?
“This is not a gimmick. Can I make my head swell for no reason? … ” Nope, yer swelled head was there when UMNO made you Poootera chief and yer definitely ain’t no workaholic. The Bagan Pinang folks will be happier if you don’t show up again in their lifetime.
Awww .. c’mon guyz. Gimme a break. Can’t we go to that new K-oK joint tomorrow night? Them .. damn .. press people are still out there and I can’t sneak out lah.
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And don’t you guyz dare go for my favorite awek 231.
Hmmm .. will Hollywood ever dish out a bronze Oscar? With Arkham’s certificate pre-loaded, of course.
Did you have problems reading the latest posting from Malaysia-Today entitled ‘The attacks on Malaysia-Today”?
Well, I’m reproducing the entire article here which is self-explanatory.
| THE ATTACKS ON MALAYSIA-TODAY |
| Posted by admin |
| Monday, 28 September 2009 16:21 |
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The MCMC has in the past failed to silence Malaysia Today officially through blocking it in August 2008. Now, with even more revelations of various scandals of the government exposed through this site, we can’t help but suspect that there is a more significant force, a hidden hand at play aimed at bringing down Malaysia Today.
NO HOLDS BARRED Raja Petra Kamarudin First of all, I have received tons of happy birthday messages via SMS, Facebook, e-mails and postings on this site. Initially, I tried to reply to all these messages one by one but as the messages flooded in I found it impossible to reply to each and every message individually. Therefore, I would like to say thank you and at the same time apologise to all those I was not able to personally reply to. Now, you may have noticed that of late Malaysia Today has been ‘off the air’ almost every day, sometimes for a stretch of many hours. This has been going on for more than a week. The man leading our technical team thought that maybe we should inform our readers about what is happening so that you can be kept abreast of the developments. Rest assured we are doing everything we can to solve this problem. Nevertheless, there is just so much we can do. Money, of course, is one issue that we have to address, as what would be required does cost us quite a sum. Money aside, though, if they choose to continue the attacks, even money can’t solve the problem. We just have to pick ourselves up and start all over again whenever we are hit and bear the disruptions to the site with a stiff upper lip. Anyway, let our technical team explain what is the problem we have been facing. What happened to Malaysia Today By Malaysia Today’s technical team With so much confusion and speculation making its rounds about what is happening to Malaysia Today over more than a week, we are compelled to offer our explanation so that the record can be set straight. Only limited technical details will be mentioned to allow you to appreciate the scale of challenge the site is facing. You may now be aware that the site has been up and down since Friday, 17 September 2009. This was due to malicious activities by those behind the effort to cripple Malaysia Today. This is just one of the many rounds of cyber-attacks that we at Malaysia Today have had to face for more than a year now. Coincidentally, this latest round of attacks started immediately after RPK’s explosive expose two weeks ago on Tuesday regarding the Malaysian Cabinet’s knowledge and ‘approval’ of the PKFZ scandal long before it became public knowledge. Suspicious activities against the site happened as early as Wednesday, but the first damage was done in the afternoon of Thursday, which brought the site down. The site was quickly recovered and by 6.00pm we were up and running again although with some loss of data. The attack revolved around the long-time problem faced by the site – a rather old version of Joomla content management system and the use of third-party components. Lack of resources (financial, manpower, etc.) has always been a challenge faced by Malaysia Today, which affected the maintenance and operations of the site. During the recovery process, we locked down the site to reduce the danger of further compromises. The next wave of attacks came the following day on Friday. This time it was in a wave of DDoS traffic crippling one of our nodes at Singapore. The Singapore node operates with about 30Mbps of bandwidth, a luxury by Malaysian standards but far short if we need to match any serious DDoS attacks. The node was basically choked with illegitimate traffic. Typical of DDoS network attacks, the origin of the attacks is difficult to pinpoint and sometimes pointless as the attack agents/zombies are likely compromised systems themselves. We then activated our resources at our US node to recover the site. The process required optimisation of the site to cope with demand. (The demand on the site seemed much higher, possibly due to the interest on the PKFZ expose.) Hence the intermittent site outage, due to either overloading or optimisation process. Being a service provider of a larger scale and sophistication, the US node has a higher capability of sustaining the attacks. Still, the attacks persisted on a daily basis and we tried deflecting them as far as we could. The DDoS traffic we suffered ranged from 227Mbps to 835Mbps, a mammoth scale for anyone familiar with maintaining Internet sites. The attacker does not appear interested in defacing the website, typical of self-styled college hackers. He/she just deleted articles published on Malaysia Today, literally