I, like many other fellow Malaysians, could never understand Malaysian politics. With all the scumbags running this country, I just don’t know who is right and who can be trusted. Reading the newspaper and watching news on TV brought more questions than answers. Is the country going down the drain? For example, when I read about DSAI sodomy case, the latest news I heard, brought a lot of questions, e.g.
1. Is it true that on 28 June 2008, Saiful Bukhari Bin Azlan went to see Dr Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid from Hospital Pusrawi to complain about a pain he is suffering in his anus. He also told the doctor that he had been assaulted by a VIP?
2. Is it true that upon examining Saiful, Dr Mohamed Osman found no evidence that he had been sodomised?
3. Is it true Saiful went for a second medical examination at a government hospital, and the doctor at the government hospital also came out with the same diagnosis – no penetration?
4. Is it true Dr Mohamed Osman has now taken his entire family and has gone into hiding because the police are looking for him and they want him to change his medical report?
5. Did the AG and IGP, the same two players in the 1998 episode, has got something to do with all this fabricating of evidence?
6. Why is Saiful’s police report was not made public or given to DSAI’s lawyer? Is there a police report made by Saiful in the first place?
Some says that we are already a step lower than a Pariah State. No citizen is safe from the policymakers anymore. If they can do what they did to DSAI, not onece but TWICE, imagine the things they can do to us.
ANWAR - Is It True?
ADSENSE - 10 Powerful Tips [Tips # 5 - 10]
Tip #5: Use Relevant Content Related To the Theme
There are a lot of places where you can borrow content and articles as long as you credit the writer with a link to his/her site. The best content is an original content, however building a huge network of sites writing articles yourself or outsource the writing tasks to other ghostwriters is time consuming and very expensive.
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ADSENSE - 10 Powerful Tips [Tips # 1 - 4]
Tip #1: Forget About Perfect Markets.
Looking for a “hot market” and then trying to get in on the action just makes sense, right? Wrong.
While some online markets are definitely more profitable than others, the key to success with AdSense is not through picking one high-quality market and sticking with it - it’s about quantity.
Put simply, the more you diversify your online interests, the more money you are bound to make. Does this mean that you shouldn’t take time to do market research by checking Overture’s search numbers, click costs, search engine competition, and affiliate programs?
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Chances are, if you test out ten markets, at least two or three will be profitable. Do this every week, and odds are that you’ll be making quite a profit in no time.
Tip #2: Quantity Outweighs Quality
Unless you are extremely gifted at predicting the future, we suggest that you heed this secret. It is based on simple math. The more opportunities you are working with, the better you can expect the results to be.
Tip #3: This is business. It is not playtime.
You might be surprised by the number of people who complain that they do not make any significant income from their AdSense campaigns. When we ask them how many markets they're in or how many domains they have, their answer is usually 10 or 15 markets, and only 1 or 2 domains per market.
Here is another truth that many people do not want to face head-on. You cannot make any money with AdSense unless you are in a lot of markets. And within those many markets, you must have many websites if you want to really penetrate your niche market and make the most profits from that market. In today’s world, you need to have a lot of smaller sites.
So how can you do all of that?
Well, you cannot, unless you first address some important issues. In order for you to accomplish all this work, you need three things:
1) Procedures
2) Achievable Goals
3) Help
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ACHEIVEABLE GOALS: Anyone who is self-employed, either full time or part time, understands the importance of setting realistic goals and then achieving
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Without goals you can't keep score, and if you can't keep score you don't know if
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Our entire page generation business is 100% outsourced. We have one person who selects my markets, another does the keyword research for those markets, and yet another who actually builds and manages all my pages.
This frees us up to concentrate on the markets that are truly profitable. It allows
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Regardless of the markets that you are in, the vast majority of your traffic will come from the 3- to 5-word keyword phrases you select rather than from your 1-and 2-word "root keyword".
If you're going into the "Birthday Cards" market, you will get more traffic from
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The secret for more traffic is to aim your website pages (title tags and content) to
keyword phrases.
ANWAR'S Police Report In Full
Labels: ENGLISH, NATION, POLITICS1st July, 2008
I, Anwar bin Ibrahim, (NRIC No: 470810-07-5095), hereby make the following police report based on information that I have recently received.
