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Thursday, July 23, 2009
FLU IS NOT THE BIGGEST DANGER ...IT'S THE VACCINE
By David Icke
These are challenging times and we need to stay calm and think things through - not just panic and react. Fear, panic and emotional reaction got us into this mess and it is certainly not going to get us out of it.
We also need to realise - here, now - that we have long crossed the line into a fully-fledged fascist dictatorship. It has hidden itself to most people this far, but it is about to lift the veil.
It is no longer an option to do nothing or passively acquiesce to authority out of fear or apathy. Or, at least, it's not if we care about our freedoms and, most importantly, those of our children and grandchildren who will have to live almost their entire lives under a global jackboot of sheer, undiluted evil.
The word 'evil' is much overused and I don't say it lightly; but weare dealing with evil in the sense that the word is the reverse of 'live'. Those behind the conspiracy to cull the human population and turn the rest into little more than computer terminals are anti-life. They have no respect for it and no empathy with those who suffer the consequences of their actions, no matter how appalling.
Friday, July 17, 2009
16 July 2009 WHO says flu pandemic spreading too fast to count
WHO says flu pandemic spreading too fast to count
Updated Thu. Jul. 16 2009 8:44 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
The World Health Organization said Thursday the H1N1 flu pandemic has been the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it is now pointless to ask countries to count every case.
The United Nations agency announced Thursday it was revising its requirements so that health authorities in member nations need not report total case counts of the pandemic-grade virus. It would prefer, instead, they report clusters of severe cases or clusters of deaths caused by the virus, as well as unusual illness patterns.
"At this point, further spread of the pandemic, within affected countries and to new countries, is considered inevitable," the agency said in a briefing note, posted on its website.
"The 2009 influenza pandemic has spread internationally with unprecedented speed. In past pandemics, influenza viruses have needed more than six months to spread as widely as the new H1N1 virus has spread in less than six weeks."
The agency said it has become nearly impossible for national health authorities to keep count of cases, and the tracking has been eating away at precious laboratory and health services resources. Moreover, it said, counting cases is no longer helpful in assessing the risk posed by the virus.
The WHO says it too will no longer issue global tables showing numbers of confirmed cases for all countries -- which stood at 94,512 cases with 429 deaths as of its last update on July 6.
While noting that the virus has caused overwhelmingly mild illness that usually resolves itself within a week, the WHO said there is still an ongoing need to closely monitor unusual events.
It advised health authorities to watch for spikes in rates of absenteeism from schools or workplaces, or surges in emergency department visits.
It said it would still like to hear from countries confirming their first cases of the virus, but for those countries with community-wide transmission -- such as Canada -- the focus should shift to tracking unusual illness activity and to monitoring any changes in the virus that may be important for the development of vaccines.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
I remember when ... NST article coming out on 7 June 09
I remember when I made first contact.
There are many Star Trek fans out there, but there is only a handful that would revolve their lives around a sci-fi show. RICHARD SI’s love affair for the show might seem eccentric to some but he tells AUDREY VIJAINDREN that he believes it has led him to do the impossible.
My “first contact” was in a dream, one cold and rainy night. I was asked to board an unusual vehicle {craft} that beamed me up into space. There I feasted my eyes on all sorts of magical {technological} wonders. Things I had never seen before, like a half human and half Vulcan being speaking in a foreign tongue.
Well, at least that’s how I would like to think it happened. But there was nothing magical about my encounter. My love affair with Star Trek was born in an empty university library.
I was studying Network Computing in England at the time. Unlike my friends who got to travel {went back-packing} around Europe during {summer holiday} semester breaks, I could only afford to walk to the nearby library. But little did I know that my misfortune brought me one of the greatest gifts of my life – Star Trek.
I spent two weeks in that library watching VHS tapes of every Star Trek episode I could get my hands on. People must have thought I was “super hardworking”. But no one really knew why or what I was doing there everyday.
Being fascinated by the show is an understatement; I eagerly waited each day to be fed with more and more knowledge of that distant space and the wonderful vehicle, The U.S.S Enterprise, which eventually became my obsession.
Star Trek spoke to me about humanity and philosophy. {I felt that} There was a moral behind each episode and I yearned to learn more.