one by one, with the single-minded aim of erasing all the explosive stuff on the site. Further complicating the trace of attacks is the use of free proxy servers, on random basis, by the attackers. This is an irony, as we have been advising our users to use such proxy servers to overcome any potential content filtering by the government. All the malicious activities and behaviours bear the hallmark of professional, for-hire hackers. These are certainly no amateurs, judging from the persistence and frequency of the attacks, with the main objective of making the content of Malaysia Today inaccessible to the public. We believe that there is NO explicit blocking of the site by the various Malaysian ISPs. The inconsistent and intermittent accessibility of the site in the past many days are the result of the situation described above, although we must caution that it is almost impossible to detect any clandestine censorship. The MCMC has in the past failed to silence Malaysia Today officially through blocking it in August 2008. Now, with even more revelations of various scandals of the government exposed through this site, we can’t help but suspect that there is a more significant force, a hidden hand at play aimed at bringing down Malaysia Today. —00000—
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, RPK (27th September 2009)
Behind that innocent little smile lies a brilliantly sinister mind! Btw folks, if you have noticed that his recent postings were simply ‘explosive’ in nature, did you also not wonder whether those images contained a little more than what’s obvious? Try S-T-E-G-A-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y Maaaan, I can already visualise the-powers-that-be slapping their noggins on this. |
Probe into leaked cabinet papers to narrow on place where it happened. (The Star report)
Putrajaya: Police investigations into the posting of classified Cabinet papers on the Internet will focus more on where the leak occurred rather than who was responsible for making them public, said Home Minister Datuk Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. Hey, the PDRM finally got their ‘corruption’ compass pointed in the right direction. It’s right smack in the middle of the PMO. In other words, they can’t find RPK lah.
He also warned that the police would even probe ministers if they were suspected to be involved. Yup, that’s gonna shake some black suits. Sabre rattling time. I’ll bet MCA’s gonna be the first port of call. But then again, they are just the deck hands. Try looking for the captain with a keris in his hand.
Hishammuddin said since the papers were classified, the person responsible for the leak would have to be “someone on the inside” and as such would have to face action. Duh! That’s how ‘classified’ leaks happen, dear home minister. From the inside. If it’s from the outside, it’s usually termed as an expose. That’s a good thing, I might add.
He said the act of leaking the papers was serious as it jeopardised the government’s decisions on how to lead, manage and administer the country and it was something that could not be tolerated. Gosh! You blokes in the cabinet actually work and make big, important decisions? And all this time, I’ve tolerated (sic) and thought that you’re a bunch of nincompoops who can’t read … hang on, we’re dealing with big, hugh numbers here, right? The ones with plenty of zeros at the back of the first digit. Like RM12,500,000,000.
“The papers were leaked before they were even discussed in cabinet and there is a possibility that they may not even have been discussed but leaking the papers has compromised the cabinet. Naughty, naughty, HH. Are yer saying that such an important secret government document with probably lots of words and big, hugh numbers was NOT read by the cabinet? Are yer certain or are yer just throwing a red herring for any gullible joe public to lap up this possibility? And if you yourself have not seen and read it, I’d recommend that you go here before the MCMC decide to ban it for something deemed as offensive. Thank RPK when yer done, will yer. Meanwhile, thanks but no thanks for the cunning obfuscation which I believe is the MAIN THRUST of this news report..
“There is a reason why the Official Secrets Act (OSA) was created and all those within the Government have a responsibility to respect the law and the confidentiality of the documents. Geez! And I thought the OSA was meant primarily for national security. Like how many nuts and bolts do you need to hold a submarine intact. No?
“I have told the police to conduct an all out and thorough investigation and investigate even ministers if they are suspected to be involved,” he told reporters when met at the Hari Raya open hosted by the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers here on Sunday. The PDRM ALWAYS have to have your green-light before they venture out of their cushy air-conditioned office, eh HH. What’s the newly re-instated IGP doing anywayz? Making coffee for yer, I’ll bet.
On another matter, Hishammuddin said the police had already handed to the Attorney General’s Chambers investigation papers on the allegations by Tunku Nadzimuddin Tunku Mudzaffar, grandson of the late Yang di-Pertuan Besar Negri Sembilan, that the Raja Muda of Johor Tunku Ismail Idris had put a gun to his head and hit him. Eleven months or closer to a year. That’s got to be a PDRM KPI record of sorts, especially when a firearm, yer know . a gun, was allegedly brandished. Wanna rake up Sungei Lunchu in JB just in case if the evidence was accidently dropped there?