1. This report is in relation to the investigation into the assault on me by the former IGP Tan Sri Rahim Noor on 20 September 1998. I believe Tan Sri Rahim Noor, after being prosecuted, pleaded guilty to the assault. I had lodged a police report in respect of the assault on 27.9.98.
2. In relation to the investigation into the assault, I believe that the Investigating Officer ACP Mat Zain bin Ibrahim (now Datuk Mat Zain) had conducted a thorough investigation and prepared an investigation paper (“IP”) which was presented by October 1998 to the former Attorney General Tan Sri Mokhtar Abdullah and his team which included the current Attorney General Tan Sri Gani Patail for further action.
3. The said investigation paper concluded that Tan Sri Rahim Noor was the perpetrator of the assault on me. The said paper reached a conclusion after a thorough investigation which included medical reports by Hospital KL forensic specialists such as Dr Ab. Halim Haji Mansar and Dr Zahari bin Noor and statement from at least 60 witnesses. The medical reports concluded that the injury inflicted on me was consistent with an assault.
4. Despite the contents of the Investigation paper and the medical reports already available, Tan Sri Mokhtar with the assistance of the current Attorney General Tan Sri Gani Patail then obtained the services of another doctor whom I was informed to be one Dr Abdul Rahman Yusof.
5. Doctor Rahman in an undated and second report speaks of a “reconstruction of the scene” on 14 December 2008. I believe that this so-called reconstruction of the scene never happened.
6. It is an undisputable fact that Dr Rahman’s reports in relation to the assault on me were done without actually even examining me at any time.
7. However, despite the IP and the already existing medical reports, Tan Sri Mokhtar in his press statement of 5 January 1999 appears to accept the views of Dr Rahman on the so-called “inconsistencies” in the other medical reports by the doctors who actually physically examined me.
8. Tan Sri Mokhtar’s press statement also states that the investigation which had been carried out did not identify the person or persons responsible for my injuries. This is inconsistent with the IP which had already concluded by October 1998 that it was Rahim Noor who assaulted me. Tan Sri Mokhtar and his team therefore had wilfully misled the public. As the police investigation done by Mat Zain had apparently not led to any conclusion, there was a public outcry and demand for a Royal Commission which was then set up. Tan Sri Mokhtar also made a false statement that the IP was submitted to him on 19.11.98. I believe that Tan Sri Gani Patail had full knowledge of the false contents of this press statement.
9. I believe Tan Sri Musa Hassan and Tan Sri Gani Patail were present in Bukit Aman on 20 September 1998 and knew about the assault by Tan Sri Rahim Noor on me. Tan Sri Musa and Tan Sri Gani further concealed the fact of the assault on me from the public until my black eye and injuries were revealed in court.
10. I believe both Tan Sri Musa and Tan Sri Gani Patail were actively involved in the procuring of the second undated report by Dr Rahman which makes false and incredible conclusions such as “the pattern and nature of the injuries are not consistent with a direct blow”, “accidental nature of the injuries could not be ruled out” and “self-inflicted nature of the injury should be considered”. They gave the instructions to Dr Rahman to proceed to write this second report and were acting under the direction and/or jointly with Tan Sri Mokhtar Abdullah.
11. These facts show that Tan Sri Musa Hassan, Tan Sri Gani Patail and SAC II Datuk Mat Zain bin Ibrahim (who, according to Dr Rahman’s second report, accompanied him to the cell in Bukit Aman where I was detained and participated in the so-called reconstruction of the scene) conspired with Dr Rahman to procure the production of this second report. This was done so that my police report of 27.9.98 in respect of the assault would be regarded as a false police report for which I could be charged, or at the very least, to damage my credibility, so as to affect my defence in the other criminal cases where I was charged for so-called “corruption” and sodomy to facilitate a conviction.
12. I wish to point out that Tan Sri Gani Patail was the senior prosecutor assisting Tan Sri Mokhtar in the prosecution against me. Tan Sri Musa Hassan was the Investigating Officer for my prosecution. I also believe, that in an unprecedented manner, an operation room specially for my prosecution was set up at Bukit Aman’s compound where all these individuals would meet regularly.