Eventually, I extracted information from the episodes, studied the schematics of this Starfleet ship and used it to complete my final year dissertation on distributed network computing. I learnt the optical network of the Enterprise thoroughly. As an analogy, It’s sort of like a worm, although you break the head the body still moves around its parts, other parts may become autonomous and continue operating. I graduated with a first class degree.
In between studies, I took lessons in one of Star Trek’s popular language, Klingon, and became quite fluent in it. A few of us gathered in a room weekly periodically to practice the language. We called it our “spit room” because the pronunciation of many of the words demanded some expectorating of saliva to get the intonation? correct a lot of “spitting”.
When I came back from England in 1996, I started working in companies, like IBM, HP, Petronas and Shell. Although I was busy with my career, I never stopped being a die-hard fan.
My parents were shocked when box after box of Star Trek items were shipped back to Malaysia. The first thing they asked was, “why did you spend all our money on toys?” My mum said that she expected me to come back a man but instead I turned into a teenager.
I didn’t really elaborate or tell them about my love affair with Star Trek but when I got my first Kancil and changed the number plate to 1701 to match the Enterprise they noticed and started asking more questions.
They also noticed changes in my demeanor; I was more “disciplined” almost military like. My table manners were impeccable and I always stood upright. I was very proper and in that sense I did my parents proud, but my siblings called me “weird”. Those are some of the challenges I knew were in store for me if I continued this journey. I did continue and never looked back.
I got married in 2001 to my wife, May. She was a small town girl from Teluk Intan and had never heard of Star Trek. But I told her that if she loved me she must also love my interest. Thankfully, she did.
Although May is not a fan like me, she is supportive of my interest. I’ve given her a Vulcan name, T’prena, which she uses sometimes. Together we continued my interest in Star Trek and even changed our phone number so it would end with 1701.
Year after year May witnessed and supported my love affair with Star Trek. But it didn’t really hit her until I bid for a car number plate to match the starship registry number of the U.S.S Enterprise, NCC-1701, which would cost us an arm and a leg.
I was waiting for the number plate NCC-1701 to be available for five years; I kept the desire secretly in my heart. I am not a show-off but having that number plate would be a sense of achievement for me as a loyal fan.
More than a year ago, I was told I won the bid for the number plate for a mere RM25,000. The bid that lost to me was RM10,000.
I’ve owned seven cars in the past 15 years and all of them carried the numbers 1701. When my wife got her car, we even drove all the way to Melaka to register the number plate MAY1701.
My wife stood by me through all my Star Trek needs but when I told her we have to name our children after some of the series’s characters, she put her foot down. “Changing a number plate is one thing but this is a child’s life we are talking about, it is serious,” she said. So we compromised on choosing “almost human” names.
My first choice of “Data” didn’t go down well with May. Our son was named Riker Si James Tee Kirk, {after the characters Commander Riker and Captain Kirk}. Five months ago we had a daughter, she was born on January 17 (1701,yes it was a “planned” technological miracle). We were worried that our obsession with the show would cause her to have Vulcan features. But Seven Si Kathryn Janeway {after the characters Seven of Nine and Captain Janeway}is a beautiful girl with slightly pointy ears (literally).
When we registered their names, we got funny looks from the officials. But it’s a great icebreaker; everywhere we go people are instantly curious about their names.
We’re also hoping that maybe NTV7 may want to give our daughter a scholarship on their anniversary because of her name.
I wanted to give our children what I never had – a childhood filled with memories of Star Trek. So instead of lullabies, our children listen to Star Trek themes. When Riker says, “I want to see TV” he means Star Trek and nothing else.
I’ve willed my ship figurines, models and other Star Trek items to my children and have requested in my will that I want this phrase engraved on my tombstone: “To boldly go where no one has gone before”.
A few months back when I watched the private footage of the latest Star Trek movie, I was taken a back. It seems as if the director, J. J. Abrams, has changed the genre of Star Trek.
He has made it so people in their 50s and children can enjoy it. He has changed 50 years of history by changing the plot. The ships and uniforms are different too. The average person might not notice it so much, but those that follow the show closely will notice that the whole idea of the show has changed.
Probably his aim was to recruit new and younger fans. I was not disappointed because he did keep certain elements the same.
In the latest show, crewmembers were falling in love almost implying that office love affairs do happen these days. The gender bias has changed over the years. In the 1960’s, there was a more evident distinction but in this movie the females were portrayed stronger.
