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affordable health is important

note: wanted to post this earlier but was caught up by the ‘bloggers united’ post, then just when i thought i could start posting it, the line connection was down. now i’m posting this in the office (after office hours of course!). ———————- with regards to my posting ‘nationwide leafleting …

nationwide leafleting at government hospitals

taken from suaram penang mailing list, penang human rights link: Dear friends, Coalition against Privatisation of Health Care Services (Gabungan Membantah Penswastaan Perkhidmatan Kesihatan, GMPPK) will be organising a nationwide leafleting at government hospitals on 18 January. This leafleting campaign is part of action to demand the government to make …

censored articles from the economist

on 8 jan, we read about 2 articles being censored from the economist. courtesy of beritamalaysia, i managed to read the 2 articles (you can’t read them in the economist website as you need to be a premium member). i find the articles to be very interesting especially the one …

do you mind a gay PM?

our dear ex PM said that this is a no-no for, particularly a mostly muslim country like our country. of course we know he was referring to former deputy, anwar. he said this when he was in court filing, challenging a lawsuit by anwar who was sacked amid allegations of …

wither non muslim’s freedom of choice

usually during christmas, it had been the tradition of some christian homes to have the turkey as christmas thanksgiving dinner. of course those who can’t cook the turkey at home, will go to restaurants or hotels to get to eat the turkey…. but alas, now, if you drop in a …

protest against toll hike

well as i predicted regarding the toll hike, there’ll be a demonstration, true enough… there will be one (alternative reading) come 7 jan. 2007. well, it’s their right to want to protest but i see nothing much will come out of it. they are expecting thousands of people. wow! that …

RM30m ‘cobra sultan’ for our PM

UPDATED: badawi denied that he had bought a luxury yacht. he said the turkish paper lied. (rocky’s take). above is a picture of a luxurious yacht named ‘cobra queen‘. a similiar kind of yacht to ‘cobra sultan’ which is now being be built for our PM, badawi, costing RM30 million! …