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Lady Cyclist on an Old-School Fixie Bicycle in Golden Gate Park: Guess the DecadeWednesday, November 19th, 2014
Street Chess in the Mid-Market: It's Back, Baby! After a Few Lean Years, Market Street is Back Up to Ten Tables SometimesWednesday, June 12th, 2013
Frisco street chess hasn't been this vibrant in years.
Things hadn't been so hot since the Great Street Chess War of 2010, when the traditional location at Fifth and Market got eliminated. Get the deets here from Chris Roberts of the SF Weekly.
And even last year, you wouldn't necessarily see that much activity.
But we're in a more active era now, with a noticeable increase just the past few months.
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Appears that this out-of-the-way location is hitting critical mass…
The "JESUS IS LORD" Lady of San Francisco's Western AdditionMonday, September 17th, 2012
Jerry Brown Throws Down: Goes After "Tax Lady Roni Deutch" for $34 MillionMonday, August 23rd, 2010
Our California Attorney General Jerry Brown can't abide those who concoct "heartless schemes" to prey on those of us who owe the I.R.S. a lot of money.
Looks like famous Tax Lady and UC Berkeley grad Roni Deutch will soon have some splaining to do.
All the deets, below.
El Protector de la Gente, Jerry Brown:
Brown Seeks $34 Million From TV's Tax Lady Roni Deutch For Victimizing Thousands Who Sought Her Aid in Dealing With the IRS
SACRAMENTO – Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today filed a $34 million lawsuit against television's "Tax Lady Roni Deutch" for orchestrating a "heartless scheme" that swindled thousands of people facing serious and expensive tax collection problems with the IRS.
"Tax Lady Roni Deutch is engaged in a heartless scheme that swindled people with tax problems," Brown said. "She promises to significantly reduce their IRS tax debts, but instead preys on their vulnerability, taking large up-front payments but providing little or no help in lowering their tax bills."
Deutch manufactures credibility by boasting that her tax resolution law firm, which has annual revenues of at least $25 million, is the largest of its kind in the nation. She spends $3 million a year on advertising, much of it on late-night cable TV, and frequently offers tax advice on NBC's Today Show, CNN, and CNBC.
Here she is, more deets after the jump
Bigger than Obama? San Francisco Goes Ga Ga over Lady Gaga at the Bill GrahamTuesday, December 15th, 2009
Did you miss Lady Gaga's Monster Ball tour at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium? Well click here and you'll be transported there in a jiffy through the magic of digital video.
How would you rate her stage energy in this "first-ever pop electro opera" compared to that of, let's say…. a drugged Britney Spears? (Perhaps Lady Gaga missed her morning coffee the past few days, just saying….)
Anyway, she was the biggest thing to hit Civic Center since Barack Obama's visit to the BGCA back in Ought-Seven. Is she Bigger Than Obama these days?
Can LGG sing Poker Face upside down? Yes, Yes She Can.
Of course the True Fans waited in line all day, powered by California Pizza Kitchen and whatnot. Did the nearby CPK on Van Ness send over some free pies to those at the head of the line? Que bueno!
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But don't go gaga if you see a big bus (camera left) with "Lady Gaga" written on the side. Her real bus (should she need it) will be a unmarked million-dollar job, like the one on the right:
All this mania is quite a switch compared to her appearance at The Mezanine in the SoMA just nine months ago, the last time she came to town.
Bon courage to all those on this Monster Ball tour.
ABC News, Princess Diana and the Health Care Debate – Point /CounterpointWednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Here's the headline and the first sentence from a recent ABC News bit:
"Princess Diana's Death Offers Lessons for Health Care Debate, 12 Years Later. In Britain's Beloved Royal's Death, Experts Find Guidance in French Health System"
"The Mercedes 600 carrying Princess Dianaand her companion Dodi Fayed was traveling more than 85 miles per hour when it hit a concrete pillar head-on in the Place D'Alma underpass, crumbling like an accordion."
1. No, the car was not a "Mercedes 600," (which was called the Dictator's Mercedes, used since 1963 by the likes of Nicolae Ceauşescu, Josip Broz-Tito, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha, Leonid Brezhnev, Kim Il-sung, Idi Amin Dada, and Ferdinand Marcos), nor was it the extended wheelbase, armored Mercedes S600 that Diana was using earlier in the day. It was a Mercedes S280 (or S 280, or 280 S, with a W140 body, registration 688LTV75) actually, one that allegedly wasn't fixed properly after being stolen for parts earlier in the year. In fact, the S600 in question was used as a decoy to try to befuddle the paparazzi.
This is not the writer making a typo, it's an error that tells you that Diana is merely being used a hook to get a convo going about the issue du jour, health care.
Does the writer (or editor, whomever) understand what she's talking about? No. Did she negligently copy a mistake made by others before her? Apparently. Institutionally, would it be easy for the writer to fix her mistake at this point? No, she "knows" she's right, because she's a professional writer, steeped in the warm bath of the MSM. Do you think she'd poke through her numerous comments looking for new insights, or do you think she'd generally dismiss her commenters as a bunch of "crazies?" (I too might generally consider her commenters crazies as well, but it doesn't mean they're not right about any particular issue, of course).
Of course the S280 didn't have its identifying badge on the back, so that makes things a little harder to keep straight. (You see, the Eurotrash, they tend to be sensitive about such matters, matters like not having the best S-Klasse car available.) Anyway, the goal of using a decoy at the Ritz Hotel so long ago was to confuse journalists, and that trick is still fooling them today. Oh well.
2. Now back in the day you had cars that would get crushed "like an accordian," but modern vehicles are designed with crumple zones so that the front third of the vehicle gets accordianed leaving the passenger compartment relatively intact. (In Diana's particular case, she wasn't wearing her seat belt, but it might not have helped her too much anyway.) The car was crushed exactly not like an accordian, it behaved exactly as it was designed. (Ironically, Mercedes was a pioneer with this type of safety design, with a actual patent to its credit from 1959.) I'd be hard-pressed to think of another car model that would have been better for her to be in, actually.
3. Scoop and Run vs. Stay and Play. You just can't tell if the half-assed "Franco-German" approach to emergency doctoring contributed to Diana's death. Now, of course a homeless person in San Francisco almost certainly would have gotten better treatment in similar circumstances. The SFFD or whomever would have pried open the car's carcass as if it were a tin can and hustled her over to S.F. General with a quickness.