I’ve seen the new movie five times and cried each and every time. I must somewhat embarrassingly admit that there were scenes that brought tears to my eyes. For instance, at the beginning of the movie when Kirk was born, when I saw the Enterprise with my car’s NCC-1701 on it and when the original theme song was played at the end of the show which I’m glad this director decided to maintain.
Being a fan is something you practice all the time. It’s always on your mind. The show may come and go but Star Trek will give me a long and prosperous life.
Richard today runs full time a treasure hunt event management company and that my company name is also named after the words that Captain of starships usually utter before bring the crew into ‘warp speed’ Engage Treasure Hunts}
-- New Straits Times article draft before publication --
There are many Star Trek fans out there, but there is only a handful that would revolve their lives around a sci-fi show. RICHARD SI’s love affair for the show might seem eccentric to some but he tells AUDREY VIJAINDREN that he believes it has led him to do the impossible.
My “first contact” was in a dream, one cold and rainy night. I was asked to board an unusual vehicle {craft} that beamed me up into space. There I feasted my eyes on all sorts of magical {technological} wonders. Things I had never seen before, like a half human and half Vulcan being speaking in a foreign tongue.
Well, at least that’s how I would like to think it happened. But there was nothing magical about my encounter. My love affair with Star Trek was born in an empty university library.
I was studying Network Computing in England at the time. Unlike my friends who got to travel {went back-packing} around Europe during {summer holiday} semester breaks, I could only afford to walk to the nearby library. But little did I know that my misfortune brought me one of the greatest gifts of my life – Star Trek.
I spent two weeks in that library watching VHS tapes of every Star Trek episode I could get my hands on. People must have thought I was “super hardworking”. But no one really knew why or what I was doing there everyday.
Being fascinated by the show is an understatement; I eagerly waited each day to be fed with more and more knowledge of that distant space and the wonderful vehicle, The U.S.S Enterprise, which eventually became my obsession.
Star Trek spoke to me about humanity and philosophy. {I felt that} There was a moral behind each episode and I yearned to learn more.
Eventually, I extracted information from the episodes, studied the schematics of this Starfleet ship and used it to complete my final year dissertation on distributed network computing. I learnt the optical network of the Enterprise thoroughly. As an analogy, It’s sort of like a worm, although you break the head the body still moves around its parts, other parts may become autonomous and continue operating. I graduated with a first class degree.
In between studies, I took lessons in one of Star Trek’s popular language, Klingon, and became quite fluent in it. A few of us gathered in a room weekly periodically to practice the language. We called it our “spit room” because the pronunciation of many of the words demanded some expectorating of saliva to get the intonation? correct a lot of “spitting”.
When I came back from England in 1996, I started working in companies, like IBM, HP, Petronas and Shell. Although I was busy with my career, I never stopped being a die-hard fan.
My parents were shocked when box after box of Star Trek items were shipped back to Malaysia. The first thing they asked was, “why did you spend all our money on toys?” My mum said that she expected me to come back a man but instead I turned into a teenager.
I didn’t really elaborate or tell them about my love affair with Star Trek but when I got my first Kancil and changed the number plate to 1701 to match the Enterprise they noticed and started asking more questions.
They also noticed changes in my demeanor; I was more “disciplined” almost military like. My table manners were impeccable and I always stood upright. I was very proper and in that sense I did my parents proud, but my siblings called me “weird”. Those are some of the challenges I knew were in store for me if I continued this journey. I did continue and never looked back.
I got married in 2001 to my wife, May. She was a small town girl from Teluk Intan and had never heard of Star Trek. But I told her that if she loved me she must also love my interest. Thankfully, she did.
Although May is not a fan like me, she is supportive of my interest. I’ve given her a Vulcan name, T’prena, which she uses sometimes. Together we continued my interest in Star Trek and even changed our phone number so it would end with 1701.
Year after year May witnessed and supported my love affair with Star Trek. But it didn’t really hit her until I bid for a car number plate to match the starship registry number of the U.S.S Enterprise, NCC-1701, which would cost us an arm and a leg.
I was waiting for the number plate NCC-1701 to be available for five years; I kept the desire secretly in my heart. I am not a show-off but having that number plate would be a sense of achievement for me as a loyal fan.