The minister said the police had thus completed their work and it was now up to the AG’s chambers to decide on the next course of action. Twiddling their thumbs, more like it. It’s a case involving the bluebloods, yer twit. They are ‘bigger’ than the umnoputras.
Asked why the police took more than 11 months to conclude investigations into the case, he said that the papers had been handed in earlier but the AG’s chambers had then requested for additional information over the case. Maybe somebody stamped “RAHSIA” on it hence the AG deferred reading it like you lot in the Cabinet. Refer to above example.
“I was also told that the two sides had one point tried to resolve the problem on their own but what is wrong is wrong and the papers have now been handed to AG’s chambers and it is up to them to decide on the next course of action,” he said. Damn right, Mr Home minister. What’s wrong is still wrong. Just like what that bunch in Shah Alam did a couple of weeks ago with a severed bull-head. Unless you wanna wait 13 months and break a record. Ohh .. you are?
Tunku Nadzimuddin had claimed that he was hit in his head and face, had a gun pointed at his head, and suffered a fractured nose and other serious injuries as a result of the incident while his lawyer friend, Shamshuddhuha Ishak, who was knocked out, lost two teeth. Err .. never mind.
He had also hit out at the police for failing to act after having assured him that they would investigate the case and take the necessary action. Hmmpfff!
From food fights on recipe rights to detention ‘comforts’.
It’s amazing sometimes when you look at the sibling rivalry between Malaysia and Singapore (aka RDC = Red Dot Com).
Mas Selamat ‘happy to be detained in Malaysia’. (TMI report. The Star carried a similar truncated news item – here)
Excerpts:
- Jemaah Islamiah (JI) militant Mas Selamat Kastari is happy to be detained in Malaysia, but he hopes to see his wife and five children during the Hari Raya celebration, according to Suhakam vice-chairman Tan Sri Simon Sipaun.
- Sipaun said Mas Selamat also claimed he had been drugged while he was in detention in Singapore. He said he did not feel normal most of the time and was always dizzy.
- Suhakam carries out regular checks on detention centres and prisons throughout the country to ensure there is no violation of human rights.
- Home Ministry secretary-general Mahmood Adam confirmed yesterday that his ministry would allow Mas Selamat’s wife to visit him in Kamunting. “We have no problem. As long as she has the proper travel documents, she can visit him anytime,” he said.
- For its part, Suhakam did not plan to contact Mas Selamat’s wife or children, said Sipaun. “Unfortunately, our duty is only to make sure that there is no human rights violation in the detention centres and we’re not planning to meet Mas Selamat’s wife,” he said.
Singapore: Mas Selamat never complained about ill-treatment. (TMI report. No, the Star didn’t publish this ROR = right of reply).
Excerpts:
- “The family’s request for travel documents to enable them to visit Mas Selamat at the Kamunting Detention Centre is currently being assessed by the Singapore authorities. We will have to consider, given the family’s past immigration offences, Mas Selamat’s terrorist activities and plots against Singapore, and the fact that Mas Selamat’s wife was also a member of the JI, whether it is in our national security interests to grant the family travel documents to leave Singapore to visit him in Malaysia.
- “Any report of ill-treatment of the detainee is sent to the Minister for Home Affairs. The government did not receive any report of ill-treatment from Mas Selamat, the doctor, his family, or the Board of Inspection during his detention.
- “It should also be pointed out that in the last few years since Mas Selamat was repatriated to Singapore from Indonesia, despite his having plotted terror attacks against Singaporeans and despite his having deserted his family in Singapore and fleeing to hide in Malaysia, ISD and members of the Inter-Agency Aftercare Group, which comprises several Singaporean Malay-Muslim organisations and individuals including AMP, Khadijah Mosque, Mendaki and Taman Bacaan, had provided the family social and financial assistance, such as help with their utilities bills, and tuition and school textbooks for the children.”
It’s kinda weird to see both nations falling over each other in what can be considered as ‘making hay while the rain pours’.
And the icing on the cake?
The Malaysian government is inviting another known JI member to visit the country.
That will ring alarm bells in the Oval Office, eh folks.
Heck! I’m prepared to view the special visit request under sympathetic considerations. At least for the kids. Plus it’s the Raya thingy.
But does it have to be such an ‘overt’ public relations exercise, especially because of this and this?
Discretion is definitely not their forte.
Yes, there’s still the opportunity to celebrate OUR real 50th anniversary.
Meanwhile, let’s rejoice with:
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