But you don't know how it would have gone. At least with Scoop and Run, you know you gave it the old college try. There have been incidents in America similar to that of Natasha Richardson, but they are rare. Why? Lawyers. I beg of you, Monsier, watch yourself. Be on guard. America is place full of lawyers, lawyers everywhere, everywhere.So that's a drain on society, but fear of lawsuits means that EMTs and first responders tend to try harder in America. They lack the cavalier attitude some French might have. Just saying.
(And the way, "Stay and Play" is a horrible phrase. Supporters of this approach should try to think of a better name. Yish.)
4. So, why did Diana die? A drunk driver, plus a flighty princess who encouraged speeding whether she knew it or not, plus a Parisian tunnel design with exposed pillars that wouldn't pass muster in poorest part of Alabama, plus Stay and Play (as a possible factor, I mean she certainly had traumatic injuries from a horrific accident, no argument here) – add all that up and there's your answer. (A conspiracy-free answer, you might note).
And as far as getting rid of the "Anglo-American" emergency response doctrine, well that's not on the table. Why? Cause the lawyers will tear apart any kind of "well, we used to Scoop and Run but that got too expensive" explanation as to why it took 100 minutes to get the E.R.
So what does Diana's death have to do with the American health care system? Not all that much, it would seem.
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My new dress for Valentine's day ! I used the Belladone dress pattern, and modified the back to create a heart-shaped cutout :D (tutorial here)
All the story on my blog !
Feb 14, 2013, 09.51 AMby Catate
sooo cute! Well done!
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So pretty!!
Feb 10, 2013, 06.14 PMby nessie
Thank you so much for your kind comments !
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love the back detail, so cute :)
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Gorgeous dress!!! I.love.the. heart cut out, you did.a very neat job.on this. X
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Vitals: Sherry Witz, 35, works as the office manager and as a massage therapist at Serenity Massage & Aesthetics in Rockford. Witz is a native of Roscoe, but attended massage school in Napa Valley, California.
1. If you could choose any elected official – local, state or national – to speak with one-on-one, who would it be and what would you say? I would try to convince state senators to have holistic health care covered by insurance.
2. If you were to move away from the Rock River Valley, what three things would you miss the most? I'd miss enjoying the beauty of the Rock River while walking the bike path, exploring the cafés, pubs, wine bars, galleries, etc., in the downtown area and appreciating the art, visual character and style of the old buildings.
3. What aspects of holistic health care could the average American benefit the most from? Perhaps the most beneficial thing would be the understanding that the body has an amazing, natural way of healing itself. Acupuncture can clear the body of blocked energy pathways that lead to physical, mental or emotional issues. Massage increases the blood flow in the body, releasing pent-up stress, increasing range of motion, and improving flexibility. It also clears the mind of chaos and leaves one feeling balanced and relaxed. There are a myriad of holistic approaches to help heal the body, without the dangerous side-effects of Western medicine.
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Nominate a White House Champion of Change for Strengthening the Economy through CitizenshipPosted byon September 19, 2014 at 12:58 PM EST
All across the United States, immigrant workers make up the backbone of many small, large, and emerging businesses. Immigrant workers bring their skills and talent to the broader American workforce, and many businesses understand that by investing in their immigrant workforce they are also investing in their overall productivity. Our country is stronger and our businesses are stronger when everyone has a stake. As a result, some businesses have begun providing assistance to qualified employees with the citizenship process. Citizenship offers individuals the chance to become full participants in the American workforce, helping to improve the economy and their communities.
We would like to recognize these efforts so today, we're asking you to help us identify and honor these leaders who are strengthening their businesses and the workforce by helping immigrants through the citizenship process. These extraordinary leaders will be invited to the White House to celebrate their accomplishments and showcase their actions to amplify the lesson that helping immigrant workers become citizens is not just compassionate but also good business. Please nominate a Champion of Change by midnight on Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Nominees may include the following types of individuals:
- Small business owners who provide civic lessons and workshops to employees.
- Managers within large or medium-sized businesses who provide English language lessons to employees.
- Company owners who provide citizenship information to employees.
- Labor Unions working with employers to provide access to citizenship services.
Click on the link below to submit your nomination (be sure to choose Strengthening the Economy through Citizenship in the "Theme of Service" field of the nomination form).
Nominate a Strengthening the Economy through Citizenship Champion of Change
We are looking forward to hosting this event and to highlighting the incredible work that businesses across the country are doing to strengthen our workforce, economy, and country.
Julie Chavez Rodriguez is Deputy Director of the Office of Public Engagement.Learn more about Immigration
A Journey into the UnknownPosted byon September 15, 2014 at 4:54 PM EST
Frank Lowe is being honored as a Individual and Community Preparedness Champion of Change.
While it is an honor to be named a Champion of Change, I know that this would not be possible without the effort and contribution of so many who have supported me.
After I retired from my first career, I knew I needed to find a way to be useful to my community. Fortunately, the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) was looking for someone to focus on the senior population of the city and hired me as a consultant. Faced with the task of effectively reaching out to over a million seniors, it didn't take long for me to realize this was not a one man job. Fortunately, there were so many others who were eager to offer advice and help in preparing seniors to respond to emergencies.
Six years ago, I was added to the staff at OEM as Senior Outreach Specialist. In this position, I was able to implement some of the things I had after engaging seniors and giving presentations on emergency preparedness in all the five boroughs. This one-on-one contact taught me that, while many were reading our brochures on making emergency plans, few had actually followed the advice offered in those brochures. While discussing this problem with my colleagues, I proposed an interactive workbook to guide seniors through the process of preparing for emergencies and disasters. After a year and a half of research and development, MY EMERGENCY PLAN was born. MY EMERGENCY PLAN is an emergency preparedness workbook, and it has proven to be incredibly popular not only with the seniors but also with other age groups. It has become our flagship emergency preparedness guide and is now available in print in 13 languages and online in 22 languages.
Yet, I knew that there were still populations that MY EMERGENCY PLAN wasn't reaching, particularly those confined to their homes and those who cannot see. To reach out to the homebound, I engaged the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and Meals on Wheels, and they helped distribute 17,000 copies of our brochure. As for the blind, we recorded each of our guides and distributed them on tapes and CDs to organizations that work directly with this constituency, such as Lighthouse, the Helen Keller Institute, Jewish Guild for the Blind, and Visions. The work to prepare our communities never ends, and there will be challenges on this ongoing journey. But each challenge proves to us that there is much more to learn—and much more to do.