More than a year ago, I was told I won the bid for the number plate for a mere RM25,000. The bid that lost to me was RM10,000.
I’ve owned seven cars in the past 15 years and all of them carried the numbers 1701. When my wife got her car, we even drove all the way to Melaka to register the number plate MAY1701.
My wife stood by me through all my Star Trek needs but when I told her we have to name our children after some of the series’s characters, she put her foot down. “Changing a number plate is one thing but this is a child’s life we are talking about, it is serious,” she said. So we compromised on choosing “almost human” names.
My first choice of “Data” didn’t go down well with May. Our son was named Riker Si James Tee Kirk, {after the characters Commander Riker and Captain Kirk}. Five months ago we had a daughter, she was born on January 17 (1701,yes it was a “planned” technological miracle). We were worried that our obsession with the show would cause her to have Vulcan features. But Seven Si Kathryn Janeway {after the characters Seven of Nine and Captain Janeway}is a beautiful girl with slightly pointy ears (literally).
When we registered their names, we got funny looks from the officials. But it’s a great icebreaker; everywhere we go people are instantly curious about their names.
We’re also hoping that maybe NTV7 may want to give our daughter a scholarship on their anniversary because of her name.
I wanted to give our children what I never had – a childhood filled with memories of Star Trek. So instead of lullabies, our children listen to Star Trek themes. When Riker says, “I want to see TV” he means Star Trek and nothing else.
I’ve willed my ship figurines, models and other Star Trek items to my children and have requested in my will that I want this phrase engraved on my tombstone: “To boldly go where no one has gone before”.
A few months back when I watched the private footage of the latest Star Trek movie, I was taken a back. It seems as if the director, J. J. Abrams, has changed the genre of Star Trek.
He has made it so people in their 50s and children can enjoy it. He has changed 50 years of history by changing the plot. The ships and uniforms are different too. The average person might not notice it so much, but those that follow the show closely will notice that the whole idea of the show has changed.
Probably his aim was to recruit new and younger fans. I was not disappointed because he did keep certain elements the same.
In the latest show, crewmembers were falling in love almost implying that office love affairs do happen these days. The gender bias has changed over the years. In the 1960’s, there was a more evident distinction but in this movie the females were portrayed stronger.
I’ve seen the new movie five times and cried each and every time. I must somewhat embarrassingly admit that there were scenes that brought tears to my eyes. For instance, at the beginning of the movie when Kirk was born, when I saw the Enterprise with my car’s NCC-1701 on it and when the original theme song was played at the end of the show which I’m glad this director decided to maintain.
Being a fan is something you practice all the time. It’s always on your mind. The show may come and go but Star Trek will give me a long and prosperous life.
Richard today runs full time a treasure hunt event management company and that my company name is also named after the words that Captain of starships usually utter before bring the crew into ‘warp speed’ Engage Treasure Hunts}
-- New Straits Times article draft before publication --
Friday, April 17, 2009
Application for the post of first Mongolian Ambassador to Malaysia
Dear Sir,
It has come to my attention that Malaysia does not have a Mongolian Ambassador yet and the nearest Mongolian Embassy is in Bangkok. Those who wish to conduct business with Mongolia need to either contact your Embassy in Bangkok or talk to your Honorary Consul in Kuala Lumpur, Datuk Syed Abdul Rahman Alhabshi. And since Syed Rahman is now unofficially attached to the Malaysian Prime Minister’s office he is not so reachable nowadays.
The purpose of this letter is to enquire whether your government plans to set up an Embassy here in Kuala Lumpur in the near future. If so, then I would like to submit my application for the post of first Mongolian Ambassador to Malaysia.
I understand that foreigners can only qualify for the position of Honorary Consul and that an Ambassador must be a citizen of that country. To qualify I would therefore be prepared to apply for Mongolian citizenship even if that means I need to relinquish my Malaysian citizenship.
I also understand that maintaining an Embassy both in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur simultaneously would be straining Mongolia’s financial resources, especially in times like these when the world is going through a serious economic crisis. And I suppose that is why your government maintains an Embassy in Bangkok and only an Honorary Consul in Kuala Lumpur.
