Sunday, July 27, 2008

Legacy of ashes ( book introduced )

Legacy of Ashes is a book written by Tim weiner focusing on the history of CIA ( Central Intelligence Agency ) for the past 60 yrs. CIA was found base on a mission, to gather all information regarding the enemy- soviet unions which to prevent America from suffering surprise attack like the one in Pearl Harbor. However, since the first day it start operate, the CIA involve itself into covert action, which sought to support the military junta in third world country to counter communism.

As a consequences, not only it constantly failed to predict and foresee up and coming important event, the america gradually facing the aftermath of their covert action. Included are the rising of islam extremist original funded and supported by the CIA, the assassination of president John.F.Kennedy, and also waste of money, human and resource in the paramilitary action.

Apart from the publicize image that CIA is an almighty agency, it is surprise to know that few of the CIA officer knew the language, the culture and the history of the area they cover. Besides, since the analyst of information always altered to suit the political needs, CIA had constantly failed to predict the soviet nuclear bomb, invasion of Afghanistan by soviet, withdrawal from Afghanistan by soviet, 911 and many other more despite the fact they gather show clue to it.

Besides, the CIA constantly beaten, cheated by its enemy, the KGB. As it always lack competent officer and threatened by the penetration of double agent, spies, the CIA produce many more false information, gradually lead to the bombardment of chinese embassy , the killed of thousand of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan, which further damage the image of America in the eye of the world.

Malay Supremacy vs Islam Supremacy, interesting....

Politic in country M is funny, like a comedy series.

First, to counter the attempt of the opposition party led by Mr.A to overthrow the existing government, The party U inside ruling party proposed to form a collaboration with party P, under the name of Malay Reunion.

Threatened by this proposal, Mr. N. Aziz in party P counter back by proposing to form a whole new party based on Islam principle. i bet neither of the proposal will be realized in up coming time.

Indeed, Party P and Party U had collaborate before. However, due to different in principle, their " marriage " broke up. As party U focus on building a moderate islamic country which one race will have privilege, party P sought to build an islamic nation based on islam law which theoretically should teach all races equally.

On the other hand, the leaders in party U have their own position, power, and network of money. Dissemble the party and form a new party will mean all the leaders will need to start all over again, which do not guarantee their success. Hence, chance are little that they are willing to do so.

The situation here all depends on Mr. A and PKR, depends on whether Mr. A can grab a parliamentary seat, and gained enough support to form the new government . Whatever it is, it will not be good news for the minorities and democracy in country M, as both parties will continue to lean to the side of extremist to strengthen their support, like what happened during 2005 party U' s y0uth conference.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

A giant douche and turd sandwich- the political dilemma in a M country....

Okay, i am afraid of being caught under ISA or akta hasutan, so for the following content i will just use some abbreviation where only the people know.

First, election is always a choice between giant douche and turd sandwich. In other words, the voter is always choose to vote between 2 rotten apple. The only different is that one apple rotten less, thats it.

For example, in a country M, the ruling party is well known of corruption, playing dirty trick( like sodomy, ISA etc), distributing sweeties during election time only, and wish to build a nation focus on one particular race only. While the opposition parties is known as hard to cooperate among each other, still not capable of ruling, and worse, starting to adopt the style and bad behaviour of the ruling party.

So, how do we choose between a giant douche and turd sandwich? A boy in southpark name Stanley Marsh faced the same dilemma as us before, and he gave the solution : Voted against those who threatening you during the election.

Besides choosing a leader, the meaning of the election is to sent a message to the future ruling party about what the voters dont want. In other ways, it served as the tool to control a government, especially in country M where there is always overlapping of power between execution , legislation and even juridical power. Which all of them are control by one party.
Hence, it will not be surprise when some member of ruling party threatened other races about reoccurring of certain event without being taken action. It will not be surprise that the federal government can punished the state government controlled by opposition party, ( like take away the petroleum tax, abandoned development plan, etc.) without receiving consequences.

Hence, election is the only way that we can do something to control the government. To be clear, in a country that exercising Westminster political system like country M, The existent of humble government servants, ensure that the shift of power after election go smoothly and thus reduce the damage when incapable politicians doing their jobs ( as for now). Hence, the parties compete in the election is always consist of giant douche and turd sandwich. The only difference is that we have to say no, when the ruling party goes wrong.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

As the start.

Well, finally start blogging, hope to post some of my life here to keep up to date with my friends.
To Be Continue...