Frank Lowe is a Senior Outreach Specialist for the New York City Office of Emergency Management. He oversees Ready New York, a campaign to encourage New Yorkers to ready themselves for emergencies.
All Hands on Deck! Innovation and Engagement in Mississippi's Youth Preparedness through MyPIPosted byon September 15, 2014 at 4:51 PM EST
Ryan Akers is being honored as a Individual and Community Preparedness Champion of Change.
As a member of the faculty at the Mississippi State University Extension Service (MSU-ES), I am able to unite two passions of mine: emergency preparedness and the mentoring of youth. This position has provided me with abundant opportunities to enhance emergency preparedness across the state of Mississippi, addressing areas ripe for improvement and engaging individuals, families, and communities in emergency preparedness. My research background centers on college and university emergency management and the effects of trauma on college students, so I set my sights on youth preparedness research, program development, and advocacy.
The Mississippi Youth Preparedness Initiative (MyPI) is a comprehensive teen-centric preparedness program. It is different from other programs across the country because it has a curriculum, leadership and service opportunities, and career planning services, allowing for enhanced preparedness levels for approximately 25,000 families each year.
At the end of the 20th century, approximately 66.5 million children were affected annually by disasters. To prepare for natural disasters, we need a more informed population, including our youth, and a focus on roles youth can play in emergency preparedness. At MyPI, we believe that teens can play an important role in preparing our communities for disasters. In recent years, we have experienced the destructive forces of tornadoes, hurricanes, and flooding. We are keenly aware of the destructive powers of Mother Nature, but preparedness is still lacking, especially in our rural communities. The MSU-ES and Mississippi Citizen Corps created a dynamic partnership to address these shortfalls through outreach.
The DHS/FEMA-approved Teen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training provides us with foundational knowledge in our curriculum. One unique aspect of MyPI is the addition of CPR/AED certification, a technology track, and a career track, which allows our students to gain specialization in their area of interest. The technology track includes awareness programs for HAM radio, NOAA weather radio, smart phone apps and social media, and smoke alarms. The National Weather Service also provides extreme weather awareness programming, and Mississippi Citizen Corps provides a disaster simulation. The career track focuses on emergency management, fire service, and public safety. Individuals from each local agency explain the field, entry requirements, and answer questions. The leadership and community service capstone project, PREP + 6, is the defining piece of MyPI and allows us to reach further into communities. Throughout MyPI, every student works with their family plus six others to develop emergency supply kits and family communication plans. At the conclusion of MyPI, every participant directly enhances the individual and family preparedness of seven families in their community.
As a native Mississippian and advocate for youth preparedness, it is incumbent upon me to close gaps in preparedness across our state. Our goal is to establish a new standard for youth preparedness because that will improve the safety and security of families and communities. Together, the MSU-ES and Mississippi Citizen Corps are working aggressively to promote preparedness by empowering our teens to take a leadership role within their families and communities.
Dr. Ryan Akers is an Assistant Extension Professor with the Mississippi State University Extension Service focusing on Community Preparedness and Disaster Management. Dr. Akers also serves as the Coordinator of the Mississippi Youth Preparedness Initiative.
Massachusetts Whole Community Planning and Response EffortsPosted byon September 15, 2014 at 4:40 PM EST
Samantha Stone is being honored as a Individual and Community Preparedness Champion of Change.
Being selected as a White House Champion of Change is an honor but not a distinction that I alone should hold. I am one person amongst a dedicated team of state government employees who are committed to promoting, protecting, and preserving the health and well-being of all people in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, particularly those individuals and populations most vulnerable, from public health and medical emergencies, threats, and disasters.
As a member of the Office of Preparedness and Emergency Management (OPEM) at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, I am charged with collaborating with a variety of partners and stakeholders to ensure that our public health and healthcare systems, as well as individuals and communities, have the knowledge, plans, and tools to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the impact of these often unplanned and devastating events.
At OPEM, I oversee Show Me, a series of three communication tools meant for use by public health and emergency management personnel, volunteers, and individuals with communication challenges during a variety of emergencies. One tool is paper-based, and the other two are free mobile apps. The tools are intended for use in emergency shelters, emergency dispensing sites, and family assistance centers. At the foundation of these projects is a user-centered design: we worked closely with individuals with communication challenges so that they, as end users of the tools, became co-creators by taking part in each stage of the tools' design, development, and creation. This is an inclusive, participatory process that focuses on users' abilities, desires, and needs as they relate to using the final products. Instead of forcing end users to alter their behaviors to adapt to products we create, the products get created explicitly to meet the needs of end users.
Moving forward, much of our preparedness efforts will focus on developing more comprehensive, regional, and coordinated response to emergencies. OPEM is creating six regional Health and Medical Coordinating Coalitions (HMCC) within Massachusetts. As part of the establishment of HMCC, there was a year-long stakeholder engagement process that brought together representatives from acute care facilities, community health centers, emergency medical service providers, long-term care facilities, and local public health agencies. Emergency management and public safety partners are being brought into the fold as well. This shift towards HMCC embodies the core principles of whole community planning and response: coordinated and collective team efforts are best equipped to understand and meet the needs of a community.
The work that OPEM is doing on the creation of the HMCC, along with the Show Me tool set, is part of a larger departmental movement to focus on whole community and inclusive planning and response efforts as a means of engaging and empowering individuals to create a more resilient community. It's a substantial challenge but one which we're committed to meeting.
Samantha Stone is a Risk Communication Coordinator with the Office of Preparedness and Emergency Management at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Innovation Makes Our Communities SaferPosted byon September 15, 2014 at 4:35 PM EST
Brittany Valdez is being honored as a Individual and Community Preparedness Champion of Change.
As a Graduate Assistant at the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities, I work with the state's Assistive Technology program, West Virginia Assistive Technology System (WVATS), and Partnerships in Assistive TecHnologieS (PATHS). These projects are dedicated to increasing awareness about and access to assistive technology devices and services. Assistive technology is any device that can be used to perform tasks that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to perform.
The TapToTalk app was first brought to my attention while working on a project to educate public transit drivers in the state about how to assist riders who have issues with communication. To help facilitate communication between drivers and riders, I created a communication system consisting of cards with pictures that depicted common issues that arise while using the public bus system. To increase access to this system, I created an electronic format using TapToTalk, an assistive technology app for smartphones and tablets that allows users to create customized and portable augmentative communication programs by uploading photos and recording audio into specialized "albums."