I have anticipated this and have already started the ball rolling by launching a ‘Mongolian Embassy Development Fund’. Even if I just limit this fund raising exercise to within the Malaysia Today community, I can already raise millions every year even at a rate of RM10 per Malaysia Today reader per year. This can more than pay the cost of maintaining a Mongolian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
As for me, I do not expect any salary and would be prepared to work for free. Of course, I would expect a Mongolian passport and the diplomatic immunity that comes with the job. And I of course would want those DC number plates on my car -- not to be confused with Kelantan number plates -- so that I can park my car wherever I like and the police can’t do anything about it.
I had in mind a tax-free Porsche or Ferrari, which works out cheaper than a Proton Saga if without tax, as the official Embassy car. By the way, how many tax-free cars are we entitled to and can my friends and family drive them even though they do not work for the Embassy?
I suspect once the Malaysian government finds out I have applied for the job of Mongolian Ambassador to Malaysia it may lodge a protest and say that I want to set up a Mongolian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur and that I have volunteered to work as the Ambassador for free because of the diplomatic immunity that comes with the job. They will also say that I want diplomatic immunity because I want to be able to show the Malaysian government my middle finger and they will not be able to do anything about it.
That is of course not true at all. My offer to work as the Mongolian Ambassador to Malaysia and help fund the running cost of the Embassy is a most sincere gesture and has nothing to do with whatever allegation that may arise that this is part of my plan to irritate the Malaysian government even more than it is already irritated.
Part of my job as Ambassador would be to explore tourism possibilities between Mongolia and Malaysia. I am confident we can market Puncak Alam in Shah Alam as an ecotourism destination for Mongolian tourists who may find jungle clearings a most shattering and heart stopping experience.
We can include in that tourism package a visit to the upmarket residential area of Bukit Damansara where there are many houses bought with other people’s money, probably the highest per capita in the whole of Malaysia. We can throw in a stopover in Singapore with one night’s free stay in the Mandarin Hotel where a certain famous birthday dinner was held, the photographs of that dinner which have eluded Malaysians for more than two years now.
So, you see, I have big plans and my job as Ambassador will not be just to approve visas or escort Mongolians who come to Malaysia to attend the trial of murdering policemen. I will explore all sorts of other opportunities that can serve the combined interests of Mongolia and Malaysia.
I shall be most happy to travel to Mongolia if you need me to explain in more detail as to how the setting up of an Embassy in Kuala Lumpur could benefit Mongolia. One benefit I can immediately think of would be that Mongolian girls who are being pursued by the Malaysian police on orders of Malaysian politicians no longer need to go all the way to Bangkok like in the past. Now, they would have somewhere right in the heart of Kuala Lumpur to go to.
A second benefit would be once a Mongolian national touched down in Kuala Lumpur, he or she (especially she) can report to the Mongolian Embassy and we would have records of their visit to Malaysia. Then, if the Malaysian government deletes their immigration records from the computer, we can show the Malaysian government that our records prove that that person did come to Malaysia and never left the country.
I trust you find my proposal viable and of interest to the government of Mongolia and I look forward to your reply. By the way, I don’t know where I would be at any given point of time so please just deliver the letter to Bukit Aman and they will know how to find me as I am constantly being followed by the Special Branch officers at all times.
Yours truly,
Raja Petra Bin Raja Kamarudin
-- copied from Malaysia Today's post Raja Petra Kamarudin’s letter to the Mongolian government
It has come to my attention that Malaysia does not have a Mongolian Ambassador yet and the nearest Mongolian Embassy is in Bangkok. Those who wish to conduct business with Mongolia need to either contact your Embassy in Bangkok or talk to your Honorary Consul in Kuala Lumpur, Datuk Syed Abdul Rahman Alhabshi. And since Syed Rahman is now unofficially attached to the Malaysian Prime Minister’s office he is not so reachable nowadays.
The purpose of this letter is to enquire whether your government plans to set up an Embassy here in Kuala Lumpur in the near future. If so, then I would like to submit my application for the post of first Mongolian Ambassador to Malaysia.
I understand that foreigners can only qualify for the position of Honorary Consul and that an Ambassador must be a citizen of that country. To qualify I would therefore be prepared to apply for Mongolian citizenship even if that means I need to relinquish my Malaysian citizenship.