13. This is not the first time that allegations of fabricating evidence had surfaced in connection with Tan Sri Gani Patail. I am informed that in the Federal Court decision Zainur bin Zakaria v Public Prosecutor [2001] 3 MLJ, Steve Shim CJ in delivering his judgment pointed out that “… was he not justified, on a prima facie basis, in complaining that Tan Sri Gani Patail’s conduct at the meeting on 2.10.1998 was an attempt to get Nalla to fabricate evidence in order to perfect charges against him for other alleged sexual offences?” The references to “he” and “him” in that sentence are references to myself.
14. In relation to the above, I refer to the following documents which will be of assistance to the police:
1. The press statement by Tan Sri Mokhtar issued on 5.1.99.
2. The notes of proceedings in the report of the Royal Commission of the evidence of Dr Rahman
3. The second undated report produced by Dr Rahman exhibited in the Royal Commission report.
15. I call for a fresh investigation into the fabrication of evidence in this case which I am advised is an offence contrary to section 192 of the Penal Code punishable up to 7 years imprisonment. I ask that all the persons who are implicated in the procuring of this second report by Dr Rahman i.e. Tan Sri Gani Patail, Tan Sri Musa Hassan, Dr Rahman and Datuk Mat Zain bin Ibrahim be investigated thoroughly so that the truth is known and the offending individuals punished.
ANWAR BIN IBRAHIM
1st July 2008
ANWAR SAGA : Something Just Doesn’t Seem Right
People like to say Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is willing to do anything to gain power. He's an unscrupulous man who won't stop at anything to become the next prime minister; every move he makes is calculated. Maybe this is right.
But what I cannot understand then is why, if he wants power so badly and calculates his moves so precisely, he would be so stupid as to commit sodomy — especially a person who gives off disinterested vibes? Why molest Saiful Bukhari Azlan if there is even a hint of being found out? Why wreck your chances of becoming prime minister?
Look at it objectively: let’s say, you're a homosexual, or at least bisexual. You stand on the cusp of becoming the most powerful man in the country. Everything is going your way. As long as you can stare the government down, they will blink eventually, their house of cards will fall, and you or someone very close to you (your wife?) will become the next prime minister.
Now, you're in this position because you're not exactly stupid. You know how to rouse public sentiment, and you know how to push particular issues which will endear you to the masses. You might not believe what you say, but you'll say it, because you're willing to put power above your own beliefs.
This is what we're supposed to think Anwar is — a serial sodomite poised to take power riding on his charisma and shrewd lies. You have a right to believe this; I think this is a really twisted way of describing Anwar, but it's a reasonably understandable perspective, given the facts available to the public. Well, understandable, except for one little contradiction.
Why on earth, if you believe you can be the most powerful man in the land in a matter of months or even years, would you rape someone now? You're not stupid, mind. You were caught before, sodomising your driver and stepbrother. Are you going to make exactly the same mistake again, after spending 10 years to climb back to your position of bakal perdana menteri?
Assuming Anwar is as corrupt and power-hungry as we're supposed to believe he is, we have to believe he is willing to avoid joining Umno, avoid taking a huge pay-off he would surely get for acquiescing to the powers that be, and stay clean while pretending to fight for what is right, just for the sake of power. But if we believe this, why would he let all his efforts go to waste by sodomising some guy?
It doesn't jibe; either Anwar is a man who will go all out to obtain power, or he is a man willing to give up his shot at power — something he needed 10 years to reclaim — for the sake of a little non-consensual and illegal fun. Something does not seem right here.
Oh yes, you can go ahead and make further uncharitable assumptions about Anwar. Maybe he's cynically done all this because he's betting nobody will buy the charges against him, regardless of what the courts say, since the courts and our whole justice system are, after all, conveniently rigged in favour of the authorities. But I don't think we have the right to proceed on the basis of groundless hypotheses.
You can come up with a thousand conspiracy theories to fit the facts, after all, and most of them are just about equally plausible. I don't think we have the right to pronounce Anwar guilty without even giving him a trial. His critics love to dwell on the fact that the judges who overturned his conviction felt he was indeed a sodomite; they ignore that those same judges agreed there is reasonable doubt as to whether Anwar actually did commit sodomy.
I wish I could be as optimistic as many of our leaders, from both the BN and PR, appear to be when it comes to the justice system. But the fact is, it is hard to believe that Anwar will get a fair hearing, whether or not he actually committed anal rape.