Upon completion of the communication system for public transit drivers, members of the PATHS board realized that TapToTalk could be beneficial to other service providers, especially first responders. In partnership with the Kanawha Putnam Emergency Planning Committee, PATHS initiated a project to apply the TapToTalk app to help first responders in emergency situations.
To begin, PATHS contacted representatives from the police department, fire department, and emergency medical services to determine what information is the most vital to obtain in emergency situations. We then created questions that could be answered with a simple "yes" or "no" to make the communication system accessible to those with communication issues. Next, we selected and created images to depict each question.
We created separate albums for each service provider within the app so that each album would reflect the needs of the various types of emergency responders. In addition to these specialized albums, we created a generic "Basic Info" album that can be utilized by all service providers.
After the initial completion of the app, first responders in the state were asked to identify additional languages that they felt would be useful. Based on their recommendations, each album was replicated in French, German, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish. These additional languages can be used by individuals with limited English proficiency when appropriate interpreters are unavailable.
I've learned the value of being innovative in preparing our communities for emergencies. We took the TapToTalk app and applied it to emergency situations, and that innovation is making our communities safer. I'm proud to have received the Champions of Change award and look forward to continuing to develop assistive technologies that help individuals communicate with first responders in crisis situations.
Brittany Valdez is a Graduate Assistant at West Virginia University. She works with the West Virginia Assistive Technology System (WVATS) and their nonprofit partner organization, Partnerships in Assistive TecHnologieS (PATHS).
Viewing Preparedness through a Small LensPosted byon September 15, 2014 at 4:32 PM EST
Susan Riedy is being honored as an Individual and Community Preparedness Champion of Change.
A quick web search on personal preparedness bodes over 18,000,000 results. Information is readily available to Americans who want to get prepared for any emergency. Yet, three years ago, when surveyed, only 17% of Albany County residents said they were prepared. So why aren't more of us prepared?
Navigating through all of that information can be daunting. Finding out what is most relevant to each of us is challenging. Also, many just don't believe a large-scale emergency will ever happen to them, but I've always believed that it's better to be safe than sorry. With this in mind, Albany County Citizen's Corp (ACCC) embarked upon a multidimensional approach to increasing individual and community preparedness. Recognizing the importance of input from the various communities that make up Albany County, ACCC reached out to service providers and communal leaders for help in developing strategies to improve preparedness. With the assistance of these dedicated individuals, ACCC increased preparedness among vulnerable populations and ensured meaningful and culturally appropriate information not only existed but was also readily available. I found that, while looking at the big picture is almost always valuable, viewing things from a smaller lens allows us to focus on the individual and unique needs of the many populations that make up our community.
I believe that successful preparedness rests on drawing upon the expertise of partners who know their communities better than we do. This was seen in the work we did with the Burmese community. A team from Albany County Department of Health and Sheriff's Office created a preparedness presentation incorporating images and concepts that were identifiable to the Burmese population. University of Albany School of Public Health staff reviewed the presentation to ensure cultural sensitivity and to coordinate its English-Karen translation. The American Red Cross added resiliency materials. And at last, the presentation was well-received. Working together, we provided a specialized training to a vulnerable population while strengthening relationships not only with Burmese community but also with our partner organizations.
ACCC also strives to develop innovative and fun programs that call attention to National Preparedness Month (NPM). In 2013, ACCC collaborated with ShopRite to host a NPM cook-off between Albany County Executive Daniel P. McCoy and Albany County Sheriff Craig D. Apple, Sr. These celebrity chefs were each challenged to create a main dish and dessert using only non-perishable items found in their go-kits. Shoppers received family preparedness educational resources and completed a preparedness quiz for a chance to win a go-kit. Partnering with community leaders and a major grocery chain caught the attention of local media, which helped us further promote our message of preparedness to residents.
The task of preparing our communities often seems monumental. But our small lens approach has yielded a 10% increase in preparedness among our residents in the last 3 years. We hope our initiatives help foster creativity and confidence in emergency preparedness partners across the country, and help prepare our country for emergencies one person at a time.
Susan Riedy is the Senior Public Health Planner at the Albany County Department of Health. She directs the planning, implementation, and evaluation of activities associated with the Albany County Citizen Corps.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Walks, walks and more walks.
Thirteen times Kansas City pitchers handed out free passes to St. Louis hitters. They were particularly generous to Colby Rasmus. He drew five walks, each one off a different pitcher, and pushed across the tiebreaking run in a 10-inning, 9-8 victory Sunday over Kansas City.
On the positive side, the Royals fought back from a 7-1 deficit. On the negative, it's awfully hard to win when you give the other guys 13 walks, hit a batter and commit two errors.
"We showed a lot of heart battling back and we came close to pulling it out," said manager Ned Yost. "We just couldn't get over the hump."
The Cardinals also had 12 hits while taking two out of three in the always-lively interleague series with their state rival. It wasn't all walks for the Red Birds. Yadier Molina had a double, two singles and a two-run triple as the Cardinals took the series two games to one.
"The bullpen did a good job holding them down and giving us a chance," said Jeff Francoeur, who helped fuel the comeback with one of three Royals home runs. " We put some good at-bats up there and fought back and gave ourselves a chance."
Each team used seven pitchers. Yost and catcher Matt Treanor were both ejected.
With the game tied 7-all, Tyler Green walked leading off the 10th and went to second when Mike Aviles made a poor throw to first on Albert Pujols' grounder for Kansas City's second error. Louis Coleman (0-1), who started the inning, then hit Gerald Laird in the hand with a pitch, breaking his right index finger and loading the bases with no outs.
Tim Collins came out of the bullpen and walked Rasmus on four pitches. Then with one out he walked Molina, giving him his third RBI.
Still battling, the Royals got a run in the bottom of the 10th on Brayan Pena's RBI double off Fernando Salas, who got the last three outs for his seventh save in seven opportunities. The winner was Jason Motte (2-1), who pitched one inning.
Rasmus did not simply spend the hot afternoon jogging to first base. He made an outstanding catch in the ninth on Francoeur's deep flyball, which at first looked like it might go out.
"I thought I had it. I thought we'd won the game," Francoeur said. "Rasmus did a good job to get back there for it. If you're a baseball fan this was a great game to watch."
Down 7-1 after five, the Royals fought back with homers by Alex Gordon, Wilson Betemit and Francoeur and finally tied it 7-all on Betemit's RBI single in the seventh.