I also understand that maintaining an Embassy both in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur simultaneously would be straining Mongolia’s financial resources, especially in times like these when the world is going through a serious economic crisis. And I suppose that is why your government maintains an Embassy in Bangkok and only an Honorary Consul in Kuala Lumpur.
I have anticipated this and have already started the ball rolling by launching a ‘Mongolian Embassy Development Fund’. Even if I just limit this fund raising exercise to within the Malaysia Today community, I can already raise millions every year even at a rate of RM10 per Malaysia Today reader per year. This can more than pay the cost of maintaining a Mongolian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
As for me, I do not expect any salary and would be prepared to work for free. Of course, I would expect a Mongolian passport and the diplomatic immunity that comes with the job. And I of course would want those DC number plates on my car -- not to be confused with Kelantan number plates -- so that I can park my car wherever I like and the police can’t do anything about it.
I had in mind a tax-free Porsche or Ferrari, which works out cheaper than a Proton Saga if without tax, as the official Embassy car. By the way, how many tax-free cars are we entitled to and can my friends and family drive them even though they do not work for the Embassy?
I suspect once the Malaysian government finds out I have applied for the job of Mongolian Ambassador to Malaysia it may lodge a protest and say that I want to set up a Mongolian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur and that I have volunteered to work as the Ambassador for free because of the diplomatic immunity that comes with the job. They will also say that I want diplomatic immunity because I want to be able to show the Malaysian government my middle finger and they will not be able to do anything about it.
That is of course not true at all. My offer to work as the Mongolian Ambassador to Malaysia and help fund the running cost of the Embassy is a most sincere gesture and has nothing to do with whatever allegation that may arise that this is part of my plan to irritate the Malaysian government even more than it is already irritated.
Part of my job as Ambassador would be to explore tourism possibilities between Mongolia and Malaysia. I am confident we can market Puncak Alam in Shah Alam as an ecotourism destination for Mongolian tourists who may find jungle clearings a most shattering and heart stopping experience.
We can include in that tourism package a visit to the upmarket residential area of Bukit Damansara where there are many houses bought with other people’s money, probably the highest per capita in the whole of Malaysia. We can throw in a stopover in Singapore with one night’s free stay in the Mandarin Hotel where a certain famous birthday dinner was held, the photographs of that dinner which have eluded Malaysians for more than two years now.
So, you see, I have big plans and my job as Ambassador will not be just to approve visas or escort Mongolians who come to Malaysia to attend the trial of murdering policemen. I will explore all sorts of other opportunities that can serve the combined interests of Mongolia and Malaysia.
I shall be most happy to travel to Mongolia if you need me to explain in more detail as to how the setting up of an Embassy in Kuala Lumpur could benefit Mongolia. One benefit I can immediately think of would be that Mongolian girls who are being pursued by the Malaysian police on orders of Malaysian politicians no longer need to go all the way to Bangkok like in the past. Now, they would have somewhere right in the heart of Kuala Lumpur to go to.
A second benefit would be once a Mongolian national touched down in Kuala Lumpur, he or she (especially she) can report to the Mongolian Embassy and we would have records of their visit to Malaysia. Then, if the Malaysian government deletes their immigration records from the computer, we can show the Malaysian government that our records prove that that person did come to Malaysia and never left the country.
I trust you find my proposal viable and of interest to the government of Mongolia and I look forward to your reply. By the way, I don’t know where I would be at any given point of time so please just deliver the letter to Bukit Aman and they will know how to find me as I am constantly being followed by the Special Branch officers at all times.
Yours truly,
Raja Petra Bin Raja Kamarudin
-- copied from Malaysia Today's post Raja Petra Kamarudin’s letter to the Mongolian government
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Open Letter To Barack Obama by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad?
Dear Mr. President to be,
I did not vote for you in the Presidential Election because I am Malaysian.
But I consider myself one of your constituents because what you do or say will affect me and my country as well.
I welcome your promise for change. Certainly your country, the United States of America needs a lot of changes.
That is because America and Americans have become the best hated people in the world. Even Europeans dislike your arrogance. Yet you were once admired and liked because you freed a lot of countries from conquest and subjugation.
It is the custom on New Year's day for people to make resolutions. You must have listed your good resolutions already. But may I politely suggest that you also resolve to do the following in pursuit of Change.