This is the same fellow who has gone on the record accusing the current Inspector-General of Police and Defence Minister of shocking crimes; considering that some policemen are hard-pressed enough to accept bribes of RM2 (in coins), it is impossible to believe that Anwar will get fair and professional treatment from our police force. It is difficult to see how he will get a fair hearing with the shocking revelations from people like Anwar himself and Justice Ian Chin about the state of our judiciary.
A famous legal adage is that justice must not only be done, but be seen to be done. We may not like it, but should the court of public opinion acquit Anwar in spite of a guilty verdict, the fault lies with our law enforcement and judicial institutions for failing to convince the public that he is guilty.
The honour and respectability of our institutions already lie in tatters. I hope we can come up with better smears and better conspiracy theories than the notion that Anwar is at the same time both calculatingly power-hungry and carelessly impatient. If our government wants to put forth a lie and put the final nail in our institutions' coffin, I hope they will at least be prudent enough to make it a good one; if they have found the truth, I hope they will be honest and wise enough to let our institutions and laws do their job, rather than make a mockery of the legal process.
By John Lee
ANWAR : I Was Stripped Naked
Labels: ENGLISH, NATION, POLITICSDatuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was stripped naked, had his private parts examined and some other body parts measured during a medical check-up at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital last night.
He also alleged that he was detained in a police lock-up "fit for a dangerous criminal'' and used a towel brought by his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Ismail as his mattress.
Despite this humiliation and hardship, Anwar was in a defiant mood today, adamant that the government had no case against him.
He insisted that the attempt by the Barisan Nasional to derail the Pakatan Rakyat's march to power will fail and pledged to continue speaking at political rallies around the country. During the press conference, he touched on his detention, saying that he was questioned for almost five hours yesterday and 30 minutes this morning before he was released. He blasted the police for keeping him overnight.
He was especially upset with CID director Datuk Mohd Bakri Zinin, saying that his behaviour reminded him of the former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Rahim Noor, who beat him up while in custody a decade ago.
Anwar wanted to know why the police did not investigate allegations that Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was involved in the Altantuya Shaariibuu case.
RAJA PETRA Charged With Defamation
Labels: ENGLISH, NATION, POLITICSBlogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin was charged in the Magistrate's Court here today with three counts of defaming the deputy prime minister's wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Acting Colonel Kolonel Abdul Aziz Buyong, and his wife, Norhayati Hassan. He was alleged to have defamed them in his sworn statement at the Civil High Court here at 10.25am on June 18.
He refused to enter a plea, claiming that the charge was mala fide (in bad faith).
Deputy public prosecutor Anselm Charles Fernandis appeared for the prosecution before magistrate Nazran Mohd Sham while Raja Petra was represented by counsel J.Chandra.
GRASS Roots Talks To Decide PM's Fate
Labels: ENGLISH, NATION, POLITICSAbout 19,000 branches in the United Malays National Organization party are slated to hold meetings through next month to discuss preparations for the party's congress in December, when Abdullah intends to defend his party presidency.
The July-August party meetings will be watched for signs of whether members support Abdullah's re-election as party president, and his plan to hand over power to his deputy, Najib Razak, in mid-2010 in a transition that some officials insist should be faster.
Elections for UMNO president are held every three years, and the winner traditionally becomes the country's prime minister. But the party president can also hand over the job at midterm to a chosen successor who then has to seek re-election.
The meetings are likely to feature intense soul-searching after the government suffered a stunning setback in March general elections, when a three-party opposition alliance won five of Malaysia's 13 states and left the government with less than a two-thirds majority in Parliament.
Abdullah, who faced much of the blame for his ruling coalition's worst-ever results, says Najib will spearhead the government's bid to regain lost ground in the next general elections due by mid-2013.
The ruling party's branch meetings this month will select representatives for further talks in October, when 191 party divisions will vote whether to re-nominate Abdullah as party president in the year-end internal elections.
Abdullah is expected to get the minimum 30 percent of nominations needed to defend his post, but may be challenged by anyone else who receives enough nominations. Only one official, a royal prince from an eastern state, has so far announced plans to contest the post.
The branch meetings are also expected to discuss ways to combat opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's alliance. Anwar, who was arrested Wednesday and detained overnight on accusations of sodomizing an aide, has threatened to seize power by September through parliamentary defections.