Gordon homered off Brian Tallet leading off the seventh and Betemit drove in Francoeur, who had been hit by Eduardo Sanchez's pitch and stolen second.
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Van Eck phreaking - tempest - use on LCD laptop displaysSubmitted by MaxK on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 23:52
Electromagnetic Eavesdropping Risks of
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Markus G. Kuhn
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Abstract. Electromagnetic eavesdropping of computer displays – first
demonstrated to the general public by van Eck in 1985 – is not restricted to cathode-ray tubes. Modern flat-panel displays can be at least as vulnerable. They are equally driven by repetitive video signals in frequency ranges where even shielded cables leak detectable radio waves into the environment. Nearby eavesdroppers can pick up such compromising emanations with directional antennas and wideband receivers. Periodic averaging can lift a clearly readable image out of the background noise. The serial Gbit/s transmission formats used by modern digital video interfaces in effect modulate the signal, thereby making it even better suited for remote reception than emanations from analog systems. Understanding the exact transmission format used leads to new attacks and defenses. We can likewise modify text-display routines to render the radio emanations unreadable.
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The results were largely surprising: the overall picture is much less depressing than had been predicted even just six months ago. This seems particularly true for health and social care charities, which look after some of the most vulnerable people. While many are still haggling with local authorities over their settlements for the four-year spending-review period just started – and several still hadn't agreed fees even for the current financial year – the level of cuts so far seemed to average out at around 5 per cent. This is lower than the extent of cuts that were widely feared when the Comprehensive Spending Review was unveiled last October.
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Others have forcefully – and successfully – resisted cuts to their fees. Sindy Fortescue, finance director at the Disabilities Trust, said that if funders want to reduce any fees then "they have to assess each person to demonstrate that that level of support does not require the same level of fee".
The full research is published in Charity Finance magazine this month. Subscribers to civilsociety.co.uk can read it here.
Our third annual survey of the finance function, in the same edition of Charity Finance, also finds grounds for cautious optimism in the sector. The proportion of respondents that say they may have to cut finance staff this year has fallen from 23 per cent a year ago to 16 per cent, and of these 43 per cent may have to make compulsory redundancies, down from 58 per cent.
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Malays and Islam are not under attack in Malaysia. It is multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-cultural Malaysia which is under siege by intolerant and extremist forces which are trying to turn moderation into a dirty word in Malaysia
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It is the supreme irony of ironies.
While the government continues to propagate the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak's initiative of a Global Movement of Moderates, this time at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Summit currently being held in Beijing, Najib had never been so weak and impotent at home to check the forces of hatred, intolerance and extremism rearing their ugly heads.
On the day that Bernama reported that the Prime Minister's Global Movement of Moderates (GMM) proposal had received praise from the APEC foreign ministers meeting in Beijing before the 22nd APEC Summit, an ex-UMNO Minister had opened fire on Najib's GMM initiative, claiming that Christian fanatics in Malaysia had seized on Najib's concept of moderation and exploited it for their own interests.
Former Information Minister Tan Sri Zainuddin Maiddin claimed that the Malays and Islam were under pressure due to the concept of moderation, asserting that there were signs the concept was on the wrong track.
He cited with approval a recent statement by Johor Umno youth vice-chief Khairul Anwar Rahmat, who said that moderation was unsuitable for certain issues, claiming that it reflected the thoughts and opinions of the Umno grassroots.
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The Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail's recent explanations have only reinforced public opinion that he has abused his discretionary powers and guilty of double standards in not prosecuting Perkasa President Ibrahim Ali for his threat to burn the Bible while going on a spree with blitzkrieg of sedition prosecutions against Pakatan Rakyat leaders, activists and intellectuals.
Datuk Stanley Isaac, who was formerly head of prosecution in the Attorney-General's Chambers, said Gani's reasoning that Ibrahim's threat had no seditious tendency and that Ibrahim had "no intention to offend or provoke" are "flawed in law" and had not allayed public discontent over the AG's decisions.
Isaac said it "boggled" "his mind how the AG could excuse Ibrahim on grounds of his good intention when the law says otherwise and that it also "boggled" his mind how burning the bible would defend the sanctity of Islam.
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Of burning holy books and sparking chaos
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Leave it to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to figure out that burning a holy book is showing it the same respect as Muslims burning Qurans that are old and no longer used.
And of course, it must be done with good intentions, said the former Malaysian prime minister who defended his protege Datuk Ibrahim Ali over the Perkasa chief's threat to burn Bahasa Malaysia Bibles last year.
"They (Perkasa) have to show respect to the Bible, burn it as how they burn the Quran."
Dr Mahathir also defended Ibrahim's statement, saying it was not seditious as claimed by critics, as his intention was not to provoke.
"In other words, he was giving an opinion that could be accepted by Muslims as it was not seditious," he added.
The acerbic politician is not alone in thinking that Ibrahim's words were no threat as even the Attorney-General Chambers (AGC) have justified the Perkasa chief's statement as defending the sanctity of Islam.
Both Dr Mahathir and the AGC see no wrong and wonder what the fuss is all about. Read the rest of this entry »
Speaking about context, what about other sedition cases?
Posted by Kit in Constitution, Court, Crime, Law & Order on Tuesday, 28 October 2014
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Context, the Attorney-General Chambers said today, was the important ingredient to consider when deciding whether Datuk Ibrahim Ali committed sedition when he threatened to burn bibles that contained the word "Allah" last year.
"As decided by the court, before a statement is said to have seditious tendencies, the statement must be viewed in the context it was made …
"When studied in its entire context, Datuk Ibrahim's statement is not categorised as having seditious tendencies.
"It was clear Datuk Ibrahim Ali had no intention to create religious tensions, but was only defending the purity of Islam," the AGC said, noting the Perkasa chief also said: "This is not a sentiment or (an attempt) to provoke religious tensions, but to defend the purity of Islam which is clearly (stated) in the laws."
"He also did not commit any offence under Section 298 or 298A of the Penal Code as he was clearly defending the purity of Islam."
Right. So the context is this, Ibrahim was not charged because he said he was not attempting to provoke religious tensions but was defending the purity of Islam.
Well, to put it in context, that is a half-baked explanation by the AGC, a comment after the fact.