1) Stop killing people. The United States is too fond of killing people in order to achieve its objectives. You call it war, but today's wars are not about professional soldiers fighting and killing each other. It is about killing people, ordinary innocent people by the hundreds of thousands. Whole countries will be devastated.
War is primitive, the cavemen's way of dealing with a problem. Stop your arms build up and your planning for future wars.
2) Stop indiscriminate support of Israeli killers with your money and your weapons. The planes and the bombs killing the people of Gaza are from you.
3) Stop applying sanctions against countries which cannot do the same against you.
In Iraq your sanctions killed 500,000 children through depriving them of medicine and food. Others were born deformed.
What have you achieved with this cruelty? Nothing except the hatred of the victims and right-thinking people.
4) Stop your scientists and researchers from inventing new and more diabolical weapons to kill more people more efficiently.
5) Stop your arms manufacturers from producing them. Stop your sales of arms to the world. It is blood money that you earn. It is un-Christian.
6) Stop trying to democratize all the countries of the world. Democracy may work for the United States but it does not always work for other countries.
Don't kill people because they are not democratic. Your crusade to democratize countries has killed more people than the authoritarian Governments which you overthrew. And you have not succeeded anyway.
7) Stop the casinos which you call financial institutions. Stop hedge funds, derivatives and currency trading. Stop banks from lending non-existent money by the billions.
Regulate and supervise your banks. Jail the miscreants who made profits from abusing the system.
8) Sign the Kyoto Protocol and other international agreements.
9) Show respect for the United Nations.
I have many other resolutions for change which I think you should consider and undertake.
But I think you have enough on your plate for this 2009th year of the Christian Era.
If you can do only a few of what I suggest, you will be remembered by the world as a great leader. Then the United States will again be the most admired nation. Your embassies will be able to take down the high fences and razor-wire coils that surround them.
May I wish you a Happy New Year and a great Presidency.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad (alleged) Original posting here
I did not vote for you in the Presidential Election because I am Malaysian.
But I consider myself one of your constituents because what you do or say will affect me and my country as well.
I welcome your promise for change. Certainly your country, the United States of America needs a lot of changes.
That is because America and Americans have become the best hated people in the world. Even Europeans dislike your arrogance. Yet you were once admired and liked because you freed a lot of countries from conquest and subjugation.
It is the custom on New Year's day for people to make resolutions. You must have listed your good resolutions already. But may I politely suggest that you also resolve to do the following in pursuit of Change.
1) Stop killing people. The United States is too fond of killing people in order to achieve its objectives. You call it war, but today's wars are not about professional soldiers fighting and killing each other. It is about killing people, ordinary innocent people by the hundreds of thousands. Whole countries will be devastated.
War is primitive, the cavemen's way of dealing with a problem. Stop your arms build up and your planning for future wars.
2) Stop indiscriminate support of Israeli killers with your money and your weapons. The planes and the bombs killing the people of Gaza are from you.
3) Stop applying sanctions against countries which cannot do the same against you.
In Iraq your sanctions killed 500,000 children through depriving them of medicine and food. Others were born deformed.
What have you achieved with this cruelty? Nothing except the hatred of the victims and right-thinking people.
4) Stop your scientists and researchers from inventing new and more diabolical weapons to kill more people more efficiently.
5) Stop your arms manufacturers from producing them. Stop your sales of arms to the world. It is blood money that you earn. It is un-Christian.
6) Stop trying to democratize all the countries of the world. Democracy may work for the United States but it does not always work for other countries.
Don't kill people because they are not democratic. Your crusade to democratize countries has killed more people than the authoritarian Governments which you overthrew. And you have not succeeded anyway.
7) Stop the casinos which you call financial institutions. Stop hedge funds, derivatives and currency trading. Stop banks from lending non-existent money by the billions.
Regulate and supervise your banks. Jail the miscreants who made profits from abusing the system.
8) Sign the Kyoto Protocol and other international agreements.
9) Show respect for the United Nations.
I have many other resolutions for change which I think you should consider and undertake.
But I think you have enough on your plate for this 2009th year of the Christian Era.
If you can do only a few of what I suggest, you will be remembered by the world as a great leader. Then the United States will again be the most admired nation. Your embassies will be able to take down the high fences and razor-wire coils that surround them.
May I wish you a Happy New Year and a great Presidency.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad (alleged) Original posting here
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