In any court, this type of mitigation would have been laughed at. Read the rest of this entry »
The regression of our society
Posted by Kit in Crime, Human Rights, Law & Order, Police on Friday, 17 October 2014
– Joshua Wu
The Malaysian Insider
17 October 2014
I refer to the video on YouTube on the attack on Gerakan Hapus Akta Hasutan's (GHAH) Penang coordinator Ong Jing Cheng as well as a few others during their peaceful gathering at Speaker's Square in Penang.
"Unacceptable, abhorrent, repulsive, barbaric, uncivilized, undemocratic, illegal, insolent, untenable, quixotic, unscrupulous, boorish, cockamamie, craven, dastardly, egregious, odious, and asinine" were some of the words that flashed through my mind as I watched the seven minutes and thirty seconds video.
Aren't the troublemakers worried about the civil and criminal repercussions of their actions? Read the rest of this entry »
Najib's 2015 Budget overshadowed by outrageous parliamentary replies and blatant government double standards in past three days
Posted by Kit in Constitution, Crime, Najib Razak, Parliament on Friday, 10 October 2014
The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak would not have expected that his 2015 Budget to be presented in Parliament at 4 pm today would have been overshadowed by outrageous parliamentary replies of his Ministers and blatant government double standards in the past three days.
The reply by the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Nancy Shukri to the Penang Chief Minister and DAP MP for Bagan, Lim Guan Eng, on the first day of the current 28-day Budget Parliament on Tuesday must take the cake for being the most outrageous parliamentary statement in the five-year Najib premiership making even the most affable bristle at the cynical contempt for what is right and wrong.
Nancy said in her reply that no action would be taken on Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali over his threat to burn the Malay-language bible as he was "only defending the sanctity of Islam".
Nancy did not do herself any favours when she said yesterday that the Attorney-General's Chambers decided not to prosecute Ibrahim under the Sedition Act because his threat to burn copies of the Bible with the term "Allah" was in line with the federal constitution.
It is time the Attorney-General, Tan Sri Gani Patail surfaces and explain where in the Federal Constitution does it give protection and immunity to Ibrahim to utter threat to burn copies of the Bible with the term Allah. Read the rest of this entry »
Is Najib Razak the Prime Minister of a two-headed government – whose PM wants Malaysia to be the world "best democracy" but whose AG's sedition spree aims to make Malaysia the world's "worst democracy"?
Posted by Kit in Constitution, Crime, Najib Razak, Parliament on Tuesday, 7 October 2014
Is Datuk Seri Najib Razak the Prime Minister of a two-headed government – whose Prime Minister wants Malaysia to be the world's "best democracy" but whose Attorney-General's recent sedition spree of selective and malicious prosecutions aims to make Malaysia the world's "worst democracy".
This question automatically arises from the parliamentary answer today on the recent sedition blitz by the Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim who asked the Prime Minister whether the government's use of the law against Pakatan Rakyat leaders, activists and intellectuals was in line with the prime minister's commitment to make Malaysia more democratic.
Answering during Parliament's Question Time, the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nancy Shukri defended the spate of sedition prosecutions, claiming that the Malaysian government practises and upholds the doctrine of the separation of powers and as such the government does not interfere in the Attorney-General's Chambers affairs.
Nancy is very mixed-up as she has made a fatal error about the doctrine of separation of powers, as the Attorney-General is part of the executive and not the judiciary in the doctrine of separation of powers among the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary.
The doctrine of separation of powers is totally irrelevant and does not apply in the blitzkrieg of sedition prosecutions – which is an executive action and not an action of the judiciary. Read the rest of this entry »
Gani Patail should explain why the sedition blitz has stepped up in pace and intensity after his Sept. 9 pledge to review the slew of sedition prosecutions
Posted by Kit in Constitution, Crime, Najib Razak on Thursday, 2 October 2014
The Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail should explain why the sedition blitz to invoke a climate of fear and repression has stepped up in pace and intensity in the past three weeks since his pledge to review the slew of sedition prosecutions.
Gani had said on Sept. 9 that those charged under the Sedition Act, including law professor Dr. Azmi Sharom, were "currently having their cases reviewed", and he described the review "a normal procedure".
Is Gani also implying that the intensification of malicious and selective sedition prosecutions and investigations against Opposition leaders and activists during the tenure of such a review is also "a normal procedure"?
Gani said on Sept. 9 that the final decision on the review of sedition prosecutions will be made "soon".
Can Gani explain how soon is his "soon"? Could it be as long as months and even years, until he steps down as Attorney-General?
Read the rest of this entry »
Latest rebuttals to the DPM and PM's boasts of Malaysia as "world's best democracy" and "world's best education system"
Posted by Kit in Crime, Education, Muhyiddin Yassin, Najib Razak, university on Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Malaysians woke up this morning to further and latest rebuttals to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Prime Minister's boasts of Malaysia as the "one of the world's best education system" and "world's best democracy".
Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's boast that Malaysia has "one of the world's best education system" was given a bloody nose by the report that Malaysian universities again failed to make the cut to this year's Times Higher Education (THE) top 200 global rankings while Singapore's National University (which shared the same beginnings with University of Malaya) leapt into the top 25 universities list.
The Malay Mail Online in its report "Malaysian universities not in top 200 global rankings, Singapore's improves" said the latest index shows a significant drop for Malaysian universities from last year's ranking.
Muhyiddin has been Education Minister for more than five years since 2009.
He should make a Ministerial statement when Parliament resumes next Tuesday on Oct. 7 why all efforts during year tenure as Education Minister for over five years have failed to restore Malaysia's high international standing in university academic repute and excellence in the fifties and sixties – to the extent that for five consecutive years, none of the Malaysian universities had been able to be ranked among the THE Top 200 University Rankings. Read the rest of this entry »
Ironically, Najib will be speaking as the most "transformational" leader at the UN General Assembly tomorrow, representing Malaysia as the world's most seditious country instead of being the world's best democracy
Posted by Kit in Crime, Mahathir, Najib Razak, Zahid on Thursday, 25 September 2014
Ironically and most tragic as well, Malaysia's sixth Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak will be speaking as the most "transformational" Malaysian and even world leader when he takes the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly tomorrow to give his third UNGA speech in five years, representing Malaysia as the world's most seditious country instead of fulfilling his three-year promise to make Malaysia "the best democracy in the world".
Najib has not only beaten all the previous five Prime Ministers in chalking up the most number of sedition prosecutions in any Malaysian administration, including that of his father Tun Razak and his former mentor Tun Mahathir in a 22-year premiership, he can even claim credit as the only leader in the contemporary world who has sanctioned the most number of prosecutions under the arcane colonial law of sedition to suppress freedom of speech, criticism and dissent.
May be, Najib will be best remembered in history for his "transformation" in deviating from his promise to make Malaysia the world's best democracy to become the world's worst democracy with the "white terror" reign of malicious and selective misuse and abuse of the Sedition Act against the opposition, critics and dissent.
Can Najib explain to the United Nations General Assembly why Malaysians have suddenly in the past five years become the most seditious people in the nation's 57-year history as well as being the most seditious people in the world, judging by the number of seditious prosecutions particularly in the past six weeks? Read the rest of this entry »
Targetting Anwar on sedition for his 2011 speech worst form of political vendetta and gross abuse of power – would Zahid ensure police would investigate Mahathir "within 24 hours" when sedition report lodged against former PM?
Posted by Kit in Anwar Ibrahim, Crime, Mahathir, Police on Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Targetting Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim under the Sedition Act for his ceramah speech in March 2011 is the worst form of political vendetta and gross abuse of power in the latest regime of "white terror" to create a climate of fear to stifle criticism and dissent in the country.
Amnesty International's deputy Asia-Pacific director Rupert Abbot hit the nail on the head when he described as "blatant persecution" Putrajaya's move to probe Anwar for sedition for what he said in a ceramah more than three years ago.
If what Anwar said in March 2011 did not warrant any police investigation under the Sedition Act for more than three years, what is the merit and justification now to probe Anwar for sedition for what he said more than three years ago apart from being a disgraceful case of persecution, political vendetta and gross abuse of power?
It may be argued that there is no statutory limitation for sedition but this should apply indiscriminately to everyone, whether in government or otherwise.
There is also also no statutory limitation for corruption offences, but no one in the pinnacles of power in Malaysia seems to need to worry about this! Read the rest of this entry »
Congratulations Najib for the Democracy Setback of the Decade and making moderation sedition and his brainchild the Global Movement of Moderates virtually a seditious organisation
Posted by Kit in Crime, Law & Order, Najib Razak on Thursday, 18 September 2014
The Cabinet meeting yesterday has come and gone and there are no signs that it has achieved any historic distinction when Cabinet Ministers drew the line in the sand to declare their repudiation of the sedition dragnet in the past month and their commitment to move forward to be among the world's best democracies and not going backwards to be among the world's worst democracies.
There are no inklings that the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Dato Sri Idris Jala had raised serious objection, led alone led the charge of conscientious and conviction Ministers in their opposition to the obnoxious dragnet of the draconian sedition law to stifle dissent and criticism to crate a climate of fear in the country reminiscent of the Internal Security Act (ISA) days especially during the th 22-year Mahathir premirrship.
On the contrary, congratulations are in order to the Primer Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak on three grounds: Read the rest of this entry »
All Cabinet Ministers on Wednesday must decide whether they want a new Attorney-General who is committed to the goal of making Malaysia the "best democracy in the world" or they support the current sedition dragnet and "white terror" to turn Malaysia into the world's worst democracy
Posted by Kit in Constitution, Crime, Law & Order, Police on Monday, 15 September 2014
The time has come for every Cabinet Minister to take a stand whether he or she supports the goal as promised by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, to make Malaysia the world's best democracy or the reverse – supporting instead the sedition dragnet and "white terror" unleashed in the past month to turn Malaysia into the world's worst democracy.
The country should be spared the farce of the Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail announcing last Tuesday that his Chambers will review the cases of several individuals who were recently charged with sedition, including academician Dr. Azmi Sharom, followed by the outrageous response by the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi that the police will not cease and desist from sedition investigations aimed at suppressing criticism and dissent.
In the first place, was Gani sincere and truthful when he said that his Chambers would review the blitz of sedition charges? Let the Attorney-General announce details of such review, who are the officers in his Chambers who are conducting the review, when the review started and the terms of reference including time-frame of such review.
In fact, Gani owes the Malaysian people a full explanation why he gave the green light for such a spree of sedition charges as well as full accountability as to why those responsible in openly inciting racial and religious hatred, ill-will and conflict have been spared from any prosecution, despite the lodging of many police reports against the culprits? Read the rest of this entry »
Cabinet on Wednesday should order a halt to the "white terror" intensified in the past month using the colonial law of sedition to create a new climate of fear after the Mahathir "Dark Age" as it is totally against Najib's promise to make Malaysia "best democracy in the world"
Posted by Kit in Constitution, Crime, Police on Sunday, 14 September 2014
I welcome the courageous stand taken by the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Dato Sri Idris Jala who is the first Cabinet Minister to openly speak out against the sedition charge against Universiti Malaya law lecturer Dr. Azmi Sharom.
Idris said the charge against Azmi was wrong and that the law professor should not be charged for sedition.
In a series of Twitter postings yesterday, Idris said: "Academic freedom is required in pursuit of knowledge."
Stressing that Malaysia must continue to pursue moderation, Idris twittered: "Constructive criticism and dissent should be allowed, as long as it does not create serious fault in the social fabric of our society."
Although admirable and commendable for daring to speak out against Azmi's sedition charge, it is a great pity that Idris did not have the full courage of conviction that constructive criticism and dissent are lifeblood of any meaningful transformation of Malaysia to take an equally forthright and courageous stand against the sedition blitz intensified in the past month to stifle criticism and dissent which saw the malicious prosecution and persecution of some 20 Pakatan Rakat Members of Parliament, State Assemblymen, a journalist, a lawyer, an academician and several social activists under the undemocratic and repressive colonial law of sedition. Read the rest of this entry »
Call for immediate halt to the sedition dragnet against dissent and criticism and withdrawal of all sedition charges as Mahathir and many UMNO Ministers and leaders should be the first to be hauled to court for sedition if the current sedition blitz not afflicted by sins of discriminatory bias and malicious/selective prosecution
Posted by Kit in Crime, Law & Order on Saturday, 13 September 2014
On the way to Mersing, I have learnt of two latest victims in the crackdown of the sedition dragnet against dissent and criticism, which have put Malaysia back on the radar of unfavourable international media attention, this time for high-handed, undemocratic and discriminatory use of repressive colonial laws against freedom of speech and expression.
The two latest victims are a lawyer and an Opposition political leader.
The first is Edmund Bon, currently overseas but who is being called up by the police for sedition for comments he made in a news article in The Malaysian Insider in January on whether non-Muslims should adhere to a fatwa and the second is another lawyer but who is also the Johor PKR vice chairman Hassan Karim, whose laptop and mobile phone were seized by the police in his Pontian home this afternoon in an ongoing sedition probe against him.
They join a lengthening list of Pakatan Rakyat Members of Parliament and State Assemblymen like Teresa Kok (DAP – Seputeh), Khalid Samad (PAS – Shah Alam), N. Surendran (PKR – Padang Serai), Tian Chua (PKR – Batu), RSN Rayer (DAP – Seri Delima, Penang), academician Azmi Sharom, journalist Susan Loone, activists Safwan Anang and Ali Abdul Jalil, preacher Wan Ji Wan Hussein and religious teacher Abu Bakar Baikalani Abu Hassan who have been hauled to court under the repressive colonial law of Sedition Act. Read the rest of this entry »
Cabinet meeting tomorrow must let Malaysians know whether the Barisan Nasional Malaysian government has gone bonkers
Posted by Kit in Crime, Law & Order, Najib Razak, university on Tuesday, 2 September 2014
The top agenda for the Cabinet meeting tomorrow should be to answer the question right-thinking Malaysians have been asking the past week whether the Malaysian government has gone bonkers.
The week leading to the 57th Merdeka Anniversary gives new cause for concern as to the direction and future of Malaysia under the premiership of Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
Of special concern are the speeches delivered at UMNO divisional meetings. I need refer only to three of them.
The first was the reckless and irresponsible speech by the Negri Sembilan Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hassan at the Rembau UMNO division meeting, concocting the lie that "three days after the opposition (Pakatan Rakyat) forms the Federal Government, it will have its first cabinet meeting, where the main agenda will be the reunion of Singapore with Malaysia" coupled with the preposterous and utterly baseless allegation that this could be done (allegedly involving an increase of 89 non-Malay parliamentary seats) without having to amend the Federal Constitution in Parliament.
This was followed by the Minister for Agriculture and Agro-based Industry, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob whose speech to the Gopeng UMNO delegates meeting on Merdeka eve indulged in fear-mongering alleging that the Malays were "under attack" in Malaysia.
Ismail lamented that the Malay race is divided into 'Umno Malays', 'PAS Malays', 'PKR Malays' and 'DAP Malays' when it is imperative that the Malay race should stand united as they were when the country achieved independence. Read the rest of this entry »
Is Najib administration the most shambolic premiership in Malaysian history – with right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing?
Posted by Kit in Constitution, Crime, Najib Razak, Pakatan Rakyat on Sunday, 31 August 2014
Is the Najib administration not only on auto-pilot but the most shambolic premiership in Malaysian history, with the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing?
Malaysians are entitled to ask this question following the anonymous statement from the Prime Minister's Office yesterday, insisting that the slew of sedition charges against Pakatan Rakyat leaders was a court matter and the government has nothing to do with it.
The anonymous Prime Minister's Office statement said:
"Any charges under the Sedition Act are a matter for the courts. Malaysia's judiciary is independent, as the verdicts of many cases prove." Read the rest of this entry »
AG should resign or be replaced if he cannot discharge his duty of public accountability to explain whether he has been guilty of selective and malicious prosecution in recent slew of charges against PR MPs and Assemblymen
Posted by Kit in Constitution, Court, Crime, Law & Order on Friday, 29 August 2014
Although the Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail is vested with the sole discretion under Article 145 of the Malaysian Constitution "to institute, conduct or discontinue any proceedings for an offence" , he owes the Malaysian people a duty of public accountability to explain whether he has been guilty of selective and malicious prosecution in the recent slew of arrests and charges against Pakatan Rakyat Members of Parliament and State Assemblymen.
The new-fangled charge against the PKR Vice President Rafizi Ramli yesterday, for example, was just incredulous and most extraordinary.
Rafizi is charged under Section 504 of the Penal Code on "Intentional insult with intent to provoke a breach of the peace" which states: "Whoever intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or to commit any offence, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or with both".
Rafizi was accused of issuing "defamatory and provocative statements" against Umno members through a statement he made in February, linking Umno with an incident where a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a church.
There have been legion cases of DAP, PKR and PAS members being "defamed" and "provoked" by UMNO/BN leaders and spokespersons, particularly since the 12th General Elections in 2008, but have anyone been arrested and prosecuted in the past six years under Section 504 of the Penal Code, which could lead to the disqualification of a sitting Member of Parliament or State Assemblyperson, resulting in by-elections?
Absolutely none. Why then has this new-fangled charge been trotted out against Rafizi which could lead to his disqualification as MP for Pandan followed by a parliamentary by-election? Read the rest of this entry »
On authorities' alleged selective prosecution
– Lim Chee Wee
The Malaysian Insider
5 August 2014
Recent attempts to question the authorities' purported inaction over cases involving non-Muslims' alleged disrespect for Islam will only heighten racial tension. This is most irresponsible and unnecessary at a time when we can do with more goodwill among the different races.
On Sunday, Mingguan Malaysia in a column by Awang Selamat and Federal Territory Umno Youth chief, Mohd Razlan Muhammad Rafii had suggested that the authorities practiced selective prosecution by not acting against those who had insulted Islam. The argument was that Islamic preacher Shahul Hamid was swiftly picked up for questioning after a video of him insulting Hindus went viral on social media. Meanwhile, two individuals who had made disparaging remarks about Islam are still on the loose. Read the rest of this entry »
Height of irony Utusan Malaysia complaining about selective prosecution and investigation when it has been the major beneficiary enjoying immunity and impunity for series of seditious articles inciting racial and religious hatred and tensions in the country in recent years
It is the height of irony that Utusan Malaysia is complaining about selective prosecution and investigation when the UMNO-owned daily has been the biggest beneficiary of such criminal oversight and abuses of power by various enforcement agencies particularly the police and the Attorney-General's Chambers as Utusan continues to enjoy both "immunity and impunity" for a series of seditious articles inciting racial and religious hatred and tensions in the country in recent years.
Now Utusan alleges that non-Muslims are becoming blatant in demeaning Islam because authorities are not pursuing them with the same vigour applied to Malays.
Utusan Malaysia further alleges that "the eagerness of non-Muslims to insult Islam can no longer be ignored" because of the "hesitance or fear on the part of the authorities to punish non-Malays for such activity".
This is utter bunkum. Read the rest of this entry »


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